Palmerston North was my favourite place in NZ!

Flippin' heck - as a North Islander myself I would agree with your 'in house Kiwi' ...

... but it seems the NZ tourism board is trying to pretend the place is worth visiting!

http://www.newzealand.com/travel/destinations/regions/manawatu-wanganui/manawatu-wanganui-towns.cfm/nodeid/176.html

To misappropriate a well know quote from 'Lost Boys':

"One thing I never could stomach about New Zealand ... all the damned Christians".

its not looking good for the tax man then!

never had to live in Ekatahuna (say "ekka-tar-who-nar") for 18 years; I'll see your shit-hole and raise you a in-bred, banjo-playing, tui-swilling shanty town.

Hey ElReg - don't you have a uniqueness filter on your 'posting names'? No relation to the Chris Miller above :)

Palmy is no doubt a strong contender for the worst place to live in NZ, which means it's only about 10x better than the best place to live in the UK, then ...

"native brit and agree that anywhere in NZ....even Auckland is better than anywhere in Britain."

How dare you sir - you have obviously never visited the paradise known only as "Manchester". You stand corrected.

The paris icon because I believe she is the Kingdom Of Heaven

(ps - nice touch on the trademark!)

Need one say more , the only thing stopping the place from sinking below the horizon into obscurity whence it belongs is the million Oz tourists visiting this unremarkable place in the Pacific , whilst the it's remaining smarter population of natives and imports migrate to the west for a better paid life in the warm sun !

"... renamed their rubbish dump after the man."

That's pretty funny. I like that. Don't know the place but that has got to be at least 1 point in there favor.

(Paris, I bet SHE wishes she had a rubbish dump named after her.)

This guy had the guts to act on his convictions. No, i don't give a rat's tushy if you think the Bible's a crock. He believes it, he's trying to follows the guidelines laid out in it. Wouldn't the world be a better place if there were more like him?

Proud to be a Kiwi.

Surely that's "Paris is the best place to dump your man-rubbish"

I was going to make a joke about god.com but he does appear to have taken ownership already. he favours online affilate webstores, bold backgrounds, basic html and online dontations.

He also favours commenting source code which is a true sign of a God and gives me credence in mightly smiting those who dare to blaspheme against the holy testament thou shall always include comments in thy code and so will thou be punished with the plagues of phorm and the wailing of 12,000 baud and the [...cont page 24]

Palmy - "a shithole of a town"? We're proud of our shithole! http://www.thebathroomdiaries.com/new+zealand/palmerston+north.html

Not to mention our most famous daughter - Madge Allsop, Dame Edna's Bridesmaid. When she visited, she was feted as a celebrity, a sad loss to the world, she is. http://www.stuff.co.nz/4408785a1860.html

There are definitely worse places than Palmy. (the icon, because that's the last two letters of the 'hole' we supposedly are)

However, the Taurangans *think* they live in paradise. Palmy has a university, so they can be educated to realise what a shithole the place is.

NZ friendliness for the win, though. Genuine quote from a pommy copper who relocated down here: "everyone's nice. Even the criminals I arrest are nice".

...and this coming from an Aussie too !

Palmy is just 1% of the place. There are loads of amazing places that make Palmy just a drive-thru destination.

Go, go there and see for yourself.

I'm reminded of the old saw...

"The best sound I ever heard out of an accordian was the noise it made when landing atop a banjo in the dumpster."

but on the other hand, I AM a fan of Bela Fleck...

Mine's the slicker with the aquamarine housepaint job and the two CB antennae.

Lost too many years of my youth trying to make a go of it in the soul-dead flat emptiness that is Palmie. The horror, the dull, unrelentingly vacant gloom of sport-only tedium and nothing-else-going-on-here-forever: it still haunts and drives me now.

Thank God and Blighty for all things London. Even the sideways sleet and knife-wielding hoodies are more interesting.

The Palmie Stop Sign, where all hope must be abandoned before entry.

(Still, it will ALWAYS be better than Tauranga. And Hamilton.)

...i mean after all, the bible is only fictional...

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