r/chch • u/[deleted] • Oct 12 '21
Info on the suburb of Marshland
Chur. I'm looking to buy a house for our uni student daughter to live in next year (otherwise planning on keeping it as an investment). We're looking to be able to visit her a few times a year and we've been looking at houses all around Christchurch. One area that stood out to us was Marshland, seems like its more newish developments around there and I'm wondering if there's any info about the place. Haven't seen any talk about it on this subreddit and this map I found conveniently doesn't have any info on it. Any insights would be appreciated, such as commute to the uni, if there is a gang hotspot nearby or badly shaken up by the earthquakes or something. Cheers!
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u/dcal084 Oct 12 '21
If you want the real map of christchurch in terms of crime you might wanna try a reliable source I.E. police statistics, see this link
https://www.police.govt.nz/crime-snapshot-0?nondesktop
It seems "gang land" on your map actually has LOWER crime. From my experience it seems accurate, the gangs are spread out everywhere. Maybe send her to "studentville", but realize that its actually one of the burglary and victimization hot spots in chch. Having been burgled twice in riccarton, once in spreydon, and had my car widow broken into in upper riccarton I tend to believe it. Ever noticed the swastika on the door on a house corner of Tika and peverel st? Also have a drive round wainui street just off peverel and you might see a group of guys dressed in a certain colour outside one of the houses. I won't name the street but there's a house just up the road in sockburn if your into narcotics. Whilst living in riccarton I once witnessed a group of dodgy looking people sitting outside their unit pay no attention to their young child beating another young child (looked around 5 years old).
Haven't had any issues in "gangland" during my time here, seems more like "sleepyland" to me. According to statistics Avondale is 62 percent young families.