American Reacts To 15 Reasons Why New Zealand is the best Country in the World! 

The high cost of cigarettes is actually not an economic situation but a public health one. Some years ago, a massive tax was put on tobacco products to discourage smoking because of the health implications

The black sand is soft but gets hellish hot in summer. Swimming/surfing in the morning and skiing on Mt Taranaki in the afternoon. Perfect.

The sand is iron sand common on the west coast of NZ The golf club is Fitzroy Golf Club and is $20 for green fees and $450 for a one year membership

Not only do I live in New Zealand. I live the Far North - it is beyond beautiful. The beaches are clean and often you have it to yourself. The other day on the spur of the moment I picked up two German hitchhikers and drove them to Cape Reinga. It was a perfect day as you could see the green Tasman meet the Blue Pacific Ocean.

Milford sound 1000 waterfalls. Just outside of the milford tunnel. Go when its raining and youll see mountains ceting waterfalls.....bloody amazing!!!!

A kiwi here and this is an incredible country to live in. I think that most kiwis feel very lucky to live here. Yes we have our problems like any country, but the positives far outweigh the bad.

I live in Matamata and we recently decided it was weird that Hobbiton is 15 minutes away but we have never been. But at $180 a head for lunch, we'll wait till someone has a birthday ;) Also, we are farmers and our farm is hilly as, complete with cliffs and even a mini waterfall. You would be surprised what a tractor can do, and sheep can go anywhere!

I grew up in Auckland in the 80s and back then it was awesome but now it's overpopulated. I now live in Taranaki and love it.

That is Fitzroy Golf Course, New Plymouth. $20 NZD per round.

I live comfortably in NZ. Good income ,good food,safe environment, free schools, free medical, beautiful Māori culture & beautiful scenery Golf fes are generally $20-50 per day.

Cigarette sales basically fund our public health system. They are very heavily taxed.

I live in Dunedin in NZ's far south. The city's has been described as being a little like if San Francisco had been built in Vermont. From where I am it's less than an hour's drive to rugged coastlines, surf beaches, native forests, and rolling hills, and only a little bit further to the mountains and lakes - Queenstown is about four hours' drive away. That view at 2:10 is the city of New Plymouth in the western North Island, with Mount Taranaki in the background (and green fees on that course are $45 for 18 holes!) Auckland's the biggest metropolitan area, but life is a lot better in many ways in the other main cities - they have everything you need from a city, but are still "small town friendly". And yes, all of the Lord of the Rings trilogy was filmed around New Zealand. A NZ dollar is about 60c US. The ferry trip is expensive, but it's a great trip - except if the sea is rough! Then it can be... interesting.

Thank you for the compliments about NZ. The town where you showed the golf course is New Plymouth where I live. There is another similar Golf course on this side of the river too. I don't play golf but i belong to a club that uses their vacilities. I think a round golf is like 15 or 20 bucks, you could rock up any time of the week and play and visitors are always welcome according to the signage on the building I've seen.

You can definitely buy food cheaper. Just depends where you shop. The ferry ride between the two islands takes approx 3 hours, maybe a bit more. Yes the ferry carries cars and trucks on board. People do farm on hills here. Maybe more in the South Island. Enjoying your videos.

I am s0 proud of our country and also a very proud maori to be living in such a beautiful country. As a Māori kaumatua [an elder] we try very hard to install into our matatiki [chidren ]and mokos [grand child how to look after our environment which is very precious to our culture.yes it is one of the wonders of the world and we would welcome you with open arms So come and visit . I My whanau [meaning family] Ill keep in touch god bless darling Jan

The Golf club is Fitzroy Golf Club in Taranaki, the green fees are $20 play as much as you want for the day which is about $11 US ...crazy cheap

The reason cigarettes are so expensive is that are taxed to oblivion to coerce people to give up smoking. I'm an Aucklander and yes most people in NZ live in suburbs. And yes I have been to "Hobbiton", I worked there one day when Stephen Colbert was out there. The owner of the farm (which is a working farm) that "Hobbiton" is built on gets half the tourist $ and Peter Jackson gets the other half as the 'rights' holder.

The black sand is just as comfortable as white sand. It’s just a natural quirk… iron sand.

Kiaora - Maori Kiwi New Zealand born, and proud of our Country. Bro! Your reactionary video was great! The video emphasizing was very HDR, so didn't need so much colour. We have blue skies, beautiful landscapes and in light free areas the Milky Way system - that would memorize the beholder. That said, Come over Bro and bring the Whanau (Family).

