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I'm a woman, who uses a wheelchair, I have no issue using public transport & "walking" around at night in Sydney. I know some don't, but I've never seen the issue in it. I wouldn't focus on my phone while doing so, I like to watch & be aware of my surroundings, but in doing so, I've found the world is really not a scary place & turning off the news helps to feel safe too. I used to think places like the bus stop at Wynyard were "dangerous", till I started travelling via there. There's homeless around & stuff, but they're chatty & nice people I've found, not a threat. tbh, in my experience, predators tend to be out during the day, not night, night time they know they'll be caught & in trouble if they try anything. I did once have a guy, daytime, at my local bus stop in a "safe area" ask me for directions, showing me something on a piece of paper & as he lent over to do so, grabbed my breast!!!!!!!! Then he tried to make out that I was over reacting & he hadn't done anything wrong when I called him out on it & threatened to call the police - he left though, so I couldn't call the police & actually take action against him on it. I've NEVER had something like that at night though!
The reason coffee is so good in Australia is that our Italian migration was post WW2 and after the espresso machine was invented. So good coffee arrived with the migration wave.
@@shontellepayne551 they don’t really enjoy milk based coffees like we do in Australia. Maybe people order a macchiato or similar but it’s rare. I can say I’ve spent months in Italy on a few occasions and NEVER ordered anything but a caffe (espresso). Cappuccinos may be more popular now though with younger italian generations as a morning drink
I agree and I think that growing up in the 60's I am so glad so many things started to really change, food wise particularly, as the families moved from overseas. It's so hard to go back to bland anything , so I usually don't bother, GO the GOOD THINGS!... Sorry Mum.
You should watch a video on "Why Starbucks Failed in Australia". It's interesting as they almost needed to change everything about their coffee to compete with our Aussie coffee.
When I lived in Hamilton (New Zealand) and they opened a Starbucks there, I was keen to try it out. After doing so, I was keen to drink a *proper* coffee to wash the taste out of my mouth and also keen to forget I'd ever tried Starbucks. I was successful in the first endeavour but failed at the second - I *still* remember, with horror, drinking Starbucks "coffee". Seriously, you get better coffee at our *_Service Stations_* than you do at Starbucks.
Did it taste soapy? I only ever went once but I do wonder if the soap taste was because they didn't rinse something properly or if it just tastes soapy. Either way I'm not paying more money for something that tastes worse
@@geministargazer9830 It tasted like really bad quality coffee - like "cheap instant coffee" bad. Not sure what you've got to do to make espresso taste like that. I've tasted espresso made from freeze-dried ground coffee rather than fresh-ground beans, I've tasted espresso made by people who aren't very good at making espresso and don't get it right - and Starbucks tasted worse than those.
I walk past one of the few Starbucks in Melbourne almost everyday while going for a coffee with colleagues. It’s customer base appears to comprise mostly chinese international students and local kids in their early teens buying enormous transparent plastic containers of what looks like whipped cream topped milkshakes on ice.
As an Aussie, it's not just the sweet stuff you guys tend to prefer on your Starbucks, it's more so the quality of the coffee itself. It reminds me of the leftover pot of filter coffee at the end of an all-day work conference. I've travelled a reasonable amount, and Australia really does have a fabulous coffee culture!
@@seratonin7004 yes, that burned taste of "old" coffee that's been way to long in the pot. You're most welcome to visit us in Scandinavia, and l will definately have a coffee with you
@Stigandr Mýrardalur thank you! Happy to shout you a good Aussie coffee too. 😊 I have much fascination with your area of the world, especially after discovering my grandmother was Swedish. It makes me wonder whether genetics can draw you back to your ancestral homeland...
@@seratonin7004 seems like we have a plan. You shout out when you come to Scandinavia, and l'll make sure you get some deasent coffee, and show you around, and you do the same for me when l comes down under... 😉👍 Try to figure out WHERE in Sweden your family is from
yep, a while ago I stopped to help a driver broken down on the side of a country road and he was quick to tell me in his American drawl that "you don't get people pulling over where I come from". I reminded him that he was in Australia now and was able to get him going! Aussies rock!
I had a family stop to help me when i was about 30km before there was cell phone service again in the middle of outback qld. Had a flat tyre with a spare, didnt know how to change it, and they stopped and changed it. Took under an hour before someone stopped and about 2 dozen cars went by in that time
My parents were almost car jacked, when they were travelling around the country a few years back now. Lucky they were towing a caravan, as they had the old extended mirrors, so they can see the sneaky little mungral trying to sneak up the side of the car and also tried to pry open the caravan door. That was in outback WA, and it was very isolated, so if they did get robbed, they they would of been left for dead. If it wasn’t for a road train coming in the opposite direction, then they would of been screwed to, as he was the first guy to warn my parents of the car jackers luring travellers in with their flat tyre dodgy job. It turned out they had buried the tyre of their old ute, in the bull dust, and I’m sure my old man had he’s snotty at the ready to. FYI, it was pre-90s, when the Australian government weren’t a bunch of pussies
@@zoe9190 I'm an Ozzie and i'm in a wheelchair the missus and me got a flat on our way home from Clare in SA, within 5 minutes 4 car loads of lads stopped and changed the wheel, when done we all went to the pub for a few hours had a great time and a chin wag we met some nice Lads its not the only time people asked if i needed help thats Australia
My husband is Dutch, the first time we went to the beach shocked him. I left my phone, car keys, towels, clothes, food (everything) just in a pile and walked into the ocean. He refused to come in because he wanted to “mind” the stuff 😂 took me a couple of years to convince him it will be fine. He said in Holland it would disappear as soon as you turned your back. I’ve never had to worry about that kind of stuff
my dutch spouse has had to really learn to trust that stuff left at the beach or on the picnic blanket will still be there when we come back....had some tiresome moments with little kids running around and said spouse wanting to pack everything up to follow them...we have worked it out after a while...
kinda reverse happened. to me, went to the "beach" in Germany done that and went to go in the water and cousins started yelling dont do that here we aren't that honest
I live in central Scotland. In the last 8 years I've locked my doors twice. Both times because I was potentially going to be away for an extended period. Only thing I've had happen in that time was a neighbour sneak in and leave me a cooked meal because they knew I was under the weather. Lots of countries still have similar attitudes in my opinion.
Same here in Canada. The house is usually unlocked. Garage door often open for most of the day, with tools and stuff laying about. Vehicles always left unlocked. Once every few years I might get a kid going through my car looking for change, but that’s about it.
Here in Ireland, used to lock my door decades ago when I lived in Dublin - mainly because it had a yale lock so no choice. But I don't think I've consciously locked my door this century, between 2011 and 2020 my door didn't even have a working lock and even though I've moved I still don't lock my door. The only time we ever had a break-in, was when the door was locked.
I live just outside Sydney and my Harley and all my tools and machines sit under an open carport. My wife left the windows down and key in the ignition of our newish car over the weekend. No problems and we just had a giggle about it when she realised. Been here 21 years and never had a problem leaving the door unlocked or windows open . Never used to do it when we lived in the city. Too many desperate junkies.
We don't leave homes & cars unlocked in cities & suburbs. That's more of a country thing. Also, many women in the larger Australian cities feel unsafe walking alone at night. There have been some horrible murders. BTW: CBD = central business district, or just 'the city'.
U may not leave stuff unlocked but I know plenty of people in cities & suburbs that do. I think it has a lot to do with how well u know & trust ur neighbours. Even in public housing estates where its made out 2 b a ghetto full of drug addicts & criminals ppl still leave houses unlocked when they know they have good neighbours
I've lived 9ks from the Melbourne CBD for 15 years in two different houses and never locked the house and I always walk around the city and my suburb at night without feeling unsafe. There have only been a handful of murders on the streets that the media beat up. There is about a murder a week of a woman by someone she knows in Australia. The streets are actually relatively quite safe.
People living on the eastern seaboard tend to underrate anywhere west of them. As a consequence you'll hear them extol the virtues of either Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. I lived approx. 10 years on the eastern seaboard - mostly either Brisbane or Melbourne but also spent time in Sydney, Canberra and Adelaide for work. I returned, however, to Western Australia to bring up my kids. It has a real California vibe to it in terms of lifestyle and climate. If you restrict yourself to the eastern seaboard when visiting [which, admittedly, does have some spectacular attractions - both man-made and natural] then you are depriving yourself of the full experience. Western Australia is the largest state [Texas would fit into WA about 3 times over (0.28 times the size of WA) and, as a consequence, has possibly the most diversified climate and habitats, extending from the tropical north laced with wetlands, whale sharks and some of the highest tides in the world, down through the wheat belt and desert interior to the richly forested south-west with it's wine growing and dairy produce, including the world's largest selection and variety of wildflowers... and quokkas... don't forget the quokkas... I'd rate Perth alongside any of the other capitals when it comes to beauty.
Thirty years in WA. WA wines are good but their dairy products are mediocre at best. The better cheeses, etc., come from the east. Sometimes it's WA milk sent east to be processed then returned. WA has much natural beauty but can't match the east. No rainforests, no decent mountains to create the green lush valleys like the east. Not a great sense of history, they knocked down so many old buildings like Qld did. Only one bushranger I can think of. No uprising that left a mark on history like Castle Hill or Eureka. WA beaches can't usually match the east's. No surf to speak of in most of Perth, not for miles. I would say Perth reminds me more of San Diego than L.A. It has it's sunny, laid-back charm, but that is fading. Few regional cities full of history like Newcastle or Ballarat. Albany perhaps. No snowfields. No gorgeous cold climate drives like the Monaro Highway or the New England Highway. No wombats, no platypus, no koala.
aussie here, only seen pictures of W.A spent the last 40 years seeing the eastern coast, if the pics ive seen are only half true I'm so sad that ive only 20 more years to explore the west
@@0lliekelm328 There are five things WA has that most of the other states would be envious of: No poker machines in clubs and pubs (only in the Burswood Casino); No toll roads; Government owned and run energy companies-Western Power maintain the network and Synergy bill the customers. I vaguely remember it was a big issue when the State Government of Qld (was it Sir Joh's Government of the 1980's tried to privatise it, but strikes were called and that proposal was called off); January 2023 the State Government set a $5.00 limit on travel on public transport by basically just having two fair zones. Now that is $5.10 for two hours (three hours if you are travelling to the outer areas of metropolitan area (i.e you can travel from the CBD/Perth Station to Mandurah and return for basically $5.10. If you are staying all day in Mandurah you just pay the $5.10 again for the return journey. [If you are a Concession Card Holder I it is $2.30). This has been a permanent arrangement. It will be interesting to see how the 50 cent trial goes in Queensland in the lead up to their election (is it November 2024?) and A treasury full of money from mining royalties and GST money that is the envy of other State treasures. Is it spent wisely when there is a lot of homelessness and couch-surfing? Our Housing Minister, John Carey, who a couple of years ago was proud of the fact that there were less Homeswest (the State Government's owner of public housing) owned premises (I think that when the McGowan Government assumed power in 2017 it may have been 39,000, at the time of him, Carey, speaking in about 2021 it was around 38,000). All Governments have to deal with priorities, at least we got Coldplay over here and will get two NRL (Rugby League) matches shortly. We (in the South-West corner of the State) benefit from the Fremantle Doctor in Summer (a strong Westerly breeze that, hopefully, happens most afternoons in Summer after Midday that helps brings the temperature down, certainly for those that live close to the ocean. [There can be a 15 degree difference between say Cottesloe when the sea breeze hits, to Midland and the Hills North-Eastern suburbs, Ellenbrook, as these are 30-40 km from the Ocean. Then you hope the sea-breeze will still have enough strength to reach these suburbs. By then people have melted away for another 3-5 hours]. I understand Penrith region, and those at the foothills of the Blue Mountains suffer terribly during Summer as there is associated high humidity and high overnight temperatures.
Littering I’m Australia DEFINITELY happens- but we also have “Clean Up Australia Day” each year where many people volunteer to go out to their local public places and collect rubbish for the day- usually in March I am honk.
