Max was earning more as a dishwasher in Australia than as a university-qualified environmental monitoring technician back home in New Zealand. He is among a record number of people leaving the country.
Ignore the doomer. There are some ratty old houses around, but there are also plenty of places that are modern and well insulated. We’ve had something of a building boom over the last few years, driven in large part due to changes in zoning rules, so a huge number of town houses and apartments have been built. It’s also possible to retrofit insulation to an extent, which we’ve done in our house. We now have underfloor and ceiling insulation, as well as double glazed windows.
A lot of rentals have been retrofitted wherever possible, as there are now minimum standards for rental properties.
Ignore the doomer. There are some ratty old houses around, but there are also plenty of places that are modern and well insulated. We’ve had something of a building boom over the last few years, driven in large part due to changes in zoning rules, so a huge number of town houses and apartments have been built. It’s also possible to retrofit insulation to an extent, which we’ve done in our house. We now have underfloor and ceiling insulation, as well as double glazed windows.
A lot of rentals have been retrofitted wherever possible, as there are now minimum standards for rental properties.