Time for another Davee Poll.

With all this talk of brain drain and migration, I thought.............

Simple!

Are you a Kiwi still living in our beautiful country?

or

Are you a Kiwi living outside New Zealand?

Have been away for year and a half living in Dublin, but back to glorious Jafaland in April.
Looking forward to it, really! Missing the good old NZ :)

I was born and breed in Christchurch.

Left when I was 20, went to Australia and lived for 5 years, in Newcastle, Central Coast and Sydney.

Travelled for a year around North and South America then came to England and have been here ever since.

I get home about every 2 years, and love it. I've just turned 40, so half my life has been outside NZ. I always said, that when the time is ready to go home, you would hear the land call. And it will keep calling and calling until you go back - I believe that will happen to every kiwi one day - to return before that time will not work.

When I was at home at Christmas - I heard the first whispper of "Come home"........it's moving, exciting and disturbing at the same time :)

Kiwi at home, but i've lived in several cities across the country.

New Zealand uber alles!:banana: :cheers:

Kiwi at home, though I've also been at dozens of foreign countries.

50/50 really, I love the SI and am often there but Christchurch is not the best place for me to be right now. I'm a peripatetic nomad by nature and have a hard time keeping my feet on the ground beneath them. I have homes and lives in many countries, I have a routine but sometimes I don't know where I'll be next month....

Today is Christchurch

Kiwi Living on the Gold Coast just like 150,000 other New Zealanders. Will be back to live in the near futue.

Pretty with big Tits , Married with 3 children , House and Sex Slave :lol: Been in OZ for approx 15 Years , Miss Nana's Scones , love Aussie but my Heart is and always will be in NZ , No Chance of moving back in the near or distance future as Lucy will be a while at her Finishing School for Naughty French Bulldogs :cheers:

Born in Christchurch. Grew up around Western Bays(ie Herne Bay, Westmere, Ponsonby etc...) and also lived on Waiheke for a few years. I once tried to count the amount of houses I have lived in but lost count ....around the 30 mark and that is just in NZ. Have been based in Dublin for nearly six years. Will need a permission slip to move home permanently but its not so bad because I get back regularly.

Born in Christchurch. Grew up around Western Bays(ie Herne Bay, Westmere, Ponsonby etc...) and also lived on Waiheke for a few years. I once tried to count the amount of houses I have lived in but lost count ....around the 30 mark and that is just in NZ. Have been based in Dublin for nearly six years. Will need a permission slip to move home permanently but its not so bad because I get back regularly.

I love it how people when referring to something that takes place in Auckland just say the suburb and not the city, and expect the rest of NZ to know where this suburb is. It's priceless, especially when they do it on the 6pm 'national' news on 3.

I love it how people when referring to something that takes place in Auckland just say the suburb and not the city, and expect the rest of NZ to know where this suburb is. It's priceless, especially when they do it on the 6pm 'national' news on 3.

Auckland is too big! :)

Born in Palmy. Grew up in Dunno's. Lived for a short stint in Melbourne & Sydney. Been in Holland for the last 15 years (sob,sob).

I love it how people when referring to something that takes place in Auckland just say the suburb and not the city, and expect the rest of NZ to know where this suburb is. It's priceless, especially when they do it on the 6pm 'national' news on 3.

Pull out an atlas :)

I agree with cartel. I noticed when I was at home - It's not Akl bashing - its a fair observation!

^^
But I know where Fendalton is. I know where St.Kilda is. I know where Karori is.
Iv'e lived in Chch and Dunedin and spent some time in Wgtn.
I can see your point but there is no way in the world you are going to get Aucklanders, when they are talking about where they live, to say eg: Birkenhead, North Shore, Auckland. I think its just because of the sheer number of people and size of the place, that Aklders only say their suburb. Most suburbs are the size of towns elsewhere.
Having said that I can see what cartel and DavidE are saying. :)

I know where St Clair is, Thorndon is and Glen Eden is :)

New Zealanders so happy to be here :banana:
Email this storyPrint this story 5:00AM Sunday March 04, 2007
By Ann Newbery
New Zealanders are prone to moaning about the nation's politicians, weather, public transport and the inconsistency of our sports teams, but it seems we are happier with our lot than 90 per cent of the world.

