Manuka honey is native to New Zealand my guy. It comes from the Manuka tree, which is a native New Zealand species. We probably got the most organic products on the planet lol.
@@Twano2am I actually thought that was the case to be fair big bro. I swear, coz I was like aint no way he said Manuka honey and don't know where its at fr. Its all love big brodie...keep em coming fam...we here for it 💯🇳🇿
No point in coming here during this economic period might as well wait until everything starts to stabilize. Cost of living here cancels out a lot of the benefits of living here imo.
Yeah, we Kiwis are not good at paying attention to what happens in the rest of the world, so most of the country thinks that the current cost of living crisis is somehow unique to us when actually it's hitting the entire world, and there are many other countries doing way worse than NZ. As mentioned, the US inflation rate is even higher than NZ, and NZ has (and has always had) one of the cheapest fuel prices in the OECD after the US and AU, which have their own oil and don't believe in taxing it. Not to mention the fact that most of the causes of the current situation have little to do with New Zealand and literally can't be fixed by any NZ government policy.
minimum wage now is $22 an hour.in NZ Even before covid NZ was still expensive regardless which city you live in. But still the best country in the world
At my high school it was compulsory to learn how to cook for a term (10 weeks) And it was optional to do it for longer, all my mates done it just to get through school and to get free food lol
We take our reusable bags to the supermarket or pack the groceries into your car from the trolley. You can order online and pick up or get delivered for about $10 We can get paper bags but they charge 20 cents each. We do still have some plastic. Most people cook but there are plenty of ready made options available. Cheaper to cook your own though. At least you know what's in your food! 🙂
@@Twano2am if you're talking about my fridge, its empty as fuck coz I smoke too much weed haha...but nah, besides those less fortunate than others, most fridges be slammin'. My mama house always got that good good.
@@Twano2am in Wellington we have Moore Wilson you can buy in bulk there as for owning a house if you have a partner you can combine a portion of your kiwi saver to put a deposit on a house then pay mortgage, rates. As for food we learn to cook at a young age I do eat takeaways about 2-3 times a week but for the most part we cook and you become pretty good at it when you been doing it most of your life. As for money situation I earn 23.50 a week I live in a house 3 bedroom house with a mate I pay him 150 a week he got the house from housing New Zealand it's illegal me staying here but everyone does it and when they do house inspection they turn a blind eye they all know they have other people living with them but don't seam to care. I own a nice car a nice motorbike but most of my money goes on drugs and alcohol it's just our culture 🤷
at every supermarket they have bags but they give us reusable ones with their company logo on it their decent quality, also i never cook unless its eggs & toast & shes defs exaggerating about making everything from scratch😂 at least 90% of our food is packaged & bought, you can get cooked, baked & ready to make food from any supermarket
I moved to melb aus from Auckland NZ about 6 months ago. I went from a "minimum wage" income doing hard labor in construction to getting 40-50$ an hour working in a warehouse. But as beautiful as NZ is I don't see myself going back to live, only for holidays. NZ = high rent, high food prices & leaving with no money to play with. Aus = low rent, "lower" than NZ food prices with still money to spare.
I recently came back from Melbourne. I couldn’t afford to buy a house there, homes are around one million dollars+ unless you live half way out in the sticks. I’ve come back to NZ and have brought a property freehold for less than $400k. We don’t all have to live in cities. I was on good money because I worked as a casual, where as my work colleagues were on contract and were earning way less; even though they were doing the same work as me. However, as good as my income was, l had no job security, as casuals have no work contract, and it was still less than l had been earning back in NZ before I went over. I’m happy to be home driving a car that only cost $124 pr year to register, instead of almost $900. Petrol might be dearer in NZ, but it’s only costing me $20 pr week instead of $100+ because I’m not having to travel long distances to go to work. I’m happy I only have $10km to drive to work which takes me 8 mins instead of driving 45km one way and been stuck in traffic for up to 2hours trying to get home. Good luck with your Australian adventure, l took every opportunity I could to travel around Australia while l was there. I’ve been to some amazing places.
bro she cappin LARGE about the cooking you can get premade things but people here would rather cook from scratch so theres less premade things nowadays
Kiwi here... Yes we have water bottles, I buy them every week lol, but, we recycle that shit. It's expensive here, but it is just bloody lovely. Up North = More big city life (They got Auckland & Wellington) Down South = A little more chilled out country vibe, with a touch of cities lol. I see lots of people moving from NZ to Australia and not wanting to come back lmao so yea. Come on over brother, be worth looking into Aus as well I think
300,000 isnt the average, its the cheapest smallest poorest house you can find with no yard and its basically falling apart and unliveable, the average house with 3 room's and a yard that looks decent is closer to 750,000k , dont come to australia or newzealand unless you are a multi millionaire
Also you gotta remember even though it looks like we earn high wages, our money is wirth half the us dollar, so if i earn $1000 a week its only $500 US dollars
Plastic water bottles are totally common her in NZ it’s just 100% recycled and we do decorate during Holidays it’s just not over done that’s all and we have guy fawkes In November for all our fireworks
She not lying, our fridges are pretty empty, i dont even have a fridge atm.. im literally waiting till pay day too eat in 2 days, i bought dogfood for my dogs so they dont go hingry ever, but its ok for me to wait a few day, not like im gonna die, i do this most fortnights.. ive bought illegal fireworks once when i was a teen, i dont have cristmas decorations ever, as a kid my mum used to get a Christmas tree but now im grown i dont even think about it tbh..
