The NY Times says so, so it must be.

I was reading this article this afternoon on NY Times.com - a description of one of the myriad of neighborhoods in NY: The Park Slope Parent Trap

This quote made me laugh:
"Still, living here I do feel as if I won the lottery. Mostly, people are really friendly — the kind of friendliness you encounter only in a small country village, or in Australia."

Maybe I just notice references to Australia more now tha I live here. But I don't recall Australia being held up as a paragon of friendliness.

Don't get me wrong - it is. Somehting about the sun and the beach (neither of which I have at the moment, for the record...) It's just funny to see it in print that way. Particularly to describe a NY neighborhood.