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  • MIGRANT TALES
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    • Chapter 1
      • Immigration Woes
      • Leaving New Zealand
      • Like Podlings Sucked Dry
      • Married To A Kiwi in God’s Waiting Room
      • Time To Leave – Can’t Find Work
      • Two Years On And It’s Still Crap
      • Why Are People Leaving NZ?
      • Why Are You Leaving NZ?
      • UK Qualifications Not Recognised
      • What We Wished We’d Known
      • Migrant Tales Redux: Making Ends Meet
      • Education
      • A British Canadian’s Perspective
      • Houses Are Overpriced Crap
      • Economic Suicide
      • Impossible Job Market
    • Chapter 2
      • “3+ Years In And Missing Blighty”
      • “The Health Care System Is Second Rate”
      • An American Asks Himself “Why NZ?”
      • NZ A More Dangerous, More Violent Place
      • Teacher Duped By The Hype, Couldn’t Find Work
      • Moved From Singapore For Better Life
      • NZ Is Mis-Sold
      • Skilled Migrants Drive Taxis To Survive
      • University Lecturer Misled Over Job Offer
      • Refuge From NZ Found In A Muslim Country
      • IT Professional Puts His Finger On IT
    • Chapter 3
      • 7 Months In And No Work For Tradesman Husband
      • A Prison Officer’s Thoughts
      • American Says Tauranga ‘Mis-sold’
      • Emigrating When You’re Older
      • Heading Home After 3 Years
      • New Zealand Is Like A Postcard, “There is no sense of history or magic here”
      • No Work In Blenheim, Moved To Christchurch
      • NZ Without A Job Offer
      • Prison Officers In New Zealand
      • Returning Kiwi Shunned
      • Three Weeks In. An American’s First Impressions Of New Zealand
      • Two And A Half Years In New Zealand – NZ Like South Dakota
      • What’s It REALLY Like In New Zealand?
    • Chapter 4
      • “Observations About The Downside of New Zealand”
      • 100% Pure Rip Off
      • 6 Years In, Stay Or Go?
      • Canadian Still Looking For Work
      • It’s True – Kiwis Don’t Really Like Americans
      • Studying In New Zealand
      • Thinking About Teaching In New Zealand?
      • Three Months In NZ And Tickets Are Booked
      • Why Can’t Asians Find Work In NZ?
      • Work Culture In New Zealand
      • How To Go To Bed, NZ Style
    • Chapter 5
      • “Close Minded Kiwis Ruined NZ For Us”
      • ‘Non White’ Kiwi Treated Like Immigrant In Own Country
      • Another WTR Visa Issued from Shanghai
      • E2NZ Redux. Trapped In NZ – Father Won’t Let Child Leave
      • Effects Of Chch Quake On Expats
      • If you doubt discrimination in NZ read this…
      • No Science Or Skills Shortage In New Zealand
      • Renting Houses In NZ – A Manual
    • Chapter 6
      • “Calling all teachers! Please help, I’m going mad!!”
      • Living Costs For One Person In NZ v. USA
      • Migrant Tales. UK citizen lived 13 yrs Australia and 10 in NZ – A Comparison
      • Perhaps We’re Just Unlucky But It’s Too Much. We’re Done Here
      • Post Quake – How The Canterbury Disaster Has Affected Migrants And Visitors To NZ
      • Teaching In NZ – A Migrant’s Exit Interview
      • UK Qualified Plumbers, Beware
      • “God This Is A Mess” – Welcome To New Zealand
    • Chapter 7
      • “Thoughts from someone leaving NZ”
      • A Culture Of Good Enough Will Do
      • Chinese Student @ Otago
      • Civil Engineer Now Cleaning Ovens In NZ – updated
      • Expat In Christchurch Post Quake
      • Immigrant Kid
      • New Zealand Expo, No It Wasn’t
      • New Zealand Is Draining The “Me” Out Of Me
      • NZ, What’s To Miss?
      • This Is Why I Didn’t Like New Zealand
      • Two and a Half Years In…
      • Why We Left New Zealand, After The Quake
    • Chapter 8
      • Adele’s Story, Kids Falling Light Years Behind
      • An Insiders View of the Tertiary Education Sector in New Zealand
      • Attention Nurses! You’re Getting a Rough Deal in NZ
      • Brit Feeling “Foreign” In New Zealand. How About You?
