Why Invercargill is one of the bleakest places to be a young person 

Lol, nah man. When it comes to Invercargill, the grass is definately greener if you're smart enough to leave.

Haha exactly...fuck off it's a shithole hahaha

Too late Graeme...the secret is getting out there lol

Catlins, Bluff, Riverton, Stewart Island, etc. All on the up. Winton has never looked better! Southland is more than just Invercargill.

🤣🤣🤣 love it

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Sorry for your loss!!

I am so sorry 😥

Listen to the Invercargill march. It's an Anzac march that comes from Invercargill that has absorbed into Australian military culture and is played at Anzac days across Australia every year :) Invercargill march

Lol

Invercargill is a nice small city, but if you haven't noticed already we're in the process of getting several construction projects done for providing a major upgrade and revitalizement to our city. Invercargill is a nice small city, but we faced a number of problems with the city, the lack of new developments for years were not doing great for the city, we still have a lot of buildings that have untenanted for years, a lot of our building stock is neglected and left to rot, and some aren't suitable for modern use these days, buildings fall below the current building standard, the demand for space became very evident and we had poor foot traffic. We needed these issues to change now so developers have now decided to get a whole block redeveloped, a brand new hotel and several other projects were announced and completed

30mins south would putyou i the ocean

@@dufus7396 Otahuti actually

Oreti Beach.....the only real beach in the universe

@@dufus7396 yeah, nah I prefer Waikiki in Hawaii

In breeding

Spot on

When I went down there I was shocked too

@@birdlover6842 you are blind ...

Haha I live in chch and we say the same about everyone up north sounds like a poly/Māori/ English mix

Wealthy for who though? Certainly not for the majority of the population, moving outwards is the go, more opportunities for career growth.

yes you are right , southland have lot plain areas,,its enough built more industrial places and factory,

@@dangerboy1111 Most of Southland's indigenous forest and shrubland is under legal protections, and we've already lost 90% of our wetlands before they started coming under Environment Southland. The only way you're going to be able to industrialize Southland is by getting rid of already in use farmland which is going to be really difficult since Southland alone has around 11% of NZ's total national dairy herd.

I lived in Auckland it’s a dump i like seafood and Southland is the spot for that

In 3 years when the mall is a happening place this video will look ill-informed.

Invercargill is going to build a mall and knock down historical buildings? That is ridiculously backward. Note to Tim Shadbolt: Malls are dying across the world because of online retail. They’re now seen as a curse that kill off town centres. This would be the only new shopping mall I’ve heard of anyone building anywhere in over a decade. Historical buildings can be a tourist draw card.

@@danieleyre8913 Well the buildings are so far gone that it's either knock them down or wait for a minor earthquake and they all fall down. But I agree about the mall. It's going to be as dead as the shops which were originally there. Should have built it in the 90's when they first talked about it.

@@kn397 getting the old buildings renovated and earthquake strengthened would probably cost as much as knocking them down and building a mall. People like quaint Edwardian architecture, not gross empty malls. To be honest; Invercargill should count itself lucky it never built a mall.

@@danieleyre8913 it's 'arcades' which were close enough to malls were all empty and horrible. I wonder what this mall is going to be like... spoiler alert empty and horrible.

Did you uh- have the ‘Hargest Way’ back then too? Genuinely curious.

Bingo.

Ah no. Rio Tinto is not any charity. They’re a corporation and they don’t owe Invercargill anything. If they’re really one of the most profitable corporations in earth; they won’t remain so if they continue to operate or invest into facilities that make losses like Tiwai point. I can remember 30 years ago; questions were being asked about the Tiwai point smelter and its long term future, especially when the bottom fell out of the aluminium market when the Cold War cut the military aerospace industry. Even during the 80s; many people in NZ said it shouldn’t have been built because it was basically Muldoon giving corporate welfare to Australian company Comalco and some Japanese company.

Rio Tinto runs a very successful operation, they use power supplied by a dedicated power station totally separate from the national grid, the government agreed to run and maintain that supply at discount cost. RioTinto is being charged millions extra to maintain infrastructure that was never part of the agreement.

@@idenhlm are you using Tonto on purpose? 😂😂😂😂😂

@@ikerdelpalacio5160 No spell check issue.

Some places here are pretty bad tho heaps of gang violence in certain parts

u need pressurized goverment

They're probably not buying houses at the lower end of the market, well above the average price for Invercargill I'd say

Nah it's a hole, so glad I left

I live there in 2020 it's seems like any other town but under the surface it is super racist and racial hatred is accepted in parts of the community. It was also rumoured Invercargill has a KKK satanic death cult. So hope your not brown or black. This is the honest truth never going back.

Well there we are,God's telling you something?!Always need more people here!

@@geraldperyman6535 Haha maybe you're right! I would love to visit and buy you a beer one day mate!

@@Tagikakibau I'm in the increasingly thin phone book!

Invercargill won't be that bleak in the future, thanks to an entire block currently being redeveloped and a new hotel being built, as well Paknsave being redeveloped and a new Kmart. For the block redevelopment project the developers saw the city looking so tired, not enough modern in the city, so many neglected empty buildings left to rot rather than used and some of these buildings below the modern building standard, lack of space, poor foot traffic, and no proper spaces to meet, socialize, shop and eat, basically from all these reasons there was no heart to the city, so it was decided now is the time to do something about some of these neglected buildings and bring some modern in the city to revitalize it, the block boarded by Esk, Dee, Kelvin, and Tay St which was mostly neglected empty buildings were mostly demolished except for a few buildings and the facades of 3 three heritage buildings and a mall is being built

​@Lotr2987 the problem is the people. Old fashioned, insular, unfriendly, unhelpful.

I lived for couple of months back in 2014 and it was already really down.. Literally empty streets everyday. People super nice though.

