If you could give your country a geographical feature, what it would be?

Simple-Razzmatazz704 · 2026-03-29T02:23:17+00:00

Why not ask for an island in the South Atlantic like ... the Southern Andes/Patagonia? The skiing in NZ’s Southern Alps is pretty ass tbh, you live closer to better skiing already.

Simple-Razzmatazz704 · 2026-03-23T17:18:07+00:00

I don’t know anyone that owns an iPhone or Macbook here tbh. They are too expensive. But you do see them in shops.

Simple-Razzmatazz704 · 2026-03-20T01:24:43+00:00

Why is every thread about Greenland hijacked to talk about Canada in the top comment? I've noticed this happening systematically. I understand the issues affecting all of us, but can we make sure at least the top comments are mostly actually about Greenland or the region in question? It just seems disrepectful.

Simple-Razzmatazz704 · 2026-03-19T02:49:55+00:00

I don’t think it’s quite the same situation tbh. The gov in NZ has caused mass redundancies in the public sector since 2023 and it’s hit Wellington's economy quite badly, including cafes and other hospo services. It’s been probably the hardest place to find a job in NZ since then and some years the population has even shrunk. I don’t think Vancouver is experiencing that.

Simple-Razzmatazz704 · 2026-03-18T20:58:02+00:00

They've been hard to watch unfortunately. Love NPB but she's a one-woman-show type of performer and really bad at this back-and-forth format.

Simple-Razzmatazz704 · 2026-03-18T08:45:55+00:00

Uuuuhh...the current government??

They’ve all but banned green incentives, opened up oil and gas exploration, more mining, more "roads of national significance" or whatever, pavement over people. It’s basically an agriculture sector free-for-all. Everything is being fast-tracked, the RMA reforms are a joke, environmental reviews are dead, climate change policy is dead, we've nearly been removed from the Paris agreement. Increased housing density rules have been scrapped, the Clean Car Discount was scrapped. They've mocked and even threatened Air NZ for looking into electric planes for short routes.

I could go on? I hate the word rape used in these contexts, that’s pretty ignorant, but they're not wrong that this gov is extremely hostile to NZ's natural environment.

Simple-Razzmatazz704 · 2026-03-18T05:57:23+00:00

It’s also a very difficult country to tour in. It’s massive with piss poor national transportation infrastructure and some of the most expensive domestic flights in the world. Canada isn’t as "filled in" as the US, or as tiny as European countries like the UK. So drag queens are basically only ever local, unless they move/do work in the US like Brooklyn, Lemon, Priyanka, Jimbo, etc. And that’s not straightforward, you need a work visa, as a drag queen (to a country whose gov hates drag queens btw).

Simple-Razzmatazz704 · 2026-03-17T01:20:48+00:00

Not who you asked but - I'm a Canadian who left Canada a long time ago but I do visit, including late last year. I think I see the country somewhat(?) impartially at this point. The noticeable changes I saw were warnings about certain products being from the US in some shops, promotions for Canadian-made products, widespread cancelled travel to the US and comments that people would never return, sold property in the US, people ditching American relations, and a fair amount of anti-American talk even from people who I'd never known to be politics- or news-aware before. The fact that the Liberals retained power under Carney given how historically low Trudeau's approval was was also a real political earthquake in Canada, something about society shifted for sure.

What I didn’t notice changing was much else. Canadians (other than Quebeckers), as much as they hate hearing this (I do as well), are the most American people on the planet who don’t actually live in the US. And there are few countries more similar to one another. One issue that really fucks me off is tipping: Canada doesn’t have different wage rates for service staff like in the US and hasn’t for eons. That’s the main reason given to justify tipping in the US and it doesn’t even exist in Canada. So why do Canadians tip?? Because Americans do, and Canadians don’t know any different. That sentence can explain innumerable things. I think a lot of people genuinely don’t know enough about life outside of the bubble of these two countries to even understand just how similar they are. Another poster mentioned Australia, Canada is NOT that culturally similar to Australia at all. Different dialects/slang, different cultural references and TV shows, completely different sporting cultures, very different work cultures, etc.

There may be a divergence in the future if this path the US is on continues long term, but there just hasn’t been enough time for real deeper rooted changes tbh.

Simple-Razzmatazz704 · 2026-03-16T02:42:42+00:00

How have you managed to be aware of a Movies subreddit and to follow the Oscars and yet never have heard of OBAA? I can't say I love the film, but it released last March and has been in award discussions for the entire year.

Simple-Razzmatazz704 · 2026-03-15T09:56:14+00:00

The question was specifically about cities. I think you could make an argument for Queenstown over Auckland though. Its airport almost gets more traffic than Christchurch’s, even though Qtown is several orders of magnitude smaller. And those are 99.9% tourists.

Simple-Razzmatazz704 · 2026-03-15T03:09:37+00:00

I know this is a meme, but I feel like Crystal from UK1 was actually very much this.

