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We are looking for more positivity, more enthusiasm, more drive, more motivation, more energy, more creativity, more freedom, more inspiration, more space, more tolerance, more smiles, more encouragement, more support, more understanding............you get it I know.
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I just noticed that some of my posts have been deleted but I had a long post and a great subsequent discussion about the general feelings from the NZ people we interviewed last year on our trip out to North Island and South Island.
I was going to refer you to it with regards to your expectations in NZ but I'll summarize it very briefly.
The people we interviewed in NZ were fairly eager to get out and move to Australia or somewhere else. I think during our visit elections were running because billboards all over NZ were highlighting the fact that 300 Kiwis were leaving NZ each week over to Australia or elsewhere. Many of the people we interviewed had the exact opposite emotions you just highlighted.
Enthusiasm? People were enthusiastic about leaving.
Tolerance? People had animosity against Asians for various reasons.
Freedom? Heavy taxation was a common complaint and an inability to escape NZ was another.
If you haven't already done so, I highly suggest you spend 3 to 6 weeks on vacation in NZ and truly get to know people. I interviewed anyone that would let me ask them questions. The car rental girl who drove us from the airport to the rental agency, the gondola boat guy who paddles us up and down the river in Christchurch, the politicians and workers we met in Wellington. The resort people we met in Taupo, and the waiter at the Sky Tower restaurant in Auckland. Everywhere we went we TALKED to people.
Unfortunately, this forum is filled with people that want to move TO NZ and not FROM NZ. Perhaps there should be a MoveFromNZ.org to counterbalance the issue.
I said it before and I'll say it again: We loved NZ and we would like to move there. Clearly, the goal of moving there isn't to make more money; I can do that 100 times better here in the US. The goal for *me* is to KEEP the money I have once I get there which is why I'm put off with the high taxation. I'm not adverse to paying my share for public services, I just don't want to pay my share and 3 other people's share too.
To borrow a phrase from a network I dislike greatly, we need more "FAIR & BALANCED" reporting on this forum.