Hi
we have only passed through Papakura once, not sure if we saw all of it but what we saw was not too good. The southern motorway seems to be blocked far more than the northern too so getting into the city won't be that easy.
By car it takes about 40 minutes for me to get to work, I leave just before 7am. If you can get a job 'downtown' in Auckland there is an excellent bus service from Albany, it has its own bus lane on the mototway and only takes about 25 mins, it costs about $50 a week.
Auckland is not London or Oxford. We are not city people at all and quite like Auckland. Albany is like Milton Keynes, very new and lots of building. The North Shore is a nice place to live and very safe. If you go 2 or 3k north of Albany it gets very rural and there are some really nice places. In fact the best thing is that everything is close by, the shops and beech are all really close
Gary
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