10 Things They Don’t Tell You About Moving To New Zealand
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- Опубликовано: 20 май 2024
- Are you travelling to New Zealand anytime soon? Maybe even moving to New Zealand? From the people to the food to the weather to the COFFEE, this video gives you a little taste of what I've learned from three years living in New Zealand. Got any questions? Comment below! Are you from New Zealand? Tell me something I've missed!
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Please keep educating me in the comments, it's amazing to hear about your experiences! I am so proud to live in this country and I'm so happy to be learning more. If you have any recommendations on where I should explore and what I should make another video on, I would be absolutely delighted to hear. Thank you so much I will try my best to reply to everyone! Curls
Maybe 5 things you’ve stopped doing since moving to New Zealand? Or started? general lifestyle changes would be cool to hear. Or maybe your experience with the cost of living/rent difference here!
If you’re a green smoker, I’d be interested to hear of any differences you’ve noticed in the cannabis 🍃 😉👍
Fish n Chips in Welly are king
You forgot 2 very important things 1 if you don't support the ALL BLACKS Rugby Team you are consider a non KIWI/NEW ZEALANDER and 2 is that KIWI'S/NEW ZEALANDERS are considered Alcoholics from the amount of Alcohol they drink every week
I just subbed. Chur
In retrospect I now realise the obsession with birds, V, and pies is pretty unique. I appreciate those quirks a bit more now that you pointed it out
It's a great country with some great little quirks. Proud to be a part of it!
I (NZer) understand the origin of pie love and bird love, but why V?? Especially when the coffee is so good??
@@soniam8709 Aussie birds are gangsters man!
@@jo2534 True, very, very true.
Ozzy birds are loud like ozzys. 😆 soon as you get out of the airport all you can hear is crows or galahs.
As a New Zealander, I can say that you're spot on with all of what you said about our country
Cheers Mike! Appreciate it
He didn't mention rugby lol.
Bro Here in Christchurch, I went around like 5-6 dairies looking for a steak n cheese pie and couldn't find one.
@@christopherharwood1316 Thats what I was thinking lmao
@@GazzaWazza06 Really? Here in Hastings pies are everywhere
Your pronunciation of Māori words is awesome man, really impressed
Kia ora Rawiri, thank you so much for saying that and taking the time to comment. Really appreciate that a lot!
As a Pom, here for 30 years, I'd have to agree with Rawiri.
Ka Pai!!!
I'm a new kiwi (17 years and counting) i have to say that apart of really good restaurants and coffee there's also really good craft beer, great wines, peanut butter, chocolates and so many other things, crafting simple things and taking them to a new high level seems to be the way to go here and people appreciate that! I do
Your no kiwi ,
Who gives a rats tail @@user-zi1oq1tx1h
One of the things that I love about New Zealand, is that most of the shops have awnings/eaves. You can walk an entire length of street shops In the pouring rain and not need an umbrella.
That's funny ! I miss umbrella's 🤣
Depends on the town a bit. Properly-planned towns with no stupid anti-human setback bylaws do that. The new car-oriented buildings should be forced to have the carpark in the back IMO as in the front destroys the urban environment.
Hi Vanessa, this is such a great point and one of the first differences I noticed about NZ/Aus when arriving from the UK. I'll absolutely be mentioning this on a future video, thank you for reminding me!
Since it rains so much I don't see why alot of outdoor car parks don't have the covers over them like in Australia which they do for the sun
@@jean-lucbuczinski143 no point owning an umbrella in Wellington, you'll lose it the first time you try to use it.
Wow, your Maori pronunciation is amazing. I've never heard a foreigner get it so accurate.
The lack of an accent helps
@@jonathanmckeage8222 not really as the vowels are pronounced the same if we are talking European countries and other indigenous cultures around the world ..but if the main language is English ..then the pronunciation is going to be vastly different as the vowels are pronounced totally different
This is a huge, huge compliment. I honestly can't express how fulfilled I feel reading this comment. Thank you so much Shaun.
@@Honeygooyumy69 try telling a Irish man that
Yeah I noticed that too 🙂
Despite my being in the UK New Zealand is the center of my universe, I had a deeply profound experience in the very North which I won't go into but I feel like I'm home whenever I'm in NZ. I wish I had visited earlier in my life before it was too late to consider relocating. I do think that Kiwis have such a deep rooted civic pride and respect for the governance of the country they hold that most Brits need to think long and hard about whether they have the right mindset to fit in (I include myself in that). An example is littering; we were there a few weeks ago and saw no litter, none, nothing. Not a Macdonalds wrapper, not a Coke tin, not a newspaper. Nothing. We witnessed a group of young lads eating their meal and diligently picking up every piece of litter and taking it with them. I defy anyone from the UK to honestly say that they do the same. This respect for the place is in every direction you look. Yes I'm sure that you could take me places and show me a darker side but I'm talking averages here, everywhere you look in the UK you see litter, graffiti, destitution, a grey soulless monotony. In the UK you need to look for the good, for the clean, for the unblemished. In NZ it is every direction you turn.
I am from the UK and I do pick up my litter every time. and when I used to smoke, I would keep the cigarette stub in my coat pocket until I found a trash bin and my coat would smell so bad 😀
You ever been to South Auckland mate? Plenty of litter there and grafitti/tagging is everywhere. There's also some streets that you can't walk alone at night if you're the wrong colour you will get jumped, severely beaten and robbed.
New Zealand is not clean and green at all!, very sad to say as it’s my home!
It's true that every country has its underbelly areas of crime, poverty, graffiti, and ugly urban schlock buildings,
BUT in New Zealand the bad is diluted by a huge quantity of good.
And often in the small towns, the people and the built environment look uncared for BUT they will help you if you're in difficulty. Hearts of gold.
In NZ you can never judge by appearances.
Sadly the main downtown area of Auckland is full of litter and graffiti. It never use to be this bad
I lived most of my life in Wellington and I got used to the wind as being just "the weather" but then I moved to Whanganui and I do not miss the wind or the city. When it is windy here, it is noticeable as it is the exception and it is always a few degrees warmer.
I think the one Starbucks in Wellington is for the tourists, there are over 90 cruise ships visiting Wellington in a season. I don't know anybody local who would choose it over any number of alternative, good and cheaper coffee shops on offer.
Great content
As a Kiwi who has lived and worked overseas I have to say you are pretty spot on. I would only add an obsession with sports to your list. Few countries I have been to devote as much time to sports as we do, I mean at all ages and all levels, and also our love of the outdoors, whether it be fishing, hunting, surfing, diving, or just tramping.
