Twizel

Waipukaro, the pub Waipukaro, that is 131 Ruataniwha Street.

56 and 9 Gastropub and Sports Bar, 13 Tasman Road and Twizel, and Do Amaru, 1 West Street, that is Sports Central Brewhouse.

If you want to check out where your local is, just text PARTY to 3520.

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And my wife and I, we can easily see the weather station and decide what we're going to wear in terms of what I need to wear early in the morning at 6 a.m. when I leave to cycle into the power station.

And then I also verify that against YR to work out what the weather is doing in the power station because it's always five degrees colder in Twizel compared to Lake Ohau.

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I can hear the Radiohead influence in a great way.

And your next song is called Twizel.

And I think this is written by your missing band member today.

Our ghost.

Yeah.

And it's kind of about him being and, you know, falling in love.

And, you know, they went to Twizel on their honeymoon.

And then it was kind of like they were going to be separated for a while.

And, you know, why is that? Because their economy is good.

Because, you know, in Southland, for example, or Central Otago, I was reading a story the other day, in Twizel, there's a guy there talking about how he stopped having an Airbnb because it was too much hassle.

And he now rents property to the people who work at the local salmon farm.

And he's looking to buy more properties and increase his portfolio and do the same thing because it's so good.

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I took my eight-week-old to the Twizel Salmon and Wine Festival.

Oh.

You can't miss the Twizel Salmon and Wine Festival.

We live in Dunedin, so it's a full road trip and weekend away.

How bloody good.

I want to go to the Twizel Salmon and Wine Festival.

Yeah, why hasn't Twizel invited you and I to the Salmon and Wine Festival? Did we go salmon fishing in Twizel? Is that where we were? No, it was in Wanaka.

However, if we look at where affordability is slipping away, it's in some of the smaller towns.

So if we look at Mackenzie District, that's where Twizel is, everybody, 'cause I keep talking smack about-

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Twizel, one of the worst places to buy a house in New Zealand-

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Their long-term average is 40% tax, 40% of your average household income to buy the average house with a 20% deposit and afford that mortgage payment.

He's a builder.

He's been doing lots of flips in Twizel.

So he said to me, "Pass on to Ed to stop talking about Twizel."

Well, now wait, wait a second.

I had somebody stop me on a plane, I've told this story on the show before-

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... who said, "Thank you.

You've been bagging on Twizel, and you stopped me from making a bad decision." Though the one thing that I'd say is when I bag on Twizel-