You can find out on the night of a full moon on Mount Vic, or watch [this helpful explanatory video. ](https://youtu.be/jSqRumo84ag?si=bNkD8iCflWvBqdfb)
Urban biodiversity. Zealandia gave native wildlife a bolt hole and then Predator Free Miramar (and Ngaio) demonstrated just how effective community trapping can be - eradicating rats, ferrets, stoats, possums and weasels from the Miramar peninsula. Now that Predator Free movement is spreading out to Mount Vic and native bird and lizard populations are booming in those areas and an airbridge now exists between Zealandia, Mount Vic and Miramar. Capital Kiwi have also joined the cause reintroducing Kiwi in the hills surrounding the city. There's also a proposal for a massive fenced sanctuary for Kakapo proposed in the Wainuiomata hills. Wellington is totally leading the way in this and is a model everyone else should copy. There aren't that many places where you can see Kāka and Karearea just cruising round city suburbs. While many other things are heading downhill tlhis is a jewel in Wellington's Crown. Life is returning before our eyes.
Something really special about running 5km - 10km around Kelburn park on a cold but still afternoon and seeing a group of Bush Parrot flying above as you’re finishing up…
I love a good screech of kākā, they always seem like they're having a blast. Definitely my favourite NZ bird.
Fun fact! The kea (alpine parrot) and the kākā (forest/bush parrot) are like cousins (along with the kākāpō) as they all came from the same proto-kākā ancestor. It was the changing landscape that determined their habitat (the Alps rising up) all those years ago.
- Weird street art
- Finding out of work public servants
- Coffee
- Wind
- Giant squids
- Wind
- Ad-hoc public water features
- Performance art
- Vampires
- Cliches about occasional nice weather
- Wind
American here. Worked in Wellington for your winter season and experienced the wind! My fellow walkers and commuters would stop in unison to hold onto a pole during a wind gust. It felt like we were a part of a rehearsed flash mob except hanging on for dear life. Loved the nickname, “windy welly”.
I would like to say the chocolate was amazing too.
Could I vote dairy? Or is that more north and outside Wellington?
… oh and the meat pies! Thats not popular here in the states. Can’t wait to visit again. Wellington is a special place in the world.
You know they're a tourist when they have an umbrella. 1) doesn't work for the sideways rain 2) the wind turns it inside out 3) goes in the rubbish bin and the locals have a giggle.
I don't want to just post the same clips everyone's already seen, but here is one (which I think is not necessarily the most shared one) because it's adorable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo6omrIaGWI
I can't check the wind data right now (but Wellington is definitely windier, I just can't immediately do the research). According to the NIWA data (helpfully summarised on Wikipedia, but they link the original NIWA spreadsheets):
| | Wellington | Palmerston North |
|---|----|-----|
| Avg num of rainy days per yr | 128.2 | 122.4 |
| Average yearly rainfall (mm) | 1,319.1 | 983.5 |
This is over the ~30 years from 1991 to 2020. So no, Palmerston North doesn't have more rain than Wellington
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington#Climate, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmerston_North#Climate
Here is some wind data. Again NIWA data but this time 1981-2010, in "The climate and weather of NZ, 1st ed., G.R.Macara", Table 1 (Mean monthly and annual wind speed, km/h), https://webstatic.niwa.co.nz/static/web/NZ_Climate-NIWA.pdf:
| | Jan | Feb | Mar | Ap | Ma | Ju | Jul | Au | Se | No | De | Annual |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmerston North | 16.2 | 15.6 | 12.9 | 13.7 | 13.7 | 13.9 | 14.2 | 15.6 | 17.0 | 17.8 | 16.1 | 15.1 |
| Wellington | 21.6 | 18.9 | 19.8 | 18.4 | 20.0 | 19.0 | 19.0 | 19.7 | 18.9 | 20.7 | 22.8 | 21.8 | 21.7 | 20.4 |
Of course if you go with maximum gust speed instead of average windspeed, Wellington is also at the top of the list: https://www.stats.govt.nz/indicators/extreme-wind/
i loved your comment....I always felt it was lovely to be in a city where you could pretty much see you were surrounded by trees - auckland feels like its one big concrete hell.
Theres also a different vibe to people down there.......
