Bothered, bothered, bothered.
It wasn’t supposed to be as difficult as this! The idea was to come to ChCh, find somewhere to live and get sorted all before we left for Aussie. What’s actually happened is that I’ve spent 5 days driving round and round the one-way system looking at (mostly) *** houses.
On Sunday it looked like it was all going smoothly – we’d been round to see an amazing house in Richmond, just north-west of the city. Thought we’d got that and all was fine (they only wanted $330/week for fully-furnished near-new 3 bed house. Oh it was so damn cool), but they called to let us know someone else had got it. Next few days didn’t really find anything decent, before being shown round a wicked converted office space. This was the one – massive open plan lounge and kitchen, separate office, nice and secure and quiet, fully furnished and only $300 / week. Sorted. We even met the neighbours. Pretty much ran round to the office, signed up and waited for the nod. 2 hours passed, no word, called, left message, no reply. Went to the office. DENIED! Yet again another couple had beaten us to it. FFS!!! BOTHERED.
Given up on finding somewhere to live since then. Will have to sort it when we get back from aussie. I dunno, have we made the right decision living in Christchurch? Tough one, we’ll see about this on our return.
Still, had a look at the mtb trails up in the Port Hills. Holy crap!! Now there’s something to make me want to stay. Singletrack as far as the eye can see. No, really, I couldn’t actually figure out where it came from or went to, but there were plenty people riding and it looks awesome. Farming that out as soon as we get back.