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When I came to Australia in 1994 from Moscow, I was really surprised how many total strangers would say "Hi" and smile at you. Australian people turned out to be very kind, understanding and helpful. Everyone was so relaxed and friendly. Very different from Russia! That was a big shock, so thank you Australia!
Russia isn’t very friendly? I thought as a kid you guys were all angry like Germans but as I got to my teens I realised that it probably was just your accents haha
A Russian friend of my late father arrived in Australia just after WW2. With a good income he soon moved into one of the better suburbs. He used to talk to the wife of the next door neighbor and eventually found out his neighbor was Robert Menzies the Prime Minister. He told dad he couldn't put that in a letter to his Leningrad relatives as they probably wouldn't believe is was possible to just live next door to the countries political leader.
I arrived in Australia in 2011 from South Africa. The first thing i noticed was the taste of red meat is very different here especially the mince and sausages. I also found the gas barbeque culture strange because we were used to always use charcoal when having a barbeque in order to give the meat a significant taste. The secondhand culture here was also a very new experience. To us it was not allowed to do so it was strange to see this. And then there is the amasing safety and trust aspect in australia that blew me away. People in australia will walk away from their items on the beach or parks and it will still be there when they come back , or a woman shopping will have her purse open in the trolley she pushes and can freely look away and nobody grabs her purse or bag. If a puse or phone gets lost there is a huge possibility the person that found it will try to return it. Amasing and rewarding aspects of this country!
You can use a Webber barbecue that uses heat beads. Or setup a wood fire barbecue. We all can adjust our pallets to whatever and wherever we cook meat. Flame is flame, and a BBQ plate is just that. Perhaps you were eating Goat?
I’ve known many people who have had purses stolen from handbags in trolleys.... definitely zip up bag and wrap strap around wrist while pushing trolley , never leave trolley as you shop I’ve had paid for items stolen from my trolley , put anything high priced inside something like a coles or big w bag so no one sees a high price store bag they might want to grab and run , I’ve seen it happen with a Vodafone bag containing a new iPhone, the lady was shattered 😢... I always keep my house and car locked at all times . I as a woman would never walk around at night either .......... Australia is a wonderful place to live but don’t be foolish with your safety or your belongings 🙂🇦🇺
I've lost my purse in the city (Adelaide) on 3 occassions and it has been always returned to me with all the money still in it (it's been left at a bus stop, dropped onto a road and left at the hospital). I've never bothered to even cancel my bankcards whenever I've lost it.
For those saying three is still crime, I think she's trying to portray the humongous difference in societal safety in Australia compared to most cultures. In Australia I know personally that if anyone tried to steal from a person in a supermarket they would get dropped.
I have read a lot of the comments below and love them. I travelled the world back in 2000. I flew back into Brisbane airport. I was standing in the long queue to get through customs and one of the customs officers walked up to me and said "are you Australian". I said yes, so he removed me from the queue walked me to an empty customs checking station, asked me the standard questions and said one of the most wonderful things an Australian traveller can hear "welcome home mate" and let me through. After travelling the world and encountering so many different cultures, that are not unfriendly, but let's say not so open, this was the best homecoming ever, it immediately put a smile on my face.
Arriving in Sydney, there was a big sign saying if you are from one of the English speaking countries, use the kiosk. I inserted my US passport and received a paper that said, Welcome to Australia! I saw no immigration officer. At the end of the queue, I inserted the paper in a slot and the glass doors opened. I gave my customs form to a young lady that was collecting and that was it. I was in Australia 🦘.
@@solarguy1702 easy, straight through. Australia and New Zealand have their own line, I know in Sydney Airport and the same in Auckland Airport New Zealand, it's so much faster.
As a 50-something Aussie I remember the "Keep Australia Beautiful" anti-littering campaign of the 70's and 80's. With the subsequent generations I find that littering is unfortunately making a comeback and I think we need to replay that and revitalise the anti-littering culture
I live in rural S.A., and they're showing a NSW anti littering ad on TV just now, "If it's not in the bin it's on you, don't be a Tosser". I think they're taking a cue from the SA government adverts, "Drink Drive, You're a bloody idiot" "don't drive like a W- (picture of an anchor)" and things like that. The most recent one is "I drink drive, I'm a selfish prick". Makes me proud to be Australian.
I live in Melbourne and I hate littering. If there’s no bin around I take my rubbish with me, usually I leave it in the car until I can get it to bin. It always irritates me when see garbage on the ground, especially when I’m walking in a nice park or other natural area. How hard is it to put rubbish in a bin? One time I was driving with a friend and she just dumped a plastic shopping bag full of rubbish right out the window as we were driving along and I went off at her for it. I never understood the attitude of people who treat the world like it’s a tip and just drop garbage wherever they like.
When my wife came from Thailand to live here she was blown away by how clean the streets were and you could drink the water out of the tap, but her biggest thing every week was waiting for the Garbage truck to arrive ! She had never seen a AUTO ARM LIFT truck before to pick the bins and would stand outside to take photo to send back home . : )
Second hand stuff culture is a great one here in Australia. Specially if you are a newcommer, you don't need to buy all your stuff brand new to start your life here. You may buy them second hand or even pick up something from street if you like them.
When we first moved out of home, we had bought or been given most of the big furniture and whitegoods, but almost all of our chairs/tables/fun decorative pieces came from large waste collections near our parents and our new house.
You have reminded me how lucky we are in Australia. Although especially, for women, don't walk darkened and unpopulated places at night, unless you have a big dog with you. It's unlikely anything bad will happen, but not worth the risk.
@@clivelawrence4358 Nope, only 76% of female victims know their assailant, 68% of these assailants were described as 'acquaintances'... hardly the 99% of known and trusted bullshit you just pulled out of your arse.
@@clivelawrence4358 ok then, if you would prefer: Especially for Men, Don't rape or assault people. Advice is not victim blaming. I live in the real world.
I'm from Ireland and have been to Australia many times! Not much difference .... other than the BOILING Aussie Weather!! I do think that most of this stuff is Universal! Having said that .... I loveeeee you Aussies!! I would like to visit NZ next - heard it is stunning ☘💚☘
When my dad went to America for work there was a whole underground network of Aussies who would sus new people out. If you where also an Aussie they would show you the 'one cafe with proper good coffee'
My half brother is Canadian and he visited in the mid 90's and was amazed at the coffee at Maccas, he was totally disgusted at our idea of a hotdog though.
People in Austrailia are very relaxed and friendly. I am always thinking why we can't be that relaxed here in Russia... Another thing that surprised me was the payment system in the public transport. No one controls you, no one checks whether you paid or not. This trust to people is really pleasant
Sydney buses are all cashless now. You need an Opal card with money preloaded and you tap on and tap off as you enter and leave the bus, train or ferry and it will deduct the fare. Randomly, there will be inspectors who will get on the bus, train or ferry and you have to present your card and they can check to see if you have tapped on... if you have not, you will be taken off at the next stop and you will be issued a fine.
@@midlifebiker7424 I think I understand your implication, yes there are actually a few plantations in Australia. The Australian beans are not well regarded but they do have their niche fans. For Australian cafes the beans will be sourced from all over the world, while Brazilian beans are a mainstay for many blends there are just as many without any Brazilian beans.
I remember popping into a general store / post office a couple of hours out from Bathurst and finding the coffee was fresh ground via a Mazzer pulled through a commercial (plumbed) two group machine and the 60 - 70 year old woman who made my latte, made my feeble attempts at latte art look like the pre-school rubbish it is. And the coffee wasn't all show: it was close to, if not perfectly extracted.
My parents came to Australia in the 60s from Morocco, North Africa. They didn't have much food, but now but after coming here they can't believe how much food there is here, my mum us like " oh!, so much food here in Australia! " with such shock! And my dad when we're at an "all you can eat" restaurant doesn't realise you can find back for seconds LOL 🤣 They came to Australia thin like spraghetti, and now after being here for over 40 years now they're way over weight . Anyway, since you mentioned cars , the shock on my parents face when l tell them things like "were going in a limousine " or staying at a hotel for the weekend " , and they're like " really? " . Well anyway, l'm posting your video in my diary , since l like writing in my diary things to be thankful and grateful for to have in my life as an Aussie here in Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺😁👍
I am in a australian-brazilian couple too and my biggest shock was how much notice you give to your friends to meet them for something casual. "Alright, we see each other in two months for drinks in your house" and really stick to it!! We brazilians just say "pass by my place tomorrow" or even in the day. We just invite people and if they are available they go, if not they don't.
That depends. If it is neighbours or workmates and just a casual gathering somewhere local we might not plan ahead so much. If it is some sort of special occasion, or it is a big gathering with a lot of people that needs more planning,, or if people have to travel a long distance to get there, then you would give a lot more advance notice.
I’ve been a smoker most of my life and agree it drives me nuts I will always stub out my cigarette and take it with me until I find a bin there is no excuse to leave it on the ground
I was a smoker most of my life as well. I was raised in a national park and it was instilled in me never to litter. I also put my cigarettes out and take them with me. I recall once, like the ONE time, I ever broke this rule. I can't recall why but I emptied my car ashtray into a bush. This sat so poorly with me, the following day I drove fifty or sixty kilometers back and picked them all up. Bad I did that but also noteworthy it was so alien to me and unacceptable that I was so disappointed in myself that one time that I would drive so far and rectify the mistake. Sorry for doing it in the first place.
I love when aussie say thank you to the driver in Tasmania while dropping off the bus. They say no worries in response to thank you but in Nepal, we respond as you are welcome.
1. A lot of people rent house. 2. Driving very safely. 3. Beer-holics 4. chocolate lovers 5. Long hair trend for men. Especially teens 6. Australian travelers everywhere in the world for the population of australia. 7. Work early, get back home early. 8. Yellow clothes law (Normally with Beige color short pants) Lovely weather, lovely country ever💓
As a world wide traveler from the USA, I have never heard the term, "nature strip", but what a great way to describe it. I'm afraid that if I used that term here, someone would think I would be talking about manscaping..
I'd never called it the nature strip, here in WA it's the 'verge'. Local councils do a pick up a few times a year so sometimes whole streets have stuff out and people drive around with trailers to 'shop'. I was washing our bins on the front lawn once and a lady stopped to ask me if I was giving away the bins 😂. Note to self don't leave stuff out unless you want to lose it. Also a lot of charities will come pick up furniture items from you so they don't get ruined if it rains. In rural areas some tips/rubbish dumps have a separate shop part where you give furniture, working items or things that are too good to be thrown away.
was pleasantly surprised to see people walking in the street (near the beaches) or even in the mall barefoot! i love how casual and relaxed the environment is :) definitely my type of place
@Brendan Butler During summer I walk around barefoot except for when I leave the property, then I put sandals on. If I could I would go barefoot everywhere.
@@heatherfruin5050 I live on the coast and people absolutely walk around the shops shoeless. Not to window shop. Normally they're on a mission to get food or whatever but it is common.
‘Americans … they have their own way of doing coffee.’ That was diplomatic 😂 Just the thing I needed when watching your video with my morning (okay, instant) coffee.
It was a pretty rich statement, considering that nobody is rushing to get Australian coffee beans. They take it from countries like Brazil and Indonesia, the very ones he's talking down on in the video.
@@jariemonah Coffee doesn't grow in Australia to the best of my knowledge, so you can't really criticise us getting it from elsewhere. And I don't think he was talking Brazil and Indonesia down particularly. The negatives of those countries that he mentioned are just the way it generally is, usually according to people from there...
From my French point of view, ozzies are really friendly and easy to chat with even tho you just cross path with them in a park or at woolies ! Everytime i come there i enjoy your beautiful country ! what shocked me the most the first time i came was how quickly people are speaking, especially with both aussie slang and accent , difficult to figure it out at first but you learn fast there ;)
My life partner is French. Now a duel-citizen (French/Australian) and still struggles with Australian Slang. He is getting better though. Most Australians will tone the slang down for foreigners though. My advise to foreigners, is if you hear Australian slang, be inquisitive, ask what it mans. We won't be offended and would be grateful the chance to explain.
The drinkable tap water was the most shocking thing to me as well when I first came to Australia last August, and I really love it... I'm from Beijing and now live in Brisbane. In China, we usually firstly filter the tap water and then boil it using some sort of electrical heater and then let the tempreture down to normal and drink it... This process is really complicated and will take a long time to wait for those love cold water like me... However in Australia, things are getting simple, I have inexhaustible supply of drinkable water just from any tap that I can find in my house. This is amazing. And by the way, Australian tap water tastse a little bit better than Japanese tap water... I usually go cycling every day, and in weekends, something else that really shocking me appears. Many places in Brisbane like South Bank and New Farm Park, as long as there has a huge lawn or besides the Brisbane river, will always have a hugh amount of people squeezing in there and what they do is lying on the grass or having picnic or just walking on the footpath. OMG, this is what you can never see in China. I've never seen some one having picnic in Beijing, mostly may because lawns in Beijing are not allowed to step on, no matter beside the roads or in parks. And huge national parks are alway far from city center where you may have to drive to there but not take subways or buses. And the traffic conditions in Beijing are always terrible... I still think that most Australian people are friendly although I was thrown eggs by a crazy car driver when I was cycling on bikeway near Toowong. Because for the most time what I can see on an Aussie's face is that beautiful iconic smile not an eggie man.
