As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw
That&#x27;s interesting !<p>I&#x27;m intending to make a move with my family in near future, and we actually went to visit the northern island for 15 days last month. 
The country is really beautiful, and there are not a lot of people around, so you can&#x27;t help but feel blessed by the surrounding nature. The people are great, probably the nicest I&#x27;ve ever seen (as a whole).<p>I&#x27;ve noted some cons though (not blocking for us thankfully):<p>- housing prices are extremely high. I don&#x27;t understand that,  there is plenty of space everywhere (maybe except Wellington) and somehow they manage to not use this advantage...<p>- housing quality is really poor (comparing to Europe)<p>- prices are generally quite high<p>- internet connectivity feels like we&#x27;re 10 years back<p>- outside of Wellington and Auckland, I didn&#x27;t feel like there were any interesting opportunities in IT (that&#x27;s a subjective and based on a very limited evidence from discussions with local &#x2F; personal observations)<p>- food quality is good, but eating habits don&#x27;t seem to follow. Obesity seems to be a huge problem there (we have kids so will need to pay double attention to that). We were pretty much shocked because we naively thought that in such a beautiful and clean country everybody is running &#x2F; biking all the time.<p>Would be very happy to hear stories that made the move ! Also very interested to hear about opportunities &#x2F; work environment there in IT (even better if it&#x27;s ML related).