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| Thread ID: 146682 | 2018-10-22 23:25:00 | What items do you find over priced here in NZ | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
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| 1454810 | 2018-11-27 04:17:00 | For some reason people have forgotten that they actually have to pay back their mortgages, the banks are not helping by lending to people to buy houses at over inflated prices. Currently building our new house with help from my work who are doing all the heavy work and organising the sub trades. Even if I paid for all the work I'm doing myself the cost to build is nowhere near what the bank valuer says its worth when finished. So someone is rorting the money and its not the tradesman/woman. If we had built in our previous town on a sub division we would have also been liable to a $70k infrastructure levy. By moving towns and finding land with no covenants, basically a large paddock of grass we can save that money and use it for the important things we want like solar feedback, 100's of trees mainly fruit etc. There is a catch though Hamner winter is brutal. I wouldnt live in a cold area for all the tea in China now days. I was brought up in NW Nelson high up in the Graham Valey. Puddles would freeze and you could jump on them and the ice wouldnt break. Never again. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1454811 | 2018-11-27 04:33:00 | I hear you Prefect, it can get damn cold here. For once we can agree on something it doesn't happen often. However you will never catch me living in Auckland, prices up there are even crazier. | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1454812 | 2018-11-27 04:51:00 | I think the problem is incomes have not gone up reletive to inflation. Our cost of living is rated at 14th highest in the world. That is not the topic of this post. We are talking about prices in NZ. (if you put wages up prices will go up even more) If prices came down, we would all have more money to spend and invest! |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1454813 | 2018-11-27 04:51:00 | I wouldnt live in a cold area for all the tea in China now days. I was brought up in NW Nelson high up in the Graham Valey. . I like cold. It's easy, chuck a log on the woodburner, toasty in no time. I grew up in Nelson, Tahunanui to be exact. Frosts yes, but not what I would call freezing.... Now humid is what I hate. So far Napier has been pleasant. Yes it has had some hot days, but you move into the shade and it's lovely. Do that in Auckland and it makes no difference, like living in a sauna..... |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1454814 | 2018-11-27 04:52:00 | We are talking about prices in NZ. Everything is rip off in NZ. There, I have covered it all. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1454815 | 2018-11-27 05:30:00 | I like cold. It's easy, chuck a log on the woodburner, toasty in no time. I grew up in Nelson, Tahunanui to be exact. Frosts yes, but not what I would call freezing.... Now humid is what I hate. So far Napier has been pleasant. Yes it has had some hot days, but you move into the shade and it's lovely. Do that in Auckland and it makes no difference, like living in a sauna..... Yeah the temperature 1000 ft in the mountains is the same as sea level. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1454816 | 2018-11-27 09:54:00 | Digby Your giving me my own argument, looking from the opposite direction. If the prices came down(never happens) relative to wages you would be happy, but if wages went up relative to prices you wouldn't? |
Laggard (17509) | ||
| 1454817 | 2018-11-27 17:06:00 | Digby Your giving me my own argument, looking from the opposite direction. If the prices came down(never happens) relative to wages you would be happy, but if wages went up relative to prices you wouldn't? Lots of prices have come down. Clothes are far cheaper than they were Hardware is far cheaper Laptops are cheaper Higher wages just cause higher prices and price NZ off the tourist and export market! |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1454818 | 2018-11-27 18:37:00 | Lots of prices have come down. Clothes are far cheaper than they were Hardware is far cheaper Laptops are cheaper Higher wages just cause higher prices and price NZ off the tourist and export market! True. Thanks to the cheap Chinese Imports. Trump isn't happy about it, though. |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1454819 | 2018-11-27 18:40:00 | . "The prescriptions there are $5 . Here, $2 . 50 at Countdown (now free), free at certain other NZ chemists and free at that new one here in Akld . " Grrrr . . . it annoys me when perceptions are wrong . From someone in the industry and knows, the $5 charge is nothing compared with the actual costs . Your taxes pays up for the balance of what the prescription cost (drug cost + dispensing fee) . I have had prescriptions which have cost the govt over $11000 YES $11K per month . Is your $5 contribution too much to ask for your own health? I was informed that the $5 prescriptions charge goes to the Pharmacy not the Government . Govt used to charge the $5 but not now . |
bk T (215) | ||
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