Thank you jesse for all those lovely comments. I'm so glad your experience has been a positive one. It's interesting for me also to understand that things we take for granted here, people else where may not be at liberty to enjoy.
First time I've heard of someone from China loving cold water! I drink iced water all the time in the hotter months, and I am amazed at everyone who prefers warm or hot water. Unfortunately crazy and angry people can be found all around the world, and some of them have eggs! Most people aren't like that though, glad you are enjoying Brisbane so much. Do you miss the winter?
I agree with all the other women on here that I wouldn't go walking at night by myself, especially in parks. Although I also realise when I thought about it that I feel safer at night going a short way, especially in busy areas and suburbs, than say when I was in Los Angeles for a weekend. Finding out that someone was shot at the end of the street from my hostel at night, and also that even during the day I had men following me either by walking and catcalling or driving their cars slowly beside me, I felt far more vulnerable there than I ever had here in Australia.
make privilege right there. I live in parramatta and I wont walk alone around the park here, and even the well-lit main drag (Church St) can be dodgy after about 9pm. I will walk home alone from the train station at night but I won't have my ears blocked.
I live in Brisbane, I regularly walk myself home at night. I have to catch a bus most of the way but then I walk. It's actually quite peaceful at night, I like it.
I really love the second hand culture here. We rent an unfurnished four bedroom house in a town for 340 per week and got all the used furniture( washing machine, tables, beds, microwave, two fridges) for less than 500 dollars.
I'm an Australian and I've been living here my whole life. The only thing that you said that I disagree with is walking in parks at night. No way would I ever, EVER do that. Especially if you are a young woman. That's just asking for trouble, no matter where you are. Would you tell your daughter (of any age) that she will be okay to walk in a dark of semi-lit park in the middle of the night? You're crazy.
Not Australian but my first thought was definitely "You're a muscular, masculine guy, of course YOU feel safe walking at night". Just an absolute lack of awareness of how the way you look influences things.
I live in the town just next to him Barwon Heads and I lock everything up. Ocean Grove isn’t some safe haven it’s full of petty crime and probably domestics. Sure there’s not much drugs or murder but dosent mean other crime dosent exist here
@@AussieGirl235 Yes, we do lock up - we're not that stupid! Like any country we do have house thefts. Mostly petty but still risky to leave a house open.
Yes. I will toss leftovers on the ground for birds - in an appropriate place - but everything else goes into a bin or comes home with me to go in my bin.
I used to play soccer in Fairfield area of Sydney..ppl there chuck rubbish on the ground even within reaching distance to bin..too many ethnic suburbs to describe australia..
Biodegradable plastics is actually horrifying, as many people and animals have microplastics in their bodies, plastic is still highly resilient. But if the Human race goes extinct, at least fossilization will be interesting.
in USA cities, seeing someone throw any garbage right onto the ground, often literally feet from a bin, is perfectly common, and that's just one bit of it, it's absolutely astonishing.....O
On coffee, just because you are in the middle of country Victoria don’t Assume you can’t find good coffee. At a tiny farmers market at Gilgarrie out of a ancient caravan was one of the better coffees I’ve come across.
Killing Aboriginals and taking their children away up into the 70's , making sure they don't have a 1% chance to rise up, and calling them stupid and alcohocs to this day for what YOU DID to them. (Let's be clear , this is the outcome of the Australian "British side" ) Pretending that the government is doing all to help them and in reality you DO NOT (racism)... Ironic and hypocrisy to say you help them, when you were the ones that killed them (with your "Rangers" and took everything away from them.. Or - your PR system is a joke , and no one cares if it gets abused if the money is ok (not talking millions of dollars) but strippers and prostitutes marry an Australian and with proof don't want to be with the man (buy a PR) ... If that's your view of a great country, it's not mine.
@@NewBeginnings413 I am indigenous (Yorta Yorta to be exact), but you cannot just look at the bad and judge a nation solely for it. To be sure, this country has a dark past that needs to be acknowledged and moved through as one people together (my aunts and uncles each fought for the right to be citizens during the days of the Tent Embassy), but there are also many good or even great aspects of this great continent. Much of which we no doubt take for granted. I wouldn't call anywhere else home.
Exactly. Just like slavery was a big thing in multiple countries throughout history. Just because a country did have slaves once upon a time, doesn't mean the country is bad now
I really enjoyed my tour in Australia in 2016. I was given a multiple visitors visa. If Im going to compare Australia to other 1st world countries, I would choose Australia. It is very peaceful. If I will be given a chance to talk or discuss my experiences, I would like to share to everyone. Thank you very much for the memories 😀👍💖
Also, you could find plastic bags in the park to pick up after your dog. That was quite surprised to see! And the water fountain is literally everywhere. 😂 But I never roam around CBD after 9pm, especially on Friday and weekends. Suburbs are a bit safer to me but very dark at night. Sometimes need a torch to walk around.
Late to the party here just seeing this video today. I am a Canadian who travels to Aussie quite often. I also have a Latina wife from Cuba and I travel to Mexico a lot as well. MY overall impression is Canada and Aussie are very similar with our customs. We don't have electric BBQs in public like Aussie but usually there are wood or charcoal BBQs available. All of Latina America has petty robbery problems so everyone there has bars on windows and walls surrounding property with deterrents like broken glass or spikes to keep people out. Some of the biggest differences I notice between Aussie and Canada. - Coffee culture...never heard of Flat White or Long Black before going there. In fact asked for just a regular coffee my first visit to a coffee place and the girl had no idea what I wanted. - No tipping at pubs/restaurants in Aussie. Seems the staff are paid good salaries so don't need tips. In Canada and USA wait staff are paid our relatively low minimum wage and count on tips as part of their income. - Lots of public toilets in Aussie and New Zealand. This is great because in Canada when I am out and about I have to look for places in the bush to have a weewee as public facilities. They have the right idea Down Under Cheers Mate !! Good Video
I had two things I found strange first hearing about it: not beeing allowed to drink alcohol in public and no private fireworks on new years. Now being back in Germany and seeing all the bottles everywhere after a warm weekend night and all the rubbish from private fireworks after new years, I total get it and thinks it's just brilliant and way safer not to allow it!
I worked in an operating theatre way back when . We had lots of firework injuries on Guy Fawkes night, otherwise known as cracker night. It's not finny to see kids with fingers blown off or horrible eye injuries among other injuries. i was v pleased when they were banned for private individuals. .
@@gondwanaland3238 Yes. As much as I loved cracker night as a kid, I think back on some of the horrible injuries friends of mine copped and the near misses I and my siblings had, along with house fires, bushfires and property damage from pranks that happened (blowing up letter boxes and drains mainly with the odd blown up exhaust pipe) and think that, yes, making them illegal for private citizens in most parts of Australia at least, was a good idea. I'm onboard with no drinking in public as well. It's cut down on not only littering but street violence.
Many years ago we had private fireworks to celebrate Guy Fawkes night (inherited from England) on 5 Nov however people injured themselves and being Summer caused a number of fires. The celebration stopping sometime in the 60's I think. Mine was the last generation to enjoy private fireworks of which I have fond memories of my father lighting for our enjoyment.
I’m a great-grandmother who grew up in NSW during the 1940s & 1950s. We had fireworks on the 24th May which was called Empire Day back then. My parents were very safety conscious and there were never accidents at our place but there was a neighbour’s boy who was hurt himself while throwing “bungers” at others, and another younger lad who ended up with the nosecone of a firework rocket embedded in his forehead. The rocket appeared to not have launched and he bent over it to see why. As a nurse in later years I saw some dreadful injuries due to the misuse of fireworks described by others here, such as letterbox explosions and making pipe bombs!
Ukranadian here (Ukrainian-Canadian) Not much cultural shock other than kangaroo meat in the store. You guys have great coffee culture, exotic animals, health star rating on the produce packaging, good friendly people. Love Australia and thinking to come back soon
I was surprised and loves that people in Australia say "Thank you." to the drivers when they get off the bus! Also, Aussie knows their own favorite coffee with complicated customize like "Flat white on soy milk and 2 sugars".
I'm not from Australia but we do that in my home country too so that's how we raised our Aussie born kids. Greet the driver politely and thank them when you get off the bus. Where I was "shocked" going back to my home country for holidays was the teenagers pushing their way in to get a seat. I got too used to the local youths here getting in in a relaxed fashion (or even helping me with the pusher). My jaw dropped when I saw how rude kids have gotten where I grew up.
Same in Ireland ..... Everyone thanks ALL transport drivers when getting off transport! Trams, Buses, Coaches, Taxis ..... everything!! It's proper manners in my opinion and the way of the Irish culture!
I have to say that walking at night is not safe enough, especially some place in Melbourne like Brighton, Frankston, Clayton...while some places like Carnegie, Balaclava are relatively safe.
One of the noticeable differences I have faced here in Australia is the heavy and big trucks' freedom to run around all streets without any time restriction even in the sunlight by comparison.
@MusicManMaurice Large transport trucks are for the most part individually owned. And the only reason railway systems aren’t frequently used is because they’re not built for trans-state transport. They’re built to move things to the coast from inland and back again.
Some roads have no trucks allowed (unless making a delivery to home in that area) but I have seen truck drivers ignore the signs, which is very annoying as he nearly hit my car, and it was dark, that's why they didn't want trucks in the neighbourhood, especially right near a children's playground.
I'm from Melbourne and we have many roads here that don't allow big trucks at certain times of the day/night. Not so sure about other cities in Australia.
I'm from (Tulsa) Oklahoma and my mates there educated on me on certain aspects of what to expect when I was visiting them in Brisbane in 2010 (mainly revolving around what to do with Huntsman spiders and wearing ample amounts of sunscreen). What really impressed me (which was your #10) was just how beautiful and clean everything was. Not to say Tulsa looks like a rubbish heap or anything, but I've seen my fair share of overflowing bins before. Believe it or not, Tulsa also has a coffee culture as well and a great music scene. I'd never leave anything unlocked (especially a car), even in the quiet suburb I live in, just because there's always nefarious blokes looking for easy targets. I was also given a little book on Australian slang, but have learned quite a bit of it on my own. I'm planning a trip back next year at some point. I absolutely love Australia and would love to move there if it weren't for the sheer expense of it all.
Worth keeping in mind that it's only safe for you to walk around at night because you're male, none of my female friends would dare to walk around Melbourne suburbs after dark. 100% unsafe.
Well, after a series of high profile murders such as Jill Meagher I wouldn’t blame them, it’s not the same as it used to be back in the 80’s/90’s and that’s always gonna happen when the population doubles in less than ten years 😢
@@marcgaskett Not sure how old you are Marc, but there were plenty of attacks in the 80's and 90's when I was growing up in Melbourne. Google Paul Denyer for one example, or Karmein Chan. The difference nowadays is we have 24hr news so information is much more widespread. Back then if you didn't read the paper or watch the 6'oclock news you were blissfully unaware of a lot of what went on.
Coffee here is great! And people are almost always so friendly and nice. Although, I think you should never say that it's ok to have a walk at night with earphones on because some people (especially women) can get involved in trouble. For example, in some countries it's safer than Australia and they tend to be more careless accordingly. Especially because many foreigners watch your channel to learn like I do!
I agree with everything, except for the toilette paper as I also flushed them back in Brazil. I'd say some significant differences are the free CAT buses around the downtown and their schedule strictly followed displayed in each bus stop and also the random grass fields around everywhere, at least here in Perth
Canadian here, I furnished my first house totally from stuff left on the side of the road. Everything from my couch to dishes. We have "big garbage pick up" 2x a month. People throw out REALLY good stuff lol
I arrived Australia 8 months ago. I like Australia, it’s a nice place with relax people. But very strange from our culture. Australia has many good things that I really appreciated them, but at the same time, there are countless culture shocks for me. For example Still, I can not believe how most of people live alone and how most people are unaware from their neighbours next to their doors🥲. In our culture, at least 40 houses are our neighbours and we know most of them and we share all our happiness and sadness with together❤️.
I think the neighbour thing also depends where you live - when I lived in the suburbs we knew around half the people along our small street but now that I live rurally we know so many more people and are always hanging out with our neighbours!
Yeah, I think it is very much a city thing in Australia, or perhaps due to the amount of people renting. Ive found it hard to make bonds with neighbors when you move so quickly, but when I was young in a country town we used to be much closer with them.
This is what I found the hardest thing to deal with In australia as the white Australians are talkative and yes friendly at first but only for a very short time as they don’t like to confront too many issues or enquires from anyone
Unfortunately for some of the standard English Aussies, we are a little suspicious of our neighbours. People who don't engage with their neighbours are usually subject to more break ins I think. Greek/Italian(Insert non English culture here) have a good friendship with their neighbours.
