OT: Home sweet home

I was at a meeting with some Tourism people here and one of them referred to
the Bay of Plenty (I live in Tauranga, in the Western end of the Bay) as
"New Zealand's Florida".

I honestly don't know whether I should be pleased or saddened by that.

I've never been to Florida.

But I absolutely love living where I do.

They have put a new promotional video onto YouTube and the opening (and
closing) sequences are of Mount Maunganui and the entrance to Tauranga
Harbour. (I walk around the Mount base track - around 5 kilometres -
whenever I need to think quietly, and a number of programming (and
management) problems have been solved on that walk... :-) Besides, the
exercise and getting out of the house does me no harm either...)

I'd like for as many of you as possible to take a look at the video (it
would gladden the hearts of a very hard-working and under-acknowledged
committee here), but in particular, for people who've been to or live in
Florida, I'd be very interested to hear whether you think it is a fair
comparison.

(Please note: we are not trying to compete with Florida and it isn't a zero
sum game (everyone who visits NZ is one less for Florida, and vice versa...)
really, would just like to know whether this is a fair comparison.)

Cheers,

Pete.

--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."


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