Spurred by a Herald article yesterday, my kids and I went for a walk (well, we do most days but this one had a specific purpose). The newspaper was reporting new Auckland university research showing – shock, horror – that.
“Sixty-nine per cent of urban schools have a convenience store within 800m and 62 per cent have a fast-food or takeaway shop in that distance”
Frankly, I was surprised the number was that low, but then in Wellington one finds small schools in all sorts of odd nooks and crannies. My three kids now go to three different schools, and each of the schools has shops nearby. But, as it was nearest, we walked around the area that encircles my youngest child’s decile 10 primary school. And what did we find?
On the first corner:
- a dairy
- a specialist pie shop
On the next corner:
- two dairies
- the Empire Cinema, with…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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