50 Things I saw after moving to Australia | American in Sydney
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- čas přidán 23. 02. 2024
- There are many things I didn't encounter until I moved to Australia. Living in Australia opened me up to a world of surprises. Living in Sydney came as a shock but until I saw some of the differences between America and Australia I didn't know what to expect when I moved to Australia. The food in Australia and places to visit in Sydney surprised me. The wildlife in Australia, from the deadly wildlife in Australia to your everyday Australian birds were a shock.
What is like like in Australia? it's a shock. I had to learn how to live in Australia as an immigrant, and this list of fifty things about Australia I didn't experience until I moved here can hopefully help some immigrants who want to move to Australia too. And who knows, maybe this list will surprise Australians too!
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We would like to acknowledge the Darug Nation, the traditional custodians of this land we work on, and pay our respects to the Elders past and present and emerging.
All of the parrots like lorikeets, galahs, cockatoos, rosellas, etc. as well as Australian ravens, kookaburras, and magpies are amongst the smartest animals on the planet. Treat them well and with respect and they’ll learn you are okay and be awesome connections to nature.
They’ll come back and become almost tame with you.
And most importantly, a magpie seeing you as an ally will stop them swooping you. They recognise and remember faces.
Always treat local wildlife with respect and it’ll be paid back 100 times over.
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Indeed, we have at least a dozen or more different species of bird visit our garden at different times of the day and we just love them and they seem to enjoy interacting with us too.
My sister feeds bits of raw meat to a few generations of magpies on her back veranda. When she is away, I go to feed her cat and her birds. They are patient and polite, waiting for me to fumble bits of meat onto the railing.
And the parrots you mention are beautiful bitds to look at as well
@@coraliemoller3896 So true, magpies are happy to interact with humans when they aren't nesting. You just have to provide a very safe setting for them. Once they get used to you and know they are safe in an area you have made for them, e.g. you back yard, they start bringing their young. And then their mates follow. They are very intelligent birds and their antics can be comical . Their warbling at certain times of the day such as early morning is a real treat
Favourite part of this was how you said 'servo' without explaining it to your American viewers. 😂
Came to say this too.
You know when you've gone native when you forget an Australian term isn't the default :)
I love the famous Aussie saying, "Mate, I 'sawr' [Aussie: saw] Aver Gardna [Ava Gardner] at the servo 'dis arvo' [this afternoon]. She was munching on a 'dog's eye' [meat pie] with a side of ;dead horse' [tomato sauce]". 'Strewth!
She also said "grab a bikky and a cuppa"!
@@paulhunt3307 good catch Paul.
I have never ever used the word "servo" in my entire life, nor does anybody else I know use the word, and never heard it until about 10 years ago. Seems to be a new invention. But yes, bikkie has been around for yonks.
Hey fantastic job with this review- you are the sort of person who is most welcome in Australia because you are so respectful and genuine 🇦🇺👍
If you say so.
@@doahadi1554 luckily for you the answer is yes, I do say so.
@Sam-zu8pc Hey uncle/auntie, can you get iCarly in Syd doing a vid. And please be sure to tell Sam she_s not allowed to eat the kangaroos and wallabies, cockatoos and didgeridoos. or anything we keep in our zoos. She_s got to do a vid telling us about the darkside of NYC.
Hmmm!?! A “Seppo” is always a “Seppo”. I am not convinced that she is genuine.
School kids in uniform, apart from letting the rest of the community which school a child attends, removes competition based on who can afford the most expensive clothing or latest fad. It also lets parents do the "hand-me-down" thing or to donate outgrown clothing to a school's clothing shop where less affluent parents can purchase clothing that lets their child fit in with all the other children. As for wearing hats to school, Australia is the home of skin cancer. Making kids wear hats under the "no hat, no play" rule normalises the wearing of hats so that as children grow older they accept "slip, slop, slap, shade" as the means of minimising skin damage from sunlight. It would have been an good addition to your video if you could have included pictures of many of the things you described. Kindy kids on the first day of school are always so cute!
In Canberra, in winter, we also have no jumper (sweater) no play especially in after care.
Maybe your suggestion could become a second video
Try a different city, Sydney is a hole
It also means none of your favourite clothes have to be 'polluted' with school thoughts.
Post Second World War, Aussie City Suit wearers wore HATS.
2:45 the first American I've heard saying/knowing there's a difference between Rugby League and Rugby Union 👍
I'm West Australian and only came to know there were two codes both called Rugby in middle age. I'm not a football fan, don't attend AFL matches and I've never seen a game of either Rugby code. Don't know what the difference is or why.
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New South Welshman here Swanny! Mate a bit of advice for you, try as hard as you can to attend an AFL Grand Final at the MCG. I have attended many Rugby League Grand Finals in NSW and Qld and they simply do not come close to the Melbourne event. The people and the atmosphere are basically indescribable. I was there for the 1977 Grand Final, look it up.
