The high-profile ex-inmate has spent the last couple of days in Auckland after being released from Waikeria Prison on parole.
Mr Taylor was serving a jail term of 17 and a-half years for a raft of offences, a sentence which officially ends in June 2022.
The social-justice campaigner arrived at Dunedin Airport at 2.15pm today flanked by local woman and fellow advocate Hazel Heal, with whom he will be living in a “semi-rural” location.
The pair had communicated through a shared interest in hepatitis C but had only met in person a couple of days ago.
Ms Heal said she felt no pressure in having Mr Taylor stay with her.
It was a privilege, she said, and a way of “paying it forward”.
Mr Taylor told the Otago Daily Times the last time he had been in Dunedin, the visit was more fleeting.
He and a friend and escaped from Invercargill borstal in the 1970s and shot through the city in a stolen Land Rover.
“Times change,” Mr Taylor said.
He was adamant those wild days were over and he was looking forward to studying and preparing for the several legal battles with the authorities in which he was still locked.
Mr Taylor is planning to spend six to eight months in Dunedin before heading back to Auckland.
Nothing though was set in stone and when asked whether the south may become a more permanent home, he replied: “who knows?”
