A new crop of innovators and startups is gaining an edge in the slower pace of the Manawatū.

He’s young, he’s relentless, and he claims to care more about the beauty of his creations than the money they make him. Matt Stark is a new kind of property developer and he’s hopelessly devoted to The Tron.

Sell up and move to Tauranga for a better, more affordable lifestyle? Keri Welham finds Tauranga is still desirable, but housing and wages mean it may now be out of reach.