WHERE'S BEST TO LIVE IN NZ AND WHAT DO WE NEED TO KNOW: PART4!!!

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Arrgh,had to start a new thread!

Yes,you can get more land in Tauranga. Well,somewhere like Omokoroa or somewhere.Wouldn't want to live much closer than that. And I woulkdn't want to live at he Mount. Lovely as it is. Too touristy,imo.
We would like enough land for a pool (eventually) maybe a sleepout and still enough for a veggie patch and garden for kids. Don't neeed acres +. Wouldn't say no though,if we could afford it! Be nice to have a few sheep or something/

I think Mum would have to fly to Tauranga. So that would be
Manchester-London,London-Singapore, Singapore-Aukland,Aukland- Tauranga
Bad.

justa howws the back? Hope physio was a help,we may have driven past you!
Your house sounds great.
My mums friend lives in Silverdale.She has about an acre with some sheep etc
Wasn't overly impressed at but didn't give it a proper look I suppose,just stopped to buy flowers for Mums friend! Always worth another look

Well I'm here.

Landed yesterday morning. Flights dealt free and as drama free as you can get with a 2 and a 3 yr old.

Spent the first night cleaning up the contents of the 3yr olds stomach and he's now on the sofa watching Nick jnr burning up like a fire, poor sod. Sent dp, mother and ds2 put for medicine and a few other bits.

House is lovely. Bit messy as landlord left in a rush but that can be sorted. We have a lemon tree too.

Not keen on all this wind, making internal garage and front doors bang and rattle around and it's freaky at night.

My god, isn't the sun strong though.

Flights were delay free not dealt free.

Welcome to NZ, xMinerva :), I can't remember, have you visited before or is it your first time here?

The sun is getting pretty strong, I have put sunscreen on my shopping list for this week. It'll be way way stronger in summer though.

Well, we're in. Kind of. Lots of boxes & stuff everywhere, but we have a place to sit and a place to sit & the kettle.

MIL has again been doing incredible work. But she also sighed and told DH "ooh, that shower will need regular cleaning" (because our previous one didn't?), tutted at the storage in the kitchen & said she'd hate to have a house with stairs .

I'm practicing not hearing half of it

Obviously I meant a place to sit and a place to sleep. must be an indication of how much I'd just like to sit down!

Nope, never been before.

So far so good though. Had to go back to the airport today to collect 2 bags I left behind The view coming into the city was amazing.

Glad you're all in vvv hope your dd is better soon.

Xminerva - welcome to NZ. Where in Auckland are you? You get used to the wind and the rain making the house shake. The housing is dreadful as you may have discovered by now.

We've been on a roadtrip for the last week down to nelson. A very long roadtrip with no roofbox and 4 kids and all their crap including travel cots and buggies. Knees round my ears in the front seat all the way up the road from Welly. Good to see some proper NZ and I waved at Cambridge as I passed through AB. My god Welly was windy! Nelson was lovely though but glad to be home to high density living - all those fields scare me a bit.

I feel very jealous of UK shopping trips....have been browsing the web.

Oh and I resigned just before I went. Have a new job which I think may suit me a bit better. Start in 2 weeks. Not sure I'm very popular at old place as I'd only been there 4 months. Have to back next week and not sure of reception I will get.

Welcome minerva!
aaargh lolly! you kept that quiet! What is your new job? Same kind of thing I'm assuming.
(Dh is looking for a career change)
I think you'll just have to brazen it out at work until you leave!
Dh is still worried about pissing people off if it comes out he is looking for other work.
What was Welly like apart from windy? You could have called in to see scrooboius and had a ride on her cable car!!
Speaking of which,scroobious how are things with your parents? x

Welcome minerva!

I am officially a very happy bunny. Nice quiet bedroom(big change from all the boy racers around our old place), a fantastic shower & a lovely cosy feeling sitting room.

Great vviola, so pleased for you,all's well that ends well!
Hope the same will be said for us!

Shakespear is a nice regional park. Further up that coast, Mahurangi, Scandrett and Tawaharanui Regional Parks are also really lovely.

I would love that!...logistics may scupper me though, I will try my bestest!

Oh yes, count me in for a picnic

(and that invite will be forthcoming justabout, just as soon as I figure out which box the mugs are in )

Picnic would be great.

Job is a bit different to the old one but more like what I did in the UK - a new venture with a couple of big companies. Should be exciting but I do feel bad about leaving the other one - not ideal but an opportunity I couldn't miss.

Old job not going so well in that nanny who was sick a week ago on Friday (so I had to leave work in the morning to cover) has called to say she is still sick and needs to see Dr tomorrow. So I have had to call my boss to say I can't go in tomorrow and will have to pull another day of holiday to cover which means my one day of shopping and lunching with DH before I start new job is now out the window. I feel dreadful as it makes me look so unprofessional. Nanny is usually amazing and she did sound crap on the phone but a bit frustrated that she didn't see a Dr last week whilst we were all on holiday. AIBU?

Glas new house working out vviola. AB - what's your current housing situation with evil spanish landlady?

Ah,that sucks lolly. Can't be easy juggling everything. And your shopping,lunching day sounded lovely, sorry that you'll miss out on that.
yup, we're a bit fooked with the housing situ at the moment, to quote the estate agent "rentals in cambridge are like hen's teeth" soooo,as I say, fooked. We arte still looking for a relocation, either Tauranga or Aukland. But the chances of landing a job in 5 weeks are slim to non existant I would've thought

Crap about the house situation, AB. I guess there's not a lot on Trade Me then?

Road trip sounds great lolly.

We'd be up for a picnic sometime, once all this spring rain buggers off.

Oh that's good justa hope you get swift access to some help

We have arrived in Amsterdam and are staying with my kiwi bf. it's so lovely to be back with old friends. DD and her DS are having a ball and I will be so sad to leave. DD did quite well on the flight but has been up at 2am two days in a row.

The food is amazing and so cheap. Haven't done much shopping yet.

Hi everyone,
Have lurked for ages and thought I'd briefly pop back. We are bailing out of NZ and heading back to UK (been here 6 years). There will be lots and lots to miss (not least my parents) and living by the sea in Wellington. But a good job for DH awaits and we have failed to make any progress financially here. Lots of bad calls in the distant past from us re. property and we are sick of living in cold, expensive houses. Job is in London, but hopefully moving to Cambridge. SO much to do.

Hope all you new settlers go well.