Swapping AMERICA For NEW ZEALAND (But Was It What You Hoped For??)
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
- Moving to New Zealand from the US? You will LOVE this guest.
Sheri is a nurse from the USA. Early this year she moved to New Zealand with her husband Dan to start a new life. Is it possible, for a couple in their late fifties to leave everything behind, move to the other side of the world and create a new life in New Zealand?
It certainly is!
In this week's show, I talked with Sheri. Sheri is a member of our private NZ Ahead Community.
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Sheri and her husband Dan spent the past thirty years building a comfortable life together for themselves and their family.
And then two of her children moved to New Zealand. So what did Dan and Sheri do? They followed...
This is her story.
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Thank you SO much to our lovely Sheri for sharing the details of her big move to NZ. Isn't she wonderful?!
Sheri is a member of our private NZ Ahead Community.
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I had the pleasure of working with Sheri when she moved here in Nz. She is an amazing lady and colleague!. And soo humble didn't know that she was a director.
Oh fabulous! Small world!! 🥰
I am Indian moved to USA in 2010, waited a lot to get greencard . In 2020 we decided to trash our American dream and moved to nz.unexpectedly me and my husband got nice jobs we are both from IT industry. We are enjoying here other than expensive house. Sorry to mention we also bought a house
Welcome to NZ Sheri and Dan. If Dan is a handy person, and wants to meet people, check out the men's sheds. Quite often they make things for the community, and friendships are forged at community levels. 😀❤
What a pleasure to have such experienced and lovely people here. Welcome to you and your family.
Yah, one daughter in Helensville, how cool. Neat place to be.
Thank you Ivy 😊
What a pleasant lady Sheri is. I really hope New Zealand works out well for her and her family.
Thank you, we really appreciate your kind and warm welcome 😊
I'm a New Zealander who lived abroad for 23 years and when I came back to NZ, it was like starting from ground zero. I didn't have a network and had to build from scratch. I was lucky to get a job after a month and then went to work on building a network and skills that NZ wants. I have been able to advance, after a few years trying. I feel that most people will be able to prove their worth after coming here and advance their careers. It's about getting a feel for what is valued here. (BTW I'm also over 55.)
Thanks for taking the time to share John, I'm so glad that you found Sheri's story interesting. Have a lovely weekend! 😊
Thank for sharing your experience. I've been overseas for most of the last 30 years and heading "home" in 7 weeks - and I can't wait!
I am in the same situation so yes excited and interested to see what happens in the job market.
Loved that video Liz, defs need an update later in the year, love the American perspective on moving to NZ. Sheri is so lovely, hang in there girl! Grandmothers are literally the best!
Thanks so much Tim, gorgeous isn't she? I think me and Sheri could have talked for hours 😊 Glad that you liked it and thank you for your warm welcome! Liz
Well done Sheri, all the best
I so enjoyed this! We emigrated from South Africa in 2017 and it's been a huge adjustment. We have no family here and that's the biggest challenge.
Thank you Paula - Jayne, we are so glad that you enjoyed it. Remember that you can always talk to us if you feel lonely ❤️
Welcome !!!
I trust you are enjoying our beautiful land ! 💕🇿🇦
I bet the word Grandma and pop pop are the only word needed to make a smile beam form our 2 new kiwi grandparents, Kia ora to you two, and if granddad is milling about around the house, i bet the littlings would be happy to have him come tell a story at their school. Also Thank-you for coming to NZ to use your experience to help out new little kiwis make it safely through their first few days.
How are you doing today ❤️ beautiful..
Thank you for this lovely warm welcome. We appreciate you 😊
Great interview.............Congratulations, Sheri and Dan. I hope NZ turns out to be everything you hoped for. We are 66 and 73 and currently packing our home of 43 years in order to move to NZ to be with our one and only child, grandchild and SIL. Boy, what a process. We are still awaiting to hear from INZ. We applied for the Parent Retirement Resident Visa in May and have yet to hear any word. Very nerve-racking to say the least. We will ship a 20 ft container with our belongings. We have our tickets for Aug 2nd and will travel on a Travel Visa if our Visa doesn't come thru before then. We are fortunate that we will be living in our daughter's home while they sail from US back to NZ so we won't need to find a rental . It will be strange to be in NZ on our own while our family will not be here for 9mths to a Yr while they sail to NZ. Our friends all say we are very brave and courageous to do this at our age and sometimes I say either that or crazy. :)
I agree with your friends Sherree, you ARE brave and courageous and it is exciting to watch as you move into this next adventurous part of your life. 🥰
Welcome to NZ ladies & your families, it is so nice welcome people who have chosen to live here and contribute to our communities! As a retired nurse I welcome a ‘Colleague’ & wish you well. It seems you have nursing management skills which will eventually find you in a position here which will best utilise your skill set. What an adventure! Congratulations to you all. It seems Liz is giving new immigrants an opportunity to be part of a supportive community. Well done & again welcome!
