"Too expensive" is also often used, which completely ignores the expense that every other country also incurred. My parents were teenagers when New Zealand wen

"Too expensive" is also often used, which completely ignores the expense that every other country also incurred. My parents were teenagers when New Zealand went metric (and adopted decimal currency). They can still remember the musical jingles associated with helping people convert between common reference points (a pound of butter etc). They have also told me that most people just embraced it, recognising the benefits of the change. My grandparents still used imperial units into the 80's but have fully converted now.