Heya
I can now confirm that my husband has formally accepted an offer of a job in Auckland, so we will definitely be moving to New Zealand!!! Woooohooooo!! I'm so excited but also very scared and nervous, as I assume all of you were.
My husbands employers are arranging all the visas and provide us with accommodation for one week upon arrival and we are hoping to arrive at the start of July. Happy days!!
Anyways, I am now in planning mode and starting to plan the logistics of moving our family and furniture to NZ.
Our furniture will take between 8-12 weeks to arrive, so we are planning to move into a holiday home temporarily whilst we look for a longer term rental and will try to co-ordinate our move into rental with the arrival of our furniture. However when we first get there we won't have a car or mobile phone/internet access. We will need internet access to allow us to search for rentals. What did everyone else do when your first arrived? We were thinking of hiring a car for two weeks until we bought ourselves one, plus can you easily buy a pay and go sim with phone call and data allowances for a short time until we sign up to a mobile contract?
Can you recommend any other tips for us to consider to make the first few weeks as stress free as possible?
Thanks
I can now confirm that my husband has formally accepted an offer of a job in Auckland, so we will definitely be moving to New Zealand!!! Woooohooooo!! I'm so excited but also very scared and nervous, as I assume all of you were.
My husbands employers are arranging all the visas and provide us with accommodation for one week upon arrival and we are hoping to arrive at the start of July. Happy days!!
Anyways, I am now in planning mode and starting to plan the logistics of moving our family and furniture to NZ.
Our furniture will take between 8-12 weeks to arrive, so we are planning to move into a holiday home temporarily whilst we look for a longer term rental and will try to co-ordinate our move into rental with the arrival of our furniture. However when we first get there we won't have a car or mobile phone/internet access. We will need internet access to allow us to search for rentals. What did everyone else do when your first arrived? We were thinking of hiring a car for two weeks until we bought ourselves one, plus can you easily buy a pay and go sim with phone call and data allowances for a short time until we sign up to a mobile contract?
Can you recommend any other tips for us to consider to make the first few weeks as stress free as possible?
Thanks