Auckland Region VillageTown

Within 2 hours of Auckland Airport

If you are able to move your job to the village...

For the most part, the village will be occupied by people who can bring their work with them, start a business because the village exists, or people who work in jobs created by such businesses. Telepresence - the ability to be sufficiently present somewhere else because of the internet - is the shift in technology that makes parallel villages viable. The village organising company will make a concerted effort to recruit such people, for they make up the critical mass essential to making the local economy work. In order to attract such people, the village must be a great place to live - the centre of the universe, as one fellow described it. In fact, if ten, twenty or fifty such villages were to be built in Australia, it would change, in a favourable way, the very character of the country as such villages would become primary destinations for visitors seeking an enriched experience.

The parallel village operates with a local economy. This means the people who will move to and work in the village will fit in one of several primary groups:

  1. Self employed people who can work anywhere they have good broadband, overnight delivery and access to an airport when they need to travel
  2. Teleworkers whose employer agrees to let them work using telepresence
  3. Employees of the above two groups
  4. Owners, operators and workers in the Industrial Park
  5. Local businesses, services and industries that sell local to local, including village corporation employees, professionals, shops and cafés, etc.
  6. Creative class where income comes to them from outside (example, actors who run a theatre that attracts a nationwide audience or engineers who invent new things)
  7. Retired persons - if the national average is represented, the base pension alone brings in over $30 million/year.
  8. Students - Primary and secondary students (about 20% of the population) bring in significant state payments for their education
  9. Students - Third year abroad students from an overseas university with a permanent base in the village
Of course, absent from this list are commuters who work in a nearby city or town and commute every day. While there are no rules prohibiting this, the selection of a village site is generally better if it is outside the suburban development ring for commuters.