Does Invercargill deserve the title of ‘NZ’s Shittest Town’? 

Man, I'd rather be in the Philippines.

It’s actually not that bad!!

Weather sucks? I know for a fact the winters arent as bad as Auckland rain wise

@@WayToManyAssassins winter is winter. To me personally the weather was horrible compared to Auckland

Conservative is a negative to you? Lol.

​@@damo9961close-minded is negative lmao

Lol Conservatives! They just thought you weren't worth the effort probably you have a nose ring and blue hair! Surprise😂😂😂😂

Baz the reporter really over emphasises his R's ..not sure if it's on purpose because most people don't sound like Irish or Cornish 😂 although we do tend to harden the r. but he clearly is from invers.

Dunedin is flipping cold as well mate. I never felt such icy winds anywhere in nz but there.

Are there gangs there.? Thought it was quite clean and was planning to move there almost blindfolded ie just pick up a house and move

@@last_samurai6690 I wouldn't say there is a major problems with gangs. There is a mm pad half an hour outside of invercargill in mataura but the crime rate doesn't seem as bad as other big nz towns and cities although it is slightly on the up as with everywhere else. I'm planning on leaving simply because I'm bored and prefer not knowing a whole lot of people in town everytime I go to the supermarket 😂 it's still big enough to have anonymity but you still see plenty of familiar faces most days, well I do because I'm relatively social but really it's not my jam if u know what I mean? Some people like that sort of thing though.

Gangs, oh dear. Crossing this town off my list of places to retire to. Tasmania is looking better all the time.

@@fabmanly1070 I wouldnt retire in Invers anyhow. Too cold for me. Ironically we will be relocating there for maybe 5 years, then move out.

It is ❤

Very true

So basically what your saying is the north is full of Māori and the south is nice.

Imagine how beautiful our country Aotearoa was before colonization

bcos south island has very little moari population and full of white people. Its safe

​@@fabmanly1070 Indeed, violets are blue roses are red maori are disproporinatly more likely to be gangsters. Invercargil also has a higher proportion of them than many other S island city's.

UK here...saw a NZ police programme over here a few years back. STILL remember that a group of drunken lads were dressed like it was 1970 in a car that had escaped from 1974.The cop who stopped them asked "where are you lads from?".The time honoured reply was the poetic..."INVER-FAKUN-CARGILL MATE!".When ever i hear that name, THAT is the image i SEE.

Yeah I see him all the time

LMFAO, you're right 😅

Huntly officially does not count as a town. It’s a sewerage pond for Hamilton.

Huntly is a good spot. Hamilton and Auckland at their doorstep. Invercargill is at the ass end with nothing going on. Then again, sometimes isolation is a bonus. Depends on the age/interests of the person asking

Actually Auckland is the counties only City, so that’s out.

@@fabmanly1070 A technicality - Auckland never does anything on its merits.

@@fabmanly1070 Why does Auckland feel less like a city than Wellington?

I just looked around Corner Brook with google Earth. Not totally depressing, it has quite a few hilly views and looks like not a bad bay. The imagery of the central area was from late 2019, so might have been a few changes since.

@@grgmetube I agree that Corner Brook has some nice highland views, much like most of Western Newfoundland. At the same time, Corner Brook faces an uncertain future as their main employer, Kruger owned Corner Brook Pulp and Paper, is struggling as newsprint demand dwindles, leading to worries that the mill will shut down for good. Saltwire Network and "The Chronicle Herald", Halifax based privately newspaper media companies owned by the Dennis and Lever families, recently filed for bankruptcy, which will further hurt demand for newsprint. The good news is that Kruger are planning to diversify Corner Brook Pulp and Paper's product line away from newsprint, and focusing on cellulose fibre for biofuels, textiles, concrete, and wood pellets. They also plan to sell their logs to other mills, and also excess electricity to NL Hydro to meet the province's power demands. Corner Brook is now facing numerous challenges, including a large senior and low income resident population, which makes it difficult for growing local businesses as they will typically go to big box chain stores for their groceries and essentials In addition, the city's services are not very good as their public transit system operates on weekdays only, and persons with disabilities have no day programs.

