Over here in NZ we had the biggest influx of expats back to NZ in memory. Perhaps you had the same?
Another possibility is perhaps a drop in the number of rental properties overall. Money got cheap, house prices went up, perhaps lots of landlords sold up, and lots of renters suddenly could afford to buy?
Yeah, everyone came back to NZ to weather the storm, then left again. People are leaving pretty much as fast as their passports can be issued, which is pretty slow at the moment. Prepandemic passports for most people were issued within a few days. Now it’s taking 10 weeks.
I don’t think this was unexpected, there was always the expectation that people would leave once the pandemic had settled down.
Not only is there a bunch of people who came back and are now leaving, all the people who would have left during the pandemic but couldn’t will now be making their move.
Over here in NZ we had the biggest influx of expats back to NZ in memory. Perhaps you had the same?
Another possibility is perhaps a drop in the number of rental properties overall. Money got cheap, house prices went up, perhaps lots of landlords sold up, and lots of renters suddenly could afford to buy?
Interestingly, you now seem to be having the largest outflux of citizens ever, too
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/05/14/record-number-of-kiwis-leave-nz-stats-nz/
Yeah, everyone came back to NZ to weather the storm, then left again. People are leaving pretty much as fast as their passports can be issued, which is pretty slow at the moment. Prepandemic passports for most people were issued within a few days. Now it’s taking 10 weeks.
I don’t think this was unexpected, there was always the expectation that people would leave once the pandemic had settled down.
Not only is there a bunch of people who came back and are now leaving, all the people who would have left during the pandemic but couldn’t will now be making their move.
You guys must be getting whiplash!
I bet a significant number of those people came from and and now heading to Aussie!
Well, we were the ones who invented pavlova, so you can’t blame them ;)
According this Aussie website it was neither of us!
Though the article steals a lot of other stuff from us so I wouldn’t trust it.