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Speaker 1: South Island is a magnet. New data twenty three from

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three that census shift south is real and

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Speaker 1: it's big. Eighty five thousand people moved south. Of those

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Speaker 1: eighty five thousand, forty thousand moved to the Canterbury region alone.

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Speaker 1: Auckland net migration loss of fifty thousand people over five years,

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Speaker 1: So that's material. It's real. Ali Adams is the CEO

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Speaker 1: of christ Church and z and is with us.

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Speaker 2: Eli morning, good morning, How are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm very well and it speaks volumes. Isn't it a

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Speaker 1: sort of christ Church is a build it and they

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Speaker 1: will come story, isn't it?

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Speaker 2: Look it's remarkable. I think I feel very privileged to

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Speaker 2: be able to promote this brilliant city at this fantastic time.

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Speaker 2: We've got incredible assets and people are really realizing that

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Speaker 2: you really can have it all in christ Church. You

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Speaker 2: can have a brilliant career around a brilliant life.

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Speaker 1: In christ Church. In the regency. The Education Minister was

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Speaker 1: in Selwyn the other day announcing new schools. Is it

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Speaker 1: sort of spread or are you going to have some

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Speaker 1: infrastructural issues there eventually?

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Speaker 2: Look that I'm not the best person to answer that

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Speaker 2: I'm fortunate enough to work in the christ Church City region.

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Speaker 2: Our infrastructure there obviously because of the challenges that came

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Speaker 2: from the earthquake and that was a terrible time, but

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Speaker 2: mean that our infrastructure actually is in pretty good shape,

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Speaker 2: particularly from a city attraction perspective. So we have obviously

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Speaker 2: the stadium coming online next year, but also we've got

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Speaker 2: incredible things like the new Padaciori Metro sports facility, We've

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Speaker 2: got the new Court Theater. We've got a pretty incredible

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Speaker 2: infrastructure that makes us a real magnet and able to

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Speaker 2: attract things like major events like supercars and things that

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Speaker 2: we just wouldn't be able to get otherwise.

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Speaker 1: At the risk of making a complete pret of myself,

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Speaker 1: are you a new immigrant or a new issue immigrant?

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Speaker 2: You're not making you proud of yourself in it. I've

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Speaker 2: got probably one of those makeseduptacts. And I'm not Newish. No,

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Speaker 2: I came over in two thousand and three.

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Speaker 1: Okay. What I'm saying is you haven't been here your

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Speaker 1: whole life, so you're seeing the country from relatively new eyes.

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Speaker 1: What's your impression of it?

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Speaker 2: Look, I think christ Church is remarkable. I think that

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Speaker 2: I would call it a real Goldilock city. There's not

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Speaker 2: many places like it in the world where you know,

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Speaker 2: I mean to be twenty minutes from an international airport,

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Speaker 2: to be able to the old classic cliche surf in

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Speaker 2: the morning and ski in the afternoon. It is the

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Speaker 2: best place in the world to bring up kids, and

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Speaker 2: I brought my children up here. It is just an

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Speaker 2: incredible city. One of the things that is really worth mentioning.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I was not young when I came here,

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Speaker 2: but actually one of the things in this latest census

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Speaker 2: is that a lot of the people that are coming

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Speaker 2: down from the North Island are young. Forty three percent

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Speaker 2: of those coming from Auckland are in the fifteen to

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Speaker 2: twenty four age bracket. And for me, that's the most

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Speaker 2: exciting thing as an economic developer, because that means people

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Speaker 2: are coming down here to study and they're going to

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Speaker 2: stay here and really contribute to our ongoing economy. They're

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Speaker 2: either going to start businesses or get into our workforce,

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Speaker 2: and that to me is really exciting.

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Speaker 1: So do you think this is a fed as in

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Speaker 1: for the next few years everyone goes, oh Christ, you're

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Speaker 1: so exciting, or do you think this is this is

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Speaker 1: long term this is a this is a a thing.

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Speaker 2: I think this is the thing. I mean, cities do

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Speaker 2: go in cycles, we all know that, but actually I

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Speaker 2: think christ Church as unique assets are not going anywhere,

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Speaker 2: so we It's just a little bit like people have

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Speaker 2: discovered what the tourists have known for a long time,

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Speaker 2: which is that this place is pretty special.

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Speaker 1: T is I can speak to from experience. Ellie Ellie

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Speaker 1: appreciated it. Ellie Adams, who's the cheap executive officer of

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Speaker 1: Christ Church in z not the whole place. It's not

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Speaker 1: like she's the mirror or the boss, and it's just

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Speaker 1: that's the name of the business. Mike, I think you

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Speaker 1: need to jump on the migration bend waging too. Christ

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Speaker 1: It's not sure if you've considered this, Colin, do you

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Speaker 1: not listen to the program and or regulizing. No one

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Speaker 1: has talked more often about moving to christ Church than

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Speaker 1: I have. And the interesting thing about those numbers when

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Speaker 1: they came out yesterday and I saw them, is I

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Speaker 1: was kind of embarrassed because I'm one of those people

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Speaker 1: who goes tell you what I'm doing, tell you what

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Speaker 1: I'm doing. I'm going to Christis here, no worries and

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Speaker 1: all you already have, and I'm still sitting in the

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Speaker 1: same place going I tell you what, I'm still considering

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Speaker 1: going to Christach and you're going to come on, mate,

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Speaker 1: stop talking about it, do something about it. There are

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Speaker 1: astonishing numbers when you think about it. Auckland should be embarrassed.

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Speaker 1: Fifty thousand people have got up and left. Numbers don't lie.

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