@tobagotb10 1200km is just to the end of the driveway on the majority of farms (ranches) here in Australia. We have farms that are measured in km2 instead of ha or ac
@@AshleyKristina I watched your 3 videos Au vs USA and my goodness your demeanour has changed, you have lost the loud 'mericun sound. Welcome, you are fitting in well :-)
Part of the problem is the US operates on 110V/120V mains which makes boiling a kettle via electricity take twice as long as 220/240V European/Aus/NZ systems utilising the same current draw.
tea is not nearly as big a deal in the states as it is in oz so that's probably why most ppl. never bothered switching over. you can get electrics in the states but alot of people still use the whistlers.
TV has made Australia synonymous with sharks and it's a little unfair. Turns out there are more shark attacks in the US than in Australia but there are more shark attack deaths here. This can mean only one thing. Aussies are tastier :)
One thing that might make them less popular in the US, a 2000w kettle draws about 8 amps on Aus 240volts, but would draw about 18 amps on the US 110volts. Thats a heavy duty load for a domestic power point and cord.
Australians didn't want this NBN. Our centre-left party introduced a massive overhaul of the Australian internet infrastructure that would have been cutting edge, but we had an election and the balance of power changed to the conservative party. They cooked up this version of the NBN which is both worse and somehow also more expensive than the original plan purely so that the now opposition party couldn't take credit for a popular, useful and effective infrastructure project once it was completed. We have expensive, shitty internet that no-one asked for because of political spite.
I got connected to the National Broadband Network before the Coalition Government took office and sabotaged the project. Its still slower than North America and Western Europe but it was a lot faster than what we had before. When the NBN was being rolled out as intended under Labor, you got fibre optic cables direct to your home. Now, as I understand it, to cut costs, all they do is install fibre optic on streets and have the traditional copper wire linking it to your house which almost defeats the purpose of the NBN in the first place.
@tobagotb10 cafe styly or thick sliced loaf is tops with butter and vegemite but i eat it thick...not everyone likes as thick as i do. I caught it from dad as a sousce of vitamin B...he was told to eat it because he had a deficiency long before vitamin pills were around like today.
I lived in Australia in 1970 came over with my family when I was 16 and stayed 10 years. I love Australia. I love having cups of tea with friends, the food, the beaches, double decker busses. I hiked all over and never saw a snake or spider but there was a snake in my moms bathroom (poisonous one) at Whale Beach on Bynya Road and I had a funnel web in my bathroom one time. Other than that no bugs. (flies of course). Swam everyday even in the winter. Coming from San Francisco beaches are cold. I was lucky I have never been stung by a jellyfish. For the amount of people who live in Oz the shark attacks are really not that many. They have fantastic surf clubs and good looking life savers, sky planes, nets and shark alarms. I lived mainly between Palm Beach and Manly and shared a flat in Seaforth. I love the brick homes. I miss fish and chips on the beach and shopping with my basket to the butchers, fruit market and bakery. It was very personal and charming. I hope to come back some day. My mom was born there and lived on a Cattle Station then moved to Sydney when she got older. I love Sydney just like I love San Francisco. They call them sister cities.
I'm a Canadian living Down Under and have been for 14 years....am now a proud Australia citizen. A couple of things I would have added to your list is the flies!! OMG! So many and so friendly!! LOL Also Christmas here....not many do a turkey and the norm is lunch. It's much more laid back and less fuss. Many people camp over Christmas. And if you order anything online, the shipping will break the bank!!
Lol. Yep especially when your on a sheep property out west trying to use the outhouse. My grandparents were dairy farmers and the flies were bad enough
I'm Australian and the internet thing has always confused me. American's always tell me it's slow - which it is objectively. But I never understood the need of such fast internet. I always download things, my videos never buffer, internet never drops out and it isn't overly expensive. So I never really understand the complaints. Then again, if I experienced better internet I guess I couldn't go back?
@@kevinsteemson5387 I will never not be angry at the Liberals for gutting the NBN at Murdoch's command. That's foreign sabotage, as far as I'm concerned.
Wow, I always knew our internet wasn't great, but from some peoples comments saying Americans can get over 1gb per second I didn't realise how bad it is. I get excited when my internet speed reaches 1mb, even 500kb isn't too bad where I'm from.
Welcome to Australia. Better late than never on the greeting I guess. We need more newbies like you. Someone who enjoys the place and tries to fit it That all most Aussies want from our new locals
Best way to use the dryer is to hang the clothes till _almost_ dry then finish them off in the dryer so they're nice and soft... also, it kills any little bities that might've crawled in them.
@@shazza160 I don't think 'disgusting' means what you think it means. And before you mouth off, you should know I generate 4 times more solar power than what I actually use.
Being an Aussie living in the USA for 19 years. Travelling and living in a different culture is one of the best .personal and professional development programs.similar to Golf ..You learn how .mentally emotionally.spiritually adaptive one needs to become to integrate whilst self correcting learning maintaining and increasing .your Values Truth Trust and Integrity without judgement. The world is a Hodepodge of difference.. that we all need to accept .Regretfully most do not change .and try to impose their comfort Zone ..of their history .and Baggage ...Travelling has made me a voracious learner of difference and adaptability ..Worldly with a blessing of Gratitude and Humility. Change .is transformational..Catterpillar to Butterfly. ..In the southern way of saying it .....There AINT no way of GOING back.. .
WhoDarestheMAN gamer I don’t know if you’re Australian but picking on some isolated instances out of a nation with over 300 million people is flat out ridiculous. Most of us don’t want that type of gun in the hands of the general public.
I was surprised to see you mention the music, thats usually one of those things that gets left out. The best Australian music was for sure between like the 70's and early 2000's, I made a playlist on my channel of all of my favorite Australian music, the classics, the ones that get played at bbq's so if anyone aussie or not is looking for some actual good Australian music I have a playlist you can check out! Dw Im not a youtuber trying to promote their channel or anything lol. Cool video btw!
I am an American, hoping to be Aussie soon, and I follow that same sort of belief. I became friends with animals before I was ever friends with people, and through my study of Druidry, and life, I have learned that ya just gotta learn to live with one another. If neither are bothering the other, you are good!
How often did you turn on your wipers when you actually wanted to the turn signal...? I recall that being my biggest thing to get used to while driving. I was constantly cursing back then.
I'm so happy you brought up the Aussie music scene because I think it's so great and different compared to the rest of the world, and we have some talented artists that have no worldwide recognition but deserve it.
i am loving your videos. I have a friend who lives in Florida (I'm from Melbourne) and my favorite thing is to compare notes on our cultural differences.
I have a daughter in law who is also from Ohio, St Paris in fact. When my son and her were dating she use to tell me about her life in Ohio and how different it was for her to do things I took for granted. She had never bought meat from a butchers shop or just meat as her family hunted for it. She had never eaten vegetables until she moved to Australia. There were many other things as well, driving a car was the bain of her existence lol.
Huntsmans are intense, a lot of them are as big as your hand and you just have to live with them. On the up side they are highly unlikely to mess with you unless you mess with them. It's the small spiders that tend to cause us problems.
