15 BEST THINGS ABOUT AUSTRALIA | AMERICAN REACTS

[@ToniaElkins]

Welcome back 💩 Today we are reacting to another channel that’s new to me, Two Traveling Kings. It was requested in my discord. If you wanna join my Discord it’s free to join 😁 DISCORD: discord.gg/GQmNQRHH WISHLIST: throne.com/toniaelkins

[@Jules-zi5qf]

what a sad day when these two. lovely wonderful genuine American couple left our shore. True ambassadors for their country. God bless America

[@GraceW-e1v]

Enjoyed your reaction! Hope you get to visit Australia soon.

[@MelodyMan69]

Melbourne has every Coffee Shop, Restraunt or Cafè has top quality Coffee.

[@Glenn-ei3xp]

Sydney coffee is better than Melbourne. According to a panel of experts that have rated the cities with the best coffee in the world. Sydney came in at number 3, Melbourne came in at 10. Sorry Melbourne lol

[@MelodyMan69]

@@Glenn-ei3xp Funny how you northerners make everything into a pissing competition. I did not try to compare, just noted that we too have very fine Coffee.

[@Glenn-ei3xp]

@@MelodyMan69 it’s funny how the southerners blabber on about coffee non stop.

[@ToniaElkins]

Here’s what I think y’all, I think coffee is based on every individual’s taste. So bc of that it can’t really be a competition in my eyes. 😉

[@edwardt1941]

It is good to know about other countries. It broadens your outlook on life.

[@ToniaElkins]

So true

[@doubledee9675]

Wild life - we live in a suburb about 20 km north from Sydney. We get quite a few kookaburras along with parrots - rosellas and quorians in particular - and the magpie-like currawongs. For several years, we'd get repeat visits from a pair of quorians. They'd stop off in mid-spring and then return in late summer/early autumn accompanied by their chick. We used feed them using a special seed mix designed for them. We knew them and they knew us.

[@ToniaElkins]

Aww that is so sweet and cute! I’m the same with stray cats 😂 You KNOW if I see a stray I’m trying to make it my friend and I’m feeding it lol.

[@doubledee9675]

​@@ToniaElkins Sorry, but stray cats here are a menace. They eat food that could go to feed native animals.

[@ToniaElkins]

@@doubledee9675 Oh it’s not like that here. People hate the idea of cats being or living outside so usually people try to save strays and find them homes. I’ve done it many times and took some in myself too.

[@doubledee9675]

​@@ToniaElkins We're not cat people. .

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

I'm Australian, never heard of quorians what the hell is it?

[@DavidPola1961]

It's winter next week and today's temperature in Sydney is 73 f although the nights are cool

[@ToniaElkins]

70s would be amazing in winter.

[@mcsq5899]

You should come and visit sometime, I'm sure you'll enjoy yourself.

[@ToniaElkins]

I would LOVE to but I also don’t have $5,000 just laying around 🤣

[@lexsaunders1742]

We don’t have snow at sea level, only in the mountains. Xmas day on the beach with a BBQ,x prawns (very large shrimp) crayfish (lobsters with no nippers and swordfish stakes playing beach cricket drinking ice cold beer.

[@ToniaElkins]

I’d LOVE to experience that!

[@firebrand2619]

You're not wrong there, all countries have their pros and cons. It's up to the individuals to work out what's best for themselves.The suburb of Sydney that they lived in Marrickville I used to commute there by train for work. The only real problem about the area is the diversity of food and what to buy for lunch?🤣

[@ToniaElkins]

Lmao yes that can be a bummer to have so much great food around and so little tummy room and or money 🤣

[@Baskerville22]

Cold weather should not be a problem with a warm fur-ball like Cody snuggling up to you

[@ToniaElkins]

Lol true! He’s definitely a snuggle bug for sure.