I thought he would mention the rugby obsession but didn't
@@gtanz8475 Probably didn't want to touch on religion...
When I arrived in NZ 43 years ago, I was welcome to the worlds largest sports club, by some of the locals. Half the TV news was sports coverage.
@@peterrhodes5663 It still amazes me on every Thursday evening to see hundreds of kids with their mums and/or dads turn up to play sport at the Oval in Dunedin. I have never seen kids sport done on such a large scale anywhere else I have been.
I miss NZ. Your user name brings back fond memories as well. Grew up in Hunua, so trips to Miranda Hot springs were very common along with calling into the Kiaua fish and chip shop.
I live in Singapore for 30 years. I travel to NZ so often, repeated cities and towns. NZ has so many great things, Gosh! I could be the tourism ambassador!
First, the Sauvignon Blanc is THE BEST in the world. The seafood? I could die in heaven! The water is sparkling & the air could cure illness, believe me 😁
But most of all, I fall in love with the vastness of Southern Island.
Kia Ora 💕
Those south island mountains are great 😎
Great to visit but to live in Singapore is better
@@cuzzytang Singapore is too hot whole year round.
@@lukaraa9278 fr especially right now, I start sweating 5mins after I shower in my own home
Absolutely true , Marlborough white wine is my choice. I live in Australia
I was born in NZ and have never heard anyone calling crisps chippies. They're chips! Everything else - accurate 👍. I enjoyed hearing your ten points. I'm in europe and am definitely learning how much NZ supermarkets suck in comparison to here!! But I am really missing the clear drinking water, clean air and the COFFEE!!
You forgot to add vinager to the dip
Yes chippies. Everywhere. I've lived here 17 years and hear the term chippies daily.
Nah bro. Chippies is correct.
Who the f calls them chippies !!? I’m 65 and all my they have been called chips
Chippies are for kids. We grown-ups just call literally everything chips. And McDonald's forced "fries" onto us but we still call them chips once out of earshot. At least they know the kiwi word for McDonald's is Maccas.
Anywho, chips are defined by what you put with them - e.g.:
Fush n chups (fish n chips)
Chips and dip (kiwi onion, ofc)/bag of chips
And lastly, chips/hot chips
But they are all chips to us. Only exception is wedges. Hope that helps
P.s. Google/RUclips ghost chips for a classic kiwi meme/ad gone viral
#11 is one of the best places on earth, I've freaking loved to live there. Natural Pristine beauty, amazing and gentle locals. Best year of my life!
I was half expecting to hear 10 negative things about NZ so it was a pleasant unexpected surprise to hear you putting NZ on a pedestal & in a good light to the rest of the world...Its an amazing paradise & im proud af to be a native NZer 🙌🏽🖤🇳🇿
Pedestal.
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Chur
Very well spoken mbro,
Yessir. Nz no. 1 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿
4 seasons in one day is about right !pleased to have u in our awesome country.
What a lovely thing to say, thank you Dee!
Spot on about the restaurants, coffee and the birds! Spent nearly 6 weeks travelling around both islands back in 2018 as part of a mega round the world journey - a late retirement treat for myself as you have plenty of time on your hands for the first time in life. Absolutely loved the country, found some great beer and some very friendly folks at the Rotorua bowls club (couple of dollars for temp membership to access the bar) and some incredibly matey and helpful locals on the South Island's west coast. I liked the supermarkets, made a nice change from the vast Tesco and Asda aircraft hangars home in the UK. Planes and boats but not many trains, absolutely!
I am a Kiwi who was born, grew up, got married and started my family in Wellington, New Zealand. I live in Australia now but you had me laughing so often throughout this because all except for the bird one, I would say, you were completely accurate! Haha. (The birds here in Australia are something else - big and very, very noisy).
I think that is why we are so obsessed with birds. Native NZ birds are very musical. English birds sound pretty boring in comparison.
But yes aust ones take the prize for just too much yelling.
I agree birds in Aussie suck ..they look cool ..but so fkn noisy..I used to tell the missus when I meet her about how beautiful the dawn chorus was in NZ compared to Australia..it wasn't till I finally brought her home that she understood 😊 Chur to the birds of Aotearoa (every time I hear and Aussie bird scawk...I think of you ) ❤
Why did you move from NZ to AUS? We are moving to AUS with work from the UK but would rather go NZ
@@rebeccahunter5862 so many reasons, better weather = better lifestyle. Better standard of housing, more opportunities for jobs, education, entertainment etc. Easier to get ahead here financially. I love NZ, it will always have my heart and will always be ‘home’ but Australia has been so good to us. So many family and friends of family and family of friends of family have moved here after us. It’s just better. Sad but true.
I like your positive attitude mate. People these days love to complain, you see the good, that's an asset that can't be bought. When I was travelling overseas the main thing I missed was the coffee! As for weather, you did choose the city with the worst weather in the whole country 😂 if I was going to add anything to your video, I would add that we have our own space program, have a currently legally dormant claim on a segment of Antarctica, play many more sports than just rugby, and have a legacy of incredible explorers, sailers and navigators, from Kupe, Tupaia and other legendary Polynesians to Frank Worsley, Edmund Hillary, Peter Blake and all our current awesome sea and land farers. Have you eaten a real Southern cheese roll yet? If not you're in for a treat
Wow mate some incredible facts here! Definitely going to make a video of Kiwi icons, Sir Edmund will be first on my list! I've had a cheese roll and I'm not joking, I was genuinely blown away by how delicious it was. Kiwi ingenuity at its absolute finest - simple, yet so, so effective! Cheers for your kind words man
Yes to a cheese roll. Come down and explore Canterbury, it's a gateway to all things adventurous in the South Island!
What's a currently legally dormant claim in Amtartica mean?
When I moved out to the middle of Canterbury, the one thing I missed in the morning was the sound of birds. I grew up in Auckland next to a Native Bush, the sound of birds rising with the sun.
cicadas and crickets are also great ambience.
Plenty of magpies around where I am in Canterbury unfortunately
And puekekos if you near a creek/swamp
Ngl, sounds familiar, I’m from west Auckland (in the waitaks) and I’ll soon be moving to the selwyn district
@@Connor6569 many magpies out in Selwyn 😅
This is the best clip I've ever seen. Great work. Love the positivity and style
As a NZer myself, this list is shockingly true, and I appreciate you pronouncing "Maori" correctly. One thing I have noticed as both a NZer and someone who doesn't care all too much about sports is, when you're watching the news on TV, NZ is very divided on whether or not to watch the sports section. If you don't watch rugby you "suck" so it's safer to just say "Yeah, All Blacks!" lol.