Hey man, I'm João Samuel from Porto Alegre, Brazil. Well, in respect to the toilet paper, yeah, in too many Brazilian homes, the people here in fact DON'T flush it in the toilet because the worst conditions of sanitary sewage. Personally I flush it directly in the toilet because here in my city the public services of treatment are much better and the infrastructure of pipes are excellent. In my opinion, it's the correct thing to do. It's quite nasty to see a bucket full of dirty and contamined paper.
I’m born and raised in Sydney and I think Melbourne city streets at night are way safer tbh, there’s none of that hardcunt, every second guy wanting to fight like in Sydney
When I was 25 in 1995 I' ve been in Sidney. What shocked me was when I took the taxi ( super cheap ) and the very friendly driver told me to sit in the front, not in the back . after two months I came back in Italy and I wanted to sit in the front of the taxi, the driver was dead scary .lol. I had to apologize and to explain the different culture
I've heard US and British taxi drivers can pick an Aussie tourist because they go for the front seat (sometimes even the drivers seat, because that side is the passenger side here)
I moved to Sydney from the US in 2008, so most of the items in this list are similar in the US. We even had barbecues in campgrounds, though they were more of the Weber sort requiring charcoal briquettes. My favourite aspect of Aussie culture in your list is the quality of coffee here. It's so good Americans now are starting to try to match it. On my return visits (obviously not in 2020), I have routinely been pleased to find Aussie style cafes in various American cities.
@@xtreme_survival7879 Yes, I'm well aware. Point is, Australians DID acquire it and we're all the beneficiaries of those intrepid Italians who brought it with them. :)
I think it is very unsafe to walk around the cities in Australia at night, especially for women. Also most people lock their cars and houses, yes less so out of the major cities
I’m from South Korea and living in Melbourne now. I definitely agree with the tap water. Haha that was really one of the shocking things to me at first time. But now I used to that haha. Thank you for share this video :) I has listened your podcast as well to study Aussie english. Cheers mate !
I studied in Busan for 3 months in 2017 and I drank tap water there without any problem, and then in 2019 I studied in Seoul and drank the tap water then too, also with no problems.
@@eundongpark1672 haven't been to South Korea in a while.. But it use to be all tap water was undrinkable and even dangerous to consume.. Could have got better.. But back then smelt like shit or like chemicals or just odd bad.. Probably the last few years there's been a huge improvement. Use to be in Japan you couldn't drink tap water once too.. But that's long gone
I grew up in outback Australia and born here and we drank tank water, not everywhere has piped water. Later I moved to the city and the tap water was a shock. Compared to drinking tank water it was like drinking from a pool the chemicals seemed so strong. I personally get a sore throat if I drink tap water so have been buying reverse osmosis water ever since. It is the closest to the tank water I grew up on. Too many chemicals despite being 'safe'.
From my experience with orderly people here, they are very much independent and rarely asking any help. In my country, older people or even people who are in 50s are seeking for helps even if they can do by themselves. I remembered that when I started living in Australia, I lived in Sydney's Northern Beaches. I saw a lady in her 70s pushed a trolley with full of stuffs near Dee Why grand. I offered myself to help her pushing it. I thought that she would be happy with my offering. But no! She said " hang on, do you think me disabled person??? No way, I can do it." Then she pushed her trolley along Pittwater Road . After that experience, I am not offer easily to anyone older. If I saw someone older with bags or something not too right then I just asked them, " do you need any help?"
I’m a woman living in Australia and echo other commenters around walking around at night. It’s not that I’d never walk alone at night, but I would only do it if necessary (eg walking to my car after an event), I’d be really mindful of my surroundings, stay in well lit areas/busy streets, keys in hand and would never have music or a podcast on headphones. The reason you’ve never considered your safety in this circumstance is because you’re a guy.
Which is silly because men are far more likely to be attacked in the street. I regularly walk home and catch public transport by myself at 10, 11, 12 at night
@@geministargazer9830 I’m glad you feel safe in your neighbourhood to walk freely at night. This isn’t a competition- I’m aware that men are by no means immune to being attacked, and they’re certainly more susceptible to certain types of attacks, like being king hit. But I think you’ve missed the point of my comment. It’s not so much about the likelihood of actually being attacked, the odds of which are slim no matter what your gender. It’s that, in general, women are very mindful of or even fearful of walking alone at night, and, in general, this isn’t a particular concern that men have. You may be an exception to this, and of course there would be some women who feel very safe walking at night without taking any precautions I listed above, and there may be some men who are fearful, but I was really just referring to the fact that generally speaking, women feel less safe in this circumstance.
I'm a pretty hefty guy and I would never walk around late at night with music playing in my ears. DEFINITELY not in a park, and even less chance in North Melbourne lol. I think we are marginally safer at night but I wouldn't be taking that risk
@@blastoiseddr good for you man. I’m not trying to say that men don’t face risks or have some reasonable fear for safety in these situations, which vary depending on the area, country, time of night, your own build and ethnicity etc. It’s not a total one way or the other thing. But consider that many men I’ve talked to really don’t think about these sort of risks in almost any situation. Consider that literally every woman I know thinks about these risks, and some avoid going out at night altogether if they’ll need to walk alone at any point. That’s the issue.
Second hand staff!! once, I remember when I found 2 chairs in good condition in the street. I took them and used in my apartment lol also, I enjoyed to walk in the night safely in Melbourne. I love Australia.
Walking around alone at night, is only a young mans privilege! I’m now 52, & I was about 40 when I knew I had to be careful & avoid if possible, being out on my own, on foot at night. I am a fuel tanker driver & we deliver to servos late at night, Friday & Saturday nights are the worst! I now have two wallets, one for normal use & the other for work, so I don’t loose all of my stuff if I’m challenged. But I also have traveled to the UK & Europe & I really appreciate how wonderful we have it here.
I still am, particularly at the number of people who happily walk barefoot across the Servo (gas station) forecourt, from the pumps to the counter to pay for their fuel. The skin on the soles of their feet could be absorbing any of the many spilled automotive fuels, oils etc. Most of which are quite toxic. Some of the concrete could have had contaminants spilled on them for 50 years or more. The older spills could have more toxic ingredients than more recent. Myself, nearly always wearing steel toed safety boots, with chemical resistant soles.
As an Aussie I’ve just grown up not even thinking about how strange it is that we just walk around bare foot, it’s just so convenient to not have to worry about shoes when you zip down to woollies
Wish Sweden would get the Aussie second hand culture. In my apartment recycling/rubbish building there is so much usuable pieces of furniture and a plethora of other things that just get incinerated. So much clothing too, there is a clothing charity box not 50 metres from the building.
Awesome. I had the opportunity of leaving in Brisbane for 5 months in 2016. Everything you said in absolutely true. I felt the same way as your wife felt. Especially with the safe feeling. Cheers from Brazil. ✌
Now I'm dying to know. I've been paying more attention to aussie media since the shows and movies produced there have been pretty great quality lately, and every once in a while I'll see something from australian news sources and I'm shocked at how brazen and frank they can be compared to the damn near monopolistic fake news machine we have in the states. (All our news is produced by 6 corporations that often share talking points and key words and phrases before breaking a story)
Love seeing the barbecue areas at the parks and beaches. So clean. And well looked after. Here in the UK they'd get wrecked, vandalised. Then again all the parks in Oz are well looked after. The ones I've been to. Also like the water bottle filling stations to get fresh drinking water in public areas.
So right about the vandals in the UK. The population density in London is high so a couple of BBQs in a local park are going to get inundated on the weekends in Summer.
Porterhouse and rump are 2 different cuts mate. Porterhouse is essentially a T bone without the bone. As other's have mentioned you can purchase whole cuts, known as primal cuts if you ask for them.
Bubblers! I live in Germany but partially grew up in Sydney. The only place I have seen bubblers was in Rome. Maybe in UK, but I'm not sure about that.
I've back and forth from UK ro Australia (and back again) and the most noticeable difference apart from the one's covered off here is that in Australia people will talk to you fairly randomly. Waiting for a bus, standing in line, collecting a parcel - these are all opportunities to engage your fellow citizens in some discussion - of the weather, footy, terrible pollies (politicians), scandals, the state of the world etc. There is literally no deference or standing on ceremony. And woe betide the stranger who answers the random question "how's your day going?" with a shrug or puzzled expression - you do actually need a little "yarn" or "banter" with your barista, shop assistant etc. It's all part of the fun!
I didn’t realise that the piles of secondhand stuff on the side of the road was an Australian thing! Although I have wondered about it before. It’s such a great deal for both the person throwing it out and the person who gets it. Sometimes you only have a couple of things and you don’t want to go to the trouble of selling it or giving it to a charity shop or doing a garage sale. I’ve picked up so many great things from the side of the road. Many of the clothes in my wardrobe are things I found, as well as old cassette tapes, books, dvds, kitchenware, chairs, our couch and tv, and more unusual stuff like a stamp collection and gemstones. Once someone threw out their entire record collection!
We do this in Canada too, but not all year round, in my city we have "trash to treasure week" a couple times a year where people put their secondhand stuff out on the curb.
My culture is my identity and personality, it gives me spiritual, intellectual and emotional distinction from others. But Having friends from other cultures makes me more creative. In fresh ways about space and how people create their own world and environment. It is best way to connect between creative thinking and cross-cultural relationships.
I'm with you sister. Learning the intricacies of other cultures around the world, is what helps me to understand, me. This is whom we are, to understand, to explore.... to know.
I live in Melb and i agree with every word you said except the safety issue. I had few incidents while living in Aus and had to call the police. One time they did not bother coming at all and other times they came 3 hours after my house got robbed. In South korea, where im from, if you call a police for any matter they will come to you in 3 mins. Other than this, Melb is one of the best place to live. Thank you for the video!
I'm a Melbourne girl...born n breed....just on the safety issue....think there is a gender divide...on whole I do feel safe walking at night by myself but there is no way I'd walk through Royal Park or similar alone at night ... maybe cos chicks are taught to be more wary.
JMC 76 yeah I’m a Sydney girl and I agree it’s a gender divide. I don’t think it’s just because women are taught to be wary I think it’s because it’s actually not safe for women to walk alone at night I mean look at Jill Mears and she was only going 100m to home!
Aussie cops are fat lazy scum who think their job is arresting people. Helping people, solving crime, being decent human beings, takes effort and they dont like that.
Another different culture in Australia that is different from mine.,is when having a celebration the visitors or invited persons take some any like a case of beer or a tray of food. Which we don't do in Philippines. Once youe invited u dont need ro bring some any. Unless a presents if its birthday.
Aussie English I suppose the host will be very confused or feel offended cause that implies you don’t like their food. 😂 I guess bring a dish to someone else’s dinner is not in Asian culture. In China, we bring gifts and fruits and leave the host to show off their homemade dishes.
My sri lankan friends expect to pay for everyone's dinner when they invite people to a party! We all arrive fully expecting to pay for our own meals and have to fight to pay hahaha
Filipina here! 🥺 I got an aussie bf and I am so culture shocked. Relatable comment 🥰. I have been researching coz we often fight coz of culture differences.
It really depends on the party and the host, they can specify whether you need to bring a plate or not, but it's not necessarily expected you should bring a plate unless you have special dietary needs, then you should definitely bring your own food. It's always best to ask your host when you're invited whether you need to bring anything.
I had an British teacher who after newly residing in this country was invited to a party and was asked to bring a plate. So they did. Just a plate...confusion all around! LOL
I love how you compare aussie culture vs brazilian. I´m living in Australia and all you say it´s right. But yeah, Im argentinian and everything its so different from south america. Anyway, I reccomend you to go to Argentinian restaurant for a really good barbie (: Cheers mate!
Planeo ir para allá dentro de unos años pero realmente me voy a volver loco al no disponer de toda la variedad de cortes de carne que hay acá.Puede que me termine abriendo una carnicería yo mismo jajaja
@@AussieEnglishPodcast It's seasonal, I live in the south east of Melbourne, though I've never seen it that high price before. I usually buy it from the market though, it's about $7 a kilo in season and about $25 a kilo out of season at my market.
@@dawnrazornephilim It was $60 a kilo just 2 months ago, now the price dropped to around $30. Yes the price is seasonal but it's still much m o re expensive than the Asian countries which I believe they're hard to grow here because of the weather.
In 1980, as a Malaysian, student in Melbourne I was surprised to see Australians queuing up to enter the cinema hall or to board a bus. Aussie drivers also get very confused by these people who would cross and stand in the middle of the road (literally) to wait for a break in the traffic. My friend did that once andthen a tram came along 🙂
Jeremy yung lmfao jezzalenco is a old AFL player that was very very good, he played for Carlton blues and when he played and took a good mark ect commentators and other would say jezzalenco you beauty.
Another thing about some of us not always locking doors or whatever is that I don't think I've ever felt unsafe leaving my car unlocked when filling up at the servo. I just grab my wallet and keys (and discount voucher if I have it) and leave my car as is when I go in to pay. Sometimes I won't even put the windows up if they're already down.
