AKL kind of setting itself up as Blingtacticos v. the hard grafters of the Nix.
Guess they like to flatter themselves as Auckland Sydney London Paris Milan. Except it’s Auckland Las Vegas Lorient Bournemouth Edinburgh. But still much better than anything that’s come before there.
Let’s be honest there are plenty of Aucklanders who’ve had several trips overseas before they ever visit Christchurch or elsewhere in the country. It’s a stereotype, but for a reason!
Guess they like to flatter themselves as Auckland Sydney London Paris Milan. Except it’s Auckland Las Vegas Lorient Bournemouth Edinburgh. But still much better than anything that’s come before there.
Let’s be honest there are plenty of Aucklanders who’ve had several trips overseas before they ever visit Christchurch or elsewhere in the country. It’s a stereotype, but for a reason!
Such a strange post, especially the last paragraph.
Worked for BNZ once for about 6 months down at Quay Park, there by Spark Arena. A small business call centre, where you could take a phone call from anywhere in the country. Admittedly alot of the staff not born in NZ, and average age probably less than 30. But still amazing how many had barely travelled south of the Bombays. I remember Timaru came up in a meeting and about 10 of the 30 odd staff not knowing where it was!! They obviously never watched the round the nation weather on TV news. It was cringeworthy embarrassing that these same people could take a phone call from a business owner in Westport, and then just not relate to them at all.
But then I also remember being in the UK in the late 1990s in me twenties, and being around heaps of Cantabs who had only stepped in the North Island for the first time at Auckland Airport enroute to London. So yeah a two way thing, which breeds alot of that anti Aucks sentiment. The unknown.
