What SURPRISED Me in Sydney so far | Australia vs. USA
Vložit
- čas přidán 5. 06. 2024
- Prepare to be surprised by the shocking differences between the US and Australia! From culture to food to everyday life, you'll be amazed at the contrasts between these two countries. Watch now to learn more!
PLEASE KINDLY SUBSCRIBE !
If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up 👍 and if you want to see more videos from our channel, SUBSCRIBE 🔥 and make sure to turn on the bell icon (🔔 ).
FILMED WITH: GoPro Hero 10
Purchase here:
gopro.com/en/us/shop/cameras/...
ABOUT MY CHANNEL
Our channel is about traveling. We conduct in depth interview and in order to have the perspective of the locals. In addition, we provide "how to" guide and we save you time by giving you the best tips and travel advise about the destinations that we cover. We cover lots of cool stuff such as food, transportation and safety.
#Ivaintures #usa #australia
Check out our channel here:
/ channel
Don’t forget to subscribe!
Check out our channel here:
/ ivaintures
Don’t forget to subscribe!
GET IN TOUCH
Contact us on Ivaintures@Gmail.com
FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL
Get updates or reach out to Get updates on our Social Media Profiles!
Facebook: / ivain Ngue
Instagram: / ivaintures
This is a few things that I have observed after a few days in Sydney. Hopefully, you learned a couple new things. Please share your opinion below on what you know that I forgot to mention. Let me know if you want to see more of these videos as well. Kindly hit that 👍and subscribe. Cheers mate !
Australia is the only country that has more Americans moving here than Aussies wanting to move to the US
The most popular national profession football is not rugby.
It's footy, or often called Aussie rules.
It's native to Australia.
It is utterly different to any other football code.
It's also the oldest internationally, including older than soccer.
Rugby is dominant in only 2 states, New South Wales which is where Sydney is and Queensland, Brisbane of course.
The rest of the country plays footy.
Like NY or LA aren't the USA, Sydney isn't Australia.
Which is the most annoying thing about these channels, although understandable.
No the people elect the Prime Minister... The party elects their leader to run for office..in the election.
Supermarkets close 10pm now near me, since Covid, it used to be midnight!
How about the fresh air, friendliness, cleanliness and sunshine! 🧐
You might also be surprised that the polymer banknote was actually invented in Australia and is now used in many countries in the world, like UK & Singapore.
Supermarkets don't shut at 6pm. At least 9pm every night.
My local supermarket shuts at 11pm, and one down the road closes at midnight.
Our supermarkets open at 7:00am
We don’t have supermarkets in Queensland. We mostly just lick moss from rocks.
@@jakeriley6881 The moss licking is okay, it is the fighting off the other critters to keep your patch of moss that I don't like :)
@@jakeriley6881I thought that was only cane toads you lick.
It's interesting how every other country has a lot of people leaving 😅 but no one wants to leave Australia ❤
Yeah, we have a very small population, ranked 55 in the world, yet ranked 12th highest economy. Not too bad at all.
Very well researched. Good job. Starbucks failed here because their coffee is terrible. We don't think that tomato sauce is ketchup - they're different. Aussies will drink anything, but we won't drink Fosters.
Don't forget the wine cask was invented in OZ, Renmark, SA.
Australia's biggest sport is actually Australian Rules Football. In fact the Australian Football League (AFL), is the most attended domestic sports league in the world per-capita.
Most non Australians have never heard of Aussie rules and when they see it for the first time they are amazed!
We don't think tomato sauce is ketchup. Some places have both.
As far as I know it's the same thing,just a diff name.
There is only tomato sauce its time everyone else catch up.🤪
USAIANs call it ketchup, because they can,t pronounce Tomatoe Sauce
Target and K-Mart are totally different stores in the US and Australia.
Kmart used to be like the US, back in the 70/80's you could still buy semi auto rifles and shotguns at kmart.
KMart was a mix of Australian Coles and the American company, but that partnership ended a long time ago. In 1977 the Americans dropped most of their shares to 20% and totally ditched them in 1994. Target was never related.
I remember the days ( in the 1980’s ) when Coles & Kmart were connected as one store. You even had a cafeteria at the back called Holly’s were you could get burgers & fries a little cheaper than a takeaway shop. They even briefly had Super Kmart stores, but I think that concept ended in the early ‘90s.
I'll just have to pull Ivain up on the common misconception amongst foreigners about gun ownership in Australia; I myself am an Aussie gun owner (of both longarms and handguns) who lives in Sydney and I also worked in a Gunshop for many years, so I know a little about the subject. Firearms were never "banned" nor citizens denied the right to own them in Australia, rather the case is that after a mass-shooting in 1996 all the different states got together with the Federal Government in order to agree on uniform national gun laws. And unlike the US we never had the constitutional right to bear arms in the first place, rather it was a privilege granted to citizens by lawmakers in the individual states and territories via a licencing system, just like owning & driving a car.
