American Reacts to Top 10 Reasons NOT to Move to Australia

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[@FionaEm]

We don't feel trapped and isolated. That's crap. Most of us are glad to live in a country without war, political or economic instability. And many Aussies travel overseas regularly. When it comes to flying time, they just accept it as part of living here. Domestically, most ppl fly instead of driving or getting a bus/train. That way, Melbourne is only 75 min from Sydney (for example) and 1 hour from Hobart.

[@Glenn-ei3xp]

The fact that we are so far away from the rest of the world is surely a plus.

[@xXSinForLifeXx]

Agreed I never get when videos bring this up. You will also notice it's always an American never an Aussie saying this.

[@billwinsor2816]

Yup - we were once explicitly referred to as "The Lucky Country" because we are so far away from the problems facing the rest of the world. I've never heard a fellow Australian complain about us being isolated.

[@jessbellis9510]

As the past decade has shown, and the upcoming decade will reveal, being in a large, stable and isolated country is in your best interest.

[@digidol52]

Australians are great world travelers, perhaps something that's difficult for Americans to understand.

[@johnbourne4025]

Most of this is BS.

[@timglennon6814]

So what is BS?

[@Dr_KAP]

Absolutely agree it really is

[@cbjones2212]

@@timglennon6814 Most of it

[@listey]

One of these days he'll figure out that it's better to watch videos made by locals.

[@carolinekrizsak7903]

@@timglennon6814 everything

[@reefsurfing3273]

3/4 of what this guy said is not right, We don't feel isolated at all, being a isolated country we are away from most of the crap that goes on in the world 💯😊 that's why Australia is a great place

[@shazphantomchic1398]

Spot on !!!!

[@rhiannonrollo1189]

It is better that we're isolated because we're less likely to get invaded because we're not in the middle of a continent that has tons of countries I can't remember our last war on this soil and no other countries on this continent would dare to change us with our defense

[@bloozee]

Being isolated from the USA is a blessing from Jesus!!! Lol

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

I travelled all over Australia on a working holiday visa. Never felt happier. When I returned to Europe & UK, I just couldn't find the same sense of awe and travel community that I found in Oz

[@seanNZ91]

I’m a kiwi so I know I’m supposed to shit on Australia as is tradition, but ngl Australia is pretty great. And most of this top 10 list is badly exaggerated. I’ve been to Australia many times. Come on, “they suck up their problems and always pretend they are having a good time”. That’s no truer in Australia than anywhere else. It’s no more true than anywhere else in the west.

[@79BlackRose]

Ngl, NZ is much more appealing to me than Australia. If there was one country I would move to in the world it would be NZ. 💙

[@johnmoyle4195]

Thanks bloke. We love teasing the Kiwis but I want to say that you are our best mates in the world and we love you. Anyone wants to have a go at you, they have to come through the lot of us first. You will always be Australia’s little bit on the side.

[@Aquarium-Downunder]

Thank's Bro, Been to NZ cool place

[@msmyrk]

But we can't go outside without worrying about which animal is going to kill us! Pfft.

[@kayebrown3628]

Thanks, dude! I think some of it is exaggerated, but we do have some of this, the shops being closed? That's because we need to make money as businesses, we have to pay workers, and we have penalty rates. It's very expensive keeping your shop, restaurant, whatever, open, it costs a lot! I think NZ is similar, you guys have much better worker/social structures than we do, but it is similar, I think? I'm only guessing, but the reason the US can keep their stores open is that they don't have the pay scale and taxes that we have? Also, again, guessing, some people have more respect for work/life balance and know if they want it, their workers need it too? We have some welfare attached to help people if they aren't making their hours, which means, we all get to have time off, not just wealthy people, both NZ and AUS, i mean.

[@Scooterboi60]

The comment about feeling isolated is not true at all. Us Aussies love our country and we have a good amount of holidays through the year to be able to travel if we want to. We do have passports. With opening hours, the cities have late or 24/7 hours for the major supermarkets but who wants to buy a tv at 4am? It’s the regional towns that have a life and close at 5pm but can still have a late night shopping on Thursdays or Fridays and a lot are open 7 days. The video is also wrong to a large extent on the mental health thing. 10 sessions with a psychiatrist or psychologist are covered through Medicare per year. The guy’s a pillock! One more thing to debunk the claims made in the video is that whoever made the video clearly hasn’t driven the Nullarbor (Sydney to Perth). It may be long and straight but it’s far from boring. It’s the only way to see the Great Australian Bite. As with every western country the only downside to living in any country is essentially the politics.

[@joegarreffa3088]

I agree. It's actually the norm. While I am in the CBD (commercial Business District) which translates to I am in the metro area of the Central Capital of the state, I do have family in reginal Australia, like 250km north and 780km west area. Given we have the sothern cross link of 10 to 20tb/s to the mainland of USA, Asia backbone and other redundancy, internrt speed has been slow to almost catastrophic in reginal areas, but that's changing, and slowly improving to 500mb up and down in reginal AUS - per user, 😉 but it's slow progress, like adsl! Moving to Australia is a big change,and we don't have the solutions to every problem, but we do try to find one, and work together to get there in the end. It's a biased review cause I am sweltering in the heat, just watched and seen International tennis in Adelaide with the tennis royalty, but we do have a lot of pros, to the cons list - but we are no saints, there isn't a person, suburb, area, postcode, county, providence, state, country that is! Bit there is only one island you can call home, Australia 🇦🇺

[@rodedwards4790]

We are all encouraged to travel and see the rest of the world when we are growing up. I spent 9 years overseas but when I wanted to settle down I moved back to Aus. I think I've heard that Australian and New Zealand people are most travelled in the world, not sure if that is fact but looking at backpacker hostels overseas its probably true. It’s not because we feel isolated and depressed.

[@RAH1479]

Totally agree, as a fellow Aussie and mental health sufferer those 10 covered sessions literally saved my life! Great to see fellow Aussies appreciating our great country!! Love the comment🇦🇺🍻

[@Scooterboi60]

@@RAH1479 I’m glad that you got good help. It’s a shame that the government has cut back the 20 sessions targeted at COVID sufferers to the standard 10 sessions, but understandable I guess.

[@sandgroperwookiee65]

Bight not bite 😁😉

[@AyValley]

Hello avid bushwalker here. Australia has... no big mammals who want to eat you (except dingos which aren't common in majority of areas) No, idk, mountain lions? Bears. Anything like that. Crocs are only up north and locals know where they frequent. Wear Gators as a precaution when bush-bashing and stomp around loudly; snakes will avoid you! Signage is really good at beaches with marine stingers, so it's hard to put yourself at risk accidentally. I'd be way more worried going hiking in the US, because of the large mammals

[@zalired8925]

Dingoes in the wild will never and have never attacked a person except in populated area where idiots have fed them and destroyed the Dingoes natural instinctive fear of humans. Out in the bush they will be gone before you even see one.

[@cooperchoo9898]

Exactly, it always amazes me when Americans talk about our deadly animals 😂 You can understand People from the UK being a little nervous, but Americans? Seriously 🤣

[@stevenlowe3026]

You're forgetting the drop bears . . .

