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New Zealand
smellygrayham:
--- Quote from: happydementia on 10 Mar 2009, 04:31 ---I joined the forum just so I could comment on Faye's New Zealand t-shirt. That is the level of exhaustion-numbed excitement I'm at.
Go us!
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ditto. although i have been meaning to for a while know...seriously, i mean it :P
anywho yay for new zealand representing on QC! I do wonder why though.
I'm in Christchurch myself..damn this stupid weather! Oh and hi fellow QC kiwis :D
InsaneAlien:
Another one who signed up purely for saying "I'm a kiwi QC fan!"
Personally, I love Christchurch. Fog is fun, and we've got hills aplenty in case of Viking invasion. (Where did the thing about New Zealand having Vikings come from, by the way? I have several American friends who've asked about the Viking invasions.) But then, I've never lived anywhere else, so I'm slightly biased.
Also, my first thoughts on seeing the New Zealand shirt were, "Why is Faye the one with a New Zealand t-shirt? New Zealand's not that big!"
ModernRonin:
Huge... tracts of land?? :shock:
Fenriswolf:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 11 Mar 2009, 00:54 ---I had a colleague in the 1970s who emigrated to New Zealand to find the preserved "English values" which he felt had been destroyed at home by the swinging 60s.
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lol OMG... that's probably not a good thing... :-P
--- Quote from: ModernRonin on 11 Mar 2009, 00:14 ---> Why didn't your mate like Wellington?
I'm guessing he stayed in a bad part of town. He said it was noisy all night (hookers outside) and that he got the impression that the whole city was sort of dingy and gray.
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Ahh, yeah, there is an area that's fairly cheap that's like that. Most of it isn't though. Funny about the grey - while it can be, most of NZ can be, it generally isn't because of the wind. And yes, it is windy. I was like "meh" until I actually moved here and was shocked by how much it bothered me but not the locals!
But yeah winter's pretty grey and depressing but summer this year has been fucking glorious 90% of the time. We have quite up and down weather but it can be really beautiful. We have a lot of sunshine hours per year, it's just that often the cold wind takes away from that (I'm always whinging to Wellingtonians about that, haha.)
--- Quote ---Looking for smaller cities closer to 40 deg latitude.... any thoughts on Hamilton/Tauranga, Napier or Nelson?
Not many cities on the interior of the island, are there? Seems like almost everything is by the sea.
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Hamilton is a shit hole, I hate it, and I was born there so I'm allowed to bag it. :-D Seriously it's incredibly muggy in summer, ugly, full of goddam skinheads and generally creepy... seriously it's just awful. It probably has up points but given it's smoggy, humid, flat and fairly big (for NZ!) I doubt you'd like it.
Tauranga's quite nice, really warm, is full of retired people though. Napier no idea though I think the weather's nice and I like Nelson a lot but it's pretty small. I think you can get pretty sweet accommodation cheap in Nelson, it's bushy and sunny. Never lived there but our American Bulldog was bred there! :laugh:
ModernRonin:
Cool. Time to check those out...
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