Thank you so much Shirley, both for watching and for taking the time to leave such a supportive and welcoming comment. We really appreciate you very much. 🥰
Thank you for choosing to bring your skills to Nz ,I hope that your move works out well for you guys ,and you make our little country
Your home too
Great interview. Welcome to Sheri and Dan. You are absolutely right, at the end of the day it’s all about family and creating new memories. Glad to have you part of our community :)))
Thank you for this warm welcome 🥰
Fantastic video Liz and Brian. Welcome Sheri and Dan to beautiful NZ. Must be wonderful having your grandchildren nearby. Look forward to an update in the future.
Thanks so much for this wonderful and warm welcome and yes! An update is definitely on the cards! 🥰
Has Sheri looked across the harbour at Thames, she can get on the ferry to go across to Auckland to visit her daughters but it's cheaper than living in Auckland.
When I had my children in the North Island, I didn't make any milk, so the hospital gave my two children claustrum from other mothers for the first 4 days, and I bottle fed my children.
Kiwi greetings from Sydney Australia.
Thanks so much for watching Heather and for taking the time to say hi, sending love to Sydney! 🇦🇺🥰
Welcome to New Zealand ma'am. Lol...one of the amusing things l find about people who immigrate to New Zealand from the US (and other northern hemisphere regions) as far as assimilating into Kiwi culture, is that some do it a little more seamlessly than others.
I've met 2 Bostonian woman who have been here 20 and 8 years respectively. The former is 'has' 'acclimated' to our summertime Christmases.
The latter...well she still hasn't gotten accustomed to the extended daylight saving warm/hot Christmas hours here.
That's something else your guest will have to 'acclimate' to moving forward, and this past Christmas would definitely have been 'different' in that respect.
Thanks for sharing ladies.
Have a nice day.
Thank you so much for watching and for taking the time to say hi! We really appreciate you being here with us and are glad that you enjoyed the chat 😊
Amazing amazing, to listen to your life experiences, as a nurse-midwife I can truly feel that sense of gratitude.
Thank you Ireen, we are so glad that you enjoyed the chat 😊 Have a lovely week x
Welcome to New Zealand, you are now officially a kiwi. I have a lot of respect for you and your husband leaving everything you know to move to the other side of the world especially since you left behind family. We are very lucky in New Zealand that we such amazing people who are willing to come and live here. Listening to you speak has made me think that New Zealanders may not realise the sacrifices you have made to come and live here. I really hope that you either start your own UA-cam channel or come back on this channel to update us on how you are doing. Thank you so much for sharing your story with us, you are so inspirational. Xx
What a beautiful comment Amy, thank you so much for this lovely warm welcome 🥰
@@ItsaDrama it's important for me to make others welcome and I believe that just because we were born in one country doesn't mean we don't have a right to live elsewhere if that is what we choose to do. There can be so much negativity in the world so I try to counteract it by looking at the positivity in anything and everything possible. Sheri was such a lovely person and I think it's important that as New Zealanders we understand that people moving here add to our country instead of taking anything away. I'm only new to your channel but I already love it as you and Brian are naturally hilarious together and you both are excellent storytellers. I'm having a tough time at the moment because I lost my Mum to cancer on Boxing Day 2020 and on the 27th of January this year I found Dad had unexpectedly passed away in his sleep. I was lucky to not only have them for parents but they were also my best friends. I've been sick since I was a child but Eleven years ago when I was 32 my life long specialists gave me two years at the most to live which was realistic-considering my extensive health history so we all thought I'd pass away first and here I am still here fighting each day to stay alive and it's channels and people like the two of you who keep me entertained when I have to stay in bed. You distract me when I'm in pain and feeling down and so I want thank you for doing that for me. I hope that all the arrangements and packing for your 6 months trip is going well. I'm so excited to see what you do and comparisons between the different way of live. Xx
Another great vid Liz.👍🏻
Keep them coming.❤
Thank you Sam! As always we appreciate you being here with us 😊 Have a great weekend!
