Move to New Zealand the real story eBook Maria Aandewijck
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Thinking about moving to New Zealand? Then this is a must-read! This short book provides you with insights and experiences from recent immigrants to New Zealand. It may not all be positive (although most of it is!), it is all real and it will save you having to find out things the hard way. With a rich resources section, it also provides you with up to date websites, books, articles and DVD's about emigrating to New Zealand.
Compulsory reading for anybody who is considering to take the plunge!
Move to New Zealand the real story eBook Maria Aandewijck
This is a fairly balanced view of life in New Zealand, especially if you're coming over on a shoe-string budget. Obviously a bit biased against a move to New Zealand, but as the author explains, it's to offset all the over enthusiastic accounts and immigration agents advertising New Zealand as the land of milk and honey. As wonderful as New Zealand is, it is an expensive country to live in, especially in Auckland. I read it before immigrating here, and it didn't put me off, but it did at least warn me to brace myself for the more negative aspects of the country.Given 3 stars because the novel was short for the price, otherwise with more info it would've been a 4 star.
To be honest, most of it came across as a 1st world citizen complaining about a "lesser" 1st world country. Coming from a 3rd world country riddled with poverty and crime, New Zealand really was a land of milk and honey for us! So, read it to get the "other" side of the picture, brace yourself for problems (You'll find them no matter which country you move to), make the most of it, and your mileage may vary!
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Move to New Zealand the real story eBook Maria Aandewijck Reviews
Appreciate her views, but do not see anything that justifies a pricetag, particularly for those who are seriously looking for something helpful in an objective discernment process.
This book is way too short.
otherwise it provides some interesting information and an outlook you will not find in many other books on immigration to new zealand.
It surely seems to be full of practical and useful stories founded on fact, both in a positive and negative way.
Excellent read. Wish I had read before emigrating to NZ.
A must read for all thinking about living the Kiwi Dream.
Others problems not mentioned in the book Racism, teenage suicide, binge drinking,
Very poor education standards.
Saffer
Overall a concise and useful guide with some useful links to other sites and other book recommendations. I think the author's immigration hassles although frustrating are not likely common. Useful and interesting are the insights into some of the difficulties faced by immigrants, socially and in the workforce.
This book is about the 'wart side' of living in NZ. The author says it's true...as beautiful as the place is and as sweet as the people are...there actually are annoying aspects to living NZ style. To that end the author brings a side of NZ that visitors would not see. It's a small book-there's not really alot of warts there but what is there is fun to read about.
At this point I have to say I have never lived in NZ but I have traveled extensively there for the last decade. Plus I can count several transplanted Kiwis as friends.Much of what the author says rings true to me. But some of her points I don't understand. I find NZ to be a well kept, consistently tidy country...almost uniformly from end to end. I like the Kiwi personality and find them to be some of the nicest people in the world generally speaking.With that said, some of the author's observations don't make sense to me, because if they were totally accurate there would be a different picture to NZ than what I see.
What I question is the author's declaration that Kiwi's don't work too hard or efficiently, that aggressive labor unions create a barrier between management and labor which in turn promotes a poor work ethic and hampers NZ's progress into the 21st century. Another observation was that NZ has shoddy building and inspection practices. Plus there is a general unreliability to small business and poor customer service. Once again, I don't live there but I have observed an efficient and well maintained national road system, I really like Air New Zealand, and even the amazing national public restroom system is terrific. That speaks to me as management and labor working together to get the job done. Look at Christchurch and the recent earthquakes..it took a series of titanic jolts to finally bring the downtown buildings to ruin. That must be some sort of testament to NZ construction and adherence to safe building codes. Also look at the NZ movie industry..at this time it is virtually the world's best-filled with an innovative and dedicated work force. The proof is as close as the 'extra material' on a NZ DVD.In some instances the author seems annoyed that New Zealanders like the way they do things right now and they're not much interested in advise.But this could be said of anybody in the world, not just Kiwis.Legendary low wages-yes...expensive housing- oh yea... content with the present-true. But all these are not limited to NZ. You could easily say this about moving to Hawaii or even California.
But that aside, I really enjoyed reading about the author's angle on NZ despite our differences. I appreciate her attempt to show that NZ is a real place and Kiwis are real people. From her point, as a resident alien, once the veneer of newness wears off (and your foreign money is gone) you have to really live there and it just might be a surprising struggle-be prepared!
I find the book to be unique in the library of NZ literature and well worth reading. So whether you plan to move there or not, if you enjoy NZ, you will certainly enjoy the mental challenge of comparing your experiences against the author's on-site reporting.
It was interesting to read a realistic (or at least realistic-seeming) account of what it was like to emigrate to New Zealand.
This is a fairly balanced view of life in New Zealand, especially if you're coming over on a shoe-string budget. Obviously a bit biased against a move to New Zealand, but as the author explains, it's to offset all the over enthusiastic accounts and immigration agents advertising New Zealand as the land of milk and honey. As wonderful as New Zealand is, it is an expensive country to live in, especially in Auckland. I read it before immigrating here, and it didn't put me off, but it did at least warn me to brace myself for the more negative aspects of the country.
Given 3 stars because the novel was short for the price, otherwise with more info it would've been a 4 star.
To be honest, most of it came across as a 1st world citizen complaining about a "lesser" 1st world country. Coming from a 3rd world country riddled with poverty and crime, New Zealand really was a land of milk and honey for us! So, read it to get the "other" side of the picture, brace yourself for problems (You'll find them no matter which country you move to), make the most of it, and your mileage may vary!
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