His partner, Ann Wright, lives in the Big Smoke too.
"That's one of the big reasons why I'm moving up there," says Mason before preparing to jet off to Christchurch with the Bay United team to play a crucial ASB Premiership match against Canterbury United tomorrow in a 2pm kick off.
The Bill Robertson-captained Bay United are mindful that, if they win tomorrow, then they are on the path to secure a top-two placing on the ladder too, which will not only ensure a premiership playoff but also a stint in the O-League.
Coach Chris Greatholder, having a squad with a "reasonably clean bill of health", says besides playing two winning games in a week in the last two rounds, they are ready. The visitors haven't had the rub of the artificial turf at ASB Football Park (formerly English Park).
"We've played there only three times and we lost all of them," says the coach, adding they got beaten badly in the last one because former Bay midfielder Cole Peverley was sent off leaving them to battle with 10 men for almost an hour.
"We're going to play an attacking game and not use the pitch as an excuse.
"We've got the tool of belief to go down there to pick up points. We need a draw to secure our position."
Greatholder was banking on the return of young striker Nathanael Hailemariam from injury, but that will be put on hold until the final round.
Striker Sean Lovemore returns from a match suspension, while defender Danny Wilson is unavailable in an otherwise unchanged squad.
Mason played for Island Bay United in the Capital Premier League last winter, but belonged to the Stop Out club before that.
Teammate David Mulligan is helping him sign up with Forest Hill Milford in Auckland this winter.
Bay United winger/defender Harley Rodeka is intending to join Mason, too, at Forest Hill.
No doubt, it was cutthroat trying to make the cut for the Team Wellington franchise in the past few summers.
"I had trials but they didn't take me. I also had more important things happening in my life at the time," says the former St Patrick Silverstream College pupil, who went through the Team Wellington youth ranks.
The sports science graduate has played six games for Bay United, starting or coming off the bench as striker, although he is equally adept on the wings.
"I try to hold the ball up as much as I can and feed it to the midfielders who have been scoring quite a few goals for us."
Mason says passing and moving the ball higher up the field and staying strong in the mould of Tomas Mosquera is his job description.
He has yet to find the net but it doesn't bother him.
"I'd definitely like to get some goals, but I can go without scoring for the whole season if the team just wins.
"It doesn't matter if the rightback scores 30 and strikers none as long as we win and that's all I care about."
He hastens to add he did score a goal against WaiBOP United but it was adjudged offside.
"It was debatable that one," he says but cracks up when told he had pitched up his tent on the far post and the ref's assistant had ruled correctly.
He takes pride in earning a penalty kick which Sean Morris slotted, though.
Mason is relishing the Bay United culture and training.
"We're a tight group of boys who work hard and play for each other so that's why we're doing pretty well in the league [premiership]."
The son of Maryanne and Edward Mason, a retired army officer, hails from a sporty background and his father's career meant health and fitness were ever present. He played rugby and soccer but always found himself gravitating towards the beautiful game from the age of about nine for a bloke with Maori and European ethnicity.
"I always had passion for sport so to do it as a job is quite cool.
"Dad's always followed rugby but ever since I was little I didn't fancy rugby so my parents took me to the local football club."
He is happy to play at an elite level and would like to do something special but his ambition to play for the Wellington Phoenix or the All Whites is somewhat guarded.
"I'm happy where I'm at right now," he explains, so if anything comes along he'll consider it.
Last October he played for a Samoa team, Kiwi FC, who qualified for the O-League in winning a tournament in American Samoa.
Six other Kiwis played for the Apia team in the preliminary tourney.
"I'm flying to play for them so I'll be representing Samoa in April," he says, mindful he'll have to be fit and fast in the 35C climates in the Pacific Islands.
Mason has relatives in Christchurch and his brother, Jordan, 21, has been working as a builder in Christchurch since the earthquake, so he's expecting some support for Bay United tomorrow.