New Zealand was the 1st country in the world to give a river Human Rights Status. The Whanganui River.

I was on a cruise of Australia and New Zealand recently and visited half a dozen cities in NZ. A couple of more reasons why NZ is the best country in the world is it's a very clean place. There isn't a lot of trash in the streets or on the sidewalks. Also, I didn't see one homeless person, or I didn't see anyone who looked homeless. I'm not saying they aren't there but, I didn't see any, even in Auckland. You can go to any mid to large size city in the USA and the bigger the city, the more homeless camps you see. Not just homeless, but entire communities of those without a house is the norm in the USA. New Zealand is the closest thing to paradise on earth.

it's black sand... has a higher iron concentration... feels exactly the same as normal sand to walk on if not actually softer to walk on (except on an extremely sunny day when it is baking hot on bare feet) Black sand is generally found mostly on west coast beaches in the North Island where the east coast is predominantly golden sand beaches!

The farm at 13 minutes is dairy with the circular milking shed. Also flying to Australia is about 3 hours in a jet plane - over 2000 km's

LORD OF THE RINGS was filmed all in new zealand and lord of the rings has some of the best action and just remember it came out the early 2000's so I love lodr

Bro it’s so funny every time a person not from nz tries to say the Māori words and places aka the guy from the video he was watching always says it so wrong so funny too

13:10 that's a dairy farm for milk production. Dairy is by far our main agricultural product, we produce a lot. 50% of all dairy products consumed in China come from New Zealand to put it in perspective. That building you notice in the bottom left is a milking shed. Most of NZ has no irrigation due to the consistent rainfall which is why it's so green, completely rain fed. Yes, it's real, it's a fairly typical looking NZ farm in the Waikato region if I was guessing. Of course, all this intensive dairy farming has a sizeable environmental impact, so it's not all sunshine.

That photograph with the mountain in New Plymouth,the mountain in the background is where the movie Last Samurai was filmed,Tom loved his time here,so did the rest of the actor's and film crew's unfortunately for us there has been a big influx of billionaires who have moved here, But to do that,they had to invest before being allowed , doing that stopped a lot of people, thinking,they could just show up,those wanting to move here,now have to have a skill we need,and you have to be under a certain age,and be healthy,so you or your family don't become a burden on our healthcare system,

That is pasture, probably dairy farms i live in Morrinsville, sourrounded by land like that. Our cows are grass fed year round....no winter barns, we get a few frosts here but no snow, need to go further south for any snow.

Check out 'Country Calender'. It's our most popular TV show for 50+ years. It's amazing.

That first place is my home town, that Fitzroy golf course and it’s 20 a round and houses are still cheap and the people are amazing.

That golf course is $350 per year. There are more golf courses per capita in NZ than anywhere else in the world, and a lot are public

The inter-island ferry is a great journey especially through the Marlborough Sound into or out of Picton. It is expensive with a car but that's the only way to do it with a car. There are flights and only take 30 minutes or so but the ferry is always busy showing that it is popular despite the cost

The ferry is called “the Interislander” which crosses the Cook straight, which is the mass of ocean between both North and South Islands.

The city I lived in up until my early 20s (Upper Hutt) covers 539.88 km2 (208.45 sq mi) and had an estimated population of 47,700 as of June 2022, with a population density of 88 people per km2. The city our family now lives in for the last 13 years (Masterton) covers 2300km2 / 888 miles2 with an estimated population of 27,000. Temperature wise, 13 yrs ago, average summer high was 24C (75F). Now, it's rather common to hit 32C (90F). I've never seen the LotR series either. Nor read the books. My wife and I are both just on 5'11"... 😏 We do have internal air travel.

17:21 yes there is spacing for vehicles ect.

LOTR was all filmed in nz, hobbiton shure here in waikato, other scenes around our volcanoes, south island etc

(Also the farm you are looking at is a dairy farm, which we have a lot of)

Awesome reaction bro. Those are rugby fields and parks in the 1st clip. It would cost around $70 US for a round of golf here in NZ. Most courses have views like that

12:45 - "look at THAT....", yes, all that beautiful rolling green was at the cost of millions of birdlife and millions of acres of forest - people tend to forget this. They see beautiful green farmland, owned by a handful of people - vs what was there prior to this... relatively beautiful desert of birds and other animals. The cost of keeping that beautiful greenery is over saturation of fertiliser that washes into rivers, streams and water supply. This IS changing, slowly, but it is changing - sadly, the farms will either remain, or become carbon sink pine forests for economical reasons.

