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To put it in perspective, my mum bought her house in the suburb of Hauraki on the North Shore of Auckland back in 1997 for around $360,000. If she were to sell it, she'll probably get $1million profit. Oh, and if you wanted an example of Auckland property prices being completely ridiculous, think about this: the suburb that rates lowest on the social deprivation index in Rotorua is Lynmore. It's generally considered the posh side of town. The average house price around there is $400k. That average house price is about on par with Otara in South Auckland, which is one of the most deprived and roughest suburbs in the city. edogawa rando fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Jan 19, 2015 |
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Ardennes posted:Yeah thats quite a bit more than LA (I would say 400-600k), what is a common wage for a service industry job in NZ? If anything that seems pretty comparable to DC/NYC/SF but Auckland is part of a considerably smaller metro area. Service industry would be $14 -$20 an hour, the vast majority being at the low end of that. Tips are rare as gently caress. Increasingly you are unlikely to be guaranteed any hours in a week.
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Jan 19, 2015 04:14
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Ardennes posted:So how much if a 3 bedroom house in good shape in a decent neighborhood in Auckland? Hillcrest (which is just over the bridge and about 10 minutes drive to Britomart without traffic) costs about $800k for a 3 bedroom poo poo hole. We just sold our house and were going to buy another in the same area, but it is pretty much unfeasible if you want to be able to do anything other than sit at home (and that is with both my partner and I making decent incomes - although having a kid does make things tighter). So yeah, you're hosed.
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Jan 19, 2015 04:34
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Infotainment! posted:Service industry would be $14 -$20 an hour, the vast majority being at the low end of that. Tips are rare as gently caress. Increasingly you are unlikely to be guaranteed any hours in a week. This. My gf went through around 3 jobs before she could pin one down that guaranteed a full working week instead of 'part time' of ~30-35 hours.
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Jan 19, 2015 06:41
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If you want some real loving perspective on Auckland housing at the moment: My parents bought fairly centrally in Auckland in 1995 for $225000. They sold in 2011 for $1.05m. Theu found out the same house (albeit done up) sold again a couple of months ago for $1.7m.
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Jan 19, 2015 07:32
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Slavvy posted:This. My gf went through around 3 jobs before she could pin one down that guaranteed a full working week instead of 'part time' of ~30-35 hours. According to Winz, that's full time work.
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Jan 19, 2015 07:41
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Solus posted:According to Winz, that's full time work. Yeah, I know that because that's what they told her when she couldn't pay her bills and a second job would have made her go backwards thanks to two-jobs tax.
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Jan 19, 2015 07:52
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Slavvy posted:Yeah, I know that because that's what they told her when she couldn't pay her bills and a second job would have made her go backwards thanks to two-jobs tax. Here is a fun Winz fact: if you have a partner who has a job and you don't, and you get a job seeker benefit, your partners job gets secondary tax and the pittance you get from Winz gets primary tax, because "thats just the way we do things". But then, if your partner has a job chances are your combined income is above the threshold anyway.
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Jan 19, 2015 08:27
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gently caress this gay government
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Jan 19, 2015 08:53
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Infotainment! posted:gently caress this gay government They're not gay, that would be alienate their voter block.
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Jan 19, 2015 08:58
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:They're not gay, that would be alienate their voter block. Lol if you don't think John key beigely panders to the pink vote every chance he gets while his south Auckland mps vote against human rights for reasons of "community culture" just like labour.
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Jan 19, 2015 09:13
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Lobsterpillar posted:Here is a fun Winz fact: if you have a partner who has a job and you don't, and you get a job seeker benefit, your partners job gets secondary tax and the pittance you get from Winz gets primary tax, because "thats just the way we do things". My boss had his defacto wife run away to australia on him (at the time it looked like it would be permanent but it ended up being around 3 months). He has two children aged six and three. Winz said they could give him an extra $20 a week with the option of another $4 if he applied for some additional thing! Also, subsidised day care that was still more expensive than getting a babysitter.
