We're in Browns Bay! Only 15 mins walk from the beach! In fact, I stopped off at the bank to get some money after work, and me and the little one ended up walking along the shore for half an hour in the sunshine, eating ice-cream!!! I couldn't do that in Solihull!

It's a lovely place and suits my 17 year old as he's only a bus ride from school and is close to Auckland for those all important gigs that he attends! If I had my choice, I would live somewhere a bit more Kiwi........there are lots of English here and my next door neighbours are US and SA. The Koreans tend to settle on the North Shore too. The advantage of this though, when you are new, is that you meet lots of people who have been through what your going through and spur you on!!!!

It suits just fine at the moment...................who knows in the future, I may have a cabin in the middle of nowhere!

Anyway.................I haven't thanked the forum for all the help and wise words it's given me over the past 2 years! I don't intend to disappear just yet as I need someone to talk to and do enjoy the wit and the jokes. To all of you embarking on the hazardous NZ epic adventure, stick with it! It's more than worth it in the end :icon_biggrin:

Fisheress