Despite the doom and gloom picture painted by some in politics in a new survey most city dwellers in New Zealand say that the overall quality of life is either very good or good (from 78% to 88%, total 81%), with only a few percent thinking it is poor or in the case of a couple of cities, very poor (from 2% to 4%).
Dunedin topped the rankings but only by a negligible margin over Wellington.
It’s not surprising that Christchurch has the lowest extremely good+good ranking, but only Hamilton and Porirua register (just) on ‘extremely poor’.
Results by city council:
The cities surveyed cover 65% of the new Zealand population. Margins of error range from 1.9%-4.4%, overall 1.3%. Tauranga is not included.
…was initiated in 1999 in response to growing pressures on urban communities, concern about the impacts of urbanisation and the effects of this on the wellbeing of residents.
The project was a collaboration between councils represented in Local Government New Zealand’s Local Government Metro Sector forum.
The key purpose of the project was to provide information to decision-makers to improve the quality of life in major New Zealand urban areas.
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Conspiratoor
/ 14th January 2017Rawene is far and away the best metropolis in NZ but please don’t pass this on. People are friendly in an eccentric way, the local dance scene caters to all tastes and les fruits de la mer, well what more can I say…
Gezza
/ 14th January 2017Pretty much covers everything of import I reckon c.
Conspiratoor
/ 14th January 20172 happy faces
Gezza
/ 14th January 2017Just tangentally, while I have your 5-second span of attention c, those foreigners we spoke of yesterday. Would they happen to speak … Russian ?
Also, the axes got a work out last night:
https://yournz.org/2017/01/13/open-forum-friday-113/#comment-156250
Conspiratoor
/ 14th January 2017G, good to hear the axe is getting a work out. Is it true that it is exceedingly dificult to sing and play the bass at the same time. I would imagine you sing like a bird amongst a plethora of other skills.
Your comment in relation to foreigners rings a bell. Can I simply reply by asking whether you have ever smashed an empty vodka glass into the back of a fireplace?
While you were carousing with Svetlana I was enjoying an equally rewarding workout in the bush with a couple of comrades. We rode the legendary bone garden, level 4+, in the pitch dark. Well in my case ‘rode’ would be a an exaggeration worthy of PNZ. No bones broken though so all good and I returned to the marital bed intact. I have submitted a picture by way of proof below.
By the way, I have passed the stringent vetting process required to enter the GAB community and I await in a queue of 4,451 to join the forums. I have also received my DNA kit so today I will deposit a drop of my saliva on a stick and await for news about my genetic diversity, in particular confirmation that I am part neanderthal and part mongol. Can’t wait. Cheers,c
Gezza
/ 14th January 2017Svetlana was a shameless hussy, & is long-goneski, c. The FW to whom I was referring also has a name which commences with the noble G. She plays the bass. Her attempts at backing vocals were spectacularly unsuccessful & were discontinued early in the session. Those folk in the picture look like hard men to be reckoned with, & I trust there was a discreet police presence to ensure no civil disturbances resulted from this gathering. Over & out.
Conspiratoor
/ 14th January 2017Yes G you would not send a boy out to do business with those two. One in particular reminds me of me when I was that age. They also possess an abundance of testosterone. However the sharp eyed observer will notice the neutraliser on the bike in the foreground, so I am able to foot it with them
All the best with the new love interest
Gezza
/ 14th January 2017@ c.
GAB Ghana Association of Bankers (est. 1980) ❓😳
Alan Wilkinson
/ 14th January 2017Also it’s just across the water from PZ, C. Almost within spitting distance so to speak.
Conspiratoor
/ 14th January 2017Holy shit Al you’ve got me worried, neighbours?. There are some ‘interesting’ folk on the northern shore. Banjo country
“I pitched my tent at Flanders Crossing. And a damned yankee came and settled a hundred miles away”. D Boone
Alan Wilkinson
/ 14th January 2017I must say I’ve enjoyed the cafes on both sides of the water, C. Once did a farm stay on the northern side too. A nice place with good sensible folks but no doubt there are all sorts over there as everywhere.
