One of the great mysteries of life about living in God's Own is, why does everyone want to live in the City of Fails?

Well maybe not everyone, but Auckland's bursting at the seams and its roads are in gridlock. It can cost you as much hiring a taxi from the airport into the CBD as is costs for an airfare from the capital.

Forget about buying a house within walking distance of the city, unless you've just won the Lotto jackpot.

It's hard to see what the draw card is when you can live in a city like Wellington, where walking from one side of it to the other takes around half an hour. Where the entertainment sector is at least a match for our biggest city, and where restaurants abound and are every bit as good, if not better than those in the big smoke.

And most importantly you can buy a house for half the price it costs you to get across the threshold in Auckland.

In the capital you don't have to drive to the beach and there are many to chose from. For the hardy, even year round surfing's an option, providing you're got a good wetsuit that is.

So bad is traffic congestion in the smoke that the city fathers sat down with the Nats to try and come up with a plan to force people out of their cars and into the trains the buses. They left their meeting none the wiser though, saying they'll think about the options over the next year before putting their ideas to the Beehive.

The man who's sure to throw his hat into next year's mayoral race in the super city is Phil Goff who's obviously a masochist. He couldn't do a worse job than lascivious Len Brown though who was party to the talks that failed to address the burning issues.

Goff says it was a copout, while the city's streets clog with cars, commuters who decide to put their faith in public transport are going to be sorely disappointed. He reckons the Britomart railway station will be so congested by 2018, that during the afternoon peak hours, commuters will be turned away.

Even though rail usage has increased by 22 percent over the past year, funding for the City Rail Link has been delayed. And the Productivity Commission says the congestion's costing the country one and a half billion bucks a year and that's not accounting for the grumpy workers once they finally make it to the shop floor.

That's it for now, time to walk home and breathe the fresh air of Wellington!