Living in New Zealand

Wellington is New Zealand’s capital of cool. Named in Lonely Planet as one of the top ten destinations of 2011, Wellington has a lot to offer. We have more bars, cafes and restaurants per capita than New York and a range of gourmet producers including many independent coffee roasteries. Year-round you’ll find arts and cultural events in abundance. Likewise, our film industry, ‘Wellywood’, centered on the Miramar Peninsula, is booming thanks in large part to the success of Wellingtonian Sir Peter Jackson (executive producer of the 2011 and 2012 Hobbit movies currently being made here). 

Here are a number of websites that provide information about living and studying in New Zealand:

http://www.newzealandeducated.com for information on studying in NZ
http://www.purenz.com for tourism information
http://www.minedu.govt.nz Living and Studying in NZ, Ministry of Education;
http://www.newzealandnz.co.nz NZ information
TradeMe – Accommodation: rental properties, flatmates wanted
http://www.huttvalleynz.com Information centre: accommodation and transport
http://www.stats.govt.nz Facts, figures, maps and a wealth of other information
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/nz.html