hazeandsteve

Free parking right throughout Taupo. Used to cost me a quid for 15 minutes on the Isle of Wight.

lardyl

how much did they charge for the isle of shite being parked in the Solent?
whatever it was it weren't enough

martyc

How unkind! I spent many happy weekends sailing the solent with my old dad and then visiting friends on the Isle. A lovely place to be!

southerner

Housing - on average.

bassking

Wine
Tins of tuna

BEVS

Wine ? NNoooo.


Parking is about the only thing I can think of straight off.

lardyl

well the two blokes I've shared a house with and came from there both used to refer to the Isle of Sh!te. One was living in central London and the other in rural France so I suppose it might be they didn't get on with the place.

lardyl

not in Auckland

Justcol

I hear ya brother have some karma

zaras dad

if my folks sold thier 3 bedroom house with garden,garage and moved where I am, they would be able to get a 1 or 2 bedroom apartment where a cat would worry about being swung. (the strong dollar/weak pound combo wouldnt help either. even if it was 3/1 it wouldnt make much difference)

The house prices in this country are a joke. The wages havent shifted upwards but the house prices are so out of phase compared to income.


"but we have nice views.............."

southerner

On average means what it says. To help comparison are your folks selling in an equivalent suburb in London to Birkdale in Auckland.

I could quote my own situation which is the other extreme - bought twice the house for half the money (suburban London to suburban regional city) but I won't be caught saying NZ housing is quarter the price of UK.

Also the income relativity is a separate issue, and for some people it is less relevant eg.retirees, or those who can get equally good salaries in both countries, so better IMO to treat that as a separate question.

Catchafire

Drink driving.

mickey_d

The national average is probably a fairer way of looking at it. London has & probably always will be more expensive.
National average in NZ is $345-365K.
National average in UK, at today's exchange rate is around $320K.

lardyl

getting (limited part of) your licence back after losing it for speeding (and drinking.....) bargainaceous so I hear

getting off your sentence because you're a nice person - aka Directions

witty

Actually I would put the housing (where we are in and around 'the tron') as comparable. However, I think that you get more for your money here. For instance I (still) have a three bed semi in dorset on a piece of land that I could jump over on a mountain bike. Now if I sold my house and brought a house for exactly the same in dollars (even with the shocking quid to $) I would get a lot more. 235k for my semi. $450 would get me a very nice house and block (if you hunt around)

My two penneth!