New Zealand Population Surges Most Since World Turmoil of 1974
May 12th, 2017Via: Bloomberg:
The last time New Zealand’s population grew this much, the world was reeling from an oil crisis and Richard Nixon’s resignation from the White House.
The small nation at the bottom of the South Pacific saw its population surge by 100,300 people in the year to March 31, the biggest nominal increase since European colonization began in the 1840s, according to Statistics New Zealand. In percentage terms, the 2.1 percent gain is the largest since 1974, the year the price of oil quadrupled and U.S. President Nixon was forced to resign by the Watergate scandal.
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My last visit to NZ showed me a little of what’s going on in Auckland courtesy of huge immigration levels and it ain’t pretty. Non-integration. Property prices gone nuts, possibly moreso than Australia when you look at what you actually get. Infrastructure not keeping up. All to sell more toilet paper.
OK, maybe that’s not entirely fair, but it’s the mentality of a lot of people pushing for these decisions. More people = more profits and screw using some wisdom about how best to manage and direct things if it gets in the way of that. And let’s not forget that a more fractionated, less cohesive society = a more easily manipulated populace.
Interested in hearing others’ takes on this.
Lots of former Aucklanders have moved up to the Far North. We quickly meet the new homeschooling families in our area and I get calls about solar power from others. Without exception, these people have a sense of elation after escaping Auckland.
Visited Nelson in the South Island recently. Nelson is one of the cities receiving and aiding “refugees”. Witnessed a large group of young male, 20-something “refugees” in hoodies heading back to their social services bus after an excursion at the shopping centre. They would not give way, but as a group arrogantly forced the Kiwis to step into the street in order to pass by their group, and it was rather clear from the expressions on their faces, as they made the locals maneuver a wide detour, that they enjoyed their new, collective power.
I wonder, have there been many bankers and super wealthy hidden among that throng? seems NZ is the retreat du jour for the “in-the-know” mob.
On a totally unrelated note, in the past few days I had to drive back to the UK from my home in Latvia to get my son’s passport renewed and my car taxed; aside from being caught in a late spring blizzard in the Suwalki Gap region of Poland, I noticed several convoys of east-bound traffic carrying tanks into the Baltics. Just a salient reminder of the weirdness of the world situation at present.
@cryingfreeman,
Kevin may be able to answer your question about the identity of recent arrivals, among whom the only mega-rich buy-in I know of is Kim Dotcom.
As I remember, they first started showing up in numbers when NZ began getting a name as a skiing and fly-fishing destination about the time the threat of nukes hit the headlines, but I think things really ramped up after NZ’s first America’s Cup win with the construction of a marina in Auckland big enough for their super-yachts to berth.