Most Americans aren't given the education of being international or exposure to international life. The Americans are right too about school and American culture of life. Another thing, well, a MAJOR thing too is that most Americans who travel are white and well-to-do. It's also a socioeconomic and racial status to travel. Alisha is right too, most Americans, even me, are much older as well. Most Americans have never lived or risked in life so they always dwell in the fear and that's what cause lots of criticisms for people who are traveling. Lots of them are so complacent with the life that they live and they haven't experienced or scared to make failures. I came back to Australia on my 2nd year WHV 2 weeks ago from California. Never regretted my decision and I never wanna go back to the US!
@@WelcometoTravel I heard about the 462 on accident when I was 18 back in 2008, after high school graduation, from Lonely Planet on UA-cam when I was randomly looking at world traveling videos. After watching videos and learning about it, from then on, I promised myself to do it before I turned 31 and after studying to be a nurse/completing my bachelor degree. 12 years later, I'm came back to Australia from the US working starting my 2nd 462 year helping the pandemic in Melbourne. It's a no-brainer that this is a once-in-a-lifetime deal if there is an age cap to this opportunity. As someone born in 1990, by coincidence, this year IS the last chance to go do it for my birth year group. It seems to me though that I've met more Canucks than Yanks during my 1st 462 year. It'll continue to be that way unless Americans gain a much more international perspective. Even my friends on Facebook were asking me how I did it - most are now married, with kids, stuck living the corporate slave life, "living" the American 'dream'. I've always known about it for a long time and finally began my first year in the summer of 2019. But yeah, ask any American college student - they don't know what this whole scheme is.
Why is there always such a negative light on America? Plenty of us travel around and plenty of Americans study abroad in Europe. I think the biggest thing with Australia is it’s such a long flight while Europe and other places are so much closer and have so much to explore. The US is also huge and has so much to explore itself. These broad statements about Americans not being educated and not having the money is a sweeping generalization. Sure it’s true for some but not the main reasons. America is a great country filled with smart and ambitious people. Also nothing is wrong with traveling after 25 instead of before? Not sure why it’s better to travel at 19 than being more mature?
Couldn't agree with you more Zack, America is a brilliant country to travel itself and arguably has as much, if not more to offer than Australia. It's just not as easy to travel in a backpacker style way. To your points we find the 'negative light' on Americans comes from the American travellers themselves as they arrive in Australia and realise hardly anyone is doing the same in comparison to a lot of other nationalities. For example we have 4 x the amount of Dutch travellers come over on a Working Holiday Visa than we do from the US and yet the population is 18 times smaller. So there's a definite cultural difference a cross the board in terms of how Americans travel, where and for how long when it comes to Australia and the Working Holiday which we specialise in. In our research we are realising that young Americans between 18-35 simply have no idea this visa even exists and how accessible it is. The message is simply not getting through but this is certainly shifting as we're seeing more US travellers already post covid than before. Also the ones who do travel over here absolutely thrive. Especially the later 20s early 30s professionals as they adapt incredibly well to a work force here and make the absolute most of their new found work/life balance. The majority of US travellers we get are definitely over 25 so that proves your point entirely of being able to experience moving abroad when you're a bit older and know exactly what you want out of a trip. Thank you so much for taking the time to comment, really appreciate you sharing your thoughts!
Its great to hear other people from the US have the same ideas as me!
@@WelcometoTravel I have!
I would love to explore Australia.
Don’t it’s dangerous and Aussies don’t like American
Most Americans aren't given the education of being international or exposure to international life. The Americans are right too about school and American culture of life. Another thing, well, a MAJOR thing too is that most Americans who travel are white and well-to-do. It's also a socioeconomic and racial status to travel. Alisha is right too, most Americans, even me, are much older as well. Most Americans have never lived or risked in life so they always dwell in the fear and that's what cause lots of criticisms for people who are traveling. Lots of them are so complacent with the life that they live and they haven't experienced or scared to make failures.
I came back to Australia on my 2nd year WHV 2 weeks ago from California. Never regretted my decision and I never wanna go back to the US!
@@WelcometoTravel I heard about the 462 on accident when I was 18 back in 2008, after high school graduation, from Lonely Planet on UA-cam when I was randomly looking at world traveling videos. After watching videos and learning about it, from then on, I promised myself to do it before I turned 31 and after studying to be a nurse/completing my bachelor degree. 12 years later, I'm came back to Australia from the US working starting my 2nd 462 year helping the pandemic in Melbourne. It's a no-brainer that this is a once-in-a-lifetime deal if there is an age cap to this opportunity. As someone born in 1990, by coincidence, this year IS the last chance to go do it for my birth year group.
It seems to me though that I've met more Canucks than Yanks during my 1st 462 year. It'll continue to be that way unless Americans gain a much more international perspective. Even my friends on Facebook were asking me how I did it - most are now married, with kids, stuck living the corporate slave life, "living" the American 'dream'. I've always known about it for a long time and finally began my first year in the summer of 2019. But yeah, ask any American college student - they don't know what this whole scheme is.
Aussies hates Americans and it’s dangerous there with people so good luck
Why is there always such a negative light on America? Plenty of us travel around and plenty of Americans study abroad in Europe. I think the biggest thing with Australia is it’s such a long flight while Europe and other places are so much closer and have so much to explore. The US is also huge and has so much to explore itself. These broad statements about Americans not being educated and not having the money is a sweeping generalization. Sure it’s true for some but not the main reasons. America is a great country filled with smart and ambitious people. Also nothing is wrong with traveling after 25 instead of before? Not sure why it’s better to travel at 19 than being more mature?
Couldn't agree with you more Zack, America is a brilliant country to travel itself and arguably has as much, if not more to offer than Australia. It's just not as easy to travel in a backpacker style way. To your points we find the 'negative light' on Americans comes from the American travellers themselves as they arrive in Australia and realise hardly anyone is doing the same in comparison to a lot of other nationalities. For example we have 4 x the amount of Dutch travellers come over on a Working Holiday Visa than we do from the US and yet the population is 18 times smaller. So there's a definite cultural difference a cross the board in terms of how Americans travel, where and for how long when it comes to Australia and the Working Holiday which we specialise in. In our research we are realising that young Americans between 18-35 simply have no idea this visa even exists and how accessible it is. The message is simply not getting through but this is certainly shifting as we're seeing more US travellers already post covid than before. Also the ones who do travel over here absolutely thrive. Especially the later 20s early 30s professionals as they adapt incredibly well to a work force here and make the absolute most of their new found work/life balance. The majority of US travellers we get are definitely over 25 so that proves your point entirely of being able to experience moving abroad when you're a bit older and know exactly what you want out of a trip. Thank you so much for taking the time to comment, really appreciate you sharing your thoughts!
@@WelcometoTravelAussies hate Americans but we love Canadians