Cheers my friend, all the best 👋👋👋
And she follows the Wallabies, right?
I'm sure her husband drilled it into her.
@@doahadi1554 haha the who? the team that mirrors NZ's cricket team in the trans-tasman rivalry?
I have a funny story about the bin chickens. I used to work as a cleaner at the McDonald's at Wangaratta (regional Victoria, Australia) and on weekends the car park would be a mess due to all the drunk people going out and then coming for their hangover cure (ours is a 24 hour store). When I'd arrive at 3am there would be food everywhere, but by the time it was 6-6.30 after I'd cleaned the dining area the car park was much cleaner, because the nin chickens had come and helped themselves to the food in the car park. Sometimes they'd be more helpful than the customers lol
Ned Kelly, territory! 😊
We never saw Ibises (their real name) until around the later 1990s, as far as I remember, when drought drove them to urban areas.
A lot of them settled in Marrickville, where I used to live, because of the proximity of Cooks River and a couple of drains/creeks. They like to dangle their feet.
They are awkward on the ground but elegant in flight. Sadly, a lot got run over along Carrington Road, where there were long stretches of footpath trees and relatively little to disturb them, but long take off runs and poor low speed flight points then at the mercy of cars.
School hats: they're usually wide brimmed with a neck cover, they're to protect from sunburn
School "Legionaire's caps" are the same as those worn by the French Foreign Legion soldiers in Africe.
With corks?
And more importantly, prevention of Killer Skin Cancer.
@@MichaelKingsfordGray no
Australia is the world's skin cancer hotspot.
As a brit living in Sydney, I would add two more. Australian magpies are fearsome beasts and flying foxes aka very large bats are amazing.
I have bats living in the gum trees out front. Not sure if that's an "Aussie" thing or not.
I love Magpies. One of the smartest birds in the world. But we have TONS of smart birds, including the Australian Miner Bird. And we have tons of smart parrots (various cockatoos and such). The cockatoo can talk, the magpie has a memory for people who are friendly or who are enemies. The Miner Bird solves problems logically.
Ahh but waking up to magpie song... Divine!
Aussie 'maggies' are obnoxious, nasty birds.
@@bluebehir Is the miner Australian? I thought it was an exotic.
@@dagwould There are two miner birds that I know of. The grey/yellow is native, the brown is the Indian Miner, and not native.
This is so interesting, you are a welcome new Aussie. Happy to have you here!❤️❤️❤️
When I was a kid, 60+ years ago, show bags were called sample bags, were cheap and had a range of "samples" in them, usually worth more than you paid for them. Candy makers had small packets of their product range o you could "sample" the range and see what you liked. Toys were cheap and small ones that were usually broken in a couple of days and also a lot of novelty ones, like a cardboard cylinder with a string hanging out ad a piece of sandpaper which when jerked on string, sounder like a chicken & drove teachers mad.
Some were even free. Great way of advertising
@@AnoJanJanThats true ,I remember when the banks particualy the goverment owned band such as the state bankof victoria , bank of NSW commenwealth bank and others that are long gone gave away free shoe bags with a ruler ,money box pencils and sometimes a pencil case and other stuff . they were never very popular amongst us kids but our parenta loved tham for obvious reasons , the daryl lea bags had to be the best although probably the dearest always good value ,I think 40c at the time
They were great but the ones that I used to get had lollies in them not candy (whatever that is).
@@warrenturner397 At least Aussies know what lollies are, alas American's don't so I had to translate!
@@warrenturner397😊👍
I like that Red Rooster serves ROAST CHICKEN.
I cant stand red roota, over salted chicken.
Still sounds better than Red Chook, or does it?
I prefer Chicken Treat, but I’m not sure if they’re just a West Aussie thing or not!
@@JoelWendeGood, but not cheap!
@@JoelWendeIs non RR also originally from WA ?
I love hearing some aussie slang become more and more a part of your banter. You saying 'servo' jumped out to me.
It’s so much fun to experience your reactions I really enjoyed this one. We take things for granted and don’t realise how funny and quirky Australian is. Thank you.
Your path was crossed by a Bluey?! You have been blessed! 🦎🙌
Used to have a resident 1 here at home, but here they are pink-tongues. Was forever having to boot him out of the house back to the woodpile in the garden when the weather was bad. A half-seen tail disappearing under the fridge is bad for an Old Codger's heart! 😉
Ibises (bin chickens) are not only found in Australia, they're found in other countries (e.g. Africa, America). They usually inhabit wetlands and it's only in recent years that they have also moved into the cities and discovered the easy pickings in the bins.
Pretty sure the Australian white ibis aka bin chicken is native to Australia
yes
When I was young they were so rare could only see in wetlands from a distance, shy birds.
There good eating cooking one up with a bit of fish oil an chicken salt
I've seen wild Ibis in the USA. A slightly different species but white Ibis nonetheless.
