Synopses & Reviews
If you're planning on moving to New Zealand, this essential book not only tells you where to start, but guides you through every step. Whether you're heading for Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch, it helps you fit in fast, with invaluable background on lifestyle, politics and media, and tips on current hot topics. All you need to know about living in New Zealand and finding work is outlined in reassuring detail, from obtaining visas and permits to tax and employment law, renting or buying a home, starting a business and finding schools. Engaging, readable and packed with case studies and expert advice, this is the only guide you need.
Inside you will find:
" expert guidance on tackling red tape
" everyday life explained - phones, internet, TV, banking, shopping, health, education, and home utilities
" how to find work and keep it, or start your own business, with useful contacts and bags of ideas
" complete profiles of the regions, and an outline of climates
" 16 pages of color photographs
" scores of anecdotes and personal stories - learn from the challenges and experience of others
Synopsis
With Cadogan's new
Working & Living: New Zealand available, the move to this beautiful country will go exceptionally smoothly. Everything readers need to know about living and working in New Zealand is covered in this invaluable guide, from gaining visas and work permits to what Internet services are available. Expert advice helps them put into practice their dream of moving to cosmopolitan Auckland, the wild west coast, or vineyard-strewn Hawke's Bay, with details on how to buy a house, get a job, and find schools. Case studies of people who have already made the move to the other side of the world are dotted throughout the text, giving them personal insights into how life will change, while fascinating facts about New Zealand provide small, quirky snapshots of this spectacular country.
Synopsis
This guide shares personal insights and detailed practical information about moving to New Zealand, and working and living there. For those thinking of making the move, this is the first book they should consult.
About the Author
Georgina Palffy worked as a travel editor for Cadogan Guides, a political and media analyst for an intelligence organization, a foreign affairs journalist at the
Guardian and D
aily Telegraph newspapers, and an art reviewer for a London listings magazine. She has also lived and worked in Rome for several years. Since moving to New Zealand in 2002, she and her family have been living 100 yards from the beach in Napier, art deco capital of Hawke's Bay. Married to a New Zealander, she didn't really want to come to the southern hemisphere in the first place, but has been converted to the easygoing charms of life on a South Pacific island.
Table of Contents
(1) Introduction (2) Getting to Know New Zealand (3) Profiles of the States (4) New Zealand Today (5) First Steps (6) Red Tape (7) Living in New Zealand (8) Working in New Zealand (9) Reference