The sickness of Auckland.

[bugjuice]

I tell you lot what. You go live in London for most of your life, or even a year, then come back to Auckland.

Auckland might not be the best place in NZ, fairy fluff. It has it's share of problems, I agree, but fuk-damn-sod-it, it's a fuckin nice city, in a fuckin awesome country. People should respect any city they live in, anywhere in the world, but some don't. So the nice people who do respect it have to kick those who don't once in a while. So what? There's so many shit-holes in the world, that in the grand scheme of things, we are fuckin lucky to be here, where ever in NZ you are. I've travelled a lot of both islands on NZ, been around Europe, the US, Australia, Malaysia etc, and I'm not done travelling yet. I don't call myself an expert by anyones standard, but I know what I've seen, and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else right now.

So if you'll excuse me, quit yer bitchin. I'm off for a ride along some of the best coast in the world.

[NhuanH]

At this juncture, the right thing to say about Auckland has to be:

Go the Blues!!!!!!
Just a shame we couldn't notch up that 4th try....

[Motu]

LOL, its honeslty not bad, i can see how it has been "aucklandnised" but its no where near as bad a Auckland.... There is still people waving (to be friendly) and everyone generally knows about something that someone is doing on the island....

Just one thing though.... there is fuck all dirt roads.... Im very dissapointed... I wanted to get a XR250 to blat around the roads on....

I went to live there in 1985,back then it was where people went to get away from it all or retire...just old baches that were added to,new houses were just a cheap 2 or 3 bedroom,or some wierd self design/buld by a hippy.But that was the time of the rise of the YUPPY,a big disposable income was in their pockets and that's when the flash houses started to go up.One of the first places I lived in over there was in Korora Rd,it was a huge villa on 16 acres of pine and paddocks,it enclosed it's own bay - W bay,the first around from Oneroa,the only place to see the house was from the water,although you could see the garage roof from the top of Tiri View Rd (lived there too,right above the wharf)I would go down to the beach on sunday,and see my foot prints from the sunday before...and just a walk to the shops.The house was so big,we took it over furnished and moved our own stuff in too,we had 2 lounge suites in the lounge,with room to spare,another couch and armchairs in the dinning room.We paid $70 a week and thought it a bit pricey.We built our own place in Te Makiri Rd Onetangi and I walked the beach every night,often the only person in sight.

Everyone knows what you are doing...too right,one of the reasons to leave.At work we would spend our days talking about everyone else and what idiots they were,but you knew somewhere else the same talk was going on....but you may be the star.Waving etiquette on Waiheke?...you can see why I think all the talk about waving on bikes is a bit silly.

After years of riding on bluestone gravel roads the Waiheke roads came as a shock to me...and they were everywhere,only the main roads were sealed - Matiatia to Onetangi and out to the Rocky Bay store,with a few roads here and there sealed,mainly where the buses went really.The brown rock they use from the quarry is high in manganese and damaged alluminium (like bikes) You could crumble it in your hands,so they layed it on with huge ''stones'',they were the size of a good kumara,then they would break down over time.The wierd thing is it didn't make wheel tracks,and after years of learning how to make advantage of the wheel tracks,these were different.Without wheel tracks and fine gravel over the whole road traction was down,but to offset that you had the whole road to play with,I got to love these roads and I think I was finally faster on them than North Island bluestone roads.Coming back to Auckland I found difficulty coping with the bluestone roads.

We used to have a rally sprint down Gordons Rd,opposite the dirt track,and one year I rode a bike in it.I picked my XR200 for it,I had faster bikes but the XR200 had XR250 forks and 300mm travel each end,plus I had tweaked the motor alot and it could keep pace with XR250s and water cooled KDX200s.It was a there and back sprint,and went off road at the turn around,it was very rough and I reckoned I'd pick up heaps of time over the cars there.That part was overgrown with trees,but every year they went past on the back of a truck and trimmed it back...ha,but not that year - so instead of being able to take that section standing on the pegs wide open in 5th,I had to go in 4th hunched over the bars! Still,my times were the same as rear wheel drive rally cars like 2 litre Mk II Escorts,so a good effort by the little XR200,valve bounce in 6th...about 140kph.

We rode off road between Onetangi Straights by the golf course over to Gordons road,from Maori Hill (we used to ride to the top) to where the ''new?'' airfield is - they were trying to build it,but couldn't,so let the land go to scrub.I would organise Endurocross races there with an 8km loop,the wife on the checkpoint to time their every lap.

Sometimes I think I should of stayed over there,but it was getting just too hard to survive...weighed up pros and cons and moved back to Auckland.Getting out again soon after 9 yrs of the big smoke.