      • Green Migrants Beware of New Zealand’s Underbelly
      • House Buying and Divorce Laws
      • How resilient are we? A New Zealand immigrant’s perspective
      • I Want Out : An American’s Tale
      • Migrant Tales – I am young and I want to get out, Can you help me?
    • Chapter 9
      • “NZ vs UK – not all it’s cracked up to be. Is it just me?” and NZ is a “broken shit hole”
      • 6 Years 8 Months: The Best and Worst of Times
      • Foreign IT Workers Need Not Apply There Is No Shortage
      • Lau’s Tale
      • Lau’s Tale
      • New Zealand is Over Rated
      • Reality Check
      • Six years in New Zealand now I’m back in France.
      • Thank God I Have Left New Zealand
      • Victoria University, victims of crime can go to hell
    • Chapter 10
      • British Sparky Can’t Find Work (updated)
      • Do not teach in New Zealand you may live to regret it
      • England is the Best Place for Us Riots and All
      • Get Out of New Zealand or Die on the Street
      • New Zealand Culture is Brutal, Something is Seriously Wrong
      • New Zealand is a Dump
      • NZ Promised Land?
      • Some of the Memories We Will Take Back With Us to Scotland
      • Winter is Coming and New Zealand Homes are Dank and Full of Draughts
    • Chapter 11
      • Binge Drinking The Bane Of The Culture And NZ Is A Nation of ‘MJ’ Smokers
      • British Cop in Northland: NZ’s “Crime Statistics a Work of Fiction” – redux
      • Hong Kong Chinese: Moving to New Zealand is a Big Mistake
      • Justice New Zealand Style
      • NZ Not The Land Of Promise For Me
      • Teaching in New Zealand and the NCEA
      • The UK Plumber’s Tale – Problems with the NZ Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Board?
    • Chapter 12
      • Bullying, Impetigo and Surviving Earthquakes
      • Indian Student Among Rednecks at EIT, Hawkes Bay
      • Migrant Tales – Reverse Racism from Maori and Pom Bashing
      • NZ Made Me Appreciate What I Had in the UK
      • There’s a club and you’re not in it
      • Time to Leave Queenstown
      • Which is Good New Zealand or Australia?
      • Why Kiwis Don’t Fly Back Home, China Freer than Censored New Zealand (‘Donations’ make problems go away)
    • Life After New Zealand
      • Home!
      • Refuge From NZ Found In A Muslim Country
      • We’re Home
      • Back In The UK
  • Your Exit Interview
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    • John Lowe’s Interview
    • John’s Interview
    • JT’s Interview
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    • Peter’s Interview
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    • The Your Exit Interview Series – Tracy’s Interview
    • Veronica’s Interview
    • Yeo’s Interview
  • NZ Wiki
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    • Economics, Demographics And Immigration
    • Education and Children’s Issues Wiki
    • Fraud, Corruption and Dishonesty In New Zealand Wiki
    • Green Credentials, Or Green Wash?
    • Health And Death
    • Hype, Spin And Restrictions On Freedom Of Information
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  • What’s It Like To Live In NZ?
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      • Chapter 1 – What Kiwis Say About NZ
      • Chapter 2 – What Kiwis Say About NZ
      • Chapter 3 – What Kiwis Say About NZ
    • NZ Life
      • Armed Offender Squad & Armed Police Incidents – All About Safety?
      • Leaky Homes Issues And “Stiched Up” Migrants
      • New Zealand, Where Pit Bulls Roam Free
      • NZ’s High Winter Death Rate And Burning Wood To Keep Warm
      • The Abuse Of International Students
      • The NZ Lifestyle
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Kool-Aid

They Didn’t Drink the Kool-Aid. Kiwis Call out Marlborough Express ‘Feel Good’ Ad

Kiwis saw a Marlborough Express advertorial pimping their region, and they weren’t impressed. At all.

August 22, 2017 in Kool-Aid, New Zealand.

