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'Porirua has ram-raided me and stolen my heart'
Relaxing at Titahi Bay, catching up with old friends and family, playing Housie or spotting supermarket trolleys in the harbour - going back home to Porirua is always a good time for RNZ's Corey Fuimaono.
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My Hometown: Gisborne
19 Jan 2024Coping with extreme, often traumatic, weather events is nothing new for the people of Tairāwhiti, says RNZ's chief executive and former resident Paul Thompson…
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Motueka: 'Who needed snow when you had hops?'
18 Jan 2024Tranquil Motueka now has traffic lights and a cinema, but still retains a certain charm, says proud former resident Simon Wraight.
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'The only good thing about Hamilton is that it’s close to somewhere else'
17 Jan 2024Jessica Keane has already heard every negative thing you've got to say about Hamilton. To tell the truth, she might even agree with some of them. But that…
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'Porirua has ram-raided me and stolen my heart'
20 Jan 2024Relaxing at Titahi Bay, catching up with old friends and family, playing Housie or spotting supermarket trolleys in the harbour - going back home to Porirua is always a good time for RNZ's Corey… Read more
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My Hometown: Gisborne
19 Jan 2024Coping with extreme, often traumatic, weather events is nothing new for the people of Tairāwhiti, says RNZ's chief executive and former resident Paul Thompson. Just don't call them resilient. Read more
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Motueka: 'Who needed snow when you had hops?'
18 Jan 2024Tranquil Motueka now has traffic lights and a cinema, but still retains a certain charm, says proud former resident Simon Wraight. Read more
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'The only good thing about Hamilton is that it’s close to somewhere else'
17 Jan 2024Jessica Keane has already heard every negative thing you've got to say about Hamilton. To tell the truth, she might even agree with some of them. But that doesn't mean she's not fond of her hometown.
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'My hometown is my mother's arms'
16 Jan 2024Home is where her heart is, writes Samantha Mythen, even if that has taken many different forms over the years. Read more
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'I tell people Napier has the best weather in New Zealand'
15 Jan 2024Mataruahou, Napier Hill, is a beautiful place – sunny, warm and usually calm. A naïve visitor would never know how natural disaster has shaped it. What impact will future events have on her hometown… Read more
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The duchess and her Stubbies-wearing hubby
14 Jan 2024In the 1980s, Carters Beach, south of Westport, had a dairy, a playing field, a kids’ fort and miles of beach. As far as Glen Scanlon was concerned, it was a small slice of heaven. Read more
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My Hometown: Auckland
13 Jan 2024Auckland may have its problems, but you just can't beat Tāmaki Makaurau on a good day says TAHI presenter So'omalo Iteni Schwalger. Read more
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Paekākāriki: 'It feels good not to cross the tracks'
12 Jan 2024Paekākāriki has long been a staging post along the coast, a place of refuge for dreamers, poets, artists, environmentalists and RNZ's own Mark Amery. Read more
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'You can always spot another Palmy person'
11 Jan 2024Te Papaioea, PNC, Palm Springs, or Swampton: whatever you might know Palmerston North as, Poppy Granger calls it home. Read more
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'Have I lost my right to call myself a Cantabrian?'
10 Jan 2024Katie Fitzgerald left Ōtautahi at one of the hardest times in its history and ended up settling in a city regarded as for softies. But she says Christchurch still has her heart. Read more
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'The places you grow up latch on to you'
9 Jan 2024Nevada County, California, is a weird place, founded in the gold rush days, and equal parts churchgoing middle class, suspicious backwoods folk and patchouli-scented hippies. For Nik Dirga, it'll… Read more