I think before you come, don’t build nz up to much.. in case you get disappointed when you get here.. also it would help if you know someone here, that could help you with kiwi culture.. all of the things she says is true, honestly the only Christmas decorations I do is a tree.. there is water in a bottle at the shop, but I personally have a reusable water bottle koz tap water is free.. bulk buying is not a thing here, only if you have a catering business or own a dairy..
If you're not already established in NZ, it's very difficult to live there. Alot of Kiwi's live in Australia now myself included. I've only been here for a year and will have a deposit for a house by next year. Could not do that back home sadly.
Plastic bags are difficult and costly to recycle. Most end up on landfill sites where they take 300 years to degrade. When they break down tiny toxic particles contaminate the soil and waterways. This is the main reason Australia and New Zealand do not use plastic bags anymore. Pollution..
No one on minimum wage would rent a place on their own.. they would share with one or two other people. We call it flatmates who share say a 3 bedroom house or apartment (called a flat here). So $400 to $500 between 3 people is manageable until they earn more money. Tax is about 20% on that income.
Also we used to have hundreds of plastic bags actually I remember when they banned them the exact date but forgot it was about 3 years ago or more recent lol. But we have paper bags
@@Twano2am handout bro I'm soon guttured I never got in there ..but all my family got crazy money ..like my mum buy a house 67 thousand and sell for 600k
Soooo born and still here there are many ways to live over here and I think you need to find a way to live creatively. And our rent is because landlords are greedy lol. But we can get a top up to help if we qualify,, especially if you work part time. People here give...to help and we are a growing culture of planting our own fruit and veg. We shop with reusable bags as I simply take some crates and unload at my car. Truly it is hard when you have had things available, but things are growing to be healthier culture, less waste in our land fills which we still have a ways to go. Plus as a tourist here, you can travel New Zealand as a WOFA and it where you can travel the country and work and live on different farmers and orchards can't pay you but give you free board and food and encourage you to explore the region you are in..... You just reach out to your subscribers bro..
Minimum rent is roughly $400+ (Auckland city) for single or 2 bedroom apartments or houses... If you can walk into a job straight off the plane, everything else will fall into place... 😁 Just subscribed bro 🤙
I think the water bottles and buying in bulk, and why we don't, go hand in hand. We're a very conscious country - conscious of things like our spending, our wastage and our rubbish too. We don't like wasting food, because it's expensive and generally live within our means and buy whats necessary. Just because you can fit 3 weeks' worth of food in your pantry doesn't always mean you should, you know? We have great water infrastructure here so it's common to have a reusable water bottle. Single-use stuff like straws and plastic bags can't be given out so a household tends to get their own ones.
I'm not a great cook but it is soooo much easier & healthier to buy fresh stuff & cook it from scratch, we only have frozen baby green beans in the freezer to use if the broccoli is too expensive. And when we eat, it tastes fine. Anyone can cook - anyone.
There is no way she said we have to make our food from scratch whenever we want to eat, I will be starving to nothingness if that was the case. Side note: we have a day to celebrate fireworks being called (guy fawkes day) basically meaning fireworks day I think… I actually don’t know
Remember the exchange rate $300,000 nz is only $188.000 US dollars. Nz way too expensive. Here in Perth. Australia u can buy 4 bedroom 2 bathroom houses brand new $400.000. That's why Kiwis live here in droves.
Hey bro you should check out New Zealand Today at some point. It's a comedy journalism thing that used to be on tv here and its fkn hilarious! just search it up and pick an episode that looks interesting
I think a lot of the Kiwis here in the comments don't really understand what Tara is talking about when she says buying in bulk. If you think Bin Inn is bulk-buying, you have no idea what bulk really is and what it's like in the US. Also keep in mind that people in the US pay their rent monthly and operate on a month-to-month basis, which for many (especially large families) includes their main grocery shop. In NZ, most people shop weekly, so there's less need to buy most things in bulk, and people on lower incomes can't even afford to anyway because they don't have enough money in their weekly wages to buy a giant box of cereal even though it'll last for a month. The closest thing NZ has to something like Sam's Club is a place called Moore Wilson's in Wellington (where Tara lives), but most of the people who shop there are bougie rich people who can actually afford the cost of buying in bulk.
If what she's saying doesn't apply to the person it would generally mean they're from different classes. The no plastic thing is about NZ trying to be cleaner (since plastic doesn't break down) most of our stuff is bio degradable, we do buy plastic bottles but we recycle. Decorations isn't big for us because I don't really think we have a consumerism culture, the less money we spend on crap the more money we have for fun shit. Alot of the time we don't call it organic because it's just normal food to us. Rent is pretty expensive depending on where you live, I live in a city in a 5bedroom house and pay $380 a wk (but I know that's really good, it's a family home) and I make $45hr but my hours vary between 25 to 30hr wk and its more than enough for my 6ppl family 😁
My family has to live together. We brought our first house together with 5 full time workers in the family for $850,000 Last year. This year we found out a house is now worth 1.2million
You asked about the food situation. We live off the land, hunting deer/wild pigs, fish/dive for seafood, plant our own vegetables. I cant talk on behalf of pakeha (white people) I only know one or two but for us Maori? Yes bro, sadly it is common that many Maori families dont have much in terms of food, clothes, money or even a roof over the head but we are very whanau orientated which means we will always be there to help each other with what evers needed.
