I understand about the un professional feeling with cuss music, but it also makes the nation feel more light hearted and less politically sensitive, I mean there's a difference between a world war and saying a bad word, it doesn't seem like the world should stop over music
Feeling okay about your roos and eagles. 😊 I believe we don't censor our music (and free-to-😂air TV) in the manner of the US, as we see it as something into which people's noses should not be stuck. Perhaps explaining the current seeming plague of "Karen's" in the US?? Probably assisted in Australia by the religious amongst us Aussies not apparently continually trying to proslytise the non-religious in the community to join them in trying to have government enforced censorship. (Which really seems weird and counter-intuitive for the US, the so-called Land of the Free.)
riiight i totally get that, i played sports all my life and it was a HUGE no no if any of our pregame songs had bad words in it. i’m happy that in australia they don’t really care
I moved from Australia to CA in 1986, and came back for my brother’s wedding in ‘92. Evidently rules about profanity and nudity on TV changed in that time … my younger sister (12 then) was watching “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” on regular TV and it wasn’t edited. At all. I was a bit taken aback, almost ready to jump between her and the TV! Yeah, it’s a LOT more relaxed in Oz when it comes to censorship/editing. 😊
@@elliemajelly FYI, Starbucks is highly popular in Australia’s next door neighbor : Indonesia. As a former Melburnian, I also disliked paying such a silly price for sugary soapy water 😂 here in Jakarta. Perhaps, Starbucks Aus know better that they can survive just by directly targeting Indonesian / Chinese / other Asian visitors 😂.
@@hsheuw Starbucks entered the market here proclaiming their arrival as introducing Australians to proper espresso and such like. Stores were opened right, left and centre, in pick and expensive positions in shopping malls and the like. Basically, they failed, and these days you'd have to look hard to find one. The reasons for failure are simple. First, we are accustomed to good espresso coffee in the Italian tradition, and that's not what Starbucks marketed. They sold coffee in an American's idea of espresso. Next is that we develop a relationship with our regular baristas but there was no chance doing that with any Starbuck staff - turnover too rapid for a start. Third, most people I know found the Starbuck's hype over the top, almost offensive -it was based on an incorrect premise that Australians knew nothing about coffee
With our Aussie coinage you either round up or round down according to the amount of the purchase. Thus a $5.93 purchase becomes $5.95 whereas a $5.92 purchase becomes $5.90. This system evolved out of necessity when our 1 and 2 cent copper coins were withdrawn from circulation in 1992 leaving the 5 cent (nickel) coin as the lowest denomination coin that we have.
When we changed from using the F word for temperature to the C word, there used to be a little rhyme to make it easier to get a sense of Celsius, without constantly having to convert. It went: The cold singles - the cool teens - the temperate twenties - the torrid thirties - the fierce forties. Hope it helps.
2:00 we Americans don't follow the speed limit, and constantly driving above. If you don't change that habits, you will receive a speeding ticket for sure. The cop told me, if you don't plan to coming back Aussie in your life, you don't need to pay the fines 🤣😂
Interestingly Australia went metric in 1975 and the USA went metric around the same time. Officially they use metric. But then President Jimmy Carter, under pressure from big business made it voluntary for businesses. So the US military, government, scientists and many institutions use metric, but because it was going to cost money to change, no one else did. So they have a weird duel system. In the public mind you use inches, feet, pounds and all that weird stuff. But in the army, they use Kilometres (although being American, they spell it ‘kilometers’ - but it is a French word so the ‘re’ at the end is correct…. ) but everyday people mostly use stupid ‘F’ temp and inches, etc. About ten years ago an engineer for an American aerospace company used Imperial units (foot pounds) to calculate the fuel thrust needed to brake a Mars lander. He handed over the figures that everyone else thought were in Newton Metres. They used this to work out how long to burn the thrusters and how much fuel to land the spaceship on Mars. It ended up not stopping and crashing into Mars at high speed. They lost something like $2 Billion US. All because they have both systems in use. All the government had to do was make it compulsory for everyone and everyone would have the same. The USA is one of only three countries not to be fully metric.. Liberia in Africa and Myanmar in Asia are the other two. And both are third world countries that can’t afford to change.. Even North Korea has figured it out… It is all about big business wanting to make the next generation pay. For example the Ford Motor Company in Australia in the late 1970 had to update all of the machinery, every bolt in every car they made, every tool, all to metric. It cost hundreds of millions. Ford in the USA wants to put off doing it at home for as long as possible. And they are.
@@TannTran I hired a car in LA and the Avis guy said don't pay any tickets or parking fines. I got a parking fine in St Paul for parking in a Snow Plough Zone, in September?! I didn't pay of course. That was in 1985, would it be safe to go back?
There is definitely a coffee culture esp in Melbourne. I think take away coffees are pretty common here though. I'm from Sydney but I spent a couple of months in Austin Texas a few years ago and i used to get a coffee each morning on the way to work. A couple of mornings the espresso machine was broken and i was like ... if a coffee place cannot serve espresso it should close.
I lived and worked for a yacht builder in a very touristy part of Thailand for just over two years. It was popular for Americans, Europeans and British to finish their backpacking before heading home. Most went from Bali to Australia to Thailand and some of the standout comments to me about their recent trip was: I didn't realise the whole country drives cars. (never quite understood that) :No one spoke Australian. (this was just after Yothu Yindi's Treaty went international) Expecting all Australians to speak Indigenous/First Nations language. And a classic I'll never forget : I didn't realise you all look like us.???? And have to add quite a few were surprised all of the smaller towns had electricity and sealed roads. This was back in the early nineties when Australia was still regarded as some frontier and still rather unknown.
Moved to Australia from the US in the 70s. Some rels were surprised English was spoken here. Culture shock was real early on including getting used to swearing and leaving the 'y' off my description of a bleeding nose so I didn't swear. Pronouncing source and sauce the same way. Australian hamburgers (now going gourmet or extinct). Fast forward to the 2000s and my cousins dissuaded their mum from visiting my mum "because Australia was too dangerous". Hello, US mass shootings in public areas (school, church, cinema, entertainment venues, etc).... Much more dangerous & frequent than deaths from our wild critters.😅😅😅
You should have seen some of the questions asked about Australia just before the Olympics in Sydney. “Do I have to bring my own cutlery, perfume, toilette paper? Are there any ATM’s and please list them all.” You get the drift 😁
@@sarahhayse-gregson689 Some absolute doozies. Another stand out reaction was from two English girls I was talking to in Penang, had to get the train down to Malaysia every 9 months to renew visa. Firstly they couldn't understand why it's winter here when they're in summer when they asked how hot it is in Australia now (July). A look on their faces of confusion when I replied it's bloody cold there now, be about 16°. After the shock of realising there's two hemispheres and we are in the middle of winter they both burst out "Sixteen degrees!? That's our bloody summer!"
The weather in Melbourne is not that bad. For the last 3 or 4 weeks the temperature has fluctuated between 20 and 30 with some light rain on 2 days. The end of Autumn through Winter and early Spring the weather can fluctuate quite a lot. Plus Melbourne only gets half the rainfall Sydney gets.
A pommy friend came to Australia in 1981. A weekend in June was about 18 c. On the Monday we asked him what he got up to. He’d taken the family to Altona beach because it was so warm. He couldn’t understand why they were the only ones there. We told him that it was Winter and had a laugh.
I live in Perth and Melbourne weather is weird. One of brothers live in Melbourne and spent last Christmas (2023) there and it felt like winter Instead of summer
When Australia went metric, my father had real trouble going from F to C for temperature. The guide I provided was Cold = 0 - 10, Cool = 10 - 20, Warm = 20 - 30, Hot = 30 - 40, Bloody Hot = >40.
An easy way to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit is double it and add 30. 10C is exactly 50F. For other amounts its close enough. I hope you enjoy Australia you seem very nice. Cheers from NSW.
Someone will have noted that the tap water is pre-purified at the point of release from the dam and if you purify it at home you remove the fluoride that has been added to the water. Back in 2020 (I think) there was a period of 5-7 days when the purification plant broke down and Melburnians had to boil all their drinking and cooking water. To get the chlorine smell/taste out of your Melbourne tap water, just store it in an open bottle/jug overnight in your refrigerator and it will taste as good as bottled water. “Thongs” have been footwear here since the late 1950’s so it’s the naming of underwear as “thongs” that seems funny to people who have been around prior to the introduction of the underwear. And, yeah, “fanny” is not a behind in Australia and probably a few other countries too 😂😂😂 American give us a shocked laugh over that one.
