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We welcome you in!

And if it’s getting tricky, you can usually find a politician who is sympathetic and will bend the rules for you.

Thiel managed 12 days here before citizenship came though, but if you aren’t as rich as him I’m sure we could come to an arrangement.

If working here, you’ll be alarmed by the low wages, high housing costs (for low quality housing) and high cost of living. However bad you think it is, it’s worse.

But other stuff is great!

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/indepth/national/how-peter-thiel-...




I have enough acquaintances from NZ in tech to know the drill, but just that low or no property taxes, in relation to other taxes, encourages property speculation (eg in china, which lacks them).


You are correct. It’s crashing down now though.




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