How to move and travel to New Zealand or Australia
Aug 20, 2026 · 7 min · 6 segments
Here from many of the clients I have moved to New Zealand on their experiences with Kiwi Culture
You spend your whole life living in America, learning how to be an American and you know how the systems work and you know where to find things and you know what stores to go to and you know what aisle they're on and you know what shelf they're on and you know what they're called.
All of the little tiny things that you use in your everyday life, you get to learn how to do those again.
You can feel the most extreme cultural differences and cultures that are more adjacent to
yours.
If it was a different language, It's not that it would be easier, but it would be easier to understand how different it was because it seemed so similar on the outside.
You're like, oh, okay.
They use dollars.
We use dollars.
They speak English.
We speak English.
There will be those first
six months of translating English to English.
The terminology, the jargon we use in the planning and construction and design industry here is very different.
at the auckland international airport when we were waiting when we were delayed we sat down we had some lunch with the boys and there were people sitting next to us that just noticed us obviously but they just started talking to us just you know and they were asking about us and where we're going and they said welcome we are so glad you're here And that hit us right away.
They're very used to people coming and going as a small country.
So I think that they're just really used to strangers and people from all over.
I find that they're just very curious about like, oh, why are you here and where are you from? Nearly interested, though, not like, you know, fake.
Just things like.
hair and the makeup and the clothes like all of that no one really cares like
literally doesn't care like people wear the same thing every day like i'm like i've seen those pants all week you know and i
love that i love that the kids can like ride their scooters over there like there's there'll be a pile of scooters over there there will be a group of kids people treat it more like a restaurant here than they do it's like how the state was you know 15 20 years ago it's like they treat it more like a restaurant they sit in and eat
You spend your whole life living in America, learning how to be an American and you know how the systems work and you know where to find things and you know what stores to go to and you know what aisle they're on and you know what shelf they're on and you know what they're called.
All of the little tiny things that you use in your everyday life, you get to learn how to do those again.
You can feel the most extreme cultural differences and cultures that are more adjacent to
yours.
If it was a different language, It's not that it would be easier, but it would be easier to understand how different it was because it seemed so similar on the outside.
You're like, oh, okay.
They use dollars.
We use dollars.
They speak English.
We speak English.
There will be those first
six months of translating English to English.
The terminology, the jargon we use in the planning and construction and design industry here is very different.
at the auckland international airport when we were waiting when we were delayed we sat down we had some lunch with the boys and there were people sitting next to us that just noticed us obviously but they just started talking to us just you know and they were asking about us and where we're going and they said welcome we are so glad you're here And that hit us right away.
They're very used to people coming and going as a small country.
So I think that they're just really used to strangers and people from all over.
I find that they're just very curious about like, oh, why are you here and where are you from? Nearly interested, though, not like, you know, fake.
Just things like.
hair and the makeup and the clothes like all of that no one really cares like
literally doesn't care like people wear the same thing every day like i'm like i've seen those pants all week you know and i
love that i love that the kids can like ride their scooters over there like there's there'll be a pile of scooters over there there will be a group of kids people treat it more like a restaurant here than they do it's like how the state was you know 15 20 years ago it's like they treat it more like a restaurant they sit in and eat
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