Comments by "Joey" (@Joey-ct8bm) on "How New Zealand Fell Out of Love With Jacinda Ardern" video.

@Lockieez I just googled a average house price in New Zealand. It's insane! $944,767 as the average house price. You need to be a millionaire to buy a house in NZ. That's crazy! A average salary in NZ is $39079. American dollars btw. That would definitely leave people homeless. You're homeless on a average salary. To compare that to the Netherlands where we also have a huge housing crisis. A average house costs $415294 and the average salary is $41315. You can't even get a mortgage with half the house prices here. How the hell do you buy a house when you need a mortgage on at least $700000?
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I just googled a average house price in New Zealand. It's insane! $944,767 as the average house price. You need to be a millionaire to buy a house in NZ. That's crazy! A average salary in NZ is $39079. American dollars btw. That would definitely leave people homeless. You're homeless on a average salary.
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@adk7439 That works until property value drops. I see property value went down last year. That's good for the rest of the people. That tax law needs to go though. In the Netherlands big multinational companies don't pay tax at all. They all made secret deals with the government. It attracts big business, but also prevents our own companies to grow in many cases. They can't compete at all. We always say that multinationals pay 1% tax, but we don't actually know. Family inheritance tax is probably the worst loophole in Dutch tax. People don't pay inheritance tax if they own a family business. They can put all their money into their business and they evade inheritance tax. That's why most rich people in the Netherlands stay rich. A lot of old money in the Netherlands. Everyone else has to give up 40%.
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@kiwimave The Netherlands is the second biggest agricultural exporter in the world. I know that for 250 million euro's of meat products go to Australia every year. I'm guessing NZ too. Tomatoes, cheese(goudse cheese), beer(Heineken), flowers and other products also come from the Netherlands. In Cheese and tomatoes we're number 1 exporter in the world. On alcohol we're second of the world after Mexico. It's still expensive in the Netherlands because of tax. In Belgium and Germany our own products are cheaper. It's really crazy we export meat to a country like Australia. They got so many space to farm compared to us. We actually got the housing problem because we are at the max of emissions in the EU. We don't build houses because of emission while our meat goes to countries who have all the space. I would say buy farmland in NZ and farm there, but i don't wanna know what's that gonna cost. Tomatoes don't grow in the Netherlands. That's all greenhouse. Not good for emissions too.
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@garb4gepile420 My country the Netherlands has a housing crisis, but the numbers are very very different. A average salary in the Netherlands is $41330 and the average house price is $415450. We make more here and the house price is half of that in NZ. On a doctors salary you can't even get a mortgage in NZ. Here you can. In the US a average salary is at least 50000 dollars. A lot higher. The average house price in the US is $543,600 Around a million is the average! That's incredibly high. Even for western standards
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@kiwimave I knew NZ was more expensive to live in all expects of life. Never been there. I would love to go though. I thought the average salary would be at least 60000 or 70000 USD. It's lower than ours. My favorite fruit is kiwi by the way.
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Minor issues. No massive protests and people killing each other.
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@Davedarave6661 NZ is a gorgeous country with great weather. If i were a millionaire i would move there. I'm not surprised. Not on my average income though.
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I just googled a average house price in New Zealand. It's insane! $944,767 as the average house price. You need to be a millionaire to buy a house in NZ. That's crazy! A average salary in NZ is $39079. American dollars btw. That would definitely leave people homeless. You're homeless on a average salary.
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