Culture Shocks Moving To Australia | Part 1 ft Kaitlyn Amanda
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What's coming up in this video 👇🏼
00:00 - Culture Shocks Australia
00:43 - Clothing Costs Australia
03:00 - Walking barefoot in Australia
05:50 - Drying clothes in Australia
08:39 - Pub Culture
11:22 - Tradie status in Australia
Hi Kait and Maz
I live in Canberra and over the last five years have had a lot of renovations done on my house. Every tradie that came here got told:
"That's the fridge with plenty of cold water in there. If you don't want water anything else in there is yours. There's the toilet, the hot water wash basin is over there, soap on the sill, and towel to the left. Paper towels for perspiration are here. Power for your tools is there. Anything else you need just yell. 'Mi casa, es su casa'"
I checked regularly that they were ok, and it was appreciated. We treated each other with mutual respect and it was appreciated.
That's the way we do it here.
Appreciate your culture shocks, but let's just say they are culture differences, which we respect.
Thanks
Trev
As a Tradie, During your 4 year apprenticeship before you become qualified you have to go to Trade School so your education continues, it's not like you weren't good enough to go to Uni, it's just a different type of Uni. We need to have a good level of math as we have to work out measurements, angles, calculations, Voltage conversions be able to draw blue prints, know how to read blue prints, plans and schematics etc. You attend trade school throughout the 4 years of your apprenticeship. If you don't pass your Trade school studies you don't complete your apprenticeship and will not get your qualification.
It's also an art to be good with your hands when done really well, particularly a carpenter.
Except most of us are good enough at English to know it's maths.
I think to a large degree that is the difference. A trade is a highly trained worker with irreplaceable skills.
I’m glad you can’t buy really cheap clothes because fast fashion is a really big environmental problem. Lots of people I know go Op shopping.
You’re absolutely right, and we certainly make our clothes last longer now ❤️
Speaking about trades, for example who would unblock your toilet or fix your dryer or cement your driveway and without truckie
Who would deliver to the supermarkets ,tradies rule.🇦🇺 🇦🇺
For sure! It’s a crazy way to think that those people are not flipping awesome 👏🏼
In addition to a clothesline being cheaper and giving clothes a fresh air smell, it is also more environmentally friendly to use a clothes line rather than a dryer. We also use an "airer" inside in winter but we call it a clothes horse.
Nice video, it is good to compare cultures. I think a lot of Aussies forget how lucky we are.
Airer = clothes horse here 🙂
Yes clothes horse in the UK too… I forgot that word 🤣
I don't own a clothes drier. I use my solar drier i.e. outside clothes line.
I didnt realise how lucky we are in Australia until TH-cam came along - we just take our paradise for granted because that's all we knew when growing up! and when I was young I thought the US was "the #1 country", but WOW I would not want to live there now
I just posted to Kaitlyn what a pleasant surprise this was to see two channels I watch weekly collaborating. Love it!
Ah, thank you, so glad you enjoyed it xx
Not sure if this is something that is done in other parts of Australia, but here in Adelaide and specifically our household, we tend to do our washing and hang it out that night, then by the next morning you can bring it in, without your clothes spending hours out in the hot summer sun. We'll tend to do this in Summer and Spring, during Autumn and especially Winter, we'll hang our washing out during the day. In Winter and when the weather is especially rubbish, then it's back to using clothes airers and either having them sit under the pergolar outside or just inside. I have never in my life owned a dryer.
You both hinted at a big collab and yet I still didn't put two and two together. This was fantastic... thanks guys.
Haha, glad you enjoyed ❤️🐨❤️
Nice video Gals , I've watched your reactions for a while now . And no big showing off super size rented TVs here , you'll be shot down like that tall poppy 😎
Thank you 🥰 No definitely not, and tbh what a stressful way to live thinking that you need to prove yourself all the time 😬
@@TheBAMFamalam Exactly Maz , who gives a crap about wanna be status things like a TV 🙄
Dryers ruin elastics, so delicates or not, if they're stretchy I'd recommend not tumble drying them.
