Happiness in NZ for the wealthy only?
Nov 10th 2006, 11:45 am
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Re: Happiness in NZ for the wealthy only?
Originally Posted by Paladin
All I need in NZ is some good diving, And preferably a good Indian take away occasionally!!!
Dave
Nov 10th 2006, 11:47 am
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Re: Happiness in NZ for the wealthy only?
Originally Posted by Batty
Would you believe, in two years, I only went there twice? I didn't really like it - it's like that thing 'London is England' - the Dam isn't Holland. The Hague actually has the status of a village (it's really a city) and is just beautiful. Has 'everything' 
that the Dam has but just easier to get to
that the Dam has but just easier to get to
Nov 10th 2006, 12:03 pm
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Re: Happiness in NZ for the wealthy only?
Originally Posted by Paladin
Yep, that will do it to ya!!! Fair play to you for doing the right thing by your son tho!
Your scuppered on the new points system then?
Dave
Your scuppered on the new points system then?
Dave
Gotta do the right thing by Dennis .... but i know i shall regret it the rest of my life......by the time i can leave him i will be too old
really wanna live in Kaikoura and open a B&B .....where the mountains meet the sea!
Nov 10th 2006, 12:14 pm
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Re: Happiness in NZ for the wealthy only?
Originally Posted by Pompey_Paul
I am in IT and have a degree so i get quite a lot of points .... i think i am just a few shy 20 ish......
Gotta do the right thing by Dennis .... but i know i shall regret it the rest of my life......by the time i can leave him i will be too old
really wanna live in Kaikoura and open a B&B .....where the mountains meet the sea!
Gotta do the right thing by Dennis .... but i know i shall regret it the rest of my life......by the time i can leave him i will be too old
really wanna live in Kaikoura and open a B&B .....where the mountains meet the sea!
Yep, we wouldn't qualify on the new points now either, we had 110, as I am an old git too, well fairly old in narrow minded whinging peoples books anyway!!!
Actually am 43 but don't tell!!! Shhhh!!! Still feel and act like am in twenties, sad old git that I am!!!!
Nov 10th 2006, 3:39 pm
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Re: Happiness in NZ for the wealthy only?
Paladin and Mr Dawes - you really should get together when you're over - I'll see what I can do about the Batty one cos shes a pal in the real world!!! and she's even better in person
Off to the A&P show - wish me luck! very tired I might show you our secret diving spots and you can get a good curry in kawakawa ( the one in Keri is pretty not good 
) but efter extensive reseach Kawakawa is definitely the best around.
and she's even better in person Off to the A&P show - wish me luck! very tired
I might show you our secret diving spots and you can get a good curry in kawakawa ( the one in Keri is pretty not good ) but efter extensive reseach Kawakawa is definitely the best around.
Nov 10th 2006, 3:44 pm
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Re: Happiness in NZ for the wealthy only?
Originally Posted by pixi-dust
Paladin and Mr Dawes - you really should get together when you're over - I'll see what I can do about the Batty one cos shes a pal in the real world!!! and she's even better in person
Off to the A&P show - wish me luck! very tired I might show you our secret diving spots and you can get a good curry in kawakawa ( the one in Keri is pretty not good ) but efter extensive reseach Kawakawa is definitely the best around.
and she's even better in person Off to the A&P show - wish me luck! very tired
I might show you our secret diving spots and you can get a good curry in kawakawa ( the one in Keri is pretty not good ) but efter extensive reseach Kawakawa is definitely the best around.
Im up for a good old meet up.
I think you will find that most of us on here would get on like an house on fire in the real World
Last edited by Jack Daws; Nov 10th 2006 at 3:48 pm.
Nov 10th 2006, 3:47 pm
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Re: Happiness in NZ for the wealthy only?
Originally Posted by Paladin
I lived in the U.S. for 9 years(Uni + 5 yrs work - Colorado), enough for a million lifetimes!!! Just not me! The whole place is too money centred!!! And that self-absorbed tunnel vision patriotism..... YUK!!!