My dad worked for Queensland Rail and part of his long service leave included first class passes for himself, mum and I. I was 12 at the time, we travelled from Brissie (Brisbane) to Perth and back. We also flew to Tassie (Tasmania) on our way back. We were living in Brissie at the time. My favourite destination had to have been Tassie. I'd love to go back for a visit.
G'day!!! Whe I lived in Sydney in Revesby we had a large back yard and what a joy it was to have sevral blue tongues in there! They took care of all the snails and many other pesky bugs! Fun Fact:- my first Easter show was in 1961 and they were "sample bags" and most were free! because they were a great way for the public to "sample" new products...Cheers!
I'm ex-South African, and a popular South African franchise here is Nando's Chicken. It originated in Johannesburg, a Spicy Portuguese-style grilled chicken. If you haven't tried it yet, give it a go; it is great!
I never knew Nando's is South African. You learn something every day.
Nandos is the very opposite of great imo, Bloody ordinary, but then so is Red Rooster.
Nandos isn't South African originally is it? Or is it just the most popular over there?
Nando's chicken is 💩!
@@AJS86- yes Nando’s originated in J’burg South Africa
Love this girl. She is so fair-minded, a credit to her native land BUT becoming very Australian, whether she realises it or not. Australia has lots of down sides. I'm 7th generation, like, 7 convicts in the family tree but we try to pick the best of the US culture and the best of the UK and whatever else. But we have to keep lifting our game so we need to know where we are falling down.
And what does the USA have to teach us?. Really .
Our kids' school uniform, in primary school, had bright yellow hats. If we were taking them anywhere crowded, we'd get them to wear their school hats. The bright yellow was really easy to spot. (Our kids never objected, they were used to wearing them).
Long Service Leave came about because Australia was originally thought of as a British Colony and a majority of people had relatives in the UK, so Long Service was introduced so people could go and visit their relatives in the UK. You were given 1 month to travel by ship to the UK, 1 month to visit your relatives and a month to sail home.
Long service leave was implemented to incentivise people to stay with one employer rather than job hop..
@@esthermclauchlan3146sorry Esther, but the OP is correct on this one
That's interesting. I'd never thought about the reason for LSL before.
I was a teacher in my beginning years in a school far west of Dubbo. There we'd get an extra week of holidays at the end of the Christmas break. I'd heard it had something to do with the heat but I'm not really sure. Perhaps it was to make up for the distance? Back in those days shops were not open for long hours- especially in country towns- so the only chance to shop for gifts or clothes or anything was on a Saturday morning from 9am to 12pm after making the journey to Dubbo. No mail order catalogues for these types of things and no real internet back then so I'd figured this might have come into the equation for that extra week.
Did not know this about LSL though. I'm now guessing there are lots of places that DON'T get LSL.
@@loverlymeHi. Mail order catalogues were definitely a thing. My grandmother was born in 1900 and my mother in 1933. They grew up in a tiny place called Baradine which is a two drive north of Dubbo, but much longer in the first half of the 20th century. Mail order was how they bought a lot of major items. I remember my grandmother talking about a doll she received for Christmas.
In the 1960s and 1970s I also remember seeing the David Jones catalogue in our house, when I was growing up.
Australia WAS a British Colony.
I saw heaps of gum trees when I visited San Francisco. Fun fact about the pedestrian lights that have a noise; Billy Eilish incorporated the sound effect of a Sydney pedestrian crossing in Bad Guy. Christmas pudding is really a European/English thing originally. Monthly pay - I think this is the exception rather than the rule. Most Aussies would be paid fortnightly, I think. The other place that is traditional to have a sausage sizzle is when you vote: the "democracy sausage". We have a blue tongue that lives with 2 m of our back door. Easter shows - I think the timing only corresponds with Easter in Sydney. The Melbourne show is in September. I think these more or less correspond to state shows in the USA. But every major town will have a show where farmers can show off their animals or produce and kids can go on rides, play at the side show booths and eat junk food.
I spent a year in Canada and then visited San Diego. Feeling a bit homesick I was blown away by the amount of gum trees there too.
Most companies will get you paid weekly, some fortnightly and in very rare cases monthly.
@@jagobbin2 The other weird places you can find gum trees are Portugal (basically regarded as a noxious weed) and Santorini (yes, the Greek island). In both cases the original trees were gifts from the Australian government...
My town has an Easter fair that goes for 3-4 days. Easter egg hunts, art shows, carnival rides, foot races, parades, etc
There are a lot of gum trees in California, imported from Australia They grow quickly in a warm/hot climate and don't need a lot of water and provide a lot of shade. That is one of the reasons that California has terrible bush fires.
Absolutely loved this. I see so many Americans have a whine, but every single one of your negatives was presented as a question. Every single country has a plus, and minus. I really appreciate the fact you look past this, and discuss the variables… You’ve been stuck inSydney by the sounds, and once you’re out, it will blow your mind again. Mark, you lucky bastard, cherish this yank. Show her our country!
Subscribed. Well done.
