Auckland isn't exactly the nicest city in the world... It's not the worst, but it has a dark side. The city is surprisingly dirty. It is a sprawled-out and poorly-planned city with mostly sterile modern architecture. People rely on cars. The air is VERY dirty due to the fact that cars are not required to have catalytic converters and loads of buses spew forth black clouds of diesel exhaust. We don't have a car, hence we live in a modest closet-sized room which is all we can afford that is near the University. We walk and suck on the fumes.
It was my naive hope that things would be "better" here. More enlightened. "Clean, Green New Zealand," right? Instead, I've found a city grappling with maturity and the human race acting so superbly like the human race.
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