I have been in NZ 2 years now. I began in an area called Nelson, which I quickly escaped from. The rental property was more akin to an asylum, with constant fights between tenants and Police regularly at the premises up to 3 times a day. There were all kind of problems, mainly drugs. It was needless to say, not a nice place at all, even the security guard who was on duty was trying to leave to go back to trucking. Definatly one of the worst places I have ever experienced. Nothing good there at all.
I moved on to the Wellington area and met a Maori woman off the internet and have been together 2 years. Wellington is a slight improvement but not much. It's still ran by the local mafia who like mostly drinking all your money with the false promise of a job at the end... Kids have little or no respect for adults. I have several times seen young kids stealing shopping trolleys, things like this, with no discipline from parents. People here like to use all your stuff, like computers, phones, motorbike, car whatever. It is similar to living in Shetland, where my house is yours type setup. The only real good thing about NZ is the weather, however your average Kiwi doesn't make use of it at all and likely lives off fish 'n chups and a satellite tv connection. Recently the NZQA walked off the job, so there is no governing certification body here at all. In other words, certs gained in this country are invalid. Indeed a teacher here was recently arrested for child offences. Also there was a large dispute over the teaching pay system, with some employees not being paid in months whilst others were overpaid, with debt collectors now chasing them for money. Average wise, most people are unemployed, with no regular satisfactory income which is why a large majority of young kiwis emigrate to Australia in the hope of better wages (which i have been there, indeed wages are slightly better but not by leaps and bounds.) All the oil work in New Plymouth dried up in the 80's with no driving industry to replace it. Otherwise it's a relatively safe place.
I moved on to the Wellington area and met a Maori woman off the internet and have been together 2 years. Wellington is a slight improvement but not much. It's still ran by the local mafia who like mostly drinking all your money with the false promise of a job at the end... Kids have little or no respect for adults. I have several times seen young kids stealing shopping trolleys, things like this, with no discipline from parents. People here like to use all your stuff, like computers, phones, motorbike, car whatever. It is similar to living in Shetland, where my house is yours type setup. The only real good thing about NZ is the weather, however your average Kiwi doesn't make use of it at all and likely lives off fish 'n chups and a satellite tv connection. Recently the NZQA walked off the job, so there is no governing certification body here at all. In other words, certs gained in this country are invalid. Indeed a teacher here was recently arrested for child offences. Also there was a large dispute over the teaching pay system, with some employees not being paid in months whilst others were overpaid, with debt collectors now chasing them for money. Average wise, most people are unemployed, with no regular satisfactory income which is why a large majority of young kiwis emigrate to Australia in the hope of better wages (which i have been there, indeed wages are slightly better but not by leaps and bounds.) All the oil work in New Plymouth dried up in the 80's with no driving industry to replace it. Otherwise it's a relatively safe place.
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