In a global survey of "subjective well-being", New Zealand came in at 18 out of 178 nations on the happiness scale. We outrank America (23), the UK (41) - and, big smile here folks! - arch-rivals Australia (at 26).

European countries beat everyone else at looking on the bright side of life. Top of the table was Denmark, with Switzerland second, and Austria and Iceland in third and fourth places. Finland came in sixth and Sweden seventh.

Bhutan, a southern Asian country so isolated that it didn't get TV and the internet until 1999 when its king lifted a ban took eighth place.

Strife-ridden countries like Congo, Zimbabwe and Burundi were on the bottom of the list - evidently a surprise to the guide's University of Leicester authors, who came to the not-likely-to-be-challenged conclusion that poverty has an effect on people's happiness. Further analysis revealed that high levels of health, wealth and education were strong indicators for success on the list, while many heavily populated countries (China 82nd, Japan 90th, and India 125th) scored badly.


Waitakere major Bob Harvey told the Herald on Sunday that last month's national Quality of Life survey, completed for New Zealand's 12 largest councils and the Ministry of Social Development, showed much the same result. "Kiwis are absolutely happy to be Kiwis," he said, before adding: "And Westies are absolutely the happiest people in the country."

In fact, last month's survey said of the 90 per cent of New Zealand residents who felt they had a positive overall quality of life, Waitakere's citizens were significantly less likely to rate theirs as "extremely good" or even "good". Rodney residents came tops.

Harvey said Kiwis seemed to be more appreciative now of how lucky they were to be living here given recent global events, and this was brought home to him when he conducted citizenship ceremonies three times a week.

"I see people absolutely bouncing off the walls in happiness at becoming Kiwis."

Psychologist Sara Chatwin said the key to happiness was "keeping it simple".

"In Western culture, and certainly in New Zealand, it's not about measuring yourself against the Joneses. That's something of a redundant concept now. And it's not about chasing the big dollars - it's probably more about hitting that middle ground.

"We have being small, self-reliant and patriotic going for us, as well as a relatively nice lifestyle and climate.

"We have options and, compared to overseas, there's not a huge gulf between rich and poor - although it is becoming bigger.":cheers:

Born in Wellington, lived in Paraparaumu, Tauranga and Auckland. Now in Canada since 1980. Living in the wilds of northern Canada!

^^
But I know where Fendalton is. I know where St.Kilda is. I know where Karori is.
Iv'e lived in Chch and Dunedin and spent some time in Wgtn.
I can see your point but there is no way in the world you are going to get Aucklanders, when they are talking about where they live, to say eg: Birkenhead, North Shore, Auckland. I think its just because of the sheer number of people and size of the place, that Aklders only say their suburb. Most suburbs are the size of towns elsewhere.
Having said that I can see what cartel and DavidE are saying. :)


I'm glad you see what I'm saying, it's pretty straightfoward. I think it's just Aucklanders attitude more than anything, and the fact that you think it's TOO big? being the reason, just makes me laugh at you, and adds to the reasoning that it's your attitude which makes you do this. even in cities 20 times the size of Auckland, LA, NY etc... people don't have that superior attitude of just expecting the rest of the country to know their suburb, and not caring if they don't, even if they are some of the most well known cities on earth.

and the fact that you think it's TOO big?

Auckland is too big! Far too big! Too big and too empty! :bash:

I'm glad you see what I'm saying, it's pretty straightfoward. I think it's just Aucklanders attitude more than anything, and the fact that you think it's TOO big? being the reason, just makes me laugh at you, and adds to the reasoning that it's your attitude which makes you do this. even in cities 20 times the size of Auckland, LA, NY etc... people don't have that superior attitude of just expecting the rest of the country to know their suburb, and not caring if they don't, even if they are some of the most well known cities on earth.

Do you ever have anything else to talk about?

I can think of plenty of cities around the world, in a domestic context, that would mention suburb and not mention the city.

