For years, NZ has featured prominently in doomsday survival plans of the US' wealthy. FMTNews Pandemic EscapePlan
NEW YORK: As coronavirus infections tore across the US in early March, a Silicon Valley executive called the survival shelter manufacturer Rising S Co.
The businessman runs a company in the Bay Area but lives in New York, which was fast becoming the world’s coronavirus epicentre. In recent weeks, the country has been lauded for its response to the pandemic. It enforced a four-week lockdown early, and today has more recoveries than cases. In the US, two dozen families have moved into a 5,000-person Vivos shelter in South Dakota, he said, where they’re occupying a bunker on a former military base that’s about three-quarters the size of Manhattan.
On March 12, Mihai Dinulescu decided to pull the plug on the cryptocurrency start-up he was launching to flee to the remote country.“I had this very gripping feeling that we needed to go.” “In a time when pretty much all planes were running on a third occupancy, this thing was booked solid.” Its co-founder, New Zealander Dan Bowden, said he’s fielded inquiries from about a dozen hopeful employees from the US tech industry since the start of the pandemic, but that generally he’s wary of these requests.One potential US-based investor even asked if he would be eligible for New Zealand residency if he boosted his investment in the start-up. Notably, New Zealand does offer an investor visa for about US$6 million for three years.
The couple chose Waiheke, with a population of about 9,000, for the proximity to its other elite residents. Perrin Molloy, a local builder who has lived on the island since he was 11, described Waiheke as a “billionaire’s playground”.
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