{"id":75332,"date":"2025-11-26T12:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/26\/i-love-my-country-i-dont-want-to-leave-readers-reflect-on-the-exodus-from-new-zealand"},"modified":"2025-11-26T12:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:04:17","slug":"i-love-my-country-i-dont-want-to-leave-readers-reflect-on-the-exodus-from-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75332","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I love my country. I don\u2019t want to leave\u2019: readers reflect on the exodus from New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As people continue to move away in record numbers, readers share their reasons for leaving and contemplate life in New Zealand<\/p>\n<p>In the past year, tens of thousands of New Zealanders have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/03\/new-zealand-economy-record-numbers-leave-why-people-choosing-australia\">left the country,<\/a> surpassing the last spike in 2012 and raising fears of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/09\/leaving-new-zealand-record-departure-numbers\">\u201chollowing out\u201d<\/a> of mid-career workers. Guardian readers share their experiences on why they left \u2013 or are thinking of moving out of New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/26\/i-love-my-country-i-dont-want-to-leave-readers-reflect-on-the-exodus-from-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As people continue to move away in record numbers, readers share their reasons for leaving and contemplate life in New ZealandIn the past year, tens of thousands of New Zealanders have left the country, surpassing the last spike in 2012 and raising fea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5073,"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":[41,56,706,550,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-population","category-social-trends","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\/75332","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\/5073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75333,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75332\/revisions\/75333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}