10 Things They Don’t Tell You About Moving To New Zealand

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

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.

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

My wife and I travelt from North to South back in 2018/2019 and it was the jurney of our lives! Such a beautiful country and people. We want to go back when our kids get a little older! New Zealand - what a beautiful country!

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.

As a New Zealander, I can say that you're spot on with all of what you said about our country

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 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!!

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!

Wow, your Maori pronunciation is amazing. I've never heard a foreigner get it so accurate.

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 🙌🏽🖤🇳🇿

You have to add about a teaspoon and abit of brown vinegar to the onion dip too, gives it the tangy flavour

Spot on. When i was at Clyde Quay School, we often bought pies just for lunch with a top layer of mashed potato, delicious 🥧

4 seasons in one day is about right !pleased to have u in our awesome country.

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 💕

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

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 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

NZer here born and bred... You are spot on 🤣 especially about the Supermarket food 😮‍💨

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