What is NZ economy like?

Question

and what is their culture like , how is crime there compared to the rest of the world? tell me anything about it, fashion , food, people, jobs, money , anything.. thanks

Answer 1

Sorry 'flowerlegz'  but I have to say something here.

User 'justin cue' above .... get over it!!

We all know YOU have 3 accounts

User ‘sebastian Jo’ and ‘sebcue’ AND 'justin cue' are the SAME person – 3 accounts

You have now been reported.

flowerlegz - take NO notice of any of his words, he's full of it.

NZ is a GREAT place to live or visit !!!

Answer 2

Mainstream NZ culture is watered down American culture that we absorb through television. It has the second highest obesity rate in the developed world and the highest interest rates in the OECD so lots of foreign investors pushing that up and house markets are ridiculously overpriced. It has a strong fashion base  with several annual design shows throughout the main cities, try looking for brands like Nom*D or designers like Trelise Cooper and Karen Walker...

Answer 3

Good, house prices are not ridiculously overpriced, there is a housing boom at the moment but is just following on from what happened in the US.

Answer 4

Great culture here. The maori culture is very interesting. Every thing here is great. I left Blacktown, sydney, aussie for Nelson, New zealand and I like it here much more. I am sick of Australians saying "we are the best", well maybe some of them should try getting out of australia before coming to that conclusion.

As for kiwis who dont like living here, you dont know how lucky you are. We live the one of the safest countries in the world. There is crime here but compared to the rest of the world it is relativly low

The people here are fun, warm and welcoming. Very friendly to. Fashion is good, lots of good cloths here.

Houses here are quite expensive. Lots of people moving here and who could blame them?

So new zealand is great!!!!! I am so sick of the aussie frame of mind. For some reason alot of them think they are better than everyone else beacause they live in the so called "lucky country". I am glad that i moved to nz and will never ever go back

Answer 5

Good question,If this was NZ I could help you but this is Australia and NZ is thousands of kl from Australia and we are two different country's.

Answer 6

- There culture is hard to exlplain but its a wonderful culture...its like mix.

- The crime is very low...POLICE DON'T EVEN USE GUNS i was shocked cause of how tamed this country is.

- The fashion is be what you want to be, but currently the teens are into gangsta, scene (emo) and prep fashion.

- The people are very friendly when you are walking around any street they will greet you, but i notice there are some racist people which hate asians i think...

- Dunno about the jobs but the classified section looks like the position are mostly Skilled (mechanics, graphics, music, computer, engineering...etc)

- Money is great for me am getting paid like double or even triple (and after the first week i got raised in my wage) than when i was in the States even though am on a youth reduction allowance but will be changed next month cause i will be 18.

- This country is not corrupted, its listed 2nd or 3rd i think for being not corrupted in the world!!!

- It's clean the air is crisp...and the scenery is wonderful but at a certain way it bores me cause its so clean.

- Sports country...(They love Rugby which is like American Football but with no protection and pass the ball back only and cricket which i have no idea)

Downside is...

- New Zealand RENT IS CRAZY!!!!

- Hate the give way rule in the runabout

- Speed Camera are like ever 100meters...d**n so strict!

- Car should remain at a certain sound (muffler/exhaust sound) or if you go above your car will get impounded.

- Again there are people that are racist...

Answer 7

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 8

Depends what you compare it to.

Standard of living is technically lower (slightly) than the US.  Lifestyle far superior.  Economy is slower than US and Australia.

Fashion - lots of basic comfortable clothes - jeans, ug boots (sheepskin), woollens etc but they have plenty of high quality innovative fashion too.

Money is the NZ $ worth about 75 US cents.

People are mostly cool but really hate us Ozzies ribbing them about their ug boots!  (They really wear pretty normal comfortable footwear - and ug boots).

They play wicked Rugby Union and lousy cricket and drink lots of beer when they watch it.  Baseball, American Football etc are just about unknown.

Answer 9

I think Slappy gave a pretty good summary of what NZ is. To be honest with you, I think life in NZ is what you make of it :) A lot of people think NZ is crime free but it isn't: there is crime here like everywhere else, it's just more reported in the media here because it's such a small country.

The culture here is fantastic! There is a mix of all sorts, mostly pacific with Maoris and Polynesians, which makes it great for people who want to learn about something different. The people are lovely, nice and polite, of course there will be always the rudes ones but you can't really escape them :) I moved to Auckland NZ nearly 2yrs ago after living in Paris France and London England and was surprised to hear bank clerks saying hi to you or engage in a conversation. The food is pretty similar to everywhere else, you'll get all the ethnic food plus islander food too, which is interesting to sample.

Jobs are plentiful although wages are low, but then again no one should move here to make money. Wages in France and London are higher but so is the cost of living. House prices in NZ are pretty high, can't comment as I'm only renting. I live in Auckland central and can drive out of the city and head to the beach within 20 mins...this is one of the reasons why I moved here, I could never do this where I used to live.

Don't listen to people who say NZ is c**p, you can only judge for yourself by visiting the country. Although a visit is not the same as living, it will give you a little idea of what to expect :) And if you do end up moving to NZ and not liking it, at least you will have tried and there's nothing wrong with that! It might not be the right move for some but it was for me anyway. Hope this gave you some insight :)

PS: Thanks Kbear!