You worry about cooking and stuff, but honestly EVERYWHERE has guys who have gone to college and have to fend for themselves somehow. You can grab microwave rice and slam a can of chili tuna on top if you're lazy! 🤣 Just practice a little while you're still over there. Do a lazy man's spaghetti bolognese - mince, onions, tinned tomatos and some dried italian herbs, slop some cheap red wine in it. It can't go too wrong! You can buy like frozen microwave meals if you have to.
So 700 Dollars NZ a week is about 450 US dollars which is 1800 dollars USA a month pretty standard in a city in the major cities in America I've lived in Hawaii and my rent was 2.5k a month for two bedroom apartment in Honolulu.
Sweets ALL of our produce is organic... I don't think we have genetically modified products (don't quote me on that though). Also, Manuka Honey is ours.😁
Bro we tend to buy what we need now rather than what we might need later. . . . . . Food is easy to come by here, pretty hard to go hungry these days with food banks etc
The minimum wage at the moment is $21.20, which is roughly $715 after tax at 40 hours a week. Alot of jobs (more in the construction/physical type jobs) pay more then minimum wage. My jobs starting rate is $26 an hour, which is roughly $848 a week at 40 hours. Our living wage is $23.60 i think, which is what you need to be on to live normal without any luxury items for example... wine, beer, takeaways etc. Good for holidays but very expensive to live.
Im at a fast food joint Minimum wage is $20 something I get $25x30 or 40 hrs After tax left with $700-$800 Rent for a 3 bedroom is usually 500-700 the more expensive the better the house Water, power, internet,food, gas for car still to cover
Manuka is a Maori word...and to afford the rent get a high-paying job or board with the family, or buy a house with family or buy two or three houses with family or invest, or start ur own business etc etc...um it's higher than 400,000 around a million BUT some of the prices have dropped a little...you have to cook food at home because it's cheaper...We have plastic bags we just don't use them a lot for shopping unless we're taking them from the house to put shopping in, reuse them...some plastic bags are still used for rubbish and some of them are biodegradable. lol make friends and go over to ur mates places to eat, they'd be chill about it plus there are meal plans u can get, where u just prep the food, that comes in a box and follow instructions to cook...don't be scared by that... when covid hit there were the odd fights over toilet paper lol...we pretty much laughed at the people on the news who fought over crap paper because it wasn't running out it was just low...she's not lying we just don't shop as big as u guys. We do shop meat and store it in the freezer and get stuff to go along with it from the supermarket, or it's, takeouts etc etc...plus we can whip something to eat up in a minute from whats in the cupboards or leftovers...we decoration just not as much as the U.S which is a consumer country, you guys consume we do too just not as much as the U.S...we have guy flawks to have fire works but the government only allows the public sale of fireworks on Nov 2 to Nov 5...I don't care how long the video is...
Just seen this video bro manuka honey hahaha my guy we got that 2. Depending on your job bro you can make $3200 a week 3. Eating out can be really expensive so its more of a luxury thing for families eating out together 4. Cooking from scratch hahaha get a girl that can cook otherwise its bbq’s on while you learn lol 5. Kiwi’s are pretty self sufficient bro growing up in a house of 12 as maori’s do coz its cheaper on the rent split, 1 family pays the rent the other pays for the food in the house and the rest do the power water and wifi stuff like that 6. We only really decorate for Christmas coz its the only holiday where we shut down and work stops and so we get to spend that time with your whanau.( family )
I have always wanted to come to America but because money an issue here I haven’t as the USD is higher then the NZD. So in saying that $300,000 NZD would b less in USD 🤔 but most houses are 1mill and very hard to buy a home. We still have plastic but NZ has cut down a lot of plastic use. you can but firer works here for November 5th I let u look that up 😎
Eating out for two is easy $100 with drinks, entree and main. Maybe Dessert. Houses and rent are incredibly expensive and that's not including groceries and fuel.
She making it sound like there isn't places that sell baked goods... we have the bakeries and the cheesecake shop. Shops not giving you plastic bags is actually very new but some shops stil do.
You will definitely find manuka honey in Aotearoa because NZ are the only ones that can legitimately produce and market it. Sorry Aussies but you have just got Tea Tree honey, what ever that is. You can find organic food in NZ but you don't need to buy organic here because all the mainstream food is such good quality and healthy anyway. Minimum wage in NZ is $21.20 per hr. Cost of living is high but it probably equals out because we don't have to pay for extra costs/fees that you do in the US like health insurance. $300,000 is not the average cost of a house, it is more like the cost of a fixer upper out in the wop wops. The average property cost in NZ is now $1,000,000. Kiwis buy fireworks for Guy Fawkes day, 5 November each year. This celebration remembers when Guy Fawkes in the year 1605 over in England tried to blow up England's parliament buildings with barrels of gun powder but the plot was foiled at the last minute. Don't let the high prices put you off, there are ways to find cheaper solutions to keep your costs down. You will probably just come for a holiday but if you are planning on a longer stay unemployment is very low, so lots of work if you can get here on a visa that permits you work.
