What I Learned Backpacking & Living In Australia | Working Holiday Visa
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Hi, I’m Belinda!
I decided to share some of the many things I learned from backpacking and living in Australia on my own the past year or so. It was definitely an eye opening experience unlike any other. Hopefully what I share might interesting to some, especially for anyone that is considering travelling Australia for themselves!
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Omg i love how you said ' i shit you not' 😂 so aussie
Yep, she's one of us.
We've Aussiefied her :P
You sound so Aussie when you say, I shit you not’ ❤
I'm an Aussie and our expensive groceries and vegies and housing shocks me too. The last couple of years suddenly Australia has become an expensive place to live 😮
thats just false
Rents are ridiculous, groceries are rising, living costs are undeniably rising. Where did all these deniers come from?!
@@sendi_sen I don;t think any one is a denier howver, it is a place with HIGH wages, Good medical system, very safe, scoial welfare net , good free edication, top universiities and IF you want to feed the family and are prepared to SHOCK! HORROR! COOK at home for them - the costs are NOT great!
@@sendi_sengovernment bots 😂
The flies are mainly harmless bush flies that fly into your face to get moisture. Not everyone loves the party scene, there are many people who do not drink or get drunk. Many just live their lives. You have to find your own space and it is a big country so there is plenty of space around. There are plenty of galleries, museums and functions to appreciate without getting sloshed. There are even people who feel sad that you thought you had to conform to the backpacker mentality but you were real and that is what counts. There are million who are lonely.
In Australia, wages are very high therefore eating out and foods in general
Funny how you only been in Aus for a short time but starting to sound a little like us. You do u and your allways welcome back 🏄♂️
🤣🤣🤣 The way you just naturally slipped in " I shit you not " was pure Aussie gold. Come back here again you're welcome anytime.
Great video. Your insight and deciding to share this experience taught me a lot. As others have pointed out, you definitely have picked up our slang. There are so many differences between Aus and Asian countries, however i think it's videos such as these that can help one another understand those differences. Great job. Note: I think you are looking for an older group of friends to hang out with .
Very informative, I hope you come back to Oz again for another visit. 👍😃
You have picked up some cool Aussie sayings like “what no” 😅 and “I shit you not” , very cool 🙏💜🥂😂
I totally understand the drinking and partying thing. I was never a drinker, much, so didn't like to go out at night very much. Plus, drinking out, is expensive. Waste of money. I'd rather do other things. These days it's easier since there more people who like to do non-drinking things.
Thank you for an interesting video. I enjoyed listening to what you said. All the best for the future from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
this video was great! i’m going to australia solo later this year and i’m a bit worried overall since i’ve never done anything like this. this definitely made me feel a little better though
Thank you!☺️
It was an amazing, once in a lifetime experience and I hope you’ll enjoy your time there and make wonderful memories. I’m so excited for you!
G'day. I work with quite a few backpackers from Europe, Asia and Southern America. I would suggest buying a van, (preferably a 4x4one), and then travel around Australia. The extra cost for the vehicle you will save on accommodation.
, and then some. You will also be able to do things immediately, like move to jobs and earn extra money. Australia is a very big country. 5th Biggest. We have a small population. Our roads are great around the cities, but deteriate outside the cities and are almost non-existant the further away you get. Personally I love being as far away as possible. I shit you not.
“And whatnot” omg that is so gorgeous,I shit you not. 👍🤣
Fresh food has to be transported longer distances from growers to sellers in cities in Australia.
Also high wages at each stage of production, transport, storage and retail are added to the price of each item.
You forgot to mention the price gouging by the major supermarkets
@@vek679 Was going to say the same thing
That's why we are having an enquiry in to Woolies and Coles price gouging. I shit you not.
Each stage of the process gets shafted, including the contract workers at the supermarkets, while the corporations make record profits.
As an aussie born and bread I find these insights from a visitor fascinating. Thankyou for sharing!
If you're into reading the local library my suit you and probably find book-clubs you could join where you may meet likeminded people to yourself. Have noticed that free public libraries are not that common to many other countries which us aussies take for normal.
About the 'people not talking to you', I would say, because they're not sure of our English level. Plus, a lot of Chinese people, especially the current lot coming over, are not as interested in conversing with strangers. So people are hesitant.
Thank you for sharing your experience. I teach English as a second language and over the past 20 years been able to help international students/ workers deal with similar situations. Would love to discuss this more with you if possible. Cheers Les
Food is expensive because we have two grocery chains that have formed a duopoly. So the farmers and suppliers get squeezed, the customers get overcharged and they rake in th profits. It is devastating farmers but these guys don't care.
Thanks for sharing. I do hope that you enjoyed your stay in Australia.
You sound Australian. I think you’d fit right in if you moved here. But I see you’ve gone to Germany. Food is expensive in Australia because we’ve got an oligopoly amongst a food retailers. There are 3 big ones. There’s no competition and the government is too fearful to break them up to create real competition.
Aussies in general, although mostly gregarious, tend to be respectful of people's desire to be private or alone. They will not 'push' themselves onto others. If you give off a 'quiet' vibe they'll leave you alone assuming that's what you want. If you are a quiet person you need to take the initiative with aussies if you want to make friends.
