Hey there Liz and Brian! My name’s Maxwell, and I currently live in the US, in Montana with my wife and two kids. We were entertaining the idea of moving abroad for a little over a year now, and I was wondering if we would be able to relocate to NZ. I’m currently employed as a fuel transport truck driver, and my wife works in Environmental Sciences. She runs the pesticide inspection for agricultural services through the Assiniboine/Sioux tribe. If it’s possible, which Visa should we try to pursue in order to relocate? She’s college educated and I’m a tradesman with the truck driving. Thank you for your podcast by the way! I’ve been listening religiously while on my driving routes!

Yes!!

Love it!

Very insightful!

Love Dan and Sheri! So grateful they’re apart of our slack group. Wealth of knowledge!

Bring the melatonin!! 😅

So helpful!

Love this!

Hi Liz and Brian. Thought I’d elaborate on your Questions about the inside story about Maori and some of our history in NZ. My name is Soni(pronounced like Johnny but with an S) Anyway just a touch of history of a town just South of Auckland named Pukekohe and it history in the 50s 60s 70s. Could I invite you to watch a video or 2 on our culture and not so distant past history. The video is titled “No Maori Allowed”

Thanks so much guys for helping me I intend to move living in New zeland I works as barber in Brazil Your chanel helping me a lot for understand your accent

There are beaches or were beaches known to be nudist beaches around Auckland, but if it wasn't what you were into you didn't go to those beaches. Each tk their own.

Is it better for people who want to do masters in computer science and I am from India, here 90% of the people who do masters abroad goes to USA is the average salary better for software engineers in nz?

The best,

Nz is a small village

Great video, great information Liz and Brian, as always.💖 Number 2 is perfect! When friends ask why I'm so fixated on NZ, I'll be forwarding them this vlog.😜 We watched your mom's interview as well - woow, such an amazing lady, full of life and energy.💖 She is amazing, beautiful lady. God bless her.💖 Lots of love to all of you.💖

I've got fears that has stopped me, for now, mostly to do with my health and money....

Just listened to this episode. Very good listen. I`m actually from the UK and lived in New Zealand for 5 years. But actually considering moving back to the UK. Would love to talk and tell you my story.

Thank you so much! I'm from Poland and i enjoyed your podcast alot 😊 Your dyction is perfect and you seem to be very kind-hearted people.

The above info were meant for podcast 024 Not for podcast 021 sorry

Prisoner of mother England .....Pom e Italian moving to the USA in the early 1900 Were called WOP which mean (with out papers) Old English Courts came out with a breviation FUCK which means (For Unlawful Cardinal Knowledge) If these people knew what (F**k) really mean They will never use it.

Pricless info...thank you💖

We are 90% sure😜 but we are to old😫😫😫 We love your work Liz and Brian💖.

^You are great, so positive, love hearing you <3 follow you on youtube and newsletter. Keep doing ;)

"promosm" 🙋

i don't have to worry about this much, we left our family and friends 3000 miles away about 30 years ago... when we first moved out to BC we got spatterings of visitors of friends and family, but certainly not for the last 20 years... my husband and i are isolated and nobody would know we had moved to NZ if we don't tell them haha

We always have ham for Xmas and I am an expatriate living in Canada. I think most Canadians have ham for Xmas

Hi - just listened to your podcast. Speaking as a long term HR Manager - the Kiwi Culture question has three different responses depending on your circumstances. The HR Manager is ascertaining if you are a good fit and likely to create difficulties or have issues in settling in. Those will cost the company money, time, etc. Answer one - You have visited NZ and have an understanding of the culture. Answer two - you have friends and family in NZ and belong to support groups. All have pledged support and you have been able to ascertain culture and discussed with friends and family. Answer three - you have not visited the country and have no support network, but have done a lot of research and discussed with friends and family. The HR Manager will ask questions - to ensure you are not pulling the wool. The correct response should include a plan for when you arrive - like do a tiki tour, join groups/network, become involved - embrace the lifestyle. The reason they ask this is to see if you actually want to change or just transplant your existing life. I wont bore you with the questions etc. - you will get the picture and undoubtedly have your own HR advisors, Cheers Mr G

i have actually thought about it, for a very short time lol, sailing to nz... after all, we used to live on a sailboat, then i thought of the possibility of mile high waves and said to my husband.. 'you know what? nooooooo.'

have you ever seen a comprehensively depressing movie called 'once were warriors'... you're so cheery, i suggest you don't watch it, but if you have seen it, what are your thoughts?