Yes to grape seed oil and manuka honey even in Australia Minimum wage in Australia has just gone up to $23.80. Brother-in-law drives log truck local and earns upwards of a $1000 a wk paid two weekly (fortnightly) their rent is $320 week has 3 bedroom garage and central heating we don't live in capital city but large rural city Bulk buying depends on where you live for example before I move to current location I was 92 kms 55ish miles from a decent shopping location so yes I shopped once every 2 weeks and some people on stations (ranches) may only shop monthly due to distance In Australia fireworks are illegal
Bro im on 40 bucks and hr directional drilling bruv im clearing like 1500 a week bruv but doing about 50 hours a week.. But im off to aus next month to earn more money
You're really smart, open minded and pretty in-tuned with alota things bro or just your assumptions are pretty accurate without being judgemental haha. Good on you
I only know one person who legitimately saved his way to a deposit with zero help from. But that dude literally complains if anything cost over $5 😂 personally i feel my savings over 1.5 years was good ($35k), but i know I'm out here saving double the normal person.
i think it comes down to whats important our homes are everything our kids our grandkids a home means alot here, going out to eat is like second to having a bbq at home or a sit down meal...package meals are disgusting period we're not allowed alot of ingredients here due to it being unhealthy so our package meals are shit i wish they were better im a lazy cook which brings me to lazy hell yea we can be lazy af if we wana be...we only just got rid of plastic bags it sucks they replace them with paperbags..nothing beats homemade baking seriously❤❤❤you can eat like a king in otara for $4 wat u talkn bout LOL
Nah Bro, organise a working visa over here online, Research it Bro, and come on a working holliday for a year, As a test whether you like it or not ? American Kiwi may help you seems like she's helping other Americans. Plus Cosco has just openned in West Auckland on the 28th Sept 22
Kanuka honey is what you havent had.Micro plastics are now found in everyone s bloodstream,bulk processed foods still is not good when chemicals range from fetal matter to hormones.
Inflation has gone up. To live here is expensive. Best to just come for a holiday and see for yourself. Renting is expensive here plus your paying utilities plus water rates. I wouldn't recommend living here unless you get a really high paying job that will suit your lifestyle, can pay your expenses & allows you to save $$$. If you have passive income to supplement your oncome great. In addition there is the risk of being locked down by our government if there is a pandemic. There are some good things about our country too. If you decide to live here I think you will have to submit to your IRS as well as pay tax here.
Manuka honey is native to New Zealand my guy. It comes from the Manuka tree, which is a native New Zealand species.
We probably got the most organic products on the planet lol.
Manuka literally a Maori word 😂
lmao i knew that about the manuka honey thats why i purposely said it 😂, i just did a good job not smiling when i said it
@@bendavis6530 ctfu is it fr? 😂
@@Twano2am I actually thought that was the case to be fair big bro. I swear, coz I was like aint no way he said Manuka honey and don't know where its at fr. Its all love big brodie...keep em coming fam...we here for it 💯🇳🇿
@@Twano2am aye i had to look for this comment 😂 i was like, nah Twano playing right now for real
No point in coming here during this economic period might as well wait until everything starts to stabilize. Cost of living here cancels out a lot of the benefits of living here imo.
Good point
truth, shit be expensive af
Yep everything's going skyrocket too good to be true anyways.
Just to point out inflation in America is 9% while NZ is 7%
Yeah, we Kiwis are not good at paying attention to what happens in the rest of the world, so most of the country thinks that the current cost of living crisis is somehow unique to us when actually it's hitting the entire world, and there are many other countries doing way worse than NZ. As mentioned, the US inflation rate is even higher than NZ, and NZ has (and has always had) one of the cheapest fuel prices in the OECD after the US and AU, which have their own oil and don't believe in taxing it. Not to mention the fact that most of the causes of the current situation have little to do with New Zealand and literally can't be fixed by any NZ government policy.
minimum wage now is $22 an hour.in NZ
Even before covid NZ was still expensive regardless which city you live in.
But still the best country in the world
$21.20* but yeah pretty much
I don't mind long videos looking forward to part 2.
thank you & thank you for letting me know 🙏
At my high school it was compulsory to learn how to cook for a term (10 weeks) And it was optional to do it for longer, all my mates done it just to get through school and to get free food lol
The best class to take!
We take our reusable bags to the supermarket or pack the groceries into your car from the trolley. You can order online and pick up or get delivered for about $10 We can get paper bags but they charge 20 cents each. We do still have some plastic. Most people cook but there are plenty of ready made options available. Cheaper to cook your own though. At least you know what's in your food! 🙂
NZ just recently opened it's first Costco. We have something called Bin Inn which is a bulk buy wholesale outlet.
so is your refrigerator mainly empty or was that not accurate?
@@Twano2am if you're talking about my fridge, its empty as fuck coz I smoke too much weed haha...but nah, besides those less fortunate than others, most fridges be slammin'. My mama house always got that good good.
