[KiwiHopeful]

I'm going to weigh in on the side of bringing everything you can, too. (Except the large appliances which, other problems not withstanding, probably won't fit in the small NZ homes.)

Some things are cheaper, other things are more expensive ... and still others are much, much more expensive. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to which items are which, though generally speaking electronics are less expensive than in the US.

I would second the quality point as well. In the Warehouse, I've seen cheap crap from China that even Wal-Mart wouldn't sell. Quality items are available, but they generally seem to come at a premium.

Don't get me wrong--this isn't the wild frontier, and things are not prohibitively expensive. However, I am having second thoughts about having given away or sold some of the things that I thought I wouldn't need or that I could replace here.