What's it really like? She moved her family to New Zealand from the USA 6 months ago
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Let's talk with other Americans who have moved to New Zealand! Check out Lydia's story about bringing her family of 3 plus their dog to New Zealand. If you are considering a move to New Zealand - you must check this out.
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Takes me 3 mins to realize that she meant TAURANGA🤦🏾. I was like "where the f**k is Tarauncher"
Using a clothes dryer when the weather is suboptimal is totally normal and has been for decades.
Yes, I don't understand this as we always had a drier but only used it for towels or when it rained a lot. Clothes dried in the breeze always felt and smelled nicer ...except when the Neighbour BBQ's garlic prawns.
Like Lydia, I, too, am from the Southeast US. I've lived in New Zealand previously and still miss it a lot. I know people in this region are proud of their "Southern hospitality," but I honestly found Kiwis to be far more kind, polite and affable than the average American and Southerner. I hope that Lydia and hers build a great life in Aotearoa; I admit that I'm a wee bit envious.
As a New Zealand born citizen please don't get too relaxed about security we do have problems here. Welcome to God's on country. God Bless.
Agree
True… but the difference between here and the States must be huge from their perspective!
But nothing like the USA
Agree also. Have had 2 house break-ins over the years. Also lock the house when going out. Would never leave expensive bike on driveway. But overall crime is less in NZ.
Most of us have dryers, but were taught not to use them due to high power. There is nothing like fresh washing brought in from outside. I hate winter cos I have to use clothes racks, but if lazy, i use the dryer, but the clothes are soft. I like them stiff and fresh lol
Stiffs right, my towels stand up on their own and it's like drying yourself with sandpaper
We have a dryer, I hang it out on nice days, dry the clothes in the dryer on rainy days, dry big loads at the laundromat if I’m behind with the washing all year. It’s algud, don’t worry about. Etiquette - Hang your underwear behind or on the inside of the line, bigger clothes or towels sheets on the outside of the line.
Awww as the indigenous of Aotearoa NZ, I can understand it is difficult with pronouncing Maori kupu ( indigenous words), where this lady and her whaanau (family) reside is a beautiful location! I am still yet to get there been here my whole life just over three decades lol! It's refreshing to hear u consider this a safe place, the cost of living is something else thou but I am confident our locals will hopefully make you feel at home! So naumai, haere mai ki Aotearoa! Welcome and may your stay and journey here be one that reaffirms the decision to move here 🇳🇿 🤗
Wonderful session. Very good to hear another experience of coming to New Zealand from America. You are both lovely ladies, and it is New Zealand's gain to have you and your families here. Thank you for choosing New Zealand to be your new home. ❤❤❤
Thanks so much!
Why do Americans think we don’t have dryers here? We have whole appliance stores full of em…you just have to buy it, it’s not part of chattels…I use my dryer on the daily…it’s not an American thing…however line drying does save power.
Kiwi here.. Use the dryer all through summer. Love the convenience. Alot of people are super frugal about power. That to me is the last thing I would save money on. I like air conditioning when it's hot, heaters on when it's cold and leaving my laundry til last minute.
Welcome, we love having you here.
Lovely story Lydia, it's a bit late but welcome to NZ, thankyou for sharing your experience, I hope as soon as you settle in properly you and your whanau are able to travel around NZ and enjoy the views.
I had no dryer living in the tropics but there were times when I wished I had one because of the high humidity and possible mold especially in the wet season. People dry clothes outside because the ulta-violet light kills off residual germs and viruses sometimes found in damp clothes.