The golf course at the 3min mark is the Fitzroy Golf Club. $20 nzd for a days golfing

Welcome to N.Z. Make sure you go to Twizel in Summer and Fall. Waitaki lakes districts is pretty cool too and great for salmon and trout fishing.

Farming mainly and some cropping fields Orcharding on the other hand is on another level which if you’re interested, I can share some of my experiences in the orcharding world here in the land of milk and honey and kiwifruit haha Much love 13:17

In Auckland you are near the west coast as well as the east coast. You can be on the east coast in the morning and go to the west coast in the afternoon.

It’s 3-4 hour flight to Australia from New Zealand. Definitely no ferry there. Nobody would commute on a daily basis between the North and South Islands. Our fuel is expensive here because there is a huge tax component to fund roading maintenance and new roads. I love watching clips like this, makes me appreciate what we have. But they also almost never show we have towns and cities like everywhere else. Wellington is our capital city. Napier where I’m from is world famous for our Art Deco architecture because 1831 earthquake flattened the entire business / shopping areas and had to be rebuilt over two years and that was the style chosen. We have large agricultural and horticultural industries so we are fairly self sufficient for a lot of food, although we trade a lot with other countries given the high quality of food and wine we produce. Your question around retirement here, to be entitled to superannuation payments from the government you have to work here at least ten years before retiring.

Im a New Zealander theres a couple of different ferry options i got across on the bluebridge one for $200 which is about 100 usd for 2 people and a car its not as luxury as the interislander ferry but still get the same scenery its currently $33.50 for the cheapest pack of 20 cigarettes here and petrol is around $3 per litre a little more for the premium fuel

New Zealand is the first place in the world to see the rise of a new day/year according to international time zones. 19:59

hey I am from new Zealand and you asked about the distance between the north and south island. well in fact- The cook strait is 22 km across at its narrowest point (between Cape Terawhiti and Arapawa Island),

That's Fitzroy golf club in new Plymouth. Full year membership is $450 per annum.

I’m a part Irish part Maori part English Kiwi born in Christchurch where I still live. We are lucky here and we love hosting people from everywhere. Please don’t think Auckland represents us all though. Because here in the South Island we are far more cruisey. And there is a ferry that crosses Cook strait between the islands twice daily.

Average cost of a loaf of bread in USA is $2.50 that is almost $4,00 NZ. Four dollars buys a very good quality of bread in NZ cheap bread is about $1,20 NZ. The farms you comment on are dairy farms . NZ grows grass year around that we feed to cattle and sheep producing meat wool and dairy goods. Fruit and vegges are plentiful and cheap in season not so out of season because we are a long way from any where. Crossing the cook straight is effectively an open ocean voyage the exposed nature of NZ can make our weather somewhat extreme. The old time sailors spoke of the roaring forties. The small gap between the north and south island channel the roaring forties winds blowing over the great southern ocean. Golf courses are every where plenty of small; local clubs and council owned courses that charge very little often with stunning scenery.

For the ferry you said you think like $100? I assume you meant in USD which would come to 160-170 NZD at the moment so it ain't far off. But there are I think 2 companies that run and you can get deals etc if you know to book in advance and of course depends on what type of trip you book and what car you have (if you have one). Even train carriages go on these ferries.

The whole movies were filmed there. The Director Peter Jackson is a New Zealander. Auckland is not the only city in NZ. Also low population but NZ in land area is bigger than the England and Scotland together in size. Also the distance across the Cook strait is 58 miles and yes there are ferry’s.

There shouldve been a #16....NZ doesnt have lions, snakes, crocs/aligators, scorpions, bears, large cats etc etc...basically there isnt much that can kill you here. You can happily wander anywhere and camp wherever you like without fear of our life - oh unless these some crazy nutter out there. Cross rivers, swim wherever you like, sit in long grasses and go undergound through caves..you'll be fine. Oh sure there is the odd shark but humans arent really on the menu. Camping and hiking (tramping) is huge in this country because of the lack of predators.

Yeah this is the New Plymouth Golf club and green fees are currently $45 NZD (Approx $30 USD) for 18 holes and $25 NZD (Approx $15 USD for 9 holes.

Blessing brother love your wairua(meaning your spirit when you herd us sing an you cryed it's your people oh that sand is soft

yes you can drive your car onto the ferry, and yes, its insanely expensive, can hold about 500 maybe more people on that ferry

That looks like Fitzroy Golf Club. Full playing Membership $450 per annum, $20 green fees per round.

the sand is "sand sand", It's just high in iron so appears black. The golf is only $20 for 18 holes and used to be on an honesty system.

