Posts by Amanda Wreckonwith
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Hard News: Team Little: pretty good, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Morman?
Merman?
Mormon?
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Hard News: The Boom Crash, in reply to Sacha,
providing your aspiration is horticulture.
Or agriculture,
or engineering
or accountancy
or conservation
or tourism
or hospitality
or App development
or literature
or teaching
or painting
or the many other occupations that my neighbours are employed in, in these dim, dark, cultural wastelands of rural NZ. -
But can we acknowledge that something unique was lost along the way?
I'd settle for misplaced
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to BenWilson,
Every day I walk down Ponsonby Road and reflect on how lucky I am to live here. After working in Parnell for 3 years you realise just how good we have it over this side. Our friends in the ’Chev are mad about their neighbourhood as well. If we can find a way to bring in a lot more people at some form of affordability then things will only get better.
Or maybe the smell of smugness will become so nauseating that these suburbs will become uninhabitable...
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to BenWilson,
So how do you see inner suburban Auckland property prices ever going back to the point where young people could afford them, then?
A massive fall in property values would do that. Or the suburb becoming very undesirable to the wealthy. Or government intervention to build houses for sale at below market rates.
Or maybe its better to stop clutching the pearls of the past and look for another oyster to open.The future of property ownership for young people in Auckland is going to be in outer suburbs or small detached towns, or maybe low quality urban shoe-boxes. Probably only the latter case might lead to a sufficient concentration of youth to be reminiscent of the inner West in the late 20th century.
Low quality urban shoe boxes - perfect description of the pre-gentrified Grey Lynn and Ponsonby. So why do you want to condemn them to these draughty, damp, cold houses where you can hear your neighbour fart? Why not planned suburbs with good transport links and modern, light, energy efficient houses? Why not self sufficient eco-communities further afield? Why not cloud based tele-communities?
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
still productive ex-market garden soils
Well to speak Candidly, the weather outside is glorious so I must tend my garden. (Lady or otherwise).
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to BenWilson,
I’m not saying it was the best of all worlds back then.
And neither am I. And neither is today's world. I'll have no truck with Good Old Gottfried.
My issue is with the "it's not going to happen like that again". Well of course it won't. Nor should it. It will happen again but in a different way, in a different suburb, town, village, island.
If we, for example, had unemployment rise to 20%, you could use your argument to say that I’m just hankering for the good old days of low unemployment.
Nothing wrong with the hankering - it's the thinking that we are now stuck with the 20% and that it will never change, that I reject.
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to Joe Wylie,
I was recently mildly shocked to discover that La-Z-Boys are something of a cult item with people around a decade younger than me.
They are the new midcentury modern... coming to Art & Object in 3...2...1...
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
and places near the sea/water.
Probably not such good advice any more.
I have to fight the desire to drive up country and spray paint ATLANTIS over the Omaha signs.
(Johnnie boy will have soon sold up to some dope who thinks they are onto a winning historic property)