Hanging your washing outside gives it fresh smell
Your washing smells like sunshine when you hang it on the line. Most household in NZ have dryers but just do not use them like they do in US.
yeah its weird they find hanging clothes is weird lol odd but each their own
I recommend if you are thinking of emergrating to newzealand you should come for a holiday first as it helps you make the move a lot easier
As a Kiwi Child that went too? If I count correctly maybe 14 different schools in 4 different countries before the age of 18 when I started university... Don't worry about it too much... Kids adapt very quickly... And learning to adapt is probably the best lesson to learn... Kia Kaha ❤️💪
Awe thanks for that encouragement... good to know it's done you well
Listening to both of you takes me back to February 1966, when my parents emigrated to Australia. I had only just turned 16. All the things you have and are going through we did back then. One positive for you both will be that your children will be much more likely to go out into the world as young adults. They will have a much broader world view, and be more adaptable to challenges than if you had stayed put in America.
Lydia was an excellent guest to interview 🙂
I agree
Most of us have driers but some people like the fresh air to dry clothes
Up light is a very good way of killing bacteria fungi etc
Welcome, great to have you here and all the best!
Thanks for watching!
Did you take your shoes off at the nz door kiwis hate wearing shoes 👞
Well done Lydia
Lydia's accent is great! I reckon Kiwis and Southern Americans would get on really well too. Emphasis on tradition - with Lydia's whole community going to the same schools intergenerationally - is very similar to Maori culture as well.
I've haven't seen any children walking to school with no shoes and I've lived here in NZ for decades. Perhaps after sports/swimming. Enjoyed this.
Great honest advice!
Thanks for watching!
NZ is a beautiful place to live and the only thing we ask of those who are thinking of starting a new life here is to respect us and our country for who we are. We're not the US, UK, India, China or Europe etc, we are uniquely Aotearoa NZ so please don't come here with ideas of how we ought to be more like where you've just come from. Accept us and appreciate us for who we are and learn to fit in, however difficult that may be for some. After all, you're coming to us not the other way around. Kiwis generally are a kind and inclusive people and will accept anyone as long as they leave all their odd notions and prejudices about us behind. Get to know us and doing that you'll enjoy life here more, I promise! 😉
For someone who’s been living in Tauranga, she sure can’t say it! “Taronga” is the name of the zoo in Sydney.
I just Saying Where's Taronga in New Zealand I Was Saying Lady You Meant to Say Tauranga I am Staying in Omokoroa Tauranga
@@user-zo5wo4jh8l she will adapt over time don't bag her, I am 25 years in NZ. Just be nice to our immigrants
There's a drive through pharmacy in Gisborne, been there for decades.
3 Rivers? I'm Kiwi, I moved from Wgtn to Gizzy and I too feel like I've stepped back in time (in a nice way ❤)
I know a few drive through bottle shops
Funny but we're from Pensacola, Florida very close to Fairhope, AL (but living in Orlando now) and we're about to drive cross-country to L.A. to take our dog to NZ with Pet Express :)
Oh my gosh really??? I am here to help if you need!
Welcome to NZ! Am sure you will love it here!
I am Kiwi born and bred, and your comment about leaving the bike in the drive, or leaving doors unlocked... i would never! the crime here is out of control and if you left a bike in your drive it would be stolen fairly quickly!! Maybe in the 80s we could have done that, but now definitely not.
Crime in NZ is out of control? Sorry you sound ridiculous. Also a New Zealander, still live here though I have travelled the world. You are way overblowing it and sound like the clickbait local media that blow up crime as if it is happening to everyone. I live in suburban Auckland same house for decades, have never been robbed once, and could leave my door open unlocked with a sign on it "Hey crims, follow the arrow to come steal my stuff" and it wouldn't happen. Yes there is crime, but apart from a small blip recently post pandemic with unemployed youth "facebook living' ram raids on a few shops, crime in NZ has actually been dropping for years.
100% get a dryer! I am a Kiwi and I have a drier and I use it lots LOL! Sheets and blankets are way better being dried on the line though so they can be aired out.
I laughed at the comments about driers. I grew up in Wellington and bought our first drier way, way ba ck in about 1970! Still hung out washing and used the drier Now we have lived in Brisbane Australia for 40 years. After a few years without a drier we finally bought another one..but have hardly used it!! Love your channel.
