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Re:As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw by RantyDave on Friday April 14, 2017 @05:32PM (#14117615)
This. We also have large numbers of Chinese coming over and buying houses because it's a safe store of value... something the Chinese government can't just take one day.
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Re:As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw by doubleunplussed on Friday April 14, 2017 @08:09PM (#14118484)
Oh wow. This is happening in Australia, but with no capital gains tax it must be worse in NZ.

I'm so sick of it. Houses should be for living in, goddamn it. Not for storing your cash out of reach of a corrupt government, as necessary a thing as that is.

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Re:As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw by mistermann on Sunday April 16, 2017 @11:00PM (#14128968)
Does the government in Australia also insist that it is only a tiny portion of sales, while refusing to actually gather data showing what the reality is?
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