What I realized it's not green New Zealand, its orange New Zealand , never seen so many road cones in my life

Double blankets bro in winter, don’t waste power with heaters etc.

I've never been out of NZ so I thought you always paid at the register at restaurants everywhere

2:36 "YEAH, NAH"......... Who else caught that Kiwi slang?.

Okay y'all gotta give him credit for pronouncing te reo maori right.

Your pronunciation of our official language (Māori) is life. Super proud of our internationals. They have great pronounciation.

I did the reverse in Switzerland. Freezing cold much worse than NZ outside on the balcony. Closed the balcony door. No cold. SHOCKED! Couldn't believe it WASN'T cold inside. Swiss hosts weren't sure what I was on about

Your Māori pronunciation is GREAT!

Your first mistake was moving to Auckland

Also, My top (reasonably cheap) tips for winter in NZ after living here my whole 21 years: - If you can afford it, fluffy sheets. Warm sheets are a big help. - Hot water bottles are a life saver. you can leave one in your bed to warm it up and have a another one you can cuddle up with once you settle down to chill out. One behind your back and one tucked in around your belly is the ultimate combo. - Double or TRIPLE blankets. Honestly, you'll sleep like a baby if the air is cold but you have heaps of layers on you. - Vicks Vapo-rub is so vital in winter or in general. If you get a cold or even just the sniffles, pick up a small pot from the supermarket for super cheap and put in on your neck and chest and you're good to go (although the menthol smell sticks around so best to have on a home at night.) AND SNEAKY OTHER USE - No joke, it sounds stupid but rubbing a tiny bit of vicks on your feet before bed makes you sleep like a rock and wake up feeling 10x more refreshed. Try it out, I promise it will blow your mind. - LAYERS. Especially since you live in Auckland, I'm sure you've seen how fast the weather can turn. It can go from bright and sunny to overcast and cold in the space of a few minutes, so layer up like no ones business. - Find mates or a cuddle buddy that are willing to come over for movies and just snuggling. This is pretty common practice in Wellington, everyone is way too open and intimate with their friends. But in winter it is necessary! - If you're out and cold and have time to kill, go see a movie. In welly we have places with $10 tickets to encourage more people to see films instead of streaming them and I'm sure Auckland has places like that too. - COFFEE. COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE. I'm sure by now you're already on board with the mass amounts of coffee us Kiwi's drink. It's way worse (or better?) down in Welly because it's coffee central and you can find 4 cafe's on one little corner or stretch of road. Warms your belly like nothing else. - along with coffee, if You're drinking go for beers or for spirits like whiskey or bourbon (In my opinion, Jim Beam is the best.) because they will warm your belly up AND get you ready for a nice night. - Move to Wellington. It's just far superior to auckland, rent is slightly cheaper, the weather and public transport are way more reliable, the people are SO MUCH MORE relaxed, exuberant, weird and friendly. Aucklanders are always in a rush to be somewhere, always busy and sometimes can be a little standoffish but you don't get that down here. Everyone just takes their time and does their own thing. I'm TOTALLY biased but you should take a trip down here at least before you leave because it's worthwhile.

I am a Canadian. I had the privilege of living and working in Auckland for 3 years. Great people, great country. I loved it there.

Your Te Reo pronunciation is spot, well done mate, beautiful.

Yup our houses are cold! Anything newer with double glazing and a heat pump is better but still love a good fire place

As a New Zealander that is an reasonable list .

You need to move to a newly built house . 10x warmer . With double glazed windows. Hardly ever use the heater You will notice the difference

Hahaha I can hear your Kiwi accent coming through already! We're bloody contagious! 😂

It's crazy how ineffective the houses are at retaining heat in NZ.

I thank you for caring enough to get your goddamn pronunciations right. So many people simply cant be bothered to even try.

I feel like all of these comments are from Kiwis - like we’re the only ones who would watch a video about a list of things to do with New Zealand 😂

As a Maori watching this I'm very impressed with your Te Reo Maori pronounciation, you do it better than alot of Maori, and you can even say the haka Ka mate Ka mate. Your awesome dude.

The north may seem like spring during winter but down there south here mate she gets pretty bloody chilly

Bless your heart .. I was impressed with your efforts to speak te reo... well done... and its great to hear your view of NZ.. and I enjoyed your video

You failed to mention the thing the do everywhere. "Hi how you doing?" "Hi, How's your day?" I'm Norwegian and not used to strangers talking to me for no reason. Until I realised it was just a polite greeting.

I spent two years living overseas so understand every one of those points and your comments. But as a kiwi, would much prefer to live here in New Zealand without any hesitation. Enjoy your journey on becoming a kiwi, mate.