And Huntsman spiders are harmless. Just big and hairy. Just the little ones - Funnelweb spiders, Redbacks, white tails and trapdoor spiders. Eww I hate spiders, such an arachnophobe.
Jessamine Gibb there r not that but there was one on my roof I slept underneath in my bunk was it doesn't hurt it just a east flies tbh they do look scary
I always wonder why everyone is so set on the vegemite on toast thing. I like vegemite but I have always prefered it spread lightly on fresh bread with a slice of cheese.
The main reason we have dual flush toilets in Australia is water conservation. It doesn't matter in most cases which button you push for solid waste. They both work.
Saying that you can't own a beach in Australia isn't 100% true. In Darwin the tourist attraction at the beach at Doctor's Gully, where you pay money to a former NT Chief Minister, who owns and controls access to the beach thanks to shady arrangements, for the privilege of wading ankle deep into seawater and feeding the fish stale bread.. So yeah, even in Australia there are private beaches.
We don't have the clothes line because electricity is (now) expensive. we have clothes lines because there is the sun to dry the clothes. All we have done here is keep the tradition going of hanging your clothes out to dry as has been the process over the centuries. Depending on where you live, for 80% of the year you can hang your clothes out and have then dry in half the time of an electric dryer. However glad you have also come the enlightenment of fresh air dried clothes:) Considering WiFi was invented in Australia, we unfortunately decided to follow the America philosophy of capitalism( no Im not socialist) by selling off and opening the telephone system to market forces. We went from one of the best and progressive telephone systems in the world to one of the worst. NBN is an attempt to bring back some control, but it is still the private sector effecting the price. I agree with you, its very frustrating.
Wifi has nothing to do with NBN. If you get slow speed while wired via Ethernet then complain or change provider. If its good then you Wifi hardware is no good and you need to look for something better. Maybe a MESH system. One thing to note is that if your connection is via Fibre to the Node you might have a problem with the wiring in your building.
Great review Ashley! I agree with everything you said. A few things missed out but generally pretty accurate. Re. sport you missed AFL (Australian rules football). Most people in Australia, at least on the West Coast, don't have clothes dryers due to 300 out of 365 days of sunshine.
Ash, I have enjoyed these videos on US/Australian differences. I have found them to be informative and respectful, so thank you for that. I first learned from some US online friends about the absence of electric kettles in US homes. I can barely believe that, when an electric kettle is cheap and quick and so convenient. And given you are living on the east coast of Australia, there are differences in word usage from state to state. In South Aus, we never say ambo, or avo (who the hell thought that a good idea????) Possibly the only shortened word we have adopted is barbie for barbeque. Oh, and being a long way geographically from the rest of the world is a massive advantage IMO. We've been free to develop our own unique identity.
Just about everyone in South Africa who has access to electricity has an electric kettle. I'm somewhat surprised that this is a foreign concept in the USA!
G'day Ashley, :-) Watched and enjoyed your light hearted video about the 'little' differences between the two countries. Not necessarily to correct you, but instead elaborate, we have had clothes dryers in Oz for as long as I can remember, however, I only tend to use them if I need to wear or use something thats wet/damp in a hurry or the weather is too bad to dry them outside. As you correctly stated, being 'air dried' makes the clothes smell and feel fresher, and has the extra benefit of not costing anything in power. Toilet buttons :-) ....This is simply a water saving function. For #1's there is no need for a large flush. It's pretty silly when you think about it that we use very good quality drinking water (that probably 3/4 the rest of the world would give there eye teeth for) to simply flush down a toilet. It's all to do with conservation and us doing our part. Same applies to front loader washing machines....use very little water. (although, I must admitt, I got rid of my front loader as it kept ripping the buttons off my shirts) Kettles... I have used the gas-top whistling kettles nearly all my life, however, I also have an electric kettle as well. In the winter months using the gas kettle helps a little to keep the place warm but when the summer rolls along and we have some pretty hot days, the last thing you want to do is have a gas fire heating the place even more. I also find the electric kettle much quicker to boil. Although some people are living on the borderline I don't think most people are that concerned about the cost factor (gas V electricity). Given the choice, I would tend to use electric over gas as the electric unit will turn off once boiled. I had a situation some years back where I placed my whisling kettle on the gas and went into my garage to get something, got completely side tracked and when I returned a couple of hours later, the aluminium kettle was red hot, had melted to a flat blob wrapping itself around the standoff with just the bakelite handle protruding. The house stunk of burnt bakelite for the next week. Internet... A couple of years back we had a number of service providers providing a range of internet data plans that ranged from a joke through to some relatively fast connections. All depended on how much you were willing to spend and all were ridiculously overpriced. The service providers made lots of money out of fleecing the public (including our current PM with his involvment with Ozemail) With the election of the 2007 Labor Government, under Kevin Rudd, planning was undertaken to build the largest infrastucture program in Australias history by establishing a 'National Broadband Network' that would utilise cutting edge technology and be the envy of the world. As usual, the LNP opposed pretty much everything and on their election to goverment in 2013, under the leadership of Tony Abbott (PM) and 'Mr Internet' Malcom Turnball (Communications Minister) proceeded, with their wealth of "business knowledge" to demolish the project in the name of saving $$$. So at this point, we have a project that was estimated to cost around AU$27.5 Billion (and blind freddy would have known that it was going to cost more than this) currently at a cost of AU$56 Billion and rising with an estimated completion date in 2020. The service is already obsolete and continuing to build an obsolete network is absolute stupidity. Hopefully with the re-election of a Labor goverment they will have a plan to return the project to Fibre To The Premises. The Australian public, because of their stupidy in 2013, will just have to wear the extra cost. "Cutting meat with a fork"... this is a new one on me. Just for interest, what do you think a knife on your table is for? :-) Being America, why would you not use, say a .44 Magnum or AR15 for seperating the meat .... only joking :-) Sport.... you forgot to mention AFL !!! the real Australian football. Not these silly ball games where they bite peoples ears off or stick their fingers in other players orifices and run around after scoring a goal saying "look at me.. look at me... look at me" Still... it takes all sorts... and that's what makes Australia great :-)
Shut up AFL is for soft cocks, shit sport and boring to watch. She lives in Newcastle, so stick with NRL, Tougher, stronger, faster players and way more entertaining
Jordan Carr lol. As someone who grew up watching rugby, and genuinely hated sports for most of my life because of just how boring they are to watch, I can say with confidence that AFL is the only ball sport worth watching, and it can even be enjoyable if I sit down to watch it. The players are fitter; the game moves more rapidly; the scoring of a goal vs try is more sensible, and actually encourages players to score goals, not tries; their attitude towards violence is reflected not only in their complete intolerance for violence at the games, but the game itself, where players are primarily rated on the number of kicks, not the number of tackles. Rugby involves literally throwing the ball backwards so it doesn’t move across the field too fast, and tackling other players a lot so they don’t move across the field too fast, because the field isn’t physically big enough to host an exciting game without these limitations being in place. In AFL you’ll witness players scrambling up the backs and shoulders of other players in order to get high enough to reach the ball. In rugby you see players piling on top of other players to stop everyone from doing anything, so that the ball can be taken by the referee and the game paused while they recollect themselves. But yeah, berate AFL as being for “softcocks”. It’s cool. Everyone else is laughing at you for being an uncouth bogan who thinks boys need to sustain lifelong brain damage to “toughen them up”.