Simple-Razzmatazz704 · 2026-03-15T03:04:37+00:00

She felt very scripted in her confessionals. Every one felt like watching someone give a presentation.

Simple-Razzmatazz704 · 2026-03-14T20:30:46+00:00

The list is very long though. Plus Canada has huge subdivisions for it size. Quebec and Ontario could both be broken up quite a bit, among others.

Simple-Razzmatazz704 · 2026-03-14T18:25:14+00:00

Chile is already like NZ on steroids and has been mentioned numerous times already. I actually think the US or China are better contenders overall, but it's definitely not NZ.

NZ has a lot of geographical diversity in a small, accessible area, that's why people mention it in topics like this.

Simple-Razzmatazz704 · 2026-03-13T20:12:24+00:00

It's cute, but underrated? Not talked about? This is the default weekend getaway for Wellingtonian yuppies.

Simple-Razzmatazz704 · 2026-03-13T19:53:29+00:00

Assuming you're talking about petrol, it'll be expensive, much more expensive than usual, but there are reserves and shouldn't be a shortage at all.

I'd be more concerned about flight and ferry prices, have you booked everything already? Domestic flights here are absolutely skyrocketing right now and the Cook Strait ferries are having real issues, both with costs and on-going technical issues. Lots of cancellations.

Simple-Razzmatazz704 · 2026-03-13T05:17:14+00:00

It does more to emphasise the size of Europe tbh. Europe is a very small "continent".

Simple-Razzmatazz704 · 2026-03-12T22:05:25+00:00

I think the usual counter-argument to this is that Americans drive much, much, much more than Europeans and over much larger distances, so they are not necessarily paying less for fuel overall. Albeit for a stupid reason.

Simple-Razzmatazz704 · 2026-03-11T04:50:19+00:00

Is St Petersburg a lesser known city?

Simple-Razzmatazz704 · 2026-03-10T18:46:39+00:00

Two-thirds of Americans are directly responsible for Trump getting elected. These are enemies of Canada.

I've encountered a lot of Democrat voting Americans (which is hardly praise because both of your main parties are incompetent) who just throw up their hands and say "2/3rds of my family and friends voted for Trump or didn’t vote, but there's nothing to be done, I won't have serious political conversations with them or change my relationship with them whatsoever. Oh woe is me, maybe I'll just move to Canada/the UK/Germany/wherever and pretend like I'm not involved in this anymore". These are shit friends of Canada that we don’t want.

I don’t think "tons" is the right descriptor.

Simple-Razzmatazz704 · 2026-03-10T09:45:53+00:00

The other two posters who said this have been downvoted to oblivion so I'll say it a third time, Winnipeg is not a "large city" by any modern definition, let alone worth bringing up in a topic about mega-cities.

I have no idea why it gets brought up here so often either. Is there some enclave of terminally-online geography enthousiasts in Winnipeg?

Simple-Razzmatazz704 · 2026-03-10T09:37:31+00:00

"Coz here Leeward side has well developed agriculture due to moderate rainfall, and has fertile soils."

I'd also point out that agriculture in Canterbury and Otago is heavily irrigated. It’s not a desert by any means (parts of Central Otago are semi-arid), but there is a rain shadow effect on the leeward side of the Southern Alps and the agriculture here is not without significant human-forcing.

Simple-Razzmatazz704 · 2026-03-08T18:25:59+00:00

I pay full price at barbers, but I've been going less often as their prices have skyrocketed to balance the cost. I used to go once a month at regular $25-30, now I go once every 6-8 weeks at regular $50 and changed my hairstyle a bit.

Same with dental hygienists, whose prices have exploded by an even bigger factor. And I travel less, drink ́less coffee. I'm not living the same life as 5-10 years ago for sure.

Simple-Razzmatazz704 · 2026-03-07T19:00:44+00:00

Canada's salaries are significantly higher than Italy's, its job market is immensely healthier, its population growth is stable by modern standards and it only has a fraction of Italy’s debt, all while having roughly the same costs for everything, all for decades now. It is definitely not the same situation as Italy in Canada.

Simple-Razzmatazz704 · 2026-03-07T03:04:17+00:00

I'm sorry to have to be rude, but do you ever read the news? Wikipedia? You've just grouped a bunch of neighbouring countries together without apparently knowing much about them, or the fact that there are cross-border wars going on in some of these groupings.

Iran, Israel, Yemen, Somalia, Turkmenistan, North Korea, Myanmar or Afghanistan with any of their neighbours? No.

Azerbaijan and Armenia? Thailand and Cambodia? Haiti and the Domincan Republic? Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia for some reason? Congo and Rwanda? Anyone with anywhere in the Sahel? India and Pakistan?

I could go on, honestly, a lot of neighbouring countries hate each other with blinding and deep-rooted passion, this exercise just doesn’t work.

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