新西蘭小鎮招募居民 百萬可安居引爆全球

The southern New Zealand town of Kaitangata appears the prime example of the pastoral landscapes the island is known for; it's lush, hilly, green, and peaceful. Only about 800 people live there, and it's a mere eight minutes from the coastline.

素以田園景觀著稱的新西蘭，其南部城鎮凱坦加塔小鎮更是個中典範。那裏樹木茂盛，羣山起伏，綠色安寧。該小鎮距海灘僅有8分鐘的路程，只有區區800名居民。

For those who prefer the rural, slow lifestyle and community feel in their living environment, it's basically perfect.

對那些偏愛鄉村悠閒生活、充滿社區感的生活環境的人來說，這座小鎮聽上去再完美不過了。

And here's the best part: New Zealand desperately wants you to move there. Seriously.

不過下面纔是最精彩的部分：新西蘭非常希望你能搬來！我說的是認真的。

The small town is a heavily involved in necessary industries relating to dairy processing and freezing works, which more than fill the area's economic needs. In this very unique case, that presents a real problem: there are around 1,000 vacant jobs and too much affordable housing for the residents to fill.

該小鎮憑藉從事與乳製品加工冷藏相關的產業，完全可以滿足該地區的經濟需求。但是目前這一小鎮卻面臨着一道難題：鎮上有近1000個空閒的工作崗位，房子也已經多得住不完了。

"We have got youth unemployment down to two," Mayor Bryan Cadogan says. "Not 2 percent —just two unemployed young people."

“我們鎮上的失業人數降到了2。”鎮長布萊恩·卡多根說：“不是2%，而是隻有兩名年輕人失業。”

So in response to this peculiar crisis, Cadogan and the town's bank, lawyers, and community services are launching a recruitment campaign to try and lure candidates to the area with housing and land packages costing only 230,000 NZdollars, or almost 165,000 dollars U.S..

爲了應對此次危機，卡多根和鎮上的銀行、律師及社區服務部門聯合發起了一項招募活動，寄望以此吸引到願意搬進小鎮的人。希望搬入小鎮的人僅需購買價值23萬新西蘭元的“房地套餐”，換算成美元僅需16.5萬美元。

According to the local residents, "Kai," as citizens call it, is warm and community-oriented.

當地居民稱自己的小鎮爲“凱”，是一處溫暖而又充滿社區氣息的地方。

"This is an old-fashioned community, we don't lock our houses, we let kids run free," a local dairy farmer and third-generation native named Evan Dick told The Guardian. "We have jobs, we have houses, but we don't have people. We want to make this town vibrant again, we are waiting with open arms."

“這座小鎮是一個老式社區，我們的房門不上鎖，孩子們自由奔跑，”當地第三代居民、奶農伊萬·迪克接受《衛報》採訪時表示。“我們這有的是工作，有的是房子，就是沒有人。我們希望讓小鎮重新熱鬧起來，我們張開雙臂歡迎大家的到來。”