Comments by "Laurence Fraser" (@laurencefraser) on "Where Billionaires Hide From Coronavirus" video.
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Citizen of New Zealand here: New Zealand is a Shit place to build bunkers. The whole place is just as earthquake prone as Japan (though serious quakes are less coming on average for whatever reason, they can and do still happen), there are vulcanos and aquifers all over the place, the list of reasons goes on. To the best of my knowledge those bunkers are largely, if not entirely, a myth.
On the other hand, a number of wealthy foreigners Do own fancy houses here.
Still, currently, if you're not a citizen, permanent resident, or it is specifically necessary that you be present for dealing with an emergency or government project, you're not getting in,and if you Are, you're going through at least two weeks quarantine when you get here. (More if you don't return negative test results at both the begining and end of that period.)
Also, we currently have a Labour/New Zealand First coalition government. Labour tends not to give Rich people special treatment (NZFirst isn't particularly prone to doing so either that I know of), while NZFirst tends not to give Foreigners special treatment (and, the political situation being what it was even before the pandemic, Labour can't really afford to do that either.) So... Yeah. No hiding out here for the random rich folks unless they were lucky enough to be here at the time when the borders were closed (which happened very quickly, at least partially as a result of tourists refusing to follow lower level restrictions prior to the lockdown, which Also happened pretty quickly.)
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