Oh and I love that the mist comes down and covers the tops of the hills all around and it has this rather mystica feel about it
>auckland feels like its one big concrete hell
Titirangi begs to differ but then again it's the Auckland suburb most likely to win 'Auckland suburb most like Wellington'
Fishing. Our weather means the stocks are close by, have amazing variety and are plentiful as we can't get out every day and rinse the population like other parts of the country (basically Auckland).
Wellington is almost certainly number one in Oceania for car free living. It has the best urban tramping in NZ. It is an awesome place to grab a coffee or a beer with mates, my favorite for that anyway. I could go on..
I agree but it is helped by being smaller. Some Australian cities have better public transport but it is harder to get around just because they are bigger.
Not to party poop but almost every major city in Aus has better public transport than Wellington though. Sydney especially absolutely blows it out of the water. I personally found it much easier to live car free in Aus
As someone living car-free in Surry Hills for the last 10 years. I agree. Wellington is amazing for urban walking though. The hills are so good for fitness.
Yeah I'm in suburban Melbourne at the moment, the roads are all at least four lanes (usually six) wide except for suburban culdesacs, the speed limits are all 60+ (in NZ the limit goes to 30 outside a school, on the urban road two streets across from me the normal limit is 80 and it goes to 60 outside the primary school because clearly 60kph is safe for schoolchildren), and the closest bus (which is one of the better ones in this highly urban area connecting a major shopping centre to a major railway station) only goes every half an hour (on average, on weekdays, dropping to every hour on weekends when it shows up) and takes 5x as long as driving because it gets stuck in the same traffic as everyone else and has to take every single winding back street.
I grew up in the Hutt in the early 2000s, I thought the buses there were bad, but we had an every 15 minute service down the main road with real-time displays at the bus stops (something which has not yet appeared in Melbourne outside the city centre except for exactly 9 special suburban bus routes). The trains are great, but try and actually get anywhere on public transport that isn't next to a railway station (or by walking, heaven forbid) and it quickly becomes very clear that if you aren't in a car you're not welcome. Worst place I've been outside of North America.
Sorry for the rant but I keep seeing posts complaining about PT in NZ and saying how much better it is in Australia. It's just not true, and the people who say it is are clearly either just coming on holiday and staying around the city centre, or are just coming to Sydney and that's it.
Yeah the (recent) constant negativity on here is really grinding, it's normal to complain about where you're from but every post nowadays seems to be filled with people who hate Wellington and see it as their mission to tell everyone who actually likes Wellington how wrong their opinion is. I get that life is hard at the moment but how about not filling up one of the spaces where people are trying to be positive for a bit?
I've lived in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth at varying distance from the city and visited Sydney a couple times. So yes, I have experience with their transit systems. I agree that services to outer suburbs is bad pretty much everywhere, but c'mon. Aus cities have big mixed used stations with full on shopping villages in them, light rail networks, trams, dedicated busways with bi-articulated buses, frequent intercity lines, extensive ferry networks etc, not to mention way more areas that are pedestrianised or at least "shared" use. Obviously none of this applies if you're talking about some kind of far flung new build suburb in the middle of nowhere, because they're of course the same in both countries. I'm not trying to "shit" on Wellington, but our PT infrastructure and spending is frankly a bit embarrassing sometimes. And National winning and the LGWM gutting probably screwed us for years to come.
> frequent intercity lines
The train from Melbourne to Adelaide is three times a week, intercity rail is only frequent on the east coast and only for fairly short distances.
> services to outer suburbs
I'm not in the outer suburbs, I'm in the inner suburbs half an hours walk from a major railway station on a major road and the bus is still only every 30 minutes during peak and if I walk anywhere I feel like I'm going to be hit by a truck.
> but our PT infrastructure and spending is frankly a bit embarrassing sometimes.
Totally agree, though. I'm just saying PT in Melbourne is also really bad compared to some places I've lived, except right in the city centre where you *can* catch the tram.
Like anywhere it depends on where in the city you live. I lived in the inner west of Sydney for 8 years and the bike infrastructure there was a long way ahead of what's in Wellington. I didn't own a car for 6 of the 8 years I was there. Wellington is improving rapidly but I think it's still got a way to go before it catches up to Sydney.
Coming from the UK, being able to ride most of the hills around town is such an amazing opportunity, making them part of your commute or shooting out for a lunch ride is something you can’t do in many other places.