[@hllywdunddnnpnt]

I'm an avid bush walker to, I love hiking through the bush, forests and gorges and I have done 3 different ~60km stints on the bibbulmum track. Yeah the original videos comment about the dangerous animals, about not being able to spontaneously go for a walk or swim, without being on edge all the time, made me laugh. Yeah the crocs are only up north and most people are well educated on the danger they pose and avoid swimming in croc populated waters. Besides from what I heard its very rare to come across a croc in day to day life (I suppose unless you live remotely up north), its not as if your walking alot a foot path, bush track somewhat near a body of water and a crocs gonna lunge out of the water and attack you. If you take crocs out of the picture, whether hiking through the bush in the outback or forests near the coast or just about anywhere outside, the only animals you have to worry about are poisonous spiders and snakes, which with awareness and common sense, the chances of running into any trouble is extremely extremely low. I've never been biten by a snake or spider, infact I've only ever seen a small handful of snakes while hikling through the bush. There are things like wild boars that can be quite dangerous but I've never come across one. There are also dingos in certain areas but for the most part they keep away and attacks are quite rare. Haha having said that there was one time I was walking along a trail in a national park down south in Western Australia, where my mum and I came across a male emu and its chicks, they were probably only a a foot tall, they were walking along the trail heading towards us. Since the forest was quite dense the Emu seem to have no interest in just walking off into the bush. So we had a 15 minute stand off, where the male emu kept charging at us, we would quickly run to the side and hide behind a tree then it would retreat and we'd wait a minute and slowly walk forward and it would charge at us again. Luckily though after 15 minutes they eventually walked into the forest and we slowly walked along the path while keeping an eye out on the father. With the thick vegetation it wasnt as simple as walking around and if it had actually kept charging and approched us there wasn't anywhere to go. So the situation was a little scary but its susch a rare case and I doubt I'll ever experience it again.

[@Terry151151]

I used to spend a lot of time in Canada where I have a friend who loves night photography. I the Australian bush I'm quite comfortable being out of a night as there is really nothing that's going to attack you. The Canadian forests of a night give me the jitters. I never know if that the creak in the forest is a bear or a cougar or just something harmless.

[@karrywright9359]

This is hysterical 🤣 I think it’s purposefully making it sound worse than reality to discourage people from coming, because it’s perfect as is it. It’d be spoiled if there were thousands more people everywhere 🥴🤗

[@Rusty_Gold85]

yeh like the Food and wine is so good in Adelaide and the Wine regions its like GTFO and leave plenty for us

[@joegarreffa3088]

Karry - I don't agree - this is the VERY reason I need to catch up with clair ash and make a coffee martini - and then some. She and her Husband (assuming) or girlfriend can let loose in a pub, six degrees' from anywhere.. point being - yeah its long distance no matter which way anyone calls.

[@SoggyToast506]

Man must be jealous that he lives i a shit country…. Australia is one of the best countries/continents in the world..

[@andrewhall9175]

Time zone isn’t a problem. Wherever you are, there’s a window of opportunity for real-time interaction

[@Adam-ke6gg]

Ive been to 20 different countries and i can tell you Aussies are not bad drivers at all.

[@JesusManera]

Totally agree. US drivers were much worse. Tailgating, speeding, merging without indicating, not letting people merge onto freeways, just incredibly dangerous and inconsiderate driving behaviours over there. And the only "statistic" the video provides is how many videos of bad drivers get uploaded to YT?? Maybe we upload them more than the US because in the US bad driving is so normal. Our road fatality rates are far, far lower than in the US. I was driving through South Carolina, similar population to Victoria, and a sign said 1100 road deaths so far that year. Victoria has around 300.

[@bigoz1977]

Time zones aren’t a problem mate, look at the world clock on your phone. I speak to mates and mother in the uk in the morning, no hassle. And the internet isn’t as bad as this video makes out. Infact most of what this guys about in the video is shit! Apart from the skin cancer, the sun is incredibly strong here. There’s shit drivers everywhere also lol Kaitlin Amanda has a video comparing food in the US. And shops shut early here because people don’t want to work all day. We work to live here not live to work like murica 😂

[@mickd8188]

Yeah... this comment 👌 Cheers mate 👍

[@cheymcloughlin6366]

Spot on, a couple of the points are inconveniences.

[@listey]

The supermarkets thing makes no sense. They're open until midnight every day.

[@mickd8188]

@@listey Monday to Saturday 9pm and Sunday and public holidays 6pm in Queensland.. I understand it's later in Victoria but no longer live there.

[@JohnLee-pt5jz]

I don't think Aussies are interested in shopping 24hrs.

[@-el-gato]

Yep skin cancer is a huge problem here. In fact the government runs educational ad campaigns non-stop and here in Queensland we're basically taught as kids not to go out in the sun for more than 20 minutes between the hours of 10am and 3pm. Even during winter the UV index can get up around 10 or 11 some days.

[@Bellas1717]

The skin cancer rates are skewed because sunscreen had not been developed in the childhood and early adult years of the baby boomers, the largest demographic, and for part of the childhood of the following generation. The best was zinc cream for noses and lips. Sunscreen, and as you mention the education campaigns, have had a big impact on those stats.

[@-el-gato]

@@Bellas1717 that's true but that's also the case pretty much the world over. Up until the 80s/90s pretty much everyone everywhere would use products like tanning oil rather than sunscreen. So even though it is skewed because of the older generation I wouldn't be surprised if Australia continues to lead the world in skin cancer rates.

[@Bellas1717]

@@-el-gato True, but many did not have the outdoor "bronzed Aussie" culture that we did back then - TAB sun baby supermodel Elle McPherson ads come to mind. Many European and Asian women have been using sun shades in the streets for decades. Some of the peaking also comes from greater awareness - finding and getting treatment for lower grade SCC and BCCs. Hopefully there will be a decline, with the help of government health promotion initiatives, the Slip, Slop etc ads, mandatory skin safety teaching and procedures such as "no hat, no play" in primary and secondary schools. The government did an audit of sun safety of schools a few years back and shade areas and trees were added in many schools. Sunscreen is readily available to staff and students, and has to be included as a strategy in the Risk Assessments required for outdoor activities. Many parents of small children now check the UV index each day and sunscreen their littlies accordingly. Similar strategies have worked for the National Tobacco Campaign bringing a decline in tobacco-related health issues as the generations come through.

[@peterhoz]

Skin cancer rates should fall soon cos people born in the 80s and onwards are much more aware of skin cancer and didn’t deliberately expose themselves to it like we did back in the day (I'm born 1970).

[@peterhoz]

Trapped & lonely? Bullshit

[@andrewsyd]

I’m so glad the author of the original video put this together. I had no idea how bad it was to live here until I saw this and now I find myself questioning how any of us have ever coped 🤷🏻‍♂️😂🙄

[@colleenclark6835]

lol i know right

[@bloozee]

I now need a green-card so I can live in Florida. ( it's so close to nowhere!)

[@PokhrajRoy.]

I don’t know about moving elsewhere but I’m totally invested in Joel considering going to Australia.

