{"id":72667,"date":"2025-06-28T08:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T23:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/28\/beautiful-isolated-and-expensive-us-expats-on-life-in-new-zealand"},"modified":"2025-06-28T08:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T23:05:07","slug":"beautiful-isolated-and-expensive-us-expats-on-life-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72667","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful, isolated and expensive: US expats on life in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are showing renewed interest in moving to NZ. Those who have made the leap love its free healthcare and natural beauty, but warn fleeing is not a \u2018golden parachute\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Californian Larry Keim has learned a thing or two in his 20 years living in New Zealand: good dill pickles are hard to come by, understanding kiwi slang will get you far, and if you think you\u2019re going to get rich, forget it, \u201cthat ain\u2019t gonna happen\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut [New Zealand] is rich in so many other things that, at the end of the day, matter more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/28\/beautiful-isolated-and-expensive-us-expats-on-life-in-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are showing renewed interest in moving to NZ. Those who have made the leap love its free healthcare and natural beauty, but warn fleeing is not a \u2018golden parachute\u2019Californian Larry Keim has learned a thing or two in his 20 years living in Ne&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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-72667","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\/72667","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72668,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72667\/revisions\/72668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}