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Violet_Crumble

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13. Family keep me here, but if our RW govt keeps on going, I might move anyway...

Reply to kentauros (Reply #7)

Tue May 13, 2014, 01:16 AM

May 2014

Yeah, we can just up and move to NZ without having to apply for residency or anything. That's why there's so many Kiwis over here, coz it's reciprocal. I'm a public servant, but to work for the NZ govt, I'd need to get citizenship, so that's a downside...

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