Hi,
Welcome to the forum!

Well, in general, most people want to, and get advised to take a holiday first. However, we'd never been to NZ before, packed everything up and moved.

We love it and have never looked back, but I guess you can only take that as a personal experience. It's a hard one to call, and it would very much depend on your finances as to whether or not you take a holiday, or take a gamble. It worked for us, so there's always the possibility it could work for you.

The best advice I can give you would be to cram as much research as you can in to jobs, houses, schools, etc etc, pick an area you'd like to live and research that to death. If you like what you see, its worth the risk, if you are unsure, take a holiday.

All the best