An interesting contrast

We’ve been staying in this hotel in one of the busiest parts of Cairns for three days now and a few things about the place are really striking, when compared to NZ.
People are better dressed, more relaxed and polite and friendly. No cars with noisy exhausts and boom-boxes doing endless circuits around town, even though the police presence is very light indeed. Harleys parked casually, unattended and not chained up. Almost no litter. No footpaths blocked by swaggering brown simians wearing gang patches….   oh, and lower prices for almost everything, especially food.