Brain drain: Kiwis heading overseas as living costs rise
In March, Kiwibank predicted New Zealand would have an annual net loss of about 20,000 people as borders opened.
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment estimated up to 125,000 New Zealanders – of which 100,000 would be people of working age – could leave the country in the next year. MBIE’s ballpark prediction, though, was 50,000.
The Westpac TV advert reminds all children that the only way you will get a house in this fucking country is if a mythical Yeti turns up and builds it for you.
I say this to young NZ – flee!
NZ is a user pays society that has dumped any pretence of egalitarianism. Your student debt locks you out of home ownership and the broken housing market only benefits speculators while crushing first time home buyers.
Wages have been suppressed by de-unionising the workforce, subsistence living and poverty are the norm and public services have been endlessly eroded.
Flee.
This country has become the Land of the wrong white crowd and the only solutions the political Left have are virtue signalling identity politics that only alienate while the Right sells endless selfishness.
Flee.
Our suicide rates speak of a dark treacle at the heart of our nature that whispers dark truths we never want to hear.
Flee.
We have built our economy on the sandcastles of hyper tourism, exploiting migrant workers and International Student Language School scams.
Flee.
Run from the failed experiment of neoliberalism that is New Zealand.
We have failed ourselves and our blunders shouldn’t blight your futures.
Flee.
The Big Tech Tzars have manipulated our collective fear, ego, anger and insecurities through social media in a way that has led to the largest psychological civil war ever launched against one another.
We are but meat bags secreting hormones addicted to dopamine rewards for fat, sugar, salt and sex in a cultural landscape of individualism uber alles where we sing sweet secret lies to ourselves to make sense of a world around us that is frightening and in constant entropy.
Meanwhile, the planet burns and every aspect of our existence is monetarised for big data to sell us more stuff we can’t afford. We are alienated and anesthetized by a consumer culture that keeps us neurotic and disconnected. Our work, our existence, every move we make are all built to suck money to a minority class that sits above us while under neoliberalism, globalization, financialization, and automation, our existence as individuals has only become more disposable.
Flee for we are a Nation of cursed hollow men with no memory and no vision.
Flee.
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Well said Martyn, trouble is that the better kids leave.
I don’t think NZ is an experimental neoliberal petri dish. It’s merely Reaganism and Thatcherism spread through the American/Anglo Empire since the 1980’s and it’s failing badly everywhere.
Is it really failing or is it just that you wish it was?
I’ve never quite understood why millions of people risk death to migrate to all of these living hells of racist, oppressive neoliberal disasters like the US and UK if it’s so bad?
By no means are either countries perfect, neither is the capitalist approach they are built upon but the alternatives are all far far worse.
Oh, and as I’m a mythical Yeti I can confirm no house building will be undertaken. Please flee.
“I’ve never quite understood why millions of people risk death to migrate to all of these living hells of racist, oppressive neoliberal disasters like the US and UK if it’s so bad?”
Because racist, oppressive neoliberal disasters like the US and UK have spent the last 400 years stealing and exploiting the wealth, natural resources and human capital of the countries from which they flee. Locking them out of meaningful membership of the first world club. Fleeing the fire for a disintegrating frying pan only serves to further illuminate the result of laissez faire capitalism.
“why millions of people risk death to migrate to the US and UK”.. Apart from being a silly and emotive thing to say, it also fails utterly to recognise the basic reason for emigrating to those, and many other countries… Economics… I will be going back to Australia once my mother passes on, which brought me back here, as I can make a decent living both as a boilermaker/welder, or as a musician. Something that is impossible here, and has been since Ruth Richardson drove us into destitution… At the point when employment agencies are demanding peoples police records before interviewing them for basic welding jobs, there is a serious problem within NZ’s management structure and culture.. NZ started the slide into authoritarianism as a result of bringing in over half a million under educated, and under skilled migrants in less than 9 years without spending a cent towards the infrastructure required to accommodate the population burst… Even getting a drivers licence here has become a nightmare of bureaucratic hurdles as a result of the volume of fraudulent practices by a large percentage of those immigrants.. The Clarke government did nothing much to rebuild NZ’s manufacturing base, which made it easier for the Key government to completely munt it in favor of making real estate the only way to make money… Who cares about the politics.. It’s about being able to make a decent living, and give our children a real chance in life… Unless one was lucky enough to buy a house prior to 2010, they’re out of luck. I’m predicting a massive wave of mortgagee sales in the next couple of years, as interest rates, and inflation return to normal levels… NZ will be utterly munted at that point, and there will be hundreds of thousands at the least trying to flee..
