Larry Page: Google co-founder granted New Zealand residency(bbc.com)
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Larry Page: Google co-founder granted New Zealand residency
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58128475
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Maybe he can get a compound next to Kim Dotdcom's :-).
It looks like Peter Thiel is selling his:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/125998977/peter-thiels-quee...
I expect Larry's to look more like this: (http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/213/2/2/The_Eye_of_Sa...) :-)
I don’t quite understand why this is big news. Is it really a surprise that having a very large amount of money enables you to do things other people can’t do?
I think it’s interesting that they’re all going to New Zealand, recently found to be one of the best places to live during the impending collapse of human civilization.
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Why was he in Fiji anyway? What was the health emergency? I hope they are OK.
Most likely it's all a coincidence, and once he was in NZ anyway, he completed the application.
But if it wasn't just a coincidence, why the big hurry?
* edit: He was in Fiji to 'ride out' the covid-19 pandemic. He applied for NZ residency 3 months ago. Discussions about the medivac have been ongoing 'for months'. So it appears this was not just some last-minute emergency, that just so happened to be a convenient opportunity to complete citizenship. Perhaps Fiji was a strategically planned choice too, given NZ was very closed at the time? NZ should make vaccination a requirement for citizenship, if not for entry.
Most likely it's all a coincidence, and once he was in NZ anyway, he completed the application.
But if it wasn't just a coincidence, why the big hurry?
* edit: He was in Fiji to 'ride out' the covid-19 pandemic. He applied for NZ residency 3 months ago. Discussions about the medivac have been ongoing 'for months'. So it appears this was not just some last-minute emergency, that just so happened to be a convenient opportunity to complete citizenship. Perhaps Fiji was a strategically planned choice too, given NZ was very closed at the time? NZ should make vaccination a requirement for citizenship, if not for entry.