Gezza
/ 14th January 2017Well, Welly’s had a bit of a blow with damaged buildings n stuff, so reckon we’re not doing too bad to still be nipping the heels of Dunedin, which, I’m told, can apparently despite the cold Winters still be quite lovely on a nice day and generally has very affable residents.
Gezza
/ 14th January 2017“Tauranga is not included.”
😦 If there are any semi-regular posters here from up that way, there might be some negative input on that!
patupaiarehe
/ 14th January 2017They don’t need to ask us G, they know that our response would make everywhere else look bad 😉
Gezza
/ 14th January 2017Papamoa lured away two dedicated Dunne voters that I know of, so you might be right. They reckoned ‘moa is ‘where it’s at’ for the discerning well-heeled home buyer?
patupaiarehe
/ 14th January 2017Having worked on more than a few ‘high end’ residential builds out those ways, I would have to agree.
Gezza
/ 14th January 2017I thought it was north of Tauranga but I see its a little bit South, so I guess it’s about 0.00001 degrees colder in Winter?
patupaiarehe
/ 14th January 2017Something like that G 😀 I remember as a teenager going to some wild parties around ‘Pap East’, a little ‘bach village’ in the middle of nowhere, halfway to Te Puke. Nowadays there is no ‘Pap East’, just houses all the way from ‘The Mount’ to where it once was, & beyond….
patupaiarehe
/ 14th January 2017This illustrates it well…
https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/#v=-37.68806,176.23004,11.13,latLng&t=2.83
Gezza
/ 14th January 2017I’m on the FiP & it won’t let me view that due to some stupid technical reason or other. Might have a look to tomorrow on the lappy.
Gezza
/ 14th January 2017It’s grey & there’s a northerly blowing outside in North Welly, which, unusually, is pretty much how it’s been for the last four months this year. Comments on local climactic conditions from residents of any parts of this wonderful greater Wellington region, & on what we can do about this state of affairs, would welcomed by this reporter.
Gezza
/ 14th January 2017* climatic (let’s just not go there with the other word)
Alan Wilkinson
/ 14th January 2017Climarctic is the correct spelling for Wellington I think, G. Though possibly in your state, climactic rolled off the keyboard more easily.
Gezza
/ 14th January 2017Welingtonians only please.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 14th January 2017I was born there so I’m licensed to list its attractions.
Gezza
/ 14th January 2017The might explain why occasionally you can actually seem quite reasonable Al.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 14th January 2017I had to listen a lot to my mother complaining about living on top of a wind-swept mountain and pushing me up it in a pram. They escaped before I was old enough to remember those delights.
Gezza
/ 14th January 2017Girls eh?
Pete George
/ 14th January 2017We get quite a bit of climantarctic in Dunedin – too much of it for the first half of January and the forecast for next week isn’t flash with highs predicted of 14, 12, 12, 13, 14 from Thursday.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 14th January 2017We’ve got the opposite problem – a drought and continuous fine hot weather. The water tankers are running from dawn to dusk bringing water into town from as far as Moerewa. Our big cabbage tree is succumbing to sudden collapse syndrome no doubt aggravated by the drought.
We were supposed to get some showers yesterday and in town got 10 minutes but out the back road nothing.
Conspiratoor
/ 14th January 201750,000 litres 2 months ago, now down to 12,000. All hopes rest on next Thursday
Alan Wilkinson
/ 14th January 2017These are the times when investing in a bore seems worthwhile. We are forecast to get 15mm on Thursday but I wouldn’t count on it. Even if we got it that’s only 2200 litres for our tanks.
Conspiratoor
/ 14th January 2017150 square metres Al, that’s a shoebox!
Alan Wilkinson
/ 14th January 2017Two levels, C. Any bigger and my wife would buy more stuff we don’t need. As it is there is no wall space left here or in the holiday house next door.