afl is not a global sport but rugby is, there is so much contests in rugby than afl and the 2015 rugby world cup ratings made the rugby world cup the 4th most popular sporting event (olympic games are not included) and most watched sporting event in the world. i'm not talking about league but union. obviously union has sunk low in australia because the aru destroyed perth and melbourne grassroots, kept the money for themselves which produces lesser talent - this is why a lot of australians have turned away from union because they are no longer tied with new zealand, it's been over 10 years of dominance and the wallabies keep losing to the all blacks when they shouldn't be living in australia for 18 years and followed afl is a good sport to follow once you understand everything but it can't hold a candle to rugby. i also found that state of origin beats an afl final in terms of excitement. going to multiple afl games, it's more about getting on the piss and having a good time/cheer when a goal is made rather than actually watching the game for what it is
@@ThePepsiMinimum transplanted American here who loves his Buffalo Bills (NFL). I’ve lived in Melbourne for more than 20 years (and yea, I’m already an Aussie), I will honestly tell you that I rate AFL higher than any other ball sport in the world, even basketball which I dearly love. It’s a lot more exciting to watch and more action packed in every minute played.
Ashley Kristina Just a personal choice - but I USED to listen to 2-JJJ in the 90s when my taste in music was in tune with their playlists. There are a lot of alternative music from that such as Clouds, Skulker, Sidewinder, Gerling, The Mavis's, Grinspoon, Custard, Eskimo Joe, Regurgitator, Frente, Drop City, You Am I, silverchair, Powderfinger,, &.c.
The way I was taught to hold my cutlery growing up was that you have your knife in your dominant hand, e.g I'm right handed so my right hand is stronger than my left, so it would be better using force to slice through something with that hand.
Dear Ashley, Thank you for the nice things you said about Australia! You're most welcome here! We're both lucky to have such great countries and I'd love to see more American's being able to have the Aussie experience as well.l Some Americans may also know/recall some other famous Australians you didn't mention such as, Olivia Newton John, Air Supply, Hugh Jackman, Cate Blanchet, Russel Crow, John Farnham, Rose Byrne, Errol Flynn, Mel Gibson, Toni Collette, Naomi Watts, Crowded House, Johhny O'Keefe, The Seekers, Iggy Azalea, Gotye etc...etc...
Love how through your videos your pronunciation of certain words like “Australia/Australian” sounds slightly more Australian as you spend more time there
I grew up in Newcastle...so nice to hear your thoughts. The college 'experience' in Newy is a little different from Sydney colleges...you will definitely have more fun there...I think its because a sizable proportion of students are from Newcastle, and so many just live at home and commute.
As an Aussie living in Sydney, I really enjoyed this. You are fortunate living in Newcastle. It is one of our favourite places to go for a weekend away. Sydney is too crowded. Enjoyed the fact that you didn't address all the usual cliches. On behalf of all Australians, welcome and we want you to stay.
Roads narrow & windy. You must mean Sydney. Hanging clothes outdoors on clothes line is simplyctaking advantage of fresh sun & wind. Yeah, being free makes only sense. But freshens your clothes better. Newer homes ALL have electric dryers.
I've shared University share-houses with American Uni Exchange students for 4 years or so, and I never had any difficulty communicating, but then again, I am from an educated upper-middle class professional background and my natural peer group use very little slang. Also outside the large cities, Australians are more likely to use more slang.
Ashley, us Aussie’s love your honesty. There is a unique love between Aussies and Americans. We will always support each other, no matter what. Yes we may use different words/phrases but our moral compass is the same. Keep sharing your insights, they are hilarious 🌸
I wonder if the electric kettle thing is because we have a higher power voltage coming through our outlets, because I can’t understand why they don’t use them in the US but I know their voltage is lower, and having lived with generator power in the past I learnt that I could not use heating elements on a lower voltage output
My mother had an electric kettle, but they have been displaced by automatic coffee makers. They are still available for purchase. But no one buys them. Voltage has nothing to with heating elements. We have camping appliances that you can use in your 12 volt car. Long-haul truckers use them a lot. The element has to be designed for the specific voltage it will be using.
@@Matthew_Loutner that’s interesting, but when I lived bush and had a generator that I think it’s output was 12 volt, if I even tried to use the toaster it would just die, I mean the generator would. I’m assuming though if you use a 12 volt appliance, would it take a lot longer to do the same job, like heat water?
@tanoz1440 No. It takes the same amount of time. In fact, you can speed it up or slow it down by making an appliance that draws more amperage or less amperage. A toaster oven draws about 1200 watts per hour. So you need an abolute minimum 1200 watt generator to run it. At 240 volts, your generator needs to put out 5 amps. At 120 volts your generator needs to put out 10 amps. At 12 volts, your generator needs to put out 100 amps. Your generator has to be revved up to put out full capacity. If you try to pull too much power at an idle, it will cause it to die. The generators that they sell in the United States are made for 120 volts. They have a tiny 12 volt outlet. But the outlet does not put out enough amperage to run a 12 volt appliance. We run appliances from our car battery, and we need to keep the engine revved up so that it does not drain the battery.
The WiFi!!!!!! Damn the politicians...... They totally ignored the public and the data from countries such as America that showed them what was the best option!!!!
god, I had a pommy backbacker put my electric wok on the stove and melt the bottom of it, what did he even think the power cable attached to it was for?
@@Ausecko1 it was for cooking in the dark the lights helped to see the food. Did you not know this? And it also helps when you wash it so it does not go down the plug hole.
Why use dryers and use electricity when you have the sun? We do have dryers and really depends on where you live for example Tasmania. In the northern parts of Australia, clothes are dried in less than 1/2 hour in the sun on the clothes line. Hills Hoist is an adjustable clothes line - but as a child I would use it as a swing....any Australian who had a Hills Hoist in the back yard would know what I mean. We're not uncivilised - dining etiquette in Australia is continental meaning come from the European style which is more cultured way of eating.
