Moving to New Zealand

I have a friend who has lived all over including Russia and she said new zealand was the coldest place she ever lived. She left because of the cold.

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Thinking of moving to New Zealand for a year on a work holiday visa. Any input appreciated

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Have you looked into this well? I don’t know that much about it, but I know it’s very difficult to move to Australia or New Zealand without a job for an extended period of time and obtaining a job once there on a Holiday is very hard. My sister followed an Australian lifeguard to Australia and had a very difficult time, I believe New Zealand is similar.

Outside of that, a year there would be amazing.

Lived in Australia for 3 years (just moved back here 1 year ago) and spent 8 days in NZ April 2017. No snow on the ground yet but got down to 40*F at night.

Absolutely loved it there. Most beautiful place I've ever been.

Only did the south island. Flew into Christchurch and rented a camper van. Drove it to a different spot everyday for a different activity. Went to Avalanche pass, Franz Joseph and Fox Glaciers, Lake Wanaka and hiked Roy's peak, Queenstown, Milford Sound, Lake Marian (my favorite place in the world), Dunedin, and then back to Christchurch.

Things like gas are expensive because it is so remote. Roads are small with a lot of bridges being one lane only so you take turns and some can be closed for snow. The people are incredibly nice and there a lot of people who go there to work for a bit like you are saying. Picked up two pretty good looking British chicks whose car broke down at the campsite we were leaving and gave them a ride to Milford Sound. They were doing the work there for a year thing too and loving it.
Its a super safe country with no worries about crime really. It is not very populated and everywhere I went outside of Christchurch was like a ski town and even Christchurch wasn't that big.

There are endless things to do if you like the outdoors and adventures. Awesome hikes with incredible scenery, bungy jumping (did this in Queenstown - 300m fall), hang gliding, sky diving, skiing/snowboarding in the winter, and you can cage dive with great whites out of a little town at the bottom of the south island.

I loved NZ and would highly recommend

We are all about outdoors stuff and that is the attraction to it. I see plenty of jobs on farms and customer service and tourism. We don’t mind some hard work as long as we are learning new things and getting an experience from it. We all plan to leave with 8000 saved to make easier. Sounds like a good idea from what I have read.

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Things like gas are expensive because it is so remote.

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I deal with customers in NZ all the time. Super nice people, but the place is freaking EXPENSIVE as hell. We were comparing gas prices and milk prices a couple of weeks ago and it was shocking the differences. Hope you have money.

North Island or South Island? North Island has more to offer and is warmer. South Island is more remote but if you are into outdoors then Wanaka or Queenstown are awesome.

If you are into fishing then the North Island around Russell & the Bay of Islands is off the chart.

FYI New Zealand is the equivalent of traveling from the California Mexico border to Washington State.