Forum whore
hooah!Originally Posted by Badcat
I guess to people from the provinces, Auckland is a big, busy place.
To people like us, it's a quiet suburban life - Now HK, that's a busy city! Shop 'til midnight, travel everywhere you need to go by MTR, great eating and party every night of the week until dawn (or later!)
'Cisco has a cool vibe to it also, but I haven't had the pleasure of living there (only visited).
Scooter boy
I also lived in HK and KL for a while. At that stage of my life it was awesome. I loved it. Even met my wife in HK, its an awesome place.
Must say its really interesting reading all the replies.
We have made a bit of a decision to go for a decent trip South by selling our flat. We're going to have a good look and make a decision from there. Funny how I have a desire to settle in the South Island and yet never even visited it once.
Sometimes you get the feeling the only thing holding you back is yourself. Over the years I've heard of plenty of people how make a move like we're considering and funnily enough i have not heard one of those people say that they regretted it.
Interesting to learn about those engines too Motu
Just wanted to be clear, although im fed up living in AUckland i'm not a moaner, just a chikcen. I realise there is no point complaining about something without doing something about it.
Just really enjoy hearing others experiences. Cheers guys
Forum whore
Good on ya,do it,and maybe after a few years you could come back to it with a fresh look like I have - I still don't enjoy it here,just weigh pro and cons.
In and out of jobs, running free
Waging war with society
on the up
My wife ran off with one of my mates while I was too busy working to notice
And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.
Deus ex ukulele
Ex-wife. Ex-mate?My wife ran off with one of my mates while I was too busy working to notice
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
on the up
Very much so on both counts.
And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.
no pussy
not without it's faults
BL, i agree with you totally.a slight diversion from the thread direction. The thing that most annoys me about auckland would have to the town planning. 30-40 yrs of weak mayors have helped make aucks what it is. welly would be the same except they ecountered all the probs auck has now a long time ago and tackled the problem early, some might argue even they havnt done enough. But back to aucks, I dont really like living here, but then Im from the Bay of Islands so I have a good excuse, but imagine if aucks was or could sort its transport problem out (both public and motorways) and actually paid some more attention to parks and the like. Which brings me to back what really annoys me about auckland, it should/could have been the best city in the southern hemisphere. With a hell of a lot of nice coastline which you barely ever see and all acess to it is restricted to some degree by roading or suburbia. maybe they might get it sorted one day.
diesel two strokes...........make sweet sounds. Used to work at sea tuna long lining and our boat had a 2stroke 8L v8. Used to wake the boys up in the morning by cranking throttle 3/4 full to clear the injectors after idling all night.
Fuel bill was horrendous though
i'm not saying it's perfect - just get a little tired of people saying how bad it is. I live here by choice (and also now earn less than half what i did 3 years ago). i too have scaled back the traveling and the hours and am having a much better time of it.
sorry to seem like such an asshole.
k
I am Jack's complete lack of remorse .
Pasta farts
Well, I was born in welly (currently residing on the North Shore (09)) , lived there for 6 years, have numerous trips down there each year but id never shift back.
People whinge about how X city is so much better than auckland without taking into consideration what you want in a city.
I dont think much could shift me from the North Shore I love it far too much. It has everything I want, greenery, coastline (woo! beaches!), islands, comfortable weather all year round and best of all there isn't a monstrous concrete jungle in the middle of it.
Commuting 35 minutes into town in the morning is a small price to pay to be able to leave it behind in the evenings/weekends!
Personally, I find Wellington very boring, and too cold for me. The only reason I go down there is for work or friends. It just doesnt have anything *I* want.
When I ask someone what they think is so good about wellington (for example) the first things I get is "Oh the whole culture down there, great nightlife, bars, nice and close together. Can just walk into town for a coffee rah rah rah". Now that might be fine for some Latte sipping cheese eating surrender monkey, but its everything that I dont care about in a city.
Pasta farts
...and while im here...
To the people who mention how much it "cost" them buying a house in auckland.
It didnt "cost" you anything. It was merely a larger capital investment that you'd only benefit from in the end. (unless somehow you bought a devaluing property!)
The house prices are just something I accept for living in such a great city (the North Shore City that is).
old enough to know better
When we emigrated 2½ years ago, Auckland was our first stop.
We managed to get good paying jobs, bought a house in Birkenhead and have settled in quite comfortably.
I am a metallurgist, specialising in aluminium smelting technology, the weather down in Invercargill put us off going down there, so I am now working in a manufacturing industry in East Tamaki.
Basically, Auckland is all we need in a city!
Al
4 wheels move the body
2 wheels move the soul
Forum whore
Like those leaky apartments that the Auckland "builders" specialised in?
it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
(PostalDave on ADVrider)
Pasta farts
What kind of reaction are you looking for?
no pussy
yeah - those dirty AUCKLAND builders......
obviously, all builders are fine upstanding people.
.... except those damn AUCKLAND builders ripping off the common man......
Bloody AUCKLAND....
frankly - i don't know how i sleep at night - being an aucklander and all...
I am Jack's complete lack of remorse .
Deus ex ukulele
With a rugby team like that I don't blame you...
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
Hardcore Biker
im a dirty auckland builder and ill comment on this.
for a start dont blame the builder. blame the construction industry that says a particular system is worthy or blame a subbie that does sub standard work without the builders knowledge. Particularly blame insulclad and hardies. The fashion for stucco type apperance provided a market for a sysytem that was doomed to begin with. we did a hospital with it out mangere and my boss went to particular effort to get hardies to give it a warranty. The hardies certified installers are no longer part of hardies and thier system suked. it craked and presumably leaked. The engineers and council passed the foundation schematics which we thought were shit and beefed up heaps and it still sank a little.Hardies are trying to have nothing to do with it legaly too.
The leaky building saga is from some shit builders for sure but its the whole industry that has allowed many of the problems occur. Simply put alot of building do leak, take a close look at an old villa and you'll see the signs. The difference between an old house and some of the newer ones is the fact that the old ones breath. "leaky houses" are houses that not only leak, they trap water as well. A log in still water will rot faster than one in running water.
And one more thought, builders carry the most responsiblity on site (and liability) but are paid the least.
And watch out for increses in the cost of building over te next 6-10 years, there slowly making it so that almost all work on the exterior of a house will need to be done by a certified builder (not a master builder, master builders is a tradmark, watch My house My castle some time) or "certified practitioner"
with repercutions if faulty workmanship is found, like banning or struk of the registrar. About bloody time and too slow I rekon.
did i bite ?
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