[@michaeld3303]

Our beaches and surf can be extremely dangerous. While Australians, tragically, do drown. We have also had international visitors, tragically drown in Australian surf conditions. Often I wonder if the extent of knowledge of Australian surf conditions plays a factor. This is a hard issue, because we want international visitors to come, swim and surf and have a great time here. The safest places, however are at patrolled surf beaches and between the red and yellow flags.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

@@michaeld3303Beaches are lying about and snacking on junk. Why go surfing? (Just kidding)

[@Maxiakt]

@@michaeld3303 Tourists come from places where they don't have beaches, so they don't understand tides currents rips etc. watch Bondi rescue, the most who get in trouble are usually asians.

[@michaeld3303]

We had a Brittish and French guy, both childhood friends both aged 20 years old disappear presumed drowned on the NSW Central Coast on a Sunday afternoon in choppy conditions about 2 years ago. All they found was their abandoned towel, car keys and vehicle. To be honest, Australians also drown in the Australian surf and rivers. Australians are not born with Bronze Medalions, contrary to the "Bronzed Aussie" born to surf myth and legend. We do as a nation love the ocean, and our water safety education is fairly broad and accessible. Yes I suspect we can do more in the field of durf life saving education for tourists and people from migrant communities. Just an inclination, and I defer to experts in the field such as the Royal Life Saving Society of Australia. As a nation we do not wish anyone to drown in the Australian surf or waterways, especially young people. At the end of the day it is a joint responsibility. Our valiant surf life savers do guard our surf and waterways, and at the same time we need swimmers and waterway users to be responsible and think ahead.

[@79BlackRose]

I really liked your comments on masculinity and mental health Joel. Regretfully, I suppressed my issues and emotions for most of my life. This culminated in a catastrophic mental breakdown from which I have never recovered. You are very wise to use the supportive resources of your family and close friends to talk though issues that arise, when they arise. Your transparency is refreshing.

[@nelliesmith5699]

I don’t feel isolated. A lot of us have the time and money to travel to another country it just takes a long time to get anywhere but we’re used to that since that’s all we’ve ever known. My friend is over in Europe and we don’t have a problem communicating, you just gotta work out a time slot that fits for everybody. I also don’t notice how slow the internet is but I’m not a KZbinr trying to upload videos.

[@jamesramsay8525]

Hi Joel, I've lived in 2 big cities and 2 relatively isolated regional cities, Melbourne and Brisbane, Darwin and now Hobart. Very different weather in each of them and different lifestyles between big city and regional. When I moved to Darwin I found the regional lifestyle way more appealing, much more laid back. Darwin is very isolated from the rest of Australia but pretty close to Asia so it's easier to "drop over" to Asian destinations for short stays. I loved the outdoors and all that it offered in the NT, but don't go in the water! It's hot and very humid and that's what got me in the end. Now I'm in Hobart and the lifestyle and weather really suits. So what I'm saying is there are many lifestyle choices available in Australia and it's an individual choice as to what suits. I've seen crocs, snakes, spiders etc in the wild and if you're sensible it's no big deal. If you're stupid, well there is darwinism. I backpacked around the world when I was your age and can fully recommend it to broaden the mind and it's good to experience being the 'foreigner'. I wouldn't get on my high horse about any country being better than the other, I do personally love Australia, for me the plusses far outweigh the minuses (yes we do have some). I have enjoyed many other countries and have seriously considered staying and living in some of them. At the end of the day it just feels right for me in Australia. So when all said and done if we have choices where we live then consider that a privilege and I consider myself to have won a geographic lottery by being born here. I'm sure others feel the same about where they live.

[@EmbraceThePing]

'Strewth!

[@tomwareham7944]

You are totally right , I wasn't born here but was brought here from England when I was 5 and have spent 73 years silently thanking my parents for doing so in England I lived in a street that was mostly rubble from bomb damage and we were still on rations 5 years after the war , where we lived their wasn't any trees and everything looked grey and dirty ,then I end up in a place with unlimited fresh fruit vegetables and milk 2 minutes from a beach in one direction a rainforest and river in the other . Of course I know that England has beautiful green landscapes but when I went to visit10 years ago my old hometown was still grey and miserable .bringing me here was like taking me to Disneyland .so I get a little put out by all these so called experts who wax on about things they really don't know about . .It's my own fault for watching them I should know by now , I'm coming to the belief that they do it deliberately just to get comments to boost their channels to make more money .like yourself I've been overseas (31times )and have had the opportunity to go live in Canada or England but the thought of leaving Australian made me uneasy so I remained and have never regretted it

[@Sponggybobbie]

Actually the internet is great, we DONT feel isolated and we love living here. This video is mostly bs

[@joegarreffa3088]

Thanks - From an Australian, in Adelaide. 💕

[@megsybond]

Aussies just accept the fact that there are long distances to travel here. We jokingly say, 'It's just up the track, mate!' Which could be a 10 hour drive... :) And I don't know anyone who feels isolated here. We know we're a long way away from most other countries - it doesn't mean we feel isolated and trapped - it's just means we live in Australia. And most Aussies who travel overseas are really pleased to come home again, after they realise that what they just take for granted here, is so much better than in other countries.

[@billylion3073]

oddly enough i think that comes from the Irish "just a stones throw down the road" but then Australia shares a lot with Irish culture

[@Ausecko1]

I definitely feel isolated here, but I doubt I would if I lived on the east coast, which I assume all of the comments saying they don't feel isolated are living? It's a $300 flight from here (Pilbara) to Perth, one way, after the local discount that QANTAS are finally forced to provide. I just came back from a one week holiday on the Gold Coast which all up probably cost $10000 or so for one adult and 4 kids. It's really not possible to just go on good quick holidays unless you're rolling in cash or live on the east coast. There's only so many times you can stare at the desert for endless hours before those trips just aren't worth the petrol money.

[@clairash2004]

I live in Geraldton, a small city, which is 4 hours north of Perth. We are extremely isolated, I love it here. It's an amazing historical, beautiful place. We are in an area that the desert isn't far inland. We got to 50° last Christmas day.

[@suesmith7946]

I'm in good ol' Gero too. Love it! This Christmas was cooler though,... 50° was 2022? Last few days were around 45° though... enjoying the cooler one today!

[@emceeboogieboots1608]

I grew up in Esperance and know the isolation. Its awesome. I live near the city now, but love heading inland to Kal, where I was born

[@clairash2004]

@@emceeboogieboots1608 i lived in Esperance for 3 years and visited regularly for 20 years.

[@clairash2004]

@@suesmith7946 i think it was 2021😄 It was a rough day in Gero. Its day's like that I want to slap anyone that bitches about the southerly 😁

[@suesmith7946]

@@clairash2004 thanks for picking up my typo! My fat fingers strike again! Lol. Yep that was what I meant to say.. 🙂👍

[@shoresaresandy]

Nope, I have a friend in Canada and we catch up regularly over the internet! We can keep up with family and friends overseas. I don’t have the internet speeds noted on this video and most internet connections are so much better than what this American narrator is saying! I’m a sigle person and I have bought my own home, this video is full of crap! Retail/hospitality here is not 24/7 as we work to live not live to to work!

[@kimduncan5356]

I have friends in US who live with injuries and illnesses that would be treated for free in Australia.

