• Dave@lemmy.nz
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    6 months ago

    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.

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      6 months ago

      You guys must be getting whiplash!

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        6 months ago

        I bet a significant number of those people came from and and now heading to Aussie!

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          6 months ago

          Well, we were the ones who invented pavlova, so you can’t blame them ;)