Divhon88:

 

They played the Covid card well. With the housing problem, cost of living, crime, homelessness, significant increase in beneficiaries and gang members they know people will get feed up and leave if they can, the great brain drain.

 

They figured out that a highly skilled migrant will run away the moment they get that black piece of document to OZ and delaying them as long as humanely as they can is the only way to keep them until things improved if ever they will. They were succesful with my wife and technically with me. 

 

I alwys advocated to my wife that it's the best strategy for us to move. She is a nurse so it should just be a breeze for us to move to a 2nd tier city in OZ, for her to earn atleast 30% more and working extra hard will actually put more money in your back pocket while the cost of living is relatively lower and the housing price is more realistic. Then I will find my own niche.

 

But NO she convinced me to put our life savings to a turn key house which is till to be built. I know she is having 2nd thoughts now seeing the interest doubled from 3% to 6% as she speaks more about OZ now. 

 

That is bound to happen if a government does not know how to run a country normally. Had they processed it in normal 2-3 months no skilled migrant would get a whiff of migrating again from his settled life. A country needs to exude confidence out of its strengths and New Zealand is a STRONG country only being run by an extremely incompetent government 🤬. An insecure country will only make a skilled immigrant feel less secure and if there is a big magnet next door like AUS attracting migrants then God bless.

Still believe a lesser number of migrants will leave for Oz but even those who don't they can't plan holidays just waiting endlessly for effing DIA Commissar will drop him an email for anything what he likes.

We need to organise and drop emails to the opposition leaders hoping they can at least raise this issue of DPRK style working of DIA. What say guys?

Note: Interest rates are about to rise in Australia too and Sydney Melbourne and Brisbane are already over heated - Crime has picked up as well. Adelaide and Perth yes are attractive. But with higher tax rates and super deduction the salaries balance out to Kiwi levels but yet job market is much bigger and Oz companies are not looking out for Hercules like Kiwi ones do. Kiwi ones are looking for one who can work all day less pay and should know everything under the sun.