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I haven't been on WINZ for a while now, but I spent a good 5 years doing contract/temp work and every now and then I'd hit a lull and need assistance. I hated every aspect of dealing with them, and they made me attend every idiot 'orientation' about writing a CV and applying for jobs even when I'd done it just three months earlier or when I was only needing assistance for a month before starting a new contract. I would honestly say I spent more time dealing with the bureaucracy of getting unemployment than I did actually getting another job.Infotainment! posted:Lol if you don't think John key beigely panders to the pink vote every chance he gets while his south Auckland mps vote against human rights for reasons of "community culture" just like labour.
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Jan 19, 2015 09:54
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^ I would hope so too, I just don't think John sees it as a problem.
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Jan 19, 2015 10:02
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John Key's support for gay marriage makes me confident that a decent majority of New Zealanders support it too 
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Jan 19, 2015 10:25
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By the way, any of you guys who are paying secondary PAYE on a second job should be applying for your personal income statement from the IRD every year, you will almost certainly be entitled to a refund since the secondary PAYE brackets are pitched quite a bit higher. Ditto goes for those who just have one job but work irregular hours or are paid irregular amounts — you will have had too much PAYE deducted because the pay rate schedule assumes you are earning the same amount every pay period. Everyone should be requesting those statements from the IRD all the time, basically.
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Jan 19, 2015 10:44
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There are good people at WINZ who do try to help. Also wankers as well, like anything. Too much money tied up in Auckland housing for any real downwards adjustment unless a major disaster occurs (would be loving nice if one of the volcanos went active)
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Jan 20, 2015 00:22
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Last I read Rangitoto is the only volcano with a chance of reactivating.
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Jan 20, 2015 00:34
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Judging by the market in Christchurch though I'm really not sure that would help.
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Jan 20, 2015 00:35
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a sinkhole opened up under remuera... i'm sorry, there were no survivors
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Jan 20, 2015 00:56
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I've always wanted to burn down the homes of the rich. Having a volcano do it en masse would be an acceptable substitute.
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Ardennes posted:Yeah thats quite a bit more than LA (I would say 400-600k), what is a common wage for a service industry job in NZ? If anything that seems pretty comparable to DC/NYC/SF but Auckland is part of a considerably smaller metro area. I'm a NZer currently in the process of moving to LA. I was initially frightened of the thought of finding a place to stay in LA, thinking it would be expensive as hell. But after looking at prices and having lived in Auckland for the last 10 years, I finally realised how shafted Aucklanders are getting. The only comparison I can make is the medical costs in America. I recently got all the dental work I needed done here in NZ as I know it would cost a lot more in America. So what I'm saying is you should do the same and buy a house and bring it with you to NZ to save money.
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Exclamation Marx posted:a sinkhole opened up under remuera... i'm sorry, there were no survivors  Oh no. However will we ever survive?
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-neutrino- posted:There are good people at WINZ who do try to help. Also wankers as well, like anything. Winz staff performance reviews are based on the number of people they see and how quickly they get them out the door again. Not on results, not on finding the best solution to their problem, but just churning them out of the system as quickly as possible for 'efficiency'. So if they get someone come in who's homeless and on the verge of a nervous breakdown, they really don't want to deal with it because it'll take ages and make their stats look bad that day. Naturally the stats they have to reach are actually impossible to do at the same time as doing a good job. This way they can point to bad metrics and poor performance as a reason why it needs to be privatised to make it better. An example of what it's like dealing with WINZ: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11336725 quote:On top of that, he said, a transfer of the social housing waiting list from Housing NZ to Work and Income in April had removed the flexibility that Housing NZ managers used to have. Which leads to... quote:So the family applied to Work and Income for social housing and were placed on the waiting list on September 9. Almost a month later, they are still waiting. "If someone needs help, please contact the bureaucracy" *Contacts* "Sorry, you're in the system now and have to follow the pre-set rules"
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Jan 20, 2015 04:46
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im moving back into my parents house soon #rip me
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-neutrino- posted:There are good people at WINZ who do try to help. Also wankers as well, like anything. When I went in to Winz the lady took her time and helped me even though about half way through it was clear to her that I wouldn't qualify because of my partners income. My problem with Winz is the upper people who make the rules, not the day to day staff.
