We also got rid of of 5c coins as well.

An very important factor you touched upon is Kiwi's being relaxed (laid-back) and not living in fear. Having lived and worked (as a Kiwi) in other countries I can identify with this (as many of the countries were in conflict). We do not have to fear an aggressive neighbouring country with a mutual border, our kids being gunned-down at High-School, being bitten by venomous insects or animals, fear of a melt-down at the nuclear power plant etc etc. Some of this is due to our geography and natural flora and fauna, however most of it is a result of the people and institutions and culture. In the USA (a country that seems to promote fear to keep gun-sales up and to justify an obscene defence budget) I was shocked how fearful people are. People "needing" guns because they are fearful of being unable to "defend themselves", fear of other cultures or religions (i.e. Islam), job insecurity, fear of being sick and being unable to afford the user-pays healthcare, fear of "those guys over there" because they have a different skin colour or drive a certain car or live in a particular "hood" I would be interested, fear of someone who has a different accent, political view...the list goes on. I would be interested to hear your take on what American's fear as opposed to Kiwi's.

@Terrestrial..1

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately NZ now has gangs of teenagers ram raiding shops with 12 year olds driving the stolen car.

@leeengelsman1855

3 ай бұрын

That stuff seems a bit heavy for this lite hearted forum; Dont you think?.

There are a lot of comments about rain water. I agree that many houses collect rain water, but it's mostly to have an independent supply in case of a natural disaster. Urban housing is using rain water to wash the car, water the garden etc. We use town supply for drinking, cooking and washing.

@brendonmcmahon3294

Жыл бұрын

Yeah Icant drink my tap water and it's not uncommon as we give billions ov gallons to China for free itd insane such a backwards country rife with religion hate racism division crme cyndicates drugs gangs anc yhat is the tip of the ice berg but if your got billions of dollars life's great snd dosent mater where your from you can have instant citizenship

It's only mostly rural homes on tank water. In city and towns people are on town supply

Girl how do you not have at LEAST 10k subscribers yet😭 Keep making these videos, we NEED this info

It's only 20% of houses on tank water, rest on town water.

@meatavoreNana

Жыл бұрын

I'm 72.... never had a rain water tank

@fallenangel_899

Жыл бұрын

@@meatavoreNana should try it out

@robmccaw9956

Жыл бұрын

Definitely not MOST houses; just a few in urban areas where most Kiwis live.

"Drive wise, save lives"...good on ya mate!

I think you will find that in cities and towns water supplies are on mains supply. Even where we live on a rural block we have good quality town supply. Tank water is convenient, if limited, depending on rainfall, but it can carry infection if collected from the roof which birds tend to use as communal toilets. It pays to have your supply checked and if possible treated if used for drinking etc. Some years ago during water shortages some city dwellers had tanks put in, largely as back up for garden use when limits were placed on hose and sprinkler use.

Haha! Had a crap day at work today, and me thinks I'm heading to a great weekend after watching this. 😳🤣🤣

The best thing about New Zealand we have no snakes

Hi again Morgan, living in Wellington we have a great butchery called Direct Meats. The first time I ever did an online meat delivery from them I incorrectly picked the incorrect Wellington suburb for the delivery charge as the boundary was unclear. I had no idea but they obviously picked it up from our delivery address. Instead of keeping the overpayment, they alerted me to my error and put 500gms of extra bacon in my delivery. Superb customer service!

Possibly your most upbeat video yet Morgan! Love what you do and how you do it! I think Mr Barkley agrees.👍🏻 So hoping you'll enjoy your Kiwi Xmas.

Great video! You mention the road signs here with sheep on them. I really like the ones in Canada and the States with *moose* on them ( I looooove moose! ).

Love it. Welcome to my - our awesome country! !!!

Thank you. After another young American couple complained about customer service here, it shocked me and upset me, because I have rarely had an issue.

@michaelheliotis5279

Жыл бұрын

New Zealand indeed has wonderful customer service in the public sector, but in the private sector there's a lot left to be desired, which was probably what the American couple was complaining about. In the US, they're used to the opposite, where intense competition and (for hospo at least) tips for wages means that customer service is absolutely stellar, but the public service is notorious for rude and unhelpful staff coupled with long wait times.

@mereassassinates550

Жыл бұрын

Pay of planty has shit customer service

@glenbe4026

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelheliotis5279 NZ (and Aus) Customer Service in the private sector can be very lackluster i agree, but i will take it over the US version. I find American customer service overbearing and suffocating. Let me eat my meal in peace. And that is not even getting into the weird and uncomfortable habit they have of taking your credit card away to swipe it. Let me swipe my own damn card in front of me.

