Life in NZ. Is it REALLY like that?🇳🇿
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Hello from the UK! We’ve recently found you and you are amazing! Love your stories 😊
Hello and welcome!
What a lovely comment to receive, thank you so much. We can’t wait to get to know you better and we send you lots of love to the UK 🇬🇧🥰 liz and Brian x
I enjoy the fact I live in a country where I pay a nominal amount every three months to get my arthritis, reflux and blood pressure medication. Thanks for this episode- a very timely reminder how lucky we are!
Thank you for joining us, Richard!
Have a great weekend! 😊
I was born in eastern Europe. I lived in the US as a perm resident, in Germany later on as a citizen, and in NZ for the last nearly 3 decades.
The best medical system I have encountered, by far, bar none, was in the US.
NZ's medical system should really be renamed Murder Inc.
My father already fell victim to it over a decade ago.
My mother any day now. And me? Soon. Very soon.
You guys cheer me up every time. Thanks guys
Our pleasure! Thank you for being with us Daniel 😊
I loved listening to these tales. Captivating story telling. Just like being there. Thank you! 😊
Thank you Shelly for being with us. It is always lovely to see your name in the comments 🥰
Have a great weekend ahead! Liz and Brian xx
I love living in a country that hasn't fully lost its innocence - especially given how things seem to be elsewhere.
This is my introduction to your channel and I've just subscribed. Thanks heaps for the laughter.
Take care of yourselves.
Oooh Liz and Brian, you both are such an amazing couple. 💖We love your episodes and are always happy to see your smiling faces.💕 We're laughing and learning about your beautiful New Zealand at the same time.👍
We completely agree that if you want some private time in a public place, it's okay to nicely ask someone to leave us alone. The American handled it very politely and nicely. Good for him!👍
The story with the supermarket young lad is interesting. We think he might be underage and therefore not allowed to serve or sell alcohol, which is why he asked his supervisor.🤔 He probably didn't realize it was vinegar! 😜
Medication shortages seem to be a global issue. 🙉We’ve had some shortages in Canada as well. My pharmacist had to find a perfect replacement, and thankfully, I have one now.
Thank you again for your informative and entertaining vlog.💖 Love you guys!💖💖
Love you too 😍 Thank you as always for your fabulous support and love xx
I love you two. ❤ I am desperate to move to New Zealand, I was there with my husband in 2011, and have wanted to move there ever since. We took our young children there last year, and it solidified it even stronger. However, I'm not sure my husband will get as good a job out there and we would be leaving family behind. I'm happy to leave them😂, but think my husband and kids would miss them greatly. Your videos always give me hope and makes me feel like I'm there again. Thank you Bri and Liz, you are both so wonderful. ❤
What an absolutely beautiful message! Thank you so very much. We are happy to bring a slice of New Zealand to you while you work on convincing the rest of the family! Thank you again for your kind words 🥰 Liz and Brian
Price for entry going up on 1st October. From $2000 to 5000 per person !
You are the kind type of person that would be very welcome here. My sister left here at 22 to go to England for the work opportunities. She is currently a news producer for the BBC. Her and her English husband (he sets up the satellite trucks for BBC) did think about coming back to live here when they had my nephew and niece but they both wouldn't of been able to find equivalent jobs and the pay would be worse. When I was teaching I came across a lot of families that came to live in New Zealand and there were a few reasons as follows. Chinese people wanted to have more than one child. South African's for safety and lifestyle. Asians in general for education. Americans and some European countries for the way of life. I guess you will need to look at the benefits of living in New Zealand compared to your home country. Liz and Brian are brilliant at looking at both the pros and cons and the little nuances we have. To me they fit perfectly it's as if they were accidentally born in the wrong country. I wish you and your loved ones all the best whether you make the move or not. 😊❤
I read on stuff today that Pharmac have been directed to “stay within their budget” and although the Health Minister denies this means any cuts in practice it means they are limiting supply to $347000 a day and not being flexible at all - effectively “ working to rule”!I suppose and it is causing shortages for everyone.
To expand on this
Pharmac sticking to their budget is one of the key reasons why we get such cheap drugs in NZ.