[@spasmmcspasm]

While it is often considered the "Manly" thing to do as to ignoring mental health I wonder where he got his information on healthcare. If I needed to see a psychologist I could go to a GP answer a list of questions and get a referral that would get me an appointment pretty fast. The first consultation is a few hundred bucks but you get half of that back from the government. Continuing consultations are pretty cheap and are sometimes completely bulk billed to Medicare. Then if it turns out therapy doesn't work alone they will then refer you to a psychiatrist for further treatment with medication at the same sort of rates. It does get harder to find treatment the more rural you live but as this guy said, the majority of us live on the coast. Or you could live in the US where you would become destitute and die in a gutter somewhere.

[@stevenbalekic5683]

We aren't the worst drivers, we just upload a lot of videos to KZbin per capita due to a high dashcam ownership. Rent is expensive but compared to the US it's starting to be comparable and groceries are actually a little cheaper. Supermarkets, department stores and hardware stores are open to 9pm weeknights. The mental health thing is not like that...that mentality (just like many countries) is a male thing and nkt a country thing.

[@listey]

Where do supermarkets close at 9pm? They're open until midnight 7 days a week here.

[@stevenbalekic5683]

@@listey WA, QLD and SA all close at 9pm

[@billwinsor2816]

The problem with drivers in Australia is that each state teaches its people to drive differently, and has different local driving conventions. When people move interstate or go on holidays, they don't drive the way others expect. It's especially noticeable in QLD - were many people from other states move to for the warmer coastal lifestyle.

[@EmbraceThePing]

Here in W.A. it's the drivers. They're bad. That's all.

[@Bellas1717]

There are countries where I have to almost close my eyes and just hope to get through the chaos in one piece. ( I won’t offend by naming them.) Horns honking continuously, and cars just going when and where they feel. I am amazed each time I come home from one of them at how orderly and quiet the traffic is here, just the odd idiots that stand out.

[@the_person_in_the_photo]

Sydney drivers are just scary

[@adrianlemke9965]

That may have been the case 30 years ago, but Australia nationalised their road rules across the country years ago. You drive the same rules in Perth as you do Sydney now.

[@4kays160]

Usually when someone says a certain place has bad drivers, its because they are terrible drivers who get flustered and panicky in a new city and cause most of the chaos they obseved and arent smart enough to see they caused the drama all day and that they were in the wrong every time someone nearly hit them... if someone says oh the drivers in blah blah certain place are bad drivers, dont get in the car with them driving..

[@cheymcloughlin6366]

The internet really isn't so bad. There's heaps of unlimited data plans on offer, I use internet freely without giving it a second thought. A large download may take a little longer and people or companies who use lots of data may have issues with speeds, but for the majority of people here it's completely fine

[@sharkplay1261]

Also the sudden cutting out isn't a problem

[@cheymcloughlin6366]

@@sharkplay1261 ok, I've never had it happen

[@sharkplay1261]

@@cheymcloughlin6366 I had it happen twice but both of them happened during extremely windy days and living under the big powerlines can sometimes screw up the signal

[@maniacmitch1]

the internet is bad compared to all other developed nations (not as bad as it used to be we this video he is watch was made), most developed countries now start at 100Mbps down and up (as Australia can only get up to 50Mbps up at max) and have max speeds of 10Gbps (1Gbps in Aus if you are lucky and have fibre to the house)

[@WyattOShea]

@@maniacmitch1 I'm one of the lucky ones on gigabit in Australia lol (just got it about a month ago).

[@andrewhall9175]

Internet isn’t quite as bad as the video makes out.

[@Grinxh1]

Meh still come here anyway she'll be right

[@birdieblue812]

I don't feel isolated, but the distance is a downside. It takes 2-3 days to get to where the rest of my family lives in an emergency. I missed both my grandparents funerals because I couldn't get there in time. And the time difference means I either have to stay up really late or they need to get up really early if we want to talk.

[@wiggyone]

I live in a remote outback city around 300km / 186 miles from the closest other city. We have the NBN here, so I have a 100Mbps line - definitely not slow - fast enough to run quite a few streams at once. Also pretty rare to have the connection drop. Unless you're living in a one horse town, most of the bigger population centres have decent internet. The bigger cities have faster speeds. Data limits have mostly become a thing of the past, unless you're talking about mobile phone internet. As for immigration - I'm also an import originally from the UK and married my wife here some 15 years ago. I know quite a few Americans who moved here though - if you're in the healthcare industry, you should have very few issues with the points system.

[@joandsarah77]

You're joking? Ours is 20-25 and we also live 300+ km outside of a city. Husband says it depends how close you are to the server. Just adding, we also have NBN! I'm jealous.

[@cheukho563]

Melbourne Australia here, everything listed here is exaggerated but does have a kernel of truth. It's not completely BS. Internet is slow compared to the developed world, but serviceable. Skin cancer is higher risk, but fighting it has been taught to us since kindergarten (Slip slop slap). Travelling to other countries MUST involve planes, unlike most other countries where they share a land border with someone, so visiting other countries is a bigger deal to us, but readily accessible though. Interstate travel is frequently done so we're not that isolated. We literally have a cultural thing called "schoolies" where High School graduates go to Queensland to party hard before/after university results come out.

[@MRBurnie1]

Dam how old is this video? Internet is nowhere near that bad

[@DementedPiXi]

Not sure what they are talking about with the internet. In some areas it’s true the internet is rubbish. But in the majority of the country our Citisens have access to speeds in excess of 100Mbps down 40 up. Most plans are unlimited, however unlimited plans are more expensive. The data caps are more for 4G and 5G mobile data plans. I myself use Starlink which speeds are close to 200Mbps and I’m in remote Australia. Adelaide for example offers (within their CBD) 1Gbps. And many other cities offer similar optic fibre speeds. Yes we had hickups with the stuff up of the National Broadband Network when we had a change in Government, but for the most part people have access to speeds of 25Mbps up.

[@TribalBC23]

I laughed at most of this vid. Where did this guy get his research from 😂. Fact check 10. Yes it does get hot but a reason not to move here? I live in Melbourne Ave max temp for summer is 25c with only 1.3 days over 40c on average. 09. I obviously know many Aussies. Haven’t come across one who feels trapped here 😂. 07 & 08. Yep we are ahead of most of the world but I video call friends in Canada regularly without issue or dropouts lol. Yes we may not have the fastest but the plan he quoted 😂 shop around mate.. 06. Laughable. I don’t know how any of us are still alive 😂. You forgot the swooping magpies..! 05. Deaths per 100k 1. Dominican Republic 67.23…. 120. USA 11.10…. 158. Australia 4.46 04. Agreed but extremely liveable. Not a reason not to move bc if you are working here you’re most probably earning more than you were. 03. Not a reason not to move here. Very rarely been stuck to get what I needed. You adjust (if you even need too). 02. I’m no expert so won’t comment but I know I have access (through employer) for mental health services if required but look after yourself and those around you. 01. Unfortunately I do agree..

[@whatagup4799]

The fact that we are si isolated is the best part about us. No counties nearby that are corrupt

[@Jarrryyd]

Domestic flights are really affordable so travelling to other cities isn't really a huge deal

[@joegarreffa3088]

I agree. It's actually the norm. While I am in the CBD (Central Business District) which translates to I am in the metro area of the Central Capital of the state, I do have family in reginal Australia, like 250km north and 780km west area. Given we have the sothern cross link of 10 to 20tb/s to the mainland of USA, Asia backbone and other redundancy, internrt speed has been slow to almost catastrophic in reginal areas, but that's changing, and slowly improving to 500mb up and down in reginal AUS - per user, 😉 but it's slow progress, . Cheers Joe

[@KrazeeKraftZ]

That central business district not commercial!!

