In Queensland the Ambulance is free...I live in the outback...I had a bad accident and was transported five times by ambulance and twice by the Royal Flying Doctor (with a doctor and nurse in attendance). I was taken to the hospital to be stabilised before moving me to the Hospital on the coast. Three weeks after my accident I was given a plane ticket so I could fly home. Thank God for Medicare, I didn't have to pay for anything. I hate to think how much that would have cost me in the USA
G'day Ellie, don't know how far out from the cities you have travelled during your time in Australia, but when you mentioned R U ok day it reminded me of the Blue Tree Project. Driving in the country you may spot a random dead tree painted blue; they are in or near many country towns across the country esp. in Western Australia, where it started. The Blue Tree stands for recognizing rural mental health. Public transport - whilst ours may be better than that found in the US; I would say that European and Asian public transport is better than ours. Our public transport can be unequal. Whilst the inner city gives you plenty of options that you don't need your own car; once you get into the middle and outer suburbs of our cities, you do need a car to get around in. Regional cities may have a few train or bus services per day but then once you get beyond regional cities into the small towns of the bush it may be one service per day or none at all.
Someone below wrote about going to the U.S., I guess for "freedoms". Like no abortion, not able to read any book you want and now compulsory bible study in public schools in Oklahoma (to begin with). Then there is a health care system built on profit alone. Doesn't sound free to me.
Also. Where you live, where you work, where your kids go to school, the church you go, the University you attend, the friend you have, the sports you play and how you vote are all grounded in what ethnicity you are.
@elliemajelly The quality of your content is top notch. Seriously. I often wonder If you took a course on visual design or something. Haha. This is a little off topic, but have you seen Top of the Lake?
@@elliemajelly You're welcome! Well, you should. Is a great Australian miniseries. You'll love it. The scenery is beautiful. Prob the reason I happen to love Australia. Haha. The Slap is another great aussie TV series
Yep. 6:09 Long service leave may be a foreign concept to many. I worked for nab for 35 years (big 4 bank in Oz). Probably sounds boring to the young folk, staying that long, but I had so much variety and loved it all. Thing is, on top of my 4 weeks annual leave per year, public holidays etc - I think I took something like 18 months off in addition..Much of it fully paid, although you could elect to get double the time, at half the pay - I did that often. Time isn't money. It's more precious than that.
Long service leave was instituted way back even before federation. It's original purpose was to allow public servants to return to the UK on holiday after a certain amount of continuous service.
Nice video 😊. I live in Melbourne & I don’t have a car as well, I prefer public transport. The only downside is if you’re visiting family or friends in the outer suburbs, the public transportation can be bad
@@elliemajelly Hi Ellie. If you want to experience the true 'wilderness' before you die, then the WEST Section of Tasmania is the place to visit. Straughn and the Franklyn River has parts that have NEVER be seen by anybody. Check out an overnight River Excursion that travels up the River into a whole new world. In the morning you will awake to a 'silent' , misty and calm utopia and be amongst the wildlife going about their food gathering. It will change your Life.
Important point is don't be hesitant or put off by the exagerated hype of aour supposedly dangerous wildlife. Instead look forward to appreciating and witnessing what you would never see anywhere else in the world. And if you're still apprehensive just look up the statistics of actual fatal incidents, they are almoynon existant.
This dangerous Aussie wildlife meme used to be funny but people actually take it seriously. In your suburban Australian home you have little need to worry about the dangerous flora and fauna that inhabits this country-continent.
No, shan't. 😁 My American/Aussie wife and I live very well and easily in America. We would only become poor, if we moved back to OZ(or NZ). Their cost of living is significantly higher than here and that's not even counting the cost of housing. We bought our home outside of Atlanta 8 years ago and we will pay it off this coming year. We were also able to retire at 50 and 53 in 2020, while never having high paid, white collar jobs. That is essentially, an impossible feat for Aussies and Kiwis.
You are wrong there, cost of living here is fairly comparable to the US at the moment so you would be no worse off. With the exchange rate you would have more money and Healthcare is hugely cheaper than the US.
