Good eye mates how you going because today, we're talking about the land down under Australia. is it a country is it a continent do kangaroos really just roam freely about sounds like fake news to me. but it's not the world's sixth-largest country, is a giant three million square mile island continent stuck between the Indian, and pacific oceans and this strange geographic location is what makes Australia such an ecological and biological anomaly, with so much diverse nature and wildlife unique only to the country from Tasmania to the stunning beaches, to the outback rainforests and great barrier reef, there is so much natural beauty to be found here.
but not only is the nature stunning Australia is also home to a few highly advanced cosmopolitan cities, with the two biggest cities Sydney and Melbourne, routinely ranking among the top 5 best cities to live in the world.
anyways it isn't hard to see why the aboriginal and Torres strait islander peoples have lived here for over 60 000 years. of course, the British also did their imperialist thing and claimed the Conan in 1788, as a penal colony for their convicts but Australia eventually gained independence in 1901. and since then the land down under has become a country with one of the highest qualities of life great health care, and education system incredibly low crime vibrant, and welcoming residents, and an excellent economy with hardly any poverty nonetheless only 25 and a half million people.
actually live here and less than a hundred thousand of those are u.s ex-pats wait there must be a reason only one to four thousand new Americans immigrate here each year right well maybe you'll find out in my top 10 reasons not to move to Australia.
Number 10 :
It gets hot contrary to popular belief in most of Australia. isn't all perfect year-round temperatures, well unless you're in Sydney or Perth. but even those get some bad days each year and although, a few cities on the southern coast and Tasmania actually get hit by really cold fronts coming up from Antarctica. the real issue in most of Australia is the heat there is a reason nearly 90 of Australians, live within 50 kilometers of the coast the heat makes, the rest of the country, basically unlivable especially in the outback. where temperatures can reach 49 degrees celsius.
that's 122 Fahrenheit heck it gets so hot in the desert here. that the opal miners back in the day ended up building an underground settlement called cooper PD to protect them from the heat. it's pretty cool actually and even though the cooling effects of the ocean make the coastal areas more livable, most of the cities will still get days above 40 degrees Celsius, during the summer add in some of the most beautiful beaches in the world with tons of sunny days to enjoy.
and the fact that you're pretty darn close to the equator and it isn't hard to see why two-thirds of Australians are diagnosed with skin cancer by the age of 70. oh and I'd be remiss to not talk about that, other things, the heat and sun cause as well bushfires. you've probably already heard about the wildfires that have decimated 46 million acres and killed 451 people. this past year alone but sadly it's not the first and it definitely won't be the last.
Number 9 :
It's isolated you might have wondered why so many Australians, have left their beautiful homeland, that seems a lot like paradise to most Americans. but the reality is that many Aussies feel trapped lonely, and isolated from the rest of the world.
and while you may think that's silly since you can just hop on a plane and fly to a nearby country, like Indonesia or Singapore. it actually isn't so simple most Australians live in the southeastern part of the country so a flight to anywhere other than New Zealand means crossing the giant continent of Australia and then some or just the entire pacific ocean.
basically, even those close countries end up being anywhere from a 6 to 10-hour flight, away it's at least a 14-hour flight. if you're going to the US and you should expect to spend over 24 hours in airplanes, and airports if you want to visit anywhere in Europe, and before you comment so what if other countries are far away Australia's huge just explore that well the thing about that.
is that Australia isn't just isolated from other countries the cities here are actually really isolated from each other. the land down under is the third least densely populated country in the world with just three people per square kilometer, and it only has five real cities with metro populations over a million residents, so as I'm sure you can guess the population centers are very spread out and most of Australia is very remote for example the two closest big cities would be Sydney and Melbourne. but they're still an eight and a half-hour drives apart from Melbourne to Brisbane. is an 18-hour drive Adelaide to darwin's a 31-hour drive, and Sydney to Perth is a 41-hour non-stop trek with pretty much nothing in between.
Number 8 :
Time zones speaking of isolation Australia isn't just physically isolated from other countries, you're also gonna have trouble keeping in touch with your family or friends, back home unless they live somewhere in Asia. Australia is an entire pacific ocean away from the US, and two continents length away from Europe.
so the time zones are practically exact opposites now Australia has three main time zones but for the sake of just showing how different the times are when it's 7 am in Sydney it's 10 p.m in London, and when it's 6 a.m in Perth it'd be 6 p.m in New York.
I get that this is just more of an inconvenience than a huge deal, but it can get pretty tedious trying to schedule a call with your international family and friends.
Number 7 :
The internet sucks if you Finally do manage to get a hold of your family and friends, time zones might not be the only thing, that gets in the way because, even if you schedule that zoom call perfectly, the internet might just randomly cut out. or start lagging and by the time it's fixed. it's probably the other person's bedtime sure the united states isn't anywhere near the best when it comes to internet speeds. compared to most developed countries.
but it's light speed compared to Australia which is only ranked as the 43rd the best country for the internet. and no I don't just mean that on average it has relatively slow download and upload speeds.
