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Honestly, my only remaining fear in moving to NZ would be going from unmetered internet in the US to strictly metered internet in NZ. Would I be able to cope with a data cap?!

It could be a reality show. Have your people call my people!

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Things have changed in the last few months, it's all unmetered now. eg, here's my ISP https://voyager.nz/home and for $69 a month I can get fibre unthrottled with no data limits.

At least NZ has fibre. Unlike the western island (Australia, aka the mainland ;) ) which has an absolute shitshow for Internet connectivity.

I live an hour north of Sydney and I have fibre to my house. (But I acknowledge I am one of a lucky minority - part of my reasons for choosing this suburb was the fibre.)

You sure are. My parents are well inside Sydney's suburban sea and are stuck on 3mbit ADSL2+ due to exchange distance.

New Zealand's national fibre plan is brilliant. If only Australia could come up with such ideas...

> New Zealand's national fibre plan is brilliant

I live 8km from Auckland CBD and haven't got fibre or an install date. Lines crap out when it rains. Every fibre install I have seen (and I keep an eye out for them) is terrible. Through driveway expansion joints, along fences etc. My view is quite the opposite on how good the roll out has been.

This is not an issue at all anymore. Fibre coverage is very good, and almost all ISPs offer an unlimited plan. I pay $130NZD a month for unlimited 1gbps down / .5gbps up.

This happened to me going from the UK -> Canada. Blew through my cap in one day and called them because I was sure there was a mistake. They reset it and I blew through it again within 24 hours. To be fair, I was only there for 6 months so the short term contract packages available to me where rubbish but still - it was a long 6 months filled with plenty of penalty payments.

Unmetered gigabit internet is widely available over both fibre and cable. It's not particularly cheap (equiv of $80 USD+tax) but it's there.

> It could be a reality show. Have your people call my people!

Mitchell and Webb had a sketch about a reality show that asked a couple to live in an early 1990s house for a while. There's a bit about the Internet in it.

At one point they discover that there's ice cream in the freezer... but it's Neapolitan. One of the couple starts sobbing.

There are plenty that are unmetered. I've had unlimited for over a decade. Speed is an issue if you don't have fibre.

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