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Originally Posted by Tetris Would prefer somewhere that is warm throughout the year as much as possible, and maybe fairly close to a beach(?). |
Warm is relative and down south has much more "normal" seasons that up in Auckland and Northland where we whinge about the cold but, really, it's quite warm.
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Originally Posted by Tetris I work from home so need to have a broadband connection - what speeds do you get there and is it just availible in the big cities? |
You should be able to get Jetstream or Woosh in most places. Check out the telecom.co.
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Originally Posted by Tetris What are the people like? Is it a forward thinking place? Are people from minority backgrounds accepted? Whether thats race or sexual orientation? Are there some places more cosmopolitan than others? How do the big cities differ from the small villages? |
The smaller the town the less cosmopolitan, that said Greytown is pretty small and they had a transgender Mayor, who is now their MP. Cities will always be more tolerant, whichever country you visit. Hell, we even have a Mum at our local school who wears a burqa with only her eyes kindof visible. Oh, and we had civil unions before the UK, women got the vote before the UK, etc etc
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Originally Posted by Tetris Is the health system good? |
It's not great but compare it to the NHS and it starts to look 5 star
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Originally Posted by Tetris What is the standard of living like? Do you have supermarkets like over here of buy more from small specialist shops such as butchers etc what do people generally eat on a day to day basis? Are you (as a country) against GM foods? What about other additives, is your food pumped with them as much as ours is? |
We're smaller than the UK but it's all pretty similar in the cities. Supermarkets, oversized DIY stores, we had eftpos (switch) way before you guys, but that's going back to the '80s
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Originally Posted by Tetris What kind of jobs do you guys do? |
I'm in IT, the more specialist jobs are harder to get but you should be able to do anything here that you can do in Cardiff. My sister is in senior hospital management, hard for her to get a job down here so she's stuck in London for now.
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Originally Posted by Tetris Finally, could someone give me some urls of local estate agents websites so I can see how much the properties are there? What does 300k ( NZ Dollars) or 150K (NZD) get you property wise? |
Check out
www.reinz.co.nz for a decent range of properties. You'd do well to rent initially and then buy once you've worked out what suburbs and cities you like. You can buy a lovely house in a crap area and hate it, or a crap house in a lovely area and be really happy. The community is what matters.
So, what minority group do you fall into? Or was that just a general question to test our tolerance?