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‘Hollowing out’: New Zealand grapples with an uncertain future as record numbers leave | New Zealand | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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I don’t know why we’re not talking about this more. We have a steep decline in fertility, a rapidly ageing population, and, out of Covid, we are seeing the rise and rise of departures,” says Massey University’s emeritus professor Paul Spoonley, a leading sociologist.

“Parts of New Zealand are beginning to empty out, they will suffer stagnation or are in decline. The question for me is – will the number of New Zealanders leaving the country begin to come back?” Spoonley say

I ended up buying on the Gold Coast becase NZ housing was too unaffordable, back just before Covid.

Covid saw NZ housing prices then go from ridiculous to statospheric, so now I am in Tassie. Not been looking since but interested in the exoerinxes of others.

I'm an Aussie's that spent some time in NZ and was looking to move there full time, so a different take I guess and keen to here from locals.

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[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 20 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Housing is expensive, opportunities are disappearing, healthcare and education are being hollowed out.

This country is doomed but we have nobody to blame but ourselves. We voted for these bozos.

At least the trans people will not be allowed to poop in the bathroom they are presenting as so I guess that's something. We are going to show those trans people who is who and where they belong.

[–] nosebleed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

Who do you mean by we? I don't know any boomer who isn't right wing. I know very very few right wingers outside of that generation. Anacdotal yes, but I can't help think this is the last gift from their generation before they cark it.

It also doesn't help that the right seems to shift the landscape further right, while the left sits on their hands and nothing barely changes. Its hard to label labour left anymore honestly. Just a constant ratcheting towards this brainless neoliberal experiment gone rogue.

What was the last policy implemented by any party that had a tangibly positive affect on your living conditions? For me, none at the time I left. Made leaving slightly easier. But now I'm overseas I feel like all countries are sinking ships for workers. NZ feels a lot further along and faster than most.

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 1 points 8 hours ago

By "we" I mean the country as a whole.

so "we" voted for the batshit crazy right and the do nothing middle. We could have voted differently, we didn't.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 14 hours ago

Who do you mean by we? I don’t know any boomer who isn’t right wing. I know very very few right wingers outside of that generation.

I have boomer family who have voted right wing their whole lives and got more leftist as they got older.

I also know people in their 30s that are out there campaigning for Act, full leopards ate my face stuff.

Generally the people I am close with are not right wing, but that's more a lack of commonalities to base a friendship on. I think you'd be surprised to find how much support National, Act, (and even NZF) get in the younger populations.