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16 Nov 2007, 3:49 am

Icarus_Falling wrote:
But, if Britain shipped all of their criminals to Australia, wouldn't New Zealand logically be where Australian shipped all of its crazy people? 8O


I'm a proud Australian who can trace my family tree back to convicts on the First Fleet.

But New Zealanders keep moving to Australia droves.

The best place to live is Brisbane - home of Tony Attwood. We have lots of great stuff happening for Aspies here - heaps of conferences, support groups etc.

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16 Nov 2007, 3:49 am

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What is the best place for a black aspie. Is it NZ also.

Being a black apies is one of the worst things one can be.


Now, that was something that occurred to me today. How many dark-skinned aspies do we have?


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16 Nov 2007, 4:59 pm

True. But it's lush having a room with a gorgeous view. I'm looking out to One Tree Hill listening to birdsong. Mmmmmmm. :D


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16 Nov 2007, 5:37 pm

BazzaMcKenzie wrote:
Icarus_Falling wrote:
The southern hemisphere must be a very strange place; water swirls frontwise rather than backwise; mammals have pouches and duckbills; I understand even the stars are different down there... I wonder if the next time the magnetic poles flip, whether we'll start putting the formerly southern hemisphere on the tops of globes. Or do globes in the southern hemisphere already put the south on top?

I don't care if the poles flip, so long as we don't have to drink warm beer :D
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I wonder if they have clocks that run counter-clockwise?! :wink:

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16 Nov 2007, 6:18 pm

richie wrote:
BazzaMcKenzie wrote:
Icarus_Falling wrote:
The southern hemisphere must be a very strange place; water swirls frontwise rather than backwise; mammals have pouches and duckbills; I understand even the stars are different down there... I wonder if the next time the magnetic poles flip, whether we'll start putting the formerly southern hemisphere on the tops of globes. Or do globes in the southern hemisphere already put the south on top?

I don't care if the poles flip, so long as we don't have to drink warm beer :D
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I wonder if they have clocks that run counter-clockwise?! :wink:


Why yes, yes we do. :P


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16 Nov 2007, 6:46 pm

Who_Am_I wrote:
richie wrote:
I wonder if they have clocks that run counter-clockwise?! :wink:


Why yes, yes we do. :P


It certainly feels that way. The drive to Piha beach always takes me back to the 1970s. A muso friend moved to Waitakere from New Orleans and swears time runs differently here. He's not even an aspie. And we have three more weeks of summer this year. 8)


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16 Nov 2007, 9:50 pm

zen_mistress wrote:
Auckland is ok but the traffic is @£$@%@£$@%@$$£ .

Plus, if you are from Auckland, everyone outside Auckland calls you a "Jafa". Very annoying.

For single (hetero) women, I hear the waikato region is good: lots of single men.


Nooo Auckland is not good...
I live there and I think that it's horrible.

I think somewhere quiet such as Cape Reinga...right at the tip of the north island :)


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20 Nov 2007, 1:35 am

Well, lots of replies!

It's a tossup between somewhere with good community support for Aspies, and somewhere with aspies or people who understand AS (both of whom I can befriend).

Here in Taupo, I feel like the only person with AS, locals I've talked to seem to not understand what AS is, Employers can be conservative about employing someone with "disabilities". I've been dealing with this for 2 months and it came to a head within the last week.

That's why I ask - I'm thinking about moving.



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20 Nov 2007, 1:44 am

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... seem to not understand what AS is, Employers can be conservative about employing someone with "disabilities".....

don't tell them :roll:

Just let them think you're eccentric or if you must tell them I'm not good at .... (particular trait without giving yourself a label).


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20 Nov 2007, 11:46 am

Sign at Auckland airport:

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I actually think NZ would be quite a nice place to live :)


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20 Nov 2007, 4:28 pm

Kiwis are quite accepting of eccentrics seeing as we have a long tradition of them here. The backyard inventors, artists and wild bush men. No-one comes to NZ to earn big $$$. They come here for the experience. Which is really chilled if you avoid central Auckland to live and work. There's lot of artists and eccentrics living out in the Bush in Waitakere anyway so there's always someone a little crazier than you around.

I'm on the Western train-line so I don't have to be stuck in horrible traffic if I have to grit my teeth and go in for a meeting, but far enough to forget the city is there day to day. We tried living out in rural Waikato when we first got here but that was too far out and isolated. You don't want to feel completely cut off from everything.

I can imagine Taupo would be a little small for comfort. I lived in a small town in the UK when I was young and hated the goldfish bowl aspect of it. I moved to Bristol at 18 and loved it. There were enough freaks with all the musos and circus school people that I blended in. :twisted:


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