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If you like the sound of NZ but don't want to commit to such a big move, come check out British Columbia. We're like NZ lite. :)
by nbrempel 10y ago
If you like the sound of NZ but don't want to commit to such a big move, come check out British Columbia. We're like NZ lite. :)
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoNot very isolated, only a few hours from Seattle if you live where all the tech jobs are.
- harigov 10y agoI don't think you can say that about weather. If BC is anything like Seattle, it's gloomy for most of the winter.
- wired8 10y agoNZ lite... more like the inverse. Vancouver and specifically BC has a lot of similarities to NZ yes, including the frequent liquid sunshine. Having spent approx half my working life in (Wellington/Vancouver) I'd say Vancouver would be a more natural fit for our US cousins. However that said you can't beat NZ for internal travel, day trips, adventure tourism. Its basically a compact version of British Columbia.
- Taniwha 10y agoRemember than NZ is a long thin country that spans very roughly the same distance north-south as the US West Coast (it's just that you grew up with those maps where the Northern Hemisphere is twice the size of the Southern). It also spans roughly the same range of climates - Dunedin where I live is Seattle/VancouverBC sort of climate (and the southern West Coast is very Olympic Peninsular subtropical rain forest). On the other hand Auckland/Northland is Californiaish but with more tropical moisture because we're an island and not a continent