I just don't know whether to move - HELP!!!
Feb 19th 2006, 12:28 pm
#46
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Re: I just don't know whether to move - HELP!!!
Originally Posted by turkeytickler
Its a combination of lack of decent clubs (no social scene), scary driving, long flat straight roads (im the wrong end of town for easy access to the port hills and the urban cycle paths plentiful though they are are normally littered with broken glass and gravel), poor road surfaces and ridiculously overpriced bike shops ($88 for a mich pro race vs £20 in the uk - do the maths yourself). On two occasions I have planned nice routes out into the southern alps and malvern hills, got out there, run the gaunlet with the local nesting magpies only to have my route scuppered because it took in gravel roads - which werent marked on the map.
I do cycle in ChCh - and i do regular bunch rides on tuesdays and sundays + the occasional race but it is - and this was my point - *harder* and also less fun to cycle in chch than where i lived in the UK.
I do cycle in ChCh - and i do regular bunch rides on tuesdays and sundays + the occasional race but it is - and this was my point - *harder* and also less fun to cycle in chch than where i lived in the UK.
Feb 26th 2006, 9:32 pm
#47
Melbourne Australia
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Re: I just don't know whether to move - HELP!!!
My brotherinlaw's brother works as a partner in a solicitors firm in Auckland - his bonus last year paid for a 4 million dollar beach house. Somehow I dont think you will be slumming it.
Having lived in NZ for 25 years before coming back to UK you will develop a love of the outdoors and my advice is to seek a suburb away from Glendowie. This way you will meet other people and not out all your eggs into your relationship with your kiwi friends. You will also see a big difference suburb to suburb and this could affect the way you view your first 6 months or so.
Perhaps on your next holiday check out Devonport or Howick? both old haunts of mine.
While living in NZ I still managed an annual trip to Europe to ski and visit family over christmas. Alternatively it provided them a great destination for a holiday.
If the decision is for the kids like us you do have to make a few sacrifices but I look at it as more making alterative decisions ie holidays instead of Tuscanny we are doing Tailand - although we still intend to make trips back to Europe in alternate years.
Good luck.
Having lived in NZ for 25 years before coming back to UK you will develop a love of the outdoors and my advice is to seek a suburb away from Glendowie. This way you will meet other people and not out all your eggs into your relationship with your kiwi friends. You will also see a big difference suburb to suburb and this could affect the way you view your first 6 months or so.
Perhaps on your next holiday check out Devonport or Howick? both old haunts of mine.
While living in NZ I still managed an annual trip to Europe to ski and visit family over christmas. Alternatively it provided them a great destination for a holiday.
If the decision is for the kids like us you do have to make a few sacrifices but I look at it as more making alterative decisions ie holidays instead of Tuscanny we are doing Tailand - although we still intend to make trips back to Europe in alternate years.
Good luck.
