Life in New Zealand

It is a combination of opportunities and a good quality of life that New Zealand offers potential migrants.

You have a 40-45 hour week, time for the family, and you’re able to go down the beach and have a barbeque after work. That coupled with New Zealand’s glorious open spaces and relaxed pace of life make it a draw despite its distance from Western Europe.

NZ with its low population and mild climate offers recreational opportunities perhaps unrivalled on the planet – for example NZ has the highest number of golf courses and privately owned boats per capita in the world.

As one ex-Brit says “You can almost taste the fresh air. I just love the lifestyle I have here in New Zealand. I get to lots of outdoorsy activities and go on lots of road trips. Even though I am thousands of miles away from home, I really feel at home here.”

New Zealand salaries are normally lower than the UK as is the cost of living and the quality of life advantages offsets any income reduction for most people.

Indeed Auckland and Wellington at 100 and 105, fare well in the Mercer Human Resource Consulting Cost of Living Survey for 2006, showing they’re amongst the cheapest places to live in the developed world, (London, for example, is at position 5).