Many people aspire to live in New Zealand, and I see who goes and who regrets it. When I experienced the life of a local in New Zealand, I learned that New Zealand is not suitable for Chinese, let alone people who do not have a family background.
Working for more than ten years, I have been to this country more than a dozen times, and every time I go to this country, I have to stay for a while, and every time I go to Auckland, New Zealand, I will have a deep experience.
The pier is very close to the street, and when I first went to New Zealand, I was fascinated by the sights and things here, thinking that living here, you can't live to be 200 years old, but you can definitely live to 100 years old.
The environment here is indeed very good, there is no air pollution, the sea and the sky are the same, the blue sea, the blue sky. Locals can be seen surfing on the seaside from the side of the street, and every day you can open your eyes to see luxury cruise ships from all over the world docked on the seaside.
Such a beautiful scenery and beautiful environment do make me feel very nurturing, but when I came here many times, I had a deeper understanding of this place and knew that Chinese really not suitable for living here, and may be more suitable for "development" here.
In the years since I came to New Zealand, I have had many past experiences that I will never forget, and I will never forget it.
In 2012, the chat app on our mobile phones was very popular with drifting bottles and people nearby, and the crew was very interested in these two functions. Living on a ship and being in a closed environment for a long time is inevitably a little lonely, and what our crew likes to do every day is to pick up drifting bottles and see if we can meet people abroad. Unfortunately, the number of times a drifting bottle was picked up was limited, leaving the crew unsatisfied.
At that time, our ship came to Auckland, New Zealand, I deliberately turned on the function of nearby people, and saw that the position of the first few people was very close to me, and the personal profiles were Chinese, guessing that it should be Chinese.
With a curious heart, I want to click in to get to know them, maybe fate comes, and you can meet with the local Chinese, get to know each other, and let the other party introduce us to Auckland, New Zealand.
I saw that the avatar of one of the netizens was a girl, and it was a full-body portrait, with a particularly good figure, sexy and enchanting, and very young. So I clicked in and added the other person as a friend.
As soon as I added, the other party passed the verification of me, and the two of us had a simple exchange, only to learn that this girl is from Northeast China and studying in Auckland.
When I chatted with her further, she told me if I wanted to go to her. At the beginning, I was very happy, and there were such good Chinese, and they invited me to Auckland for the first time to meet, and I felt very close.
Before I could react, the girl told me that she usually goes to school here and works part-time on weekends. I am also a very good girl, I must be a considerate girl.
But after our in-depth communication, I learned that the girls work part-time here, that is, they work in the local area every weekend.
When I learned that she was doing this work here, and she was still an international student, it completely changed my impression of Chinese students.
The girl told me that she usually goes to class and studies, and comes out on weekends to earn money to subsidize living expenses.
She may think I'm a foreigner here and doesn't understand it. It is estimated that I also thought that Chinese was taboo in this regard, so I immediately explained to me, telling me that it is legal to engage in peach work in New Zealand, and it is all officially operated. She also particularly emphasized that if you give money, you will work, do not cheat people, do not cheat money, it is a serious job.
In order to learn more about New Zealand with her, I also pretended to think about going down to her to vent.
The girl saw that I promised to go to her, and immediately sent me the real-time location and told her when I got downstairs that she would come back to pick me up. Also told me in advance that this location is a house that she and her classmates rented outside.
After speaking, he immediately asked me if I was coming, and if I came, tell me the price.
In order to be able to chat with her more, I pretended to go down to her after an hour of busy work, and she believed me and told me the price, 800 yuan an hour, 3,000 yuan a night.
To be honest, when I heard this price, my first reaction was that this industry is too profitable. I silently calculated in my heart that if I receive ten people a day, the income that day will be 8,000 yuan, which is really a good industry.
However, I still think it's expensive, in Europe it is generally about 50 euros, that is, more than 300 yuan, but it is so expensive to come here.
Although I haven't seen myself, from the avatar, the girl still looks good. So I tried to haggle with the girls, who told me that this was a price for the Chinese, if the locals didn't have any.