@@juliebird5307 How many Aussies do you know, who bought a house 30 minutes outside a major city center, have it paid off in 8 years on a regular wage? Petrol here is $.68 a litre at the moment. Aussies(& Kiwis) aren't making foreign currency where they live. They are stuck with their own currency, battling the food duopoly of Woolies and Coles, as well as the housing ponzi scheme. The only state that you guys are somewhat comparable to, is California and that is nothing to crow about, which is why their population and companies are fleeing to other states, that have a better quality of life with less Govt overreach.
Dear Ellie. I love when others tell what they love about Australia. After all I live here and have so for the last 40 years. When I agree with most of what you said in your talk, there are two things I must mention that are inaccurate. First the idea that you can live in Australia and don't own a car. You can live in Zurich without a car and perhaps Amsterdam. In Melbourne or Sydney, the choice of the vast majority of migrants, you don't. Sure you can be a recluse in one suburb of inner city for a few month, but telling others that inner city Melbourne is "Australia" is disingenuous. Australia is a vast continent and we travel hundreds of kilometers every week just to commute to work, or visit a relative, to buy groceries or pick up a spare part. No car, is a dead sentence for any australian. To live here you need a car, and a good one at that. And your idea that our public transport is great, when cute, is not true. I lived in Buenos Aires, and when I wouldn't suggest for anyone to move there, their public transport is really good. You can go from anywhere to anywhere at any time, day or night on a bus or train. In our cities, you can travel within inner city with buses, relatively well, during the day, relatively well on trains along their main route, but forget it outside normal hours and forget it between main points, and forget busses in regional areas or even suburbs outside inner city. Busses in those paces suit retirees to go to the shopping center during the day, after waiting for them for half an hour. Our public transport sucks, or is non existing. Another inaccuracy is your idea that multiculturalism is a good thing. We found out the hard way, just like Europe did, that multiculturalism, an invention of the political left, when idealist in principle, only brings in bad things. When talking about culture, people think of food. Sure I like food from most places. Unfortunately culture is more than food and some people bring with them baggage, and use our misplaced idea of multiculturalism to impose their baggage onto us. If we reject it they call "racism!" We australians don't want to adopt other people's culture, we want migrants to adopt our culture. Message to migrants, make an effort and learn our language properly, and we don't want to know about your bias and conflicts. Have a good one, and enjoy your stay here. Hooroo, Marc
Over the years I’ve known of people who don’t own a car and when they travel around the state where public transport is week they rent a car for that time.
no way! one of my australian friends mentioned you can get charged a couple thousand for ambulances so you just get the membership and you’re covered for everything
@@elliemajelly only for Queenslanders though, if you visit from interstate, you pay, unless it's in your health insurance. We pay a percentage in our utilities bill to cover the Ambulance costs for all Queenslanders.
@@weterpebb You won't see it as a levy as such, the energy retailers pay for the Ambulance cover and add a few bucks into every bill to cover the cost.
@@elliemajelly I know !! Totally ridiculous, Australia's immigration policy has lost the plot. My nephew wants to help his partner get a visa so she can work, no way he can afford that.
Partner visas are not $10k if you do them yourselves and not rely on immigration agents. My partner went through the system a few years ago and it wasn't particularly expensive.
Sorry dear… but crime “rates” have nothing to do with population numbers. “Rates” are calculated per head ie ratio. Also don’t you think sending kids to school and throughout their entire 12 years of pre university education they have never even heard of a lockdown or active shooter drill? Don’t you think that having a judiciary that is above political allegiance is a positive thing? I mean, when we have Supreme Court justices their political views and alliances are not even a factor. And our High Court justices, do you really think their political beliefs sway the entire nation one way or another?
Things are changing in Australia. Immigrating is not going to be as easy. Bring a tent. Housing is really hard to get. Youth crime is out of control. People are being robbed and murdered. Cost of living is out of control. What you are saying sounds good and but that was a long time ago.
How do you say Las Vegas? I bet not how it's pronounced by Americans. Never heard one Aussie pronounce it correctly. But do you hear Americans trying to correct us?
Anyone who is serious about moving virtually anywhere on the East Coast needs to have a very healthy bank balance. Do your homework and add at least 20% to any cost of living estimate you see online. That six-figure salary will disappear very quickly in Sydney or Melbourne.