Fanny comes from the English/British. And they laugh at Americans to. A great many of our slang works are straight from the UK. For example ‘Strewth’ is Scottish and is short for ‘Gods Truth’. But people seem to think it is an Australian slang term. Our spelling is identical to the British spelling. Only the USA changed the spelling to make some words more phonetic. Ask a Brit and they will say ‘It is our language, you Yanks ruined it.
@@xymonau2468 ooh same issue in Australia. A scallop/thin slice of potato dipped in batter and then deep fried can be called a “scallop”, “potato cake” or (potato) “fritter” in different areas of one State let alone intraState.Then there are place names … don’t even go there because you know that song you say “Tom-A-to” and I say “Tom-AR-to” …it is a real thing here, every day.
@@paulroberts3639 yes … because I had a speech impediment as a child my father thought it was cute that I told everyone my name was “Jufanny” and until the day he died he always called me “Fanny” … no wonder I dropped the “th” from my Christian name.
Good on ya mate, yeah drinking tap water is pretty normal. There is occasions where a state alert will go out if tap water has increased contaminants, last time I personally had that happen was Sydney 1998.
The taste can vary depending on where you are though, eg. my town, I vastly prefer tap water to bottled water, but in a town like Jurien Bay, the tap water is kind of horrible.
@@stroud9208 Yeah for sure, there's going to be a variety of qualities since not all states and towns are funded sufficiently and some places have some very old infrastructure or far more dirty water. In general though, you don't really need to think before drinking tap water
The weather in Melbourne is similar to the weather in London whereas in Brisnae where I live, it is like a Californian climate. Australia is almost the same size as the USA so weather patterns are so different depending on where you live.
I'm sorry, but you obviously have very little idea of what Melbourne weather is like. I spent 3 weeks in London in summer and the only sunny day was on the way to the airport on the day we were leaving. My 14 year old German Shepherd died from the heat in Melbourne on 09/02/2009 when my air-conditioning broke down after the temperature reached 45C.
I live in Brisbane and the weather is far more comparable to Floridas weather. Melbourne is similar to New York, can get very hot in Summer, and extremely cold in Winter (New York snows though). Our East coast is humid like that in the USA, whilst Western Australia is dry and considered Mediterranean like California.
Remember there is no 13th month in Australia - It just means the 13th day of that month. Otherwise you might think there are 31 months & only 12 days. Actually US is the only country that use month before the day. BTW only 2 other countries other than the US that use the Imperial system - Myanmar & Liberia.
@@pinayladyoz8044 What you say is probably correct as I don't come from there, however google says that the US is the only country that offically uses MM/DD/YY.
In Brisbane, we we have been praying for rain and finally got 1 day of decent rain in a year 4 days ago with a storm. However, we are now back to sweltering heat and humidity.
I'm with Neville - it was really only their shitty coffee that caused their failure. We modified the McDonalds menu and coffee service and even they make pretty reasonable coffee these days.
@@elliemajelly Our decimal currency began on Feb 14th, 1966 (I was a kid and remember it well). Then decimal measurements began in 1974. I was a teenager, and found it harder to change as I had already left school, too. I still think in both feet and metres. I don't think in pounds, though. However, I do sometimes reference stones (lots of 14 pounds, applying to a person's weight) because that gives me a better grasp on the actual size of a person. Also, I need pounds and ounces for a baby's weight to really comprehend. These days I'm comfortable with all the rest. Temperatures converted in September 1972. I thought in Farenheit for years, but in older adulthood I know exactly how hot or cold it is in Celcius.
@@elliemajelly We metricated our money in 1966, and phased in metric weights and measures gradually from 1972 (when they ran the first metric Melbourne Cup: 3200 metres instead of 16 furlongs). I was in primary school at the time, and had just learned how many rods are in a chain and how many stones in a hundredweight when they all became obsolete. Here's a titbit for you - everyone knows that an Imperial gallon was different from both US gallons (fluid measure and dry measure). Did you know that an Imperial hundredweight was different from a US hundredweight?
Hi Ellie, interesting video. One thing to keep in mind is that the culture in Australian cities can differ from place to place. I was born in Sydney and grew up there. In later years, I moved to Melbourne and in some ways it was like moving to a different country. Sydney and Melbourne are virtually two different worlds in culture. With coins, we used to have one and two cent coins, but they were eventually phased out. Prior to our decimal conversion, we had pounds, shillings and pence in money, fahrenheit in temperatures and miles in distances. The word "castle" is pronounced "karsel' in Sydney and "kassel" here in Melbourne. Also, if queuing in a shop in Melbourne, the second person usually stands about two spaces behind the person being served, where this does not seem to happen in Sydney. A "shopping stroller" in Sydney is called a "shopping jeep" in Melbourne and, just of interest, it is a "shopping trundler" in New Zealand. Anyway, all the very best. Rob in Melbourne Australia.
I never get burnt on a sunny day, here in Australia . I only will get burned at a beach . I only wear sunscreen at a beach . I have the European olive skin . I went to Cyprus thinking I didn’t need sun protection and I was burned on my stomach . So it isn’t true you never get burned overseas . Overseas tourists tend to exaggerate how they never get burned in their country . I have been overseas and seen people burned from the sun . If you wear sunscreen 24/7 and keep away from the sun ,you will end up with low vitamin D which can lead to cancer anyway . Half of the problem is that we eat a lot of processed foods instead of healthy whole foods full of antioxidants. Our skin then will have a better defence system if we ate healthy . Half the tourists out there live it up when they are travelling by drinking alcohol , staying out until very late , then the next day , they are sun baking at lunch time on a beach when the sun rays is at it’s strongest . Thanks for your video and I wish you all the best .
The metal: international body TRIED to get "aluminium" as the world standard, and the USA agreed - then reniged and stayed with their different spelling/ pronunciation "aluminum". :(
We came to Australia in 1970 and I learnt the sun issue very quickly. My shoulders were bleeding . It's the high UV , still have not got cancer.........yet . I'm in Perth.
As an Australian whos from and lives in Melbourne , I can agree with lots of this. It's true, I do think its weird that when music is played in public places, it includes swear words and sometimes children are in those places. I also think its crazy that we have a ridiculous amount of coffee shops. Everything else you said is quite normal to us. With the Fahrenheit and celsius comparing, I can relate. Once I was talking to Americans online and they were talking to each other about weather and said, "its 40 degrees its freezing outside" and im like "WHAT?????, how is that freezing, its boiling", that was before I knew Fahrenheit existed.
cool. i am melbourne born and raised, when u said 'for here or to go' i got flashbacks to when I spent a year in Canada. also u have the exact same accent as a friend who lives in the bay area. she is from santa cruz
Hi, i have lived in California, mainly down town LA and hollywood and i think the weather humidity and everything is the same as Perth I think australia also has as much variability in States as the USA so each state is unique and not synonymous with the rest of the country
Celsius is super easy if you remember this simple guide. There are roughly 4 temp descriptions: cold, cool, warm, hot Each of those is roughly 10C Freezing is when water freezes. This is by definition of Celsius - 0. So 0-10 = cold 10-20 = cool 20-30 = warm 30-40 = hot Below 0 is very cold Above 40 is very hot Boiling by definition of Celsius is 100C Kelvin (which Celsius is just a direct conversion from) is metric. Celsius is metric by extension. Coincidentally the US switched their imperial (US customary measures) over from imperial measures to metric conversions a long time ago. It was actually Australia that dragged its feet. Finally the US and UK drew up an agreement all the imperial countries signed to make both imperial weight and imperial distance a pure metric conversion. This is the International yard and pound which was signed in 1959. Australia of course ditched this to sensibly go metric purely. But it means when you see a mile in the US behind the scenes it’s converted from km. Basically an inch is no longer converted from a yardstick but is by definition actually 2.54cm. If an American says they don’t use metric, truth is they’re using metric converted…. So they’ve always used metric.
Australian notes have raised bumps to help those who are visionally impaired. Australia also produces bank notes for other nations. The polymer bank note is an Australian invention.
You can’t compare Melbourne weather with California. Queensland is much more comparative to California. And Melbourne has one of the best quality tap waters in the world. And welcome to Melbourne! It’s a great place to live.