Awe - thanks for watching :)
Kia ora👋, Kiwi here 😊 We would normally hang our underwear in the middle of the line & heavier items ie;Towels, Hoodies etc on the outermost of the line 😅 & we would normally use the dryer in winter.
New heat pump technology dryers are more efficient.In some places in Bay of Plenty the water is “hard”.This means that washing with a front loading auto clothes washer will leave a line dried cottons harsh and objectionable .The reason is high rates of silicates in the predominately volcanic soils.A dryer seems to solve two problems in Western Bay of Plenty:the silicates and other minerals in the water,which are very expensive to remove,and the remarkable high rainfall that produces overcast days with consistent humidity.Whatever the reasons ,cottons are better after a turn in the dryer.Of course many here,particularly on rural blocks ,invest in tanks to catch rainwater,then filter it.This water ,makes car grooming a lot easier without the hard to remove water marks on vehicle glass.Welcome to Godzone.
As a kiwi that lives in Australia and uses a dryer all day everday. Whenever i come home and see my mum hanging clothes outside and around the fireplace. Im like "what are you doing?!" Totally forgotten how i was brought up😂😂
Welcome to our beautiful country. Although we also have problems they're nowhere near as bad as the US and the UK. In primary school, the breaks used to be called 'play time or lunch time. In college it was just morning break.Is that no longer the case?
What about percapita
Good grief open your eyes
Hanging the clothes the night before helps me. I check the weather all the time too. Wether i will hang them outside or on the racks in my shed. Its a whole thing. Power costs wayyy too much for my liking lol. Free things is better for me 😂
I love that about NZ!
You gotta check out Northland , it's Really laid back and Stunningly Beautiful and Simple
Very good video good information thank you very much ❤❤❤
Most welcome
Welcome to paradise Lydia.....oh and Tara, in some of that interview, you almost sounded homesick.....shame on you🤣😂🤣
Toe, rung a if your wanting pronunciation to sound more native I live in Tauranga and our weather here is still bi polar Not complaining could be worse
If you have a private pension I suggest you move it to specialist pension company in newzealand
Yes in a rugby obsessed country like NZ, you will see a few shoulder injuries. Lol
i played it in primary school in the Tron, its overrated. I gamble on it now for extra fun money. I rowed to be Buff in Studly in the 1980's, i was very shy. I also did part time army training.
@@greggiles7309 snap I was born in the Tron😁
Hahaha I live in Auckland and I don’t have a key to my front door so it’s never locked🤦🏻♀️
I love how safe it is here!
I am a new Zealander. Live in Auckland.. I don't have a dryer.! I hang my clothes on a lclothes line.. It's No big deal. I have a hot water cupboard. I have never had a clothes dryer !! If i it rains a lot u will take them tget dried st a laundry. Your power bill would be huge if yse a dryer.!! IWhat's wrong with walking to school.!! Crazy.!
Great to see u again Tara,always love your videos,they just great and sometimes you really crack me up,but nice to see u again.
Glad you enjoy!
I'm a New Zealander and I couldn't live without my dryer. I still hang washing sometimes but only when I want to 😂
A big welcome to NewZealand. So interesting that you find all those bare feet, it must be a North Island thing it very seldom happens in the South of the South island where I am, but maybe it's a weather thing. And the same goes for the clothes dryer I would not be without my tumble drier and all our undies and personal things are either dried there or in the garage.
As a South Islander who often goes bare footed, I'm definitely not the norm but people don't see it as particularly remarkable. I can see that it might be a bit more common up north.
I'm a barerfoot northerner lady, generations of us. there use to be more. amd thats because of onehunga weed, which is a rampart lawn prickle.
@@user-cr3om8cc2g I know that as bastard grass, and have exterminated it from my property.
