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      • 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
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Migrant Tales – Outrageously expensive, NZ is plain and pure hype (from a former born and bred kiwi living in OZ)

  Welcome to the latest in our very popular Migrant Tales series – first hand accounts of migrant life in New Zealand. Today’s tale was first published on Reddit, by a Kiwi who emigrated to Australia and then returned to New Zealand on a trip. I moved to Australia in 2006 with my parents and…

December 16, 2016 in Migrant tales.

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  • Assassination Attempt on the Queen was Covered Up by New Zealand, ex-police officer claims January 14, 2018
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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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  • 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
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  • Wairewa: What the Tourist Pictures Don't Show
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  • 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
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  • 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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  • “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
  • NZ Wiki
    • Adventure Tourism And Safety
    • Crime
    • 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
    • Infrastructure, Earthquakes and Tsunamis
    • Living Accommodation: Housing Issues In New Zealand
    • Road Crash Data
  • THE AGORA
  • New Zealand Warnings and Dangers – Updated
  • External links
  • Live Web Cams
  • What’s It Like To Live In NZ?
    • What Kiwis Say About NZ
      • Chapter 1 – What Kiwis Say About NZ
        • “Most People Consider Hypothermia A Symptom Of Being Cold, Rather Than An Expression Of National Identity”
        • “Nice scenery, good wine and food. Shame about the inbred psychopaths.”
        • A Selection Of Thoughts About NZ
        • Big Bucks For A Hillbilly Lifestyle
        • Kiwi Longs To Escape Cargo Cult Lifestyle
        • Kiwis Leaving For Australia At 12 Month High
        • Ode to Whangarei
        • Returning Kiwis Views About New Zealand
        • “30,000 A Year Go To Aussie. Why?”
        • “New Zealand Is Turning Into A Really Racist Country” – updated 26 Aug 2015: Skin Heads and Hate Crimes.
        • “NZ 5th Most Violent Country In The World”
        • “Top 5 Things Wrong With New Zealand”
      • Chapter 2 – What Kiwis Say About NZ
        • “NZ… Land of the Big Ripoff”
        • “Smugly standing idle, with our hands out…NZ not part of real civilisation”
        • 100% pure rip off
        • Ever Had An Intruder In Your House When You Were There?
        • Kiwi Lifestyle In Winter. Part 1
        • Ministry Of Defence Houses “Freezing”
        • NZ Houses Are Like Glorified Tents
        • Third World NZ, No Place For The Poor Or Disabled
        • Where To Go In Tauranga On New Year’s Eve?
        • Who’d Be A Supermarket Employee
        • Why Does Immigration NZ Let People Into NZ To Live…
        • “You Know You’re In Flaxmere When”
      • Chapter 3 – What Kiwis Say About NZ
        • A Niggling Fear It Might Actually Be Sh*t
        • Can’t wait to get Chartered, then I’m out of here
        • Lovely Scenery but a Poisonous Soul
    • 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
  • Violent Crime
    • Armed Robberies
    • Violent Deaths
      • #22120 (no title)

The Long Write Cloud

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Top Posts & Pages

WELCOME please read
Don't Move to New Zealand
"NZ vs UK - not all it's cracked up to be. Is it just me?" and NZ is a "broken shit hole"
MIGRANT TALES
Harness Failure Leaves Woman Dangling At Nevis Bungy Swing - updated July 2016
What are some of the downsides to living in New Zealand? (reddit thread)
"What the world thinks of us"
An American's Take On "Rip-Off New Zealand"
Migrant Tales - "I was a good Probation Officer. And now I’m nothing. This is the face of workplace bullying”.
New Zealand Culture is Brutal, Something is Seriously Wrong
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