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by eli_gottlieb 3475 days ago
Not to ruin my own chances, but New Zealand is apparently quite welcoming to a high-skilled professional.

I mean, yes, you then have to live in a boringly peaceful country on the other side of the world from anything exciting. But right now, that means you're on the other side of the world from anything "exciting".
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jurjenh 3475 days ago
Except for things like volcanoes and earthquakes... Though grantedly that is a different kind of excitement.

You're still subject to much the same kind of media merry-go-round, and subjectively is probably not even that far away.

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eli_gottlieb 3474 days ago
> Except for things like volcanoes and earthquakes... Though grantedly that is a different kind of excitement.

Call me silly, but that really is different to me. There's always some chance a natural disaster will wreck things up for you, but as long as society works together to respond to natural disasters, I feel fairly comfortable coping with that. Likewise, actually, to the terrorism problem in Israel.

The kind of "excitement" I really don't want to live with is the breakdown of social trust: having to worry that my own neighbors or local institutions will turn on me.

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scarygliders 3475 days ago
> Except for things like volcanoes and earthquakes

As someone who lived and worked in Japan for 6 years, lived not too far away from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant (Koriyama city), and went through the M9 quake in 2011 I can confirm this 100%. Life got rather wobbly.

If you live in some location prone to natural disasters, inevitably you will become the news, or at least live in the news.

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GFischer 3474 days ago
I looked very hard at moving to New Zealand. Auckland sounds AWESOME, but what really scared me is San Francisco-like property costs and a really, really high cost of living.

Everything else was highly positive.

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