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   From: nobody@yamn.paranoici.org   
      
   > The morons in the New Zealand government want to increase housing   
   density as a "solution" to the supposed "housing shortage", which means   
   more apartment buildings ... but they the companies marketing them   
   can't sell the ones they've already got. There are numerous "deals"   
   trying to get people to buy an apartment and some companies selling   
   them have gone bankrupt and others have dropped planned developments.   
   Plus there's all the issues of the body corporate fees, etc. The   
   reality is that almost nobody here wants to live in an apartment. Most   
   of the ones that do sell are bought or rented by the few less wealthy   
   asian immigrants and foreign students who are more used to living in   
   such buildings in high-population cities like Tokyo.   
      
     Had to live in apartments once.  The same problems.  One was in a not   
   so good part of town.  I had to get up for work at 4am.  The water   
   pipes had air in them, so they made a bumping sound when running hot   
   water.  People started knocking on my my door after going to bed to   
   wake me up.   
     Someone had a dog that they would let out to wiz in the middle of the   
   night and it would then bark, bark, bark to get back in, waking people   
   in the complex.  Sometimes the owners wouldn't wake up and let it in   
   for a whole hour.  One night when the dog was barking, someone put a   
   brick through their glass picture window.  What a crashing noise it   
   made.  It sounded like a plane had crashed in the court yard.  No more   
   dog barking after that.   
     A couple in another apartment who lived above me would get into knock   
   down, dragged out physical fights at night.  Really loving people.   
     I finally bought a travel trailers and lived in them.  Motorhome now.   
    I can't tolerate the thought of paying thousands of dollars a year in   
   property taxes.  Even in my small city they are $4000 to $6000 a year.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)