Have you actually ever been to New Zealand? It's a rather boring place
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Tue, May 1, 2012 - 1:19am
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Have you actually ever
Tue, May 1, 2012 - 1:31am
#3
Great chart...
Great chart Mammamia.... I've printed it out to show people. Its a pretty accurate reflection of how the current government is driving the country off the cliff only slightly behind the rest of the world.
Here's a clip from a recent article in the New Zealand Herald about the National government setting up an authority so local councils and government bodies can go out to the international markets to borrow money for projects they couldn't otherwise fund. The chilling quote is as follows:
"But with the pressures being put on the banking sector it makes a lot of sense for these councils to come together and fund it collectively. These are entities that have a great deal of security behind them. Not only can the local council increase someone's rates, effectively tax homeowners, they can take possession of the house if the worst comes to the worst and increase someone's mortgage."
Link here: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10751868
This strikes me as legistlated debt slavery. Sorry but this should be grounds for impeachment for not acting in the public's best interest.
We're expats in NZ from the states and glad to be here for so many reasons but I am not too excited about the current elected government
Cheers, Chip
PS. Fblack... yea your right we live in rural dairy country on a farm with ten empty sand beaches within about a 15 minute drive. All that pastoral green landscape and ocean really bums one out.
Tue, May 1, 2012 - 9:39am
#4
New Zealand? Never.
You should read:
NEW ZEALAND – A Blackmailer’s Guide.
And if you can take it. http://newzeelend.wordpress.com/emigrating-to-nz/
Very negative view, but some interesting stuff there. I have not chequed the statistics presented there, but go look and make up your own mind.
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Tue, May 1, 2012 - 11:47am
#5
and you believe that?
and you believe that?
Wed, May 2, 2012 - 12:02am
#6
Boring?
Have you actually ever been to New Zealand? It's a rather boring place
Boring's in the eye of the non beholder.........
It's one of the most beautiful places on Earth. And I'm Australian....
Mike
Wed, May 2, 2012 - 1:27am
#7
Possibly better stats at
Possibly better stats at http://www.johnpemberton.co.nz/html/debt_and_population.html
It seems he stopped updating it a couple of years ago. But he points to Reserve Bank NZ source data. Which is useful to track back to.
Plus this site may be of use. ==> http://www.omo.co.nz/ The guy that maintains it posts on interest.co.nz from time to time and makes some very intelligent contributions.
Wed, May 2, 2012 - 6:10pm
#8
One thing you need to be
One thing you need to be aware of is that in the major center, there is a housing boom underway....
http://drhyman.com/blog/conditions/do-milk-and-sugar-cause-acne/
Mainly cashed up immigrant driven
The Government made it easy for people with more than 1.5 Million NZD to move to NZ....
Hot money out of China is making it hard for the locals who want to buy to compete....
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/property/news/article.cfm?c_id=8&objectid=1080...
Thu, May 3, 2012 - 2:49pm
#9
New Zealand
Find the anti-NZ web site hard to take everything seriously, but as someone living in NZ I will follow-up several things to see if they can be substsantiated. The crime statements seems to be way off as violent crime in NZ is much lower than in the US:
http://www.courts.govt.nz/publications/publications-archived/2000/intern...
I'll go into more later...
I used to live in Louisville, KY. At least a couple murders per week. A murder in NZ makes the national news. NZ murder rates are only about 35% of US rates...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1104/S00029/new-zealand-murder-rate-con...
On the other hand, if you are foolish and walking around in the middle of the night in "bad" areas, I am sure bad things have a better chance of happening. I've been in bad areas a lot for a job I used to have in the US (southside of Chicago, parts of Phily, Camden, NJ, parts of Miami, etc) and what "bad" looks like over in NZ is nothing like the same as what it is in the US.
Thu, May 3, 2012 - 2:55pm
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Maybe that anti NZ blog just
Maybe that anti NZ blog just wants to keep people out. For example, his:
Foreigners Murdered or Killed in New Zealand
Thu, May 10, 2012 - 2:32pm
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Septimus wrote:
Maybe that
Maybe that anti NZ blog just wants to keep people out. For example,
I did have the same sensation. Although I did not have data to back it up.
Sat, Jun 30, 2012 - 6:32pm
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anti-nz blogs
What really strikes me is the ferocity with wich these people atack everything NZ, it seems quite odd and frankly suspicious, on the other hand there are honest comments from people mostly from the EU, criticizing NZ as a non-first world country. this is understandable if you compare the UK or Germany to NZ, nevertheless, NZ is Far, Far, from being a third world conuntry, I have lived in Dunedin NZ, and I compare it to back home in Mexico, and trust me, NZ is NOT a third world country. When I was in NZ I was never afraid of being gun down by armed gangs with AK-47s, or the army.
Sat, Jun 30, 2012 - 6:47pm
#13
NZ
I had the distinct pleasure of spending 3 weeks in NZ back in 2000. We spent two weeks on the South Island and one on the North. Obviously, I have a limited view as someone who went to hike, climb and kayak, but it's cities were busy, clean and safe. The people could not have been nicer and if I was at a different place in my life I would have bought real estate there. NZ will always hold a special place in my heart and if I had the chance I would go back in a heart beat.
Lynne
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