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Australian accents really do it for me tbh.

Australia has less scrotes than america, therefore it's superior.

My boyfriend is Australian and we're visiting it right now before summer. Everyone is calmer, happier and more laid back than most other Western countries. People and even cities are a little crude, but in a charming way (Everyone swears very ugly curses but it's like they're always amused by what's bothering them. People talk like they're lower class or uneducated, but it's not with any anger, so it's not abrasive or gross). Cities, suburbs and all the houses are ugly on the outside, but very comfy inside and everyone has huge front and back yards. There are almost no homeless people or staggering drug addicts, except for one or two beggars at big train stations. Violence is rare and very shortlived (my boyfriend has been in plenty of fights, but someone escalating beyond a few punches and leaving the loser alone is extremely rare and very looked down on). Women are safe enough and feel safe enough to go out late at night alone, and in secluded areas the local governments install huge lights and cameras to scare away attackers. Countryside communities are very nice and much more modern than in other places.

The weather is too hot, too dry and too sunny. I had to buy a giant hat with a face-shield and completely cover myself to stop being burned, and I still get red rings around my eyes from reflected sun. Drinking is very common and day drinking is not looked down on, but seen as "cheeky" (something that's a little bad and shouldn't be done, but is ok in small doses if you feel a little bad about it first). All the tourist sites I wanted to visit (not many of them, because all the best stuff is out in the bush, desert and coasts) were filled with incredibly loud, rude and annoying Asian tourists who think paying a tour guide means they own the site for the length of their stay. The cities and suburbs are all built for cars because everything is so far apart and taking public transport to someone requires walking for 1km, 2 train exchanges and 3 buses. Everything is very expensive and you need a local to show you where to buy things, because all the small businesses almost everywhere are just tourist-traps. HOT.

I love it. There is so many marsupials there. Maybe one day I go there

>>297825
> The weather is too hot, too dry and too sunny. I had to buy a giant hat with a face-shield and completely cover myself to stop being burned, and I still get red rings around my eyes from reflected sun.
Well, damn. I don’t think I’ll be visiting anytime soon. I’m like a vampire and can’t stand the sun and heat

>>297766
I love Australia so much I'm living in Europe for a bit after being there my whole life and I miss it. The heat is awesome, we have so many awesome animals, there are kangaroos literally outside my house. The population is entirely dispersed on the coastlines, so pretty much everyone lives near a beach. Australians talk so funny and nice, we have universalised healthcare and public transport is so cheap (at least in my state).

It costs an arm and a leg to fly anywhere outside of Aus though, and there is a crazy amount of domestic violence and femicide (at least for such a Western seemingly peaceful country) and the moids are ugly and dysgenic as fuck.

Also with the s talking about heat, I don't find it too horrible because our infrastructure and pretty much everything is built for it, so there's AC everywhere (kinda like EU with heating everywhere), but maybe I'm used to it.

>>297841
The possums here are so silly and cute picrel, WA even has quokkas but its WA so it's hardly worth going for them kek

>>298331
>>298331
>The population is entirely dispersed on the coastlines, so pretty much everyone lives near a beach. Australians talk so funny and nice, we have universalised healthcare and public transport is so cheap (at least in my state).

What happens in regional cities and the outback?

>>298334
I've only visited them so I'm not too sure, but I have some friends who have lived inland/ somewhat outbackish. It's obviously the same with healthcare and stuff, except hospitals can be really far so a lot of old people tend to move as it's pretty risky, even if you move a few hours inland there is pretty much 0 public transport, they only really care about major cities. There are less jobs, but I think a lot of the mining industry is outback/ inland. They're also like walking back 20 or so years in time with the shops and architecture (even in lower class areas surrounding the cities tbh), and more socially regressive.

There are a lot of areas that have the same essence of a regional town/ the outback that are in or around major cities though, they are just very expensive most of the time because you can't have land and a hospital.

>>298337
What happens in Darwin, Mt Isa, Alice Springs, Roma and Dalby?

Do White (European) Australians feel any connection to the land or the state they live in Australia?

Most of people in Australia (all excluding Aboriginal natives) are descendants of immigrants.

>>298344
Nah not really. Some people like to represent their region but it's no different from how Canadians and Americans think.
>>297844
You pretty much need Uniqlo AIRism and ice packs to survive summers here. Mainly because our houses have no insulation lol

My mom lived there and NZ in the 90s and said she hated it. Then moved to Canada and liked it and stayed. All 3 are pretty similar so I'm not sure why she had such a different reaction.

