[Hamakide]

Hi all,

I was curious if there are Dutch people participating in this forum who have already left the Netherlands and went to New Zealand.. I have seen a post from Evelien I think, but are there any others ?

And also, we are attracted to Whangarei, would that region be good for us from a job / housing / secondary school point of view ?

Again, all feedback welcomed and appreciated !

[bbq]

Dont know about people on this site, but I do know Rabobank has an office in NZ.

cheers

alex

[Hamakide]

Thanks bbq :)

Anyone else know about this ?

[evelien]

Sometimes life is simple:

www.rabobank.co.nz

:nice1

[Hamakide]

Thanks Evelien, but it seems I am again not clear enough.. ( must be Friday.... oh no it's still Thursday.. :uhoh )

What I meant was, are there "groups" of Dutch immigrants around the Whangarei region that you know of ?

[bbq]

Hi

Spreek misschien in het Nederlands

Hope thats right!

cheers

alex ;)

[evelynne_r]

Nou, ja, ik ben geen Nederlandse, maar ik spreek wel Nederlands, dus vergeef me als ik een paar foutjes maak.

Ik woon in Wellington en tot nu toe heb ik geen Nederlanders ontmoet. Ik weet niet van Whangarei.

In Napier is er een Nederlandse cafe/winkel met poffertjes, hagelslaag, chocomelk (mmmmm!!) erwtenzoep etc.

Veel succes met de immigratie.

Evelynne

[Lily]

Hi
At the moment I am living with my fiance in Amsterdam (I'm NZ'er, he's Dutch). We move to NZ to live in November :mrgreen:
NZ has quite a few Dutch immigrants and the ones that I know seem to like living there very much. I'm sorry I cannot answer your question with regard to Whangarei as I haven't lived there myself.
From what I can gather from living in A'dam the Dutch and Kiwi culture is quite similar.
:nice1

[Soon2baKiwi]

My hubby's family is Dutch. Father from Maastricht and Mum from Delft. We actually met in Den Haag when he was visiting his long lost relatives. His parents eloped to Wellington 50 years ago, lived there for 38 years and then decided, as many ex-pats do, to come HOME to retire. Big mistake for them, NZ was their home and The Netherlands was a stranger to them. They would have gone back but then his dad got ill and they never got to. It was all very sad but his mum is now back living in Auckland and is very happy to be where she belongs again. I believe there is a fairly sizeable Dutch population and as Eveline says there is a Dutch shop in Napier (MIL was down in Havelock North a couple of months ago and was talking about it) - think there's one in Auckland too.

Anyway, good luck wherever you end up.

[femke]

Hi

I am english but my husband is dutch, at the moment we live in sittard.(limburg) We will be leaving for nz 20th oct, i know there are lots of dutch immigrants scattered around nz, with their own shops etc. Maybe a good place for you to look for more info www.nieuwzeeland.pagina.nl then go to the forum, hope this is of some help

Moira :nice1

[Hamakide]

Thank you all for responding :)

We will try to come see for ourselves asap!

We were hoping to visit NZ in the upcoming schoolholiday but unfortunately my mother (88) has broken her hip.. :no so we aren't going anywhere for now..

[jesselyn]

We were hoping to visit NZ in the upcoming schoolholiday but unfortunately my mother (88) has broken her hip.. :no so we aren't going anywhere for now..

hugs to your mom....

jes :angel

[Hamakide]

Thanks Jesselyn :)