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I've lived in London pretty much my entire life so I think I'd rather be away from a city. Plus, every New Zealander I've spoken to has said not to stay in Auckland.
To be honest I'm not really sure what I want to do either. Farm work sounds interesting and different to what I've done before. Unfortunately I can't drive so that might limit what I can do.
Auckland gets a bad rap, and is actually pretty nice if you're used to city living. You do need a car to live there, public transport is a mess the entire country over. Wellington and Christchurch would both accommodate you well enough without a car as they're small places. In any city you wouldn't have much trouble finding work in hospitality or other service industries. There's a bit of film/television work around that often requires short term contract workers. In my opinion, farm work is probably going to be a big challenge. They're quite far from civilisation and without a car you'll feel that isolation. If you can manage to get a license you can easily run around the country living in a van doing seasonal labour - mostly picking fruit, or working in meat/seafood processing. Otherwise, if you're open to doing tourist work there's a lot of that available in tourist towns, but you'll need good luck to find affordable accommodation there!
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