It looks like I am going to b a fucking Jafa!

frup wrote:

the distant one wrote:God I hate Auckland though... Aucklanders are fine (I guess), but Auckland? Congested shitty smoggy shit-hole.

Hey Adrian - It's Rachel - I've been up here for 2 years (today actually!) and it's not that bad. It's just like a bigger Hamilton minus the roundabouts. Easy to get around once you know how, I've only been stuck in bad traffic a handful of times due to a crash/spill on the motorway. Takes me 15-20mins to get into work from Mt Wellington and I work right in the middle of town, and it's about the same return. That's less time than it used to take me from Pukete/Te Rapa into the CBD when I worked in Hamilton.

Once you know where Erin might be working let us know. And re: the kitties, we found two properties that let us have "a cat" (ahem we have two). And technically we shouldn't have had them in this property, but we asked after a few months (ie we had a few inspections and they knew we were responsible) and were given permission retrospectively

Hardest thing when I moved up here was having no knowledge of the suburbs (ie Mt Wellington seemed like ages away from town compared to Mt Eden, but it's not really... you can spend just as much time getting up Dominion Rd in the morning as spending on the motorway).

So yeah, congrats Erin! And I am pro-Auckland these days

She hath seen the lighteth

Donkeycheese wrote:Rachel is right about Dominion Road, BUT it is the most serviced public transport road in NZ. There be plenty of bus lanes too - so easy to get to uni from anywhere along there

Not sure why you would hate auckland - sure, Hamilton has its STD, but you could bring those with you surely?

frup wrote:

the distant one wrote:God I hate Auckland though... Aucklanders are fine (I guess), but Auckland? Congested shitty smoggy shit-hole.

Hey Adrian - It's Rachel - I've been up here for 2 years (today actually!) and it's not that bad. It's just like a bigger Hamilton minus the roundabouts. Easy to get around once you know how, I've only been stuck in bad traffic a handful of times due to a crash/spill on the motorway. Takes me 15-20mins to get into work from Mt Wellington and I work right in the middle of town, and it's about the same return. That's less time than it used to take me from Pukete/Te Rapa into the CBD when I worked in Hamilton.

Once you know where Erin might be working let us know. And re: the kitties, we found two properties that let us have "a cat" (ahem we have two). And technically we shouldn't have had them in this property, but we asked after a few months (ie we had a few inspections and they knew we were responsible) and were given permission retrospectively

Hardest thing when I moved up here was having no knowledge of the suburbs (ie Mt Wellington seemed like ages away from town compared to Mt Eden, but it's not really... you can spend just as much time getting up Dominion Rd in the morning as spending on the motorway).

So yeah, congrats Erin! And I am pro-Auckland these days

She hath seen the lighteth

Psalter wrote:It's official... we will be Jafas around the 21st of May.

that said - not getting out much at the moment, especially since the media is watching out for people who leave their kids in the car out the front of strip clubs!!

Donkeycheese wrote:

Psalter wrote:It's official... we will be Jafas around the 21st of May.

dude, I'll send you a PM with my numbers in it - have moved for about 6 months, but still around Mt Eden./ Scott and Rachel have my numbers too

that said - not getting out much at the moment, especially since the media is watching out for people who leave their kids in the car out the front of strip clubs!!