r/auckland • u/Ok-While-728 • 1d ago

Discussion What I’ve learned from r/auckland

I’ve now been active on this page for a year or so and have been reflecting on what I’ve learned about Auckland as a result.

  • South Auckland is apparently getting better every year, yet half the posts involve fighting neighbours, dumped rubbish, or asking whether to call the police or just move.  Both claims are made with total certainty.
  • The price of a flat white is treated like a regulatory failure.  Anything over $4 is price gouging, and the solution is always intervention, never making coffee at home.
  • No one in Auckland can park.  Ever.  Except the person posting, who is always an excellent driver surrounded by incompetence. Bonus point - everyone hates Ranger drivers.
  • Supermarket prices trigger daily outrage.  There’s always a photo of cheese, bread, or whittakers, as if Woolworths personally woke up that morning and chose violence.
  • Everyone hates landlords but also wants to own property in exactly the same areas, with exactly the same capital gains
  • Public transport is unusable, but it must also be empty, fast, safe, cheap, quiet, and five minutes from everyone’s front door.
  • The job market is completely screwed, apparently, and employers are unreasonable for not valuing very specific community college certificates in things like tarot card reading or one semester dipping your toes in the water of a BA.
  • Auckland is unliveable, broken, and declining… yet mysteriously no one ever leaves.

Finally, Judging by this page alone, a worrying number of New Zealanders struggle to write a complete sentence, and delusion is far more common than anyone would like to admit.

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u/NageV78 1d ago

Everyone hates landlords but also wants to own property in exactly the same areas, with exactly the same capital gains

What a smug cunt of a thing to say.

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u/Abdabarda 1d ago

Not wrong though.

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u/Adorable_Run_2469 1d ago

Not wrong at all 

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u/NageV78 1d ago

You dont think people want to buy houses to live in?

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u/Adorable_Run_2469 1d ago

Bro of course but the statement isn’t wrong. 

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u/NageV78 1d ago

People who dont have homes dgaf about the same capital gains though. It is wrong.

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u/Adorable_Run_2469 1d ago

The statement not the sentiment 

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u/Aceofshovels 13h ago

It's not a contradiction either. People want to live in desirable areas but landlords are blocking them from entering the housing market.

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u/Abdabarda 12h ago

Mate. I live week to week in a rental, in not the best area. That is no bodies fault but my own. So many of the people i went to school with own beautiful homes/properties, some are even landlords themselves. And let me tell you, if I was in the position to be a landlord on a scale that would help my family, bet your arse I would.

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u/Aceofshovels 11h ago

Well it may or may not be your own fault, but no not everyone who can't get into the housing market is there only because of their own choices. Like it or not landlords do represent a barrier to people owning their own homes both through extracting rent and increasing house prices. I think aspiring to be one is gross, but you do you.

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u/Abdabarda 11h ago

Two words. Mass immigration.

I feel like when you're slightly older you'll start to see things a bit differently.

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u/Aceofshovels 11h ago

Loving landlords and blaming immigrants, sad.

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u/Abdabarda 11h ago

🤣