Where’s your fave place to live?

We have lived in Queenstown which has its upsides and down. Very beautiful, but expensive and watching tourists having fun all the time while you are slogging away for a poo wage wasn't much fun. Or in our case wiring houses we would never afford on a sparkies wage .
We know live in Kaiapoi just north of Christchurch, is a nice little town and very close to Christchurch so we have all the great shopping. Plenty of beaches, rivers, parks and forrests and is fairly close to ski fields.
Is just me and DH out here rest of family in Uk, so definatley don't see them as much as we would like. Until we moved out here we had been very close to where we grew up, but you adjust and with modern technology it is really easy to keep in touch with those you love.

Hope that is of some help

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We live 4 hours away from almost all of our families and we have no body here. It gets very lonely. I love being around family and we used to travel down to see everyone once a month(ish) but with petrol prices (and pregnancy) it's not really an option anymore.

There are positives too though. We love that we have our own schedules and don't get caught up in the normal family issues and dramas. And you can go shopping or whatever and not have to stop every few steps to talk to someone you know (like you end up doing when you live in the same town you grew up in).

I've only lived in two cities Taupo (where I was born) & Auckland (been here for 8/9 years). Taupo is beautiful, very relaxed and has lots of touristy activities you can do within a small area but is very cold and job opportunities are limited. But Auckland has everything you could ever need really close too - just very expensive to live here.

In my experience, if you have grown up in the same town, it can be nice to get away and experience a change but if you are really close with your family it is inevitably going to be pretty hard in the long run.

Busymum - your DH know what ChCh is like   It is so beautiful.  Streets are easy to find, everything is not too far away either.  The beautiful hills are in the background.  It is a neat place, and everything else cuppatea said!!!

You are more than welcome to come for a weekend, and we can put you up so you can see for yourself!

I've lived all over the place... Tauranga, Taupo and Katikati when I was growing up, then Wellington for a year, Blenheim/Picton for a year, then Hamilton, Ohakune and now Upper Hutt.

When I moved out of home to go to uni in Wellington, I was quite happy to get away from my family for a while. For a number of different reasons, I ended up becoming quite depressed, and so I moved back in with my family to get my head straight. By that stage, they'd moved to Blenheim, so that's where I went too and after 6 months I moved to Picton for work. I followed my family to Hamilton to have Kiya. They moved to Katikati and Nat and I found life a bit easier!

We seem to get on best with my family when I live at least an hours drive from my Mum. I'd love to live closer to Nat's family, but as they live in Tauranga, that would mean that we'd end up too close to mine.

I'd like to live near a beach. I also really like Chch

I'm a chicken, grew up in Auckland, have had two brief stints overseas but always end up back here, and probably will always stay here. My family up and left me when I was 18 and are 3 hours flight away but as you know, we get to see them pretty often, altho we're lucky that circumstances permit that (my Dad is over often on business, and we have plenty of Frequent Flyer points). My brothers and sister are all in Sydney now too and I miss them, but I talk to them on the phone, via email etc. and to be honest even if we lived in the same city we all have such different lives (one bro is a chef, one runs a record label and my sister is a kindy teacher) that we wouldn't see each other all that often anyway.

I was born in sumner (right by the beach in chch) then moved out to a farm in north Canterbury and loved both places. When I was 19 Ben and I moved to Nelson for a change but I was soooo homesick and newly pregnant so we moved back. I did really love Nelson tho its so relaxed and it was quite fun not knowing anyone. I think we will eventually move back there.

Ben wants to move down south where the houses are cheap but at the moment I love living so close to our families.

LOL Fleur, I never liked the feel of Feilding/Ashhurst/Shannon either - seemed to small to me, and that's just compared to Palmy LOL.

jaz wrote: Near my family but far away from DP's.

Unfortunately ours live within 5 mins drive from each other! LOL!

This is great guys, keep it coming!

Of course i have to say KING COUNTRY all the way

But would love to live in the South- Mot, Abel Tas & West Coast anywhere from Karamea to Haast--- Beautiful
Kahurangi National Park? Paparoa? Wo Treasure..

It really dependson what you are like coz it wont be good living in the wops if you didnt like it & your environment?

Tahuna beach in Nelson is the bomb!!!!!!!!!