We were thinking of moving using the skilled visa, which seems hard because we need a job offer prior to visa application. So if you have money you can just come?
Any Kiwis here can tell me if it’s a good country to immigrate to? I will have PhD soon, and want to contribute to open access research if possible.
So far the country looks great because we like slow life, but idk if that’s just for citizens or also for immigrants.
Hey there, a lot of our research institues are under budget cuts and some are being disbanded (callaghan innovation). I would suggest you contact universities and see if they are interested in any aspiring research fellows. I am a master’s student at Victoria University. My supervisor is currently in the works to help a professor (I think from MIT) come and work here. So even though my university is also under fire, I see a future where the immigration will actually produce a good environment for teaching and research here.
A big note is that we do have a right wing government at the moment, the most right wing it has been for sometime. Read on te tiriti and the hikoi against the treaty principles bill. We will have our next election in just over a years time, the last three polls show a preference for a left wing government.
Living costs are expensive. you will be spending a lot of money on rent (especially in Wellington) food and utilities. We have very poor public transport in the country, I hesitantly say our buses are okay but our trains are completely unreliable. A lot of our train routes end up getting replaced by buses because the trains are in such poor condition.
I have a couple friends from the US in Wellington, the main cultural integration I’ve heard them struggle with is the work culture. For the most part, work life balance is valued here, don’t stay at work after hours you will be repremanded.
Hopefully this is helpful :)
It was helpful, Thank you.
I’ll look into the politics.
Academia does seem a bit small for my field, and being an experienced professor probably would have helped compared to barely finishing PhD. I consider my skills flexible enough to work in a variety of industries, but to qualify for the skilled visa I’d have to find work in the industry I have degree in.
It’s basically warm Canada. My cousin moved there 30 years ago and said it’s so similiar he felt home as soon as he got there.
Nice place, but not particularly wealthy, and everything is expensive because it’s imported. Housing is expensive too. Also there’s the tension between the Maori people and the government. And the recent shift to the right hasn’t improved anything.
Seems like the right shift is kind of global. I don’t see any other country being a good choice either. And we did see the tension, and the haka.
How’s science though? Main problem we have here is that people don’t really respect science anymore. Which is something that we find really scary long term.
Not sure these days, but I assume they’d be in the same boat as the rest of the Anglosphere.
if you let the rich ones in, they will turn it into New America. and you’ll have your own orange dick tater to deal with.
Oh, RICH Americans. I rescind my click.
if you turn your mouse upside down, you can find the unclick button on the bottom.
It should be noted people in New Zealand are not fond of their current government, not their republican style bullshit. But like many countries the same people who voted then in will do so again at some point.
Nearly half the investors who have applied hail from the US, representing 85 applications, followed by China, 26, and Hong Kong, 24. Residents from countries across Asia and Europe make up the rest of the applicants.
“Flock” lmao
“Rich people buy their way out of the fascism they helped build” seems more apt
The Hong-Kongers deserve a little sympathy, but the ‘rich’ part really does take the shine off.
A Flock of Seagulls was like 4 guys, so in that sense it’s not a bad flock.
I’ve always thought New Zealand was a better version of my own country (Canada)…I no longer think this.
Fellow canadian here, what’s your take?
Fucking assholes who are makin the country worse fleeing. Good news is they will then shit up that other countries. bad news is once they crap it up enough will come back here and it continues constantly searching for the nicest spot in the turd pile to defecate on.
Taking a line from our Australian friends
fuck off, we’re full (of rich cunts)
Virus spreads.
Yuck, New Zealand pulling a trump. I wonder who they’ll bomb.
They’ll have to ask Australia very nicely to borrow a plane.
Or maybe their navy will ram a pacific island again.
Mordor, probably.