Actually Californian weather is more like SW Western Australia. Perth's weather is like San Diego's and inland LA; both are Mediterranean (CSA). Brisbane is subtropical
If your from overseas or interstate i strongly recommend that you DON'T drink the tap water in Adelaide. I'm from SA. I drink the tap water here. I am used to it. But, while it is legally potable water, I am reliably informed by non South Aussies that it tastes awful and could make you feel sick. To me the water interstate tastes weird, but that's because the water quality is better.
@@brettevill9055 😆 Sounds normal... I resorted to tea drinking at an early age... However, while the water crap, the wine and boutique beers are a wonderful substitute.
I know there's a trick to converting Fahrenheit to Celsius what I've worked out is 0 degrees Celsius is 32 degrees Fahrenheit and for every 5 degrees Celsius is 9 degrees Fahrenheit. For example 5°c is 41°f, 10°c is 50°f, 15°c is 59°f and so on. The miles to kilometres I think 1 mile is 1.6 kilometres so it's not quite half so I'll do a rough estimate. I live in Narre Warre about 40km away from the Melbourne CBD which would be about 25 miles. It'll probably be hard trying to work out the metric system compared to the imperial system. People here still use feet and inches I think a yard is almost a metre and a pound is half a kilogram. Just a few things anyway. I hope you're enjoying your time in Australia.
Love your video..... Sounds like California weather is morel ike Adelaide where the weather is generally predictable, and you'd rarely have a lot of variety in a day. Some parts of Australia have better water than others - tap water is great in some places, but you'd still want a filter in others. The notes are not just different colours, they're also different sizes (and have a textured area that's unique to denominations) to help visually challenged people.
Prior to the 1990s, less than 1% of the population in America ever bought bottled water. The whole idea of paying money for water was utterly ridiculous, because water is free. (Technically it wasn't free; people paid a monthly water bill; but it was a few bucks a month, and almost all of that went to the garden hose and showers. The amount you drank represented a negligible amount of money.) I still haven't figured out how the bottling companies changed this, but there had to be some serious marketing involved somehow. Of course, as more people started buying bottled water, discount brands of it began to emerge, so now you can get it for a few cents a bottle. (In the eighties, bottled water was generally imported, mostly from Europe; only really wealthy people bought it.) Kilometers don't make any more sense than miles to most people; it's not a human-scale measurement, and nobody can hold distances like that in their head. Just say how long it takes to drive there. Everyone understands hours and minutes.
I am American and was born in Australia. I grew up in America (California & Florida) and recently moved back to Melbourne, Australia eight months ago. The culture here shocked me and is very different from the States. I think the medical , food, and public transport are so much better than the States. I do miss a lot of American food also In-N-Out Burger.
@@elliemajelly I enjoyed watching you on TH-cam. I agree with everything that you said about Australia. Yes, we are so similar! I guess Australia has a better life for the middle class and future retirement than the States. I was so surprised that private health insurance is a lot cheaper than I have paid in the States. A friend of mine in Los Angeles recently had heart surgery that cost him $5 million, and his insurance and Medicare paid $1 million. I thought it was ridiculous, so I’m thankful I’ve moved back here peacefully!
The Westminister political system is 1000 times better than the crazy US system, The Prime minister has to be elected by his/her party and must win a seat, it's all over in a month. The money notes are; in different bright colours with a clear window extremely hard to copy, goods prices include a flat 10% tax so you know the full price when buying. We rarely tip unless its over the top service, but salaries are much higher here.
Never heard of the Wash-Minster system? lol it’s what the australian system is called as it has many elements of the washington system and welshminster system
I remember that the coffee culture today in Australia didn't really kick off until early 2000s. Before that it was spooning dirt (instant coffee) into your cup. Sure, Italians had their coffee shops and making espressos. This was mostly confined to Carlton. The Greeks loved their sludge, I mean, Greek coffee. It was the advent of hipsters who opened up cafes, sporting slick back hair, long blacksmith aprons, riding fixies, who really spruced the place up with cafes. Then smashed avos became part of the mix and we were all evolved. Starbucks tried to enter the market, (search youtube for why they failed, lots of vids). I recall an English friend in 1998, who went into a shop in the country and they had a sign that said "we serve real coffee". Yep, it was dirt. Now, you have really nice shops there and so it was the hipsters who elevated our coffee snobbery, I mean taste, to its current height.
Where were you? What hole were you living in? There wouldn't have been an Italian cafe back in the 60's that didn't have an espresso machine. The original hipsters, beatniks created an entire coffee culture back in the 50s and 60s. Australians picked up on it all as everybody who could afford a ticket was heading off to Europe in the 60s and 70s. As for Italians at home they were all using Stove top Espresso pots which make a decent coffee. I should know I spent enough time in those kitchens.
@@elliemajelly When I travelled to Canada from the US I was so relieved at the prospect of not having to carry a calculator everywhere (this was before everyone had smartphones) but then I quickly discovered that Canada does the EXACT SAME THING!!!! 🤣🤣
Welcome to Australia! I think you'll find more and more different things the longer you live here. Like here as you are most likely aware by now we don't generally tip in restaurants as we get a decent wage here so we don't necessary need to although some places do have tip jars though it's not frowned upon if you don't, you only tip if you want.
A month isn't long enough to change to-go to take-away. I'm over in Hawthorn. Melbourne has some of the best tap-water of any city in the world. If you said it was the best only a few places could really dispute it. Our water comes from protected forest catchments.
A much more interesting comparison would be cultural differences. I’m also Californian (born and raised) but always felt Australians were very similar to us culturally what do you think?
Sydney water is also fine to drink. Have never used a water purifier -- just drink straight from the tap. Sydney weather has traditionally been more stable like San Francisco than like Melbourne's chaotic weather ("four seasons in one day"). Recently, with climate change, it has become a little more chaotic in Sydney. Melbourne would be considered a little colder than Sydney, and definitely colder than Brisbane. Melbourne is well known for its coffee culture and for its lifestyle. Sydney tends to be more business-focused, a little more brash. Australia in general is less prudish than the US, although not as liberal as Europe (e.g. topless and even nude sunbathing in city parks in Munich). We never had the Puritan influence that America inherited from its "Pilgrim Fathers". We have a much better financed public sector -- the US is notorious for running down its public sector, except for defence. America is more about private wealth (and poverty), Australia a little more about common wealth -- it is part of our name.
tap water in most of Australia is what you get when you buy expensive bottled water , with added plastic contaminates , when American's speak why is every second word LIKE , and every fourth word usually "like" LITERALLY
@@elliemajelly mate , friend , pal is a form of address , not something you would use 50 times in a sentence , count your likes in your monologue , and keep smiling
@@keithmitchell3282 haha yes i know what mate means! i meant it more as a word that's said frequently when it doesn't always need to be used - like the word like
Melbourne weather sucks. I could never live there. Every holiday I've ever had there has been spoiled by the constant changes. It's the worst. It isn't like that further north. Melbourne is a very small part of the country and is unique in a lot of terminology and slang. The cafe culture exists everywhere, but there is more of it there because that's where a lot of Italians stayed after immigrating.
oh totally, when i had australians visit california they felt like they were pouring out their money. not only because of the exchange rate but also the tipping!
1,2 round down 3,4 round up. so 93 rounds up to 95 little known coins: 2021 = 30 cent coin, 2021 = $1 penny, $5 from 1988 on going, some years we do have 25 cent coins in low numbers.
The Australian coffee culture is directly from Italy. The Italian migrants bought all their coffee making skill over here in the 60s and sitting around enjoying yiur coffee is exactly what they do. So it's not Australian it's Italian. Having a shitty paper cup is also a big insult to Italians.
Save that I'd change 60s to 40s and 50s, I'd agree. In the 50s, my mother and sisters used go to a particular hairdresser in Sydney city. While they were there, my father and I would go to a coffee shop - sometimes in DJ's Market St store, more frequently to one in George St, not far from the Quay. He'd have a long black, and I'd have a milkshake. During the 50's, coffee shops started opening throughout Sydney suburbs, some staying open well into the evening. They were places where a young teenager could take a girl (memories, memories!).
@@dcmastermindfirst9418 And to take the coffee shop point a bit further. These days, we frequent a coffee shop in a nearby suburb, being there most afternoons. On the wall is a photo of the fellow (now deceased of course) who used own the business all those years ago. It shows him serving a customer in that George St shop.
