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

  1. The two closest million plus cities are Adelaide to Melbourne, which is about an 8.5 hour drive. We do have some half million plus cities, but most of them are basically in a conurbation with the bigger cities (eg Gold Coast and Brisbane, Newcastle and Sydney). Likewise quarter million plus cities like Ipswich, Logan, Sunshine Coast, Wollongong, Geelong all kind of get swallowed up too). Melbourne to Brisbane in 18 hours? Good luck with that. Fuel stops, inevitable roadworks, food, toilet breaks. Usually takes me 21+ hours.
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  2. "a highly desired skill that no aussie worker has" You think? We in Australia joked about how this was (and still is being) rorted. All you needed to do was sign up to a Certificate III in Hairdressing or something of equal value , and you would get residency based on doing a $500 Tafe Course. Our taxi drivers, and 7-11's, people joke about too. But not just those, but our forklift drivers, truck drivers, our warehouses, supermarkets and farms are full of people who came out here on worker visas because of the lack of "highly desired skills" for basically simple manual labourer jobs with minimal skill requirements. Basically, anywhere there is the potential to bring in overseas workers and then try and exploit them our businesses are there to make a quick buck while doing someone over, whether it is underpayment or actual physical abuse.
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  3. Affordability is based on wages, and American wages suck. They've stagnated for the last 30 years. Australian wages have stagnated for the last ten years, but house pricing has skyrocketed. In 2021, house prices went up over 20% in most of Australia, and wages didn't noticably increase (about 0.2%). So to buy a house to live here, crazy un affordable. Average prices in Sydney for a House are about $1.2 Million, and that's including all the "cheap houses" 70 km away from the CBD. Apartments within 15 km of the city average about $1.5 Million, and houses in that close will set you back $2 million and up, getting higher the closer you go in. Expect to pay upwards of $10 million to be close to the waterfront, too. Actual waterfront will start at maybe $25 million. Melbourne the median is about $1 million for a house, but given that Melbourne is basically a square 100 km wide with a bay cut out of the middle that means that that's the average including fringes 70 km from the city, and houses within the 15 km zone are also close to $2 million. Even cities like Brisbane average around $750k, and Hobart over $600k. Compared to housing prices, everything else seems cheap.
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  4. How do you survive a 14 hour flight? You don't. You die inside and hopefully you can be resuscitated at the other end. Btw, try 27 hours from Europe some time. Especially with screaming babies.
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  5. How many people have been killed by catfish in the US?
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  6. Registration $600 - 700? Even for a small 4 cylinder it's $800 where I am. and a V8 would be over $1000
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