Even proper cafe made coffee is still a bit sh$t in USA. Comes a lot down to the quality what goes in it like milk and the water. Our roasters are world class too.
The Starbucks comment was definitely throwing shade at "American style" coffee. When Starbucks came to Australia they tried to apply their business model as it is in the USA, it utterly failed because they didn't do their research. We've had a very sophisticated coffee culture here since the 1940/1950s when we had lots of immigration from Italy and Greece, these immigrants brought their coffee culture with them and Aussies have embraced coffee in a big way. Oh and CBD stands for Central Business District (Downtown).
I loved watching the video about why it failed and how they were planning to open in Italy like Starbucks where do you think Australia learned about good coffee?
I will never forget a video i watched of an American trying coffee in Melbourne, his facial reaction was hilarious and when he finished it he ordered 2 more to take home.
I think the “no locking” thing really depends on your proximity to the major cities. I used to live in the country where you’d quite happily leave things unlocked. But in the city or surrounding suburbs, no way!!!
Yes I completely agree. Somewhat understandable when he's sheltered away in Ocean Grove but I find it hard to believe he did the same when living in North Melbourne.
True, I live in a small country town and no one really locks their cars or houses, except at night. We have one IGA and you just park in the street and go in, most leave their keys on the dash. We all know each other anyway.
CBD is also the same Cannabis Oil for pain, cancer patients etc, alot of people wouldn't know the term here unless they know someone using or are using it.
For some of these it really depends where you are. The unlocked door thing is a lot more common then people would think, especially in rural areas. We moved out here from a pretty bad part of sydney when I was 13, and my parents would freak out cause its a really friendly town, so friendly one of our neighbours would just walk in through the back door with buckets of fruit and such that were off his trees. Took us a little getting used to, he still does is 22 years on and is like furniture now. But the entire town has its facebook page where if anyone has any issues everyone on there will try to help out. It's a very wholesome place.
As an Australian woman, I might be being paranoid, but I would never walk alone at night or leave my doors unlocked. I grew up in a small town and now live in a nice suburb of the Gold Coast. There is definitely still crime and creepy people out there. He's painting a very pretty picture.
@Aaron Fuller Stalking is a crime that affects 1 in 10 Australian adults, with women making up 75% of stalking victims. So it wouldn't be that unusual to be stalked here actually.
it depends on where you live my mother and i always lock our doors but when my grand dad was alive he lived 8kms away and he never had to lock his doors at all even when he went out for 6 to 8 hours he would go out and leave the door unlocked front door was always locked but the side door was always unlocked
I live in Melbourne Australia, and there is no way i would walk the streets at night alone! We also do not leave our doors unlocked! He lives in a small town and you can do that.
I also live in Melbourne & leave my doors unlocked. Yes I can go for walk at night alone & feel safe. I leave my car unlocked all the time. Windows wide open in the house. So you can do these things depending on where you live.
As a male I can usually walk anywhere but I completely get it if you’re a woman. Sometimes it’s just not worth it. I do leave my door unlocked though but mostly because I forget to lock it. At night I lock everything because I have kids. Also, the difference between Melbourne and anywhere in Brazil is obviously incredibly unsafe where as Melbourne, with its problems is still better than a country that is almost lawless in some areas.
it sort of depends on the area, I'm also from Melb and I've gone out at night and I know of peopel who go for walks at night as well. There are def some suburbs that are more dangerous but its pretty safe in most parts. As for the unlocked doors that just depends on how safe you yourself feel, I always keep mine locked but there hasnt been a single break in anywhere near me for the past 7 years ive lived at this house for
I mean just like any city you can identify less safe areas - Melbourne in particular you can draw a general line through the middle of the city and split the dodgier North/West suburbs from the mostly safer South/East suburbs. (Like have you seen Elizabeth St vs. Swanston???)
My husband was French. I can still remember being gobsmacked by him telling me one time in relation to calf's head "my parents aren't like other people - they don't eat the eyes". To me - Aussie born & bred - that people eat a calf's head to begin with, let alone eating the eyes!
If you're interested in learning about Australians' love of coffee and why Starbucks isn't popular here, try watching 'Why Starbucks failed in Australia' :)
I've tried Starbucks a couple of times in different countries. It is one of the most disgusting things I've tasted and mostly I've tipped out half a cup of something that doesn't resemble coffee
I live in Melbourne and as a woman there is NO WAY in hell I'd walk through a park at night, and definitely not with music. It's usually safe to walk around the CBD (Central Business District) at night though, but you definitely need to stay alert to your surroundings.
I would agree! as a woman in Australia these days I would NOT walk around alone at night in a city especially with earphones in unaware of my surroundings.
My wife was approached less than 2 weeks ago with my partner heading back from drinks to the office. With some guy "so we are going to have sex tonight" made it to her building then realised she now doesn't have 24hr building access and no security inside, weird as police are in the same building. So she went back to the safety of her friends and easily outpaced the weirdo. Super annoying, i normally go out on a friday about 3 minutes from there and could have got 12 people there within 90 seconds to give a lesson on civility.
I'm from Melbourne. I think the feeling of safety walking around alone at night is different for men and women. I don't feel safe walking alone at night on my own in the city, or even really around my own suburb. I certainly wouldn't do it with headphones in.
You're right. I'm comfortable walking around at night, but i'm terrified about my lovely wife doing the same by herself. However, i have prevented a rape in my front yard, by chasing the offender away with a hammer. I'm in Darwin's cbd. Now, but grew up in country vic/melbourne.
I think it depends on the suburb. I live on the northern beaches of Sydney and I feel perfectly safe in my local suburbs where it is semi rural and quiet. And when I was growing up in the 80’s and 90’s we never locked our doors when we were home, even when going to bed at night. But then I moved to a cheaper neighbourhood and learned to lock my doors after a drunk guy walked into our apartment one night. He had the wrong place. 😂
@Aleksandar Milović What an ignorant response. Do you really not think that it is male privilege (or maybe just ignorance) that makes a male feel safe walking alone in our city parks at night with no fear. Because I can tell you most females do feel fear and trepidation when doing so. Guess because we are he more likely victim of attack & rape Looking at your profile it is no wonder you are so ignorant. Can't really expect more from a teen with no real life experience
Speaking as a born-and-bred Aussie, it's actually almost just as much a shock to hear about the unlocked doors. It would only be something even a little safe to do in the really quiet areas. Here, CBD stands for 'central business district', and is the inner city areas of the major cities
Well i don't lock my front door but if you want to get in you have to go through 2 electrical fences, 2 large dogs and a moat. Edit: There's also another non electric fence, but that's just to keep the kangaroos out.
Another thing that I find uniquely Australian is that when you do your grocery shopping you will often have a full on conversation with your checkout person! For maybe 3 mins or so it takes to pack your groceries. They will always ask how your day has been and you go from there. Never happened in the UK when I lived there for a few years.
I read an article by a UK journalist who returned to London after a few years in Australia. He kept trying to talk with the supermarket cashiers until the manager told him to stop it or he would be banned from the shop; it made the cashiers uncomfortable. He then wrote that he went outside and talked to an ex-pat Jamaican lady about how unfriendly the brits are.
@@flannerypedley840 😂 Yeah, it was hard to adjust to, the silence. What shocked me even .ore when I first arrived in London was that I had to pack my own bags! I remember my first checkout experience, standing there will the groceries piled up, wondering why they weren't packing them! 😂 Mind you, you can barely find a cashier now. Everything is self serve.
I moved from Seattle Washington to Australia about 13 years ago and yes, I went through a lot of culture shocks as well. It was like I was living back in the 80’s in Queensland. Even the word mate!! Anyone here in Australia will help you out if you need it. I absolutely love living here and don’t plan on ever going back to America. I could go on and on but it’s definitely a place to visit but do your homework first on where you want to visit. Tourist traps everywhere so yeah, do your homework first.
The littering thing is absolutely true. There are bins (trash cans?) everywhere and they are almost always used. They are regularly emptied and never overflow. I have seen multiple videos of RUclipsrs from the US, UK and Asian countries whose main comment is their surprise at just how clean the country is. Mind you, I have also lived in Switzerland and been to Japan, Germany and the Scandinavian countries, and their tidiness is on a whole other level! As an Australian, I felt grubby in comparison 🙂
Also we do clean up Australia day every year, and people do that for a job also they also pick up road kill i mean yes there are litterers but you can be fined big money for it too, but huge social no no its why most that litter or dump rubbish on road side or such happen late at night
One thing for people to remember when visiting us here in Australia, especially when you venture away from the commercialized parts of the east coast, is that most of the country is like one big country town; we don't have six degrees of separation here, it's closer to three/four, if you don't know someone your mate probably does and they don't know them they know someone who does, mess with the wrong person and the whole community could possibly be after you (probably why we are all mostly chill). p.s if you are going to visit do a little research and "go off the beaten track" so to speak some of the most beautiful places won't necessarily be in populated areas. and watch out for Drop-Bears
Glenn Gilbert: "One thing for people to remember when visiting us here in Australia, especially when you venture away from the commercialized parts of the east coast, is that most of the country is like one big country town". A little unrealistic but sums up much of eastern Australia. Do remember that Western Australia takes up one third of the continent and the "one big country town" description went out of definition in the last century. The bulk of the population is crammed into the south west corner, therefore the population is comparatively low because a large percentage of the state is desert but Perth is hardly a country town, and the south west is becoming increasingly crowded. It's where we used to take our holidays, but now much of it is as suburbanised as Perth. I notice that none of these videos make much reference to Tasmania. There are always mentions of Sydney and Melbourne, but Australia's other capital cities are Canberra, Brisbane, Darwin, Adelaide and Hobart and the coffee is equally good in all of them. If you visit Australia and want to visit the REAL Australia, pay your visit to the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge and then, if you're visiting in our winter months, head north to North Queensland, Darwin or the Kimberley region of Western Australia for the sort of landscapes you won't find in too many parts of the world. The weather in those regions is always hot, but in our winter months it's hot and dry. In our summer months it's hot and rainy from the cyclones etc and can be quite "uncomfortable".
Starbucks did have to close 70% of their stores in Australia due to lack of customers despite the large coffee culture. They tried to compete with local Australian cafes and did so at $143 million loss.
Just a little FYI 😊 A nature strip is a bit of grass and sometimes tree or other plant area between the footpath (sidewalk) and the road, it's not actually part of the front yard (although we do need to keep it maintained). Hope that made some kind of sense haha
with the trash thing and being called out, a friend from America who came here to study said he noticed we had a very high social standard and there was very little tolerance for breaking them. he was here for the no no times and saw some very aggravated 'conversations' about masks, waiting in line, resecting space and he was very happy to his whole time here, see polite and respectful (for the most part) treatment of custodial workers, retail/hopsitality workers etc, theres a lot of respect shown, even in small thanks and nods. also the 'friendliness'. most people with a smile and nod on the way past, idle chatter waiting in line or on the bus etc. just a general sense of friendliness in the way of he said especially when he first got here, he could ask for help with directions or public transport and likely get it immediately. which is true. but dont litter in front of someone. or think you can cut a line. cos even a 5ft nothing grannie will think nothing of putting you in your place. we have whole tv ads and stuff about it. oh and the ads for slip slop slap. plus how to respond if someone is drowning ads we have, targeted also towards kids. cos well.. yeah we like to make ads, good or bad.
@@karlcx I have travelled. And we are lucky compared to North Korea. Besides. Comparing countries is stupid. You must compare times. I said to my father that Australia is a free country in a rando conversation. And my Father did one of those half smile, half grimace type faces. He said "We are. But if you knew the freedom i had when i was young compared to what you have now. You would cry."
as an Aussie, most of my room was free from others, like I'm gonna list a few. so my desk, lights, fans, my bed frame, my cabinets and a little couch I found. a good amount of what I have was just found on the side of the road, like one time I was walking home from school and just found a desk chair on the road that I've been using for the past decade. this stuffs awesome
An old fun story on Aussie culture shock. A Brit arriving for the first time in Australia is asked by the Customs & Immigration officer if he had a criminal record. To which he responded, "I didn't know that it is still a requirement!" 🤣
Women are going to be far more cautious about using suburban trains or walking late at night, particularly in places like parks. The door/ car locking thing it really depends on where you live. I live in a small regional town with a lot of drug issues & break ins happen a fair bit. People lock their homes & cars overnight or if they go out. Things like car jackings are pretty rare everywhere though.
A nature strip in itself may be culture shock to some other countries. Nature strips enhance the streetscape by providing a 'green' zone between roads, pedestrian footpaths and properties. Neat and tidy nature strips help maintain the appearance of neighbourhoods, enhance the streetscape, add real estate value and create a safer environment. Its not actually part of your property but you do have some responsibility for making sure it doesn't look like trash.
I'm Aussie and I've had the same car stolen twice in a matter of days. That was years ago and it happens a lot less now, but still happens. I won't leave my car unlocked unless I'm very close to it. I agree with him though, Australia is pretty safe.
Where I live we are having an epidemic of car thefts. It is worse than ever. The police have had to crack down on it because it has gotten so bad. Australia is safe but not like this guy is saying.
I actually teared up a little seeing this guys reaction to walking around at night with headphones on. Americans have no idea just how bad they have it.
@@harleyquinn3589 You got mugged 4 times in Canberra really ??? & when you say things didn't work out for any of them What do you mean ??? i lived in Canberra for 15 years from 15 to 30 years old & never ever had any trouble even the many time my friends & i were on the streets at 3am stumbling home from parties or at taverns/ clubs ..what were you doing to get mugged 4 times ??? that's very unlucky I'd say ! 4 muggings with you..