@@PR1M1T1VE depends what day of the week..!! Lol I got 4 kids, its either chokka full or a barron waste land 😅
@@Twano2am in Wellington we have Moore Wilson you can buy in bulk there as for owning a house if you have a partner you can combine a portion of your kiwi saver to put a deposit on a house then pay mortgage, rates. As for food we learn to cook at a young age I do eat takeaways about 2-3 times a week but for the most part we cook and you become pretty good at it when you been doing it most of your life. As for money situation I earn 23.50 a week I live in a house 3 bedroom house with a mate I pay him 150 a week he got the house from housing New Zealand it's illegal me staying here but everyone does it and when they do house inspection they turn a blind eye they all know they have other people living with them but don't seam to care. I own a nice car a nice motorbike but most of my money goes on drugs and alcohol it's just our culture 🤷
we have a thing called Guy Fawkes which is like for fireworks
Bro we vibing WITH YOU! doesn't matter how long just keep it up
at every supermarket they have bags but they give us reusable ones with their company logo on it their decent quality, also i never cook unless its eggs & toast & shes defs exaggerating about making everything from scratch😂 at least 90% of our food is packaged & bought, you can get cooked, baked & ready to make food from any supermarket
I moved to melb aus from Auckland NZ about 6 months ago. I went from a "minimum wage" income doing hard labor in construction to getting 40-50$ an hour working in a warehouse. But as beautiful as NZ is I don't see myself going back to live, only for holidays. NZ = high rent, high food prices & leaving with no money to play with. Aus = low rent, "lower" than NZ food prices with still money to spare.
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I recently came back from Melbourne. I couldn’t afford to buy a house there, homes are around one million dollars+ unless you live half way out in the sticks. I’ve come back to NZ and have brought a property freehold for less than $400k. We don’t all have to live in cities.
I was on good money because I worked as a casual, where as my work colleagues were on contract and were earning way less; even though they were doing the same work as me.
However, as good as my income was, l had no job security, as casuals have no work contract, and it was still less than l had been earning back in NZ before I went over.
I’m happy to be home driving a car that only cost $124 pr year to register, instead of almost $900.
Petrol might be dearer in NZ, but it’s only costing me $20 pr week instead of $100+ because I’m not having to travel long distances to go to work. I’m happy I only have $10km to drive to work which takes me 8 mins instead of driving 45km one way and been stuck in traffic for up to 2hours trying to get home.
Good luck with your Australian adventure, l took every opportunity I could to travel around Australia while l was there.
I’ve been to some amazing places.
bro she cappin LARGE about the cooking you can get premade things but people here would rather cook from scratch so theres less premade things nowadays
Manuka honey comes from New Zealand. Manuka is the Māori word for the tree/plant. We started it
Kiwi here... Yes we have water bottles, I buy them every week lol, but, we recycle that shit. It's expensive here, but it is just bloody lovely. Up North = More big city life (They got Auckland & Wellington) Down South = A little more chilled out country vibe, with a touch of cities lol. I see lots of people moving from NZ to Australia and not wanting to come back lmao so yea. Come on over brother, be worth looking into Aus as well I think
Bruh average house price is 1mil where I'm at
300,000 isnt the average, its the cheapest smallest poorest house you can find with no yard and its basically falling apart and unliveable, the average house with 3 room's and a yard that looks decent is closer to 750,000k , dont come to australia or newzealand unless you are a multi millionaire
Also you gotta remember even though it looks like we earn high wages, our money is wirth half the us dollar, so if i earn $1000 a week its only $500 US dollars
I like this lady, I feel for her and her family though, it's really slow compared to where they come from.. she does have some good points.
Plastic water bottles are totally common her in NZ it’s just 100% recycled and we do decorate during Holidays it’s just not over done that’s all and we have guy fawkes In November for all our fireworks
She not lying, our fridges are pretty empty, i dont even have a fridge atm.. im literally waiting till pay day too eat in 2 days, i bought dogfood for my dogs so they dont go hingry ever, but its ok for me to wait a few day, not like im gonna die, i do this most fortnights.. ive bought illegal fireworks once when i was a teen, i dont have cristmas decorations ever, as a kid my mum used to get a Christmas tree but now im grown i dont even think about it tbh..
I think before you come, don’t build nz up to much.. in case you get disappointed when you get here.. also it would help if you know someone here, that could help you with kiwi culture.. all of the things she says is true, honestly the only Christmas decorations I do is a tree.. there is water in a bottle at the shop, but I personally have a reusable water bottle koz tap water is free.. bulk buying is not a thing here, only if you have a catering business or own a dairy..
If you're not already established in NZ, it's very difficult to live there. Alot of Kiwi's live in Australia now myself included. I've only been here for a year and will have a deposit for a house by next year. Could not do that back home sadly.
u can buy baking u don't all ways gotta buy the stuff and make it your own
keep in mind she lives in wellington or auckland its different in any other city
Plastic bags are difficult and costly to recycle. Most end up on landfill sites where they take 300 years to degrade. When they break down tiny toxic particles contaminate the soil and waterways. This is the main reason Australia and New Zealand do not use plastic bags anymore. Pollution..
No one on minimum wage would rent a place on their own.. they would share with one or two other people. We call it flatmates who share say a 3 bedroom house or apartment (called a flat here). So $400 to $500 between 3 people is manageable until they earn more money. Tax is about 20% on that income.
Also we used to have hundreds of plastic bags actually I remember when they banned them the exact date but forgot it was about 3 years ago or more recent lol. But we have paper bags
But some places in nz are cheapish ..but all prices have blown up times 10 in some places over a decade or 2
crazy gains for those invested
@@Twano2am handout bro I'm soon guttured I never got in there ..but all my family got crazy money ..like my mum buy a house 67 thousand and sell for 600k
We have food in our fridges. But compared to her or USA. We don't stock pile. Will have enough for the week or until the next pay week.
