On 31/08/2016 5:15 AM, Your Name wrote:
> In article , Avon Kerr
>  wrote:
>> On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 10:04:14 +1200, Your Name wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The hangover will only get worse when you get off the plane and
>>>>> realise you're now in a fourth-world country ...
>>>>
>>>> That's simply a ridiculous comment.
>>>
>>> Not when you live there and see it on a daily basis it isn't - it's a
>>> factual comment.  :-(
>>
>> I'm with the first caller, New Zealand is a great country to live in.
>
> Yep, "great".
>
> There's an idiot Prime Minister who wastes piles of money pointlessly
> trying to change the flag, while hospitals, schools, police, fire
> service, etc. are all under-funded and the public has to pay their own
> ambulance bills.
>

Hey, first world problems similar to ours in Australia! You won't like
Australia if you think all these things should be well funded.

> Auckland's public transport system is hopeless and yet they're wasting
> even more money adding the idiot mayor's pet project of an short, but
> hideously expensive, underground section to the toy train set that they
> can't even properly run now. (Not to mention the fact that with sea
> levels rising, this underground tunnel and train station will be
> swamped with water anyway.)
>

Hey, similar to the issues we have with our incompetent governance!

> Prices for most things are ridiculously expensive for no reason other
> than retailer and big business greed - it's often much cheaper to
> import your purchases yourself from Australia, Europe, or America than
> to buy them in the local shops (and that includes shipping and
> potential customs bills).
>

And again!

> And there are MANY MANY MANY more examples.  :-\
>

Ditto. But the glass is half full and this is still a wonderful country
to visit and live in as I'm sure NZ is if you look around the world and
see how other people have to live.

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