If you think hell is other people, then cities aren’t a great place to live.

We are all at least a little bit annoying. We all impose small bits of nuisance. Those of us unwilling to live in an off-grid hermit’s shack have to find tolerable ways of accommodating each other.

There are no perfect solutions. But surely improvements on New Zealand’s status quo are possible.

To read the article on the Newsroom website, click here.