Soooo born and still here there are many ways to live over here and I think you need to find a way to live creatively. And our rent is because landlords are greedy lol. But we can get a top up to help if we qualify,, especially if you work part time. People here give...to help and we are a growing culture of planting our own fruit and veg. We shop with reusable bags as I simply take some crates and unload at my car. Truly it is hard when you have had things available, but things are growing to be healthier culture, less waste in our land fills which we still have a ways to go. Plus as a tourist here, you can travel New Zealand as a WOFA and it where you can travel the country and work and live on different farmers and orchards can't pay you but give you free board and food and encourage you to explore the region you are in..... You just reach out to your subscribers bro..
Lol we buy fireworks for guy falks in November. Some people decorate for xmas or Halloween but it isn't really a thing.
That's why you have us bro we will look after you. Here we have a philosophy "it's not what you no, it's about who you no."
300k is cheap ..in Auckland it's like 1 million
you lying 😳 send me a link this is crazy
@@Twano2am bruh I build houses that are connected together like 8 in a row ...normal price is 800 k. But if they a tiny bit bigger it's 1milly fr
I'd rather have an older house ...but say a 300k house 10 years ago in Auckland is worth like 800 k now
Rich areas are all way over a milly. ...those other prices are south Auckland prices ...
People put more priority on eating well rather than going over board on decorations which are a waste of money. And money is tight.
Minimum rent is roughly $400+ (Auckland city) for single or 2 bedroom apartments or houses...
If you can walk into a job straight off the plane, everything else will fall into place...
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yes we love fireworks heaps and my town we do a comp where u see who can decorate the best
I think the water bottles and buying in bulk, and why we don't, go hand in hand. We're a very conscious country - conscious of things like our spending, our wastage and our rubbish too. We don't like wasting food, because it's expensive and generally live within our means and buy whats necessary. Just because you can fit 3 weeks' worth of food in your pantry doesn't always mean you should, you know? We have great water infrastructure here so it's common to have a reusable water bottle. Single-use stuff like straws and plastic bags can't be given out so a household tends to get their own ones.
I'm not a great cook but it is soooo much easier & healthier to buy fresh stuff & cook it from scratch, we only have frozen baby green beans in the freezer to use if the broccoli is too expensive. And when we eat, it tastes fine. Anyone can cook - anyone.
There is no way she said we have to make our food from scratch whenever we want to eat, I will be starving to nothingness if that was the case. Side note: we have a day to celebrate fireworks being called (guy fawkes day) basically meaning fireworks day I think… I actually don’t know
Guy fawkes was the man who tried to blow up parliament in failed gunpowder plot in the uk on Nov 5th 1605. Why we celebrate it I’m unsure
Guy Fawkes day is celebrating the death of Guy Fawkes. He was a terrorist involved in the failed gunpowder plot.
guy fawkes was the dude who tried to blow up British parliament with gunpowder lol
Remember the exchange rate $300,000 nz is only $188.000 US dollars. Nz way too expensive. Here in Perth. Australia u can buy 4 bedroom 2 bathroom houses brand new $400.000. That's why Kiwis live here in droves.
but the cost is higher once you buy the house
@@Rotavegas1 what cost. I bought my house here for $385000. In auckland u will pay $1000000 upwards. Be lucky to pay it off in your lifetime.
Hey bro you should check out New Zealand Today at some point. It's a comedy journalism thing that used to be on tv here and its fkn hilarious! just search it up and pick an episode that looks interesting
I think a lot of the Kiwis here in the comments don't really understand what Tara is talking about when she says buying in bulk. If you think Bin Inn is bulk-buying, you have no idea what bulk really is and what it's like in the US. Also keep in mind that people in the US pay their rent monthly and operate on a month-to-month basis, which for many (especially large families) includes their main grocery shop. In NZ, most people shop weekly, so there's less need to buy most things in bulk, and people on lower incomes can't even afford to anyway because they don't have enough money in their weekly wages to buy a giant box of cereal even though it'll last for a month. The closest thing NZ has to something like Sam's Club is a place called Moore Wilson's in Wellington (where Tara lives), but most of the people who shop there are bougie rich people who can actually afford the cost of buying in bulk.
If what she's saying doesn't apply to the person it would generally mean they're from different classes. The no plastic thing is about NZ trying to be cleaner (since plastic doesn't break down) most of our stuff is bio degradable, we do buy plastic bottles but we recycle. Decorations isn't big for us because I don't really think we have a consumerism culture, the less money we spend on crap the more money we have for fun shit. Alot of the time we don't call it organic because it's just normal food to us. Rent is pretty expensive depending on where you live, I live in a city in a 5bedroom house and pay $380 a wk (but I know that's really good, it's a family home) and I make $45hr but my hours vary between 25 to 30hr wk and its more than enough for my 6ppl family 😁
I like the long vids. I actually look fwd to watching your reaction vids tbh lol. Keep em comin! 🙂
Buy fresh, eat fresh, feel fresh the weather never gets bad enough to get in the way of living fresh...
