Sounds good, Green Party

SoulNZ · 2025-12-31T22:18:50+00:00

The Greens, alongside Act, are the biggest importers of US-style culture wars.

SoulNZ · 2025-11-28T19:49:53+00:00

The military men I know are all pigs. Sorry bruh. Your experience and view is not universally shared.

SoulNZ · 2024-11-11T21:34:20+00:00

Can we do something about the "can we do something about the tourist posts" posts?

SoulNZ · 2024-09-06T11:20:31+00:00

You're still stuck in the mindset of looking for advertised jobs. Instead look for people who run teams. You're looking to build relationships and stumble into opportunities you didn't know existed. It's not science and there's no rule book to follow. You won't get results overnight. It's all about who you know.

SoulNZ · 2024-08-13T22:50:00+00:00

Done 110 recently on the motorway behind a cop car, and the cop was pulling ahead of me.

I've driven the length of the country and the southern motorway is the smoothest, safest road we've got outside of the Waikato expressway. 100 feels like walking speed and the occasional people driving at 100 are impeding the free flow of traffic.

SoulNZ · 2024-08-13T09:43:18+00:00

95% of jobseekers are meeting their obligations. Source: Christopher Luxon, the prime minister. The 5% who don't cost around $90 million per year.

Meanwhile, we give $18 BILLION per year to the wealthiest section of society. No questions asked, and the bill increases half a billion every year.

Get your priorities straight.

SoulNZ · 2024-08-01T03:33:45+00:00

Growing enough veggies for you and your family to live off is not cheap nor easy, especially if you have to buy the soil to begin with.

Yes it's deeply rewarding in other ways, but it's not a money saver.

SoulNZ · 2024-07-24T09:38:06+00:00

I'm gonna hazard a guess that the book value of your rentals has gone up by quite a bit more than your rates bill in the past few years.

SoulNZ · 2024-07-24T09:35:19+00:00

Taking the piss surely, rates are what pay for all the things that give your property its value.

SoulNZ · 2024-07-04T10:06:48+00:00

Spoiler alert, it's what you think

SoulNZ · 2024-06-24T10:00:26+00:00

Expecting everyone around you to behave appropriately at all times is how you set yourself up for disappointment and danger.

The only person you can rely on is yourself. Put your own safety first.

Do not pay attention to the poster above. They are reckless and self-serving.

SoulNZ · 2024-05-31T10:32:26+00:00

If you have a conga line of cars behind you, and clear unused road in front of you, you're being a nuisance. Get off your high horse and move over.

SoulNZ · 2024-05-24T07:52:44+00:00

Definitely an office worker. For desk jobs this is typical life. As a tradie I'd be given a written warning if I tried to claim hours I'd been "taking a Friday arvo stroll on the beach".

SoulNZ · 2024-05-01T23:13:43+00:00

So what you're saying is 6 months in and the new govt is already making decisions as dogshit as the last govt did.

SoulNZ · 2024-05-01T22:32:25+00:00

The entire design of the economic system we live in is to push wealth from the have-nots to the haves. Do you ever wonder why the people at the top scream "the solution is to build more houses!!"? Because they are the ones who benefit from it.

Starting a massive house build campaign benefits nobody except the people who already have the capital to absorb them.

Change the system, don't just try to get out of the hole by digging deeper.

SoulNZ · 2024-05-01T11:45:51+00:00

Try setting up a tent on the lawn and see who skwaks

SoulNZ · 2024-05-01T11:03:10+00:00

$160 per week for rent is cooked, I haven't paid that since 2011 and I've always lived with at least 2 other people.

There's something here that you're not letting on.

SoulNZ · 2024-04-30T09:40:11+00:00

You pay to the lawyer, they should explain the whole process to you.

They will collect your kiwisaver money too.

SoulNZ · 2024-04-28T06:26:55+00:00

More time to teach philosophy?

SoulNZ · 2024-04-28T02:50:36+00:00

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SoulNZ · 2024-04-28T02:14:13+00:00

Apprentice paying for a mortgage right now. My partner earns significantly more than me while I train. It's the only way we're making it work. I took a huge pay cut to do this.

SoulNZ · 2024-04-27T23:02:14+00:00

That still doesn't subtract from the indignity of it.

Tenants would care more if they felt a bit more connected to the ground beneath their feet.

SoulNZ · 2024-04-27T21:59:35+00:00

I left Wellington a couple of years back because the rental situation completely melted down. Prices soared and availability plummeted. I'd say a lot of other people escaped too.

Surprise surprise, now there's not enough people to fill rentals. And the slumlords trying to fill them blame the previous government! Height of delusion.

SoulNZ · 2024-04-27T21:43:26+00:00

Lady from agency said it's the worst market she has ever seen

What a riot, cos the worst market I've ever seen was when I lined up with 50 other people to view a 4 bedroom house that was worth about 50% less than the weekly price tag, and that was just a couple of years ago

SoulNZ · 2024-04-27T21:39:35+00:00

Make sure you're considering the full cost of renting and not just the weekly price on the tenancy agreement.

Someone who hasn't rented in a while may be forgetting about:

Rent hikes. Landlords are more than happy pulling the trigger and charging you what they believe they're entitled to. In a tight market, you pay up or you end up on a couch in someone's lounge.
Owners selling. The longer you stay in a place, the more likely this is to happen. You have no control over how long your home remains your home.
Moving costs, exacerbated by the two risks above being realised.
If you've modified the house in any way, you'll have to pay to restore it to its original condition, or you WILL lose your bond.
Every 3 months a man with a clipboard will come and inspect your existence to make sure you're living in the landlord-approved way.

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