Is New Zealand Third World? “Cost-cutting surgeons are using hardware tools in our hospitals” Just Like Moldova

New Zealand’s health service has got a lot in common with Moldova’s

Migrant Tales – Dunedin Has Cold Houses But Great Scenery. The Honeymoon Phase

Welcome to our hugely popular Migrant Tales series – first hand, genuine accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand. Today’s tale is taken from a series of posts on reddit by US migrant, who is a evidently a reader of this site. They tell of the cold climate, lack of a social scene and…

Migrant Tales – Back in the UK for 3 weeks now

Welcome to our Migrant Tales series – first hand accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand. Today’s tale was recently published on a British expat forum and is proof that there is life after New Zealand. And it is good. The biggest difference found so far is “the cost of almost everything, everything is…

Teen Fights Off Attempted Abductors Close to Otago University Campus

If you’re female and thinking about emigrating to, or studying in, Dunedin you may want to give it a miss. Dunedin is rapidly overtaking Auckland as New Zealand’s most unsafe place for women. Yesterday we wrote about how many New Zealand towns were blighted by violent crime, and mentioned Dunedin specifically. Today we’re writing about an…

Kaikohe, Kaitaia. New Zealand Communities in Crisis

Update 26 July 2016: 10th homicide in seven years, third knife attack in a week – is Kaitaia the murder capital of NZ? If you’re looking for violent crime, you can pick any town in New Zealand. It isn’t that hard. Until the National led government started interfering with reporting requirements by making “procedural changes…