The golf course at beginning is in New Plymouth, I think it is the Fitzroy course, not sure of price now wet I would be surprised if over $50:nz a round. It is a private course but most courses welcome visitors

It will cost you less than 2000 dollars to join a golf club in NZ , then you can play as many rounds as you want on your course, you will also be an affiliated member so cheaper fees if you play any other course, 50 dollars average. There are exclusive courses you can play at about 200 per round. These are very nice courses. Some of the best I have played are the country courses.

@17:20 (Ish) YES - they have a place for your cars! You can take cars across the straight.

Kiwi here, I love My Country

"That doesn't look like sand-sand." Yes, it's sand - ironsand, or black sand. It's bloody hot in summer to walk on barefoot, but other than the colour it's just ordinary sand. Course fees at the Fitzroy Golf Club (in the video) is $20 per game.

You need a Holden Commodore for those roads

Though it appears cost is excessive in NZ he hasn't taken into account the hourly rate in NZ compared to other countries including USA. The minimum in NZ is $23 compared to USA it's $7, but that does not mean you start off with minimum, if you have qualifications then obviously a worker would get more. I know some workers in different trades both professional and labouring get between $35 up to $52 p/hr. A wharfie depending where on the wharf he/she works gets between $43 - $52 p/hr, nurses get between $33 - $59 p/hr. A wharfie I know started at $39, passed all his licenses and each one he passed his hourly rate went up, from M - F he gets $53p/hr and if he works the weekend the rate is $65. Just saying 🤗

Green fees at the Fitzroy Golf Club (3:00) are $20.

My grocery bill for me alone, each week, is around $230 😳 I eat healthy and lots of vegetables so it’s VERY expensive! (I need to learn how to grow my own food! Lol). Cost of living here is insane… but I love my country. Yes, it is difficult to get residency or citizenship here. Great reaction. 🙂

Golf course is Fitzroy GC in New Plymouth - $20 NZD green fees is the cost.

The problem is that everyone is squashed in Auckland and because it is on the skinniest part of NZL it takes hours to get out of Auckland. So you either live in a crowded city or out with the sheep, mountains and beaches. PS- there is a reason it is green

Shhhhh Nz is stunning

9:18 Today, that is for quality bread + The cheapest would be approx $1.20 NZD which approx $0.75c USD.

Ciggies go up every year at the moment the cheapest 20z today is$34 but it's good because a lot of people quit.

About 4 hours on the ferry from North island to south island

I don't know much about it, but I know he has agreements of various types that include maybe all of the country, because it certainly involves government. The reason is Peter knew how far the success of the films would go, is going, will go. I think his agreements create many many opportunities for Kiwis in many industries and success for all seems to increase and evolve as time goes on.

That golf course is Fitzroy golf club in new Plymouth. $30 a round bro!! Lol.

A round of golf is $60 -$80 NZD, standard in NZ. So many golf courses here the price is very reasonable.

The picture looks like a normal paddock in New Zealand.

Small in population but distances are greater than you think.

Regarding the Lord of the Rings - watch the extended editions and loopholes are all closed. I'll guarantee you won't regret it if you've got what it takes to sit through a total of 12 hours of film. It's a 1200 page book so there's a lot to cover. And yes it was filmed entirely in NZ. All the landscapes are in NZ. All of the post production was done in NZ apart from a scene featuring white horses which was done by ILM, I think. Regarding the inter-island ferry. They're all roll on-roll off ferries so they take trains and cars. There is no more beautiful experience than cruising through the Marlborough Sounds into Picton on a good day. It's mind-blowingly stunning and would have you believe you were in somewhere like Norway. Where you see softly rolling green pastures it's dairy country. We have the worlds 2nd biggest dairy factory here. Regarding immigration: NZ is hard to reach and hard to get into. You can't just come here and hope for the best. Your best bet would be to get a job here with a letter of guaranteed employment from the employer. Once working here legally you can apply for residency, and after a while for citizenship. We like that NZ is hard to get to and hard to get into. Harder than Australia, I think, and this is because, like Australia, we have a generous welfare system paid for by the taxpayers and available to all NZ citizens. We have nationalised healthcare so hospital visits and stays cost me nothing more than what I've already paid in taxes. And, you might or might not have noticed that we have freedoms - America is not the only 'free' country on earth. We're free to live our lives rather than our fears.

The Isolation comments are a little odd considering it's faster to get to North America from NZ than from Australia, additionally modern air travel and the internet means there are very few truly isolated countries left.

Half hour flight or a choppy three and a half hour ferry ride across the Cook Strait, one of the world's roughest stretches of water.

