JaseNZ:

 

Have a board with no rural members cause it's all about the white collars.

 

Even then the Nats are doing a terrible job at advocating for any middle class professional who doesn't own an investment property. 

Yes, they're in a good place on rural issue thanks to the Government's weird as hell water reforms and the emissions on vehicles feebate scheme is lacking a bit of natural justice, but even as a white collar, Auckland-based professional, there's literally nothing there that they offer me, other than the right to terrorise my children based on what I think their gender should be. 

The trade-offs I'd be making is even more expensive housing, population pressure and a lack of infrastructure (apart from superhighways in rural areas).

Not exactly the deal of the century, is it?