NZ Life
This section contains pages relating to Quality of life in New Zealand and the everyday issues and events that NZ residents and visitors to the country have to live with.
Topics covered in these sub-pages will include the quality of living environments, armed police activities in suburban areas, how visitors to the country are treated and information about what ‘NZ lifestyle’ is really about.
None of these pages are static and they are updated as fresh material is found:
NZ High Winter Death Rate and Burning Wood to Keep Warm
Leaky Homes Issues and Stitched up Migrants
The Abuse of International Students
Armed Offenders Squad & Armed Police Incidents
A thread on British expats forum is called Feeling the Pinch? and offers some outstanding websites and ideas for squeezing those pence until they scream for mercy. Mind, however, New Zealand is one place where mouthwash is not cheap grog for the secret home drinker!
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?s=8b51ab0c335960887affe1618f25360b&t=710586
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/2373844/NZ-not-suffering-as-much-as-rest-of-world
This is the barmy view that STILL reigns here – somehow they have it better than anyone else. Well, I’d like to tell Kiwis YOU ARE BLOODY DELUDED.
Everything printed in the Kiwi media is feelgood and reinforces that view of the idyll, ¬ challenging it. Because many of these miserables cannot leave the island, and they want many others to COME to the island so that cash will continue to fill the credit accounts. So they are not going to dwell on any downsides beyond what is perfunctory to maintain the illusion of a balanced media.