What do you find less expensive in NZ?

[MetalSoul]

Compared to UK:
No TV licence
Car insurance
Toilet roll!!

[girlwithanewf]

No TV licence but we do unfortunately pay for it in time, with about 15 minutes advertising per hour.

[kiwihusker]

Soccer/footy boots are cheaper here than in the US. We purchased some AMAZING leather boots for $20NZ, can't find a pair like that in the US. Granted they were on sale...and when things are on sale here, it is always cheap.
I agree with Kiwieagle, we watch heaps of soccer/footy games and they are all free, we love it.

[RedVee]

Vet bill. Treatment of abscess, plus a long lasting antibiotic injection, plus registering her microchip = $70. Not having to shove pills down a cats throat = priceless.

Fillet steak. Can usually find at $40 per kilo.

Some great quality wines @ $ 9.99. By comparison , UK anything less than £8 was usually quite poor.

Tinned tomatoes 49c. Wow.

Garden tools. Spear and Jackson fork - $29.

Gas Barbecues from Bunnings.

Garden shrubs.

Bus travel. $2 from here to local station ( less with Mana card). Quite often only me on it so I get a personal taxi ride to the front door!

[girlwithanewf]

Private schools are much cheaper here than in the UK.

[pear]

I'm with girlwithanewf, private schooling is much, much cheaper than the UK. It's also cheaper than the US and Australia, especially with state integrated schools in many places bridging the gap. Public schooling is very cheap, especially with donations being optional.
University is relatively cheap with interest free student loans, and student allowance for students from lower-income families. Schools and especially universities are easy to get into.
Excluding Auckland, housing is also cheaper than a lot of countries (while also often being of a lower quality), especially outside the major centres.

[girlwithanewf]

Schools are only easy to get into if you live in the zone. (talking about wellington here). If you don't live in the zone, even for primary schools, it is very difficult if not impossible to get a place. Just from my experience. So you have to be careful about where you move, and think long-term if you are intending to stay here.
And I know this has been discussed before and I certainly don't want to have a big discussion about this, but whilst donations may be seen as voluntary, it is kind of expected that you pay them to support the school. The higher the decile, the less money the school receives per child from the government, therefore they have to make it up with voluntary donations and parental fund-raising. So if everyone sees the donations as optional, the school just gets less money. Just to compare, I looked at a decile 10 primary in Wellington and that receives $4495 per student. A decile 1 on the other hand gets $5935.

[Beachcombers]

No TV licence but we do unfortunately pay for it in time, with about 15 minutes advertising per hour.

We have "cut the cord" with TV these days. Everything is delivered via the Net. We pay for Netflix and a VPN service, but watch NZ TV via ondemand. All ad free!

[Dell]

At the request of my son (who is coming to NZ with his family) I called a dentist in Warkworth and asked for a rough quote for cleaning/x-rays/exam; a root canal and a porcelain crown. They compared the prices with their dentist in the U.S. (my DIL is in the process of having dental work done). The NZ dental quotes were less.

[Dell]

My internet phone and internet is cheaper and better than in the U.S. Granted, I lived in a rural area in the U.S. where internet was limited so I had to pay more for it. (US$ 65/month for 5 gb). I also paid about US $70 a month for a land line with unlimited national calling.

In New Zealand, I live in an area an area similar in population, etc. to where I lived in the U.S. I pay NZ $139 (US $109 a month) for a landline with unlimited national and international calling to 22 countries. (well - I can talk for two hours - then I have to hang up and call back). This also includes 100gb a month/internet. No comparison!

My son lives in a more populated part of Arizona. He's in the process of selecting a NZ provider for phone and internet so he's been checking prices, data limits and speed. For about the same price he's paying in the U.S. he'll get about the same phone/internet but the internet speed in NZ will be faster.