99 percent of Australians answer the door straight away without looking at some fuçking security camera for 10 minutes before opening the dammmm door lol
In terms of recent comparisons, my husband bought a brand new Harley Davidson touring motorcycle last August here in Queensland Australia. It cost approx $40,000 AUD and took 3months to arrive. How does that compare to the same model in USA ? On a different topic, we moved to Australia from the UK when I was 25. One of the first things I found confusing happened when my husband invited a guy from work and his wife around to our flat to see our newborn baby. We were really exited - our first Aussie friends ! the first step to being accepted as real Australians rather than just ‘transplants’, after all if we had wanted to hang around with Brits, we would have stayed in Britain, rightly or wrongly - that was how we saw it. The visit was great, they ooo’d and aaa’d over the baby, they even gave him a little gift. An hour or so later they left, they had an appointment to go to, as they were leaving they said “see you later” I said “thanks for coming - see ya later “ Off they went. No sooner had they gone than we were galvanised into action, my husband rushed into the shower, I fed and changed baby and then I got ready too. We waited, and we waited - they had definitely said they’d see us later, hadn’t they ? Yep, they did, we both heard the same thing. A couple of hours later we gave up and went to bed, mystified - why did they say ‘ see you later ‘ and then not turn up ? we had no idea - it was very odd that 🤷♀️ maybe they didn’t like us after all ! Needless to say, it didn’t take long for it to become obvious that when Aussies say “see you later” they just mean Bye 👋 They don’t mean they are intending to come back later. 😂🤣🤣. Duh 😳
Its easy to forget some of these differences living in Australia like the barbecue areas at basically every single beach, I couldn't imagine not being able to have a snag on the barbie down at the beach any time of the year (definitely a first world problem) but those days are seriously the best chill out days, would definitely be something I will miss when traveling & just the beaches in general, really take it for granted ☺️
We have our front yards, then a public footpath ( sidewalk ) and then another strip of grass that's usually 2-3 meters wide before the road, that bit of grass is what we call the nature strip. I feel pretty safe walking around at night but things still do happen occasionally and I always lock my doors, although to be honest, no one has ever tried to break in.
Ossie ( with an “ss”)Ostrich is an icon puppet from Hey Hey it’s Saturday. That’s why people laugh a bit if you say it like that . However, to totally confuse you “Ozzie” Is how to pronounce a local of Australia, or the country.Nah yeah😊
As a woman I would not walk around Sydney CBD or certain suburbs at night alone. There are other places further away from the city that are perfectly safe though and where you are far more at risk in your own home from people you know.
I left mount druitt west of sydney, one of australias most dangerous suburbs, to near bathurst in the sticks, my house has been broken into twice while i was home and twice while i was not in 2 years by meth addicts, 4 of my neighbors in my street have been murdered in the last 2 yrs also, it is not safe here, mount druitt was way safer... half of this list was absolute garbage...
Sydney CBD is quite a generalization. I couldn't think of a safer place than Darling Harbor or The Star because of the large police and security presence. I understanding avoiding George St and Belmore Park.
Leaving your car and house unlocked is something done by people living outside of the city. Most countryside areas, even those with 30,000 people, don’t bother locking the back door. It really is easy to break into a house thru any window. A friend also a policeman, showed me how it could be done. Back story; I was taken by ambulance to hospital and the ambo closed up my house, both doors. When I arrived home a few days later, I couldn’t get into my house. My keys inside, I got the taxi driver to call the police. One officer opened a window and my front door in less than a literal minute. The look on my face caused laughter. As a former city dweller I got a security reality check in a country town. (Population 30,000)
I love living in Aus... never a care, walk anywhere at night or day. Never been robbed or mugged or threatened. Almost never hear car horns, never heard a gunshot. I think I heard a fight in the street once a few years ago. I live in the capital city, have been here 50 years. It is a big city now so I lock the door at night but if I don't I am not worried. I have only seen one gun that wasn't on a policeman and that belonged to a weird friend I had as a teen. I don't think anyone I know has been in gaol, I don't even think I know anyone who has been arrested. Not that I know a lot of people, I am a bit of a hermit, but still... Got pulled up by cops once and my friend in the back (dark skinned lad) pulled his beanie down over his eyes and suddenly pointed a banana at the cop and shouted 'stick em up!'. Cop didn't flinch, just looked at him, laughed and said 'don't be a dickhead mate'.
Walking parks and streets at night is relatively safe but as a woman alot less so. Also rubbish thrown from cars and walking in street is called "tossing". We had a big ad called "don't be a tosser.".(and yes we do call another male behaviour "tossing" ) so it was very much a " tongue in cheek " ad.
Damn that sounds awesome man. Growing up in the states, my neighborhood was kinda ghetto. Im only 18 but i’ve been shot at, stabbed, lost multiple friends due to gun violence and most of my peers are in gangs and in and out of jail. I Live right next to a big city and in most major cities its like this. Its the worst in like Chicago, Detroit, New York, LA, Atlanta, Miami, Jacksonville, and comparatively its not that bad where i live. Its crazy you’re in a bigger city and don’t have to worry about these things.
@@trekkie-cat Just curious, is there any places you can’t go. For example America has neighborhoods in almost all major cities that you just shouldn’t go to if you aren’t from there. Is it similar in Australia or not really?
I emigrated go Australian from the U.S. in 2000. It’s changed a bit now, but at that time I was gobsmacked that my future wife didn’t keep the doors locked during the day and would leave ground floor windows open at night. I was used to keeping the doors and windows locked at all times 24/7, so it took me a bit to get used to it. It really did feel bizarre, we would even go on walks through our highly populated area at night and I’d be keeping my head on a swivel - for nothing, if we did see someone they would just say gday and go about their business. Another thing that surprised me was how people on our street would keep an eye on the neighborhood kids playing and would pull them up if they were misbehaving - it seemed like Mayberry RFD to me. Like I said, it’s changed a bit now, but I still can’t recommend Australia high enough as a place to emigrate to.
@@4kays160 Not always I suspect, it depends where you live. I'm in inner suburban Canberra and my backyard is still messy (new house, no landscaping at all), so I don't go out the back door much. The other day I found that I had left the back door unlocked for four days straight. I sleep with my ground-floor bedroom window open and it stays open all day even when I'm out. It faces the street and is visible to passersby.
I've only tried Starbucks twice - once in Australia and once at Heathrow Airport (London) - and in both cases the coffee was awful, insipid ditch-water, like really weak/stewed/burnt percolated coffee. Adding flavourings and syrups and other gimmicky rubbish couldn't make up for such poor quality. I couldn't understand why it's so popular in the US and wouldn't bother with it again unless I was somewhere where there was no alternative place to get coffee. I wasn't at all surprised it closed down in Australia - I can't think who would want to buy it. Travelling in the US back in the early 80s I tried diner coffee a few times and that was pretty bad too - enormous mugs of it but bitter and thin tasting - nothing like the rich flavour and texture of a decent espresso. I guess we're spoilt here in Oz, maybe due to the many Italians who've made Australia their home.
Statbuck went broke 15 years ago in North Ryde/Macquarie Park in Sydney, but due to American culture being so popular in this neighbourhood among 12-25 year olds, it has returned and going well the past few years.
The nature strip is the piece of land between the front fence and the road. This land doesn’t belong to the home owners, it belongs to the local council but the home owner is responsible for keeping it mowed and maintained. And CBD stands for “central business district “.
We, me my two little boys our dog and our cat used to go out at night for a walk down our street after dinner before bed to tire them out so they would sleep better. It was Gladstone Qld, we had a lot of fun on those night walks. My Hubby stayed home.
Australia is super safe. I moved here from South Africa 5 years ago and it’s amazing that I’ve never felt unsafe once, including walking alone in Sydney CBD at 2 am plenty of nights
I would be careful in some places - I used to walk from Circular Quay to St Peter's and had a few dicey encounters in Surrey Hills. I'm a decent size and fit, and think that is probably what prevented me getting rolled. But yes, if you stick to the main roads you should be fine. I was walking the shortcuts through the back streets.
@@flowerpower8722 not true. South Africa is rated a medium risk, there are many countries far worse than South Africa. Australia ranks as low risk, so it is safer though.
@@flowerpower8722 you are correct, South Africa is extremely dangerous. Yes, it's not Somalia and yes it's not Libya, but it is still extremely unsafe. I'm amazed that we park cars outside on the street here in Australia, in South Africa, at least Johannesburg, it would be gone and stolen the first night.When I still lived in South Africa I had my car stolen, my house mate at the time had her car stolen twice in 2 months. When I was 12 years old my hockey coach dropped me off at home and as I entered the house (parents were at work) there were burglars in the house. When I was 23 my cousin was home alone at night and the broke in during the night, tied her up in her room and covered her eyes so she couldn't see. They proceeded to ransack the house for the next 2 hours. Luckily they didn't rape her. South Africa is a dangerous country
@@flowerpower8722 there are plenty of places, have you been living under a rock? Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Iraq, Libya, Mali, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen are the most dangerous places to live. South Africa is in the same category as Jamaica and the Solomon Islands.
@@godamid4889 every country,on Earth,has problem areas.It’s vital to do as much research,as possible,before making a commitment to living in an area. I would never take anybody else’s word for it.
The cleanliness of the streets is a relatively new phenomenon in Australia. As a kid in the early 70's it was usual practice to throw rubbish out the car window when travelling. This all changed with huge government initiatives and advertising campaigns in the 80's to the point where the entire nation's behaviour was changed. I can remember the disgusting state of the roadsides and public areas from when I was a kid and am really proud of how far we have come from those days.
Growing up in the country, I can remember big roadside rubbish collection pushes. School kids and volunteers collecting rubbish from the sides of the country roads. You would get assigned a distance, like 1 km, and walk along bagging all the rubbish. Used to collect mountains of it. Big incentive to not litter as an adult, if you had to trudge along country roads picking up other peoples rubbish as a kid. Changes your perception when you see someone throw things out of a car window.
And the big billboards yelling "DONT BE A TOSSER" at you and then it was socially acceptable for a kid to yell at a adult "your a tosser" when the tossed rubbish on the ground.
With regards to putting household items on the nature strip, or curbside for others to pick up if they want it, I was told by someone I know that they put thier old refrigerator, or fridge out be because they got a new one, it was out for a couple of days and no one took it, so he put the price of $50 on it, and someone stole it that night.
Ryan, we have very specific laws relating to littering and specifically tossing cigarette butts anywhere due to the very high risk of starting a bushfire! In summer, our bushfires may begin naturally through lightning strikes, but more often than not, they’re started by mankind being careless - not putting out a BBQ properly, or the most common cause, cigarettes! They cost lives and property for thousands of people every year!
Another common cause is deliberate arson, I believe. Or someone doing a "back burn" and it gets away on them. Probable causes may vary state to state: in Queensland, during high fire season, you cannot burn rubbish in your back yard or have any open fire at all. I noted in Melbourne when I was there that people still used open drums in their backyards to burn off cardboard and rubbish; hadn't seen that for over a decade in Qld. One CAN do it, but have to get special permission from local fire brigade or bushfire services. How strict the rules are would probably depend on the season.
@@Kayenne54 same here in WA, there's definitely no burning off rubbish in your back yard! And burn off seasons are very specific and yes, you do have to have a permit. Burn off is almost always done by CALM and in conjunction with Traditional Seasons and input with Indigenous Rangers. Our WA Water Authority also advertises the six Indigenous Seasons as they begin, and how they impact on our gardens, bush and water usage.
@@Kayenne54 The simple version is the wet season and the dry season - more commonly referred to in the northern half of the country. Northern Territory indigenous have dozens of them loosely based on plant fruiting/seeding cycles and animal movement/breeding cycles, in addition to rainfall or not.
Australia is a great place to live... and obviously, developing our own distinctive culture is still 'a work in progress'... one interesting aspect of Australia is our sports culture... in terms of how we 'punch above our weight' in the Olympics for a country with such a small population, our medal haul is nearly always inside the top ten compared to countries with far far bigger populations like China, the USA, the UK and Canada etc.!
Australia's Olympic medal haul is misleading as we do well in sailing, rowing and swimming. 3 sports that have multiple events at the Olympics. Bulgarian weightlifting, Cuba with boxing are other similar countries that benefit from having many events in 1 sport. But Australia is definitely a sport nation.
@@brinjoness3386 we also do well in hockey, equestrian, cycling etc... all open to other nations... so you either win or lose... Australia seems to win!
I think the main reason in most of Australia that we don't have to worry as much about crime is because we have a social system based on money support so people don't have to steal to survive. So the people who do steal are doing it because of mental illness or drug addiction and more often both.
Australia was founded by thieves, the majority of the people who came to Australia between 1788 and 1850 were convicts and 4 of the 6 states started as penal colonies if the US had lost the War of Independence, most of those convicts would've been sent to America.
CBD, central business district :) I have severe anxiety and I love to walk around my neighborhood at night because it's lovely and quiet, I live in Brisbane which is also a slightly smaller city compared to Sydney or Melbourne.