Doesn’t matter if this lady is an American experiencing Australia, or an Australian experiencing America...this is a smart lady who is trying to adapt to another country. She’s not fighting her new experiences, she welcoming and adapting. An intelligent worldly woman. Well done. 👏
Lololol on your video.. I loved it.. loved you talking about the manners. The knife and Falk was hilarious and towards the end of your video I could hear a crow squawking. It's was a wonderful comparison but you forgot to mention the Aussie rules football. Thank you again. Will try and watch all of your videos. Your so funny and keep up your great work.. take care and oooh, welcome to 🇦🇺
Interestingly, the deviations in spellings of words between UK and AU English, and US English stems from the USA being settled from the 16th and 17th centuries, when they took with them the conventional spelling in use in the UK at the time, such as 'color' and 'honor' etc. It was only during the 1700s that British English adopted the superfluous vowels and doubled consonants due to a fascination with all thing Continental, so was basically an appropriation of French, Latin and Greek spelling conventions so that vulgar medieaval English sounded more refined and cultured. Meanwhile, in the US, spelling conventions which predated that shift had become become standardised due to the advent of printed dictionaries, preserving the original spelling conventions inherited from 16th century England. Australia was settled after the Brits had tried to lend common English an air of European dignity, so we inherited the extra vowels and consonants and 's' instead of 'z' and so on, and not the original 16th century English spellings the Yanks still preserve. Fun fact.
I'm Australian I don't really need a dryer even living in Melbourne, it's so unnecessary I so rarely use a dryer, I'm amazed about the electric kettle thing, I'm 43 & don't remember not having electric kettles
Living in Newcastle you probably aren't as exposed to it, but what do you make of the AFL as a sport? The biggest sport in Australia in terms of attendence and following.
I'm very late but once when I was at school we had a tarantula in our roof and it lived there for most of the year until one day it landed on my teachers head because it was coming down and we put it outside but it was there and we named it bob it was also really big like 10cm in length
This is the best one of this type of video. Youve covered the usual. But noticing the different ways we eat made me think back to Americam films. Where yeah there was always a wierd thing going on when Americans ate. An agressive style.
Great videos. If you plan on living in Australia permanently please have a good look around the country. There are far more attractive places to live than Newcastle.
Despite their often large and hairy appearance, huntsman spiders are not considered to be dangerous spiders. As with most spiders, they do possess venom, and a bite may cause some ill effects. However, they are quite reluctant to bite, and will usually try to run away rather than be aggressive.
The rumour about why Australia is called so dangerous, is that the Australian government spread that rumour because too many Americans were trying to migrate to Australia and they were quite angry when they were rejected ie forced into a queue, so the Australian government worked to reduce the number of American applicants, so as to avoid angering so many of them, only a rumour of course. This also relates to immigrants from Europe ;D.
As an Australian I have been grape picking in Victoria and slept in the provided pickers hut made of tin. Going to sleep at night the ceiling was full of huntsmen spiders hanging upside down. Waking up we had redback spiders through our beds. One morning there was a young brown snake wrapped around my sisters bed frame..My point is never were we bitten because they are not aggressive unless provoked. Hope that helps. x
im 32, brisbane. have used a dryer less than 10 times in my life... if i used a dryer, it means i forgot to do the washing earlier. stop being lazy, if youve got the weather, use it.
Stucco is quite commonly used on you American homes but Australian homes are more commonly rendered. The toilets are different. Every home in australia does have a clothes dryer but we choose to hang them. The Mexican food in Australia is totally different than the Mexican food in America.
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"Down the road" in Australia is anywhere from 10 to 500 kilometres away!
So true 🤣
@tobagotb10 1200km is just to the end of the driveway on the majority of farms (ranches) here in Australia. We have farms that are measured in km2 instead of ha or ac
Haha yeah to get to me grannies farm you just get on the nearby freeway and stay on it for 3 hours
@@AshleyKristina I watched your 3 videos Au vs USA and my goodness your demeanour has changed, you have lost the loud 'mericun sound. Welcome, you are fitting in well :-)
Just around the block. Make sure you have a full tank of fuel 😂
I thought (electric) kettles were a normal staple in homes, I didn't even think those whistle kettles still existed
Electric kettles were popular in the States in the 1950s.
Part of the problem is the US operates on 110V/120V mains which makes boiling a kettle via electricity take twice as long as 220/240V European/Aus/NZ systems utilising the same current draw.
@@gentlepersuader patience is a virtue. Nice comment though, I have learned something today.
I use a stove-top kettle when camping
tea is not nearly as big a deal in the states as it is in oz so that's probably why most ppl. never bothered switching over. you can get electrics in the states but alot of people still use the whistlers.
TV has made Australia synonymous with sharks and it's a little unfair. Turns out there are more shark attacks in the US than in Australia but there are more shark attack deaths here. This can mean only one thing. Aussies are tastier :)
no tourists are tastier
Too much fat on the American meat
We're a snacc
that and probably that all animals are poisonous. LOL
I’m American but OML BAHAHAH
I'm Australian and I was so surprised about the electric kettles. I thought they were almost everywhere!
Sketching Studio they are normal in europe
I'm pretty sure I saw an electric kettle when I was there... Wtf
I thought the stove one existed ... in 1945
Sketching Studio they are!
One thing that might make them less popular in the US, a 2000w kettle draws about 8 amps on Aus 240volts, but would draw about 18 amps on the US 110volts. Thats a heavy duty load for a domestic power point and cord.
Australians didn't want this NBN. Our centre-left party introduced a massive overhaul of the Australian internet infrastructure that would have been cutting edge, but we had an election and the balance of power changed to the conservative party. They cooked up this version of the NBN which is both worse and somehow also more expensive than the original plan purely so that the now opposition party couldn't take credit for a popular, useful and effective infrastructure project once it was completed. We have expensive, shitty internet that no-one asked for because of political spite.
lancer D well there fixing it and we’re lucky we don’t have loony leftist running things next step is to totally boot out the idiot greens.
^ You're an idiot. By blaming the left you just showed how really stupid you are. Like ALL CUCKSERVATIVES...
@@lenardmalcolm8800 In Australia the name Libtard is accurate and is u, Le'nard (the testical)
Lennie, you have to admit though, the NBN was a mistake. Like, come on.
Charlie Dawson Not according to the people who understand it.
The bulk of Australian beef is grass fed rather than grain and that makes a huge difference
Massively better taste grain feed feed lot beef is blah
I got connected to the National Broadband Network before the Coalition Government took office and sabotaged the project. Its still slower than North America and Western Europe but it was a lot faster than what we had before. When the NBN was being rolled out as intended under Labor, you got fibre optic cables direct to your home. Now, as I understand it, to cut costs, all they do is install fibre optic on streets and have the traditional copper wire linking it to your house which almost defeats the purpose of the NBN in the first place.
The fibre to the houses was only going to be for more metropolition areas if you lived outside of any town you were gonna be stuck on satellite
Wow! An American that likes Vegemite. You're now an Australian citizen.
@tobagotb10 cafe styly or thick sliced loaf is tops with butter and vegemite but i eat it thick...not everyone likes as thick as i do.
I caught it from dad as a sousce of vitamin B...he was told to eat it because he had a deficiency long before vitamin pills were around like today.
