Posts by Sacha
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Polity: Geography and housing options, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Scale. They do have a viable software cluster but a lot of Welli's other businesses are servicing government agencies. Guess there's some brand design in there, but not much export focus that would sustain more jobs.
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Polity: Geography and housing options, in reply to linger,
In Auckland, natural increase is negligible relative to increase from migration
Not so. The 2012 council-organised presentation I attended (and have mentioned previously) put natural increase at about 60% of the total. Our demographics are skewing younger than the rest of the country.
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Polity: Geography and housing options, in reply to Mikaere Curtis,
The financial policy settings driving global demand for NZ housing as an investment rather than a place to live will not respond to building more houses or managing which regions people can live in. Only changing the rules to direct investment into productive businesses instead of McMansions will do that.
However, too many people have a vested interest in the current ponzi scheme for wimpy politicians to risk challenging it. Will take generational change and significant organising from those of us who lose rather than win from the current system.
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Polity: Geography and housing options, in reply to dave stewart,
Obviously those people would need jobs
Higher-value and therefore better-paid modern roles often benefit from aggregation effects that only larger cities offer. That's why we are unlikely to see a thriving design, software or niche engineering hub based in Twizel rather than Christchurch or Auckland or at a pinch, Wellington.
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Hard News: The place where things happen…, in reply to BenWilson,
the right to take psychoactives has only the one good that anyone ever counts, that it could be right, a liberty.
what about other framing like improved self-knowledge, and joy, even? not all about narrow libertarian isms.
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Hard News: The place where things happen…, in reply to Mikaere Curtis,
These idiots who think the sky is going to fall in if we liberalise
will die, eventually
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Hard News: The place where things happen…, in reply to Russell Brown,
the pillar of boldness
more of Glucina's thrusting poplars :)
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Polity: Flaccid balloon, mite-ridden bees, in reply to Moz,
first home buyer apartments starting from $1M
affordabull
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Herald gives foaming dunce McCoskrie a platform to spread lies.
Marijuana was made illegal because it is harmful.
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
it's a legit modern word
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