@@stevewilson8752 I was living on the street for 8yrs from my teens, so 3 of them happened around public housing flats. (rip Strath, Ainslie & Northbourne Flats) The 4th happened in the middle of Monash on a suburban street at about 2am. As for "didn't end well" I plead the 5th 😂 suffice to say I grew up in a sex trafficking situation and learned to defend myself pretty early on
This video is pretty spot on all things considered. As an Aussie I've done the unlocked doors thing, and the walk outside at night thing, never had an issue. Now if you want a con? Well there is a reason why every school in Aus teaches kids what to do if they're bitten by a spider or snake.
Yeah he has got most of it wrong don’t know who he was hanging with but they mislead him on a lot of stuff because in my 59 years 6th generation Australian I have never heard of particularly with our slang..
As a teenager i regularly Catch the train or public Transport around at night sometimes and have had no issues, only a couple people high on weed or other drugs and they don’t really bother anyone. Even in low socioeconomic areas I’ve walked through at night like woodridge I’ve been completely fine. I love living in Australia.
@@quokkanox that probably helps :) while I do feel pretty safe usually, I would never walk around Woodbridge or Logan at night alone outside of necessity. It's sadly a little less safe for females
@@nine9nine9 I do the same, work sometimes makes it so I only leave at around 2am (usually 12am/midnight tho for night shifts) I walk to the station, take the train and walk home alone from there. I usually have my earphones in (only 1 if I'm feeling anxious) but even tho I have them in I usually try to stay super aware of my surroundings. I'm a girl for context :) haven't had any real issues. Just some high people on the train as the person said, but they usually don't bother anyone. Super thankful to live in Australia. :)
A nature strip is usually a strip of grass, with maybe a small tree, sandwiched between the road and the sidewalk. It is usually maintained by whoever lives in the house it's in front of. Some people do lovely plantings or vegetable patches where passersby can help themselves.
Melbourne was the first Australian city to have the first Italian coffee machine (1950s)- so yeah, we're renowned coffee snobs here ! I struggled to find a great latte in America!
I live in Melbourne. Always have. Everything he said is absoulutely true. We are very safe to get around. Its not a utopia by any means. Yet I am reminded of how lucky we are talking here. Absolutely true. From what I know of the world, the best ... by a country mile lol
As an Australian it is a beautiful place most places I've lived have been great I leave my doors unlocked at home and windows open. When you go shopping you lock car doors and as a women I wouldn't be walking alone through cities or parks that late at night. But saying that in Brisbane city alot of walks around the river there are emergency poles where you can press a button for police and alot of cameras and lighting for night time. Australia is a pretty safe place and most people are very friendly and happy 😊
CBD is an abbreviation of Central Business District. I live in Newcastle in New South Wales. If I am out in my yard I lock my door. I have never had a problem but I have always done it. I walk a fair bit, around 10 to 12 kilometres per day. If I haven't walked enough during the day I will often go for a walk at night. I have never had a problem. When you come to Australia you really must visit Newcastle it is a great place. Tristan didn't when he was in Australia. that was his loss. Thank you for your channels. I really enjoy your work.
@@lisainthestudio it is interesting that the reason why Newcastle was established in the first place has become such a hot potato. Of course it is now quite a few years since there was a coal mine in the Newcastle Local Government Area.
Similarities to the UK here . "nature strips" are common in the UK its usual maintained by the council in the old days it used to be lined with trees. Leaving furniture out is also common in some parts of the UK. when I was very poor i got furniture this way. It sometimes gets collected by charities also. Actually in the UK its common to walk around in the dark given that at this time of year (Autumn/ Winter) there is only 10- 7 hrs of sunlight. bear in mind that we dont need to worry about guns much however there maybe areas you wouldnt go at night alone. The UK had a big "Keep Britain tidy campaign in the 80s" so littering is frowned on here, Japan is very strict on littering.
We're very similar because we're apart of your commonwealth. So for long long time we did virtually anything you guys did. Only in last recent decades Australia has started borrowing things from America and integrating both and "australianising it".
@@jrussell6579 very true and to complicate it we are also collecting habits from the US, and other countries too it would be interesting to see if there are things both countries have adopted from the USA
Stephen, you don't have nature strips in London and right out into the Burroughs or Suburbs as we call them, it's all concrete and what shocked me was the piles of rubbish bags everywhere on the streets kerbs and the foxes going through them. My daughter lives in London, and that was the norm, including not leaving her doors and window open, or the little ones playing in their backyard alone.
These are all true- my whole house was furnished for free (and looks great) and I’ve yelled at Americans for throwing empty beer bottles into the river 😂
It’s not at all uncommon to organise a council pick up (where the local council comes on a certain day to collect large pieces of broken furniture and appliances, or stuff you just want to get rid of) for it to be gone before the council even gets there.
I was in Atlanta in September and couldn't believe how close the letterboxes were to the road. Here they are a few meters back. The distance between where your post box is and the road is the "nature strip". Its where the council can plant a tree, or put a foot path in place. When I mentioned the letterboxes being at roadside to my colleagues they explained that US postal workers drive along and put the mail in from the car. Here in Australia we have "posties" riding motorbikes along the nature strip.
All true, Australia is very safe, the coffee is awesome, McDonalds (Maccas in Oz), McCafe started in Australia I believe, Mercedes and Jaguars for example are considered luxury cars here. My brother often leaves his house and car unlocked (I don't), the food quality is high with very little GM foods (I think we are the largest supplier of organic foods globally). We will stop and have a chat with total strangers like waiting for a bus or standing in line etc. It is a very different country from most but also with similarities to the US and UK. Enjoying your shock on some of these, you'll be experiencing a few more of those as you continue your journey. Cheers mate!
McCafe did start in Australia (Sydney in fact) I can even tell the store.... PITT AND PARK ST SYDNEY Now... How do i know this.... Because i was there when it happened, i was young, i was a crew chief I remember that first day when it opened, prior to that there was cabinet work being done and i remember us talking about it , our manager said "we're opening a cafe" and we just fucking looked at each other.. like...... umm what do you mean ? this is Macca's you see, at the time we only had those old Perculated pots of coffee. so yeah.. there's this blonde guy standing there in a uniform different to our one, we expected that one of us were going to work a shift in the cafe, but they brought in a complete stranger... 1 bloke, he just stood there all day it happened in that store because that store was known for being very busy, Now... i saw customers come in, we had 2 entrances , the park street entrance and the small doors on pitt street, the cafe was as you entered from pitt street, it was right there next to the stairs anyway... customers walked in ...... looked at it and were like.... What the fuck is this , and proceeded to walk to the front counter LOL it was funny, no one knew what to make of it we really had to wrap our heads around the concept that macca's were now going to make coffee that was at least drinkable and not in a stryofoam cup but yeah, that's the story of how McCafe started and on that note, a few months earlier NO WORD OF A LIE I , without realizing it , invented the Double Quarter Pounder... Seriously .. it goes like this.... so (and i'm going to be brutally blunt ok) i was young, getting paid fuck all at Macca's and they only gave us a 30min break, but.... by the time you made your food, by the time you got up 3 levels of stairs to the lunch area, in reality you had only 15mins for your break Now me, this is prior to being a crew chief, i was team leader at this point. I was on Quarters station (so i only made Quarter Pounders) so as a result of the 15min break thingy....... i decided i was going to make 1 burger that would fill me up quick my choices were big mac or Quarter pounder, i prefer the quarter pounder.... anyway , i could really fucking eat a lot (i'm not fat, i just have a fast metabolism) so at first... i made a quarter pounder with 4 pieces of meat... it was too fucking big, so i dropped it down to 3 pieces of meat and 3 pieces of cheese. Everyone used to laugh at me , and i could actually get it into my mouth but this is what made it funny, ANYWAY , I FUCKING TAKE CREDIT FOR INVENTING THAT SHIT, OK Now.... there were 2 managers, they were twins, Leo and Theo (i won't mention their last names out of courtesy) but if you know them you know them now sometimes i had 2 Patties, sometimes i had 3 Patties, so i invented quarters with 2 pieces of meat and with 3 pieces anyway , one day , Leo comes past and says "what's that , what are you doing" he thought i was fucking around i explained what i was doing and why , 1 FUCKING WEEK LATER , IT IS RELEASED IN THAT STORE....... Promo Burger DOUBLE QUARTER POUNDER Now.. they don't officially admit it and i was too fucking young and too stupid to question this, everyone knew it was me who thought it up, but it was passed off as a joke and somewhat cool in a way that my burger was the one put on the menu, Little did i realize it was take off to every single store at first i thought it would be like the El Maco or something, a Promo that comes around once in a blue moon, but no.. as it happens it's no the regular menu he didn't introduce the 3 pattie version because he figured no one would be able to get it in their mount so they just rolled with the 2 pattie version and i'm responsible for the name BECAUSE BEFORE THAT , WE CALLED IT "A GRILL" Meaning it was a special order and when i asked for it, (if i wasn't making it) i would ask for (what everyone understood to be ) "make us a double quarter" it sounded funny because it was contrast double of something with a quarter of something , i always liked the name, at first i showed everyone what i was doing , later they just understood what i wanted SO THAT'S THE STORY OF HOW MCCAFE CAME ABOUT IN AUSTRALIA AND THAT'S THE STORY OF HOW THE DOUBLE QUARTER POUNDER WAS INVENTED All by me (at least the burger) and i didn't get jack shit for it except a cool story to tell my mates) this is the first time ever i've mentioned it on you tube FYI so ..... there you go
@@martinkuliza I’m pretty sure it started in Swanston st in Melbourne cbd in 1993. Not sure if was the one near queen vic market or the now gone one near Flinders st station. Well that’s what maccas websites, and wiki says anyways
I live in Melbourne... (& I'm female)... and yeah the CBD ( Central Business District) in the middle of the night is quite safe. Feel very chill and relaxed. The surrounding suburbs can vary. Though still in the main transit areas ( like outer suburban train stations or shopping areas) generally quite ok. The CBD and the Metro train system do have many security features in place.
Living in Australia is what you make it ... pretty much like anywhere else. It isn't all roses (and neither is anywhere else) but it's pretty bloody good, all the same. I feel so fortunate that I was born in this great country. We Australians should be mindful of what we have and never let it be eroded, never letting our guard down. We have a lot to protect for future generations.
we have council tip out twice a year and each suburb has their own week. It's fun to walk around and see what else other people have that you might be able to repurpose before it heads to the tip.
When I was a teenager I would often go for midnight walks on the weekend and now I live in a big city and feel just as safe doing so. I spent two years walking home at night after 10pm as well.
CBD = Central Business District In Australia the nature strip is the part out the front of your house between the footpath/sidewalk/pavement and the street. It's generally council owned and maintained and often will have grass and sometimes trees, a strip of nature, nature strip. Also my council will have a "council clean-up" that I can book 4 times a year, I can put basically a trailer load of bulk stuff out the front of my house and they will come and dispose of it. Some councils will put out a notice for the whole street, it's a good idea when you're on a tight budget to just cruise around some of the richer neighbourhoods and see what you can find
Joel: "Now I want to go to Australia" Yes, yes you do :) You have a number of Aussie subscribers and we'd love to see you come and visit. It's a bigger logistical challenge than going to the UK because of the time, distance and cost but it's well worth it. You'd probably need to book a solid 2 or 3 weeks here though to have a decent vacation which again adds to the cost. But we have backpacker hostels and the like, hopefully better than a couple of the dodgy ones you found in your last overseas trip :)
We live in suburban Sydney. My daughter goes for a walk at 9pm every night with headphones on. It’s far from “city” once you’re out of the downtown CBD area and out in the outer suburbs. Almost rural in some areas. We usually leave the house unlocked unless going away on holiday.
Why would you leave the door unlocked. What benefit is it to you to do that. Doesn’t the odd chance that something could happen mean it’s common sense to lock it?
@@tedes72 LOL because I have 6 doors and couldn’t be bothered and we have cameras and a dog and live on a street where everyone would see and hear everything anyway.
As an Aussie I am blessed by living here. Most do recognise that we a lucky in the culture we have. I live in an area labelled by our First Nations people as paradise- and they weren’t wrong 🇦🇺❤️
Hi. I am Aboriginal and absolutely cringe at the use of "First Nations". Not dumping on Americans But the whole first nations thing is just copied from the U.S. and only used by the media, "liberal" whites and Aboriginals in the activist profession. We weren't "Nations" We didn't class ourselves as living in a Nation. No Aboriginal ever asked another Aboriginal what "nationality he is" or "What Nation they belonged to" They would and 99% still do use the term Tribe. Our lands are tribal lands not nations. This whole "first nations" thing is just another nail in our culture
@@wufongtanwufong5579 The word 'tribe' is not from your culture. It is English, and we don't mind your appropriation of it, but please buy a dictionary and understand we are not at the mercy of your feelings, you are!
@@wufongtanwufong5579 bro I have worked with a few aboriginal people, lived in areas that has a dense population of them and got mates. I have never heard them talk about being first nations. I have heard them talk about tribes and mobs.
@@thatshitcray Actually tribe originates from French. I am sure they wont mind you appropriating it., As 90% of "English" words are from other languages they probably realise that without the world giving you basic words you would be mute. Also i think you mean the actual word "tribe" is not from our language. Try learning basic English, before trying to claim ownership to it.
Here on Kangaroo Island South Australia, we can leave our car unlocked, keys in it, and car running and it will still be there safe and sound when you come back :) we also walk around town late at night alone with music. With only 4500 people on the whole island, it tends to be pretty safe.
I lived in a bad area of my city as a kid but it was actually relatively safe. You would regularly see kids running around playing outside on the side of the road. Out of my 5 years of living there only 3 major incidents happened and 2 of them were solved by the local drug dealer. In fact he was one of the people that our parents told us to go to if there were no adults around to help. Because his house was the closest to where we would regularly play and he was generally just a good guy.
