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NZ is very pretty and I could happily live there a few years. Not sure about permanently though as thereās not a lot to it (very few of the native forests remain) and boredom can set in (according to a few NZ friends).
NZ was experiencing a brain drain in the 1980s as professionals were leaving for opportunities in larger countries. By 1990, I think about a quarter of the actuaries in NZ were Canadian. I have no idea what the actuarial market there is like now.
I would mention it is very hard for foreigners to buy property in NZ currently.
The only thing I know about NZ is that LOTR was filmed there, and thatās the only thing I need to know. Iād definitely move there, but I might need to relocate from elf-treehouse to dwarf-mountain to hobbit-hole at some point.
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Actuaries arenāt currently on the āgreen listā of high-priority occupations that get you special treatment for an immigration visa to NZ.
I havenāt bothered to look through the details of other processes, and I donāt know what the status of the actuarial job market is there.
It will usually be like Australia?
IIRC (and Aussie/Kiwi folks can correct me if my understanding is incorrect) they tend to be looking for people 45 and younger.
Even Canadaās default path to permanent residency has a very strong preference for 20- or 30-somethings.
When I was giving more significant thought to the possibility of moving to Canada several years ago, my age then would have created an issue with getting PR status on points. That, plus coming to the realization that Canada is a bloody expensive place to live, effectively killed that notion in my mind.
Canadian housing is expensive but US has recently gotten relatively expensive in other areas.
The guy who asked Zelensky if he owned a suit, Brian Glenn, is a reporter for the pro-Trump media network Real Americaās Voice and also Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greeneās boyfriend. He got one of the rare Oval Office interviewer spots only after the White House blocked the Associated Press.
This really bugged me. Here is a man who has been leading his country through three years of attacks by Russia being belittled for not showing up in a suit. Trumpists have no decency nor empathy.
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Iām not pro-war, but this is mind blowing to me. Cyber command should absolutely have plans for any potential hostile threat.
Seems that Canada is now opening the door for Americans in the healthcare and education sectors who want to leave the US for a while.
Oh come on! You cannot be serious. Not only is MTGās boyfriend part of the press pool, but TASS as well?
We also need anyone who can help build homes. I expect a giant house-building push in Canada to address our housing shortage: the only constraint is skilled tradespersons. This would also redeploy resources like lumber that would otherwise get tariffed en route to the USA. There may be some silver linings for Canada in Trumpās economic war on us.
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Coincidentally, I think the US is getting ready to deport a bunch of people working in construction.
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We would love to have them along with farm workers.
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A) yes, HuffPost is a garbage source. B) this is dumb. C) the retroactive ban on previously accepted papers is double plus dumb.
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Itās probably imprecise to have described my realization as āa bloody expensive place to liveā as much as āa budgeting exercise produced an unacceptable resultā, before even contemplating the risk that Iād have to shift from an American to a Canadian pay scale.
However, this was a MontrƩal-focused exercise, pre-pandemic. The tax side of the equation was nasty as compared to what I have in the US, but this would have been when MontrƩal was still pretty affordable housing-wise.
Itās not really, when you consider the number of probable Russian assets in the administration.
Quebec has high tax rates.
American costs have gotten expensive post-pandemic. Inflation has been worse than Canada the past few years and the US dollar has strengthened. I was amazed at how expensive things in the US were when I last visited. It was cheaper in US than Canada in pre-pandemic times.