Auckland is a dump!
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Re: Auckland is a dump!
Wellington is much nicer
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Wellington has a heart and a soul, something i feel that is lacking in Auckland, just my personal opinion. BUT OMG Welly is windy and not so good on the weather front, but i would take Welly over Auckland any day.
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Re: Auckland is a dump!
I second that Wellington is great although my first choice would be to stay here I would not mind living in Auckland one bit.
It says a lot I feel that we can sit back and call Auckland a dump, I love Auckland it is so diverse and there are some great people there. In some places you can feel very isolated where as in Auckland you feel more connected.
I would live in Auckland over a lot of places, I would live anywhere in NZ no worries.
It says a lot I feel that we can sit back and call Auckland a dump, I love Auckland it is so diverse and there are some great people there. In some places you can feel very isolated where as in Auckland you feel more connected.
I would live in Auckland over a lot of places, I would live anywhere in NZ no worries.
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I second that Wellington is great although my first choice would be to stay here I would not mind living in Auckland one bit.
It says a lot I feel that we can sit back and call Auckland a dump, I love Auckland it is so diverse and there are some great people there. In some places you can feel very isolated where as in Auckland you feel more connected.
I would live in Auckland over a lot of places, I would live anywhere in NZ no worries.
It says a lot I feel that we can sit back and call Auckland a dump, I love Auckland it is so diverse and there are some great people there. In some places you can feel very isolated where as in Auckland you feel more connected.
I would live in Auckland over a lot of places, I would live anywhere in NZ no worries.
dunno why but I love chch - I mean the environment - love the greenery like England! Its just my preference tho!
Auckland isn't too bad to be honest, however there is a lack of European feelings, hence I prefer Welly to Auckland (personally).
but hey, is there any place, does not have its fair share of problems? like Wellington has rather a lot of wind. lol
You seems to be a cool fellow, if you could live anywhere without too much prejudice.
Last edited by crap coffee; Jan 6th 2010 at 2:52 am.
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Quite honestly I don't know Auckland very well, passed through a few times, stayed there for 3 or 4 days when we did our recce in 2007, and I thought it was OK. Never had a burning desire to live there, which was just as well because our job offer was for Rotorua, not Auckland. But I'm not sure that I'd have a problem living there, although the house prices deter me a bit.
But I love Rotorua....and you should hear the rude remarks people make about my home town, largely concentrating on the smell , of course. So I must be very strange, as this is my little paradise. Each to their own I say
But I love Rotorua....and you should hear the rude remarks people make about my home town, largely concentrating on the smell , of course. So I must be very strange, as this is my little paradise. Each to their own I say
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Re: Auckland is a dump!
Quite honestly I don't know Auckland very well, passed through a few times, stayed there for 3 or 4 days when we did our recce in 2007, and I thought it was OK. Never had a burning desire to live there, which was just as well because our job offer was for Rotorua, not Auckland. But I'm not sure that I'd have a problem living there, although the house prices deter me a bit.
But I love Rotorua....and you should hear the rude remarks people make about my home town, largely concentrating on the smell , of course. So I must be very strange, as this is my little paradise. Each to their own I say
But I love Rotorua....and you should hear the rude remarks people make about my home town, largely concentrating on the smell , of course. So I must be very strange, as this is my little paradise. Each to their own I say
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Re: Auckland is a dump!
but anywhere's better than Wanganui, well not anywhere but you get my drift
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Yeah i prefer Wellington, but its the weather that puts me off! but nowhere is perfect and that's a shame I Love Napier, but the only thing its so far away from Wellington , wheres we are only a 2 hour drive away.
but anywhere's better than Wanganui, well not anywhere but you get my drift
but anywhere's better than Wanganui, well not anywhere but you get my drift
Hope you had a good Xmas hon and a Happy New Year xx
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Most parts of the world have good and bad parts but in NZ WE HAVE LESS PEOPLE and thats the big plus for me.
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Same here, a right hybridised accent I have, being brought up by Northern parents in the Sarf East and then married to a Cockney geezer, mixed in with five years of inevitable Kiwi-isation of vowels. The cockney geezer sounds more and more like a Kiwi with every passing day. People are often surprised to hear that I am actually English!!
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Same here, a right hybridised accent I have, being brought up by Northern parents in the Sarf East and then married to a Cockney geezer, mixed in with five years of inevitable Kiwi-isation of vowels. The cockney geezer sounds more and more like a Kiwi with every passing day. People are often surprised to hear that I am actually English!!
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YES! I have to fully agree with you him in doors sounds like half me half Essex man and now Yes!! a bit of Kiwi at times.. so long as he does not say women when its referring to more then one!!! and if he does I will place him back on a slow boat to god only know`s..Man dont you just love em!!
Find it interesting how accents change. Must be funny when your kids start sounding like little Kiwis.
OH Grandma lived in NZ for over fourty years and she sounded more British than the queen
Dewb
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No Kids!! THANK GOD FOR THEM ,!but lots of friends with kids that have come over do pick it up sounding like Kiwis. Bless
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It's not funny when your kids start saying bid, yis and dick. It horrifies me and sounds grotesque, I can't stand the thought of them talking like that. Although I think Canterbury is the worst place for it.