Shade on Starbucks (not USA itself) totally warranted. Gloria Jean's is about the same.😎 Nature strip = verge. It's not the person's front yard. It's the public land in front of the property boundary. 🏘️ And, yes, Australia is *that safe* comparatively speaking. It's great to have a community that genuinely cares about each other and, in the most parts, the environment. CBD = Central Business District (an area that is a main business precinct) This is our utopia. There's a con list for sure... but in the scheme of things we are doing life pretty well. 🥰
Leaving stuff out on the verge or nature strip is often done for 'bulk rubbish collection' - a service provided by local councils. Depending on the suburb/area you are in there might be scheduled verge collections, where you'll see entire streets put out bits and pieces of larger rubbish items. Other areas will have a certain number of these per year that can be scheduled through the council for free, and then will incur a small fee for additional collections. There is often old furniture and appliances put out, as well as cardboard boxes, miscellaneous building materials and other scrap. It's not uncommon for people to go have a little look-see at what's out the front, and if something grabs their attention they are free to pick it up and take it home, after a while the council collects the rest and takes it away. Garage sales are still a thing, people will sort through their stuff and advertise a garage sale to potentially make a little money, but it's more and more common now to sell second-hand through Gumtree or Facebook Marketplace. Australia still has a long way to go where recycling, refurbishing and repurposing items is concerned, we do still have a tendency to throw away a lot more than we need to.
Be careful about making your own BBQ or camp fire. Most of Australia has fire bans for the hotter months. Also double check that you can use wood that you gather for a camp fire, in most national parks you have to bring your own wood so that you don't deprive the native flora and fauna of the habitat.
@@James-kv6kb Not really a scam, they want to encourage people to use alternative heat sources. Most important though they want to keep the natural habitat for the flora and fauna. I grew up in rural WA and I understand how delicate the natural environment is. There is so much damage cause by overstocking the land, the use of chemicals when growing crops and even the increase in kangaroo populations because humans have put in more water sources. Outback Australia is even more delicate.
@@rosedesoto-phillips3969 I'm sorry but I can't agree with you and it's not about alternative heat source is because they've got lots of bags of wood for sale . As for the second part of your comment about roos and things I don't see the relevance of that
@@James-kv6kb I'm just saying that an ecological balance is so important to the Australian environment. I accept that you feel differently and that's fine.
@@rosedesoto-phillips3969 we're on the same page I am very concerned about the environment in Australia however when most of Southern Australia has had its trees removed I don't really see how saving a few logs in a campsite is going to do anything. Also we must remember that the Aboriginal people have been burning wood for 80000 years and it didn't seem to affect the wildlife
In Britain "nature strips" would be called "grass verges". The road consists of 3 parts: the carriageway, the verge, and the footway; and there are different road laws and local bye-laws applying to each.
In Australia, the nature is strip is owned by council but its the responsibility of the owner or renter of the house to mow the grass. Trees are pruned by council
@@vivianhull3317 Just remember though, it's not called "nature strip" throughout Australia. Correct me if I'm wrong but in WA they're called "verge", while in Qld they're just "footpath", regardless of what they're made of.
Where I live in Australia, people don't just leave their car unlocked - when they go to the supermarket in the summer, they leave the car windows down and the keys in the ignition as well. It's common to see it. There's no way anyone would steal the car.
Leaving things unlocked really depends very much on where you live. There a number of towns especially in the outback that can be very dangerous. A small town Loch Sport has its police station inside a wire cage.
So living in Australia all my life (in Brisbane, near the heart of the city), we have a whole neighborhood "event" where we do leave our unwanted stuff outside (we call it 'upcycling week'). It usually goes on for a week or two every year, and many passing cars or people are free to collect anything they want. After the week is over the government collects the rest of the stuff to be taken away. This is to make sure litter is not on the roads and old mattresses are not left to rot from the weather.
Locking stuff really depends the area. Regional areas are generally more safer than cities. I live in a regional town and I leave my doors and windows open at night during summer, the only trespassers are the local kangaroos coming to lay on a cool porch.
That also varies a lot from town to town. I’m in a pretty regional area but there’s a fair bit of crime hear so leaving anything unlocked is a really stupid idea
It would be risky to walk in the middle of the night in some suburbs in Australia. The city is generally safe. There will usually always be someone near you
Let me clear up the "Nature Strip" @8:55 We do have a normal front garden on most standard houses. We also sometimes have outside our property a paved walking path to travel along around the streets. Beyond that we have a small grass strip. Technically, any land that is in front of our property and the road is what is known as the Nature Strip, and is usually owned by the local councils. It's also the land we place our garbage for collection.
He is spot on. I smoke and always put the cigarette butts in my pocket till I pass a rubbish bin... the country is too beautiful to litter. I fish regularly and like many others always pick up any rubbish I see laying around, the animals and nature don't need that shite and it's common practice among most people. I moved to the UK for a period and could not get used to locking my house up and car when parking at the shops etc...we don't need to do that in Australia, unless you live in a very high crime part of Oz. I paid for that mistake living in England. :/ And the coffee culture... massive business in Oz, I have travelled the world and very few countries take the art of coffee as serious as us. Your barista is literally qualified and professionally trained, the beans are world class and the social aspect of coffee houses is like community gathering places...a bit like pubs in England. Lastly walking at night...the only people who are out at night in my city is people enjoying themselves at entertainment venues and restaurants or mother's walking their prams to get their child to sleep... maybe that's just my city, I dunno. Cool vid anyhow, and yes Australia is far more beautiful naturally than those pictures show, truthfully... that's why we don't throw rubbish everywhere. :)
The 'Nature Strip' is the strip of council owned grass (sometimes with a tree) that is between the footpath/sidewalk, and the road. The grass on the house side of the footpath is our front yard. The nature strip is our responsibility to mow, even tho its councils land. But many of us treat it like part of our front yard and plant trees on it, even tho council would often not approve
Again, sorry I'm only seeing your channel now... It's pretty accurate! I just got back from shopping whilst my door was open at home. One day at work, I accidentally left my mobile phone, containing my key card, licence, all my I.D. and money on the roof of my car in the carpark. I didn't realize until my first break 3 hours later. I ran out and it was still there untouched although I live in Byron Shire. I would lock up in a big city
Where I live, we have two hard rubbish collection days a year where people will put out any furniture they don't want and the council will come around and collect it. But, people start putting stuff out about a month before the collection date. And people would go around and potentially pick up some new lounge room furnishings (I scored an 8' TV cabinet that just needed the glass in the doors put back in to be useable again) by doing some sidewalk shopping. Walking around in cities in Australia late at night is pretty normal... mind you, I could walk through the centre of Bristol in the UK or through St Pauls, one of the inner city suburbs, by myself and no one would come near me. Maybe they were more concerned that I would mug them... sort of a counter mugging if they tried to mug me.
With my local council in the inner Northern Suburbs of Sydney, we have to call our council to request special tape (like crime scene tape) to rope off the stuff that we put out for collection. If we don't do that and just put it out, if it's traced back to us, we get a fine of a few thousand dollars
the main reason we can leave our stuff like cars and houses unlocked is due to most of us get along with the people that live near us and will keep an eye out for things in the area and let people know if something is amiss and when our cars are at shopping centers or car parks most of the people using them are also looking out for others even people we dont know its an Aussie thing we tend to try and stick together as one people even though we are all from different races and places we are all Aussies and want to make the best of our great southern land
This is definitely based on the area. I live a few cities/towns away from melb and we for sure lock everything. You have to or the crackheads will steal anything they get their hands on
@@changedmyname26 how are we rasict we have more races living here and getting along than anywhere else in the dam world the issue is people that only come over here to vist dont get the way we use speech to joke around i call all my friends things that 99% of the people from the US would most likely kill you for but we say it to each other all the time in jest its the rest of the dam world that has an issue with race once your considered an Aussie and you understand how we say things we all get along pretty well
Been here for six years, orginally from Washington State. I really like the solid feel of apartment buildings here aka as blocks, brick and you enter through a secure door with a BIG key and each floor is with a hallway and apartment doors are lockable but the whole building is really secure compared to my former apartment building which didn't have a separate secured door. I just feel safer here.
As an Aussie girl myself, I’ve grown up eating Vegemite and I love it. The funniest thing I’ve heard an American say is ‘I think Vegemite’s like Nutella’ BABY NOOOOOOOO!!! It’s not sugary at all. It’s salty. And foreigners always put lots of Vegemite on a piece of bread and try it and hate it cause it’s so salty. YOU DON’T PUT THAT MUCH! The trick is to put heaps of butter on hot toast and then only a tiny bit of Vegemite spread across the bread. It tastes good then - In my opinion 😊
I live in a town near 2 relatively large cities in the UK and I can go out for a walk/run at anytime of day or night with headphones on, sometimes with noise cancelling on if its windy or I want extra peace (already pretty silent apart from the odd car here and there) without any problems, I never even give it a second thought. I knew it was different in some parts of America, but didn't realise it was that uncommon, definitly something I take for granted. I mean there's some parts of the UK that are not that safe at night, but from my experience usually you'll be perfectly fine. edit: When I say walk or run it varies on the direction I set off in, sometimes I'll just run along the pavement, sometimes I'll run through parks, small allyway shortcuts, sometimes I even go through the cemetary at night.
My car has been broken in to four times in my life (I'm over 60) I feel like I want to break the fingers of these people but I do not think I should need to lock my car or my house. We are still a community in Australia and we still love and trust one another - in general. I can't imagine what it would be like to live in a country where it was normal to be afraid of everyone else. Australia is like a friendly country town. That's a good thing right?
Not needing to lock the door maybe a thing in your state of Australia but in my state we need to lock doors due to the lack of trust for everyone since there’s a lot of bad people in my state
Not sure about the unlocked doors. Perhaps it's easier for him because he isn't living in the metropolitan suburbs. If someone can easily get into your place and steal, your insurance won't be very kind if there are no signs of break and entry. We have security screens or unbreakable flyscreens on our front and back doors and also windows. I'd never leave my car unlocked. Referring to another of his points, we are advised now not to walk alone at night.
I grew up in an Australian country town and we never locked our doors or windows. When we would go on a vacation we would lock the front and back doors but not the windows. We were never robbed. My car was never locked. However I now live in Bondi a suburb of Sydney that is very popular with tourists and here its probably a good idea to lock things up if you are not at home.
I grew up in coastal North Queensland, and I don’t think I ever worried about locking doors until around 2010. ~ I used to love going for walks, along the beach at night, and sometimes I’d just sleep on the beach. (One night I wasn’t thinking, and went for a swim - my mother was very angry at me for that - because if I drowned, or a shark ate me, no one would ever know what happened) I can’t remember the date, but I remember exactly when I •really• knew it was too dangerous to go for a walk, at dusk - and just wander around for a couple of hours. A woman was attacked, along my usual route (I’d turned around, and gone home early - after the hair on the back of my neck started standing up. I don’t know what I sensed, but I turned and ran home) That was the last time I went for a walk, on my own, at night. I was so angry! It’s my favourite time of the day, and I can’t enjoy it, because of a$$holes! It was sometime in ‘92 or ‘93 - so before many RUclipsrs were even born!
You should definitely check out season 2 of Down To Earth by Zac Efron. The whole series is about exploring the less seen parts of Australia. I love my Country and thought I new a fair amount about it, but the cool stuff I have learned from this show just 4 episodes in is awesome! Yeah the locking the door thing is not Australia wide and there are many areas where there are bars on windows and doors. I think this is because he is from a small town. With walking around at night again I do not back this up. Definitely not safe to walk around in many areas at night (some areas even in day) without a pack. Particularly for women. Again, I think this is a small town thing. Littering may be somewhat true ONLY because he said “comparatively”, there is a HUGE litter issue in much of Australia. There are fines for it. It is true that some people call out others for it though. We do have a pretty strong reduce, reuse, recycle culture here. There is a HUGE thrifting culture here as well, we call it "op shopping" (this comes from "opportunity shops" AKA thrift shops).
Awesome video dude :) you seem like someone that would get along with the Aussies well. As an Aussie myself I’ve traveled a bit around and met a lot of foreigners and the one thing they all seem to have in common is how everyone makes you feel like their mate, I guess that goes hand in hand with the unlocked doors and walking at night - also the littering thing. There’s a level of respect we pay each other which you don’t find in many countries, make sure you come visit and road trip around the coast :)
dude. walking through the empty, quiet city streets at night is some of the nicest, calm moments you can have, hearing the port work across the other side of the city able to travel across the quietness, a car only driving by what would usually be a busy city street, every few minutes. i love it and can't imagine having to fear leaving my home after dark alone.
CBD = Central Business District. Australia is huge (doesnt look it on conventional maps) and roughly the size of USA, with 1/10 the population. What he says about safety aspects is correct to a point, more so in country towns, but also most suburban areas too. I use to walk to the beach at 1am when i couldnt sleep, the thought of being in danger never even crossed my mind (probably not so much recommended for females however). Here, you walk past a complete stranger and lock eyes, its either a nod of respect, or a "how are ya?". These differences are why Australians dont understand the gun culture in America.
The nature strip is the small strip of land between your letter box and the road. It belongs to the local government. You are required to look after as part of the front lawn.
I want to talk about toilet paper. I am often amused when we have visitors from Hong Kong at our place in London, that one of the things they love most is our soft toilet paper! Personally I prefer the system that I found in its most basic form in Egypt and at its highest evolution in Japan, that enables a jet of suitably aimed water to facilitate proper cleansing! Your shock at the safety bits saddened me, Joel.