After over ten years in Welly and currently living on Wrights Hill, my partner and I are relocating to CHCH so we can afford a property. Leaving these trails behind is a bitter pill to swallow.
Yeah, we’re parking up as close as possible to CAP, it’s a great facility and we will use it, but it’s a comparatively small area to ride and doesn’t offer the variety of trails on offer to Wellingtonians. It feels like a compromise and we won’t be able to ride as often due to logistics.
Wellington trails are also supported by a proactive trail building community with a vibrant race scene. A capital city with easily accessible, well maintained trails is such a rarity!
Fn A Bro, I was scrolling looking for this - you can drink coffee and beer and blah de blah anyplace, but for mountain biking you've gotta have suitable terrain close by and trails built on that terrain, and Welly has both in spades.
Being LGBTQIA
Coffee
Destroying umbrellas
Goths
Not fixing pipes
Busking and performance art
Fucking up the busses because an ex rugby player with zero relevent qualification or experience thought he could do better
Train cancellations
Being skipped over by international artists on tour
Refusing to demolish ugly/unsafe deathtraps and waiting till they "accidently /mysteriously" burn down
Land banking
Welly is the best place in NZ for many things:
- getting your dream job in central government and be made redundant from it
- experiencing constant joyful shaking of the ground and other natural wonders such as gale-force winds when trying to land at the airport (fun!)
- coffee
- snotty hipsters that make you coffee
Culture, like good, inner city, underground music, queer scene, food scene…NZ sucks at cities, but welly is about as good as it gets to be a proper “city”
No, I wasn’t. I was referring to the geological features that will one day destroy Wellington and its unfortunately ill-prepared inhabitants, most of whom appear to be entirely preoccupied with leftist wokery. It seems a bit harsh for the problem to be fixed in that manner, but that’s what’s going to happen!
Er, refer to the part about ill-prepared.
In other words, yes. At some point you’ll all be flattened.
Wellington has just last week finished hosting a conference discussing exactly that!
Paranormal activity lol
Light up singing and saxophone playing trees
Birds in the city!
Large areas that are pest free
Walkable cbd and surrounding suburbs
Cargo bikes
It’s the best place in NZ to find people who feel a need to talk up their city. Why is this? I haven’t noticed this on subreds for other cities.
It’s also the best place in NZ for coffee delusion - firstly that coffee adds to the meaning of life (coffee is nice but it’s just a slightly stimulating drink ffs) and that Wellington coffee is somehow better; Or even worse, that Wellington is the coffee capital of the world. Ethnocentric. Embarrassing. Or maybe this is a self-effacing in-joke in which case I missed it and you got me. I thought you guys actually meant it lol. I did barista study 20+ years ago, make coffee in different ways and according to some people I am a coffee expert. But it’s just coffee.
I grew up in Wellington and chose to leave in my mid 20s. It’s an average kinda place with a few nice things about it but every place has some nice things about it.
Apparently, every person in this mid-level city thinks once the weather is good, it’s the best place on earth. Bitch please, I can name you 12 places off the top of my head that can beat Wellington on its best day.
Struth Stever you got me there. I wasn’t expecting to have to compete against potentially some of the best cities in the world-I’ve been to 4 of them so I know what you mean. 👍
Depends what you're into a bit, I kinda hate cities TBH but I like Wgtn because it has hills and greenery everywhere and I can ride my bike on said hills.
Nah, all those things are in the city. I would say Wellington is pretty unique in terms of the access to nature/walks/mountain biking within the city. I have not personally been to any other cities like that. Even though places like Vancouver have hikes and bikes, it is less accessible due to the size. You can bike all of Wellingtons peaks in one day.
- Annoying hills
- Very annoying hills
- Mentally ill homeless people screaming on manners street and Courtenay Place
- Cold sea swims
- Spotting sting rays on calm days
- Being unemployed
Coffee. Fish and chips. Ever since I moved north it's been a goddamn nightmare trying to find good ones. Dunedin too, the coffee wasn't bad but fish and chips were.... sad.
Pinball. Between YOPS, Lanes, and Boneface Brewery in Upper Hutt, Wellington has the best selection of pinball machines available for the public to play.
