Cost of Living: MYOB poll shows more than 1 million Kiwis actively considering leaving NZ
Eye-watering figures suggest more than one million Kiwis are actively considering leaving New Zealand as the brain drain takes full force.
The latest Consumer Snapshot from business management platform MYOB, a nationwide poll of more than 500 people, shows four percent of those polled – equivalent to around 200,000 New Zealanders – have decided they are moving overseas to live and work now the borders have reopened.
The most alarming figures showed an additional 20 percent of those surveyed, equivalent to approximately 1,025,000 people based on population data, said they are actively considering moving offshore.
This is a drastic rise in pre-pandemic trends with just less than 41,000 Kiwis leaving New Zealand to go overseas for at least 12 months in 2019.
The figures are based on population data from Stats NZ.
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 user pays Nation of cursed hollow men with no memory and no vision.
Flee.
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Well, where would I go where there is no neo-liberal regime? Its called Globalism for a reason. North Korea? China? Russia?
Well, if Sri Lanka is not a warning to Jacinda to roll back the massive wealth thrown at the rich home owners and landlords during COVID then I don’t know what is. The clocks ticking, the youth are watching. CGT NOW.
Not as much as John Key gave to the property speculators in the 5 years between 2012 and 2017. Luxon wants to invite them back with subsidised tax rebates on interest for buying properties. House prices are heading south big time.
Never before has one generation destroyed everything for their grandkids just for greed. And they wonder why they are dumped in retirement homes?
mate – me and my gen-x mates made our baby-boomer parents look like little lost sheep – gen-x is the gordon gekko generation
High wages and good working conditions are necessary to retain people in NZ.
Amenities need to be maintained, NZ used to be able to offer lower wages by making NZ attractive to raising a family, but increasingly not being able to access decent schooling, health care, public spaces like parks and beaches, higher crime and random shootings and knifings and laissez faire housing planning means that NZ is no longer attractive, to family life.
These days you buy a house in NZ and the next minute it is either leaky or some high rise goes up next door blocking light and privacy, a marina, helicopter pad, farm effluent or boy racers take over the local beach, a landfill (dome valley) or manufacturing plant like Rio Tinto (storing hazardous waste) is pushed through or allowed to disrupt everyone else’s lives in the name of business.
Normal planning issues seen in the UK, like privacy, amenity, smell, safety and sunlight are all considered minor effects in NZ planning, as anybody with money can build anything, anywhere. Plants like Rio Tinto get away with storing hazardous waste and councils/government make the residents pay for clean up.
All this is not very fair and eroding NZ as a good place to live.
NZ is pushing to be a good place to live if you are very rich, a criminal or very poor and can play the system. (Normal poor, get very little, but for the chose poor who seemingly can work the system there can be a brand new Kainga Ora apartment, getting free food in a free supermarket and having everything looked after).
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
~~ Abraham Lincoln ~~
Pertaining to State Media and our current Government, we are perhaps in the later half of that quote: “..but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
The Government claims they are doing a wonderful job, State Media claims crime is down based on historical data, their acolytes claim house prices are sustainable.
Some people have given up and embrace such messaging, and over time just become none-player-characters (NPCs) – they just repeat the soundbites.
The majority both figuratively and literally have tuned out (as seen through viewership ratings). Basically the soundbites are incongruent with what the majority observe in their day-to-day-lives.
This is no way to run a country. It’s directionless because basic realities are denied and truths are too easily substituted for ideologies and relativism.
There is a real lack of confidence in our current government and in the opposition’s ability to hold them to account. I actually think it’s beyond lack-of-confidence, there is a genuine fear from both working people and capital that any investment they make in NZ could be washed away under the rule of the current lot.
Again on the media.. I’ve started calling them “State Media”. I don’t feel comfortable calling them the Main Stream Media anymore. Though their funding is high, their viewership is low, shrinking and pretty much gone in ‘prime demographics’.
The Westpac mythical yeti, has always reminded me of a large brown hairy poo that I cannot unsee.
Jacinda is a millennial. She unfortunately grew up with all the Blairite 3rd way shite, so doesn’t know any other structure for Labour.
The giant Yeti symbolises big business in NZ.
NZ has also become a train wreck of hiring decisions in people in power who then seem to create more division!
The appalling selection for the roles such as national Centre of Research Excellence to fight violent extremism has already being discussed the Daily Blog https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2022/06/04/ummmm-isnt-professor-joanne-kidman-the-worst-person-to-appoint-to-an-extremism-taskforce/, but scary stuff how Dr Joanna Kidman got the job, when actually was on the hiring panel then put’s herself up for the job and is on for 3 years, while other co- directors get 1!
Bullying and corruption is rife in NZ!
PM’s terrorism, extremism expert Prof Richard Jackson hired then dropped
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/pms-terrorism-extremism-expert-prof-richard-jackson-hired-then-dropped/VBFWQBOOSKWBZPXTCQUXLPSEUM/
Can we get a taskforce to check about the lack of rigour in NZ appointments when those who are supposed to hire people, somehow get the job themselves instead??????
No wonder 1 million people want to leave NZ, to escape the woke madness, power grab, bullying and nepotism.
Ha! Most kiwis would never have the balls, guts or gumption to get off there arse and protest.
If their not protesting now, I can’t see what would get them off the couch.
And don’t tell me the dumb lives matter protest were protesting about any of the things in the above piece from Martyn.
They weren’t.
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