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.
This place is fucked, and now we know Australia won’t shoot themselves in the head for another three years at least people will continue to leave in droves.
When the bloodbath government budget here hits in two weeks time it will turn into a torrent.