USA has better economy, not dependant on ponzi immigration scheme like aus, affordable housing , less taxes and better career and job prospects. And if u have a job, great healthcare too
In Queensland the Ambulance is free...I live in the outback...I had a bad accident and was transported five times by ambulance and twice by the Royal Flying Doctor (with a doctor and nurse in attendance).
I was taken to the hospital to be stabilised before moving me to the Hospital on the coast. Three weeks after my accident I was given a plane ticket so I could fly home. Thank God for Medicare, I didn't have to pay for anything. I hate to think how much that would have cost me in the USA
G'day Ellie, don't know how far out from the cities you have travelled during your time in Australia, but when you mentioned R U ok day it reminded me of the Blue Tree Project. Driving in the country you may spot a random dead tree painted blue; they are in or near many country towns across the country esp. in Western Australia, where it started. The Blue Tree stands for recognizing rural mental health.
Public transport - whilst ours may be better than that found in the US; I would say that European and Asian public transport is better than ours. Our public transport can be unequal. Whilst the inner city gives you plenty of options that you don't need your own car; once you get into the middle and outer suburbs of our cities, you do need a car to get around in. Regional cities may have a few train or bus services per day but then once you get beyond regional cities into the small towns of the bush it may be one service per day or none at all.
Someone below wrote about going to the U.S., I guess for "freedoms". Like no abortion, not able to read any book you want and now compulsory bible study in public schools in Oklahoma (to begin with). Then there is a health care system built on profit alone. Doesn't sound free to me.
i’m with ya dale
Also. Where you live, where you work, where your kids go to school, the church you go, the University you attend, the friend you have, the sports you play and how you vote are all grounded in what ethnicity you are.
Ok. So, killing babies gives you freedom. Who would have thought.
Hello, Ellie.
Nice to see you uploading more consistently! It's paying off!
aww that’s so sweet that you’re paying attention! seriously means so much thank you ❤️❤️
@elliemajelly The quality of your content is top notch. Seriously. I often wonder If you took a course on visual design or something. Haha.
This is a little off topic, but have you seen Top of the Lake?
@TheDawsonscreekfan that is so nice of you!! actually made my day 😊 and no i haven’t!
@@elliemajelly You're welcome!
Well, you should. Is a great Australian miniseries. You'll love it. The scenery is beautiful. Prob the reason I happen to love Australia. Haha.
The Slap is another great aussie TV series
Yep. 6:09 Long service leave may be a foreign concept to many. I worked for nab for 35 years (big 4 bank in Oz). Probably sounds boring to the young folk, staying that long, but I had so much variety and loved it all. Thing is, on top of my 4 weeks annual leave per year, public holidays etc - I think I took something like 18 months off in addition..Much of it fully paid, although you could elect to get double the time, at half the pay - I did that often. Time isn't money. It's more precious than that.
Long service leave was instituted way back even before federation. It's original purpose was to allow public servants to return to the UK on holiday after a certain amount of continuous service.
Back in the days when you had to take a long trip via a rickety ship to go home
We're full
Nice video 😊. I live in Melbourne & I don’t have a car as well, I prefer public transport. The only downside is if you’re visiting family or friends in the outer suburbs, the public transportation can be bad
so agreed! that’s why i just rent a car for a day and honestly it’s soooo much cheaper not owning one and renting every now and then
@@elliemajelly yup 👍 😊
It’s encouraged because long service and annual leave are listed as a debt on the companies financial books
If you are American and think four more years of Trump would be too much, a few years in Australia or New Zealand might save your sanity.
Trump is the best thing they have
The last thing we need more of is Americans.
I`m an Australian, and 4 more years of trump is too much. Where do I go?
Don't encourage them, please! The only ones who "can't handle Trump" are the crazy freaks who are the reason he was elected.
@@davexenos9196 you stay in Australia. Trump should not concern you. He will keep us out of ww3. He'll engage in better economics for his country
Tasmania ( the best State ) awaits you !
oooh i haven't been there yet! adding to the list :)
Ellie it is paradise. About half a million people. A pristine environment. I moved here 14 years ago. Keep it a secret ! Best food and wine
@@elliemajelly
Hi Ellie. If you want to experience the true 'wilderness' before you die, then the WEST Section of Tasmania is the place to visit. Straughn and the Franklyn River has parts that have NEVER be seen by anybody. Check out an overnight River Excursion that travels up the River into a whole new world. In the morning you will awake to a 'silent' , misty and calm utopia and be amongst the wildlife going about their food gathering. It will change your Life.
