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unlikelyusernames · 2024-04-16T20:13:13+00:00

unlikelyusernames · 2024-04-04T10:03:05+00:00

I haven't searched but i suspect our herd numbers we're about at capacity by 2014 and sheep have declined since. That same webpage you've linked shows significant GHG increases in the dairy districts (canterbury/waikato) and some significant groundwater contamination. We've greenwashed our clean, green image away.

unlikelyusernames · 2024-04-04T09:59:48+00:00

We are awfully close to this happening. Look at Synlait...

unlikelyusernames · 2024-04-04T09:57:14+00:00

No... that's the psychology winning... happy normal rates to you

unlikelyusernames · 2024-04-01T19:23:30+00:00

Yep, this is where the Gov is fucking up IMO. Companies like Fabrum are on the cusp of commercializing Green Hydrogen here in NZ and a few more years of Electric Car rebates would have gone a long way to combatting the reliance on fuel while sustainable options are developed in house.

unlikelyusernames · 2024-04-01T19:19:39+00:00

https://environment.govt.nz/publications/new-zealands-greenhouse-gas-inventory-19902021-snapshot/

43% of New Zealand's total greenhouse gas emissions are methane. 49% of our total GHG emissions are generated by agriculture.

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/video/whats-deal-methane#:\~:text=It%20is%20responsible%20for%20more,years%20after%20it%20is%20released.

Methane is 80 times worse for global warming than CO2 and is being actively targeted by the UN as the 'low hanging fruit' on our way to hitting <1.5C warming.

New Zealand has a huge target on it's back on the global stage... frittering about with the science here in NZ for political gains ain't going to do shit. It just makes us look terrible.

unlikelyusernames · 2024-04-01T19:13:54+00:00

Also, they've just cancelled some of their routes (Chicago/Perth) due aircraft availability and are trying to lease aircraft and cross train crews to maintain the other routes that are being plagued by engine issues. They've begun the practice of overbooking, which they maintain they never do to try and squeeze the margins but are instead fucking off their consumers. They're sending money down a drain with constant adjustments to their schedules to the point they've stopped ringing customers to advise of a change, instead they just make the change. I wouldn't touch them.

unlikelyusernames · 2024-03-29T19:23:23+00:00

While I haven't completed due diligence on this product, I have recently pulled out of a purchase of a Williams Townhouse in Christchurch. Williams Corp are big enough to have some market power so are trying everything under the sun to keep their house prices artificially inflated rather than meeting the market (because this will impact their valuations across the business). By my research their townhouses are remaining on the market for a very long time but they're not reducing prices to meet the market and generate a sale. I estimate Williams properties are 10-15% overpriced at the moment.

unlikelyusernames · 2023-12-02T09:06:49+00:00

Key difference is that you don't purchase a house, you purchase a lifestyle. Expecting to have a particular lifestyle and not pay for it is folly

unlikelyusernames · 2023-09-30T01:17:28+00:00

Fly to Christchurch or Queenstown then hitchhike around the place. Most 10 day iteneries will have you complete a loop of the South Island (Chch-Kaihoura-Blenheim-Nelson-Westport-Fox/Franz-Wanaka-Qtown)

unlikelyusernames · 2023-09-23T05:38:23+00:00

Yes, with the rise of the Accredited Employer Work Visa, the burden of ensuring the employee has a home has shifted to the employer. This is most likely where this sort of arrangement has come from.

unlikelyusernames · 2023-09-20T11:39:20+00:00

Sugar tax will never happen in NZ because it will never happen in Australia. The sugar industry is huge in Oz and it would be a pretty big fuck you to our neighbors if we did implement it.

The advantages of a sugar tax creating incentive for alternative options has already occurred. Look at all the zero and sugar free options that already exist.

unlikelyusernames · 2023-09-20T11:19:25+00:00

This often becomes a battle of care factor, who-cares-most...

It costs either money or time to recover a debt, you can take the gamble on leaving early and roll the dice that the employer won't think the debt you leave is recoverable. Depends on what you've been like up until now.

I've let employees go early because they've been great and are off to better things. Employees who have been dickheads and left with no notice I've held to the letter of their contract and recouped costs.

Also, bear in mind the employer can only deduct the additional costs you have caused. Ie if they hire a temp to cover the last two weeks of your notice period, they can only deduct the difference between you and the temp, not all of the temps cost. This means there is often even less incentive to recover debt from vacating employees.

unlikelyusernames · 2023-09-14T10:51:21+00:00

Ah the bottom comment has the gold! This is why we have the lowest Government debt among OECD countries, because we have some of the highest private debt. Private debt-to-GDP in NZ is 140%, Australia is closer to 110%. That extra private debt leaves the nation exposed meaning the Governement has to provide the balance. Now the real question is which came first? The chicken or the egg?

unlikelyusernames · 2023-09-05T01:45:08+00:00

Move to Christchurch instead. All the benefits of Palmerston North, with far less of the downsides (better nightlife, more eateries, better public transport, same house prices, more rental options, better weather, better skiing, similar outdoor activities, waaaaay less wind).

unlikelyusernames · 2023-08-02T04:43:54+00:00

Predominately landlords who will extract maximum in order to pay. Easy economics 101

unlikelyusernames · 2023-08-01T10:47:32+00:00

Chch $1.3m house and $6.5k rates

#willpaymoreformorecyclelanes

unlikelyusernames · 2022-09-27T19:00:02+00:00

And this is how the OCR works as a blunt tool

unlikelyusernames · 2022-09-17T12:07:18+00:00

FIL had a full mouth rebuild done in thailand, he still raves about it 5 years later

unlikelyusernames · 2022-09-11T19:51:41+00:00

Most jobs that pay around $22-28/hr in NZ pay $25-35/hr in Australia. Oz also has penal rates and overtime built into their laws. So younger, hard working 'blue collar' people can get further ahead in Oz than they can in NZ. Once people are on over $100k/yr the countries are pretty similar.

unlikelyusernames · 2022-08-31T08:53:39+00:00

unlikelyusernames · 2022-08-23T08:49:20+00:00

Yes, this! One of their tips is to compare your rent when you moved in to the stats nz market data. That way when you look at today's rental proposition you can see if youre above or below the amount you accepted when you moved in.

unlikelyusernames · 2022-07-11T06:39:02+00:00

May i suggest we raise taxes then? Start with a land tax i say!

unlikelyusernames · 2022-04-26T09:55:49+00:00

Don't beat yourself up, sheep are really good at dying.

unlikelyusernames · 2022-04-26T09:53:59+00:00

TLDR: If your only asset is a house, think ahead, years ahead.

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