[@KrazeeKraftZ]

That central business district not commercial!!

[@joegarreffa3088]

@@KrazeeKraftZ thanks for correcting me. Sorry 😞

[@xXSinForLifeXx]

5:43 I mean time zones work both ways lol so I don't get why that would be negative solely for Australia ...

[@rqn1998]

That video is very fair good and honest about aus! I agree with everything except the visa part #1 bacause ive never been through that process. I also totally agree about the intro to this clip being brilliant!

[@danielrobertson1226]

A lot of the reasons in the clip are very much blown out of proportion. You get used to the distances, time differences etc. that come with living in a large country. When I lived in the UK, my family and friends baulked at the concept of me driving from London to Liverpool, but it was less driving that what I would do in Australia. Even living in a regional centre, I can get what I need before the shops close, and they generally stay open late on Thursdays and Fridays where I live. Happy for you to make contact to ask some specific questions about what it is like living in Australia :)

[@Rusty_Gold85]

in 94 we went to Norwich to see Wifes Relatives and they debated about a trip to a Bowling Alley 45mins away . We were like " and the problem is ?"

[@A_nony_mous]

@@Rusty_Gold85 Oh my goodness, I had a 45 minute commute to work every morning for over 20 years, and that was all surburban stop-start traffic. Travel between towns and cities is downright pleasant compared to that.

[@virginiatressider5753]

True, that. I used to drive from Armidale to Tamworth every week for my kid's sport, and my partner, a Brit, nearly had a conniption - 'BUT THAT'S LIKE DRIVING FROM LONDON TO BIRMINGHAM! THAT'S RIDICULOUS!' It took him a long time to learn to think of distance in terms of time, and that not all distances are created equal. Armidale-Tamworth takes half the time of London-Birmingham.

[@A_nony_mous]

@@virginiatressider5753 I can confirm that. I drove from North Wales to John O'Groats in 2 full days (20 hours) in 1990, the same distance on a sealed road in Australia is about 9 hours, if that.

[@pixiewings21_9]

Your "you can talk to me" comment made me tear up! Very sweet. And you have a healthy take on masculinity. I must say I get a bit tired of the 'scary animals that kill' reputation that Australia has. I've been bushwalking many times and never once had to be *more* cautious than I would be in any other country whilst in 'the wild'. But I also think there is a bit of an Aussie thing we have that kind of likes to play up our deadly creatures... we like to tease good naturedly - and then snicker quietly 🤭

[@Zara-01]

I really think the internet issue depends on where you are. I haven't been overseas so I am unsure on what the internet is like there but personally the internet in cities is pretty good, and rarely lags or cuts out. Outside cities it can get pretty bad but it depends on where you are and how far away from main cities. Currently, I am about 3 hours away from a main city, we don't really get any good internet down here but using phone data and hot spotting it seems to work. On the good days it works almost as good as in the city, bad days it can take 40 minutes to watch a 20 minute video since it lags so often. There are unlimited data plans but honestly 40GB per month plan can last 1 person quite a bit (though I suppose it depends on the person) and it is only like $60 a month. Not all data providers issue a fee for going over the amount either, though the person in the video is right and it does slow down the internet speeds though. Then again it all depends on the data plan / company too. But I don't think this is a major turn off for people not to visit Australia since good chances are you are gonna be in a city anyway, and most tourist areas people go to probably don't have completely awful internet.

[@martianvideo]

There's always Starlink instead of Skymuster now.

[@Aquarium-Downunder]

The only reason more car videos get uploaded is because we have more dash cams. You can get up to 20% discount on your car insurance if you have a dash cam. so we all have dash cams.

[@lunavwi]

so usually when i hear about things being expensive - i think about currency conversion, like if i was to buy something from the U.S. for 99.99usd its 159.99aud for me - so if you were to look at the numbers it may seem expensive but it could be around the same price if you do the price conversion

[@techbio]

The animals. Yes we have a lot of poisonous critters. But we don't have large lethal apex predator mammals such as bears and big cats. The US also as well as bears and cats, has some knarly snakes too, and alligators. We never really have to worry about predators while camping in Australia.

[@Blue-Dog]

I love vids like this. Far North QLD is my paradise home. Let it remain our secret sanctuary from violence and hatred.

[@michaelfabish-wood4444]

It’s called Business hours. After we finish work we go home(people don’t buy clothes at 8pm). Business that actually benefit from late operating hours, food service and petrol stations etc are open.

[@relentlessimagetattooshop5438]

Yep our shop centres close at 4:30-5pm other than Thursday nights we call ‘Late night shopping’ which is pretty rediculous in city areas

[@DaveWhoa]

"Don't move to Australia because they have 3 main timezones"? How many does America have

[@codebasher1]

Actually the internet here is very good in any reasonably populated area. The only capped plans are mobile plans. Like in Brisbane I get 85Mb/s speeds (fiber to node/house) for $65 AUD ($50US) month, and reliability is excellent. Gaming pings are also brilliant!. As for feeling isolated, where did he get that from? People here are a lot friendlier than "non-isolated" places like New York.

[@WyattOShea]

Yeah the internet certainly isn't as bad as it's made out to be in this video. My phone for example can get 100-175mbps or so on mobile internet and about 450 or so when using wifi at home (we have a 1000/50 NBN connection at home).

[@Hcoop]

We’re not near any other countries but that’s also good because we can’t get attacked from anywhere

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

Most supermarkets close about 9pm on week days, 5pm Saturday and Sunday. Not open Christmas Day or good friday. Cafes usually shut by 3pm, some are open from 7am, restaurants usually shut by 10pm.

[@DartFrog815]

Even in Australia the timezones can cause issues, I recently moved to Perth which is 3 hours behind the east coast, which can cause issues talking with family, if I want to talk to family I do so on weekends during the middle of the day so it doesn't disturb them at work or while they're sleeping. Also the drivers can be absolutely horrendous most of the time.

[@JohnLee-pt5jz]

That's like the west coast of America, is three hours behind the east coast.

[@fathom6424]

You and I have a very similar reaction to spiders. It's rare to see a spider in the house or anywhere in Melbourne. However if you are here for a couple of years or so you are pretty likely to encounter one - but because you're in Melbourne, it won't be a monster. It could be fairly big but in 'my' case it wouldn't matter if it was fairly small, I HATE spiders. But as I said - you're not likely to encounter one very often.

[@zalired8925]

Did you know on average 50 spiders will crawl over your face white sleeping in your bed every year. That's almost a spider a week taking a short cut across your face each week. You're probably sitting on four or five under your chair or lounge, probably touch a few each day putting your hands somewhere but you will never know because no spider wants to bite us just for the sake of it. You have to make a spider bite you.

