Something is definitely going on and New Zealand seems to be enjoying a reputation for being immune to it. There are suggestions that the upcoming French and German elections will also be vitriolic with an increasingly confident far-Right. This in an election year for Australia where the far-Right won increased seats. While most of those moving to NZ are NZ citizens, possibly due to new restrictions which make pathways to Australian citizenship almost impossible, the numbers include an increased number of Australians moving to NZ.
Immigration from Australia to New Zealand, and from New Zealand to Australia, per year for 2001-15. But, again, if you want to hear a fact about people who are moving net migration between NZ and Australia has swung towards NZ for the first time since 1991. This week’s 7.8 quake will probably put many off. How many of them actually take the matter further is yet to be seen. Following Donald Trump’s win, interest from Americans increased 24-fold with 7,000 applying for visas. However, if you want a fact, in the days after the Leave vote triumphed in the Brexit referendum, interest from Britons on New Zealand immigration sites increased ten-fold. Richard Dawkins penned a letter in Scientific American suggesting New Zealand could become a ‘new Athens’ if it accepted scientists and academics fleeing the rising anti-intellectualism of America and Britain. Once Trump won Ohio and Philadelphia ‘move to NZ’ began trending online. The joke that became increasingly common during the campaigns for Brexit and Donald Trump’s presidential bid is that it was perhaps time to consider moving to New Zealand (Canada and Ireland also getting frequent mentions).
So, have the results of the Brexit Referendum and the US Presidential Election made you consider moving to New Zealand?
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