Ha..What planet you live on? Certainly no small country syndrome here, Fact Check..... The UK is actually smaller than NZ by about 25,000 Square Kms!!!!!.....And there are 65million of your poor beggars sharing that cold and dark bleak place, we have 4.5Million people and if you add our 50Million Sheep there are still more of you.
We get several months of Rain as most normal countries do during the Winter.and then patches here and there And we need it.
Not sure about Rugby glory days...How many times have we won world cup...Who are current world champs? Certainly not England....in fact they had a glory day 16 years ago and thats there lot...We are still rocking and rolling.
We get day light during the summer up until 9pm..And generally nice blue skies unless there are clouds..I understand you guys are living in Darkness by 3pm.I would doubt many of your people would even know what a blue sky looks like.
The first 4 pics are some typical everyday NZ places, Guess where the last two are from.
Looking at the last two shots i can assure you there is no sydrome here, I know where i would rather be