WHERE'S BEST TO LIVE IN NZ AND WHAT DO WE NEED TO KNOW:PART 3!!!!(HOLY SHIT!)

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Can you believe we've finished finished off another thread? Jeez we can talk!!
Just an update..we've found a nice double glazed,4 bed house,with nice garden. So that's one stress off the last.
Hilongwhitecloud

at the double glazing.

DH has gone to Berlin tonight for a business trip - just me and the girls for 10 days now - trying to decide what to do this weekend. Thinking a trip to Te Papa may be in order with lunch out.

Congrats on finding a house AB, one less big stress for you!

You ladies make Auckland sound quite tempting.

Can't believe this is the third thread, you lot can certainly chat - I love it!

Well we finally told the In Laws today. I thought they would be really upset but their actually really happy & excited for us.

FIL is already planning a trip to visit & we aren't even there yet.

Well one less thing to worry about.

They are

Can someone please explain 'the only way is essex'? Are these people real and is this real life? I'm very confused and DH is asking me questions about it and I haven't a clue. Pure drivel.

Yes they are real, in an over the top dramatised way! BUT not a true reflection of all Essex people I believe :-) Are you watching Season 1? It's all a bit sad really, the girls all talk about the plastic surgery they have had, and it all seems so normalised.

I think they're trying to do a similar sort of thing here with that "GC" programme which is apparently frickin awful.

Btw it's free to go to Motat for the whole of May if you are from west or east Auckland, east includes Mission Bay, Kohi, St Heliers etc. We have been before and my dd1 particularly loved the tram rides. It's quite a good day out and it's normally about $40 for a family I think.

Unfortunately they are real nobheads .
It's poor mans Paris Hilton tv.
Have you seen the new series here called the GC? I found it EXCRUCIATING. A group of young kiwis,with fabulous bodies,but dead above the neck, living on The Gold Coast. I thought I could watch any old shite. Apparantly not.
I was willing them to say something intelligable, but nope,not a glimmer.
And then there is "Hot like us" that's on another channel on the same night. Where a group of couples are living in a house together,competing for a modelling contract or something. Fucking hell.
"look,I'm beautiful,she's beautiful we're fucking genetically perfect" ...and you have just made yourself instantly detestable to anyone watching.
And then there was Mr "Asia's no1 hottest male" ,"I mean,that is ACTUALLY my title, I actually am Asia's HOTTEST male."
Same bloke in episode two, "Look I need this, I have had 3 nose jobs, liposuction to the face,botox....." whilst to his side,his wife looks like she wishes someone would kill him!

Sorry,Im irritable and ranty today!

Lolly,I did post the other day to say well done on getting the job,but my computer froze and it wouldn't send,so ...congrats,woohoo!!
Thanks longwhitecloud yep,moving on fri/sat. Landlady tried to be arsey about us moving out a week early,but I just left massive silences at the end of her speech,until she felt so awkward she backtracked!
I am a hard arse when I'm hormonal and take no prisoners!

ps Gran's funeral was yesterday and I heard all about it today. Apparantly Gran would have loved it (the irony). The Scottish contingency hired a coach and left Ayreshire at 5am to make it. There was a great turn out and they played The Flower Of Scotland as the coffin went through the curtains.
I wrote part of the eulogy so I felt I was part of it.
Then I think everyone had lots to drink and had a good time,as only The Celts know how!

Hope you had a few drinks too AB.

Loved the TV rant. Can't touch those programmes. Too too depressing.

My OH likes Geordie Shore which is all about who can be the biggest slapper. He only likes it cos he tries to copy the accent and pretends I sound like that. (I don't).

We're just back from MOTAT. DD loved the horse carriage ride and tram.

Glad the funeral went okay AB.

Glad she had a good send off AB - i was thinking of you.

I find Geordie Shore strangely complusive viewing - a big like slowing down past a traffic accident . . .

*bit - not big

My DH loves geordie shore too as it's strangely familiar - we grew up in the north east. I find it quite distressing viewing. I think of these poor girls in ten years time when they look back at themselves

They hardly come across as empowered young women do they.

We went to Motat today too littlestkiwi! We didn't do the horse and carriage ride but the tram went down well, as always.

My dh quite likes Geordie Shore too, must be the sight of those young Newcastle women freezing their arses off in tiny outfits

Oh, I wonder if we were on the same tram WWS! My DD had great fun running round the shed of planes like a possessed child. I have no idea where her energy comes from. I, OTOH, have a hangover after 2 glasses of wine.

We got the tram at 12, soon after we got there. We knew they get really busy later on. We went with another family and all 5 of the kids ran round like crazy things for most of the 4 hours we were there. I was tired just watching them.

aha this is where you all are....thought it had gone quiet as the thread I was on was no more! Did I read somebody dissing my cultural heritage - Essex - compulsive viewing for DH and the dss lest we forget what we have left behind . Dh reckons he saved me!!

Hi everyone. Hope you are all enjoying yourself. What's the weather like at the moment.

Well, Dp's contract should be arriving today or tomorrow (via email) so as soon as he's signed it we can get the ball rolling on the police checks and medicals.

He's also stopped smoking in preparation. Ok it's only been 1 1/2 days but this is the longest he's ever gone and is not complaining about it at all.

How exciting AE. What is your timescale?

I remember when I first arrived back in NZ and had my first winter back, I just dreamed of double glazing and proper heating. I fantasised about dry humping my boiler.

We've built, and have double glazing now and it is bliss!

Sounds like MOTAT was the place to be today.

12 weeks at the most thelittlestkiwi

Neither of us have done this before do we're not sure how long these things take in reality. The company dp will be working for have their own company who do the visa's and stuff so they'll contact us at some point to walk us through everything.

Been looking at NZ on google street maps and St Heliers looks fab, if a little hilly.

Ha ha. Auckland is very hilly in my experience. We see it less as a hill and more as a tsunami defence.

12 weeks is stressful but doable. Do you need any other police certificates other than the UK? We needed an extra one cos OH had lived overseas for more than 6 months.