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Journalist Ged Cann says he started thinking about moving overseas out of concern over whether he would ever be able to build the kind of life he wanted in New Zealand.
"When it became clear the newly-elected National-led government was going to hand tax breaks back to property investors I decided the prospects for my generation affording a home and having a good life in New Zealand were limited.
"It was a choice between staying in a low-wage, high-cost-of-living country where half of my wage would go on mortgage repayments, or moving to a high-wage country with lower cost of living and more career options."
He said he spoke to recruiters who said house prices and the high cost of living meant they struggled to attract and retain international talent, "hamstringing the likes of the tech and the international education sector".
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He initially applied for a job that would have been based in South East Asi
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