Just one big problem,the place is full of Australians
Not so sure about the payout thing.
I still have to wait for my Aus super until 60+ (unless you have a seriously strong reason for it now).
Work payouts are generally related to layoffs/redundancies, but they can be very rewarding. (worked with an Aussie fitter who worked for Western Power untill redundancy/retirement packages were called for. He walked away with $400000+ in payout, plus super! Been there 35yrs though)
Aus resources, and West Aus will continue to boom until China/India have had their fill, (2015-2020+). If your up to the challenge, it WILL be very rewarding financialy.
I had my go, but would encourage anybody else to go for it before the resource cycle slumps again.
My partner and I are off to Aussie next month for a bit of a touring holiday. (Melborne, Adelaide, Brisbane).
We have been talking and decided that while there we will both be looking at the employment opportunities over there.
She is a District Nurse and I am a Network Engineer.
Here we are struggling to pay the bills on our combined salaries. Living from payday to payday.
Aussie is a very aluring proposition.
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"When you think of it,
Lifes a bowl of ....MERDE"
The pay is very good in Oz, have to work hard to get it though.
Things are more expensive here, especially in Darwin, but you do not have to "keep up with the Jonses"....![]()
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2 wheels move the soul
A heck of a lot of people are considering it, and that's now regardless of whether Helen Bubba teeth is staying or going...so my point at the bottom of this reply/ rant.
Yep, I hear ya!
Sums it up nicely.
I've never been bothered with hard work...heck, that's what I did picking fruits for a living up North when I arrived in NZ 14 years ago. Still made about $500 after tax per week. And back then, I could have bought a 3 bedroom house on a big piece of land bordering a pine forest for $125,000...*sigh* the beauty of hindsight, eh?
The thing is...Even if National gets back in, how long do we think it is going to take them to clear the latest financial decisions from Helen and her click?
I'm no economist, but I reckon 3 years is a pretty short amount of time to undo the damage. By which time (next election) the unwashed and uneducated masses will only see little change in the economy and might just re elect the Labour Party...But eh, I could be wrong.
Been considering doing a stint over their myself to get a deposit for a house ,aint no chance im gunna get that here with everyday living costs going up ...everyday![]()
Bloody enticeing to just pack up and leave tho for that kinda money,specially at my age![]()
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Oddly enough, unlike most, it seems, I can't make more money, in terms of pre-tax income, in Australia than I can here.
My own business is targeted at international clients via the interweb, so my location makes no difference to that, and in terms of local contract work to pay the bills, the rates I can get are about the same.
Anyway, even if I could earn more over the ditch, I very much doubt that I'd be able to get my ex-wife to pack up and move just so that I could keep seeing my kids regularly while I worked a long-term contract in some out-of-the-way hellhole!
Nope, I'm well and truly stuck in little old NZ for the next decade or so, and quite frankly, I don't mind in the slightest.
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Superannuation is based on 10% of your gross wage and is paid by the employer into a designated super fund. You can pay in more yourself, for which you get tax breaks.
When you leave your job, or change jobs, the money stays in the fund.If you choose to retire, then you can take some money out - depends how much is in there.
If you are a Kiwi and move back to NZ - you dont get any money out! - there is a reciprocal agreement over pensions
About 3 gazillion years. They won't! Their big business mates will get even richer - the average working stiff will still get shafted.Originally Posted by 007xxx
“- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
I think they had a rule change in the 90's, and I didn't plan on being back in NZ back then.
Meh it's no big deal, as the super fund I'm in has had a stella grow spurt over the last five years or so.
Should be a nice little nest egg in my wet fart years. (unlike that Kiwi Saver chump fund).
As for Al's comment on the work effort, well, the first thing I was told about returning to NZ back in 99 was "you will work twice as hard, for half the earn". Boy, they were so right.
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