I would never leave anything unlocked in Australia only a few weeks ago our neighbours car was stolen from his driveways so no always lock your car and house . Also if your car is unlocked and is stolen your insurance won’t cover it .
Depends where you are and the trust of your community. I live 2km for Sydney CBD - Central Business District, and have left my car unlocked many times (albeit by accident) and never had a problem. Big Betty is still with us. Although, if she was stolen we could get a much better vehicle.
last week my other half parked my car across the road. for two nights. UNLOCKED. this was not intentional. ...not a single thing was missing when i went to use the car. (well, nothing i'd miss, anyway!)
So car thieves can hot wire the ignition, but can't unlock a door? I only lock the car if I'm leaving something in there, but even that might result in a smashed window, better to just leave it unlocked I think. I have had the buts stolen out of my ashtray, and once my ashtray was on the side of the road a few houses down, at least they didn't have to damage the car to get to the buts though.
In CBD I used to walk at night.... Not same in rural Australia.... If you are women please stay safe... U can walk main roads... Not in dark alley and parks even in CBD
On the "leaving your car unlocked" thing - bear in mind that although not regularly enforced, it's illegal to leave you car unlocked (if you are more than 3 metres from it) in QLD, NSW and VIC (not sure about other states and can't be arsed looking it up). The fine varies, but it's not incredibly high. I just don't do it though. When I park, it's 1. Put it in 'park' 2. Handbrake on 3. Retract side mirrors 4. Put window(s) up 5. Turn off engine 6. Get out (obviously) 7. Lock car. And this applies ANYWHERE - even Ocean Grove 😉
As an immigrant from NZ I was told that having barbecues in parks began as a way to lower the risk of bush fires starting, but it was such a popular innovation it became more widespread over time
I went to Aus for 3 years. Being from South Africa I experienced most things rather as covenient as opposed to inconvenient, or third world as opposed to first world. The 2 cultures have alot in common. The only shocking things I found was the heavily drinking culture especially over weekends and the openly drug abuse. Other things were more fascinating differences like Aussie slang which had put me in an awkward situation when trying to buy a "stiffy" at a computer shop and the guy was stuttering and looked at me as if I were an alien. In SA a stiffy was the term for the old 1.44 mb computer disk. Not so in Aus.🙈😂
Hehe I get it.. 5.25 discs were floppy's, so 3.5 inch discs were stiffy's 100% sensible, tho I've never heard of it before.... Drug use is an ozzie art form that's difficult to explain.... ;)
As a woman in Melbourne (NorYar neighbourhoods represent ;P) , I'm with Kel on the night walking. I love my city, but it's not safe for me to wander parks willy nilly at midnight.
@CJ Boyle : Bullshit! I'm old enough to remember that women weren't safe out on their own at night long before what you call "mass immigration from the third world".
Being an American in Australia I feel like these are uniquely Brazilian oddities. I see $3000 cars in Australia that would be $500 in my home town. Toilet roll is used the same in the US. BBQs are everywhere in campsites and the like in North America and Canada. I’ll agree with the free stuff on the verge. I’ve always said you could put a dog turd on the verge with a free sign on it and someone will pick it up. No one I know drinks tap water here even though it’s safe. Too much chlorine. But I live in Western Australia. So that may be different over east. Another one I didn’t agree with is I never locked my door until I moved to Australia. It took a few years for me to get used to locking things up. Of course the theft and vandalism in my area helped remind me. We do walk at night though. Not in the CBD though. It’s pretty clean though. Except for cigarette butts. Now the things I noticed as a yank in Oz is $30 Levi’s are $110. $20 carton of beer is $55. Finding a public toilet, by comparison is near impossible. Houses are tiny and close together, again by comparison. You’d think there were no dogs in Australia. This isn’t a bad thing. But in the US you see a dog or two on the street. Not here, a wandering dog is quickly retrieved and taken to the local vet or pound. Everything (in Western Australia) closes at 5. Mall, shopping centres etc etc. except Thursday. It’s call late night shopping. Which goes til 8 or 9. Mostly 8. You can’t buy a light fixture at bunnings. Only lighting stores can sell fixtures. A $20 oil change and service is $200-300. That’s one I’ll never understand. The dealerships has been screwing Aussies for decades with that one. You also can’t change it yourself, if your car is under factory warranty, if you don’t have a mechanic stamp in your logbook they can deny your warranty. Cars in general get better fuel economy here in Australia. Australia has more diesels here. In the US it’s mostly just big F250 pickups and the like for diesels. In Oz it can be anything from a Hyundai I 30 to a Holden Rodeo or anything in between. Post don’t deliver on Saturday as a general rule. And the Post man Won’t pick up your stamped mail, I thought it was because there was no little red flag to raise on the mailbox. It turns out even if you put a red flag on your mailbox he still won’t pick it up. Guns are a thing in Australia. If you have a reason. You can’t just buy one because it looked cool. A bloke in an apartment in the CBD wants a 22 rilfe. No go. A sheep farmer in the wheat belt needs a 22 to shoot sheep caught in a wildfire. No worries. In the US, for better or worse you can buy whatever you want, within reason with no qualifiers other than age, non felon and mentally stable. Just pointing out a difference not starting a gun debate. I’m sure there are a ton more differences I have noticed between the two. Going both ways. I complain about some and sing the praises of others. In the end no Australian kidnapped me and drug me to Australia. I came on my own accord. And I stayed. So the differences I mentioned is not a complaint but just an observation. Except the $250 oil change. That’s just wrong.
@Shayne Troxler Interesting differences, especially that cost of servicing a vehicle, yes we totally get ripped off here in Australia. Car prices are way too high as well.
I think some of the things mentioned are state based. Especially the dog comment, i think every single person on my blocks own at least one dog and everywhere you walk there are dogs but the differences between WA and Victoria are pretty big given we are pretty far away from each other. Because I'm typing on my phone i can't remember what else i noticed as difference between states but it's fun to find out all the differences across Australia ^_^
I’ve lived in Brazil for six years and this video seems like more of commentary on how foreign Brazil is compared to Australia. We are considering a move to Australia so this comparison is interesting!
Hi , I am from The Netherlands and visited Australia 2 times ( enjoyed it both times) but what you talked about is more or less the same as overhere. The only thing we noticed was that the people in the outback were very laidback about it all and thought it was great that we took the time to visiit Australia. We met Crockadile Harry in Cooper Peedy and loved that trip there very much. If we are able to come down under again we will not hesitate.
People in the outback love it when people from other countries visit them! (Aside from the rascist ones) this is because many people only go to the city when they visit Australia, but there is alot of Australia to see!
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When I came to Australia in 1994 from Moscow, I was really surprised how many total strangers would say "Hi" and smile at you. Australian people turned out to be very kind, understanding and helpful. Everyone was so relaxed and friendly. Very different from Russia! That was a big shock, so thank you Australia!
Russia isn’t very friendly? I thought as a kid you guys were all angry like Germans but as I got to my teens I realised that it probably was just your accents haha
You must be a rare nice Russian lol
A Russian friend of my late father arrived in Australia just after WW2. With a good income he soon moved into one of the better suburbs. He used to talk to the wife of the next door neighbor and eventually found out his neighbor was Robert Menzies the Prime Minister. He told dad he couldn't put that in a letter to his Leningrad relatives as they probably wouldn't believe is was possible to just live next door to the countries political leader.
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You're welcome, mate! We're alright here.
I arrived in Australia in 2011 from South Africa. The first thing i noticed was the taste of red meat is very different here especially the mince and sausages. I also found the gas barbeque culture strange because we were used to always use charcoal when having a barbeque in order to give the meat a significant taste. The secondhand culture here was also a very new experience. To us it was not allowed to do so it was strange to see this. And then there is the amasing safety and trust aspect in australia that blew me away. People in australia will walk away from their items on the beach or parks and it will still be there when they come back , or a woman shopping will have her purse open in the trolley she pushes and can freely look away and nobody grabs her purse or bag. If a puse or phone gets lost there is a huge possibility the person that found it will try to return it. Amasing and rewarding aspects of this country!
You can use a Webber barbecue that uses heat beads. Or setup a wood fire barbecue. We all can adjust our pallets to whatever and wherever we cook meat. Flame is flame, and a BBQ plate is just that. Perhaps you were eating Goat?
I’ve known many people who have had purses stolen from handbags in trolleys.... definitely zip up bag and wrap strap around wrist while pushing trolley , never leave trolley as you shop I’ve had paid for items stolen from my trolley , put anything high priced inside something like a coles or big w bag so no one sees a high price store bag they might want to grab and run , I’ve seen it happen with a Vodafone bag containing a new iPhone, the lady was shattered 😢...
I always keep my house and car locked at all times .
I as a woman would never walk around at night either ..........
Australia is a wonderful place to live but don’t be foolish with your safety or your belongings 🙂🇦🇺
I've lost my purse in the city (Adelaide) on 3 occassions and it has been always returned to me with all the money still in it (it's been left at a bus stop, dropped onto a road and left at the hospital). I've never bothered to even cancel my bankcards whenever I've lost it.
For those saying three is still crime, I think she's trying to portray the humongous difference in societal safety in Australia compared to most cultures.
In Australia I know personally that if anyone tried to steal from a person in a supermarket they would get dropped.
When you say meat tastes different, how do you mean?
I have read a lot of the comments below and love them. I travelled the world back in 2000. I flew back into Brisbane airport. I was standing in the long queue to get through customs and one of the customs officers walked up to me and said "are you Australian". I said yes, so he removed me from the queue walked me to an empty customs checking station, asked me the standard questions and said one of the most wonderful things an Australian traveller can hear "welcome home mate" and let me through. After travelling the world and encountering so many different cultures, that are not unfriendly, but let's say not so open, this was the best homecoming ever, it immediately put a smile on my face.
Arriving in Sydney, there was a big sign saying if you are from one of the English speaking countries, use the kiosk. I inserted my US passport and received a paper that said, Welcome to Australia! I saw no immigration officer. At the end of the queue, I inserted the paper in a slot and the glass doors opened. I gave my customs form to a young lady that was collecting and that was it. I was in Australia 🦘.
New Zealand is the same with Kiwis.
@@solarguy1702 easy, straight through. Australia and New Zealand have their own line, I know in Sydney Airport and the same in Auckland Airport New Zealand, it's so much faster.
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That's good news for Nordic people !
We all speak English....
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@@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131 Australia needs people. Nordics seem to like it here.
As a 50-something Aussie I remember the "Keep Australia Beautiful" anti-littering campaign of the 70's and 80's. With the subsequent generations I find that littering is unfortunately making a comeback and I think we need to replay that and revitalise the anti-littering culture
I live in rural S.A., and they're showing a NSW anti littering ad on TV just now, "If it's not in the bin it's on you, don't be a Tosser". I think they're taking a cue from the SA government adverts, "Drink Drive, You're a bloody idiot" "don't drive like a W- (picture of an anchor)" and things like that. The most recent one is "I drink drive, I'm a selfish prick". Makes me proud to be Australian.
Keep Australia beautiful:
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Don't forget Clean Up Australia Day
I live in Melbourne and I hate littering. If there’s no bin around I take my rubbish with me, usually I leave it in the car until I can get it to bin.
It always irritates me when see garbage on the ground, especially when I’m walking in a nice park or other natural area. How hard is it to put rubbish in a bin?
One time I was driving with a friend and she just dumped a plastic shopping bag full of rubbish right out the window as we were driving along and I went off at her for it. I never understood the attitude of people who treat the world like it’s a tip and just drop garbage wherever they like.
Bring it back I say
When my wife came from Thailand to live here she was blown away by how clean the streets were and you could drink the water
out of the tap, but her biggest thing every week was waiting for the Garbage truck to arrive ! She had never seen a AUTO ARM LIFT truck before to pick the bins and would stand outside
to take photo to send back home . : )
Hey ,,are you from Australia?
I used to drive one of them in Sydney, always surprised me how many people would stop and gawp, then get their phone out and start videoing.
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Dude, that's adorable.
My first shock when I came to Brisbane was smiling to stranger people!it is not common in my country ( Iran )
It was amazing!
I live in the country, and in our local village I have even had deep spiritual conversations with total strangers, such is the region I live in.
yeah thats a gday mate when we couldnt be bothered to actually say it
Yep we are mostly friendly to everyone it's only when people try to push us we turn nasty sending you a smile Mohammad in Iran 😁🇦🇺
Brisbane is the BEST!
SubhanAllah it’s sad people forget that Nabih Muhammad s.a.w said it is a sadaqa to smile at others. Maybe it’s shyness.
Second hand stuff culture is a great one here in Australia. Specially if you are a newcommer, you don't need to buy all your stuff brand new to start your life here. You may buy them second hand or even pick up something from street if you like them.
daughter moved into a new unit , found a fridge in the next block . had a plumber look it over and $99 later a $2000 fridge was working like new.
When we first moved out of home, we had bought or been given most of the big furniture and whitegoods, but almost all of our chairs/tables/fun decorative pieces came from large waste collections near our parents and our new house.
