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…

Migrants Tales – Leaving NZ, What’s To Miss?

Continuing our series of Migrant’s Tales, first hand accounts of the immigrant experience of New Zealand, taken from locations around the net. Today’s tale is from a blog written by a teacher, a Canadian expat who lived in Dunedin for three years. Dec 18, 2009 New Zealand- Final Thoughts Well, here we are. A time…

Migrant Tales – Does NZ Really Need Skilled Migrants

Continuing  in our series of Migrant Tales  – first hand accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand taken from locations around the web. The  link to this tale was sent to us by a reader in response to our ongoing examination of the status of skilled migrants in New Zealand. It appeared in Linkedin…

Expat Brits view of NZ

Continuing in our popular series of Migrant Tales, first had accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand taken from places around the net. This story was written by a British person on a British emigration forum in June 2011. He and his wife emigrated to New Zealand five years ago, in vain, to get…