I'm not surprised at all. Depending on what you want to do in Queenstown it might be worth looking at staying in Arrowtown, Cromwell or Wanaka instead and driving in for the day.
Cheers, Dave > On Feb 25, 2017, at 9:42 AM, Gonz <[email protected]> wrote: > > That explains a lot. We've been trying to find a rental to stay in > Queenstown and the prices were a bit of a shock to us. > > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 2:12 PM, David Mann <[email protected]> wrote: >> Not free but subsidised. There's a government department called Housing NZ >> which owns a lot of property, plus local city councils also make cheap flats >> available. But there's nowhere near enough and with house prices and rents >> spiralling out of control a lot of people have been living in their cars. >> The government has been sitting on its hands. The cynic in me would say a >> lot of MPs have property investments. There is no capital gains tax in NZ >> and it's seen as easy money. >> >> As for Wanaka, I don't know if they have any social housing. It's a tourist >> town which is known as a town of millionaires' holiday homes. Not as bad as >> Queenstown, the place of billionaires' holiday homes. There was a story in >> the papers recently about Queenstown airport running out of parking space >> for private jets... >> >> Cheers, >> Dave >> >>> On Feb 24, 2017, at 7:24 PM, Alan C <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> A fine image, Dave. Doesn't the Gov't provide free housing for the poor? >>> (Like the RDP houses in SA). Plenty of unused space there & they wouldn't >>> have water problems. They could fish to survive. >>> >>> Alan C >>> >>> -----Original Message----- From: David Mann >>> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 7:34 AM >>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> Subject: PESO: Morning at Lake Wanaka >>> >>> The light wasn't really in my favour but I took the photo anyway. >>> >>> http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/1038/#peso >>> >>> I'll just mention that you'd need to show up with about NZ$1M to buy a >>> house in Wanaka. Want to live on the lake shore? A small lakeside >>> apartment is more than double that. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Dave >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >>> --- >>> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >>> https://www.avast.com/antivirus >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > -- Reduce your Government Footprint > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