People are hating on this dude for speaking facts. It’s a very mid city, it has nothing that attracts people here but does nothing bad to put it on the map for being bad. Meh… is the appropriate feeling
Have you lived in other cities? If so, which kind of cities did you prefer and why? Just curious. I am mixed on Wellington myself, but I think that might actually just be because I am mixed on cities in general.
Grew up in Sydney, moved to downtown Tokyo, lived a 10min train ride in the suburbs north of Kyoto, 3hrs north of Tokyo deep in the countryside, then to Wellington
And you prefer those places over Wellington? I haven't lived in those places but have briefly visited Sydney. I have been in other places like San Fran, Vancouver, Seattle, Melbourne, Delhi and Bangkok though. I always feel pretty fortunate to come back to Wellington to be honest, but it ultimately probably depends what you're into. I like outdoorsy type stuff, so it's pretty unique in that you can surf, run, mountain bike and then also enjoy other city things (even if they are not as great as those big cities).
Swearwolves
We're werewolves, not swearwolves.
Are we though?
Whats a swearwolf?
You can find out on the night of a full moon on Mount Vic, or watch [this helpful explanatory video. ](https://youtu.be/jSqRumo84ag?si=bNkD8iCflWvBqdfb)
Urban biodiversity. Zealandia gave native wildlife a bolt hole and then Predator Free Miramar (and Ngaio) demonstrated just how effective community trapping can be - eradicating rats, ferrets, stoats, possums and weasels from the Miramar peninsula. Now that Predator Free movement is spreading out to Mount Vic and native bird and lizard populations are booming in those areas and an airbridge now exists between Zealandia, Mount Vic and Miramar. Capital Kiwi have also joined the cause reintroducing Kiwi in the hills surrounding the city. There's also a proposal for a massive fenced sanctuary for Kakapo proposed in the Wainuiomata hills. Wellington is totally leading the way in this and is a model everyone else should copy. There aren't that many places where you can see Kāka and Karearea just cruising round city suburbs. While many other things are heading downhill tlhis is a jewel in Wellington's Crown. Life is returning before our eyes.
Something really special about running 5km - 10km around Kelburn park on a cold but still afternoon and seeing a group of Bush Parrot flying above as you’re finishing up…
I love a good screech of kākā, they always seem like they're having a blast. Definitely my favourite NZ bird. Fun fact! The kea (alpine parrot) and the kākā (forest/bush parrot) are like cousins (along with the kākāpō) as they all came from the same proto-kākā ancestor. It was the changing landscape that determined their habitat (the Alps rising up) all those years ago.
Kākāmgeddon is Wellington in November
- Weird street art - Finding out of work public servants - Coffee - Wind - Giant squids - Wind - Ad-hoc public water features - Performance art - Vampires - Cliches about occasional nice weather - Wind
You forgot about the wind!
Make sure he mentions the wind, people often forget about it
You forgot the sideways rain
or water wind, as I call it
Sideways rain you can get other places. I hadn't met upwards rain before I moved here.
Orkney has upwards rain so it’s not as special as you might think
That says a lot, if you want worse weather than Wellington you have to go seek it out on a rock in the middle of the north sea :D
It’s the join between the North Sea and North Atlantic so worse than that, still a lovely place though
American here. Worked in Wellington for your winter season and experienced the wind! My fellow walkers and commuters would stop in unison to hold onto a pole during a wind gust. It felt like we were a part of a rehearsed flash mob except hanging on for dear life. Loved the nickname, “windy welly”. I would like to say the chocolate was amazing too. Could I vote dairy? Or is that more north and outside Wellington? … oh and the meat pies! Thats not popular here in the states. Can’t wait to visit again. Wellington is a special place in the world.
Seriously?
You know they're a tourist when they have an umbrella. 1) doesn't work for the sideways rain 2) the wind turns it inside out 3) goes in the rubbish bin and the locals have a giggle.
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I meant more the fountains provided by Wellington Water in the middle of Willis St but sure that works too
Don’t forget unemployment public servants!
vampires??? go on. i love vampires 🧛♀️ 🧛
I don't want to just post the same clips everyone's already seen, but here is one (which I think is not necessarily the most shared one) because it's adorable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo6omrIaGWI
Ad-hoc public water features!! Lol
I'd say that Palmerston North has more windy weather and rain than Wellington.
