{"id":41232,"date":"2022-01-31T10:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T01:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/31\/reader-call-out-how-are-you-coping-with-the-rising-cost-of-living-in-new-zealand"},"modified":"2022-01-31T10:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T01:22:17","slug":"reader-call-out-how-are-you-coping-with-the-rising-cost-of-living-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41232","title":{"rendered":"Reader call-out: how are you coping with the rising cost of living in New Zealand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We want to hear from readers in Aotearoa about how rising inflation is affecting them and how they are dealing with it<\/p>\n<p>Inflation in Aotearoa has hit a three-decade high, and New Zealand households are facing an increase in food, petrol and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/24\/new-zealand-interest-rate-hike-raises-pressure-on-central-banks-over-inflation\">housing costs<\/a>. It\u2019s showing no sign of slowing \u2013 inflation hit 5.9% at the end of 2021, and ANZ, New Zealand\u2019s biggest bank, expects it to continue rising in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d like to hear from readers in New Zealand about whether you\u2019ve noticed increasing prices, and how you\u2019re managing financially in this climate: have certain essentials become unaffordable recently? What are they? Are rising prices affecting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/23\/new-zealand-cheese-lovers-forced-to-eke-out-supplies-as-prices-jump\">way you shop<\/a>, or your cooking and budgeting? Where have you noticed changes the most? Are you pushing for more pay from your employer, or trying other strategies to cope with the pressure of rising living costs? What are your concerns for the year ahead?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/31\/reader-call-out-how-are-you-coping-with-the-rising-cost-of-living-in-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We want to hear from readers in Aotearoa about how rising inflation is affecting them and how they are dealing with itInflation in Aotearoa has hit a three-decade high, and New Zealand households are facing an increase in food, petrol and housing costs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2845,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2845"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41233,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41232\/revisions\/41233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}