A lot of young people go bare feet in Christchurch especially the uni students
😂😂 great
I expect some Surfing video's from Raglan Beach, where I was made, just saying as a holiday topic when spawning. I have no regrets moving to Auckland to work, n finding a single space. I have not been on a hike to Rangitoto yet.
😊my sister moved to Louisiana and found it was like the 1960s in nz. I would not leave doors unlocked, or leave purse in trolley be aware of petty thieving. Having lived in south Frica years ago theft and carjacking is rampant. We found living there was a blend of old and new too. We have benefits here and Aussie. Don't leave expensive items in cars or up driveway. Theft is getting worse here too. Don't go out leavingvwindows open either.
In New Zealand bigger towns & in the cities, we do NOT leave our doors unlocked.
Most of everyone I know has a dryer here in NZ. But then again our friend group is all in our 50s. I have had one since the 1990s. I still hang out the clothes as much as I can. Generally Nov through to March I walked to school when I was kids in the 70s and 80s. In primary school in New Zealand I went to school bare foot every day, year round I think. Not that I didn't have shoes. I know from Intermediate it was a lot longer walk, and I wore shoes everyday from then on.
Bringing your dog to New Zealand you made it sound so easy. As New Zealand has strict rules and a country that is free of rabies your dog would have needed 2 rabies tests that would have had to be at least 6 months apart . Plus extensive tests and vet certificates. Also your would have to have had to apply and obtain and import license fir your dog. Your dog also would have had to go into a quarantine facility on arrival for a stay of one month. You made it sound like you can just drive to an airport with a ticket for your and put it on a plane. I have lived in the States and have flown my pet to New Zealand. You spoke of missing all the drive thru facilities. Well there is one thing that you will have to get used to. New Zealander's are very energetic people and proactive. I take offence how you were saying New Zealand seems so wY behind the world. I lived in Ohio in the States. Now that is way behind the rest if the world. If you don't like it here and are not repaired for our culture. Please don't criticise us or our country. If you can't then either as you said 'move on ' or go back to the States. When I lived in the States I respected their ways and get permanent residency status. All I can say is respect us and our country, our culture our rules that we are proud of. If foreigners go to live In the States they are definitely expected to follow all of your rules. The conclusion is that I found you interview containing ill advise and condescending towards our country.
❤❤❤ Kiora Welcome to Aoteroa the land of long white clouds ❤❤❤
I'm a physical therapist with many pets considering this move as well. I'm interested in the process of obtaining licensure and the pet process. :)
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Welcome to Toe Rung A. 👍
I'm from Upstate NY and want to try out living in NZ. Nothing against NZ but I don't know if I could get used to hanging my clothes up to dry on a clothing line because it won't dry right and it will make the clothes smell funny. I'd definitely need a washer and dryer. I have learned a lot from this channel about NZ and I'm so thankful for it. Nice By the way are you guys ever going to meet each other?
Lol u do realise before dryers were invented yall americans hung yr clothes on lines outside most people around the world still hang clothes outside even tho we do have dryers here in nz they are only used for rainy days or emergency drying lol also when ya dry outside they smell better
Dryers are more common these days, I haven't hung anything out for at least 35 years lol
No one forces you to hang clothes. We have dryers for sale. We just happen to also have a culture of using what the environment offers. There should be no smell with clothes that actually dried and weren't left damp
You clothes won't smell funny, unless your name has a log fireplace and they use it when the wind is blowing your way. But just by a dryer. All us middled people have a dryer, at least everyone I know. My daugher is flatting and they have a dryer too.
I want to visit New York, if i won our Tax Free Lottery. Our gambling is taxed at Ticket purchase with a GST, but thats another topic,
Stepping back in time is funny, we immigrated to nz from England in 1961, to Invercargill, mum said it was stepping back intime at least to pre war england (i was2), nothing changes
Yet you're still here? 🙄
@@MK-oc4gt and wouldn't live anywhere else 😀
You still in Invercargill? 🤷
@@MK-oc4gt no we moved north I grew up in Kawerau and now live in Waikato
Saw Peter Santenello did a piece on Fairhope Alabama.