Great to see you two together!
Sunlight kills bacteria, helps with killing off the under arm smells.
Thoroughly enjoyed watching this and I’m forever grateful that I was born in Australia,it’s always so nice to hear that people from other countries enjoy this beautiful country as well ( moving to Australia is such a compliment in my opinion) as children we knew we were either going somewhere special or to school if we were told to put shoes on 😂
Haha the end of this really made us giggle 😆 It truly is a wonderful country 🐨
I have an emergency dryer, it gets used maybe five or six times a year. Clothes smell better when they are air dried, and often dry quicker in the sun.
Great collab. A perspective on the underside of the world from opposite sides of the world.
My next door neighbour is a tradie, I work in IT. He makes a motza more than I do.
These types of videos have been so great. Making my move down under from the states in the next couple of months and you lot have helped me feel ready!
Welcome, where are you moving to ?
I stopped going barefoot 10-15 years ago, because I was grossed out by the sticky floors - especially in fast food. Or, burning your skin on the bitumen in summer. LOL RE: working and class, I found that when I lived in UK (6.5 yrs) that 'class' and background/schooling was a big issue, and a lot of snobbery in the [office] workplace there in London. As someone once said to me, "The trouble with you Aussies is that we can't tell by your accent what class or education you're from, so we don't know how to treat you!" :O
The respect for tradies thing is interesting. I remember when I was in the US that college seemed to be the 'be all and end all' for students. If you didn't go to college you were a failure and a disappointment. I knew of Americans who went to college and studied something really obscure and then never used their degrees. It's like they went to college simply because they were expected to. I remember my mum telling her sister in the US how my brother wanted to learn a trade after high school instead of going to university and my aunt said what a shame and how disappointed you must be. Mum was like "... um no. It's great, he'll have no tuition to worry about, he'll make good money once he's qualified and he'll never be out of work." Interesting cultural difference there :)
This was fun guys, thanks
So glad you enjoyed, thank you for watching ❤️
Guy I went to school with did a trade as a cabinetmaker, he went on to do high end kitchens. He now has a collection of Porshe cars and employs 30 tradesmen.😊
Came over from kaitlyn’s channel 😊 Very interesting comments from both of your videos. We call ‘airers’, ‘clothes horses’ at least down here in vic.
Thank you for joining us 🥰🥰 Funnily enough, they call them clothes horses in the UK too - I had just forgotten that word 😆😆
Ah two of my favourite TH-camrs Kait and Maz. I'm in heaven lol, and showing their love for this old country of ours
So glad you enjoyed a double whammy this evening 🥰🥰
Oh no two Sheila's ganging up to have a chin wag now we'll never get the washing up done , just so you know we also have signs in shops saying no shoes no service ,but we just ignore them,we're to busy worrying about much more important things like how soon can we get to the pub or where are we going on our next day off that we might meet a gorgeous nymphomaniac who's father owns a pub , I've said it before ladies all you need to make it in Australia is a good work ethic , a good sense of humour , a good sense of fairness , the ability to laugh at yourself and the willingness to take the piss out of all pommies , yanks and Kiwis even though you love them .
The "airer" is what I'd call a clothes-horse. I have a couple if I don't want to use the dryer or if the weather is wet.
I seem to be an outlier when it comes to alcohol. I find beer and wine disgusting and really just not interested.
"Clothes line out the back, veranda out the front, and an old rocking chair" home among the gum trees.
Kmart dress for $60 I've never seen a dress that expensive in Kmart maybe Target.
Clothes driers! What a waste of electricity when the sun can do the job for free..
Americans 🤷🤦
Hey Maz to often towels do this . When you have finished washing towels they get a detergent residue so try after washing them do a wash cycle with 1/2 -1 cup of cleaning vinegar let the machine start washing and then stop it for about 20 minutes then let it continue to run . The Vinegar is a mild acid and dissolve the alkaline detergent residue that builds up after a lot of washing . Then hang them out to dry .
