Moving to the mountains

June 2013

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June 2013

Mountain towns like Wanaka provide easy access to the outdoors
For outdoorsy people, living in a city far from the mountains is like a yachtie living in Mt Cook Village. Josh Gale finds out what it takes to up sticks and move to the mountains It happened to me while sitting at a traffic light in Onehunga. It was 5pm gridlock. Semi-trailer trucks were squeezing […]
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