I like Promite more than Vegemite its not as strong and tastes better,you should try it Ashley
I've lived in Australia since I was 2 and I hate vegemite, I moved here from England
I lived in Australia in 1970 came over with my family when I was 16 and stayed 10 years. I love Australia. I love having cups of tea with friends, the food, the beaches, double decker busses. I hiked all over and never saw a snake or spider but there was a snake in my moms bathroom (poisonous one) at Whale Beach on Bynya Road and I had a funnel web in my bathroom one time. Other than that no bugs. (flies of course). Swam everyday even in the winter. Coming from San Francisco beaches are cold. I was lucky I have never been stung by a jellyfish. For the amount of people who live in Oz the shark attacks are really not that many. They have fantastic surf clubs and good looking life savers, sky planes, nets and shark alarms. I lived mainly between Palm Beach and Manly and shared a flat in Seaforth. I love the brick homes. I miss fish and chips on the beach and shopping with my basket to the butchers, fruit market and bakery. It was very personal and charming. I hope to come back some day. My mom was born there and lived on a Cattle Station then moved to Sydney when she got older. I love Sydney just like I love San Francisco. They call them sister cities.
I'm a Canadian living Down Under and have been for 14 years....am now a proud Australia citizen. A couple of things I would have added to your list is the flies!! OMG! So many and so friendly!! LOL
Also Christmas here....not many do a turkey and the norm is lunch. It's much more laid back and less fuss. Many people camp over Christmas. And if you order anything online, the shipping will break the bank!!
Shipping / Freight expensive Yep only from the thieving yank freight companies
Masses of flies is a regional thing...depends where you live.
Linda Gardellini happy to have you aboard Linda
@sayvar44 Much safer to ask an American if they are Canadian - I do that too
Lol. Yep especially when your on a sheep property out west trying to use the outhouse. My grandparents were dairy farmers and the flies were bad enough
"not many people get killed by sharks last year. Most people just get attacked'. Ashley, truly you have become an Australian.
I'm Australian and the internet thing has always confused me.
American's always tell me it's slow - which it is objectively. But I never understood the need of such fast internet. I always download things, my videos never buffer, internet never drops out and it isn't overly expensive. So I never really understand the complaints.
Then again, if I experienced better internet I guess I couldn't go back?
Well if you're a gamer and record, try to upload videos all the time, the speed would come in handy
@@Azmedon-AU Oh so it's the upload speed they hate? Equal up/down plans exist they just cost more
@@SomeTH-camGuy Highest plan I can get is 20 up and 50 down
It’s funny that we have bad internet yet we created Wifi
@@kevinsteemson5387 I will never not be angry at the Liberals for gutting the NBN at Murdoch's command. That's foreign sabotage, as far as I'm concerned.
When it comes to Aussie cuisine you forgot the Bunnings Sausage sizzle
Wow, I always knew our internet wasn't great, but from some peoples comments saying Americans can get over 1gb per second I didn't realise how bad it is. I get excited when my internet speed reaches 1mb, even 500kb isn't too bad where I'm from.
We average about 30mbs in Perth
I get about 3MBs(25mbps)
I can still hear the dial up when I even look at my laptop ! 🙃
Welcome to Australia. Better late than never on the greeting I guess. We need more newbies like you. Someone who enjoys the place and tries to fit it
That all most Aussies want from our new locals
Completely agree about the WiFi, the WiFi here in aus sucks, but when I was in LA, it was literally every where and for free too 😩
Best way to use the dryer is to hang the clothes till _almost_ dry then finish them off in the dryer so they're nice and soft... also, it kills any little bities that might've crawled in them.
Disgusting waste of resources
@@shazza160 I don't think 'disgusting' means what you think it means. And before you mouth off, you should know I generate 4 times more solar power than what I actually use.
Thank you so much
Being an Aussie living in the USA for 19 years. Travelling and living in a different culture is one of the best .personal and professional development programs.similar to Golf ..You learn how .mentally emotionally.spiritually adaptive one needs to become to integrate whilst self correcting learning maintaining and increasing .your Values Truth Trust and Integrity without judgement. The world is a Hodepodge of difference.. that we all need to accept .Regretfully most do not change .and try to impose their comfort Zone ..of their history .and Baggage ...Travelling has made me a voracious learner of difference and adaptability ..Worldly with a blessing of Gratitude and Humility. Change .is transformational..Catterpillar to Butterfly. ..In the southern way of saying it .....There AINT no way of GOING back..
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aussies also don't unleash massive amounts of ammo on school children every 2-3 months - it is the small differences after all
You’re an absolute jerk.
WhoDarestheMAN gamer I don’t know if you’re Australian but picking on some isolated instances out of a nation with over 300 million people is flat out ridiculous. Most of us don’t want that type of gun in the hands of the general public.
@@pacerdave7838 Isolated? you're joking right?
KBAR do you live in the U. S. A.?
@@pacerdave7838 Facts are irrelevant to my place of residence.
I was surprised to see you mention the music, thats usually one of those things that gets left out. The best Australian music was for sure between like the 70's and early 2000's, I made a playlist on my channel of all of my favorite Australian music, the classics, the ones that get played at bbq's so if anyone aussie or not is looking for some actual good Australian music I have a playlist you can check out! Dw Im not a youtuber trying to promote their channel or anything lol. Cool video btw!
Speaking of music (21:35) AC/DC is NOT FROM SYDNEY!
Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
You are most definitely Aussie now...”don’t bother them and they won’t bother you” makes you a naturalised citizen...
I am an American, hoping to be Aussie soon, and I follow that same sort of belief. I became friends with animals before I was ever friends with people, and through my study of Druidry, and life, I have learned that ya just gotta learn to live with one another. If neither are bothering the other, you are good!
Australian music culture is seriously one of the best in the world, particularly in Melbourne.
ROFL
We do love our dryers. We have them however we dont use them when its above 20 degrees (celcius)
How often did you turn on your wipers when you actually wanted to the turn signal...? I recall that being my biggest thing to get used to while driving. I was constantly cursing back then.
I'm so happy you brought up the Aussie music scene because I think it's so great and different compared to the rest of the world, and we have some talented artists that have no worldwide recognition but deserve it.
Great video Ashley. I love your attitude and humility, you're an honorary Australian now.
Jesus Christ women, moved from mid America to Newcastle Australia, so much respect.
Not a damn thing wrong with "mid America" at all.
i am loving your videos. I have a friend who lives in Florida (I'm from Melbourne) and my favorite thing is to compare notes on our cultural differences.
You do know that there is a Melbourne in Florida, don't you?
I have a daughter in law who is also from Ohio, St Paris in fact. When my son and her were dating she use to tell me about her life in Ohio and how different it was for her to do things I took for granted. She had never bought meat from a butchers shop or just meat as her family hunted for it. She had never eaten vegetables until she moved to Australia. There were many other things as well, driving a car was the bain of her existence lol.
Huntsmans are intense, a lot of them are as big as your hand and you just have to live with them. On the up side they are highly unlikely to mess with you unless you mess with them. It's the small spiders that tend to cause us problems.
And Huntsman spiders are harmless. Just big and hairy. Just the little ones - Funnelweb spiders, Redbacks, white tails and trapdoor spiders. Eww I hate spiders, such an arachnophobe.
funnel webs are not small and white tails are harmless.