There's nothing more wonderful than a bidet for cleansing your anus after passing solids and simply towelling yourself dry. Obviously, the towel hours straight into the linen basket for washing each time, not to be reused by the next person
In Australia the strip of land near the road belongs to the local council/government, not the homeowner - whether there is a footpath or not. They are called nature strips because most councils beautify these areas with trees etc.
Hey Joel, he lives well outside of Melbourne and it’s suburbs so like in the country as opposed to the bush so there’s not the population or crime in Ocean Grove compared to Melbourne. When he lived in Melbourne and went for walks at night he would have locked the door. Having said that, depending on the city you live in and where in the city or it’s suburbs you live determines the number of break ins. But it is relatively safe anywhere.
Fortunately home invasions is extremely extremely rare. Burglary when no-one is at home can occur but is less common. Usually by a person who wants to then sell it for money for drugs. But aussie culture says you should be safe and not steal. It might help that unemployed people are given a very low income from the government so technically people shouldn't need crime for basics of food etc. Back in the 1950s-1970s it was more common to leave houses cars unlocked. Over time it's become more safety aware , fear based security minded. True about walking around safely. It can be said that a female walking alone with music at night can have a level of risk but can be mostly okay. On a weekend night in the city after people have been out drinking it can be a bit less safe.
Our back door was never locked day or night and I was born in a suburb of Melbourne in the 1950s. My brother still lives there, still never locked. Growing up, key was always in the front door until mum and dad went to bed.
Dude, come to WA. I spent most of my life bouncing between Perth and Kalgoorlie, the amount of crime in those areas is ridiculously (you can't ever leave anything unlocked). Growing up around the A-line my house got broken into almost literally every week and I've noticed it gets worse the further inland you get. Those country towns like Kal are as dodgy as it gets
@@adrianhempfing2042 couldn't disagree more about walking around safely! Maybe in certain areas but where I've been my whole life, if you're walking at night you're probably gonna get jumped and if it's during the day all you have to do is pull out a cigarette and you'll get mobbed
Australia is pretty good to be honest. I think the main difference is about attitude towards others. Traditionally Australias motto is all about the fair go. Being fair to yourself and others.. we help others out when we see them in trouble without the need to mention it to others or post it all over social media. I've had people quickly help me and then walk off and I do the same. It's the way I was raised and it kinda goes against my upbringing not to offer a little help where I can. Most Australians I'm friends with are the same and we don't tend to be comfortable with a lot of attention. Of course this is not always the case but it's common enough to be obvious if you watch for a while. Most Aussies don't go looking for unnecessary drama either. I'm shocked watching RUclips to see how people go looking to start an argument then post it on social media like they're some sort of hero instead of the clown that everyone else sees them as. Most of us are too busy living our own life and enjoying our weekends to play Neville knobhead and go looking for likes from strangers. We enjoy chatting to others from elsewhere and we're usually friendly to reasonable decent people but we don't need their approval and we can call a spade a spade without going over the top. All that said ,you should definitely come to Australia mate. With your easy going common sense attitude you'd have a great time. Most Aussies are friendly and down to earth. There is tonnes stuff to see and do.
A lot of people in the UK including me will put things outside with "Take if Wanted" or just a "Free" sign on it, we have to walk around in the dark as it gets dark around 4-30 to 5-00pm in winter, obviously we lock everything for safety, but with litter it's always the few that make the rest of us look bad, I don't drop litter and we have litter pickers who volunteer to keep the village looking clean and tidy 👍😀✌
Talking of strips, I recall that when I visited the US the area between dual carriageways is called the median strip. In the UK we call it the central reservation. When I told my American friends this they burst out laughing ☺️
I live in a small country town, so my nature strip is actually about 2 metres wide and it's maintained by the homeowners in my community. It's a council requirement to have at least 4 water tanks on our property which is a quarter acre block and the rainwater from our rooves is captured in those and its entirely drinkable and far better than any bottled water and is actually quite sweet. Leaving things unlocked, in my small community yes but not in larger towns or cities. I will leave my front door, my car and shed unlocked without a worry unless I'm not home, it's basically telling people that you're not at home if the door is locked around here but everyone notices cars that aren't local and noises at night gets everyone's attention not to mention... Most Aussies in small towns own a dog that you don't want to mess with. I know that it's not the best idea for young ladies to walk around at night on their own but comparatively to some other countries that I've visited, including the USA, our city streets are quite safe to walk on at night alone in our major cities, my name is an ex drag name and I used to be quite convincing when in my kit... Not anymore *cries, but I had very few troubles when walking the streets of Sydney in women's attire, there were hecklers, perverts etc but I was never violently assaulted mugged or even robbed, which is kind of to be expected in some places, which is what I think he's getting at, however I do understand some of the women in the comments saying that this is a no for them because even though it's comparatively safer your chances of something happening to you isn't 0 and being gay.. I learned to fight, so I was pretty confident when alone in the city which may have put off any potential troublemakers. Littering is a big deal here to a majority of Aussies and can definitely get you beaten up if someone see's you doing it with a vast majority of us willing to voice our annoyance at you quite publicly if you're spotted, with demands that you pick it up and put it in the rubbish or you may be forced to do it by a group of strangers that will ally themselves in the common goal of making that point to you, even your friends will likely turn on you and call you a tosser.
Mum insisted that we have a (300 gallon) rainwater tank when she and Dad built a house in town. We'd lived on farms until I was ten, so tanks were the go. My first school (a one-teacher bush school) had a big tank. We kids kept our mugs on the tank stand. The upshot was that I didn't have town water at home until we moved to Sydney when I was fifteen. No dental caries, either.
Great you're staying with Australia to get a rounded impression of what it is like. It may be tempting to watch a couple and move on, but I like this more in depth approach (with longer videos). I think the reactions in the UK would be much the same as yours. The major difference is that we do not have Barbeques in public areas such as beaches and parks and we call nature strips grass! 😄
Black Rose im not sure where you're talking about, but we have free gas BBQ here in Western Australia, in public parks and along the beaches on grassed areas, and beside them is shelters with built in tables and benches, usually made of concrete and wood, so easily hosed down just like in this video, so where are you?
I'm Australian and this video is very accurate. If anything it's a little understated. I'm Australian and we don't lock our or cars or houses and walk around freely at any hour without any fear of anything happening. I often go for a walk at 2 am (I work funny hours) with headphones on and I live in public housing in Sydney. And yes, littering is frowned upon big time. Oh and CBD stands for Central Business District.
Dude I love watching you. It literally makes me grin ear to ear. And it makes me appreciate living in Australia. I know your privacy is important to you but it would be awesome to know a bit more about you
Hey Joel, much of Canada seems to be like Australia from a safety point of view. Unlocked houses and cars, no littering, secondhand stuff at the curb, etc. Major cities are changing though and like the US, lock everything. Walking at night is usually no problem either, but like most places, there parts to be avoided. Gun crime has increased primarily in minority communities with illegal handguns being smuggled in from the US. The border is too porous and law enforcement is working hard to stem the flow. This problem didn't exist to this extent here 20 years ago.
I hope CANZUK works out, I’d love it if Australia and Canada could become closer to make it easier to work and live in our big brother county ❤️. We share so many values with Canada, fingers crossed it happens soon!
In Wyoming, generally I don’t lock my house or car unless I am going out of town. Wyoming has little crime, especially since the average number of guns per household is 130. Joel, I understand living in Maryland you don’t feel safe.
Well in Australia it is safe with no guns in the houses. It’s very difficult for criminals to get guns in Australia and they are very expensive on the black market (more than $10k for a pistol for example, so I am told). You are very unlikely to get robbed in all but the very worst parts of the cities and because there are so few weapons in circulation, the vibe on the street is pretty chill. There is also a national welfare net that stops most people from slipping through the cracks so you won’t encounter so many desperate people either. We understand the at if you look after people then there are less social problems and extreme poverty. The biggest shock in my life was busting the USA and seeing how many homeless people and downtrodden working poor there were- you wouldn’t encounter this anywhere in Australia on that kind of scale. I saw more poverty in the USA than when I visited Russia a few years later.
The shade is real when it comes to coffee. My American GF tells me Starbucks is similar here to America, but with less selection here on the gimmicky additions. But here it is generally regarded as low quality, purely branding. Walk 50 metres in any direction from a Starbucks and you're bound to find something many many times better for cheaper.
Personally I lived in Brissie (Brisbane) from birth until I was 13. I think he was nuts to walk around by himself at night in the city. Mum and I moved up to The Atherton Tablelands, Far North Queensland. It's up a Mountain Range behind Cairns. Our climate is cooler than the coastal areas. It's a popular Tourist destination with Rainforests, Waterfalls, plenty of places to swim and Rolling Green Hills. Due to long extinct Volcanoes our soil is good for growing a wide variety of Fruits and Vegetables etc, it's Dairy Country as well. It's a pretty safe area, so long as you're at home you can leave your doors and car unlocked if you want. We have accidentally left them unlocked overnight without any problems. But most of us aren't comfortable walking around in the dark at night. If there's lights and people around it's better. But the City Girl in me still comes out. Sometimes people find it amusing when I visit a farm and lock the car. I'll start another comment.
Haha the shade to USA coffee was warranted, Starbucks failed in Australia as the quality wasn't there.
Starbucks 🤢
PROPER coffee, not the pish Starbucks serves up.
Zarrafas on top
Even proper cafe made coffee is still a bit sh$t in USA.
Comes a lot down to the quality what goes in it like milk and the water.
Our roasters are world class too.
Unfortunately they’re trying again.
The Starbucks comment was definitely throwing shade at "American style" coffee. When Starbucks came to Australia they tried to apply their business model as it is in the USA, it utterly failed because they didn't do their research. We've had a very sophisticated coffee culture here since the 1940/1950s when we had lots of immigration from Italy and Greece, these immigrants brought their coffee culture with them and Aussies have embraced coffee in a big way.
Oh and CBD stands for Central Business District (Downtown).
I loved watching the video about why it failed and how they were planning to open in Italy like Starbucks where do you think Australia learned about good coffee?
Starbucks isn't nice
@@katel7309vile product
I will never forget a video i watched of an American trying coffee in Melbourne, his facial reaction was hilarious and when he finished it he ordered 2 more to take home.
Yes as we know no one else in the country makes coffee lol
I think the “no locking” thing really depends on your proximity to the major cities. I used to live in the country where you’d quite happily leave things unlocked. But in the city or surrounding suburbs, no way!!!
Yeah definitely DON'T leave things unlocked here people!
My house is never locked never had an issue well the back door anyway front door is
Yes I completely agree. Somewhat understandable when he's sheltered away in Ocean Grove but I find it hard to believe he did the same when living in North Melbourne.
Even growing up rural, we would lock the door if we were out. We were lax about someone being "home"
True, I live in a small country town and no one really locks their cars or houses, except at night. We have one IGA and you just park in the street and go in, most leave their keys on the dash. We all know each other anyway.
Nature strip is the grass between the sidewalk and the road, a yard is still a yard here😂 CBD=central business district
Footpath
@@markpaweena781 this guy is American, no point saying “footpath” and causing confusion.
CBD = downtown
The nature strip is also part of Tasmania 😉
CBD is also the same Cannabis Oil for pain, cancer patients etc, alot of people wouldn't know the term here unless they know someone using or are using it.
For some of these it really depends where you are. The unlocked door thing is a lot more common then people would think, especially in rural areas. We moved out here from a pretty bad part of sydney when I was 13, and my parents would freak out cause its a really friendly town, so friendly one of our neighbours would just walk in through the back door with buckets of fruit and such that were off his trees. Took us a little getting used to, he still does is 22 years on and is like furniture now. But the entire town has its facebook page where if anyone has any issues everyone on there will try to help out. It's a very wholesome place.
I think that was common 50 years ago but I'm not sure about now
As an Australian woman, I might be being paranoid, but I would never walk alone at night or leave my doors unlocked. I grew up in a small town and now live in a nice suburb of the Gold Coast. There is definitely still crime and creepy people out there. He's painting a very pretty picture.
I agree! Mind you, I feel safer wzlking thru Hyde Park in the city at night than would suburban parks. A lot more ppl around.
@Aaron Fuller Stalking is a crime that affects 1 in 10 Australian adults, with women making up 75% of stalking victims. So it wouldn't be that unusual to be stalked here actually.
You are being paranoid unless you live in a bad area these are normal things. Probably just worrying more because you are a girl.
it depends on where you live my mother and i always lock our doors but when my grand dad was alive he lived 8kms away and he never had to lock his doors at all even when he went out for 6 to 8 hours he would go out and leave the door unlocked front door was always locked but the side door was always unlocked
@aaronfuller6152well said
I live in Melbourne Australia, and there is no way i would walk the streets at night alone! We also do not leave our doors unlocked! He lives in a small town and you can do that.
I also live in Melbourne & leave my doors unlocked. Yes I can go for walk at night alone & feel safe. I leave my car unlocked all the time. Windows wide open in the house. So you can do these things depending on where you live.
As a male I can usually walk anywhere but I completely get it if you’re a woman. Sometimes it’s just not worth it.
I do leave my door unlocked though but mostly because I forget to lock it. At night I lock everything because I have kids.
Also, the difference between Melbourne and anywhere in Brazil is obviously incredibly unsafe where as Melbourne, with its problems is still better than a country that is almost lawless in some areas.
it sort of depends on the area, I'm also from Melb and I've gone out at night and I know of peopel who go for walks at night as well. There are def some suburbs that are more dangerous but its pretty safe in most parts. As for the unlocked doors that just depends on how safe you yourself feel, I always keep mine locked but there hasnt been a single break in anywhere near me for the past 7 years ive lived at this house for
@@zainanwar9281 no break ins in my area either but businesses seem to get broken into occasionally.
