Hey all, I hope I’m posting to the right place. My gf and I are both trans women considering immigrating to New Zealand from the US. We both have green list careers so we’re not too worried about eligibility but we are wondering if we would be welcome/fit in in NZ.
Everything I’ve seen or heard in media makes NZ look about 1000 times better than the US. Every country has their problems but from my limited viewpoint NZ looks pretty great. We’d appreciate any advice or perspective you’d care to share. Thanks in advance.
That all sounds a lot better than it is here, we’ve both experienced verbal harassment and I was attacked a couple years ago. I think I’d also feel more comfortable since yall have actual gun control laws, I grew up rural and have been around guns my whole life, but it is absolutly insane how prevalent they are here.
The work life balances sounds a lot better than what we have. We don’t have any minimum time off laws at all, and the current government wants to get rid of overtime pay and union protections.
Was just thinking, I’ve said flexible working hours are common, but this is going to be quite industry specific. Most of my recent experience is in public service which tends to be more flexible, but it’s not uncommon in other large organisations for non-customer facing office roles (i.e. those that don’t have specific customer hours).
Also, some of our government wants to remove union protections as well. The big difference is that our current government is made up of a coalition of centre-right party, a further right party, and a populist party. To pass laws, they all have to agree. So there’s a lot of talk, but in general changes are limited to rolling back some recent worker rights policies from the previous government, they can’t get enough agreement to pass sweeping changes. There is no such thing as president’s orders here, no one person can make a new law (apparently this is true in the US too but I don’t really understand what all the orders were Trump was signing).
That sounds a lot more sane than our politics, out policies change rapidly whenever the parties switch who’s in charge. The whole presidential executive orders thing is really wild, they can’t pass full laws but the power they do weild is immense. The 00s invasion of Iraq was done on an executive order, and no Trump is using them to take away lgbt rights and deport a ton of immigrants. The president is supposed to be reigned in by congress and the judicial branch but they’re both strongly aligned with same party and do little to check his power.