Oh man, I've been considering emigrating to Auckland and now you tell me that apart from insane house prices there would also be supervulcano status to worry about?
Toupo: supervolcano double the size of Yellowstone
Wellington: been waiting for "the big one" earthquake as long as I can remember.
Christchurch: Had their big one, the paved roads turned to sand. Entire suburbs got abandoned. Main shopping district is still made out of shipping containers.
Everywhere: no ozone, you burn instantly in summer without 100spf at 10am and even then it's still kind of stupid to go outside at all around 2pm.
Seriously, just do yourself a favour, move to Sydney, Australia. The snakes mostly keep to the outer suburbs and the spiders aren't that scary. The giant flying cockroaches take a bit to get used to though.
Auckland: Has a motorway network that would allow the city to evacuate within a few days.
Taupo: was a long time a go and has some good hot water now because of it.
Wellington: it would be mostly the bureaucratic class to go
Christchurch: yes, there is still remnants of an earthquake 13 years gone but you get used to the marine vibe with the shipping containers, a little bit of Lyttelton vibe in the big smoke.
As for the ozone, we can hardly be blamed for that. And our most dangerous animal has been eaten to extinction, I would suggest Australians start down the list and do the same.
> Christchurch: Had their big one [...] Entire suburbs got abandoned
This bit is true, but it's a small proportion of the city. You can see the streets, driveways, and trees, but the buildings are gone: https://www.google.com/maps/@-43.5099561,172.6785597,3994m/d..., https://www.google.com/maps/@-43.5085311,172.6809741,403m/da...
The _big_one_ is supposed to be the Alpine fault because we've got the entire country on two continental plates.
Wikipedia says
"The last major earthquake on the Alpine Fault was in about 1717 AD with a great earthquake magnitude of Mw8.1 plus or minus 0.1 The probability of another one occurring before 2068 was estimated at 75 percent in 2021"