Well I have been in CHCH most of my life, lived overseas and in other cities, but CHCH is def. the place to be. 1hr to the hills and a bit more for skiing etc, lots to do, and yeah....the traffic is WAY better than Dauckland. My wife is from auckland, and she would be back now if she had her way, but I dont want to deal with the traffic and cost of living in auckland, and I think she is getting the message now...after 9 years..hehehe. My only gripe about CHCH is not so many Delphi jobs (I am looking for a new one at the moment), and training. We wanted to do some .NET training. Need to get a min. of 4 people before the training people would consider coming down ! we are thinking of just paying the xtra $$ for 3 of us to do it.
Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: "James Sugrue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 11:20:07 +1200 Subject: RE: [DUG-Offtopic] IT in NZ > Interesting. Also you forgot to add the lack of "orstrayan's" which > must be > a bonus ;-) > > I used to live in Central ChCh and am an avid Cyclist too. Training was > always akin to Russian Roulette most of the time. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 4 June 2004 10:44 a.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [DUG-Offtopic] IT in NZ > > I worked in Sydney, Melbourne & Johannesburg for Borland in 98 & 99, > and > enjoyed the year I spent there, but once I'd done all the things you > can > do within the big Aussie cities, I found it really frustrating to find > it so difficult to drive out of town for the weekend. > > I'm a really outdoorsy person (spent all of my twenties away most > weekends while in the UK mountaineering and tramping), so when I came > over here for a 3 month break from Oz, I loved it. > > Ended up meeting my now wife (who's from Scotland, I'm from Northern > Ireland) in Te Anau, went back to Scotland for 2.5 years, then we got > married, and said lets go back to NZ, so here I am. > > Didn't want to live in Awkland 'cos of the same sprawling problem, and > found this job in Chch, a place which to me seems a reasonable > compromise in terms of being able to easily get to a wide variety of > places in the South Island. > > Yeah, cost of travel outside NZ is an issue, going back to the UK in > July is costing me $6000 for the 2 of us, although what makes me really > grumpy is having to pay $300 for the privilege of having my 10 month > old > daughter spend a 24 hour flight sitting on my knee and she doesn't even > get a baggage allowance. Grrrrr, don't get me started on that issue... > ;-) > > So to summarise, NZ's got fewer people, more variety of landscape in a > smaller space, climate in Chch is way better than the UK, but not too > hot, the mountains are bigger, and it seems like a nice place to bring > up kids. Work to live, not live to work, so I enjoy the more relaxed > pace of life and less traffic, although roads can still be dangerous > here (drunken hit and run bastard killed a fellow cyclist down here in > Chch 5 mins from work here yesterday). > > I vaguely miss central heating, double glazing and proper brick houses. > > Having said all that, a good thing about the IT industry is the > relative > ease of finding jobs around the world, so if we decide we're not having > fun anymore, we can go and find somewhere else. > > Apologies for extended waffling... > > Cheers, > > C. > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Sugrue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > How do you find the pace of life and living standards here? > > I would think there are great advantages in living here, but > disadvantages too, such as cost of travel etc. > > Do you mind if I ask why you chose NZ rather than Oz? > > > _______________________________________________ > Offtopic mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic > > _______________________________________________ > Offtopic mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic
