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tweetles:
--- Quote from: Fenriswolf on 10 Mar 2009, 23:23 ---Alternatively when busing to Miramar I had to walk for 20 min and catch a bus (or walk the full 40 min, 5k). It's just painful when you have to allow an hour for a 10 min drive!
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I used to live in miramar, the no. 2, 24 and 18 went right past my house so i still found it pretty sweet, though im guessing if you live around miramar heights it might be more of an issue and yeah buses are never on time and just when you think yourve got a bit of time because its always late the damn thing come early! haha but I did love the walk into town so pretty. My mate and me even chalked the concrete wall coming in miramar one day out of boredom.
Im kinda stuck in Brisbane at the moment, came for the holidays and to visit family and now i cant afford to go home haha
Fenriswolf:
Nah I'm Lyall Bay/Melrose and buses around here are SHIT. I've lived in Mt Cook and Hataitai though and they were both pretty good. #2 in particular is mostly good. I was thinking this morning with the time it takes to catch a bus to work in Newtown (and get there 25 min early because of the timetable) I may as well walk the 5-or-so-k. :roll:
I am totally amused you're stuck in Brisbane. :lol: I take it it's not too terrible?
ModernRonin:
--- Quote from: SemiColon on 10 Mar 2009, 20:16 ---Out of curiosity, why did you rule out Auckland?
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I live in a city of nearly 100k, and it's getting to be too big for me. Traffic is insane. I can't go out on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday without elbowing my way through endless herds of fratboys. Even the dive bars on the opposite side of town from campus are jammed to the gills. Most of all, I will never be able to afford any kind of house/condo/whatever here. Although the housing bubble (which has finally popped, and is now crashing the US economy) definitely made things worse than normal for the past decade, the truth of the matter is that even before that, a one-bed house with no garage still cost $250k around here. Going to Auckland... would just be making my situation worse. It'd be like moving to New York.
I'm also an outdoorsy person. I guess I have my hometown to thank for that. Looking at that wiki page, you can imagine how much fun it is to climb, hike and camp all over those mountains. I have done a whole lot of that for the past 15 years, and I love it. And when I'm not hiking or climbing I'm usually on my motorcycle riding the canyons. This is a mark against Christchurch, since I hear it's flat as a board out there. Or is it, really? I look at pictures like this and say, "Hey, that looks a lot like Boulder!" Maybe there's a small town in the foothills near Chch I can move to?
Of course, I suspect it will be economic factors that eventually decide. I need to be able to get a job, one way or another. It will probably be easier for a programmer to get a job in Wellington. And I admit, the idea of being in the New Zealand equivalent of San Francisco does appeal to me - I'm a big liberal, politically. What doesn't appeal to me is the humidity. Boulder is very dry (semi-arid) and I like it that way. I'm not looking forward to sweaty summers and chill winters in a big city. I realize that Christchurch isn't exactly dry either, but it's supposed to be one of the dryer places in NZ, so... Also, my friend who recommended Dunedin gave Wellington a very negative review.
Thanks a lot to everyone who's offered an opinion so far! I'm getting tons of great information from these comments. If anyone else wants to chime in, please do. And sorry if my thread hijacking is annoying anyone...
exia:
Mint! found pplz la! keeped say im gonna make a account and look for kiwis. im in auckland. started reading qc when ep 10 came out. sarah posted in here yet ?
tweetles:
Apart from all my friends and generally my life being in another country its actually a pretty nice place. And the weather is like perfect most of the time so can't complain too much. I feel bad but i still kinda of cringe when im talking to someone with a 'true blue aussie accent'. But it ok cos apparently they cant understand half of what im saying either
Living in KB an miramar during summer i rarely took the bus, unless i was heading straight to uni stuff walking un the hill to vic!
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