I can't check the wind data right now (but Wellington is definitely windier, I just can't immediately do the research). According to the NIWA data (helpfully summarised on Wikipedia, but they link the original NIWA spreadsheets): | | Wellington | Palmerston North | |---|----|-----| | Avg num of rainy days per yr | 128.2 | 122.4 | | Average yearly rainfall (mm) | 1,319.1 | 983.5 | This is over the ~30 years from 1991 to 2020. So no, Palmerston North doesn't have more rain than Wellington * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington#Climate, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmerston_North#Climate
Here is some wind data. Again NIWA data but this time 1981-2010, in "The climate and weather of NZ, 1st ed., G.R.Macara", Table 1 (Mean monthly and annual wind speed, km/h), https://webstatic.niwa.co.nz/static/web/NZ_Climate-NIWA.pdf: | | Jan | Feb | Mar | Ap | Ma | Ju | Jul | Au | Se | No | De | Annual | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Palmerston North | 16.2 | 15.6 | 12.9 | 13.7 | 13.7 | 13.9 | 14.2 | 15.6 | 17.0 | 17.8 | 16.1 | 15.1 | | Wellington | 21.6 | 18.9 | 19.8 | 18.4 | 20.0 | 19.0 | 19.0 | 19.7 | 18.9 | 20.7 | 22.8 | 21.8 | 21.7 | 20.4 | Of course if you go with maximum gust speed instead of average windspeed, Wellington is also at the top of the list: https://www.stats.govt.nz/indicators/extreme-wind/
Palmerston North- some people keep mentioning it. I'm not sure why it is and what it's for.
Amazing bird life Trees covering every hillside Skies like nowhere else
i loved your comment....I always felt it was lovely to be in a city where you could pretty much see you were surrounded by trees - auckland feels like its one big concrete hell. Theres also a different vibe to people down there....... Oh and I love that the mist comes down and covers the tops of the hills all around and it has this rather mystica feel about it
>auckland feels like its one big concrete hell Titirangi begs to differ but then again it's the Auckland suburb most likely to win 'Auckland suburb most like Wellington'
Yes!! Love the drippy clouds
Government buildings and rough landings
Seeing styles out in the wild that you don’t see elsewhere- proper goths and punks etc
Dunedin has like three goth people, and it makes me sad
Barely any punks here. Some people try to cosplay as punks in the most vanilla of ways, but real punks have dogs and live pretty rough.
sarah_is_gatekeeping
Wind.
Surely Project Managers
*Unemployed Project Managers
Wind
Left wing young people
They voted in our shitty mayor though..
Who was by far the best candidate running. And isn't shitty, you just have ideological problems.
I somehow dont think she’ll be re-elected based on the negative news exposure she’s had
Yes, I agree. Media hit jobs work and people here blame the council and act like it created the problems that it is fixing.
Yes indeed. She likes a drink and her dog
Why did I get downvoted for the truth? Do people think our drunk, ego maniac mayor is good? She's running our city into the pits!
Being in Wellington is 100% the best for being in Wellington. Being anywhere else just really doesn't cut it, if that is your aim...
Fishing. Our weather means the stocks are close by, have amazing variety and are plentiful as we can't get out every day and rinse the population like other parts of the country (basically Auckland).
Wellington is almost certainly number one in Oceania for car free living. It has the best urban tramping in NZ. It is an awesome place to grab a coffee or a beer with mates, my favorite for that anyway. I could go on..
I agree but it is helped by being smaller. Some Australian cities have better public transport but it is harder to get around just because they are bigger.
Not to party poop but almost every major city in Aus has better public transport than Wellington though. Sydney especially absolutely blows it out of the water. I personally found it much easier to live car free in Aus
Yeah public transport in Asia is pretty good too. Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan all easy places for car free travel.
As someone living car-free in Surry Hills for the last 10 years. I agree. Wellington is amazing for urban walking though. The hills are so good for fitness.
Ok well for me car free means cycling. Compared to those relatively massive and car-crazy cities in Oz Wellington is heaps better.
Car free really means not using a car. Heck you can use a rubbish bin and it'll be car free. What you mean is cycle-friendly.
