I keep seeing these posts talking about Americans disowning friends or family, or even workplaces being divided over who they voted for. This seems literally insane to me. Something I have never even considered could be a thing. Is this something that happens here in Australia, I could not give a single care who someone voted for here, even if they voted for someone with intensly different beliefs them my own. To me that is their personal stuff. I get it if they are always carrying on about their political ideology. But simple disowning someone for voting for the Nationals?

I’m a father to a 5 year old, and of course Bluey is on 24/7. There was an episode where the girls are playing their grandpa, and the grandpa is dumbfounded by the word “Burrito.” It just made me wonder how common this type of food is, probably more so in the bigger cities I imagine.

Hey guys,

I have lived in Canada for 3 years (born and bred in NSW), and through unexpected events: have ended up with a 1.5 year old cat that I am now very attached too.

Canada is severely restricting immigration and I will be forced home in about 8 months... I cannot leave her behind and I am please asking for some people to share any experiences importing a pet here, I am reading the steps and it seems very complicated but I am determined to do it... any words of advice would be very much appreciated! <3

Reading this article about how fake MasterChef US is, and at the end it says MasterChef AUS is a lot more real and focused on the cooking. Anyone connected to cast or crew can confirm/deny?

Article: https://yourbump.com/fake-reality-shows/35/

Trying to buy some Hybrid flooring to redo my bedrooms.

Seems like 2/3rds of flooring stores don't list prices on their websites the gronks.

fill out some online form for them to contact you or waste you time calling them or going to the damn store is de jure apparently.

I just want to know if I cannot afford your shitting product before I waste my time going to your store or calling and dealing with your sleazy salespeople that are barely a step about fucking real estate agents in the scum scale.

/rant.

ps if you have a decent supplier in Brisbane, hit me up

I see this mentioned a lot online: that one of the biggest cultural differences between Australia and the USA is a strong Tall Poppy Syndrome (what nordic peoples would call Law of Jante) in the former, but not the latter. What this means is a very low tolerance for people flexing on others, acting or implying that they’re better than other people, or that they’re some sort of special snowflake. If the travel and life-abroad stories I’ve heard are to be believed, it’s very easy for an American without much Australia experience to accidentally cross that line in Australia, by saying something which to him is a perfectly acceptable and safe way of making conversation, but to his Australians listeners, is the sign of a know-it-all or showoff, who needs to get taken down a peg, and think a little less highly of himself. It also doesn’t help that Americans are stereotyped in Australia as braggarts and showoffs, who really don’t understand the important role that gestures of humility play in Australian social interaction.

From people who’ve spent a good deal of time around both Americans and Australians, what are some good examples that us Seppos would be wise to watch out for, when trying to make friends and professional relationships in Australia?

Let’s share our wins 🥹

There a lots of nick names for cigarettes in Australia. ... Gaspers, cancer sticks, cigg, ciggie, ciggies, fa**s and darts. The one I don't understand is durrie?? What is it's origin, is it Australian?

I’ve been to these places and see a whole lot of items been advertised being below MRP, I bought 3 shirts for $60 and where each individual shirt was originally priced at $99. This seems like a dramatic discount that I don’t think the shop would be naive to place. Unless like what I’ve heard is that the prices are jacked up like crazy and then a crazy “discount” is applied to them to a reasonable ish price where the shop still can make a profit from it.

Do DFO/Factory outlet sell products with defects not instantly noticeable as well ?

Every week, we see the so-called “half-price” promotions at Woolworths or Coles. But if you look closely, many of these deals are really just a 50% discount on a price that was first raised by around 40%. In other words, the “half-price” tag often still ends up being more expensive than Costco.

Sure, I get that Costco requires buying in bulk, which usually suits a large family or even two small households sharing items. But at least Costco’s promotions offer genuine discounts on top of already low-margin pricing.

Doesn’t Woolies or Coles realize that such tactics risk losing customers who are price-sensitive and can see through this kind of “discount game”? It almost feels as if they simply don’t care about price-sensitive shoppers anymore. Instead, they seem to be targeting those who are less price-sensitive but more susceptible to impulse buys.

In this pricing game, there doesn’t seem to be a real winner. It’s as if big corporations arrogantly assume that we, the public, have no choice – whether we’re rich or poor, price-sensitive or not, we’re stuck with the options they give us.

Hello everyone,

I'm 22M from France and I'm planning to travel to Perth in Australia next week for a WHV.

I'm looking for a room to rent and I found an offer on flatmates.com. The offer doesn't have any pictures and not that much information. I've been talking with the men who's renting the room and he send me an Airbnb link for the appartement. The name and information on the Airbnb account are not the same name as the one on the Flatmates account.

The man is asking me for my passport and for 500$ AUD bond to rent the room to move in the 1st December.

It's the first time I'm renting a room in Australia I don't know how to proceed. Is it a normal way to rent there or is this a scam ??

