both. A big welcome to you.
Have you had a look at the various job sites to see what the job situation is like in Christchurch? It might give you some idea of what's available. Take a peek on the
NZ website list under Employment to give you a start.
With regard to travelling with your little one, I guess picking an airline that has a good stopover would help to break the journey and get you off the plane for a while. Have a look on the various travel websites to see how the timings work out. We had long stopovers of between 8 and 18 hours in Bangkok with Thai Air and Kuala Lumpur with Malaysia Airline and it did make quite a difference although we were flying from Oman. I don't know if this will be of any help but it tells you
how the various airlines shape up . Choosing an airline with cabin crew who are child-friendly will go a long way to easing your worries. You can click on links for some of the airlines and it will tell you how they rate with assisting familes with children. Unfortunately some either haven't been rated yet or are in the process of being rated but if you hunt around the site you can build up a general impression of how an airline performs.
There are quite a lot of companies who will deal with pension transfers. I believe you do need to be careful and watch out for pitfalls. On one site it says:
If you transfer your funds to a NZ scheme which is not a "Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Scheme" you may incur a tax deduction of up to 55% of the transferred funds.
We recommend extreme caution as new regulations coming into effect from April 2006 may severely disadvantage persons transferring pensions through inexperienced so-called "transfer experts". These persons may have no knowledge of the new regulations - or may choose not pass on this information because they do not have access to an approved scheme.
Before proceeding with any transfer of pension funds we suggest you request confirmation in writing from your New Zealand adviser that you will not be affected by the new penalty tax rules relating to transfers to overseas pension schemes, and the new rules concerning unauthorised payments made from overseas schemes.
The ASB has got an
online brochure covering this topic. Perhaps you can glean some information from that. Posting this site is not a recommendation as I have no experience of their services, it's purely for information.
