New Zealand

It's hard to find a job. It took me a month to get a crappy gig as a graphic designer and then six months to find work as a design engineer. Nobody responds to CVs, you just have to talk to people. Wages aren't great, but then again, it's incredibly cheap to live in Dunedin.

There are loads of pros to NZ, although this is purely from the perspective of living in Dunedin:

• Completely unpretentious, nobody cares what car you drive or what brands you wear
  
• Ordinary working folk can buy a 3-bed house in their 20s
  
• Good weather, coming from the UK
  
• No traffic jams, ever
  
• You know your neighbours
  
• In fact, you know everyone - I suppose this is what a community feels like
  
• Ordinary people can help effect change in their community
  
• Everybody leaves work at 5pm
  
• Otago is incredibly safe, I remember hearing on the radio that it has one of the lowest violent crime rates in the world
  
• You can go on real adventures to truly wild places
  
• Stunningly beautiful on a daily basis, even just riding to work
  
• The roads are really wide and there are no potholes
  
• You can buy some cheap land, build a holiday cabin on it, and the government won't stop you
  
• People have a can-do attitude
  
  

Some or none of these may apply in other places in NZ. Some of them apply in some places in the UK.

Can people stop replying to this thread? It is making me want to go back.