Australia vs. UK: Surprising Differences You Need to Know

[@marcusversace9423]

Garbage collection is weekly in suburban area's but with public rubbish bins are usually collected daily or several times a day dependent of foot traffic density to minimise overflow and keeping the location clean - basically higher standards

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

@marcusversace9423 can imagine the heat as well would determine how fast public bins are collected, thanks for watching

[@dee-smart]

Fortnightly in Adelaide.

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

@dee-smart thanks for watching

[@craigroaring]

Was very surprised to hear rubbish collection is fortnightly in the UK, but I assume weekly is much more needed in Australia considering the heat.

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

True but especially over Xmas when more waste is generated

[@AmandaRussell-g3c]

Council can't afford to collect weekly, they spend the extra money installing 20mph speed cameras everywhere

[@jackmeoff6095]

Private school fees are roughly the same as, and rentals can be viewed with multiple groups in the UK as well. It is up to the landlord/ real estate agent

[@Woopass90]

We had an advertising campaign years ago called 'Dont rubbish Australia'. It was really effective.

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

@@Woopass90 looks like it worked

[@brettevill9055]

Another surprising difference is that in Australia nine A.M. is not "early in the morning". Seven AM is early. Nine A.M. is "mid-morning".

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

@brettevill9055 yes we have noticed that everyone starts early here

[@1362pc]

Yes agree...6am is early.......

[@jenimcniven8704]

North Sydney Council got rid of all their bins because it cost them more money to clean up all the overloaded bins. When they got rid of them, people took their rubbish home and they didn't have as much clean up

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

Yeah that makes sense

[@top40researcher31]

in the country towns we angle park if you have a car that has sensors to tell you when a car is coming but its ideal to look as well

[@paulrichardson5892]

same in nsw. park direction of traffic. also in nsw cant do uturns at lights.

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

Some states will allow you to do a u turn

[@michaelmclachlan1650]

@@TheGreatEmigrate Victoria allows U-turns at traffic lights unless there's a sign prohibiting it. All other states and territories ban U-turns at traffic lights unless there's a sign allowing it.

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

@michaelmclachlan1650 yeah we noticed there are signs stating it, thanks for watching

[@brettevill9055]

The bins thing started in North Sydney while Ted Mack was mayor. They figured out that most of the litter in the streets was actually stuff that people had put into bins and that had then fallen out, blown out, or been pulled out by scavenging birds &c. That is, they noticed that putting litter in the bin was not effective at keeping it off the street. So North Sydney Council took away the bins, and litter was much diminished. It turns out that once you have a population broadly inclined not to throw rubbish directly on the ground, it works better to have them take it away than to have them put it in a bin that it will likely come out of. As for why Australians are inclined not to litter, much credit must go to the non-profit organisation Clean Up Australia, founded by Ian Kiernan and Kim McKay in 1969. Clean Up Australia has been peppering Australian TV with anti-littering ad campaigns ("Do The Right Thing", "Keep Australia Beautiful", "Clean Up Australia"), organising "Tidy Towns" competitions, and organising volunteer "Clean Up" days for over fifty years, and the result has been a very noticeable change in social mores. When I was a nipper Australians thought nothing of leaving a scatter of rubbish at a picnic site, or throwing tins, wrappers, and cigarette-butts out the windows of their cars. That's not the done thing here any more.

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

@brettevill9055 yeah we are impressed at how clean it is where we have been, thanks for watching

[@marcusversace9423]

When going shopping try to pick a local department store or brand than choosing IKEA as they are everywhere around the world

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

@@marcusversace9423 yeah true, we had to check it out to see what it was like over here

[@somefatbugger]

My son attended Iona quite a while ago which is a private Catholic College and I think our annual fees ranged from $4,000 to around $6,000 depending on the year I think.

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

@@somefatbugger that's not a bad price

[@Dr_KAP]

Generally speaking if it’s a Catholic systemic school it isn’t considered private. Fully private schools in Australia are upwards of $15,000 and they aren’t part of the Catholic systemic funding scheme. My daughter went to Loreto Normanhurst which is a fully private Catholic school (not Catholic systemic) and the fees were around $28,000 a year. This is typical of private schools in Australia. A systemic Catholic school on the other hand is about $4,000-6,000 as these are funded by the Church and are not considered private schools but rather defined as Catholic systemic schools.

