Q&A: Australia or New zealand?
Question by Jay: Australia or New zealand?
my partner and i are looking at a working holiday in newzealand or australia but can’t really decide which, does anyone know the key differences (in weather, cost, culture, etc…) that we could take into account.
Thanks
Best answer:
Answer by Bangkok Bill
Generally hotter in Oz with higher salaries and a higher cost of living.
NZ has a culture, Oz doesn’t.
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New Zealand is much much smaller and I would only choose New Zealand if you go in Summer maybe from October to April . You should be able to pick up fruit picking jobs but jobs are a lot harder to come by now that both countries are on the verge of a reccesion. New Zealand I think is in reccession. Australia being so so big would cost you more in travelling around if you want to see a lot of the Country and you have a choice of weather with the top half being tropical but you only want to be in the tropics during the dry season from April to September. Both countries are multi cultural but NZs culture is mainly divided into 2 one being maori and the other more English .Both are fabulous to visit . why not have a spell in both countries they are not to far apart and flights are cheap between the 2 if you shop around.
New Zealand has a LOT more to see (as in natural surrounding) like MASSIVE waterfalls and bit sulphure hot springs and its easy to get from one side to the other- as in Australia to get from the coast to the centre takes a day or too and there aint much but bushland except for close to the coast. and most cities are all the same.
i hate to dis Australia (im Aussie) but compared to New Zealand its not the best choice to travel too
Australia definitely offers the best prospect for a working holiday, there are a lot more opportunities here both working and as a tourist.
New Zealand is pretty but it’s really only 2nd best as a destination- the mountains are far more spectacular in the Swiss Alps or the Canadian Rockies, Yellowstone is much more impressive as a geothermal location, Japan Nth America and the Alps are much better for winter sports just as examples.
In Australia you can go from the Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef and the tropical rainforest, to the last remnant of Gondwanaland forest in southern Tasmania, to the red centre and Uluru or the remote northwest and the Bungle Bungles and Ningaloo reef all experiences that can not be duplicated anywhere else in the world. Australian cities offer a far more vibrant lifestyle both culturally and economically (which is why so many New Zealanders live here)
Well I’m a kiwi working in Australia who’s seen much of the world (and who has no reason to believe the Russ has any personal experience to back his opinion up with). And I will say the tow countries are in many ways very different and in other ways very similar.
I’ll list as follows:
Weather: Australia is much hotter, with many places in the tropics and barely getting a winter. New Zealand has a temperate climate like Western Europe. The Australian state of Tasmania also has a temperate climate like New Zealand. Both New Zealand and Tasmania are a lot greener and have more foliage than mainland Australia.
Cost: New Zealand is less expensive, although the wages are lower as well. So you’ll have more money to spare if you get a good job Australia than NZ, but less money if you do minimum wage.
Culture: Neither country has much high-brow culture. There’s a fringe in the urban centres in both nations but like the USA it doesn’t extend to the countryside much. However I would say that ‘small town’ New Zealand has some small amount of cultural refinement while Australia outside of the state capitals has next to none. New Zealand also has a bi-cultural environment where the indigenous Maori population has retained much of the character and culture of the pre-British settlement.
I also can say I find my average countryman much more interesting than the average Australian.
However Australia has some fantastic beaches and the buildings are better. And Sydney is a much better city than Auckland IMO.
But yeah the two countries are unique yet have some similarities due to the British colonial heritage.