@iatsd

Жыл бұрын

Public service will generally be good. Private sector can be all over the place in terms of quality. Having lived all over the world, I'm not impressed with most customer service in NZ. It's just sloppy and I'm so sick of the "Maaaaate!" approach to everything as if it excuses bad service.

We actually got rid of the 5-cent piece. Another thing I love is that the price you is the price you pay. Taxes are already added to the price. So you don't go to the checkout and you don't find out you have to pay about amount om top of the price.

great videos

3:10 LOLWUT??? The vast majority of people do NOT use rainwater for their water supply.

We got rid of the 5 cent coin too, so if you're paying cash round to the nearest 10

We don't have 5 cent coins as well as 1 and 2 cent coins. Only rural homes have water tanks and bores for their water. Most have town or city water supply.

The great thing about New Zealand, my country Australia and an entire 9% of the world population celebrates Christmas and New Year in summer. Wr can have BBQ on Christmas day and watch the fireworks on NYE at the beach ⛱️

I love how the duck come in right on q

Spring water is the best. I like your bubblyness.

Very entertaining as always.....chur

We also got rid of 5c coins many years ago! You round up...or down....to the nearest 10c. And most people regard the 10c piece as a nuisance (I only use them for parking machines).

New Zealand actually has oil and oil Reserves we even have a huge oil refinery at Marsden Point built by the Government

@billydoyle6919

Жыл бұрын

Not any more. Marsden has been shut down and being dismantled sadly. Stupid move as we can no longer refine waste oil, diesel that doesn't meet our standards or make decent asphalt (just look at our pothole infested roads at noment).

@denisetewhata2513

Жыл бұрын

That's right there's no more oil rigs, mine shafts or gold diggers wrecking the environment

@greggiles7309

Жыл бұрын

@@billydoyle6919 because it does not refine any fuel,

@kevinansley7353

Жыл бұрын

Except that our muppet government closed the refinery.

@barrynichols2846

Жыл бұрын

@@kevinansley7353 Except it wasn't the government. It was a private business.

The extra holiday time is recent, back in the day it was about 10 days

Most houses are on mains supply. It's actually quite hard with local councils to be able to use rain water. Usually rural.

Sir Murray Halberg passed away today., 😞 Sir ledg.

Good to see you being Kiwi-ised, "Sweet as"

Three thumbs up! If only I could!

Here's a Tip visit the Te Aroha geothermal hot springs and mineral pools

Very funny video thanks

I read this about no penny, on S-Money: "New Zealand has banished the one, two, and five cent coins. Instead, most items ending with costs between one and four cents are rounded down while those ending in six to nine cents are rounded up." So what do you do when the total ends in "five"?

West Auckland, have duck crossing signs

No, MOST New Zealand homes are on council infrastructure. Some Out of town homes have rainwater tanks. Rare

I mean yeah we get treats in packages all the time. I get chocolates every time i buy stuff for my cat.

Most houses? No way do most houses have rain water tanks. My sister's house does. They have a bore as well. But they live on a farm

Hi, how much we need to pay for health insurance(employee work visa or PR )?

“Please don’t litter, keep New Zealand beautiful” and “merge like a zip” these road signs stuck with me all my life😅

@jillmortlock8439

Жыл бұрын

When I was growing up it was "be a tidy kiwi".

@sunitrakahu5214

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that’s another one. We were also given books every year at school that had comics at the back of a cartoon kiwi picking up rubbish, demonstrating how to be a tidy kiwi. It’s almost like brainwashing but for a good cause 😆

@carolkrishnan7842

Жыл бұрын

I like the sign 'slippery when wet'. The car looks like its dancing. Lol.

NZ use to have 1 cent coins = 12 lollies and $1 notes as well.

The Black Cox? 😂

All our sports teams are black , white or silver lol or after animals and plants

What does it take to be a citizen in NZ as a US citizen

Love her sense of humor "sheep"

lol, hard case as usual.😁

Actually nzs hydrocarbon resources aren't small, oil at.one point was our 5th largest export

I've had K-bars, lollipops, cat treats, stickers, and peanut slabs slipped into my packages over the last few years.

😅

Physio? Not mainstream? That’s a new concept. And message and acupuncture aren’t even seen as alternative really here either. As a kiwi I’d say alternative is chiropractor, maybe reiki healing ? Even those although not mainstream aren’t seen as too out there either

And congratulations on your marriage!

