Queenstown’s reputation at risk after revelations of workers living in cars
Queenstown is the jewel in our tourism crown but revelations some out-of-town workers are living in their cars is putting its reputation at risk.
Every. Single. Year. it’s the same bloody story.
Queenstown is so expensive and elite that it can’t house the workers those elite require and that even in Queenstown, the entire town is reliant on the low wage economy!
If Queenstown – rich, snobby, elite Queenstown can’t build houses for their crucial workforce, doesn’t that highlight how warped the market has become?
If Queenstown – rich, snobby, elite Queenstown is reliant on the low wage economy, doesn’t it highlight the addiction throughout the country?
If Queenstown – rich, snobby, elite Queenstown is endlessly trapped in this cycle, what hope for the rest of the country?
Queenstown has become a symbol of just how weak our social infrastructure reliant on free market myths has become.
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Well it won’t improve after October. In fact when Luxon of Nazareth, and his flagrant vested interest show, comes to town it will get worse. But hey it’s all good, his race baiting sidekick will cancel the gun registry. That will feed people.
A stark reminder of some of the contradictions involved in capitalism.
Rich fuckers and developers restrict housing supply to ramp up their untaxed capital gains, but…rich fuckers need underlings, and the resulting servers, cooks, trades people and other proles need somewhere to bloody live and hang out…
Yes Tiger mountain. Who is going to clean the toilet s and serve them slop in the morning after a big nite on the razz. Who is going to run the airport and take the trash out.
This is the alternative, living in a cartel style body corporate run by crooks who pay off crooked cops to slam you down for exposing that this is nothing but a fucked up drug cartel. https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/housing-affordability/132109647/the-small-village-where-some-pay-hundreds-of-dollars-in-levies-while-others-pay-thousands
What a total shit hole Queenstown has become, the town reminds me of an airport terminal with a nice photo as a backdrop. A typical tacky three ring circus. God knows how people can stand living there amongst the selfie stick waving zombies wandering around, humans have lost the plot.
How true. Went there once, on route to the Matukituki valley, and walking the main drag in search of something to eat had a feeling the town was a cardboard cut-out, reeked of impermanence and was simply full of tasteless service industry (which it is of course). Didn’t get into the surrounding suburbs where the rich folk live (or do they actually live there) other than a walk along the lakefront. You can see why folk would want to live somewhere where the vista is spectacular and the air fresh and clean, a mountain resort of our very own, but it occurs to me with none of the history or culture of the resort towns and villages in the European alps. They too make their salt from tourism but there was something about the vibe in Queenstown that was distasteful. I can see why. The premise on which the town was developed and the model on which it operates is fucked, as a good many TDB posts have reiterated.
In the old days before all the development I bet Queenstown was a pretty little village in the mountains. Has Wanaka gone the same way?
At least I am pleased to see that Martyn is aware of the South Island.
capital hoarders = parasites. chortle chortle. I might have to build a dungeon for my barista and let them out when I need a latte.. chortle chortle. what cuckolds.
nice place to visit – wouldn’t want to live there.
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