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I'm not in NZ, but seriously considered it as a destination. I agree with you, the article has nothing to do with reality and is just wishful thinking or, more
by prebrov 8y ago
I'm not in NZ, but seriously considered it as a destination. I agree with you, the article has nothing to do with reality and is just wishful thinking or, more likely, a PR shill paid up by NZ's foreign promotion board or however they're called.
Jacinda Ardern had a strong anti-immigration position during her campaign, she literally promised to cut immigration by 20'000-30'000 per year, from 70'000. No surprise that current government basically dismantled all immigration schemes.
Good luck to them building their own Silicon Valley!
- yarg 8y agoThere's a huge number of low skill immigrants in New Zealand, they don't really add that much to the country. I don't imagine that any restrictions on immigration would significantly impact skilled workers. That said, I don't understand why we would possibly have a requirement of VC involvement when the already money is there to actually do the work.
- te_chris 8y agoBecause the VC's wrote the rules...
- lancewiggs 8y agoLol no we didn’t.
- madaxe_again 8y agoSo, despite being an entrepreneur, and having founded several successful and sustainable businesses, I’m one of your “unskilled migrants”. Sure, I’ve been coding since I could walk, I have current and expert systems and web technology knowledge - but I have a bachelors. In physics. Not useful at all, and puts me on the same rung as a golf course management graduate - actually, below, as they have a shortage skill. One of the hurdles I am repeatedly failing at with trying to emigrate is that I do not have a compsci degree. It seems that having a bit of paper is much more important than having a track record.
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- yarg 8y agoSo in fact you're in no way unskilled, and if you're being measured as such there's something fundamentally broken in the way that skills are being measured and something should be done about it. Nothing ever will be done, and it's a loss for the country.
- zinckiwi 8y agoI'm generally pro-immigration, but with a population of less than 5 million and a housing affordability crisis, 70k a year simply isn't sustainable.
- oblio 8y agoIsn't New Zealand hugely underpopulated? I fear that their real problem is elsewhere... Just checked quickly: * the UK: 65 million people, 242 000 sqkm -> crowded * Romania: 19 million people, 238 000 sqkm -> not that crowded * New Zealand: 4.8 million people, 268 000 sqkm -> it's definitely not overpopulated... Edit: Heh, I also checked the density, it's the 203rd country in the world regarding population density. There's definitely a ton of space for people there, if the government wants it and is diligent about promoting construction of affordable housing.
- ElCapitanMarkla 8y agoLand wise yeah theres heaps of room, but infrastructure / housing wise, not so much.
- Timpy 8y agoI don't think people per sqkm is the most relevant metric of overpopulation, it's more like people per available resources.
- oblio 8y agoNew Zealand is famous for being very resource rich, so I'm not sure I share your concern. NZ is an exporter for many of its resources: http://www.mbie.govt.nz/info-services/sectors-industries/natural-resources http://www.mbie.govt.nz/info-services/sectors-industries/nat...
- toomanybeersies 8y agoIt's not a population density problem but a housing supply problem. There just simply aren't enough houses in NZ. Simply finding somewhere to live can be a struggle, let alone somewhere affordable.