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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay there and welcome to the Rewrap for Tuesday, all
the best bits from the Mike Husking breakfast on News
Talks EDB and a Sillier package. I am Glen Heart
and today we're going to see which regions are the
best ones for living in terms of how much money
you get the actually on that, we'll meet a couple
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of immigrants and see how they're going and moving to
this lucky country. I people can take that title off
Australia next door forestry is ruining it though the country
I mean, and Mike is skeptical about the BYD supercar.
But before any of that, the state of the world
versus the state of New Zealand, how do we compare
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it to everyone else?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Now you can see why so many around the world
seeing New Zealand as some kind of peaceful paradise, can't you.
I mean, the numbers arriving here are not what they
were tourism wise, and that reputationally came from the border closure,
of course, and the made rules of the Labour government.
But a survey from Europe suggesting seventy five percent of
people think their country and society is broken. You can
see what a small green paradise at the bottom of
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the world might be perceived. As in Germany, they've announced
an urgent expansion of public shelters. There used to be
two thousand of them in the Cold War, there are
now five hundred and eighty, many of them not operational anymore.
They're upgrading those also working on metro stations and underground garages,
so that one million can take shelter what from well
currently Russia. So the pushes on for five percent of
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GDP spending on defense and a spruce up of shelters
for when the bad guys come. Then in Los Angeles
looks like a hellscape at the BIBA. Does the Fed's
roll into town to drag a lot of illegals out
and senend them back to where they came from, might,
of course more complicated by the fact one a lot
of the economy is frequented by illegals doing jobs no
one else wants to do, too, a local government that's
seen the place fall apart socially because of homelessness and crime,
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And three a central government that hates the local government
says very keen to send a message of toughness around
the illegals issue. Hard to know whether this is mainly
social or political. Are the pressures certainly on Trump to
boost the border and sort the migrant to shoe out
Like a lot of what he promised, it hasn't happened,
so it may be convenient to do it in a
liberal state like California. Meantime, in Britain, the bill for
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migrant hotels has blown out yet again, as has the
arrival numbers by boat. The other Saturday, the newest record
was over one thousand in one day from Calais alone.
They all go to hotels, and not at discounted rates.
See as troubled as bits of our place may be,
as angsty as we may get around, all sorts of
different things that exercise as the National Guard are not
on the streets here. We don't have shelters, we don't
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even have anyone about to invade us, and we don't
have boat loads of illegal all things considered, Even if
you do think society is broken out, but it's holding up.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Okay, Yeah, I've always said how ironic I find that
expression travel broadens the mind because I've often gone to
other places and then come back to New Ronom governments. Ah,
it's nice to be home.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
It's the rewrap.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
But which bet of New Zealand should you live in
if you want to earn the big bat?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I lived in Auckland all my life, Mike. It's turned
into a you know what hole. I want to move
to Central Otago to get as far away as I can.
We'll do it. Go get into it. Life short, Mike.
These regional average incomes surprise me. They are, as you say,
very good. I wonder how many of those work remotely
or commute back to Auckland based businesses. Doesn't really matter.
You earn what you earn, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Mike.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Where are you getting these numbers from? I knew that
would happen. Where are you getting these numbers from? Heaven
forbid we present So I'm getting the numbers from MBI,
from the ministry, from the government. These are people who
pay out the numbers. They don't make the numbers up.
And you're giving me most of my friends I know it.
Don't give me the most of my friends. Some of
us know some people, some of us know other people.
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Averages or averages. Those are the averages. There's no reason
to disbelieve them. Mike read, teachers pay great news to hear.
