in my humble opinion it's all a question of attitude..

i don't mean to upset anyone or get anyones back up...

in the original posting on this topic, x pom talks about "english tele", and "english things in shops" and the whole piece of text comes over as them looking for england with year round sunshine and zero crime and zero social problems...

i like to think i'm a bit more of a realist... if i wanted english things in shops and on tele i would emigrate to somerset or dorset...
You only need to look at the new zealand herald to see theres crime..
but also for a national broadhseet (im guessing its a proper paper) there's a big concentration on new zealand news rather then world news as you get with the times or the telegraph over here....

i hope i'm right... :?