[@dutchroll]

While we don’t get much in the way of sub-zero (°C) temperature extremes, our weather is not always beautiful temperate sunny days though I guess statistically we do get quite a few of those. It’s a big country from the hot humid tropical northern summers to the frigid Antarctic winds of southern winters. We get skiable snow in winter in the alps of the south east and there’s a popular myth from the 1950s that we get “more snow than Switzerland” which is contradicted by snowfall data and has been busted many times over, but gets resurrected every year by the tourism industry and spirited Aussies unwilling to concede we have less of anything than somewhere else. 😅 Not long after this couple left Australia we had massive flooding around the east coast and Sydney region where I live, especially in 2022. Billions of dollars of damage was done. I travel a lot for my employment and good public transport is an expectation around most of the modern world - except in the USA!

[@ToniaElkins]

Oh I know it is! And I think there are city’s that’s trying to improve the public transportation here. It’s just that it would be nearly impossible to change our whole way of living. Towns are made with things so far apart that you have to Drive, you don’t have many choices. We do have public busses tho. And my town has an airport and a train station. The train here takes you directly to Chicago and St. Louis. So it’s not like public transport doesn’t exist here. Chicago has a great subway system. Same as New York and some other places, which makes sense, they’re large cities built for walking etc.

[@Danger_Mouse3619]

6 months ago i almost hit a kangaroo driving home just around the corner from my place. I live out west on Sydney just at the bottom of the blue mountains. The kangaroos you might see more on the outskirts of the city areas and semi rural. But of course out in the bush, country/farmland and outback you will come across roos and mych more wildlife.

[@ToniaElkins]

One of my Australian discord members lives out in the middle of no where and he shares lots of videos of animals he sees near him. I love seeing them! 💖

[@kazz3956]

Quokkas are in Western Australia, so unless they have them in a zoo (and I can’t remember seeing them in Taronga Zoo, Sydney, when I visited in 2016) you’re not going to see them. They roam free on an island called Rottnest off Fremantle WA. 2019 would have been around the start of the pandemic, so they used that to get high usage of contactless payment or tap and go payment (because of germs).

[@karenstrong8887]

Tasmania has some Quokkas too.

[@Maxiakt]

​@karenstrong8887 lol no we don't, we have Pademelons, they look similar, but are definitely not Quokkas

[@FromTheGong]

I had to stop and encourage a koala to scarper off the road on Heathcote road southern Sydney tonight driving home. I caused a traffic jam (sorry if anyone's watching) but coping a bit of agro from impatient drivers was worth knowing this fella was safe.

[@ToniaElkins]

Good for you!!!! Big props 🤘❤️

[@GaryNoone-jz3mq]

Here in Australia, many places give you the options of tap and go, swipe, or cash.

[@paule6752]

Marrickville is a suburb of Sydney, not a town. Cody looks a lot like one of my cats.

[@ToniaElkins]

Awe really? What’s your cats name? This is technically my daughters cat but she moved out and can’t have cats where she lives. But she named him after the Australian actor Cody Fern. Lol

[@paule6752]

@@ToniaElkins His name is Loki, and he is mostly my daughter's cat. We got him as a stray kitten, and he quickly adapted to being a housecat.

[@ToniaElkins]

@@paule6752 LOVE the name! Loki is my favorite character in those movies 😂

[@AussiePom]

When one takes vacation time here we don't feel bad about it or plead to our employer to be allowed to take vacation time. If we have too much vacation time accrued our employer will send us on vacation and if you work full time that's paid vacation time of 4-5 weeks normally. We never take vacation time as sick leave for we have separate days allocate for paid sick leave. There is also maternity and paternity paid leave and paid bereavement leave. Aussies and Kiwis also get Long Service Leave which is more paid time off in addition to vacation time. There are also public holidays and if you have to work on those days you get extra pay for working them. Many places have an RDO or Rostered Day Off scheme in place where one weekend a month you get three days off instead of two. At times like Easter the RDO will often be taken then so instead of four days off you get five days off. Working afternoons and night time sees a higher rate of pay as does working weekends with Saturday paid at 150% and Sunday at 200% with normal working time being 100%. We like our paid time off.