Teachers have been recognized for the work they do. It's
definitely not nine to three, many work weekends as well
more children with diverse needs and low support from outside agencies. No,
there's no question about that. Teachers work exceedingly hard. I'm
on the losing side of the argument that great teachers
have always been great and they deserve much, much, much
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more money than they actually get, and some of the
poor teachers don't deserve as much. But that whole you know,
you earn what you pay and you pay what you
earn argument seems to have been lost as the union
swamp us all with a one size fits all model.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Do you know what the whole was that that protect
that was referring to that oftener turned into fun hole
golf hole, I mean a really fun hole. I don't
really know. Anyway, We're just going to wrap all this
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up by outlining a couple of people who have actually
been move here from overseas and how they're given on.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
So Liz Rolison writes for The Daily Telegraph yesterday, we
swapped the UK for New Zealand and feel better off
already now Brits. In the year to December, fifty six
hundred Brits arrived in the country, but forty five hundred left,
so that's a net gain of what eleven hundred and
the increase in outbound moves this year so far for
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twenty four which worries me. They report a notable shift away.
This is John Mason International report, a notable shift away
from Auckland, more British migrants choosing Christis Wellington Hamilton. So
that's fine. So if we spread people around the country,
that's all the better anyway. The article focuses on Robert
and Sabrema Eaton who came to us from Chippingham and
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Wiltshire and they landed in the funger Perraah which is
on the mighty high Biscus Coast north of Auckland, and
they were on holiday in New Zealand. They liked the scenery,
they liked the culture, they liked the people, so they
decided to move here. Top tip, don't move here without
a job. Many New Zealanders have left for Australia's more
buoyant job market and the higher wages, but Robert, who works,
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admits he would earn more if he did the same
job in Australia. But they weren't as happy there. The
life and weather are good, but it wasn't welcoming. That's
of Australia. So Robert and Sabina did not find New
Zealand as affordable as they thought. The house prices were
a problem. We were shocked at how high the house
prices were. Renting a four bedroom some twenty five miles
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forty k's from Auckland, eight hundred and fifty a week
house is worth about one point twenty five million. Robert
takes a bus to Auckland for work each day. Takes
an hour each way. It's a long way, two hours
of commuting each and every day. Sabrina's currently looking for
a job in job recruitment, but the sense of community
is better, so they like it. The cost of lip
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now here you go. The cost of living is lower
than in the UK. Groceries are five to fifty a month.
They shop around. Other monthly costs include broadband of five
hundred fifty to one hundred, water, one hundred electricity, one
seventy gas, eighty mobile phones, forty to sixty five petrols,
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cheaper than the UK as is eating out, so all
of you don't text me I can buy seven oranges
for a five p in London. No you can't. You're
making it up. So it's cheaper here than it is
in Britain. Quick lunch at Auckland costs thirteen to eighteen bucks.
Coffee is five bucks. Most people they've observed takeout private healthcare,
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which they get through Robert's job. His role was part
of the Tier one Greenliss, so in other words, high demand.
So he comes into the country. He files the paperwork
straight to residency, which is good because the job market
is not as buoyant. It's important to do your research
before arriving and sort out a job and a visa
before you go. Salaries have reached record highs despite the
number of listed jobs dropping by forty five percent a
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year ago in Auckland. In totality read the whole thing,
it's well worth looking up. In totality. They chose here,
they've stayed here, they like it here, and they've got
good reasons for thinking they made the right choice. So
that's uplifting.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I met a woman from Australia the other week. Who
came to work here for two years has been here
five now, no intention of going back. We like the
black hole. Maybe it was a black hole. We're like
a black hole. We just sucked people in and you
can't escape the rewrap. Right, you know what's ruining this country,
don't you. That's right trees.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Well, the problem with committing to things that may well
come back to haunt you is down the track. At
some point the mistake starts to hit you in the
face a bit and some hard decisions are required. Now
my sense of it is we've become too reliant on
pine trees to meet paris as in the a court.
Now the sheep farmers, you might have noticed this week,
have worked that out as the protests around land conversion
are once again been reignited, with posters up around the
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countryside put up by the meat and woolfolk, with the
line on the posters saying I am not the problem.
Since nineteen eighty two, here's some fun facts for you.
Since nineteen eighty two, we've gone from seventy million sheep
to twenty five In the last seven years, a quarter
of a million hectices have been swapped from sheep to trees. This,
of course, was always going to happen. What's the easiest way?