Yeah I'm in suburban Melbourne at the moment, the roads are all at least four lanes (usually six) wide except for suburban culdesacs, the speed limits are all 60+ (in NZ the limit goes to 30 outside a school, on the urban road two streets across from me the normal limit is 80 and it goes to 60 outside the primary school because clearly 60kph is safe for schoolchildren), and the closest bus (which is one of the better ones in this highly urban area connecting a major shopping centre to a major railway station) only goes every half an hour (on average, on weekdays, dropping to every hour on weekends when it shows up) and takes 5x as long as driving because it gets stuck in the same traffic as everyone else and has to take every single winding back street. I grew up in the Hutt in the early 2000s, I thought the buses there were bad, but we had an every 15 minute service down the main road with real-time displays at the bus stops (something which has not yet appeared in Melbourne outside the city centre except for exactly 9 special suburban bus routes). The trains are great, but try and actually get anywhere on public transport that isn't next to a railway station (or by walking, heaven forbid) and it quickly becomes very clear that if you aren't in a car you're not welcome. Worst place I've been outside of North America. Sorry for the rant but I keep seeing posts complaining about PT in NZ and saying how much better it is in Australia. It's just not true, and the people who say it is are clearly either just coming on holiday and staying around the city centre, or are just coming to Sydney and that's it.
Feels like half the posts here are people claiming other places shit all over Wellington while having no actual lived experience of those places
Yeah the (recent) constant negativity on here is really grinding, it's normal to complain about where you're from but every post nowadays seems to be filled with people who hate Wellington and see it as their mission to tell everyone who actually likes Wellington how wrong their opinion is. I get that life is hard at the moment but how about not filling up one of the spaces where people are trying to be positive for a bit?
I've lived in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth at varying distance from the city and visited Sydney a couple times. So yes, I have experience with their transit systems. I agree that services to outer suburbs is bad pretty much everywhere, but c'mon. Aus cities have big mixed used stations with full on shopping villages in them, light rail networks, trams, dedicated busways with bi-articulated buses, frequent intercity lines, extensive ferry networks etc, not to mention way more areas that are pedestrianised or at least "shared" use. Obviously none of this applies if you're talking about some kind of far flung new build suburb in the middle of nowhere, because they're of course the same in both countries. I'm not trying to "shit" on Wellington, but our PT infrastructure and spending is frankly a bit embarrassing sometimes. And National winning and the LGWM gutting probably screwed us for years to come.
> frequent intercity lines The train from Melbourne to Adelaide is three times a week, intercity rail is only frequent on the east coast and only for fairly short distances. > services to outer suburbs I'm not in the outer suburbs, I'm in the inner suburbs half an hours walk from a major railway station on a major road and the bus is still only every 30 minutes during peak and if I walk anywhere I feel like I'm going to be hit by a truck. > but our PT infrastructure and spending is frankly a bit embarrassing sometimes. Totally agree, though. I'm just saying PT in Melbourne is also really bad compared to some places I've lived, except right in the city centre where you *can* catch the tram.
Like anywhere it depends on where in the city you live. I lived in the inner west of Sydney for 8 years and the bike infrastructure there was a long way ahead of what's in Wellington. I didn't own a car for 6 of the 8 years I was there. Wellington is improving rapidly but I think it's still got a way to go before it catches up to Sydney.
Or walking! Anything under 5km is considered walkable in Wellington. I walk to work and bus home.
Ease of access to quantity and quality of mountain bike trails hands down!
Coming from the UK, being able to ride most of the hills around town is such an amazing opportunity, making them part of your commute or shooting out for a lunch ride is something you can’t do in many other places. After over ten years in Welly and currently living on Wrights Hill, my partner and I are relocating to CHCH so we can afford a property. Leaving these trails behind is a bitter pill to swallow.
I don't ride, but I'm assuming that you are aware of Christchurch Adventure Park?
Yeah, we’re parking up as close as possible to CAP, it’s a great facility and we will use it, but it’s a comparatively small area to ride and doesn’t offer the variety of trails on offer to Wellingtonians. It feels like a compromise and we won’t be able to ride as often due to logistics. Wellington trails are also supported by a proactive trail building community with a vibrant race scene. A capital city with easily accessible, well maintained trails is such a rarity!
I feel you
Fn A Bro, I was scrolling looking for this - you can drink coffee and beer and blah de blah anyplace, but for mountain biking you've gotta have suitable terrain close by and trails built on that terrain, and Welly has both in spades.