What resulted from the shake-up after '96 was a uniform system of licencing, registration and storage rules that tightened-up the requirements for firearms training, use and storage and also restricted certain types of firearms (semi-automatic centrefire rifles such as AR-15's, AK's etc are heavily restricted and regulated, but were never "banned" outright). The government also initiated a " buy-back" in order to compensate owners who were no longer able to satisfy the new ownership/licensing requirements (or chose not to continue to own firearms under the new system).
However any Australian citizen or resident can legally own firearms if they are eligible to obtain a licence (ie: not have a criminal record and/or a recent history of mental health or drug/alcohol issues) and abide by storage and usage rules (ie: all firearms must be stored in a locked gun safe and can only be used for target/sports shooting and hunting/farming purposes). The main difference between Australia and the US is that "personal protection" is not a valid reason for owning a firearm (ie: no concealed or open carry, and no loaded firearms left sitting on your bedside table or behind the kitchen door), and all handguns are restricted to target shooting only & have additional licencing, training and storage requirements over rifles and shotguns (handguns have always been heavily regulated in Australia, even before 1996).
So in other words, if you are a law abiding citizen who is prepared to jump through the hoops of background checks, cooling-off periods and regular police compliance inspections of your gun safe and registered firearms then you can own and use firearms in Australia; it is actually a large and growing sport with many millions of licenced law-abiding firearms owners in the country. In fact, there are far more firearms legally owned in Australia now by licenced shooters than before the buy-back in 1996. The fact that Australia is quite safe by international standards and that gun crime is extremely rare here can be attributed to these robust gun laws, and any gun crime that does occasionally occur is almost exclusively committed by criminal gang-bangers in the drug trade with illegal unregistered firearms (most of these smuggled into the country).
True but you missed a bit (& probably the hardest thing for Americans to comprehend). If you’re going to own a gun Self-defence is 100% not a legal reason to have a gun and it’s totally illegal to carry a gun for that purpose.
I live in a major rural western New South Wales town. We have three gunsmiths in my town. If guns were completely banned, these shops wouldn’t exist. We just have sensible, commonsense gun control laws. We have NEVER had a school shooting… ever.
@@pizzagogo6151 we don't need to
Some pubs are called hotels because they were traditional rest stops when travelling across the vast country. So the name stuck.
public house, aka hotel, differs to motels, taverns and inns, but kinda the same lol
I think Melbourne just became the largest populated city . Some industries will be having 5 weeks annual leave.
Some 6 weeks as well .
Yes. Melbourne changed its boundaries to include more towns to basically cheat ...Sydney is still busier. 9 mill in nsw
Coles and Woolworths are open 7 days 6am to midnight, tomato sauce isn't full of sugar and why would we have Starbucks when our coffee is the best in the world, Aussie Rules is the most popular sport and why would we move to the US?
No. In most places, Coles and Woolworths close at 9pm. Not enough potential sales to make it viable to stay open later.
IIRC they used to be open 24/7.
On the question of work/life balance between the USA and Australia:
The US Federal Government does NOT mandate a single day of ‘paid’ annual, sick or public holiday leave (all left to the discretion of the employer).
In Australia every worker is entitled, by law, a minimum of 20 days (4wks), paid annual leave, a minimum of 10 days (2wks), paid sick leave and, depending on what state we live in, between 8-10 days of paid public holidays, again, that is the legal minimum.
Healthcare - in the USA, no federally mandated universal healthcare for all, US citizens regularly file for bankruptcy over medical bills, even with private health insurance, they often beg others for help on GoFundMe.
In Australia, every, and I repeat every, citizen is entitled to universal healthcare, yes you can have private insurance if want, but no one goes bankrupt over medical costs.
Pharmaceuticals - the Government here regulates the price, no one dies because they can’t afford basic medicines, not so in the USA.
Minimum wage, USA, $7.25 p/h, Australia, $23.23 p/h, we also aren’t forced to ‘tip’ minimum wage earners, we don’t have to make up for what their employer should pay.
On top of everyone’s full time wage is Superannuation (retirement fund), employers are required by law to deposit another 11% of your wage into your selected Superannuation Fund.
Life expectancy - USA 77.28, Australia 83.20, approx six (6) years more in Australia.
US Americans often talk about work ‘benefits’, we call them ‘basic worker rights’, we don’t have to ‘beg’, employers are required ‘by law’ to pay a decent min wage, plus all of the other ‘benefits (rights)’ that US workers don’t receive.
I could go on with many other comparisons too.
Bottom line, the life of the average Australian is far better than the life of the average US American.
Cheers,
Huge effort to give a great summary. (I think you’ve given USD for American minimum wage and AUD for ours. I think theirs is closer to $14AUD.)
Yes the $7.25 is in USD and the $23.23 is in AUD.
But....
Different exchange rates mean nothing when you use your own currency within your own country.
An AUD dollar spent in Australia, is a dollar, a USD dollar spent in the US, is a dollar, same goes for the respective currencies of all other countries.
Doing exchange rate calculations is a pointless exercise when you use your own currency ‘within’ your own country.
The only time exchange rates matter is when a person is travelling to another country, sometimes you win, sometimes you don’t.