[@darinmaughan1066]

Sorry Fathom and Joel - the lack of spiders in Melbourne, is related purely because of the cooler (mostly) and inclement weather (3x seasons in one day is normal in my experience!). I live 2hrs north of Sydney (Newcastle area) and my house backs on to a 'reserve/green zone' (ie bush) and as such my home is blessed by the constant attendance of a significant number and variety of spiders - from Funnel Webs, Red-backs, Huntsman, Golden Orbs and all sorts to the other 'hard to identify' species!) We generally refer to, or classify them as, 'low-tox' (bite and headache), 'medium-tox' (likely you could end up in an Emergency Dept) and 'just make sure you've got your shoes on' :) (Funeral Director) However, I have lived here for 20 years and have never been bitten by anything significant.. the odd "undiagnosed" bite never causes too much of an issue and you'll often know the types of environments certain 'nasties' like, so you can avoid. Then there are all the 'others' that maintain the lively environment of my backyard - the birds, lizards (I have a lounge of Eastern Water Dragons who laze around my pool all day), snakes (yes - some low-tox - some 'funeral directors'!) and all sorts of other things - but this is normal for living in Australia, particularly when out of the major cities and most of us Aussies will always give you the same advice - "She'll be right, mate" - Good luck!!

[@darrenashley126]

One thing about our temperatures is in Australia we measure our temperature in the shade (America doesn't) so it is a lot hotter than most Americans expect.

[@potatolord9600]

As an Australian I can say my internet speeds are not that bad.

[@flo7124]

Also we get 6 free mental health visits a year with our Medicare system... Thanks for another reaction video boi

[@A_nony_mous]

Actually a Mental Healthcare Plan covers 10 visits if your therapist reports back to your GP after 6 visits.

[@mattisbetathenu]

I mean we are isolated but for most of us it's a point of pride than a problem. A lot of this is accurate though. The internet has gotten a lot better the last few years but is nowhere near as good as it should be for a country as advanced as ours. The mental health point is also getting a lot better the last few years. Growing up it wasn't something me or any of my friends would bring up, but it is becoming more and more normal. Also lived here my whole life (30 years) never been attacked by an animal haha

[@mattisbetathenu]

P.S main issue with time zone is watching live sport. NFL starts at 2am on a Monday -.-

[@rqn1998]

You are honest! There is so much truth to this video and lots of ppl here cover up with their pride! I dont know how people like Joel would see through all this because i found that entire video truthful! I live in syd and moved to the country while having a house in syd because of the heat for example in summer! Living on the water DOES NOT help much at all. People are expressing bs pride opinions i believe.

[@hypnotika]

Shopping Malls are still a thing here, so store hours are dictated by the Mall's opening hours, except for the major grocery chains, which usually close around 9PM; everything else is gated off. Then we have 'Late Night Shopping', where the malls are open until 9PM in the suburbs on Thursdays and the same for the CBD, except it's on Fridays (in Brisbane, anyway). Then everything closes up, and the nightlife springs into life.

[@Sagealeena]

I’ll say the video and the ranking is generally accurate, each state could go up or down one spot but generally correct. I’m biased because I live in Melbourne but it’s a much better place to go to as a tourist than Sydney. Seeing the bridge and opera house takes five minutes and then there’s not a tonne more you can do that won’t be done better in another state. The harbour area is lovely though, really enjoyed The Rocks. Some cool inner suburb areas too, although not even close to the level of Melbourne’s inner suburbs. Victoria also has the best regional public transport (VLine trains) in Australia, not on the European level but it’s easy to visit the regional areas because the state is much smaller, and it still has really diverse geography. Sydney is really for business people, it has the Australian HQ for a lot of multinationals, so it provides jobs not a good place to visit as a tourist trying to experience the best of Australia. If there’s a major event on that you’re interested in then it can be worth the visit, the other states (particularly VIC & QLD) have great major events too, but things like WorldPride, Vivid, and International sporting competitions can make it worth the visit although it’ll make everything else you visit just be super crowded. No shade to Sydney and NSW, I’ve visited regularly to see family and I always enjoy it. From the US you’ll likely have to go through LA and you can just as easily fly in to Melbourne as Sydney from there. Other than Melbourne, it really depends what you’re interested in because other states have really awesome nature. Tassie is beautiful, but if you don’t have a lot of time (or don’t want to hire a car), then you can see similar nature in the Otways or Yarra Ranges and although it’s not the same it still works as a tourist visiting for a short time. WA is pretty amazing but it’s isolated, and you have to travel long distances to get the variation in nature. Someone else mentioned QLD and I think it balances well with Melbourne because it’s completely different nature and culture but also very Australian. Great beaches, party scene, wildlife and nature.

[@robber_h]

Hey. Aussie from Perth here. A lot of the things mentioned on the video you watched really aren't as terrible as they make out. Firstly, I don't know one person here who feels isolated. That's rubbish. There are planes to take you wherever you want to go every day and most people's lives, friends and family live fairly close to them so it's not an issue. The distances between cities has never been an issue either. Sure, it can be expensive to fly city to city in Australia if you need to do it all the time, but who does that anyway? There isn't a need to fly back and forth all the time when you live here. Yeah, the time zones are crazy if you need to contact someone in the USA or Europe, however it's manageable when you work it out. After all, businesses do it all the time. My internet in Perth is 50mbps and I have no limits on my downloads. I don't know anyone who does. It's not that expensive either. Perhaps in some more remote parts of the country it is slower, however it's generally not as bad as made out here. Also, I have lived here for almost 60 years and have been in the bush, the outback and all over the place many, many times. I have hardly seen anything that is likely to kill and eat me...and spiders are small and don't jump out at or and are not aggressive, so they are hardly a problem at all unless you are really, really unlucky. I have never met anyone in all my life who has been bitted by a snake or spider, nor have I known or heard about too many people being killed or harmed by spiders or crocs! Drivers in Australia are generally the same as anywhere, however we have our fair share of arrogant, entitled idiots who think they are allowed to do as they please. Perhaps even a little more than our fair share. However, most Australians abide the road rules and don't create havoc on the roads any more than anywhere else in the world. What is crap here is the conditions of some of our roads and the government's inability to keep up with infrastructure improvements. It takes forever for roads to be built and upgraded and it seems the population is increasing faster than we can keep up. As such, our roads are pretty congested at times and people become frustrated and do stupid things. Yea, it's expensive to live here, however you can buy a home in most cities on an average income once you have the 20% deposit and we do have high earnings compared to other countries so it evens out. I don't know too many Australians that are really doing it very, very tough and imho our excellent welfare system keeps most people from going hungry. That's not to say that there aren't people who can't afford luxuries that many take for granted, however self improvement and education is relatively cheap here, and for those who really want to improve their lives there are programs and ways. As someone who put themselves through university and obtained a degree as an adult, living on very little in the way of welfare and no support from my family, I got through without having to live on the street. I think some people just want to offload all responsibility TBH. Most big retail chain stores are open in cities from about 7am to 9pm. Fuel stations are mostly 24 hours. You can always get what you need. For shops to be open 24 hours, someone has to staff them. I think Australians like their leisure time too much to make that sacrifice. I don't think they could pay Aussies enough to work in retail at 3am in the morning! Our government does not spend enough money on mental heath support. That's a given! We don't have a culture of being in therapy all the time however, yet we generally do talk to someone, a friend or family member, when we need to. Again, I don't see too many people bottling everything up like it used to be. Especially the younger generations who seem to want to tell everyone everything about themselves :) And finally, it most likely is hard to move here permanently, however a lot of Indians, Asians and middle easterners seem to be able to achieve it so it can't be THAT hard provided you are a decent, hard working and intelligent person. I hope this helps balance the views of the person who made the video. Cheers! :)

[@Autotrope]

There you go, not even someone from Perth feels isolated from the rest of the world!