For someone who has been in NZ for only 6 months you have the accent down pat. Also your turn of phrase! Sweet as, etc. Man you sound like a kiwi. Amazing.

You've enjoyed NZ? As a native it's really cool to see people talking about us

As a Kiwi with a Finnish partner who is gaining a visa here, we learnt and taught each other things: - NZ winter is Spring to her. Finnish winter to me is like I went to the 9th circle of hell which is frozen over. - Regions of Finland share cultural similarities with Russia. Rural Finland have a lot of Ladas. I said she will have to settle for my Toyota. One day I know I'll find my car replaced with a Lada named Ukkonen... - She pronounces better Maori than a lot of Kiwis in general. I can pick up Finnish sentences now and then, but a lot of them have swear words. I am a pro at those. Also that Austronesian and Finnic languages are descendants from Asia helps too. - I don't think SPF 50 is strong enough

Bro! Your Te Reo is on point! Way better than most. Good on ya

I know there's a crap tonne of comments regarding your te reo pronounciation but god damn it man. Ya sound like a pure blood kiwi. Good job, mate.

Your Maori pronounciation is good. And we have 3 official languages, English, Maori & NZ sign language.

I had an interesting couple of months attempting to prove I had lived in New Zealand since the age of seven. It was quite the ordeal. The tax dept seemed to know all about me though, having taxed my income for the past fort-five years without trouble, seemingly.

I both love you and am saddened by how much better at Te Reo pronunciation you are than most of us Pakeha kiwis... Also my Canadian gf agrees with the insulation thing 🤣

I've lived in New Zealand all my life and he can already pronounce Maori way better than me 😂😂

Totally agree regarding the insulation. I have an apartment in Russia 60 km south of the arctic circle and -40 -50 in the winter. Still walking around the apartment in a t-shirt and shorts a nice 23 degrees inside and triple glazed windows.

The "No Registry" thing is true of all the Five Eyes Anglosphere (US,UK,Canada, NZ, AUS) as far as I know (or knew ;-). There's a long standing resistance to a national identity card, so the driver's licence takes its place (certainly in Canada and the US, and then strictly state or provincial), with either a passport or some local licence-like drinking-age ID needed if you don't drive. Fifty years ago, the NZ driver's licence didn't even have a photo in it, so effectively there was no ID except the aforementioned electicity and telephone bills and the like. As for the lack of heating, a trait inherited from the Brits, for me two sweaters in winter was normal. Chillblains (a swelling of the fingers) was a common discomfort.

my mother has been here for 19 years and my grandmother 40 years and they STILL cant be bothered to pronounce any of the maori names correctly! so props to you for actually putting the effort in

Oh and the wh pronunciation you mentioned that depends on where you ask some say the h is silent others say it's with the f sound although the f is most definitely more well known.

I can't stop looking at that map lol

Great video. Fantastic Te Reo pronunciation. I found it interesting, as a New Zealander living overseas, how much your English has taken on a Kiwi twang! Some solid advice there - sadly the NZ housing stock is still quite substandard for insulation & heating. It's apparently something to do with our pioneer history of tough, rugged individuals carving out a living in a new land and living in rough conditions! "She'll be right mate. No worries." Personally I prefer to be warm!

For the insulation of housing. Yes we have a very large problem. It is required to have a sufficient amount of insulation but many many houses prior to this law still exist and are still used today. Especially for flat housing, many property owners think they can get away with cardboard boxes. Since we are pretty "ehh" people, not many of us kick up a stink until we purchase a house or rent to own etc. Also, thank you very my for the maori pronouciation, it sounded flawless and had a lot of fun listening to you sing the haka xD many thanks. Also, it's very expensive to live in large cities like Auckland which is one of, if not, the most expensive city. You may have better luck elsewhere if that interests you.

VERY helpful and glad a youtube'er finally is talking about the indigenous culture and language. Good tips, thanks.

I lived 3 months over there (I’m Chilean, born and raised in an LEDC), and honestly, New Zealand is literally a Utopia for people originating from such places. I was very happy to live there for those 3 months, and would gladly go back given the chance

I am from Canada and had the same issues when I lived in NZ for awhile. That was 20 years ago and they were just discovering insulation then. I was so cold in the winter and as you say you'd rush in from the cold wind and rain and it was exactly same temp inside! But the natives were so used to it they always left the windows open. Thought by now they would be mostly insulated. What I like and you did not mention is there is no tipping. Also I really liked not having to wait around in restaurants for a server to hand out the bill. Here and in US waiters are all over you when you first arrive, always interrupting your asking if you are OK, but when you want to leave they are suddenly scarce and you sit around for 15 min trying to find the one assigned to your table. Also as you say housing and real estate is exorbitant so its too expensive to retire there. Also get used to soccer (football) and rugby as they are totally obsessed with it. PS- You picked up Kiwi accent very fast.

