Left or right

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.

If 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.