Why New Zealand?

Balanced Lifestyle

Safe and Secure

Family Friendly

Clean and Beautiful

Balanced Lifestyle

  • New Zealand has the work-life balance just right. It’s why we are famous for our quality of life.
  • We prioritise balancing a good day’s work with time spent with family and friends.
  • We also think it is important to enjoy all the recreational opportunities and wide open spaces our country offers.
  • Even in our biggest cities, you are never too far from a beach, bike trail, or national park.
  • Another reason New Zealanders have so much free time is because we spend little time travelling to and from work.
  • Our towns and cities have plenty of upbeat urban apartments and child-friendly suburban homes with backyards and vegetable patches.
  • If city-living doesn’t appeal to you, we have many areas around the country where you can live near the sea, forest, or rural farmland with wide open spaces.

“New Zealand has the work-life balance just right”

Safe & Secure

  • While feeling safe is a luxury in many places, it’s one that New Zealanders are accustomed to.
  • We’re rated in international surveys as one of the world’s most peaceful, least corrupt countries.
  • New Zealanders are by and large open-minded and believe people should be free to live the lifestyle they choose.
  • You can expect to walk or cycle the streets, play in playgrounds, catch public transport and generally do the things you want to do without fear.
  • We don’t have any seriously dangerous wildlife for you to worry about.

Family Friendly

  • Moving to a new country gets more complicated if you have a family to consider. But rest assured, New Zealand is a great place to bring up children.
  • New Zealand is the perfect place to bring up children.
  • Our wide open spaces give you have the choice of every style of living you and your family could want – from suburban homes with room for kids to run around in, to places by the seaside or even a spot out in the country with your own farm animals.
  • With a safe learning environment and a healthy dose of the outdoor recreation available in our wide open spaces, you have a recipe for producing resourceful and confident young adults ready to take on the world.
  • Our healthcare is good quality, affordable and accessible.

Clean & Beautiful

  • Every country has some natural beauty, New Zealand has lots of it.
  • We are passionate about sport and outdoor activities because they get us close to things that nourish us spiritually.
  • New Zealanders feel a strong sense of guardianship (kaitiakitanga) for our environment.
  • We don’t have months of baking heat or intense snow: ours is a temperate climate which means relatively mild, wet winters and warm dry summers.
  • New Zealand has southern hemisphere seasons, with winter from June to August and Summer from December to February.

Average Cost of Living in New Zealand

The monthly cost of living in New Zealand, for one person in a Major City, is between NZ$4000 – NZ$5000 per month.

A family of four can expect to need NZ$6000 – NZ$7000 per month to live.

Cheapest place to rent in New Zealand

If you’re looking for cheap rent in New Zealand there are a few regions you should consider. Southland should be on your list — it’s the cheapest place to rent in NZ with a median rent of just $440 (which is $230 less than Auckland per week). Other affordable locations include Whanganui ($530), the West Coast and several towns in the less populated regions of New Zealand.

Average Rent in Aukland

Auckland is home to New Zealand’s most expensive urban property market, with a median weekly rent of $670.

Average Rent in Wellington

Wellington has experienced a rental shortage in the last several years, which has caused its median weekly rent to reach $640 in September 2023. Units and apartments are much cheaper, with median rents of just $495 and $570, respectively.

Average Rent in Christchurch

Of New Zealand’s major cities, Christchurch has the lowest median rents — just $505 for urban properties and $550 for the wider Canterbury region.

Living in New Zealand

We understand that relocating to New Zealand is a big step but once you experience the unbeatable lifestyle and healthcare career opportunities waiting for you, you’ll wish you had made the move sooner! We’ll do all we can to make the process easy and stress free, including helping with your relocation and immigration

Te Whatu Ora

Driving in New Zealand

You can legally drive in New Zealand for up to 12 months if you have either a current driver’s licence from your home country or an International Drivers permit. You will be required to convert to a New Zealand Driver’s License within the first 12 months. You will be required to carry your drivers licences at
all times, when driving. If your Overseas Driver’s license is not in English, you would be required to have an English translation.

Tips for Driving:

  • Children require child restraint’s while in the Motor vehicle
  • Motorists drive on the left-hand side of the road
  • It is compulsory for every occupant of the vehicle to wear a seat belt
  • Vehicles must not stop on motorways unless in the case of emergency
  • If you are involved in a crash you must stop and help. If someone is injured this must be reported to the police within 24 hours
  • New Zealand speed limits are in kilometres per hour
  • The maximum speed on any open road is 100km/h
  • The maximum speed in urban areas is 50km/h

Job Opportunities across these locations:

  • Northern
    • Northland Region
    • Waitematā
    • Auckland
    • Counties Manukau
  • Te Manawa Taki
    • Waikato, Lakes
    • Bay of Plenty
    • Tairāwhiti
    • Taranaki
  • Central
    • MidCentral
    • Whanganui
    • Capital & Coast/Hutt Valley
    • Hawke’s Bay
    • Wairarapa
  • Te Waipounamu
    • Canterbury Region
    • West Coast Region
    • Nelson Marlborough
    • Southern
    • South Canterbury