It's been very amusing to read all the questions and responses in this thread and I've had more than just a few smiles at the differing senses of humour, which has to be a good thing.
At the moment, I'm in the process of trying to complete the necessary imigration so that I can permanently move from the UK to
NZ, so any Kiwi who wishes to do a direct exchange is welcome to get in touch, as I would very gladly swap all the moans and groans you might have about
NZ for the lifestyle in the UK. Maybe the Braodband is a little slower, maybe you might think that Petrol and Diesel prices are expensive. I can assure you that Fuel prices are double in the UK, house prices even in the cheaper areas of the UK are twice that of the more expensive areas of
NZ and rising expedentially. Trying to find an averagely well paid job in the UK is becoming harder, as the cheaper labour from the "New" European Common Market countries and Russia are flooding into accept any job they can do, as any pay at all is better than no pay at all in their own countries. Levels of taxation from a ever extending Nanny-state Government means that everyone is worse off with each passing year. Added to that, there's no space in the UK to even turn around (the land mass of the UK is roughly similar to that of
NZ but in the UK, there's 60 million people, as opposed to 4 million in
NZ).
I think that it's obvious why I want to move to
NZ, as you all have way more than you could ever see without living in the UK for a while.................. The grass in New Zealand really is greener.............. fact