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Anyone see Andrew Little on breakfast? Whole segment about growing economic inequality and I think the interviewer made better points than Little did. Really disappointing, he couldn't have had an easier interview to spell out some of the poo poo that is wrong... http://tvnz.co.nz/breakfast-news/huge-divergence-in-economic-equality-gap-andrew-little-video-6221047
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bobbilljim posted:im moving back into my parents house soon #rip me I did this because my lease was about to run out and it was uni student housing season. I accidentally fell down stairs at work and now it's like 12 months later. FYI ACC will no longer pay for taxis to loving anywhere, regardless of if it's physio, medical appointments, or even your surgery. Meanwhile any government dept I could work in has been intentionally downsized in preference of 'preferred contractors' because they don't show up on employee expenditure sheets. Thank goodness that the private sector is here to provide jobs to save the government money [gets paid a disgustingly low amount on Independent Contractor status to avoid any kind of employee benefit at all] The System Works Brain In A Jar fucked around with this message at 09:21 on Jan 20, 2015 |
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Jan 20, 2015 09:18
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Brain In A Jar posted:I did this because my lease was about to run out and it was uni student housing season. I accidentally fell down stairs at work and now it's like 12 months later. i work in IT and still can't really afford to rent anymore. where is the heavy taxation of property investment and hey how about some rights for renters to have a habitable house
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bobbilljim posted:i work in IT and still can't really afford to rent anymore. where is the heavy taxation of property investment and hey how about some rights for renters to have a habitable house That doesn't sound like something that would benefit the friends of John Key, who he most certainly sits down and drinks beers with.
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WarpedNaba posted:That doesn't sound like something that would benefit the friends of John Key, who he most certainly sits down and drinks beers with. drat, it's true. oh well obviously at the end if the day that's best since jk is a great bloke who we all would love to have a beer with too
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http://thestandard.org.nz/where-is-cameron-slater/quote:Yesterday I got contacted about Cameron Slater’s current address. Apparently the arsehole of the kiwi blogosphere hasn’t been paying his court ordered judgements against him that have been incurred in recent years. The person who contacted me wanted to serve a notice to bankrupt him. 
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Jan 21, 2015 02:35
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I don't understand how the biggest fuckhead in nz can possibly be so famous/infamous. I just don't get it. Why can't he just cease existing?
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Jan 21, 2015 03:23
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Slavvy posted:I don't understand how the biggest fuckhead in nz can possibly be so famous/infamous. I just don't get it. Why can't he just cease existing? Because assassinating a head of state tends to cause problems for the nation, no matter how worthless he is.
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Jan 21, 2015 04:50
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WarpedNaba posted:Because assassinating a head of state tends to cause problems for the nation, no matter how worthless he is. 
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Jan 21, 2015 05:01
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WarpedNaba posted:Because assassinating a head of state tends to cause problems for the nation, no matter how worthless he is. New Zealand Politics - WarpedNaba arrested on domestic terrorism charges
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Jan 21, 2015 05:10
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New Zealand Politics - BARONS CYBER SKULL's house raided by police to discover source of thread title leak
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WarpedNaba posted:Because assassinating a head of state tends to cause problems for the nation, no matter how worthless he is. Not a problem if it is a suicide.
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:New Zealand Politics - WarpedNaba arrested on domestic terrorism charges Does it count as domestic if the victim exclusively serves foreign interests?
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WarpedNaba posted:Because assassinating a head of state tends to cause problems for the nation, no matter how worthless he is. 
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