Posted by sigismund on October 19, 2013, at 19:08:07
In reply to Re: Not so fast, posted by alexandra_k on October 19, 2013, at 0:30:52
> Lots of people on unemployment decided they would rather be unemployed over on the Gold Coast than unemployed in Invercargill or Dunedin or whatever.
I was in the south island and saw, in the local paper, a picture of a clock tower in Invercargill during a hard frost and thought 'That is where I need to live'. The accent is a challenge of course. But the climate is to die for. Like Tasmania where you can see and feel the history, the violence, genocide and natural beauty unlike (for example) Queensland.
We took the dog to the beach today and there were dead shearwaters/mutton birds all the length of the beach all the way to the Gold Coast, and many more in the water. People were saying it was like a mortuary. They fly from the Bering Straight, Siberia and Alaska to south of here, two thirds as far as from Newfoundland to Patagonia? Some talked about the big storms in the Phillipines, the lack of bait fish on which they could feed. Interesting to see natural selection at work. Normally one is not conscious of it.
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