I didn't know you needed to go abroad to be in the 3rd World.;-) It is said that NZ will be the first nation to descend from the 1st to the 3rd world, but it has an economy and exchange rate that refuses to co-operate with this prediction.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