It has nothing to do with feeling superior, I dont expect someone from say Christchurch to know where Greenhithe is, but I would expect them to know where Takapuna is. I know where suburbs like Kairori, Seatoun, Lyall Bay, Rickarton, New Brighton is and if someone from there just mentioned it without Wellington or CHCH after I certainly would not think they are thinking they are superior. I would think that they think they expect us (rightly so) to know where some suburbs are in our own country.

Hell I would even know suburbs in the US or Aussie if they didnt mention the city after.

Cartel stop going on about Auckland, this is not what the forum is about. If you want to complain about Auckland make a new forum.

Yes, can we all just leave it be and get along abit better? Christ this forum sounds so childish sometimes, people nit picking about little things,etc.

Onwards New Zealand!:cheers:

Do you ever have anything else to talk about?

I can think of plenty of cities around the world, in a domestic context, that would mention suburb and not mention the city.

It has nothing to do with feeling superior, I dont expect someone from say Christchurch to know where Greenhithe is, but I would expect them to know where Takapuna is. I know where suburbs like Kairori, Seatoun, Lyall Bay, Rickarton, New Brighton is and if someone from there just mentioned it without Wellington or CHCH after I certainly would not think they are thinking they are superior. I would think that they think they expect us (rightly so) to know where some suburbs are in our own country.

Hell I would even know suburbs in the US or Aussie if they didnt mention the city after.

Cartel stop going on about Auckland, this is not what the forum is about. If you want to complain about Auckland make a new forum.

fuck off little hoodrat, why do you have to reply to everything single thing I say??:bash: We both know the answer so it's a rhetorical question, don't fucking reply!

Erm, Cartel, please.

Cartel
Give it a rest. aucklandman can reply to whatever he likes just like you or me. Unfortunately the tone of your posts is starting to detriorate.
You've been getting a few responses from us Jafas because your views about Akld are so remorslessly negative. Sooner or later, even though we don't really care, you are going to get a reaction.

As this thread is to see which of us is currently home or away, you will pleased to know that I am back next month to expand Auckland's population a little more. Enjoy Chch when your wanderings deposit you once again in NZ.
I'll put a smilie in now :) and I mean it.
Lets celebrate NZ, not the boring old Akld/Chch thing.

^^ I agree, lets return to what this thread is really about.

Auckland is too big! Far too big! Too big and too empty! :bash:

:lol: :lol:

^^lol, now that is something i agree with. All of NZ's cities are the same actually. We need to fatten up abit I think.

I thought we were trying to curb the obesity pandemic! :) :bash: :lol:

Haha, well yes there is that too. Hence a new slogan..."Fat cities, Slim people" lol. Will it catch on? :dunno: :D

Yes, can we all just leave it be and get along abit better? Christ this forum sounds so childish sometimes, people nit picking about little things,etc.

Onwards New Zealand!


Flyin,

Couldnt agree more. Let me rephrase my post for the more sensitive on the board. Born on Earth. Still living on Earth well at least until spacefares come down a bit:lol:

So far 12 living in NZ and 12 living out of NZ. What could the government do to keep kiwi's in New Zealand? It completely beyond me why they dont stay in Godzone.

Good question Tony. I'm not too sure but I guess everyone would have a different reason for going and alot(of those twelve people) would end up settling in NZ eventually. For me my main reason leaving was to travel a bit. So not really economic reasons, although it doesnt hurt to be earning Euro. Eventually I will go back to NZ.

I'm so coming home to live - it's just when - soon I hope!

Flyin,

Couldnt agree more. Let me rephrase my post for the more sensitive on the board. Born on Earth. Still living on Earth well at least until spacefares come down a bit:lol:

Currently US$200,000 for about 7 minutes (2.5 hours total flight) of micro gravity on a sub orbital Virgin Galactic lob.

Currently US$22,000,000 for a 7-9 day flight on a RKA Soyuz to the I.S.S.

The Soyuz would work out to be US$327,000 for 2.5 hours, but you do get a room with the best view of the planet!

Now the ISS would be really cool. But I'm sure it would be the sort of place where you are really tempted to press all the buttons to see what they do. Hopefully those sub-orbital flights come down a bit once they start up.