so we ran out of money and realized our upstairs lounge is just a waste of space. Its now a bedroom. 100bucks a week, includes power, water, phone. Mount Eden.

*my flatmate is a crazy bastard and might kill you

*my other flatmate is interviewing germans to take the room

*i bought nunchucks the other day. they are freekin awesome.

Far out that sounds like my kinda place, pity im flat broke :(

yea I was thinking of moving out, but the only reason I would do so was if I lived REALLY close to town, I guess Mt Eden is pretty close but then theres the money issue.

Moving out is the biggest step anyone will make in the first couple of decades of their life. It always intrigues me how different the 18-25 year old populations are when you compare two different student attitudes in say NZ and England.

In England people leave home to go to University. Mostly they move into Uni provided student accomadation but thats just for the first year. After that they enter the joyous world of corrupt landlords, having to learn to cook, wondering whether the black mould growing in your bathroom is the one you've heard is pumping toxic spores into your breathing space and generally finding yourself with fuck all money. Plus you have to learn to live with other people and all their personal habits.

In New Zealand and weirdly Scotland, students tend to go to their local University and a lot continue to live at home with the parents. Its very understandable, but I do feel that often people then have to learn the harsh realities (plus the joyous freedom) of not living at home.

Take the plunge Fez. Its well worth the risk

Living at home is far too convenient for me atm. My dads work is just a walk up the road from mine, so I have an easy (though not as short as I'd like) commute there and back every day. In a few months I'll start considering moving closer to work (which is here, if anyone looking for a flatmate has a flat nearby), I'm losing about an hour of my life every day because of the commute.

But then again, I am somewhat lazy, so this is probably all just talk.

Yeah, I live down on High St, which is kinda convenient, although it's miniscule.

as long as you have an imagination, i cant bring myself to yet count commuting time as time wasted. i myself relish the chance to sit and do nothing but daydream for 40 minutes (coz obviously i dont do enough of that at home) in peak hour traffic, and spending an hour waiting for buses. so peaceful.....

I daydream too much as it is, especially at work :(.

*sigh* I really wish I had money. Instead of fairy dust.

:lol:

Unless. Fairy dust could work. I could throw it into the eyes of both the psychotic killer guy and the German-obsessed guy so that they would not be able to see and thus not kill me/think I'm German. Then, the dust could be inter-mingled with the chux to make MAGICAL nunchucks.























Oh yeah.

Damn, if only i'd thought of that!

I would move out, but i enjoy materialistic items far too much and I also loathe work..... you may see my problem

I also have a car that needs a garage also quite hard to find

This bowl of cashew nuts has served as a reminder of why living at home is good, my mum bulk buys them in the states.

I'd like to, but considering I am going broke living at home, I don't necessarily think it would be a good idea.

Damnit, im stealing some next time im over

The US has Costco. Most of you don't know what that is, but suffice to say it's a place where you can buy a fuckload of stuff for very little money, and it's not evil like Walmart.

Costco = mucho cashew nuts.

i know what that feels like....

i just listed all the stuff ive bought this week that i dont really need, and it came to over $200. i deleted it, coz it was ridiculous. it didnt include clothes or shoes or food, either. :s

I spent 100bucks yesterday on bus fares and tuition for somethin else, arg too much money!

pfft. thats nothing. you should see what i spent MY money on.

I probably earn the same amount as you do and I only work part time, it's called investment my friend

My salary increases by 50% in september, you won't be then.

yeh downside is we are 2 stages from the uni.

upside is i found that our bag of potatoes, which were obviously long forgotten have sprouted and become a small ecosystem inhabiting the lower section of our cupboards. sweet.

Costco Rulz!

Seriously. EVERYTHING there is cheap and comes in bulk. There is nothing bad about that place.

Well I guess that movie where Robin Williams plays a pyscho camera developer always reminded me of the local costco my host family used to frequent in Canada but thats about it.

Steveo........... investments are over-rated! I work in a bank so dont question me.........
you are just a pawn to us big banking power houses!

Who said bank investments :P

Go for the US or Australia. No taxes on both dividends and capital gains from NZ, and both are going to boom with the changes to the Chinese currency.

When the transfer from my Nigerian benefactors comes though I'll be filthy stinking rich.

Do you gave heads for rent?