Yes you have a point the good folk of NZ were similar in many ways to the good folk on the Isle of white your right. Perhaps that's why I liked it, made me feel like some kinda blonde haired, blue eyed devil God.
Been and hated it, a watered down version of America in the sense same sort of cars, shopping malls, food and people. Travel all that way for a bit of dust a few rocks, opera house was a block of concrete nothing more nothing less, Bondi beach was a shit hole, Sydney was pah in general...