People are leaving New Zealand in record numbers as unemployment rises, interest rates remain high and economic growth is anaemic, government statistics show.
Data released by Statistics New Zealand on Tuesday showed that 131,200 people departed New Zealand in the year ended June 2024, provisionally the highest on record for an annual period. Around a third of these were headed to Australia.
While net migration, the number of those arriving minus those leaving, remains at high levels, economists also expect this to wane as the number of foreign nationals wanting to move to New Zealand falls due to the softer economy.
The data showed of those departing 80,174 were citizens, which was almost double the numbers seen leaving prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world is a well known troll/ mod
He won’t answer your questions if the conversation is going against what he wants. Usually because someone has beaten him in the argument.
Two things he does have is time. He will waste more time on this than you. And he is a mod. He will threat or use that power to silence you then comment and act like he was doing the honourable thing to silence someone showing him up.
He’s not worth the time. But I think you made some good points.