{"id":5663,"date":"2025-09-06T11:53:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=5663"},"modified":"2025-09-06T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:02:09","slug":"doomerism-americans-should-just-move-to-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2025\/09\/06\/doomerism-americans-should-just-move-to-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Doomerism: Americans should move to New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Doomerism: New Zealand has the best work-life balance in the world\u2014here’s what works | Fortune<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Storyteller Jessica Coacci’s spin is America is an awful place. So American workers should pack up and move abroad to New Zealand! Coacci ignores that unless you are young, make a very large financial investment in NZ, or marry someone from NZ, it is highly unlikely you can move to NZ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the usual nonsense journalism on moving abroad. Coacci’s beat is to document how awful life is for Generation Z<\/a> and how earlier generations had everything easier. (See How to show you know nothing of history without saying you know nothing of history \u2013 Social Panic<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As American workers\u00a0<\/strong>struggle to adapt to\u00a0work-life balance<\/a>,\u00a0increased child-care costs<\/a>, and a\u00a0frozen white-collar job market<\/a>, other countries like\u00a0New Zealand<\/a>\u00a0are providing over 30 days of paid leave, 6 months of maternity leave, and increasing minimum wage.\u00a0As more workers become burnt out,<\/a>\u00a0they may find that ditching corporate America could give them a better chance at the quality of life they\u2019re looking for.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Only if you are under age 55. NZ does not permit those age 55 and up from immigrating to NZ unless they are a world class exception (e.g. Nobel Prize winner) or make a very large financial investment into NZ. However, since her beat is to document how everything is awful for Gen Z, this point is not relevant, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are under age 30, you can visit NZ and work on an extended Holiday Work Visa program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For anyone else, you will likely need advanced education in health care or engineering, and a job offer in hand. That’s pretty much it for moving to NZ. And ignore this: New Zealand and Australia to make immigration more difficult <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More doomerism – the US is a terrible place so you should move to NZ, except most people in the U.S. cannot actually do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}