An American father-of-two is pleading Kiwis to help him and his family move here, fearing the consequences the US Presidential election might have on their futures.
In an email to the Herald with the subject line "Help Us!", Steven Schellhamer, of Kansas City, said living in the US, the country
he had once been proud to call his homeland, had become a "nightmare".
"It is like a 3D horror film movie that has no ending and as much as you just want to get up and leave the theater, you can't (sic)."
Schellhamer said he and his wife Gina were desperate to leave the US and hoped moving to New Zealand would protect their daughters Molly, 6, and Sophie, 12, from the culture of "hate and divisiveness" the election had stirred up there.
"You see your hopes and dreams start to falter ... I worry that my young girls will grow up in a country where women are treated without respect and looked down upon by men who follow or gravitate towards a Donald Trump idealism of what a man is.
