I am moving to New Zealand in November and I need suggestions on where to live and work... can anyone help me?

Question

I will be arriving at the beginning of the summer season and I am interested in finding a job in the ecotourism field. I will not have a car so public transport or towns with things close enough to walk to are important. I also want to live in an area where things are happening; a somewhat lively nightlife. I'd prefer to live on the North Island. Can anyone give me some suggestions? I was thinking the Bay of Islands... how far is that from Auckland? Is there good transportation between the Bay of Islands and Auckland?

Answer 1

Auckland to the Bay of Island is about a 2 hour car trip.You would be better of living in the Bay of Islands,it is realy beautiful up there.

You should also look at the south island for jobs, as it is a bit more touristy down there,( Queenstown ect)

Rotorua is the North Island is also  touristy.

If you are looking for nightlife and a job in the tourism feild i would go for Queenstown.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

The Bay of Islands is gorgeous, but its certainly not a busy metropolis with a thriving lively nightlife.  Its actually very quiet.  Its really a boatie's paradise, so lots of sailing and fishing.

Rotorua is about 3 hours from Auckland and is the tourist capital of the North Island.  Busy all times of the year but especially in summer.  Cultural, farm, geothermal areas and other outdoor tourist activities are on show in Rotorua.

Taupo, our biggest lake, is only 1 hour from Rotorua and that could be another option for you.

Auckland is our biggest city in NZ and has lots of work opportunities and lively nightlife.  However it isn't really your best pick for eco-tourism.

Possibly more eco-tourism would be found in Queenstown in the South Island.

Transportation between cities is quite good on the inter-city buses or by domestic air travel with Air New Zealand or Qantas.  Book in advance on-line for cheapest prices.

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Answer 5

New Zealand is a great place, whether it be, sun, sea or snow we have it all. You can drive from one end of the north island to the other in a day and the same for the south island.

Bay of Islands is nice and so is the rest of the country.

Before you start jumping out, explore the country and get to know the locals.

We ain't perfect but there are more people doing the right thing here....we have our scum bags(sebcue) but that's OK they get whats coming!

cheers

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Answer 6

If nightlife is of importance, you only have four choices, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Palmerston North. The Bay of Islands is very pretty, but there is NO night life at all. I would not reccommend Auckland to anyone because it is "just another city" and you won't get the NZ experience. Wellington and Christchurch are NZ's 2nd and 3rd biggest cities and are both very lively. Christchurch is on the South Island though. Palmerston North is a fun college town on the North Island. It's nice because you can live outside of the city a bit and still have access to everything you could need. Also, Wellington is only about an hour away.

I'm not sure why you would want to avoid the South Island because that is where most of NZ's beauty lies. If you do end up in the south, Nelson is another place to consider. It is the sunniest city in NZ, and quite lively for a small city.

Whatever you decide, make sure you travel a lot. Used cars are really cheap in NZ. Consider visiting the backpacker's car mart when you fly into Auckland. Public transportation is worthless in every city other than Wellington. Get a $500 junker that will last your trip and you will not regret it.

Have fun.

Answer 7

you might want to move your probably to dumb too live there

Answer 8

if u do move over to new zealand, move to the south island, nelson is a really nice place to live, and the people were very friendly when i went there. in the north island there are alot of racists, especially in aukland!! what ever you do dont move there. also i was reading the long aswe and he is WRONG NEW ZEALANDS MAIN INDUSTRY ISNT TOURISM ITS DAIRY FARMING!!! the south island is so much nicer than the north tho

Answer 9

NZ has a kind of social complexity that you do not encounter in any other country.

There is a strong bullying culture at work environment especially towards foreigners.

It is a small isolated country. So what you think the major source of income is. Of course it is agriculture and tourism.The problem is because salaries are low most educated people leave for better income overseas. This creates a big problem.. As I said it is a small country.So what do you think people might feel when most young generation emigrate. Well they feel they are invaded by foreigner migrants especially Asians, Indians and others. For many years white people dominated the country and Maories were lower class citizens. When  the white young generation is emigrating the country, fear of losing the power and fear of losing the working class (age 16-45) can cause a hostile environment towards new comers….If you spend some time with them you will see how much they adore and admire themselves and their younger ones compared to other nationalities no matter where they are from…..This is a dominant culture…even if a kiwi commits a crime if the victim is not a main stream New Zealander the chances that lawyers and justice protect their own people is quiet high. Because they want to keep their people and stop them from leaving. This culture exists in all of them .Almost all of them…politicians, doctors, lawyers, taxi drivers, farmers…..almost all of them maybe because they want to teach them to value their country and stay….however because tourism is their biggest source of income over many many years of dealing with migrants and foreigners they know they need migrants for their money….I have never seen any other nationality in the world being able to rip off so skilfully as kiwis. They make a slave out of you. They make you work for free. Most skilled migrants are young, motivated, and energetic and have some saving. They come to NZ to make a better life. They spend some of their best years of life, the first five years after leaving their country to work hard to achieve nothing instead. I have seen many families break up; I have seen many of them get depressed. A lot of them leave NZ after a few years of putting up with abuse, some leave for Australia; some go back to their home country. Some of the migrants who have some kind of support network and can stand the abuse or work as self-employed may stay and instead the way they cope with this culture is they turn to be like their kiwi abusive mates. I have seen some of them start cheating, stealing and exploiting others to be able to mentally integrate into the society around them and of course some of them do none of these and stay the way they were but in a less motivated, depressed slavery mood. Ironically when foreigners get ripped off by kiwis they get blamed for not being careful. I have seen young rich Japanese students who get bashed and their money get stolen but instead they will get criticized of being careless. Kiwi students and young generation have this mentality that foreigners are rich, are pain free and they have their money because their mummy and daddy gives them their money and they do not work hard for it so they deserve their money to be taken away from them because this is the kiwi land and if these foreigners want to stay here they should help us with our economy. We are the best people in this world, our country is the most beautiful country in the world, our government is the least corrupted government of the world (of course that is the other way round), our graduates are the brightest in the world, our poo and wee is from gold and because of all these all non-kiwis should adore us and pay us lots and lots of money because we deserve it. New Zealanders are very jealous towards Australians. You just need to tell them how better Australia is compared to NZ. Then you get a sheep thrown to your head and they f**t angrily into your face. I have seen some of these kiwis when they come to Australia they brag about their country to other nationalities to encourage them to visit their country and this way to help their highly dependent economy. Some of them say funny lies, For example they say they have lived in many countries all around the world and nowhere else is like New Zealand , The best wheater, the best health system, the best education, the best and most friendly people, no corruption, no crime, affordable and great lifestyle, etc, etc. The funny thing is some of them claim they were Aussies and now live in NZ because Australia had lots of crime, Australians were racist, Australia was this and that and NZ is the best place on earth and even the whole entire universe to live! If you do not know them well you poor naïve person will believe all these and if you know them well somehow you just feel sorry.

