Posts by Samuel Scott
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swearwolves
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to Amanda Wreckonwith,
UKIP is not a fair comparison. Fearing things different to you is not at all the same as enjoying the cultural benefits of a young population in an area you live and seeing that population being priced out of the market and priced out of living anywhere remotely near the city. It's observation of a sad fact of economics as opposed to scare mongering and racism.
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Come on Russell – this reads like a UKIP post in the Torygraph – Oh No! things around me are changing!
Hmm, I think regretting the loss of diversity is pretty much the exact opposite of UKIP. But what would I know.
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(was that a really snobby post from me? Name droppy guy....)
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Auckland has gone bananas. My family have got dreams of moving up there for a couple of years so my wife can finish her studies (and so I can jam with people like SJD/James Milne/Neil Finn who I only ever see in passing and never manage to make any music with!!! grrr). BUT we just can't work it out.
In Wellington I know a lot of young families moving out to the Hutt Valley. People who would never in a million years considered flatting out there in their 20s. But The Hutt is changing for the better very quickly and getting really nice. And renting with kids sucks. Uninsulated, dilapidated crumbling victorian villas in Newtown for $600pw. It's a rubbish existence.
The huge difference here is that if you go buy a house in Moera for $350K you are still only a twenty minute drive from the Wellington CBD (maybe 40 minutes in rush hour...maybe). And if you do want to live in South Wellington (it is the best place in the world...) then you can still get a family home for $550k to $750k which seems insane to me but not when I think of Auckland.
I reckon the house I own in Wellington would be worth 3 times as much in Auckland, easy.
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My Grandad Michael Forlong commissioned Lilburn very early on in his career for this weird film.
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I would just like to say that B&S live are really freakin amazing.
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The Laneways lineup is crazy good. I don't understand how it can be soooooo good?
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I don't even want to listen to that @peace song. I love the band and think Tom has a remarkable way with words, but pushing boundaries can easily slip into being totally awful. He seems almost contrite now on twitter. Claiming he was just trying to get attention to encourage young people to vote. Maybe.
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I'd like to know where any of the parties stand on NZ content quotas. Specifically music. Specifically-specifically NZ music percentages on commercial radio.
But it's not really a hot issue for many!