It's a pretty good place to live. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else in the world.

Pros:
>Free health-care
>(in QLD) public transport fares are 50c
>Forced superannuation
>Abundance of natural resources
>People are generally good-natured
>Strong workers' unions
>Pretty good anti-smoking laws
>No war
>Natural disasters do happen, but we help each other out when they happen
>No matter what, we'll always find something to complain about.

Cons:
>The average Aussie is heavily propagandised by the Murdoch press.
>As you move away from the city centres, public transport becomes less viable.
>We don't tax mining companies nearly enough for the resources they take.
>We don't manufacture anything worthwhile - we dig up dirt and ship it overseas.
>People are generally uneducated because there is no strong push to compete with the rest of the world.
>Gambling culture
>Heat + Humidity in the northern regions is a killer. SPF 50+ sunscreen is the default.
>Isolated geographically from the Western world and politically from the Eastern world (our own fault - Rudd's hard work was undone by Abbott in a single term)
>No matter what, we'll always find something to complain about.

>>298343
>What happens in Darwin
Sweet F.A. aside from drinking, drugs, and monsoons/cyclones over Christmas. Very glad not to live there.

I know very little about the other places, other than Alice Springs having a relatively high concentration of seppos (because of Pine Gap) and Mt. Isa being a bumfuck-nowhere mining town, which like most mining towns has little to offer beyond drinking and gambling.

>>298753
Isnt your housing fucked by Chinese immigrants
Why that not a con

>>298753
Fellow QLD nona?

>>298753
>>298797
>QLD

What happens in Roma, Dalby, and Tooowomba

>>298753
You forgot

>brisbane and gold coast are filled with indians and chinese
>domestic violence is extremely common here
>Way too many women are killed by their partner in Australia
>very high cost of living (almost as bad as Canada)
>uni is 80k HECS debt
>high-end job market is shit compared to US/EU
>things have been too good for too long, zero ambition and massive societal complacency
>Australia fell for the globalist meme of "1st world export-driven economy" like Canada did. Specifically, you successfully establish a very successful resource extraction & exportation market, this then makes a handful of people very rich (there's no small mom & pop copper mines), those people then go on to influence most aspects of the economy and politics in a protectionist manner
>Cost of living is so high that if you don't have at least a middle class family willing to support you through uni you're basically doomed to slave away in retail for the rest of your life, living paycheck to paycheck
>during the Covid outbreak, the conservative Prime Minister apparently secretly appointed himself with the help of the governor general to become the minister for health, finance and resources at various times in office without the knowledge of senior cabinet colleagues or the public, which includes the previous finance minister. He was basically operating a shadow government

Housing in the city centre cost per month: 1.6K AUD
Housing in the suburbs/outer regions per month: 1.3K AUD

Minimum wage for a 38 hour week is 812 per week, so 3248 per month. I read that you shouldn't spend more than 1/3rd of your income on rent, so this seems too high. 40% of your income, just to rent. If you live in the suburbs or outer regions

Currently at 33k HECS from Nursing and now 1 year of Medicine. It hurts the most meeting euro med students who not only have zero debt but get paid by their own govt to study and for all inclusive flights and allowances to study and live in Australia for the semester

Come on nona let's get drunk

>>298806
>things have been too good for too long, zero ambition and massive societal complacency
So fucking true. Even when someone creates a successful business they move everything overseas straight away.
I never understood how DV got so common here despite us being a first world country. My theory is that it's the fact we're so isolated and there are drugs are so commonplace.

the only jobs here are

>Mining
>Farming
>Propety Investment/Migration Mills
>coffee shop servant
>uber
>uber eats
>hospitality
>retail (coles / woolworths)
>real estate
>gov job where you pretend to work
>university (All the perks of government with the pay of private)
>government goons get cushy private sector jobs
>Deliveries, transport, shop clerks and retail, food and hospitality, security, carers, medical workers and professionals all seem strongly Asian

Australia is the most vile, disgusting, and utterly worthless shit stain on the globe. It is a putrid, festering polyp on the anus of mankind; a giant fecal smear on human civilization. Australia has absolutely no culture of any sort (unless you count binge-drinking, wife-beating, meth-smoking, yelling racist abuse on public transportation, and producing violent child pornography as "culture"), it has no history (other than genocide, and they couldn't even do that with any success), and it has contributed absolutely nothing to the world in its entire existence (to date, Australia's greatest contributions to the world have been The Wiggles and vegemite). Thankfully, however, with climate change accelerating at its current rate, this miserable desert island of inbred, singlet-wearing, kangaroo-fucking drunken retards will hopefully be plunged into the ocean within the next century (and, when that happens, absolutely nothing of any value will be lost).