Now if I could have lived waaaay up in the Rockies, not needed to work and ski everyday, then it would've been fun!!!! But the "keep up with the Jones'" & rat race are the worst I have ever seen!!!
i see why some people still wanna go there but not my cup of tea! (even if they are deluded!
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Now if I could have lived waaaay up in the Rockies, not needed to work and ski everyday, then it would've been fun!!!! But the "keep up with the Jones'" & rat race are the worst I have ever seen!!!
i see why some people still wanna go there but not my cup of tea! (even if they are deluded!
) Now it's a dual carriageway with a huge central reservation (or "4-lane divided" in U.S.-speak), with massive houses all around, starting at 400K (US... about $650K NZ). We semi-joke that there can only be so many vice presidents at General Motors, to afford these houses. People live in debt to others here. It's a way of life. We're some of the few odd ones out. People think I'm strange when I turn down a store credit card to "save" 10%. I just tell them I don't need any more credit cards. I get the most weird looks.
Nov 10th 2006, 3:48 pm
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Re: Happiness in NZ for the wealthy only?
Originally Posted by Pompey_Paul
I am in IT and have a degree so i get quite a lot of points .... i think i am just a few shy 20 ish......
Nov 10th 2006, 3:50 pm
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Re: Happiness in NZ for the wealthy only?
We get 210 on the points indicator without me contibuting. And we get 10 points if I do
Nov 10th 2006, 3:56 pm
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Re: Happiness in NZ for the wealthy only?
Originally Posted by Jack Daws
We get 210 on the points indicator without me contibuting. And we get 10 points if I do
I only counted myself. Not sure hubby qualifies as "skilled migrant". He's a mould maker (tool and die maker) for plastics injection.
Nov 10th 2006, 3:57 pm
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Re: Happiness in NZ for the wealthy only?
Originally Posted by Maz
I hear you! I'm in the Chicago suburbs. 10 years ago the area our house is in was open farmland. Illinois loses huge amounts of fertile farmland every year to house construction, with no end in sight. When we came over here a road near my in-laws' house was literally a gravel track. Now it's a dual carriageway with a huge central reservation (or "4-lane divided" in U.S.-speak), with massive houses all around, starting at 400K (US... about $650K NZ). We semi-joke that there can only be so many vice presidents at General Motors, to afford these houses. People live in debt to others here. It's a way of life. We're some of the few odd ones out. People think I'm strange when I turn down a store credit card to "save" 10%. I just tell them I don't need any more credit cards. I get the most weird looks.
Now it's a dual carriageway with a huge central reservation (or "4-lane divided" in U.S.-speak), with massive houses all around, starting at 400K (US... about $650K NZ). We semi-joke that there can only be so many vice presidents at General Motors, to afford these houses. People live in debt to others here. It's a way of life. We're some of the few odd ones out. People think I'm strange when I turn down a store credit card to "save" 10%. I just tell them I don't need any more credit cards. I get the most weird looks.Geez i'm glad i got out of that place!!!!
Nov 10th 2006, 3:58 pm
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Re: Happiness in NZ for the wealthy only?
Originally Posted by Jack Daws
We get 210 on the points indicator without me contibuting. And we get 10 points if I do
Nov 10th 2006, 4:05 pm
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Re: Happiness in NZ for the wealthy only?
Originally Posted by Paladin
Oh god don't remind me - I'll be off on another one of my Gemini induced rants!!!
Geez i'm glad i got out of that place!!!!
Geez i'm glad i got out of that place!!!!
Nov 10th 2006, 4:14 pm
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Re: Happiness in NZ for the wealthy only?
Originally Posted by Paladin
You get 10 points for "doing the ironing" do you?
Nov 10th 2006, 4:20 pm
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Re: Happiness in NZ for the wealthy only?
Originally Posted by Maz
*snort* Go right ahead!
Maybe after a weekends rest!!!!