Every mower i have ever owned I picked up off the streets
When my mum and her boyfriend were moving in together she had to get rid of some stuff
As she didn't have a big car she didn't know how to get rid of it I just said to her Put everything on the lawn with a free stuff sign 🤣
You have reminded me how lucky we are in Australia. Although especially, for women, don't walk darkened and unpopulated places at night, unless you have a big dog with you. It's unlikely anything bad will happen, but not worth the risk.
Thats basically the entire would though
You understand that 99% of sexual assaults are committed by men, women knew and trusted…
Also, stop victim blaming.
@@clivelawrence4358 Nope, only 76% of female victims know their assailant, 68% of these assailants were described as 'acquaintances'... hardly the 99% of known and trusted bullshit you just pulled out of your arse.
@@clivelawrence4358 ok then, if you would prefer: Especially for Men, Don't rape or assault people. Advice is not victim blaming. I live in the real world.
@@rebeccadelbridge2998 it’s a male issues. Telling men not to rape is the only thing one should say.
I’m from nz and most of this stuff is also relevant to us and I didn’t know some of this wasn’t universal
i love that you NZers call sandals "jandals" :D :D
I'm from Ireland and have been to Australia many times! Not much difference .... other than the BOILING Aussie Weather!! I do think that most of this stuff is Universal! Having said that .... I loveeeee you Aussies!! I would like to visit NZ next - heard it is stunning ☘💚☘
@@carmenhunter4380 Aussies call Jandals Thongs. ...and if you didn't know jandals is short for Japanese sandals.
@the super family ost Haha, I don't think many outside of NZ would have heard of the word either. Have you tried Wiki ?
I’m not finding many cultural differences between Australia and Missouri in the U.S. in this video.
When my dad went to America for work there was a whole underground network of Aussies who would sus new people out. If you where also an Aussie they would show you the 'one cafe with proper good coffee'
@david mullen they hazed you by making you eat Vegemite.
@david mullen aw your a true blue. I never like the stuff personally. Could eat it of I had to my sister though massive spoonfuls
My half brother is Canadian and he visited in the mid 90's and was amazed at the coffee at Maccas, he was totally disgusted at our idea of a hotdog though.
People in Austrailia are very relaxed and friendly. I am always thinking why we can't be that relaxed here in Russia...
Another thing that surprised me was the payment system in the public transport. No one controls you, no one checks whether you paid or not. This trust to people is really pleasant
That's reasonable
I got on a tram in Melbourne and not one of the migrants paid I was the only Aussie and the only one who paid
We pay using a card, we tap onto a machine. If you don't, they will say something
Sydney buses are all cashless now. You need an Opal card with money preloaded and you tap on and tap off as you enter and leave the bus, train or ferry and it will deduct the fare. Randomly, there will be inspectors who will get on the bus, train or ferry and you have to present your card and they can check to see if you have tapped on... if you have not, you will be taken off at the next stop and you will be issued a fine.
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That’s because the bus driver can see if you’ve tapped on or not.
Good coffee is everywhere in Aus, even in some of your servos on a long strip of road out woop woop are upping the ante.
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Where are the coffee beans from....
@@midlifebiker7424 all over
@@midlifebiker7424 I think I understand your implication, yes there are actually a few plantations in Australia. The Australian beans are not well regarded but they do have their niche fans. For Australian cafes the beans will be sourced from all over the world, while Brazilian beans are a mainstay for many blends there are just as many without any Brazilian beans.
I remember popping into a general store / post office a couple of hours out from Bathurst and finding the coffee was fresh ground via a Mazzer pulled through a commercial (plumbed) two group machine and the 60 - 70 year old woman who made my latte, made my feeble attempts at latte art look like the pre-school rubbish it is. And the coffee wasn't all show: it was close to, if not perfectly extracted.
My parents came to Australia in the 60s from Morocco, North Africa. They didn't have much food, but now but after coming here they can't believe how much food there is here, my mum us like " oh!, so much food here in Australia! " with such shock! And my dad when we're at an "all you can eat" restaurant doesn't realise you can find back for seconds LOL 🤣
They came to Australia thin like spraghetti, and now after being here for over 40 years now they're way over weight .
Anyway, since you mentioned cars , the shock on my parents face when l tell them things like "were going in a limousine " or staying at a hotel for the weekend " , and they're like " really? " .
Well anyway, l'm posting your video in my diary , since l like writing in my diary things to be thankful and grateful for to have in my life as an Aussie here in Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺😁👍
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That’s lovely
I am in a australian-brazilian couple too and my biggest shock was how much notice you give to your friends to meet them for something casual.
"Alright, we see each other in two months for drinks in your house" and really stick to it!!
We brazilians just say "pass by my place tomorrow" or even in the day. We just invite people and if they are available they go, if not they don't.
That depends. If it is neighbours or workmates and just a casual gathering somewhere local we might not plan ahead so much.
If it is some sort of special occasion, or it is a big gathering with a lot of people that needs more planning,, or if people have to travel a long distance to get there, then you would give a lot more advance notice.
I’ve been a smoker most of my life and agree it drives me nuts I will always stub out my cigarette and take it with me until I find a bin there is no excuse to leave it on the ground
Same... it's not much of an ask.
I was a smoker most of my life as well. I was raised in a national park and it was instilled in me never to litter. I also put my cigarettes out and take them with me. I recall once, like the ONE time, I ever broke this rule. I can't recall why but I emptied my car ashtray into a bush. This sat so poorly with me, the following day I drove fifty or sixty kilometers back and picked them all up. Bad I did that but also noteworthy it was so alien to me and unacceptable that I was so disappointed in myself that one time that I would drive so far and rectify the mistake. Sorry for doing it in the first place.
I love when aussie say thank you to the driver in Tasmania while dropping off the bus. They say no worries in response to thank you but in Nepal, we respond as you are welcome.
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yeah we are taught that from school age to respect and thank our bus driver! :)
nothing happens in india lol
Not only in Tassie. Lots of people do it in Sydney, too.
We always thank the bus driver in adelaide as well. When we were in new York I thanked the bus driver as well, it’s just what we do
1. A lot of people rent house.
2. Driving very safely.
3. Beer-holics
4. chocolate lovers
5. Long hair trend for men. Especially teens
6. Australian travelers everywhere in the world for the population of australia.
7. Work early, get back home early.
8. Yellow clothes law (Normally with Beige color short pants)
Lovely weather, lovely country ever💓
8. 🤣🤣🤣
No 6 is so true!
@Bad Boys Boogie: True but you want to look at the ways they drive in other parts of the world!
Hmmm not sure about 8....... and the driving one , we have a real lot of Idiots on our roads but it's still better than many countries 😁🇦🇺
@Bad Boys Boogie sounds like the perfect country. Also i didnt understand 6..
As a world wide traveler from the USA, I have never heard the term, "nature strip", but what a great way to describe it. I'm afraid that if I used that term here, someone would think I would be talking about manscaping..
Pretty sure we use “nature strip” in Canada as well. Though maybe this is me thinking that because I lived in Australia too long.
Tom Pouc... 😂😂😂😁😁👍🇦🇺🇦🇺
Like "rubbers".
In Australia = US
Rubber = eraser
Thong = flip-flops
Capsicum = peppers
scones = biscuit
biscuit = cookie
jelly = jam
I'd never called it the nature strip, here in WA it's the 'verge'. Local councils do a pick up a few times a year so sometimes whole streets have stuff out and people drive around with trailers to 'shop'.
I was washing our bins on the front lawn once and a lady stopped to ask me if I was giving away the bins 😂. Note to self don't leave stuff out unless you want to lose it.
Also a lot of charities will come pick up furniture items from you so they don't get ruined if it rains. In rural areas some tips/rubbish dumps have a separate shop part where you give furniture, working items or things that are too good to be thrown away.
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was pleasantly surprised to see people walking in the street (near the beaches) or even in the mall barefoot! i love how casual and relaxed the environment is :) definitely my type of place
I have never ever seen anyone walk barefoot except on the beach and I live in the world's sunniest city, Perth WA. Fact checked.
@@heatherfruin5050 ?? Maybe you just don't go outside
@@heatherfruin5050 people definitely walk around anywhere barefoot in summer, check a coles or servo
@Brendan Butler During summer I walk around barefoot except for when I leave the property, then I put sandals on. If I could I would go barefoot everywhere.
@@heatherfruin5050 I live on the coast and people absolutely walk around the shops shoeless. Not to window shop. Normally they're on a mission to get food or whatever but it is common.
‘Americans … they have their own way of doing coffee.’
That was diplomatic 😂 Just the thing I needed when watching your video with my morning (okay, instant) coffee.
It was a pretty rich statement, considering that nobody is rushing to get Australian coffee beans. They take it from countries like Brazil and Indonesia, the very ones he's talking down on in the video.
@@jariemonah Yea it was a dumb and narrow minded comparison as if the only coffee there is in the US comes from Starbucks lol.
@@jariemonah Coffee doesn't grow in Australia to the best of my knowledge, so you can't really criticise us getting it from elsewhere. And I don't think he was talking Brazil and Indonesia down particularly. The negatives of those countries that he mentioned are just the way it generally is, usually according to people from there...
@@keithprice475 I was trying to make my comment just as ignorant as his comment about American coffee in general.
@@jariemonah i thought he talked down the starbucks coffee
From my French point of view, ozzies are really friendly and easy to chat with even tho you just cross path with them in a park or at woolies !
Everytime i come there i enjoy your beautiful country !
what shocked me the most the first time i came was how quickly people are speaking, especially with both aussie slang and accent , difficult to figure it out at first but you learn fast there ;)
My life partner is French. Now a duel-citizen (French/Australian) and still struggles with Australian Slang. He is getting better though. Most Australians will tone the slang down for foreigners though. My advise to foreigners, is if you hear Australian slang, be inquisitive, ask what it mans. We won't be offended and would be grateful the chance to explain.
@@2btriggerhappy2010 dual
*clears throat* It's Aussie not 'Ozzie'
@@mushrooms5375 Ozzie is accept as well my friend
Comes to Australia reckons you can only see us at parks or woolies yea mate you'll only see us at the beach or getting a hotdog at bunnings
The drinkable tap water was the most shocking thing to me as well when I first came to Australia last August, and I really love it... I'm from Beijing and now live in Brisbane. In China, we usually firstly filter the tap water and then boil it using some sort of electrical heater and then let the tempreture down to normal and drink it... This process is really complicated and will take a long time to wait for those love cold water like me... However in Australia, things are getting simple, I have inexhaustible supply of drinkable water just from any tap that I can find in my house. This is amazing. And by the way, Australian tap water tastse a little bit better than Japanese tap water...
I usually go cycling every day, and in weekends, something else that really shocking me appears. Many places in Brisbane like South Bank and New Farm Park, as long as there has a huge lawn or besides the Brisbane river, will always have a hugh amount of people squeezing in there and what they do is lying on the grass or having picnic or just walking on the footpath. OMG, this is what you can never see in China. I've never seen some one having picnic in Beijing, mostly may because lawns in Beijing are not allowed to step on, no matter beside the roads or in parks. And huge national parks are alway far from city center where you may have to drive to there but not take subways or buses. And the traffic conditions in Beijing are always terrible...
I still think that most Australian people are friendly although I was thrown eggs by a crazy car driver when I was cycling on bikeway near Toowong. Because for the most time what I can see on an Aussie's face is that beautiful iconic smile not an eggie man.
Thank you jesse for all those lovely comments. I'm so glad your experience has been a positive one. It's interesting for me also to understand that things we take for granted here, people else where may not be at liberty to enjoy.
A lot also find it amazing that we flush our toilets with drinking water.
First time I've heard of someone from China loving cold water! I drink iced water all the time in the hotter months, and I am amazed at everyone who prefers warm or hot water.
Unfortunately crazy and angry people can be found all around the world, and some of them have eggs! Most people aren't like that though, glad you are enjoying Brisbane so much. Do you miss the winter?
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It’s tap water btw not tab.
I agree with all the other women on here that I wouldn't go walking at night by myself, especially in parks. Although I also realise when I thought about it that I feel safer at night going a short way, especially in busy areas and suburbs, than say when I was in Los Angeles for a weekend. Finding out that someone was shot at the end of the street from my hostel at night, and also that even during the day I had men following me either by walking and catcalling or driving their cars slowly beside me, I felt far more vulnerable there than I ever had here in Australia.
Agreed. The truth at universal level, that is Females are sexually targeted by Males, never be the other way around.
make privilege right there. I live in parramatta and I wont walk alone around the park here, and even the well-lit main drag (Church St) can be dodgy after about 9pm. I will walk home alone from the train station at night but I won't have my ears blocked.
I live in Brisbane, I regularly walk myself home at night. I have to catch a bus most of the way but then I walk. It's actually quite peaceful at night, I like it.
I don't even walk in my area during the day, not ever. I drive to a better suburb or to the coast, then walk 👍 around here my phone would be snatched
I regularly walk at night through The Rocks and Miller's Point in Sydney. Very peaceful and safe.