Cheers,
@@johnnewman366 Of course, but the way it’s written appears as a comparison, not two silo events, so not providing the currencies with the amounts gives a false equivalence. Many people probably wouldn’t know that it's apples and oranges, so they could think that there’s a greater difference in the number of apples than actually exists.
Totally agree with the lifestyle, and not just for the monetary aspects. Cheers.
@@Bellas1717
U.S. minimum wage 2024
Published by Statista Research Department, Feb 16, 2024
The federally mandated minimum wage in the United States is 7.25 U.S. dollars per hour, although the minimum wage varies from state to state. As of January 1, 2024, the District of Columbia had the highest minimum wage in the U.S., at 17 U.S. dollars per hour. This was followed by Washington, which had 16.28 U.S. dollars per hour as the state minimum wage.
Minimum wage per hour - US 7.25 is the equivalent of $11.14 AU
Minimum wage per hour - Australia $23.23 is the equivalent of US 15.13
@@punkmetalbabe Thanks, but I think you've missed the point of my reply, which was that the OP reporting the two mandatory minimum wages in different currencies could give a false equivalence.
Their actual monetary values are irrelevant to the discussion. Had they been, I would have Googled them too.
Or perhaps you accidentally replied to the wrong person? I've done that in the past.
Thursday was chosen as “late night shopping” day because traditionally people were paid on Thursdays. There are some stores open late. Our Kmart is open 24 hours. But most Australians want a work life balance.
And I believe they were paid on Thursday so they were less likely to go drinking with their wages on them
King Charles is a figure head only . He might be the head but only on paper. Melbourne has moved ahead of Sydney as far as population is concerned . As for guns they are far more regulated in Australia but they aren't banned . Only semi automatic fire arms are limited , particularly hand guns. You can get licenses for firearms but you have to prove a genuine need for them and personal protection is not one.
The chickens " chooks in Australia" predominately produce brown eggs , but there really isn't any difference between brown and white.
Australia is huge and the population is relatively small and concentrated so its extremely difficult to provide great WiFi over the whole of the country cost effectively.
The two main sports are cricket and Australian rules Football . Rugby is only really played in two states NSW and Queensland.
Check out a beginners guide to AFL if you want to have a quick explanation of the game .
Australia might be expensive , especially Sydney , but our wages are higher to match so its not as bad as it might seem.
Wifi is the wrong term to use for internet over the whole country as it is used only internally in homes and businesses. Our wifi is as fast as anyone else’s. What is slow is our national broadband network used for the internet access. Speed is variable on this with some places having fibre to the premises being very fast and many places pretty slow
Ketchup has sugar and vinegar in it and tomato sauce doesn't. There are other differences but the sugar and vinegar are the main reasons that they taste different.
The most popular sport in Australia is the Australian Football League (AFL). It has the highest attendance per capita of any domestic sporting competition in the world.
A Small population always makes Per Capital figures look better than they, In reality AFL is way down the list of the Worlds most attended Sports, per how many People actually go to the Games.
@@LeePainter36that's why per capita is used dopey.
@@LeePainter3640k average is what, about 8 times rugby crowds?
@@LeePainter36per capita figures are given to even out the comparison between populations of different sizes. A small population most certainly doesn’t make per capita figures look better 😂 per capita literally means per head of population. One head is one head whether that head is in Australia or the U.S. or anywhere- it’s one head.
Very impressed with how clear you were in explaining the differences. You really thought out how you spoke about each topic. Well done 👏
just on the topic of guns in australia - each state has different laws, with some over-arching federal laws. guns are not banned in australia but are heavily restricted (with good reason).
i'm from western australia - guns are not a right by any means and are difficult to get a firearm licence compared to some other countries. you need to apply for a firearms licence with a genuine reason to have one (self-defence not being one of those), pass a background/criminal check, install and have inspected safe storage facilities were the firearm/s and ammunition are to be stored. there are also restrictions on magazine capacity, type of firearm, semi-automatic etc. also, very importantly - there is a 28 day cooling off period for any firrst-time firearms being purchased by a firearm licence holder.
(2) A person has a genuine reason for acquiring or possessing a
firearm, major firearm part, prohibited firearm accessory or
ammunition if and only if -
(a) it is for use by the person as a member of an approved
shooting club and the person is an active and financial
member of the club; or
(b) it is for use by the person as a member of an
organisation approved under this paragraph; or
(c) it is for use in hunting or shooting of a recreational
nature on land the owner of which has given written
permission for that hunting or shooting; or
(d) it is required by the person in the course of the person’s
occupation; or
(da) in the case of a prescribed paintball gun, it is required by
the person to conduct or engage in paintball in
accordance with this Act; or
(e) it is to form part of a genuine firearm collection or
genuine ammunition collection; or
(f) it is for another approved purpose.
we have very little gun crime and where guns are involved it's usually organised crime figures committing offences against each other or instances where the people are known to each other (domestic situations).
most everyday people don't see the need for firearm ownership given the lack of gun crime, the fact that all police are armed. this is much like the rest of the western world (other than america).
