You should read it if you're thinking of coming over. Last night Becca and I sat in the Dark for 2 hours. Ram Raids seem to be the crime du jour. And come to New Zeland for the sun!
The houses are cold and we live in a warm and cosy new home! Every Kiwi you meet will ask, with an astonished look on their faces, so why did you move to New Zealand?
My answer is usually, 3 hours a day, the time I save not having to commute every day. It is actually about 2 hours 45 as it still takes me 45 minutes in the morning and 15 at night. But I stop for a coffee which a drink in the drag down Esmond road. I love New Zealand because after widening Esmond Road at a cost of some 38m dollars the improvement is massive, well no there is actually no change at all. Precisly no difference and it still take 35 minutes to travel a distance that would take 45 seconds with no standing traffic. It is a great visual testament to the often crazy things that go on in this lovely country.
It is so very important to realize when you move you still have to "live" in your place of choice. The frustrations are there but in different places, the silly rules abound, we take the ones in our countries of birth forgranted because we just live with them. The new dumber then dumb rules in your new home land appear crazy because they are new and unfamiliar.
YOu have to look at the positives and decide if they are better than those in your place of origin. Its a comparison only you can make and it differs from person to person.
Hey we just had the shortest day, you guys up north had the longest. I'm looking forward to longer sunny days and BBQ's on the deck and boy did the stars look great when the power went out! And Becca and I talked over a glass of Pinot Noir by torch light. That sounds better!
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