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Well. Full stop, you don't want to live in New Zealand, not at the moment, unless you don't need to work or use medical services because the job market sucks and the mental health crisis is getting way way worse.

No I am afraid that while you do have a point where people get jaded about where they live and say 'there's nothing here' that does not apply to me. When I say nothing you had better believe I mean nothing. Barely any concerts and the ones we get are hideously expensive because of the cost of getting here, also very few concerts (because of the cost, like Green Day was here a few years ago, like ONE show PER state (nt including Territories OR Tasmania), P!nk is good, she has lots of shows when she comes, but the fact I can mention by name the biggest names that visit shows that they were so rare and commented on so widely that there really isn't much else on), we have a state exhibition fair show type thing for two weeks a year, we have... two (or three if you count the gold coast one) conventions in the state, big ones, per year, one is on this weekend. I live in a very touristy state, we have several theme parks- all in the same place, far far away. And once you've been a time or two... the only reason they're still open is for tourists who haven't been. And I used to live in Tasmania. Tasmania is the state that has NEGATIVE anything. No concerts ever, it's too remote, one university (ONLY ONE IN THE ENTIRE STATE) no theme parks, lots of natural beauty, but yeah, cool, it's pretty, and the food is good, but it is cold with no snow, and just so depressing. There's barely any cities, only the capital city is really worth calling a city in comparison to cities elsewhere in the world. All of everything is centred around the capital city and then the further you are out the less there is until there is nothing.

I would be one of those people obsessed with the snow- I wrote a story about it on the guild for an event a few years ago, won the writing contest. There is snow RARELY in Tasmania and NEVER in Queensland, to the point where people thought I was lying when I said it had snowed twice in my backyard when i lived in Tasmania because 'it doesn't snow in Australia.'

There's like two sheep for every person in New Zealand. They have very good sheep. It's not as good as the Australian sheep, but different climate, possibly different sheep for different uses there. Japanese business suits are made out of Australian Merino wool, and those guys can wear whatever they want so they must like it for a reason. I'm not fussed to visit, to be honest. Family lives there, but my cousin is going to try and move here (because bad job opportunities and terrible medical care- I mean, there just isn't enough of it.) and she might bring her son. I don't think he'll come, though. He fits in too well there. People think he's Mauri XDD He's not, we're just so white that he came out looking Pacific Islander when he's African XDD He used to work with Dairy Cows up in the North Island but he got injured and now he does something else. Only really young, too, I think 19? When my cousin got married, my mum went over to visit. I didn't because it's expensive and I also did not want to, though I love our cousin. They had a better time together than with me, she's mum's age. I don't really care to visit anywhere, except Universal Studios Harry Potter world one day. Sure NOTHING happens here but I'm not bored enough to leave. Because it's far too expensive to go anywhere. People don't realise the absolute vastness here and the nothing that's in it.

I'm so depressed about it now.

But to tell you the honest truth if a friend and I went out together and they spent any time on their phone which wasn't to answer a text and then leave the phone alone once or twice in the entire afternoon, they wouldn't be my friend. Last time I caught up it was for a games night with board games and everyone played. I don't think anyone discussed any movies or Tv shows, except when someone mentioned a meme and I was like 'That's Andy and April from Parks and Rec- have you not seen it? You only know them as a meme?' and only briefly when we played Trivial Pursuit and how Marley brought her partner who had never seen almost all the good movies in our childhood. Then a band I used to like is apparently coming for a small concert and it was mentioned by another friend asking if anyone was interested in seeing it with him- but standing room was 80 dollars a ticket. For just standing room. That's a nooooo. The only entertainment here is for the rich.

I just think perhaps it's a culture difference. Things in other parts of the world are crammed in together so you can get to stuff. Here, no.