Would love to hear more about the evidence that can prove that your partner is your partner?

Hi Liz, when can we expect the following podcast with Karl? All the best for you & Brian,

I am just like Brian. I simply want to have the rental as perfect as can be. It is a matter of the new tenants feeling so welcome and having a clean house is part of that.

With only 5 million people and the brutal censorship, the kiwis are slow to catch on. It is not the older people using the negative words as much as we in the USA call "rednecks" just backwords idiots. You have to be carefull when your PM gives a speech on banning Free Speech. I have reseached NZ for the past 5 years my son is a resident married a kiwi and has 2 lovely boys. The things you don't like in NZ are no big deal just words.

Heating restrictions what is that all about? Do you ever get depressed with the lack of sunshine? This week 6 days in a row zero sun. I live in Iowa USA and the sun shines almost every day.I am planning on moveing to NZ where my grandbabies live.

I think the comment about hugging in NZ is correct. Having moved to Canada from NZ I noticed that Canadians hug a lot more than we did and it took a lot of getting used to.

Moving country's is a huge step that, if you want as few hiccups as you can, it's important to do max research. Cut down on the difficult to understand surprises would be the objective here. The Internet is a valuable resource. Yet many folks don't do that, instead they'd rather bitch and complain about the new home of their choice. At one time this was endemic, especially in the ways of British immigrants. This is where the one time ubiquitous, "Moaning Pom" epithet came about. In truth though, this was as much the result of a government preferring immigration from UK rather than anywhere else. Now, in 2022, China is where most, but certainly not all, immigrants originate from. I adore Cats, yet too many of them at the same time and in the same place, is an infestation - same as for humans too. Nowadays, I'd be hard pushed to spot a Pom as I make my way around town. Several decades ago, Poms stuck out like dogs ears. They just looked different from locals but still always complaining about something that nobody else gave a flying fig about. Now that it's been years since the immigrant ships with their passenger lists chocka block with £10 Poms - the amount immigrants were charged as their contributions to the cost of a sea passage on an immigrant boat from UK to NZ, tied up alongside in the harbours of our major cities they are so few now or I'm not getting around as much as I once did. A close relative is an RN here in Aotearoa NZ. HCA's have a tough run of it too, but my own observation is that the Adhern lead government would rather spend most of our hard to come by funds on supporting Gang initiatives than our over worked and exhausted Nurses and medical health care workers generally. Unless the Adhern government changes its self serving initiatives, then my habit of supporting Labour since 1972 will cease and instead....... As a hospital nurse, our niece has been threatened with physical harm from gangsters who also threatened harm to her family. This is life working at a public (government) hospital here in Aotearoa New Zealand. I'm not too sure if any influx of immigrants from the UK advantages NZ especially and you should have mentioned to your Pom buddies, that there are immigration procedures to go through and being Poms guarantees you nothing - not anymore. New Zealand's tight connection now, like it or leave it, is with Asia and the Pacific. China has invested heavily more funds than exist even in The Bank of England, into most of the small island states located in the Indopacific. A situation that did not exist during the Anglo Europeans parsimonious reign. All the British have left, now that they are all alone since withdrawing from the EU or EEC as it was once labelled is to scurry around the capital cities of the country's that once comprised part of the British Empire, just the countries with a majority white skin population though, the air is cleaner and more to their liking nowadays it would seem. What is no doubt a deliberate confrontation of China by the self obsessed British Royal Navy, is to show off their brand spanking new Carrier based battle group along the South China Sea bolstered by the US Navy and the Royal Australian Navy, just to keep it, all in the family. The US leases out the jet fighters the British need to give their Carriers a purpose other than only grandstanding just like the blighters once did. Times have changed and the Anglospher has too. This is a changed era where its China and the United States sharing the top spot GDP - the British are at number seven. Seemingly, The Times They Are A Changing - still.

John key the previous prime Minister pushed the value of spending $$$ on internet all across NZ because he knew that will be our competitive edge against the world. Unfortunately the Labour govt stop a few of the infrastructure which has been a great pity. The amazing tramping trails across NZ was also Key's pet project.