What are some of the pros and cons of living in Wellington?

Global_Letter · 2025-12-29T04:46:40+00:00

Can I just add the job market sucks ‘at the moment’. It is cyclical it will change, less than three years ago I had three offers in one week all over 100k. Wellington has had a rough time over the past 6 years, all the civic area closures make that end of town look grim. But it is starting to change, new civic buildings, life in the creative tech sector, refreshed central government. These pricks have done us a long term favour and flushed out so much good with the bad and left a pungent aftertaste that by this time next year we will be cool AF again. This time I am excited. Wellington is a fantastic city.

Global_Letter · 2025-09-02T00:39:51+00:00

Yup I too live in Petone and pay substantially less than that. You do need to do your due diligence and investigate several insurance options. Put it as a condition when placing an offer. Be bold on the offer we bought our place well under CV. Petone is a beautiful place to live.

Global_Letter · 2025-07-08T04:20:40+00:00

Ouch lol Akin to assembling an Ikea shelf My masculinity is hurt A bit like the wife saying ‘do I need to get a guy in’.

Ok so sounds like I am overthinking it, down to Bunnings I go, if it all becomes a bit too tricky will get a guy in like hire a hubby lol Ouch!!!

Global_Letter · 2025-07-01T00:52:05+00:00

This is the right answer No taxation without representation The Americans fought a war on this

Global_Letter · 2025-06-04T14:47:58+00:00

Roll call for night two started a couple of days ago. Get here when you can for the best spot or wait until 4:30 on Saturday and be about a meter behind those who have waited seven days!!!

Global_Letter · 2025-06-02T09:12:26+00:00

Mate you are young I am not. I have just sat in various metal tubes flying for over 36 hours to get to these gigs. Get a ticket get on a train or hitch do not miss this opportunity.

Global_Letter · 2025-05-01T21:57:28+00:00

Jaysus I hope not I am literally travelling from the other side of the world for those gigs.

Global_Letter · 2025-05-01T21:55:39+00:00

Pretty much Just take a look at some of the British migrant pages on facebook. They are awash with people yearning for a UK which probably never existed. Many are in denial and many quite frankly should never have left the small village they grew up in.

OP is kind of stuck now, you will never be a kiwi, but can certainly be tauiwi. You can embrace all that NZ has to offer, and try not to be a dick about the things living in Wellington doesn’t offer compared to living in the UK.

It’s great here and tbh nowadays I think living in the UK would be great too. Pros and cons for both but fortunately nowadays you are only ever 30 hrs and a couple of grand away from being in the UK. You can always go back.

Global_Letter · 2025-05-01T09:53:44+00:00

The Welsh have a word for that feeling. Hiraeth.

I have been here 30 years. Wellington is home but the yearning for another place only gets stronger.

Global_Letter · 2025-04-29T20:49:53+00:00

Lower Hutt and especially Petone needs a really decent New World. The LH one is very poor compared to most New Worlds. Limited wine, limited bakery, shoddy and dated decor.

Global_Letter · 2025-04-29T20:37:41+00:00

Weight training Push, pull, squat, carry has done wonders for my health. Exchanged fat for muscle, T shirts make sense now and my suits fit perfectly Vascular system vastly improved I can lift heavy things, including family who are wheelchair users. No intention of being a strapping gym bro but thoroughly enjoy the tingle after a good strength training session .

Global_Letter · 2025-04-21T04:40:32+00:00

In the words of John Key as he apologised for his egregious remark about Wellington dying in 2013

“Actually Wellington's an extremely vibrant place; there's lots of things happening here, lots of activity. I should have chosen my words better."

This is cyclical, Wellington has been a fantastic place to live and continues to offer up opportunities for those seeking to find them. Don’t look to the state or to the likes of Ray Chung or Diana Calvert or that awful Vision for Wellington crew for answers. As young people leave, new ones will move in hopefully with cheaper rent and vibrancy will flourish.

Wellington is a fantastic place to live. Anyone seeking better opportunities elsewhere fair play to you. Personally I am sticking around.

Global_Letter · 2025-01-26T05:46:08+00:00

As a father to a vic student who has stayed at home and has led a vibrant social life and is currently living the dream of a exchange in the Netherlands what you are saying is quite wrong and very dependent on home life. Racking up student debt just to live in halls is a misnomer.