I'm not into rugby, but I'll happily watch any game just for the All Blacks' haka.
This is a "i live in the north island in a city list". 33% of NZers live in the south island. I grew up in CHCH. then moved out of it in 2017 into a town with 20k people. I will never want to live in CHCH or a major city again. Its a hell hole thats trying to be a north island city. Craming as many people in as they can. Rural NZ is 1000x better. Everything you need can be ordered or is an hour drive away to a city if needed
He actually said maori wrong, as do most maoris and Kiwis. The old 1970s pronunciation was correct😮
@@richarddevaottien7724 happy new year bro 2024❤
NZer here born and bred... You are spot on 🤣 especially about the Supermarket food 😮💨
New World & Countdown the bane of our lives hey! Appreciate your comment mate
@@itscurlsbaby The only explanation is New Zealand does not have the population to support more choices at the supermarkets.
@@itscurlsbaby bloody countdown😭
I really appreciate how you pronounce Maori and Tui correctly, most foreigners say Marry or they don't roll the R's . Good work man keep up the content
right? that was solid
just goes to show other lazy kiwis who say they cant pronounce it correctly, anyone can!!
I've actually found British people make more of an effort to pronounce Maori words properly and say Maori greetings than most white new Zealanders! Quite interesting actually
He didn’t mention the division between the races exploding created by Jacinta and the Communist Labour outfit
@@brianharris8055 theres always been division in New Zealand. NZ has racism spread throughout the country, maori have always been discriminated against. they tried to destroy maori culture but thankfully they failed and most kiwis now see how devistating it has been to them. the same thing with LGBT issues, theres many hateful bigoted people in NZ. certainly has nothing to do with Jacinta
Always appreciate hearing someone from other parts of the world pronounce Maori with so much effort cheers brother spot on!🤙
I lived in Wellington for many years. I definitely experienced Howling southerlies with horizontal rain but i did not see snow. Thats a surprise to me.
An honest and uofront appraisal of our country. Thanks mate 👍
Nothing between us and Antartica - so yes - can be cold when wind is from the south.
As a New Zealander your pronunciation of Māori and the birds is spot on
I stumbled upon your video and loved it. Great first impressions captured for someone who comes to the land of big white cloud. Thanks Curles. All the best❤
Aroha
My wife grew up in Wellington but has lived in Vancouver for 25 years now. She can handle our rain but thinks we couldn't handle Wellington's wind, (and rain.) I've been to Wellington a few times. My list of 10 things might be a bit different, but I was only there visiting. Thanks for the video.
Nice vid. My oldest daughter has been living in the UK for about 6 years, she missed onion dip so much that we had to send her the ingredients. Her UK flat mates thought she was mad until they tasted it. All now converted !!
Salt and vinegar chips and dip can't go wrong 😁
@@joecollins2108 Yep it has to be salt n vinegar
As an Argentinian(so you can understand my point.. haha)...Why would a kiwi moved out to another country? What do kiwis look for..when the decide to live overseas?
the ingredients are already there, just with different names. They have Maggi and other soups, and their reduced cream is called extra thick cream, produced by Nestle from memory. I lived there twice, totalling 14 years, so I had to find a cheaper option than the shop at New Zealand House. Secrets too, add some herbs, vinegar, turmeric, chili flakes, or whatever you want, to your onion dip, changes the experience if you don't like basic dip.
Forgot the lemon or malt vinegar in the onion dip lol
Ive never put lemon in it l will have to try that .
@@maggie-dm2kz lemon juice is best imo:-)
Not needed..
Thank you for the perspective, love it
You have to add about a teaspoon and abit of brown vinegar to the onion dip too, gives it the tangy flavour
Haha love your “weather” description! And your Māori pronunciation is top notch bro.
Thank you so much! Will be starting Te Reo lessons soon.
As New Zealander I definitely agree with everything you said about our lovely country New Zealand is definitely a beautiful and quirky place to be but nonetheless I am proud to be a kiwi 🇳🇿❤
Thank you Lisa, you're totally right New Zealand is both beautiful and quirky... and that's exactly why it's so great. Proud to be here!
I’m glad you’re loving it here in our beautiful country I hope you enjoy all that our country has to offer!
Beautiful country but way too much crime... the government has fucked us over
@@Jthom67992 Jesse, no disrespect but you are showing here how little you have traveled if you think that. Sure there's crime but compared to a lot of countries we are pretty lucky. Nothing really to do with what party is in power. Don't be sucked in by what the media are telling you, stats show it is actually dropping.
@@dprcontracting6299 compared to other New Zealanders I am very well traveled. I have been all over Europe and America and have experienced many different places. And yes while we are no where near the crime rate of America its still quite outrageous. The kids are out of control, doing ram raids and robberies.
And no it's quite the opposite, the media has been portraying it as non important and ok while it's in fact not.
And it's all because of Jacinda. She's created more division in this country than ever before...
NZ-born, been living in UK for 25 yrs. Pretty much agree with your take on NZ and it’s culture. I go back there regularly, there’s plenty of things I miss but I notice the changes/shifts in culture too.
Of course there’s not going to be convenient public transport infrastructure, there’s too few taxpayers to support it - but small population can be a blessing, too, like when you turn up to fish a river, as I do, and no one else is there. You’ve got the place to yourself, which is important in fishing.
Pies. Yeah, the best ones are absolute quality. Coffee too, 30 years ago small indie shops got the jump on the multinationals like Starbucks. Wha’hey!! Ok, I get it that sometimes tourists laugh at our obsession with coffee, and tell us just to relax, it’s only coffee, but what’s wrong with being proud of doing something properly to a high standard?
Loads of Kiwis are upset about the lack of competition in the supermarket sector, meaning food in NZ is expensive. Fish is ridiculous. It’s no coincidence that shedloads of people grow as many veg as possible, hunt and gather as much as they can - it’s part of their appreciation of the much-lauded Outdoor Lifestyle they’re rightly proud of, community sports/exercise included. When I arrived in the UK it was obvious that blokes loved football, but once they’d left school very few bothered to get out and play it. I could see there wasn’t a widespread ‘fitness culture’, something I’d pretty much taken for granted in NZ. Kiwis in London used to joke that those young women jogging in the parks were NZ/Aussie nannies on OE. Maybe.
You didn’t mention the ice cream. Kiwis are proud of their classy ice cream. It doesn’t have to even be posh artisan stuff, either, just ordinary cheap Tip-Top can be really good.
