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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have you ever been to australia? or new zealand...? gasp[/quote]

Yes.

I think people go to small towns like Hokitika or Dubbi and say "this is like the 1950s" because there are no huge airport or bullet trains or shopping plazas full of neon lights or Gucci/Chanel/Ralph Lauren stores. The same can be said of Front Royal, Virginia or Shepherdstown WV or any other small US town.

It might also be said about New York or Philadelphia by people coming from Tokyo or Shanghai.

Then you go to places like Paris and Rome and Madrid that work to preserve their history.

Funnily enough, an old NZ friend criticized the fact that we live in a 1950s house in Fairfax, implying we should have demolished it and built something more modern. He wondered why we were living in the 1950s. [/quote]

That is funny because in NZ they tend to fix up and reuse a lot of things (cars, appliances) because it's so expensive to import new things. I highly doubt they are ripping down and building new. [/quote]

Well, they had an earthquake that took down many houses, and a number of my friends and relatives ended up with brand new houses.[/quote]

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