Canada to New Zealand

[inhamilton]

Originally Posted by asdfghjkl

To the Kiwi's the "N" word is just a common word and commonly used as well. But that's not a huge deal.

My word! Where on earth were you living? Let me assure you that if a Kiwi uses the 'N' word it IS a huge deal. I can honestly say in all my years living here that I have NEVER heard anyone I know use that word. So to say it is a common word is just ridiculous. I would go as far as to say that word is virtually non-existent here.
I sense some childish attempted forum hijacking going on. Lol.

CanadianFinance, I hope you enjoy your visit. Good luck for your little recce. Hope it goes well. I'm sure you'll have a great time.

[anski]

[quote=jawnbc;816837]

Originally Posted by asdfghjkl

Health care in Canada is NOT free. Income taxes in Canada are higher than in New Zealand so there's no co-payment in Canada. If you add federal and provincial income taxes (except the north and AB) income taxes in Canada are 2-5% higher at the upper limit.

Nothing is free.

I do, however, agree, that co-pays are stoopid: better to increase the income tax by 1% and get rid of the system in place that allows doctors to charge more. Not gonna happen though--since that nearly caused riots in SK in the 1950s when the NDP brought it in there first).

jawnbc

Sorry I did not make the remark,

It was posted by asdfghjkl

[topcat83]

Originally Posted by inhamilton

My word! Where on earth were you living? Let me assure you that if a Kiwi uses the 'N' word it IS a huge deal. I can honestly say in all my years living here that I have NEVER heard anyone I know use that word. So to say it is a common word is just ridiculous. I would go as far as to say that word is virtually non-existent here....

Confession time... I don't know what you mean by the 'N' word (so it certainly isn't in common use, whatever it is)

Does it stand for 'Numpty'?

[jawnbc]

Originally Posted by anski

My reply wasn't to yours...it was do asdfas;jdhf;ashf;alsdf

[jnbates]

Geez, it's a good thing I didn't read this before we quit our jobs, sold our acreage/cars/lots of possessions, spent a huge chunk of change for immigration fees/shipping/airfares, and uprooted our 8 and 10 yr olds to move from Alberta Canada to New Zealand - I might have regretted starting down this path!

Research, research, research - that's really good advice for someone thinking about immigrating to another country. Because it's not just the culture difference - it's the economic, climate, social, and so many other differences that all have to be weighed to determine if it's in line with one's values and goals.

In our case, being about halfway through my work-life, we had good jobs with great wages and were very responsible with them for a very long time, so we've accumulated a reasonable net worth that we're now maintaining as a safety net while we ride the Alberta equity-bubble over to this completely-new-yet-familiar-enough country because, after all the research we did and in spite of the double-whammy of much lower wage and lower buying power, this move offers us much better chance of enjoying our lives vs. making lots of cash while we continued to endure a climate and lifestyle we could barely tolerate any longer.

There are so many other reasons that we did this, such as better professional opportunity for my wife, opportunity for the kids to learn a lot more about the world and their place in it, access to outdoor activities and travel to places in the Austral-Asian region, etc etc etc. But it's gotta be to each their own for the decision to do it or not, or where to do it.

[Simmy_M]

CHCH is a small city and business hub of New zealand. As you said that you have just completed your business degree, I hop your are looking for the good job there in New Zealanad. CHCH is less competitive than Auckland as it is a small city so it will be easy for you to get the job in CHCH than Auckland. The people of bothe the places are very quite and helpful so now its up to you which place you select to live.