Wellington – more flat whites, fewer faux pas

Wellington – more flat whites, fewer faux pas
If the Koru lounge was a city, that city would be Wellington. (Image: Getty)
Chamanthie Sinhalage-Fonseka
In 2020, I relinquished my ‘Wellingtonian’ badge and returned to Auckland to live and work for the first time in 14 years.At the time, I expected that my years in the PR trenches of Wellington City would bear very little relevance to the life or new job that lay ahead in Auckland. I'm certainly not the first person to note that our two most important cities are – on the whole – quite mystified when it comes to doing business with each other.Wellingtonian colleagues have, in the past, said they consider Auckland...

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