5 Things You Won't Find in New Zealand | A Thousand Words 

Hooray for snake free hiking!

Thank you, I'm so glad I could help with 2020, it's been a beast of a year. Hope you have a peaceful and happy Christmas season and a much better year next year. x

Thanks, will do!

Glad you like them! Thanks for watching :)

Thanks for watching!

They are great! So glad they could help you. All the best with the rest of your journey, hope you are able to settle here soon.

Still holding out hope for IKEA, sadly Amazon is a distant dream.

You can get Amazon here but NZ is too small for Ikea.

An IKEA knock-off recently opened, as in a few months ago, and unfortunately is already in receivership :( Glad you love the Floral! I have enjoyed the Daisy and more recently Daisy Dream (blue with flowers on the bottle), hope that helps :)

in comparison to the US it is. one of the appeals of moving for me is not having to worry about mass shootings any time i'm out in public. just not a reality in NZ and that's how i want to live, feeling safe like that.

@@coolecology75 it is starting to go that way. We have had gangs shooting at each other in Napier and Auckland this year.

@@denisegore1884 that's scary and awful, i'm sorry to hear that

@@coolecology75 I don't mean to run down New Zealand but it just isn't as clean and safe as people are led to believe. The economic divide is widening rapidly and increased drug use is escalating crime and violence.

@@denisegore1884 no no, i appreciate your honesty! i think americans (myself included of course) tend to romanticize your country. the more realistic the picture the better. and i'm really sorry to hear that, that is stressful to be near that.

Yes, yes they are. In addition they have plans to open a design studio in Wellington and and slightly smaller store in Christchurch.

They bloomed and were pretty for a bit but then looked really scruffy (we had wind storms) so I pulled them out. I'm vlogging today so will show the bed - I left the California poppies.

Thank you, same to you! x

Yup, I hated living like that and could only see it getting worse (which it has) which is why we left :(

not true, they are very rare; there was a trend towards them in Auckland for a while, but demand didn't stack up, and certainly nonexistent in the provinces.

@@racketman2u well around the places in from the are many 24 hr shops that are open.. but true many places around don't have them

Me too!

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We pretty much just live normally - just wear masks on flights & use sanitiser & a tracing app when going into shops. Other than that, just normal life.

New cases coming in trickles through the border but are caught and contained there as you have to do 14 days in a hotel first. Haven't had community clusters or spread for months now. Go hard, save lives. It worked 😊

@@WinterWind I wish! People are so hard headed here. People not wearing masks, large get togethers, people not thinking this is a real thing. I just want to get it over with!

@@sarahr7279 we have the benefit (if you can call it that) of having seen what has happened overseas and what was happening before we locked down in March so I think that gave people some perspective and we trusted that the science was the only way to go with dealing with things

@@WinterWind i think it's wonderful! I hope the situation stays the same for you. Unfortunately, I think we have a long way to go.🙁🙏

Fuckn oath it is that shit saved me so many times at like 4am in welly

There are no 24/7 pharmacies in my area but it's possible that there are in bigger cities - pretty sure you could probably find one in Auckland, but I don't know for sure.

Emergency departments at hospitals are open

Where? I've never seen one anywhere and I often travel at night!

@@sitaramorgenster1041 www.nightnday.co.nz/stores All over New Zealand. Been around for years! I was going to one in Dunedin 30 years ago. Map on that link above.

@@beeutiffle Wow!! Thanks so much :))

@@sitaramorgenster1041 Christchurch has a 24 hour bakery - Buns on Ferry Road. Enjoy.

@@beeutiffle Hehe, thanks! I live near Kaitaia but I'll be going on a roadie again soon :))

Depends on where you go - it's pretty temperate where I live (Taranaki) - seldom gets down to 0 Celcius.

The South Island is quite cold, but near Nelson it’s warmer.

Yes, but some areas not so much, ask the locals about the areas you want to visit.

Of cos considering many other countries

Or an Aussie thinking they invented the Lamington.

Of course, we have spiders. The spiders used in the film "Arachnophobia" were from New Zealand.

@@maccladoz 😳 nope don’t like that ☹️

We do, but none of them are venomous

Yes of course, we have people from all over the place in the world who have moved here. But among the people I live and work and socialise with in NZ we don't talk about someone being black or brown or white etc. If you're a citizen, or have just lived here quite a number of years, then you're a Kiwi. You might have Nigerian or Ugandan or Chinese or Indian or Turkish or Irish or French or what-have-you family history or culture and when we draw distinctions it's more an acknowledgment of the different cultures we have and the different places we or our families came from than the colour of our skin. What's interesting about someone is the kinds of foods they eat and holidays they celebrate and so on. It's probably because one thing we all have in common, even our indigenous people, is that we undertook long journeys from far away across the sea to get here. The Maori (sorry my Maori friends, I don't know how to put the macron in!) only arrived sometime a little over 700 years ago (we currently think) - so for virtually everyone in NZ it's not really very long ago our ancestors came here, even if we were born here ourselves. You'll find the greatest concentrations of different cultural communities in the larger cities and the further south you go the less diverse it gets, broadly speaking. (It takes those with things like the hardy Scots genes to stand the cold winters down there - cold by NZ standards that it is - people from warmer climes tend to like the North Island climate a bit better, that's my tongue-in-cheek working theory anyway). :-)

People of Pacific Island descent are more common than African descent but we have a multicultural society. Auckland is the most diverse and other cities are less so. Some places it would be quite rare to have a large ethnic population that isn't NZ European.

I'm so sorry you have had that experience! I am anti-racist, people are people and it's their choices that define them, not the colour of their skin

@@AThousandWords Amen please keep up the good work we enjoy your channel so much