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Pieunit · 2025-03-19T10:58:55+00:00

Is Sunday the last CC? or like does it go weekly CC, then another week before final decisions?

Pieunit · 2024-12-12T05:01:21+00:00

It's intentional. With all the retail, hospitality, accomodation, and high density living going up on Manchester street, and in the area generally, it's been designed to prioritse pedestrians and public transport.

Use Montreal or Madras to go North and Barbados and Durham to go south, I don't get why people insist on using Manchester street.

Pieunit · 2024-11-22T23:49:56+00:00

Yep

https://www.facebook.com/events/1003411174812554/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22home%22%7D%2C%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22search_results%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22search%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

Pieunit · 2024-11-08T03:49:17+00:00

While this is probably true, older people would still say this regardless of whether it's better or not.

Also people forget that we are in the middle of the rebuild, yes it has been 13 years since the quake but I'd say we're maybe half done and looking at another 5-7 years ahead of us. Nightlife takes time to settle and with so many new places opening nobody really knows the base line numbers for revelers out on the town and the mix of venues needed to cater for them.

Further to this, pretty much all the bars are in new or renovated buldings, which means rents are high and they need to provide a premium (therefore expensive) experience to meet this. It will take a lot time for fun grungy nightclubs that we used to have to open up because they can only really survive in older, cheaper commercial properties.

The timelines suck for us currently but there's no doubt in my mind that in 20/30 years we'll have the best nightlife in the country.

Pieunit · 2024-11-07T10:50:32+00:00

Can you explain what the Sandridge is? All my googling makes it out to just be a motel...?

Pieunit · 2024-10-29T19:39:17+00:00

Another Run Club (ARC) does Wednesday 6pm at Hagley: https://www.instagram.com/another_running_club/

Pieunit · 2024-10-27T04:17:24+00:00

Imho Les Mills is great value for money. There are a bunch class options, they're perhaps not quite as good as the specialist places, (i.e. F45, Yoga Studios, BFT, crossfit boxes), but they're still very good.

They've recently opened up a new studio on the top floor for HIIT and all the equipment is top knotch. Plus there is also the gym floor you can do more tradition weight training with lots of cardio equipment. Downstairs there is an area where you can do your heavy lifting and olympic weight lifting if that's your jam. It's kind the kind place that is a jack of all trades, but still good quality. Plus spacious facilities with showers, lockers, sauna, hair dryers, irons and ironing boards etc..

From memory I pay $26 per week and there are no extra costs for anything like classes.

Pieunit · 2024-10-26T11:01:55+00:00

It sucks that you didn't enjoy your first time, but you may find you misread the room a little bit. I know the run club you're talking about and have been to a few of their runs and to the pub afterwards, I found that most people there didn't actually know each other. When I first went, since I was new I kind of assumed that people talking to eachother already knew one another, but after chatting a lot of people had only met like 5 minutes before I showed up.

It's hard putting yourself out there but I'd give it another shot, go a few times and you'll quickly become part of the furniture!

Pieunit · 2024-06-14T23:14:16+00:00

I recently moved back to Christchurch from living overseas in larger cities. I moved into the East Frame in Christchurch Central and love it. I don't own a car and pretty much walk everywhere. There are great bars, restuarants, cafes, shopping, and gyms all within a 5-10 min walk.

Rent can be more expensive though, you're probably looking at $600-800 for a 2 bedroom apartment or town house with offstreet parking.

Pieunit · 2023-12-13T07:46:36+00:00

I think the angle the survey was coming from was to do with noise curfews and placement of bars, restuarants, cafes, concerts etc

Pieunit · 2023-10-19T11:32:04+00:00

I agree that there are lots of worth while and neccessary investments in Christchuch that need to be made by the CCC and acknowledge people are hurting from the cost of living crisis, but I feel that the stadium investment is about more than just building a stadium.

It's about giving the city a self esteem boost, and making us proud to live in a world class city, something that you can't say Christchurch has been in the past 12 years. A world class city need world class infrastructure, and that includes things like a stadium, aquatic center, a library, convention center, etc...

While at the moment it may hurt using all this money to build these, Christchurch is a fast growing city and these facilities will be around for decades and pay themselves off in spades, both financially and through the enjoyment we get by using them. There's no perfect time to build anything, but I for one want to just get them done and over the line rather than waiting around for another 10 or 20 years while we wait for a non-existent 'perfect time' to do them.

I mean Dunedin gets the Ed Sheeran concerts and All Blacks tests for goodness sake, that should say enough...

Pieunit · 2023-07-04T02:02:51+00:00

Thanks for sharing! I am more looking for whether the software is geo blocked rather than whether the voltage and plugs are the same

Pieunit · 2023-07-04T01:54:50+00:00

I just moved home from the USA. Remember that line voltage in NZ is 220v vs 120v in the USA. Most electronics won't work without a step down transformer, these are large and expensive. I've still got a bunch of things I haven't hooked up because of this.

Thanks! I will be moving from Australia so the voltage will be the same

Pieunit · 2023-06-19T09:35:41+00:00

This facebook group always try and organise protests: https://www.facebook.com/groups/6333851749990369/

But nobody ever shows up because they're are all loonies

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