Comments by "Jeni10" (@Jeni10) on "American Reacts to 10 Reasons NOT to Move to Australia" video.

“Pretty darn close to the Equator” - yeah right, Australia occupies the entire Equator by being stretched along its entire length. DUH! Mexico and Florida are just as close if not closer and people live in both of those places! He’s also wrong about the Outback! Cattle stations and sheep stations, the Australian Wheatbelt and our entire river system thrives because of the Outback!
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If we want to go to Melbourne, we FLY! It takes an hour! I used to drive from Sydney to Adelaide for the F1 GP every year, because driving was part of my holiday experience! I love to drive and seeing Australia’s wonderful views is well worth that to me. If not, just hop on a plane!
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The shops close at 5:30pm so staff can go home and take care of their families. We do have late night stores in some places but when Coles introduced 24 hour trading about ten years ago, it was great for the first few weeks and then it tapered off to a trickle, which meant paying staff double time was just throwing money away, since there was barely any trade. So the supermarkets adapted and now remain open until 10pm weeknights.
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We call them bushfires and they’re a necessary part of our country’s survival! Like all of nature, there has to be a balance maintained otherwise our ecology will collapse.
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I’ve been driving in Australia for 40 years and have never had an accident nor even witnessed one! Nor have any of my friends been injured while driving.
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They always make it seem like our wildlife is ready to attack us when we walk out the front door! You need to go where those animals live in order to even see them! If you’re fishing in a croc infested river, you’re the idiot! Also you’re way up north in the Top End where the crocs are well known to live and signs are everywhere warning you not to go close to the river’s edge! It gets to 42C maybe three days in the summer but we have air conditioning in our cars and our homes as well as shopping malls, and we know to Slip Slop Slap!
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Nowhere in the world can you go on a hike without having a lot of knowledge of the area you plan to go and have first aid at the ready and a cell phone for emergencies. Don’t hike alone, for one thing!
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Most shops close at 5:30pm but we have Thursday night shopping till 9pm so workers can get what they need. He’s out of date, mental health is becoming much better, but until covid, most Aussies didn’t have a therapist, but it seems most Americans, especially the rich and famous, have a therapist like we have a GP! Here, if you need mental help, your GP will refer you to a reputable doctor.
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Most Americans come for a holiday but unless they fall in love with an Aussie, they go back home or convince their loved one to migrate.
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Ian, the reason America has lower costs in so many areas is because you have millions more residents paying taxes. Our entire country has to function on taxes from less than 25 million people. Naturally there are going to be differences in where we can best apply those taxes, with health and education taking the mammoth share, understandably. I’m not worried about internet speeds because I know that won’t be with us for too much longer, so I need to be able to adapt to a simpler lifestyle when it disappears. Nothing this video counts as a reason to not live here is actually valid. You can’t compare Australia’s economy, lifestyle, transport and government to that of the US, it’s like comparing a mouse to an elephant.
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We pay motor vehicle registration based on the age of the car, its condition and its intended usage. If you want personalised number plates, you can buy them and pay an annual rental fee to keep them. The monies for all these things go towards our road maintenance, which we maintain very well.
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No tourism in the last two years!
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Our drivers are not that bad. You’ll always get the hoons who chuck wheelies and drive while drunk, but by no means is that all of us nor even the majority of us! The US has police chases all over the internet! At least our driver stop when a cop car comes up behind them! America manufactures cars and has its own fuel sources. We don’t.
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@SnowyRVulpix I never see it and I live in the suburbs of Sydney. It would show up in the data if things were as bad as the guy in the video claims. Here’s the NSW figures for fatalities in 2021: “During the twelve months ending December 2021, there were 270 fatalities, 14 fewer fatalities (5 per cent) than the twelve months ending December 2020 and the lowest January to December total since 1923 (with 231 fatalities).”
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@SnowyRVulpix How many car accidents happen a year NSW? 2.2 Road fatalities per 100,000 registered motor vehicles in each state/territory 2016 2020 New South Wales 7.07 5.07 Victoria 6.19 4.12 Queensland 6.51 6.61 South Australia 6.30 6.44
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How many people die a year by kangaroos? Kangaroo collisions between 2000 and 2010 caused 16 deaths, 1.6 deaths per year from collisions with motor vehicles.
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As for time zones, I have friends all around the world, as do you! It’s perfectly possible to have a conversation with anyone in the world vis apps like Messenger, where you can ask a question or tell your friends a story about your day, and they’ll respond to you just as eagerly when they get back!
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Why would we drive when we can fly anywhere in 30 minutes to three hours! If we drive, it’s because there’s a wonderful drive to be had, with dozens of interesting towns and places of interest well worth exploring along the way, which becomes a big part of a fun and interesting holiday. In fact, you don’t even need a destination but you do need to plan your driving adventures so you know where and when to refuel and pick up water, food and supplies.
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Isolated? What a load of crap!
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Indeed, we protect our citizens’ jobs first, we have to!
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Aussies don’t feel trapped! My goodness! We live in God’s country!
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No one drives across the Nullarbor! They fly or go by train!
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Overseas flights are fine! Come prepared to occupy your mind with some favourite things - letter writing, photography, pressure socks that you can swap out from your shoes but still keep your feet from swelling, iPad, crossword puzzles, a great book you haven’t had time to read, and so on. Keep hydrated, move out of your seat every couple of hours to help keep your circulation going and reduce the risk of blood clots. Do your research about Customs and what can be brought into Australia, because if you forget something and they find it, you can be in for a heavy fine for undeclared items. I’ve flown to Europe which was 26 hours including stopovers, so 14 hours is nothing in comparison.
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