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What would make you leave NZ for good?

Old May 6th 2010, 10:36 pm
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Default What would make you leave NZ for good?

I thought this might give an insight into what is important to us here who live in NZ.

I would leave if NZ became as crowded as the UK. I would leave NZ if the quality of life that we have here was ever eroded significantly. I felt in the UK I was just 'going through the motions' of life. Here in NZ most things are waaaay better than they were in Northampton. Except the driving. That is soooooooooooooooooooooooo crap.
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Old May 7th 2010, 1:23 am
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Default Re: What would make you leave NZ for good?

Originally Posted by Genesis
I thought this might give an insight into what is important to us here who live in NZ.

I would leave if NZ became as crowded as the UK. I would leave NZ if the quality of life that we have here was ever eroded significantly. I felt in the UK I was just 'going through the motions' of life. Here in NZ most things are waaaay better than they were in Northampton. Except the driving. That is soooooooooooooooooooooooo crap.
The education.
No where near as good imo as the UK.

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Old May 7th 2010, 2:44 am
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The inabaility to gain some semblance of a life outsude of work, something that seems near impossible to do after over eighteen months.
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and never come back?

Nothing


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Nothing, I like it here.
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Default Re: What would make you leave NZ for good?

Originally Posted by Spacecake799
The education.
No where near as good imo as the UK.

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Unfortunately the education is what is keeping me here. I daren't risk trying to put my kids back into the UK education system - they'd be so far behind their peers

But to answer to the question - sustained, increased risk of a natural disaster (earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic erruption .....) I value my kids lives over their education I guess
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Default Re: What would make you leave NZ for good?

[QUOTE=Woodpigeon;8548539]Unfortunately the education is what is keeping me here. I daren't risk trying to put my kids back into the UK education system - they'd be so far behind their peers

For me and mine nothing would make us leave here.

as for the above they would be way in advance of their UK peers unless you base education to equal best phone, best shoes ,best car, best BFF, best gang membership, best oversized class .......
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Default Re: What would make you leave NZ for good?

Originally Posted by pestman

For me and mine nothing would make us leave here.

as for the above they would be way in advance of their UK peers unless you base education to equal best phone, best shoes ,best car, best BFF, best gang membership, best oversized class .......
I know where you're coming from!

I love it here and would only leave if it became like the UK......overcrowded, full of CHAV's (or if Gordon ruled this place as well!)
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Nothing.
We like it too much here to leave.
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Default Re: What would make you leave NZ for good?

Originally Posted by Robbo25
The inabaility to gain some semblance of a life outsude of work, something that seems near impossible to do after over eighteen months.
We've gained friends via work that has expanded our social life, but we still pretty much go out as a couple all the time.
After ten years working away from the wife as a contractor, the fact that I see the wife every day, have no mortgage or rent, and a life of fishing on my boat, a season pass for skiing and new friends via the motorbike means there's no way UK can compare to my quality of life here.
Just got a new job well outside of my norm, but head hunted, all mean stuff it, I'm here til my ashes are spread on top of Ruapehu (in case it goes bang....what a way to get spread eh?)

So, to answer the original question....nothing. Doesn't mean I don't wish I still had the friends I had back there, but some sacrifices are worth it.
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Old May 7th 2010, 7:23 am
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oh unless brad pitt decided that it was the best place for us to live and raise our multinational babies
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Default Re: What would make you leave NZ for good?

Nothing.

We have some wonderful friends & I have just as good friendships with them as my UK friends. I miss some friends from the UK & they still mean alot to me but I have been lucky enough to form some very close friendships here. I suppose I'm willing to give of myself & have certainly been taken for a ride by a couple of people, which has been painful BUT it also means that I know the friends that are true & trustworthy.

We don't have children but I wouldn't worry about the education too much. My OH did his senior school education over here in the late '70's & yes he was a little behind his peers when his family returned to the UK. He still managed to get good 'A' level grades & has done well for himself ever since. TBH IMHO the kids I speak to in NZ are far more articulate than their UK peers. That speaks volumes to me.
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ok, I've only been here a month (tomorrow), but what could make me leave NZ for good.........if my immediate family decided to move here I would leave
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I would leave NZ for of a better job back in Europe... Not UK but maybe Belgium or Netherland!

Then again, I've always said am not here forever!
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Originally Posted by Matewx
I would leave NZ for of a better job back in Europe... Not UK but maybe Belgium or Netherland!

Then again, I've always said am not here forever!
what do you mean by a better job. money?

ha,! you said you speak French! lucky you!

I guess i'd prefer to settle somewhere cos if I move around then I can't save money you see.

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