Hi! I just moved here to NZ to live with my husband and I’m glad to know about these stuff. Very informative. Thank you!

New Zealand houses are nothing more than glorified Garden Sheds, seriously.

I'm Maori... Does this mean I could speak Finnish haha

i had someone at work legitimately got second degree burns from not putting on sun screen and staying out in the sun to much on 1 day

I fell in love with NZ when i riverboarded from the north island to the south island with some friends 10 years ago. Such a beautiful place with amazing people. I want to move there someday. Good tips. Especially the sunscreen. No joke. I am half irish & half german and got sun poisoning on the back of my neck.

I've been living here for almost 18 years (all my life) and I don't pronounce the city names correctly

Nice to see that you've obtained mastery of the Yea Na bro

this is a really sweet video and it's got a lot of stuff that i never considered since i was born here! your te reo is amazing (that haka pronunciation omg) and the slang you've picked up is adorable!

Haha, you're a natural mate! Love the upside down prop in the background! Chur! 👌👌🤣🤣🤣

Point no 5 relevant fact: Average temperature of a "scarfie" flat in Dunedin middle of winter was supposedly 5 degrees centigrade. Late 90s early 00's and probably not the same today but still interesting.

Your Maori is so good 😄🙏and I feel like the tips you touched on were true too nice vid!

Your Maori pronunciation was great! And yeah growing up in NZ I always assumed that homes were just supposed to be cold in winter Then I moved to Beijing and even the dingiest apartment is well insulated and I realised NZ is just weird

Love how he accepts our language more than those who live here. Well done mate

Ha ha, same here about the electric blankets - never heard about it before NZ. 😀Other things are on spot as well!

Even in my house built only 7 years ago with double glazing and insulation etc I still get super cold in winter so you gotta double or even triple up on blankets and have hotties etc.

I have been to restaurants in Auckland where they bring the bill to the table, if you wait long enough. Sometimes they do it to entice you to leave, if they want the table for others or if it's near closing time.

Have you spent some time in the South Island in winter? You think cold houses are an issue in Auckland try a student flat in Dunedin in June lol.

1. Dont live in auckland/the big cities they're so expensive 2. Te reo is hardly spoken by anyone but you did so good damn 3. For heating use other peoples body warmth, extra blankets or clothes, and go out to get free heating

What are the differences between Finland and New Zealand kiitoksia?

URGH YES that proof of address thing is SO INCONVENIENT

Your English is good!! They must have taught you in school huh? You got that "Sweet as!" down pat too! lol! I have lived here most of my life (born here) and don't know any Te Reo except Kia Ora and aroha and a couple of other words. I think you are doing so well! Yes, Auckland rentals are crazy!!

Newer home bro, older homes not as insulated. Dont use electric heaters man send your power bill through the roof.

We have double glazed windows, just want that mentioned. Pretty good with your Maori, also you mentioned it's our second language which is true but look into the history of the language a little you'll find that it was on the verge of becoming an extinct language it's only recently that more people have been learning it and even with that it's still not widely spoken even among Maoris, yes it's been incorporated into English phrases and a few words are well known but the number of people who are fluent is quite small in comparison to our population.

Another thing in NZ with paying for restaurants is that you aren't expected to tip. The price of the items generally accommodates the extra price of tips. The servers will still be gracious for tips, but yeah, don't need to if you don't want to

3/8 of these apply to Florida... so I think I'll be good! :D I think the hardest things to get used to will be left-hand traffic, Te Reo Maori, and getting a proof of address. Otherwise I think it'll be fairly straight forward. Glad I watched this, though. Thank.

Even though when Flatting here in NZ, don't just think Auckland is Bad, Go Flat around in Napier - Hastings, Hawkes Bay region or Palmerston North, Queenstown, or some other Townships & City's; Then spot the difference I gotta say that's very good Te Reo Maori tho

I'm from New Zealand, I didn't realise that some of this was a New Zealand thing

Omg I totally know where your coming from. I’m from Sweden originally and I hate the winter here. It doesn’t feel like winter and it’s so cold indoors, especially in my school classrooms

I moved to NZ from the UK 10 years ago, I totally agree about how cold the houses are especially down here in Christchurch. I'm renovating and have added insulation and double glazing but still not as comfortable as European homes. I have to commend you on your pronunciation of Maori, I still struggle with it myself. Good information in the video but you could do with better sound quality.

Far out awesome pronunciation of te reo! Keep it up 😎

Also try the ice cream New Zealand has the best ice cream

This was really insightful for a New Zealander. I learnt what was different for others coming here. Oh and your pronunciation of Te Reo Maaori was AWWEEEESOOOME!!!