You neglected to mention why we have fairly strict gun laws We had a major mass murder incident in Tasmania ( a state in Australia) where 35 people were killed and 25 injured. The Australian government said this cannot happen again and unlike America who have these shootings just about weekly our government introduced a gun buy back scheme and passed laws to make it harder to buy and keep guns with restrictions to what guns and magazine size also storage regulations were stipulated. This is why the Port Arthur massacre in 1996 was our last such incident. Not weekly where the gun lobby rules in the USA
Well said! I recommend anyone who’d like some more details to check out the CZcams video by John Oliver of The Daily Show about the change of gun laws in Australia after the Port Arthur massacre. The before and after statistics are very informative.
@@shaneharris2497 i apologise i never mentioned it. i know other people have here. when people are told about or learn about australian gun laws they usually are told about port arthur - especially peoole from foreign countries. i assume the video creator knew about it but failed to mention it in the video.
I prefer Oz opening hours, and better minimum wages, and worker conditions
Life is not all just about convenience for the individual
It's a community, not a brand
Yep, we live in a society not an economy.
Australia is on my bucket list to visit. I will be watching every video. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much for watching! More to come, I appreciate your time! Cheers!
Mat .come get your life experience mate fuck the city's if you want the real thing go to country
An Americans point of view is worthless
You may not care about the wording, but FYI in case you do, WiFi is not the correct term for country internet speed. WiFi is just the local device that spreads the internet around a house or shopping centre. Think of it as the final part of the network to create the network around your house.
yeah, free wifi always restricts the bandwidth, nothing to do with internet speeds, our nbn is actually rated reasonably high, another thing, we have exactly same modems as rest of world, so our wifi at home is perfectly fine, I have 3 gamers in my house, plus I stream to twitch myself and watch stuff online at same time, no issues.
@@siryogiwan Nah Australian internet is crap! thanks to Turnbull!
@@edmurks236 Got elected by promising to have it done in half the time, half the cost, and and better speed. Blew out the budget by 3x, took twice as long as Labor projected, and we have 1/10th of the speed that was being worked on.
The use of joule aligns with the use of SI units in physics around the world. The joule is the derived SI unit for energy (force x displacement) and is equal to 1 Newton (force) x 1m (displacement) or 1kg squared x 1metre squared per second squared. The calorie is a measure of heat (form of energy) and was substituted for joules in 1925. There are only a couple of countries that don't use SI units as they are not based on metric mathematics. The USA is one and so is still locked in the 19th century and continues using the British Imperial system.
Well sed mate.
I'm a little late to the party but great video mate! Only thing you got wrong was opening hours of supermarkets in Australia. Major chains like Coles & Woolworths are open 7am to 9pm Monday to Saturday & till 6pm Sundays. So no problem to pick up some groceries after work (or even before work). Welcome to Oz.
Very true, maybe in small towns they may close earlier. There is a Woolworths just down the road from Brisbane airport that's open 24 hours.
Outer suburbs where I live, in Melbourne, Coles is open 7am to 10 pm
Wrong about sport.
Australian Rules Football (not rugby) is the highest attended domestic sport in the world, per capita.
It is actually football(soccer) then cricket , when you say AFL in a country with only 26 millions it is misleading!
I am pretty sure we have 10 days sick leave a year and it accumulates .When I worked , the boss would complain that every time sick leave came due certain individuals would start taking days off which left us short handed at times. I came up with the idea of paying the sick leave out each year, and that is what we did to improve attendance records , we would let it accrue and then over a certain point we would pay it out .The reason why we coudl do this was because the Manager was also the Union rep !!!!!
It used to be like that in some govt organizations (e.g teaching) but then the govt stopped it and said you had to take your sick leave and not accrue it!
No tipping in Australia
So I have forgotten to pay for petrol at the station. They give you a few hours to honour before they call the police. And even if the police get called you still get opportunity to pay. I called a petrol station (gas station) 2 hours after I left as I realised I hadn't paid. He said he was just about to call the police - gave me an hour to come into the store to pay. we just were distracted and drove off - there was a lot going on. So yeh there is some leniency there
did this once as well, by accident, got distracted with passenger, drove off, cop rang home then rang me in car.. i was 50 kms away.... stopped into same branded servo in another town and paid the 50 bux then.
Outstanding video! Great info, we got some history and geography lessons. You never disappoint, Well done!
Thanks so much for watching this!
Welcome to Australia mate. Thought provoking vlog. You did well
Your Narrative is so Informative. Good Job Ivan !!!
Pennies stopped in 1966 because they introduced the decimal currency,
1 and 2 cent coins were discontinued in 1992, and the total price of a group of items at the checkout was rounded up or down to the nearest 5 cents if paying in cash. However, the vast majority pay by credit or debit cards and the exact price is charged.
Love the change of scenery of the background it makes you feel like you’re right there along with the storytelling.
Thanks a lot bro
Excellent content as always 🙂
I love that have you have done your research and include that in your videos. Well done,
Badly
We have 4 weeks annual leave, 10 days paid sick leave and about 11-12 paid public holidays - all up around 8 weeks! I live in a smalish town in country Victoria and our supermarkets are open 6am to 10pm.
In the past when liquor licensing was more strict, pubs had to offer accommodation in order to maintain their license. So it's become a tradition for pubs to register their business as "Hotel X" or "X Hotel".
