>>Not easy to sneak into New Zealand -- good one. Not exactly like walking across an artificially defined border.
Still there are problems with people on student or tourist visas working, but not enough to distort the economy.
re Lisa Slater: I know. Never understood why they didn't lay out the welcome mat. Today they would.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
