Christchurch red zoners. And shit.

[Oscar]

[COLOR="#139922"]that still doesn't answer the question.

I had no idea it was compulsory. And it's more fun not too.

fact: they HAVE been paying rates.
SO, why should they not be receiving the 'services' that paying rates "entitles people to"?

asides from anything, my whole point in this thread was that they should tell the council to gtfo and be all hippy commune.

and f*ck the council, if i decide i want to live in an earthquaked house, who are they to tell me to move?
if they decide tomorrow that you're too gay to live, are you going to walk to the camps or pay for the bullet yourself?
or piss and moan about it?

(one of) your fundamental problem( s) is that you have faith in authority.

I have faith in common sense, and living in an EQ damaged house in an area that has been determined to be unsustainable, is not common sense.
Expecting your fellow ratepayers to maintain that area, when only a fraction of the people that previously lived there remain is not common sense.

As for pissing and/or moaning, no. I would leave that to the green fonted whingers of the world.
If it affected me personally, I would act.

[mashman]

If it affected me personally, I would act as though I give a shit.

Fixed for ya.

[Oscar]

Fixed for ya.

I didn't get where I am today by acting.

[Drew]

I didn't get where I am today by acting.

Ya did so cunt.

I saw you on Shortland street just the other night!

[Oscar]

Ya did so cunt.

I saw you on Shortland street just the other night!

That’s a damn lie!
I was in Guatemala!

[mashman]

I didn't get where I am today by acting.

So inaction got you to where you are today. Go figure.

[mashman]

[Drew]

That’s a damn lie!
I was in Guatemala!

This has been covered. You're not there now!

[Brian d marge]

Yes, we need a special commune for the "undesirable" members of society.

me, pick me ...oi mister , pick me !!!

Stephen

[Akzle]

Expecting your fellow ratepayers to maintain that area, when only a fraction of the people that previously lived there remain is not common sense.

what fellow rate payers? there's only 127 of them...

[Oscar]

what fellow rate payers? there's only 127 of them...

The entire City is paying.

[Akzle]

The entire City is paying.

but the entire city isnt entitled to the service?

Away with you, moron.

[Oscar]

but the entire city isnt entitled to the service?

Away with you, moron.

You keep trying to send me away.
You're a bit of a bully, ain't you.

Notwithstanding that, why should the whole city pay to maintain an area beyond saving?
Fix all the services in the red zone, and the next earthquake wrecks it.
Literally good money after bad.
No houses should have been built there in the first place, moron.

[mashman]

Notwithstanding that, why should the whole city pay to maintain an area beyond saving?
Fix all the services in the red zone, and the next earthquake wrecks it.
Literally good money after bad.
No houses should have been built there in the first place, moron.

Yet they'll pay to roll out broadband service to the far corners of the country because the telecoms industry doesn't want to? or put in irrigation schemes because businesses can't be arsed paying for those services themselves? Both at my expense where I am not in a far corner of the country and I don't benefit from irrigation schemes. Good money after bad indeed.
Would you say that about Wellington too? Perhaps the Wairarapa? Hawkes Bay? christ there'd be nowhere to live in NZ if we were worried about where was safe and what condition the land was in.

[AllanB]

Choices were given by Govt and insurers. All parties could have moved on. Fact is most have. If you were not insured ................. well .....


Red Zone was so 2011 ............



It is all about waiting for repairs/rebuilds and trying to find a rental to live in once your time comes up to repair/rebuild now. This will be CHCH for the next 3.5 years.