Thanks mate, you were very entertaining
Thanks so much for watching!
I enjoyed your content about Australia, New Zealand and Ok land. It was great !!
Thanks so much for watching
Eggs are a different colour here, because the majority of our eggs come from a different breed of chicken. America is the only place I've been to which are mostly white eggs. You also wash your eggs down a lot more stripping off protective layers, which is why you need to store your eggs in the fridge, but we sell them unrefrigerated here... because they are raised produced in better/healthier conditions, and have better shell protection against moisture.
When you say "Wi-fi" you are actually referring to ISP speed. My Wi-Fi speed is about 10GB/s... that's in my house. But my connection to the internet is 1/20th of that.
Wi-fi would be what you use when you connect to the hotel wi-fi. But the hotel is limited by the speed of their connection to the ISP.... which yes, is fairly slow compared to the rest of the world.
Interesting video, Ivain. That's some great information. Thank you for the comparison between the two countries. I really learned a lot. Wow, I didn't know the bars in Australia are also called hotels. Great content. Enjoy your trip, brother. I'm waiting to see your next video 👍👍👍.
Thanks a lot for watching! Hope you had a good week! Cheers!
I believe that hotels offered accomodation as well as a bar, Taverns were usually bars without the accomodation. Regardless in Australia we would probably just refer to them all as pubs like in Britain.
I think because you are used to not using public transport in the US, you are used to catching Ubers everywhere to replace your cars when travelling. A train, tram, bus or walking is a cheap way to get around and you don't need to stay one hour away on the train to get a cheaper hotel. ~10 minutes would be enough.
Oh and BTW, I live on the NSW Central Coast and my internet is brilliant! It does vary from place to place but you should find the major cities are pretty good.👍
The only difference between white and brown eggs is the breed of chicken that they come from.
Yes we’re very fussy about coffee. We don’t add a lot of crap to it like you do in the US . We like to taste the actual coffee, not all the sweet stuff you put in it.
Yes, we have ketchup.
Some Australians do steel drink fosters.
Another states it’s Thursday and Friday late shopping. But we did have 24 seven shopping at one point, but we decided family time is more important and people should be able to do their shopping between 7am and 10pm
We’ve never had ice machines in hotels.
Hello, you forgot Australian rules football, which is the number one sport in Australia. We are nursing like the USA, and we are very proud of it.
Wifi is not the Sam's as an internet connection. In Australia, it is by fibre connection, but the previous government downgraded the system. Now it is being brought up to specification
This is a great video. Interesting and informative. My adopted country and I love it. The Aussie dream is still very much alive. I am living it. No matter where in the world you come from if you work hard, follow the rules, you can prosper. Thank you fpr telling it like it is.
The reason we don't have ice machines is that we have refrigerators in the rooms when we visited the USA we were shocked that there were no refrigerators in our hotel rooms, even in California
Yes Aussie is a gem, I often hear them speaking well of USA but when Australia has to take a side it is straight forward when seeking a resolution to avoid such however when it does choose its very loyal to that commitment.
Most Austraslian have reduced work days. I used to to work a "9 day fortnight" that is I had every 2nd Friday off. My work time was 38 hours per week which is 7.6 hours per day, so I would work 8.45 hours per day for 9 day and accrue 7.6 hour of unpaid overetime and take a day off to balance it out.
Ivaintures Great Content on Australia 🇦🇺 Cant.wait for the New Zealand 🇳🇿 Experience. See You Mate
Rugby... correction Rugby League if you're living in (Sydney) NSW & QLD
Indeed not Rugby UNION! (played in the elite private schools etc.)
Thankyou for your outtakes on our land down under 😂🌺
I don’t get paid vacations. But I refuse to live a life of always working so I’ll make the sacrifices and work harder if I have to. It’s a shame that most US jobs don’t have that but life goes on and I’ll continue to travel and see this world.
Smart! I totally respect that. Most people
Don’t know what they are missing
work-life balrance. U live longer .@@IvainTures
In Australia large corporations have negotiated to include annual leave pay into regular pay by way of a pay increase, so it appears to be 'unpaid annual leave'. This was done some years ago so people have probably forgotten this.
The main sport 🏈 in Winter varies between states. In Queensland and New South Wales is Rugby. In Victoria we created a new game now called Australian Rules (Aussie Rules), which is played in not only Victoria, but also Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia. I think we have the majority support. We all play Cricket 🏏 in the Summer Season.
And that new game is now around 165 years old
Rugby is far from the most popular "oval ball code" in Queensland and New South Wales.
Rugby LEAGUE (otherwise known as "League" or by the name of the top tier competition "NRL") is by FAR the most popular code in both Queensland and NSW.
Rugby UNION (otherwise known as "Rugby" - think Wallabies and All Blacks, Rugby World Cup - different to "League/NRL") has a relatively good following but comes in 3rd in the "oval ball codes" in QLD and NSW.
Rugby Union was created in 1845
Australian rules was created in 1858
American football was created in 1869
Basketball was created in 1891
Rugby League was created in 1895
Australian Rules football/Aussie Rules has been around longer than Rugby League, American football and also basketball....