Conspiratoor
/ 14th January 2017I feel your pain Al, sometimes I think I married Imelda
Gezza
/ 14th January 2017Who the hell just goes next door for their holiday?
Gezza
/ 14th January 2017No wonder you’ve got plenty of money. It’s not like your travel costs would be crippling.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 14th January 2017Lots of people come next door for their holiday, G, just not us.
PartisanZ
/ 14th January 2017Despite these long droughts here in the Far North, year after year, most people go on flushing between 4 and 9 litres – average 6.7L per flush in Auckland – of perfectly good drinking, washing and laundry water down the loo every time they go or, when times get really tough, follow the golden rule, “If its yellow … if its brown” …
This amounts to about 20% or one fifth of household water consumption … Flushed away with our poos and wees!!! I think its disgusting …
Composting toilets and responsible use of humanure is the answer for we rural dwellers IMHO …
Many people also have a carport or shed. Catch this water too, in whatever containers you can afford … eg square 1000 litre containers used to import food and chemicals (or chemical food) … and use this [or these] to water the garden …
https://www.watercare.co.nz/community/Be%20Waterwise/Water%20use%20in%20Auckland/Pages/Household-water-use-in-Auckland.aspx
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/may/12/humanure-composting-toilets
Anyhow … that’s enough shit talk from me today!
Conspiratoor
/ 14th January 2017Parti, the earth moved. You’re still talking shit but you’re making sense. Cheers,c
Alan Wilkinson
/ 14th January 2017Trying out my new possum trap and so far the local possum disposal services are doing a stellar job. As far as I can see the trap has fired twice and barely a trace of a possum is left anywhere. I suspect the local hawks and weka have discovered breakfast is served early now.
Blazer
/ 14th January 2017are you trapping them…or blowing them up?
Alan Wilkinson
/ 14th January 2017There’s a new trap that uses high pressure gas to kill them instantly and they just drop to the ground below it and the trap resets itself:
http://www.goodnature.co.nz
Joe Bloggs
/ 14th January 2017Nice product – well done you! Possums are a bloody scourge and to deal to them without resorting to 1080 is laudable
Pete George
/ 14th January 2017We’ve benefited from a TB outbreak on several farms in the area, which has resulted in a major eradication of possums in the area, including my place and the bush bordering it. That should help for a year or two.
Gezza
/ 14th January 2017I know one Possum who could destroy any marauders, eat the lot of yous for breakfast, spit out the bones, and then go cook some decent kai for anyone nice who pops in for a koerero when her mahi is over for the day.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 14th January 2017Don’t be so sure, G. We might be tougher than we sound.
Gezza
/ 14th January 2017Pussies.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 14th January 2017Enough of your celebration already, G.
Gezza
/ 14th January 2017There was none of that kind of nonsense Al.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 14th January 2017Sorry to hear that, G. Commiserations.
Gezza
/ 14th January 2017Alan Wilkinson
/ 14th January 2017What’s that fishy smell today, G?
Gezza
/ 14th January 2017Crumbed New World tarakihi fillets & hash browns done in the sandwich press Al on top height setting number 3, Al. Only 1 plate & a knife & fork. This pakeha is an efficiency chef.
Klik Bate
/ 14th January 2017Did you remember to try that marinade Kitty posted here a while back ?
Alan Wilkinson
/ 14th January 2017https://yournz.org/2017/01/14/city-quality-of-life-good/#comment-156470
Alan Wilkinson
/ 14th January 2017Oops, that should have linked to this:
https://yournz.org/2017/01/14/city-quality-of-life-good/#comment-156480
Gezza
/ 14th January 2017At least I feel like I’m the loop now.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 14th January 2017I didn’t explain that very well at all. Time to hit the sack.
Gezza
/ 14th January 2017You can’t win em all Al. That’s why you need me to keep you honest by winning some off you. c’s sussed out my strategies.
Sleep well, Al.