Welcome to New Zealand. I really hope that the homesickness is not too bad. It’s huge, but it will be worth it. I have family in the states they were born here but have lived in the US since the early 80s. Things are starting to go downhill there now. I worry about them. All the best in your nursing ! I’m a nurse too. You will make it back to the top again. In fact it is a good way for you to understand the front line and the way things work here xx well done x
Thank you so much for watching and for taking the time to leave such a welcoming comment 😊 We really appreciate you being here with us. Thank you 😘
Wow that was quick... hope Sheri can get herself grounded... then hopefully her work experience might land her that leadership roll.. by the way like your gardens around your home 👍... i wonder if building maybe a cheaper option than buying.
Thank you for watching and for being here with us! Have a lovely weekend 😊
Great conversation ladies! Sheri, best wishes form N.Cal. Awesome that you are just doing it!
Loved listening to your video Liz talking to Sheri. Good Luck with your NZ venture Sheri. Hope you are enjoying the Whangaparoa - Stanmore Bay area. I used to live between Stanmore Bay and Red Beach and went to school in Orewa. My family sold up and left many years ago to move to UK. I am currently living in UK my sister lives in NZ and now my son and family live in Australia. I understand how hard it is missing close family and grandchildren!!!!! My husband and I are now retired so hoping when all restrictions lifted etc we can travel freely to Australia and NZ very soon with no problems!!!!!!
Good luck with your job Sheri and keep up the good chats Liz.
Love listening to them while it’s windy and wet outside !!!!!! X
Thank you so much Jane for this lovely comment and for your warm welcome to Sheri. Being away from family is so hard and I hope that you are able to get to see your sister and your son 🥰 Keep wrapped up over there in chilly Blighty (and please make sure that the sun is shining when we arrive in May...🤣) x
Having OZ nearby makes life easier...
I really enjoyed this.
So glad Stephen! Thank you 😊
Hello sir/ madam!
I like your videos, I’m here at Canada for 17 years and just applying for and just waiting for a job offer that hoping to be drawn in at New Plymouth! Thanks for video!
Kia ora and thank you for stopping by and saying hi! Best of luck with your move 😁
Kia ora and thank you for stopping by and saying hi! Best of luck with your move 😁
You're lucky, most nurses coming from overseas have to do a Two month CAP course here before going into a hospital
Another neat show Liz.
Thank you so much Ross, I could have nattered away to Sheri for hours! 😁
Try a tiny house then you can move your house when your ready to move .and a you can have a different view every couple of months who by a piece of land where you can extend your tiny house if needed.
Welcome to NZ. Americans seem to fit in here well.
So expensive here in NZ for houses compared to USA.
Good morning Liz, now that was a fantastic interview, Sheri is lovely 🤗 gosh what a move from 'the American dream' to the land downunder, I really hope they love it here and find their dream home, I was amazed they sold 3 homes, cars, everything they had and still not enough to buy a home here, gosh NZ is becoming impossible to buy a home and now the banks have increased the interest just to make it more impossible "Good luck to them honestly" so happy for the mokopuna to see Nan Nan and pop pop and their kids having ma & pa here, fantastic Sheri is a nurse, maternity that's great NZ need more, I believe if you can live in America and that's a pretty hard out Country they can do it here in Aotearoa 🇳🇿 thanks Liz and have a beautiful day ✌🏽😎👍🏽
What a gorgeous comment Meg, thank you as always for your support and for making Dan and Sheri feel welcome in Aotearoa, she's gorgeous isn't she?! Sending you lots of love x 🇳🇿 Liz
@@ItsaDrama Right back atcha 🤗 enjoy your weekend ✌🏽 🌌
Dan & Sheri if your reading this "Welcome to NZ 🇳🇿 🕊️
The NZ government surely dropped the ball regarding the control over the real estate prices. They have let it run rampant regarding house prices.
They're far from the only ones, it's a problem in a lot of places (including quite a few that don't even have a shortage of existing housing!), as one of the main driving forces is the idea of housing being an 'investement' rather than a 'necessity' driving speculation (which drives the prices up even without the more 'legitimate' causes of such being relevant). It's been described as a bubble for a reason, the problem is that when you combine it with an Actual shortage of housing, the bubble doesn't Pop (and a bubble with so many people's wealth sunk into it poping is bad enough on it's own, economically speaking
Liz, you should bs a recruiter at Immigration New Zealand. Where do you find all these fantastic people
We are just very very lucky that THEY find us!! Because of this channel and our podcast we have had the pleasure of making friends with so many lovely people - including yourself of course! We feel very privileged to be able to bring these people together to help and support each other 🥰 Have a wonderful weekend my friend, Liz
Your husband could find a Men'"s Shed or join an interest group.Mahalo
Thanks for watching Denise 😊
I had an American dream too but then I got disillusioned quickly. I still think how the butterfly effect would take it's course, had we stayed in Boston.
