#part of me does suspect they don't wanna acknowledge the massive issues here like the health crisis or the housing crisis

[david-watts]

got in trouble for telling the bloke on the architecture programme on the television to shut up and tbh it was worth it because I am sick to death of mainlanders going ‘ooughg the power,,,, of the landscape,,,,’ like fuck off

#you’re not even showing the best area of that particular area yet alone actually powerful landscapes #you won't do that because it's near a half-abandoned shack town without paved roads and sometimes there's whale carcasses #like there was when I went there #it's either the landscape or the wombats there's hardly ever any acknowledgement people live here #part of me does suspect they don't wanna acknowledge the massive issues here like the health crisis or the housing crisis #or that this place has a people history #which I think people don't want to acknowledge because of the black war and the resulting genocide #like yeah a good chunk of here is wilderness and it should be protected and celebrated but also there is so much. #I hesitate to say fetishism because that feels extreme. but it feels like that. #with all the mainlander or even international seachangers driving up the prices of everything because they're a lucrative market #and I understand that. since the manufacturing industry collapsed here and the poms stopped buying our apples #you gotta do what you gotta do. #but like. the air of exclusivity some people want is annoying at best #and shit like 'the power of the landscape' is fuelling that #I mean hell if we get acknowledged as being bigger sheepshaggers than the kiwis that's a start #idk. I'm just so annoyed because I'm terrified of needing to go to the hospital because there's a chance I mightn't get care #meanwhile the only references to here are how pretty the landscapes are. and when there's finally a discussion about failing hospital #systems we're never mentioned despite how bad the problem is here. y'know?