Aucklandians
// April 24th, 2008 // New Zealand
are we. Yep we’ve arrived after a gruelling three stage flight, and 48hrs without anything more than a stolen moment or two of sleep. Aucklands nice, very very clean or that could be just after Asia, the whole city feels like a dentists surgery.
Its strange to be back in civilization. The real worlds sobering after Asia. Asia is so absurd, so mental that its hard to summarize, you don’t have to go anywhere or do anything to be entertained, as Steve said last night “I like it ‘cos you don’t have to go anywhere to see a freak show, you can just sit outside and be entertained for hours and hours”. Now we’re doing normal people things like flat hunting (saw 6 or 7 today) and job hunting (applied to 6 or 7 today). The good news is that Steve and Bron (our hosts) have said that employment amongst skilled people is 0%, that employment agencies don’t even advertise jobs anymore as theres no-one to fill them, this place is suffering from serious brain drain as most people have run off to Australia or Europe. Neither of their jobs were ever advertised, the agencies just know people in the companies and when a good person comes along the CVs get sent in and hey presto, a job appears. So employment prospects look good, and hopefully a small or non-existent pay drop. Living wise its pretty cheap, more expensive than Leipzig, but some parts of Asia were more expensive than Leipzig, that place is in a special little bubble all of its own. Way cheaper than England though, and you can live on works doorstep in some real nice apartments with views out onto the harbour.
I guess thats about it, not much else to report because everything here is sort of like it is back in England, only nicer, so there isn’t that much to say about it. I guess I’ll be better at picker up the subtle differences in a few days when we get out of the whirl of flat and job hunting, can get down to enjoying our new home and I can get out of my overdraft 
This is quite a serious post because I’m hungry and we’ve been running round the city all day. More interesting stuff to come later.
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