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If you could live / work from home in New Zealand - where would you go?
For those of you who are familiar with www.couchsurfing.com, the next Collective will be meeting in New Zealand in the coming months. Currently, we're scouring the countryside - from North to South, and any-which-way, trying to find a town / city / village / wonderful space to spend the next several months.
If anyone has traveled to New Zealand, or lives there currently, we'd love any and all suggestions on places to live.
Some criteria:
Infrastructure (access to quality groceries, transportation, **internet access**, etc)
Reasonable rents / local survival expenses
Proximity to a larger city (not essential)
And then ideally - sunsets, beaches, waterfalls and gold pouring from the heavens, right?
For more information on CouchSurfing, the Collective, and what we're going for, check out the following message board.
www.couchsurfing.com/group.html
We want to get to know the country, the villages, the people, the everything as fully and soon as possible! So, post any-and-all New Zealand related suggestions, travel stories, wonderful experiences, relatives with free housing for us(*wink*), in this topic, or on the CS board.
Thanks a million, and happy travels!
Nikolas
And if you haven't found Couch Surfing yet... then you just did! A community of over 120,000, opening their couches and homes to the compelling philosopher & savvy traveler in all of us. See what you think!
For those of you who are familiar with www.couchsurfing.com, the next Collective will be meeting in New Zealand in the coming months. Currently, we're scouring the countryside - from North to South, and any-which-way, trying to find a town / city / village / wonderful space to spend the next several months.
If anyone has traveled to New Zealand, or lives there currently, we'd love any and all suggestions on places to live.
Some criteria:
Infrastructure (access to quality groceries, transportation, **internet access**, etc)
Reasonable rents / local survival expenses
Proximity to a larger city (not essential)
And then ideally - sunsets, beaches, waterfalls and gold pouring from the heavens, right?
For more information on CouchSurfing, the Collective, and what we're going for, check out the following message board.
www.couchsurfing.com/group.html
We want to get to know the country, the villages, the people, the everything as fully and soon as possible! So, post any-and-all New Zealand related suggestions, travel stories, wonderful experiences, relatives with free housing for us(*wink*), in this topic, or on the CS board.
Thanks a million, and happy travels!
Nikolas
And if you haven't found Couch Surfing yet... then you just did! A community of over 120,000, opening their couches and homes to the compelling philosopher & savvy traveler in all of us. See what you think!
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Re: Couch Surfing in New Zealand
Sat, September 16, 2006 - 10:13 AMHi. We lived in New Zealand for two years 2003 - 2004. First year in Wellington (Karori), the second south of Auckland in Pukekohe. We love NZ and wish we hadn't been transfered back to the US. While the south island, Christchurch, Queenstown, Invercargill and the southern alps are amazing places to visit, I prefer to live on the north island. Understand that NZ has a small population. Only 4 million in the whole country and 1 million of those are in Auckland. Wellington is my favorite city. It's small enough to walk across in half an hour, yet has everything you need. It reminds me of San Francisco with the bay and it's cute red cable car. Wellington has a good bus service and some commuter rail to outlying communities. The Warehouse is a store chain similar to WalMart in the US. You can find everything you need except some foods, pinto beans as an example, or good ice cream. There is some racial tension with the Maori, Figian, Tongan, Somoan, and other minorities and there are some gang problems but not in Wellington itself. Hope this helps.