I’m kinda late to this party and I guess I can get my answers from your earliest Vlog but, I’d like to know why you moved to the US when you were 8 and what caused you to “come home” again ?
ooh i should probably do a video on that! but simply put i left australia originally because my dad got a job offer in california, coming back for personal choice :)
I'm from Sacramento and have wanted to move to Perth (most sunshine hours) for a very long time. I just sold my house and am finally in a position to do so. What would you say is easy way to enter the country? I heard it's really hard to get into Australia, regardless of where you are coming from. Thanks, David
@@elliemajelly Haha no, I have not been to Perth before. I like Northern California weather and have been told that Perth has drier climates. A visa at first, and I'd like to start a business there and become a citizen.
Ah that’s so great! Yes visas are a bit tough, it’s possible you can come in on a travel visa first to make sure you like the area. Then I would suggest working for a company that has the ability to sponsor you, then you can go through PR and then citizenship :)
And the biggest difference - The United States hasn't yet made the transition to a first world healthcare system by still somehow not discovering universal healthcare. Sorry, don't mean to offend my American friends but I just couldn't resist :) I'm relatively confident in due time you (the U.S) will finally enter the stage of the first world in that area :)
@@jamedmurphy4468 You make my point in the very first words - those with the money. I'm not saying that the United States doesn't have a great health care system in terms of the quality that it can offer - but it can not in any way say with a straight face it has a first class health care system unless that quality is afforded to all of its citizens unconditionally.
I want Australia 🇦🇺 specially Sydney. I live at Long Beach California and 2 years at Las Vegas Nevada United States 🇺🇸. Going back to Australia 🇦🇺 after 3 years
Maybe travel to Sydney & Brisbane first before doing a part 2 to get a better idea of Australia. Fanny is an okay word to use. As you’ve probably noticed that Aussie cuss a lot and they’re quite open about discussing and describing sexual stuff without actually being creepy, mostly just to tell a story and/or to get a laugh and it’s almost always self deprecating. Aussies are more open minded I guess and not timid.
You could also talk about the differences between Australia and the Democratic People's Republic of Victoria :-). Although, that's probably much like California, so Ellie may not notice. Although, I must say Melbourne has a superior approach to urban aesthetics, internationally; although its some years since I was last there.
U.S is one of three countries not using metrics. Americans love to complain about metrics. American currency is based on the metric system so what is the problem, people?
right! i think metrics make SO much more sense. like do you know how many feet are in a mile? 5,280… now how does that make sense with conversions when you could easily be using multiples of 10 (meters, kilometers, etc)
@@elliemajelly It's the same with Celsius. Water freezes at zero degrees and boils at 100. It also aligns with Kelvin which is the SI unit for temperature. (+273)
@@davidarmstrong3564 yeah! i majored in biology at uni so we used celsius but it was more arbitrary since it was random math questions - just applying it to practical weather conditions is somewhere harder hahaha
And also because of something to do with the angle of Australia to the sun close to the equator puts us closer to the sun than the northern hemisphere. Something like that anyway.
Both of you could learn yourself something by googling "why does the sun burn your skin more in the Australian Summer?" . It is more to do with Earths elliptical orbit and the fact that the Southern Hemisphere is closer to the sun during its Summer than the Northern Hemisphere is during their Summer. The internet - use it instead of passing on your dud theories.
Im glad you are enjoying 'your' country! Guess what? you are in the right place at the right time for the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix in a couple weeks. The city comes alive that weekend!
@@elliemajelly You best be looking for some tickets now, or start listening to the radio stn's down there to try win some tickets. The cheapest tickets always are gone and you're only left with the corporate areas, so check online way before the event if you plan to go.
Australia has a "like" tax because repeated improper use of the word is considered annoying noise pollution and a waste of oxygen. And things generally are, or, aren't. Affectaaaations are tolerrrrrated but not appreciaaaated.
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I understand about the un professional feeling with cuss music, but it also makes the nation feel more light hearted and less politically sensitive, I mean there's a difference between a world war and saying a bad word, it doesn't seem like the world should stop over music
Feeling okay about your roos
and eagles. 😊
I believe we don't censor our music (and free-to-😂air TV) in the manner of the US, as we see it as something into which people's noses should not be stuck. Perhaps explaining the current seeming plague of "Karen's" in the US?? Probably assisted in Australia by the religious amongst us Aussies not apparently continually trying to proslytise the non-religious in the community to join them in trying to have government enforced censorship. (Which really seems weird and counter-intuitive for the US, the so-called Land of the Free.)
In Australia, in regards to curse words, no one really cares if you swear. Its more about the intent behind the words.
riiight i totally get that, i played sports all my life and it was a HUGE no no if any of our pregame songs had bad words in it. i’m happy that in australia they don’t really care
Not quite true. Many parents of young children wish there was more restraint and consideration.
😂 Yeah, it goes all the way back to Australia’s convict roots!… All the criminals and lower class people from the British Isles went to Australia!
I moved from Australia to CA in 1986, and came back for my brother’s wedding in ‘92. Evidently rules about profanity and nudity on TV changed in that time … my younger sister (12 then) was watching “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” on regular TV and it wasn’t edited. At all. I was a bit taken aback, almost ready to jump between her and the TV! Yeah, it’s a LOT more relaxed in Oz when it comes to censorship/editing. 😊
@@aheat3036 Sorry, your comment is illogical on many levels.
Finding a Starbucks In Australia is difficult ... because we like good coffee, not browned sweet water!
when my friends visit me i’m banning them from starbucks!!
@@elliemajelly Let them have their Starbucks. It exists for tourists too scared to drink real coffee.
@@elliemajelly FYI, Starbucks is highly popular in Australia’s next door neighbor : Indonesia.
As a former Melburnian, I also disliked paying such a silly price for sugary soapy water 😂 here in Jakarta.
Perhaps, Starbucks Aus know better that they can survive just by directly targeting Indonesian / Chinese / other Asian visitors 😂.
@@hsheuw Starbucks entered the market here proclaiming their arrival as introducing Australians to proper espresso and such like. Stores were opened right, left and centre, in pick and expensive positions in shopping malls and the like. Basically, they failed, and these days you'd have to look hard to find one. The reasons for failure are simple. First, we are accustomed to good espresso coffee in the Italian tradition, and that's not what Starbucks marketed. They sold coffee in an American's idea of espresso. Next is that we develop a relationship with our regular baristas but there was no chance doing that with any Starbuck staff - turnover too rapid for a start. Third, most people I know found the Starbuck's hype over the top, almost offensive -it was based on an incorrect premise that Australians knew nothing about coffee
@doubledee9675 agreed! not a starbucks fan unless you love drinking sugar water
Every Australian note has its own colour AND its own size. I found it so strange that all american notes are the same colour and size.
they also have bumps on them to assist the visually impaired as well
The U.S. $100 bill looks a bit different these days. The new anti-counterfeit line makes the entire bill look blue compared to the rest!
id love to do a comparison when i’m back in the US next month! (don’t worry i’m coming back to aus hahaha)
And are they still made out of paper?
@@listohan No. They have been plastic for years.
We have digital sign's in Britain too and they are very useful to control car speed and notify of accidents and such.
i didn’t know that! i feel like we have the technology for it so why not, it saves lives from a safety aspect
With our Aussie coinage you either round up or round down according to the amount of the purchase. Thus a $5.93 purchase becomes $5.95 whereas a $5.92 purchase becomes $5.90. This system evolved out of necessity when our 1 and 2 cent copper coins were withdrawn from circulation in 1992 leaving the 5 cent (nickel) coin as the lowest denomination coin that we have.
When we changed from using the F word for temperature to the C word, there used to be a little rhyme to make it easier to get a sense of Celsius, without constantly having to convert. It went:
The cold singles - the cool teens - the temperate twenties - the torrid thirties - the fierce forties. Hope it helps.
oh my gosh that is so cute!!! i love that i’m definitely going to be using it :) thanks so much!
@@elliemajelly a simpler way is to double the celsius number and then add 25 and you get fairly close to the farenheit
2:00 we Americans don't follow the speed limit, and constantly driving above. If you don't change that habits, you will receive a speeding ticket for sure. The cop told me, if you don't plan to coming back Aussie in your life, you don't need to pay the fines 🤣😂
Interestingly Australia went metric in 1975 and the USA went metric around the same time. Officially they use metric. But then President Jimmy Carter, under pressure from big business made it voluntary for businesses. So the US military, government, scientists and many institutions use metric, but because it was going to cost money to change, no one else did. So they have a weird duel system. In the public mind you use inches, feet, pounds and all that weird stuff. But in the army, they use Kilometres (although being American, they spell it ‘kilometers’ - but it is a French word so the ‘re’ at the end is correct…. ) but everyday people mostly use stupid ‘F’ temp and inches, etc.