.....so no, not really a new game at all.
Its also played in NSW Canberra and many regional cities and towns.
The Australian Target and KMart are not the American companies, just use the same names and logos.
Thursday late shopping was because that was payday. Friday is late night shopping in city centres. Most supermarkets open very early and close late, a few stay open till midnight though. Shops in the USA open late compared with Australia, because Aussies are early risers. Most Cafe's start really early for breakfast and close by 1500 hrs.
Non-essential retail business close at 6pm , but Food and Pharmacy are open alot later
I live in Melbourne and most of our supermarkets are open until at least 11pm, some are open 24/7, I live in the burbs, so I don't know what it's like in the CBD, as for ice machines, don't most fridges have an ice machine, I know ours does. I'm glad you had a good time in Sydney, maybe next time you could come to Melbourne. Also if you live in Victoria, S.A, W.A., NT and Tasmania, Rugby is not the main game, AFL is. Also you can buy ketchup here at the supermarket if you really want it.
Most retail stores close around 6 or 7. Aside from Thursdays. Target and Kmart etc are usually open until 9 or 10pm though. Supermarkets chains are all open until around 10pm - and some in the city til midnight. If thats not enough for people to get their groceries...they need to plan their lives better lol. No one needs 24hour shopping. Online shopping is big here for grocery deliveries too especially for busy families and elderly etc. And they deliver until 11pm. Convenience stores attached to petrol stations are open 24 hours and are like mini supermarkets. Is Australia expensive? Yeah its not cheap.
I don't believe that Australia is really much more expensive these days than the US though. We don't have forced tipping where as in the US tipping is everywhere now not just for restaurants. we dont have to pay for health insurance and generally get paid higher wages/more purchasing power. So i do believe it evens out. I know some Americans living here. One says the supermarket shopping is a bit cheaper here. And another says rent is cheaper than where she was from. (Even though the capital cities here are expensive rent wise). Public transport is frequent in and around the capital cities and i think its cheaper. Negating the need for using cars all the time, saving money.
When people visit they often eat around all the tourist trap areas where they charge crazy prices for basic fast food or cafe food because they know people will pay it. But that's the same as anywhere in Europe too. Everywhere i went if it was a tourist area the food was more expensive than a few blocks back or another suburb. If you look around or talk to locals they will tell you where to eat more affordably. Enjoy your stay.🙂
Fosters beer is the most popular Australian beer outside of Australia but unheard of by most Australians as they're not sold in Aussie pubs - Fun fact.
Is still sold in some pubs usually for the tourist trade.
@@matthewcharles5867 I can imagine only overseas tourists familiar with it would buy them :)
When you are talking pennies, Australia introduced decimal currency in 1966 removing the old UK based system of pounds, pence & pennies, what has been a recent move that is comparable to your comment on removing the penny is 1cent & 2cent coins were removed from circulation in 1992 , the 5 cent coin is still currently in circulation but should also be removed in my opinion, I am enjoying your videos mate, very entertaining and much more informative than the usual travel vlogs.
Thats when Australia went on too the decimal system like Europe. (not just money but all measurements, Cms, meters, kilometers, grams, kilos,etc etc based on unit 10) In the US they still have the old imperial measurement system based on the unit 12 , feet, inches, miles, pounds, measurements etc etc which I think is cumbersome by comparison.
@@edmurks236 Depends on if you are measuring in dog lengths or cat widths really!
@@bline5891 In foot lengths or hand spans you mean.
@@edmurks236 anything at hand really
@@bline5891 So much for standard weights and measurements you can just make it up with a guess??!
The colour of eggs depends on the breed of the Hen for example a white leghorn lays white eggs and a Road island red a brown egg so it depends I suppose on what breed is popular among farmers regards producing eggs.
In regards to white and brown eggs.
“The eggshell colour depends on the breed of the hen. Generally speaking, white shell eggs come from hens with white feathers, while brown shell eggs are produced by hens with brown feathers. Nutritionally, both brown and white eggs are identical unless the feed has been enhanced for speciality eggs such as Omega-3”
Sport in Australia…..main sports are
AFL - with teams in every state
Rugby - mainly in Queensland and NSW
Cricket
Tennis
Swimming
There is golf and basketball but I don’t think they are as popular, but some may disagree.
eggzactly right with the chook information.Chook is australian for chicken and a term of endearment for women, sometimes
You've done a respectful and distinct introduction too our country mate, I appreciate the effort you put in with your clarifications. Come back anytime
Australia has four sports named Football. The main football sports in Australia are Aussie Rules and Rugby League. "Rugby" is short for Rugby Union. It is a different sport to Rugby League and it is 3rd most popular sport.. ie Half the country plays Aussie Rules as number #1 football sport, other half plays Rugby League as #1 football sport. Those Rugby League places also play "Rugby" as number #2 football sport in their states only. Confusing but "Rugby" is a totally different sport to Rugby League (which is shortened to League). #4 sport named Football is soccer.
