Avalon's Guide: Emigrate to New Zealand

Avalon's Guide: Emigrate to New Zealand » Hubby’s Views http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab There is no "One True Path" to emigrating. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:00:30 +0000 en hourly 1 Report time – INZ Permanent & Long Term migration pt3 http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2012/02/report-time-inz-permanent-long-term-migration-pt3/ http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2012/02/report-time-inz-permanent-long-term-migration-pt3/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:00:30 +0000 Hubby http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/?p=4937 Last one out turn the lights off please. The patterns part of the report again makes for some interesting reading and good analysis by DoL. Emigration & Immigration are both cyclical, effected by similar drivers and so on. An easy example is that when the exchange rate improves, immigration goes up. Those of you considering [...] Related posts:

]]> http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2012/02/report-time-inz-permanent-long-term-migration-pt3/feed/ 0 Report time – INZ Permanent & Long Term migration pt2 http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2012/02/report-time-inz-permanent-long-term-migration-pt2/ http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2012/02/report-time-inz-permanent-long-term-migration-pt2/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:00:53 +0000 Hubby http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/?p=4934 The contribution of Kiwi’s abroad to the NZ economy. One of the interesting stand out comments in the DoL exec summary refers (again) to the Kea research. DoL cite this as “New Zealand’s diaspora is significant and our expatriate community is seen as an important contributor to New Zealand’s economic prosperity“. Hmm, that sounds like [...] Related posts:

]]> http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2012/02/report-time-inz-permanent-long-term-migration-pt2/feed/ 0 Report time – INZ Permanent & Long Term migration pt1 http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2012/02/report-time-inz-permanent-long-term-migration-pt1/ http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2012/02/report-time-inz-permanent-long-term-migration-pt1/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:00:36 +0000 Hubby http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/?p=4927 The Dept of Labour have come out with their annual PLT report covering 2011. You can find the original report here. The funny thing is that I came across two news articles about this before I read the report . 1. Off to Oz Exodus at 11 year high @ the Herald 2. Aussie Drain [...] Related posts:

]]> http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2012/02/report-time-inz-permanent-long-term-migration-pt1/feed/ 0 IT jobs, as easy as falling off a bike? http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2012/02/it-jobs-as-easy-as-falling-off-a-bike/ http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2012/02/it-jobs-as-easy-as-falling-off-a-bike/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:38:45 +0000 Hubby http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/?p=4925 There seems to be a general belief that ‘getting a job in IT’ is as easy as falling off a log, or riding a bike – or both – how about falling off of a log while riding a bike? I’ve often thought that IT is the new administration, lots of less than interesting jobs [...] Related posts:

]]> http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2012/02/it-jobs-as-easy-as-falling-off-a-bike/feed/ 0 Wow! The internet works http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2012/01/wow-the-internet-works/ http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2012/01/wow-the-internet-works/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:36:55 +0000 Hubby http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/?p=4779 It’s been an interesting experience dealing with different internet service providers here in Wellington. Capital city, you’d think you could get a decent internet connection. We’ll skip the whole two pieces of wet string connecting NZ to the rest of the world, and Ultra Fast Broadband that the Govt is pumping Billions of Dollars into [...] Related posts:

]]> http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2012/01/wow-the-internet-works/feed/ 5 The joy of a $5 bookshop http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2011/11/the-joy-of-a-5-bookshop/ http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2011/11/the-joy-of-a-5-bookshop/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:00:07 +0000 Hubby http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/?p=4618 Along with hideous (for us) quantities of money being spent on stuff in Melbourne, I also spent some time hunting down cheap books. As you’ll be aware, this is one of our pet peeves with NZ – a ‘cheap’ book is only $30 for a normal fiction paperback. ’only’ $50 for a fiction hardback. When [...] Related posts:

]]> http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2011/11/the-joy-of-a-5-bookshop/feed/ 0 Guilty ‘cos I say so http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2011/11/guilty-cos-i-say-so/ http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2011/11/guilty-cos-i-say-so/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:00:45 +0000 Hubby http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/?p=4623 If there was ever doubt that legislation could be bought in NZ, then the Copyright (Infringement File Sharing) Amendment Act 2011 demonstrates that sufficient money can buy you legislation. The RIANZ official line on this can be found here. Avalon’s Guide is not of course advocating the illegal sharing of copyrighted materials. We never give [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2011/11/magic-of-melbourne/feed/ 3 Immigration equality http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2011/10/immigration-equality/ http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2011/10/immigration-equality/#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:42:57 +0000 Hubby http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/?p=4532 Since April 2011 British immigration rules have tightened up. Kiwi’s, Aussies and other Commonwealth countries that have previously enjoyed very favourable immigration status in the UK, are being put on a more measured footing. While as Brits emigrating to NZ or Australia there’s a limit on the number of places, we have to demonstrate our [...] Related posts:

]]> http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2011/10/immigration-equality/feed/ 4 Six figure jobs http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2011/10/six-figure-jobs/ http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2011/10/six-figure-jobs/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:00:17 +0000 admin http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/?p=4415 The Seek job search website has (finally) followed TradeMe’s lead and now have a ‘jobs paying over $100k‘ category . This is said to be in response to the large increase in the number of positions attracting those salaries, although all the numbers I can find quoted are only percentages, so it can be a [...] Related posts:

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