It's not true. Invercargill is a great place and jobs are plenty.

Which intake are you planning to go for ? Yu got admission?

Hey all, I myself considering it. May be july 20 intake if everything goes fine. Lets connect!!!!

@@hanu1540 share ur email.

Run

The Drifters are from New York City!

@@cascade3769 the band in invercargill they themselves the drifters they had to change it latter

Indeed...

Shit for you and at 16 you know sweet FA ...i see not much has changed LoL

Well. I think the whole point is that people need to turn off their wifis and be able to enjoy a great town full of options activites and celebrations...unfortunately invercagil is not known for that. The council is to blaim as they could invest more in development and tourism.

@@edineujunior aw so true what do you want to celebrate?

Dillon Kirton, why don't you come out and breathe the fresh NZ air or go boating, surfing or so on? Sitting at home is totally unhealthy 😃.

@@thetelevizoroff I cant swim

@@thetelevizoroff He can always surf the internet. lol.

Haii

$400, 000 is peanuts nowdays. Not really worth mentioning.

Audio was perfect when i listened to it

Enjoy your cave.

@@idenhlm Huh?

@@danieleyre8913 Invercargill is actually a city that has had everything going for it for many years, why revert to such a view. NZ needs large industry it cannot continue based solely on the primary sector.

@@idenhlm New Zealand has long moved on from the primary sector! It's been more than 50 years since most of NZ's economy was based upon financial services. And how of a step-up from "the primary sector" is aluminium anyway? It's still a traded raw commodity. Invercargill was never at any point much of a place. It maybe was a place booming during the gold rush of the 1860's, but beyond that it's just been a provincial city that serves mainly as a rural serving centre.

whats the bigger risk? reaming where you are or giving something else a chance? if you are ready to move on - JUST DO IT!

Where do you come from?

@@fancyfeast5086 me? I’m an expat from Austria in NZ considering moving to Invercargill from PalmerstonNorth

@@daDaVoRee i was asking mitre but hey if you wanna come down do it. Very hard to get accomodation at present tho. A lot of people desperate since everyone comes down here for SIT and takes up all the rentals. Just don't have the infrastructure to facilitate the influx to be honest. Tim shadbolt failed to factor that into his attempt to stimulate the local economy with SIT. All it did was drive up accomodation costs and availability. But if you have the money to buy, it's great even though house prices are getting close to national average, they are still relatively cheap down here.

@@fancyfeast5086 I am from Germany, why? Did the stimulus work so far (apart from the rising rents)? Also, how is the job market doing, considering the ongoing pandemic?

yep i live there and it is actually really beutiful right now in 2021 and the buildings are amazing

I grew up there. It's a great place... to leave.

Iam from india iam planing to move inver cargil for joining sit can any one help me, is it worth to study there

Rarely snows, sometimes the snow disappears when the day warms. However, some years the snow stays around for a while. Nothing to grumble about.

@@bazza945 thanks for your answer. Do you feel the climate warming there? More hot summers, warmer winters? Or everything is ordinary

I went there too mate

The entire reason that the smelter even exists to begin with is the Manapouri hydroelectric dam. In case you never noticed; there’s no bauxite being mined in NZ; all the alumina is imported. Smelter’s need a colossal amount of electricity.

The manapouri power station was built solely for the smelter under an agreed contract. The NZ gov has been reneging on the terms ever since.

Above ground hydrogen bomb testing sight .

Testing ground for air dropped nuclear bombs...... , nothing worth harming .

Catlins, Bluff, Riverton, Stewart Island, etc. Winton has never looked better! Southland is more than just Invercargill.

So is Siberia.....

@@nakedlakedip57 Riiiight, but Siberia is not a city. Try again.

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I grew up there and left at 15, I’ve been gone almost 30 years. The high schools are brutal, if you’re good at something, attractive or stand out in any way you’ll be bullied and bashed. Happened to me any other people I know from there.

Are you joking. Looks nothing like Belfast

@@clivehope8409 you mean it looks better 🤣

Yip come here to study. If you're into the night life, bars etc.... then invers isn't the best. However what a lot of people forget is invercargill has many beautiful places within a 15min drive for outdoor activities. Another thing is there is a pretty good work life balance compared with cities as once again, everything is close by so you're spending no time in traffic. Another good thing is invers is a doorway to many beautiful places, within 2-3 hours drive you could be in central otago like qt, wanaka, dunedin, Te Anau & milford sound.

I thank you for your answer, but I worry about if I will have opportunity to work. I'm leaving everything in Brazil to go to Invercargill. So now, imagine if I go and I don't find jog for taking care of my family. Do you believe the Invercargill's economy will rise again or not ?

@@weberlima7587 invercargill is actually in pretty good shape. We're spending a couple hundred million on the redevelopment of the city center which wouldn't be done without a return on investment. If you do well with your studies you will find many doors are open for you inside invercargill and other areas around the country:)

@SpamSardine shit I had to read your reply a few times as it was so poorly written. Okay first point, and gauging by your intelligence I only need to make one point. There's a little thing called a "return on investment " Now $200M wouldn't have been spent if there wasn't going to be a return on that investment 😂

As you see from likes of @SpamSardine, we also have some narrow minded idiots that don't want outsiders coming through. Unlike this person we don't all marry our cousins and welcome new people😂 it's a great place and there's only one way to find out

I totally agree. Nice lot.

Put your headphones on and you can listen what he's saying

H i r o draw but is true ??

It's not true, this video is bull shit. Ton's of jobs and lovely people.

Me too!! Lets connect

0:23 this block is being redeveloped, some of the buildings you see in that shot are actually gone now, the redevelopment will offer many jobs

@@salient_one No jobs at all. What have you been smoking?

Which government sold it to overseas buyers?

Nah g