Welcome to the latest in our Migrant Tales series – first hand accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand. Today’s tale was originally published on the forum Expatexposed.com and was retrieved from the internet archive. Given the continuing problems New Zealand has with its poor quality housing stock, exacerbated by fiercely expensive property prices…
We’re advising tourists and migrants alike to give Kaikoura a wide berth over the next 18 months or so as the township turns into the NZ equivalent of an Australian “mining camp”. Around 400 workers are due to flood in to the small township (est. pop. 2,080) to start on reconstruction work. “Alcohol fuelled violence…
Welcome to our latest Migrant Tale – first hand accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand. Today’s tale concerns a topic that is very common among new migrants in New Zealand. Poor housing standards is often the first inkling that honeymoon-stage migrants get that something is wrong with New Zealand. After a while they…
Our readers know that New Zealand homes, infamous for being ‘leaky’ cold and damp, are basically overpriced, poorly constructed sheds. Then again, most of our readers come from first world countries where homes are built to last for 80 years plus and are designed and constructed to be able to withstand adverse weather conditions. It’s…
Continuing in our series of migrant tales – first hand accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand. Today’s tale is from a Canadian, resident in New Zealand for three years. Here’s his reasons for why he’ll be headed home soon. I’m from Canada, and I’d rather spend a winter there where it’s -20C because…
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