Australian accents are easily the most grating and annoying accents in the world. Listening to Aussies talking is like listening to nails scraping down a chalkboard.

>>298805
Toowoomba has the flower festival every September. The flowers are nice

>>298806
I forgot about immigration (because I don't live near the city), violence (because I don't watch the news), and cost of living (because I choose to forget how I'm being fucked over each week in rent).

My uni debt was 40k at its highest and I did a masters. The real kicker is that it's only meant to rise with inflation, but Morrison screwed us all over on that one. Actually, this country's attitude towards education is exactly why we have an immigration and DV problem. It's also why the retards in this country vote LNP, despite LNP doing nothing to help the average person.

Points 7,8, and 10 were touched on in my post already.
>propagandised by the media, we don't manufacture anything, the people are uneducated
Most of the points you've listed could be improved if the people here could think critically, but I think mental retardation is a global phenomenon.

>>298864
We had the world's first socialist party, which is pretty important, globally.

>>298806
> Currently at 33k HECS from Nursing
I'm sorry you were in the wrong place at the wrong time
https://www.health.vic.gov.au/nursing-and-midwifery/free-nursing-and-midwifery-study

>TAFE
>UNI

What's the difference

>sports
>drinking
>whinging about housing prices

Does Australia have any """culture""" besides this? I don't know what I expected from a British outpost

>>299140

See: >>298864

Australia is a complete wasteland intellectually, environmentally, culturally, and economically.

Tbh one thing I've noticed is that it's really hard to make friends here. Like people are friendly but don't know how to take it further. There's also not many opportunities to meet new people because there's not much to do outside of work. I also really hate how we pretty much have no unique culture. The fact we couldn't come up with a better flag than what we have now is proof of that.

>>297809
Australian men are muscular and tall and have sexy accents but they're definetly not any less scrotey. Sorry nona

>>299181

>Australian men are muscular and tall and have sexy accents

Wrong. That's just an American mythos from movies and TV shows. Most actual Australians look like pic related.

>>299225
This is what 25 year olds look like in Australia.

Toowoomba

>>299053
TAFE is used for certs and diplomas, lower levels of education. You can study things related to what you might get a bachelors degree in Uni for, or lower entry jobs in similar fields (i.e., animal studies in TAFE, veterinary science in uni). TAFE is also used for trades and makeup artistry and stuff like that which you can't really get at uni. TAFE is way cheaper, a few grand for a diploma or cert compared to (at least) 10s of thousands at uni. TAFE also has pretty well no entry requirements (besides speaking english maybe).

>>299140
Nope there is genuinely nothing. We don't have any interesting history, nothing that makes us unique. Not even a historical piece of clothing. (ignoring Indigenous culture because everyone who lives here is white now). We had a gold rush once and we had prisons. We used to celebrate Australia day which would've maybe been modern culture but most people don't celebrate it anymore.

Have Australians ever felt that they are living in a land that does not belong to them?

>>299426
I mean we don't really feel out of place, but we don't have traditions or cuisine that a group of people that were always living here would, if that makes sense.

Don't let them fool you with the false image they're trying to present of themselves as wild free tanned cowboys and surfer chicks living with kangaroos in the Outback