Some of the video footage is NOT New Zealand. Those city scenes @ 18:17 are from Australia, first Sydney, the second may also be Sydney from a diff angle. @ 19:38 the mountain scene is from Europe, judging by the style of the house and also the pine trees. 99% of it IS New Zealand.

NZ, cud have all 4 seasons in the one day.There are hunting charters, where you can go from pig or deer hunting,, to fishing on the rocks, or deep sea, diving, etc.

I live in Northland, New Zealand. I know I live in paradise. We welcome visitors - and some decide to stay.

The gap between the islands is 12 miles at the closest point and is served by ocean going ferries - it gets rough..... 13.25 you said what is this land used for - Dairy cows - we keep them on grass not concrete feedlots.... it makes for better tasting milk and beef. 16.19 The roads are too rough for sports cars and the cops will take it off you if you exceed the speed limit by more than 40 kmph ! My partner and I use our motorcycles to travel around - and New Zealand allows you to LANE SPLIT !!!! Compared to any big city the traffic is nothing - except for Auckland - the Aucklanders seem to struggle with traffic more than anywhere else in New Zealand.

I've played that course at the beginning. It's NZ$45 for the green fees... so about $30?? Open to anyone to go along. And there's a nice walkway all along the coast there for people to walk or cycle along.

I guess the grass is always greener. I'm from Auckland, but when I see videos of the huge national parks and vast forests of America, complete with amazing lakes and rivers, not to mention interesting things like the possibility of bigfoot, I want to get my 4WD and go camping out there ASAP.. I can imagine a country like Ireland or England drooling over NZ, but Americans have it made with their big and beautiful country.

The cost to play golf at my course which has ocean veiw same as this is a donation in a paint bucket with a slot cut out of it. Welcome to nz cuz

NZ is great if ya can afford to live here

The biggest use of farm land in New Zealand is for grazing mostly cattle and due to our climate we usually don’t use barns

[Still live commenting] And that moment when you said "Look at that" I was like "Yeah, LOOK at that". Because we take our country for granted! But yeah, It's amazing. But we do take a lot for granted;

Fitzroy golf club. $20 (NZD) for 18 holes

Yep, live commenting as a New Zealander: yes, Auckland is basically the same as many other large cities in other countries. As is Wellington, although it's a bit more centralised than Auckland.

It costs under$50 a round on a public course,a vit more on a private course.

That RU-vid video you were talking about is called kiwi American living in New Zealand

Cook straight between the nth and STH Ilse is roughly 29 miles wide

The ferry between Wellington and Picton takes bigger rigs than what you have in America as well as personal cars and passengers. You can also get a plane, small island hopper planes go to Nelson which is not far from Picton. Cigarettes are so pricey because we have a government agenda to be smoke free by 2025 due to our mixed population and the health problems related to smoking in pacifica people. Farming here is usually cows or sheep, a lot of our meat and dairy gets exported and sells cheaper overseas than what we can buy it for in our supermarkets. Yes, Aotearoa New Zealand is kind of expensive but some of that relates to the exchange rate. A loaf of bread can be as cheap as $1.20 which is about USD $2.50. Cheese is hugely expensive at around $15/kg depending on brand and what kind you like. Petrol/gas is exceptionally extortionate in price right now with the cheapest being around $2.30ish/litre. This also seems to be the government trying to make us more environmentally responsible by forcing cars off the roads. Speaking of roads, the image of Auckland's Spaghetti Junction that had hardly any traffic was during one of our lockdowns. It's usually a lot busier than that and can take up to an hour and a half from the North Shore of Auckland to the other side, more if it's raining.

Yep, it's an awesome place! I could never live anywhere else. Visit, yes - stay, no.

20:11 Yes, like Hawai’i… tourism is there main link to their wealth So, beauty is Hawai’i

yes the crossing between the 2 islands is by ferry it takes on good days about 3 hours but on bad days it can take all day there are short clips on youtube about some of the bad trips (and I mean BAD) trips. they do about 5 trips aday and about 200 people a trip my dad worked on them for years . Now days there are faster trips by hydro foil boats on these i think it takes about 1 1/2 hours. the golf course at the start I think is lake Taupo if it is similar to Australian prices it cost about 15- 30 dollars a round. Yes the whole of LOTR was filmed in New Zealand and is a big thing in tourism for the country. New Zealand is a sports mad country and if you were to name a sport that most of the world play I could name a person from NZ that was the world champion at some point. which with a population of about 3 million I think is incredible and of course we have the best sports team Of any sport in the world that being the ALL BLACKS.