Advice to anybody considering moving to New Zealand: DO NOT. Unless you are sure you will never ever need police or medical or insurance services, don't have school aged kids, and you don't care that wages are low and prices are high, and you don't mind blatent widespread government-condoned racism against white people, or unless you are a criminal and want to find easy marks and want to do your crimes with a very low chance of being caught or punished, and even if you do get caught being held for trivial lengths of time.

As I'm already here and have invested heavily into my property which is not ready for sale, I'm just going to batten down the hatches and ride out the storm. Things have to revert to the mean eventually.