Comments by "Andy Dee" (@AndyViant) on "American Reacts to 11 Things NOT to do in Australia - MUST SEE BEFORE YOU GO!" video.

  1. Bars, Clubs and Pubs vary in closing time based on location and also their opening time. So you may find an early opener - a lot of seaside pubs are like this and also industrial zones where nightshift workers come off their shift. Even in the 1980's and 1990's you could find 4am closing bars and places with 5am or 6am opening times, so you could swing from one zone to another. Also many cafe's could be 24 hours and serve alcohol with a food purchase. once you've ordered some nibbles you could keep ordering alcohol while you were at least socially acceptably drunk. Responsible service of alcohol has changed a lot of that, mostly for the better. Although sometimes they're used to try and select clientele based on other issues than their sobriety... Foster's was definitely an Aussie thing but mainly for export. It was never big in Australia except in the late 1970's to perhaps the early 80's. Mostly it sells to overseas markets, particularly the UK and China. Size. We still get tourists hiring a car on the Gold Coast (and Sydney) to drive to Uluru and be back for dinner by the beach. Sadly even people who are a bit more educated than this are still completely blown away by it's size. Mercator projection makes huge changes - Canada has it's size effectively doubled (although it's still huge) and Alaska looks around 2/3 the size of the lower 48 when it's really about 1/5th. Alaska is only about 2/3 the size of Western Australia and is still smaller than Queensland as well. Only 2 states and the capital territory are smaller than Texas. At least Americans have an idea of what a big country means though. Compared to Europeans who can drive across their country in a few hours, we can't drive across many of our counties or shires in a few hours. Tipping. Don't unless someone really goes out of their way for you. It is not really expected, and we don't want to create the customers subsidising business profits model that the USA has. Australian holidays are expensive enough without adding to it. Rounding up to the nearest dollar or five dollars is kind of ok, but with so much of our payment system being electronic even that just makes everything weird and complicated. Public transport is good, like really really good in the capitals compared to most of the US, although obviously the US has some exceptions. The regional trains are a bit more patchy, often only a couple of times per week, and many areas have nothing. Plus, 10 hour bus trips really suck. Do your research. Don't expect European levels of service (or even Bosneywash levels of service) as the population density just cannot support it. There really isn't high speed rail either.
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