I mean the most expensive plans still disconnect or lag frequently and a lot of the plans actually have data caps. who does that anymore a 200 gigabyte a month plan in Brisbane with download
speeds only up to 12 megabits per second. will cost just 65 a month and don't even think about going over, or you'll have to pay an outrageous fee, and your internet speeds will slow down to 256 kilobytes per second, what developed nation has any internet speeds under one megabit per second that's just ridiculous.
Number 6 :
Everything wants to kill you if the frustratingly slow internet
speeds are enough, to make you want to go on a digital cleanse and take a
camping trip out in the wilderness.
well don't because literally, everything here is trying to kill you yeah Australia's home to box jellyfish stonefish tons of poisonous snakes, and spiders blue-ringed, octopuses, stingrays, sharks, and the largest saltwater crocodiles.
in the world wait did you think I was done. no no I'm just getting started cause kangaroos dingoes cassowaries emus cone shells, and drop bearers can all pose serious threats. okay well, maybe not the drop bearers since they don't actually exist.
but the rest of those animals have all taken human lives Australia just isn't a place where you can spontaneously go for a hike, or swim without being very cautious of your surroundings at all times. heck there's a story of a man being snatched out of his boat in a river by a giant crocodile, while he was just going fishing, with his family, although don't get too worried. because you're actually more likely to die by falling off a horse.
then from one of the deadly critters here just be careful and respect the animals, whose homes you're visiting except for kangaroos, well you might think they're so cute and cuddly they can be vicious and many Australians actually see them as pests.
the only reason the country hasn't declared war on them yet is that the kangaroos outnumber Australians two to one and the Aussies don't want a repeat of what happened in the great emu war of spoiler alert the emus won.
Number 5 :
Bad drivers while many Aussies try to blame the kangaroo, and their lack of road sense as the reason for so many car accidents only 7 ninety 992 kangaroo collisions, actually occurred in 2019, which was less than five percent of the total automobile accidents in Australia.
so maybe the drivers should start taking a little more responsibility. now, of course, every town city-state and the country. is gonna have its fair share of bad drivers but the drivers in Australia are really some of the worst in the world.
and I'm not just saying this is some Americans trying to diss Australia because I love Australia and even people from Australia will admit that the drivers here are terrible in fact Aussies.
Number 4 :
It's expensive aside from the aforementioned incredibly expensive internet, pretty much everything else here is expensive too because while Australia is big it's still an isolated island.
so a lot of things have to be shipped over long distances to get here, of course, the cost of living varies based on location with it generally being cheaper the farther you get from the coast and major cities. but Australia as a whole is pretty pricey granted it is balanced out by the decent job pay since.
Australia actually has the highest after-tax a minimum wage of any country and a top 10 average income at around 64 000 us dollars per person per year. but then again this also just creates an expensive cycle since the high minimum wage means high production costs, which means it's cheaper to import goods but imported goods are expensive, and well that's just economics and even though most of the wages are livable they're not necessarily enough to buy a home especially in Sydney or Melbourne where the median home values are 1.15 million and 855 000 Australian dollars respectively that's nearly 820 000 us dollars for your average home in Sydney.
Number 3 :
Places close early to add on to the fact that things are expensive here. it might be difficult to even buy said things if you're working normal hours since most shops stores, and restaurants usually close by the time the sun sets during, the week and if they operate at all on the weekends, they're probably gonna have even more limited hours. this one isn't a huge deal once you're used to it and plan accordingly but it can be a big culture shock if you're coming from the states.
where there's an abundance of 24-hour businesses now to be fair a few places do actually stay open later if you're in a big city like Sydney, Brisbane, or Melbourne. but it's hard to buy things past five or six pm pretty much anywhere else.
Number 2 :
Poor mental health services despite their vivacious exterior Australians. usually keep their feelings to themselves it's just not normal to talk about personal problems here. and the mental health of the nation is suffering. for it now there are free care options available for at-risk individuals.
but since there's a shortage of psychologists it's left many other people with no one to talk to about their problems, unless they pay a a lot of money out of pocket, and even then many doctors and citizens as a whole aren't well educated. in the case of mental health here so good therapy isn't easy to find one in five Australians between the ages of 16 and 85 have experienced mental health.
illness and over 20 of young Australians struggle with depression or anxiety may be the mental health issues here actually contribute to that risk-taking fearless reputation. most Australians have earned themselves since it's kind of the culture here to just suck up your problems, and pretend you're always having a good time.
Number 1 :
The immigration process is very difficult while visiting Australia. is as easy as having a valid passport filling in an online application and paying a small fee becoming a permanent resident, is incredibly difficult for US citizens. now for young Americans eager to explore the world Australia does offer a program known as the working holiday visa which allows you to live in the country for a year or
two in exchange for paid work, but if you want to move here permanently there are a a lot of requirements such as, a confirmation of funds a skill set assessment proficiency in English a health exam no criminal record and being under the age of 45. for the most part, you either have to have a lot of money saved up, and plan to start a business in Australia or offer a highly desired skill that no available Australian worker has so while it's definitely easier to move here then to certain countries in Europe.
it's
still very difficult for your average American to immigrate here permanently
and that's probably why only one to four thousand Americans do it each year. I'm
sure more would if they could but Australia
is
a beautiful country with amazing cities culture and people so if you're willing
to go through the troubles and put in the effort of moving here you won't be
disappointed
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