My family has migrated to Auckland, NZ. My brother is 14 and is studying there. My parents are quite old and they are enjoying their retirement life there, so they don't work.

The friends that they have there are mainly Malaysians. Some of them have quite some money and some of them do work there. Are you a fresh grad or currently holding a pretty good position here? From what I heard, it's hard getting a job there, especially if you are not a graduate from Aus/NZ. The first excuse they'll say is that you do not have local experience. So if you have a high position here, you have to prepare to start all over from the bottom again. One of our family friend was holding a high marketing post here in Malaysia with 5 figure salary but she couldn't find a job and started as an office girl - helping people photostat stuff and making coffee. Now she is working as a realtor so she either get a fixed salary or earn commission but it's still much lower than what she could earn back in Malaysia. Other than that, running businesses also seems quite hard to maintain. Some friends has opened restaurants but closed down after few months. Another family friend is an insurance agent. Some open their own accountancy firm or lawyer firm, but the bulk of their customers are migrants from Asia (somehow matsaleh won't really trust them). Lots of China migrants there too, they buy houses by the millions lol. Then again, I don't know if electrical engineering has a high demand there or not so I can't comment on that. And there are people here in the forum that say that they have no problem getting a job, so yea, still possible.

As for weather, basically south island will be colder than north island.

For me, it's too boring over there and I choose not to move over now. For holiday, yes it's a perfect place to go to. But to stay, it's still a no for me, maybe in the future when I'm older.

This post has been edited by munkeyflo: Oct 12 2012, 08:17 PM