"Nature strip" = Here our property line ends at the front fence line , the local council owns from fence line up till the road (we are required to do small maintenance eg mow while they will do larger issues like tree pruning etc) we call this area - nature strip .
( I just realised non-Australians wouldnt know NSW = New South Wales ,VIC =Victoria , ACT = Australian Capital Territory , QLD = Queensland , they are Australian states)
I’m not too certain but isnt the line marked by the letterbox? That’s what I was told years ago, not everyone has fences at the front. And I live in WA I’ve heard people say nature strip and council strip most common is verge
My parents built their home in the 1950s in a suburb of Melbourne Aus. The back door was never locked. Mum always left the key in the front door all day, but removed it at bedtime. Dad passed aged 89 in his sleep in own bed and mum passed 95 one hour in hospital. Those keys in both doors stayed the same until Mum passed in 2016. I was never scared.
G;day mate My name is Graeme, and it is soooooo awesome that you are wanting to make vids on my home, on Australia. It is so cool that you want to find out as much as you can about this sunburnt country down under.
The “nature strip” is the land between the front of your property and the roadside gutter. It’s usually grass and most residents maintain it as their own but it’s actually the responsibility of the local council.
Actually it's usually your responsibility to maintain it even though it's not your property. Could you imagine the cost of the council to mow all the nature strips in towns?
@@DaleTuck31 Where I used to live, not only did the local council mow the nature strips... but if you were a pensioner who was too ill to mow your own lawns... you could contact the council to have the council come and mow your lawns (front yards, side and backyard) FOR FREE.
@@DaleTuck31 Maybe for our council they push for you to maintain the verge side nature strip's but for the majority of the councils I've interacted with, that is the councils responsibly. Some councils in Perth such as Victoria Park even require you to seek permission before altering the nature strip and I know the Canning council has a tree planting program where you can call up and request a tree from them. (This was as of the last I checked, which was a couple of years ago, individual towns might of changed their policies since) Fun fact: I've read in one of the local history websites that the large areas of grass in front of homes were an added city design so that live exports such as sheep could be housed on them while the ship or transportation for them was being prepared.
In Queensland it's your responsibility to maintain the nature strip, and it has to be grass. You are also not allowed to park on it in our local council area. Edit: Except for the council planted trees.
I live in NSW and it is my responsibility to maintain the nature strip and you have to get council approval if you want something other than grass there. You can be fined if you park on the nature strip so you need to make sure your driveway is long enough for your car to fit within your property. There have been articles every now and then about people getting fined because the back of their car is sticking out past their front property line because the driveway is too short and they don't have a wide nature strip so they are slightly overhanging the footpath.
9:30 Yeah, nah. Starbucks uses syrups for their flavour, which is a big no 'cause they're competing against other coffee places that do proper flavours with essences. We also don't have much exposure to corn syrup, so the use of it in American coffees tends to make it taste *odd* to the Aussie palette. The result is an impression of 'cheap' coffee, which just doesn't sit right, especially combined with the cafe prices they charge. Though you are right, we have a much lower saturation of sugar in our foods, and a much higher saturation of salt. Your normal breads are about our brioche level for taste.
Nature Strip is the piece of land between our front yard & the kerb of the road. We usually have a grassy area about 12-16feet wide there we call the nature strip, because its only allowed to have grass on it, though some ppl occasionally plant a lovely very small tree or occasionally a tiny narrow garden, but theyre not allowed to obstruct that space. In busy areas & in cities theres also usually a path there which the local council pays for & has to keep in good condition for ppl to walk on. In many areas where theres still lots of space, paths are wider these days (up to 5-6feet wide, instead of just 3ft like they used to be, but theres ususally grass on either side of it.
I hope you do make it here to Australia, you’re already down with some of our weirder behaviours 😂. Like the USA, there are different visa categories so look into that. It’s hilarious watching your reactions to our everyday phrases and things we think are normal. Keep it up mate. “Happy arvo” cracks me up, we don’t say that at all but it’s now your catch phrase, so don’t stop! Here’s some slang for ya… it’ll be ridgey didge, mate, no wuckers 😂🤟
nature strip is the lawn infront of ur lawn owned by the counsel they usually take care of it. Its like the grass and trees across the path out the front of ur house.
Used car prices have skyrocketed in Australia in the past 18 months. Some folks can sell their used car for more than they paid for it, and the rest have appreciated by 20% at least. Delivery on new cars is now 6-18 months if it's not on the lot, so people who don't want to wait now buy 2nd hand. Demand and supply.
I was lucky enough to just beat that. I got an 2012 FG ford falcon XR6T for only $5000 at the Auctions in 2019 in perfect condition and only 48k on the odm. Now you can't get one under 20k
@@toddavis8151 yes, mine has jumped in value, apparently, not that I have any desire to sell it. Funny how insurance companies are still using the old values as today's 'market values' if that's the type of policy you have, not agreed value. In the current market, it would be easy to be inadvertently under-insured, caveat emptor etc.
@@GreenDistantStar I'm not sure if it a WA only thing but RAC did an article in a recent RAC Members Magazine they were only insuring cars under 10 years old on a new policy. If it's an ongoing policy okay.
@@cbisme6414 Budget Direct won't comprehensively insure some cars > 10 years old. Each underwriter has their own world-view, so you pick the one that suits you.
l spent 3 months on holiday in Australia (l'm from the UK) it's a beautiful country, the people are very friendly, l travelled by car from Adelaide via Melbourne to Sydney along the old coast road, it took 7 days, but was worth it. we saw the used items on the side of the pavement ( it's not a normal thing to do in the Uk but myself and my neighbour do it all the time). it's a safe country, it's clean ( you can get fined £1000 in the UK for littering) there's lots of places to pull off the road with shelter, seating and barbies. l loved every minute i spent there. if you get the chance you should visit Australia.
@@tulinfirenze1990we left the UK on the 1st of January and arrived in Australia on the 3rd, and that's the one thing l found so weird when we arrived ,the sun shining and Christmas decorations everywhere l couldn't get my head round it lmao. I expect you would feel the same if you visit the UK at Christmas time.
One thing, as a rural Aussie I find it weird whenever people are making fun of rich people by saying things like, ''Ew, is that tap water? I just can't drink that!'' When I can't drink tap water because it tastes disgusting to me as someone coming from a very low-income family, who's been drinking rain water since I was little. Every single house I've ever had, has had a rain water tank and we either have a tap in the house connected to it or we would have to go outside and fill up a water jug/cooler everytime we needed water.
Rain water is the best!!!especially during a storm. Adelaides tap water in the 70s was foul,a glass of fresh water looked like what the water from a vase of week old flowers looked like.Adeladians were drinking bottled water long before it was fashionable.😅
Nature strip is the space(generally grassy) between the fence and the road/gutter. It's where the postie can ride his motorbike or where people can walk, or, in this case, put unwanted stuff.
19:57 That beautiful cityscape you were admiring - that is by the Yarra River in the Melbourne CBD (Aussie for mid-town = Central Business District). And if you don't regard yourself as a coffee connoisseur now, I can pretty much guarantee that you'll probably become one, once you spend time in Melbourne. Also, there are pockets of neighbourhoods in Melbourne that are a lot more friendlier and community-spirited than others (who even have old-fashioned street parties together), it's just luck whether you find yourself living on one of those streets - it's a very large, spread out city of 6 million people.👍
A little bit enthusiastic about the population of Melbourne - new census figures show it at 4.9 million, 6.5 million in Victoria as a whole. There are no cities with 6 million people in Australia. The largest is Sydney with 5.2 million. Brisbane is third with 2.5 million, Perth 4th with 2.1 million and Adelaide 5th with just under 1.4 million. So you were off by almost the entire population of Adelaide!
Pure marketing dude. You like to live in Melbourne and love it but there are people who live in places like Grong Grong and be the happiest people in the world. Most people are proud of their own home but most people don’t brag about how wonderful it is. Horses for courses. Btw I am not a fan of Melbourne. Why? Because people who live in Melbourne are always boasting about how wonderful Melbourne is!!
@@stelmosfire11 Melbourne topped the list of World’s Most Liveable City from 2011 to 2017 before being overtaken by Vienna in the annual Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Global Liveability Index. Melbourne had broken its own record - and it is the first city to ever win the title for seven consecutive years. What is so wrong with being proud of that? And being the country's arts, food, events and sports capital? 🤷♀️ Actually, the majority of those who visit are the main ones who boast about the city - like the participants/organisers of the Grand Prix and Australian Open Tennis tournament and Melbourne Cup Spring Racing Carnival.
@@neumanmachine3781 Yes, you're absolutely right. I think I had the recent population projections in mind..."Melbourne is projected to be the fastest-growing capital city from 2023‑2024 on, overtaking Sydney to become the nation's largest city in 2029‑2030 at just over 5.9 million people". Actually, it's the one main thing about Melbourne I'm not happy about. I have dreams of retiring to Airlie Beach/Whitsundays in Queensland. One day.
@@Venusbabe66 you and others have completely missed my point. It doesn’t matter one iota to me what others say or write about Melbourne. Australia is not defined by one city alone. People live everywhere and are proud of their home.
never had a problem with a human intruder coming through the open front door but one hot day i left it open and my cat came in proudly dragging a very angry dugite she had caught. saw some interesting dance moves from people that day.
The only intruders in my house r nxt doors dogs & every now & again some random black cat that likes 2 sleep on my bed (despite me chucking it out the window more than once) The geckos & tree frogs r always free 2 take up residence tho
I had a drunk girl walk into my house in the middle of the night thinking it was someone else's. I was just glad she didn't wander into some creeps house.
@@esmeraldagreengate4354 yeah that can play out the other way around to. a mate of mine had some drunk chic just show up an she hung out with em for half the night. nothing happened that shouldnt have but a few nights later this guy and his friends show up and flogged the piss outa him with a bat, i think she got into trouble and told some lies to cover her fat arse.
Nature strip is a section of grass, tress, ect that separates the footpath from the road, it is usually publicly owned and is up to the city to maintain it
I’m Australian and walk around some places at night by myself like Sydney city but don’t feel as safe walking around parts of Townsville at night. I think it depends on the location.
It's a beautiful country mate, with a landscape like nowhere else in the world. And because it is so big, there is plenty to see and explore; indeed even most Aussies don't get to see it all in one lifetime. Come on down and see for yourself...
Yes. He's right on everything EXCEPT the walking the streets alone, as a woman. Never. Not real safe for men either. I know the area of Melbourne and Ocean Grove he speaks of. I am very happy and grateful to live in Australia.
I am a woman and I always walk the streets alone at night. I live in Melbourne close to the CBD and I have done so for 30 years since I was in my early 20's. I have never ever had an issue.
@@maryhurley5884 I'm aware bad shit happens & I'm not arrogant or stupid enough 2 think 'it won't happen to me'. I grew up in syd western suburbs (which is considered pretty dangerous)& then Kings X 4 a while.I try 2 b as aware of my surroundings as possible but I don't want 2 b controlled by fear. The only time I have been physically assaulted (or abused in any way) was by people already known 2 me. Unfortunately they r the facts in most situations.
Agree. Also in another video people were saying we never sit in the back of taxi's. When I lived in the suburbs I never sat in the front of taxi's there were too many incidents of creepy drivers with friends but now that I live in the country the guy that owns the taxi company lives down the street and starts his run early so I don't have to walk to work at 5.15 am
So, the nature strip is basically the piece of land that would be between the sidewalk and the edge of the road. sometimes called council/shire strip. Also CBD is Central Business District
I live in Geraldton Western Australia & kids getting into cars is such a common occurrence that it’s actually better for the owner of the vehicle to deliberately leave it unlocked or you’ll find a broken window in the morning. I was always kind enough to leave a cigarette & some loose coins just so they didn’t damage or break anything else during their visit. 🤷♀️
As a Scot living in Australia there were so very many things to deal with, funny and unusual. The Nature Strip is the small section of land starting at the property line to the edge of the road or kerb. This section remains the property of the Council, not the home owner.
In Australia there is a 10 cents paid to you by the recycling depot. This covers for all cans, milk cartons, plus juice containers. Also some wine bottles have a deposit , recycling depots will pay you. Many people pick the items on the road , rubbish bins. This keeps Australia clean. Every year we have a clean up day. Volunteers all get out pick up rubbish in parks, rivers, roads, beaches, any where it is needed.
