People who joke about legos haven't stepped on this bad boy
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I'd rather have 120v wiring I can do myself than 240v wiring that I have to pay someone $hundreds just to replace a light switch.
Here in US dishwashers and fridges run on <1500w. A fridge should only use a few hundred watts tops unless it's horribly inefficient. A dishwasher needs power for the heating element but ours do okay on 1500w, although yours probably heat up faster. We use a different plug for clothes dryers, usually a NEMA 10-30 or NEMA 14-30 (30A at 240v), sometimes NEMA 14-50 (50A at 240v) for really big stuff like EV chargers.
Our power is split phase (two 120v legs, 180° out of phase, so either phase against neutral/ground is 120v, phase A against phase B is 240v). So with those plugs you either get both legs and ground or both legs plus neutral plus ground.
Almost all US power tools run on 120v 15A.
There's a few really big ones, mostly designed for professional shops, that need some flavor of 240v, usually with a NEMA 6-15 outlet (like normal US outlet but pins are horizontal rather than vertical). These outlets are uncommon outside of wood shops.
The only time I've ever even considered this is a. charging my Tesla on 120v, or b. running a space heater and a hair dryer at the same time in the bathroom. :)
Bottom line- yeah NZ system has higher power density but I don't think the benefits outweigh the loss of ability to work on it yourself.