4:07 The issue with indicators vs wipers I thought was to do with European versus Japanese car-maker conventions, not LHD versus RHD. We have a lot of Japanese cars here, including a huge number of imports of used cars originally sold new in Japan (I drive one myself). Are you used to driving European makes?

You didn’t mention our atrocious roads 😂

Been here six months and already saying ‘yeah nah’ every second sentence 😂😂

Most people just use extra blankets and clothing to keep warm in the winter because a lot of people can’t afford decent heating. A lot of people (like myself) have fireplaces which are pretty effective for heating. I do have to use my heater in my bedroom though from time to time because shit gets mouldy if I don’t

Just as a side note to the Te Reo Maori "wh" and "f" sound .... there are different dialects and not all iwi pronounce "wh" as an "f" sound. If you go to Whanganui for example, it's pronounced "Wanganui".

Awww this made me laugh, you did a great job with Te Reo Maori.

Number 5 made me laugh so much, I am Swiss but have been living in Ireland for over 3 years now (and I'm kind of thinking about moving to NZ now) AND I was actually living in Finland for 1 year too and yes, insulation in some countries is a joke.. And electric blankets still make me laugh . Like whattttt :'D

I miss NZ, food and coffee are great. It's so clean. People are friendly. I lived in Wellington. Too cold and windy for me though so I left :(

If you want a real NZ winter experience come to the south island most mornings you can see you breath and sometime you hands get so cold you can feel the blood freezing if you don't have warm gloves. I was born in NZ so you just get im use to it as I grew up on a farm.

1:20 Except there isn’t a “standard” Māori. Each tribe is different, and they can’t agree on things.

Haha!!! This is very true ... we are from NZ!! 👍🏻👍🏻

The worst part about Auckland is the expense of living there. The poorly insulated houses are pretty bad as well. Oh then there's the traffic. 20 to 30 years ago was the best time to be living in Auckland but that goes with many cities in the world.

Driving on the left a problem? A lot of the locals here in Norfolk, UK, have the same problem.

I just realised how many things people don't know about Aoteroa (New Zealand)

Pronunciation was on point, better than me and I'm half Maori 😂😂😂

Haha I was gonna give you some friendly flak for trying to imitate our accent (even tho you weren't too bad) but I quickly backed down when you pulled out the Te Reo pronunciation on us...damn man, that's really impressive for a foreigner and I really really respect the effort you;ve put in to fitting in here bro!

Love it mate! Welcome to good ole Aotearoa New Zealand! Kia Ora!

Glad you took time to pronounce the Maori words. I’m not Maori and I always make sure I’m pronouncing everything right, people just can’t be bothered these days lmao

Must go for a holiday to New Zealand soon ! Good exchange rate with the Australian dollar speak English easy going!👍😀

spot on about 5. its like a strep up hill battle to be in a house that nice and warm in winter yet not too expensive.

I'm a Kiwi but I've been to 45 other countries...(and don't live in Auckland but in the South Island) I might be odd but I've never liked being in those over insulated houses in other places because I can't sleep well in a warm room and usually wake up with a headache and feel like a bit of cardboard. I like to have an open window winter or summer and actually prefer the whole house to be a little cool until I relax in the evening...but I never heat the bedroom. I remember a funny incident in a Colorado (USA) hostel when it was snowing outside. I found a room with only one other person who was also a Kiwi.....We opened the window because he was like me. An American walked in and immediately tried to close it but we stopped him. He told us we were mad and quickly found another room. Both of us had the best sleep either of us had had in North America. I've understood that to live the way I prefer is actually healthier and that the constantly changing NZ weather is also very good for you...i'm 67 now but still feel 25...no arthritis etc and never had a flu or even a sniffle in the last 10-15 years....In over insulated houses with central heating etc that is always turned on to over 20 degrees celsius I always feel bad and have had the worst head cold after being in one in Canada.

You really don’t need sunscreen on all the time well at lest in the South Island

Omg im maybe moving there for a half year next year so thanks😂❤️❤️

Our houses are poorly insulated but that is changing. Because we live in a mild climate compared to northern European countries, our houses have always been poorly insulated because the need was not perceived as important. But you are right, using heaters etc is expensive.

#5 - The whole insulation deal... that comes from a time when everyone was gritty and thick skinned and you wouldn't complain about the cold drafty house, you just chucked another layer of woollen clothes on. Then when double glazing and insulation became affordable, no one really owned their own houses, and landlords won't pay to improve things, without hiking up the prices of rent to cover, what essentially is a basic necessity, a warm/dry house in winter.