[@firebrand2619]

Thanks

[@ToniaElkins]

Aww “firebrand” you are literally the sweetest. 🥰 Thank you so much! You’re such a great new friend and I’ve had so much fun getting to know you. And your country!

[@firebrand2619]

@@ToniaElkins ☺️

[@Danger_Mouse3619]

Marrickville is a inner western suburb of Sydney not a town. Sydney it self is a very large city with all its suburbs that span out a very large area around the CBD of Sydney. CBD stand for Central Buisness District.

[@mitchellbeston1033]

Marrickville is not a place i would want to live but each to their own. You are right about tap n go...you are also charged a fee every time you use it.

[@ToniaElkins]

Idk anything about Marrickville but I looked it up and it looks like a cute little place, but the Library is very cool looking! 😁 📚

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

Tap and go has fees as well, so it costs more

[@samara5448]

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[@ToniaElkins]

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[@alwynemcintyre2184]

Marrickville is actually a suburb of Sydney

[@SimonEnglish-ec2fo]

Great coffee is a way of life in Oz

[@wholiddleolme476]

Can't say I agree with a lot of what they said, I've lived here for most of my life so maybe I'm just getting old and grumpy lol But I visited Sydney once in the 1980's and I couldn't wait to get out of there, it was too fast paced for me, if I had to compare to somewhere in the USA I'd say New York . True, Oz has a great Public Transport system but it's a wealthy country with much of the wealth coming from the mining industry, so the Commonwealth can afford top notch PT. Yes most of the cities are built near the beaches, but that wasn't so tourists could go 'wooo!' it's because of shipping. If you ever do come to Oz, there is something you have to try if you can handle the tropics 🙃 there's a place called Doctors Gully in Darwin, every afternoon people go to the beach there and feed wild fish in the ocean as if they were tame pets, it's the strangest thing I ever did. There may be something about it here on YT that you can watch IDK.

[@markflint2629]

And they didn't get shot

[@ToniaElkins]

I’m not quite sure what you mean by this comment. Care to elaborate?

[@danzigvssartre]

Cody is a handsome beast.

[@gregoryparnell2775]

I n Oz ,When the weather is Good it's very Good & when it's Bad it's very Bad.

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

Don't think there are any drive in theatres left in Australia

[@matthewcullen1298]

I'm not a fan of contactess payment either. I hate to see people's jobs destroyed

[@bernadettelanders7306]

I always go to places that personally serve me here in Aus then I usually tap as they are standing right in front of me and we usually have a quick chat- but I always have cash on me too.

[@ToniaElkins]

Yes here in the states so many people are losing jobs over technology. And it’s probably all to save money and be lazy.

[@bernadettelanders7306]

@@ToniaElkins Yes the swipe with no one at the counter. Apparently here in Australia a bit too, but I haven’t come across any. It’s putting people out of work - it’s crazy. I still like someone at the checkout just to say hello and thanks. I won’t be talking to a machine - hang on , yes I will lol

[@cottawalla]

Who's losing their jobs with cashless payments? It eliminates so much unproductive effort for everyone on both sides of the transaction.

[@tonyshields6628]

I was talking to daughter 2 the other day. We both agreed we'd won God"s lottery by accidentally being born on Oz, thank you Lord, thank you Jesus, amen.

[@kevkoala]

They haven't really travelled much if they keep banging on about Sydney! There's more to the land of the skip than just Sydney! As for the wildlife, you don't see much of it in a city....funny that!

[@ToniaElkins]

Lol true about the wildlife! And especially the city! People say they’ve been to Illinois but they only went to Chicago 🙄 It’s like ok you saw one city up in northern Illinois….not the same as the rest of the state lol

[@DavidPola1961]

West Sydney has wild Roos Emus and Koalas

[@geofftottenperthcoys9944]

yeah, always the east coast.

[@kevkoala]

@@DavidPola1961 As well as yer feral bogans!😁

[@DavidPola1961]

Not all of Western Sydney is feral I agree Mounty County and Blacktown then in the south Fairfield Liverpool and Campbeltown But Windsor and Richmond and the Hills are pretty good