I dont know. I always found the customer service to be pretty average. Maybe it's because I live in a city?

@stephenlitten1789

Жыл бұрын

I think she's talking about online ordering. Which is generally good, if not great

A few companies I work with have sometimes included things like stickers or a bag of microwaveable popcorn with what I ordered.

5 cent coins are gone now too.

Don't mess with the our Black Cox

*except gmo has been happening ever since the beginning of agriculture and hautaculture.

SHEEP SHEEP 🐑 😂

Rainwater? Hardly. Vast majority not.

There’s no 5c either anymore

Yeah, I think there is something about new houses getting rain water tanks. I want one just for watering the garden. Great video.

Very funny video. Glad you are enjoying new Zealand. We welcome you. You have the attitude that we want in New New Zealanders. Our country is very small and unimportant in the world but we do pride ourselves on the little country we have built.

GMO's - they are not banned outright in NZ. They require MPI approval and MPI has never approved any seed for use for commercially grown crops that will be sold retail in NZ. GMO's are grown in NZ for export and GMO crops from outside NZ are imported and sold retail. Customer Service - is better than the US, but hardly stellar. If you have a difficult problem or just get someone having a bad day then you're screwed, just like in the US. Rainwater. *Most* people in New Zealand do NOT use rainwater collection systems. They are the exception, not the rule. In parts of the country you *couldn't* bury the tanks for rainwater - most of Canterbury, for example, because the water table is too high to put something like that in the ground. Alternative Therapies. None of the ones you mentioned are "alternative". Physiotheraphy is a science. Shit like chiropractic or homeopathy are "alternative" because they are based on no demonstrated science, but if you really want to waste the tax payers money on quackery then you can, sadly. Pennies. Nope. You round to the nearest 10 cents because NZ got rid of the 5 cent coin at the same time it got rid of the 1 cent and 2 cent, as well as the paper $1 and $2, which switched to coins.

A lot of Asians and some Europeans play badminton in New Zealand.

Sheep, sheep, sheep 🤣🤣🤣🤣

No one would dare attack nz bad idea

Don't teach your dog to chase birds, thank you.

Kiwis don't keep secrets lol

I can't wait to get there in about 6 months ❤ love NZ 😊 beleive it or not. Most of the homless in NZ aren't really from there.

The billionaires will ruin everything, just a matter of time!

if you take your video PASSED the ten minutes, youtube pays better, so I've been told.

Make a phone call to a business or even your doctor and you get to stay on hold for ages listening to horrible muzak then many times you end up talking to someone in a foreign country with an extremely thick accent making getting help difficult.

Excuse us while we all chill out here in paradise.....

stop giving away out secrets, lady...

Wen are you coming back to America it safer here no shooting much more beautiful see you back in America soon

@londonbeatz

Жыл бұрын

Safer...in America...You are joking right

NZ is a weird place where Christmas is in Summer, people drive on the wrong side of the road, and AR-15 rifles are banned.

@roygroves5983

Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah and we love it that way

@cheetaih

Жыл бұрын

You miss out on the meat pies.

@mrkennedy4394

Жыл бұрын

Think you mean awesome not weird 🤣🤣

@DomingoDeSantaClara

Жыл бұрын

We love seeing our kids come home with school bags as opposed to body bags, weird huh?

@londonbeatz

Жыл бұрын

No America is weird

It's not that we don't have homelessness ..it's that we have social welfare to help people in need..in nz we don't blame the homeless we help them..I find American media tend to villainise the homeless instead of addressing the reasoning behind it.. Also weird will still charge 99c for things when we haven't had 1,2or 5 cents for decades😅 Don't let out all our secrets🤫

Im sorry but Peter Teal can get out, and billionaires can go find somewhere else to plunder Maori are the true owners of this land and its real name is Aotearoa

@kiwilordNZ

Жыл бұрын

colonization wasnt bad for you, it lifted you out of the stone age...get over it already

@Lurgansahib

Жыл бұрын

What a load of cobblers, you signed away any rights you imagined you had back in 1840! get used to it cos it ain't gonna change for you.

@catholic9694

Жыл бұрын

It is commonly called New Zealand by most although 'Aotearoa,"- 'the land of the long white cloud' tells an interesting tale🥝

@denisetewhata2513

Жыл бұрын

@@catholic9694 puss off

Where you from in usa ?

Lots of billionairs with lots of homeless people living in cars

@fairynuff167

Жыл бұрын

Interesting about the billionaires. Always thought my homeland the best.