New Zealand

[Calliope]

NZ is not as clean or green as the tourism industry would have you believe. Most of our native flora/fauna are endangered, there's rubbish everywhere, we lifted the moratorium on GE, if National gets in then our nuclear free stance will be 'gone by lunchtime', we're running out of electricity so we're going to build blasted power pylons across the country instead of investing in sustainable energy, we are trawling our seabed like there's no tomorrow, etc etc.

There are no hobbits, but plenty of homeless people.

I still love my country, and am loathe to leave it.

[Psychotic]

I want to go there and find me some <s>Hobbits</s> Meat Puppets.

[faster skating penguin]

I know near nothing about it. But I do fancy the letter Z ...

[Mitch]

NZ is not as clean or green as the tourism industry would have you believe. Most of our native flora/fauna are endangered, there's rubbish everywhere, we lifted the moratorium on GE, if National gets in then our nuclear free stance will be 'gone by lunchtime', we're running out of electricity so we're going to build blasted power pylons across the country instead of investing in sustainable energy, we are trawling our seabed like there's no tomorrow, etc etc.

There are no hobbits, but plenty of homeless people.

I still love my country, and am loathe to leave it.

Damn National suck though! And yes, there are a lot of problems such as homelessness and poverty etc.

Sadly

[Levian]

New Zealand has almost the same shape as Japan. ^_^

[Lindy]

Used to be a lefty paradise, now it's become a right-wing hell.

Shame, still, beautiful landscape.

[escobert]

Beutiful place. Nice people and all thqat fun stuff. I hope to go back for a 64 day hiking trip thingy this january

[Meat Puppet]

We have lot of Japanese! Come to see us!

[Loony BoB]

Used to be a lefty paradise, now it's become a right-wing hell.

Shame, still, beautiful landscape.

Have you been there? According to you, things have changed more dramatically than I'd ever imagined over the past three years. How long ago do you think it was a lefty paradise and when did it change?

[Lindy]

From what I've heard, the political stance was originally very much geared towards a welfare state based on public services, but with high taxes, and then shifted towards more private industries but with far lower taxes.

And I just refer to anything that runs under a right-wing stance as hell, it's nothing specific.

Maybe I was misinformed, what did happen?

[Loony BoB]

I don't know, over the past few years I haven't been home at all, that's why I was asking if you knew anything I didn't.

[Rye]

I want to go there one day, it looks beautiful.

[Lindy]

I don't know, over the past few years I haven't been home at all, that's why I was asking if you knew anything I didn't.

Oh, haha, well, yeah. All I really know is what I posted, Nicky would be obviously the better person to ask since she's a politico and all.

[Drift]

its on the list of places i wanna go