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

@Dr_KAP thanks for your comment and watching

[@DaveOz-mx5oh]

The main difference: we have chicken salt on our chips 👍

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

@DaveOz-mx5oh yeah that's a game changer it's so good

[@BobLouden-r9q]

Hate the stuff.

[@Mezza-ld3bq]

​@@BobLouden-r9q weird comment , but I understand

[@BobLouden-r9q]

@@Mezza-ld3bq What's weird about saying, I hate chicken salt ?

[@barnowl.]

There are a great variety of different types of schools in Victoria, Australia. The 'private' ones are partially funded by the federal Government. My grandchildren are in Government /'public' secondary schools in Queensland and Victoria in their high ability streams. Previously, one was in a small, reasonably low-cost private school with an entrepreneurial bias in Victoria.

[@RJS4287]

Just a footnote. "Private Schools" in Australia are cheaper because unlike the UK they also receive public or Government funding. The Roman Catholic Church had always run large numbers of schools and had always argued for public funding as they reduced demand on the state system. They finally won post WW2. But having partially funded Catholic Schools, state Governments were obliged to fund other religious groups schools not just Christian of all varieties but also Jewish and Islamic. Some "systemic" private schools are quite inexpensive with fees of under $8K. But there are also some elite private, often boarding schools, known as GPS (Greater Public Schools) which can be well over $50K - include St Joseph's in Queensland, Scots College and the Armidale School in NSW plus many more. With their boaters etc they often imitate UK private schools. One final note. Despite this in NSW the most academically successful schools in NSW are the limited number of state selectives. You have to take a tough selection test to get in (echoes of the 11 plus). Best known are James Ruse, North Sydney Girls. Sydney boys High, Baulkham Hills High. Many parents spend a lot on coaching colleges to get their kids prepared for the test.

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

@@RJS4287 wow thanks for all this information

[@user-bf8ud9vt5b]

There are lots of Catholic and religious based schools in Australia, which don't charge like the assumed stereotype of posh private schools.

[@Dr_KAP]

I think you’re confusing private schools with Catholic systemic. Catholic systemic schools (about 5K a year) are not defined as private in the Australian education system. Private schools are usually 15K to 40K a year. In Australia we have public schools, Catholic systemic, private schools and independent schools.

[@top40researcher31]

we have called cash return recycling centres what you recycle you get money what you recyle its very rewarding

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

Yeah we never had that in the uk

[@MarkGaudie]

About the bins though…. UK people don’t bloody use them so there’s not point in having them. Hence the reason I’d rather live in Australia were people generally respect where they live and put litter in the bin.

[@paulsandford3345]

I grew up in Ormiston on Wellington St!😊😊

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

Oh nice not too far away, thanks for watching

[@andrewbristoe1833]

Just caught up with your driving vid the thing that really drive me nuts here in cairns anywhere else.?you have green arrows and lights to turn over a crossing that is showing green for pedestrians at same time .....yikes in a word although jaywalking anyway is the norm with low traffic

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

@andrewbristoe1833 yeah we have noticed that and the scared look on pedestrians faces, thanks for watching

[@Ragnar6000]

In Sydney you can park in any direction you like, however there are small country towns in NSW that like drivers to reverse park on the main street.

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

@Ragnar6000 oh that's interesting to know thank you

[@DeepThought9999]

@@TheGreatEmigrateThat was incorrect/misleading advice from @Ragnar5000. In all of NSW including Sydney, cars parallel-parked must be parked so that they are facing in the same direction as the flow of traffic on that side of the road. If angle parking is permitted or is a requirement, that will be stated on parking signs for that locality. Those signs will often (usually?, always?) require parking either “rear-to-kerb” or “front-to-kerb” and often will specify the angle required, e.g. 45 or 90 degrees. You must park whichever way will be in compliance with the instruction on the sign or on the road markings for that location. There is no free-for-all although in marked 90 degree parking spaces without a specified end-to-kerb requirement, the end-to-kerb is optional but the rear-to-kerb method will be safer. So for any other situation (parallel or angle), the front of the vehicle always must face largely in the direction of traffic in NSW.

