It makes me smile to see so many people here dreaming of living in New Zealand, seeing it as quite idyllic.
I do live in New Zealand and to be honest, it IS awesome! It's a beautiful country, peaceful and quite safe, great food and culture, relatively good cost of living, moderate climate and good public health and education system. I think there are more opportunities for smart and hard-working people to get ahead here than in many places.
If you went by the letters section of the daily papers though, you would think it was a crime-filled, polluted, traffic-clogged, politically incompetent backwater, full of morose, violent and cultureless individuals who would all move to Australia if they weren't so poor thanks to the state stealing all their money with low wages and high taxes.
One person's paradise is another's hell, I guess!!
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