About ten years ago an engineer for an American aerospace company used Imperial units (foot pounds) to calculate the fuel thrust needed to brake a Mars lander. He handed over the figures that everyone else thought were in Newton Metres. They used this to work out how long to burn the thrusters and how much fuel to land the spaceship on Mars. It ended up not stopping and crashing into Mars at high speed. They lost something like $2 Billion US. All because they have both systems in use.
All the government had to do was make it compulsory for everyone and everyone would have the same. The USA is one of only three countries not to be fully metric.. Liberia in Africa and Myanmar in Asia are the other two. And both are third world countries that can’t afford to change.. Even North Korea has figured it out…
It is all about big business wanting to make the next generation pay. For example the Ford Motor Company in Australia in the late 1970 had to update all of the machinery, every bolt in every car they made, every tool, all to metric. It cost hundreds of millions. Ford in the USA wants to put off doing it at home for as long as possible. And they are.
@@TannTran I hired a car in LA and the Avis guy said don't pay any tickets or parking fines. I got a parking fine in St Paul for parking in a Snow Plough Zone, in September?! I didn't pay of course. That was in 1985, would it be safe to go back?
following!! i'm moving to australia in may, couldn't be more excited for a new chapter in life. congrats on your big change!!
omg i am so excited for you!! best of luck and if you need any advice feel free to reach out to me on insta 💗
Hope you're enjoying living in this great country?
There is definitely a coffee culture esp in Melbourne. I think take away coffees are pretty common here though. I'm from Sydney but I spent a couple of months in Austin Texas a few years ago and i used to get a coffee each morning on the way to work. A couple of mornings the espresso machine was broken and i was like ... if a coffee place cannot serve espresso it should close.
An easy conversion for KMP to MPH is just multiply the first digits by 6. ie. 10k = 6 MPH, 100kmh = 60 MPH, 60KMH = 36MPH. Hope that helps!
omg yes that’s so helpful!! appreciate it :)
good 'un
i was told to change kph to mph times by 6 and drop the last number.
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I lived and worked for a yacht builder in a very touristy part of Thailand for just over two years. It was popular for Americans, Europeans and British to finish their backpacking before heading home. Most went from Bali to Australia to Thailand and some of the standout comments to me about their recent trip was: I didn't realise the whole country drives cars. (never quite understood that)
:No one spoke Australian. (this was just after Yothu Yindi's Treaty went international) Expecting all Australians to speak Indigenous/First Nations language.
And a classic I'll never forget
: I didn't realise you all look like us.????
And have to add quite a few were surprised all of the smaller towns had electricity and sealed roads.
This was back in the early nineties when Australia was still regarded as some frontier and still rather unknown.
Moved to Australia from the US in the 70s. Some rels were surprised English was spoken here. Culture shock was real early on including getting used to swearing and leaving the 'y' off my description of a bleeding nose so I didn't swear. Pronouncing source and sauce the same way. Australian hamburgers (now going gourmet or extinct). Fast forward to the 2000s and my cousins dissuaded their mum from visiting my mum "because Australia was too dangerous". Hello, US mass shootings in public areas (school, church, cinema, entertainment venues, etc).... Much more dangerous & frequent than deaths from our wild critters.😅😅😅
You should have seen some of the questions asked about Australia just before the Olympics in Sydney. “Do I have to bring my own cutlery, perfume, toilette paper? Are there any ATM’s and please list them all.” You get the drift 😁
@@sarahhayse-gregson689 Some absolute doozies. Another stand out reaction was from two English girls I was talking to in Penang, had to get the train down to Malaysia every 9 months to renew visa. Firstly they couldn't understand why it's winter here when they're in summer when they asked how hot it is in Australia now (July). A look on their faces of confusion when I replied it's bloody cold there now, be about 16°. After the shock of realising there's two hemispheres and we are in the middle of winter they both burst out "Sixteen degrees!? That's our bloody summer!"
@@zalired8925 😆
The weather in Melbourne is not that bad. For the last 3 or 4 weeks the temperature has fluctuated between 20 and 30 with some light rain on 2 days. The end of Autumn through Winter and early Spring the weather can fluctuate quite a lot. Plus Melbourne only gets half the rainfall Sydney gets.
yeah i'd agree with you. i heard there are pretty dry winters in melbourne as well
A pommy friend came to Australia in 1981. A weekend in June was about 18 c. On the Monday we asked him what he got up to. He’d taken the family to Altona beach because it was so warm. He couldn’t understand why they were the only ones there. We told him that it was Winter and had a laugh.
true about the rain fall but Sydney as a lot more sunny days i'll let you figure thst out.
Come To Queensland for some proper weather. 👍😁
I live in Perth and Melbourne weather is weird. One of brothers live in Melbourne and spent last Christmas (2023) there and it felt like winter Instead of summer
When Australia went metric, my father had real trouble going from F to C for temperature. The guide I provided was Cold = 0 - 10, Cool = 10 - 20, Warm = 20 - 30, Hot = 30 - 40, Bloody Hot = >40.
An easy way to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit is double it and add 30. 10C is exactly 50F. For other amounts its close enough. I hope you enjoy Australia you seem very nice. Cheers from NSW.
thanks jim!
Welcome home. Really enjoyed hearing your perspectives.
thank you!!!
Many of us also have rain tanks and drink filtered rain water. Maybe more so outside of the cities.
my grandparents do! and they live about 3 hours drive out of the city
We drink river water, boiled and filtered :)
Someone will have noted that the tap water is pre-purified at the point of release from the dam and if you purify it at home you remove the fluoride that has been added to the water. Back in 2020 (I think) there was a period of 5-7 days when the purification plant broke down and Melburnians had to boil all their drinking and cooking water. To get the chlorine smell/taste out of your Melbourne tap water, just store it in an open bottle/jug overnight in your refrigerator and it will taste as good as bottled water. “Thongs” have been footwear here since the late 1950’s so it’s the naming of underwear as “thongs” that seems funny to people who have been around prior to the introduction of the underwear. And, yeah, “fanny” is not a behind in Australia and probably a few other countries too 😂😂😂 American give us a shocked laugh over that one.
LOL there are so many differences to the language!!! like we’re both speaking english here yet it’s soooo different
@@elliemajelly No more different than between dialects in various parts of the US. It's just that you are aware of those already.
Fanny comes from the English/British. And they laugh at Americans to. A great many of our slang works are straight from the UK. For example ‘Strewth’ is Scottish and is short for ‘Gods Truth’. But people seem to think it is an Australian slang term. Our spelling is identical to the British spelling. Only the USA changed the spelling to make some words more phonetic. Ask a Brit and they will say ‘It is our language, you Yanks ruined it.
@@xymonau2468 ooh same issue in Australia. A scallop/thin slice of potato dipped in batter and then deep fried can be called a “scallop”, “potato cake” or (potato) “fritter” in different areas of one State let alone intraState.Then there are place names … don’t even go there because you know that song you say “Tom-A-to” and I say “Tom-AR-to” …it is a real thing here, every day.
@@paulroberts3639 yes … because I had a speech impediment as a child my father thought it was cute that I told everyone my name was “Jufanny” and until the day he died he always called me “Fanny” … no wonder I dropped the “th” from my Christian name.
Good on ya mate, yeah drinking tap water is pretty normal. There is occasions where a state alert will go out if tap water has increased contaminants, last time I personally had that happen was Sydney 1998.
i’m glad that i wasn’t wrong with the tap water idea haha but that’s great nothings happened since all that time ago as well
The taste can vary depending on where you are though, eg. my town, I vastly prefer tap water to bottled water, but in a town like Jurien Bay, the tap water is kind of horrible.
@@stroud9208 Yeah for sure, there's going to be a variety of qualities since not all states and towns are funded sufficiently and some places have some very old infrastructure or far more dirty water.
In general though, you don't really need to think before drinking tap water
@@abekane7038 Poor flavour isn't about dirt. It's about the mineral level of the water.
@@xymonau2468 Dirty doesn't specifically refer to dirt in Australia, I apologise about my slang. It's like saying "Not clean"
The weather in Melbourne is similar to the weather in London whereas in Brisnae where I live, it is like a Californian climate. Australia is almost the same size as the USA so weather patterns are so different depending on where you live.