@@MelodyMan69 true. many have said they were left speechless, I'm looking forward to it. Western tasmania imo is the best part.
End of Financial Year is 30th June - middle of winter.
i work with a lot of banks so i was thinking of their EOFY in september 😭
Australia is one of the few places on earth where you can get a pay increase on the Dole and a beach side houso
Important point is don't be hesitant or put off by the exagerated hype of aour supposedly dangerous wildlife. Instead look forward to appreciating and witnessing what you would never see anywhere else in the world.
And if you're still apprehensive just look up the statistics of actual fatal incidents, they are almoynon existant.
love this!!
This dangerous Aussie wildlife meme used to be funny but people actually take it seriously. In your suburban Australian home you have little need to worry about the dangerous flora and fauna that inhabits this country-continent.
No don’t move , we are full
No, shan't. 😁 My American/Aussie wife and I live very well and easily in America. We would only become poor, if we moved back to OZ(or NZ). Their cost of living is significantly higher than here and that's not even counting the cost of housing. We bought our home outside of Atlanta 8 years ago and we will pay it off this coming year. We were also able to retire at 50 and 53 in 2020, while never having high paid, white collar jobs. That is essentially, an impossible feat for Aussies and Kiwis.
You are wrong there, cost of living here is fairly comparable to the US at the moment so you would be no worse off. With the exchange rate you would have more money and Healthcare is hugely cheaper than the US.
@@juliebird5307 How many Aussies do you know, who bought a house 30 minutes outside a major city center, have it paid off in 8 years on a regular wage? Petrol here is $.68 a litre at the moment. Aussies(& Kiwis) aren't making foreign currency where they live. They are stuck with their own currency, battling the food duopoly of Woolies and Coles, as well as the housing ponzi scheme. The only state that you guys are somewhat comparable to, is California and that is nothing to crow about, which is why their population and companies are fleeing to other states, that have a better quality of life with less Govt overreach.
@ the US is screwed, what’s so good about that?
Dear Ellie. I love when others tell what they love about Australia. After all I live here and have so for the last 40 years.
When I agree with most of what you said in your talk, there are two things I must mention that are inaccurate.
First the idea that you can live in Australia and don't own a car. You can live in Zurich without a car and perhaps Amsterdam. In Melbourne or Sydney, the choice of the vast majority of migrants, you don't.
Sure you can be a recluse in one suburb of inner city for a few month, but telling others that inner city Melbourne is "Australia" is disingenuous.
Australia is a vast continent and we travel hundreds of kilometers every week just to commute to work, or visit a relative, to buy groceries or pick up a spare part. No car, is a dead sentence for any australian. To live here you need a car, and a good one at that.
And your idea that our public transport is great, when cute, is not true. I lived in Buenos Aires, and when I wouldn't suggest for anyone to move there, their public transport is really good. You can go from anywhere to anywhere at any time, day or night on a bus or train. In our cities, you can travel within inner city with buses, relatively well, during the day, relatively well on trains along their main route, but forget it outside normal hours and forget it between main points, and forget busses in regional areas or even suburbs outside inner city. Busses in those paces suit retirees to go to the shopping center during the day, after waiting for them for half an hour. Our public transport sucks, or is non existing.
Another inaccuracy is your idea that multiculturalism is a good thing. We found out the hard way, just like Europe did, that multiculturalism, an invention of the political left, when idealist in principle, only brings in bad things. When talking about culture, people think of food. Sure I like food from most places. Unfortunately culture is more than food and some people bring with them baggage, and use our misplaced idea of multiculturalism to impose their baggage onto us.
If we reject it they call "racism!"
We australians don't want to adopt other people's culture, we want migrants to adopt our culture. Message to migrants, make an effort and learn our language properly, and we don't want to know about your bias and conflicts.
Have a good one, and enjoy your stay here.
Hooroo, Marc
End of financial year is not in summer?! It’s 30 June in Australia
the big 4 banks EOFY is end of september
Small point...venomous not poisonous. If it bites you and you die, it's venomous. If you bite it and you die, it's poisonous.
