Kiwi Dream Beyond Reach Of The Young

A quarter of New Zealand’s youth want to leave as the great Kiwi dream is beyond their reach in a rapidly aging country.

Reasons Not To Move To New Zealand, Part 2 – updated

You’ll hear plenty of reasons why you should move to New Zealand. Here some of the people who’ve done it tell you why you shouldn’t. <a href="”> Read More…

Skiers Stuck On Mount Lyford

The traditional snowing-in season started early today in New Zealand with the announcement that 250 skiers are stranded on Mount Lyford overnight. “More than 250 skiers are stranded at Canterbury’s Mt Lyford skifield tonight. Winds picked up at the field, 60 kilometres south-west of Kaikoura, this afternoon, blowing snow onto the access road. Skifield owner…

Reasons Not To Move To New Zealand

Today we’re opening up the blog so that our readers can give their reasons not to move to New Zealand. The best comments will be included in this blog. Over to you… see also Reasons Not To Move To New Zealand, Part 2

Paradise Lost, Crisis In Small Town New Zealand.

Yesterday we blogged about the impending TVNZ Close Up TV special on New Zealand’s toughest towns, today one of the towns was revealed as Kawerau. From the Close Up website: “Sex for drugs. Organised fights. Suicide. Issues that no town wants to deal with, especially when kids as young as 14 are involved. Kawerau was…