So I started to change the subject, with a little taste for her education, and asked her why a good girl would do such a job here.
The girl listened to me say this, very unhappy, immediately replied to me, he thinks that he relies on the body to make money, no cheating, no robbery, upright, legal and compliant earning money. New Zealand's agreement to that work would mean that everyone had the right to do it. Besides, the work is healthy and safe, and the local country has strict requirements for them to apply for health certificates and undergo regular health check-ups.
The girl thinks that my thinking is old, but in fact, I can accept his thoughts, after all, most of the eighty or ninety countries I went to are accepted in this regard, and it is also a work that complies with the law. I just think that girls, so good-looking and an international student, can not do this job at all. Maybe the industry is very profitable and girls need to make money, which is something I don't know about her.
When the girl saw me talking like this, she didn't mean to go. So I told me that if it wasn't interesting, I wouldn't talk anymore. Maybe I think the price is too high, and girls think that this price is not high.
However, those who know the price of New Zealand know that the price in New Zealand is indeed very high, and this fee may really be preferential to the Chinese.
I really don't know the price of this industry, but I still know a little about the price in this country. Having experienced the local prices first-hand, I felt that the prices here are more expensive than in Australia.
Our ship, which usually goes to Australia, goes to New Zealand. Going to both countries, our crews go down to buy a lot of things locally. By comparison, I think that prices in New Zealand are not a little expensive. Chinese want to live in New Zealand, without a certain amount of capital reserves, it is really difficult to survive, no wonder female international students need to come out to make money.
I bought a sheepskin in a Chinese supermarket in New Zealand, which cost me 3,000 yuan, and I was still complacent, I felt that I had found a treasure, the sheep wool was very strong, very large, and there was a sheep smell, I thought it was genuine leather.
Influenced by other crew members, everyone also bought it, and I also bought one with everyone, and our captain bought three at once, which is really rich.
Here, the furs of various animals that can be seen everywhere are also uneven in price, so out of curiosity about Chinese shops, I went to several stores to compare. I found that some stores only need more than 1,000 yuan of sheep wool, and I don't know if it was pitted by the Chinese boss.
When I saw milk powder in other stores, I found that the things here are really expensive, a can of Aitami milk powder, Australia only costs 28 Australian dollars, about 130 yuan, but in New Zealand it costs 39.9 New Zealand dollars, about 170 yuan.
In supermarkets, the basic prices are very high, 400g of lamb 10 New Zealand dollars, about 40 yuan, 400g of beef is 14.75 New Zealand dollars, about 60 yuan or so.
Fruit prices vary widely, from cheaper from Australia to much more expensive from Europe or Asia.
A kilogram of tomatoes costs 15 yuan, and a kilogram of potatoes costs about 8 yuan. A kilogram of apples costs 26 RMB, and a kilogram of kiwi fruits costs 22 RMB.
Vegetables and fruits are expensive, and this meal is also expensive, and a casual meal will cost 12.99 New Zealand dollars, about 50 yuan. Such prices are about twice as high as in our country.
Looking at these prices, I couldn't help but think of the girl, who has indeed lived here for a long time under certain financial pressure. If an international student relies on the financial support of his family, it will be more difficult, and he can work part-time and subsidize living expenses.
The prices in New Zealand make me feel unaffordable, and the human touch here makes me feel that the people here are not friendly.
I've been to Auckland a dozen times, and I don't think the people here are very enthusiastic, not as enthusiastic as the Europeans.
If you come to live here, unless you have many hobbies, such as surfing, mountaineering, diving and other recreational activities, you will feel that life here is very boring and boring.
People here are busy every day, coming and going, and don't have the kind of slow life that the Internet says.
On the street, although you can see many locals basking in the sun in the square, it is often a minority, and most of the people are like Chinese, experiencing 996 life every day.
At that time, I met a Chinese friend in the square, who was from Shanghai. We had a simple exchange and learned that overtime is very common here, especially those cosmetics stores and food stores, which are still open at night, but few people go out to buy things at night.
