Hi there,
I keep reading about about people asking opinions on whether they can afford to live on x and is earning y enough, and I thought that half the problem is that sometimes you just don't know where you're going to settle. If you're still in the UK, you may know which city/town you'd prefer, but the suburbs can vary HUGELY in what they have to offer and the inpact they'll have on your cost of living.
I thought it might be a good idea to start a 'guide to the suburbs' for all the major towns and cities, so that peeps back in the UK can see how far their budget will stretch.
I've started this Auckland guide, but if others all start their own eg: * Wellington Suburb Guide * and then everyone can add to the thread with information on their own particular suburb. It doesn't matter if more than one person adds info about the same suburb, because not eveyone will know about schools, kindy etc.
It would be good to keep the thread quite focussed though. It would be shame to loose lots of great information in the middle of a cost of living debate
I'll start this one off and then hopefully others will add to it
Milliemoo