Who's gone to NZ - left and gone back again?
Nov 24th 2012, 4:29 pm
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Re: Who's gone to NZ - left and gone back again?
Haha awolkiwi, I agree with you, I have also lived in Palmy and would definitely consider it a rural lifestyle! But the person that posted that lives in Wanganui (where I have also lived), so I guess it's all relative. That's not a criticism, it's just that different things suit different people. I'm a city girl through and through so those places felt very 'country' to me.
Nov 25th 2012, 12:05 pm
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Re: Who's gone to NZ - left and gone back again?
Didn't Mick Jagger call Palmy North the "arsehole of the universe"?
Nov 25th 2012, 7:41 pm
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Re: Who's gone to NZ - left and gone back again?
Haha awolkiwi, I agree with you, I have also lived in Palmy and would definitely consider it a rural lifestyle! But the person that posted that lives in Wanganui (where I have also lived), so I guess it's all relative. That's not a criticism, it's just that different things suit different people. I'm a city girl through and through so those places felt very 'country' to me.
Nov 25th 2012, 7:46 pm
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Re: Who's gone to NZ - left and gone back again?
The person was me!!! And having lived in a city (Coventry) and regularly went to London!! Palmy is not a village or neither is it a city, it does have a shopping mall and bars, i don't think a country village in the uk does??? So would not say it was actually a rural lifestyle come on!
Nov 25th 2012, 7:49 pm
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Re: Who's gone to NZ - left and gone back again?
In reality, when I was last there, I was very aware of the student feel to the town. It also has strong tramping clubs, a good swimming centre for families and is only a few miles from the manawatu gorge for basic whitewater kayaking. I would probably like it better now than when I was younger.
just saying I wouldn't consider it a rural lifestyle 
Nov 25th 2012, 9:38 pm
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Re: Who's gone to NZ - left and gone back again?
In reality, when I was last there, I was very aware of the student feel to the town. It also has strong tramping clubs, a good swimming centre for families and is only a few miles from the manawatu gorge for basic whitewater kayaking. I would probably like it better now than when I was younger.
Great place for families, we've lived here for 9 years after 16 in Auckland and 22 years in UK - love it. May not stay in this town for ever but it has everything we need and while our kids are still at school (10 min walk for both of them) we will stay here.
Loved my recent visit back to UK - but soooo glad I don't live there anymore, way too busy for me and house prices were mad!
My step brother just bought himself a little 3 bed semi in Hammersmith for 700,000 pounds eeek!
BTW my family are all in the UK - but I have my own family and don't need to be around them on a regular basis, happy to have a catch up every 2-3 years.
Nov 25th 2012, 9:39 pm
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Re: Who's gone to NZ - left and gone back again?
There's just something about Palmy though that screams 'agriculture' to me and I'm not sure what it is. I just know that I feel like I'm having an allergic reaction every time I contemplate going there! I clearly have P. Nth related issues!
Nov 25th 2012, 9:41 pm
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Re: Who's gone to NZ - left and gone back again?
Well as my mother in law says after living here for 48 years: "it is an agricultural town".
Nov 27th 2012, 9:49 am
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Re: Who's gone to NZ - left and gone back again?
Nope John Cleese, and Palmerston North it was.
Cleese calls the city "the suicide capital of New Zealand" and says, "If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick."
Cleese did not stop there.
"We stayed in a little motel. The weather was grotty, the theatre was a nasty shape and the audience was very strange to play to."
Cleese said the audience laughed in all the wrong places and he had a "thoroughly bloody miserable time" in the city.
Cleese did not stop there.
"We stayed in a little motel. The weather was grotty, the theatre was a nasty shape and the audience was very strange to play to."
Cleese said the audience laughed in all the wrong places and he had a "thoroughly bloody miserable time" in the city.
Nov 27th 2012, 10:03 am
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Re: Who's gone to NZ - left and gone back again?
I can only presume you haven't read the thread properly. That doesn't say that Cleese called PN "the arsehole of the universe".
Cleese wouldn't need to use such coarse language, he's too clever for that.
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/southland-region/11
"After a 1965 world tour that included Invercargill, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards reputedly called the city ‘the arsehole of the world’. Before Southland’s 2005 clash with the British Lions rugby team, BBC commentator Brian Moore compared Invercargill to ‘Chernobyl … or Bhopal or wherever really’. 1 On the other hand, British comedian John Cleese, after rounding on Palmerston North as ‘the suicide capital of New Zealand’, said Invercargill was ‘delightful’."
Cleese wouldn't need to use such coarse language, he's too clever for that.
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/southland-region/11
"After a 1965 world tour that included Invercargill, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards reputedly called the city ‘the arsehole of the world’. Before Southland’s 2005 clash with the British Lions rugby team, BBC commentator Brian Moore compared Invercargill to ‘Chernobyl … or Bhopal or wherever really’. 1 On the other hand, British comedian John Cleese, after rounding on Palmerston North as ‘the suicide capital of New Zealand’, said Invercargill was ‘delightful’."
Last edited by TommyLuck; Nov 27th 2012 at 10:12 am.