Man in blue

Hello guys,

Is any Canadians here in this forum, who moved over to live in New Zealand?
What can you say about NZ comparable with Canada.
My family and I are planning to move over to NZ, and any opinions is important to us.
Thank you.

Gordon Barlow

From what I recall of New Zealand from my visits, you might find their grammar slightly different from what you are used to...

BEVS

I know a couple of Canadians here. They seem to be happy and settled. One is into mountain biking in a big way.

escapedtonz

I work with a few. One from Guelph, one from Barrie and the other proper rural Ontario but moved to Blenheim for school ?
Two of them wanted to get away from the Canadian winters and the vastly different temperature range you can get over a 24hr period and of course because they got good job offers with relocation packages. The other just came for an adventure after he retired early in Canada, initially for 5 years but still loving it here so far and has just bought a house. Out of the three, one hasn't yet returned home in 4.5 years and the other two go back once per year for 4 or 5 weeks holiday every year without fail as they still love it in their home country but at the moment would rather live in NZ.

msmyrtle

I'm Canadian and spent 5 years in NZ before moving to Australia. Didn't move for the weather or anything, I wanted a change in my life so I found a new country and went there. Probably from start to finish it took me 3 months to shift to NZ, which included job interview, visa application, and one-way flight.

Life in NZ was pretty easy (above-average single income, no kids), of course there are challenges like everywhere else. I probably could have stayed in Wellington or New Plymouth, but I have wandering feet. I left to work in the mining industry in Australia.