I'm sorry, but you obviously have very little idea of what Melbourne weather is like. I spent 3 weeks in London in summer and the only sunny day was on the way to the airport on the day we were leaving. My 14 year old German Shepherd died from the heat in Melbourne on 09/02/2009 when my air-conditioning broke down after the temperature reached 45C.
I live in Brisbane and the weather is far more comparable to Floridas weather.
Melbourne is similar to New York, can get very hot in Summer, and extremely cold in Winter (New York snows though).
Our East coast is humid like that in the USA, whilst Western Australia is dry and considered Mediterranean like California.
Remember there is no 13th month in Australia - It just means the 13th day of that month. Otherwise you might think there are 31 months & only 12 days. Actually US is the only country that use month before the day. BTW only 2 other countries other than the US that use the Imperial system - Myanmar & Liberia.
omg yes i really have to think about it when i’m writing down dates. like for example today would be 3/16 in the US but 16/3 here
Sorry you are wrong, US is not the only country that use the month before the day, Philippines does use Month before the day too.
@@pinayladyoz8044 What you say is probably correct as I don't come from there, however google says that the US is the only country that offically uses MM/DD/YY.
@@pinayladyoz8044 That's because they are very American because of the war. Even the English accent there is American.
@@peterfan8650 I was born in the Philippines, dates always written there in MM/DD/YY sequence ever since.
In Brisbane, we we have been praying for rain and finally got 1 day of decent rain in a year 4 days ago with a storm. However, we are now back to sweltering heat and humidity.
oof yeah the humidity is not for me that doesn’t sound fun
What part of Brisbane hasn't had rain in a year??!!
As an American, I feel we owe Australia an official apology about Starbucks.
Well thank you! Starbucks is okay, but not a place for the best coffee.
I'm with Neville - it was really only their shitty coffee that caused their failure. We modified the McDonalds menu and coffee service and even they make pretty reasonable coffee these days.
When Celcius was introduced they gave us a memory aid - Frosty 5's, Tingling 10's, Temperate 20's, Thirsty 30's and Fiery 40's
oooh i love that! i thought australia always had celsius - when did they switch over?
@@elliemajelly Our decimal currency began on Feb 14th, 1966 (I was a kid and remember it well). Then decimal measurements began in 1974. I was a teenager, and found it harder to change as I had already left school, too. I still think in both feet and metres. I don't think in pounds, though. However, I do sometimes reference stones (lots of 14 pounds, applying to a person's weight) because that gives me a better grasp on the actual size of a person. Also, I need pounds and ounces for a baby's weight to really comprehend. These days I'm comfortable with all the rest. Temperatures converted in September 1972. I thought in Farenheit for years, but in older adulthood I know exactly how hot or cold it is in Celcius.
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@@elliemajelly We metricated our money in 1966, and phased in metric weights and measures gradually from 1972 (when they ran the first metric Melbourne Cup: 3200 metres instead of 16 furlongs). I was in primary school at the time, and had just learned how many rods are in a chain and how many stones in a hundredweight when they all became obsolete.
Here's a titbit for you - everyone knows that an Imperial gallon was different from both US gallons (fluid measure and dry measure). Did you know that an Imperial hundredweight was different from a US hundredweight?
Hi Ellie, interesting video. One thing to keep in mind is that the culture in Australian cities can differ from place to place. I was born in Sydney and grew up there. In later years, I moved to Melbourne and in some ways it was like moving to a different country. Sydney and Melbourne are virtually two different worlds in culture. With coins, we used to have one and two cent coins, but they were eventually phased out. Prior to our decimal conversion, we had pounds, shillings and pence in money, fahrenheit in temperatures and miles in distances. The word "castle" is pronounced "karsel' in Sydney and "kassel" here in Melbourne. Also, if queuing in a shop in Melbourne, the second person usually stands about two spaces behind the person being served, where this does not seem to happen in Sydney. A "shopping stroller" in Sydney is called a "shopping jeep" in Melbourne and, just of interest, it is a "shopping trundler" in New Zealand. Anyway, all the very best. Rob in Melbourne Australia.
6:52 Actually in that situation you would round up from 12.93 to 12.95.
I never get burnt on a sunny day, here in Australia . I only will get burned at a beach . I only wear sunscreen at a beach . I have the European olive skin . I went to Cyprus thinking I didn’t need sun protection and I was burned on my stomach . So it isn’t true you never get burned overseas . Overseas tourists tend to exaggerate how they never get burned in their country . I have been overseas and seen people burned from the sun . If you wear sunscreen 24/7 and keep away from the sun ,you will end up with low vitamin D which can lead to cancer anyway . Half of the problem is that we eat a lot of processed foods instead of healthy whole foods full of antioxidants. Our skin then will have a better defence system if we ate healthy . Half the tourists out there live it up when they are travelling by drinking alcohol , staying out until very late , then the next day , they are sun baking at lunch time on a beach when the sun rays is at it’s strongest . Thanks for your video and I wish you all the best .
A Kilometre is 5/8 ths of a Mile. For accurate conversion 100 km X 5 and divide by 8. The easy conversion is Multiply by 6 and divide by 10.
That's not an easy way to memorise. Too many steps.
@@Krenisphia A furlong is a fifth of a kilometre.
Ask an American to say the words *Antarctica* and 'aluminium'. They pronounce them like this: Anne Ardica. and 'Aloo Minum'.
Yeah it's wrong.
The metal: international body TRIED to get "aluminium" as the world standard, and the USA agreed - then reniged and stayed with their different spelling/ pronunciation "aluminum". :(
We came to Australia in 1970 and I learnt the sun issue very quickly. My shoulders were bleeding . It's the high UV , still have not got cancer.........yet .
I'm in Perth.
The Who, Who Are You (1978), has F@*% in the song, it's still played and peaked at #14 on the Billboard Charts
Great video. 😊 I hope you have a wonderful time here! 😀
aww thank you so much!! so sweet of you 💗
Spot on about the sun.....i spent 4 weeks in California and not once did i put on sunscreen and not even close to getting burnt!
insane how different the uv rays are!
I sometimes dream of going to places where I don't have to worry about it. I've had 4 pre-cancerous lesions removed in the last 20 years or so.
As an Australian whos from and lives in Melbourne , I can agree with lots of this. It's true, I do think its weird that when music is played in public places, it includes swear words and sometimes children are in those places. I also think its crazy that we have a ridiculous amount of coffee shops. Everything else you said is quite normal to us.
With the Fahrenheit and celsius comparing, I can relate. Once I was talking to Americans online and they were talking to each other about weather and said, "its 40 degrees its freezing outside" and im like "WHAT?????, how is that freezing, its boiling", that was before I knew Fahrenheit existed.
cool. i am melbourne born and raised, when u said 'for here or to go' i got flashbacks to when I spent a year in Canada. also u have the exact same accent as a friend who lives in the bay area. she is from santa cruz
Hi, i have lived in California, mainly down town LA and hollywood and i think the weather humidity and everything is the same as Perth
I think australia also has as much variability in States as the USA so each state is unique and not synonymous with the rest of the country
Celsius is super easy if you remember this simple guide.
There are roughly 4 temp descriptions:
cold, cool, warm, hot
Each of those is roughly 10C
Freezing is when water freezes. This is by definition of Celsius - 0.
So
0-10 = cold
10-20 = cool
20-30 = warm
30-40 = hot
Below 0 is very cold
Above 40 is very hot
Boiling by definition of Celsius is 100C
Kelvin (which Celsius is just a direct conversion from) is metric. Celsius is metric by extension.
Coincidentally the US switched their imperial (US customary measures) over from imperial measures to metric conversions a long time ago. It was actually Australia that dragged its feet.
Finally the US and UK drew up an agreement all the imperial countries signed to make both imperial weight and imperial distance a pure metric conversion. This is the International yard and pound which was signed in 1959. Australia of course ditched this to sensibly go metric purely.
But it means when you see a mile in the US behind the scenes it’s converted from km.
Basically an inch is no longer converted from a yardstick but is by definition actually 2.54cm.
If an American says they don’t use metric, truth is they’re using metric converted…. So they’ve always used metric.
Australian notes have raised bumps to help those who are visionally impaired. Australia also produces bank notes for other nations. The polymer bank note is an Australian invention.
oooh we love that, go australia!
You can’t compare Melbourne weather with California. Queensland is much more comparative to California.
And Melbourne has one of the best quality tap waters in the world.
And welcome to Melbourne! It’s a great place to live.
