Part of a Cityscape series presenting the opinions of real people who live in Christchurch's central city: Max Lucas

Which neighbourhood do you live in? SALT district, Atlas Quarter.

How’s the vibe there? Urban. Secure. Private. Great community.

Your neighbours are... Winnie Bagos, The Welder, South City, Pak’nSave.

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Why do you choose to live in the four aves? The excitement of a ‘new’ city.

Biggest drawcard? Access, by foot mostly, to virtually everything we need.

Biggest drawback? None that i can think of.

Fave local coffee? Unkown Chapter but wow! What a choice we have!

Food? Soooo many choices! The Clever Trevor at Joe's Garage, liver & bacon at The Butcher’s Mistress.

Entertainment? A Rolling Stone, or falling asleep in front of the telly.

Retail? Not really into retail as we have everything we need plus there's not a lot of room in our apartment for more ‘stuff’.

How do you get around? Foot and bus.

What’s your occupation? Retired. Ex travel agent. I volunteer at Walk Christchurch and at CoCA and at the art gallery.

Can you describe the Christchurch of the future in once sentence? So, so, so exciting.

Why should other people move here now? The more people, the more vibrancy.