Well, this is interesting!

One of the blogs I follow recommended playing around with If It Were My Home (www.ifitweremyhome.com), an interactive website that allows us to compare socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of pairs of countries. I was born in New Zealand but chose to move to Australia over 25 years ago.  Here's how the two countries compare:

I think I was very lucky to have been born in New Zealand (there are many scarier places in the world) ... but am even luckier that I adopted Australia. Health care costs, murder, and oil consumption statistics notwithstanding, that is ...