barnsleymat

I'm still impressed how hard some of the locals are when it comes to the weather, one guy was outside playing in the snow just wearing shorts and a t shirt.

Anyway I've been thinking about this housing crisis they never EVER mention on the news on every station, there's only one sensible solution, it's certainly better than paying a million dollars to live in some sh1thole like Glen Eden or Sandringham in a rotting wooden cabin.

We've got to convert the Domain into a Brazilian style Favela and it needs to be called the Jafavela, here's an artists (me) impression!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...boy/favela.jpg

shocked kiwi

If you live in chch you do not mention the word "cold" as it is a swear word - without a word of a lie, on the radio this morning a weather reporter said how warm it was in christchurch as the temp was a balmy 6 degrees.

shocked kiwi

what's wrong with a jaffa-tent - the council would only charge $600 per week for that.

BEVS

Good grief. Anyone would think Christchurch was in Siberia. It isn't that cold . It may not be the tropical North but it is certainly not so cold that everyone down there is losing digits to frostbite and freezing to their sheets at night.

shocked kiwi

You could have made money from your ideas - there is a property developer marketing shipping containers as the new accom for workers going to chch - www.thepods.co.nz. $250 per week, where you would eat or do your laundry is not clear and how soundproofed are the shipping containers walls?

shocked kiwi

Yes that is true as chch can get the most awesome summers and can reach 35 degrees in the summer

jjmcglynn

No advice, as just looking into the same ourselves but it was very interesting to read this post. My OH is also a civil engineer and has some skype interviews lined up next week, bit worrying that the consensus seems to be 'they' are promising work but there isn't actually much work happening?

We have a 4 year old and a 2 year old so it's a pretty big decision for us too!!

Sorry to hijack your thread, hope to follow your progress!!

JennyV

Hi jjmcglynn, there is a lot of work happening, my husband is a geologist/geotechnical engineer who works with the Infrastructure rebuild team and he is incredibly busy. A lot of the work going on at the moment is under the ground, so may not appear to be progress but is. He works with a lot of different companies and he says they are all very busy too PM if your OH wants some info about companies or you want someone who sympathises about moving with pre-schoolers!