Australia or New Zealand?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

Poll question: Australia or New Zealand?

I voted for New Zealand for the following reasons.

1. The Finn Brothers
2. The All-Blacks
3. The Movie 'Bad Taste' and its unknown director
4. Flying Nun Records
5. Edmund Hillary
6. General Bernard Freyberg
7. The Dunedin music scene
8. The city of Wellington
9. The superior leg room on Air New Zealand flights
10. Obscure kids show 'The Children of Fire Mountain'

[Badger1]

1. Two words

Cook Islands!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

2. Are they the ones that are first to celebrate the New Year?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

3. Come on Australia, those Kiwis are kicking your antipodean ass!

[Pale Blue Dot]

4. Finn Brothers were all I needed.

Of course, it doesn't hurt that all the pictures I've seen from New Zealand look amazing.

[Florida_Geek]

5. Four words

Lord of the Rings

It looked beautiful....

[Screaming Lord Byron]

6. It is.

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. Setting for Xena and Herc

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. Oz. New Zealand looks lovely but...

...there's that damn ozone layer hole. :cry:

[DinahMoeHum]

9. There's more people diversity in Australia. . .

and there's an active Armenian presence in Sydney and Melbourne.

B-)

[CanuckAmok]

10. NZ!

Many reasons:

1) The Quiet Earth was filmed in New Zealand

2) New Zealand accepted my application for a work permit/landed immigrant status

3) Best sailing on Earth (East coast off Auckland)

4) My relatives live in Australia

5) The PM is a woman and a Socialist. She called Bush an idiot during a press conference, and then called another press conference, in which she reiterated her position.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

17. Cool, when are you going? Where are you going?

[CanuckAmok]

19. Don't know. Don't know.

Probably Auckland, because I will be restricted to film work, as that's my trade.

As far as when, it won't be before mid-September, because I'm working up until Labour Day, and possibly moving house right after that. I still have to wait for my international criminal record search to be completed, which I have been told can take up to six months. Damn, I knew shooting all those people in Iceland would come back to haunt me.


But I'll PM you for info when I know.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

20. Auckland's a fine city, though I prefer Wellington.

But if you want a film job in Wellington, there's only one guy you've gotta go to, of course.

[MrsMatt]

11. New Zealand

No nukes.

[wysimdnwyg]

12. I chose Australia, but only because...

NZ is the "in" place right now. I've wanted to go there for 10 or 12 years. Now, fricken EVERYBODY wants to go there.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

15. I thought Australia was the 'in' place, which is why I went to NZ!

[wysimdnwyg]

16. It USED to be Australia

but now it's NZ. It sucks, too. I never get anywhere I want to go until after it's become trendy.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

18. I went in early '99. Clearly NZ jumped the shark directly after I left.

;-)

[Fenris]

13. Australia: Utah with a Beach

;)

[NNadir]

14. Lord Rutherford.

I know this doesn't compare with Xena the warrior princess, but Lord Rutherford, winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, discoverer of the (since greatly refined) "planetary model" of the atom, was a native New Zealander.

http://www.nzedge.com/heroes/rutherford.html

[VOX]

21. NZ also is nuke-free...

http://canterbury.cyberplace.org.nz/peace/nukefree.html

New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act

An Act to establish in New Zealand a Nuclear Free Zone, to promote and encourage an active and effective contribution by New Zealand to the essential process of disarmament and international arms control, and to implement in New Zealand the following treaties:
<snip>

[Kickin_Donkey]

22. NZ ...

As far as indigenous peoples go, the European New Zealanders treated the Maori fairly well. The Aborigines in Australia were treated far worse than Native Americans – they were literally hunted down like vermin.

Go, Aoteroa!

[Whitacre D_WI]

23. Too many expatriate Scots in NZ.

So I voted for Australia.


I keed, I keed.

I voted for Oz 'cause I've got a couple more friends there, and because the Scientists were better than Tall Dwarfs.

[CanuckAmok]

24. Ooooooo...The Scientists!

I'm sticking with NZ, but only because the Scientists no longer exist as a unit.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

25. I'm going with NZ for Straightjacket Fits and The Chills and The Saints.

Damn, The Saints were Australian. Can I change my vote?

[Whitacre D_WI]

26. Ha!

Too late, wanna-kiwi.