Why New Zealand?
Apr 5th 2013, 6:25 am
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Re: Why New Zealand?
Apr 5th 2013, 6:46 am
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Re: Why New Zealand?
If I may be polite, or not, **** the lot of them...
Apr 5th 2013, 6:58 am
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Re: Why New Zealand?
"Flippin' kiwi genius" my arse!!!!
Apr 5th 2013, 1:40 pm
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Sorry, are you having a bad day? I have Asperger's so I don't get the nuances, not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. If you are, I don't get why. I work in academia doing research, I'm a PHD, so I was trying to help set out a framework for the peaks and troughs of immigration. If you're not being sarcastic then ok. Just be aware that autistic people don't get it. Sarcasm that is, pissed off we can deal with.
Apr 5th 2013, 7:18 pm
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Me too. UK is just too crowded by far for me, and will only ever get worse. Imagine what freedom and space your grandkids would have there.
NZ may be far from perfect in many ways, but the space and freedom is enough compensation for me.
Second reason is the much better climate
NZ may be far from perfect in many ways, but the space and freedom is enough compensation for me.
Second reason is the much better climate
Apr 7th 2013, 5:09 pm
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I didn't think the climate was all that different. Am I wrong then?
Apr 7th 2013, 6:56 pm
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Not where you're headed! Invercargill is probaby similar to mid-south UK
Auckland is a different story, especially in Winter. We've had two or three frosts in the seven years I 've been here, and a cold winter day has a max of 12-13; average winter day is 15-16. It's now equivalent to UK October, and a forecast for the next ten days has a max of at least 20 every day
Not hugely different, but it means that you can do outdoors stuff all year round - I go yacht sailing in mid winter and it's very pleasant.
Auckland is a different story, especially in Winter. We've had two or three frosts in the seven years I 've been here, and a cold winter day has a max of 12-13; average winter day is 15-16. It's now equivalent to UK October, and a forecast for the next ten days has a max of at least 20 every day
Not hugely different, but it means that you can do outdoors stuff all year round - I go yacht sailing in mid winter and it's very pleasant.
Apr 7th 2013, 6:59 pm
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So i'm in the wrong part then. Bummer
Apr 7th 2013, 9:18 pm
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Not where you're headed! Invercargill is probaby similar to mid-south UK
Auckland is a different story, especially in Winter. We've had two or three frosts in the seven years I 've been here, and a cold winter day has a max of 12-13; average winter day is 15-16. It's now equivalent to UK October, and a forecast for the next ten days has a max of at least 20 every day
Not hugely different, but it means that you can do outdoors stuff all year round - I go yacht sailing in mid winter and it's very pleasant.
Auckland is a different story, especially in Winter. We've had two or three frosts in the seven years I 've been here, and a cold winter day has a max of 12-13; average winter day is 15-16. It's now equivalent to UK October, and a forecast for the next ten days has a max of at least 20 every day
Not hugely different, but it means that you can do outdoors stuff all year round - I go yacht sailing in mid winter and it's very pleasant.
New York City has good summers. Summer starts in May and the last warm days you usually have in November. It is sunny and it gets really hot in July/August. This makes you long for winter
The hot summer is followed by gorgeous autumn! 27 degrees, not humid, sunny, and autumn colors. Marvelous.
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Apr 7th 2013, 9:22 pm
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Re: Why New Zealand?
I'm at this stage:
Stage 3b) You can't educate pork
Dinner is in the middle of the day and Lunch is something posh wank3rs say.
The words 'known' and 'shown' have only one syllable.
Still chuckling when a Kiwi asks me if I want to see their deck.
The homes some people live in still shocks me.
I know I never want to go back to England.
I kind of know I'll one day get bored of NZ.
I'm still an outsider as I know the Kiwi's didn't invent the upside down ketchup bottle.
I still won't accept the phrase 'when in Rome' from a settled Expat as I don't think it's fair to beat my wife up, dress like a gay tramp and ignore all road rules.
NZ life is good but lots of things still irritate me.
Stage 3b) You can't educate pork
Dinner is in the middle of the day and Lunch is something posh wank3rs say.
The words 'known' and 'shown' have only one syllable.
Still chuckling when a Kiwi asks me if I want to see their deck.
The homes some people live in still shocks me.
I know I never want to go back to England.
I kind of know I'll one day get bored of NZ.
I'm still an outsider as I know the Kiwi's didn't invent the upside down ketchup bottle.
I still won't accept the phrase 'when in Rome' from a settled Expat as I don't think it's fair to beat my wife up, dress like a gay tramp and ignore all road rules.
NZ life is good but lots of things still irritate me.
You wouldn't like being a teacher in a class full of Sheffield United fans then
Apr 7th 2013, 9:59 pm
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Me too. UK is just too crowded by far for me, and will only ever get worse. Imagine what freedom and space your grandkids would have there.
NZ may be far from perfect in many ways, but the space and freedom is enough compensation for me.
Second reason is the much better climate
NZ may be far from perfect in many ways, but the space and freedom is enough compensation for me.
Second reason is the much better climate
I think I accept that it is unlikely I will permanently ever leave NZ as I think being somewhere there was NOT the space we have here would drive me utterly nuts.
Apr 7th 2013, 10:49 pm
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This is what clinches it for me all the time, no matter how much stuff about NZ may irritate me. At the end of the day I know the populous nature of the UK is the BIGGEST issue there is to overcome if I ever decided that a return was to be really considered.
I think I accept that it is unlikely I will permanently ever leave NZ as I think being somewhere there was NOT the space we have here would drive me utterly nuts.
I think I accept that it is unlikely I will permanently ever leave NZ as I think being somewhere there was NOT the space we have here would drive me utterly nuts.
And certainly less than where most people live
Apr 7th 2013, 11:05 pm
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Re: Why New Zealand?
And tell us, how is the weather this time of year in the peak district?
