Daniel Asks About New Zealand #5
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- Hello everyone,
Thank you all for the incredible support on the series so far! Today we talk about last video's question and then I ask a new one, per usual. Hope you enjoy!
Sincerely,
Daniel and the Foley Family
Favorite thing about 'the land of the long white cloud' is how we unexpectedly exceed most tourists low expectations when visiting. It always reminds me of how awesome this place is and to not take this country for granted. Least favorite thing about NZ is being one of the last countries to get the latest tech and how much more we pay for the same products sold around the world.
The thing I love most about NZ is Central Otago. I live in Dunedin and whenever I reach the area I feel a possessive love for it. Unfortunately what I hate most is the fact that people from elsewhere are moving in and wrecking what makes it so special... the sparse landscape with sharp lines of the land against the clear skies. I guess that is not as a whole but it really matters to me. As a whole I love the team of 5 million. apart from a few outliers it is very true.
Thats such a great question! It took me a moment to figure out what my favourite thing is because there's so much to love, but after giving it some thought I think my favourite thing about 'us' is that NZ feels like a community. It feels like we pull together and we have the same values and aspirations, I think NZ feels 'cohesive'. The thing I dont like about NZ is that in the last few years I feel like we might be losing that. Divisions and anger where it didnt seem like there was any before. There might even be good reason for some of that, but I hope we come back together soon.
One of the biggest issues re Tauranga traffic is there is only two routes to the mnt. The harbour bridge or via welcome bay. Tauranga is also one of the fastest growing cities in the country
Hi I think the culture in general ,especially if you know where to look good alternative music and theatre. The other side travel times to go anywhere overseas.
One of the best things about NZ is that you can talk to anyone about what their political views are!
People won't always agree of course but - with some rare exceptions - we respect other's viewpoints. Even if we quietly think they're crazy!
From what I've heard, or read, that is not the case in America.
The thing I love love love the most about New Zealand is the Sport /Community Sports like Rugby, Rugby League, Netball etc that are community and family based along with NZ's culture, the beauty and most of all Zero DEADLY animals for walking in bush etc. The thing I have the most is the raising violence and how crowded the cities are getting.
Visit Thames and the 160 year old Gold Mine and have a conducted tour...open 10 to 1pm every day
I tell people that one if the best things about NZ is that there is only 5 million people, so besides Auckland it's generally not crowded.
The flip side on this is. The bad thing about NZ is that there is only 5 million people, so we have no economies of scale and the fact that we live so far in our place of the world that things are more expensive.
Oh well, we live in a place where the climate is mostly pleasant. Gun violence is not a national pastime. The healthcare system is mostly good (not perfect) and won't bankrupt you. So glad I was born here, I love this country
lol nicely put😁
Hi Ya, My fav thing about NZ is that it is just such a lovely laid-back lifestyle. (Work-life Balance) I am born and bred here and I am so grateful to have got to call NZ home, I love the mix of cultures, nature, fun sense of humor, etc My least fav thing is that it is so far away from the rest of the world. When I lived in London it was so easy, fast and cheap to go to France for the weekend etc. The distance can be a blessing (Covid) but a negative for ease, and cost for travelling.
Excellent question Daniel, for me what I like most is our “middle of nowhere” isolation and low population because it leads to many of our other good qualities, eg self reliance, sense of community , unique biodiversity, no snakes, bears etc what I don’t like is our distance from everything , on balance the answer is I’m choosing to live here because “middle of nowhere’s” positives far far outweigh its negatives.
I live in the Hokianga harbour in the far north on the west coast. there is lots to do up here. sand boarding is fun
I don't live in NZ anymore but I get back whenever I can which isn't often enough. As the saying goes "absence makes the heart grow fonder" The thing I love the most is the diversity. If you live on the coast you will have your choice of at least a dozen or so beaches to choose from & most won't have a lot of people if any. A 1/2hr drive to any # of rivers to go whitebaiting during the spring. A couple of hours drive in the winter to go skiing (if you can afford it) And no matter where in NZ you live,just a stones throw away from a plethora of walking tracks. It was only a 1/2hrs drive to go pig hunting & the same for cockles (or you might know them better as clams) also the same to go spotlight spear fishing at night for fresh flounders,eels the list goes on. The thing I don't like is the price of housing & also homelessness. The house I grew up in had a harbour view & when my father purchased it it was only $13,000 as where most housing that had a great view. Growing up in the 80's I didn't know what homelessness was because it didn't exist & nor should it in a small island nation. How did it come to this?
Favorite thing: Incredible and varied scenery (each region is a bit like a different country).
Least favourite: how the divide between the "have's" & "have nots" appears to be getting more pronounced.
I think you kind of answered your own question, when you brought up Politics. Right now there's a war in the Ukraine. New Zealand is not isolated from that, but we are separated by distance. Most of the division and conflict in the world seems to originate in the Northern Hemisphere. With New Zealand being a small distant country, it provides us with a different prospective on the world.
Just a little thought - it might be helpful when asking a question to reply and love some of the comments. This will encourage your viewers. Otherwise, I think you are doing great with integrating into Kiwi culture. Also, ask the locals how to pronounce some of the place names; your progress in this will endear yourselves to us.
Favourite - we are fair, community minded and have a working democracy. Hates - people who say we are not
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Like: the NZ lifestyle. 🏖
Dislike: the American economic system we adopted in the 1980's. 😩
Have you visited McLaren Falls, Kaimais?
Just a helpful tips with pronouncing Maori nga is more NA the vowels are similar if not the same as spanish
I dislike the isolation and population size. I am a muso and artist and those worlds to earn a good living seem very far away. Just watching Spitfire Audio's channel and a rare synthesiser was up for sale and a guy in the next town knew how to restore it... all unlikely in NZ
Least favourite, our national anthum. Favourite, the list is endless. Politically I despise ardernski and the labour party
Likes living in NZ - LIFESTYLE freedom of nature and natural surroundings.. in contrast Dislike living in NZ everything is TAXED... limited freedom. 🤩
Just out of interest as someone who has lived in many countries besides this one, where in the 1st world have you lived that isn't taxed that also has Free Healthcare and other benefits of wealthy democracy? I feel like I have been paying less tax here or less for medical expenses, public transport and other services. The only thing i think is rip is food, considering it is produced here and then for some reason our products can travel across the world and cost less in UK than they do here.
@@subculturenz agree with you entirely , the problem with “everything is TAXED” is as someone who pays tax I’m more than happy for people to not pay tax, so long as they stay out of the hospitals, don’t claim ACC, use the foot paths, roads, roundabouts, traffic signals, pedestrian crossings, public transport , trains, busses, ferries, schools, police , libraries, art galleries, museums, universities, cross any bridges or complain when stormwater floods their house, I could go on but as you say what first world country is not taxed ?
@@Chris-NZ Right? I get the feeling people haven't lived anywhere else and have weird misconceptions that New Zealand has high taxes which is far from true...
@@subculturenz Tax is tax and if the answer is to pay more tax on goods and services then under a democracy society we should not be any additional tax .. I cringe how politicians, say they going to tax the RICH.. that's non-sense... more like the middle- class... Yes food is a rip off if they remove the tax from that then that might help for those struggling families like what Australia did ... there's no secrete we have a complicated tax system which is entangled with our social system due to Working For Families and other subsidies. it’s possible that New Zealanders are paying a higher total amount of tax.”
@@bittersweet340 no, what helped Australia was having competition like Aldi, Lidl, Costco and many other chains, removing tax from food would have seen the duopoly still raising their prices because they CAN.
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