Ghorda9 Whitetails are not harmless! The venom can eat into the skin!
the very few reported cases of necrosis from white tails is caused by a bacterial infection.
Jessamine Gibb there r not that but there was one on my roof I slept underneath in my bunk was it doesn't hurt it just a east flies tbh they do look scary
I always wonder why everyone is so set on the vegemite on toast thing. I like vegemite but I have always prefered it spread lightly on fresh bread with a slice of cheese.
The metric system is simple the rest of the world uses it it’s units of tens
You forgot about Aussie Rules football in the sport section.
Good on you! You have such a good attitude, even tho it’s probably really hard moving to a foreign country. Hope you love Aus
Go girl ☺
Welcome to our country
Welcome to the Queen's Commonwealth of Australia.
The main reason we have dual flush toilets in Australia is water conservation. It doesn't matter in most cases which button you push for solid waste. They both work.
there's a such thing as a private beach? people can own a beach? mind blown.
Saying that you can't own a beach in Australia isn't 100% true. In Darwin the tourist attraction at the beach at Doctor's Gully, where you pay money to a former NT Chief Minister, who owns and controls access to the beach thanks to shady arrangements, for the privilege of wading ankle deep into seawater and feeding the fish stale bread..
So yeah, even in Australia there are private beaches.
That blew my mind as well. I had no idea someone could own a beach. Wtf. lol
Pretty rare though. In most states you can't own the beach itself and certainly not below the high tide mark.
Wait a minute, electric kettles aren't a thing in the States?
We don't have the clothes line because electricity is (now) expensive. we have clothes lines because there is the sun to dry the clothes. All we have done here is keep the tradition going of hanging your clothes out to dry as has been the process over the centuries. Depending on where you live, for 80% of the year you can hang your clothes out and have then dry in half the time of an electric dryer. However glad you have also come the enlightenment of fresh air dried clothes:)
Considering WiFi was invented in Australia, we unfortunately decided to follow the America philosophy of capitalism( no Im not socialist) by selling off and opening the telephone system to market forces. We went from one of the best and progressive telephone systems in the world to one of the worst. NBN is an attempt to bring back some control, but it is still the private sector effecting the price. I agree with you, its very frustrating.
Wifi has nothing to do with NBN. If you get slow speed while wired via Ethernet then complain or change provider. If its good then you Wifi hardware is no good and you need to look for something better. Maybe a MESH system. One thing to note is that if your connection is via Fibre to the Node you might have a problem with the wiring in your building.
Great review Ashley! I agree with everything you said. A few things missed out but generally pretty accurate. Re. sport you missed AFL (Australian rules football). Most people in Australia, at least on the West Coast, don't have clothes dryers due to 300 out of 365 days of sunshine.
Wow I never knew about the cutlery difference.
It is really a big thing.
Ash, I have enjoyed these videos on US/Australian differences. I have found them to be informative and respectful, so thank you for that.
I first learned from some US online friends about the absence of electric kettles in US homes. I can barely believe that, when an electric kettle is cheap and quick and so convenient.
And given you are living on the east coast of Australia, there are differences in word usage from state to state. In South Aus, we never say ambo, or avo (who the hell thought that a good idea????) Possibly the only shortened word we have adopted is barbie for barbeque.
Oh, and being a long way geographically from the rest of the world is a massive advantage IMO. We've been free to develop our own unique identity.
A liter is about 1/4 of a gallon, approximately, so their fuel is much higher than ours. More like Great Britain's price.
hugh Great Brittan? you mean the Poms right?
British petrol prices make ours look good, an we get ripped off!
The electric kettle that I use takes much less time to boil than any that is put on the stove. I love them.
Plus they are safer because they turn off once they reaching boiling point.
Just about everyone in South Africa who has access to electricity has an electric kettle. I'm somewhat surprised that this is a foreign concept in the USA!
G'day Ashley, :-)
Watched and enjoyed your light hearted video about the 'little' differences between the two countries.
Not necessarily to correct you, but instead elaborate, we have had clothes dryers in Oz for as long as I can remember, however, I only tend to use them if I need to wear or use something thats wet/damp in a hurry or the weather is too bad to dry them outside. As you correctly stated, being 'air dried' makes the clothes smell and feel fresher, and has the extra benefit of not costing anything in power.
Toilet buttons :-) ....This is simply a water saving function. For #1's there is no need for a large flush. It's pretty silly when you think about it that we use very good quality drinking water (that probably 3/4 the rest of the world would give there eye teeth for) to simply flush down a toilet. It's all to do with conservation and us doing our part. Same applies to front loader washing machines....use very little water. (although, I must admitt, I got rid of my front loader as it kept ripping the buttons off my shirts)
Kettles... I have used the gas-top whistling kettles nearly all my life, however, I also have an electric kettle as well. In the winter months using the gas kettle helps a little to keep the place warm but when the summer rolls along and we have some pretty hot days, the last thing you want to do is have a gas fire heating the place even more. I also find the electric kettle much quicker to boil. Although some people are living on the borderline I don't think most people are that concerned about the cost factor (gas V electricity). Given the choice, I would tend to use electric over gas as the electric unit will turn off once boiled.
I had a situation some years back where I placed my whisling kettle on the gas and went into my garage to get something, got completely side tracked and when I returned a couple of hours later, the aluminium kettle was red hot, had melted to a flat blob
wrapping itself around the standoff with just the bakelite handle protruding. The house stunk of burnt bakelite for the next week.
Internet... A couple of years back we had a number of service providers providing a range of internet data plans that ranged from a joke through to some relatively fast connections. All depended on how much you were willing to spend and all were ridiculously overpriced. The service providers made lots of money out of fleecing the public (including our current PM with his involvment with Ozemail)
With the election of the 2007 Labor Government, under Kevin Rudd, planning was undertaken to build the largest infrastucture program in Australias history by establishing a 'National Broadband Network' that would utilise cutting edge technology and be the envy of the world. As usual, the LNP opposed pretty much everything and on their election to goverment in 2013, under the leadership of Tony Abbott (PM) and 'Mr Internet' Malcom Turnball (Communications Minister) proceeded, with their wealth of "business knowledge" to demolish the project in the name of saving $$$. So at this point, we have a project that was estimated to cost around AU$27.5 Billion (and blind freddy would have known that it was going to cost more than this) currently at a cost of AU$56 Billion and rising with an estimated completion date in 2020. The service is already obsolete and continuing to build an obsolete network is absolute stupidity. Hopefully with the re-election of a Labor goverment they will have a plan to return the project to Fibre To The Premises. The Australian public, because of their stupidy in 2013, will just have to wear the extra cost.