The BBQ on the beach and in parks are free. When I was a kid we use to have to pay for it and the local councils had to replace them when they got broken for the coins. So to counteract this vandlism they made them free. they are awesome :)
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@@eloisebrynlee take glad bake with you on your bbq.........give the worst of the mess a quick scrape off then whack down a bit of glad bake the size of the barbie......cook away, then at the end just throw the glad bake in the bin.
As an Aussie I’m loving you videos. Your shock and amazement spin me out everytime. Australia fits over about 78% of the size of America. and you have a population of about 300 million more than us.
👍United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 78.72% the size of United States. Meanwhile, the population of United States is ~332.6 million people (307.2 million fewer people live in Australia).
A nature strip is the lawn out by the kerb that is owned by the local council but still maintained by the owner of the house. (I saw a description that included the footpath as well). They usually have a tree in the centre of them.
Melbourne has its own language that's quite different from the rest of the country.I don't think anywhere else calls the footpath a 'nature strip'. Also, it's actually illegal in a lot of local council areas to dump your rubbish on the footpath unless they're having an official 'council pickup'. That's when you toss out your big items like broken furniture and electrical goods, because not everyone has a trailer to take their big rubbish to the dump. But some people throw out decent rubbish.
just a little clarification, not every street has two footpaths one on each side of the street. Most often one side has a footpath the other does not but still there is part of the lad that belongs to the council, it used to be 7.5 m from the street, now I think it is 5.5m. The side of the street that does not have a footpath usually has all the main services: gas line, main water pipe ect. If there is a problem it can be dug up without damaging the footpath and this id the nature strip.
Yeah. Good shout because by comparative land mass I believe they are almost on par.. and also with the greatest amount of respect Again with some banter .. Oz is a place the Brits sent their criminals, and look how awesome.it turned out .. Love to my antipodean cousins 💓
@@TregMediaHD you don't compare it by land mass, you do it per capita. For example the homicide rate in Australia per 100k people is 0.89, in USA it is 4.96.
Hi Ryan. This guy clearly lives in a very safe neighbourhood and apparently doesn't go to less savoury areas much. Trust me, when it comes to locking up, crime, walking through parks at night. Yeah, nah (that means no). A great deal of Australians lock up and take their safety seriously. Places like Alice Springs (hate to be disparaging, but it is what it is) the crime rate is quite high, it would be not unusual for a business to be broken into every week. "An Alice Springs glazier says he is replacing up to 30 car windows a day as the town experiences a spike in anti-social behaviour." - ABC News For a town of 26,000... Shutters and bars on all windows and doors is not uncommon in many cities/towns. But on a whole the country has a reasonably low crime rate, just chose your locations.
Nature strip is also known as the shire or council verge at the front of your Home it’s about 2/3 meters in width from the road to letterbox. That stretch of property belongs to the town, suburb/city that you reside in.
The nature strip is the piece of land between the road and your property that is usually owned by the council, however it is maintained by the homeowner
We live in rural coastal Australia. It’s a tourist area so we only lock up the house and take the keys out of the car during the holiday season. But the only problem with that is if you do get broken into or your car stolen, you insurance policy may be invalid.
The walking alone at night thing, there's also a thing called 'gender' difference. Of course a woman is going to not feel safe walking alone at night vs a man. Country DOES matter, but gender even more so.
I don't know how true this even is for men, to be perfectly honest. The number of 'sucker punches' and people ending up in comas or flat out dying is fucking ridiculous as of late.
Haha I just love watchin you, I'm a true aussie and to listen to you try and understand our country and the language.. If you every need help to explain things then hit me up 👍
In western Australian we have what’s called working for the dole,unemployed people are taught the skills to do jobs like laying concrete,laying bricks welding ,so these people are the ones that built the tables and gazebos for the bbq areas on beaches and parks these skills can them help it get apprenticeships or jobs for a lot of these people .the town I live in,I don’t like up the house or car ,I go shopping load up my car go to other shops and drive home nothing is missing.
@chris It's not really, slaves don't get paid! The dole is pay from the government, it's not unreasonable for the government to ask you to do some work for it.
The nature strip is the grassy piece of council owned land between your property and the street. Typically your property doesnt extend all the way to the kerb, there is a nature strip, where the council can put utilities and footpaths etc.
Don't forget that Australia grows coffee. Atherton Tablelands and Northern New South Wales. The quality of our home grown coffee is amazing. We own one of the coffee plantations. Domigo Coffee from the Atherton Tablelands.
I went on vacation for 2 weeks once and left the front door wide open. Coming home I thought shit the front door is open but all was ok. That was a normal suburban house where the door was visibly open from the footpath. We moved to a larger property of about 2 acres and never locked the doors. We were never burgled.
I hear ya. I live in a country town and had left my garage door open when I went to work one morning without realising it. Came back in the late arvo to find that the trike in the garage with the key in the ignition was still there, it's great. This has been good until very recently when motorbikes in my town had been stolen from their front yards and the locals had reported having seen some dodgy characters scouting out the town.
A nature strip is a small section of grass, usually with a native Australian tree in the centre, that is in front of your property, it is owned by local government and is in between the house and the footpath / pavement.
a nature strip is the grass between the footpath and the road (in suburbia the footpath is hardly ever connected directly to the road, so it usually goes front yard-footpath-grass-road)
Perhaps if you live in a rural area or small country town you can leave your door unlocked and not get robbed , but not in any city in Australia. it depends on where you live . No one in cities in Australia leaves their doors unlocked
I think he meant doors are unlocked when we're at home during the day (I live in Sydney). We only lock our front door at nights. But there are many nights I forgot to lock our door
@@dianacasey6002 I understand what you're saying but I don't think it depends on where you live. Some places might be safer than others but I don't believe anywhere is safe if you're female. It's not too bad where I live but sexual assault and murders happen anywhere. We have to be be vigilant and protect ourselves no matter where we live.
@@TazzyCee78 I understand we need to be carful but statistically women are attacked and raped by ppl they know or are acquainted with rather than a stranger.
The reason for large items being left on the footpath is because when you leave a rental it has to be vacant, you can’t leave your stuff in there and expect to get your bond back. The cost of getting movers in, especially in inner city areas where there’s no place for the truck to park, so it’s cheaper to just replace many items.
I find that because most people don't litter, if I'm out walking and there is any litter on the ground, it tends to stand out and I can't help but pick it up and put it in the bin.
@@kewl2152 It was not good and I wonder when the street sweeper comes along or in heavy rains do they then end up in the drains?! The smell from a bunch of these things is not too good either. 🚬
In Darwin Australia, because we have cyclones and rubbish becomes airborne, we have once a year when the council will tell us to put our big rubbish out for them to pick up. During this time people will roam the streets with their trailers and pick up the things they want from the curb. This is encouraged as it saves the council picking it up.
The nature strip is the area between your front fence and the road. So the place where they put a footpath (sidewalk). There are more often than not, grass instead of a footpath in the suburbs.
Ocean Grove has less than 20,000 people so it's not really such a big deal about security, you certainly wouldn't leave things open/unlocked in big cities though.
CBD = Central Business District. The "centre" of a major city. It's just a term that's been adopted over the years as it's not always "downtown". But we would use it in a similar way to how you folks use the term "downtown". We would also often just say "city centre". So yeah, "I'm going into the city centre" or "I'm going into the CBD" are both commonly used. You will pretty much never hear "I'm going downtown" in Australia. And yes, we also use it to refer to CBD oil, etc, in relation to cannabis/marijuana! Of course, but this usage pre-dates that! haha. I don't know about the not locking doors thing though as I always make sure the house is locked up at all times, day and night, whether home or out, and I live in a small-ish regional town of about 30,000 population! So yeah, that one doesn't check out, maybe some people might be just relaxed about it in general if they live in an even more rural area or something or it might've been a thing like 50 years ago but not anymore! No way!
Nature strip is simply the land between the road and someone's fenceline that the council owns. Different places warrant different approaches toward security in Australia. I will mention that I live in a city, I lock my house and car. It is advisable to avoid certain places everywhere in the world, but you can walk through the CBD (Central Business District) safely at night.
As an Aussie woman no I don’t walk around alone at night. I also lock my doors and car all the time. I actually went to primary school with Peter so lived in Ocean Grove my family still do, it’s doubled in population since we were kids.
Also we have garage sales. Usually there'll be a sign on the front of a street directing you to a house for a garage sale or you'll see it advertised on FB. Garage sale is pretty much what it sounds like. A sale in someones garage with things they wanna get rid of.
A nature strip is the strip of grass between the footpath and the road; it usually belongs to the local municipality, but is generally maintained by the household it is in front of. Normally, there will be a tree on every second patch between driveways, planted and maintained by the local council.
As a woman I would not walk around city streets alone at midnight. I think he's looking at that from a man's perspective.
I live in Sydney, C B D AKA Central Business District, and I have no problems walking around day or night.
@@mariahewitt9787 I wouldn't, but I am from the bush so my perception of the city may be different.
Yaass!
I'm an Australian woman and I walk around and take public transport at night. I feel it's my right to do so with safety. Many women would not do this.
I'm a woman, who uses a wheelchair, I have no issue using public transport & "walking" around at night in Sydney. I know some don't, but I've never seen the issue in it. I wouldn't focus on my phone while doing so, I like to watch & be aware of my surroundings, but in doing so, I've found the world is really not a scary place & turning off the news helps to feel safe too. I used to think places like the bus stop at Wynyard were "dangerous", till I started travelling via there. There's homeless around & stuff, but they're chatty & nice people I've found, not a threat. tbh, in my experience, predators tend to be out during the day, not night, night time they know they'll be caught & in trouble if they try anything. I did once have a guy, daytime, at my local bus stop in a "safe area" ask me for directions, showing me something on a piece of paper & as he lent over to do so, grabbed my breast!!!!!!!! Then he tried to make out that I was over reacting & he hadn't done anything wrong when I called him out on it & threatened to call the police - he left though, so I couldn't call the police & actually take action against him on it. I've NEVER had something like that at night though!
The reason coffee is so good in Australia is that our Italian migration was post WW2 and after the espresso machine was invented. So good coffee arrived with the migration wave.
Coffee in Italy is 🤮 tho. They do espresso well but that’s where it ends sadly
European not just italian :)
Australian coffee although great is not anything like Italian Coffee
@@shontellepayne551 they don’t really enjoy milk based coffees like we do in Australia. Maybe people order a macchiato or similar but it’s rare. I can say I’ve spent months in Italy on a few occasions and NEVER ordered anything but a caffe (espresso). Cappuccinos may be more popular now though with younger italian generations as a morning drink
I agree and I think that growing up in the 60's I am so glad so many things started to really change, food wise particularly, as the families moved from overseas. It's so hard to go back to bland anything , so I usually don't bother, GO the GOOD THINGS!... Sorry Mum.
You should watch a video on "Why Starbucks Failed in Australia". It's interesting as they almost needed to change everything about their coffee to compete with our Aussie coffee.
When I lived in Hamilton (New Zealand) and they opened a Starbucks there, I was keen to try it out. After doing so, I was keen to drink a *proper* coffee to wash the taste out of my mouth and also keen to forget I'd ever tried Starbucks. I was successful in the first endeavour but failed at the second - I *still* remember, with horror, drinking Starbucks "coffee".
Seriously, you get better coffee at our *_Service Stations_* than you do at Starbucks.
Did it taste soapy? I only ever went once but I do wonder if the soap taste was because they didn't rinse something properly or if it just tastes soapy. Either way I'm not paying more money for something that tastes worse
@@geministargazer9830 It tasted like really bad quality coffee - like "cheap instant coffee" bad. Not sure what you've got to do to make espresso taste like that.
I've tasted espresso made from freeze-dried ground coffee rather than fresh-ground beans, I've tasted espresso made by people who aren't very good at making espresso and don't get it right - and Starbucks tasted worse than those.
don't use a good coffee to wash the taste out, use a dried dog turd, at least that way it leaves a better taste than Starbucks.
@@bruisernight4197 Y'reckon I should'a' worked my way up from Starbucks to real coffee, huh?
I walk past one of the few Starbucks in Melbourne almost everyday while going for a coffee with colleagues. It’s customer base appears to comprise mostly chinese international students and local kids in their early teens buying enormous transparent plastic containers of what looks like whipped cream topped milkshakes on ice.
As an Aussie, it's not just the sweet stuff you guys tend to prefer on your Starbucks, it's more so the quality of the coffee itself. It reminds me of the leftover pot of filter coffee at the end of an all-day work conference.
I've travelled a reasonable amount, and Australia really does have a fabulous coffee culture!