I mean just like any city you can identify less safe areas - Melbourne in particular you can draw a general line through the middle of the city and split the dodgier North/West suburbs from the mostly safer South/East suburbs. (Like have you seen Elizabeth St vs. Swanston???)
My husband was French. I can still remember being gobsmacked by him telling me one time in relation to calf's head "my parents aren't like other people - they don't eat the eyes". To me - Aussie born & bred - that people eat a calf's head to begin with, let alone eating the eyes!
If you're interested in learning about Australians' love of coffee and why Starbucks isn't popular here, try watching 'Why Starbucks failed in Australia' :)
I was gonna say the same! 😊
I've tried Starbucks a couple of times in different countries. It is one of the most disgusting things I've tasted and mostly I've tipped out half a cup of something that doesn't resemble coffee
starbucks is the worst coffee I have ever had…and it’s massively overpriced
Zarrafas on top
Seems like they learned lesson with redo last few years.
I live in Melbourne and as a woman there is NO WAY in hell I'd walk through a park at night, and definitely not with music. It's usually safe to walk around the CBD (Central Business District) at night though, but you definitely need to stay alert to your surroundings.
I would agree! as a woman in Australia these days I would NOT walk around alone at night in a city especially with earphones in unaware of my surroundings.
My wife was approached less than 2 weeks ago with my partner heading back from drinks to the office. With some guy "so we are going to have sex tonight" made it to her building then realised she now doesn't have 24hr building access and no security inside, weird as police are in the same building. So she went back to the safety of her friends and easily outpaced the weirdo. Super annoying, i normally go out on a friday about 3 minutes from there and could have got 12 people there within 90 seconds to give a lesson on civility.
Haven't been there for about 15 years but I think the city was probably the most dangerous place I'd ever seen
I'm from Melbourne.
I think the feeling of safety walking around alone at night is different for men and women. I don't feel safe walking alone at night on my own in the city, or even really around my own suburb. I certainly wouldn't do it with headphones in.
You're right. I'm comfortable walking around at night, but i'm terrified about my lovely wife doing the same by herself. However, i have prevented a rape in my front yard, by chasing the offender away with a hammer.
I'm in Darwin's cbd. Now, but grew up in country vic/melbourne.
I think it depends on the suburb. I live on the northern beaches of Sydney and I feel perfectly safe in my local suburbs where it is semi rural and quiet.
And when I was growing up in the 80’s and 90’s we never locked our doors when we were home, even when going to bed at night.
But then I moved to a cheaper neighbourhood and learned to lock my doors after a drunk guy walked into our apartment one night. He had the wrong place. 😂
Yeah, definitely a bit of male privilege there
@@tishwho Yes. Wish it wasn't so. I'd love for my wife to be safe.
@Aleksandar Milović What an ignorant response. Do you really not think that it is male privilege (or maybe just ignorance) that makes a male feel safe walking alone in our city parks at night with no fear. Because I can tell you most females do feel fear and trepidation when doing so. Guess because we are he more likely victim of attack & rape
Looking at your profile it is no wonder you are so ignorant. Can't really expect more from a teen with no real life experience
Speaking as a born-and-bred Aussie, it's actually almost just as much a shock to hear about the unlocked doors. It would only be something even a little safe to do in the really quiet areas.
Here, CBD stands for 'central business district', and is the inner city areas of the major cities
It also stands for cannabidiol! ;)
Well i don't lock my front door but if you want to get in you have to go through 2 electrical fences, 2 large dogs and a moat.
Edit: There's also another non electric fence, but that's just to keep the kangaroos out.
@@purpleguy319, haha! Where do you live?? I
@@behemothsbaby get a map of australia.
Throw a dart at it.
Start looking there.
If you hit a major city, you missed.
@@purpleguy319 , Outback? Alice? NT, middle of South Aus? The moat detail is intriguing me! I'm imagining crocs and Cahill's Crossing! 😂
Another thing that I find uniquely Australian is that when you do your grocery shopping you will often have a full on conversation with your checkout person! For maybe 3 mins or so it takes to pack your groceries. They will always ask how your day has been and you go from there. Never happened in the UK when I lived there for a few years.
True. Many ask "how has your day been?"...so good for the elderly that live alone. That might be their only contact with another human all day.
I ended up having a conversation with the cashier and the lady in front of me the other day because we both forgot our cards. 😂😂😂
I read an article by a UK journalist who returned to London after a few years in Australia. He kept trying to talk with the supermarket cashiers until the manager told him to stop it or he would be banned from the shop; it made the cashiers uncomfortable. He then wrote that he went outside and talked to an ex-pat Jamaican lady about how unfriendly the brits are.
@@flannerypedley840 😂 Yeah, it was hard to adjust to, the silence. What shocked me even .ore when I first arrived in London was that I had to pack my own bags! I remember my first checkout experience, standing there will the groceries piled up, wondering why they weren't packing them! 😂 Mind you, you can barely find a cashier now. Everything is self serve.
@@Stopthisrightnow560 I bet you both felt better after comparing stories & having a laugh! That's what I was saying, people need people to chat with.
I moved from Seattle Washington to Australia about 13 years ago and yes, I went through a lot of culture shocks as well. It was like I was living back in the 80’s in Queensland. Even the word mate!! Anyone here in Australia will help you out if you need it. I absolutely love living here and don’t plan on ever going back to America. I could go on and on but it’s definitely a place to visit but do your homework first on where you want to visit. Tourist traps everywhere so yeah, do your homework first.
The littering thing is absolutely true. There are bins (trash cans?) everywhere and they are almost always used. They are regularly emptied and never overflow. I have seen multiple videos of RUclipsrs from the US, UK and Asian countries whose main comment is their surprise at just how clean the country is.
Mind you, I have also lived in Switzerland and been to Japan, Germany and the Scandinavian countries, and their tidiness is on a whole other level! As an Australian, I felt grubby in comparison 🙂
We also collect cans and bottles (they are worth 10c) and take them to a can recycle depot. Hence no bottles or cans are usually littered.
@@Sarspariila not in Vic. It's crazy that they don't.
Have you been to German street festivals? It’s so much litter they have to crank out a fleet of sweeper trucks to handle it
Also we do clean up Australia day every year, and people do that for a job also they also pick up road kill i mean yes there are litterers but you can be fined big money for it too, but huge social no no its why most that litter or dump rubbish on road side or such happen late at night
Also it's illegal to litter in Australia
One thing for people to remember when visiting us here in Australia, especially when you venture away from the commercialized parts of the east coast, is that most of the country is like one big country town; we don't have six degrees of separation here, it's closer to three/four, if you don't know someone your mate probably does and they don't know them they know someone who does, mess with the wrong person and the whole community could possibly be after you (probably why we are all mostly chill).
p.s if you are going to visit do a little research and "go off the beaten track" so to speak some of the most beautiful places won't necessarily be in populated areas.
and watch out for Drop-Bears
Oh yes!! Those drop bears, always gotta keep an eye out here for those!! I agree with what you said
Make sure to pack some Vegemite to repel the Drop Bears!
Well said, yes I was petrified of drop bears as a child...
my uncle was taken out by a drop bear...
Glenn Gilbert: "One thing for people to remember when visiting us here in Australia, especially when you venture away from the commercialized parts of the east coast, is that most of the country is like one big country town". A little unrealistic but sums up much of eastern Australia. Do remember that Western Australia takes up one third of the continent and the "one big country town" description went out of definition in the last century. The bulk of the population is crammed into the south west corner, therefore the population is comparatively low because a large percentage of the state is desert but Perth is hardly a country town, and the south west is becoming increasingly crowded. It's where we used to take our holidays, but now much of it is as suburbanised as Perth. I notice that none of these videos make much reference to Tasmania.
There are always mentions of Sydney and Melbourne, but Australia's other capital cities are Canberra, Brisbane, Darwin, Adelaide and Hobart and the coffee is equally good in all of them. If you visit Australia and want to visit the REAL Australia, pay your visit to the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge and then, if you're visiting in our winter months, head north to North Queensland, Darwin or the Kimberley region of Western Australia for the sort of landscapes you won't find in too many parts of the world. The weather in those regions is always hot, but in our winter months it's hot and dry. In our summer months it's hot and rainy from the cyclones etc and can be quite "uncomfortable".
Starbucks did have to close 70% of their stores in Australia due to lack of customers despite the large coffee culture. They tried to compete with local Australian cafes and did so at $143 million loss.
Because the quality of the coffee is terrible. But I like their cold drinks
Just say it man Starbucks coffee sucks
Just a little FYI 😊 A nature strip is a bit of grass and sometimes tree or other plant area between the footpath (sidewalk) and the road, it's not actually part of the front yard (although we do need to keep it maintained). Hope that made some kind of sense haha
In some council areas the nature strip is on the 'property' / home / house side of the footpath.
In such cases it will be quite narrow.
In Australia, we say footpath, not sidewalk.
You took the words out of my finger tips Lydia. I didn’t know other countries didn’t have it.
@@matthewhinds8982 she was likey converting it for americans
with the trash thing and being called out, a friend from America who came here to study said he noticed we had a very high social standard and there was very little tolerance for breaking them. he was here for the no no times and saw some very aggravated 'conversations' about masks, waiting in line, resecting space and he was very happy to his whole time here, see polite and respectful (for the most part) treatment of custodial workers, retail/hopsitality workers etc, theres a lot of respect shown, even in small thanks and nods.
also the 'friendliness'. most people with a smile and nod on the way past, idle chatter waiting in line or on the bus etc. just a general sense of friendliness in the way of he said especially when he first got here, he could ask for help with directions or public transport and likely get it immediately. which is true.
but dont litter in front of someone. or think you can cut a line. cos even a 5ft nothing grannie will think nothing of putting you in your place. we have whole tv ads and stuff about it.
oh and the ads for slip slop slap. plus how to respond if someone is drowning ads we have, targeted also towards kids. cos well.. yeah we like to make ads, good or bad.
It is not like that now, especially since I realized what sheep we are. Lucky country NO MORE.
@@poppyfoutoulis198 you need to travel the world to see how bad it can be. australia is very, very much the lucky country.
@@karlcx I have travelled. And we are lucky compared to North Korea. Besides. Comparing countries is stupid. You must compare times. I said to my father that Australia is a free country in a rando conversation. And my Father did one of those half smile, half grimace type faces. He said "We are. But if you knew the freedom i had when i was young compared to what you have now. You would cry."
@@wufongtanwufong5579 freedom ten feet through the snow. That generation has a chip in their shoulder about everything.
@@karlcx its always interesting to see people equate empathy with being a sheep
as an Aussie, most of my room was free from others, like I'm gonna list a few. so my desk, lights, fans, my bed frame, my cabinets and a little couch I found. a good amount of what I have was just found on the side of the road, like one time I was walking home from school and just found a desk chair on the road that I've been using for the past decade. this stuffs awesome
I have a nice collection of free furniture in our house including a lovely 70's hifi cabinet.
An old fun story on Aussie culture shock. A Brit arriving for the first time in Australia is asked by the Customs & Immigration officer if he had a criminal record. To which he responded, "I didn't know that it is still a requirement!" 🤣
🤣😂
I bet they'd never heard that one before.
yeah dont say that lol, no one here appreciates that
@@convoyconvoyconvoy for sure, it's those long standing barbs between the dominions of the empire (gee that sounds like star wars!!!)
LOL!
Women are going to be far more cautious about using suburban trains or walking late at night, particularly in places like parks. The door/ car locking thing it really depends on where you live. I live in a small regional town with a lot of drug issues & break ins happen a fair bit. People lock their homes & cars overnight or if they go out. Things like car jackings are pretty rare everywhere though.
A nature strip in itself may be culture shock to some other countries.
Nature strips enhance the streetscape by providing a 'green' zone between roads, pedestrian footpaths and properties. Neat and tidy nature strips help maintain the appearance of neighbourhoods, enhance the streetscape, add real estate value and create a safer environment.
Its not actually part of your property but you do have some responsibility for making sure it doesn't look like trash.
They have them in many other first world countries
@@christianmcbrearty They do, but not always by the same name.
I'm Aussie and I've had the same car stolen twice in a matter of days. That was years ago and it happens a lot less now, but still happens. I won't leave my car unlocked unless I'm very close to it. I agree with him though, Australia is pretty safe.
Where I live we are having an epidemic of car thefts. It is worse than ever. The police have had to crack down on it because it has gotten so bad. Australia is safe but not like this guy is saying.
I actually teared up a little seeing this guys reaction to walking around at night with headphones on. Americans have no idea just how bad they have it.
This is true most live in fear of getting stabbed or shot and robbed it's quite sad really :(
You teared up 😢😪 na ! Come on Brian 😂😂😂
Lol I've been mugged 4 times in Canberra already.. didn't work out well for any of them
@@harleyquinn3589 You got mugged 4 times in Canberra really ??? & when you say things didn't work out for any of them What do you mean ??? i lived in Canberra for 15 years from 15 to 30 years old & never ever had any trouble even the many time my friends & i were on the streets at 3am stumbling home from parties or at taverns/ clubs ..what were you doing to get mugged 4 times ??? that's very unlucky I'd say ! 4 muggings with you..
@@stevewilson8752 I was living on the street for 8yrs from my teens, so 3 of them happened around public housing flats. (rip Strath, Ainslie & Northbourne Flats) The 4th happened in the middle of Monash on a suburban street at about 2am. As for "didn't end well" I plead the 5th 😂 suffice to say I grew up in a sex trafficking situation and learned to defend myself pretty early on
This video is pretty spot on all things considered. As an Aussie I've done the unlocked doors thing, and the walk outside at night thing, never had an issue. Now if you want a con? Well there is a reason why every school in Aus teaches kids what to do if they're bitten by a spider or snake.