Thankyou ✌🏼 I don't know why but getting this one wrong really gets under my skin 🙊
Welcome to Australia Ivain! We do have lots of lovely churches but it’s true, most Aussies are very relaxed about going to church and most don’t describe themselves as Christians…but on a positive note we’re also quite open to all faiths. Anyway enjoy your stay and yes, most supermarkets stay open til 9.00 or 10.00 pm, particularly in summer.
Interesting that many Australians who do not profess to be religious are increasingly sending their kids to private religious run schools. (Because the public education system has become so crap! (and woke dominated) so its not necessarily for religious purposes but just somewhere you can get a decent education and avoid the woke brigade.)
@@edmurks236 my kids must have been fortunate. They went to a brilliant public school…in fact a lot parents from local private schools transferred their kids there. Guess it depends on where you live and who the principal is.
@@karistone1297 Yes indeed public education used to be first class. But these days its very much a lucky dip lottery game. Good schools sometimes in more affluent areas as you say it depends where you live some poor areas have excellent schools, but not always, so much depends on the principals and the staff of the schools, then they leave and the whole thing changes . Then there are all the failing policies put in schools but clueless bureaucrats who have not much idea what they're in about and constantly putting out political spot fires etc..
Supermarkets or Grocery stores ARE OPEN till 9pm. Only general retail stores close at business hours!!!
It depends on the supermarket. Here in Sth Australia one of the two big supermarket chains in my shopping complex.. only one of them stays open till 9pm. The other one shuts around 7pm (except when it's late night shopping once a week).
Thursday is a typical payday.... Retail closes early, but grocery is open late (between 9 pm-midnight depending on location), perhaps not in the Downtown area, though, as not many people actually live there; it is mainly a business district.
Makes sense
Brown vs White eggs. I eat a lot of eggs and I buy organic from various sources and the colours are mixed. White eggs come from white chickens, brown eggs from brown chickens...
Nice! I have friends who swear brown are more expensive because they are healthier. I’m not sure that’s true but the difference in price creates the whole issue 😂
@@IvainTures i get it. But that's not consistent. It's a marketing ploy. I'm an hour outside Sydney on the coast surrounded by small farms and the eggs are always mixed colour even in the supermarkets. CBD... another story
When Late Night Shopping first started in the 1970s, most people were paid in cash and most employers pay day was on Thursdays. Supermarkets are often open to 10pm most nights. Aust Target = US Kmart, Aust Kmart = US Target.
You can buy ketchup at supermarkets, its on the same shelf right beside tomato sauce.
lol we have Keychup but usually only at grocery stores. Rugby is a main sport only in a couple of states you need to look up AFL
Thanks so much for watching !
I would rather have our Australian gun rules any day of the week….
Cricket is the most popular summer sport across all of Australia, equivalent to baseball in the US. But the most popular winter/contract sport is actually Australian Rules Football, (AFL), not rugby. Rugby is more popular in two states, (NSW & Qld), “Aussie Rules” is much more popular everywhere else.
Technically Charles is only the head of state when he is in the country but he has no legal power here it’s mainly a ceremonial role which is because of our heritage. The currency is an interesting thing, each denomination nite is not only a different colour but also a different size as well, it was designed this way to help with sight impaired people, it’s also one of the hardest currencies to forge due to its material and multiple security features. Silver coins are the same the larger to coin, the larger the denomination, the only odd one out is the gold coin where the $1 is larger than the $2 coin.
Oh it's true that supermarkets do stay open longer 6AM to 10PM MOnday to Friday 7AM to 8Pm weekends somtimes longer it depends wher you live .But I dont shop , I just order online from Coles and get it delivered for $2.00AU Bunnings is a big hardware chain and they are open early morning to 6AM to 9PM every day accept Christmas ans Easter Friday.
Smart move ! It’s the best way I think
Interesting video...when I was growing up in the 60's & into the 80's all we had were white eggs, no idea why it changed...maybe the brown chook is a more prolific egg layer.
As for the most popular sport, by far Australian Rules (AFL) is the biggest followed NRL & Cricket (cricket is played in the summer with very few sports to compete against)
Cheers ivain and nice hearing the differences of Australia and United States 😊
Thanks a lot for watching! I appreciate that!
AFL and cricket are the most wide spread played sports across Australia. AFL is considered winter and cricket summer.
Rugby is highly popular in NSW. Then Queensland and Victoria.
Standard shops like retails shut about 6pm Monday to Wednesday then shut 9pm Thursday and Friday and varies on weekends. But supermarkets like Woolworth and Coles are open usually to between 10pm and midnight and there’s a few that are 24hrs.
The difference between tomato sauce and ketchup is sugar content.
Thanks so much for watching! I appreciate the feedback!
Thursdays had late night shopping
The colour of an egg depends on the colour of the chicken that laid it. How healthy or not an egg is depends on the food the chicken ate and the conditions in which it lived.
City centre grocery stores are not a good indication of the prices and stock of a normal Australian supermarket.
