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# I'm not 'from' the South Island, but I am currently living in Christchurch...
This place feels more like home every day.
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 4:31, archived)
# crikey
you've been hiding for over 6 years
*waves*
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 4:46, archived)
# That's impossible.
The world is not 6 days long.
EDIT: Twenty days! The world's not that big.
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 4:57, archived)
# Aucklander myself, though my mother's mother's father's side is from Christchurch/Lyttelton/Sumner.
Had a hui at Onuku (out of Akaroa) a couple of weeks back, that was pretty fucking nice for a city boy:


 
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 4:48, archived)
# although the Akaroa pub was packed with drunk amateur cricketers from Ashburton, fucking hell
 
I'm not sure whether they're more likely to interfere with farm animals, each other, or both
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 4:50, archived)
# Folks in Christchurch are absurdly friendly I find
Was speakin to someone from State Insurance the other day, and she was so friendly and chatty I said "I bet you're from Christchurch" "yip yip!" was the reply. That's happened many times.

S
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 5:00, archived)
# i always found chch taxi drivers would talk your ear off
whereas wellington drivers hardly ever talk
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 6:22, archived)
# Presackly
That was my first introduction to chch'ies. Non stop chattertaxies. They are all like that
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 6:34, archived)