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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian d'marge View Post
    best pig hunting is Christchurch , columbo street about 2 in the morning , Saturdays yield quite good results

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    Nah mate we got Hunters corner for that kind of pig,but I prefer them slightly less "bush",,if ya' know what I mean.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumph View Post
    You and dangerous have hit the nail on the head...and so have a shitload of others. Land prices in Selwyn are starting to go through the roof now. New subdivisions in Rolleston almost every month too....Go West is the new call.
    yeah but buggered If I want any neighbors, well 1k away is fine by me, so do we really want them city people comming out here?
    Its a shit but there are 2 sections next to us for sale, I hope they never sell, would kill to own em myself



    Quote Originally Posted by imdying View Post
    Maybe house swap with somebody out west for wee bit, change of surroundings/perspective and all that?
    For a lot out that way, it's basically as if there were never any earthquakes...
    You refering to me ID? the opening poster is more than welcome to come on out and see the area...
    BUT as for "as if there were never any earthquakes.." fuk no man, shits as rooted out west as it is in town, no local pubs any more etc, shit Im 500m from the epie but hey, ya screwed anywere in NZ if the biggie rocks on in.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dangerous View Post
    BUT as for "as if there were never any earthquakes.." fuk no man, shits as rooted out west as it is in town, no local pubs any more etc, shit Im 500m from the epie but hey, ya screwed anywere in NZ if the biggie rocks on in.
    Where I've moved to in the western burbs you wouldn't even know there'd been any earthquakes, and the council are resealing roads that are million times better than what I was driving over in east chch, life is getting worse for our former neighbors now that the diggers are starting up at 7am demolishing empty houses.

    If the big one hits, I doubt it would be any worse than what we've already had, unless you live right on top of the main divide
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    Quote Originally Posted by dangerous View Post
    BUT as for "as if there were never any earthquakes.." fuk no man, shits as rooted out west as it is in town, no local pubs any more etc
    I think he's meaing in Chch not out with the interbred hillbillies because once you're west of Hagley park there's very little evidence of any earthquake, yeah there's a few buildings down but practically nothing compared to the CBD east

    Quote Originally Posted by dangerous View Post
    shit Im 500m from the epie but hey, ya screwed anywere in NZ if the biggie rocks on in.
    Depends on what you call the big one, and where it hits
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    The big one! .. Hmmmmm!

    Quote Originally Posted by Kickaha View Post
    Depends on what you call the big one, and where it hits
    The big one is never actually going to happen ... it's just something to be afraid of, should it ever happen!

    The last one might well have been BIG but it will never be the "big one", that one is always coming!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kickaha View Post
    I think he's meaing in Chch not out with the interbred hillbillies
    AND this from someone in the Goone


    Quote Originally Posted by neels View Post
    Where I've moved to in the western burbs you wouldn't even know there'd been any earthquakes
    thats due to the age of the area, shit I was talking of out west a chch is all old digs, like Grumps hide out, anyone remember the TV viewing of the house that lost its side and a kid had to clime out were his bed once was?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian d'marge View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by dangerous View Post
    AND this from someone in the Goone

    You sure you two aren't related ?


    thats due to the age of the area, shit I was talking of out west a chch is all old digs, like Grumps hide out, anyone remember the TV viewing of the house that lost its side and a kid had to clime out were his bed once was?
    Between Papanui and the city boundary it was all infill housing built from around 1960 on...on good ground and at a time when we built sound housing. I remember the Eastern suburbs being built up too - we lived in Avonside. A lower quality of house on piss poor land.

    The house where the kid fell out of bed when the side fell off is about 400m up the road from us...built in about 1925, demolished now.
    Ours built in 1890 in wood is still standing.....and should do another 100 years now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldrider View Post
    The big one is never actually going to happen ... it's just something to be afraid of, should it ever happen!

    The last one might well have been BIG but it will never be the "big one", that one is always coming!
    9.0 on the Alpine fault for 4 minutes? MMI in Churchur would be at or just under the 7 mark. for four minutes? not my idea of good fun.

    Endorse the comments about Hagley Park west, vs CBD and east.
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    Yeah, meant Bishopdale, Bryndwr, Burnside. Basically nothing significant to see... some man hole covers higher than the road, but not much else. Bishopdale mall... I know the community centre will come down at some stage, but otherwise untouched.

    I doubt the Alpine fault will give us much trouble in Chch. TBH I'd rather by here for that one... Wellington will cease to exist, as will Nelson and the central North Island. Perhaps Auckland won't be too much worse than we are now, but it's all guessing. All our old shit is gone now, the only question will be electricity supply as the Southern Lakes generation will be gone gone gone. Be interesting to see how Dunedin goes... I suspect it'll kill maybe up to a thousand there (mostly students), but still be quite livable. You've got to have a little bit of a laugh at people who're moving within NZ to escape quakes.

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    Having lived in a fair few places in NZ and visited everywhere else if I was in your position there would be 2 places that I would look seriously at

    Geraldine - it really is beautiful and just big enough

    Hawkes bay - best weather in the country and plenty to do
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    Most Christchurchians are fucking off to Queensland, aren't they? Buggered if I know why.........

    If/when we move back, it'll probably be Northland, somewhere.
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    Quote Originally Posted by imdying View Post
    I doubt the Alpine fault will give us much trouble in Chch. TBH I'd rather by here for that one... Wellington will cease to exist, as will Nelson and the central North Island. Perhaps Auckland won't be too much worse than we are now,
    30% chance of it going in the next 50 years going by yesterdays paper, although something I watched a while back said they doubted it would be as bad as the February earthquake

    Don't move to Franz Josef, the fault line runs right through it
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kickaha View Post
    ....Don't move to Franz Josef, the fault line runs right through it
    Actually, right through the Mobil station there. When it does go the prediction is for the fracture to be an 8 meter shift, so you'll need to walk an extra 8 meters from the pumps to pay for your fuel.
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    farked if I know, Im thinking along the lines of like when the Alpine went in 1934'ish were one day there was no falls next day there were the Maruia Falls (pictured) didnt the alps rise due to many a quake?
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    cheers DD
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