Drug companies bid to supply pharmac and knowing that pharmac have a specific budget to stick to is something that drives prices down. Drug companies know they need to bid low and win the pharmac contract otherwise they wont be selling much of their product in NZ.
Pharmac is designed to get the many common drugs to new zealanders at a cheap price, but not to cover everything.
@@raytaylornz This is not to do with the contract - this is after they have it. They are restricting supply because they are being pressured to account on a daily budget rather than being able to scale up or down depending on demand. Micomanagement is never an effective way of managing and leads to the situation we are now in where the medicine people need is unavailable due to an artificial constraint - a disguised budget cut in effect
As an American, sometimes I forget that other places will think it's rude if you tell someone to "can you please leave" or along those lines are considered rude. Doesn't matter how polite you are about it. 😅
However I have really bad anxiety so I would just just let the man talk to me and ask all the questions. 😆
Are you SURE you’re not secretly English, Bethany??? 😂😂 thank you for being here with us and for saying hi have a great weekend! 😊
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I WISH I was secretly English 😆but I am not. If life were differently I would have found a way to move to New Zealand myself. I hope you have a wonderful weekend!!
Yay! A liz and Bri vlog to watch with my glass of wine!
Make mine a large, Penny!…😘🍷🍷
In regard to medication , there are many who are deprived of their meds then in other parts of the world there are some of us who have all their meds and we forget to take them.
Like the UK 50 years ago, sounds fabulous to me! I think most people in the UK would agree, whether they were alive then, or not. The UK declined horrifically between 2000 and now.
Loved the stories, and you guys look great! The cashier just wasn't sure you were old enough and was going to card you 👍😆...for vinegar lol!
That's the one Randy....🤣🤣 xx
Love hearing these little snippets of day to day life. I live in a small rural town in Selwyn Canterbury and can so relate to the 4-square and local cafe stories and people. Ours is a 5 minute walk from home. I think they must be the same everywhere. 😅
So glad you enjoy them, Susan. We love having you with us and it is always a pleasure to see your name here ❤️ Have a wonderful weekend my friend! With love to all in beautiful Canterbury! Liz and Brian 😊
Since you posted this I visited Butler's for lunch. Food and coffee were fine, the staff were great. No alcohol involved 'cause driving.
With this pod, I will now think of you two as "Jack & Jill" 🤣🤣🤣 This possibility of rolling down the hill, hope you don't have a "hole in your bucket" 🤣🤣
🤣🤣 Oh, Stuart...that made me laugh!!
I am clearly American because I thought he was kind by saying. May I just say, I would like to have some time with my wife. To me that’s not rude at all. He didn’t say “get the eff out of here” which I have heard said in New York. I am married to a kiwi and he doesn’t think it’s rude either.
Im a kiwi and i think he handled it well.
Its not his fault that harmonica guy lacks social awareness.
Thank you for sharing, Brigid! We appreciate you being with us. Sending much love to the USA 🇺🇸🥰
One fine day, I do come by for coffee
Hope to be in New Plymouth/Taranaki in November. Love your videos!
Thank you! Have a fabulous time! 😃
Love you stories. As a NZer born and bred and well travelled there are two reasona we run out of pharmaseuticals periodically - 1) Only ONE container of X drug is ordered per YEAR for the country. Normally it arrives in Spring, and by mid Winter the following year it has run out. (I kid you not) 2) The financial year means that the govt cant order the next container till after 30 June (hence the Spring arrival three months later.) There are only 5m of us, two containers would be overkill and are not budgeted for in the govt health budget. Moreover major international pharmaceutical companies have a long - several years - lead time - they do not supply emergency shipments.)..
NZ is a long way away, most goods ( CERTAINLY anything bought by the govt) arrives by sea. Lots more chances of containers being late.
On a similar note did you realise that this year, 2024, there was no oral morphine in the country AT ALL for the first six months (so tough if you needed it) because the one and only factory that makes it in Australasia (Perth) shut down a while back and there were delays in the build of a new one, (As a special concession at usurious cost a different overseas supplier did agree to sell us some,, but the govt could only get enough for the sickest and the emergency supply did not make it to the provinces anyway.