As a norwegian l've unfortunately not been in Australia (yet) but agree about american "coffe".
It's weak and tasteless
@Stigandr Mýrardalur yes! And has a burnt taste to it, like it's old.
I hope you make it Australia one day! I'd love to visit Scandinavia.
@@seratonin7004 yes, that burned taste of "old" coffee that's been way to long in the pot.
You're most welcome to visit us in Scandinavia, and l will definately have a coffee with you
@Stigandr Mýrardalur thank you! Happy to shout you a good Aussie coffee too. 😊
I have much fascination with your area of the world, especially after discovering my grandmother was Swedish. It makes me wonder whether genetics can draw you back to your ancestral homeland...
@@seratonin7004 seems like we have a plan.
You shout out when you come to Scandinavia, and l'll make sure you get some deasent coffee, and show you around, and you do the same for me when l comes down under... 😉👍
Try to figure out WHERE in Sweden your family is from
yep, a while ago I stopped to help a driver broken down on the side of a country road and he was quick to tell me in his American drawl that "you don't get people pulling over where I come from". I reminded him that he was in Australia now and was able to get him going! Aussies rock!
I had a family stop to help me when i was about 30km before there was cell phone service again in the middle of outback qld. Had a flat tyre with a spare, didnt know how to change it, and they stopped and changed it. Took under an hour before someone stopped and about 2 dozen cars went by in that time
@@zoe9190 I would never "go bush" if I couldn't do basic vehicle maintenance. It is not difficult. glad you were helped
@@MsOzigal it's a fair call, but if a dozen cars passed in two hours it was probably just the outskirts of Brisbane.
My parents were almost car jacked, when they were travelling around the country a few years back now. Lucky they were towing a caravan, as they had the old extended mirrors, so they can see the sneaky little mungral trying to sneak up the side of the car and also tried to pry open the caravan door. That was in outback WA, and it was very isolated, so if they did get robbed, they they would of been left for dead. If it wasn’t for a road train coming in the opposite direction, then they would of been screwed to, as he was the first guy to warn my parents of the car jackers luring travellers in with their flat tyre dodgy job. It turned out they had buried the tyre of their old ute, in the bull dust, and I’m sure my old man had he’s snotty at the ready to. FYI, it was pre-90s, when the Australian government weren’t a bunch of pussies
@@zoe9190 I'm an Ozzie and i'm in a wheelchair the missus and me got a flat on our way home from Clare in SA, within 5 minutes 4 car loads of lads stopped and changed the wheel, when done we all went to the pub for a few hours had a great time and a chin wag we met some nice Lads its not the only time people asked if i needed help thats Australia
My husband is Dutch, the first time we went to the beach shocked him. I left my phone, car keys, towels, clothes, food (everything) just in a pile and walked into the ocean. He refused to come in because he wanted to “mind” the stuff 😂 took me a couple of years to convince him it will be fine. He said in Holland it would disappear as soon as you turned your back. I’ve never had to worry about that kind of stuff
my dutch spouse has had to really learn to trust that stuff left at the beach or on the picnic blanket will still be there when we come back....had some tiresome moments with little kids running around and said spouse wanting to pack everything up to follow them...we have worked it out after a while...
kinda reverse happened. to me, went to the "beach" in Germany done that and went to go in the water and cousins started yelling dont do that here we aren't that honest
It’s getting worse here now.. soon your STUFF WILL BE GONE.. too many young scum bags around now..
I’m born here and I’ll still hold back to mind our stuff😊
Usually I'd just cover that stuff with a towel just to avoid temptation. Rverybody knows it's there but just not obvious.
This comparison to other countries makes me feel so privileged to live in the Southwest of Australia
I live in central Scotland. In the last 8 years I've locked my doors twice. Both times because I was potentially going to be away for an extended period. Only thing I've had happen in that time was a neighbour sneak in and leave me a cooked meal because they knew I was under the weather. Lots of countries still have similar attitudes in my opinion.
Yeah it's nice.
It's a rural thing in Australia. Not so much in the big cities.
Same here in Canada. The house is usually unlocked. Garage door often open for most of the day, with tools and stuff laying about. Vehicles always left unlocked. Once every few years I might get a kid going through my car looking for change, but that’s about it.
Here in Ireland, used to lock my door decades ago when I lived in Dublin - mainly because it had a yale lock so no choice. But I don't think I've consciously locked my door this century, between 2011 and 2020 my door didn't even have a working lock and even though I've moved I still don't lock my door. The only time we ever had a break-in, was when the door was locked.
@@ABC1701A I guess it’s not technically a break in if you leave your door open. :-)
I live just outside Sydney and my Harley and all my tools and machines sit under an open carport. My wife left the windows down and key in the ignition of our newish car over the weekend. No problems and we just had a giggle about it when she realised. Been here 21 years and never had a problem leaving the door unlocked or windows open . Never used to do it when we lived in the city. Too many desperate junkies.
We don't leave homes & cars unlocked in cities & suburbs. That's more of a country thing. Also, many women in the larger Australian cities feel unsafe walking alone at night. There have been some horrible murders. BTW: CBD = central business district, or just 'the city'.
U may not leave stuff unlocked but I know plenty of people in cities & suburbs that do. I think it has a lot to do with how well u know & trust ur neighbours. Even in public housing estates where its made out 2 b a ghetto full of drug addicts & criminals ppl still leave houses unlocked when they know they have good neighbours
I've lived 9ks from the Melbourne CBD for 15 years in two different houses and never locked the house and I always walk around the city and my suburb at night without feeling unsafe. There have only been a handful of murders on the streets that the media beat up. There is about a murder a week of a woman by someone she knows in Australia. The streets are actually relatively quite safe.
@@AuntyNick. u r absolutely right. Women r much more unsafe in their own homes & by people they know.
I'm a 35 year old woman lol I've been walking the Sydney city streets at night since I was 13. What is there to be afraid of?
@@lemani2024 television hyping the fuck out of a few deaths for ratings....
People living on the eastern seaboard tend to underrate anywhere west of them. As a consequence you'll hear them extol the virtues of either Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. I lived approx. 10 years on the eastern seaboard - mostly either Brisbane or Melbourne but also spent time in Sydney, Canberra and Adelaide for work. I returned, however, to Western Australia to bring up my kids. It has a real California vibe to it in terms of lifestyle and climate. If you restrict yourself to the eastern seaboard when visiting [which, admittedly, does have some spectacular attractions - both man-made and natural] then you are depriving yourself of the full experience. Western Australia is the largest state [Texas would fit into WA about 3 times over (0.28 times the size of WA) and, as a consequence, has possibly the most diversified climate and habitats, extending from the tropical north laced with wetlands, whale sharks and some of the highest tides in the world, down through the wheat belt and desert interior to the richly forested south-west with it's wine growing and dairy produce, including the world's largest selection and variety of wildflowers... and quokkas... don't forget the quokkas... I'd rate Perth alongside any of the other capitals when it comes to beauty.
Thirty years in WA. WA wines are good but their dairy products are mediocre at best. The better cheeses, etc., come from the east. Sometimes it's WA milk sent east to be processed then returned.
WA has much natural beauty but can't match the east. No rainforests, no decent mountains to create the green lush valleys like the east. Not a great sense of history, they knocked down so many old buildings like Qld did. Only one bushranger I can think of.
No uprising that left a mark on history like Castle Hill or Eureka.
WA beaches can't usually match the east's. No surf to speak of in most of Perth, not for miles. I would say Perth reminds me more of San Diego than L.A. It has it's sunny, laid-back charm, but that is fading.
Few regional cities full of history like Newcastle or Ballarat. Albany perhaps.
No snowfields. No gorgeous cold climate drives like the Monaro Highway or the New England Highway.
No wombats, no platypus, no koala.
aussie here, only seen pictures of W.A spent the last 40 years seeing the eastern coast, if the pics ive seen are only half true I'm so sad that ive only 20 more years to explore the west
@@0lliekelm328 There are five things WA has that most of the other states would be envious of:
No poker machines in clubs and pubs (only in the Burswood Casino);
No toll roads;
Government owned and run energy companies-Western Power maintain the network and Synergy bill the customers. I vaguely remember it was a big issue when the State
Government of Qld (was it Sir Joh's Government of the 1980's tried to privatise it, but strikes were called and that proposal was called off);
January 2023 the State Government set a $5.00 limit on travel on public transport by basically just having two fair zones. Now that is $5.10 for two hours (three hours if you are travelling to the outer areas of metropolitan area (i.e you can travel from the CBD/Perth Station to Mandurah and return for basically $5.10. If you are staying all day in Mandurah you just pay the $5.10 again for the return journey. [If you are a Concession Card Holder I it is $2.30). This has been a permanent arrangement. It will be interesting to see how the 50 cent trial goes in Queensland in the lead up to their election (is it November 2024?) and
A treasury full of money from mining royalties and GST money that is the envy of other State treasures. Is it spent wisely when there is a lot of homelessness and couch-surfing? Our Housing Minister, John Carey, who a couple of years ago was proud of the fact that there were less Homeswest (the State Government's owner of public housing) owned premises (I think that when the McGowan Government assumed power in 2017 it may have been 39,000, at the time of him, Carey, speaking in about 2021 it was around 38,000).
All Governments have to deal with priorities, at least we got Coldplay over here and will get two NRL (Rugby League) matches shortly.
We (in the South-West corner of the State) benefit from the Fremantle Doctor in Summer (a strong Westerly breeze that, hopefully, happens most afternoons in Summer after Midday that helps brings the temperature down, certainly for those that live close to the ocean. [There can be a 15 degree difference between say Cottesloe when the sea breeze hits, to Midland and the Hills North-Eastern suburbs, Ellenbrook, as these are 30-40 km from the Ocean. Then you hope the sea-breeze will still have enough strength to reach these suburbs. By then people have melted away for another 3-5 hours]. I understand Penrith region, and those at the foothills of the Blue Mountains suffer terribly during Summer as there is associated high humidity and high overnight temperatures.
Littering I’m Australia DEFINITELY happens- but we also have “Clean Up Australia Day” each year where many people volunteer to go out to their local public places and collect rubbish for the day- usually in March I am honk.
it happens on the first of March
99 percent of Australians answer the door straight away without looking at some fuçking security camera for 10 minutes before opening the dammmm door lol
In terms of recent comparisons, my husband bought a brand new Harley Davidson touring motorcycle last August here in Queensland Australia. It cost approx $40,000 AUD and took 3months to arrive. How does that compare to the same model in USA ?
On a different topic, we moved to Australia from the UK when I was 25. One of the first things I found confusing happened when my husband
invited a guy from work and his wife around to our flat to see our newborn baby. We were really exited - our first Aussie friends ! the first
step to being accepted as real Australians rather than just ‘transplants’, after all if we had wanted to hang around with Brits, we would have
stayed in Britain, rightly or wrongly - that was how we saw it. The visit was great, they ooo’d and aaa’d over the baby, they even gave him a
little gift. An hour or so later they left, they had an appointment to go to, as they were leaving they said “see you later” I said “thanks for coming - see ya later “ Off they went. No sooner had they gone than we were galvanised into action, my husband rushed into the shower, I
fed and changed baby and then I got ready too. We waited, and we waited - they had definitely said they’d see us later, hadn’t they ? Yep,
they did, we both heard the same thing. A couple of hours later we gave up and went to bed, mystified - why did they say ‘ see you later ‘
and then not turn up ? we had no idea - it was very odd that 🤷♀️ maybe they didn’t like us after all !
Needless to say, it didn’t take long for it to become obvious that when Aussies say “see you later” they just mean Bye 👋 They don’t mean they are intending to come back later. 😂🤣🤣. Duh 😳
See ya later, in general should be taken as “see you next time”.
You poor things. Oh, I’m glad you know now. 😀
That’s a great story! Definitely highlights a bit of a language barrier 😂 Thanks for sharing.
It's kind of like the French 'au revoir' - (goodbye) until we/I next see you
That’s definitely a British thing as well when talking informally
Its easy to forget some of these differences living in Australia like the barbecue areas at basically every single beach, I couldn't imagine not being able to have a snag on the barbie down at the beach any time of the year (definitely a first world problem) but those days are seriously the best chill out days, would definitely be something I will miss when traveling & just the beaches in general, really take it for granted ☺️
We have our front yards, then a public footpath ( sidewalk ) and then another strip of grass that's usually 2-3 meters wide before the road, that bit of grass is what we call the nature strip.
I feel pretty safe walking around at night but things still do happen occasionally and I always lock my doors, although to be honest, no one has ever tried to break in.