Anyone who has been here should have experienced that people here go home after a busy day, and there are few people on the streets at night. Only some cafes, bars, casinos will have some men haunted.
From my own experience on the street, I feel that the busyness here is comparable to Shanghai. Even the local police patrols so frequently, and I was stopped by the local police because I dressed differently and looked like a foreigner.
The three colleagues and I did not change our work clothes when we went down, and everyone went out shopping in our work clothes.
As we finished shopping and walked towards the pier, near the square, we were stopped by the police. The police looked at us, looked us up and down, and began to interrogate us, asking where we were? Where did it come from? Why come to New Zealand? What is the purpose of coming to New Zealand?
I answered the police one by one, and when the police learned that we were seafarers, they became even more suspicious of our identities and thought that we were lying. He pointed to his overalls and told me that seafarers' overalls should be uniforms, and that we were wearing clothes like those working on a construction site.
The police, like many people, probably don't know anything about engine crews.
Those who have worked in the crew should know that the overalls of the cabin crew are not decent, just like oilcloth.
The police asked us to take out our passports and asked us to point to the boat on the dock and ask us to say the name of the ship. Because our boat was tall and clearly visible in the square, the police, seeing that I could say the name of the ship fluently, kind of believed us, just let us register, and let us leave.
In New Zealand, if you dress sloppily and look like an unorthodox person, you will be stopped to check your documents, especially Filipinos, Indians, who are often stopped by the police in New Zealand for questioning.
Indians, in particular, like to do business in developed countries, setting up roadside stalls to sell some ornaments and bags. Filipinos, on the other hand, like to engage in petty theft, are particularly sensitive when they see our Asian faces.
You may think that the security here is not very good, in fact, the security here is very good.
The reason why I say that Chinese is not suitable to live here is because living here is really boring, not only without friends, but also with very little interaction between people.
Living here, you can't experience the human touch of Chinese, let alone the so-called nightlife. In terms of transportation, it is not very good, especially on this kind of small island, there are still many buildings, the road surface will not be gentle, and the ramps in many places are still very steep.
It's really good to study here and do business.
New Zealand's education is indeed very high, whether it is in terms of teachers or children's educational environment, China cannot be compared with others.
Education in the local country emphasizes freestyle education, and the children's practical ability is strong and technical.
Of course, there are many Chinese doing business here, and we all know that New Zealand is located in the Pacific Ocean in the southern hemisphere, in the east of Australia.
The entire country has a land area of only 270,000 square kilometers, and the climate and environment are nourishing, as well as animals and plants. So agriculture and animal husbandry here are also relatively developed. Chinese bosses are engaged in animal husbandry, dairy and beef cattle and sheep breeding here.
Thanks to the climate here, the natural pasture here is particularly lush, and the environmental pollution here is relatively small, so the dairy products and meat products here are of good quality and are sold all over the world every year, especially in China.
A lot of China's dairy and meat products come from this country. There are five or six people in our village who help Chinese bosses in New Zealand, where they help raise beef cattle and produce dairy products.
In addition to these benefits, I think that a Chinese coming to this unfamiliar environment needs to be familiar with the language environment on the one hand, and adapt to the consumption level here. On the other hand, accept that there will be no friends, no nightlife, and sometimes it will feel lonely and impersonal.
Whatever your intentions, I think it's more suitable for studying, studying abroad, and doing business here.
I experienced the life of the locals here, and it really made me feel that the economy is under pressure, the prices here are high, the housing prices are high, and the consumption is high. Coupled with the lack of humanity here, I felt that Chinese living here would seem lonely and without spiritual sustenance. Of course, if you are a lonely person, then this is the place for you to experience.
The environment is good, the education is also very good, it is a place that many people pursue, and in the long run, it is not suitable for Chinese to live here. Many of my experiences are difficult to describe with my mouth, only if I deeply experience it, I will find that it is better for us in China.