Migrant Tales – “New Zealanders have got to be the best marketeers in the world! Life is so different compared to how it is portrayed!”

Don’t get taken in by New Zealand’s slick, and very powerful, marketing hype.

Migrant Tales – Working in Christchurch. ‘She’ll Be Right’ Won’t Do: “Kiwi’s are renowned for being lazy though so it all made sense”

Welcome to our popular Migrant Tales series, first hand accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand. A reader sent us a link to this migrant tale, first published on reddit/newzealand two months ago (around May 2017). The author migrated to New Zealand to escape the European ‘rat race’ only to find that Christchurch…

Migrant Tales – NZ is Almost a 3rd World Country, Don’t Let the ‘Kiwi Propaganda’ Deceive You. Use Good Judgement

Welcome to the latest story in our very popular Migrant Tales series – hundreds of first hand accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand. Today’s account was written by an African PhD student in Christchurch who’d once lived and studied in the UK. They are well placed to make comparisons between continents and countries.…

Migrant Tales – After 13 Years its Farewell New Zealand, Time to Move on From the Struggle

This is the latest in the Migrant Tales series, a collection of first hand accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand. In this story the British author tells of 13 years of struggle in New Zealand. This is probably one of the migrants left for New Zealand around the time of the post-9/11 exodus,…

Migrant Tales – We Did It!! Good Riddance New Zealand, Hello Yorkshire.

This article is generating a lot of interest on Facebook. If you’ve got a migrant tale you’d like to share please leave it below. Welcome to the latest in our very popular Migrant Tales series – hundreds of first hand accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand. Today’s tale was sent to us by…