Moral of the story, don't get sick in Winter, Cheers Rosie
What a fabulous comment, Rosalene, thank you SO much for sharing this fantastic information with us! 🥰
You two are hilarious 😹
We're glad that we can make you giggle, Yvonne! 🥰 Thank you for being with us!
American living in NZ for the past 14 years and I had a similar experience at the pharmacy the other day, being asked to pay $5 for a prescription that I had been getting for free. Seems the new govt got rid of the free prescriptions as of 1 July. Also, some prescriptions have been in short supply so they reduce how much they dispense at a given time.
I relate to the HRT patch shortage. I got the last box from our pharmacy last month (coromandel peninsula region)and this month they said I could have some pills(on the doctors say so) then they said hang on we have these patches(larger dose)you just have to cut them into quarters😂So I’ve got both at the moment. I think with more research into HRT and an aging population often exhibiting signs of bone loss etc it’s become a whole lot more popular.
Oh, I hear you!! The same thing happened to me last week…cut this massive one into three…I swear, my back looks like a patchwork quilt!! 😂😂
@@ItsaDrama 🤣
I stopped taking HRT ,handled the flushes. It worried me when my sister was on it and got breast cancer.
You should look at the connection between the shortage of HRT for women and the high use of puberty blockers for children since NZ has the highest rate of puberty blocker usage in the world.
Really????
Interesting I was one day late to pick up meds and chemist charged me. Said I could go to doctor but could take week to get into get an appointment. So needed pills for next day. .???
Let me know if you need some 😂help. Artist in, Melbourne but Maori fella moved in 2009. Handy with editing and thumb nails. But keep going. Awesome couple. I am in my fifties in Melbourne on a yacht 😮
Thank you! Happy to have you with us, my friend 😊 Liz and Bri x
You guys are brilliant. I didn't quite get the vinegar story... surely he didn't mistake that for alcohol?? 😂
My thoughts would've gone to why? What happened to that bottle of vinegar.... did they find an old case in the basement (was it out of date?)
Ha ha ha!
I should have explained that…
So the bottle is quite large (75 mil I think) and it is also green and on the label. On the front of the bottle there is a picture of grapes and the words ‘Modena’ written in quite big letters…I think this is what confused the poor lad 😂🍇🍇
Thank you for being with us! Have a great weekend 😊
@@ItsaDramaLol,Yes it's obvious to me, the bottle looked like a wine bottle to some degree, but what is obvious is, he doesn't do any cooking,! 😂😂😂
@Carolevw at least not with fancy vinegar! 😆 😁
Having worked in the UK in the late 80,s for a American English company in London That did construction.
I was regularly dealing with both countries sides of behaviour.
The Poms were conservative and would have a little whinge about it.
The Americans were loud and brash and push ahead no matter the problem.
Aussie Jeff Moore
Russia 🇷🇺 has quite a history with the USA 🇺🇸. Obviously 🙄 they did own Alaska up until 1867. But they also had a colony in California called Fort Ross from 1812 to 1841. But at that time it would’ve been too far for them to project power so they left it.
Thank you for sharing, we appreciate you 😊Have a lovely weekend!
If a woman from Croatia is wanting work as a health assistant, can you please tell me what she needs to do to make it easy. She has been trying by herself for a year and no luck so far
We suggest contacting Prudence from Accent Health. (Healthcare recruiters). She is lovely and I’m sure would be able to help 😊
You have no skill that is in demand here. Your only chance is to find someone who lives here, and marry them, unless you are a qualified nurse. Plenty of unemployed that can do that work.
@@peterrhodes5663thats not true. There is work for care assistance in Nz. In hospitals and resthomes. Yes rest homes do not pay well and the work is hard and demanding.
Disguise herself as an Indian we let 250,000 of them in last year
@@grandadneal8114I heard that National have shut that door
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Brian.
Just put hands in air and say:
Liz Liz your right sweet as ..........
VIAGRA
won't make you Brad Pitt.....
But it will make you Roger Moore .......
At last!! A man who speaks sense...😂😂😂
Love you, Mark!
HRT: yeah it's short everywhere. Pharmacy companies are merging overseas and pulling out of the market. Pharmac has not been on the ball to organise alternatives when possible. The issue with HRT is that it seems only one brand is making all the HRT NZ imports and that company is not making enough for the world.
