- 'We need to scale back costs in Dunedin so that there is money to invest in hospitals elsewhere' - 'So are going to invest elsewhere? - 'Lol nope. Cutting everything. Tax breaks and roads, innit.'
Here in Aotearoa New Zealand there is an annual fashion event called World of Wearable Art which has only ever existed in my mind as World of Wearable Warcraft.
Dumpling House is just round the corner from us and it's the best that I've found in the area.
So does shit.
Not only are they not planting (figurative) trees under which future generations will find shade, but they are furiously felling any existing social good to make themselves and their corrupt mates a quick buck. There is barely a shred of integrity or vision amongst the lot of them.
This is a government driven only by ideology and lobbying.
anyways, i have a great bakery, dozen of cafes, and several local pubs all out eastern suburbs way that i can walk to bike to, beaches to visit on my breaks, and community centres to drop in on and get social time. It's great for everyone except those central city land lords who glare at cyclelanes
i've been working 100% remote since 2019 -- and i wish the reporters would talk to me about it and not all these freaking out boomer bosses.
I'm not public sector and not in Pōneke but here in Kirikiriroa the local businesses available for me to support when I go into my non-CBD office are *checks notes* a New World and a Maccas.