New Zealand’s Low Immigrant Ranking

The expatriate networking organization Inter Nations surveyed nearly 12,000 respondents of 177 different nationalities, living in 181 countries. Respondents were asked how their new homes performed on factors including quality of life, cost of living, safety, financial outlook, government and its bureaucracy, and ease of fitting in.

In a resulting ranking of 52 countries – those for whom there was a large enough sample size –New Zealand ranked in the doldrums, at 51. It was beaten to the bottom by Kuwait.