Posts by Just thinking
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Quite right Stephen.
They're refused to have a bar in the square &have a certain seattle coffee shop in the old post office.
Life exists along the way had you gone south on Oxford Tce (the strip), but you will then risk your ankles on the cobbled stones of Cashel St east to High St. Somehow the City has it in there minds Pedestrian areas should be inaccessable for the elderly or wheelchairs.
On the other side of the block from Bar Beleza is the Kosher Kitchen, good coffee and chess, also a pray room upstairs. -
It's sad you don't see a city as residential, but that is NZ.
I'll go anywhere anytime, but Manchester Street north of Kilmore at night is the street sex industry. So the danger (to you) is from pimps.
Still a brisk and purposeful stride won't have you hasselled.
Feel safe in the knowledge you're on CCTV, for the Police 10-7 advertising/recruiting show.The south of Manchester St is pretty cool. I think Sol was poorly done, but Poplar Street is cool and a sprinkling of little gems around the place.
One thing we really need is NYs broken windows law. That will fix up the vacant or dero buildings.
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I must admit I've never been to Napier, but the idea of keeping an area in a theme isn't bad. They rebuilt in triumphant defiance in the Art Deco style, as it was in NZ.
I see the vision as our version of Warsaw. -
The return to statehouse design is really simple = Leaky Homes. Bad design, building materials & workmanship.
So the search for what worked, statehouses worked, add insulation and double glazing then sit back and relax.Warren hasn't done any good work since the Christchurch Town Hall in the 1970s, but he is 80. His work of the 1950s was really cool. He has since claimed himself something of a Heritage Architect and has undermined our cities heritage on a number of sites. A patron of the Arts Foundation if you're interested in ethics.
As for the Arts Centre stouch. It's the worst case of Blind Mans Bluff I've ever played. (Rod Carr is legally blind & past debating team mate of Michael Lhaws).
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Chris, not keen on different rules or actions taken against tourists. That just panders to the worse and is undignified.
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Russell, your confusing fear with risk. As the article goes on to say there has been no change or a decrease in risks.
Alot of that fear has been imported. Bain & Weatherston trials = Dunedin.
The house of horrors guy is from Hamilton.From the Police Stats page 4
DISTRICT RECORDED CRIME PER 10,000 POPULATION, BY AREA
Years ending 30 JuneAuckland City Central Area 4,016.4
Christchurch Central 3,407.7
Christchurch is safer and always has been.
Property damage is twice Aucklands, but that's done by Northshore kids going to Canty Uni.
Notice how the Auckalnd liquor ban is represented as applying everywhere, licensed bars and homes included?
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Walking and drinking?
Probably bad for the digestion, unless it's purely hydration & therefore non-alky.
No-ones gonna check your camel pak unless, just sayin.
The joy of a living in one of the worlds 4 planned cities of the colonial world and with flat geography is the ease it is to walk from pub to pub. They're spaced on the cns of the four aves and then just increase as you move in. -
Chris I could draw you a Pub Crawl if you give me A & Z. But half of PAS could do the same.
Although I known a few who have, I've never been done for lack of a cycle helmet. -
Hey, we halved our homocide rate! You're killing me with statistics, I'll be on it tomorrow :)
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Chris, what do you mean avoid Christchurch?
Just be aware of the alcohol policing, which is signposted. Christchurch is much safer than any other city in NZ, still walk in groups at nights [edit] & always has been.