crap coffee

right. well. I am planning going back to the UK some time I guess. I am still young... can't see myself grow old here

"Many have suggested that the "lifestyle" advantage that New Zealand had relied on to attract young people back may no longer be enough"

Nerine

Which country did you do your degree in?

crap coffee

UK

The University of Edinburgh both the undergraduate and postgraduate Master's degrees. it took an awful long time :curse:

Ian & Sharon

NZ has its +/- but so has Oz

I just feel at home in OZ, there are things here that we can do that we could not do in either the UK or NZ. Nowt to do with Tax as you have to pay it were ever you go.
For us the weather or predictability of the weather here plays a very important part to our life style (warm all the time).

Nerine

Tell me about it!! worth it though isn't it.

Ian, the weather is an important factor. Even today it's overcast and looks like rain but so warm - we've just had a quick dip, going to have a cold lunch now and then go out for the afternoon. (still waiting for our tax rebate from NZ, it's almost as much as the difference in the shipping costs ... so guess where that's going to go!)

Maz

It doesn't??????

Karma for that mate, if it'll let me.

Bo-Jangles

It is a very hot topic in the news everyday for weeks now, so not just Nerine who's having a dig at NZ. Having read a lot of comments on the Herald article, I wish I had the time to read more of the 100 or more pages of comments; however the sentiments are all the same. Is it mere coincidence that those sentiments stack up with every single so called 'negative' post we read on here; poor wages for trades people, crap housing, high taxes etc. Are they all telling lies?

NZ will have only itself to blame, and will soon be nothing more than a home for the 'beneficiaries', retirees and cashed up immigrants who can or are willing to absorb the loss of earnings for the perceived 'lifestyle'.

I would also question how they count those 27,000 people who left NZ; my guess is it is just Kiwis with Kiwi passports, factor in the huge number of Brits etc who move on and leave NZ before getting NZ citzenship and the picture of doom just gets bigger.

Maz

Sorry, I didn't read the article. Was that 27,000 in one year? Because 80,000 migrants arrived on these shores in 2006.

Ian & Sharon

Sorry but I do find that very hard to believe, I could be wrong (I usually am)

Maz

I'll have to find the source, but I'm pretty sure that's accurate. Or maybe accurate for a few years.

In any case, when I was younger, there were 3m people in NZ. Now there are 4.1m. So there are more people migrating here than emigrating elsewhere.

Maz

And you stole my line!

Ian & Sharon

Depend on how old you are

Edit to say - probebly more people migrating to the UK hence why so many people are leaving

Maz

40 in 5 weeks' time! Paaaaartaaaaay!

And I've not lived in the UK since early 1992 so I suspect you have something with your last comment.

Nerine

VERY true.

Yep, we left before getting Citizenship and I know of at least two other British families who did the same as us.

I don't know what the solution is. They bring us migrants in to help change the country for the better and then they stop us from doing it.

(Actually I do know what the solution is....another couple of stars on the flag!, that would shake things up a bit and blow off the cobwebs)

Ian & Sharon

I could have applied for Citizenship as I'd been there over 3 years, but we came on a 457 visa still got our IRRV and Millie has her passport as she was born there.
I dropped friends off at the airport yesterday who'd been over for a reckie, I was shocked Tuesday night when they told me they'd bought a house, they have there NZ citizenship and now will but there house on the market and make the jump. There reason was they could not see a future in NZ for their kids, each to there own I suppose.