Tristan Kuhn is an American guy who spent a year in Australia. He has made many videos comparing Australia to the USA. Check out his stuff.
Yeah he has got most of it wrong don’t know who he was hanging with but they mislead him on a lot of stuff because in my 59 years 6th generation Australian I have never heard of particularly with our slang..
As a teenager i regularly Catch the train or public Transport around at night sometimes and have had no issues, only a couple people high on weed or other drugs and they don’t really bother anyone. Even in low socioeconomic areas I’ve walked through at night like woodridge I’ve been completely fine. I love living in Australia.
May I ask, are u female or male?
@@nine9nine9 male.
@@quokkanox that probably helps :) while I do feel pretty safe usually, I would never walk around Woodbridge or Logan at night alone outside of necessity. It's sadly a little less safe for females
@@nine9nine9 I do the same, work sometimes makes it so I only leave at around 2am (usually 12am/midnight tho for night shifts) I walk to the station, take the train and walk home alone from there. I usually have my earphones in (only 1 if I'm feeling anxious) but even tho I have them in I usually try to stay super aware of my surroundings.
I'm a girl for context :) haven't had any real issues. Just some high people on the train as the person said, but they usually don't bother anyone.
Super thankful to live in Australia. :)
@@nine9nine9 yeah but logan has a reputation
A nature strip is usually a strip of grass, with maybe a small tree, sandwiched between the road and the sidewalk. It is usually maintained by whoever lives in the house it's in front of. Some people do lovely plantings or vegetable patches where passersby can help themselves.
Melbourne was the first Australian city to have the first Italian coffee machine (1950s)- so yeah, we're renowned coffee snobs here ! I struggled to find a great latte in America!
I live in Melbourne. Always have. Everything he said is absoulutely true. We are very safe to get around. Its not a utopia by any means. Yet I am reminded of how lucky we are talking here. Absolutely true. From what I know of the world, the best ... by a country mile lol
that must be why on the "10 best cities to live in" list - Melbourne is always in the top 5
Lol, great reminder what we have in Melbourne, but being locked away during Covid was a BIG no-no! Made me rethink quite a lot.
As an Australian it is a beautiful place most places I've lived have been great I leave my doors unlocked at home and windows open. When you go shopping you lock car doors and as a women I wouldn't be walking alone through cities or parks that late at night. But saying that in Brisbane city alot of walks around the river there are emergency poles where you can press a button for police and alot of cameras and lighting for night time. Australia is a pretty safe place and most people are very friendly and happy 😊
I'm sure the residents of Alice Springs or any other community in the northern territory would agree with you
CBD is an abbreviation of Central Business District. I live in Newcastle in New South Wales. If I am out in my yard I lock my door. I have never had a problem but I have always done it. I walk a fair bit, around 10 to 12 kilometres per day. If I haven't walked enough during the day I will often go for a walk at night. I have never had a problem. When you come to Australia you really must visit Newcastle it is a great place. Tristan didn't when he was in Australia. that was his loss. Thank you for your channels. I really enjoy your work.
Newcastle is a beautiful place, my family lives there. It has that wonderful small town community feel and is gorgeous (aside from the mines).
@@lisainthestudio small town feel but is the biggest metropolitan city outside of Sydney in nsw
@@lisainthestudio it is interesting that the reason why Newcastle was established in the first place has become such a hot potato. Of course it is now quite a few years since there was a coal mine in the Newcastle Local Government Area.
Best beaches in and around Newcastle. 👍
aye same newy is heaps good, i do all of the things he said haven't had any problems yet
Similarities to the UK here . "nature strips" are common in the UK its usual maintained by the council in the old days it used to be lined with trees. Leaving furniture out is also common in some parts of the UK. when I was very poor i got furniture this way. It sometimes gets collected by charities also. Actually in the UK its common to walk around in the dark given that at this time of year (Autumn/ Winter) there is only 10- 7 hrs of sunlight. bear in mind that we dont need to worry about guns much however there maybe areas you wouldnt go at night alone. The UK had a big "Keep Britain tidy campaign in the 80s" so littering is frowned on here, Japan is very strict on littering.
We're very similar because we're apart of your commonwealth. So for long long time we did virtually anything you guys did. Only in last recent decades Australia has started borrowing things from America and integrating both and "australianising it".
@@jrussell6579 very true and to complicate it we are also collecting habits from the US, and other countries too it would be interesting to see if there are things both countries have adopted from the USA
Yeah we call them a berm in NZ
Stephen, you don't have nature strips in London and right out into the Burroughs or Suburbs as we call them, it's all concrete and what shocked me was the piles of rubbish bags everywhere on the streets kerbs and the foxes going through them. My daughter lives in London, and that was the norm, including not leaving her doors and window open, or the little ones playing in their backyard alone.
@@cbisme6414 i dont live anywhere near london actually ive only been to london 5 times in my entire life lol
Australian Here. The Nature strip or front verge is the strip of land between your front property line and the road and is owned your suburbs council.
These are all true- my whole house was furnished for free (and looks great) and I’ve yelled at Americans for throwing empty beer bottles into the river 😂
It’s not at all uncommon to organise a council pick up (where the local council comes on a certain day to collect large pieces of broken furniture and appliances, or stuff you just want to get rid of) for it to be gone before the council even gets there.
I was in Atlanta in September and couldn't believe how close the letterboxes were to the road. Here they are a few meters back. The distance between where your post box is and the road is the "nature strip". Its where the council can plant a tree, or put a foot path in place.
When I mentioned the letterboxes being at roadside to my colleagues they explained that US postal workers drive along and put the mail in from the car. Here in Australia we have "posties" riding motorbikes along the nature strip.
All true, Australia is very safe, the coffee is awesome, McDonalds (Maccas in Oz), McCafe started in Australia I believe, Mercedes and Jaguars for example are considered luxury cars here. My brother often leaves his house and car unlocked (I don't), the food quality is high with very little GM foods (I think we are the largest supplier of organic foods globally). We will stop and have a chat with total strangers like waiting for a bus or standing in line etc. It is a very different country from most but also with similarities to the US and UK. Enjoying your shock on some of these, you'll be experiencing a few more of those as you continue your journey. Cheers mate!
Yep. I was trained up for one of the first McCafe outside of the Melbourne CBD for the maccas in KEW Victoria
@@TheMelbournelad I used to go that maccas in Kew when I lived on Hawthorn in 1995, knew a girl that worked there too.
@@smurfylee bit before my time. But I may of crossed paths with her.
McCafe did start in Australia (Sydney in fact) I can even tell the store.... PITT AND PARK ST SYDNEY
Now... How do i know this.... Because i was there when it happened, i was young, i was a crew chief
I remember that first day when it opened, prior to that there was cabinet work being done and i remember us talking about it , our manager said "we're opening a cafe" and we just fucking looked at each other.. like...... umm what do you mean ? this is Macca's
you see, at the time we only had those old Perculated pots of coffee.
so yeah.. there's this blonde guy standing there in a uniform different to our one, we expected that one of us were going to work a shift in the cafe, but they brought in a complete stranger... 1 bloke, he just stood there all day
it happened in that store because that store was known for being very busy, Now...
i saw customers come in, we had 2 entrances , the park street entrance and the small doors on pitt street, the cafe was as you entered from pitt street, it was right there next to the stairs
anyway... customers walked in ...... looked at it and were like.... What the fuck is this , and proceeded to walk to the front counter LOL
it was funny, no one knew what to make of it
we really had to wrap our heads around the concept that macca's were now going to make coffee that was at least drinkable and not in a stryofoam cup
but yeah, that's the story of how McCafe started
and on that note, a few months earlier NO WORD OF A LIE
I , without realizing it , invented the Double Quarter Pounder... Seriously ..
it goes like this....
so (and i'm going to be brutally blunt ok)
i was young, getting paid fuck all at Macca's and they only gave us a 30min break, but.... by the time you made your food, by the time you got up 3 levels of stairs to the lunch area, in reality you had only 15mins for your break
Now me, this is prior to being a crew chief, i was team leader at this point.
I was on Quarters station (so i only made Quarter Pounders)
so as a result of the 15min break thingy....... i decided i was going to make 1 burger that would fill me up quick
my choices were big mac or Quarter pounder, i prefer the quarter pounder....
anyway , i could really fucking eat a lot (i'm not fat, i just have a fast metabolism)
so at first... i made a quarter pounder with 4 pieces of meat... it was too fucking big, so i dropped it down to 3 pieces of meat and 3 pieces of cheese.
Everyone used to laugh at me , and i could actually get it into my mouth but this is what made it funny, ANYWAY , I FUCKING TAKE CREDIT FOR INVENTING THAT SHIT, OK
Now.... there were 2 managers, they were twins, Leo and Theo (i won't mention their last names out of courtesy) but if you know them you know them
now sometimes i had 2 Patties, sometimes i had 3 Patties, so i invented quarters with 2 pieces of meat and with 3 pieces
anyway , one day , Leo comes past and says "what's that , what are you doing"
he thought i was fucking around
i explained what i was doing and why , 1 FUCKING WEEK LATER , IT IS RELEASED IN THAT STORE....... Promo Burger DOUBLE QUARTER POUNDER
Now.. they don't officially admit it and i was too fucking young and too stupid to question this, everyone knew it was me who thought it up, but it was passed off as a joke and somewhat cool in a way that my burger was the one put on the menu, Little did i realize it was take off to every single store
at first i thought it would be like the El Maco or something, a Promo that comes around once in a blue moon, but no.. as it happens it's no the regular menu
he didn't introduce the 3 pattie version because he figured no one would be able to get it in their mount so they just rolled with the 2 pattie version
and i'm responsible for the name BECAUSE BEFORE THAT , WE CALLED IT "A GRILL" Meaning it was a special order
and when i asked for it, (if i wasn't making it) i would ask for (what everyone understood to be ) "make us a double quarter"
it sounded funny because it was contrast double of something with a quarter of something , i always liked the name, at first i showed everyone what i was doing , later they just understood what i wanted
SO THAT'S THE STORY OF HOW MCCAFE CAME ABOUT IN AUSTRALIA
AND THAT'S THE STORY OF HOW THE DOUBLE QUARTER POUNDER WAS INVENTED
All by me (at least the burger) and i didn't get jack shit for it except a cool story to tell my mates)
this is the first time ever i've mentioned it on you tube FYI
so ..... there you go
@@martinkuliza I’m pretty sure it started in Swanston st in Melbourne cbd in 1993. Not sure if was the one near queen vic market or the now gone one near Flinders st station. Well that’s what maccas websites, and wiki says anyways
I live in Melbourne... (& I'm female)... and yeah the CBD ( Central Business District) in the middle of the night is quite safe. Feel very chill and relaxed. The surrounding suburbs can vary. Though still in the main transit areas ( like outer suburban train stations or shopping areas) generally quite ok. The CBD and the Metro train system do have many security features in place.
Living in Australia is what you make it ... pretty much like anywhere else. It isn't all roses (and neither is anywhere else) but it's pretty bloody good, all the same. I feel so fortunate that I was born in this great country. We Australians should be mindful of what we have and never let it be eroded, never letting our guard down. We have a lot to protect for future generations.
Well said 🇦🇺👍
I would be surprised if we do have any culture in another 20 years considering what the young kids are doing worshipping Google
we have council tip out twice a year and each suburb has their own week. It's fun to walk around and see what else other people have that you might be able to repurpose before it heads to the tip.
When I was a teenager I would often go for midnight walks on the weekend and now I live in a big city and feel just as safe doing so. I spent two years walking home at night after 10pm as well.
CBD = Central Business District
In Australia the nature strip is the part out the front of your house between the footpath/sidewalk/pavement and the street. It's generally council owned and maintained and often will have grass and sometimes trees, a strip of nature, nature strip. Also my council will have a "council clean-up" that I can book 4 times a year, I can put basically a trailer load of bulk stuff out the front of my house and they will come and dispose of it. Some councils will put out a notice for the whole street, it's a good idea when you're on a tight budget to just cruise around some of the richer neighbourhoods and see what you can find
Joel: "Now I want to go to Australia"
Yes, yes you do :) You have a number of Aussie subscribers and we'd love to see you come and visit. It's a bigger logistical challenge than going to the UK because of the time, distance and cost but it's well worth it. You'd probably need to book a solid 2 or 3 weeks here though to have a decent vacation which again adds to the cost. But we have backpacker hostels and the like, hopefully better than a couple of the dodgy ones you found in your last overseas trip :)
We live in suburban Sydney. My daughter goes for a walk at 9pm every night with headphones on. It’s far from “city” once you’re out of the downtown CBD area and out in the outer suburbs. Almost rural in some areas. We usually leave the house unlocked unless going away on holiday.
Why would you leave the door unlocked. What benefit is it to you to do that. Doesn’t the odd chance that something could happen mean it’s common sense to lock it?
@@tedes72 LOL because I have 6 doors and couldn’t be bothered and we have cameras and a dog and live on a street where everyone would see and hear everything anyway.
@@Dr_KAP well good for you. I hope some whack job doesn’t figure it out
Most Aussies feel safe in their homes and can feel safe in theur streets!
Australia is an extremely safe country to live in.
As an Aussie I am blessed by living here. Most do recognise that we a lucky in the culture we have. I live in an area labelled by our First Nations people as paradise- and they weren’t wrong 🇦🇺❤️
Hi. I am Aboriginal and absolutely cringe at the use of "First Nations". Not dumping on Americans But the whole first nations thing is just copied from the U.S. and only used by the media, "liberal" whites and Aboriginals in the activist profession. We weren't "Nations" We didn't class ourselves as living in a Nation. No Aboriginal ever asked another Aboriginal what "nationality he is" or "What Nation they belonged to" They would and 99% still do use the term Tribe. Our lands are tribal lands not nations. This whole "first nations" thing is just another nail in our culture
100%, so thankful to live in this country.