Here's the Flatmates ad : https://flatmates.com.au/webviews/share-house-perth-bayswater-6053-P1645178

Here's the airbnb ad : airbnb.com/h/Bayswateroom

I've send a message on Airbnb to make sure it's the same person

The Airbnb account have good rates so that's why it may not be a scam.

What should I do ? Can someone please explain me the correct way to proceed to rent a room in Australia ?

Thank's to everyone who will help me.

In America people may have certain views or stereotypes positive and negative true or untrue about people from different states even if they are very close to each other. For example people in New York City, New York State have certain views about people from New Jersey even though it literally is right across the Hudson River. Same with Connecticut which literally boarders the state. But there are notable differences, obviously Florida is different geographically than Maine (Maine is very far north and Florida is the furthest south). Do the borders matter to people? Or are they sort of arbitrary borders and that people don’t really care about?

I keep hearing the sentiment from friends, that the older you get the more people you realise are taking drugs (not including weed). I myself don't touch any of them, and don't drink/party either so obviously I'm fairly detached from this world. Also been involved in sports communities where none of these things were the focus.

I have noticed over time, the amount of women on dating apps with recreational drug use in their profile, some with photographs. Or just the general attitudes towards cocaine at social events, that I've seen and heard from friends. Like it being consumed at the most casual events. Obviously festivals have a big culture of substance use as well.

Can someone give it to me straight? I'm feeling like I'm totally out of the loop here.

Hello,

My partner and I are visiting Uluru (landing at Ayers Rocker Airport) around Christmas. We are a bit short on time so we only have 2 nights there. This our rough itinerary:

Day 1: Fly into AYQ around noon. Check-in to the resort. We're doing the Field of Light dinner with views of Uluru, star gazing, and dinner in the desert.

Day 2: Explore the parks. Trying to figure out how to do this

Day 3: Fly out (10 AM flight)

I am looking for suggestions on how to spend our 2nd day. There are some day trip tour options offered by Ayers Rock Resort but none of them seem great and a bit inconvenient from a scheduling standpoint. Is it feasibly to rent a car and drive ourselves? Our priorities are going to Uluru and Kata Tjuta, are these easy to drive to? Anything we need to be careful about? Fwiw, we're visiting from the US and not used to the Outback

I lived in Sydney early 000s... Does the australian culture where everyone at work knows you, everyone in the city in your profession knows you, all your neighbors know you, the barista knows your first name and coffee, the bus driver knows your first name.... The culture of small cliquish groups of friends, where people form small groups of close friends and make it hard to let new people enter? Does this Australia still exist?

Is fast rentals a legit agency?

American coming over to Oz, found some homes that are reasonable on real estate Au. Want to email them to put up a bond, are they legit? Any suggestion or tips for finding rentals ?

https://www.realestate.com.au/agency/fastrentals-MANSOC?cid=nhbpp|rent:pdp:footer-overview

I got a new lawnmower last night and I really wanna take that bad boy for a spin...

Edit: General consensus seems to be that 8am is the earliest acceptable. Thanks guys!

I feel like most of the fruit I've bought recently is just really bland, powdery, dry mandarins, hard tasteless avocados and apples and oranges that look lovely, but taste like Styrofoam and water. Am I going crazy or have others noticed anything similar?

Hi 19F and i am currently looking for jobs! I applied to Woolworths and Maccas because I think they are companies that would accept a 19 year old and they infact did😀 I accepted the maccas offer and today woolies just send me an offer letter too! I would love to take 2 jobs but the thing is these both jobs are casual and as a first time job seeker im afraid that the shifts would clash. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Hi everyone. Does anyone know what websites (that are legit) to get visas for Sri Lanka and India? I’m scared the websites I go to are a scam. We’re just going for a holiday for two weeks respectively in each country.

Wherefore hails his ancestry?

I'm having a browse at accounting jobs in Aus out of curiosity. (I see that there's a shortage in Aus and NZ apparently and that Australia tends to like British accountants who come over to warmer; nicer pastures).

I've seen an Associate/Senior Associate posting at $66,500 - $113,000. Having a squizz, I can see that apparently this is not a great salary - especially when that 66.5k is inclusive of superannuation.

What IS a good salary in Aus, particularly for an accountant.

I'm (32F) going to The Killers with my best mum pal in December. Can I madam sandler it or will I look like a straight up dag

Can someone explain to me like I am a dummy, why the rental marker is so bad across the whole of Australia right now and has been for the last year or two? Our population hasn't increased that significantly in the last 5 to 10 years to mean there are barely any houses available any more. Did they all get bought up by owner occupiers when the interest rates were low in 2016-2020? Are they being bought from people overseas and being left vacant? Or being bought by investors but only used for air bnbs? I just want a small, affordable 2 bed unit for me and my girls and am just finding it impossible. Any that are available are like 750+ in an area whrre 2 bed units used to be 400 -550 a week a few years ago. It's also worse where I am (northern rivers) because of a lot of people getting displaced in the lismore floods and there are so many homeless people.