[@Jutta_KG]

I've been bitten by spiders numerous times, but nothing venomous. Bloody whitetails are very common where I am. Everyone in my extended family have had spider bites but again nothing dangerous. I agree about the snakes, I have never meant anyone that has been bitten by a snake and I grew up in country Victoria, in small towns and on farms. Seen brown snakes and tiger snakes but you just leave them alone, same with red back spiders.

[@AbblittAbroad]

I used to work in emergency services and we had to have staff manning the phones 24/7. The majority of staff didn’t want the 4-12pm or 12-8am shifts, but fortunately there were enough to form a small regular team for both shifts. After speaking with a few of them I found that their spouses worked the same hours in different jobs, so for them it fit their lifestyle much better.

[@wallycover7552]

He makes me laugh I wonder where he found his information from I don't think he has ever been here

[@melissabarrett9750]

I'm suspicious about his sources for the claims, so many are either exaggerated or plain wrong

[@lasvegasnextexit1230]

I online game with some Aussie friends and I live in the Pacific Standard Timezone. 10:00 pm is like 5:00 pm NZ...but add 3 more hrs on to my time if you are looking at the EST, just keep in mind, they are one calendar day ahead of the U.S. So if you are talking to a buddy at your dinner time in California on Tuesday, they are eating lunch on Wednesday in South Wales

[@Yaark]

Most shopping centres (malls) are open late on Thursday and Friday nights until 9pm for later shopping. The supermarket near me is open until midnight every night (used to be 24 hours until recently). There are always places like 7 eleven and most petrol stations that are open 24/7 if you do need things outside normal retail opening hours

[@fathom6424]

Yes. All we need is friends. Friends and friendship is the answer to mental health.

[@spasmmcspasm]

Its dumb statements like that that just add to the stigma of mental illness. If in fact you do suffer from an acute mental illness and not just a case of the 😢, having friends is a rare luxury as they tend to head for the hills if they know about it. Yes there are mental illnesses that would benefit from some friendship support but it is not "All we need" or any kind of fking lone answer.

[@fathom6424]

@@spasmmcspasm I guess it's ok to be rude on social media. Everyone seems to be doing it. I'll just be polite. 'Mental health' is a broad term these days. The proportion of people with "acute mental illness" is very small in relation to those whose 'mental health' is wanting. I did not mean to suggest that acute mental "illness" was curable by the support of friends - just that given a society where people were supportive of one another and given solid friendships from childhood onward, we are far less likely to succumb to hopelessness, low self esteem, loneliness, depression etc. I wasn't really talking about 'mental health' so much as I was talking about 'friendship'. When people keep their comments brief and are limited with their vocabulary or grammar, it is all too easy to interpret them in a way other than they had intended. This is likely why people are so quick to vilify each other on social media. Nothing good can come from such an approach.

[@gavinedwards7174]

Wow mate, I don't usually get upset about bad comments by people who put my country down, but Joel that guy was so wrong, I felt like he had a dislike of Australia 🇦🇺, I mean sure it's not perfect here,but brother that guy went way to far, my name is Gavin, and I have been following you for ages now, and I once sent you a package of Australian bits and pieces, there was a Newcastle Knights shirt for you and a v8 super cars shirt for Ben, anyway mate, I have lived in the states for 11 years and worked there as well, and I enjoyed it very much, but the states has a lot of things that are really bad, the health system is a prime example, very low wages for a large number of people, I had a lot of problems with the imagination department, but I got it worked out eventually, and I have to tell you that shopping hours here are very similar to the US, I don't know anywhere that closes their doors at 5 pm, maybe 40 years ago 😉, this guy obviously doesn't do much actual real time research, and as far as travelling in Australia, mate most of the time I will drive to 70% of the destinations I want to go to but you see we have these things called airlines that will take you to the farther away places, you know just like you guys do when you go to, say,,,New York from LA, that's correct, you can fly there, and brother I did that quite often when I lived in LA, anyway mate, come and see us in person 😉, as I said before to you, if you like I will be honoured to pick you guys up at the airport and show you around Sydney and Newcastle, I hope you are well and happy, say hello to Ben for me, catch ya later mate,,,Gavin from Australia 🇦🇺

[@79BlackRose]

Hi Gavin, I miss your comments on Patreon mate. 😊

[@gavinedwards7174]

@BIack Rose Thanks mate, I actually left a couple of patreon sites, I was spreading myself to thin ,I was on a few patreon sites, but I might go back on Joel's patreon soon, but I had to comment about what that guy said about us and our country, as I said I worked and lived in the states for quite a while, and believe me we have a far better system here than in the USA,I enjoyed working and meeting a lot of people, but their system is far more broken than ours, and I definitely would live here before in America, thanks for remembering me

[@annettewebster9678]

Great to take your time.doesnt matter how long it takes to get anywhere. 🙂

[@ryez11]

we have thursday night shopping where stores stay open til 9pm (in Adelaide at least). a lot of fast food stores stay open til 12 and some even 24/7

[@fathom6424]

I've lived in Melbourne all of my life. I'm 66 (I can't believe it) and I have never even thought about visiting Perth or any of the top end - and certainly not the interior. Australia is a foreign country even to 'me'. Crocodiles, camels, giant spiders, No thanks - Melbourne is the place for me. Also it's one of they very best cities in the world - so they keep telling me. It's often cold in Melbourne.

[@listey]

It's that kind of open-mindedness that makes Australia such a wonderful place.

[@Mimzula]

Melbournite here too. I love it here. And quiet honestly I don't mind the cold, beats 50C haha!

[@lisasearcy1044]

Thanks for expressing your views on emotions. "Keeping it all together" is a very big killer in Australia, especially with men. Emotions that show vulnerability are generally not acceptable - which they should be. The other side of this that I find incredulous is that negative emotions being expressed by men IS acceptable eg anger and hostility. Totally agree...there is a huge lacking in our mental health system despite the fact that we have great medical in general

[@roberthandley1786]

As an Aussie when I first got my driver's licence I was given this advice, 90 percent of driver's don't care if they cause you to crash, the other 10 percent are actually trying to kill you. That was 53 year's ago and it's only gotten worse since.

[@Str8UpL4zy]

In perth, alot of places are open till 9 on weeknights and all places are open during the weekend...

[@bingo000]

The guy who made that video obviously didn't visit Australia. I guess that's the beauty of the net, anyone can become an expert!

[@johnfisher9816]

Hi Joel, great video. I have an RMC classmate who lives in Australia and we talk online in real time almost daily. It's morning you me (EST like you) and evening for him. Aussies, Canucks, and Yanks are no strangers to time zones and inter-country flying just to get somewhere. John in Canada

[@Maxiakt]

It's a terrible video

[@jd2k09]

Hi Joel, not a bad video but I found your comments far more interesting. Keep up the good work mate.

[@emceeboogieboots1608]

The reason that stores close earlier is because those retail workers want to go home too! Unions have helped these workers to be able to keep to more regular hours

[@simonw3858]

As for the internet... There is always Starlink as an option and option which i use and can recommend for anyone who either can't get fibre or decent NBN.