Check out Queensland. Sydney is one of the worst places in Australia. Get out and about and you’ll never go back there.
@@jerrymyahzcat Sydney and NSW in general have better beaches than we do here in Qld The beaches here are mostly from the Gold Coast bypass Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast and that is it.
Remember that the Sea Eagles take on the Rabbitohs, and then the Roosters vs Broncos at Las Vegas next week should be interesting to see the crowd reaction just checked tickets are $19 USD for the double header. Really want to watch a livestream next weekend and not even a NRL fan
Hope so. Real footy might confuse them🤣 Maybe I'm too parochial, but Grid Iron, Hockey, Basketball, and Baseball just don't do it for me. 🇦🇺🇦🇺😀
Imagine watching that and Kylie Minogue on the same weekend!
Who cares!
Will be interesting for sure. It’s a shame they don’t really have any cricket ovals over there, would be interesting to see some footy played there as well.
I think it was not so much as getting the game played in the States but to get a foot in the door for the Gambling . The franchised games over there would not let a foreign game in. Look at how low Soccer is on the totem Pole over there. AFL? no way the Americans have the attention span of a sheep..
An Eastern Brown snake found its way into my back yard the other day. They are one of the world’s most deadly snakes and a common sight in suburbs on the fringes of cites in spring and summer. In the bush , you just leave them alone and let it go on its merry way but if found in your yard, you need to call a ranger or professional snake handler to have them removed and relocated back to the bush. Recently a woman in rural Queensland woke up abruptly after a brown snake had slithered into her bed and bit her on the hand. Fortunately she was airlifted by LifeFlight rescue helicopter to hospital for treatment and survived. As for spiders, the best way to prevent being bitten by a red back or funnel web spider in the back yard is simply by wearing garden gloves. Every time you lift anything like a pot, just check under the rim see if there is anything there first.
About snake and pots, that's only in the bush - your house is 99.99 % safe
@@wakelampExcept for the poor silly sod who was bitten by an Eastern Brown the other day and died before getting to hospital!
@@theoztreecrasher2647 Where was this?
Almost every town in Australia has an agricultural show. It’s the equivalent of the old US county fair. Very often, it’s the same itinerant group of families who own and run the sideshow amusements and rides - much like a travelling circus. That’s why there’s a ‘show circuit’, with a calendar, where towns host their local agricultural show at different times of the year. Sydney has its famous Royal Easter Show; in Brisbane, the Royal Exhibition (called the ‘Ekka’) occurs in August every year; the Royal Melbourne show is held in September. Often, each local government area (like a US county) declares a local ‘Show Day’ public holiday to encourage the local community to visit the show. As in the US, it’s often an opportunity for primary producers to show of their wares to the city-based distributors and retailers, and network with the community.
Perth and Melbourne shows run very close to each other.
Funny how Adelaide and Hobart didn't get a mention
@@alwynemcintyre2184As usual... 😡
@@alwynemcintyre2184Who?
@@alwynemcintyre2184 Only because I haven’t lived in SA or TAS, and only visited them once in my life. I’m not familiar with their show calendar. I only mentioned the three largest cities, because they’re… well… the three largest cities, and I’m familiar with them. I didn’t mention any of the hundreds of other smaller towns and cities that host agricultural shows and local festivals, either. I’ve lived in 10 of them.
So nice to hear an American say something nice about Australia. My son lives in the States and he does not run it down .
I think most Americans who move here have mostly good things to say. Most commonly, that they never want to move back! It's really only a certain type of people who, through the poor US schooling system of at least some states, think the ONLY place in the world for freedom and democracy is the USA. Many change their minds when they experience the truth...
I think most Americans who move here have mostly good things to say. Most commonly, that they never want to move back! It's really only a certain type of people who, through the poor US schooling system of at least some states, think the ONLY place in the world for freedom and democracy is the USA. Many change their minds when they experience the truth...
@@papasmurfette007I disagree most enjoy it here but have family back in the states and miss other things . I’m 5 years in appreciate the weather but choose my home country ijs.
@@catherinewest7923 What is ijs? And my dear . You can always go back.
@@jacktattisumm who wouldn’t go back to their home 🏠 I’m just saying lol😂😂😂😂😂
There are no pokies/gambling machines in pubs in Western Australia, thank heavens. The Perth Royal Show is a week long event, starting around the end of September/beginning of October. There are lots of much smaller regional shows that run from September to early November, around the state also.
I’m in the States from Australia, specifically Southern California. There are numerous stands of eucalyptus trees here, brought over around the turn of the century (early 1900s). Obviously not native; they served as windbreaks in agricultural regions. Now they’re seen down the middle of neighborhood streets. The oldest trees in Disneyland are eucalyptus separating Main Street and Jungle Cruise. Walt opted to leave them in place as a good break between lands.
In Anaheim we have council bins. And oddly, rather than a monthly utility bill (includes power, water and trash), Anaheim sends theirs out every six weeks. Weird.
