Australia like Usa?
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#48
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Re: Australia like Usa?
Yes I have but don't ever wish to return - land of the free? You're joking! - I have been to school there on a year's exchange too. Admittedly it was California!!!
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Re: Australia like Usa?
Is it like the USA? Well it has Kmart, KFC, McDonalds, Target a better version of Burger King in the guise of Hungry Jacks, strip malls and no real town centre in newer developments (except some shopping centre) but its not like USA as its got great beers !!
Seriously tho I have lived in both and they do have similarities but then again it also has many more with UK Ireland Canada NZ etc etc. The only thing for certain is that it is definitely Australia and its different. You will love it or hate it on your terms.
Number one similarity is ......they both speak English, well a version anyway
Seriously tho I have lived in both and they do have similarities but then again it also has many more with UK Ireland Canada NZ etc etc. The only thing for certain is that it is definitely Australia and its different. You will love it or hate it on your terms.
Number one similarity is ......they both speak English, well a version anyway
Where are the beers?
know I sound like I hate it but I'm just like that. I'm actually having a ball
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Re: Australia like Usa?
I'm a bit late to the thread, but the short answer is no. I'm a yank and I have lived in Oz off and on for a few years and consider it my second home. If Australia was like the US I'd sure feel a lot more comfortable there than I do, but it's a whole different frame of reference in almost every facet of life. At the end of the day it is essentially *nothing* like the US which is both good *and* bad in my opinion. Bottom line: It is far easier to integrate when you are from the UK.
#51
Re: Australia like Usa?
How would you know that unless you are from the UK and US simultaneously?
If there was a line with the UK on one end and the US on the other I think NZ would be closer to the UK end and Oz closer to the US end, although both places have their own 'flavour' that is stronger than comparisons with either contry really. NZ has the whole pacific thing juxtaposed with England circa 1970s (both good and bad aspects) and Australia, well I don't think I'd know how to define Australia. Best bits are the warmth, the wildlife, the colours and smells, the immenseness, the warm ocean, the optimistic can-do nature of the poeple and the contrast between all the different areas and communities, which is endlessly fascinating.
If there was a line with the UK on one end and the US on the other I think NZ would be closer to the UK end and Oz closer to the US end, although both places have their own 'flavour' that is stronger than comparisons with either contry really. NZ has the whole pacific thing juxtaposed with England circa 1970s (both good and bad aspects) and Australia, well I don't think I'd know how to define Australia. Best bits are the warmth, the wildlife, the colours and smells, the immenseness, the warm ocean, the optimistic can-do nature of the poeple and the contrast between all the different areas and communities, which is endlessly fascinating.
#52
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Re: Australia like Usa?
Well said !! Also if a Yank lives in Aus for any amount of time he oughta know that he aint a Yank anymore hes a "Sepo"....Aussie rhyming slang for Septic Tank = Yank Its all good clean fun !
#53
Re: Australia like Usa?
Never ever met an American thats living in Oz. I know of a few Canadians. Being a poms bad enough but Id hate to be an American in Australia. Do Americans ever emigrate?
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Re: Australia like Usa?
Er, what?
Australia does not have an official state religion (unlike the UK, where your head of state is also head of the state church); the only religious schools are non-government schools (unlike the UK) and during my 30 years in Australia, the only Scripture I ever found was in an optional RE class at primary school.
As for a religious bias everywhere...
Australia does not have an official state religion (unlike the UK, where your head of state is also head of the state church); the only religious schools are non-government schools (unlike the UK) and during my 30 years in Australia, the only Scripture I ever found was in an optional RE class at primary school.
As for a religious bias everywhere...
Would that be the same Australia where the elected leader stated that 'This is a Christian Country and if you don't like it you can leave'????
The same Australia that has the fastest growing Christian Church attendance in the World (2008 figures)??
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Re: Australia like Usa?
there is more than 1 Australia? they never told me that!
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Re: Australia like Usa?
that would be the internet hoax speech you refer to?