Noth­ing more than a Wel­ling­ton obser­va­tion really but have you noticed how all the “good” shops are on the left-hand side of the road.

“Good” being determ­ined by those that have buck­ets of money to spend on the flashest shop fronts – noth­ing to do with the qual­ity of ser­vice or products.

And of course “right” and “left” are sub­ject­ive – depends which way you’re going.

Nev­er­the­less, here are a few examples to try and get our slightly dodgy point across:

  • Dix­on Street: Cour­tenay Place to Wil­lis Street
  • Lamb­ton Quay: Wil­lis Street to par­lia­ment end
  • Cour­tenay Place: Molly’s down to The Embassy
  • Pipetea Quay – nearly all shop­ping on the one side of the road.

OK, OK we admit it we’re shoe-horn­ing the argu­ment into a “left/right” stance. But there’s def­in­itely a one-sided view of many of the streets with­in Wel­ling­ton.

We won­der how much, if any, dif­fer­ence there is in rent either side of the tracks. Here in Wel­ling­ton­ist Towers we’re def­in­itely on the cheap­er side what with the ‘house of ill repute’ one side and the dis­used car yard on the oth­er.

And a the­ory as to why. After much argu­ment amongst the Wel­ling­tonis­tas with only Nat­alie able to keep her voice below scream­ing volume (it’s hard to scream via a web­cam) this was the res­ult.

Every­body wants a view of the har­bour.

Looking in since 1909If you ima­gine all the Wel­ling­ton build­ings are people then they’re all stand­ing with their backs to the hills and star­ing out towards the har­bour. If you’re stand­ing in front of someone big then you’re told to squat down and look back­wards.

Of course, for every the­ory there’s a fly in the oint­ment.
In this case the biggest fly in our the­ory is Kirks .. stand­ing there, with it’s back to the har­bour and not caring.