Hi everyone,
we are currently living in the US (but are Czech citizens) and have been talking for fun about moving to New zealand. But now with the latest schooting at school I think we had enough and will try to make the move in the next few months to a year. Our son in currently in Kindergarten and our daughter in preschool so I think it would be easier for them to move ASAP then wait for them to get older. I`m reading as much as I can about living in NZ and it seems nice but it would be nice to hear it from people actually living there. Is NZ safer then US (lots of guns?) Is it hard to find a good school and good doctor for the kids? How much money would we need to be comfortable?
My husband is a home builder here and would probably like to keep doing it and it seems like there are jobs in his field but would it pay enought?
I honestly don`t even know where to begin with the immigration process. I think my hubby can apply for the skill visa, but I would like to for us to become residents so do we need the work to residence visa or can we apply for that when we are there.
I know it seems like a lot of questions and I hope someone can answer at least some of them. It is very scary for us to make the move to a country that we`ve never been to and don`t know anybody (we thought about going back to Europe, but it very expensive and we would need more German then English and even after taking german for some six years I wasn`t able to speak a word plus we like the lifestyle we have here in the US like bigger house etc)
Thank You so much for any help you can offer.