2. Big cities have diagonal crosswalks for major intersections. The lights all go red and you can cross in every direction.
3. The streets are all very clean. In Auckland the street cleaning machines ran all night.
4. The fast food chains are just like Canada, as opposed to the weird or missing ones in Australia.
5. The word "as" is used a lot. For example "sweet as" is a VERY common phrase, but is never followed with something to finish the sentence (like sweet as candy). Other variations are weak as, cool as, broke as, etc.
6. Almost all towns and streets have Maori names (except major cities and some key streets).
7. Hot and Cold taps are on opposite sides of the sink and each has its own faucet, so you have to go back and forth between the two streams to get warm water (ow, hot! oh, cold! ow, hot!).
8. There are no pennies or nickels, and amounts are rounded to the nearest ten cent mark.
9. Flip Flops are called Jandals.
10. A lot of smaller towns have pay toilets.
11. One lane bridges are common. Sometimes there are little alcoves halfway down, but often it's just one lane all the way across, so if there is a car on it, you have to wait.
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