Moving to the country

[Autech]

[Big Dog]

Of all the places I have lived the share milkers cottage in egmont village was the best. Remote enough you had to make your own fun but close enough to town to have a couple of part time jobs that paid the bills for 3.
The only neighbours within 45 minutes walk were great fun... just a little outside the box.
Hot water, toilet, outside taps and washing machine on "farm suply" cold water on tank.
Nicely insulated house with a huge lounge and wetback fireplace.
Kitchen had a standard oven/stove and a wood chip small oven , hob and wet back.
Power went out a lot but I have never slept so well in all my life.


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[Big Dog]

I also like living in tuakau but the house still needs a lot of work and the proximity to Auckland means the township is slowly filling with jafas. Much like us I guess.

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[swarfie]

My bro has a 5 acre "workstyle" block between Cambridge and the Tron. I look at it and all I see is frigging work, and not in the shed working on bikes...or riding them much either. Got a mate who has 10 acres and a missus with galueters (horses for those that don't like making glue out of them) and he NEVER gets to ride or race much these days. Stuff that, Me...I'll stick to my 666 sq/m section in the middle of suburbia with easy care gardens and a low maintenance lawn thanks muchly. Get to ride my bikes heaps, work on them all the time (my hobby) and my work is a leisurely 6 minutes away on me pushy.

Only problem is either lack of shed space or too many mosickles.....bugger

[Tazz]

Lifestyle block = deathstyle block.

Most excellent advice. About buying up the neighbourhood.

Got to say until last year I lived on 12 acres, an acre of orchard, half that in formal gardens. This one, in fact: http://www.trademe.co.nz/property/re...-991876060.htm

How refreshing to see a bit of effort put into those pictures of the property. Nice place, but yeah, unless you want to employ someone to tend to it all fark that.

[Big Dog]

Lifestyle block = deathstyle block.



How refreshing to see a bit of effort put into those pictures of the property. Nice place, but yeah, unless you want to employ someone to tend to it all fark that.

Another great thing about egmont village... we only had to mow 200sqm. But had the use if required of any of the surrounding farmland provided it was not for profit and did not impede the farms profit. E.g I could have had a dirt bike but could not have ripped up the grass. I could have kept a horse but not a herd.
I was not able to mow the lawn over the Christmas break due to my part time jobs suddenly being full time jobs for 6 weeks so the landlord dropped off a sheep and a couple of lambs to keep it down.


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[Tazz]

My bro has a 5 acre "workstyle" block between Cambridge and the Tron. I look at it and all I see is frigging work, and not in the shed working on bikes...or riding them much either. Got a mate who has 10 acres and a missus with galueters (horses for those that don't like making glue out of them) and he NEVER gets to ride or race much these days. Stuff that, Me...I'll stick to my 666 sq/m section in the middle of suburbia with easy care gardens and a low maintenance lawn thanks muchly. Get to ride my bikes heaps, work on them all the time (my hobby) and my work is a leisurely 6 minutes away on me pushy.

Only problem is either lack of shed space or too many mosickles.....bugger

Enough land to keep you busy, not enough land to be worth being busy with (you will never make a really good return).
They are cutting up decent farmland for this shit too, although to be fair the city will and does eventually grow out to them and then they are subdivided. Rolleston comes to mind for that.

[jasonu]

You can still live cheaply in Albany, large lifestyle block just West of the town, fully fenced, long leases available

How big are the blocks and how much $'s?

[jasonu]

Is that one of those Cult/communes where someone else chooses your sexual partner?

What was that song by Tool?. . . ,

http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/cent...community-1980

[Akzle]

How big are the blocks and how much $'s?

1-5 years if you're white, 5-30 if you're black. At about 400k/yr, paid by everyone else.


(hahahahahahahah when was the last time any cunt that did 30years in nz??)

[Laava]

Lifestyle block = deathstyle block.

What about a bush block? Privacy, space and leave it the fuck alone. A lot of bush blocks do not have or need fences to the perimeter either.

[Ocean1]

Nice place, but yeah, unless you want to employ someone to tend to it all fark that.

Her indoors loved doing the garden work, but trouble with the hands was going to be an issue down the track a bit, and as far as she was concerned hiring someone else to do it sorta defeated the purpose.

I miss walking up the stream through the orchard after work with a glass of something cold in your hand. Good way to re-calibrate the head after a fang on the bike too.

Enough land to keep you busy, not enough land to be worth being busy with (you will never make a really good return).
They are cutting up decent farmland for this shit too, although to be fair the city will and does eventually grow out to them and then they are subdivided. Rolleston comes to mind for that.

Trouble is, most local council reg's dictate blocks of around 10-12 acres. Which is more than most people want to maintain. That above property was 12 acres, half regenerating native bush, another 4 acres in paddocks, which left just a couple needing to be maintained to "urban standards".

[Tazz]

What about a bush block? Privacy, space and leave it the fuck alone. A lot of bush blocks do not have or need fences to the perimeter either.

Yeah bush blocks aren't all bad. Bees and other insects (and animals if big enough) need a place to live and things to eat, plus oxygen, nom nom. With minimal prodding and little time you can have it revert to native. Shit even if it is full of gorse in under a decade it will go back to native from what I've read.

[RGVforme]

Of all the places I have lived the share milkers cottage in egmont village was the best. Remote enough you had to make your own fun but close enough to town to have a couple of part time jobs that paid the bills for 3.
The only neighbours within 45 minutes walk were great fun... just a little outside the box.
Hot water, toilet, outside taps and washing machine on "farm suply" cold water on tank.
Nicely insulated house with a huge lounge and wetback fireplace.
Kitchen had a standard oven/stove and a wood chip small oven , hob and wet back.
Power went out a lot but I have never slept so well in all my life.


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The sleeping part is pure gold.
I had a ringing in my ears for the first week wondered wtf it was.Thought it was tinnitus.

Realized it was the sound of silence.

This is why I like motorcyclists from the town or country if they are dressed in riding gear on or standing beside a bike in general they are going to be a no bullshit good bugger with a common interest.

[Duncan74]

Yeah bush blocks aren't all bad. Bees and other insects (and animals if big enough) need a place to live and things to eat, plus oxygen, nom nom. With minimal prodding and little time you can have it revert to native. Shit even if it is full of gorse in under a decade it will go back to native in under a decade from what I've read.

We're surrouded by native - too steep and unstable around us for anyone to build on. However, all that wildlfe seems to insist on upgrading it's accommodation from bush into 'house' at every opportunity Thankully so far then we've had a few mice, no rats, a few possums, feral cats, and pretty much every type of bird there is. Oh, and in the last few weeks a rabbit has moved in to keep the weeds on the lawn in check.

And as for the gorse spent a weekend last year which grew from a 30 minute job to 700kg of gorse dragged out. Was fecked by sunday night, and skin on arms has only just recovered 10 months later. Needs another hack soon, although pleased that very little has grown back so it's just keeping on top of stuff.

I spend a bit on garden kit, but that's because I was starting from zero. Not been too bad, leaf blower, ride on mower, and a few hand tools. No chain saws as I would be a liability, and if there's a job that needs one it's cheaper to buy a decent bottle of wine for a neighbour or get a professional in. Think it's cost me $500 for 3 trees to be dropped and chopped and a bit of stump grinding, that's it.