Only Sydney does an Easter show. Other places do shows, but not at Easter.
Yep. Total Melbourne show Is September
Every state capital city has a big show its a cumulation of all the little Agricultural shows around the state. I used to show dogs and nearly every year did, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and one year also did Tasmania.
She forgot to mention the locals day off to go to the show. In Brizzy for the EKKA it's called peoples day. Up here in North Queensland it's just called show day.
Other states have a Royal show except Brisbane with the Ekka but we know they are just slow country folk up there
@@JasonD_ it's technically called The Queensland Royal Show. We apparently just like to call it the Ekka
In Western Australia we have the Royal Show, which is held in Spring.
There are a lot of kangaroo's to be seen around our local hospital, because of the bushland right next to it. I hate musk sticks. I occasionally get blue tongue lizard's in the garden. I had to rescue one from my dog, took it to the vet, which is free for wildlife. It made a full recovery and was released back into the wild.
I wonder if you live in Bunbury as the hospital has a lot of bush near it.
Day dreaming at the pedestrian crossing means that you will fit in well with the Australian culture because we are constantly drifting off into another world. As for rent, I live in the outer suburbs of Adelaide and rent a 3 bedroom house on a quarter acre block for $250 per week but I have arranged to pay my rent fortnightly, I am on a disability pension so the government pays me fortnightly and I have it directly debited from my bank account. I only live less than a 2 minute walk from a major shopping centre and public transport hub so I don't have my own transport because I just don't need it, my doctor is also about a 2 minute walk away. Sydney is the most expensive place to live in Australia and Adelaide is one of the cheapest but I was born in Adelaide and can't see any point in moving anywhere else because It is cheap and a lot less crowded. It still shocks me that the USA has cities that have more people than Australia, I like living in a state that only has 2.5 million people, at around 2am it is so silent that I can hear my own heart beating.
"Sydney is the most expensive place to live in Australia and Adelaide is one of the cheapest..."
One of the cheapest capital cities, perhaps, but many regional towns would be cheaper.
"It still shocks me that the USA has cities that have more people than Australia,..."
Be unshocked. Australia has about 25 million people. The biggest U.S. city has around eight million.
I live in Perth now (thank goodness) but when I was a teen I lived in Penrith, western Sydney. I always remember the seats at Blacktown train station graffitied to say Slacktown 😅
My Dad had a fish shop across the road from the Federal Pub in Penrith I learnt to swim in the Nepean.
Congrats on 10k subs!! Great video too 😃
good list. we used to go to the show on the last day and after lunch we would get discount show bags and load up with free samples and left over bits as the pavillions started to pack up. Best day ever
Great list Amanda, loved the video. Cheers!
Come on Musk Sticks are the best!! lol :). I didn't realise that about the medicare card interesting, I thought everyone just got a green coloured one.
If you're Aboriginal or a Torres Strait islander you get a reddish-ochre one. 😉
I used to love the musk lifesavers. I had some American friends here and got them musk sticks to try. I dunno if my taste has changed or they have. Not as nice as I remember.
Adelaide's old Glenelg tram has seats that the backrest can shift back and forth so you can sit on the seat forward to the direction of travel or if you are a group of three or four you can sit facing eachother.
I know they had them in the UK on the tramcar systems in most cities as far back as the 40's and I suspect much further back than that,of course we,in the UK, decided to rip out 99% of our tram network in the name of 'progress'regretably but that's another story.
Thank you. It's decades since we last used the Glenelg tram. We used go to Adelaide for the Festival, and once rented a flat at Glenelg rather than one in North Adelaide. The tram trip in and out was easy but overall we found the short walk back to North Adelaide better for us. There used be trams in Sydney when I was growing up, but I remember little of them. Most of the trains in Sydney have backrests as you describe them. One batch did not and that contributed to the general unpopularity of that series..
@@doubledee9675
Yeah Adelaide used to have a huge tram system too that was ripped up in the 50's due to mismanagement and incorrect projections of the future
@@stevenbalekic5683Yes, I nearly fell over recently when I learned we once had 28 different tram lines and 300 tram cars in service! 😳
When I was a young boy (60 yrs ago), we used to switch the seats around on the Glenelg tram BUT the conductor on the tram would make us put them back to suit the direction of travel. 🙁
always love your insights and the smart reflections that mirror our two countries and people.
Yeah Nup the thing that gives this Sheila the thumbs up is the fact of the bottles of Bundy on the shelf behind her…….. bloody champion lol 👍👍👍👍😍🇦🇺
Concerning “show bags”, when I was a kid in the 1950’s these were “sample bags”. Notably food and lolly ( pre-dates candy) producers would package up mini sized versions of their product in “sample bags”. Show bags are now a commercial perversion of these antecedents.
Yes, confectionery and biscuits are available more cheaply in the supermarkets now, when they are on special.
