I left NZ a few years ago and one of my main reasons were the lower incomes and high cost of housing. It all came down to the fact that I couldn't even afford to rent a flat by my self, whereas right across the Tasman I could earn twice the salary and have a comparable if not lower cost of living.

Eventually I've ended up in Europe and I'm earning almost 4 times of what I was earning back home. I've considered coming back, bit the prospect of maybe never being able to own a home keeps me away.

Reminds me of a story a friend told me when I was traveling through South America.

My friend was walking home late at night and a guy from another country (forgot which, but it was obvious from his accent) asked him for money. This exchange of course happened in Spanish:

"I have an iron" "what does iron means in your country?" "by iron I mean knife" and pulls out a knife "oh, because here iron means this" and pulls out a gun.

Then the robber just ran away.

Hentai is the only ethical form of porn consumption

NZ is usually used as a Guinea pig by tech companies, small population, English speaking, etc.

However I think it might be that the Alll Blacks might face off the Springboks in the Rugby World Cup Final and Elon wants to minimise the shitposting on Twitter. /s

No headphones, anywhere at anytime. You were not allowed to bring them to school even if you didn't use them during school hours, so forget about listening to music on your way back home.

It was so silly that they even removed all the headphones from the computer lab and at the library.

I'm saving this phrase.

I had a PM postpone a critical part of a project since June, the hard deadline is on September 15th... I've insisted to start with it months ago and now he's scrambling everyone to get this done yesterday.

We're not gonna make it and I don't care anymore.

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My current employer had a relatively small layoffs round (about 3% of the workforce). More people resigned afterwards than during the layoffs.

My manager got a promotion with a hefty salary increase, then the company announced a hiring and salary freeze, then gave me a promotion with more responsibilities (some of my manager's as well) but with the same salary.

I quited a few months later as soon as I could secure something else

Mine truncated the first 8 characters, when I discovered that I sent them a request to their cyber security department and they told me.of was by design.

I closed my account over that bs

Some are legit, some are scams.

As a rule of thumb, of it is featured in isthereanydeal.com , then they're safe