50 and older, I'm sorry, but in my personal experience, your advice has been a little out of date.

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im in the US but yeah i moved halfway across the country to go to a lower cost of living because I just couldn't make it work in a HCOL area like you're describing. I mean, im just way happier now but i understand that NZ is a smallish country where you can't just find a lower cost of living area further away.

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  • True. I've looked for rentals further south of me but it's the end of the world at the bottom of New Zealand. Every time a "cheaper area" pops up in the news, everybody from Auckland floods the new "cheaper area" and it ends up like everywhere else after 1-2 years (more pressure on house prices).

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