>Australia is really southern UK. John Curtain who was prime minister of the country was of the opinion that Australia should be the southern outpost of the British race.
>Stolen generation. Attempting to breed Aboriginals out of existence. Take their kids at a young age educate them and show them how to act in British society. Get the women to marry white men who have mixed babies. Within 3 generations you could breed out almost all physical aboriginal traces.
>We had a white (anglo only) Australia only immigration policy up until the 70s
>If someone tells you that Australia has an identity, they are lyring. We are about as rootless cosmopolitan as you can get
>Aussies have no manufacturing base, no tech sector, essentially produce nothing as a country. Everyone laughed at them during COVID.
>The old "melting pot" idea was to erase all traces of different cultures and have one bland "American culture." to create a melting pot slave system of compliance lol
>Australia is an economic zone based solely on the worship of money and absolutely nothing else. They don't have any real identity or culture.
>Australia is the most americanized country in the world after Canada. You're americanized enough to annex tomorrow without much of a difference to anyone. You're actually more americanized than Hawaii which is an actual state
>ABC here in Aus did a vox pop segment where they walked around the University of Technology campus which happens to be right next to their studio and asked students about their opinion on Trump, because we're obsessed with being American
> Whitlam dismissal. Whitlam annihilated manufacturing forever and Australia is permanently dependent on USA and China
>Got rid of most the manufacturing capabilities in the 80's, outsourcing it to elsewhere
>Pauline Hanson said Aussie women having kids only do it for the government handouts because she Pauline says was a single mother and raised her kids with no help
>Australia is Americanized, too expensive, it’s like living in an airport it’s so rootless, the people are insular, it’s boring etc.
>media is controlled by a group with foreign interests
>individualism is king
>$ is God
>heaps of women become tradies that work in construction or road works, even traffic control (white card (construction site safety cert), traffic control certificate, forklift cert) and make $1600 in 7 hours and gross over $5,000 for the week
>Road Construction Jobs and Traffic Control are considered better than going to uni
>Even if you are on a high income, the government will tax over 50 percent of it, so good luck ever getting ahead in life
>almost entirely vaxx'd
>totally Americanized but in total denial about it
>holden and ford australia are closed for business. we only import cars from asia and europe now
>uni consists of massive amounts of debt, and after the degree probably work some Woolies job anyway. Debt increases on their HECS loans due to indexation as well, so every year they don't pay it back it just goes UP AND UP. The current average debt is $26k. Double degrees and undergrad+masters easily gets to 70-100k even under HECS
>university culture, 50% international students and you're expected to live with your parents, commute in, spend 2 hours in a lecture hall and then go home
>Aussies use American slang (really, even in the workplace)
>diversity, equity and inclusion are God to these people
>Aussie guys on Cenno and blasting his brain with ice everyday or playing cod on ps4 with children
>Australian soil is not well suited for intensive farming, eastern coast and have very sandy soil. Go a bit inland and there is orange clay, go elsewhere there is brown loamy soil
>There are a few pockets near the coasts where the soil is good. That's where farming happens but even it is in danger of being gobbled up by suburban sprawl. The best way of renewing soil on a large scale is by showering it with volcanic ash but Australia doesn't have volcanoes in the right place for that to happen.
>Every Australian guy has at least had one girlfriend from China/India/Indonesia/Colombia/Brazil/Thailand etc
>Sydney and Melbourne are so expensive. All our jobs are here. The other cities are honestly not much more than country towns. Brisbane and Perth are real cities now I suppose, but their cost of living is catching up fast.
>Brisbane Fortitude Valley station where people are just sleeping on the sidewalk, pissing and shitting, drinking, shooting up drugs
>Brisbane Queen Street where there's always at least one guy sleeping there 24/7 over 10 sleeping bags, surrounded by his piss and shit.
>If you can't afford to live in Sydney and Melbourne, there are plenty of regional cities in Australia where you can easily afford a house, but the only jobs are nursing and Coles/Woolworths
>Heaps of people can't afford rent and move to a carvan in rural australia
>No jobs in mining town as Emerald, Biloela, and mount Isa
>Life in the outback is fucked. Meth is called ice, by dealers, locals, and the government. Workers from outback parks line up infront of the ATM on payday so they can get really fucking high on cocaine, MDMA , ketamine, speed and amphetamine
>It’s AUD $325 a week and rentals start at 200 a week for one room sharing a bathroom with the other tenants
>30% rule. That’s where you spend no more than 30% of your income on rent. So, if you’re earning $1,000 a week, you’d want to spend $300 or less on rent.
>Average wage in Australia is $62,000 per year. People on Centrelink live on $10,000 per year ($250 per week, $500 per fortnight, $1000 per month)
>Aussies have said in response to getting ASS FUCKED is "she'll be right, mate!"
>The richest Australians don't even live here and most politicians are investing in land outside of Australia
>Violence against women is so high. DV, no one actually cares or even tries to acknowledge it. Many people have the mindset of "I don't want to get involved" instead of helping to save lives
>White Australia policy. If you're not of British descent, then you're not white. Anglo-Saxons being at the top with even other Western Europeans like French and Germans being "swarthy" or dark to them.In the early days of Australia a lot of Chinese came here and certainly during the Gold Rush days. For whatever reason? Post Federation? They suddenly got paranoid about that. They wanted to stop the various Asian races and Indian's coming here
>Now indians about "we are colonizing UK/Australia/Canada" and openly saying they hate Britain for draining India of its wealth and British took thriving industries – like textiles, shipbuilding, and steel – and destroyed them
>'Prime Minister Modi is the boss', says Australian PM Anthony Albanese
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/24/india/india-narendra-modi-australia-visit-intl-hnk/index.html