Posts by Emma Hart
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I have just heard on the radio (can't confirm online) that local councillor Aaron Keown has accused east Christchurch residents of just expecting other people to do stuff for them, instead of helping themselves. By building and emptying their own portaloos, I guess.
There may be more to it. I'm calling a provisional 'twatcock'.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Ross Mason,
Oh, I mean, in general, that IS useful. Even with primary schools, though, there are occasional weird hiccups. So we had the choice of sending our kids to Riccarton Primary (2), or Ilam Primary (7), and they're... maybe four blocks apart? But it gives you a good idea of areas like Aranui, Linwood and Cashmere.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Ross Mason,
Useful, with caveat:
Riccarton School, decile 2
Riccarton High School, decile 7They're on opposite sides of Main South Road.
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Heh, income by suburb from the 2006 census, off the CCC website. (Warning: PDF) Also, that map doesn't distinguish between areas where nobody makes any money, and ones where nobody lives.
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Hard News: Mind Blending, in reply to Kris V,
That would be fabulous, Kris, we'd love to see you.
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One thing I would find really helpful would be a graphic of incomes by suburb for Christchurch.
I know income by suburb is available somewhere, because I was using it as part of sets of demographic data when we were house-hunting last year. Not as a map, you had to go suburb-by-suburb, but the data is around.
East Christchurch is, I think, like South Auckland. Actually, there are bits that aren't that badly off. And there are areas (Hornby and Sydenam leap to mind) outside of it that are also pretty deprived. You go far enough east, you're back in Hillside McMansion territory. But it's where most of the poverty is, and there is considerable snobbery around it, so in broad terms it's a useful distinction.
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Auckland, which will be the prime destination for many of the IDPs from Christchurch
Wellington. At least for tech businesses anyway, 'prime' is Wellington. It's many Chch people's 'second city'.
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Can I just... okay, the response I've found stunningly inadequate is Bob Parker's when asked if the portaloo situation in Aranui was good enough: "blather... well, is it good enough there was an earthquake and lots of people died?" Blather caused, I am assuming, because he had no idea whether there were portaloos in Aranui or not. The next day he and Mike McRoberts went on a jaunt to Sumner.
What has impressed me? Metiria Turei. Drove up from Dunedin with piles of lunches, and she and about twenty Greens went straight to work with the volunteer army digging silt out of retirement flats in Woolston. TV cameras nil, shovels lots.
Now yes, that accords with my own existing political biases. I'm inclined to cut any politician who lives here some slack, but what Peter says about living in Shower city and going back there every night has resonance.
The day after Parker was asked about it, it turned out they could get portaloos to Aranui after all.
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Peter's missus Vicki on NatRad last night; Three Cities of Christchurch.
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Ay, we watching it this afternoon and loved it. And the "homosexual tendencies" line caused me to actually spit-take. This is brilliant television.