I really love the second hand culture here. We rent an unfurnished four bedroom house in a town for 340 per week and got all the used furniture( washing machine, tables, beds, microwave, two fridges) for less than 500 dollars.
I'm an Australian and I've been living here my whole life. The only thing that you said that I disagree with is walking in parks at night. No way would I ever, EVER do that. Especially if you are a young woman. That's just asking for trouble, no matter where you are. Would you tell your daughter (of any age) that she will be okay to walk in a dark of semi-lit park in the middle of the night? You're crazy.
You would in Ocean Grove where he lives.
@@Dandylion190 lol yes Ocean Grove is not typical
Not Australian but my first thought was definitely "You're a muscular, masculine guy, of course YOU feel safe walking at night". Just an absolute lack of awareness of how the way you look influences things.
I wouldn’t be advertising on YouTub, or anywhere on the internet, that you don’t lock your house
I live in the town just next to him Barwon Heads and I lock everything up. Ocean Grove isn’t some safe haven it’s full of petty crime and probably domestics. Sure there’s not much drugs or murder but dosent mean other crime dosent exist here
@@AussieGirl235 Yes, we do lock up - we're not that stupid! Like any country we do have house thefts. Mostly petty but still risky to leave a house open.
anyone that is lazy enough to chuck rubbish anywhere but in the bin, unless its like a bio-degradable. should honestly be ashamed.
Yes. I will toss leftovers on the ground for birds - in an appropriate place - but everything else goes into a bin or comes home with me to go in my bin.
I used to play soccer in Fairfield area of Sydney..ppl there chuck rubbish on the ground even within reaching distance to bin..too many ethnic suburbs to describe australia..
Biodegradable plastics is actually horrifying, as many people and animals have microplastics in their bodies, plastic is still highly resilient.
But if the Human race goes extinct, at least fossilization will be interesting.
@@captain-chair Hahaha!
in USA cities, seeing someone throw any garbage right onto the ground, often literally feet from a bin, is perfectly common, and that's just one bit of it, it's absolutely astonishing.....O
On coffee, just because you are in the middle of country Victoria don’t Assume you can’t find good coffee. At a tiny farmers market at Gilgarrie out of a ancient caravan was one of the better coffees I’ve come across.
It’s weird but a good weird. The best country on earth.
Killing Aboriginals and taking their children away up into the 70's , making sure they don't have a 1% chance to rise up, and calling them stupid and alcohocs to this day for what YOU DID to them. (Let's be clear , this is the outcome of the Australian "British side" )
Pretending that the government is doing all to help them and in reality you DO NOT (racism)...
Ironic and hypocrisy to say you help them, when you were the ones that killed them (with your "Rangers" and took everything away from them..
Or - your PR system is a joke , and no one cares if it gets abused if the money is ok (not talking millions of dollars) but strippers and prostitutes marry an Australian and with proof don't want to be with the man (buy a PR) ...
If that's your view of a great country, it's not mine.
@@NewBeginnings413 I am indigenous (Yorta Yorta to be exact), but you cannot just look at the bad and judge a nation solely for it. To be sure, this country has a dark past that needs to be acknowledged and moved through as one people together (my aunts and uncles each fought for the right to be citizens during the days of the Tent Embassy), but there are also many good or even great aspects of this great continent. Much of which we no doubt take for granted. I wouldn't call anywhere else home.
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Exactly. Just like slavery was a big thing in multiple countries throughout history. Just because a country did have slaves once upon a time, doesn't mean the country is bad now
@@NewBeginnings413 Not mine either! WOW!
I really enjoyed my tour in Australia in 2016. I was given a multiple visitors visa. If Im going to compare Australia to other 1st world countries, I would choose Australia. It is very peaceful. If I will be given a chance to talk or discuss my experiences, I would like to share to everyone. Thank you very much for the memories 😀👍💖
And some people in IN Australia try and say we have no culture. I love my culture 🇦🇺
The people that do that are ashamed of themselves. We've got culture coming out of the woodwork
None of this is culture tho 🤣 getting cheap cars or walking home in the dark isn’t a cultural thing
Wots kolcha?
@@Latte-girly90 yes it is...
Jackieeee says that your English is bad..💩💩💩
Also, you could find plastic bags in the park to pick up after your dog. That was quite surprised to see! And the water fountain is literally everywhere. 😂 But I never roam around CBD after 9pm, especially on Friday and weekends. Suburbs are a bit safer to me but very dark at night. Sometimes need a torch to walk around.
Public BBQ's in parks is another thing unknown in most other countries
it's too hot not to have drinking water readily available
The CBD in Perth is really unsafe now, even during the day
Late to the party here just seeing this video today. I am a Canadian who travels to Aussie quite often. I also have a Latina wife from Cuba and I travel to Mexico a lot as well. MY overall impression is Canada and Aussie are very similar with our customs. We don't have electric BBQs in public like Aussie but usually there are wood or charcoal BBQs available.
All of Latina America has petty robbery problems so everyone there has bars on windows and walls surrounding property with deterrents like broken glass or spikes to keep people out.
Some of the biggest differences I notice between Aussie and Canada.
- Coffee culture...never heard of Flat White or Long Black before going there. In fact asked for just a regular coffee my first visit to a coffee place and the girl had no idea what I wanted.
- No tipping at pubs/restaurants in Aussie. Seems the staff are paid good salaries so don't need tips. In Canada and USA wait staff are paid our relatively low minimum wage and count on tips as part of their income.
- Lots of public toilets in Aussie and New Zealand. This is great because in Canada when I am out and about I have to look for places in the bush to have a weewee as public facilities. They have the right idea Down Under
Cheers Mate !! Good Video
I had two things I found strange first hearing about it: not beeing allowed to drink alcohol in public and no private fireworks on new years. Now being back in Germany and seeing all the bottles everywhere after a warm weekend night and all the rubbish from private fireworks after new years, I total get it and thinks it's just brilliant and way safer not to allow it!
I worked in an operating theatre way back when . We had lots of firework injuries on Guy Fawkes night, otherwise known as cracker night. It's not finny to see kids with fingers blown off or horrible eye injuries among other injuries.
i was v pleased when they were banned for private individuals. .
With the Australian weather it's more about preventing bushfires than protecting people although it is an added bonus. Also the dogs don't get ptsd
@@gondwanaland3238 Yes. As much as I loved cracker night as a kid, I think back on some of the horrible injuries friends of mine copped and the near misses I and my siblings had, along with house fires, bushfires and property damage from pranks that happened (blowing up letter boxes and drains mainly with the odd blown up exhaust pipe) and think that, yes, making them illegal for private citizens in most parts of Australia at least, was a good idea.
I'm onboard with no drinking in public as well. It's cut down on not only littering but street violence.
Many years ago we had private fireworks to celebrate Guy Fawkes night (inherited from England) on 5 Nov however people injured themselves and being Summer caused a number of fires. The celebration stopping sometime in the 60's I think. Mine was the last generation to enjoy private fireworks of which I have fond memories of my father lighting for our enjoyment.
I’m a great-grandmother who grew up in NSW during the 1940s & 1950s. We had fireworks on the 24th May which was called Empire Day back then. My parents were very safety conscious and there were never accidents at our place but there was a neighbour’s boy who was hurt himself while throwing “bungers” at others, and another younger lad who ended up with the nosecone of a firework rocket embedded in his forehead. The rocket appeared to not have launched and he bent over it to see why. As a nurse in later years I saw some dreadful injuries due to the misuse of fireworks described by others here, such as letterbox explosions and making pipe bombs!
Ukranadian here (Ukrainian-Canadian) Not much cultural shock other than kangaroo meat in the store. You guys have great coffee culture, exotic animals, health star rating on the produce packaging, good friendly people. Love Australia and thinking to come back soon
Well I have often thought of Canadians as distant cousins.
Crossing US/Canada border (BC) it feels more familiar on the north side.
I was surprised and loves that people in Australia say "Thank you." to the drivers when they get off the bus! Also, Aussie knows their own favorite coffee with complicated customize like "Flat white on soy milk and 2 sugars".
What kind of person wouldn't thank the bloke or shiela who chauffeured them somewhere safely?
I'm not from Australia but we do that in my home country too so that's how we raised our Aussie born kids. Greet the driver politely and thank them when you get off the bus. Where I was "shocked" going back to my home country for holidays was the teenagers pushing their way in to get a seat. I got too used to the local youths here getting in in a relaxed fashion (or even helping me with the pusher). My jaw dropped when I saw how rude kids have gotten where I grew up.
Wait- people don’t thank the bus driver??
Where are you from?? I thought that was basic courtesy lol
Same in Ireland ..... Everyone thanks ALL transport drivers when getting off transport! Trams, Buses, Coaches, Taxis ..... everything!! It's proper manners in my opinion and the way of the Irish culture!
I have to say that walking at night is not safe enough, especially some place in Melbourne like Brighton, Frankston, Clayton...while some places like Carnegie, Balaclava are relatively safe.
Brighton is very safe. One of the richest areas in Melbourne
Brighton lol unsafe if your looking to invest maybe lol
Brighton and Frankston are not comparable at all what an odd comparative list. Brightons like the second most expensive suburb in the state.
One of the noticeable differences I have faced here in Australia is the heavy and big trucks' freedom to run around all streets without any time restriction even in the sunlight by comparison.
@@AussieEnglishPodcast Oh yeah, but on the main roads, they can.
@MusicManMaurice Large transport trucks are for the most part individually owned. And the only reason railway systems aren’t frequently used is because they’re not built for trans-state transport. They’re built to move things to the coast from inland and back again.
Some roads have no trucks allowed (unless making a delivery to home in that area) but I have seen truck drivers ignore the signs, which is very annoying as he nearly hit my car, and it was dark, that's why they didn't want trucks in the neighbourhood, especially right near a children's playground.
I'm from Melbourne and we have many roads here that don't allow big trucks at certain times of the day/night. Not so sure about other cities in Australia.
@@italia8647 So each state has their own regulations on this matter. In QLD they have more freedom : D
I'm from (Tulsa) Oklahoma and my mates there educated on me on certain aspects of what to expect when I was visiting them in Brisbane in 2010 (mainly revolving around what to do with Huntsman spiders and wearing ample amounts of sunscreen). What really impressed me (which was your #10) was just how beautiful and clean everything was. Not to say Tulsa looks like a rubbish heap or anything, but I've seen my fair share of overflowing bins before. Believe it or not, Tulsa also has a coffee culture as well and a great music scene. I'd never leave anything unlocked (especially a car), even in the quiet suburb I live in, just because there's always nefarious blokes looking for easy targets. I was also given a little book on Australian slang, but have learned quite a bit of it on my own.
I'm planning a trip back next year at some point. I absolutely love Australia and would love to move there if it weren't for the sheer expense of it all.
Most foreigners mention the expense when visiting but keep in mind the salaries when living and working in Australia are pretty good 😊
I came to this video looking for Australian cultural shocks and ended up shocked by Brazilian culture.
Worth keeping in mind that it's only safe for you to walk around at night because you're male, none of my female friends would dare to walk around Melbourne suburbs after dark. 100% unsafe.
Well, after a series of high profile murders such as Jill Meagher I wouldn’t blame them, it’s not the same as it used to be back in the 80’s/90’s and that’s always gonna happen when the population doubles in less than ten years 😢
@@marcgaskett Not sure how old you are Marc, but there were plenty of attacks in the 80's and 90's when I was growing up in Melbourne. Google Paul Denyer for one example, or Karmein Chan. The difference nowadays is we have 24hr news so information is much more widespread. Back then if you didn't read the paper or watch the 6'oclock news you were blissfully unaware of a lot of what went on.
Men are much more likely to be attacked than women. Women are much more likely not to go out alone. It probably evens out.
I’m a guy and I don’t feel safe walking around at night
@Jimmi Johnson Be a bit more considerate then Jimmi
Coffee here is great!
And people are almost always so friendly
and nice.
Although, I think you should never say
that it's ok to have a walk at night with earphones on because some people (especially women) can get involved in trouble. For example, in some countries it's
safer than Australia and they tend to be more careless accordingly.
Especially because many foreigners watch your channel to learn like I do!
I agree with everything, except for the toilette paper as I also flushed them back in Brazil.
I'd say some significant differences are the free CAT buses around the downtown and their schedule strictly followed displayed in each bus stop and also the random grass fields around everywhere, at least here in Perth
Canadian here, I furnished my first house totally from stuff left on the side of the road. Everything from my couch to dishes. We have "big garbage pick up" 2x a month. People throw out REALLY good stuff lol
Lol
I arrived Australia 8 months ago. I like Australia, it’s a nice place with relax people. But very strange from our culture. Australia has many good things that I really appreciated them, but at the same time, there are countless culture shocks for me. For example Still, I can not believe how most of people live alone and how most people are unaware from their neighbours next to their doors🥲. In our culture, at least 40 houses are our neighbours and we know most of them and we share all our happiness and sadness with together❤️.
I think the neighbour thing also depends where you live - when I lived in the suburbs we knew around half the people along our small street but now that I live rurally we know so many more people and are always hanging out with our neighbours!
