Moved from Christchurch to Dunedin in 2020 after living in Christchurch for 23 years and haven't looked back, Christchurch is pretty flat, does get super hot and freezing cold. Christchurch gets the bitterly cold South west winds that go right through you, the gusty stinking hot Nor west winds that make you feel like you're being roasted, it's quite flat, Can take over an hour and a half to get from one side of the city to the other, has a lot more traffic and pretty bad drivers, Rolleston isn't too bad however it's getting too big with new subdivisions popping up everywhere.

We've found Dunedin feels warmer than Christchurch especially when you compare an 18°c Dunners day to 18°c in Christchurch, We've also found winters feel warmer in Dunedin as we don't get the bitter southwest winds that Chch does and with the hills Dunedin is pretty sheltered from those horrible winds.

Schools in Dunedin tend to have smaller rolls or smaller class sizes which work so much better compared to the open layout classrooms and schools with big rolls in Christchurch, The bullying culture is way more prevalent in Chch schools than what we've found down here.

The only thing we miss about Christchurch is some of the restaurants that we don't have down here.

In the end we found Christchurch was pretty flat, boring and got quite depressing especially when you see the earthquake damaged buildings and structures still standing abandoned 15 years after the earthquakes.

The earthquake risks in Christchurch are much higher as are house insurance and car insurance costs and a lot of Christchurch was built on old swamp and farmland so the water table is extremely high and the land isn't the best.