Neeoliberalism in the 1980’s stuffed what was a good country.
The selling off of State Assets to Offshore Interests was mindless and was never going to benefit the Joe Average New Zealander.
Bhahahahahahaha. They have already made up their minds to leave. Happened to every country where restriction of movement implemented by the Government of the day. Ardern won’t mind – beneficiaries, gangs and government officials will remain behind – her biggest voting blocs.
And teachers.
Don’t forget all the teachers.
Strong union that.
Got teacher only days during term time.
Not during school holidays which aren’t supposed to be holidays for teachers.
Nurses too?
All state employees as well?
Same old shallow, assumptive, old fashioned tory bigotry again? Have you nothing to say worth saying? Not so far..
Absolutely spot on Martyn. Whilst real estate agencies are the main advertising revenue stream for all MSM in NZ and where evil spruikers like Ashley Church give Megan Woods advice that she takes and actually uses, with credit, in parliament, then the country is slowly dieing as it’s goodness is sucked out of it. Young people should not even try and survive on the rotting husk of a country the parasites left them. Save yourselves, just FLEE FFS!!!!
Well, I feel reluctant handing over my sympathies..
My fellow Millennials voted for Labour.. TWICE~!! Outrageous!! 🙂
– PM Ardern did say she wanted house prices to increases.
– PM Ardern did cut out primary industries, therefore stagnating the exchange rate (inflation)
– PM Ardern did oversee NZ’s largest wealth transfer since Captain Cook
So what ??.. we gonna go American styles now? All the woke-tards fleeing the likes of California and New York for conservative States like Texas and Florida?
In our case the woke-tards often want to flee to Australia, where they pull wealth out of the ground. Such resource pulling is effectively banned in NZ, even though it made the Australians the wealthiest citizens in the West.
I think the woke-tards should be forced to stay in the countries, states and cities they helped destroy. I’m told America use to apply a ‘values test’ before granting citizenship – there’s definitely merit in that.
Apparently conservative American states are not happy woke-tards are leaving hell-holes like California and turning up at the ballot-boxes in conservative states – voting woke!
You make a woke bed, you lie in it. Now glue on your virtue-signaling face diaper for safety.
Again, I feel reluctant handing over my sympathies.
PS: Labour is coming for Australia.
I actually agree completely with you Bomberino.
It’s grim innit?
The alternative to flee is “stand and fight all this shit”.
But that will make you a “violent radical” “far right” “conspiracy theorist” looking to overthrow “democracy” in NZ.
The world is dominated by evil people, and we have learned to fit in their order. But now their order is collapsing and they are establishing a new order, demanding more, seizing even more control.
Get a job. Make friends. Breathe the brilliant air in this country. Fight the bosses or something else worthwhile. These are universal experiences. Thus I advised my two young people.
Nowhere to run and hide.
Live in a van, pick fruit when you need to pay for wof and rego and pickup a German girlfriend who wants to see the country and have free rent.
Fish and shoot ducks and rabbits with your air rifle.
Every morning wake up to free oceanfront views.
Get off the bus, Babylon is a trap for your soul.
Most of the young will simply ask you what a television is, so really, I don’t think you ought to be concerned over anything Westpac says to them using last century’s messaging medium.
Way ahead of you Martin. Saw the writing on the wall and left. Much more money, much less tax in a country where the woke left doesn’t get the time of day, let alone anywhere near the treasury benches. I no longer have to fund other people’s poor life choices in consequence-free NZ or the woke bureaucrats who take my money for their pet causes but then blame me for everything because ‘colonialism’.
The only thing I used to be concerned about was the lack of democracy and freedom of speech – but New Zealand appears to be moving very quickly to eliminate those values, through hate speech laws and ethnically-biased voting systems. Even here, one person gets one vote no matter their ethnicity.
NZ may be an ok place to visit for a couple of weeks in so-called ‘summer’ but there’s no reason for me to ever live or pay tax in New Zealand again.
You ain’t seen nothing yet.
When National takes the treasury benches next election we will see an unprecedented assault on the unemployed, the working poor, beneficiaries and Maori.
This period will make the 90’s Ruthenasia blitzcrieg look like the good times.
Lets hope the dress sense is better.
Don’t flee–organise! Learn all over again how to stick it to the man–the “man” being finance capital, the employing class, and our nauseating petit bourgeoisie with their fucking wine and gourmet grub.
New gens need to become politically active in numbers and reclaim what should be theirs in this land of plenty.
NZ has always had the dark kiwis, the sheepshaggers, the vindictive Torys, but time waits for no one–this is your time X,Y & Z.
Is this a free speech platform?
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