@@kimn9802 ??? You did or you nearly die?
@pegasuspestcontrol4895 I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
Australia 🇦🇺 ❤mwah even I live here at United States 🇺🇸.
Sorry, but you are an Australian living in America and now moved back home! not an American.
Over the years I’ve known of people who don’t own a car and when they travel around the state where public transport is week they rent a car for that time.
yes that’s exactly what i do!
And welcome back home girl to this beautiful land of Oz 🇦🇺
thank you!! 😊
Not owning a car sounds like a good idea!
saves me so much to be honest!
How does a small country help with crime rates,they are per capital.
sorry i meant overall crime, i misspoke
Ambulances are free in Qld. In fact I’d never heard of anywhere in Australia that a patient could be charged for a trip in an ambulance.
no way! one of my australian friends mentioned you can get charged a couple thousand for ambulances so you just get the membership and you’re covered for everything
@@elliemajellygreat work on your videos. Keep em coming.
@@pegasuspestcontrol4895 Only free for members in Victoria. Costs about $40 per year. Private health insurance usually covers it.
that is not true. look into it.
Yeah free in Tassie too 👏🎉
In QLD Ambulance is free
dang what is victoria doing
@@elliemajelly only for Queenslanders though, if you visit from interstate, you pay, unless it's in your health insurance. We pay a percentage in our utilities bill to cover the Ambulance costs for all Queenslanders.
Yes, its free.
@@bluedog1052 Ive never seen it on a utilities bill. But it is free for QLDers only.
@@weterpebb You won't see it as a levy as such, the energy retailers pay for the Ambulance cover and add a few bucks into every bill to cover the cost.
Info for couples - application for partner visa is $10k !! Crazy
wait whaaaatttt!?
@@elliemajelly I know !! Totally ridiculous, Australia's immigration policy has lost the plot. My nephew wants to help his partner get a visa so she can work, no way he can afford that.
Hahaha so true😂
Partner visas are not $10k if you do them yourselves and not rely on immigration agents. My partner went through the system a few years ago and it wasn't particularly expensive.
@@freeman10000 Check the official website, you not only mislead people by your comments but there needs to be some outrage at this insane cost !
Sorry dear… but crime “rates” have nothing to do with population numbers. “Rates” are calculated per head ie ratio. Also don’t you think sending kids to school and throughout their entire 12 years of pre university education they have never even heard of a lockdown or active shooter drill? Don’t you think that having a judiciary that is above political allegiance is a positive thing? I mean, when we have Supreme Court justices their political views and alliances are not even a factor. And our High Court justices, do you really think their political beliefs sway the entire nation one way or another?
Things are changing in Australia. Immigrating is not going to be as easy. Bring a tent. Housing is really hard to get. Youth crime is out of control. People are being robbed and murdered. Cost of living is out of control. What you are saying sounds good and but that was a long time ago.
You gotta talk about Australian lollies!
Whatever makes Americans think Australia wants them?
You still say mel-born. It’s Mel-bin.
How do you say Las Vegas? I bet not how it's pronounced by Americans. Never heard one Aussie pronounce it correctly. But do you hear Americans trying to correct us?
Let's see if you can get your aussie accent back...Wait..there are negatives to moving here? I will have to find that video ..
mainly around the flies LOL
@@elliemajelly Ah yes, those damn flies...pack on the aerogard
Australia, more like the America, most Americans want America to be ;).
More than a shoey?
Yeah nah
Anyone who is serious about moving virtually anywhere on the East Coast needs to have a very healthy bank balance. Do your homework and add at least 20% to any cost of living estimate you see online. That six-figure salary will disappear very quickly in Sydney or Melbourne.
USA has better economy, not dependant on ponzi immigration scheme like aus, affordable housing , less taxes and better career and job prospects. And if u have a job, great healthcare too
No please. We don,t need Maga thank you.😊
We sure do. Make Albo Go Away
We absolutely don't need MAGA in Australia but passionate, talented and Americans (and others) of good character are welcome.
@@RootedMate Make Albo go away the vote him out. Simple!
Yeah bring MAGA to OZ get rid of Albo and Penny Wong and their activism and censorship, and most of all make lefties lose it 🎉MAGA🎉
@@freeman10000 we don't want woke