Hi Ryan, feel compelled to let you know Aussie is pronounced Ozzie there's no S sound in it.. you sound hilarious the way you were saying it 😂 💜 🇦🇺
AuZZie. 😃
Yes Americans always call us ‘Ossie’ 😂
Always sounds like they're saying Arsey to me.
Ossie ( with an “ss”)Ostrich is an icon
puppet from Hey Hey it’s Saturday.
That’s why people laugh a bit if you say it like that . However, to totally confuse you “Ozzie” Is how to pronounce a local of Australia, or the country.Nah yeah😊
I think it’s so funny how Americans say it
As a woman I would not walk around Sydney CBD or certain suburbs at night alone. There are other places further away from the city that are perfectly safe though and where you are far more at risk in your own home from people you know.
I’m a male 33 and I can’t walk anywhere at night! I’ve got a fuckwit atractor apparently!
I left mount druitt west of sydney, one of australias most dangerous suburbs, to near bathurst in the sticks, my house has been broken into twice while i was home and twice while i was not in 2 years by meth addicts, 4 of my neighbors in my street have been murdered in the last 2 yrs also, it is not safe here, mount druitt was way safer... half of this list was absolute garbage...
Sydney CBD is quite a generalization. I couldn't think of a safer place than Darling Harbor or The Star because of the large police and security presence. I understanding avoiding George St and Belmore Park.
Yeah, same here. I’m originally from West Sydney and fuck no to that. I would never go anywhere by myself at night.
@@TriguredAzAndOthers You must be very small to be prayed apong.
I live in the outback. I haven't locked my doors for twenty years or more. Then again, there's no-one around. 😅
Leaving your car and house unlocked is something done by people living outside of the city.
Most countryside areas, even those with 30,000 people, don’t bother locking the back door.
It really is easy to break into a house thru any window. A friend also a policeman, showed me how it could be done.
Back story; I was taken by ambulance to hospital and the ambo closed up my house, both doors. When I arrived home a few days later, I couldn’t get into my house. My keys inside, I got the taxi driver to call the police. One officer opened a window and my front door in less than a literal minute. The look on my face caused laughter. As a former city dweller I got a security reality check in a country town. (Population 30,000)
I love living in Aus... never a care, walk anywhere at night or day. Never been robbed or mugged or threatened. Almost never hear car horns, never heard a gunshot. I think I heard a fight in the street once a few years ago. I live in the capital city, have been here 50 years. It is a big city now so I lock the door at night but if I don't I am not worried. I have only seen one gun that wasn't on a policeman and that belonged to a weird friend I had as a teen. I don't think anyone I know has been in gaol, I don't even think I know anyone who has been arrested. Not that I know a lot of people, I am a bit of a hermit, but still... Got pulled up by cops once and my friend in the back (dark skinned lad) pulled his beanie down over his eyes and suddenly pointed a banana at the cop and shouted 'stick em up!'. Cop didn't flinch, just looked at him, laughed and said 'don't be a dickhead mate'.
love the cop response, so Aussie!
Walking parks and streets at night is relatively safe but as a woman alot less so. Also rubbish thrown from cars and walking in street is called "tossing". We had a big ad called "don't be a tosser.".(and yes we do call another male behaviour "tossing" ) so it was very much a " tongue in cheek " ad.
Damn that sounds awesome man. Growing up in the states, my neighborhood was kinda ghetto. Im only 18 but i’ve been shot at, stabbed, lost multiple friends due to gun violence and most of my peers are in gangs and in and out of jail. I Live right next to a big city and in most major cities its like this. Its the worst in like Chicago, Detroit, New York, LA, Atlanta, Miami, Jacksonville, and comparatively its not that bad where i live. Its crazy you’re in a bigger city and don’t have to worry about these things.
I'm Australian and that's not true everywhere.
@@trekkie-cat Just curious, is there any places you can’t go. For example America has neighborhoods in almost all major cities that you just shouldn’t go to if you aren’t from there. Is it similar in Australia or not really?
I emigrated go Australian from the U.S. in 2000.
It’s changed a bit now, but at that time I was gobsmacked that my future wife didn’t keep the doors locked during the day and would leave ground floor windows open at night.
I was used to keeping the doors and windows locked at all times 24/7, so it took me a bit to get used to it.
It really did feel bizarre, we would even go on walks through our highly populated area at night and I’d be keeping my head on a swivel - for nothing, if we did see someone they would just say gday and go about their business.
Another thing that surprised me was how people on our street would keep an eye on the neighborhood kids playing and would pull them up if they were misbehaving - it seemed like Mayberry RFD to me.
Like I said, it’s changed a bit now, but I still can’t recommend Australia high enough as a place to emigrate to.
I bet you lock up now 22yrs later haha..
@@4kays160 Not always I suspect, it depends where you live.
I'm in inner suburban Canberra and my backyard is still messy (new house, no landscaping at all), so I don't go out the back door much. The other day I found that I had left the back door unlocked for four days straight. I sleep with my ground-floor bedroom window open and it stays open all day even when I'm out. It faces the street and is visible to passersby.
@@steelcrown7130 till a meth addict sees the window, youl lock up after that lol...
@@4kays160 nope couldn't tell you where my house keys are or what they even look like.
@@esmeraldagreengate4354 same here...
Ryan I just wanted to say, I love you video's.
They always make me smile 😃.
The barbecues are not just in beaches and camps, they are also at parks
As an Aussie woman I would never walk through a park at night time alone or even with a friend…
As a male I wouldn’t either
Starbucks went broke in Australia, yes it was because it was sweet but also because the coffee is bad.
If you need to put sugar/sweetener in coffee then you should be drinking better coffee.
@@daveamies5031 Starbucks coffee tates like de Cafe. It wasn't nice
I've only tried Starbucks twice - once in Australia and once at Heathrow Airport (London) - and in both cases the coffee was awful, insipid ditch-water, like really weak/stewed/burnt percolated coffee. Adding flavourings and syrups and other gimmicky rubbish couldn't make up for such poor quality. I couldn't understand why it's so popular in the US and wouldn't bother with it again unless I was somewhere where there was no alternative place to get coffee. I wasn't at all surprised it closed down in Australia - I can't think who would want to buy it. Travelling in the US back in the early 80s I tried diner coffee a few times and that was pretty bad too - enormous mugs of it but bitter and thin tasting - nothing like the rich flavour and texture of a decent espresso. I guess we're spoilt here in Oz, maybe due to the many Italians who've made Australia their home.
Statbuck went broke 15 years ago in North Ryde/Macquarie Park in Sydney, but due to American culture being so popular in this neighbourhood among 12-25 year olds, it has returned and going well the past few years.
We have higher standards for coffee here. Starbucks was terrible milkshakes
The nature strip is the piece of land between the front fence and the road. This land doesn’t belong to the home owners, it belongs to the local council but the home owner is responsible for keeping it mowed and maintained. And CBD stands for “central business district “.
We, me my two little boys our dog and our cat used to go out at night for a walk down our street after dinner before bed to tire them out so they would sleep better. It was Gladstone Qld, we had a lot of fun on those night walks. My Hubby stayed home.
Australia is super safe. I moved here from South Africa 5 years ago and it’s amazing that I’ve never felt unsafe once, including walking alone in Sydney CBD at 2 am plenty of nights
I would be careful in some places - I used to walk from Circular Quay to St Peter's and had a few dicey encounters in Surrey Hills. I'm a decent size and fit, and think that is probably what prevented me getting rolled.
But yes, if you stick to the main roads you should be fine. I was walking the shortcuts through the back streets.
@@flowerpower8722 not true. South Africa is rated a medium risk, there are many countries far worse than South Africa.
Australia ranks as low risk, so it is safer though.
@@flowerpower8722 you are correct, South Africa is extremely dangerous. Yes, it's not Somalia and yes it's not Libya, but it is still extremely unsafe. I'm amazed that we park cars outside on the street here in Australia, in South Africa, at least Johannesburg, it would be gone and stolen the first night.When I still lived in South Africa I had my car stolen, my house mate at the time had her car stolen twice in 2 months. When I was 12 years old my hockey coach dropped me off at home and as I entered the house (parents were at work) there were burglars in the house. When I was 23 my cousin was home alone at night and the broke in during the night, tied her up in her room and covered her eyes so she couldn't see. They proceeded to ransack the house for the next 2 hours. Luckily they didn't rape her. South Africa is a dangerous country
@@flowerpower8722 there are plenty of places, have you been living under a rock? Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Iraq, Libya, Mali, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen are the most dangerous places to live.
South Africa is in the same category as Jamaica and the Solomon Islands.
@@godamid4889 every country,on Earth,has problem areas.It’s vital to do as much research,as possible,before making a commitment to living in an area.
I would never take anybody else’s word for it.
The cleanliness of the streets is a relatively new phenomenon in Australia. As a kid in the early 70's it was usual practice to throw rubbish out the car window when travelling. This all changed with huge government initiatives and advertising campaigns in the 80's to the point where the entire nation's behaviour was changed. I can remember the disgusting state of the roadsides and public areas from when I was a kid and am really proud of how far we have come from those days.
Me too!
I had almost forgotten..
Growing up in the country, I can remember big roadside rubbish collection pushes. School kids and volunteers collecting rubbish from the sides of the country roads. You would get assigned a distance, like 1 km, and walk along bagging all the rubbish. Used to collect mountains of it. Big incentive to not litter as an adult, if you had to trudge along country roads picking up other peoples rubbish as a kid. Changes your perception when you see someone throw things out of a car window.
And the big billboards yelling "DONT BE A TOSSER" at you and then it was socially acceptable for a kid to yell at a adult "your a tosser" when the tossed rubbish on the ground.
Also wacking great fines if the cops or Council rangers caught you doing it!
You nailed it, Australia is a 'nice American neighborhood' spread out over the area of the continental US, with some venomous snakes and spiders.
With regards to putting household items on the nature strip, or curbside for others to pick up if they want it, I was told by someone I know that they put thier old refrigerator, or fridge out be because they got a new one, it was out for a couple of days and no one took it, so he put the price of $50 on it, and someone stole it that night.
Ryan, we have very specific laws relating to littering and specifically tossing cigarette butts anywhere due to the very high risk of starting a bushfire! In summer, our bushfires may begin naturally through lightning strikes, but more often than not, they’re started by mankind being careless - not putting out a BBQ properly, or the most common cause, cigarettes! They cost lives and property for thousands of people every year!
Another common cause is deliberate arson, I believe. Or someone doing a "back burn" and it gets away on them. Probable causes may vary state to state: in Queensland, during high fire season, you cannot burn rubbish in your back yard or have any open fire at all. I noted in Melbourne when I was there that people still used open drums in their backyards to burn off cardboard and rubbish; hadn't seen that for over a decade in Qld. One CAN do it, but have to get special permission from local fire brigade or bushfire services. How strict the rules are would probably depend on the season.
@@Kayenne54 same here in WA, there's definitely no burning off rubbish in your back yard! And burn off seasons are very specific and yes, you do have to have a permit. Burn off is almost always done by CALM and in conjunction with Traditional Seasons and input with Indigenous Rangers. Our WA Water Authority also advertises the six Indigenous Seasons as they begin, and how they impact on our gardens, bush and water usage.
@@cbisme6414 Interesting! How are the indigenous seasons described or apportioned?
@@Kayenne54 The simple version is the wet season and the dry season - more commonly referred to in the northern half of the country. Northern Territory indigenous have dozens of them loosely based on plant fruiting/seeding cycles and animal movement/breeding cycles, in addition to rainfall or not.
@@flowerpower8722 Makes total sense.
Australia is a great place to live... and obviously, developing our own distinctive culture is still 'a work in progress'... one interesting aspect of Australia is our sports culture... in terms of how we 'punch above our weight' in the Olympics for a country with such a small population, our medal haul is nearly always inside the top ten compared to countries with far far bigger populations like China, the USA, the UK and Canada etc.!
Australia's Olympic medal haul is misleading as we do well in sailing, rowing and swimming. 3 sports that have multiple events at the Olympics. Bulgarian weightlifting, Cuba with boxing are other similar countries that benefit from having many events in 1 sport. But Australia is definitely a sport nation.
@@brinjoness3386 we also do well in hockey, equestrian, cycling etc... all open to other nations... so you either win or lose... Australia seems to win!
I think the main reason in most of Australia that we don't have to worry as much about crime is because we have a social system based on money support so people don't have to steal to survive. So the people who do steal are doing it because of mental illness or drug addiction and more often both.
