New Zealand vs. Brazil

The other day as I was Googlin' info for Wellington Anniversary Day (which, by the way, I never really did find a fully satisfactory explanation - the closest that I got was that on 01-22-1840, 150 settlers on a ship called The Aurora set foot on what is now Wellington, New Zealand - so I suppose that's the reason for the holiday, but most of the hits just told me that all Wellington government offices and public libraries were closed)

but I digress.

As I was saying, as I searched for this information, I found a picture of Wellington - that of a railcar rolling itself up a beautiful tropical hillside, with the city down in the valley behind it, and I was amazed at how this picture looked like so many that I've seen of Rio de Janero.

Then I saw the caption of the picture that read that Wellington had the highest percentage of the population of any major city who felt comfortable leaving their doors unlocked.

Compare that to Rio . . . which is pretty much a death camp with tropical sun.

And I wonder why it is that two cities can develop so dissimilarly when they can look the same in pictures. Seriously. Why is that?

I s'pose it's more stuff to research when I gits time.

Or rather, when I MAKES time!

VG