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

Thanks for your comment and watching

[@Ragnar6000]

@@DeepThought9999 I did NOT intentionally give them wrong advice, maybe i just miss understood them {been driving in Sydney for 35 years} I was NOT referring to kerb parking well off course you will have to park in the direction of traffic!...was simply referring to general shopping center style car parks!

[@blacksorrento4719]

Cannot say I have ever come across, group lease times for viewing. I can only assume that the rental market as it is at present, has limited properties available, this way the agent is not put on a spot.

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

It's the first we have ever seen anything like it

[@top40researcher31]

How the garbage service works in my area it would also work the same in your area also organic (green waste) is collected every week. General Waste that is your rubbish bin is collected every second week the same as your recycling for example you have three bins Red (rubbish) Green (Green Waste) and Yellow (Recycling) so week by week its more like red,yellow,red,yellow,red,yellow as mentioned your green goes out every week. bur make sure you put them out the night before sometimes the recycling and the rubbish collection comes very early around 6am as they wont double back to recollect your bins if you put them out too late on collection day.

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

Thanks for your comment, unlike the uk the bins are collected every 2 weeks

[@top40researcher31]

@@TheGreatEmigrate thats interesting

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

@top40researcher31 and you have to pay extra for your garden waste to be collected every 2 weeks. Same.size bins as over here

[@top40researcher31]

@@TheGreatEmigrate yes that comes out your land rates

[@Sooz007-l3b]

In WA general waste is collected each week, and alternate weeks for both green and recycle bins.

[@louisaklimentos7583]

Our general waste is collected weekly in Sydney . It must be different in Queensland and Sydney has more bins .

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

Our general waste is collected weekly here but in the uk it was bi weekly

[@no_triggerwarning9953]

My council in Melbourne collects Green/organic waste weekly; general and recyclables is collected bi weekly on alternate weeks. About 10 years ago the general waste bin was changed from 250 litres to 125 litres. Some councils have cut the general waste bin to 56 litres.

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

@no_triggerwarning9953 that's just crazy are they trying to encourage recycling

[@no_triggerwarning9953]

@@TheGreatEmigrate It is beyond recycling, my councils news letter says they have a target of 10 years to have zero waste to landfill and my council isn't run by the Greens councilors like some inner Melbourne councils are.

[@DavidPola1961]

The weather looks nice for winter, It can't be Melbourne or Victoria must be Sydney or further North with 25c Winter weather , Ok just worked it out your between Brisbane and the Gold Coast, nice and warm and sunny all the way down to Sydney.

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

Yeah we aren't use to the warm 'winter' thanks for watching

[@judileeming1589]

I have not seen reverse angle street parking in Victoria but I have seen it in NSW. The narrow streets in my husbands birth city in the north of England where there are streets of houses built more than 50 years old without allowance for off street parking were bumper to bumper with car parked willy nilly, fully on footpaths, half on footpaths, and facing us on the left hand side of the road. My husband who migrated to Australian as a young man in the 1960’s finds it very strange whenever we go for a visit and as he never owned a car when he lived there as a young man, he (being nearly 80 now) found the gyratories nerve wracking last year.

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

It's the first time we had seen it since being here, pretty quick at doing it now

[@judileeming1589]

@@TheGreatEmigrate if you make it to Melbourne and hire a car and drive in the CBD you will see right hand hook turns. Because of the trams, it’s too dangerous to enter the intersection and do a right hand turn in front of them, so you have to be in the far left lane, enter the intersection and park parallel with the pedestrian crossing and wait for the signal to do your right hand turn. It feels strange the first time or two to be parked there with traffic on the other side of the pedestrian crossing aimed at your passenger side door, but they are stopped until you complete your right hand turn. Basically the pedestrians, trams and traffic in the right hand lane travel through the intersection at the same time parallel to each other so no chance of a collision or pedestrian getting injured. You do your right hand turn with the signal then traffic paused on your left gets their signal to follow you through the intersection while everyone else is stopped. Sounds complicated but it saves coming to grief with a humongous tram and there are signs prior to the intersection warning you about the necessity to make the right hand hook turn from the left.

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

Oh we havent encountered trams over here yet, thanks for watching

[@barnowl.]

@@TheGreatEmigrate Melbourne has the most extensive public tram system in the world, therefore there are many trams, especially in the city centre.

