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An unexpected addition:
I thought I may as well leave you with some parting thoughts of New Zealand just to wrap this whole lot up. Let's start with the driving. In comparison to america it is rather different. The pluses: you are on the correct side of the road. We had a manual which is faer preferred to an auto. The roads have bends in them from time to time rather than endless dreary straight lines.
The negatives: they use kilometers an hour. The only duel carriage ways are brief stretches actually inside the city, there are none outside any cityt. Every motorways and state highway and road, even between majoy cities, is justr a single land each way with perhaps a 200meter overtaking lane every 10k. 35% of NZ roads are unsealed, which means rough gravel tracks with major potholes. When you take the state highways and cities out then this means almost every side road off the state highway is a dirt track, its ridiculous. About 60% of bridges are one lane. Just one lane for both difprections so have to wait if a car is coming the other way. I mean, how difficult is it to build a bridge that has 2 lanes, one each way, again, ridiculous.
Secondly, the populations, there isn't one. There are just so few people here. Auckland, the largest city in NZ, feels no bigger than Nottingham, which is defiantly not a large UK city. Other major cities feel like small towns. And even the people who do live here, half of them seem to be English, its weird to just have so few people here.
The habitat. All this beauty comes at a price, there is so much of NZ that is just uninhabitable, which would be a problem if it wasn't for the fact no one lives here.
The accents: in all honesty, not one of my favorites. If I have to ever hear anyone say "sweet as bro" again at me in a NZ accent I might behead them.
Supermarkets: expensive. Which brings me onto another big flaw with both NZ and America, who do no supermarkets sell simple sandwiches like tesco or wotnot. The simplicity of meals of just going to tesco and picking up a £2 sandwich or meal deal is a pleasenty of life thang is completely lost on these countries, it kinda seems like sandwiches themselves just never caught on anywhere except england, they never became mainstream And thus supermarkets here only sell extravagantly priced and pretty questionably flavoured gourmet sandwiches of little variety. I miss tesco.
I have many more theories but that's a few for you to mull over and shall fill you in on the rest of my thoughts someday.
Much lave
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Dad ennals It's one of those countries, few in number, that, I feel, needs a big influx of people. I think that huge swathes of it ARE habitable, but not enough people to bother, hence roads that r awful, roads that don't go from a to b and a people who spend much of their time, when young, of trying to leave. The drift of the 18-40 year olds away is alarming. X dad