My family has to live together. We brought our first house together with 5 full time workers in the family for $850,000 Last year. This year we found out a house is now worth 1.2million
You asked about the food situation. We live off the land, hunting deer/wild pigs, fish/dive for seafood, plant our own vegetables. I cant talk on behalf of pakeha (white people) I only know one or two but for us Maori? Yes bro, sadly it is common that many Maori families dont have much in terms of food, clothes, money or even a roof over the head but we are very whanau orientated which means we will always be there to help each other with what evers needed.
you are so correct on the money. its crazy how much rent is here
You worry about cooking and stuff, but honestly EVERYWHERE has guys who have gone to college and have to fend for themselves somehow. You can grab microwave rice and slam a can of chili tuna on top if you're lazy! 🤣 Just practice a little while you're still over there. Do a lazy man's spaghetti bolognese - mince, onions, tinned tomatos and some dried italian herbs, slop some cheap red wine in it. It can't go too wrong! You can buy like frozen microwave meals if you have to.
Hey remember we do not have a bulk food supermarket
So 700 Dollars NZ a week is about 450 US dollars which is 1800 dollars USA a month pretty standard in a city in the major cities in America I've lived in Hawaii and my rent was 2.5k a month for two bedroom apartment in Honolulu.
Sweets ALL of our produce is organic... I don't think we have genetically modified products (don't quote me on that though). Also, Manuka Honey is ours.😁
Shes right housing is unaffordable in Australia too. Minimum wage here is around $24 per hour. Average rent is $350 per week.
Bro we tend to buy what we need now rather than what we might need later. . . . . . Food is easy to come by here, pretty hard to go hungry these days with food banks etc
The minimum wage at the moment is $21.20, which is roughly $715 after tax at 40 hours a week. Alot of jobs (more in the construction/physical type jobs) pay more then minimum wage. My jobs starting rate is $26 an hour, which is roughly $848 a week at 40 hours. Our living wage is $23.60 i think, which is what you need to be on to live normal without any luxury items for example... wine, beer, takeaways etc. Good for holidays but very expensive to live.
Papamoa is like a big suburban place and the average home there is about 800k to 1mil
We now have Costco here too now
Im at a fast food joint
Minimum wage is $20 something
I get $25x30 or 40 hrs
After tax left with $700-$800
Rent for a 3 bedroom is usually 500-700 the more expensive the better the house
Water, power, internet,food, gas for car still to cover
$21.20 im pretty sure
That's our honey g
That bulk shop was cool.
ik i was wondering if anyone was going to realize 😂
Plastic bags have been banned since 2019 and its no big deal. you just bring canvas bags or paper bags.
Minimum wage is $ 22.49 in New Zealand at moment as working Towards living wage which is $25
my guy pulled out 4 bottles when i just got my one letter
Manuka is a Maori word...and to afford the rent get a high-paying job or board with the family, or buy a house with family or buy two or three houses with family or invest, or start ur own business etc etc...um it's higher than 400,000 around a million BUT some of the prices have dropped a little...you have to cook food at home because it's cheaper...We have plastic bags we just don't use them a lot for shopping unless we're taking them from the house to put shopping in, reuse them...some plastic bags are still used for rubbish and some of them are biodegradable. lol make friends and go over to ur mates places to eat, they'd be chill about it plus there are meal plans u can get, where u just prep the food, that comes in a box and follow instructions to cook...don't be scared by that... when covid hit there were the odd fights over toilet paper lol...we pretty much laughed at the people on the news who fought over crap paper because it wasn't running out it was just low...she's not lying we just don't shop as big as u guys. We do shop meat and store it in the freezer and get stuff to go along with it from the supermarket, or it's, takeouts etc etc...plus we can whip something to eat up in a minute from whats in the cupboards or leftovers...we decoration just not as much as the U.S which is a consumer country, you guys consume we do too just not as much as the U.S...we have guy flawks to have fire works but the government only allows the public sale of fireworks on Nov 2 to Nov 5...I don't care how long the video is...
I get about $1500 a week pay in NZ. My mortgage is $250 pwk
Just seen this video bro manuka honey hahaha my guy we got that 2. Depending on your job bro you can make $3200 a week 3. Eating out can be really expensive so its more of a luxury thing for families eating out together 4. Cooking from scratch hahaha get a girl that can cook otherwise its bbq’s on while you learn lol 5. Kiwi’s are pretty self sufficient bro growing up in a house of 12 as maori’s do coz its cheaper on the rent split, 1 family pays the rent the other pays for the food in the house and the rest do the power water and wifi stuff like that 6. We only really decorate for Christmas coz its the only holiday where we shut down and work stops and so we get to spend that time with your whanau.( family )
She's wealthy if her kids go to enviro school.
Average house price in Auckland is around $900k
sam's club looks like pak'n save and yes i spelt it right lol
I have always wanted to come to America but because money an issue here I haven’t as the USD is higher then the NZD.
So in saying that $300,000 NZD would b less in USD 🤔 but most houses are 1mill and very hard to buy a home. We still have plastic but NZ has cut down a lot of plastic use.
you can but firer works here for November 5th I let u look that up 😎
Eating out for two is easy $100 with drinks, entree and main. Maybe Dessert. Houses and rent are incredibly expensive and that's not including groceries and fuel.
