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It's part of the calculus. NZ/AU seems safe.





There's a reason all the billionaires built their hidey-holes in NZ and bought citizenship. Stable liberal democracy that probably won't seize all their shit, relatively rich, not so tiny that there's little to do, really good natural environments, not likely to turn totally awful under climate change, really hard for climate or other refugees to reach, out-of-the-way and non-threatening enough that it's unlikely to be attacked by anyone or put entirely under the thumb of a great power for the next century or so, at least.

I can't think of a single other country that even comes close to matching that list of benefits. Only major downside is Christmas in Summer.




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