"Cutting meat with a fork"... this is a new one on me. Just for interest, what do you think a knife on your table is for? :-)
Being America, why would you not use, say a .44 Magnum or AR15 for seperating the meat .... only joking :-)
Sport.... you forgot to mention AFL !!! the real Australian football. Not these silly ball games where they bite peoples ears off or stick their fingers in other players orifices and run around after scoring a goal saying "look at me.. look at me... look at me"
Still... it takes all sorts... and that's what makes Australia great :-)
Shut up AFL is for soft cocks, shit sport and boring to watch. She lives in Newcastle, so stick with NRL, Tougher, stronger, faster players and way more entertaining
Jordan Carr lol. As someone who grew up watching rugby, and genuinely hated sports for most of my life because of just how boring they are to watch, I can say with confidence that AFL is the only ball sport worth watching, and it can even be enjoyable if I sit down to watch it.
The players are fitter; the game moves more rapidly; the scoring of a goal vs try is more sensible, and actually encourages players to score goals, not tries; their attitude towards violence is reflected not only in their complete intolerance for violence at the games, but the game itself, where players are primarily rated on the number of kicks, not the number of tackles.
Rugby involves literally throwing the ball backwards so it doesn’t move across the field too fast, and tackling other players a lot so they don’t move across the field too fast, because the field isn’t physically big enough to host an exciting game without these limitations being in place.
In AFL you’ll witness players scrambling up the backs and shoulders of other players in order to get high enough to reach the ball. In rugby you see players piling on top of other players to stop everyone from doing anything, so that the ball can be taken by the referee and the game paused while they recollect themselves.
But yeah, berate AFL as being for “softcocks”. It’s cool. Everyone else is laughing at you for being an uncouth bogan who thinks boys need to sustain lifelong brain damage to “toughen them up”.
afl is not a global sport but rugby is, there is so much contests in rugby than afl and the 2015 rugby world cup ratings made the rugby world cup the 4th most popular sporting event (olympic games are not included) and most watched sporting event in the world. i'm not talking about league but union. obviously union has sunk low in australia because the aru destroyed perth and melbourne grassroots, kept the money for themselves which produces lesser talent - this is why a lot of australians have turned away from union because they are no longer tied with new zealand, it's been over 10 years of dominance and the wallabies keep losing to the all blacks when they shouldn't be
living in australia for 18 years and followed afl is a good sport to follow once you understand everything but it can't hold a candle to rugby. i also found that state of origin beats an afl final in terms of excitement. going to multiple afl games, it's more about getting on the piss and having a good time/cheer when a goal is made rather than actually watching the game for what it is
@@Dagoat2000 I know what you mean…l I mean, how can you take a sport seriously where they give you a point for missing a goal?
@@ThePepsiMinimum transplanted American here who loves his Buffalo Bills (NFL). I’ve lived in Melbourne for more than 20 years (and yea, I’m already an Aussie), I will honestly tell you that I rate AFL higher than any other ball sport in the world, even basketball which I dearly love. It’s a lot more exciting to watch and more action packed in every minute played.
Interesting about the WIFI - It was invented in Australia!
Aussie aussie aussie!
And more importantly, the Hills Hoist
Like so many things our govt was too stupid to take control of and not back so we suffer with shit things.
Knife and forks are used by people differently according to being left or right or left handed.....not rocket science.
Aussie beaches are the best in the world.
Ashley Kristina
Just a personal choice - but I USED to listen to 2-JJJ in the 90s when my taste in music was in tune with their playlists.
There are a lot of alternative music from that such as Clouds, Skulker, Sidewinder, Gerling, The Mavis's, Grinspoon, Custard, Eskimo Joe, Regurgitator, Frente, Drop City, You Am I, silverchair, Powderfinger,, &.c.
I loved your video, you were honest in your opinions about Oz and we would be happy and proud to have you as an Aussie citizen, G'day mate.........
How do you cut food with a fork? A steak, for example, how?
I don't think you're having trouble with wi-fi speeds but with internet speeds provided by your internet provider;.
The way I was taught to hold my cutlery growing up was that you have your knife in your dominant hand, e.g I'm right handed so my right hand is stronger than my left, so it would be better using force to slice through something with that hand.
Dear Ashley, Thank you for the nice things you said about Australia! You're most welcome here! We're both lucky to have such great countries and I'd love to see more American's being able to have the Aussie experience as well.l Some Americans may also know/recall some other famous Australians you didn't mention such as, Olivia Newton John, Air Supply, Hugh Jackman, Cate Blanchet, Russel Crow, John Farnham, Rose Byrne, Errol Flynn, Mel Gibson, Toni Collette, Naomi Watts, Crowded House, Johhny O'Keefe, The Seekers, Iggy Azalea, Gotye etc...etc...
Love how through your videos your pronunciation of certain words like “Australia/Australian” sounds slightly more Australian as you spend more time there
I put in a new toilet last year and it also has the two buttons labeled #1 and #2. It saves a lot of water to divide it up this way.
yours is the third usa/austrailian video I've watched and your info was the most varied and practical. I enjoyed it. good job :)
Lower voltage in the usa is the reason electric kettles havent taken off there apparently. 120 volt vs 240 - means it takes longer to boil the water.
Yeah even know that australia invented wifi we have have some of the slowest in the world its kinda sad
It’s a clothes line or a hills hoist.Free wi-fi stinks you’re right so does the home wi-fi. By the way you do a great job.
I grew up in Newcastle...so nice to hear your thoughts. The college 'experience' in Newy is a little different from Sydney colleges...you will definitely have more fun there...I think its because a sizable proportion of students are from Newcastle, and so many just live at home and commute.
Sport AFL is our No ! sport, not the others you mentioned, watch it sometime it is very exciting
I generally dry my clothes inside. Only the sheets and doona covers go on the clothes line. But I never use a dryer.😊
As an Aussie living in Sydney, I really enjoyed this. You are fortunate living in Newcastle. It is one of our favourite places to go for a weekend away. Sydney is too crowded. Enjoyed the fact that you didn't address all the usual cliches. On behalf of all Australians, welcome and we want you to stay.
Ur an Aussie living in Sydney what part r u originally from in the country
Roads narrow & windy. You must mean Sydney. Hanging clothes outdoors on clothes line is simplyctaking advantage of fresh sun & wind. Yeah, being free makes only sense. But freshens your clothes better. Newer homes ALL have electric dryers.
I've shared University share-houses with American Uni Exchange students for 4 years or so, and I never had any difficulty communicating, but then again, I am from an educated upper-middle class professional background and my natural peer group use very little slang. Also outside the large cities, Australians are more likely to use more slang.
Ashley, us Aussie’s love your honesty. There is a unique love between Aussies and Americans. We will always support each other, no matter what. Yes we may use different words/phrases but our moral compass is the same. Keep sharing your insights, they are hilarious 🌸
No one loves or likes Americans but the world loves Aussies and and other part of the world but america
Wow the stove top kettle is oldschool! :)
I wonder if the electric kettle thing is because we have a higher power voltage coming through our outlets, because I can’t understand why they don’t use them in the US but I know their voltage is lower, and having lived with generator power in the past I learnt that I could not use heating elements on a lower voltage output
My mother had an electric kettle, but they have been displaced by automatic coffee makers. They are still available for purchase. But no one buys them.
Voltage has nothing to with heating elements. We have camping appliances that you can use in your 12 volt car. Long-haul truckers use them a lot.
