{"id":369,"date":"2007-02-04T23:47:59","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T10:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=369"},"modified":"2007-02-05T00:07:45","modified_gmt":"2007-02-04T11:07:45","slug":"nz-4th-best-place-in-world-to-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"NZ 4th best place in world to live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/3950787a11.html\">NZ is the fourth-best place in world to live<\/a> according to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalliving.com\/\">The International Living<\/a> travel website.\u00c2\u00a0 This sounded great until I read that the first three are a strange mix of France, the Netherlands and Australia.\u00c2\u00a0 Closer inspection shows the site to be seemingly geared towards the U.S. expat executive market. <em>[The pointed comments around how hard it is for U.S. citizens to get into New Zealand and secure residency struck me as a bit rich given the Bush administration&#8217;s foreign and immigration policies, not to mention the generally appalling attitude of Immigration and Homeland Security drones at U.S. airports.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image368\" alt=\"waitakere bush\" src=\"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/bush-above-manukau-harbour.thumbnail.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, it would seem that the recent                                                                                         <span class=\"ss2\">The                              Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/\">Climate Change 2007<\/a> indicates that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/3949447a11.html\">NZ may escape the worst impacts of global warming<\/a>, according to <\/span>NIWA climate scientist Jim Renwick, who contributed to the report and Climate Change Minister David Parker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NZ is the fourth-best place in world to live according to the The International Living travel website.\u00c2\u00a0 This sounded great until I read that the first three are a strange mix of France, the Netherlands and Australia.\u00c2\u00a0 Closer inspection shows the site to be seemingly geared towards the U.S. expat executive market. [The pointed comments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}