4:50 ~ Cockatoos. A Sulphur Crested Cockatoo lives a very long time, life-span roughly the same as a human being. Like several species of birds, they're surprisingly smart. You keep one in captivity, it gets to know humans and our lives, and the degree to which that bird understands our world, can be frightening. How that much intelligence and perception and thought, can be packaged in a head the size of plum or a big grape, that's a mystery. I hear people talk about 'dumb animals' and I know they've never shared a house with a 75 ~ 85 year old sulphur Crested.
Oh yes my uncle had a galah for 40 years It did not like me and pecked me every time I went there on Holidays Bugger of a bird,it hurt
(12) Kangaroos: depends where you are in Australia, you can be guaranteed to spot plenty of them in the wild if you time it right or do a bit of bushwalking. I live a 10 min drive up the road from Canberra City (in Lyneham) and there are bush areas a short walk from my place where you can spot them if you're walking through. Or just go for a walk up Mount Ainslie or Mount Majura or Mount Taylor and go off the track a bit, you'll quickly spot some roos lounging around. There's certain roads you can drive down in the very early hours of the morning and you'll have to drive slow to allow them to hop off the road.
The Ibises are scavengers, hence why they're happy to go through bins they find, but I blame people for that, not the ibis. When you see them around any wetlands they can be as beautiful as any other bird. I took up photography as a hobby a few years back and it helps you appreciate birds and other wildlife a lot more as you photograph and learn more about them.
Let's face it. If you are an Australian, you've won the lottery of life.
I am in Perth and here we don't have poker machines anywhere outside the casino.
I enjoyed your impressions - thank you for sharing!
Don't forget that most regular workers get 17.5% higher pay for their 4 weeks annual leave. The reason is complicated nand originated in the sugar mills in Queensland.
regular? like casual?
@@goannaj3243 Yep, regular. It started as a compensation for shift workers who did not get their loadings when they worked funny hours. But once they got it, everyone wanted a piece of it
As an Australian I was aware of lots of things about Canada and USA before I went there, but these things surprised me:
Paying for air at a gas station
Having to pay for gas BEFORE filling the car. If you have paid more than could fit in the tank, you have to go in and get change.
Tax not built into the sticker price (as mentioned), but also different state tax values in different states.
Lack of signs in places like airports and railway stations. So annoying having to ask somebody.
Referring to the LAX International Terminal as the Tom Bradly terminal or Termial B. Why not just International Terminal.
Airport terminal gates not necessarily in numerical order.
TSA - Transportation Security Administration. Making life hell. I even saw one TSA pick up a lost passport and not put out a call to the passenger, just walked around for the next hour holding it.
No Tap and Go for paying.... they often take your card away then come back with the receipt to sign. WTF?
Nobody obeying the speed limit whatsoever. Australia speeds are over policed/cameras.
Some people in some states unable to understand me AT ALL, even if I spoke slowly and Amercanised my words. One Wendys lady thought I was speaking French!!!
In Australia you will see many varieties of birdlife in your garden depending on the region, season and time of day. Our neighbourhood is always full of magpies, kookaburras, currawongs, wattlebirds, sulfur crested cockatoos, pink and gray gallahs, rosellas and a large variety of other parrots, robins, silvereyes, thornbills, wrens, pigeons...the list goes on.
I love Australia. Thx for reminding me. 🇦🇺
The Ibis (Bin Chicken) has worked out how to eat cane toads. They hold them in their beaks and flick them around until they have expelled all their poison, then wash them in water and eat them. These birds must be quite intelligent as the toads were introduced to Australia
😂 That's crows mate! Not ibises! They eat from the bins!
@@jennklein1917 Some Australian ibises have learnt how to eat cane toads as Gazza described, there's an ABC News report dated 22 Nov 2022 and at least one CZcams video showing this.
Crows normally flip them over and eat the thighs, intestines and tongues - according to Australian Geographic.
My brother has a dog that chases after them, aggravates them by pawing at their backs then licks them. She starts foaming at the mouth then falls over sort of growling for a few minutes. Gets up and walks away looking for another on. Regular little toad junkie.
@@ohasis8331 LOL
Loved the video, until you rubbished musk sticks 😂
Those train seats I've also only seen in Sydney, I've lived all over the country and many cities don't even have trains or only have long distance trains. Those changing seats I'd actually forgotten about because i haven't lived in Sydney for twenty years.
They were commonly seen in U.S. commuter trains, and in fact are an American invention. The old vintage Sydney red cars have them with the U.S. patent numbers on them. Sydney's R and R1 Class trams had them too, as did London's first trams.
Great video. Thanks - from an Aussie. I have to say, I don't recall the last video of yours I saw, but you seem much more vibrant and confident than you ever have been on the screen.
Here in Australia tipping is not a thing at all.
I've NEVER tipped in my life.
During my long working life, I've always been paid fortnightly. When I was renting I also always paid my rental two weekly too. But I do agree with you that gum trees are awesome. Many of us don't realise that there are over eucalypt 800 species in Australia compared to very few pine tree species in the US. The best thing is that they are evergreen so we don't have these stark-looking deciduous forests in winter like most of the northern hemisphere.