@@wufongtanwufong5579 The word 'tribe' is not from your culture. It is English, and we don't mind your appropriation of it, but please buy a dictionary and understand we are not at the mercy of your feelings, you are!
@@wufongtanwufong5579 bro I have worked with a few aboriginal people, lived in areas that has a dense population of them and got mates. I have never heard them talk about being first nations. I have heard them talk about tribes and mobs.
@@thatshitcray Actually tribe originates from French. I am sure they wont mind you appropriating it., As 90% of "English" words are from other languages they probably realise that without the world giving you basic words you would be mute.
Also i think you mean the actual word "tribe" is not from our language. Try learning basic English, before trying to claim ownership to it.
Here on Kangaroo Island South Australia, we can leave our car unlocked, keys in it, and car running and it will still be there safe and sound when you come back :) we also walk around town late at night alone with music. With only 4500 people on the whole island, it tends to be pretty safe.
Must get down there one day I've been to every other part of the country but not the rest of my own state
CBD stands for Central Business District in Australia & is generally referring to the main business or shopping area of a city.
I lived in a bad area of my city as a kid but it was actually relatively safe. You would regularly see kids running around playing outside on the side of the road. Out of my 5 years of living there only 3 major incidents happened and 2 of them were solved by the local drug dealer. In fact he was one of the people that our parents told us to go to if there were no adults around to help. Because his house was the closest to where we would regularly play and he was generally just a good guy.
Shade on Starbucks (not USA itself) totally warranted. Gloria Jean's is about the same.😎
Nature strip = verge. It's not the person's front yard. It's the public land in front of the property boundary. 🏘️
And, yes, Australia is *that safe* comparatively speaking. It's great to have a community that genuinely cares about each other and, in the most parts, the environment.
CBD = Central Business District (an area that is a main business precinct)
This is our utopia. There's a con list for sure... but in the scheme of things we are doing life pretty well. 🥰
Leaving stuff out on the verge or nature strip is often done for 'bulk rubbish collection' - a service provided by local councils. Depending on the suburb/area you are in there might be scheduled verge collections, where you'll see entire streets put out bits and pieces of larger rubbish items. Other areas will have a certain number of these per year that can be scheduled through the council for free, and then will incur a small fee for additional collections. There is often old furniture and appliances put out, as well as cardboard boxes, miscellaneous building materials and other scrap. It's not uncommon for people to go have a little look-see at what's out the front, and if something grabs their attention they are free to pick it up and take it home, after a while the council collects the rest and takes it away.
Garage sales are still a thing, people will sort through their stuff and advertise a garage sale to potentially make a little money, but it's more and more common now to sell second-hand through Gumtree or Facebook Marketplace.
Australia still has a long way to go where recycling, refurbishing and repurposing items is concerned, we do still have a tendency to throw away a lot more than we need to.
Also its supposed to be illegal to take stuff from other people's hard rubbish but never heard of it being enforced.
Be careful about making your own BBQ or camp fire. Most of Australia has fire bans for the hotter months. Also double check that you can use wood that you gather for a camp fire, in most national parks you have to bring your own wood so that you don't deprive the native flora and fauna of the habitat.
Yes that is a major scam from the national Parks to sell really expensive wood as I found out when I was in the ACT
@@James-kv6kb Not really a scam, they want to encourage people to use alternative heat sources. Most important though they want to keep the natural habitat for the flora and fauna. I grew up in rural WA and I understand how delicate the natural environment is. There is so much damage cause by overstocking the land, the use of chemicals when growing crops and even the increase in kangaroo populations because humans have put in more water sources. Outback Australia is even more delicate.
@@rosedesoto-phillips3969 I'm sorry but I can't agree with you and it's not about alternative heat source is because they've got lots of bags of wood for sale . As for the second part of your comment about roos and things I don't see the relevance of that
@@James-kv6kb I'm just saying that an ecological balance is so important to the Australian environment. I accept that you feel differently and that's fine.
@@rosedesoto-phillips3969 we're on the same page I am very concerned about the environment in Australia however when most of Southern Australia has had its trees removed I don't really see how saving a few logs in a campsite is going to do anything. Also we must remember that the Aboriginal people have been burning wood for 80000 years and it didn't seem to affect the wildlife
In Britain "nature strips" would be called "grass verges". The road consists of 3 parts: the carriageway, the verge, and the footway; and there are different road laws and local bye-laws applying to each.
The estate that I live on the verges are cut by the highways dept and the grassed areas are cut by the local housing authority
In Australia, the nature is strip is owned by council but its the responsibility of the owner or renter of the house to mow the grass. Trees are pruned by council
@@vivianhull3317 not where i live SA.... the council does the mowing
@@vivianhull3317 Just remember though, it's not called "nature strip" throughout Australia.
Correct me if I'm wrong but in WA they're called "verge", while in Qld they're just "footpath", regardless of what they're made of.
I was unaware that it was different in each state. Perhaps I should say just in Victoria?
Where I live in Australia, people don't just leave their car unlocked - when they go to the supermarket in the summer, they leave the car windows down and the keys in the ignition as well. It's common to see it. There's no way anyone would steal the car.
The locking the door thing is definitely local to his area. If you live in the larger cities, you definitely keep all doors locked.
Leaving things unlocked really depends very much on where you live. There a number of towns especially in the outback that can be very dangerous. A small town Loch Sport has its police station inside a wire cage.
So living in Australia all my life (in Brisbane, near the heart of the city), we have a whole neighborhood "event" where we do leave our unwanted stuff outside (we call it 'upcycling week'). It usually goes on for a week or two every year, and many passing cars or people are free to collect anything they want. After the week is over the government collects the rest of the stuff to be taken away. This is to make sure litter is not on the roads and old mattresses are not left to rot from the weather.
That happens all over Australia and it happens every week. In my town it is literally impossible to drive around and not see this at anytime
Locking stuff really depends the area. Regional areas are generally more safer than cities.
I live in a regional town and I leave my doors and windows open at night during summer, the only trespassers are the local kangaroos coming to lay on a cool porch.
That also varies a lot from town to town. I’m in a pretty regional area but there’s a fair bit of crime hear so leaving anything unlocked is a really stupid idea
It would be risky to walk in the middle of the night in some suburbs in Australia. The city is generally safe. There will usually always be someone near you
Let me clear up the "Nature Strip" @8:55 We do have a normal front garden on most standard houses. We also sometimes have outside our property a paved walking path to travel along around the streets. Beyond that we have a small grass strip. Technically, any land that is in front of our property and the road is what is known as the Nature Strip, and is usually owned by the local councils. It's also the land we place our garbage for collection.
He is spot on. I smoke and always put the cigarette butts in my pocket till I pass a rubbish bin... the country is too beautiful to litter. I fish regularly and like many others always pick up any rubbish I see laying around, the animals and nature don't need that shite and it's common practice among most people. I moved to the UK for a period and could not get used to locking my house up and car when parking at the shops etc...we don't need to do that in Australia, unless you live in a very high crime part of Oz. I paid for that mistake living in England. :/ And the coffee culture... massive business in Oz, I have travelled the world and very few countries take the art of coffee as serious as us. Your barista is literally qualified and professionally trained, the beans are world class and the social aspect of coffee houses is like community gathering places...a bit like pubs in England. Lastly walking at night...the only people who are out at night in my city is people enjoying themselves at entertainment venues and restaurants or mother's walking their prams to get their child to sleep... maybe that's just my city, I dunno. Cool vid anyhow, and yes Australia is far more beautiful naturally than those pictures show, truthfully... that's why we don't throw rubbish everywhere. :)
The 'Nature Strip' is the strip of council owned grass (sometimes with a tree) that is between the footpath/sidewalk, and the road. The grass on the house side of the footpath is our front yard. The nature strip is our responsibility to mow, even tho its councils land. But many of us treat it like part of our front yard and plant trees on it, even tho council would often not approve
I’m pretty sure they call it a verge in the USA?
@@the_clueless_traveller ive never heard that name. Its funny hearing how we all call things different
Again, sorry I'm only seeing your channel now...
It's pretty accurate! I just got back from shopping whilst my door was open at home. One day at work, I accidentally left my mobile phone, containing my key card, licence, all my I.D. and money on the roof of my car in the carpark. I didn't realize until my first break 3 hours later. I ran out and it was still there untouched although I live in Byron Shire. I would lock up in a big city
Where I live, we have two hard rubbish collection days a year where people will put out any furniture they don't want and the council will come around and collect it. But, people start putting stuff out about a month before the collection date. And people would go around and potentially pick up some new lounge room furnishings (I scored an 8' TV cabinet that just needed the glass in the doors put back in to be useable again) by doing some sidewalk shopping.
Walking around in cities in Australia late at night is pretty normal... mind you, I could walk through the centre of Bristol in the UK or through St Pauls, one of the inner city suburbs, by myself and no one would come near me. Maybe they were more concerned that I would mug them... sort of a counter mugging if they tried to mug me.
With my local council in the inner Northern Suburbs of Sydney, we have to call our council to request special tape (like crime scene tape) to rope off the stuff that we put out for collection. If we don't do that and just put it out, if it's traced back to us, we get a fine of a few thousand dollars
Finland is similarly lawful. If you use a car park, you put money in an unattended box to pay, and take out your change.
Yeah, I am happy to walk at night, leave doors unlocked.... love living in Australia...
the main reason we can leave our stuff like cars and houses unlocked is due to most of us get along with the people that live near us and will keep an eye out for things in the area and let people know if something is amiss and when our cars are at shopping centers or car parks most of the people using them are also looking out for others even people we dont know its an Aussie thing we tend to try and stick together as one people even though we are all from different races and places we are all Aussies and want to make the best of our great southern land
Everyone’s your mate, until proven otherwise
This is definitely based on the area. I live a few cities/towns away from melb and we for sure lock everything. You have to or the crackheads will steal anything they get their hands on
Unless your foreigners . Stop the bs lies. You can say what you want but the rest of the world knows how racist Australians are now that's funny.
@@changedmyname26 how are we rasict we have more races living here and getting along than anywhere else in the dam world the issue is people that only come over here to vist dont get the way we use speech to joke around i call all my friends things that 99% of the people from the US would most likely kill you for but we say it to each other all the time in jest its the rest of the dam world that has an issue with race once your considered an Aussie and you understand how we say things we all get along pretty well
@@changedmyname26 Bruh, what are you smoking?
Been here for six years, orginally from Washington State. I really like the solid feel of apartment buildings here aka as blocks, brick and you enter through a secure door with a BIG key and each floor is with a hallway and apartment doors are lockable but the whole building is really secure compared to my former apartment building which didn't have a separate secured door. I just feel safer here.
As an Aussie girl myself, I’ve grown up eating Vegemite and I love it. The funniest thing I’ve heard an American say is ‘I think Vegemite’s like Nutella’ BABY NOOOOOOOO!!! It’s not sugary at all. It’s salty. And foreigners always put lots of Vegemite on a piece of bread and try it and hate it cause it’s so salty. YOU DON’T PUT THAT MUCH! The trick is to put heaps of butter on hot toast and then only a tiny bit of Vegemite spread across the bread. It tastes good then - In my opinion 😊
I live in a town near 2 relatively large cities in the UK and I can go out for a walk/run at anytime of day or night with headphones on, sometimes with noise cancelling on if its windy or I want extra peace (already pretty silent apart from the odd car here and there) without any problems, I never even give it a second thought. I knew it was different in some parts of America, but didn't realise it was that uncommon, definitly something I take for granted. I mean there's some parts of the UK that are not that safe at night, but from my experience usually you'll be perfectly fine.
edit: When I say walk or run it varies on the direction I set off in, sometimes I'll just run along the pavement, sometimes I'll run through parks, small allyway shortcuts, sometimes I even go through the cemetary at night.
My car has been broken in to four times in my life (I'm over 60) I feel like I want to break the fingers of these people but I do not think I should need to lock my car or my house. We are still a community in Australia and we still love and trust one another - in general. I can't imagine what it would be like to live in a country where it was normal to be afraid of everyone else. Australia is like a friendly country town. That's a good thing right?
Not needing to lock the door maybe a thing in your state of Australia but in my state we need to lock doors due to the lack of trust for everyone since there’s a lot of bad people in my state
Not sure about the unlocked doors. Perhaps it's easier for him because he isn't living in the metropolitan suburbs. If someone can easily get into your place and steal, your insurance won't be very kind if there are no signs of break and entry. We have security screens or unbreakable flyscreens on our front and back doors and also windows. I'd never leave my car unlocked. Referring to another of his points, we are advised now not to walk alone at night.
@@monique8641 where I live if it’s town city or farm land we keep everything 100% locked to make sure we are safe
I live in Brisbane in QLD, and we always lock everything; every door, every window and every car. Majority of people are not friendly.
@@iwenttobunnings7868 I knew it can’t have been all Australia because you would not be smart to leave everything Unprotected
I grew up in an Australian country town and we never locked our doors or windows. When we would go on a vacation we would lock the front and back doors but not the windows. We were never robbed. My car was never locked. However I now live in Bondi a suburb of Sydney that is very popular with tourists and here its probably a good idea to lock things up if you are not at home.
I grew up in coastal North Queensland, and I don’t think I ever worried about locking doors until around 2010.