Awesome, thank you 😁
Pub culture use to be huge here. Sadly, it died in the 1980’s. Along with pub bands. That’s where band like AC/DC cut their teeth.
Loved see you two Collab! 😊
Heading over to Kaitlyns Channel for part 2!
We always had a dryer but only used it for towels and during rainy periods. Everything else went out on the line.
The airer we call a clothes rack or clothes horse here. Very common when you live in apartments with only a balcony to hang your clothes.
Re no shoes, it's not Australia wide, it's more regional areas and more predominant in Qld.
Most places actually do have a dress codes re shoes/clothes in shops/cafes/pubs but in some places some people ignore them. I grew up in Qld but never did the no shoes outside of our front/back yard, beaches and parks. Not how I was raised, we at least wore thongs or sandals. Not to mention the ground gets crazy hot in summer! 🔥
I returned to SE Qld in 2021 after 12 years in Sydney and no shoes was not a thing in Sydney anywhere that I lived. I only ever saw it down by the beach. Never at shopping centres, supermarkets or cafes.
One year I paid for my own school shoes to help my mum out. I went to a private school and they have to be a specific type. I bought the same ones that she gets me every year and they were $130!
I stayed in High School for grade 11and 12, but in typical Aussie style didn't bother going to Uni. When I was little my adult brother gave me some advice once, although he seemed to have forgotten it when I finished grade 10. He told me "Stay in High School, it's harder to go back!" I'm glad I did, I really enjoyed grade 11and 12.
That is awesome advice - it is so much easier ❤️
I agree, should finish year 12 even if you just want a job you can get after year 10, its SO MUCH easier to do at the time rather than do it later, and if you have to change jobs it always looks better when your resume shows you graduated high school rather than pulling out early. Plus in year 12 you get to experience being the "kings and queens" of high school, in our school (and im assuming probably all high schools) we got to wear a special jumper/sweater, which seems a bit trivial but it makes you feel really proud of all the work you've put in
@DaveOz left at 15, year 10.
Retired at 55...
Worked in 6 countries
Licensed Plumber at 21
Now, who was the King?
@@pearl-pf6xz didnt realise you needed to become "licensed" to unblock poo from peoples pipes ... I guess you are the King!
My son who is 17 now is a second year sparky and I tell everyone cos I’m so proud of what he does..He works really hard and can make a decent amount of money per week doing the hours that he does,bought his own car with money he saved from work and saving up to buy a house at 19 with already half way to a deposit..Shaming others about their job is so wrong!!
The greatest difference with Britain and America is that in Australia there’s the most tremendous optimism, in a way, it’s infectious.
Nah Australians are realists.
The no shoes thing, we know in Australia that the heat on the path is so hot it burns all the nasties off your feet so it’s actually cleaner. Hehe
Haha I remember my first summer, I walked to the beach barefoot as it was only a few minutes away… I never did it again 🔥🤣
@@TheBAMFamalam you learn quick here.
Ok, for me walking around in bare feet gets my feet so dirty so it's not my thing,, anyway it's not a common thing in Adelaide, people might thing you're poor or a bogan, ha ha ;)
@@TheBAMFamalam Smart move to not do it again, there's also a risk of getting your foot cut with glass on the ground etc.
Wow, there were some really inciteful comments in this video from both of you. Mostly on tradies and pub culture but the clothes drying was interesting too.
Great work!
Glad you enjoyed it 🥰🥰
Just a note on pubs/clubs with courtesy buses. The unfortunate reality is that the reason they want to support their patrons is so they'll come and tip all of their money into the bloody pokies. Poker machines (and gambling in general) are a curse - Australia has around half of ALL of the poker machines on the planet!!
Oh, yes pokies are certainly a biggie here
@@TheBAMFamalam, do u have them in the UK?
