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Speaker 1: Another prize for the country's Golden Regional Child. Canterbury remains

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Speaker 1: the fastest growing region in the country. We find out

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Speaker 1: yesterday the wider region grew one point one percent, which

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Speaker 1: is seven and a half thousand people in the year

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Speaker 1: to June, christ Church itself accounting for more than half

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Speaker 1: of that. Ellie Adams is the CEO of christ Church

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Speaker 1: in z and it's with us Ellie.

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Speaker 2: Morning, good morning.

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Speaker 1: I reckon they'll study this one day. There's a thing,

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Speaker 1: there's a buzz, there's a vibe, there's a marbo about

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Speaker 1: christ Church in Canterbury. That's that's become almost magical, don't

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Speaker 1: you reckon?

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, I would love to think so, wouldn't

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Speaker 2: that be great? But I'd like to think we'd keep

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Speaker 2: going so much that that would be what they would

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Speaker 2: study is the city that never stopped kind of that momentum,

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Speaker 2: because you know, cities go in cycles and an economic

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Speaker 2: development it's a cliche, but it is all about getting

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Speaker 2: that fly wheel turning. And yeah, we are in a

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Speaker 2: really great position at the moment where things are going

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Speaker 2: extremely well for the city on pretty much all fronts.

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Speaker 1: How much do you reckon? This is a fun theoretical

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Speaker 1: question for you, how much do you reckon as fomo

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Speaker 1: what started as a tangible? In other words, I move

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Speaker 1: my business, I start a business, I go for a job.

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Speaker 1: At what point did it become fomo? And people went,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I've got to get to christ you look.

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Speaker 2: I think that's a really difficult question to answer, but

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Speaker 2: it comes back to that momentum point. There's no doubt

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Speaker 2: that success grows success. So the more that people hear

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Speaker 2: that stuff is going on, the more they want to

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Speaker 2: be part of it. For example, one of the things

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Speaker 2: we talk about quite often at christ Church and z

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Speaker 2: ED is that christ Church has got these amazing companies

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Speaker 2: here doing really innovative things to solve global problems, and

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Speaker 2: that's really appealing to young people. That's something they really

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Speaker 2: want to do. And the more that we can tell

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Speaker 2: stories about companies that are doing that here, the more

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Speaker 2: that other companies and other students want to come here

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Speaker 2: to be part of something that's really exciting.

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Speaker 1: Do you have the breakdown how many immigrants versus locals

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Speaker 1: relocating from other parts of the country.

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Speaker 2: I don't have the breakdown off the top of my head,

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Speaker 2: but I do know that a lot of it is

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Speaker 2: people coming south, so that a lot of it is

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Speaker 2: people locating from across the country. And now Auckland has

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Speaker 2: more people coming in from offshore and we have a

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Speaker 2: lot of people moving from particularly the.

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Speaker 1: North Island is selone have been out of control.

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Speaker 2: I don't think so. Look, I think it's got its challenges.

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Speaker 2: I think growth comes with challenges. I mean one of

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Speaker 2: the things we talk about in christ Church and Canterbury

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Speaker 2: more broadly is that we're a city where you can

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Speaker 2: have it all. You know, you can have a great

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Speaker 2: lifestyle and a great career, you can have a twenty

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Speaker 2: minute commute from an international airport. And managing growth is

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Speaker 2: always hard because the last thing you want to do

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Speaker 2: is to take away what makes your place special. So

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Speaker 2: there are some problems that come with it, but more

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Speaker 2: opportunities I would say, rather than problems.

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Speaker 1: Well, God bless you and may continue for years to come.

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Speaker 1: Elli Ellie Adams, who's the chief executive officer of christ

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Speaker 1: Church and ZID. You will note in the numbers though

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Speaker 1: the wider region at one point one percent one point

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Speaker 1: one isn't that great, but is the best in the country.

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Speaker 1: Hence the reason we did the story and the real

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Speaker 1: overarching issue for this country is the fact that we're

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Speaker 1: grinding to a massive immigration halt because we've got the

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Speaker 1: two fold things. We've got the people leaving, which is

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Speaker 1: bad enough in the first place, but the numbers aren't

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Speaker 1: coming in the way they used to. And we've had

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Speaker 1: many a time discussing on this program, and I do

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Speaker 1: worry that we're getting dangerously close to the point where

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Speaker 1: we're going to be a net exporter of people. So,

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Speaker 1: in other words, when your net gain it used to

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Speaker 1: be one hundred and twenty hundred and thirty thousand people

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Speaker 1: a year, and it's now down to ten, fifteen twenty,

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Speaker 1: and if it goes much low, it's at zero, and

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Speaker 1: then it goes to negative. Another words, you know, the

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Speaker 1: number of people coming into the country from offshore just diminishes,

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Speaker 1: and the people leaving the country continues. And that's a

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Speaker 1: country that's going backwards, and that's the last thing we need.

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Speaker 1: So if a country or a region like Canterbury can

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Speaker 1: only grow one percent and they're allegedly booming, there are

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Speaker 1: going to be regions in this country that are materially

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Speaker 1: going backwards.

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