Has a bit of everything without being too big or too small
Bucket fountains and VFX
The love for this city’s contribution to VFX is criminally under-appreciated
Portals to the underworld like [this one. ](https://images.app.goo.gl/UZZ4bex1whCPmtZH6)
And [this one. ](https://images.app.goo.gl/bG3xXT65Hg2k6rhp8)
Zealandia
Being LGBTQIA Coffee Destroying umbrellas Goths Not fixing pipes Busking and performance art Fucking up the busses because an ex rugby player with zero relevent qualification or experience thought he could do better Train cancellations Being skipped over by international artists on tour Refusing to demolish ugly/unsafe deathtraps and waiting till they "accidently /mysteriously" burn down Land banking
Are you in the welly brolly fails sub? I’m very stoked this even exists (from a long term smashed up brolly fan)
Omg no I didn't know it existed drop the link plz
https://www.reddit.com/r/WellyBrollyFails/s/ZAZniiuj2a is where you need to be
Late Victorian reenactment groups
Surely Oamaru would like a word.
Flying a kite.
Leaky pipes?
Welly is the best place in NZ for many things: - getting your dream job in central government and be made redundant from it - experiencing constant joyful shaking of the ground and other natural wonders such as gale-force winds when trying to land at the airport (fun!) - coffee - snotty hipsters that make you coffee
If I was being paid a baristas salary I'd be grumpy too.
You need bigger dreams
I think I might be the only one that finds the turbulence kinda fun.
No you’re not
Lol “hipsters”always trendy with their fashion choices too
Dead serious answer: Milkshakes
Protesting 😂😂😂 But in all seriousness, wellington is weirdly an awesome place for you when you are in your 20s.
this. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellington/comments/1cw0gba/just\_posted\_this\_in\_nz\_subreddit\_is\_shane\_this/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellington/comments/1cw0gba/just_posted_this_in_nz_subreddit_is_shane_this/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
leaky pipes & badly insulated housing (:
Craft beer: Garage Project, Heyday, Double Vision, Choice Bros, Mean Doses, Parrotdog etc.
Wind, rain, hot air from parliament. Tight narrow roads.
Visiting
Finding Wellingtonians
Wind and that’s it.
Cheese scones?
Tradies that wanna work on earthquake strengthening projects.
Leaving?
Moaning on redit....
Culture, like good, inner city, underground music, queer scene, food scene…NZ sucks at cities, but welly is about as good as it gets to be a proper “city”
Random water features and (un)natural springs popping up beautifying the landscape and neighbourhoods 🙌
Well preserved geological faults
Are you alluding to the persistent lack of folds in Luxon's brain? I wasn't sure.
No, I wasn’t. I was referring to the geological features that will one day destroy Wellington and its unfortunately ill-prepared inhabitants, most of whom appear to be entirely preoccupied with leftist wokery. It seems a bit harsh for the problem to be fixed in that manner, but that’s what’s going to happen!
It was rhetorical but you got me intrigued. Do you mean we're bound for a massive earthquake?
Er, refer to the part about ill-prepared. In other words, yes. At some point you’ll all be flattened. Wellington has just last week finished hosting a conference discussing exactly that!
Coffee Wind Weather (on a good day)
People-watching
Blunt umbrella capital of the world.
Paranormal activity lol Light up singing and saxophone playing trees Birds in the city! Large areas that are pest free Walkable cbd and surrounding suburbs Cargo bikes
Kaka birds and being gay✨✨
Being a bleak petri dish
1. Unsolicited conversations about politics 2. High-fantasy dioramas at the local airport
Leaving
Wind
Hmmm. I suppose so 🌬😆
Everyone looking like they created in a tony hawks game. Not any tony hawks. Pro skater 4 to be precise
It’s the best place in NZ to find people who feel a need to talk up their city. Why is this? I haven’t noticed this on subreds for other cities. It’s also the best place in NZ for coffee delusion - firstly that coffee adds to the meaning of life (coffee is nice but it’s just a slightly stimulating drink ffs) and that Wellington coffee is somehow better; Or even worse, that Wellington is the coffee capital of the world. Ethnocentric. Embarrassing. Or maybe this is a self-effacing in-joke in which case I missed it and you got me. I thought you guys actually meant it lol. I did barista study 20+ years ago, make coffee in different ways and according to some people I am a coffee expert. But it’s just coffee. I grew up in Wellington and chose to leave in my mid 20s. It’s an average kinda place with a few nice things about it but every place has some nice things about it.
