[marky]

anyone notice how noisy new zealand shops are?:
piped music in the supermarkets,post office, banks even libraries for christ's sake. All played far too loud and then there's the speakers outside shops blaring away and the hoons with their exhausts.

[Familyofmonkeys]

All I seem to notice is how empty NZ shops seem compared to UK.

[tiefchord]

anyone notice how noisy new zealand shops are?:
piped music in the supermarkets,post office, banks even libraries for christ's sake. All played far too loud and then there's the speakers outside shops blaring away and the hoons with their exhausts.

Nope, don't notice this at all. Hoons don't bother me though.

I guess something one has to remember that upon entering a city and living in a city - you accept noise as a daily aspect of city life.

[Moorf]

:laugh:laugh Are you for real Marky or are you trip-trapping around? I thought you were joking when you said that if you wanted to appreciate Milton Keynes then move to Chch, but now I think you're just out on a wind up!

[StevieD]

no noise in our supermarkets in Cambridge :laugh

[marky]

:laugh:laugh Are you for real Marky or are you trip-trapping around? I thought you were joking when you said that if you wanted to appreciate Milton Keynes then move to Chch, but now I think you're just out on a wind up!

no i am for real and i'm using appreciate in the proper sense: to understand rather than to like

[marky]

Nope, don't notice this at all. Hoons don't bother me though.

I guess something one has to remember that upon entering a city and living in a city - you accept noise as a daily aspect of city life.

funnily enough the post office, banks, libraries, shops in the uk generally mange without the noise. why does a stationeryt shop on colomboi street needd to have a radio station blaring away. for 4 million they certainly make a lot of noise

[marky]

no i am for real and i'm using appreciate in the proper sense: to understand rather than to like

also while i don't miss for the most aprt milton keynes (have u lived there) i am looking forward to returning to the uk. at least i could walk from my house to the countryside rather than needing to get in a car. the demerits of mk are not overshadowed by the merits of nz. for one thing i can't live here on the salary paid. i exist

[marky]

no noise in our supermarkets in Cambridge :laugh

any jobs there?

[Moorf]

Where do you live in Chch?! Most places, apart from perhaps the CBD, all have great access to the countryside? Can't you get to the beaches, Bottle Lake forest, Port Hills, Victoria Park, Hagley Park, Banks Peninsula, Waimakariri, the Groynes, Spencerpark, Flower Track? What about the fab Little River Rail Track, the empty gorges, Oxford Hills. Sure you have to get in your car for most but I don't remember being able to walk from MK to lots of sites of such beauty, remoteness, and natural beauty - MK felt sterile to me, everything in its place, everything planted perfectly. I will say though, in MK's defence, my friends who lived there that commuted to London did so because of the greenery there. Was all too staged for me. There was a lovely watersports area and great attempts at countryside in the town, but, for me, nothing in comparison to the braided rivers, volcanic hills and Southern Alps! Each to their own I s'pose.

You say you can't get out in the countryside here without tripping over barbed wire? May I suggest you start your walk outside of Hornby's inudstrial park? :uhoh Where are you walking?!

[StevieD]

saying that the wildlife can be very noisy......

[StevieD]

and the birds and the little goat next door....... :nice1

[marky]

saying that the wildlife can be very noisy......

IT SOUNDS LOVELY. do you have tui birds. I'm going to miss them

[marky]

Where do you live in Chch?! Most places, apart from perhaps the CBD, all have great access to the countryside? Can't you get to the beaches, Bottle Lake forest, Port Hills, Victoria Park, Hagley Park, Banks Peninsula, Waimakariri, the Groynes, Spencerpark, Flower Track? What about the fab Little River Rail Track, the empty gorges, Oxford Hills. Sure you have to get in your car for most but I don't remember being able to walk from MK to lots of sites of such beauty, remoteness, and natural beauty - MK felt sterile to me, everything in its place, everything planted perfectly. I will say though, in MK's defence, my friends who lived there that commuted to London did so because of the greenery there. Was all too staged for me. There was a lovely watersports area and great attempts at countryside in the town, but, for me, nothing in comparison to the braided rivers, volcanic hills and Southern Alps! Each to their own I s'pose.

You say you can't get out in the countryside here without tripping over barbed wire? May I suggest you start your walk outside of Hornby's inudstrial park? :uhoh Where are you walking?!

well apsley guise is a place i miss, woburn estate etc. but as my fellow kiwis say the farmers have too much power and there's not the rights of way here. having said that i aim to go somewhere more remote when we go back e.g the borders. sorry i don't share your dream.

[peebles16]

Choose carefully in the borders marky we're currently living there and one of the reasons for moving is the massive housing developments and subsequent shopping malls, over crowded schools, rubbish traffic and drain on local amenities.:(

[K&CS]

I have to say I'm finding this thread hugely entertaining. Blooming noisy in here tonight but only because OH is blasting Feeder at full volume!

[peebles16]

Very good love Feeder!
Karen

[tiefchord]

Just for marky, I hope the hoons not only step on the throttle twice as much tomorrow but also turn up their ever-present subwoofers even more.

[Silverwing86]

Hi Marky,

Just out of curiosity (and no, I'm not having a go at you), what attracted you to come to NZ in the first place ? I'm seriously curious to know what it was that you hoped to find in NZ that has turned out to be so lacking and disappointing for you ?

Silver

[Familyofmonkeys]

Hi Marky,

Just out of curiosity (and no, I'm not having a go at you), what attracted you to come to NZ in the first place ? I'm seriously curious to know what it was that you hoped to find in NZ that has turned out to be so lacking and disappointing for you ?

Silver

I was just wondering that same thing.....please enlighten us :)

[marky]

Hi Marky,

Just out of curiosity (and no, I'm not having a go at you), what attracted you to come to NZ in the first place ? I'm seriously curious to know what it was that you hoped to find in NZ that has turned out to be so lacking and disappointing for you ?

Silver

choose for yourself: from casabalnce
why did you come to casablanca? i came for the waters. But we're in the desert, there are no waters. I was misinformed.

or from the magnificent seven: 'reminds me of a guy in new mexico who took all his clothes off and jumped in a mess of cactus. asked why he did it. he said it seemed a good idea at the time'

[marky]

Just for marky, I hope the hoons not only step on the throttle twice as much tomorrow but also turn up their ever-present subwoofers even more.

because it seems that one is not allowed to have an opinion that is critical of nz on this webpage, i shall no longer be posting on this site.

[K&CS]

because it seems that one is not allowed to have an opinion that is critical of nz on this webpage, i shall no longer be posting on this site.

hope you manage to find that sweet grass on the other side of the bridge where that certain very fearsome creature lives!

[benandclare]

because it seems that one is not allowed to have an opinion that is critical of nz on this webpage, i shall no longer be posting on this site.

Shame you haven't read all the posts or threads on this site as there are some that are very critical of NZ and Nz life.

We find this site fantastic as you can get a balanced view of life here but it is fair to say that that most of the posters are pro NZ but I'm sure all of them would hold their hands up to say " that nowhere is perfect" but NZ makes a fair fist of it :raebanana

Good luck in your future endeavours