Yeah, I think it is very much a city thing in Australia, or perhaps due to the amount of people renting. Ive found it hard to make bonds with neighbors when you move so quickly, but when I was young in a country town we used to be much closer with them.
Your BIBLE says love they neighbour
This is what I found the hardest thing to deal with In australia as the white Australians are talkative and yes friendly at first but only for a very short time as they don’t like to confront too many issues or enquires from anyone
Unfortunately for some of the standard English Aussies, we are a little suspicious of our neighbours. People who don't engage with their neighbours are usually subject to more break ins I think. Greek/Italian(Insert non English culture here) have a good friendship with their neighbours.
Hey man, I'm João Samuel from Porto Alegre, Brazil. Well, in respect to the toilet paper, yeah, in too many Brazilian homes, the people here in fact DON'T flush it in the toilet because the worst conditions of sanitary sewage. Personally I flush it directly in the toilet because here in my city the public services of treatment are much better and the infrastructure of pipes are excellent. In my opinion, it's the correct thing to do. It's quite nasty to see a bucket full of dirty and contamined paper.
I don’t know any women who would walk the streets of Melbourne at night!!
I’m born and raised in Sydney and I think Melbourne city streets at night are way safer tbh, there’s none of that hardcunt, every second guy wanting to fight like in Sydney
Really ? 😎
I did all the time in uni 🤷♀️
I see plenty
Bruuhh I see many in Mumbai even though it's not consider safe and you are taking about one of the safest places in the world
When I was 25 in 1995 I' ve been in Sidney. What shocked me was when I took the taxi ( super cheap ) and the very friendly driver told me to sit in the front, not in the back . after two months I came back in Italy and I wanted to sit in the front of the taxi, the driver was dead scary .lol. I had to apologize and to explain the different culture
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I've heard US and British taxi drivers can pick an Aussie tourist because they go for the front seat (sometimes even the drivers seat, because that side is the passenger side here)
@@davidrutherford6311 L🤣L
I can assure you a taxi here is now a luxury!
Yeah we never sit in the front in Japan. It is just strange and scary and just a no no😂
I moved to Sydney from the US in 2008, so most of the items in this list are similar in the US. We even had barbecues in campgrounds, though they were more of the Weber sort requiring charcoal briquettes. My favourite aspect of Aussie culture in your list is the quality of coffee here. It's so good Americans now are starting to try to match it. On my return visits (obviously not in 2020), I have routinely been pleased to find Aussie style cafes in various American cities.
mate where do you think Aussie's got the coffee culture from.... From the huge Italian influx after WW2.
@@xtreme_survival7879 Yes, I'm well aware. Point is, Australians DID acquire it and we're all the beneficiaries of those intrepid Italians who brought it with them. :)
I think it is very unsafe to walk around the cities in Australia at night, especially for women. Also most people lock their cars and houses, yes less so out of the major cities
I’m from South Korea and living in Melbourne now. I definitely agree with the tap water. Haha that was really one of the shocking things to me at first time. But now I used to that haha. Thank you for share this video :) I has listened your podcast as well to study Aussie english. Cheers mate !
I studied in Busan for 3 months in 2017 and I drank tap water there without any problem, and then in 2019 I studied in Seoul and drank the tap water then too, also with no problems.
@@eundongpark1672 haven't been to South Korea in a while.. But it use to be all tap water was undrinkable and even dangerous to consume.. Could have got better.. But back then smelt like shit or like chemicals or just odd bad.. Probably the last few years there's been a huge improvement. Use to be in Japan you couldn't drink tap water once too.. But that's long gone
I grew up in outback Australia and born here and we drank tank water, not everywhere has piped water. Later I moved to the city and the tap water was a shock. Compared to drinking tank water it was like drinking from a pool the chemicals seemed so strong. I personally get a sore throat if I drink tap water so have been buying reverse osmosis water ever since. It is the closest to the tank water I grew up on. Too many chemicals despite being 'safe'.
I agree. They say our water is safe to drink, but you really shouldn’t. I’ve not tasted a good tap water yet. Nothing beats tank water 😊
yeah i find that i frequently get sinus infections and my mouth drys up so much quicker if im drinking town water.
Couldn’t agree more.. especially the second-hand stuff😂👍
I live in Melbourne and I definitely lock the front door of my house, and always lock the car.
From my experience with orderly people here, they are very much independent and rarely asking any help. In my country, older people or even people who are in 50s are seeking for helps even if they can do by themselves.
I remembered that when I started living in Australia, I lived in Sydney's Northern Beaches. I saw a lady in her 70s pushed a trolley with full of stuffs near Dee Why grand. I offered myself to help her pushing it. I thought that she would be happy with my offering. But no! She said " hang on, do you think me disabled person??? No way, I can do it." Then she pushed her trolley along Pittwater Road . After that experience, I am not offer easily to anyone older. If I saw someone older with bags or something not too right then I just asked them, " do you need any help?"
Aussie like chicken salt a lot!
Chicken Salt is ambrosia, that's why
Shhh Don't tell everyone
Lol... YES!
I don't use salt but i have to always have Chicken Salt here when my Mum visits....
Gon Freecss 😂😂🤣🤣 LMAO
I’m a woman living in Australia and echo other commenters around walking around at night. It’s not that I’d never walk alone at night, but I would only do it if necessary (eg walking to my car after an event), I’d be really mindful of my surroundings, stay in well lit areas/busy streets, keys in hand and would never have music or a podcast on headphones. The reason you’ve never considered your safety in this circumstance is because you’re a guy.
Which is silly because men are far more likely to be attacked in the street. I regularly walk home and catch public transport by myself at 10, 11, 12 at night
@@geministargazer9830 I’m glad you feel safe in your neighbourhood to walk freely at night. This isn’t a competition- I’m aware that men are by no means immune to being attacked, and they’re certainly more susceptible to certain types of attacks, like being king hit. But I think you’ve missed the point of my comment. It’s not so much about the likelihood of actually being attacked, the odds of which are slim no matter what your gender. It’s that, in general, women are very mindful of or even fearful of walking alone at night, and, in general, this isn’t a particular concern that men have. You may be an exception to this, and of course there would be some women who feel very safe walking at night without taking any precautions I listed above, and there may be some men who are fearful, but I was really just referring to the fact that generally speaking, women feel less safe in this circumstance.
@@elenagerhardy2636 I never said they didn't, I said it's irrational.
I'm a pretty hefty guy and I would never walk around late at night with music playing in my ears. DEFINITELY not in a park, and even less chance in North Melbourne lol. I think we are marginally safer at night but I wouldn't be taking that risk
@@blastoiseddr good for you man. I’m not trying to say that men don’t face risks or have some reasonable fear for safety in these situations, which vary depending on the area, country, time of night, your own build and ethnicity etc. It’s not a total one way or the other thing.
But consider that many men I’ve talked to really don’t think about these sort of risks in almost any situation. Consider that literally every woman I know thinks about these risks, and some avoid going out at night altogether if they’ll need to walk alone at any point. That’s the issue.
Second hand staff!! once, I remember when I found 2 chairs in good condition in the street. I took them and used in my apartment lol also, I enjoyed to walk in the night safely in Melbourne. I love Australia.
Walking around alone at night, is only a young mans privilege!
I’m now 52, & I was about 40 when I knew I had to be careful & avoid if possible, being out on my own, on foot at night.
I am a fuel tanker driver & we deliver to servos late at night, Friday & Saturday nights are the worst! I now have two wallets, one for normal use & the other for work, so I don’t loose all of my stuff if I’m challenged.
But I also have traveled to the UK & Europe & I really appreciate how wonderful we have it here.
Lol the Vegemite with pencils inside in the background!😂
I was shocked with the barefoot culture in public😅
@@AussieEnglishPodcast In Coles too! I can't stand seeing them😂
I still am, particularly at the number of people who happily walk barefoot across the Servo (gas station) forecourt, from the pumps to the counter to pay for their fuel. The skin on the soles of their feet could be absorbing any of the many spilled automotive fuels, oils etc. Most of which are quite toxic. Some of the concrete could have had contaminants spilled on them for 50 years or more. The older spills could have more toxic ingredients than more recent. Myself, nearly always wearing steel toed safety boots, with chemical resistant soles.
As an Aussie I’ve just grown up not even thinking about how strange it is that we just walk around bare foot, it’s just so convenient to not have to worry about shoes when you zip down to woollies
I’m still shocked and I grew up here..🙄
And no umbrellas or raincoats. People walking barefoot, in the rain, without umbrella or raincoat. Heh.
Wish Sweden would get the Aussie second hand culture. In my apartment recycling/rubbish building there is so much usuable pieces of furniture and a plethora of other things that just get incinerated. So much clothing too, there is a clothing charity box not 50 metres from the building.
That's really sad, I thought Europeans were supposed to be better at being eco-friendly than us
Someone wrote "Dad, I love you" in Portuguese there on your right, so cute. Cheers from Brazil.
My son's first drawing :) Yeah my wife's from Maranhão and we only speak Portuguese at home so I get a fair bit of practice hehe
@@AussieEnglishPodcast Uhuuu!😄 My front-runner classical brazilian writer is _maranhense_ .
Awesome. I had the opportunity of leaving in Brisbane for 5 months in 2016. Everything you said in absolutely true. I felt the same way as your wife felt. Especially with the safe feeling.
Cheers from Brazil. ✌
I had culture shock when I returned to Australia after 6 years away.
Hmm, I think I know what you mean. Sad isn't it?
But we probably can't mention details here :(
Now I'm dying to know. I've been paying more attention to aussie media since the shows and movies produced there have been pretty great quality lately, and every once in a while I'll see something from australian news sources and I'm shocked at how brazen and frank they can be compared to the damn near monopolistic fake news machine we have in the states. (All our news is produced by 6 corporations that often share talking points and key words and phrases before breaking a story)
Love seeing the barbecue areas at the parks and beaches. So clean. And well looked after. Here in the UK they'd get wrecked, vandalised. Then again all the parks in Oz are well looked after. The ones I've been to. Also like the water bottle filling stations to get fresh drinking water in public areas.
So right about the vandals in the UK. The population density in London is high so a couple of BBQs in a local park are going to get inundated on the weekends in Summer.
They still get vandalized here; regardless of where you go there are always idiots who think it somehow makes them cool.
Porterhouse and rump are 2 different cuts mate. Porterhouse is essentially a T bone without the bone. As other's have mentioned you can purchase whole cuts, known as primal cuts if you ask for them.
Bubblers! I live in Germany but partially grew up in Sydney. The only place I have seen bubblers was in Rome. Maybe in UK, but I'm not sure about that.
Dir... YEP Bubblers everywhere... Schools, parks different council areas 👍👍🇦🇺
I found a few bubblers in the UK, mostly London.
It’s too hot here not to have water readily available to drink
They're everywhere in the United States but they're shut off now because of covid
I've back and forth from UK ro Australia (and back again) and the most noticeable difference apart from the one's covered off here is that in Australia people will talk to you fairly randomly. Waiting for a bus, standing in line, collecting a parcel - these are all opportunities to engage your fellow citizens in some discussion - of the weather, footy, terrible pollies (politicians), scandals, the state of the world etc. There is literally no deference or standing on ceremony. And woe betide the stranger who answers the random question "how's your day going?" with a shrug or puzzled expression - you do actually need a little "yarn" or "banter" with your barista, shop assistant etc. It's all part of the fun!
I didn’t realise that the piles of secondhand stuff on the side of the road was an Australian thing! Although I have wondered about it before. It’s such a great deal for both the person throwing it out and the person who gets it. Sometimes you only have a couple of things and you don’t want to go to the trouble of selling it or giving it to a charity shop or doing a garage sale.
I’ve picked up so many great things from the side of the road. Many of the clothes in my wardrobe are things I found, as well as old cassette tapes, books, dvds, kitchenware, chairs, our couch and tv, and more unusual stuff like a stamp collection and gemstones. Once someone threw out their entire record collection!
We do this in Canada too, but not all year round, in my city we have "trash to treasure week" a couple times a year where people put their secondhand stuff out on the curb.
My culture is my identity and personality, it gives me spiritual, intellectual and emotional distinction from others. But Having friends from other cultures makes me more creative. In fresh ways about space and how people create their own world and environment. It is best way to connect between creative thinking and cross-cultural relationships.
I'm with you sister. Learning the intricacies of other cultures around the world, is what helps me to understand, me. This is whom we are, to understand, to explore.... to know.
I'd like to live in Aussie land 🇦🇺❤️🇦🇺❤️🇦🇺❤️🇦🇺❤️🇦🇺
@@AussieEnglishPodcast 🇦🇺❤️🇦🇺🇦🇺👍
We'd love to have you, the more the better,.
Oi Oi Oi
I live in Melb and i agree with every word you said except the safety issue. I had few incidents while living in Aus and had to call the police. One time they did not bother coming at all and other times they came 3 hours after my house got robbed. In South korea, where im from, if you call a police for any matter they will come to you in 3 mins.
