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That has far more to do with bad planning regarding transportation and accommodation. New Zealand's larger cities are really bad at implementing effective public transport systems. Take London, Singapore or Paris for example. All have large populations of immigrants and excellently functioning public transport systems. Auckland needs to get people out of their cars and a good start would be a meaningful congestion charge for the central city area.

Public transport is crap unless the city was designed for it.
The buses don't come to you door on every street so unless you live on a bus route, they are useless.
And there is nowhere to park your car at the nearest bus stop!
Seems all part of the UN agenda to get people out of cars and live in these "smart" cities/ 15min cities

Singapore have installed a Mass Rapid Transport (light rail) system from scratch mostly over the 1980s which has revolutionised their public transport. It is cheap and convenient to use and was quickly widely adopted by Singaporeans. The cost has been substantial and of course would have been a lot less if done earlier in their history.

As cities such as Auckland are well aware the best time to invest in public transport infrastructure is yesterday. It just takes politicians and councillors with the balls to make that decision.

And the transport sector in Singapore is designed to minimise private car ownership and use which is something that has been in play for at least the last 50 years so nothing new in the greater scheme of things. It's just that some countries are more forward thinking than others.