In yet another silly survey NZ is ranked ‘4th best place to live’ in the world.
France is first, USA 5th, Australia 2nd and the Netherlands 3rd. I wouldn’t disagree that these are all great places to live – I’ve spent at least two months in four of them, lived in three of them and am really torn even now between NZ, USA and France as places to live next.
The USA is the place to be for all things business, France for the sheer quality of life (oh the food!) and NZ when you want to get away from it all. The USA suffers from poor food and politics (bad meat and Iraq), France from excessive Frenchness (it is a foreign culture here) and NZ from isolation and sub-critical mass (business or society).
Lance Wiggs 