Actually Californian weather is more like SW Western Australia. Perth's weather is like San Diego's and inland LA; both are Mediterranean (CSA). Brisbane is subtropical
@justcroozin Agree. And Melbourne in more like San Francisco
The bank notes are tactile so the vision impaired know what they have as well.🇭🇲
If your from overseas or interstate i strongly recommend that you DON'T drink the tap water in Adelaide. I'm from SA. I drink the tap water here. I am used to it. But, while it is legally potable water, I am reliably informed by non South Aussies that it tastes awful and could make you feel sick. To me the water interstate tastes weird, but that's because the water quality is better.
My brother lived in Adelaide for twenty years, and he would only drink the water if it had been filtered through a grape vine or an orange tree!
@@brettevill9055 😆 Sounds normal... I resorted to tea drinking at an early age... However, while the water crap, the wine and boutique beers are a wonderful substitute.
I know there's a trick to converting Fahrenheit to Celsius what I've worked out is 0 degrees Celsius is 32 degrees Fahrenheit and for every 5 degrees Celsius is 9 degrees Fahrenheit.
For example 5°c is 41°f, 10°c is 50°f, 15°c is 59°f and so on.
The miles to kilometres I think 1 mile is 1.6 kilometres so it's not quite half so I'll do a rough estimate. I live in Narre Warre about 40km away from the Melbourne CBD which would be about 25 miles.
It'll probably be hard trying to work out the metric system compared to the imperial system. People here still use feet and inches I think a yard is almost a metre and a pound is half a kilogram. Just a few things anyway. I hope you're enjoying your time in Australia.
yup you’re pretty spot on! and thank you :)
Love your video.....
Sounds like California weather is morel ike Adelaide where the weather is generally predictable, and you'd rarely have a lot of variety in a day.
Some parts of Australia have better water than others - tap water is great in some places, but you'd still want a filter in others.
The notes are not just different colours, they're also different sizes (and have a textured area that's unique to denominations) to help visually challenged people.
She is really talking about Southern California. San Francisco weather is much more varied (and miserable).
i lived just outside of san francisco and it’s pretty moderate. sf itself is just its own beast
Prior to the 1990s, less than 1% of the population in America ever bought bottled water. The whole idea of paying money for water was utterly ridiculous, because water is free. (Technically it wasn't free; people paid a monthly water bill; but it was a few bucks a month, and almost all of that went to the garden hose and showers. The amount you drank represented a negligible amount of money.) I still haven't figured out how the bottling companies changed this, but there had to be some serious marketing involved somehow. Of course, as more people started buying bottled water, discount brands of it began to emerge, so now you can get it for a few cents a bottle. (In the eighties, bottled water was generally imported, mostly from Europe; only really wealthy people bought it.)
Kilometers don't make any more sense than miles to most people; it's not a human-scale measurement, and nobody can hold distances like that in their head. Just say how long it takes to drive there. Everyone understands hours and minutes.
If you want to transfer Celsius to Fahrenheit just double the number and add thirty e.g 25 Celsius is 50 + 30 =80 Fahrenheit
ooh thanks for that!
I love the Maggie's singing on the intro.😊
Go Pies.
Coles, Woolworths and Iga plus Alldi all keep their eggs refrigerated in Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland
Drinking the tap water depends where you live. Melbourne its common, Perth its less common and more filters are used.
oh that’s good to know!
I'm in Melbourne and I filter my tap water.
I am American and was born in Australia. I grew up in America (California & Florida) and recently moved back to Melbourne, Australia eight months ago. The culture here shocked me and is very different from the States. I think the medical , food, and public transport are so much better than the States. I do miss a lot of American food also In-N-Out Burger.
oh wow we’re quite similar! you’re so right though, a lot of things are better in australia but boy do i miss in n out 😭
@@elliemajelly I enjoyed watching you on TH-cam. I agree with everything that you said about Australia. Yes, we are so similar! I guess Australia has a better life for the middle class and future retirement than the States. I was so surprised that private health insurance is a lot cheaper than I have paid in the States. A friend of mine in Los Angeles recently had heart surgery that cost him $5 million, and his insurance and Medicare paid $1 million. I thought it was ridiculous, so I’m thankful I’ve moved back here peacefully!
The Westminister political system is 1000 times better than the crazy US system, The Prime minister has to be elected by his/her party and must win a seat, it's all over in a month. The money notes are; in different bright colours with a clear window extremely hard to copy, goods prices include a flat 10% tax so you know the full price when buying. We rarely tip unless its over the top service, but salaries are much higher here.
Never heard of the Wash-Minster system?
lol it’s what the australian system is called as it has many elements of the washington system and welshminster system
I remember that the coffee culture today in Australia didn't really kick off until early 2000s. Before that it was spooning dirt (instant coffee) into your cup. Sure, Italians had their coffee shops and making espressos. This was mostly confined to Carlton. The Greeks loved their sludge, I mean, Greek coffee. It was the advent of hipsters who opened up cafes, sporting slick back hair, long blacksmith aprons, riding fixies, who really spruced the place up with cafes. Then smashed avos became part of the mix and we were all evolved. Starbucks tried to enter the market, (search youtube for why they failed, lots of vids). I recall an English friend in 1998, who went into a shop in the country and they had a sign that said "we serve real coffee". Yep, it was dirt. Now, you have really nice shops there and so it was the hipsters who elevated our coffee snobbery, I mean taste, to its current height.
1980's not 2000s,.unless you lived in some real backwater.
I was having morning teas at coffee shops with proper espressos in the 80s and was definitely a huge part of work culture too.
Where were you? What hole were you living in? There wouldn't have been an Italian cafe back in the 60's that didn't have an espresso machine. The original hipsters, beatniks created an entire coffee culture back in the 50s and 60s. Australians picked up on it all as everybody who could afford a ticket was heading off to Europe in the 60s and 70s.
As for Italians at home they were all using Stove top Espresso pots which make a decent coffee. I should know I spent enough time in those kitchens.
Our tap water is clean and purified. Completely safe to drink
way better than having to buy a water filter when you can just get it for free from the tap!
Very fascinating and informative video 👍
appreciate it peri! 🫶
At least you don't have to work out sales tax when purchasing products in Australia
honestly one of the most frustrating parts of the US - plus having to tip at most place ON TOP of tax
@@elliemajelly When I travelled to Canada from the US I was so relieved at the prospect of not having to carry a calculator everywhere (this was before everyone had smartphones) but then I quickly discovered that Canada does the EXACT SAME THING!!!! 🤣🤣
@@chriskelly9476 HAHA that is too funny!!!!
Beautiful sound of the singing magpie in the intro.
Welcome to Australia! I think you'll find more and more different things the longer you live here. Like here as you are most likely aware by now we don't generally tip in restaurants as we get a decent wage here so we don't necessary need to although some places do have tip jars though it's not frowned upon if you don't, you only tip if you want.
A month isn't long enough to change to-go to take-away. I'm over in Hawthorn. Melbourne has some of the best tap-water of any city in the world. If you said it was the best only a few places could really dispute it. Our water comes from protected forest catchments.
You have an excellent voice. You could do radio / news reading stuff / ads.
A much more interesting comparison would be cultural differences. I’m also Californian (born and raised) but always felt Australians were very similar to us culturally what do you think?
Divide km by 8 and multiply the result by 5 to get a rough estimate for miles.
have fun I moved from wollongong to mid state NSW it's new again no beach
Sydney water is also fine to drink. Have never used a water purifier -- just drink straight from the tap. Sydney weather has traditionally been more stable like San Francisco than like Melbourne's chaotic weather ("four seasons in one day"). Recently, with climate change, it has become a little more chaotic in Sydney. Melbourne would be considered a little colder than Sydney, and definitely colder than Brisbane. Melbourne is well known for its coffee culture and for its lifestyle. Sydney tends to be more business-focused, a little more brash. Australia in general is less prudish than the US, although not as liberal as Europe (e.g. topless and even nude sunbathing in city parks in Munich). We never had the Puritan influence that America inherited from its "Pilgrim Fathers". We have a much better financed public sector -- the US is notorious for running down its public sector, except for defence. America is more about private wealth (and poverty), Australia a little more about common wealth -- it is part of our name.