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First hand accounts of the migrant experience of NZ

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Recent Posts

  • Assassination Attempt on the Queen was Covered Up by New Zealand, ex-police officer claims January 14, 2018
  • What are some of the downsides to living in New Zealand? (reddit thread) October 30, 2017
  • Christchurch Rebuild: Govt Prioritised Investors over Locals, Residents were Collateral Damage October 22, 2017
  • Who Gave New Zealand ‘The Exemption’ When It Comes To Shitty Towns? October 19, 2017
  • The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker September 29, 2017
  • E2NZ’s Best Day Ever. September 28, 2017
  • Migrant Tales – “I was a good Probation Officer. And now I’m nothing. This is the face of workplace bullying”. September 28, 2017
  • Polluted Paradise – A Documentary About Pollution in NZ September 12, 2017
  • Local shops for local people – there’s nothing for you here September 9, 2017
  • PSA: Your Content Please September 7, 2017
  • Don’t Move to New Zealand September 5, 2017
  • Hastings Doctor Jailed For Drugging, Indecently Assaulting Patients. And There’s a “Concerning Shortage” of Senior Doctors in Hawke’s Bay August 24, 2017
  • They Didn’t Drink the Kool-Aid. Kiwis Call out Marlborough Express ‘Feel Good’ Ad August 22, 2017
  • Ethics Backlash After Private School’s Social Media Experiment Goes Wrong. Badly. August 19, 2017
  • The Results of Unannounced Pharmacy Audits are in, The Standards are Lower than Expected August 19, 2017
  • Greenpeace New Zealand’s Take on 100% Pure New Zealand August 18, 2017
  • The Spinoff: “Our Inconvenient Truth: New Zealand’s Climate Change Shame” August 18, 2017
  • Is New Zealand Third World? “Cost-cutting surgeons are using hardware tools in our hospitals” Just Like Moldova August 17, 2017
  • Reddit New Zealand Started a Kool-Aid Thread. It Didn’t End Well – Updated August 16, 2017
  • What Kiwis Say About New Zealand – Charlottesville and Morrinsville Show the Kiwi Dream is Selective Blindness and Whimsy August 15, 2017

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  • Alian Traves on Chapter 2 – What Kiwis Say About NZ
  • Paul on What are some of the downsides to living in New Zealand? (reddit thread)
  • A Beast Speaks on What are some of the downsides to living in New Zealand? (reddit thread)
  • Rolo on Worst Places to be a Child – NZ Ranked 158 out of 165 for Childhood Rights
  • yossariansouth on What are some of the downsides to living in New Zealand? (reddit thread)
  • Annette on Worst Places to be a Child – NZ Ranked 158 out of 165 for Childhood Rights
  • Faithnomore on Local shops for local people – there’s nothing for you here
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  • mcleodkiwitony on Christchurch Rebuild: Govt Prioritised Investors over Locals, Residents were Collateral Damage
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  • Airpoints Adventure Travel blog of Phillip Cottrell, journalist murdered in Wellington December 2011
  • Angelxas blog A Kiwi finding himself, and home
  • Anti Corruption New Zealand Seeking Accountability
  • Basement Life A New Yorker’s uneasy adjustment to NZ life
  • Business blogs – why so many people leave NZ
  • Cartoons of John Key and the USA A selection of cartoons and images showing how the media has portrayed Johh Key’s trip to the USA, and some related foreign policy issues.
  • Children, Citizenship and Environment, Nuturing a democratic imagination in a changing world by Bronwyn Hayward
  • Christchurch post earthquake – insurance woes One home owner’s experiences
  • Consumers Voice NZ A first-person Community Feedback Forum for Consumers of New Zealand Social Services.
  • Dee Smith's Anything Goes New Zealand EOI Points Misleading – Read This Before Submitting & Don’t Waste Your Money
  • EQC Royal Family Goings on at NZ’s most prestigious firm
  • Flying Blind How the justice system perpetuates crime and the Corrections Department fails to correct
  • Friggin Loon Blogs about New Zealand
  • Juliryan Blogs about living in NZ
  • Lauda Finem Blogging about New Zealand Corruption
  • Letters from NZ The truth about New Zealand opportunities
  • Mad About Ads Images I see when walking between my home and Auckland CBD. Updated at least twice weekly.
  • MarGeeMar New Zealand Migration Agents Cheating Malaysians Thousands Of Ringgit!
  • Marsden Online Blogging from Christchurch
  • New Zealand Adventure – Going to new zealand on an adventure holiday New Zealand is a most beautiful place its the Adrenalin Sport Capital of the world and its safe, or is it? If you are planning a trip there you need to read this.
  • New Zealand on China News and debate from New Zealand on China.
