{"id":45964,"date":"2022-07-02T04:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T19:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/02\/free-healthcare-bad-mexican-food-what-life-is-really-like-for-us-expats-in-new-zealand"},"modified":"2022-07-02T04:00:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T19:00:24","slug":"free-healthcare-bad-mexican-food-what-life-is-really-like-for-us-expats-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45964","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Free healthcare, bad Mexican food\u2019: what life is really like for US expats in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the overturning of Roe v Wade prompts a wave of interest in Aotearoa, Americans who made the leap post-Trump reveal the reality of their new lives<\/p>\n<p>Like a law of nature, each political crisis in the United States precipitates a wave of Americans desperate to emigrate to New Zealand. Disenchanted liberals flood internet forums with inquiries, flock to expat social media groups, and drive immigration websites to the brink of crashing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you happy living in New Zealand? I\u2019m a 27-year-old man. I want to settle down in Canada or New Zealand. NZ is like a peaceful paradise in the corner of the world,\u201d reads one wistful inquiry.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/02\/free-healthcare-bad-mexican-food-what-life-is-really-like-for-us-expats-in-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the overturning of Roe v Wade prompts a wave of interest in Aotearoa, Americans who made the leap post-Trump reveal the reality of their new livesLike a law of nature, each political crisis in the United States precipitates a wave of Americans despe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"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":[41,56,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45964","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45965,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45964\/revisions\/45965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}