You didn’t mention the wine, maybe because before you arrived it was different and you weren’t there to see the change, which has been for the better. Years ago in NZ wine was expensive, and pretty ordinary and shit value for money. Nowadays it’s pretty much amazing quality across the range, and much cheaper/better VFM than it used to be. And sold in supermarkets, which it didn’t used to be, as weird as that will sound to you.
Yeah, Kiwis appreciate their birds, maybe because before you arrived we realised our pests - imported stoats etc - were killing so many actual Kiwis we needed a protection/breeding programme to avoid extinction, thereafter followed a national consciousness around appreciating our native birds. When I’m back in NZ and I’m wilderness camping the dawn chorus reminds me just what a special country it is.
Tangy dip? Is that still ‘a thing’? I thought Kiwis nowadays were weary of processed ‘soup mixes’ with E-numbers in them, indeed processed foods in general, so are now unlikely to add them to otherwise natural dairy products? My exposure to that kind of ‘chip dip’ is some kind of weird ‘party food’ back in the day. I might be wrong, it might be more popular than I realise.
I lived there from 1971 -1973. Sound pretty right, Curls. A few things have obviously changed. Coffee shops were pretty well non-existent back then, and 'V' hadn't arrived. As for the rest, you're descriptions ring true. Of course, the big difference is the increase in population and people covering a wide range of cultures coming in. When I lived in Auckland the population was 600,000 and in all that time I only ran into a traffic jam once - when there's been a major pile up on the harbour bridge. The whole country's population stood at around 3 million.
One thing that immigrating Brits always used to complain about was our housing's lack of insulation and central heating. Less now I think, because, if you can afford it, newer houses are adequately insulated and heated, mostly by heat pump/air conditioning. If you don't have a newer house, it's gonna feel like it's colder than the UK. Wellington has some of the craziest weather, particularly in summer. one year that I lived there, it pretty much went straight from spring to autumn (in temperature) and totally missed summer! Another year, in the height of summer, I was wearing a duffle coat one day and a singlet the next, such are the extremes! As much as I love Wellington, I do prefer the Auckland temperatures 😊
and I just don’t understand that complaining. I lived in Cambridge, where it doesn’t rain that much, and the houses were cold and damp. Radiators and a tiny boiler do not keep even a small house warm!
How's the scam that is climate charge I mean change going for you? Power bills expensive yet?
@@lindascott6902 Cambridge in NZ or UK?
@UniversalExpanse it's definitely an interesting difference, but perhaps not necessarily something that generally affects someone who's immigrating, which is probably why it didn't make his top 10.
The wind in the Wellington area is a factor, particularly if you are on the south coast or pass Ngauranga Gorge frequently... I used to ride a motorbike between Wellington and the Hutt Valley, and would often have a wrestle with the wind. Went to the UK, and was riding around on a blowy night. It was a bit of a wrestle, but no prob. People the next day simply could not believe I had been riding a bike in that storm. Wellington practice!
Thanks for being so kind about us. You are learning, _n'est-ce-pas?_ 😋Oh, and thx also for not mentioning Rugby, lol. I was just over the Rubgy by the time I turned seven.
Us Kiwis are a somewhat parochial bunch: We don't make fusses, we don't stick our heads above the field (tall poppy) and we would never approach an outlander celebrity if we saw one. We cross the road (this is why they come here). We go on about loud brash *Americans* but we don't realise we actually mutter and mumble when *we* speak (possibly because of some of the things I brought up before).
Some add-ons to your salient ten points:
1) Birds are fowls, even counting the little ones and the cognate in german for fowl is Vogel. We have a heavy nutritious loaf called Vogels Bread, it's full of seeds and Kiwis will pay a shitload for these if they are overseas. You have a version licensed in the UK but it is too light. it ain't Vogels.
2) Our meat pies do rock so much so that I had to pop down to the dairy outside my block after you raised these just to jam one in. Some entrepreneur should take Kiwi pies and launch a pie chain in America. They don't even know what a proper pie is there, they think its a tart, like the french do. Now, I wouldn't go anywhere near there but someone should go and reap in the moulah with Kiwi pies up in there. 👍🏽And yes, we do do desks of these. Hot ones: pies and/with hot desks.
3) Kiwis prefer Columbian arabicas coffee beans. Yes we do make the cheap instant shit that tastes like Weetbix, but we also do do coffees. The good good ones.☕
4) Kiwis' humours. My mates were at a party in LA having a good time with the local lads and one of 'em told an American dude there that he thought he was a "good cunt". Well, you barely hear them say this noun up there and when they try to say it it comes out funny, and this recipient dude took real offence. He was paid the highest compliment, Kiwi style. They decided this fellah was alright so he's the "good cunt", standard. 😆
6) Dunno what you mean by chippies. The chippy is where you get takeaways. I think you misheard what Kiwis think they are saying as "chips" as actual "chups". Like, "Fush end chups"?
Thanks for the upload. You rock, mate 🙏👍🏽
Number 2,there are a few Kiwis and Aussies have set up shops in the States,still in its infancy,but there is room for growth, saw a video,and they were constantly packed. That was before Covid.
So grateful for the information you've given me here mate! So much I didn't know, the fact about the Vogel translation is awesome, I had no idea about that! So so true about the Kiwi humour too haha. Chippies is a weird one it seems to divide opinion among my mates, but in New World I've definitely seen a sign for 'chippies' on the crisps/chips aisle!! Thanks again for your comment man I really appreciate your effort, that's made my day.
+Lol nicely said
@Rob ghost chips
marmite and chippy sandwiches
This is so accurate 😂 some of these things I had never considered being unique to NZ, so it's really cool to hear this sort of thing.
Yes were different in many ways to other countries and your comments are accurate mostly depending on ones perspective. Its always good for us to hear others perspectives etc.
As a Kiwi who has lived in Canada, I can say that driving around New Zealand is a lot easier and faster than in Canada 😅 We love a roadtrip and only fly when we have to. Otherwise you pretty much nailed us
The roads are atrocious, potholes everywhere, road works, orange cones for miles,State Hwy closed in the North for 2 years and no long term fix.It’s best you purchase a 4 x 4 as this Government and previous have not kept up with infrastructure and maintenance, roads are becoming dangerous, the current solution is lowering of speed limits 😂
Road trip pretty expensive $2.73 a litre today, government investing in bike paths rather than fixing the roads.
@@ronterei3411those long 50km speed limit roads that used to be 60km or 70km are a pain in the arse. Most people I see still do 60km+ on them and haven't seen hardly anyone getting pulled over by the Police.