I bet Iceland is glad that you left the US too Vik! I would love to hear more about your life and hope that one day we can meet!
A month ago it wasn't in my head to move countries,but here I am working in Scotland at a completely new job,so I can relate to starting over. It's not as big a move as US to NZ but it just happened so fast I've not really had time to process it all. I don't know if it's from watching this channel but growing up in NZ,I'd never known of Americans moving over to NZ,but is it a thing now? I keep coming across other US channels dedicated to moving to NZ, it gives the impression that a lot of US citizens are moving over there or to the UK,Aus and others,I wonder if there's any figures to back it up?
I'm not sure about figures but I do know that we have a lot of Americans in our private moving to NZ community.
And your big news!! From Dorset to Scotland that's a pretty big move my friend!! I hope that it is all going well and that you enjoying yourself 🏴🥰 Liz
Yeah we have about the same amount of migrants from the United States as we do South Korea, Tonga, and Scotland.
Kia ora Sheri and Dan, welcome to Aotearoa New Zealand Godzone, I truly hope slowing down to our pace of life doesn't hit you too hard, it's a major divergence from what you're used to I'm guessing, but hey "Welcome to your new home"
Thank you for this warm welcome my friend 🥰 x
@@ItsaDrama If Brian doesn't post a pic from Goodison Park of you guys in Everton colours I'll be sad
WE say, tramping, NOT back packing, answer, NOT pick up,LEAFLETS,NOT flyer, just a few for you to get used to.
Look with all the experience all you people have setting up your own business will be quite on the cards not just for you all it’s not even funny and that’s not just for you but for all your entire family. Also the incentives available to you are mind boggling.
I am a native Māori NZer and the expertise you all bring to Aotearoa are unbelievably potential to you and your family.
Kia Ora (welcome) and Kia Kaha (more power to you) on your New Zealand journey.
Sheri works 4 streets way from me! Welcome! Worst designed hospital ever, North Shore. The general wards are shocking.
Small world! Thanks for watching and for taking the time to say hi! 😊
6 days in USA hospital… I thanked everyone! So to say Americans don’t say thank you is incorrect! B
I watched the whole video... and all I heard was "Puppy..." ... I like puppy, sorry lol
To be fair with the house prices there is a housing crisis ... but, the market is cooling... which is good. But it may be a while before it really cools off.
As for the 50 year old realising that items and things can be replaced and and not who you are... I have very few things that are classed momento, stuff from the navy and my motorcycle experiences... it may take up a box. Everything else meh what ever. (if that makes sense and yes I am in my 50's)
And yes "breast is best...", "every one needs a bosom to for a pillow..." there is a song in that somewhere... oh wait breast feeding... doh! that's a different subject... LOL
🤣 You crazy horse! Lovely to hear from you as always, I wish Bri would clear his shed out and let go of all of his sentimental things...(like old tins of paint and ripped tarpaulins) Then I'd have room to move all my stuff into there..😆 Have a great week!
As a Kiwi who lived in Auckland for 20 years, get out of Auckland. House prices elsewhere is way cheaper than Auckland. And kiwis tend to be more helpful out in the regions. I feel sorry for those that move here and don't have friends. It's hard because my wife and I love making new friends. If you move to Whanganui let me know, we can be friends 👍
My family is also in the process of planning a move. The thing is that most health sector job offers are for the Auckland area. When you are dependent on a job offer to secure a visa, it's not easy to choose outside Auckland. Maybe once settled it gets better...
@@albertopsi75 brother if you're in the health sector then the whole country is yours. We need medical staff everywhere. I understand stand that coming from overseas you need a job offer first. Maybe look at regions you like then ring the hospital there and ask. Or like you said get to Auckland then go from there. Good luck to you Alberto.
@@whanganuiward780 Thanks! Appreciate it!!!
Buy land.....and go tiny house.
About proving your qualifications- I'm no expert by any means, just that nz had some "doctors"- one was a "surgeon", last name Patel- everything about him was fraudulent. No one complained about him- as far as I know, in New Zealand. He ruined my people's bodies through the botch ups he did.
He left nz and did the same in Queensland Australia. He finally was prosecuted there. His "qualifications" were just accepted on face value and I suppose the Australians just accepted him out from New Zealand's "background" check. He wasn't qualified and people died.
I wonder because of these kinds of things, that checks now are so vigorous?
All the best, by the way.
I bet the first thing that you longed for was your firearm !!!
NOT !!!