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Emigrate with Caution (Paperback)

by Nicola Butler (Author)
2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Livingwords (Sep 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0953594203
  • ISBN-13: 978-0953594207
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 485,448 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A very readable, highly informative and helpful first hand account of emigrating to New Zealand from England and living there for four years. Helpful hints at the end of every chapter and a list of useful contact addresses, telephone and fax numbers at the back of the book.


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Emigrate with Caution certainly fills a gap in the market for people seeking real information about emigrating, which can only be obtained through personal experiences such as those of Nicola and her family. Even for those not actively thinking of emigrating it is a highly enjoyable read, with insight for the visitor to New Zealand as well as the prospective migrant.
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Book Review, 16 May 2005
By Sam Barrow (Leicester) - See all my reviews
I first read this book amongst several others last October 2004.

My partner and I were giving serious thought to living and working in New Zealand and so wanted to do as much research as possible before making a decision.

In addition to reading this book we actually flew out to New Zealand and travelled around for a month during November and December 2004.

I have just finished re-reading Nicola's book with the benefit of first hand experience if only for one month.

New Zealand is indeed a physically beautiful country with a land mass equalling the UK. New Zealand does perhaps lack the sophistication of thousands of years of culture that we in Europe take for granted.

I think that Nicola has missed the opportunity to fully integrate and benefit with the NZ way of life. I am sure that I will be corrected if I am wrong but during their four year stay neither Nicola nor her husband worked. This is perfectly fine if you can afford to take a four year holiday. To really appreciate New Zealand I believe it is important to "muck in" with the locals or you will always feel and be viewed as an outsider.

To continually judge, compare and find fault with another culture is pointless, they would have been better to have never left England.

The saying "the grass is always greener" might well have applied in this case but sometimes it genuinely is "greener" if a little "full bodied".

I feel bad criticising her book as it obviously didn't just fall out of the trees.

My personal advice to anyone thinking of living and working in New Zealand is to take a couple of months and experience it for yourself. It's the only way to know for certain if you are going take to it.

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars A useful counter-balance to pro-emigration advertising, 27 Jun 2000
By A Customer
This is a readable and interesting account of one family's experiences of a new life in New Zealand. The author states she wrote it with the intention of helping others avoid some expensive mistakes made by her and her family and, as such, I think it's a useful counter-balance to pro-emigration advertising. Every family's circumstances are different, and some chapters will not apply to some readers (eg building a house and finding a boarding school). The author provides some useful pointers to areas where cultural differences might grate on the new migrant and it's worth being aware of the possibility so that those who do make the move are forewarned and forearmed. I suppose I'd sum up my reaction to the book by saying that I think it highlights some important considerations, even though I don't think that my family would be worried by a lot of the issues which the author found less than ideal. It raises important questions about the state of the NZ economy and the welcome extended to migrants which all would-be residents would do well to consider.

At this stage (firmly rooted in the UK and with no experience - yet - of living in New Zealand, I don't feel 100% qualified to pass judgement on this book. I would recommend it to prospective migrants, if only to ensure that they don't have unrealistic expectations of their future life, and that they ask some hard questions while they still have a chance to back down with their bank balances intact!

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Interesting read, if only to find out how not to do it!, 22 Jun 2002
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I read this book eagerly as I am emigrating in a few months...however I found the style of writing very basic and lacking in any flair. The writer seemed to go off at tangents about her own personal opinions, sometimes on topics which had nothing to do with emigrating or New Zealand. I felt as though she had expected New Zealand to be exactly like England with a better climate and was not prepared to adjust her behaviour in any way to suit the culture of another country, even going as far as to build a ridiculously expensive brick English-style house in a country where this type of building is not the norm, then appearing surprised that she did not receive an offer for the amount that was spent on it. This lack of foresight has both horrified and amused me as having lived abroad before, the first thing I learned was to live as the locals do! I look forward to immersing myself in Kiwi culture and lifestyle when I emigrate and not living like an "Englishman Abroad"!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Buy this book with Caution
Not only is this book an insult to the Kiwi's, it's also a poor advert for the English too. Unless you are a stuck up 'little Englander' who has no intension of becoming a Kiwi... Read more
Published on 19 Jan 2005

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to read and very informative.
I really enjoyed this book, and found that the author brings up many points that are worth consideration to anyone considering emigration. Read more
Published on 4 Aug 2004 by geoffhansen_39

1.0 out of 5 stars Highly insulting to kiwis, but ROTFLMAO none the less.
Well, it certainly had us laughing! The pertinant information could easily have been put into a pamphlet, but would then cost much less i guess, and pull in less money to pay off... Read more
Published on 3 Feb 2004

4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining and some good information.
I read this book in one day as it is not hard to read and is entertaining. Towards the end of the book it seemed that the negativity towards NZ was due to the authors misfortune... Read more
Published on 2 Feb 2004

1.0 out of 5 stars Colonial views alive and well
I toyed between one star and five stars. This is hilarious - truly laugh out loud reading. Unfortunately, I was laughing very much at the author rather than with her. Read more
Published on 29 Aug 2003 by mr s lendrum

5.0 out of 5 stars An enjoyable read, with helpful and well balanced points.
Having just read 'Emigrate With Caution' I felt that this was a well written and easily readable book. Read more
Published on 15 Aug 2003 by Ben Phillips

3.0 out of 5 stars Emigrating to the Good Life
Whilst the book contains a great deal of useful information and helpful contact numbers, one cannot help but feel that it was written in the style of Margot Leadbetter, from... Read more
Published on 2 Jul 2003 by DJ Clark

2.0 out of 5 stars Badly written, but with some important caveats.
I read “Emigrate with Caution” with interest; having read previous reviews telling me it was not particularly helpful. Read more
Published on 3 April 2003 by Sian Day

1.0 out of 5 stars Helpful content but constructed in a negative style
The advice given in this book is undoubedly sound, although perhaps a little dated now and not altogether relevant to very many people. Read more
Published on 20 Mar 2002

3.0 out of 5 stars An eeasy read with some good tips, but...
I found this book to be a very easy read. I would recommend it to anyone who is considering emigrating to New Zealand, although obviously there have been economic changes since... Read more
Published on 18 Jan 2002 by dizzynefer@yahoo.co.uk

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