NZ is MASSIVELY into organics. Manuka honey literally originated here. 😂
We dont have to make food from scratch every time lol who has time to do all that haha I live in Akl NZ. We still buy plastic water bottles here
Fire works- Guy fawkes just search it up if you want more info
Once you taste it, you'll never go back. Fresh is best even if it extra work is required taste is 100% worth it
She making it sound like there isn't places that sell baked goods... we have the bakeries and the cheesecake shop. Shops not giving you plastic bags is actually very new but some shops stil do.
You will definitely find manuka honey in Aotearoa because NZ are the only ones that can legitimately produce and market it. Sorry Aussies but you have just got Tea Tree honey, what ever that is.
You can find organic food in NZ but you don't need to buy organic here because all the mainstream food is such good quality and healthy anyway.
Minimum wage in NZ is $21.20 per hr. Cost of living is high but it probably equals out because we don't have to pay for extra costs/fees that you do in the US like health insurance.
$300,000 is not the average cost of a house, it is more like the cost of a fixer upper out in the wop wops. The average property cost in NZ is now $1,000,000.
Kiwis buy fireworks for Guy Fawkes day, 5 November each year. This celebration remembers when Guy Fawkes in the year 1605 over in England tried to blow up England's parliament buildings with barrels of gun powder but the plot was foiled at the last minute.
Don't let the high prices put you off, there are ways to find cheaper solutions to keep your costs down. You will probably just come for a holiday but if you are planning on a longer stay unemployment is very low, so lots of work if you can get here on a visa that permits you work.
Yes to grape seed oil and manuka honey even in Australia
Minimum wage in Australia has just gone up to $23.80. Brother-in-law drives log truck local and earns upwards of a $1000 a wk paid two weekly (fortnightly) their rent is $320 week has 3 bedroom garage and central heating we don't live in capital city but large rural city
Bulk buying depends on where you live for example before I move to current location I was 92 kms 55ish miles from a decent shopping location so yes I shopped once every 2 weeks and some people on stations (ranches) may only shop monthly due to distance
In Australia fireworks are illegal
thank you thank you thank you
@@Twano2am you are quite welcome
Aus still 💩 😂😂😂
I think fireworks are still legal in NT...
We go to our cousins house when we have no more food
400 a week for like a 2 or 3 bedroom house for a 1 bedroom it's like 200 unless you get government assisted housing hnz it's 69 dollars a week
Idek how our family still got a roof with the cost of living. Like New Zealand bouta fall into a cost of living crisis
Bro im on 40 bucks and hr directional drilling bruv im clearing like 1500 a week bruv but doing about 50 hours a week.. But im off to aus next month to earn more money
You're really smart, open minded and pretty in-tuned with alota things bro or just your assumptions are pretty accurate without being judgemental haha. Good on you
Preciate you
I want Sams in NZ! That looks amazing! Totally jealous.
First home owner at 28yo with my fiance and help from parents (20%) for a good first home at $680k
I only know one person who legitimately saved his way to a deposit with zero help from. But that dude literally complains if anything cost over $5 😂 personally i feel my savings over 1.5 years was good ($35k), but i know I'm out here saving double the normal person.
New Zealand just isn't big on consumerism. We stay low-key and like to live clean ☺️
for real i hate having to cook all the time bruh. Literally would prefer packaged food so i use less time cooking food.
i think it comes down to whats important our homes are everything our kids our grandkids a home means alot here, going out to eat is like second to having a bbq at home or a sit down meal...package meals are disgusting period we're not allowed alot of ingredients here due to it being unhealthy so our package meals are shit i wish they were better im a lazy cook which brings me to lazy hell yea we can be lazy af if we wana be...we only just got rid of plastic bags it sucks they replace them with paperbags..nothing beats homemade baking seriously❤❤❤you can eat like a king in otara for $4 wat u talkn bout LOL
Guy Fawks is fireworks day. 5 November
Our minimum wage is over 20$ an hour. But every ones wage is calculated to their skills.
well my fridge choke a block and my cubed to so ye
Nah Bro, organise a working visa over here online, Research it Bro, and come on a working holliday for a year, As a test whether you like it or not ? American Kiwi may help you seems like she's helping other Americans. Plus Cosco has just openned in West Auckland on the 28th Sept 22
Manuka honey (bush honey) originates from New Zealand.
Yes we have full organic products and manuka honey lol
we use fireworks on guy fawkes day its on 5th of november
300k is small... a standard new home is 500k limit.. existing home is 400k
Kanuka honey is what you havent had.Micro plastics are now found in everyone s bloodstream,bulk processed foods still is not good when chemicals range from fetal matter to hormones.
Do remember though she’s feeding a family of six and living here.. if your just gonna come for holiday you’ll be fine.. and yes bing sucks
Inflation has gone up.
To live here is expensive. Best to just come for a holiday and see for yourself. Renting is expensive here plus your paying utilities plus water rates. I wouldn't recommend living here unless you get a really high paying job that will suit your lifestyle, can pay your expenses & allows you to save $$$. If you have passive income to supplement your oncome great. In addition there is the risk of being locked down by our government if there is a pandemic. There are some good things about our country too. If you decide to live here I think you will have to submit to your IRS as well as pay tax here.
Most young will flat with others and split the cost of rental, shared utilities like your power etc
She's got 6 kids. You wont have to bake !! but housing is dear.