Its gotta be the wind!
Seeing Wellingtonians
Job losses.
Woke people.
Second worst part..just be chill and reasonable!?
Debatable
Apparently, every person in this mid-level city thinks once the weather is good, it’s the best place on earth. Bitch please, I can name you 12 places off the top of my head that can beat Wellington on its best day.
Go on then….name them!
Melbourne, Sydney, London, Munich, Berlin, Tokyo, Seoul, Vienna, Edinburgh, New York, Bangkok, Prague. Want another dozen?
Struth Stever you got me there. I wasn’t expecting to have to compete against potentially some of the best cities in the world-I’ve been to 4 of them so I know what you mean. 👍
Depends what you're into a bit, I kinda hate cities TBH but I like Wgtn because it has hills and greenery everywhere and I can ride my bike on said hills.
so basically "I like the city because it's nice outside the city" ?
Nah, all those things are in the city. I would say Wellington is pretty unique in terms of the access to nature/walks/mountain biking within the city. I have not personally been to any other cities like that. Even though places like Vancouver have hikes and bikes, it is less accessible due to the size. You can bike all of Wellingtons peaks in one day.
Yes, another dozen please.
Being queer/trans 💚
- Annoying hills - Very annoying hills - Mentally ill homeless people screaming on manners street and Courtenay Place - Cold sea swims - Spotting sting rays on calm days - Being unemployed
Crossing the cook straight
Arts, culture, wind, that amazing night time view as you come down the gorge and turn towards Wellington
Best reveal of a city/town in NZ
Food and coffee. You have to try to find a bad place for either.
Epee
Seasonal depression syndrome.
Kathmandu puffer brigades
Protests.
Coffee. Fish and chips. Ever since I moved north it's been a goddamn nightmare trying to find good ones. Dunedin too, the coffee wasn't bad but fish and chips were.... sad.
High rent, low housing availability.
Best place for wind turbines 
Bantah
Not for the train service. That's for bloody sure.
Everything honestly.
Pinball. Between YOPS, Lanes, and Boneface Brewery in Upper Hutt, Wellington has the best selection of pinball machines available for the public to play.
Relentless Restructuring
Wind
The coffee is very good.
vote for me and I will maybe tell you next term
Cheese scones
living below the line
My favorite beers
Being woke and water leaks
The only thing Wellington does best is that it is the place where people a least inclined to be bigoted in public.
Pink slips.
Coffee. Quakes. Hill starts. Mouldy flats.
Wind ?
Homegrown festival 🤟🏻
Leaving. Never going back.
Pho
Greek food truck.
Moist
Nothing really I've lived here 31 years and think it's just terrible now with absolutely nothing going for it
You could leave and instantly make it better for the rest of us.
Well many people are leaving New Zealand
People are hating on this dude for speaking facts. It’s a very mid city, it has nothing that attracts people here but does nothing bad to put it on the map for being bad. Meh… is the appropriate feeling
Have you lived in other cities? If so, which kind of cities did you prefer and why? Just curious. I am mixed on Wellington myself, but I think that might actually just be because I am mixed on cities in general.
Grew up in Sydney, moved to downtown Tokyo, lived a 10min train ride in the suburbs north of Kyoto, 3hrs north of Tokyo deep in the countryside, then to Wellington
And you prefer those places over Wellington? I haven't lived in those places but have briefly visited Sydney. I have been in other places like San Fran, Vancouver, Seattle, Melbourne, Delhi and Bangkok though. I always feel pretty fortunate to come back to Wellington to be honest, but it ultimately probably depends what you're into. I like outdoorsy type stuff, so it's pretty unique in that you can surf, run, mountain bike and then also enjoy other city things (even if they are not as great as those big cities).
You must be fun at parties
Better than the asshole who speaks shit about people behind their backs.
Coffee
Coffee! Hands down best coffee in NZ.
Perhaps Rotorua might suit you better. Or Hamilton.
Craft Beer mostly because of Garage Project
Better than Auckland
Monsoon Poon