I visited Singapore last year, some people looked at you from head to toe. In Australia that never happens to me.
I noticed this too
This is very common. Singaporeans have a massive chip on their shoulders (not all). Probably the least friendly of all Asian countries. I’ve been married to a Singaporean for the past 17 years and she would say exactly the same thing
Belinda. Don;t worry. Everyone is an Aussie. Nice video.
As a non-white citizen, yeah, nah. Sure there plenty of good people that think that way, but they have an underlying racism that they really don’t like being questioned. They think not being loudly racist is enough and they’ll angrily refute any suggestion that they do better when caught saying or doing something racist.
Really good perspectives. Thanks for that
Yeah Backpackers are probably not the best place to make friends if you don't drink, as an Aussie who doesn't drink I rarely got to bars and never backpackers.
I moved from Sydney to Singapore and found Singapore cheaper to live, alter when I came back to Australia I moved to Brisbane and found Brisbane was cheaper than Singapore. Cars are much cheaper in AU and no COE, food is more expensive in AU, but electricity and water is cheaper, I hear alcohol is more expensive in Singapore but cigarettes are cheaper in Singapore, I don't smoke or drink so can only go on what others told me. so as you see when you look at your monthly expenses overall, I found Singapore is about 10% cheaper than Sydney and about 10% more expensive than Brisbane. The other big difference is in Singapore I never had a car (didn't need one) In Sydney I had a car but didn't need it, in Brisbane it's more of a necessity, the other side of that is on weekends when you want to go somewhere away from population it's hard in Singapore because cars are so expensive even to just hire one for a couple of days. i still miss some things about Singapore, It's a great country, just a different lifestyle to Australia. I also found Singapore's work culture more laid back than Sydney but Brisbane is more laid back than Singapore.
Welcome to Australia, I hope we live up to all your expectations!
The work/life balance is the reason why things are more expensive and things take longer.
Working out what you like or don’t like doing is part of growing up and getting to know yourself, accepting that and being comfortable with it takes time.
I can understand that it may have been more apparent how limiting it can be in Australia if you don’t like pubs or nightclubs as it’s a very alcohol driven social scene.
Just on the price of fresh produce in supermarkets: despite the vast land and large scale agriculture, farmers here struggle, on the verge of being exploited. Overseas supermarket chains such as Woolworths monopolise and require a minimum size for apples, as one example. Batches of apples that don't meet that minimum size are thrown away to rot.
Our groceries are very cheap - plenty of food markets all around and supermarkets like Aldi, Woolworths and Coles. 'Farm to Fork is a well known expression to keep encouraging growers, sellers and buyers to come together to support the local industry.
I think you're living in lala land my friend. Go travel and take a look at how cheap everywhere is is compared to Australia. The sad thing is that farmers don't actually make much money, it's Coles and Woolies who make record profits.
Yeah, nah, @@Fiendish-_- has got it right. Farmers get the shaft, while the big two supermarkets reap record profits.
You must be joking. Probably the most expensive in the western world.
Apart from real estate I have never found Australia to be excessively expensive.
Number 5: no one gives a shit 😂😂😂😂 You crack me up
You seem like an amazing young lady. good luck. 😀
Yep, bush flies (the small ones that fly into your eyes and nostrils) are a really annoying part of the Australian experience.
Many overseas students make the mistake of seeking rental accommodation in a city like Melbourne when it is significantly cheaper to do so in nearby cities. One example is Warragul which is one hour train ride away which is a very pleasant small city/large town with great amenities. It pays to look ‘outside the box’ and tolerate small inconveniences to avoid unnecessary financial pressures
Alternatively successive governments could have alleviated the pressure driving up housing costs. Heck, Singapore has a far, far greater need for housing and they’ve worked to allow most people to be able to have one.
Homelessness is a political choice, and Australian politicians for the past two decades have chosen to allow housing to be increasingly out of reach.
I have the opposite experience. I live in a chinese majority suburb and usually when I get into the lift to go up to the shopping centre I am the only European looking person. Likewise in the bus I am in the minority of Europeans in the bus.
I knew a Vietnamese girl on a working holiday visa making 16,000 a month doing “massage “ in my next life I want to be a Vietnamese girl so I don’t have to drive trucks
If you shower regularly and use makeup, Sunblock, deodorant and perfumes or aftershave, you will cut down bothersome insects. They are drawn too the smell of you, especially Mozzies. Sweaty or previously worn clothes... is a perfect place for Flies to hang out..
16:00 Yeah, mozzies here barely bite me but every time I head back to Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore I get bit al lthe time. My ex is the opposite and she loved seeing how much the mozzies bothered me over there as they close to left me alone over here.
I wonder if what you saw were not mozzies but another type of insect such as mayflies. Every time I go to Indonesia the mozzies always swarm around me instead of the locals. They probably think they are dining out on foreign food. 😂
Australia, along with Canada, the US, and the UK, is not exempt from the global high cost of living and housing shortages.
