It's actually very big (Los Angeles sort of area) with about half the entire population of NZ living there.

Now think of this - the average house price there is about 1.3 million, but the average wage is only about 2/3 of Wellington.

And there are cities down south where the average house price is about 1/4 mill and the average wage is only about 20% lower than Auckland.

So if half the population of NZ live in Auckland, I don't think they are on the brink of understanding zionism :)