@@HalifaxHerculesSounds to a certain extent like Invercargill. There is a growing senior population here and the paper mill at Mataura closed a long time ago. A lot of government service industries moved out of provincial areas during the 1990's. The island harbor at Bluff brcame largely redundant with its meat loader machines. That was built in late 1950's early 60's era. I think it was most paid for by Southland but I'm not certain if it was superceded with the port Chalmers container port before there was money payback for the investment. There is now talk of hydrogen production as the Tiwai smelter was going to close but it may not close now because the government reduced its electricity cost. I don't know if hydrogen as a fuel will ever be considered economic. There is talk of a computer server data centre at Makarewa. I have not seen any sign of construction yet. Something like a data centre could attract a lot of technical people that would spawn other computer related jobs. It would use quite a bit of the electricity that was going to be surplus, from Manapouri if the smelter was closing. The smelter closing might have been a good thing if it caused many more technical industries to spawn. The government may not see any need now. I do think towns/cities need to attract people that are in the future industries and jobs otherwise they may die.

Tokoroa and Huntly maybe, but there are much worse places than the other ones mentioned: Milton, Greymouth, Hawera, Dargaville, Waimate just to name a few.

@@rockkid8306 Dargaville. I think that might be the winner.

I lived in Tokoroa for 5 years in the early 2000's and we were nervous about moving there from Cambridge as it had a bad reputation for gangs but it was great. My kids went to a brilliant (and big) primary school, the sports clubs were friendly and we made lovely friends. We lived on a farm right on the town boundary. The supermarket was really decent and facilities like doctors were awesome. It might have looked a bit sad driving through it but was really a good place to live

@@catherinezenovich5483 I have been wrong in my lifetime. I’m only going on reputation. Glad to hear your time in Tokoroa was good and it’s not what its reputation is. I grew up in Upper Hutt, which is a hole, but which is also nowhere nearly as bad as people in Wellington might have you believe.

Been to both and I preferred Gore over Invercargill.

Cannot change the weather unless climate change with green house gases warms it up but then other northern places would get too hot. Everyone would want to come. It would be a metropolis with hardly anything to provide enough food or money for everyone. It would not just be Invercargill that would force attract people. It would be south of South America. Northern Canada. Siberia, Scandinavia. Maybe also parts of Antarctic. Would that be sustainable for 8 billion or more people? All the different nationalities and races crowded together. Imagine it.

Where'd you end up?

It's a girl 😨

@@russellturner1909 She looked like she could scrub up quite nicely if she made an effort. She had a great smile and nice eyes and bone structure to her face.

I take it you never went into town in Wellington…

@@danieleyre8913 I lived there for around 5 years, I'm pretty sure I made it into the city a few times since I worked for an agency on lambton quay 😬

@@fancyfeast4610 All those hills and scrub on Lambton quay you had to negotiate…

Then get out there and make themselves yourselves, who is stopping you? What a weird comment to make.

nah nothing would get done whr3e. Men build everything in the world

Tell me more about this "Maori Curse" please !

@@Kult365 Apparently... You'll have to do the work on this one yourself !

@@Kult365 most Māori (sp?) that I have seen interviewed on RU-vid, and I have never been to NZ, seem to enjoy playing cruel jokes on the “Scottish hipsters” that occupy most of the island. “Dunedin”, “Invercargill”, “Wellington”, could I even be bothered… 😴

Is there anybody down there?!

Is it that bad? I am actually thinking of moving there 😅

These are ferals…….

This is Invercargill. Most people in Nz aren’t that badly attired.

I was thinking he could of interviewed a more mature lot.

Do what you want and we'll keep living how we want mate. If your too high fluton for a casual lifestyle then you just go do that

@@danieleyre8913 Most people in Invercargill aren't badly attired either. This guy went out and picked the most fashion backward people he could find to interview! People here buy their clothes from exactly the same chain stores as every other city in the country