NZer here - good video!
One thing you missed that I think people should know about - our *dairy products* - milk, ice-cream, yoghurt, cheese. We make some of the best dairy products in the world! The ice cream here (not the supermarket stuff but the stuff from dairies and ice-cream places) is amaaaazing! Oh, and also our bread - we make pretty darned good bread here too!
Hey mate, thanks so much! Great shout about the dairy products. It's a really interesting and complex scenario that they happen to be so expensive in the supermarkets despite being such a fundamental feature of the agriculture here. You're definitely right about the ice cream too - it's delicious. Worth a video in itself hey!
@@itscurlsbaby and for a country surrounded by water, fish is farkin expensive. So is milk cuz its priced based on what they can sell it for overseas. Its a travesty really. No wonder people are getting less healthy.
The pies here are awesome. One thing to note though for anyone moving to NZ and buying a house, If the house is 15+ years old it most likely won't have double glazing and little insulation. Houses are cold.
I’m a French guy who moved to nz soon and I really appreciate your videos and your point of view about nz culture , you didn’t compared it to , you’re just explained! Thanks
As a reasonably travelled kiwi 🥝 this was just brilliant. I concur with all of your estimations of us.
Haha Wellington wind is pretty miserable, very different in other parts of the country.
Agree what you said about birds. I'm from the US, and even though my dad is a birdwatcher, I wasn't expecting this level of intense protectiveness for birds. They'll deliberately hit possums with their cars here because they eat native bird eggs.
There's a general disdain for wild mammals here, as none are native (except bats and sea mammals). I love birds but I still have a lot of empathy for mammals, being from a country with squirrels, foxes, racoons etc.
Loved the video pal. I’ve been offered a job over there so we’re looking to move from the UK to Whangarei early next year! Can’t wait
As a Kiwi this cracks me up. 100% correct I reckon. Ka pai on your pronunciation of Te Reo by the way. If you can do it after only 3 years of living here it just shows how easy it is. Nice one.
Thank you Shanna! Appreciate your comment. You're absolutely right, a little bit of effort goes a long way!
Great to see a positive commentary, and glad you've been enjoying the country - I mean, sure there's things that can get you down about the place, but it's really just bloody nice to see some enthusiasm at times on here!
Speaking of pies, if you haven't come across it before... just pop "Funny Police Ten 7 Moments NZ | Always Blow on the Pie!" into that search bar up there and yeah, see the depth of seriousness we take those pies 😂
Have enjoyed living overseas, but hey - there's really no place like home eh? Thanks for the reminder of both the quirks and special things that make us uniquely what we are mate 👍
Great video... "safer communities together!"
You’re such a sweetheart. Thank you for the tips!! 😊
Awesome take on NZ, Curls. I utterly love dawn and dusk. Good for the soul. Simply for the beautiful dawn chorus of birds from the melodic Tui ( and the odd, Magpie interloper adding a few notes) to the flirty fantails darting around me if I am in my the garden. To the quiet solitude of the early hours when you might hear the reassuring hoot of a ruru (owl) in a nearby tree. And, yes, even the raucous parakeets and rosellas overhead. Live less then 4 km from Auckland's cbd. Lived overseas in Japan, Singapore and London and one of the things I noticed an absence of was birdlife in big cities ( pigeons aside!). Seems like they've all been drowned out by the constant urban 'hummmm'. NZ isn't the world's most exciting country. Or even the 'best' whatever that means but simple pleasures like a really good coffee in the morning, listening to beautiful birdlife before going to work, is priceless. Ths only other country I've been to with birdlife diversity to rival NZ is Indonesia.
Actually one important observation that might be harder to really understand is kiwis inability to complain as a culture. Behind closed doors yes. But we tend not to complain in public. Tall poppy syndrome is really the key, it's quite frustrating in nz sometimes cause everyone is kinda "just going with the flow" and we can be abused for that. Supermarket pricing for example is because kiwis don't complain in public.
Not allowed to complain in public now.....everything is hate speech...sigh
Yeah tall poppy is a real thing. New Zealanders have a much lower threshold for arrogance. Behaviour that is normal in the US or Aussie, kiwis will think it is arrogant.
Truth. I'm guilty of always complaining about something when at home or on a drive. Never in public.
It's because there is a two party monopoly with supermarkets and some other products also that controls high prices. Despite this I would not live anywhere else.
Please don't judge New Zealand weather just by the capital, Wellington! It's in a league of its own 🙄
Otherwise, pretty spot on list, and full props for your Maori pronunciation, good work there especially on the bird names. Haere mai, welcome, and do check out the climate in other places like the Mainland aka the South Island 😍
Wellington and Nelson should technically swap places
Saying that don't judge the rest of NZ from Wellington's coffee and craft beer. Something special there
Yes indeed best comment! Hastings can reach 40 so hot!
I live in the bottom of the South Island of NZ and no matter what people say about down here, its not really that cold but it is beautiful
@@lolenit9813 I grew up there. It is goddamn cold mid winter but you get use to it. You can't beat the beauty of a crisp clear frost in the mainland
Oh wow, thank you for your advice. I just returned to OZ from a visit to NZ South Island and fell in love with it! Definitely going back for more! ❤️❤️❤️ What a beautiful country 🤩 One more pointer to add, they are currently experiencing a dire shortage of staff so a bit of patience and understanding would go a long way 🙌
We love our Birds because they are Native to this Country ♥️ (Tui, Kakapo etc) Also our Kiwi Bird almost went extinct so it opened alot of peoples eyes imo to look after our native animals
wow - was expecting a lot of negative things, thank you. couple of things about the classic kiwi dip 1) it is better the next day - leave it in the fridge, it's ok fresh mixed (no whipping involved, simply mix the two together) 2) (or maybe this is just me) I like a squeeze of lemon as well - but maybe that's not so common. 3) I have never ever heard anyone in NZ refer to them as "chippies" - biccies (biscuits, yes) - chippies, no. as for 'it's cold compared to Australia' - oh YES - why I live in NZ
Yeah its 'chips'
We used to call them chippies when we were kids it now I'm much older would mean pkt of chips or "chippies"as opposed to hot chips if that makes sense..?.. they call them crisps in the UK is that correct?..and apparently a chippie is slang for a builder or carpenter in Aus I think..
I've never had lemon in onion dip, although I was about to say that he missed out a "splash of vinegar" in his description. Lemon sounds awesome!
As a Brit who now lives in New Zealand I loved this.
