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The morons in the New Zealand government want to increase housing
density as a "solution" to the supposed "housing shortage", which means
more apartment buildings ... but they the companies marketing them
can't sell the ones they've already got. There are numerous "deals"
trying to get people to buy an apartment and some companies selling
them have gone bankrupt and others have dropped planned developments.
Plus there's all the issues of the body corporate fees, etc. The
reality is that almost nobody here wants to live in an apartment. Most
of the ones that do sell are bought or rented by the few less wealthy
asian immigrants and foreign students who are more used to living in
such buildings in high-population cities like Tokyo.
Had to live in apartments once. The same problems. One was in a not
so good part of town. I had to get up for work at 4am. The water
pipes had air in them, so they made a bumping sound when running hot
water. People started knocking on my my door after going to bed to
wake me up.
Someone had a dog that they would let out to wiz in the middle of the
night and it would then bark, bark, bark to get back in, waking people
in the complex. Sometimes the owners wouldn't wake up and let it in
for a whole hour. One night when the dog was barking, someone put a
brick through their glass picture window. What a crashing noise it
made. It sounded like a plane had crashed in the court yard. No more
dog barking after that.
A couple in another apartment who lived above me would get into knock
down, dragged out physical fights at night. Really loving people.
I finally bought a travel trailers and lived in them. Motorhome now.
I can't tolerate the thought of paying thousands of dollars a year in property taxes. Even in my small city they are $4000 to $6000 a year.
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