G'day, A lot of people pretend to be a Tradie even without having done a trade. There was a time not so long ago that employers could pick the higher educated to become an apprentice (trainee tradsman). Many of these people only workd in the trade for short periods, others went on to develop successfull buisinesses. It is not unusual to find Mechanical or Electrical Engineers that also have a trade background. These ones seem to have a more practical approach th what they do.
10:17 yes and no
Every pub here has their resident crowd of middle aged and senior who’s are getting hammered every day
Some come in first thing in the morning, some come in after work, but they will be there, on the dot, every day
And twice on weekends 😂
As a long time hospitality worker, I thank them for their patronage
6:13 Clothesline in the backyard. Strings under the house to hang clothes and a dryer for back up. In the wet season hanging the clothes up under the house you can guarantee dry clothes in 3 days. Outside can be wet for weeks. Electric dryers cost money so it is only for emergency.
Electric fence string is the best and most durable to use for clothes. Just a tip.
I was surprised to learn that Americans don't use clotheslines. I still don't understand why it's just not a thing over there.
Not only that they dry well, the sun is a natural whitener. We tend to hide the undies within the sheets and towels, not readily visible. The dryer is for days that are wet and Humid, or in other words, not often.
Enjoyed this collaboration too
It's interesting with the status symbols and class level. A older co-worker from an Asian nation told me how in his village, the tradition was to invite everyone to weddings. The poorer people invited would buy the most lavish gifts to convey their 'wealth' and not be looked down upon
Great job ladies spot on ❤
Loved both parts. Cheers
We used to have a strong "Pub culture". For example; if you see a Real Estate Agency on a corner and you think, "This building would make a good pub"-it probably once was a pub. You'll see examples like this everywhere. It might be a cost-of-living thing that makes more men go straight home from work instead of stopping at the pub on the way. Also, our DUI laws are pretty strict and nobody wants to lose their licence.
NEVER THOUGHT THIS WOULD HAPPEN
I have a dryer, can't remember the last time I used it.
The local pub on every corner is one of the best things about the UK, you just walk down the road for a meal.
Any culture that looks upon tradesmen as failures is doomed. How can you look down in a guy who is driving a new car, owns his (or her) home and has a boat/jetski/whatever for weekends. Douglas Addams fans will know what happens when you get rid of the hairdressers, real estate agents and telephone sanitisers. . . .
The Pub Culture thing IS still big in Australia... but you will only see it really in Rural areas... not even what you guys think as rural... being what, just off the coast... but full proper rural, Tamworth Country Music Festival rural...out the cotton belt, or places like that. I live about half between Tamworth and the Qld border...and all the towns around here, still have the pub thing. They're just much bigger, usually colonial era, pubs than in the UK :p... my town is pretty small, it has 10k people...ish.... but has.... 7 pubs..... and three clubs.... and it had three more pubs back forty years ago... but one got torn down to make room for a department store, one got knocked down for a carpet shop, and just slowly shrunk until it was a milk bar using one half of the ground floor... by then was so old it almost fell down and got condemned... and one of the bowls clubs became a convention centre..... so like.. back when I was a boy... we had a few k people less... but 10 pubs, 4 clubs, and five bottle shops.
This is COMMON in bush towns. As you get out further in the outback, and the towns become smaller and more isolated, you find them with one central local pub.... but most of the small country towns, have a pub to people ratio which would make most Brits jealous. Just out the road about 15 km from my place, there is a small village of about 900 people... it has a corner store, a school... and until about a decade ago... a pub. They moved their license to the corner store, making it a bottle shop, because pubs have a lot more upkeep... but it is not uncommon at all to find little rural villages out in the country, which have a pub, or at the very least a bottle shop. Places of only 500 to 1000 people..... anything bigger... they likely have at least two or three.... and place over about 5k, is likely to have 3+ pubs, minimum, as well as least on RLS/RSM or bowls club with a liquor license.