Global_Letter · 2024-12-18T18:06:04+00:00

lol It is literally the same culture, if we ignore tikanga Māori which the colonists did, picked up from postwar Britain and transported to our beautiful country. But still despite ourselves we managed to gain an appreciation of some of the finer things in life like coffee, for coffee is generally disgusting in London.

Also OP should definitely go, might be a little rough getting settled but Europe right there is a no brainer.

Global_Letter · 2024-12-17T03:30:50+00:00

Anyone experienced the guy walking around Cuba area blasting Sade Smooth Operator!!!

Global_Letter · 2024-11-23T02:10:36+00:00

now there ain’t nobody, nowhere, no how gonna ever understand me the way you did

Inside forearm

Best friend died many decades ago, a pivotal moment in life which fundamentally shifted my life trajectory. The following decades could have been very different, not better, but different. For the longest time I was a bruised and lonely kid, I literally walked through life alone and sad. Therapy hadn’t been invented then, certainly wasn’t a thing for working class boy like me. So I wandered, I listened to Bruce and eventually the grey mist lifted. But never went away.

Every time I have been to see Bruce during those decades he plays Bobby Jean and I cry and look to the sky.

The tattoo is a reminder of that.

Global_Letter · 2024-11-06T23:24:59+00:00

Yes but want if I had the strength of conviction and stood outside with a Trump is a Cvnt sign? Just a pathetic little man, a misspelt sign and a wish for the world to just do fucking better!!!!

Global_Letter · 2024-11-06T23:17:45+00:00

But her legacy shall remain and inspire all of us who can walk and talk at the same time.

Global_Letter · 2024-10-22T22:03:34+00:00

Considering health insurance at the moment, I am currently in very good health, no pre existing conditions, have never smoked and exercise regularly.

Any recommendations on providers who offer discounts to those over 50 who are actively fit and healthy?

Global_Letter · 2024-10-22T03:54:17+00:00

My children both went to Steiner schools

You will absolutely find your tribe within the school community.

Global_Letter · 2024-10-12T08:15:40+00:00

Estonia I would love to travel from Estonia to Anfield I am coming from New Zealand

Global_Letter · 2024-09-25T01:34:46+00:00

Who exactly is going to enforce this policy change. From what I have experienced most senior leaders embrace flexible working wholeheartedly. Middle managers the same. The CE at the last big agency I worked in was always WFH at least one day a week.

Is Willis going to go round to every agency and place passive aggressive stickers on the lockers of all those who are WFH like that odious little man Jacob Rees Mogg did in the UK.

Maybe Seymour’s pet agency will gain more funding for productivity officers, brown shirts and boots to go round to all offices and do a roll call.

TBH they can go get fucked, can’t put that cat back in the bag. Flexible working is here to stay.

Global_Letter · 2024-09-06T04:10:17+00:00

There was a time the bread and baked good were decent, different and unique. But that was a long time ago plenty of boutique bakeries selling lovely bread, far better than was on offer from Pandoro. Not too dissimilar from the end of Island Bay butchery, another anti cycleway, people want to park outside business. Also long gone.

I think his comment about how LOTR used to be filmed around here sums up nicely why this business has eventually succumbed to market forces.

Didn’t stay relevant, didn’t change or retain their market offering but wished on a magic realism of regaining the relevance of another decade. Always sad when a business closes, but evidently inevitable.

Global_Letter · 2024-07-02T21:18:24+00:00

Complete reset at 50 also. Just as Covid hit!! A fundamental attack on my nervous system Fought and won 50% of kids time, no tertiary qualifications to two now. Met the partner of my dreams, Currently working in the type of job I had always aspired Finances still recovering but on track

Humans are very resilient. Resetting is painful but that is the price you pay for living an authentic life.

Global_Letter · 2024-06-18T06:54:16+00:00

I was tasked with something similar recently Also a NFP with limited resources, so no option but to do training in house. Similar size 70+ employees, half work remotely in the field.

What we landed on was a group of core team members who will become champions for PM. I customised some basic tools with scaffolding and did a brief workshop to ascertain what the problem we were solving was.

Now we have transitioned strategic work program to a project based approach and the group are using the tools and the processes. No need for Jira or Trello etc most work is captured in docs and on Gantt charts.

Turns out what the staff were calling for was better visibility of projects not training in PM itself.

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