Other than this, Melb is one of the best place to live. Thank you for the video!
I'm a Melbourne girl...born n breed....just on the safety issue....think there is a gender divide...on whole I do feel safe walking at night by myself but there is no way I'd walk through Royal Park or similar alone at night ... maybe cos chicks are taught to be more wary.
@@jmc7636 ive never been there im from us but being a woman anywhere in the world i dont walk alone after 10 or 1030ish at night so i agree
JMC 76 yeah I’m a Sydney girl and I agree it’s a gender divide. I don’t think it’s just because women are taught to be wary I think it’s because it’s actually not safe for women to walk alone at night I mean look at Jill Mears and she was only going 100m to home!
@@katymcdonald5481 One incident years ago.
Aussie cops are fat lazy scum who think their job is arresting people. Helping people, solving crime, being decent human beings, takes effort and they dont like that.
I was in Australia twice and loving there. No culture shock not so different compare to U.S except driving direction. Love Australia.
And the locals in Ocean Grove are suddenly perplexed by the rise in break ins....
Another different culture in Australia that is different from mine.,is when having a celebration the visitors or invited persons take some any like a case of beer or a tray of food. Which we don't do in Philippines. Once youe invited u dont need ro bring some any. Unless a presents if its birthday.
Aussie English I suppose the host will be very confused or feel offended cause that implies you don’t like their food. 😂 I guess bring a dish to someone else’s dinner is not in Asian culture. In China, we bring gifts and fruits and leave the host to show off their homemade dishes.
My sri lankan friends expect to pay for everyone's dinner when they invite people to a party! We all arrive fully expecting to pay for our own meals and have to fight to pay hahaha
Filipina here! 🥺 I got an aussie bf and I am so culture shocked. Relatable comment 🥰. I have been researching coz we often fight coz of culture differences.
It really depends on the party and the host, they can specify whether you need to bring a plate or not, but it's not necessarily expected you should bring a plate unless you have special dietary needs, then you should definitely bring your own food. It's always best to ask your host when you're invited whether you need to bring anything.
I had an British teacher who after newly residing in this country was invited to a party and was asked to bring a plate.
So they did. Just a plate...confusion all around! LOL
I love how you compare aussie culture vs brazilian. I´m living in Australia and all you say it´s right. But yeah, Im argentinian and everything its so different from south america. Anyway, I reccomend you to go to Argentinian restaurant for a really good barbie (: Cheers mate!
Planeo ir para allá dentro de unos años pero realmente me voy a volver loco al no disponer de toda la variedad de cortes de carne que hay acá.Puede que me termine abriendo una carnicería yo mismo jajaja
Yo tambien planeo irme a vivir alla jajaj
What's shocking here is the cooking ingredient ginger selling for $45 a kilo when you can get it for $5 a kilo in asian countries.
@@AussieEnglishPodcast It's seasonal, I live in the south east of Melbourne, though I've never seen it that high price before. I usually buy it from the market though, it's about $7 a kilo in season and about $25 a kilo out of season at my market.
How lucky you are!!
@@dawnrazornephilim It was $60 a kilo just 2 months ago, now the price dropped to around $30. Yes the price is seasonal but it's still much m o re expensive than the Asian countries which I believe they're hard to grow here because of the weather.
@@stevey7059 Are you buying from a market, or the supermarket? The market I used was Dandenong market by the way.
@@dawnrazornephilim the $60 one is from Springvale which is usually the cheapest, now it's about $28, and $38 from woolies.
I am Portuguese and since i was a child I wanted to move to Australia . Im thinking about taking my degree and move there . ❤💜💛💚💙
Yes yes yes
Yeahhhhhh Jackie approved of it
@@SarahBuzalbine Yeahhhhhh, I don't approve
@@SarahBuzalbineyeahhhhhhhhhhh
In 1980, as a Malaysian, student in Melbourne I was surprised to see Australians queuing up to enter the cinema hall or to board a bus. Aussie drivers also get very confused by these people who would cross and stand in the middle of the road (literally) to wait for a break in the traffic. My friend did that once andthen a tram came along 🙂
My manager greets me at work everyday with joy and almost sort of yelling ”Jezzalinco you beauty!”. I got no idea what he was saying /shrug/
Jeremy yung lmfao jezzalenco is a old AFL player that was very very good, he played for Carlton blues and when he played and took a good mark ect commentators and other would say jezzalenco you beauty.
Thats funny that a foreigner is given a celebrity nickname by his boss but has no idea the source.
Lmfao funniest story here!!!
Only Aussie will get it
Tam A The expression was first used and always attributed to Mike Williamson a football caller on Channel 7
I think it's because the nickname for Jeremy is Jezza
Another thing about some of us not always locking doors or whatever is that I don't think I've ever felt unsafe leaving my car unlocked when filling up at the servo. I just grab my wallet and keys (and discount voucher if I have it) and leave my car as is when I go in to pay. Sometimes I won't even put the windows up if they're already down.
Yeah, very true!
God, where I live, I lock the car before I even put the fuel in 🤣
In Perth I mean
I would never leave anything unlocked in Australia only a few weeks ago our neighbours car was stolen from his driveways so no always lock your car and house . Also if your car is unlocked and is stolen your insurance won’t cover it .
Its also illegal
Depends where you are and the trust of your community. I live 2km for Sydney CBD - Central Business District, and have left my car unlocked many times (albeit by accident) and never had a problem. Big Betty is still with us. Although, if she was stolen we could get a much better vehicle.
last week my other half parked my car across the road. for two nights. UNLOCKED. this was not intentional. ...not a single thing was missing when i went to use the car. (well, nothing i'd miss, anyway!)
So car thieves can hot wire the ignition, but can't unlock a door? I only lock the car if I'm leaving something in there, but even that might result in a smashed window, better to just leave it unlocked I think. I have had the buts stolen out of my ashtray, and once my ashtray was on the side of the road a few houses down, at least they didn't have to damage the car to get to the buts though.
I live in Ireland! The only thing that i found weird was the outdoor barbecues and the free furniture!
Everyone smiles at you!!
Bring a plate, so I did, but no food 🤣🤣🤣
I just came back from living in Brazil for a year. It’s funny seeing the culture shock from the other perspective! Great video
In CBD I used to walk at night.... Not same in rural Australia.... If you are women please stay safe... U can walk main roads... Not in dark alley and parks even in CBD
I would love to come back soon to australia. 🇦🇺💖
@@AussieEnglishPodcast 2017 - that was my frist travel to australia and a dream since my Childhood. I would Love to live there forever!💖
@@AussieEnglishPodcast I traveled with my brother to a lot of places at the south and east side of australia.
All the places were magical!
Come back soon!
On the "leaving your car unlocked" thing - bear in mind that although not regularly enforced, it's illegal to leave you car unlocked (if you are more than 3 metres from it) in QLD, NSW and VIC (not sure about other states and can't be arsed looking it up). The fine varies, but it's not incredibly high. I just don't do it though. When I park, it's 1. Put it in 'park' 2. Handbrake on 3. Retract side mirrors 4. Put window(s) up 5. Turn off engine 6. Get out (obviously) 7. Lock car. And this applies ANYWHERE - even Ocean Grove 😉
As an immigrant from NZ I was told that having barbecues in parks began as a way to lower the risk of bush fires starting, but it was such a popular innovation it became more widespread over time
I went to Aus for 3 years. Being from South Africa I experienced most things rather as covenient as opposed to inconvenient, or third world as opposed to first world. The 2 cultures have alot in common. The only shocking things I found was the heavily drinking culture especially over weekends and the openly drug abuse.
Other things were more fascinating differences like Aussie slang which had put me in an awkward situation when trying to buy a "stiffy" at a computer shop and the guy was stuttering and looked at me as if I were an alien. In SA a stiffy was the term for the old 1.44 mb computer disk. Not so in Aus.🙈😂
hahah oh dear!!!!!! Asking for "stiffy" hahaaha i can picture the computer guys face now !!!: :)
Hahahahahaha .... if you asked for a stiffy in an Irish Shop ..... I dread to think what you would have been offered LMAO!!
Oh a floppy disk? 😂😂😂😂 I'm dying
It's called a floppy (disc), opposite to a stiffy! A stiffy in Australia, is a hard-on!😏
Hehe I get it..
5.25 discs were floppy's, so 3.5 inch discs were stiffy's
100% sensible, tho I've never heard of it before....
Drug use is an ozzie art form that's difficult to explain.... ;)
As a woman in Melbourne (NorYar neighbourhoods represent ;P) , I'm with Kel on the night walking. I love my city, but it's not safe for me to wander parks willy nilly at midnight.
@CJ Boyle : Bullshit! I'm old enough to remember that women weren't safe out on their own at night long before what you call "mass immigration from the third world".
@@resourcedragon It's also because they now let the lunatics roam free instead of locking them up because "human rights"
Why not???
Being an American in Australia I feel like these are uniquely Brazilian oddities. I see $3000 cars in Australia that would be $500 in my home town. Toilet roll is used the same in the US. BBQs are everywhere in campsites and the like in North America and Canada. I’ll agree with the free stuff on the verge. I’ve always said you could put a dog turd on the verge with a free sign on it and someone will pick it up. No one I know drinks tap water here even though it’s safe. Too much chlorine. But I live in Western Australia. So that may be different over east. Another one I didn’t agree with is I never locked my door until I moved to Australia. It took a few years for me to get used to locking things up. Of course the theft and vandalism in my area helped remind me. We do walk at night though. Not in the CBD though. It’s pretty clean though. Except for cigarette butts. Now the things I noticed as a yank in Oz is $30 Levi’s are $110. $20 carton of beer is $55. Finding a public toilet, by comparison is near impossible. Houses are tiny and close together, again by comparison. You’d think there were no dogs in Australia. This isn’t a bad thing. But in the US you see a dog or two on the street. Not here, a wandering dog is quickly retrieved and taken to the local vet or pound. Everything (in Western Australia) closes at 5. Mall, shopping centres etc etc. except Thursday. It’s call late night shopping. Which goes til 8 or 9. Mostly 8. You can’t buy a light fixture at bunnings. Only lighting stores can sell fixtures. A $20 oil change and service is $200-300. That’s one I’ll never understand. The dealerships has been screwing Aussies for decades with that one. You also can’t change it yourself, if your car is under factory warranty, if you don’t have a mechanic stamp in your logbook they can deny your warranty. Cars in general get better fuel economy here in Australia. Australia has more diesels here. In the US it’s mostly just big F250 pickups and the like for diesels. In Oz it can be anything from a Hyundai I 30 to a Holden Rodeo or anything in between. Post don’t deliver on Saturday as a general rule. And the Post man Won’t pick up your stamped mail, I thought it was because there was no little red flag to raise on the mailbox. It turns out even if you put a red flag on your mailbox he still won’t pick it up. Guns are a thing in Australia. If you have a reason. You can’t just buy one because it looked cool. A bloke in an apartment in the CBD wants a 22 rilfe. No go. A sheep farmer in the wheat belt needs a 22 to shoot sheep caught in a wildfire. No worries. In the US, for better or worse you can buy whatever you want, within reason with no qualifiers other than age, non felon and mentally stable. Just pointing out a difference not starting a gun debate. I’m sure there are a ton more differences I have noticed between the two. Going both ways. I complain about some and sing the praises of others. In the end no Australian kidnapped me and drug me to Australia. I came on my own accord. And I stayed. So the differences I mentioned is not a complaint but just an observation. Except the $250 oil change. That’s just wrong.
@Shayne Troxler Interesting differences, especially that cost of servicing a vehicle, yes we totally get ripped off here in Australia. Car prices are way too high as well.
I think some of the things mentioned are state based. Especially the dog comment, i think every single person on my blocks own at least one dog and everywhere you walk there are dogs but the differences between WA and Victoria are pretty big given we are pretty far away from each other. Because I'm typing on my phone i can't remember what else i noticed as difference between states but it's fun to find out all the differences across Australia ^_^
WA lol well love with where you live and fluoride phobias.. You can deal with lol
Lol butts are a significant enough moment for a first world existential crisis... Chill dude
One thing I relly liked when I came here for the first time, was the people smiling at you and saying hello when I went for a walk.
What has become more common in newer Australian homes are Zip taps which are instant filtered hot or chilled water from a tap.
With the meat cuts, all you have to ask for is a Untrimmed Whole Rump and done.
I love Australian culture.love from Nepal
I’ve lived in Brazil for six years and this video seems like more of commentary on how foreign Brazil is compared to Australia. We are considering a move to Australia so this comparison is interesting!
Hi , I am from The Netherlands and visited Australia 2 times ( enjoyed it both times) but what you talked about is more or less the same as overhere. The only thing we noticed was that the people in the outback were very laidback about it all and thought it was great that we took the time to visiit Australia. We met Crockadile Harry in Cooper Peedy and loved that trip there very much. If we are able to come down under again we will not hesitate.
People in the outback love it when people from other countries visit them! (Aside from the rascist ones) this is because many people only go to the city when they visit Australia, but there is alot of Australia to see!