[@madenabyss6981]

I have friends in America and UK I don't have a issue with talking to them it helps when we know each others time zones

[@pageup213]

Retail and a lot of common businesses don't stay open late due to increased cost to remain open into the evening. In bigger cities you'll still find a lot stay open but generally in the evening it's more restaurants and the bigger supermarket chains that stay open to like 10pm 12am. There is a night life though, so you'll find late night attractions and businesses looking to feed late night revelers, but it really depends on where you live as to what will be open and on what days - for smaller main cities, this will mean that during the working week this cycle will be standard, with extended hours on Friday and Saturday most of the time (even if they do try and stay open during the week). Having said that there are some businesses that open 24/7, but again you really need to survey the cities you may be in to see what is and isn't.

[@johncarmen9963]

One annoying thing with the time zones is if you work for a company that deals with nationwide clients, I live on the east coast and a company I worked for we had to take turns at doing the “Perth shift” where you would have to stay back until 8pm because that’s 5pm in Perth, I suppose it’s a similar time difference to the east coast and west coast in USA but its probably more common in Australia for companies to only have branches on the east coast, so for the west coast customers you always need some workers to stay back late to service the opening hours for the west coast.

[@matthewharris67]

Hey hey, I am an Australian living in Europe for the past 16 years. In relation to Australia, the prices have nothing to do with the location and everything to do with price fixing and eye gauging

[@bucinsk]

Business hours are longer than most videos about it make out. Major supermarkets are usually open until 9pm even in towns as small as Mudgee.

[@vilkoskorlich259]

As of 1 July 2023, the national minimum wage is $23.23 an hour or $882.74 a week (if you work 38 hours). In Australia, you are entitled to a minimum of 4 weeks of paid leave every year. There are some simple calculations you can use to check your leave. 4 weeks of annual leave × 38 ordinary hours per week = 152 hours of annual leave per year of work (for a full time worker). but it is common to receive 5-6 weeks of vacation. Paid sick The balance at the end of each year carries over to the next year. How many years is long service leave in Australia? 10 years service with the same employer and one month of paid leave for each additional 5 years service. Paid Parental Leave The Paid Parental Leave scheme currently provides 20 weeks of payment for a child, with 2 weeks reserved for each parent. Full-time and part-time employees required to work on the public holiday will receive Double time for each hour worked. Casual employees are usually entitled to Double the casual rate for time worked on a public holiday Monday to Friday (125 per cent + 125 per cent = 250 per cent).28 Sept 2023 Public holidays, , entailment Victoria, Australia, How many public holidays are there in Victoria? There are 14 public holidays in Victoria for 2023:(Ful Pay)

[@cgkennedy]

It was not independence, it was federation on 1 January 1901. Sydney to Melbourne was 13 hours to drive with a few stops. It takes over five hours to fly from Melbourne to clear the country to go anywhere north or west.

[@KrazeeKraftZ]

We do now have better internet available, eg optic fibre to the node or to the home, depending on how much you want to pay!!

[@ydenneki]

6:00 The time zone differences aren't JUST overseas, but also in the country itself. Since Daylight Savings is not a FEDERALLY mantate requirement it means each STATE can opt in or out. The SOUTH EASTERN states (NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia) all opted IN, while Queensland, Northern Terrirory and Western Australia opted OUT, so for six months of the year we have FIVE time zones, and means business hours communications between WA and NSW/Vic is limited to only 2-4 hours a day. Depending on whether the workday is 8-4 or 9-5 in WA (it'll already be 1-2PM in the east when you start) and what the workday of the business you're communicating with determines the communications. It's a NIGHTMARE trying to coordinate logistics.

[@PongLenis1]

3:04 I live in a town called Parkes in NSW, it’s 300km away from Sydney and tbh since summer started we have had one day over 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit). It’s really not that bad unless you are from a really cold place. And he said it is unliveable, yet Parkes has 10,000 people living here and places like Dubbo which is about an hour north of here have 36,000 people

[@Cayles764]

As a Briton, something ive noticed about Australians is that they dont tend to moan or winge. Brita love a winge.

[@michaelwalkley2765]

You should definitely react to Summernats 35 that just finished today haha, that's driving haha

[@DavidGriffiths]

Regarding time zones, my best buddy lives in Canada. We would chat in the evenings (my time zone), but it was the middle of the night for him. He was often awake due to insomnia, but these days he's fast asleep.

[@belindamahony3684]

Wages are different in each state. My husband is a vacuum truck driver in the mining industry and flies to work and works 2 weeks straight 12 hours a day and then comes home for 2 weeks and earns $120K a year.

[@damientuijn875]

A lot of this is blown out of proportion but the mental health issues is very real. My best friend's friend hid all her emotions. She seemed happy all the time. Apparently she didn't talk to anyone and one day committed suicide

[@ironside210]

Shops opening hours: Wages are a larger % of operating costs than in USA. This suggests shorter hours will be better for the shop's profits. Shopping Malls are open 7 days a week, however, so there is always a time when you can get what you want.

[@marcus1979oz]

Business hours point is wrong that largely depends where you live but in general supermarkets are open till 10pm or 12am (especially in NSW where I live)

[@bucinsk]

Fly. There is a reason Sydney Melbourne is the busiest air corridor in the southern hemisphere. The East coast has all the best places anyway, and everything from Townsville to Hobart is doable from any major town.

[@aluget7940]

Just to give you some idea of mental health prices, I was a 24/7 carer for an old guy who suffered from dementia among other issues. At one stage I was concerned about his mental health, so I booked a 30 minute session with a clinical psychologist. It cost around $220.00 for one session, which was a reduction from the usual cost due to my mate being on an aged pension which luckily, he got back around $160.00 from Medicare. Usually there is a fairly long wait to access mental health services but my old mate's GP had a psychologist on staff at the time. I managed to get him an appointment within around a week or so.

[@listey]

I'm assuming you're considering this as good value? It certainly seems very reasonable.

[@aluget7940]

@@listey I thought it was a bit expensive at first until we got the rebate from Medicare. The Psychologist didn't know how much we would get back.

[@A_nony_mous]

@@aluget7940 You got ripped off, with a Mental Health Plan from his GP he gets up to 10 FREE psychologist sessions per calendar year. Medicare pays for all of it through bulk billing.

[@kdefiddes]

I’m in Melbourne… we have 24hr supermarkets so midnight cravings are sorted 😄

[@nellgodden5229]

Our supermarkets are open to 9pm weekdays weekends until 5pm our department stores like kmart open until 9pm week days . We have late night shopping nights on Thursday night were all stores open till 9pm and here in Adelaide the city centre has late night shopping night on Fridays.

[@msmyrk]

Timezones aren't too bad. In our summer (like now), we're only 5 hours different from the west coast of the US, or 8 from the east. They increase by 2 hours in winter. It's worse for UK/EU, but 12 hours is pretty easy to handle when talking with family - just harder when dealing with business relationships.

[@clabood]

Bad but not everyone. There is a freeway here in NSW the M1 Pacific Motorway (Sydney to Newcastle) has had an accident everyday since Christmas Eve. This is mainly due to a large number of movement as it is the main highway to get up and down the eastern coast line. However impatience and speeding play a big part.