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Why is New Zealand better than the U.S.?
I’ve been researching New Zealand for several weeks now, and it sounds like the best place in the world. Especially since my interests are: outdoor activities, adventure, surfing, snowboarding, etc. I enjoy socializing, but I also LOVE my peace and tranquility. I feel like in the U.S. I can’t escape this concrete jungle that surrounds me day in and day out. I would love some Kiwi input on the pro’s and con’s of living in New Zealand. For example; government, health care, climate, opportunity, etc. For a reference point, I live in Virginia. Thank you so much, I hope to hear some good answers that will help me make up a decision on whether or not to move there.
Thanks for noticing, weve always thought its a great country too. you asked a lot of questions, but Im just gonna wing it………we have a democracy style socialist type of government, the prime minister is a woman called Helen Clark, she seems to be always under attack from the main opposition party, but we have the MMP type of government, which apparently we voted in about 10 years ago, it differs from the 2 party election thing you guys have over there. Climate wise we get tons of sunshine in the summers and the usual coldness and rain in the winters. This summer has been balmy with anything from 22C – 30C (centigrade) Why do you Yanks insist on measuring in Farenheight?……
Anyhoo…..being such a small set of islands, everyone lives about 50 – 100 miles from a beach, so surf casting, fishing, diving, surfing and boating are real popular in NZ.
We have all kinds of terrain from snow fields to desert areas, high mounitain peaks, tons of green hills and about 40 million sheep. Also there is adventure tourism (bungy and gravity rides) national parks, lots of leafy wilderness, some exotic parrot like birds, dinosaur like lizards (Tuatara), rare penguins and rare dolphins, giant crabs, big fat oysters so big you only need 7 to make a dozen. Not only all that but the people are down to earth, generous, friendly, and technology savvy, but we are hampered by crap telecom infrastructure which means a lot of our websites take too long to load and businesses lose money. Currently our wages are not keeping up with Australia, (theyve got millions more people so can afford to pay more) over 50,000 kiwis have moved to Australia in the last year because of the relatively low wages that are paid here.
A good job wage here is about $700 a week after tax, the minimum wage is about $12.oo an hour which is chump change in anyones language. Of course the professionals make loads more than that, youll find all sorts of cool stuff in NZ, the thing I like most is that we are a very independant nation, the early pioneers had to make do with what they had on the islands, so we are a very practical people, most of us have camped out in the wild, or been eeling in the streams and creeks when we were kids, were an outdoorsey lot us Kiwis……so if you ever want to fly out for a visit hit me up again and Ill recommend some must see places ok?
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