On 8/21/07, Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:24:18 +1200 > Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > Oh for a return to those days when NZ was actually a pretty nice place in > > which to live.
> All things are relative. What's the third largest city in England? Brum? > Manchester? Where would you prefer to be? Rural France actually. What I do know is that 600 or 700 skilled and qualified people are voting with their feet every week! I'm sick of having to walk along a foot-path which has not been cleaned by the council since 1984 - I kid you not. The North side of the street is so encrusted with lichen and moss that slipping and falling over in wet weather is a very real risk. The South side is so littered with small shards of broken glass that it's no longer safe to walk ones dog along it lest the dog's paws get cut to shreds. The built-up areas of India are better than that! Please don't get me going on road safety. I missed being a statistic by millimetres when crossing the road at a lights controlled crossing the other day. > Wasn't NZ second to Norway in a recent 'honesty' test, handing in lost > wallets? I do believe that was the case, but it would be interesting to know if Norway had _six_ finance companies fall over in the last few months. ( Nathan Finance today ) Who do you think is going to do their dough? I assure you it's not the company directors. Don't forget that NZ has the second biggest prison population as a proportion to the total of any country in the world. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
