Immigration! - Page 3

tuigirl · #31 03-29-2008, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by mylittledemon

Well NZ IS more expensive. If you are earning foreign currency and coverting it to NZ $, then you are ok. For example...here in town I can get two Jack and Cokes at a bar for $6. In NZ you'd pay $7-$8 for one. McDonalds value meals in NZ are nearly 1/3 more than what they are here. DVDs and CDs are about double what they cost in the US. Housing isn't cheap...especially in a city like Wellington.

Oh gawd blimey, don't tell me it's too expensive!! (hmmm...things must have changed since I was last there!!!) Can't be as bad as the UK surely? No, it's fatal to convert it back to a currency that you know before (if you know what I mean). Hopefully the cost of things you buy are relevant to the wages you get.Your'e still a student though aren't you Brandon?

**mylittledemon** · #32 03-30-2008, 12:48 AM

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Oh gawd blimey, don't tell me it's too expensive!! (hmmm...things must have changed since I was last there!!!) Can't be as bad as the UK surely? No, it's fatal to convert it back to a currency that you know before (if you know what I mean). Hopefully the cost of things you buy are relevant to the wages you get.Your'e still a student though aren't you Brandon?

haha...well i think it's fairly expensive. Unless you're making at least $18 an hr you probably wont be doing that well.

Me a student? No way...those days are long since over for me. Although I am always learning something. It may not prove useful, but it's something! hahaha

tuigirl · #33 03-30-2008, 07:26 AM

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Me a student? No way...those days are long since over for me. Although I am always learning something. It may not prove useful, but it's something! hahaha

Oh shoot Brandon, I can't keep up with you! At least I know your'e now married

So did you graduate and all that? Media studies as I remember at Massey?

**mylittledemon** · #34 03-30-2008, 01:41 PM

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Oh shoot Brandon, I can't keep up with you! At least I know your'e now married

So did you graduate and all that? Media studies as I remember at Massey?

Actually I am an Audio Engineer...and my degree is being labeled as a "Sound Technician" by NZ standards. Of course I'm not really USING my skills here Stateside, but...

darklinensuit · #35 03-31-2008, 04:56 AM

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Anyone else moved to another country and had difficulties...? Or complete ease?

Just Texas, and language was the chief obstacle.

Good luck with the process.

- Jake

**mylittledemon** · #36 03-31-2008, 07:37 AM

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Just Texas, and language was the chief obstacle.

Good luck with the process.

- Jake

haha...yeah that southern drawl is an experience. You moved to TX from where..?

Gailh · #37 03-31-2008, 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by tuigirl

Yet every Tom, Dick and Harry from Europe can stay as long as they like practically, claim benefits from the state for kids staying back home and generally faff about to their hearts content

As we're part of the EU most EU citizens can come here and work (as we can in other EU countries) but I don't think they can claim benefits until they have been working here for a year.

I watched a programme on TV the other night and they filmed outside a Job Centre and asked some young men, who were there to "sign on" to claim their benefits if they wanted work picking Butternut Squash at Â£7 an hour along side some immigrant workers but non of them wanted the work. One of the young men asked had previously moaned about "all these foreigners taking our jobs"

Gail

Stew_Matthews · #38 03-31-2008, 09:32 AM

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I watched a programme on TV the other night and they filmed outside a Job Centre and asked some young men, who were there to "sign on" to claim their benefits if they wanted work picking Butternut Squash at Â£7 an hour along side some immigrant workers but non of them wanted the work. One of the young men asked had previously moaned about "all these foreigners taking our jobs"

Gail

You identify an interesting contradiction. Some Britons complain at the number of migrant workers travelling from Poland and elsewhere in Eastern Europe to take up jobs in the UK. Yet many of these jobs will otherwise remain empty because Britons are not prepared to take them. Pay and conditions are usually cited for this. Whether the welfare system promotes a â€˜is it worth my whileâ€™ approach from some or whether the jobs are badly paid, I donâ€™t know. Certainly the â€˜minimum wageâ€™ was meant to prevent excessively low pay.

In my experience this isnâ€™t just a problem in Britain. Working in China, they were always complaining about Vietnamese, Cambodian and Korean workers taking jobs (that the Chinese wouldnâ€™t in fact take). In the Middle East it was the Indians to blame and here in the US it seems to be Mexicans and other residents of Central Americaâ€¦â€¦â€¦........oh and probably me as well!

**mylittledemon** · #39 03-31-2008, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Stew_Matthews

You identify an interesting contradiction. Some Britons complain at the number of migrant workers travelling from Poland and elsewhere in Eastern Europe to take up jobs in the UK. Yet many of these jobs will otherwise remain empty because Britons are not prepared to take them. Pay and conditions are usually cited for this. Whether the welfare system promotes a â€˜is it worth my whileâ€™ approach from some or whether the jobs are badly paid, I donâ€™t know. Certainly the â€˜minimum wageâ€™ was meant to prevent excessively low pay.

In my experience this isnâ€™t just a problem in Britain. Working in China, they were always complaining about Vietnamese, Cambodian and Korean workers taking jobs (that the Chinese wouldnâ€™t in fact take). In the Middle East it was the Indians to blame and here in the US it seems to be Mexicans and other residents of Central Americaâ€¦â€¦â€¦........oh and probably me as well!

Perhaps there are levels of surivival that some people just aren't willing to accept. I know here in America, most people wouldn't want to a) Work on a farm b) be a garbage man c) work in a convenience store d) work in fast food e) "work in the fields"...All those jobs that other people (many Hispanics who come from Mexico) are willing to do so that they can live in America and have something more than a menial existence.

Gailh · #40 03-31-2008, 10:41 AM

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Perhaps there are levels of surivival that some people just aren't willing to accept. I know here in America, most people wouldn't want to a) Work on a farm b) be a garbage man c) work in a convenience store d) work in fast food e) "work in the fields"...All those jobs that other people (many Hispanics who come from Mexico) are willing to do so that they can live in America and have something more than a menial existence.

That's a good point. there are certain jobs that I wouldn't want to do. However I would do them for a short period just to pay the bills.

Gail

kathy1 · #41 03-31-2008, 10:42 AM

what kind of jobs are out there? do you have any idea what you will be doing out there?

**mylittledemon** · #42 03-31-2008, 12:26 PM

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what kind of jobs are out there? do you have any idea what you will be doing out there?

I interviewed with Park Road Post, which is in Miramar. It's Peter Jackson's (WETA) audio engineering location. They had offered me a position among 3 other new hirees in late 2006 to start on the HALO project. It was subsequently cancelled...my visa was up in June 2007 so I ended up having to leave because I couldnt get a job offer in my "field." I can only hope this time around that I can make it happen.

Renee works financial aid/student advisor sort of thing at a local university. She could get work just about anywhere I'd imagine.