[pritch]

The worst thing about Auckland? Is that the rest of us New Zealanders are expected to subsidise the fucking place (through petrol and other levies)

Generations of Aucklanders have voted in congenital idiots to run the place, and I don't just mean John Banks. A few of you may remember Robbie?

God help us!

Under the far sighted governance of these elected cretins the infrastructure has been allowed to decay to the point there have been crises in water, power and now roading in recent years. This situation arose gradually over a long period, the Councils were too chickenshit to set appropriate rates in case they got voted out. Well the time has come to pay the piper and Auckland is facing rates rises of multiple hundreds percent.

My condolences to all Aucklanders, but I don't want to help pay for this stupidity.

[Jackrat]

Generations of Aucklanders have voted in congenital idiots to run the place, and I don't just mean John Banks. A few of you may remember Robbie?

God help us!

Under the far sighted governance of these elected cretins the infrastructure has been allowed to decay to the point there have been crises in water, power and now roading in recent years. This situation arose gradually over a long period, the Councils were too chickenshit to set appropriate rates in case they got voted out. Well the time has come to pay the piper and Auckland is facing rates rises of multiple hundreds percent.

My condolences to all Aucklanders, but I don't want to help pay for this stupidity.

Get real,one third of the country lives there and the place encompasses half a dozen citys.It's the economic center of the country weather you hillbillys like it or not.
Fuck, go back to chewing your bloody hay seeds.

[NC]

Im so happy i live on Waiheke now....

I love waiheke!

[NC]

I think that mothers that leave their kids dirty nappies in public places should have them shoved into their mutty faces.

[MSTRS:Me]

Get real,one third of the country lives there and the place encompasses half a dozen citys.It's the economic center of the country weather you hillbillys like it or not.
Fuck, go back to chewing your bloody hay seeds.

Yassir massa. T'ankya massa. 'ow much you be wantin' massa. Wees be g-o-o-d lil pickninies massa. (bows and scrapes, shuffles back to cotton fields)

[avgas]

The worst thing about Auckland? Is that the rest of us New Zealanders are expected to subsidise the fucking place (through petrol and other levies) so that more people want to live there! Where is the logic/justice in this? So stop moaning about it and start enjoying it. Bugger you. Respect my contribution to propping up your property values!

I get constantly sick about Aucklanders moaning about living in Auckland. If you don't like it, fuck off somewhere else. And don't give me that shit about jobs and careers, blah blah. You've overcooked the job market for the rest of us anyway.

Snarl!!

Dont say that, or all the assholes will move to your parts - ive seen it done to my Coromandel Paradise, now theyre removing the corners from the roads, and complaining about the noise

[jrandom]

Dont say that, or all the assholes will move to your parts

Are you implying that Hitcher's parts are *not* yet in close proximity with arseholes?



Hot damn, I love that banana.

[hobdar]

I have to say i dislike Auckland, the roads sucks, the traffic sucks, it is way too spread out and most people are not friendly at all...oh yeah did i mention my Inlaws..live there....but i don't think thats why i don't like it......

Having Lived or visited a wide range of places in NZ i describe it like this.....

You get lost in Auckland (bad roads blah blah blah) and you stop and ask for directions and.....if you don't get told to Feck off you get ignored.....

Taupo is a mini auckland..if your recognised as a local or are hanging with locals its all good, but is not you are considered a foreigner....and pointed to the information centre...


You get lost in Wellington and the person will spend a little time trying to give you directions and ensure you take the quickest route.....

CHCH .....almost the same as Auckland..but you won't get sworn at and you may get a mumble about not having enough time or patience....

Dunedin and further south the person will practically put you in their car and drive you to your destination and then snsure you have enough money for parking etc etc etc....(PT)


reality who cares where you live what you drive ....or your personality oh wait that ones important

[hobdar]

The worst thing about Auckland? Is that the rest of us New Zealanders are expected to subsidise the fucking place (through petrol and other levies) so that more people want to live there! Where is the logic/justice in this? So stop moaning about it and start enjoying it. Bugger you. Respect my contribution to propping up your property values!

I get constantly sick about Aucklanders moaning about living in Auckland. If you don't like it, fuck off somewhere else. And don't give me that shit about jobs and careers, blah blah. You've overcooked the job market for the rest of us anyway.

Snarl!!

Umm did anyone else notice that the first 4 posts displaying anti-auckland sentiment received no backlash until an 'outsider' criticised auckland and then boy did the claws come out or what..... :spudwave:

[Motu]

A few of you may remember Robbie?

That's what happens when you let a motorcycle racer run the city....

[NC]

Dont say that, or all the assholes will move to your parts

He's going to have people living around his wang and berries?

[parsley]

I tell you lot what. You go live in London for most of your life, or even a year, then come back to Auckland.

Damn right. It always amuses me when people in Auckland complain about traffic. Excuse me? Try living in a big city and seeing what serious traffic is like.