Auckland NZ

[DShock]

Attn. Mike Thomas,
I just read an article from BusinessWeek about the "World's Best Places to Live", and your city was.....,
No. 5: Auckland, New Zealand

Mercer score: 107.3
2007 rank: No. 5
GDP: $112.6 billion (2007 est.)
Population: 4,173,460 (total country); 1.18 million (total city)
Life expectancy: 80.24 years

Could you tell us some things about Auckland, that you like?
Thanks,
Doug

[Jax]

Hi Doug; Im going to beat Mike to the punch and say; The one thing I like about Auckland is that it is two plus hours away from Tauranga by car.[Ducking for cover] Jax

[DShock]

Jax,
I found this info about Tauranga;
AREA GUIDE
Tauranga is situated in the Bay of Plenty in the North Island of New Zealand. Travel to Tauranga by car is about 3 hours from Auckland, 4 hours from the North Shore, about 7 hours from the bay of Islands, and an hour from Rotorua, and home to the busy Port of Tauranga. Tauranga has first class hotel, motels, hotels, and lodging. and Mount Maunganui. Mt Maunganui is only 10 minutes away over the harbour bridge. So buy a map, look at real estate for sale, and look for jobs in Tauranga" End Quote.
Do you recognize this Image?;http://farm1.static.flickr.com/210/5...44d154.jpg?v=0
Doug

[Gringo]

Could you tell us some things about Auckland, that you like?

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.............

[DShock]

Gringo,
The 10th best city is Sydney Australia;

Mercer score: 106.3
2007 rank: No. 9
GDP: $766.8 billion (2007 est.)
Population: 20,600,856 (total country); 4,297,100 (total city)
Life expectancy: 80.73 years
What do you think of Sydney?
Doug

[Gringo]

Sydney lower than Auckland eh?

Is Melbourne on that list? It would be the closest to me.

I lived in Auckland for a brief period years ago and survived. I have not stayed in Sydney longer than 3 weeks but I survived that too.

For me, the bush is better, but I guess I'm a country boy at heart Doug. Melbourne is geographically vast, laid back easy sort of place. Sydney is very fast, expensive, up market, but scenically beautiful on the harbour and all that.

Auckland is a city full of industry, tourists, thugs to rob the tourists, starving overseas students and gangs out to kill the other gangs as far as I can see. It has a very pretty harbour too, and some stunning coastline with maybe the best allround fishing to anywhere in the world (outside Ohio.)

I wonder what Mike T. and Jeff H. will say about this? I'm gunna stay under cover for a while now.