You do not see that as much these days on the coast, or in the big cities... but the biggest in the country is Sydney... and there are still a lot of places, in the inner West, or out in the Western Suburbs... where there are still big old colonial pubs, many will have three or four, on their main street. If they are areas which have avoided too much gentrification, they still have their pubs, and they are still integral parts of the community, in fact, in such a rat race that somewhere like Sydney is, they are often the most 'community' you find in those suburbs.
I'm an Aussie you ladies are so right us tradies are strong and smart, I love this place, I'm so proud,
I have just watched both channels and the colab between the 2 of you is bloody brilliant!!! Keep it going guys ❤
wow... great comparisons for us Aussies to know about.... well done guys :-)
Need more of these 😎
Here in Darwin, a town notorious for the most laidback dress code in Australia, about the only people who go without shoes in the city are black fellas and the odd backpacker. Pluggas (rubber thongs that have led a hard life) are common, but barefoot is hardcore. If nothing else, the pavement here is easily 40 deg+ for a large part of the year. As far as the tradie thing goes, that only became a thing when the mines started snapping them up - suddenly being able to find a plumber wasn't a trivial task. They started making more money, driving more expensive vehicles etc. The fact that most of them make an honest living with their hands only cemented the appeal - we've got suburbs full of them ;)
Blimmin heck, yes hadn’t thought of Darwin… that would burn 🔥🔥🔥
Tradies make the sexiest dudes...unfortunately I worked that out too late...but I still love and respect them.
🙊
Great collaboration
I don't know if it's an era you were raised in thing or what. I would never go into a store or any building with bare feet. The beach yes or similar outdoor places, and at home in summer yes. But I cringe seeing people barefoot in a shopping mall or out in public without at least sandals on. As for no shirt in a public place apart from beach or pool that is like totally Bogan to my generation.
I agree totally, it also depends on where in Australia because it's not common in Adelaide unless down at the beach, but it's not my thing, definitely a bogan thing. I cringe when I see a family that lets their little kids walk around in a shopping centre like that.
Same.
Same! I was raised to wear at least sandals or thongs. And yes shirt. Unless at a beach or home or in backyard. Was considered a bit grubby not to and also disrespectful to enter someone's else's place of business barefoot.
Although I grew up in SE Qld, I lived in Sydney for 12 years til recently and no shoes was not a thing there. No one entered shopping centres or cafes without shoes. Only saw barefeet around the beach.
It irks me a bit that it's perpetuated online as this Australia wide thing where majority of people are barefoot eveywhere. It just isn't true lol.
The only reason stores force customers to wear shoes and possibly shirts is insurance.
Love the painting of the tip chook in the background.Poms have a good sense of humour.
Bin Chicken…
😂😂😂 "tip chook" OMG! 😂😂😂
Funniest thing I've read for ages
I remember the true story of an old bloke getting around Kinglake who was getting a bit thin on top so he made a toupee out of ,wait for it. A WOMBAT SKIN.(that's funny)
No tradies no civilisation
Absolutely!! 👏🏼👏🏼
Great Collab 👍🙂
I use clothes airers too. I actually my clothes indoors year round because every time I hang them outside a bird will poop on them. Every Time!! Towels and sheets and other things I’ll hang outside but for some reason the birds will always get my clothes!
I have a cloths dryer and never use it, bc we have alot of warm sunny days even in winter, i prefer an indoor airer or out in the sun !
What on earth is the fascination of "no shoes"? We weren't born wearing them.
Becareful leaving clothes outside in queensland they fade really quickly
Yes! I tend to hang ours inside out for that reason 😁
7:03 My Grandmother used to throw the whites on the grass in the middle of the day because the chlorophyll in the grass whitens the clothes even more. (I have a lot of spelling lessons commenting. Thank you for letting me get back in touch with English.)
