Rate the towns

[Maha]

In/during a good southerly ... 25 metres ....

Wakatipitoe can chop up eh?

[FJRider]

forget motorcycling in Qtown in winter

it freezes over for 5 months

Nahhhhhhh ... global warming brought that down to three months ... so far ...

[FJRider]

Wakatipitoe can chop up eh?

Wakatipu can ...

[Winston001]

No perfect choices in the list but great locations anyway. I don't think you'd regret any of them.

Napier and Queenstown are my suggestions but be aware Qtn is expensive to live and buy in. It's about 2 hours from the southern beaches.

[Berries]

Apart from surfing QTown has everything you are looking for. And you could take up car surfing if you really wanted to hang ten or whatever it is they do. Be warned though, it is very much a small town.

[Skyryder]

Out of interest, how far to the nearest Surf Beach from Queenstown?

Not being a sufer I don't know. I hear there are some wild rides on the coast but failing that Oz might be the next best but ya gonna have to wait a few million years before we get there.


Skyryder

[scumdog]

Apart from surfing QTown has everything you are looking for. And you could take up car surfing if you really wanted to hang ten or whatever it is they do. Be warned though, it is very much a small town.

And chock full of tourists, Kiwi bums and overseas workers that get pissed every night, sell dodgy drugs, fight, drive drunk, vomit and piss everywhere and that's when they're not stealing stuff.

What a great fun place to live......the best thing to come out of Queenstown is the tar-sealed road......

[Berries]

Agree, but you have also just described my experience of living in Wellington.

[scumdog]

Agree, but you have also just described my experience of living in Wellington.

Prices in W'ton are probably cheaper though...

[huff3r]

Prices in W'ton are probably cheaper though...

Hmm... i dunno about that... Depends how far out of town you're willing to live

Still better than Auckland though, so much so that when dad was told the company was moving its head office up there he found another job in Kuwait instead!

[FJRider]

And chock full of tourists, Kiwi bums and overseas workers that get pissed every night, sell dodgy drugs, fight, drive drunk, vomit and piss everywhere and that's when they're not stealing stuff.

What a great fun place to live......the best thing to come out of Queenstown is the tar-sealed road......

With all that going for the place ... I wonder why the council (and the Police ) want to reduce the lawful bar hours ... 24 hour drinking ... whats the problem ...

[FJRider]

Still better than Auckland though, so much so that when dad was told the company was moving its head office up there he found another job in Kuwait instead!

that somewhere near Taupo .... ???

[huff3r]

that somewhere near Taupo .... ???

Sure is
Only a convenient 22hr flight away in fact!

[_Shrek_]

Out of interest, how far to the nearest Surf Beach from Queenstown?

just over the hill & down the road a bit

[EgliHonda]

And chock full of tourists, Kiwi bums and overseas workers that get pissed every night, sell dodgy drugs, fight, drive drunk, vomit and piss everywhere and that's when they're not stealing stuff.

What a great fun place to live......the best thing to come out of Queenstown is the tar-sealed road......

Completely agree. Shithole of a place, built under the hills so you don't see the sun for 6 months, icy roads, loopy tourists driving on th wrong side of the road while taking photos, pissed up aussies looking for a fight every 20 metres, 2-3 hours from any surf spot. Most people that rate the place have only been there for a boozy ski weekend or similar, believe me, it is a cunt of a place to live...