podgypossum

Just so we can redress the balance a bit. How about listing 10 things you like about Oz?

I wonder how long it will be before THIS evolves into an arguement...


1. Dare i say beaches???


2. Brilliant road systems

3. great public transport

4. Excellent restaurants

5. fruit and veg that tastes like it should!

6. "no worries" attitude

7. friendly natives

8. swimming with dolphins

9. stunning flora and fauna

10. drive through liquor stores

downunderpom

1: Elbow room

2: Large properties

3: Being able to park

4: Cheap petrol

5: Barbies

6: Scuba diving

7: Sunshine (warmth)

8: Reasonably priced, tasty meat

9: Every climate you could want, without having to leave the country

10: Not living in the UK!

bondipom

1 The Wife
2 James Squires
3 Wilderness
4 Food
5 Sydney Harbour
6 Surfing
7 Weather
8 Cheap public transport
9 Mullets
10 Fat Pizza

jayr

1. Beaches, and sea temperatures

2. Good quality meat and veggies

3. Climate

4. Storms

5. Laid back attitude

6. Dining outside

7. Houses with swimming pools

8. Safe, clean streets

9. Parks everywhere

10. Flora and fauna generally

MikeStanton

1. The wide-open spaces

2. Lots of child-friendly spaces/parks

3. Lack of litter

4. Clean, free BBQs available to the public

5. Sydney harbour

6. The irreverant way Aussies treat their politicians

7. Sizzler restaurants (OK, I know they are American!)

8. Informality

9. Relatively low cost of urban travel

10. Being able to get the ferry to/from work...

Trevglas

my list:

1. Being able to use high beam at night cos the road is empty

2. Beetroot on your burger

3. Friendly "natives"

4. A country not obsessed with watching Neighbors

5. Plenty of unspoilt country

6. Decent sized, and tasty steaks

7. A more classless society, less of the status chasing bull droppings!

8. Spectacular night sky, (less light pollution than the UK)

9. $7000 first homebuyers grant!

10 No more winters where its grey and damp for 4 months at a time

Lany

1. Variety of restaurants and reasonable cost of meals
2. Eating outside
3. Days when it's sunny but there's a lovely cool breeze
4. Cost of petrol
5. Amount of beaches to choose from
6. Going to werribee zoo, taking a picnic and sitting on the grass listening to live music as the sun is going down.
7. Slurrpees!
8. Lygon street - even though it's touristy it still feels like a little piece of italy
9. Prahran market
10. Air conditioning!

dazuk

Where you can buy decent European beer at twice the price of the UK, or drink the natives piss, HMMMMM nice

HUP

Hey Daz welcome back, what a pleasure it is to have your small minded whingin back today. Like I said Daz your repatriated now enjoy it.

dazuk

Originally posted by podgypossum
Just so we can redress the balance a bit. How about listing 10 things you like about Oz?

I wonder how long it will be before THIS evolves into an arguement...


1. Dare i say beaches???

OK better than Margate
2. Brilliant road systems
Ha Ha, i nearly pissed myself!! You mean pot holed "highways" and toll motorways with ridiculously low (and very heavily enforced) speed limits
3. great public transport

Where the f^%k do you live??? What a joke, a car is mandatory in oz as soon as you leave a city centre
4. Excellent restaurants

Yeah, like great indian and vegetarian restaurants

5. fruit and veg that tastes like it should!
Shite???
6. "no worries" attitude

Cant be fecked mate Im off to sink some piss
7. friendly natives

8. swimming with dolphins

Errrmmm maybe once a year on your drive up the coast(If you can afford it on Aussie wages)
9. stunning flora and fauna

Dead kangaroos by the roadside and gum trees
10. drive through liquor stores

Where you can buy decent European beer at twice the price of the UK, or drink the natives piss, HMMMMM nice

bondipom

Daz have you ever considered suicide? I am not suggesting it but your complete negativity about everywhere makes me wonder how you get out of bed in the morning.

dazuk

My kind sir how could I be negative when I awake in dear old blighty???

Megalania

1. Absence of the Quorn Be-Headed.

bondipom

You have whinged about blighty in the past.

WBB

i think your in the wrong thread, quorn man is going off on one in the other thread.

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