Nice place, but not particularly wealthy, and everything is expensive because it's imported. Housing is expensive too. Also there's the tension between the Maori people and the government. And the recent shift to the right hasn't improved anything.

It's basically warm Canada. My cousin moved there 30 years ago and said it's so similiar he felt home as soon as he got there.

Hey there, a lot of our research institues are under budget cuts and some are being disbanded (callaghan innovation). I would suggest you contact universities and see if they are interested in any aspiring research fellows. I am a master's student at Victoria University. My supervisor is currently in the works to help a professor (I think from MIT) come and work here. So even though my university is also under fire, I see a future where the immigration will actually produce a good environment for teaching and research here.

A big note is that we do have a right wing government at the moment, the most right wing it has been for sometime. Read on te tiriti and the hikoi against the treaty principles bill. We will have our next election in just over a years time, the last three polls show a preference for a left wing government.

Living costs are expensive. you will be spending a lot of money on rent (especially in Wellington) food and utilities. We have very poor public transport in the country, I hesitantly say our buses are okay but our trains are completely unreliable. A lot of our train routes end up getting replaced by buses because the trains are in such poor condition.

I have a couple friends from the US in Wellington, the main cultural integration I've heard them struggle with is the work culture. For the most part, work life balance is valued here, don't stay at work after hours you will be repremanded.

Hopefully this is helpful :)

if you turn your mouse upside down, you can find the unclick button on the bottom.

Yup , they will come in, destroy and take over everything...like a cancer.

It's because the fuckwits in charge at the moment are pretty much swallowing whole anything Atlas group spews out. Think slightly more sane, but less egocentric Trump and you're getting close. Except there are 3 of them.

Cement on top of the bunker entrance is a good plan though. We don't need more Theil's here fucking over the average citizen to get what they want

I didn't ask for this bs

“Rich people buy their way out of the fascism they helped build” seems more apt

A Flock of Seagulls was like 4 guys, so in that sense it's not a bad flock.

Yes, Maori members of parliament performed a Haka. Here is an awesome video showing it and set to heavy metal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JddEXEJ8_S0

Fellow canadian here, what's your take?

Mordor, probably.

They'll have to ask Australia very nicely to borrow a plane.

Or maybe their navy will ram a pacific island again.

When the shit hits the fan, there'll be good looting in those bunkers.

I could warn you when you make the same mistakes and hope you're smart enough to listen. Literally, nobody else I know has been, but one could try. 20 years, and people don't need privacy because they "have nothing to hide."

Too bad. Seymour wants it and he is going to get it.