"Commonwealth" is actually from "commonweal" meaning "the common good", not a financial term.
tap water in most of Australia is what you get when you buy expensive bottled water , with added plastic contaminates , when American's speak why is every second word LIKE , and every fourth word usually "like" LITERALLY
it’s similar to how australians say “mate”! just a nuance of the californian accent :)
@@elliemajelly mate , friend , pal is a form of address , not something you would use 50 times in a sentence , count your likes in your monologue , and keep smiling
@@keithmitchell3282 haha yes i know what mate means! i meant it more as a word that's said frequently when it doesn't always need to be used - like the word like
Melbourne weather sucks. I could never live there. Every holiday I've ever had there has been spoiled by the constant changes. It's the worst. It isn't like that further north. Melbourne is a very small part of the country and is unique in a lot of terminology and slang. The cafe culture exists everywhere, but there is more of it there because that's where a lot of Italians stayed after immigrating.
Great video! You're very relaxed for an American 😄
915 meters = 1000 yards • 5 miles = 8 km
I can never get my head around how your generation has such a fasciation on the word "LIKE"
i hope you're enjoying your new life in australia
No tipping is probably another thing that stands out here
oh totally, when i had australians visit california they felt like they were pouring out their money. not only because of the exchange rate but also the tipping!
I agree about the first observation. I'm Australian and it is unprofessional when there could be kids about.
1,2 round down 3,4 round up. so 93 rounds up to 95
little known coins: 2021 = 30 cent coin, 2021 = $1 penny, $5 from 1988 on going, some years we do have 25 cent coins in low numbers.
interesting observations
with miles to ks multiply ks by 6 and drop the last diget.
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The Australian coffee culture is directly from Italy.
The Italian migrants bought all their coffee making skill over here in the 60s and sitting around enjoying yiur coffee is exactly what they do.
So it's not Australian it's Italian.
Having a shitty paper cup is also a big insult to Italians.
Save that I'd change 60s to 40s and 50s, I'd agree. In the 50s, my mother and sisters used go to a particular hairdresser in Sydney city. While they were there, my father and I would go to a coffee shop - sometimes in DJ's Market St store, more frequently to one in George St, not far from the Quay. He'd have a long black, and I'd have a milkshake. During the 50's, coffee shops started opening throughout Sydney suburbs, some staying open well into the evening. They were places where a young teenager could take a girl (memories, memories!).
@@doubledee9675 That too
@@dcmastermindfirst9418 And to take the coffee shop point a bit further. These days, we frequent a coffee shop in a nearby suburb, being there most afternoons. On the wall is a photo of the fellow (now deceased of course) who used own the business all those years ago. It shows him serving a customer in that George St shop.
It certainly STARTED from Italian cafes, etc but Oz now has a serious coffee culture of its own.
you should do a video on indigenous Australia and its rich culture. If you delve into it enough it can be super interesting stuff to learn about
that would be a great idea! id just want to do a ton of research before discussing anything
I’m kinda late to this party and I guess I can get my answers from your earliest Vlog but, I’d like to know why you moved to the US when you were 8 and what caused you to “come home” again ?
ooh i should probably do a video on that! but simply put i left australia originally because my dad got a job offer in california, coming back for personal choice :)
My condolences for the accent you acquired in the USA
A kilometer is 5/8 of a mile, 5 miles is 8 kilometres. Remember that and converting miles to kilometers or vice versa is easy.
California is pretty long. Think you have to compare LA to brisbane. Both pretty similar geographically. Melbourne is like san fran.
yes that’s what i’ve heard! i’ll have to check out brisbane in person to get a vibe of it and then i’ll see if i can make another video
@@elliemajelly well, we are 3 weeks into spring and its 35 today., Summer wasnt this hot. Maybe come up in june /july when its low 20s.
I'm from Sacramento and have wanted to move to Perth (most sunshine hours) for a very long time. I just sold my house and am finally in a position to do so. What would you say is easy way to enter the country? I heard it's really hard to get into Australia, regardless of where you are coming from. Thanks, David
Hi David, congrats on being in the position to move! Are you talking about in terms of getting a visa? Have you been to Perth before?
@@elliemajelly Haha no, I have not been to Perth before. I like Northern California weather and have been told that Perth has drier climates. A visa at first, and I'd like to start a business there and become a citizen.
Ah that’s so great! Yes visas are a bit tough, it’s possible you can come in on a travel visa first to make sure you like the area. Then I would suggest working for a company that has the ability to sponsor you, then you can go through PR and then citizenship :)
1km is roughly 5/8 of a mile if that helps
And the biggest difference - The United States hasn't yet made the transition to a first world healthcare system by still somehow not discovering universal healthcare. Sorry, don't mean to offend my American friends but I just couldn't resist :) I'm relatively confident in due time you (the U.S) will finally enter the stage of the first world in that area :)
Yet those with the money fly from all over the world to get the best treatment in the US??
@@jamedmurphy4468 You make my point in the very first words - those with the money. I'm not saying that the United States doesn't have a great health care system in terms of the quality that it can offer - but it can not in any way say with a straight face it has a first class health care system unless that quality is afforded to all of its citizens unconditionally.
We used have coins for 1 and 2 cents, but they went many years ago
I want Australia 🇦🇺 specially Sydney. I live at Long Beach California and 2 years at Las Vegas Nevada United States 🇺🇸. Going back to Australia 🇦🇺 after 3 years
Kilometer and Celsius are current common international measurement standards, Obviously Americans have not changed the way, the world has changed.
After traveling the world Melbourne tap water is the best you really miss it and take it for granted
Maybe travel to Sydney & Brisbane first before doing a part 2 to get a better idea of Australia. Fanny is an okay word to use. As you’ve probably noticed that Aussie cuss a lot and they’re quite open about discussing and describing sexual stuff without actually being creepy, mostly just to tell a story and/or to get a laugh and it’s almost always self deprecating. Aussies are more open minded I guess and not timid.
You could also talk about the differences between Australia and the Democratic People's Republic of Victoria :-). Although, that's probably much like California, so Ellie may not notice. Although, I must say Melbourne has a superior approach to urban aesthetics, internationally; although its some years since I was last there.
I also see a bed next to you with a Dona on it. In the UK this is a Duvet. What is it called in California?
Those coffee shops used to be pubs.
U.S is one of three countries not using metrics. Americans love to complain about metrics. American currency is based on the metric system so what is the problem, people?
right! i think metrics make SO much more sense. like do you know how many feet are in a mile? 5,280… now how does that make sense with conversions when you could easily be using multiples of 10 (meters, kilometers, etc)
@@elliemajelly It's the same with Celsius. Water freezes at zero degrees and boils at 100. It also aligns with Kelvin which is the SI unit for temperature. (+273)
@@davidarmstrong3564 yeah! i majored in biology at uni so we used celsius but it was more arbitrary since it was random math questions - just applying it to practical weather conditions is somewhere harder hahaha
@@elliemajelly Yeah. I imagine it is difficult for you, but you some experience from your use in biology. I won't take long. Love your posts.
cheers david! appreciate it :)
The reason that the sun burns more in Australia is that there is far less air pollution.
And also because of something to do with the angle of Australia to the sun close to the equator puts us closer to the sun than the northern hemisphere. Something like that anyway.
Both of you could learn yourself something by googling "why does the sun burn your skin more in the Australian Summer?" . It is more to do with Earths elliptical orbit and the fact that the Southern Hemisphere is closer to the sun during its Summer than the Northern Hemisphere is during their Summer. The internet - use it instead of passing on your dud theories.
We don’t call them coffee shops, it’s a cafe. ☕️
If you want weather more similar to California come up to visit Queensland.
Im glad you are enjoying 'your' country! Guess what? you are in the right place at the right time for the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix in a couple weeks. The city comes alive that weekend!
WAIT NO WAY!!! i didn’t realize it was so soon!!! i watched the netflix special omg i want to go so bad
@@elliemajelly You best be looking for some tickets now, or start listening to the radio stn's down there to try win some tickets. The cheapest tickets always are gone and you're only left with the corporate areas, so check online way before the event if you plan to go.
Australia has a "like" tax because repeated improper use of the word is considered annoying noise pollution and a waste of oxygen. And things generally are, or, aren't. Affectaaaations are tolerrrrrated but not appreciaaaated.
$12.93 would round up to $12.95, not down to $12.90...but I agree, it's kind of annoying.
yeah messed up on that one in the video, there’s another reply where i talked about it. just another thing to think about haha
Our metrics system makes much more sense though... 0 cels is cold asf, and 32 fahre.. da ferrk .. huge as number! for freezing.. haha
If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes.
Glad you come back home Ellie!
me too garry!! feels great :)