Moved to NZ at the right time?
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Last year we emigrated to NZ. One reason for doing so was that getting permanent right of residence would give us (particularly my daughter) somewhere else to go in the future. I’m not a prepper but no-one knows what the future will bring and looking across the globe currently and Europe historically (not that long ago) there have been some turbulent periods.
I didn’t expect to have been happy about being isolated in the middle of nowhere quite so quickly!
I didn’t expect to have been happy about being isolated in the middle of nowhere quite so quickly!
ker from ISIS to Neil Chambers would find us here ,no complaints whatsoever .I got out of the UK when Blair was in charge and it was $3.30 to the pound.
Try and steer clear of crooks masquerading as lawyers in NZ, there are a lot of them.
Bent accountants don't help either, my first one did a couple of years inside for fraud.
Apart from that, prefer to be here than the UK - got a big mountain of wood for the log burners for this winter.
Try and steer clear of crooks masquerading as lawyers in NZ, there are a lot of them.
Bent accountants don't help either, my first one did a couple of years inside for fraud.
Apart from that, prefer to be here than the UK - got a big mountain of wood for the log burners for this winter.
Esceptico said:
Last year we emigrated to NZ. One reason for doing so was that getting permanent right of residence would give us (particularly my daughter) somewhere else to go in the future.
Australia?Anyway, you're in good company as a few (tech) billionaires have NZ pegged as their bug-out destination when things fall to bits in the USA!
I wouldn't get too smug and self satisfied - third hardest hit economy in the world according to a J P Morgan report
New Zealand
New Zealand began the year expecting a reasonably healthy 2.4pc expansion, so the virus lockdown immediately wiped out those prospects.
Add to that a 4.8pc recession and it comes in third in the rankings of hardest-hit economies, losing 7.2 percentage points.
It is very similar to near-neighbour Australia, which looks set to break its 28-year run without a recession, becoming the fifth worst affected nation.
Both economies have been powered in part by export growth in recent years, with New Zealand’s food highly valued around the world and Australia’s mining industry a key supplier of China – so both will be damaged by slumping demand from Asia.
The UK is not even in the top ten affected
New Zealand
New Zealand began the year expecting a reasonably healthy 2.4pc expansion, so the virus lockdown immediately wiped out those prospects.
Add to that a 4.8pc recession and it comes in third in the rankings of hardest-hit economies, losing 7.2 percentage points.
It is very similar to near-neighbour Australia, which looks set to break its 28-year run without a recession, becoming the fifth worst affected nation.
Both economies have been powered in part by export growth in recent years, with New Zealand’s food highly valued around the world and Australia’s mining industry a key supplier of China – so both will be damaged by slumping demand from Asia.
The UK is not even in the top ten affected
Edited by bobmedley on Wednesday 1st April 16:35
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