It does not help that the amount of medicine Pharmacists can get of this type seems to be throttled. They know when people will want repeats, but they never have any in their stocks. This means Pharmacies are getting tight with repeats; if you have more than a few days of a medicine, they will not fill the script! I've had to beg at the counter.
You may need to switch off patches to get continuity. See what your GP says.
There is a list on the Pharmac website of supply issues and medicine discontinuations. Keep a close eye on this if you are on prescription medicine.
Thank you!! Wow…I knew someone would know but I didn’t expect such an in-depth answer. Really appreciate that, thank you!! 💕 Liz x
*switch off patches to tablets! Tablets seem easier to get. Not easy, easier.
@@TheScratchingKiwi I'll get onto the GP tomorrow. Thank you!
There's also a gel but it's not cheap - about $100/month. The HRT shortage is a world-wide issue and other companies such as Sandoz and Mylan are now manufacturing patches.
Benny Hill: What’s the difference between a vitamin and a hormone?
You can’t make a vitamin!
My Scottish friend (both of us are in Auckland) didn’t it.
Sorry, you mentioned them ❤
Thank you for joining us! 😊
Had a little laugh about your vinegar story. People under 20 aren't allowed to sell alcohol so he had to clear it through his supervisor also they have to have like a alcohol duty manager on at all times or they cant sell it at all. Also somewhere near the checkout they have to display the name of the duty manager. Basically anymore over 20 who works there sits an exam gets a certificate. One of them has to be on duty or they're not allowed to sell alcohol. Still funny though.
Thank you for being with us, Dean! 😊
makes me think of when you get asked how is the coffee or how is the food and us kiwis always say good or something positive, no matter if it is great or if it is terrible, and then if it is terrible I'm never going back there again and tell ya friends don't go there
How come we can't be helpful and say its terrible if it is terrible?
I say so if it's not good. Sometimes I hope they're not going to come and ask because I will tell them that the toast was underdone and the tomatoes and eggs were cold etc. I'll send food back e.g. burnt bacon. I've learnt to do this. The first time I saw someone complain about the food, I was gobsmacked - about 28 years old then. I'd thought no one had the right to speak up or object but gradually I've learned to do it myself. It's a lot of money to pay for a dreadful meal and they're meant to be professional.
I enjoyed the Mouth Organ Man story. I must admit, I was waiting for you to say the Greenpeace Man blew his top.😅
Hehehe!!! Me too, Robert, but quite the opposite 😂😂 must be all that peacefulness oozing from his tea shirt…😉😂💚💚
But how hard is it to move to New Zealand? EU citizen, IT consultant. I assume I would be competing with all of India and China for a spot in paradise....?
South Sea Poms thats what i have always called my mates in Kiwi Land
Love from japan ❤
Enough immigrants in NZ just visit and LEAVE
very funny🤣🤣
Glad it made you giggle Jill! Thank you for being with us! 😘😃
I agree with your daughter. That was mean. How hard is it to take 5 minutes of your life to show kindness to a harmless person, who is trying to make people’s life better by playing them a song.
Thanks for joining us, Hana, we appreciate you😊
Agree. It will be someone with a disability, why can’t we be kind. Direct does work with these members of our community. But they want to be included not rejected.
As an American it was not mean. The guy interrupted them and invaded there Paige and space. They allowed to correct it.
@@erikowren7894 hey Erik, this happened in NZ not America. Kindness means something to kiwis
@@erikowren7894👍
If you find this interesting or humorous, please don't visit NZ 😅
Just pop Down to the local tinny shop
I’m getting some Catherine Tate vibes dunno why but I would complete me if you’d said’ the dirty bastards’ 😂
I might drop that in the next video, Janine...just for you! 🇬🇧🇬🇧😆
@@ItsaDrama thank you ☺️
Whinging poms Whinging
Get on with i5
Just wasted 10 mins of my life. Teaddle
great show again love home when it ome to my meds back home 3 months supply would cost me $20 but here in Philippines one months supply cost me $100 BUT PAYING $400 a month for 2 bedrrom apartment which includes internet and TV off sets price
Interesting! Thank you for sharing. Sending much love to the Philippines! 🇵🇭😊