[tomhoward]

NZ has an excellent tech scene.

The combination of environment and culture has long made it a haven for developers and entrepreneurs. Plenty of top open-source developers are based there, and there are many good companies, large and small to work for, as well as good universities.

It's only 3-5 hours time difference (depending on the time of year) from California, so it's easy enough to work remotely for a Silicon Valley company from there.

The complication is that it's likely to be hard to get into for the next few years.

It's successfully managed to control the coronavirus, and has just lifted all internal restrictions.

But it will be tightly controlling its border until the global risk has completely subsided, and in the meantime, many of the best developers in the world will be wanting to move there.

See this recent interview with Naval Ravikant for more thoughts about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sd_PQoR7OI