I dont understand this one. I've from Australia (Melbourne ) and I have always paid rent monthly. When you rent through a real estate agent you always pay monthly. I've moved into many places, they they always want 1 month's rent and 1 month for "bond" or security to move in, then pay rent every month.. Anyone who is paying weekly or every 2 weeks is most likely renting from a private owner.
Maybe there is some confusion because many real estate agents advertise a property's rent as "per week" like "$525 per week" but when you apply they will need 4x $525= $2100 plus another $2100 for security deposit. Then you pay $2100 monthly. I live in Melbourne thats how it is there. Another good thing not mentioned is the security deposit is held by an independent trustee, and if the owner wants to claim the money for damages they have to apply to a tribunal and provide evidence of damage. This stops dodgy owners claiming the security deposit.
Most Australians are paid fortnightly and I have always been. My partner, however, is paid weekly.
Always been paid fortnightly, except in my early years, (when they still paid you in cash) being paid weekly. Only ever heard of very highly paid salary earners getting paid monthly. Back when I was renting, nearly everyone paid their rent monthly but that seems to have shifted to mainly weekly/fortnightly now.
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"I dont understand this one. I've from Australia (Melbourne ) and I have always paid rent monthly."
You're confusing employee wages (which the opening poster was talking about) and paying rent.
I work for a privatised former government operation, and those people still on awards get paid fortnightly, but a lot of the newer employees are on common law contract and they get paid monthly.
Great list, well done🎉
Good observations! So interesting to hear from someone who embraces the differences.
P-plates became mandatory in NSW for newly licensed drivers in January 4 1966.
Similar R (restricted) plates were mandatory for all newly licensed drivers in Northern Ireland since April 1968.
The rest of Britain still have no restrictions.
Photo licences were issued in Northern Ireland since the early sixties or even the fifties, decades before the rest of UK.
A lot of new drivers in England show P plates, even though they're not mandatory.
@@stevemawer848 Yes the Brits always do things half arsed.
Emergency vehicles are now starting to use red and blue flashing lights which is eisier to catch your attention than just blue.
@@utubeozpat I don't think red and blue is easier to spot than just blue - sounds a bit half-arsed to me., Making P plates optional is called "freedom to choose".
@@stevemawer848 In my personal experience with driving in Australia as well as UK and France red and blue will grab your attention at a much greater distance than just blue. It's the contrast that does it.
"Making P plates optional is called "freedom to choose" ?? Then passing a test should also be optional. Allowing a freshly minted teenager to fly up the motorway at 70mph (110km/h) with alcohol in his system the same as an older experienced driver is crazy. No wonder insurance premiums are sky high in UK.
@@utubeozpat Good bit of Aussie logic there - P plates optional, therefore passing test should be optional? I'd ask what planet you're on, but I know. Freshly minted teenagers might behave like that in 'Straylear" but the Brits have a bit more common sense. You didn't mentioned older BMW and Audi drivers with cocaine in their system flying up motorways?
If you cannot buy a meat pie in the USA then I am never going there.
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I can understand that!
Glad you like the place and have settled In so well. Great presentation. Thank you.
I like this little Septic-Tank! Top video, very interesting to see things through fresh eyes.
Easter show (Sydney,NSW ONLY), Weekly/Fortnightly pay is the norm. Red rooster is roasted chicken. Sacred IBIS (Bin chickens) very common in Asia and Africa. Not all states have implemented digital drivers Licences.
Great list!👍
Sydney is Australia’s NYC. That’s why it costs similar to buy a house on land there.
When I was a boy in the 50’s show bags were FREE! We used to come away with dozens of show backs filled with all sorts of FREE goodies.
Hi Kaitlin, you are sounding more like a Aussie with each passing day ✨🎉💃🏖️, great blog 👍
I love the Bundy bottles you have on the shelf!!
Great Video ... As an aussie.. I love to see videos of people either visiting or like yourself who has moved here enjoying the land down under ...
I love the way you presented this video. By doing the comparison, you give us Aussies some insights into life in America as well.
When I was young in the 1950's & 60's, a showbag was free, and was full of advertising samples from businesses. every small town had an annual show.
Love your observations. When you said musk sticks are" kinda chalky" I heard "chokky" and thought, "No they're not".
Very well put together. I'm glad you like most of our ways of life here, you certainly are experiencing many fabulous parts that make up our amazing country ❤
I loved all the differences when I went to the US, it was so exciting to experience. Enjoy your time here, see if you can make 51-100 part 2 ❤❤❤
as an Aussie you have made a great video. It didn't feel like it was dragging on and kept my attention the whole time. Cheers 👍
Very good list, you are a great traveler.
There is nothing like the Sydney Royal Easter Show anywhere else on the planet. It's awesome!