~ I used to love going for walks, along the beach at night, and sometimes I’d just sleep on the beach. (One night I wasn’t thinking, and went for a swim - my mother was very angry at me for that - because if I drowned, or a shark ate me, no one would ever know what happened)
I can’t remember the date, but I remember exactly when I •really• knew it was too dangerous to go for a walk, at dusk - and just wander around for a couple of hours. A woman was attacked, along my usual route (I’d turned around, and gone home early - after the hair on the back of my neck started standing up. I don’t know what I sensed, but I turned and ran home) That was the last time I went for a walk, on my own, at night.
I was so angry!
It’s my favourite time of the day, and I can’t enjoy it, because of a$$holes! It was sometime in ‘92 or ‘93 - so before many RUclipsrs were even born!
You should definitely check out season 2 of Down To Earth by Zac Efron. The whole series is about exploring the less seen parts of Australia. I love my Country and thought I new a fair amount about it, but the cool stuff I have learned from this show just 4 episodes in is awesome!
Yeah the locking the door thing is not Australia wide and there are many areas where there are bars on windows and doors. I think this is because he is from a small town.
With walking around at night again I do not back this up. Definitely not safe to walk around in many areas at night (some areas even in day) without a pack. Particularly for women. Again, I think this is a small town thing.
Littering may be somewhat true ONLY because he said “comparatively”, there is a HUGE litter issue in much of Australia. There are fines for it. It is true that some people call out others for it though.
We do have a pretty strong reduce, reuse, recycle culture here. There is a HUGE thrifting culture here as well, we call it "op shopping" (this comes from "opportunity shops" AKA thrift shops).
Awesome video dude :) you seem like someone that would get along with the Aussies well. As an Aussie myself I’ve traveled a bit around and met a lot of foreigners and the one thing they all seem to have in common is how everyone makes you feel like their mate, I guess that goes hand in hand with the unlocked doors and walking at night - also the littering thing. There’s a level of respect we pay each other which you don’t find in many countries, make sure you come visit and road trip around the coast :)
I think we're getting a bit too stereotypically lots of places in Australia where they knife you in the back and I don't mean the city's
dude. walking through the empty, quiet city streets at night is some of the nicest, calm moments you can have, hearing the port work across the other side of the city able to travel across the quietness, a car only driving by what would usually be a busy city street, every few minutes. i love it and can't imagine having to fear leaving my home after dark alone.
mate, you really should come to Australia, our country is beautiful and our coffee really is amazing 😊😊
CBD = Central Business District.
Australia is huge (doesnt look it on conventional maps) and roughly the size of USA, with 1/10 the population. What he says about safety aspects is correct to a point, more so in country towns, but also most suburban areas too.
I use to walk to the beach at 1am when i couldnt sleep, the thought of being in danger never even crossed my mind (probably not so much recommended for females however).
Here, you walk past a complete stranger and lock eyes, its either a nod of respect, or a "how are ya?". These differences are why Australians dont understand the gun culture in America.
1/10th?... we don't have a population of 33 million.. closer to 25.7 M
The nature strip is the small strip of land between your letter box and the road. It belongs to the local government. You are required to look after as part of the front lawn.
2 Families comparing Australia to England, That Johnston life and the bam famalam , they both go through the pros and cons. Cheers
Both are excellent channels. Realistic comparisons.
I want to talk about toilet paper. I am often amused when we have visitors from Hong Kong at our place in London, that one of the things they love most is our soft toilet paper! Personally I prefer the system that I found in its most basic form in Egypt and at its highest evolution in Japan, that enables a jet of suitably aimed water to facilitate proper cleansing! Your shock at the safety bits saddened me, Joel.
There's nothing more wonderful than a bidet for cleansing your anus after passing solids and simply towelling yourself dry. Obviously, the towel hours straight into the linen basket for washing each time, not to be reused by the next person
where i live in australia if you leave anything unlocked its getting stolen if its a car if its your house you will get robbed
In Australia the strip of land near the road belongs to the local council/government, not the homeowner - whether there is a footpath or not. They are called nature strips because most councils beautify these areas with trees etc.
I didn’t know that !
& the residents normally maintain the nature strip, mowing & keeping tidy.
Hey Joel, he lives well outside of Melbourne and it’s suburbs so like in the country as opposed to the bush so there’s not the population or crime in Ocean Grove compared to Melbourne. When he lived in Melbourne and went for walks at night he would have locked the door. Having said that, depending on the city you live in and where in the city or it’s suburbs you live determines the number of break ins. But it is relatively safe anywhere.
Fortunately home invasions is extremely extremely rare. Burglary when no-one is at home can occur but is less common. Usually by a person who wants to then sell it for money for drugs.
But aussie culture says you should be safe and not steal.
It might help that unemployed people are given a very low income from the government so technically people shouldn't need crime for basics of food etc.
Back in the 1950s-1970s it was more common to leave houses cars unlocked. Over time it's become more safety aware , fear based security minded.
True about walking around safely. It can be said that a female walking alone with music at night can have a level of risk but can be mostly okay. On a weekend night in the city after people have been out drinking it can be a bit less safe.
Our back door was never locked day or night and I was born in a suburb of Melbourne in the 1950s. My brother still lives there, still never locked. Growing up, key was always in the front door until mum and dad went to bed.
@@adrianhempfing2042 definitely in better areas was like this. Frankston, pines, Dandenong, Hampton Park, clayton etc are all different stories.
Dude, come to WA. I spent most of my life bouncing between Perth and Kalgoorlie, the amount of crime in those areas is ridiculously (you can't ever leave anything unlocked). Growing up around the A-line my house got broken into almost literally every week and I've noticed it gets worse the further inland you get. Those country towns like Kal are as dodgy as it gets
@@adrianhempfing2042 couldn't disagree more about walking around safely! Maybe in certain areas but where I've been my whole life, if you're walking at night you're probably gonna get jumped and if it's during the day all you have to do is pull out a cigarette and you'll get mobbed
I live in Australia and none calls it a nature strip they call it a curb where I live, also CBD is central business district
When we was kids we was told not to drop rubbish on the ground or spit it was taught in the eighties and now it's coming and not seen as wrong.
The leaving the doors unlocked thing is insane. Not everyone in Australia does that.
He never said everyone does. But alot of people do.
@@xXSinForLifeXx I do.
it is actually quite common
I do
It’s illegal in ACT, NSW and Victoria to wander off and leave your car unlocked. Not sure about other states.
Australia is pretty good to be honest. I think the main difference is about attitude towards others. Traditionally Australias motto is all about the fair go. Being fair to yourself and others.. we help others out when we see them in trouble without the need to mention it to others or post it all over social media. I've had people quickly help me and then walk off and I do the same. It's the way I was raised and it kinda goes against my upbringing not to offer a little help where I can. Most Australians I'm friends with are the same and we don't tend to be comfortable with a lot of attention. Of course this is not always the case but it's common enough to be obvious if you watch for a while. Most Aussies don't go looking for unnecessary drama either. I'm shocked watching RUclips to see how people go looking to start an argument then post it on social media like they're some sort of hero instead of the clown that everyone else sees them as. Most of us are too busy living our own life and enjoying our weekends to play Neville knobhead and go looking for likes from strangers. We enjoy chatting to others from elsewhere and we're usually friendly to reasonable decent people but we don't need their approval and we can call a spade a spade without going over the top.
All that said ,you should definitely come to Australia mate. With your easy going common sense attitude you'd have a great time. Most Aussies are friendly and down to earth. There is tonnes stuff to see and do.
A lot of people in the UK including me will put things outside with "Take if Wanted" or just a "Free" sign on it, we have to walk around in the dark as it gets dark around 4-30 to 5-00pm in winter, obviously we lock everything for safety, but with litter it's always the few that make the rest of us look bad, I don't drop litter and we have litter pickers who volunteer to keep the village looking clean and tidy 👍😀✌
Talking of strips, I recall that when I visited the US the area between dual carriageways is called the median strip. In the UK we call it the central reservation. When I told my American friends this they burst out laughing ☺️
Yea, we have the median strip on our highways, motorways, freeways and some major city roads. They’re different to what we call the nature strip.
We call all those median strips central reservations in the UK. 😀
I live in a small country town, so my nature strip is actually about 2 metres wide and it's maintained by the homeowners in my community. It's a council requirement to have at least 4 water tanks on our property which is a quarter acre block and the rainwater from our rooves is captured in those and its entirely drinkable and far better than any bottled water and is actually quite sweet. Leaving things unlocked, in my small community yes but not in larger towns or cities. I will leave my front door, my car and shed unlocked without a worry unless I'm not home, it's basically telling people that you're not at home if the door is locked around here but everyone notices cars that aren't local and noises at night gets everyone's attention not to mention... Most Aussies in small towns own a dog that you don't want to mess with. I know that it's not the best idea for young ladies to walk around at night on their own but comparatively to some other countries that I've visited, including the USA, our city streets are quite safe to walk on at night alone in our major cities, my name is an ex drag name and I used to be quite convincing when in my kit... Not anymore *cries, but I had very few troubles when walking the streets of Sydney in women's attire, there were hecklers, perverts etc but I was never violently assaulted mugged or even robbed, which is kind of to be expected in some places, which is what I think he's getting at, however I do understand some of the women in the comments saying that this is a no for them because even though it's comparatively safer your chances of something happening to you isn't 0 and being gay.. I learned to fight, so I was pretty confident when alone in the city which may have put off any potential troublemakers. Littering is a big deal here to a majority of Aussies and can definitely get you beaten up if someone see's you doing it with a vast majority of us willing to voice our annoyance at you quite publicly if you're spotted, with demands that you pick it up and put it in the rubbish or you may be forced to do it by a group of strangers that will ally themselves in the common goal of making that point to you, even your friends will likely turn on you and call you a tosser.
Mum insisted that we have a (300 gallon) rainwater tank when she and Dad built a house in town. We'd lived on farms until I was ten, so tanks were the go. My first school (a one-teacher bush school) had a big tank. We kids kept our mugs on the tank stand. The upshot was that I didn't have town water at home until we moved to Sydney when I was fifteen. No dental caries, either.
Great you're staying with Australia to get a rounded impression of what it is like. It may be tempting to watch a couple and move on, but I like this more in depth approach (with longer videos). I think the reactions in the UK would be much the same as yours. The major difference is that we do not have Barbeques in public areas such as beaches and parks and we call nature strips grass! 😄
Black Rose im not sure where you're talking about, but we have free gas BBQ here in Western Australia, in public parks and along the beaches on grassed areas, and beside them is shelters with built in tables and benches, usually made of concrete and wood, so easily hosed down just like in this video, so where are you?
@@cbisme6414 England.
I'm Australian and this video is very accurate. If anything it's a little understated. I'm Australian and we don't lock our or cars or houses and walk around freely at any hour without any fear of anything happening. I often go for a walk at 2 am (I work funny hours) with headphones on and I live in public housing in Sydney. And yes, littering is frowned upon big time. Oh and CBD stands for Central Business District.
Dude I love watching you. It literally makes me grin ear to ear. And it makes me appreciate living in Australia. I know your privacy is important to you but it would be awesome to know a bit more about you
Hey Joel, much of Canada seems to be like Australia from a safety point of view. Unlocked houses and cars, no littering, secondhand stuff at the curb, etc. Major cities are changing though and like the US, lock everything. Walking at night is usually no problem either, but like most places, there parts to be avoided. Gun crime has increased primarily in minority communities with illegal handguns being smuggled in from the US. The border is too porous and law enforcement is working hard to stem the flow. This problem didn't exist to this extent here 20 years ago.
I hope CANZUK works out, I’d love it if Australia and Canada could become closer to make it easier to work and live in our big brother county ❤️. We share so many values with Canada, fingers crossed it happens soon!
In Wyoming, generally I don’t lock my house or car unless I am going out of town. Wyoming has little crime, especially since the average number of guns per household is 130. Joel, I understand living in Maryland you don’t feel safe.
Well in Australia it is safe with no guns in the houses. It’s very difficult for criminals to get guns in Australia and they are very expensive on the black market (more than $10k for a pistol for example, so I am told). You are very unlikely to get robbed in all but the very worst parts of the cities and because there are so few weapons in circulation, the vibe on the street is pretty chill. There is also a national welfare net that stops most people from slipping through the cracks so you won’t encounter so many desperate people either.
We understand the at if you look after people then there are less social problems and extreme poverty.
The biggest shock in my life was busting the USA and seeing how many homeless people and downtrodden working poor there were- you wouldn’t encounter this anywhere in Australia on that kind of scale. I saw more poverty in the USA than when I visited Russia a few years later.
The shade is real when it comes to coffee. My American GF tells me Starbucks is similar here to America, but with less selection here on the gimmicky additions. But here it is generally regarded as low quality, purely branding. Walk 50 metres in any direction from a Starbucks and you're bound to find something many many times better for cheaper.
Personally I lived in Brissie (Brisbane) from birth until I was 13. I think he was nuts to walk around by himself at night in the city. Mum and I moved up to The Atherton Tablelands, Far North Queensland. It's up a Mountain Range behind Cairns. Our climate is cooler than the coastal areas. It's a popular Tourist destination with Rainforests, Waterfalls, plenty of places to swim and Rolling Green Hills. Due to long extinct Volcanoes our soil is good for growing a wide variety of Fruits and Vegetables etc, it's Dairy Country as well. It's a pretty safe area, so long as you're at home you can leave your doors and car unlocked if you want. We have accidentally left them unlocked overnight without any problems. But most of us aren't comfortable walking around in the dark at night. If there's lights and people around it's better. But the City Girl in me still comes out. Sometimes people find it amusing when I visit a farm and lock the car. I'll start another comment.
I live in brissy and I walk around alone at night perfectly safe as a woman. Have never had any issues! It’s super safe I feel
@@codyh2674 totally agree with you,I've never had a problem and I'm 63 😁