Hi and welcome to Australia. I was just watching this on my tv and you bought up the question of ketchup , so I hoped over to my computer to type this. Ketchup is very popular in Australia, that is all I eat, I haven't had Tomato sauce since Heinz brought out ketchup and it's all over the supermarkets and , go down to Coles or Woolworths and you will find it alongside tomato sauce. I find ketchup richer , thicker and sweeter. Tomato sauce is more watery and not as sweet .The thing with shopping in Europe is they get up late , we get up early and we open early we are a morning country not an afternoon country. Try getting a cup of coffee in France at 8a.m in the morning .We don't have ice machines , but, if you put your own stuff in the fridge thats fine but make sure it is not one of those bloody european fridges where if you move a bottle they charge you. Cricket is big world wide sport in many countries even the Netherlands play cricket and note the Indian T20 are trying to start a comp in the USA. Rugby league is small time outside of Australia and the UK, Aussie Rules is big time only in Australia mainly Victoria , South Australia and Western Australia .Rugby Union is the international sport that is played in nearly every country i can think of and yes the USA have a team. Than of course you have soccer, and men's and womens hockey which is world wide and very popular in Australia , more at an amateur level though....think Olympics .
Amazing explanation to many things I had questions about. Thanks so much for your time. I appreciate that! Australia is such a fascinating country. Cheers!
Aussies actually receive extra pay, known as leave loading, of 17.5% during their annual leave.
There are increasingly people of African descent playing professional sports here now. Mostly 7 feet tall south Sudanese, but a few others.
Rugby is only big in the states NSW and Queensland
.AFL is the biggest football game and invented in Australia 🇦🇺
I find one of the more interesting things wrt/ Aussie Rules is that Australia doesn't compete in the Australian Rules International Cup and only hosts the tournament. Fair enough, too. No one else would show up if Australia competed.
You should go to a Rugby league game this weekend in Sydney. Tickets are pretty cheap...
Failing that, or in addition to it, go to an AFL game in Melbourne and Maybe an A-League match (Soccer) in either city,
We had a Starbucks open in Melbourne, it was like selling ice to Eskimos (yellow ice?) It maybe lasted 12 months.
You can store your own water bottles or anything else you might want to keep cool in the fridges for free.
And from my experience, most places will give you complementary bottles of water and milk with your stay.
Hi Avian.
Nice to see you and welcome to Australia 🇦🇺 Shame it’s pissing rain at the moment. Sunshine yesterday and the beach was fantastic.
We’ll we are divided in States and we all think ours are the best 😅
Like USA. Always remember we drive on the right side of the road 👍🇺🇸Australia is a massive country and in the outback region your lucky to see heaps kangaroo’s Emus Koalas etc
You have a lot to see !!!
People here are very friendly (mostly)
It is a safe country to travel here. I am from London UK ORIGINALLY BUT BEEN HERE 40 years etc.
As I said before the areas you have to drive to are huge and the outback can be difficult. With huge Road Trains trucks. Which are not on tracks but dirt roads the drag sometimes 4/6 at a time so get out the way🤪
I live in NEW SOUTH WALES BUT not down in Sydney we are approx. 8/10 hours from Sydney. Best thing to drive along the coast roads our beaches are supurb any way will not hold you up will try and keep you posted. Take care 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🐨🐨🐨💕
WiFi is not the same thing a Cell Data or fixed line internet (NBN).
I could be 100% wrong on this, but I am fairly sure I read something at least like this a few years ago.
Eggs-I think in the US, you like industrially cleaned eggs, whereas we wash them lightly. So basically, eggs in the USA have been washed with a ton of chemicals, whereas in Australia, they just spray them down with a bit of water.....
Interesting!
washing the eggs or not doesn't alter the shell colour.
Home and Phone internet is A LOT better than it used to be and I find it comparable at least for videos and streaming to anywhere else in the world, it is much much slower when you are sharing the wifi with a bunch of other people like on public wifi or in a hotel.
You can either buy a bottle of ketchup at one of our supermarkets or get some from Macca's (MacDonald's).
Fountain spicy red sauce best sauce in the whole world. Go to Woolworths, Coles or Foodland to get it. It’s around $2.50 for a bottle. You should take some home with you also if you go to the supermarket you’ll find sauce that says ketchup on it and I’m pretty sure it’s an American brand
Sounds good ! Thanks 🙏🏽
Just a couple of little things.....
Our local "major" supermarkets here in a small southwestern suburb of Sydney, Coles and Woolworths, are open 6am - midnight 7 days per week.
My internet is not bad normally ranging between 800-1000mbps
....I'm now awaiting your next video.
Cheers!
Shops close that early as it ties in with the Work/life balance. Also you didn't touch on Long Servive Leave (basically work for one employer for 10-15 years and get 3 months paid leave)
THanks for the feedback! I appreciate that!
I remember when the US had petrol stations where you paid after you pumped the petrol (gas). Too many people did drive off without paying.
You get more pay on vacation called holiday loading.
You’re correct - ketchup and tomato sauce are definitely not the same. Ketchup usually contains additional sugar and is sweeter. Whereas tomato sauce is more sour. The flavour preference in Australia is far more towards tomato sauce, hence, it dominates the ketchup vs tomato sauce market.
It seems most American serves of food take away etc are much bigger and full of sugar!