incremental progress

Wellington

Wellington feels so much more like a city than my previous home, Christchurch. It has tall buildings.

One of the other things that has changed for me in the move from Chch to Wgtn is my financial situation. In Chch I was not earning for seven years as I studied and also had a baby. I was a lot better off than most students, as I was (and am) married to someone who had a good job, and so we got through with no student loan to speak of (we have paid it back in 2 months), and we never starved or anything. But now we are both working we have got new clothes for the first time in about five years, and new shoes. I feel much more as if I am 'normal'. Advertising has had no effect on me for a long time now because we have had no disposable income. If you can't buy anything, there's no point even looking at the junk mail, or bothering to go to the city center. Now, things have changed. Though I still don't take much notice of advertising, but that is my choice now rather than a situation forced on me by circumstance. So Wellington feels more city-like in part because I feel more a part of the city.

Wellington also is pushed together by the hills. That makes the city çoncentrated'. It is much easier to run into someone I know, even when I have only been here 5 months.

I thought I would like Wellington, and so far, I'm not wrong.

Posted by Toni at June 17, 2003 08:47 PM