International Living Magazine has just ranked NZ 5th in its 2010 Quality of Life Index
http://www1.internationalliving.com/qofl2010/
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NZ world's 5th best place to live!
International Living Magazine has just ranked NZ 5th in its 2010 Quality of Life Index
http://www1.internationalliving.com/qofl2010/
11 Dec 09 EOI -> (135pts, no job offer)
16 Dec 09 EOI Selected
11 Jan 10 ITA <-
24 Apr 10 ITA ->
09 Jul 10 Interview
12 Jul 10 AIP
13 Jan 11 RV
12 Dec 11 Arrived in NZ
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France top,.........last place I would want to live.
kejktfc
EOI Sub 30/7/200 120 points No job offer
EOI Sel 12/8/2009
ITA Sub 29/12/09
Job Offer 17 Jan 2010
CO assigned 16/2/2010 - Medical referred
Approved 28/5/2010
PR Visa issued 16/6/2010
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Ditto the above!!Originally Posted by kejktfc
EOI Submitted 24/02/09. Decision Successfull 06/03/09.
ITA Received 07/03/09. ITA Submitted 11/05/09. ITA Lodged 12/05/09.
PR 1/06/09. Blue Stickers in passports!! 19/06/09. Arrived 16/08/09.
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Don't hurry, Don't worry, You're only here for a short visit so be sure to stop and smell the flowers (Walter Hagen)
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Interesting table, I guess they forgot to include a category "do you want to enjoy your life there".
In top four both Switzerland and Germany, the dullest places on earth.. A lawyer friend moved to Switzerland and even he decided to leave after a few years.
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France is the first place I would want to live, then Germany.
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I'd love to live in France! Was put off by language barrier (I'm lazy) and the school system (shudder). Think of the cheese ...
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These 'tables' are all well and good, but fail to take into account the individual aspects of it. Clearly the inability to converse with anyone in France or Germany would be a bit of a problem in respect to my ability to get a job and therefore my personal 'affordability / cost of living' would be very different ;-)
Equally, the ranking between the indicators is a persoal thing, where to some healthcare is going to be more important than say culture. Equally one persons definition of culture is very different to another.
One interesting issue is that the Cost of Living in NZ is ranked as being better than the US and significantly better than the UK, yet that isn't the same story as we see listed on here.
And finally, the scores are very very close at the top of the table. If you see how they score then they admit the bias, and so that means the ranking is well inside their own measure of variability / accuracy.
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BIL worked in France for about a month ans HATED it! Since the people were horrible! Would love to visit... but probably not to live (could just be the language too)
EOI
Sub:03/23/08
Sel:06/18/08
Rej:08/14/08
Suc: 1/13/08
NZQA:09/06/08
ITA
Rec:11/22/08
Lodge:12/19/08
Med Appr:09/04/09
Inv:09/09/09
PR: 09/15/09
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How can they claim it's possible to reduce meaningfully a whole country's life-experience to one package? I bet all of us can easily think of at least ten vastly different ways of life/places to live within our own country, and we'd be protesting if some foreigner had seen just a couple of those and pronounced on the whole country on that basis.