Great place Alabama, Fairhope, is a nice place too.
Must be so different being in NZ! The accent is quite something! When you get a chance come across the pond and visit us Downunder. 🐨 We Aussies are quite a lot like New Zealanders except we switch around our vowel sounds. 😂 And our weather is much nicer!!
They both colonized by British people, yes they are the same people in different country
this is so interesting, we also have no snakes aligators or crocodile's
We do have snakes -- very occasional sea snakes in summer in the far north. They technically count as native species because they get here without human assistance.
Endemic.@@urizen7613
Another reason why I want to live in NZ is no snakes!!!
But nz have got the gang called kea they steal right infront of of you and you won’t be getting it back
Or bears, mountain lions, wolves…
Welcome to NZ and specifically Tauranga (Tau-runga).! We see so much of the extremes of the US. Great to hear from normal Americans, especially those brave enough to try something different.
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Toronnga ????
As a kiwi im with you about the drier ,we usually use a laundramat, but also dont mind using a clothes line
Coming from a gun society how long did it take you to become comfortable living in a country without guns.
Great vid Tara, it's nice to see the perspectives of fellow Americans settling in NZ, more so in this troubled world in American politics, Trump!!🤡 Gaza, and Ukraine. Do you have any statistics on how many Americans have left their home of birth due to the American health care system, politics, safety, school shootings, work-life balance, etc... It would be interesting.
Recent news says 30 pee cent of Americans want to move overseas..also many who leave are renouncing their USA passports.
#Trump2024 #MAGA2024 #FUCKTHEDEMOCRATS #FUCKJOEBIDEN
What's this obsession with dryers? I'm a true blue kiwi born and bred and literally every1 I know has a dryer. Yes if it's a nice day they might hang the clothes outside get some sunlight on them, but noone really cares either way, do you!
Totally agree, kiwis never mention this, only americans. Get over it you guys, have a dryer if you want, no worries mate.
It’s pronounced “Toe Wrong A” “Tauranga”
Hell you were lucky to get a product like cheese through NZ customs😂. Kia ora ( hello) and haiere mai welcome to the land of the long white cloud,aotearoa
1Kilo Cheese blocks Matter,
@@greggiles7309 yeah tell me about it my parents were Dutch lol
@@johanmeischke9189 my mothers side is from Sweden in 1904, and my dad side jumped ship in 1870 into the King Country 70+ Sailors, My Fathers middle name was Bestic?
@@greggiles7309 my parents migrated hear separately and met in Hamilton
How funny, your comment about shoes. Most New Zealanders do wear shoes, except inside the home, usually (that’s a cultural thing). If you see children without them, it’s likely they can’t afford shoes or perhaps don’t like them. Tauranga is tricky to pronounce…you might need to work on that one a bit.
An insightful discussion, however a little surprised at no mention of guns, particularly hand guns.
We rate 18th in world for bang bang ownership. The License age is 16, and for driving. Kiwi American has not talked about her children driving yet...
Live in Auckland. I won't leave my washing outside if I'm not at home or planning to be at home all day. Or leave my door (and/or) car unlocked as people do steal washing and just walk into homes if the door is unlocked to steal stuff or scope a place out. Auckland is kind of the exception to most of NZ as a lot of American habits would be normal/standard here.
I had washing stolen in Hamilton in 2000, cheap jeans from the Warehouse, I dont drive a car living in Central Auckland, thats another cost.
Aaaaaaaah good grief, you must be in West Auckland.
A lot of people are 50/50 with hanging out and using the dryer. I am guilty of putting my clothes in the dryer on a nice hot sunny day haha. Hang dry is much more fresh though
Hi madam I woud like to thaks you to meeting you
Always welcome
I’m in my early 50’s and I haven’t worked anywhere that does morning and afternoon tea in NZ for about 20 years. That’s just not a thing in Financial Services anymore. Maybe it’s still done in the public service or very small organisations but it’s really not common in large organisations anymore.
