New Zealand. What a back water shit hole.

[Voltaire]

What a waste of space.
They havent even taken a 9hour plane ride to study how governments of high density populations were handling the problem with ease over 20 years ago.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hous...elopment_Board

I remember on a business trip once in a cab from Shanghai airport in the city and it was literally an hour plus of high rise apartments.

Was in Wanganui last week, 300K buys you a nice place there. Perhaps they should encourage industry to leave Auckland, which may happen anyway as the staff can't really afford to live here.

I catch the train once a week into the city office, means I can have a few $14 beers at the Viaduct.
Got a Thai Lunch last Friday and the 500 ml of beer cost more than the meal....go figure.

[oldrider]

I remember on a business trip once in a cab from Shanghai airport in the city and it was literally an hour plus of high rise apartments.

Was in Wanganui last week, 300K buys you a nice place there. Perhaps they should encourage industry to leave Auckland, which may happen anyway as the staff can't really afford to live here.

I catch the train once a week into the city office, means I can have a few $14 beers at the Viaduct.
Got a Thai Lunch last Friday and the 500 ml of beer cost more than the meal....go figure.

Hmmmmm, thinks - it's time to start a boutique brewery with a foodery sideline? - Scotts brewery and Pizza in Oamaru is doing very nicely.

Link: https://www.tripadvisor.co.nz/Restau...th_Island.html

[jasonu]

Got a Thai Lunch last Friday and the 500 ml of beer cost more than the meal....go figure.

Fucking hell. $14 beers in Auckland.

I had a $10 Budweiser (terrible shit, about as rubbish as lion red and DB) on Waikiki beach a couple of years ago and thought that was bad. However it did come with the use of a quite nice beach lounger chair...

[Swoop]

Older people should be encouraged more to downsize according to their diminishing family requirements.
I.E. there are lots of old people still tied up to their almost empty family sized homes with sections to match that they can't physically look after any-more!

Yup. People fail to realis this until it becomes too late to manage. I've heard multiple instances where people have enjoyed the greater social companionship, involvement in the community and happiness once they have moved into communities of people around the same age-range. It does not limit the lifestyle, but enlarges it.

No mate but the tooth fairy managed to blow $80k on a trip to give more of your tax money to coconuts that aren't even in NZ.

Yeah, I had to do a double take on that one. Calling the plane back and getting a separate flight on the same day as the rest of the cockwombles? WTF???

I had a $10 Budweiser (terrible shit, about as rubbish as lion red and DB)

Comparing "bud" to Lion Red?
That's fucking LOW!!! At least Leon Rouge will get you drunk!!

[Voltaire]

I know a old chap who is 88, lives in a retirement village and parks his Honda 550 with the mobility scooters.

The $14.00 beers are top of the line hand made with organic Nelson hops, the finest Canterbury malt, Belgian yeast and artesian water carried by maidens to Kauri vats and matured in French Oak barrels.

[Moi]

... The $14.00 beers are top of the line hand made with organic Nelson hops, the finest Canterbury malt, Belgian yeast and artesian water carried by maidens to Kauri vats and matured in French Oak barrels.

So you believed the advertising blurb on the bottle...

[Ocean1]

Older people should be encouraged more to downsize according to their diminishing family requirements.

Older people should be encouraged to continue doing whatever they fucking want with their own property/money.

Also: if they DID want to buy a small place, somewhere within scooter distance of town and built with modern materials then they'd find it fucking difficult finding anything. The best I could do was to downsize from 340sqM to 260sqM, there just haven't been any small places built in the last couple of decades, the council/developer rort simply doesn't allow for them.

Not that I'm old. Cunt.

[TheDemonLord]

Not that I'm old. Cunt.

I dunno - you do seem to pass all the prerequisites for being an Old Cunt

[oldrider]

Older people should be encouraged to continue doing whatever they fucking want with their own property/money.

Also: if they DID want to buy a small place, somewhere within scooter distance of town and built with modern materials then they'd find it fucking difficult finding anything. The best I could do was to downsize from 340sqM to 260sqM, there just haven't been any small places built in the last couple of decades, the council/developer rort simply doesn't allow for them.

Not that I'm old. Cunt.

Most of the older people that I was referring to have long outlived their (oversized) family family homes and are "not" doing what they would like to do with them.

They have simply not planned ahead and have (by their own volition) left it too late and no longer have any borrowing power - if they have the cost is prohibitive.

The word I used was that they should be "encouraged" sooner rather than leaving it until it's too bloody late.

We have just gone through this process ourselves - found a section sold up and built a new smaller unit in town - the local council screwed us $20,000.00 for fuck all but we have still managed.

True - To you I may just be an old cunt but so far I am not costing you anything to keep.

[pete376403]

I'm not old yet but no longer young either. We get contacted more or less weekly by real estate agents wanting us to sell our 1/4 acre, three bed, etc. After they tell us how much we could get for it I ask what could I buy with that money and its a two bed unit on a postage stamp sized section. Fuck'em, we'll stay till we're carried out and let someone else deal with it.

[jasonu]

Most of the older people that I was referring to have long outlived their (oversized) family family homes and are "not" doing what they would like to do with them.

They have simply not planned ahead and have (by their own volition) left it too late and no longer have any borrowing power - if they have the cost is prohibitive.

The word I used was that they should be "encouraged" sooner rather than leaving it until it's too bloody late.

We have just gone through this process ourselves - found a section sold up and built a new smaller unit in town - the local council screwed us $20,000.00 for fuck all but we have still managed.

True - To you I may just be an old cunt but so far I am not costing you anything to keep.

$20k for what?

[Voltaire]

I'm not old yet but no longer young either. We get contacted more or less weekly by real estate agents wanting us to sell our 1/4 acre, three bed, etc. After they tell us how much we could get for it I ask what could I buy with that money and its a two bed unit on a postage stamp sized section. Fuck'em, we'll stay till we're carried out and let someone else deal with it.

Hey Kids, spend hours and hours sorting all my shit out

There is an old ex Racer block in the Vintage Car Club who has apparently 70+ old motorcycles in his shed, I've seen the few he rides so the rest must be pretty good. He won't sell any and says " They can sort it out when I'm dead"

My Mother refused to trade down and eventually lost the plot and once it gets to that stage it got very difficult to do anything.
When she died filled up quite a few skips with household stuff as that's my idea of "dealing with it"
Kept the Azberg dinner set, all that 50's,60's,70's,80's shit not so much.

But your right about Estate Agents , development mates and their in pocket Council Cronies....fuck them.
I too could downsize as my kids have left home but I'd miss my 50 sm garage.

[Ocean1]

I'd miss my 50 sm garage.

A special, dedicated sm garage?

Now that's luxury, mate, fuck I'd be happy with a decent bike garage.

[oldrider]

Yeah - well priorities are sorted - my garage is bigger than my house and thanks to Nationals Dr Nick fucking Smith there is no motorcycle in it - yet! - I still live in hope! ("priorities")

[WALRUS]

Yeah, the only reason I bought my house was because of the garage and workshop that came with it. I've got the same priority for when I look for a place in NZ but realestate listings over there don't seem to put as much focus on garages as they do here.