However about 35% of the population rely on social benefits (a lot of elderly left alone by their children, a lot on sickness benefits and lots skill less Maories), 70% of the medical school graduates leave the country after 2 years of finishing their studies and only one third of foreign doctors remain in this country to work due to poor working conditions. You can imagine how dangerous it can be to become sick in this country. Studies show a great percentage of migrants lose their health after being and living in NZ due to poor health system comparable to third world countries even worse. Although they claim their country is safe but if you live there you feel how dangerous it is : high bullying rate at work, constant ripping off, constant pressure from local main stream New Zealanders to suck more blood from you and poor health system and poor service due to lack of skilled professionals.

Because most migrants leave after a few years the government tried to make it longer to get NZ citizenship to keep them in NZ longer. They just try to make everything longer, stretching the time they can suck up more blood. They make it more difficult for everyone to get entry to the country just to make them more eager and make their own value higher. It is just like a rouge trade person who makes you wait and run after him before he comes to your house and does all the repairing and asks you a lot of money. It is just a way of torture to take whatever they can from anyone who goes to their country because this is the only way they can have income. Otherwise except exporting agricultural products there is nothing else to be able to produce significant profit. The number one source of money over the last few decades were international students, when the number of students and skilled migrants drops they do every effort to attract them into the country and then just drag them from here to there to take their money out of their pocket and how cunning and skilled they are in this industry God knows. For example, they stupefy these students and ask them to take papers which are more expensive .You just will be amazed by their ability. Nearly almost everyone knows some tricks when it comes to meeting other nationalities. They are superficially friendly to get your trust and make a fool out of you. Because the nature is green, beautiful and peaceful a high percentage of new comers get fooled... The best preys are some naïve idiot foreigners from third world countries. They know how to bully people around the globe if they can to be able to shake them till all the money falls out of their pockets.

If you live in small city after a while you realise how much they are dependent on the money foreigners bring in .You just feel you are constantly have to feed them and let them suck and that will never end. If you are skilled you have to work for long hours with low pay, what they claim is our pay is low but we offer a great lifestyle. They have very particular ways of satisfying you instead of low pay, for example they give you the power to control others, greasingly admire you, superficially make friend with you, respect you and the list goes on and on….Then when it comes to daily life activities you gradually realise your dangerous position. If you have a computer problem for example: first of all there are not much good professionals to know what they are doing secondly they ask you a fortune for just doing nothing. I remember I had to leave my computer in a shop for some technical problems, he just did nothing, absolutely nothing and then asked me to come and pick up the computer, when I got home, I just felt hopeless. Where could I go to complain and how can I prove it. I have already paid and there was no way to claim it back. I decided to move out and sell some of my furniture. The guy from a tender centre came and picked up all my belongings and told me he would sell it. I waited weeks after weeks and had to pay a lot for mobile bill to ring him. But he never sent me back any money. I wrote a complaint to the local court but again if I wanted to do anything I had to pay twice to lawyers and the court itself to solve the problem. As they had no customer to get money from….It was ridiculous. If you sit among them you just feel sick. They just admire themselves and f**t on you and then you feel your head is spinning and you have to leave.

Answer 10

I'm from Canada and I lived in Wellington (the capital of NZ, the second biggest city in the country, at the southern tip of the north island) for half a year in 2004.

Depending on where you're from....it could be culture shock, or not. I found it to be quite different from that of North America (or at least the part that I'm from)...

I found that it was really easy to walk around Wellington, and they have good public transportation there too....

Definitely a lively nightlife!!

Sorry I can't help you with the Bay of Islands because I didn't manage to get there...  :(

feel free to email me if you want more info!

Good luck and have fun!!

Answer 11

Ignor sebcue, he has no life and spends all his time critizing new zealand. He has about 5 different users and tries to degrade nz in as many ways as possible loser.

New zealand is a great place to live, moved here from aussie and have never looked back