Moving to Auckland
Jan 29th 2013, 12:06 am
#136
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Re: Moving to Auckland
I find food shopping here the same or even cheaper than the UK. Certainly the quality of meat we get is far superior than the stuff we used to get at Tesco's. Morrisons had a much higher quality of meat than Tesco, probably due to the butcher in-store, but certainly not as high quality as the chicken and steak we get here. Having lived here, if we ever go back to the UK to live, we will never shop in Tesco's again, in fact we'll stick to the local butcher and morrisons.
Where the UK was cheap was the specials that Tesco would have on things like nappies (2 for 1) or baby wipes (3 packs for 3.99 sort of thing). If you stocked up on these you could save a bit of money.
Jan 29th 2013, 2:01 am
#137
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Re: Moving to Auckland
A number of things, the key things are:
1) You got out of Auckland - got out for the very reason that all the properties are a frigging rip off
2) If you're not able to put down roots (buy a house etc), nice weather and beaches don't make up for the bad stuff
3) It's the reason why so many kiwi's live in houses that are no better than a pig shed.
4) Kingsland is like most areas of London pre 1666 before the great fire of London destroyed 1000's of run down wooden buildings
1) You got out of Auckland - got out for the very reason that all the properties are a frigging rip off
2) If you're not able to put down roots (buy a house etc), nice weather and beaches don't make up for the bad stuff
3) It's the reason why so many kiwi's live in houses that are no better than a pig shed.
4) Kingsland is like most areas of London pre 1666 before the great fire of London destroyed 1000's of run down wooden buildings
Jan 29th 2013, 2:47 am
#138
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Re: Moving to Auckland
A number of things, the key things are:
1) You got out of Auckland - got out for the very reason that all the properties are a frigging rip off
2) If you're not able to put down roots (buy a house etc), nice weather and beaches don't make up for the bad stuff
3) It's the reason why so many kiwi's live in houses that are no better than a pig shed.
4) Kingsland is like most areas of London pre 1666 before the great fire of London destroyed 1000's of run down wooden buildings
1) You got out of Auckland - got out for the very reason that all the properties are a frigging rip off
2) If you're not able to put down roots (buy a house etc), nice weather and beaches don't make up for the bad stuff
3) It's the reason why so many kiwi's live in houses that are no better than a pig shed.
4) Kingsland is like most areas of London pre 1666 before the great fire of London destroyed 1000's of run down wooden buildings
It's all true by the way.
Jan 29th 2013, 5:09 am
#139
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Re: Moving to Auckland
'Tom' from 2006 was clearly a singleton geyser with only himself to keep, earning $80k per annum was on a pretty good crack then. With rent in Auckland at $280pw I would suggest he was flatting and not having a family to house, feed and keep. Our first rental in 2005 was $385pw for a weeny two bedroom townhouse style unit - which at that time was one of the cheapest places.
Jan 29th 2013, 5:22 am
#140
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Re: Moving to Auckland
Glad I made your day. Its not often I agree with others, in this case.... I can. There is the odd bargain house about, we looked at a lovely 3-bed house on the shore which had offers starting at $415K. It really was nice and I could have seen us living there, however.... in the case of 10 minutes at least 100 couples viewed it. Who knows what it'd end up selling for.
Its highly unlikely we will buy here as we're not sure we want to spend the rest of our lives here!
Its highly unlikely we will buy here as we're not sure we want to spend the rest of our lives here!
Jan 29th 2013, 6:51 am
#141
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Re: Moving to Auckland
See, easy as (tongue in cheek
except point 1)
