Originally posted by MichaelNZ
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We suffer from the political bias of successful governments with a lot of our government services being supplied out of Wellington and Canterbury.
Just try to book a flight out of the town in the peak big city commuting times are on.
I have been here since 1971 and the property prices have always been way higher than most of the rest of the country. I am not sure what the percentage of owner occupier to rentals were back then. Probably way less rentals those days. So clearly the landlords have not caused the high prices.
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