Migrant Tales – From One of World’s Most Prosperous Countries to Nothing

Continuing in our series of Migrant Tales – first hand accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand. Today’s tale was sent in by a skilled migrant with a 10 year career history in IT. He recently left one of the world’s most prosperous countries, drawn to NZ by the “income and work life balance”.…

OECD’s Better Life Index, New Zealand Not So Good, Continues to Fall – updated

The annual OECD Better Life Index has just been published. It lists eleven variables to allow individuals to construct their own index based on what’s important to them. Construct your own index here http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org. Take all eleven variables in equal measure and what do you get? A list of 36 countries that can be ranked…