In New Zealand there is an acronym JAFA which stands for ‘just another fucking Aucklander’. I’ve never really given it as much credence as others have as I’d not really noticed it so much. But lately it has started to grate. For starters NZ’s politicians tend to congregate there as there are plenty of carpet baggers in the ‘provinces’ and Auckland anyway should have 28% of the MPs just due to its share of the population. But it’s more likely that they have 50% of them with half of them pretending that they live somewhere else (one of those has a house across the road from us so I can confirm that she does not spend much time there at all).
In January 2021 I arrived back in New Zealand and had to spend 2 weeks in quarantine for a non-existent virus (they are all non-existent) before I could travel on to Dunedin. The only city that you could fly into in New Zealand at that time was Auckland. And when you were released from your Auckland prison/hotel room after your two weeks of theatre, two weeks of shit food, $3000+ of fees and two weeks avoiding ‘tests’ you wern’t given any help to your actual destination. On the other hand if you were an Aucklander who had been sent to do your purgatory in Rotorua or Christchurch well you were given a free ride back to Auckland. Of course you were.
All the flights to Dunedin had left by the time that I was released as my flight to Auckland hadn’t landed until the early evening so I wasn’t allowed to go until early evening either. Of course with all the testing you couldn’t really buy a ticket anyway as there was a slight chance that you wern’t getting out on your two week anniversary. There is a train to Wellington but this only leaves every 3 days or so. And you still have quite a journey from there anyway. So I ended up spending an extra few days in the North Island and travelled two hours south to say hello to my brother and his wife.
The MIQ (Managed Isolation & Quarantine) system was much more expensive and inconvenient for South Islanders. It was discriminatory.
Post-covid (we hope) nothing much has changed. Before early 2020 there were quite a lot of international flights from Christchurch which is NZ’s second largest city and is in the South Island rather than the North Island. There was even a service from Dunedin to Brisbane. But these days other than to the eastern seaboard Australian cities there is literally only two flights internationally from the South Island. One goes to Fiji and the other to Singapore. Neither are operated by Air New Zealand. It sucks to high heaven.
The opposition leader, Chris Luxon, was parachuted into his role from Air New Zealand. But Chris too is an Auckland boy.
The South Island needs its own airline. We need our own Parliament as well.
NZ makes China seem anemic in their zero covid crazy making.
You may have unrealised advantages, being in the South Island.
Some of the WEFers have been saving your landmass as their island.
They have their hideouts there so they won't want the place trashed.
As to whether they want any non trans humans ( or they just want postmen) there other than themselves, that's too big a question for me to know the answer to.
But I would think that the countryside and the skies won't all be toxified.
Wonder where Gates has his island? Is it your island?