I'm Australian and I hate that people walk around with no shoes or tops like they are home in the back yard! If you are not on the beach, it should be 'No shoes No shirt, No service - EVERYWHERE!
i havnt worn shoes for like 7 years now,,, ive walked on broken glass a few times. only been cut once and tha was from a sharp pointy rock
The point is no matter what you do you are making an honest living and not being a burden on society.
Prefer hanging my washing outside depending on the weather. Or clothes horse/airer inside. People do have driers in apartments or if they have big families but in my experience not used as much as power costs are very high. Luv sunshine in my sheets and towels.
The pub culture has changed a great deal over the last few decades since the advent of random breath testing along with the responsible driving attitudes and the banning of smoking in pubs except in a very smelly designated area. Many people now use the bottle-o instead. Also, the thing about dryers, may have a little to do with carbon footprint. On a sunny day, why burn coal to dry your laundry?
Plumber, left school 15, worked in 6 countries, came back as a construction manager (no university), retired at 55. Not bad for a dumbass.
8:39 Made me laugh. Clean undies and then rolling into Pub Culture. You are so funny. You know what you are doing.
Watched the part about drinking in Britain and I feel attacked 😂😂😂
A Tradies Joke.
Three little old Jewish ladies are standing on a street corner chatting. Two of them have their adult sons with them.
One of them says, "Ladies, I vould like you all to meet my son - da doctor!"
They are suitably impressed and greet him enthusiastically.
The second lady says, "Vell ladies, I vould like you all to meet my son - da lawyer!"
Again, the other two little old Jewish ladies are very impressed.
Then there is a moment of silence as the first two look expectantly at the lady who is there by herself. Finally she says, "Vell, ladies... und gentlemens, I vish I could introduce you to my son - da plumber - but he's holidaying on da French Riviera right now!"
Missing you all!! I trust all is okay in the Bam Fam world.😢😢
remember guy's, the heat destroys ALL germs lol so barefoot is okay.
Well done girls!
😂 luv the reaction to no shows aka bare feet in to restaurants... 😂😂😂
Haven't you experienced Christmas in July party yet, Maz. It goes for the whole month
Yeah I can't get into that, just doesn't feel like Christmas to me.
Tradies are well respected and well paid here. My richest friends have trades 😂
Have you checked the penalties for Driving Under the Influence (DUI). It's slowed heavy drinkers way down.
one of the highest qualified ( university degree ) group who have high unemployment rate in their profession are law graduates
I shop in suburbia large shopping centre but i have never seen bare footed people, but yes at the beach, near the beach or sometimes in suburb shopping centre i have seen a few guys barefooted
In England there's class distinction
And their comedy makes fun of it
An airer - I've only know them as a clothes horse here.
An 'airer' is called a 'clothes horse in Oz.' Aussies recognise that clothes dryers add to global warming by the consumption of a lot of electricity. My son has an intellectual, 'out -of- the- box mind' but prefers to work physically as a tradie.
An intellectual out of the box mind??
Sounds like autism to me.
Yet you can take ya six shooters into shops and cinemas in USA .."So Bizzare!!!"
Or send a twenty year old over to Vietnam who can't legally drink.
You guys obviously havnt looked around much. There are heaps of clothing stores that are cheap lol. Plus, it isnt expensive here, seeing as we pay our people a proper wage. I was 15 working at maccas and even then i was earning $16 an hour. And when i was 19 was earning $21 an hour, which is minimum wage. 😂
school shoes for a fiver?!😂😂. its not 1981 in england.
Hi is there charity shops there
Sure is, known as op shops 😊
Op shop is an abbreviation of opportunity shop.
Yeah ya right it was Agro. 😂
But the wages are double here don't complain winging poms
We call those a clothes horse.
60 bucks for a dress in Kmart? go onnnnn
Clothes Horse . 😅
That’s the one! I had completely forgotten they were called that 😆
What do you call airer we call a clothes rack oh that's what I call it anyway
American here, Kaitlyn exposes some of the ugliness of American culture. It's true and it's sad.
Airer = cloths horse