We spent about a month and loved the quiet private property facing horse farm in the distance with lots of green from the windows. Within 10-15min of drive you can reach out to Riccarton and Papanui area where you have many restaurants and shopping malls. Nearest countdown super market is less than 5min drive near the Airport. Avonhead tavern was one of our favorite spot for beer with local kiwi atmosphere. We spent most of the time working remotely daytime and out for mountain bike ride in the evening and the internet connection had no problems with online meetings. Uploading speed is quite slow like 5Mbps so if you need to upload large data frequently, it is better to bring your own hot spot like I did. Great mountain bike spot at McLeans forest, Chistchruch Adventure Park, Bottle lake forest are well within 20min. drive. I will definitely come back again.