Cheers Barbara! Means a lot to hear that
I want to move to NZ from australia, i understand the low wages and high housing prices but i have had enough of the busy, chasing a high professional job type of life. Im married and want to have kids, i love nature, i love hiking, i love cool weather and i love kiwis, every kiwi i met are the greatest people ever.
Spot on. When i was at Clyde Quay School, we often bought pies just for lunch with a top layer of mashed potato, delicious 🥧
It's Only a 9hrs drive from Auckland to Wellington, if on cruise control. That's an enjoyable walk in the park for most of us. Ive driven down for a pie once, when 7mths pregnant, didn't tell anybody I was going - or coming, either. ♥
I don't know anyone who would consider that drive a walk in the park lol, a one way trip is a whole ass day basically.
9 hours? Do you take the scenic route via Stewart Island?
@@Andrey_Pushbike hiya! Nope, straight down the middle, through taupo on state highway 1. Its basically a 7hr drive, but I love the scenery, so always cruise at my own leisure & make frequent stops to enjoy the beauty of my country. Ya just ain't a kiwi, if ya don't love a good ol' "road trip" :)
@@Kjane. You must be a Driving Miss Daisey type? Lol! 30 years travelling between Aklnd & Welli. 7 hours is the norm with a heap of stops( The obligatory Taupo stop for a feed!) Still a beautiful drive(In Summer)
Cruise control? Only for a few sections with double lanes, beside that gotta keep a keen eye on the road ahead!
Birds! Absolutely. There's a family of Rainbow Parakeet that live outside our flat. They learned how to laugh at people from a school nearby.
It's also worth noting that plane trips are a huge luxury in NZ unless you're just sickeningly wealthy, and cars are widely accepted as the normal unless you live specifically in Wellington or Auckland. Most of us Kiwis spend a week or two with family or friends driving up and down the country to see all the cool stuff, cooking by campfire or barbeque. I personally drove up the entire South Island in 11 hours a few years ago.
Loris laughing at people sounds hilarious! xD
Are you joking re plane trips?? I live in Wellington and most of the time it would cost me way more in petrol to drive to Auckland than fly. Can often get flights one way for under $100 - couldn't drive there for that!
@@emikiwi No, I'm not joking. I'm from Dunedin and a quick Google has confirmed that our ticket prices to fly to Wellington start at just under $400 for a budget flight, then go from over $400. Dunedin doesn't typically fill a plane, so our ticket prices are higher.
Wellington and Auckland have a large population base and often fill planes, which allows for cheaper ticket prices. This is why I specifically named Auckland and Wellington as exceptions to the high prices in my first comment.
Thanks, as a New Zealander who hasn't been back for about 30 years, I was good to hear the update stuff and the still trad stuff. No idea about the energy drink, and coffee when I was there wasn't happening.
Ka pai young fulla, what a great review of our Aotearoa, thank you for your honest review, I'm hoping the supermarkets watch this and fix their prices. If you get a chance, try the pies at Fairlie Bakehouse especially the pork crackling, this is hands down my No 1 favorite. Enjoy your stay in our home. Kia Ora from Kirikiriroa ❤️
snow country, the bush, windy Wellington and the tropics/the far north sand dunes. NZ is built around 4 seasons in one day 😂 when people ask what’s the weather like, always expect the question to end with “where you are” 😂😂
Hi Curls, I'm a Kiwi (born in Timaru, South Island & grew up in Auckland). totally agree with your observations/ experiences. Supermarkets are improving, but the prices are diabolical. Costco won't help create a price war as such...it will be just a battle for supply & customers. The consumer will still get hit by their greed. Travel is disgraceful in NZ. A lot of train services have been withdrawn in many sectors. Tourist Bus services have been reduced...and Covid didn't help this. I love the absolute greenery, lakes, fjords, beaches & the real plus for us is the almost total lack of deadly spiders & snakes. You can lie on the grass & beaches and need not fear, accept for the chip-staved seagull & ever increasing dog population. (I love dogs, but take beaches like Takapuna, the dogs can outnumber the bathers...), and don't get me started on the blight of Road-Cones 🤣 Banks are becoming few & far between if you want real service. There is an ongoing battle for the roads between bicycles & cars. If they want us out of cars, it won't be pollution (cleaner running vehicles), no it will be congestion, but moving commuters to buses, trains & bikes is really only moving the populous into another mode & doesn't ease congestion. Try catching a bus up Anzac Avenue/Symonds Street during peak-hour and you have 1,000's of cyclists in the bus-lane holding up buses (no-win). I guess it is give & take. We are still lucky to have one of the most beautiful countries in the world. Most countries have their attractions, (and being chilled-out in a cafe) I think we have more than our share. Cheers 👍😎
Hey mate! Thank you so much for this comment, this has taught me a lot and I definitely agree with you on the parts I know about. I was truly gutted when they cancelled some of the scenic trains, especially as it was just before I was due to travel from Christchurch up to Picton. A real shame, but hey, we have been in difficult times recently so it's no great surprise. Hopefully now tourism is coming back we'll see some of these impacts mitigated, but who knows. You make a great point about banks too, I remember a few months ago when BNZ was down for a few hours on a Saturday, it was chaos and there was nothing that we could do other than wait it out! Thanks again for your feedback and enjoy the rest of your day! Curls
Keep hearing about the commerce commission reviewing the super market duopoly situation. Nothing ever happens to sort it
@@anon7705 it isn't that easy. I wish. Costco won't even sort this. Monopolies came into play under a previous government & trying to untangle this is quite a legal battle. It certainly won't pricing in the short term. I shop around to get a deal. It also comes down to what you are buying and where. Countdown are certainly not being fair with customers, or clients. You ask anyone who has been blocked from trading with Countdown.
I've been wondering why the local banks have been closing down, do you know why?
@@anevilstripper6095 banks are moving more towards cashless society. This is hard on senior citizens that relied on cheque books. Besides this with everything switching to online banking it makes sense for them to close branches...not something I like, but very much the direction banks are taking.
You're spot on! I'm from New Zealand and I *was* a Red V person until they discontinued my most favourite drink in the world. Also try, Lift. It's pretty damn good. L&P is another great choice!
I now live in Australia since the last 15 years. I don't really miss New Zealand because I like how friendly Australians are. Kiwis can come off as rude & unfriendly, also there's not much to do there. Not many jobs and things are *expensive AF.* Everything is expensive, clothes, houses and food, 3 main things people swear by. The only thing I miss are my favourite drinks and food.
If you ever go New Zealand, you must try these things:
Lift, L&P and Lewis Road's Creamery Chocolate Milk.
