[uniflyboy]

I found that Kiwies are extremely kind and surely love a chat. The prices are very high and I must say I feel sorry for the people. The reason is that there is no competition. For some reason Kiwi business people hate competition and as they can avoid competition the country remains expensive and innovation is unknown.

We were amazed when we tried to get someone to fix our washing machine. "No, I don't travel that far" (15 km), "Ok, I'll come some time next week..., Even in shops the assistants talk and ignore the customer for quite some time.

Mind you, when we were served by someone of Asian extraction we got extremely good service. Hmmm, have Kiwies lead in their pants (be a little "lazy")?

We met a lot of English. New Zealand seems to be the little UK. Unfortunately (for us) the food in the shops are very English (boring) as well. Sorry, I don't want to insult anyone but so far every "Pom" I met outside England started to very much enjoy food (haha)

I met two shop keepers of Indian extraction. As expected they were extremely rude and one tried to cheat us by firstly charging us for something we did not buy and then they tried to give us too little change making a lot of trouble when caught. No different to Australia (and Moombai) really.

Kiwies seem to be extremely honest. It is great to have them around. I am glad too to have a "Pommy" neighbour. We already started to destroy a few bottles together. I think it will eb a great life here.

Cheers
Mike