Whangarei, a good place?

[Maha]

lol Warkworth is hardly considered part of the winterless north Mark

More a northern suburb of Auckland



Think you'll find the "winterless north" is roughly Kaitaia & above. Last winter it was reported by the met service that at about 1:30am they recorded 21 degree's. A freak wind off the pacific

Hey hey hey...we maybe now 35 mins north of the bridge (thanks to the tunnels) but a burb of Auckland?

Rodney is where we live, yeah yeah dumb name I know, soon to part of the Super City though damn it.

[george formby]

Actually I'd say the north has a lot of low earners and quite a surprising amount of wealthy folk, but only a very small population (as a percentage) of middle income earners.

It always struck me as strange that there was such a gaping hole in the demographic up there.
But I guess it's also related to the fact that most business owners up there seemed to charge Auckland prices (or more in some cases such as cars) on half the overheads.

True on the demographic but business wise over the years I have been hammered on freight cost's & big city rents. Income is very seasonal too which makes it hard to be competitive when cost's never go down. I may look at selling cars though.... Bugger it. I'm off for a hoon.

[Boob Johnson]

Hey hey hey...we maybe now 35 mins north of the bridge (thanks to the tunnels) but a burb of Auckland?

Rodney is where we live, yeah yeah dumb name I know, soon to part of the Super City though damn it.

Speaking of gay names, have you seen that road sign up your way?


"You are now entering Rodney"

[Maha]

Speaking of gay names, have you seen that road sign up your way?


"You are now entering Rodney"

No, but I have seen the sign at the other end, 'You are now exiting Rodney game over ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh'

[Boob Johnson]

No, but I have seen the sign at the other end, 'You are now exiting Rodney game over ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh'

Ha ha. Here's ANOTHER gay thing about Rodney, you guys inherited Roger Kerr Newel from us here in the Naki, a lot of people were glad to see the backside of that clown

[spacemonkey]

True on the demographic but business wise over the years I have been hammered on freight cost's & big city rents. Income is very seasonal too which makes it hard to be competitive when cost's never go down. I may look at selling cars though.... Bugger it. I'm off for a hoon.

Paihia/BOI/Kerikeri rents yes..... But I was talking about Whangarei which is not a tourist mecca* so rents are not to bad at all.


*And going by the insanity of moving the tourist information center out of town to SH1 miles from town so that there is no actual need to enter Whangarei itself, I'm guessing that it doesn't want to ever encourage the tourist cash cow to enter town. :slap:

[spacemonkey]

Speaking of gay names, have you seen that road sign up your way?


"You are now entering Rodney"

Bahahahahahaha!!!!
Awesome!