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Title: I am not to be a JAFA
Post by: Sandinista on 06 September 2015, 10:24:36 PM
My wife has been offered a job i Kaikohe in Northland, so no urban metropolis for me. I wonder if there will be a gemer within 100km though  :)

17 days until I depart the UK...

cheer
Ian
Title: Re: I am not to be a JAFA
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 06 September 2015, 10:53:36 PM
Where!?!
Title: Re: I am not to be a JAFA
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 06 September 2015, 10:56:22 PM
Okay, found it...
I think youse be right, population 4000!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaikohe
Title: Re: I am not to be a JAFA
Post by: Sandinista on 06 September 2015, 11:02:52 PM
Yes, arse end of nowhere - but near the in-laws ...  :-\

cheers
Ian
Title: Re: I am not to be a JAFA
Post by: barbarian on 06 September 2015, 11:15:15 PM
"the hub of the north"...my god.
Title: Re: I am not to be a JAFA
Post by: Leon on 06 September 2015, 11:46:45 PM
Quote from: Sandinista on 06 September 2015, 11:02:52 PM
...but near the in-laws ...  :-\

Coincidence...  :-\
Title: Re: I am not to be a JAFA
Post by: Orcs on 07 September 2015, 04:32:33 AM
HMMM ! seems you have a problem. :-\

I have thought this through and have coem up with a couple of solutions

1 As its New Zealand there will inevitably be plently of Sheep around.  You could train them to wargame.  This may get you a reputation though
2 Let your wife go on her own.  This would give you plenty of free time to paint and game.  You could then visit her at your convenience  :-bd
3 Become a Solo player, but playing with yourself is so much less fun than someone else playing with you.  @-)
4 Find a new wife. Expensive but could be fun.  The real downside is you need to do all that training again. :d


Serously Good luck in your New Adventure and be thankful that Pendraken do international postage 


Title: Re: I am not to be a JAFA
Post by: paulr on 07 September 2015, 05:13:21 AM
Welcome to the NZ Wargaming scene, there are a few gamers in Northland so you may be in luck :-h

I suggest you join the NZWargaming_Discuss yahoo group. It will give you an overview of what is going on and the chance to ask about gamers near Kaikohe

Quote from: Sandinista on 06 September 2015, 10:24:36 PM
I wonder if there will be a gemer within 100km though  :)

There appears to be a club in Whangarei http://www.whangareiwargaming.org (http://www.whangareiwargaming.org), less than 90km away  ;)
Not sure what they play :-\

PS I'm curious what sort of work your wife has found in Kaikohe
Title: Re: I am not to be a JAFA
Post by: FierceKitty on 07 September 2015, 06:24:01 AM
Quote from: Sandinista on 06 September 2015, 10:24:36 PM
My wife has been offered a job i Kaikohe in Northland, so no urban metropolis for me. I wonder if there will be a gemer within 100km though  :)

17 days until I depart the UK...

cheer
Ian

Are there any such things as rural metropolises?
Title: Re: I am not to be a JAFA
Post by: Techno on 07 September 2015, 07:23:51 AM
Definitely wish you all the best, Ian.
Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: I am not to be a JAFA
Post by: petercooman on 07 September 2015, 08:25:28 AM
Good luck!

Time to enlist for nosher's online campaign  :P
Title: Re: I am not to be a JAFA
Post by: Kiwidave on 07 September 2015, 08:37:53 AM
All the best for the move. I envy you - I've been trying to emigrate (go home?) for over a year, but as everything hangs on the sale of my flat, nothing has happened yet... :'(

You may find the odd gamer or two in Kerikeri as well as Whangarei. If you get really desperate, Auckland is only 3 hours drive or so :D
Title: Re: I am not to be a JAFA
Post by: toxicpixie on 07 September 2015, 10:24:23 AM
Good luck! You start a whole new scene from scratch if there's no one else already hooked on pushing lead ;)
Title: Re: I am not to be a JAFA
Post by: Sandinista on 07 September 2015, 10:38:43 AM
Quote from: paulr on 07 September 2015, 05:13:21 AM
I'm curious what sort of work your wife has found in Kaikohe

IT support at the council
Title: Re: I am not to be a JAFA
Post by: Tawa on 07 September 2015, 05:59:06 PM
Good luck!  :)
Title: Re: I am not to be a JAFA
Post by: pierre the shy on 07 September 2015, 10:26:18 PM
Welcome to NZ Sandinista  :)

You'll find northland a bit more tropical than
Wellington, but if you're ever down here do look
us up......sure of a warm welcome and getting something
to command.

hope the move goes well.

cheers
Peter
Title: Re: I am not to be a JAFA
Post by: paulr on 07 September 2015, 10:27:45 PM
Quote from: Sandinista on 07 September 2015, 10:38:43 AM
IT support at the council

Cool

Best of luck with the move, and as Peter says if your ever down the other end of the North Island we can find you some Pendraken lead to push around  :)
Title: Re: I am not to be a JAFA
Post by: Sandinista on 07 September 2015, 11:20:40 PM
Thanks, I will be visiting Palmerston North quite often as an old school friend works there, so not to far away for a day trip  :)

Cheers
Ian
Title: Re: I am not to be a JAFA
Post by: paulr on 08 September 2015, 10:12:25 PM
Peter & I have a mutual Wargames friend who lives in Palmerston North so we might even be able to organise something up there :)
Title: Re: I am not to be a JAFA
Post by: Orcs on 10 September 2015, 08:24:02 PM
I had to look the acronym JAFA up, as i thought he was not going to allow himself to be the subject of a vasectomy. ;D
Title: Re: I am not to be a JAFA
Post by: Subedai on 10 September 2015, 08:58:17 PM
I first read it as something to do with Stargate. Boy, when I checked the acronym as well, how wrong was I.