Hell's Gate Hot Natural Mud Springs in Rotorua.
Hell's Pizza (the best pizza place in the world)
Momo Tea in Mt Albert, it's an Asian BBQ place which has the *best* food.
Hamilton Gardens, probably the most beautiful Garden I have ever seen! You'll get lost in it. It's so dreamy! it has different gardens like Italian garden, Indian garden, Chinese Garden and also a garden dedicated to Marilyn Monroe, a classic Hollywood Hills Garden. Each garden would make you wanna visit the countries! They're just too beautiful for words! 💕
Good to see you point of view on Nz! I’ve travelled and lived overseas in a lot of places and thought Nz are not as cultural as other countries, so it’s great to see your perspective on this. That’s awesome! Cheers bri
As a kiwi I laughed so much at how accurate all this is. 🤣
😂😂 Glad to hear it!
Nice
This is a good breakdown but I did bump up against two of them.
Supermarkets - this one surprised me as living in Oz I find the range of certain foods to be completely lacking in comparison to NZ. 😂
Not sure about the weather comment, having lived in the UK I’d take NZ’s weather any day.
I'm a Kiwi living in Brissie now and supermarkets here are wayyyy better. And NZ food prices are also much higher than here. And fuel too. NZ is expensive to live in now.
This was sweet 😊 and you nailed your Māori pronunciations, you could give plenty of locals a lesson!
Wow thanks mate, that's so cool to hear! Really appreciate that. Hope you have a great weekend!
Man, the more I look into NZ life, the more I want to live there. I’ve yet to find anything that turns me off about it. Absolutely stunning geography, beautiful culture. I especially love birds! I’m just in love with a place I’ve never been! Can’t wait to get out there for myself someday ❤
Cheers mate. Your summary of our Kiwi way of life is spot on.
Kia ora brother, thank you so much!
Haha😁 how on earth did u show up on my feed!! Things I don’t know about my own country.👍🏽
I live here in Wellington, and 100% agree! There's not a day where there isn't a little bit of wind! It can get annoyingly hot, but we always have wind!
It's interesting, and great, to see what others find interesting about nz. I'm a kiwi,. Thanks for the positive stuff... I think, in regards to weather, that various parts of nz have their own climate! But this year has been very wet, moreso than many others. And yep gotta agree about the supermarkets.
I think the only time I hear chips get called chippies over here is if someone's talking to a young child lol
@gazza Yeah love me some chups in good ol' nil zilland
Yea I'm from New Zealand, well done! Part of the problem with cost of food is the goods and services tax of 15 percent, apparently we are one of only about 3 countries that tax food.
I need to hear the New Zealand perspective on if it really takes forever to drive places, because as an American, driving around the entirety of the north island was one of the fastest road trips I've ever taken 😂 I adored New Zealand though and would come visit again in a heartbeat.
It doesnt take forever , theres just no easy way to see the entire islands without circumnavigating them like 3 times each.
THAT PART 😅
OK, as a New Zealander - it does take forever to get say from Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty to Wellington, or New Plymouth If you are in Gisborne it takes forever to get to Auckland, and much longer to get to Whangarei. It is all perfectly fine if you have the time, or if you are a cocky bloke with a heavy confident foot on the gas pedal! The roads are small, bumpy, mostly one lane each way with passing bays here and there., but we are getting some expressways. We have a small population / tax base and the terrain doesn't lend itself to massive motorways either, so we just have to accept this as part of our charm! 😃
Its not the distance that makes road trips take forever. Its the vast amount of road cones this country seems to have an unhealthy obsession with, pothole ridden roads, reduced speed limits to cater to the vast amount of people that cant seem to drive, people fluffing around travelling under the speed limit. But mainly road works, or more accurately, road reworks.
I'm moving there soon. You've excited me even more man!!
Thank you very much for this as I found it quite refreshing compared to some of the other videos I've seen. Since the start of the pandemic, I've seen a few people start up channels where they talk about their new life in our fine (but not perfect) country, and some of them are pretty under-researched (e.g. an American lady insisting that we never use paper plates or driers... 🤨 ) but everything you've said here is spot on, mate. Even the V. I was certainly a Green V drinking kiwi when I was a teen. Moved onto coffee when I grew up though - are you enjoying our NZ flat whites? 😀☕
I saw that American lady too! She called us passive-aggressive! I think really it's the cultural divide where some people are used to others speaking their mind regardless of whether people want to hear it, versus people who understand that sometimes it's just not worth the hassle of telling someone they're being a bit of a dick.
I appreciated this video - you're pretty bloody bang on! Thanks for everything you said! 😊
Also in New Zealand we don’t really have school social groups, eg the cool kids and the nerdy kids, where people from one social group aren’t friends with people from another, everyone is friends with everyone in our schools (or at least in my and my family’s experience)
Definitely has these at my schools lol. Mean girls vs the nerdos
I’ve lived in NZ for 8 years. Your last point spot on, the rest I can only kind of relate to. I think it’s because I spent the prior 15 years living in south east Asia my summary would be it’s ok, but so so boring l, and the night life compared to the rest of the world sucks quite a lot. It is pretty and if you love the outdoors or the quiet life you will love it. For me it’s a bit of a prison, as I was so used to flying everywhere and tasting other cultures I guess I was spoiled. I’d like to leave, yet my wife’s whole family is here😢
Great video! Your Aussie experience video made me wish for more, and yay, here you are in N.Z😊
One thing I think you forgot to mention about Cook Strait (the stretch of water between the North and South Islands) is just how dangerous a crossing it can be. Sometimes they'll cancel the ferries. There used to be a dolphin that would escort the ferries as they traveled. He eventually became protected by law after someone tried to kill him (Pelorus Jack).
NZ also has this really weird thing of getting wrapped up in stories and then going "wait, what happened to X?" I can remember when Happy Feet, a penguin who was eating sand and stones, was taken in and rehabilitated. There was basically a new news story about him every other day. He was finally released in the ocean, with a tracker. It suddenly went dead one day, scientists figured "Oh well, must've been eaten by a whale", and most people responded with a "Oh well, that is life".
Also Marmageddon, the shortage of marmite....and people saying there is still marmite from South Africa, but it didn't taste the same!
Another thing I forgot was how many volcanos the North Island has. Chances are that mountain is a volcano. Auckland is a hotbed for volcanic activity and has over 100 vents I think. Lake Taupo? Super volcano. The three national park mountains? All volcanos. Mount Taranaki? Volcano. Mount Maunganui in Tauranga? Yup, you guessed it, volcano.
