December 22, 2019December 22, 2019 Lydia's Mad About NZ!🇳🇿

New Zealand lifestyle

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Balanced lifestyle

New Zealand has the work-life balance just right. It’s why we consistently lead international quality-of-life surveys.

Get a career. And a life.

Working hard and getting ahead is important to us. We’re a well-developed, well connected country with all sorts of opportunities to advance your career.

But New Zealanders also believe life is for living. It’s about balancing a good day’s work with time for family and friends plus all the recreation and wide open spaces our country offers.

For the record, New Zealand was rated sixth in the world for work-life balance in HSBC’s 2017 Expat Explorer survey.

Expat Explorer Survey | HSBC

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Imagine a land the size of the UK or Japan with all the facilities of an advanced Western economy but a fraction of the number of people.

Less pressure on space and natural resources means we don’t have the pollution, congestion and health issues that you often find elsewhere.

It’s one of the reasons New Zealand is one of the top three countries expats hoping to improve their wellbeing are most likely to relocate to, according to results from HSBC’s 2015 Expat Explorer survey.

Best place in the world to be an expat | BBC

Work-life balance

Here I think it is much better. When I finish, I finish and I can dedicate my time to my family.”

Rita Csako – Hungary

Survey after survey proves New Zealand’s enviable work-life balance.

HSBC’s 2017 Expat Explorer survey ranked us sixth in the world for work-life balance (and first for ‘Quality of Life’). Overall, they voted New Zealand the third most popular place on earth for expats to live and work.

The latest (2017) survey by global HR consultants Mercer again ranked Auckland as the third best city in the world for ‘Quality of Living’, after Vienna and Zurich, and first in Asia Pacific and Australasia. Wellington scored well too, coming in at 12th.

The UN ranks New Zealand 13th out of 187 countries on its 2017 Human Development Index.

One of the largest global surveys voted New Zealand the 6th best place in the world for expatriates. HSBC’s Expat Explorer index reflects the opinions of almost 9,300 expats based in over 100 countries.

Relaxed pace of life

Our easy-going ways, uncrowded communities, relatively low crime rates and compact workplaces all mean life’s generally less stressed here.

Most migrants find the reality actually exceeds expectations in this regard. For example, according to HSBC’s 2015 Expat Explorer survey, more than three-quarters (77%) of migrants to New Zealand say their overall quality of life is better than at home. “Expats take advantage of this to stay for the long-term and 71% have lived in New Zealand for five years or more.”

New Zealanders find time for life’s finer things. For example, CNN rates Wellington one of the world’s eight great coffee cities.

Lifestyle choices

New Zealand doesn’t have the endless sprawls of high-density housing or rows of towering high-rises you find elsewhere. There’s room to breathe and a wide variety of lifestyle options.

You can choose upbeat urban apartment living or a suburban backyard with room for children and a vegetable patch (we call this a ‘quarter acre paradise’). Alternatively you can go a little further afield and live by the sea or get close to nature in rural open spaces, perhaps with some farmland and animals (we call these lifestyle blocks).

Just be aware that New Zealand homes can lack features you’re used to. Many migrants notice a relative lack of double glazing, central heating or air conditioning – or install those features themselves.

Less commuting

Smaller, less crowded cities and towns make getting to and from work much easier. Expect to leave home at a decent hour, and arrive back with time to achieve something in the evening.

Auckland is the exception. Like any million-plus city it has noticeable peak hour traffic congestion.

Wellington New Zealand’s capital -windy Welly!

New Zealand’s capital Wellington, is known by many as “Windy Welly”. The following link will show exactly why it’s called this at the cyclist struggles with three people to hold down his bicycle to keep it from blowing away!

December 17, 2019 Lydia's Mad About NZ!🇳🇿

Christmas in New Zealand!

Thanks for checking out my latest post. The following information is taken from the following website.

https://www.whychristmas.com/cultures/newzealand.shtml

In New Zealand, like its neighbor Australia, Christmas comes in the middle of the summer holidays.

Lots of people like to spend time of the beach, camping or at their Baches (holiday homes) for Christmas.

Many towns have a Santa parade with decorated floats (made by local businesses and churches, etc.), bands and marching teams. This can be any time from mid November onwards and is really a commercial event but everyone enjoys them. As it’s warm, Santa is sometimes seen wearing ‘jandals’ (New Zealand sandals) and he might even swaps his red top for a New Zealand ‘All Blacks’ rugby shirt!

Children in New Zealand leave out carrots for Santa’s reindeer and Santa might be left a beer and some pineapple chunks!

In the main cities like Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Hamilton, there are big Christmas light shows and displays. There are big carol services throughout the country, even in small town, villages and rural areas.

New Zealand has some special carols of its own. These include ‘Te Haranui’, Christmas in New Zealand and A Kiwiana Christmas! These are sung at most carol services around the country.

December 11, 2019 Lydia's Mad About NZ!🇳🇿

White Island – update by New Zealand Herald..- distressing content!

WHITE ISLAND ERUPTION – AT A GLANCE
* Six people confirmed dead, autopsies and formal identification continues today
* Nine missing or presumed dead, with eight thought to be on island
* 30 in hospital – 8 in Christchurch, 7 in Middlemore Hospital, 6 in Waikato, 4 in Hutt Valley, 2 in Auckland City, 2 in Tauranga Base Hospital and 1 in Wellington
* One injured Australian due to fly from Wellington to an Australian hospital overnight
* More Australian patients expected to be flown to hospitals across Tasman in coming days
* 47 people were on or near the island when the volcano erupted – 24 Australians, nine from the US, five Kiwis, four Germans, two Chinese, two from UK and one from Malaysia

DISTRESSING CONTENT WARNING

An emergency doctor treating burn patients injured in the Whakaari/White Island eruption has described horrific scenes at Waikato Hospital.

“It’s one of the most challenging things to look at because you know the patients are in so much pain and will be fighting for their life for the next two or three weeks and even then they could die,” John Bonning, president of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, told the Herald.Advertisement Advertise with NZME.

His comments come as New Zealand authorities import 120 square metres of skin from the United States and Australia to help treat the victims’ terrible burn injuries.

The amount of skin needed equates to about 60 donors – in New Zealand only five to 10 people donate skin each year.

As surgeons continue to work around the clock, 29 patients remain under intensive hospital care at New Zealand’s four burns unit at Middlemore, Waikato, Hutt Valley and Christchurch. One other patient was transferred from Wellington to Australia tonight.

Bonning said as he wheeled patients into Waikato Hospital after Monday’s eruption he could smell the sulphur coming from their clothing and saw “bits of dead skin” and “broken ash” peeling off their bodies.

“It was awful, just horrific. Saying it was like a war zone would not be an understatement.”

December 11, 2019December 11, 2019 Lydia's Mad About NZ!🇳🇿

White Island Update..

White Island’s volcanic rating risk has increased resulting in rescue teams being unable to recover victims..

December 9, 2019 Lydia's Mad About NZ!🇳🇿

White Island

White Island volcano erupted today which has resulted in at least 5 casualties with those figures unfortunately expected to rise. My thoughts are with all those affected by this tragedy. As someone who lived in the Bay of Plenty off of which White Island is located it makes it all the more real and tragic. White Island is New Zealand’s most active cone volcano and has been built up by continuous volcanic activity over the past 150,000 years.

December 4, 2019 Lydia's Mad About NZ!🇳🇿

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