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  • Unfortunately verbally its a confusing distinction but I agree its seems more consistent

    I’ve gone from NZ -> UK -> EU

    And along the way I did say I was an expat (in the UK), because I didn’t want to stay and get citizenship but instead the intention was to stay a NZer and eventually return (though also because expat felt like a British term I used it more)

    Now that I’m in the EU with an intention to stay here forever I label myself as an immigrant, because of that change in intent

    Just a personal anecdote, but maybe there’s some useful commentary on how people perceive it









  • I kinda dislike the low density bit, yes I agree we are different to the Netherlands and that impacts how we would build this infrastructure, but it shouldn’t be a full excuse.

    The thing I see is we are more than capable of putting out large scale infrastructure like the rollout of fibre broadband and the completed highways works connecting Auckland to Hamilton and beyond

    Your right, Its probably an economics of scale problem, building roads already has momentum and the equipment, while with rail we would need to commit to bigger + more projects that would take longer than a election term and risk the population thinking it’s a waste of their tax