The element has to be designed for the specific voltage it will be using.
@@Matthew_Loutner that’s interesting, but when I lived bush and had a generator that I think it’s output was 12 volt, if I even tried to use the toaster it would just die, I mean the generator would. I’m assuming though if you use a 12 volt appliance, would it take a lot longer to do the same job, like heat water?
@tanoz1440 No. It takes the same amount of time. In fact, you can speed it up or slow it down by making an appliance that draws more amperage or less amperage.
A toaster oven draws about 1200 watts per hour. So you need an abolute minimum 1200 watt generator to run it.
At 240 volts, your generator needs to put out 5 amps.
At 120 volts your generator needs to put out 10 amps.
At 12 volts, your generator needs to put out 100 amps.
Your generator has to be revved up to put out full capacity. If you try to pull too much power at an idle, it will cause it to die.
The generators that they sell in the United States are made for 120 volts. They have a tiny 12 volt outlet. But the outlet does not put out enough amperage to run a 12 volt appliance. We run appliances from our car battery, and we need to keep the engine revved up so that it does not drain the battery.
The WiFi!!!!!! Damn the politicians...... They totally ignored the public and the data from countries such as America that showed them what was the best option!!!!
The good fun bit comes when a Yank puts a plastic electric kettle on the gas stove.
john brown Guilty.
god, I had a pommy backbacker put my electric wok on the stove and melt the bottom of it, what did he even think the power cable attached to it was for?
@@Ausecko1 it was for cooking in the dark the lights helped to see the food. Did you not know this? And it also helps when you wash it so it does not go down the plug hole.
Haha. My mother did this to my kettle. She's Australian.
Why use dryers and use electricity when you have the sun? We do have dryers and really depends on where you live for example Tasmania. In the northern parts of Australia, clothes are dried in less than 1/2 hour in the sun on the clothes line. Hills Hoist is an adjustable clothes line - but as a child I would use it as a swing....any Australian who had a Hills Hoist in the back yard would know what I mean. We're not uncivilised - dining etiquette in Australia is continental meaning come from the European style which is more cultured way of eating.
The mangoes are amazing. Very accurate.
Funnel-web spiders crawl in your slippers while you sleep and attack when you slip them back on in the morning. They are quite deadly.
Doesn’t matter if this lady is an American experiencing Australia, or an Australian experiencing America...this is a smart lady who is trying to adapt to another country. She’s not fighting her new experiences, she welcoming and adapting. An intelligent worldly woman.
Well done. 👏
Ashley Kristina, many Australians also love AFL.
Great video. Youve really paid attention to detail and picked up on the nuances. We need more people like you visiting us.
My wife and I don't use a kettle. We use an electric urn (8ltr). I drink coffee and my wife drinks tea, and we use about 7 ltrs a day between us.
Air drying won't shrink your clothes 👍 I felt this
Lololol on your video.. I loved it.. loved you talking about the manners. The knife and Falk was hilarious and towards the end of your video I could hear a crow squawking. It's was a wonderful comparison but you forgot to mention the Aussie rules football. Thank you again. Will try and watch all of your videos. Your so funny and keep up your great work.. take care and oooh, welcome to 🇦🇺
Thank Tony Abbott and Malcom Turnbull for our bad internet
yep they screwed it
7:00 they spell it the English way *cough* the normal way *cough*
Targetzone Gaming Exactly! Spelled the RIGHT way actually
Interestingly, the deviations in spellings of words between UK and AU English, and US English stems from the USA being settled from the 16th and 17th centuries, when they took with them the conventional spelling in use in the UK at the time, such as 'color' and 'honor' etc. It was only during the 1700s that British English adopted the superfluous vowels and doubled consonants due to a fascination with all thing Continental, so was basically an appropriation of French, Latin and Greek spelling conventions so that vulgar medieaval English sounded more refined and cultured.
Meanwhile, in the US, spelling conventions which predated that shift had become become standardised due to the advent of printed dictionaries, preserving the original spelling conventions inherited from 16th century England. Australia was settled after the Brits had tried to lend common English an air of European dignity, so we inherited the extra vowels and consonants and 's' instead of 'z' and so on, and not the original 16th century English spellings the Yanks still preserve.
Fun fact.
watch out for drop bears
I'm Australian I don't really need a dryer even living in Melbourne, it's so unnecessary I so rarely use a dryer, I'm amazed about the electric kettle thing, I'm 43 & don't remember not having electric kettles
I remember my Nan having a kettle on the stove. We had one when I was growing up, but it was more a novelty.
Living in Newcastle you probably aren't as exposed to it, but what do you make of the AFL as a sport? The biggest sport in Australia in terms of attendence and following.
I'm very late but once when I was at school we had a tarantula in our roof and it lived there for most of the year until one day it landed on my teachers head because it was coming down and we put it outside but it was there and we named it bob it was also really big like 10cm in length
10-30 min away is just down the road you you realise that when you live 2-4 hours from any real shops or you rely on food and mail deliveries.
Luv ya!!! You are awesome.... aussies love people who are genuine.
Don't want to be picky but AC-DC are a Melbourne band. And I remember before they became famous they used to do gigs in Ballarat on the weekend
Yess Australian music is pretty good here. (I'm from Australia) I love listening to Triple J as well
This is the best one of this type of video. Youve covered the usual. But noticing the different ways we eat made me think back to Americam films. Where yeah there was always a wierd thing going on when Americans ate. An agressive style.
Great videos. If you plan on living in Australia permanently please have a good look around the country. There are far more attractive places to live than Newcastle.
Despite their often large and hairy appearance, huntsman spiders are not considered to be dangerous spiders. As with most spiders, they do possess venom, and a bite may cause some ill effects. However, they are quite reluctant to bite, and will usually try to run away rather than be aggressive.
we say in Newcastle. everything is 20 mins away. and it is about true
In case you didn't know NBN means National Broken Network.
The rumour about why Australia is called so dangerous, is that the Australian government spread that rumour because too many Americans were trying to migrate to Australia and they were quite angry when they were rejected ie forced into a queue, so the Australian government worked to reduce the number of American applicants, so as to avoid angering so many of them, only a rumour of course. This also relates to immigrants from Europe ;D.
As an Australian I have been grape picking in Victoria and slept in the provided pickers hut made of tin. Going to sleep at night the ceiling was full of huntsmen spiders hanging upside down. Waking up we had redback spiders through our beds. One morning there was a young brown snake wrapped around my sisters bed frame..My point is never were we bitten because they are not aggressive unless provoked. Hope that helps. x
im 32, brisbane. have used a dryer less than 10 times in my life... if i used a dryer, it means i forgot to do the washing earlier. stop being lazy, if youve got the weather, use it.
Stucco is quite commonly used on you American homes but Australian homes are more commonly rendered. The toilets are different. Every home in australia does have a clothes dryer but we choose to hang them. The Mexican food in Australia is totally different than the Mexican food in America.
I have seen a few of these videos on TH-cam, yes there are some differences, but the bottom line is American's love Australia!