  • New Zealand Teachers Bullied at School Sobering reading for those contemplating a future in New Zealand’s education system
  • New Zealand warnings and dangers (Virtual Tourist) Reviews and photos of New Zealand warnings and dangers posted by real travelers and locals.
  • NZ earthquakes blog Essential reading, get informed about what’s happening under your feet
  • NZ Migrants Aa forum for NZ migrants
  • NZ Social Statistics Too Toxic for the Young Anthony Ravlich’s Blog on guerillamedia.co.nz
  • NZ teachers bullied at school Another person blows the whistle on NZ schools
  • Sage advice for renters from Avalon's Blog “I hope you choke” or when a good landlord turns nasty. Do not rent Apartment 4i, 164 The Terrace in the Montreaux Apartments
  • Seven hard truths about New Zealand Great NZ discussion from sovereignman.com
  • The High Cost of Whistleblowing in Education – A Dirty Story Private education and Steiner schools in New Zealand. Whistleblowing is at last gaining ground in the news, and whistleblowers of all stripes have stories to tell of targeting and mobbing. Would it shock you to learn, however, that simply standing up for
  • The Jackalman blogs about New Zealand
  • The life and times of the Mountain Goat The thoughts ideas and movements of someone living a life of serendipity – pure chance… New Zealand Trip…2009
  • Wairewa: What the Tourist Pictures Don't Show
  • Walk for Water Quality Walk for Water Quality This is an account of my walk of the Te Araroa Trail of New Zealand, from Cape Reinga, at the top of the North Island, to Bluff at the bottom of the South Island. I’m raising awareness of water quality issues in our country.
  • Will She Be Right Questioning the classic attitude of New Zealanders to life and society.

Other Sites We Like

  • Aotearoa Memes Light hearted look at NZ culture
  • Asians Against Racism forum
  • Divorce overseas, 10 steps to protect your children Emigrating with children? Read this first
  • Escape NZ: To help you escape New Zealand a new website to help those who want out of New Zealand finally escape
  • Fake it frugal
  • Frogs in NZ Les Français parlent la Nouvelle-Zélande
  • Hobanz Independent guidance and support for NZ home owners and leaky home owners and bodies corporate.
  • Inside Child Poverty New Zealand Facebook page of Inside Child Poverty NZ
  • Kiwianarama The alternative Kiwipedia
  • Menu Mania Springfield Store & Cafe , 8-10 West Coast Rd, Springfield, Selwyn. The MOST unfriendly cafe in NZ?
  • Move to New Zealand: the real story. Also read Ellen’s comment
  • New Zealand faces skill-shortage 'epidemic' ? Discussion thread on linkedin.com
  • New Zealand, Land of the Strange It’s stranger than fiction
  • NZ Migrants Aa forum for NZ migrants
  • Property Talk What foreigners really think
  • Reddit
  • Show a bit of class Egalitarianism is a myth in NZ
  • Stash NZ has a serious drug problem
  • The day Party Central became Party Standstill. Party Central became Party Pande-bloody-monium
  • The Spicer Islander Talk Shop A thread about racism in NZ
  • The Straight Dope The good and bad things about living in New Zealand.
  • The Whole Truth – Experiences from NZ (German) German language, forum discussion about life in NZ
  • Time Line of Major Crimes in NZ from NZ History.net from baby farming to shooting sprees
  • Work place buyying? Safe NZ – creates positive work environments Bullied at Work? Read Culture Safe NZ – creating positive work environments

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    Sean Berridge-Burley, who had already been trespassed from the New World, approached the worker while gesticulating with his middle finger and yelling abuse.
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  • The West Coast Regional Council offices are closed until Wednesday after a break in
    Two council vehicles were stolen and one was found burned out 100km away.
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    An investigation into the death of a woman whose body was found inside her home continues as police ask nearby residents and businesses for security camera footage.
  • Covid-19: Unvaccinated cops face three-week stand down to get jabbed or lose job
    Unvaccinated officers have been stood down and unless they can be redeployed, take unpaid leave or get a medical exemption, they will lose their jobs.
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    Three people attempted to rob a fruit and vegetable market on Sunday morning.
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  • Supervision sentence for Ashburton man who shared intimate pics via social media
    A man who shared naked pictures of an ex-partner via social media has escaped a jail term as the judge felt a rehabilitative focussed sentence would be better for everyone involved.