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Ask yourself, what's the easiest way to meet a target
on carbon trees? Cutting and slashing, whether it's farm production
or the economy in general, was never going to be palatable.
So trees were easy. But you might have noticed a
couple of major things have happened. One, Paris looks increasingly
shaking in terms of people meeting targets, indeed people even
being interested in meeting targets. And two, stuff grown on
the land with legs is fetching very, very very good
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money all over the world. At the moment, as far
as us earning a living goes, we have never made
more from farming. Carbon offsetting, which is what planting trees
is called, has restrictions. In other countries. They only let
you do it to a limited degree. Here you can
do it as much as you want, but I bet
you anything you want. Other countries aren't as reliant on
sheep and cows as we are. We used to have tourism,
as you've just heard, we used to have tourism back
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us up. But last week's numbers tell a very sad story.
Dairy twenty billion, tourism twelve awful comes in at nine.
For God's sake, tourism used to vife for first place.
Hence the government, as we've just mentioned, through another thirteen
millionaire it yesterday to try and attrack these seventy thousand people.
Trees also kill communities. Farming as life. A forest isn't
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as laudable as Paris was all those years ago. If
we had thought about it, if we'd been less evangelical,
we might have stopped to think just what it was
we were asking of a small economy. And the simple
truth is we were asking so much. A quick short
cut like trees was always going to be adopted with alacrity.
Saving the planet as people get tossed off the land
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is not an equation we should be proud of. As
the protest poster says with the photo of the sheep
on it, I am not the problem, and they're right,
the zalots are.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Always the whole offsetting carbon thing. It doesn't sit well
with me adding things to try and mitigate the things
that you're already doing. What you should be doing is
perhaps taking some of those things away or changing those
things in the first planes. But otherwise you're not really
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solving the problem, are you rerap Another way you can
try and solve the problem of the climate change, of course,
is with a nice economical electric car.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Just just to wrap up the yang Wang talk. So
the reason I was seeing me looking at this thing
is b why I've got a whole thing. I'll probably
do it tomorrow. But there's a car for sale in
Europe by BYD which is called the Seagull, and it
costs next to nothing. It's just like it's literally a
throwaway car. But at the other end of the spectrum.
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I don't know what the yang Wang costs. But my
point is this, it's a super it's a supercar. It's
a super looking car, looks like a you know, pick
a car and eston a Lambeaux, whatever you want. It's
one of those sort of cars you cannot put into
the marketplace, something called yang wing. You cannot if you
expect it means look up, I couldn't kill it, I
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couldn't get I couldn't care less what it means. See there,
if you look at it, the Ferrari pure sangue, you go,
what does that mean? That that's a wind in the desert,
but it rolls up. Yang Wing doesn't wrong. You can't
expect people to pay big bucks for a car that sounds.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
It's only three hundred and ninety thousand New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
It's a lot of money. Glenn. We're not all doing
as well as you stop being out of touch with
the people. The and so now you're telling me it
jumps over potholes.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Yeah, literally senses obstacles.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
It sensors the obstacle and ejects itself above it. Yep,
it yang wings itself over to hazard style rubbish.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I've just been watching a video of it.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Do this so all right, So I'm going to look
up the yang Wing saving that for one of these
three hundred and ninety thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
What I don't understand is why they have foregone the
whole sort of marine theme with the naming, because you
know what, because you had your seal.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Understand the dolphin, the seagull, the shark.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
And now I suddenly it's look, why don't they.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Call it the bydse.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah, three hundred and eight thousand case it is a lot.
I'm just trying to think how many of my cars
I could have bought for that amount quite a few,
quite a few of I can require quite a few,
two hundred and tween twenty twenty three fourthooners for the
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price of one gain Way. Yeah, mine jumps over things.
I'm sure it does. If I no, it doesn't, I
am Bleian Hart. That was the rewrap. We'll be back
for more Tomorrow's year arap.
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