Waiheke Island
The Herald on Sunday has a nice focus article on Waiheke Island. If I had to live in Auckland, Waiheke Island is certainly where I would try and buy a home.
My first visit to Waiheke was in 2002, and since then I’ve visited around a dozen times. The views are magnificent, and it does have a real sense of community. There are just enough facilities – you have a few stores and cafes, a couple of newspapers but not too many commercial buildings.
I doubt I will ever live in Auckland, but if I was there for the long-term, the ideal would be an apartment at the Viaduct, a house on Waiheke and a holiday home on Great Barrier!
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December 28th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
If you’re lving on Waiheke Island you’re not IN Auckland David. Ask any one of them already there.
December 28th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
The gentrification of Waiheke will help reduce the Green vote.
December 28th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Its hardly likely you’d be able to afford either the apartment or the house on Waiheke.
December 28th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
That’s very funny Hoolian, you must live a nice life blissfully unaware about your surrounds. Isn’t it great David to have readers of such low intellect that they think that everyone is as broken arse as they are?
[DPF: Buying all three at once would be somewhat iffy, but it would make life in Auckland more bearable]
December 28th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
You forgot the yacht to get to all three.
December 28th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
I’m here Murray, and very much in Auckland.
December 28th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
You will have to get yourself a ship David. Been out on the briny today, beautiful but bloody hot and caught a nice Mako Shark for the smoker.
December 28th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
side show bob says:
Meanwhile the bloody mad Aussies wouldn’t dream of killing the shark that took a man swimming in relatively shallow water off a beach not too far from where I live. Similarly they protect deadly snakes (and already a woman has been bitten by a dugite as she left a family Christmas gathering and very nearly died).
I remember being astonished by the signs near a lakeside boat hire remonstrating with people for “disturbing the Tiger snakes” that inhabited the small island only 2 metres from where they’d chosen to build the jetty 8-/
It’s like they have a soft spot for venomous, deadly creatures. Just think, in Australia Helen Clark would still be PM!
December 28th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
A nice puff piece bought and paid for by Bayleys Real Estate with all the usual not quite truths about living on the Rock.
* 30 mins on the the ferry, no its normally 40 plus loading and unloading and transport either side
* 45 car ferry ride, same story
A very nice place that has become gentrified within an inch of it’s life. I haven’t been back to visit since leaving in 1996 and wonder if its odd ball charms have survived this process.
You reckon real estate sales and prices are flagging a bit?