Ta wrong GA 😂
Toe rrrrung uh
1950s,,,,,,, Love it... 😂
It's nothing to do with time travel. It's about decency I don't mean this bad but ....... Americans come back to reality.
Im a born and bred Kiwi, and i use my dryer year long. Its more of a lazy thing than anything else lol
It would be nice if you learnt how to pronounce the place you live 🤣 sounds like your saying Taronga like the taronga zoo in sydney not Tauranga 😅
On approach to land at Auckland airport, the Pilot makes an announcement: Ladies and Gents. We are coming in to land at Auckland airport. Please put your watches back 100 years.
Ok that is awesome!
Eventually you will learn how to pronounce the name of your new home correctly
I’m seriously considering moving to New Zealand from Tennessee. I also have an American cocker spaniel and she’s my biggest concern transporting her there. How to get a work visa? I have a varied resume, most recently was a probation officer for last 2.5 years.
Hi there. There’s a big shortage of prison officers here in NZ, if that interests you. There is a govt. website with all the info about visa.
@@madnatty I want to but I think you have to be a citizen?
@@GoodbyeCruelWorld no, you just need to have a 2 year work visa.
@@madnatty I mean I e looked and it said citizen but I’ll apply
If you move here be prepared for the expensive rent and gas and if you smoke cigarettes be prepared to be blown away how expensive they are hahaha. But cars here are cheap and you do not need car insurance to drive here it's optional.
Tauranga - toe - rahng - uh - and roll the RRRs in all Maori words. but that aside, welcome to NZ
Im sure the end of the tax year here in NZ and what you do or dont have to do might be something that stands out to her haha. Im soo glad it's not like the US.
Come on, there’s nothing like the smell of sun dried clothes and sheets.
Why would give up your freedoms in America for the peoples republic of New Zealand.
Absolutely!
Did yous both do your research? Learn a bit of the language and culture? Cos your pronunciation needs work
Haha learn to spell mate
They’ve only been here 6 months, give her a break dude.
Wow brought there dog..I thought Americans just dumped there dogs.
What a stupid comment. 'Their' not 'there'. Total ignorance.
When did you realize your in paradise ????
Don't tell me she and her husband now support The All New Zealand Blacks..........
No, not everyone hang their cloths outside maybe be more active. Typical you people from. The States comments
You girls can't compare NZ to the USA. Because everything is bigger and best in the USA.
Bigger is NOT always best sunshine, believe me!
NOT EVERYTHING IS "COOL"
Stop saying your kiwis yous are only visitors thinking you have the same rights as New Zealand people 😮
I'm a PR
@@Kiwiamericans dont care
You are very welcome here!
We would be speaking Japanese if America hadn't come to our aid
@@petertaylor6479 Nō we're still talking Moari and more of our youth are learning Tekanga Moari in large numbers, Japanese 🤦
To any American thinking about leaving to spend their entire life in a foreign country good riddance. Obviously your patriotism is pathetic to say the least, which is OK at the end of the day, it’s not a law that you have to love your country, but I for one can not fathom a life where I reap the benefits of being born in the greatest republic that ever graced the earth only to leave when convenient. If you believe any part of the United States of America was not worth dying in, than you should fight to make it so, don’t just do a Benedict Arnold.
What is easycheese?
Spray cheese - well it is fake as you buy it off the shelves :)
Sounds disgusting! Give me a good goats cheese or Saint Agur 😂
you live in Tauranga , are you near the beach ?, is hubby a fisherman ?
Stay in your own country.
We don't need your bullshit.
Since everyones going on about "tauranga" its actually pronounced "towel-wronger" and "aotearoa" is pronounced "aye-oh-tear-rower", also never ever go to rotorua it smells like shit, everyone here also cooks meat in the ground like ancient indians its called a "han-jee"