  • Arrest made after attempted aggravated robbery in Hawera
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  • “What the world thinks of us”
  • A Singaporean Says Living In NZ Different Experience – Updated
  • An American’s Take On “Rip-Off New Zealand”
  • CONTRIBUTE
  • Don’t Move to New Zealand
  • Goodbye New Zealand
  • Indian Professional Faced Discrimination
  • International Students’ Common Room
  • Just Another Day in the ‘Most Socially Progressive Nation on Earth’
  • Members Area
    • General Discussion Area: Talk to /u/TeHokioi from /r/NewZealand
  • Retardicon 6
    • Tales from Retardicon 6 The Business of Investor Visas – part 1
    • Tales from Retardicon 6 The Business of Investor Visas – part 2
    • Tales from Retardicon 6 The Business of Investor Visas – part 3
  • Stuck Parents
  • We Chose To Go With New Zealand. BIG MISTAKE
  • WELCOME please read
  • COMMENTS
  • What they say about E2NZ.org
    • Follow us
    • What they say about E2NZ.org – page 2
  • MIGRANT TALES
    • Latest Migrant Tale
    • Chapter 1
      • Immigration Woes
      • Leaving New Zealand
      • Like Podlings Sucked Dry
      • Married To A Kiwi in God’s Waiting Room
      • Time To Leave – Can’t Find Work
      • Two Years On And It’s Still Crap
      • Why Are People Leaving NZ?
      • Why Are You Leaving NZ?
      • UK Qualifications Not Recognised
      • What We Wished We’d Known
      • Migrant Tales Redux: Making Ends Meet
      • Education
      • A British Canadian’s Perspective
      • Houses Are Overpriced Crap
      • Economic Suicide
      • Impossible Job Market
    • Chapter 2
      • “3+ Years In And Missing Blighty”
      • “The Health Care System Is Second Rate”
      • An American Asks Himself “Why NZ?”
      • NZ A More Dangerous, More Violent Place
      • Teacher Duped By The Hype, Couldn’t Find Work
      • Moved From Singapore For Better Life
      • NZ Is Mis-Sold
      • Skilled Migrants Drive Taxis To Survive
      • University Lecturer Misled Over Job Offer
      • Refuge From NZ Found In A Muslim Country
      • IT Professional Puts His Finger On IT
    • Chapter 3
      • 7 Months In And No Work For Tradesman Husband
      • A Prison Officer’s Thoughts
      • American Says Tauranga ‘Mis-sold’
      • Emigrating When You’re Older
      • Heading Home After 3 Years
      • New Zealand Is Like A Postcard, “There is no sense of history or magic here”
      • No Work In Blenheim, Moved To Christchurch
      • NZ Without A Job Offer
      • Prison Officers In New Zealand
      • Returning Kiwi Shunned
      • Three Weeks In. An American’s First Impressions Of New Zealand
      • Two And A Half Years In New Zealand – NZ Like South Dakota
      • What’s It REALLY Like In New Zealand?
    • Chapter 4
      • “Observations About The Downside of New Zealand”
      • 100% Pure Rip Off
      • 6 Years In, Stay Or Go?
      • Canadian Still Looking For Work
      • It’s True – Kiwis Don’t Really Like Americans
      • Studying In New Zealand
      • Thinking About Teaching In New Zealand?
      • Three Months In NZ And Tickets Are Booked
      • Why Can’t Asians Find Work In NZ?
      • Work Culture In New Zealand
      • How To Go To Bed, NZ Style
    • Chapter 5
      • “Close Minded Kiwis Ruined NZ For Us”
      • ‘Non White’ Kiwi Treated Like Immigrant In Own Country
      • Another WTR Visa Issued from Shanghai
      • E2NZ Redux. Trapped In NZ – Father Won’t Let Child Leave
      • Effects Of Chch Quake On Expats
        • Canterbury ‘After Shocks’ Take Their Toll, Life Far From Normal
      • If you doubt discrimination in NZ read this…
      • No Science Or Skills Shortage In New Zealand
      • Renting Houses In NZ – A Manual
    • Chapter 6
      • “Calling all teachers! Please help, I’m going mad!!”