Australia was founded by thieves, the majority of the people who came to Australia between 1788 and 1850 were convicts and 4 of the 6 states started as penal colonies if the US had lost the War of Independence, most of those convicts would've been sent to America.
CBD, central business district :)
I have severe anxiety and I love to walk around my neighborhood at night because it's lovely and quiet, I live in Brisbane which is also a slightly smaller city compared to Sydney or Melbourne.
"Nature strip" = Here our property line ends at the front fence line , the local council owns from fence line up till the road (we are required to do small maintenance eg mow while they will do larger issues like tree pruning etc) we call this area - nature strip .
Verges we call that here in West Australia.Nature strip ?
@@paulkazakoff9231 NSW , VIC ACT and i belive QLD , we call it nature strip
( I just realised non-Australians
wouldnt know NSW = New South Wales ,VIC =Victoria , ACT = Australian Capital Territory , QLD = Queensland , they are Australian states)
@@paulkazakoff9231 WA usually says verge, but we also say nature strips if it is all grass and trees, instead of having the concrete path.
I’m not too certain but isnt the line marked by the letterbox? That’s what I was told years ago, not everyone has fences at the front. And I live in WA I’ve heard people say nature strip and council strip most common is verge
My parents built their home in the 1950s in a suburb of Melbourne Aus. The back door was never locked. Mum always left the key in the front door all day, but removed it at bedtime. Dad passed aged 89 in his sleep in own bed and mum passed 95 one hour in hospital. Those keys in both doors stayed the same until Mum passed in 2016. I was never scared.
G;day mate My name is Graeme, and it is soooooo awesome that you are wanting to make vids on my home, on Australia. It is so cool that you want to find out as much as you can about this sunburnt country down under.
On a positive note, i'm an Australian who loves your videos, so you have a new subscriber! 🇦🇺😊🇺🇲
The “nature strip” is the land between the front of your property and the roadside gutter.
It’s usually grass and most residents maintain it as their own but it’s actually the responsibility of the local council.
Actually it's usually your responsibility to maintain it even though it's not your property. Could you imagine the cost of the council to mow all the nature strips in towns?
@@DaleTuck31 Where I used to live, not only did the local council mow the nature strips... but if you were a pensioner who was too ill to mow your own lawns... you could contact the council to have the council come and mow your lawns (front yards, side and backyard) FOR FREE.
@@DaleTuck31 Maybe for our council they push for you to maintain the verge side nature strip's but for the majority of the councils I've interacted with, that is the councils responsibly. Some councils in Perth such as Victoria Park even require you to seek permission before altering the nature strip and I know the Canning council has a tree planting program where you can call up and request a tree from them. (This was as of the last I checked, which was a couple of years ago, individual towns might of changed their policies since)
Fun fact: I've read in one of the local history websites that the large areas of grass in front of homes were an added city design so that live exports such as sheep could be housed on them while the ship or transportation for them was being prepared.
In Queensland it's your responsibility to maintain the nature strip, and it has to be grass. You are also not allowed to park on it in our local council area.
Edit: Except for the council planted trees.
I live in NSW and it is my responsibility to maintain the nature strip and you have to get council approval if you want something other than grass there. You can be fined if you park on the nature strip so you need to make sure your driveway is long enough for your car to fit within your property. There have been articles every now and then about people getting fined because the back of their car is sticking out past their front property line because the driveway is too short and they don't have a wide nature strip so they are slightly overhanging the footpath.
9:30 Yeah, nah. Starbucks uses syrups for their flavour, which is a big no 'cause they're competing against other coffee places that do proper flavours with essences. We also don't have much exposure to corn syrup, so the use of it in American coffees tends to make it taste *odd* to the Aussie palette. The result is an impression of 'cheap' coffee, which just doesn't sit right, especially combined with the cafe prices they charge.
Though you are right, we have a much lower saturation of sugar in our foods, and a much higher saturation of salt. Your normal breads are about our brioche level for taste.
Nature Strip is the piece of land between our front yard & the kerb of the road. We usually have a grassy area about 12-16feet wide there we call the nature strip, because its only allowed to have grass on it, though some ppl occasionally plant a lovely very small tree or occasionally a tiny narrow garden, but theyre not allowed to obstruct that space. In busy areas & in cities theres also usually a path there which the local council pays for & has to keep in good condition for ppl to walk on. In many areas where theres still lots of space, paths are wider these days (up to 5-6feet wide, instead of just 3ft like they used to be, but theres ususally grass on either side of it.
I hope you do make it here to Australia, you’re already down with some of our weirder behaviours 😂. Like the USA, there are different visa categories so look into that. It’s hilarious watching your reactions to our everyday phrases and things we think are normal. Keep it up mate. “Happy arvo” cracks me up, we don’t say that at all but it’s now your catch phrase, so don’t stop! Here’s some slang for ya… it’ll be ridgey didge, mate, no wuckers 😂🤟
My doors have been wide open for 6 years. Never had a problem. But I do have a lock on the front gate.
I travel interstate and leave my front door open - that's not the norm I know!
Same but I have no gate lol
A lot of Aussies avoid charcoal grills because of the high risk of carcinogens. We grill on a hot plate rather than an open grill above hot coals.
We have a high enough skin cancer risk without the risk associated with charcoal grills.
The nature strip is a strip of grass (with some trees) in between the footpath and the road
nature strip is the lawn infront of ur lawn owned by the counsel they usually take care of it. Its like the grass and trees across the path out the front of ur house.
Used car prices have skyrocketed in Australia in the past 18 months. Some folks can sell their used car for more than they paid for it, and the rest have appreciated by 20% at least. Delivery on new cars is now 6-18 months if it's not on the lot, so people who don't want to wait now buy 2nd hand. Demand and supply.
I was lucky enough to just beat that. I got an 2012 FG ford falcon XR6T for only $5000 at the Auctions in 2019 in perfect condition and only 48k on the odm. Now you can't get one under 20k
Four wheel drives are by far the worst now
@@toddavis8151 yes, mine has jumped in value, apparently, not that I have any desire to sell it. Funny how insurance companies are still using the old values as today's 'market values' if that's the type of policy you have, not agreed value. In the current market, it would be easy to be inadvertently under-insured, caveat emptor etc.
@@GreenDistantStar I'm not sure if it a WA only thing but RAC did an article in a recent RAC Members Magazine they were only insuring cars under 10 years old on a new policy. If it's an ongoing policy okay.
@@cbisme6414 Budget Direct won't comprehensively insure some cars > 10 years old. Each underwriter has their own world-view, so you pick the one that suits you.
l spent 3 months on holiday in Australia (l'm from the UK) it's a beautiful country, the people are very friendly, l travelled by car from Adelaide via Melbourne to Sydney along the old coast road, it took 7 days, but was worth it. we saw the used items on the side of the pavement ( it's not a normal thing to do in the Uk but myself and my neighbour do it all the time). it's a safe country, it's clean ( you can get fined £1000 in the UK for littering) there's lots of places to pull off the road with shelter, seating and barbies. l loved every minute i spent there. if you get the chance you should visit Australia.
That’s lovely Lynn. I spent 11 years living in London and LOVED every minute of London, the UK and Europe... The Brits are BRILLIANT!
SO GLAD you had a great time! I can't wait to visit the UK one day - I want a white Christmas and to sit in a lovely warm pub and sing carols!
@@tulinfirenze1990we left the UK on the 1st of January and arrived in Australia on the 3rd, and that's the one thing l found so weird when we arrived ,the sun shining and Christmas decorations everywhere l couldn't get my head round it lmao. I expect you would feel the same if you visit the UK at Christmas time.
One thing, as a rural Aussie I find it weird whenever people are making fun of rich people by saying things like, ''Ew, is that tap water? I just can't drink that!'' When I can't drink tap water because it tastes disgusting to me as someone coming from a very low-income family, who's been drinking rain water since I was little. Every single house I've ever had, has had a rain water tank and we either have a tap in the house connected to it or we would have to go outside and fill up a water jug/cooler everytime we needed water.
Rain water is the best!!!especially during a storm. Adelaides tap water in the 70s was foul,a glass of fresh water looked like what the water from a vase of week old flowers looked like.Adeladians were drinking bottled water long before it was fashionable.😅
Nature strip is the space(generally grassy) between the fence and the road/gutter. It's where the postie can ride his motorbike or where people can walk, or, in this case, put unwanted stuff.
19:57 That beautiful cityscape you were admiring - that is by the Yarra River in the Melbourne CBD (Aussie for mid-town = Central Business District). And if you don't regard yourself as a coffee connoisseur now, I can pretty much guarantee that you'll probably become one, once you spend time in Melbourne. Also, there are pockets of neighbourhoods in Melbourne that are a lot more friendlier and community-spirited than others (who even have old-fashioned street parties together), it's just luck whether you find yourself living on one of those streets - it's a very large, spread out city of 6 million people.👍
A little bit enthusiastic about the population of Melbourne - new census figures show it at 4.9 million, 6.5 million in Victoria as a whole. There are no cities with 6 million people in Australia. The largest is Sydney with 5.2 million. Brisbane is third with 2.5 million, Perth 4th with 2.1 million and Adelaide 5th with just under 1.4 million. So you were off by almost the entire population of Adelaide!
Pure marketing dude. You like to live in Melbourne and love it but there are people who live in places like Grong Grong and be the happiest people in the world. Most people are proud of their own home but most people don’t brag about how wonderful it is. Horses for courses. Btw I am not a fan of Melbourne. Why? Because people who live in Melbourne are always boasting about how wonderful Melbourne is!!
@@stelmosfire11 Melbourne topped the list of World’s Most Liveable City from 2011 to 2017 before being overtaken by Vienna in the annual Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Global Liveability Index. Melbourne had broken its own record - and it is the first city to ever win the title for seven consecutive years. What is so wrong with being proud of that? And being the country's arts, food, events and sports capital? 🤷♀️ Actually, the majority of those who visit are the main ones who boast about the city - like the participants/organisers of the Grand Prix and Australian Open Tennis tournament and Melbourne Cup Spring Racing Carnival.
@@neumanmachine3781 Yes, you're absolutely right. I think I had the recent population projections in mind..."Melbourne is projected to be the fastest-growing capital city from 2023‑2024 on, overtaking Sydney to become the nation's largest city in 2029‑2030 at just over 5.9 million people". Actually, it's the one main thing about Melbourne I'm not happy about. I have dreams of retiring to Airlie Beach/Whitsundays in Queensland. One day.
@@Venusbabe66 you and others have completely missed my point. It doesn’t matter one iota to me what others say or write about Melbourne. Australia is not defined by one city alone. People live everywhere and are proud of their home.
never had a problem with a human intruder coming through the open front door but one hot day i left it open and my cat came in proudly dragging a very angry dugite she had caught. saw some interesting dance moves from people that day.
Nothing like having your cat bring home a “gift” of a snake. 😂
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The only intruders in my house r nxt doors dogs & every now & again some random black cat that likes 2 sleep on my bed (despite me chucking it out the window more than once) The geckos & tree frogs r always free 2 take up residence tho
I had a drunk girl walk into my house in the middle of the night thinking it was someone else's. I was just glad she didn't wander into some creeps house.
@@esmeraldagreengate4354 yeah that can play out the other way around to. a mate of mine had some drunk chic just show up an she hung out with em for half the night. nothing happened that shouldnt have but a few nights later this guy and his friends show up and flogged the piss outa him with a bat, i think she got into trouble and told some lies to cover her fat arse.
What is a Dugite!?
Nature strip is a section of grass, tress, ect that separates the footpath from the road, it is usually publicly owned and is up to the city to maintain it
I’m Australian and walk around some places at night by myself like Sydney city but don’t feel as safe walking around parts of Townsville at night. I think it depends on the location.
It's a beautiful country mate, with a landscape like nowhere else in the world. And because it is so big, there is plenty to see and explore; indeed even most Aussies don't get to see it all in one lifetime. Come on down and see for yourself...
Yes. He's right on everything EXCEPT the walking the streets alone, as a woman. Never. Not real safe for men either. I know the area of Melbourne and Ocean Grove he speaks of. I am very happy and grateful to live in Australia.
I feel pretty safe walking at night knowing how unlikely it is someone with a gun will b lurking
I am a woman and I always walk the streets alone at night. I live in Melbourne close to the CBD and I have done so for 30 years since I was in my early 20's. I have never ever had an issue.
@@jadecawdellsmith4009 there have been some awful and 2 fatal attacks in Parkville and Carlton.