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

@barnowl. Hopefully we will check it out one day

[@Mezza-ld3bq]

Should always be plenty of bins no matter what and its really weird to see anyone litter

[@andrewbristoe1833]

Up in cairns middle of road parks free up to the hr displayed vic and qld regional have lot of angle parking which find quite dangerous .Used to live nsw and not so much their ...bit of uk aus rivalry put cairns as the roundabout world capital know uk has a lot to.

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

Yeah we have one called the magic roundabout, we did a video on it, thanks for watching

[@andrewbristoe1833]

Cairns Northern beaches area have eight in succession north cairns city area 4 in succession love em lights suck .also jaywalking capitol and wacky troppo season court cases aka guy done for mating a parking meter

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

That's just over the top, no need for that many

[@andrewbristoe1833]

Going for world record cairns? spaced though at each of the beaches turnoffs the biggest one has lights on for busy times

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

@andrewbristoe1833 we will have to come and explore up there at some point

[@PatriciaMegna]

Same in Victoria

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

Thank you for watching

[@julesmarwell8023]

the first sunday of March is declared KEEP AUSTRALIA BEAUTIFUL meaning, every one is expected to clearn around where they live. It is our duty

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

it definitely makes a difference

[@julesmarwell8023]

WHAT about the big blue sky and that beautiful sunshine. ????

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

keep your eyes out for a new video, thanks for your comment

[@julesmarwell8023]

@@TheGreatEmigrate subbed. already thanks

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

Thank you ​@@julesmarwell8023

[@julesmarwell8023]

with a bit of luck soon.. you;ll start calling yourselves Aussies. Cheers.

[@1BIGFROGGY]

👍

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

Thanks for watching

[@trevorwilson2966]

Hi Guys don't get sucked in by the Aussie private school crap.Ive lived here 25 years if youve got a boy then get him an early apprenticeship in year 3.

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

Thanks for your comment we only have a girl in education system now

[@Sooz007-l3b]

Kids are trained from toddlers to put rubbish in a bin and not to litter.

[@Mrsemigrate]

❤

[@FionaEm]

The reason there are so many ppl at property inspections is because there's an undersupply relative to demand - something you really should have known beforehand. Not being nasty; just saying that ppl moving from overseas need to do a lot of research 😊

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

Yeah we knew there would be other people there but one viewing was crazy

[@timothy6283]

Of course we are different from the poms thankfully; the Aussie dreams was a Pom swimming out thru the heads with a kiwi under each arm

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

Thanks for watching

[@Sooz007-l3b]

😂😂😂

[@lynettemahoney1710]

I was find $370 for parking the wrong way outside my daughter’s place,I was on the grass verge.

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

That's a little bit picky of them to do that

[@Glenn-ei3xp]

Well aren’t you silly

[@lynettemahoney1710]

I didn’t say in my first comment this was in Australia

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

@lynettemahoney1710 sounds about right with the fines so kind of guessed

[@BobLouden-r9q]

Yes to park facing oncoming traffic is illegal.

[@marcusversace9423]

Private schools in Australia - each child fee are subsidised by the federal government at $15,000 each child each year costing the federal government $30 Billion per year for private schools. Bare in mind public schools in Australia academically out perform private schools in scores reached academically

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

@@marcusversace9423 thanks for the info and for watching

[@R0d_1984]

The taking away of bins (There used to be many more bins) is just profit maximization, it does save the tax payer...

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

I guess it stops the bin chickens as well

[@keithmcwilliams7424]

Where are all the people that car park looks so deserted

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

It was early morning

[@akachovich]

We are fined big money for littering. Aussies love our environment, so if you throw rubbish on the ground, others will tell you to pick it up.

[@TheGreatEmigrate]

Good that's how it should be

[@marklivingstone3710]

lol, try Singapore. If a police officer sees you drop rubbish or a cigarette butt or spit it, is a $SGD1000 on the spot fine that is linked to your passport in case you try leaving without paying. Singapore is spotless. PS, possession of chewing gum is also a $SGD1000 fine, it is a prohibited item. Sounds harsh but it seems to work. 😊

[@1362pc]

Qld is too hot for you Poms....you'll just complain about it....

[@Mrsemigrate]

@@1362pc nice that you tar all Brits with the same brush 😂 #troll

[@1362pc]

Whingeing poms should just go back....

[@Mrsemigrate]

@@1362pc you should go back to wherever you came from YAWN