We love you , enjoy life
Approx one in FIVE people in Australia are from an Asian background so that is NOT a rare species , actually it is almost a common species with those numbers.
It depends on the area. Asians can be rather rare outside the cities. I shit you not.
@@markthomas8766 Actually you do shit me, Aisains are statistically one in five, so with YOUR estimation, less Asians outside the cities makes the ratio INSIDE the cities MORE! It's simple maths - go buy a calcualtor.
I found this video interesting. I'm sad that you had trouble finding people with which to do social activities other than drinking and partying. I agree that sometimes people assume that Asians, women in particular, are withdrawn and insular. Perhaps that's why people didn't invite you to hang out with them at the beach or the park. It's very unfortunate. I think you would be cool to hang out with.
Asians dont do the "Backpacker" thing, whereas most are European
Farmers markets or markets in general, way cheaper than supermarkets and wotnot!
I shit you not!!
" I shit you not" I suspect you did not get that expression in Asia.
Nice video, the reason why everything is so expensive is because of greed. Normal income earners are paying for too many overpaid parasites including banks, politicians, Coles, Woolworths etc. Coles and Woolworths pay their farmers a pittance and they make their huge profits...
Agree with everything you said
Look for your own community..they are probably able to look after you..share houses
BelinDion ,That "work / life" balance you admire was hard won,not the gift of wealthy men. I shit you not.
Rare species? Hardly. Not in Sydney or Melbourne. Perhaps in backpacker circles, you are not mixing with Australians. If you don't sound Asian, you aren't Asian.
You are original.
The simple reason for produce being expensive in Australia is, if it wasn't, farmers would just export it to places like Singapore where it was expensive. Australian distributors are both competing with international distributors, and maximising profit.
I don’t agree with some of the stuff you said especially about the insects. You have to name the areas you went to because depending where you travel you may have a very different experience.
[Verse 1]
The beer's all been bought with my brother's ID
My folks are away, they've left only me
The whole suburb knows, no need to call up
It's my place tonight (Teenage piss-up!)
Most of the girls will chuck before eight
Two Bundy and Cokes is all it will take
There's sex in the backyard, someone will claim
But who's screwing who?
Some bloke will get angry his girlfriend's been nicked
(and) Take a swing at the guy who looked at his chick
The girls will start screaming, "You two, break it up"
It's on at my place (Teenage piss-up!)
[Chorus]
It's my place tonight
(Binge, binge, binge, binge, binge, binge, drink, drink)
It's my place tonight
(Binge, binge, binge, binge, binge, binge, drink, drink)
It's my place
It's all mine, pass the bong!
It's my place tonight
(Binge, binge, binge, binge, binge, binge, drink, drink)
[Verse 2]
The party will break up when I call the cops
Or my parents come home and everything stops
There'll be CDs destroyed, mainly my dad's
There'll be binge drinking, just like on the ads
[Bridge]
Years later, we'll look back and think of the time
When we thought having fun meant all getting blind
And when we're away, our teenage children play up
It's my place tonight for a teenage piss-up
[Chorus]
It's my place tonight
(Drink beer quickly to be a real hero)
It's my place tonight
(It don't taste nice, that's why they make Sub Zero)
It's my place
It's all mine, pass the bong!
It's my place tonight
(Don't have to go to a psychologist
The reason for my drinking is I wanna get pissed)
Love the video ❤
I will be there in the next 2 weeks
I travel alone and I already get nervous 😭
Lol you sound so Australian gf
You sound nice...I shit you not. 😊 You may just get a second look because people might be trying to guess in their head where you're from in Asia. I know I was doing that when I started viewing this video. There's nothing bad meant by it just curiosity. I do it with Europeans as well.
Australia's flies: ruclips.net/video/DiRMEzbOv-o/видео.html
Groceries are cheap , you must have gone to an IGA store, whre they aint.
Groceries are not cheap, maybe you’re so used to paying at least half your income for rent that it seems cheap in comparison.
@@sendi_senGroceries are not excessively expensive in Australia.
Wait up! there are more Asians here than any other group.
stop saying "and what not" jesus!!
upside down crucifix. please dont do that.
She can do what she likes.. but its actually not upside down, so youre attacking a fellow Christian for nothing.
Doesn't that mean it is a "hammer of thor"?
If you actually look at it you will see that there is a "chain link" down from the chain to the loop on the top of the cross. I would respect the hammer more.
She can do what ever she likes as long as she doesn't break the law. Australia is not a close minded theocracy.
you need to join clubs and meet ups for common interests. It is as hard as finding accommodation with regular travel. And it is always assumed everyone has a car for meetups. Public transport takes twice as long so take audio books if going regularly. If you don't have a car you will definitely be alone. People without cars don't even meet their families. Quentin Tarantino loves australia because of its car fetish. The pub[lic bar] culture is the entire reason for Australia's music industry. ruclips.net/video/7n9IE2jRtgs/видео.html. Thankfully people now smoke weed at home with friends, chat and watch videos. Not an option when I was a teen. The only difference in other countries is travel distance due to urban sprawl. Its all suburbs everywhere.