      • Living Costs For One Person In NZ v. USA
      • Migrant Tales. UK citizen lived 13 yrs Australia and 10 in NZ – A Comparison
      • Perhaps We’re Just Unlucky But It’s Too Much. We’re Done Here
      • Post Quake – How The Canterbury Disaster Has Affected Migrants And Visitors To NZ
      • Teaching In NZ – A Migrant’s Exit Interview
      • UK Qualified Plumbers, Beware
      • “God This Is A Mess” – Welcome To New Zealand
    • Chapter 7
      • “Thoughts from someone leaving NZ”
      • A Culture Of Good Enough Will Do
      • Chinese Student @ Otago
      • Civil Engineer Now Cleaning Ovens In NZ – updated
      • Expat In Christchurch Post Quake
      • Immigrant Kid
      • New Zealand Expo, No It Wasn’t
      • New Zealand Is Draining The “Me” Out Of Me
      • NZ, What’s To Miss?
      • This Is Why I Didn’t Like New Zealand
      • Two and a Half Years In…
      • Why We Left New Zealand, After The Quake
    • Chapter 8
      • Adele’s Story, Kids Falling Light Years Behind
      • An Insiders View of the Tertiary Education Sector in New Zealand
      • Attention Nurses! You’re Getting a Rough Deal in NZ
      • Brit Feeling “Foreign” In New Zealand. How About You?
      • Green Migrants Beware of New Zealand’s Underbelly
      • House Buying and Divorce Laws
      • How resilient are we? A New Zealand immigrant’s perspective
      • I Want Out : An American’s Tale
      • Migrant Tales – I am young and I want to get out, Can you help me?
    • Chapter 9
      • “NZ vs UK – not all it’s cracked up to be. Is it just me?” and NZ is a “broken shit hole”
      • 6 Years 8 Months: The Best and Worst of Times
      • Foreign IT Workers Need Not Apply There Is No Shortage
      • Lau’s Tale
      • Lau’s Tale
      • New Zealand is Over Rated
      • Reality Check
      • Six years in New Zealand now I’m back in France.
      • Thank God I Have Left New Zealand
      • Victoria University, victims of crime can go to hell
    • Chapter 10
      • British Sparky Can’t Find Work (updated)
      • Do not teach in New Zealand you may live to regret it
      • England is the Best Place for Us Riots and All
      • Get Out of New Zealand or Die on the Street
      • New Zealand Culture is Brutal, Something is Seriously Wrong
      • New Zealand is a Dump
      • NZ Promised Land?
      • Some of the Memories We Will Take Back With Us to Scotland
      • Winter is Coming and New Zealand Homes are Dank and Full of Draughts
    • Chapter 11
      • Binge Drinking The Bane Of The Culture And NZ Is A Nation of ‘MJ’ Smokers
      • British Cop in Northland: NZ’s “Crime Statistics a Work of Fiction” – redux
      • Hong Kong Chinese: Moving to New Zealand is a Big Mistake
      • Justice New Zealand Style
      • NZ Not The Land Of Promise For Me
      • Teaching in New Zealand and the NCEA
      • The UK Plumber’s Tale – Problems with the NZ Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Board?
    • Chapter 12
      • Bullying, Impetigo and Surviving Earthquakes
      • Indian Student Among Rednecks at EIT, Hawkes Bay
      • Migrant Tales – Reverse Racism from Maori and Pom Bashing
      • NZ Made Me Appreciate What I Had in the UK
      • There’s a club and you’re not in it
      • Time to Leave Queenstown
      • Which is Good New Zealand or Australia?
      • Why Kiwis Don’t Fly Back Home, China Freer than Censored New Zealand (‘Donations’ make problems go away)
    • Life After New Zealand
      • Home!
      • Refuge From NZ Found In A Muslim Country
      • We’re Home
      • Back In The UK
  • Your Exit Interview
    • Adrian’s Interview
    • Jason’s Interview
    • John Lowe’s Interview
    • John’s Interview
    • JT’s Interview
    • Maria’s Interview
    • Peter’s Interview
    • PT’s Interview
    • Sam’s Interview
    • The Your Exit Interview Series – Tracy’s Interview
    • Veronica’s Interview
    • Yeo’s Interview
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        • 100% pure rip off
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      • Chapter 3 – What Kiwis Say About NZ
        • A Niggling Fear It Might Actually Be Sh*t
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        • Lovely Scenery but a Poisonous Soul
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