Indigenous people and visitors - where and how they prefer to live in New Zealand

Native New Zealanders do not live in apartments. More precisely, they prefer not to live if there is an opportunity to leave the city for land, in a private house. In the cities, in the center, there are multi-storey apartment buildings, but mostly students or young people live there who do not want to travel far to work.

Behind the center, "sleeping areas" begin, where there are few high-rise buildings, but the bulk are small cottages with a land plot. This is where the locals prefer to settle.

But lately, big cities, such as the capital Auckland, have been choking on traffic. Getting to work in the city (and all work is concentrated there) is becoming more and more difficult. There are a lot of immigrants in the city, who live in the center, closer to work. By the way, high-rise buildings in New Zealand are not huge skyscrapers, like in China, they are ordinary low-rise buildings of 5-10 floors. Office space is concentrated in skyscrapers. Apartments in apartment buildings are rarely bought, more often they are rented. Since the bulk of the living students often live for 2-3-4 people in a room, but since they are large enough, they feel quite comfortable.

Complexes of houses grow like mushrooms, but without land. In such a complex there are 20-50 buildings connected by asphalt roads, equipped with parking lots, surrounded by a fence. A small recreation area is allocated for every 20-30 houses (usually a green lawn with a small pool, see. Photo). In some complexes there are gyms, there is a common barbecue near the pools.

Residents of the house pay a certain amount to the administration and are completely exempt from caring for it. They take care of the trees, flowers, the pool, wash the houses outside every year, make markings on the road, and enforce the parking lot.

In such complexes, visitors are most often living, the overwhelming majority are Asians - Koreans, Japanese, Chinese. There are a lot of Russians who emigrated to the country and have lived here for a long time.

Houses in such complexes are slightly cheaper than detached ones, since there is no land. But apartments in high-rise buildings are not cheaper than houses with plots. But the quality of such apartments is really high. Ideal for young and active New Zealanders.

In middle age, an ordinary New Zealander will already save up for his own house with a plot of land and leave a little further from the center. But even for those who do not have much money, there is always an opportunity to rent or purchase their own home.

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