• thevoidzero@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    We were thinking of moving using the skilled visa, which seems hard because we need a job offer prior to visa application. So if you have money you can just come?

    Any Kiwis here can tell me if it’s a good country to immigrate to? I will have PhD soon, and want to contribute to open access research if possible.

    So far the country looks great because we like slow life, but idk if that’s just for citizens or also for immigrants.

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      6 minutes ago

      It’s basically warm Canada. My cousin moved there 30 years ago and said it’s so similiar he felt home as soon as he got there.

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      3 hours ago

      Nice place, but not particularly wealthy, and everything is expensive because it’s imported. Housing is expensive too. Also there’s the tension between the Maori people and the government. And the recent shift to the right hasn’t improved anything.

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        1 hour ago

        Seems like the right shift is kind of global. I don’t see any other country being a good choice either. And we did see the tension, and the haka.

        How’s science though? Main problem we have here is that people don’t really respect science anymore. Which is something that we find really scary long term.

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          58 minutes ago

          Not sure these days, but I assume they’d be in the same boat as the rest of the Anglosphere.

  • nocklobster@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I’ve always thought New Zealand was a better version of my own country (Canada)…I no longer think this.

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      40 minutes ago

      if you turn your mouse upside down, you can find the unclick button on the bottom.

  • KiwiTB@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    It should be noted people in New Zealand are not fond of their current government, not their republican style bullshit. But like many countries the same people who voted then in will do so again at some point.

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    15 hours ago

    Nearly half the investors who have applied hail from the US, representing 85 applications, followed by China, 26, and Hong Kong, 24. Residents from countries across Asia and Europe make up the rest of the applicants.

    “Flock” lmao

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      14 hours ago

      “Rich people buy their way out of the fascism they helped build” seems more apt

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        12 hours ago

        The Hong-Kongers deserve a little sympathy, but the ‘rich’ part really does take the shine off.

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    10 hours ago

    Fucking assholes who are makin the country worse fleeing. Good news is they will then shit up that other countries. bad news is once they crap it up enough will come back here and it continues constantly searching for the nicest spot in the turd pile to defecate on.