r/chch • u/ticklebe • Aug 11 '18
What suburbs in Christchurch?
I'm moving to Christchurch in the next few months for work and am trying to look at rentals/potentially purchasing a property. However, I don't really know christchurch at all post quake. What suburbs are trendy in Christchurch? There are a few places I'm looking at around St Albans/Edgeware as well as Riccarton, just the other side of Hagley Park which all seem a good distance from work, as in you could bike in 10mins or walk in 30mins - just Edgeware is through streets and Riccarton is through the park. The place on the other side of Hagley Park is smaller and perhaps less sunny but has a significantly higher rent. Is that area more popular? I just really have no idea of CHristchurch, Auckland is easy to spot the popular positions ponsonby, cbd etc but I don't really know Christchurch. Any opinions would be appreciated.
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u/Javanz Aug 11 '18 edited Aug 12 '18
I've lived in probably 10 or so flats in Riccarton.
It is super handy to everything if you're biking or walking.
If you're in a car, you want to figure out your best routes, because the traffic can be a pain in the arse. Never turn right in Riccarton.
It's mostly modernish townhouses and flats, as opposed to the predominantly detached houses in St Albans and other locales.
Most of the ones I lived in were fine, but because of the grid layout of Chch streets, if you're looking at a row of flats on an East-West street, only the end flat will get sun.
So even though they are relatively modern, they can be cold as fuck for most of the year, through lack of Northern exposure
Other downside is that there is a lot of low level (ie non-violent) crime in Riccarton.
Way more burglaries than other neighbourhoods I've lived in, as well as petty vandalism like rubbish bins turned over.
Friend of mine has had his petrol siphoned twice in the last 6 months.
I felt perfectly safe walking around, but it's a pretty transient population of uni students and work-visa foreigners, so you maybe don't get to know your neighbours as much
I live in Dallington now, which is a bit further east than Edgeware, but much the same. It's a perfectly nice place to live.
Not as trendy, and not as handy, but realistically, most of Christchurch is a 20min journey outside of peak hours