Antennas, footwear and air conditionig

You hear a lot about how NZ is a few decades behind the rest of the world, and there is some evidence to support that. Sure there are no freeways, but that’s because there is no need for them.. They have the same cars we do, altho because the average income here is about half or 60% of US, there are a lot of older cars. As the matter of fact we’ve seen a few cars which were made in the ‘40s being driven as regular transportation…. Not to an auto show, as far as we could tell. But that is very rare.

Houses look about what we have, altho they are a little smaller, and there is not a lot of vaiation in size and eloquence. Everybody has a house, but there are very very few McMansions. Not everyone has a satillite dish, alto if you don’t, you are really cut off from the world. There are a LOT of TV antennas, which is hard for me to figure out. Don’t you need to be near a broadcast tower?? How can you be 100 miles from a town and get anything? Yet here they are: houses with antennas.

On to footwear. If there is any. It seems like almost everyone has flip flops or jandals, as they are called here. Those who don’t wear jandlas, are just barefoot. In any town maybe 20% of people just don’t wear shoes. It’s qute interesting to see a girl in a dress and no shoes. Even on fairly stenuous hikes where we are happy to have our hiking boots, the New Zealanders are wearing their jandals. You don’t want to own a shore store here. You’ll starve,

About airconditioning. They don’t have any, except in cars.