@@maryhurley5884 I'm aware bad shit happens & I'm not arrogant or stupid enough 2 think 'it won't happen to me'. I grew up in syd western suburbs (which is considered pretty dangerous)& then Kings X 4 a while.I try 2 b as aware of my surroundings as possible but I don't want 2 b controlled by fear. The only time I have been physically assaulted (or abused in any way) was by people already known 2 me. Unfortunately they r the facts in most situations.
Agree. Also in another video people were saying we never sit in the back of taxi's. When I lived in the suburbs I never sat in the front of taxi's there were too many incidents of creepy drivers with friends but now that I live in the country the guy that owns the taxi company lives down the street and starts his run early so I don't have to walk to work at 5.15 am
So, the nature strip is basically the piece of land that would be between the sidewalk and the edge of the road. sometimes called council/shire strip. Also CBD is Central Business District
I live in Geraldton Western Australia & kids getting into cars is such a common occurrence that it’s actually better for the owner of the vehicle to deliberately leave it unlocked or you’ll find a broken window in the morning. I was always kind enough to leave a cigarette & some loose coins just so they didn’t damage or break anything else during their visit. 🤷♀️
As a Scot living in Australia there were so very many things to deal with, funny and unusual. The Nature Strip is the small section of land starting at the property line to the edge of the road or kerb. This section remains the property of the Council, not the home owner.
One thing about Australian used cars are less likely to have rust in them, unless they are coastal cars.
That's the other way around. Coastal cars are the ones who get the rust (from the sea air which has salt in it)... not the ones from the bush.
@@aussieragdoll4840 you might have misread my comment, my son lived at Umina and had a Mazda 121 bubble. I had to weld in a complete boot floor.
In Australia there is a 10 cents paid to you by the recycling depot. This covers for all cans, milk cartons, plus juice containers. Also some wine bottles have a deposit , recycling depots will pay you. Many people pick the items on the road , rubbish bins. This keeps Australia clean. Every year we have a clean up day. Volunteers all get out pick up rubbish in parks, rivers, roads, beaches, any where it is needed.
I can vouch for this guy! My brother lives in Ocean Grove, it’s a very special place, it’s certainly stole my heart.
Also the coffee is so good! Flat white is my go to coffee and you can really taste the difference between the U.K. and Australia.
The BBQ on the beach and in parks are free. When I was a kid we use to have to pay for it and the local councils had to replace them when they got broken for the coins. So to counteract this vandlism they made them free. they are awesome :)
Totally agree, even if you have to clean it first but often the council does this on a regular basis.
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@@eloisebrynlee take glad bake with you on your bbq.........give the worst of the mess a quick scrape off then whack down a bit of glad bake the size of the barbie......cook away, then at the end just throw the glad bake in the bin.
As an Aussie I’m loving you videos. Your shock and amazement spin me out everytime. Australia fits over about 78% of the size of America. and you have a population of about 300 million more than us.
👍United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 78.72% the size of United States. Meanwhile, the population of United States is ~332.6 million people (307.2 million fewer people live in Australia).
A nature strip is the lawn out by the kerb that is owned by the local council but still maintained by the owner of the house. (I saw a description that included the footpath as well). They usually have a tree in the centre of them.
Melbourne has its own language that's quite different from the rest of the country.I don't think anywhere else calls the footpath a 'nature strip'. Also, it's actually illegal in a lot of local council areas to dump your rubbish on the footpath unless they're having an official 'council pickup'. That's when you toss out your big items like broken furniture and electrical goods, because not everyone has a trailer to take their big rubbish to the dump. But some people throw out decent rubbish.
just a little clarification, not every street has two footpaths one on each side of the street. Most often one side has a footpath the other does not but still there is part of the lad that belongs to the council, it used to be 7.5 m from the street, now I think it is 5.5m. The side of the street that does not have a footpath usually has all the main services: gas line, main water pipe ect. If there is a problem it can be dug up without damaging the footpath and this id the nature strip.
Looking at crime rate statistics between the US and Australia would be super interesting - looking forward to it!
Yeah. Good shout because by comparative land mass I believe they are almost on par.. and also with the greatest amount of respect Again with some banter .. Oz is a place the Brits sent their criminals, and look how awesome.it turned out .. Love to my antipodean cousins 💓
@@TregMediaHD you don't compare it by land mass, you do it per capita. For example the homicide rate in Australia per 100k people is 0.89, in USA it is 4.96.
Hi Ryan. This guy clearly lives in a very safe neighbourhood and apparently doesn't go to less savoury areas much. Trust me, when it comes to locking up, crime, walking through parks at night. Yeah, nah (that means no). A great deal of Australians lock up and take their safety seriously. Places like Alice Springs (hate to be disparaging, but it is what it is) the crime rate is quite high, it would be not unusual for a business to be broken into every week.
"An Alice Springs glazier says he is replacing up to 30 car windows a day as the town experiences a spike in anti-social behaviour."
- ABC News
For a town of 26,000...
Shutters and bars on all windows and doors is not uncommon in many cities/towns. But on a whole the country has a reasonably low crime rate, just chose your locations.
Nature strip is also known as the shire or council verge at the front of your Home it’s about 2/3 meters in width from the road to letterbox. That stretch of property belongs to the town, suburb/city that you reside in.
The nature strip is the piece of land between the road and your property that is usually owned by the council, however it is maintained by the homeowner
We live in rural coastal Australia. It’s a tourist area so we only lock up the house and take the keys out of the car during the holiday season.
But the only problem with that is if you do get broken into or your car stolen, you insurance policy may be invalid.
The walking alone at night thing, there's also a thing called 'gender' difference. Of course a woman is going to not feel safe walking alone at night vs a man. Country DOES matter, but gender even more so.
Yes HE felt safe. Women often don’t feel this way.
I don't know how true this even is for men, to be perfectly honest. The number of 'sucker punches' and people ending up in comas or flat out dying is fucking ridiculous as of late.
Glad you made that point. As a female we have a very different view of being out at night alone
Naivete and safety are to completely different things
Two completely different things
Haha I just love watchin you, I'm a true aussie and to listen to you try and understand our country and the language.. If you every need help to explain things then hit me up 👍
My friends find antique furniture, gold plated cutlery. You can furnish your home.
In western Australian we have what’s called working for the dole,unemployed people are taught the skills to do jobs like laying concrete,laying bricks welding ,so these people are the ones that built the tables and gazebos for the bbq areas on beaches and parks these skills can them help it get apprenticeships or jobs for a lot of these people .the town I live in,I don’t like up the house or car ,I go shopping load up my car go to other shops and drive home nothing is missing.
@chris I only know from western Australian
It’s slave labour and only hinders people getting back to work, labour will be getting rid of it thankfully
@chris It's not really, slaves don't get paid! The dole is pay from the government, it's not unreasonable for the government to ask you to do some work for it.
I’m an Aussie and have never heard an Australian pronounce it as Aussie, it’s always ozzy
The nature strip is the grassy piece of council owned land between your property and the street. Typically your property doesnt extend all the way to the kerb, there is a nature strip, where the council can put utilities and footpaths etc.
Don't forget that Australia grows coffee. Atherton Tablelands and Northern New South Wales. The quality of our home grown coffee is amazing. We own one of the coffee plantations. Domigo Coffee from the Atherton Tablelands.
I live in Australia and have done so all my life. It definitely depends where in Australia that you live as to any of these comments being true.
I went on vacation for 2 weeks once and left the front door wide open. Coming home I thought shit the front door is open but all was ok. That was a normal suburban house where the door was visibly open from the footpath. We moved to a larger property of about 2 acres and never locked the doors. We were never burgled.
I hear ya. I live in a country town and had left my garage door open when I went to work one morning without realising it. Came back in the late arvo to find that the trike in the garage with the key in the ignition was still there, it's great. This has been good until very recently when motorbikes in my town had been stolen from their front yards and the locals had reported having seen some dodgy characters scouting out the town.
A nature strip is a small section of grass, usually with a native Australian tree in the centre, that is in front of your property, it is owned by local government and is in between the house and the footpath / pavement.
a nature strip is the grass between the footpath and the road (in suburbia the footpath is hardly ever connected directly to the road, so it usually goes front yard-footpath-grass-road)
Perhaps if you live in a rural area or small country town you can leave your door unlocked and not get robbed , but not in any city in Australia. it depends on where you live . No one in cities in Australia leaves their doors unlocked
I think he meant doors are unlocked when we're at home during the day (I live in Sydney). We only lock our front door at nights. But there are many nights I forgot to lock our door
As a woman I wouldn't walk anywhere by myself at night time.
Really depends on where you live.
@@dianacasey6002 In Australia I've lived in rural towns and cities and frankly no where is safe at night time as a female alone.
@@TazzyCee78 that’s what I said it depends in where you live. Sorry it’s not safe where you are.
@@dianacasey6002 I understand what you're saying but I don't think it depends on where you live. Some places might be safer than others but I don't believe anywhere is safe if you're female. It's not too bad where I live but sexual assault and murders happen anywhere. We have to be be vigilant and protect ourselves no matter where we live.
@@TazzyCee78 I understand we need to be carful but statistically women are attacked and raped by ppl they know or are acquainted with rather than a stranger.
The reason for large items being left on the footpath is because when you leave a rental it has to be vacant, you can’t leave your stuff in there and expect to get your bond back. The cost of getting movers in, especially in inner city areas where there’s no place for the truck to park, so it’s cheaper to just replace many items.
Hi Ryan… the nature strip in Oz is the grassy area containing the sidewalk between your front fence and the roadway.
I find that because most people don't litter, if I'm out walking and there is any litter on the ground, it tends to stand out and I can't help but pick it up and put it in the bin.
When I was in Melbourne CBD in 2019 there were cigarette butts everywhere.
@@eloisebrynlee Wow! Really? I haven't been to Melbourne since 95, so can't comment on it. It's a real pity if it's as you say.
@@kewl2152 It was not good and I wonder when the street sweeper comes along or in heavy rains do they then end up in the drains?! The smell from a bunch of these things is not too good either. 🚬
In Darwin Australia, because we have cyclones and rubbish becomes airborne, we have once a year when the council will tell us to put our big rubbish out for them to pick up. During this time people will roam the streets with their trailers and pick up the things they want from the curb. This is encouraged as it saves the council picking it up.
same down hear in NSW
Same in vic but depends on council
We also have ashtrays on the sides of buildings or on poles in a lot of cities and towns
The nature strip is the area between your front fence and the road. So the place where they put a footpath (sidewalk). There are more often than not, grass instead of a footpath in the suburbs.
Ocean Grove has less than 20,000 people so it's not really such a big deal about security, you certainly wouldn't leave things open/unlocked in big cities though.
CBD = Central Business District. The "centre" of a major city. It's just a term that's been adopted over the years as it's not always "downtown". But we would use it in a similar way to how you folks use the term "downtown". We would also often just say "city centre". So yeah, "I'm going into the city centre" or "I'm going into the CBD" are both commonly used. You will pretty much never hear "I'm going downtown" in Australia.
And yes, we also use it to refer to CBD oil, etc, in relation to cannabis/marijuana! Of course, but this usage pre-dates that! haha.
I don't know about the not locking doors thing though as I always make sure the house is locked up at all times, day and night, whether home or out, and I live in a small-ish regional town of about 30,000 population! So yeah, that one doesn't check out, maybe some people might be just relaxed about it in general if they live in an even more rural area or something or it might've been a thing like 50 years ago but not anymore! No way!
Nature strip is simply the land between the road and someone's fenceline that the council owns. Different places warrant different approaches toward security in Australia. I will mention that I live in a city, I lock my house and car. It is advisable to avoid certain places everywhere in the world, but you can walk through the CBD (Central Business District) safely at night.
As an Aussie woman no I don’t walk around alone at night. I also lock my doors and car all the time. I actually went to primary school with Peter so lived in Ocean Grove my family still do, it’s doubled in population since we were kids.
Nature strip is the land between the footpath and the road.
Footpath=Sidewalk
CBD means Central Business District. The centre of town in other words.
Yeah, the equivalent of Downtown in the USA
Also we have garage sales. Usually there'll be a sign on the front of a street directing you to a house for a garage sale or you'll see it advertised on FB. Garage sale is pretty much what it sounds like. A sale in someones garage with things they wanna get rid of.
A nature strip is the strip of grass between the footpath and the road; it usually belongs to the local municipality, but is generally maintained by the household it is in front of. Normally, there will be a tree on every second patch between driveways, planted and maintained by the local council.