Monthly pay is very unusual. The only time I have ever had monthly pay was working for an American company and was told that Americans get monthly pay!
Was just going to say this - I am an Aussie in her late 50’s and I have never been paid monthly
I work for a privatised former government operation, and those people still on awards get paid fortnightly, but a lot of the newer employees are on common law contract and they get paid monthly.
I have lived in Australia for 20 years, but when I did, apart from working in construction and a restaurant, all my jobs were paid monthly.
FYI, Western Australia has zero pokie machines in pubs. The only ones you see here are in our casino.
I’m an American living in NSW and what gets me the most is when I’m walking around town and see people that look like people I knownfrom back home.
I had not heard of the 3 months off thing, sounds good!
A connoisseur of fine rum too! You're well on the way to being a true Aussie.
Concur with the power point set ups, and Sushi long rolls. :)
We live in a quiet area of suburban Sydney. Plenty of good-sized gardens, eucalypts, angophoras and other large trees. For many years, we had bi-yearly visits from a pair of quorians, brightly coloured parrots - sort of like rosellas but green rather than red and blue. In early spring, there'd just be the 2 of them, but in autumn there'd often be a third, much younger. Obviously, they were between winter and summer homes and the third would be their latest chick. We bought the special feed for the larger parrots and fed them. Wonderfully sociable and polite birds. They'd come and sit on the railing for our back verandah and have a chat - definitely a chat, listening to what we said and answering. When we put the feed out, they'd give what clearly was a chirp of thanks. When we downsized to a nearby unit, we told the purchasers to be ready to continue the practice.
Nicely put together, It's so easy to take things for granted when you've always lived here. The comments on the lack of paid leave in the US were surprising.
Thanks. That was fun
This was interesting..i had to laugh when you said it was a relief that you didnt have to tip over here haha.
Thank you for that. A genuine, polite clip of the pleasant differences between our countries. I hope a polite Aussie reciprocates over in the US. I often see people slanging the differences, it's easy to do, but uninteresting. I hope you enjoy your time here, how ever long that may be. Cheers. 😀
I was about to say the same thing. I usually cringe when I watch videos like this, because not only are usually negative, but they are also flawed and full of mistakes which makes me really pissed off. This was a nice change.
for an American in Australia, that was quite a good list. well done.
Also, the fact there are basically no private beaches here, public bbq's are free n either gas or electric, the fishing is awesome n u can go barefoot just about anywhere
Love your video and welcome to Australia. I think you'll fit right in anywhere so you should be planning a lap of Oz and I reckon you could do a similar video in every state because they all have their peculiarities. I look forward to your next video.
Hi Kaitlyn, I surprised you didn't mention traffic free pedestrian zones where people stroll up and down with shops and businesses on the side. There are a couple of videos on CZcams about Sydney pedestrian zones. As you know we don't have those in the USA. Great list and a great channel.
A tip for how to handle your monthly wage, open a new account that has no keycard access, get your wage sent to that account, subtract an amount you want to save then divide the rest by four and schedule a transfer once a week into your key card account. That way it's like you are paying yourself a weekly wage. 😊
Sorry to hear that one of your Christmases was interrupted by a shark alert, Kaitlyn. That must have really been a "Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore" moment for you :)
love the collection of Bundy!
Thank you for being so well grounded in Aussie differences. I didnt hear you say that you want to return to the States, I take it from that you are converted. Good onya love!
Why would she leave a civilised country? 🙂
You may not see many tip jars on the counter but a lot of stores/cafes etc. have charity tins. Which people can put their loose change that goes towards charities that usually supports children in need. Also in most banks they have lolly boxes on the counter where fir a few coins you can get a couple of lollies.
A few points:
1. Shift workers get 5 weeks annual leave in Australia. We also get 15 days paid sick leave per year, fully cumulative.
2. Real estate in Sydney is generally more expensive than other cities/towns.
3. You mentioned Medicare, but didn't explain free health care.
4. You didn't mention Vegemite.
5. You mentioned cardboard voting booths, but didn't mention the preferential voting system which ensures nobody's vote is wasted.
6. A big difference from the US is we don't have mass shootings in Australia because guns aren't everywhere.
7. The shows in other states are at different times of year, it is at Easter only in Sydney.
8. Australia is a huge, diverse country. There is a lot more to it than just Sydney. However, Sydney is the only city with an Opera House next to a giant coathanger.
So true! I could have easily come up with 100, but I talk a lot and the video would have been an hour 😆
@@KindaAustralianfair enough :)
Glad that you like Australia enough to stay here, it really is a great place to live.
I liked your comment about musk sticks, (a candy). When I first came to Australia in the mid 60s, I was given one to try. The first mouthful convinced me that it wasn't something I should eat.
I can’t stand musk sticks - and I was born here..
Yeah….I think you can put it in the “ different” category with Turkish Delight😂😂
Its called hungry jacks down here because when the first franchisee wanted to open here, they found out there was already a local business called burger king with the name trademarked