If you haven't yet I also suggest looking into Maori myths and legends. They have many stories about these places. Like how the Waikato river used to run one way but now runs another. Why Mount Maunganui is right on the edge of the sea. Maui is always a fun one, although the story of how he dies might get you demonetized lol
@@BBeeeeeee I have returned to NZ after decades away , I live in Dunedin on the side of Mt Cargill with an amazing view of the city and the countryside . Idescribed it to a friend as ' an extinct volcano ' another friend , a geologist piped up ... ' Well , strictly speaking there is NO SUCH THING as an ' extinct ' volcano ... ' Ahh yes, life on the Shaky Isles
Yes, I remember when Happy Feet got turned into a Happy Meal, sad day.
@@weehudyy Gotta love living in the Ring of Fire! To be honest I don't know what I'd do without a volcano nearby, or at least a mountain range to see. I come from Hamilton, where Mount Pirongia (a volcano) was frequently in sight. Now I live in Palmy, with the nearby Tararua and Ruahine ranges to keep the horizon company.
@@BBeeeeeee We are defined by our mountains . Maori hold their local mountain as part of their whakaapa ... One of my musical mates tells me his people sing their local range like a piece of music ... the differing heights correspond to the pitch differentials ... He demonstrated at daybreak as we stood on the shores of Lake Dunstan near Clyde and sang the Cromwell Gorge ... I totally get it . I love this place
We don't have a starbucks in Wellington, unless it's out the Hutt or something. It closed down around 7 years ago because it's coffee is soooooo crappy! And I didn't know we are crazy about birds and use birds to advertise flats and things and I lived in NZ all my life, I have to agree our birds are beautiful and they do have amazing sounds. Over the last few years Wellington winds have died down, I fear we are going to loose the title of windiest city in the world. Our last few winters in Wellington have been very mild, yes we've had some extremely cold days and storms this past winter, over all it's been rather mild this year. I feel our winds keep the toxins out of our city or lessen it. Wellington summers are pretty crappy mostly sit at around 23C. If you make the kiwi onion dip don't forget to chill it first and add a bit of fresh lemon juice to it. I've never liked V, had one sip around 25 years ago, too sweet and icky, I didn't realize it was an obsession. Drivings not too bad in NZ, it's a nice drive from Wellington to Auckland, around six to eight hours straight with a few toilet stops, lovely cities in between, beautiful scenery. The ferry crossing from the north island to the south takes around four hours and it's enjoyable, plenty to do, lounges, bars, food, beautiful scenery once again, it's a must do at least once in your life time. The Maori culture, language and songs is beautiful.
One recently opened up in Pori mall I think
@@stuchatterton6550 oh, I didn't realize.
Their is a starbucks on lambton quay
@@cherrysnow4923 I've never seen it.
@@Tanias112 it's very close to willis street
Right on the getting around bit. For people used to the UK with long motorways and comprehensive train networks, here can be a bit difficult. No intercity trains to speak of, and the roads will take you twice as long as you would have expected. On the other hand, its a nice drive if you have the time...
I'd also add about parks and beaches - they are everywhere, and there are great national parks and almost deserted beaches within a short drive wherever you are. Who cares that there is pretty much nothing on broadcast TV when you can go out to one of these?
Awww I love this, I'm Maori and I can see why people in our country would love you, you are so respectful of us, thank you!
Owww what atop bloke you are cuzzy, glad you enjoy it here, keep up the great content , chur chur cuz instant sub.
You legend, thank you so much mate!! Means the world to hear that and thanks for the sub.
This would rate (imo) the best top 10 of NZ because it's bang on. Shot bro
Shot bro!! Awesome to hear that
I make that onion dip now and then. Yes it IS delicious, but I also add 1 tablespoon of lemon juice into the mix, it gives it a nice tangy taste. That's how I was taught to make it, in Wellington.
Yes, it IS windy there. It's the windiest city in the world, followed by Chicago and then Perth, Western Australia.
Welcome 😎💜🌟 home bro 😃 p.s lil malt vinegar in the onion dip works wonders
Kia ora! That's a great idea, I've heard lemon juice also!
Lol, I'm a Kiwi who was born in Wellington. I didn't know about the bird thing although I do like them. I love pies but only good ones from a bakery. I hate Vee and most soft drinks. I love my coffee but have switched to Decaf on medical advice. I sometimes make the reduced cream dip but mostly buy the Tararua sour cream dips. We Kiwis love our fish and chips too.. We do still have some scenic train trips, both in the north and south islands and they are popular with tourists but the train travel we once had is mostly gone. You can still catch commuter trains in Wellington to various suburbs and outer towns.
Fascinating description about New Zealand.
Luv the way you describe with detail & intimacy........ Bloody entertaining is your channel , enjoy it much , best wishes John (nrth Canty)
Surely our weather isn’t THAT bad! 😂 wellington does cop a fair amount of storms though. Would love to see more!
No one li8ke Wellington weather and Auckland will change, just give it 5 min.
Its only this yr when the weather's been wet
Narp wellys weather is horrible
I've definitely exaggerated the weather a little bit haha! That being said, Wellington does cop the worst of it! Thanks my friend
@@itscurlsbaby Yes, not all of NZ is as bad as Wellington (which I'm sure you realise, hopefully). There's a lot of climate variation in NZ despite the small size.
I'm so pleasantly suprised! I thought this would be a video complaint about a lot of things... you're right to complain about supermarkets and the inflation of prices for food though! I've lived in Canada and they have so much variety in their grocery stores but also a lot more processed food.
Obviously there was so much more you could've mentioned, like how we are really into conserving the environment including our coastlines, sea and native flora and fauna (one reason we have so many bird sanctuaries is to protect then from pests introduced from Britan 😅).
As someone else mentioned in the comments we have a lot of great explorers and achievements but that's in the past, not the present, so understandably not mentioned. I would like to add that our country celebrated the first labour day, was the first country to give woman the right to vote, a New Zealand scientist split the atom yet we were the first country to protest nuclear testing, and you can thank kiwis for creating the 8 hour work day haha
I'm proud to be a New Zealander even though as a child I lived in Australia for 5 years (beautiful birds there too and better beaches in my opinion, but don't get started on the pavlova debate haha) and Canada as a teenager. All have their pros and cons.
Churr Ghee. Spot on this one.. Love it bro.
This is the first person who has pronounced Māori correctly thank you so much!
Great commentary. As a Kiwi, I like his honesty.
Cheers Geoff! Appreciate it.