The Australians **Mod Warning in Post #129**

Travellers are the same race as us.its not racism. Its discrimination and I agree its wrong that it goes on here.

Its a different situation in Australia tho. They are blantly racist. You would really have to hear with your own ears to believe how bad it is. I don't think I would have believed it only for the experiences. I had over there.

Australians generally view themselves as laid back but I found that they take themselves very seriously. Maybe it's similar to Irish people generally viewing themselves as friendly, but foreigners living here often say it's just superficial and it's hard to make long term friends.

I think it's a good spot for people who want to travel, but don't really want to go somewhere too different. It wasn't really for me at all, I suspected that before going as I had never had much of an interest in the place.

it's absolutely nothing like here if you venture out of the urban areas, you should have seen a bit of the country maybe, there's nowhere in the world with that much untouched sunny coastline

Cracking movie!

Yer not from the Yabba!

The Irish are racist as well but hide it better than aussies, at least with an aussie he is speaking his/her mind however brash it is.

I've lived in Perth for 16 years having initially planned a six month stay, the lifestyle is fantastic and I couldn't go back to Ireland permanently now when I'm 3kms from a stunning beach. The few weeks of horrible heat in summer is worth it for the fantastic spring and autumn. Bit of cold and rain in winter is lovely when you know it isn't going to last long. I couldn't live in the humidity of Queensland though.

I laughed at some of the comments here. Terrible beer? Craft beer has taken off in the last five or so years, you're spoilt for choice now with breweries (and wineries), especially in the south west which is a stunning part of the world. Racism? Sure, absolutely an issue here. But Irish people taking the moral high ground on that is hilarious. Bad losers at sport? The Henry handball comes up every year on the anniversary. Annoying accents? We're no angels on that front either, Christ. Gah shorts, Leinster/Munster jersey and a few pints is a hell of combination to let the world know who you are.

The biggest downsides for me are the cost of air travel and the time it takes to get anywhere, the time zone difference to Europe, not every band tours here because it's too far, and the sense of humour is different but that's a me problem.

Australia's not for everyone, of course, but a two-week holiday 20 odd years ago isn't going to give you a fair impression of anywhere 😂

While some of their customs are indeed closer to precolonised Irish ones, I wouldn't think this is in any way true.

There are popular surnames such as Stokes, Joyce and Power which are English or Norman in origin, so that would suggest that the travellers moved away from the general Irish in later centuries. There is no definitive theory to their origins in reading or documentaries I have seen.

My half-Aussie missus told me about how the Aussies barbeque a chicken with a can of beer stuffed inside the chicken. I laughed at her, told her to pull the other leg. Not a word of it did I believe.

A few years later when we were in Oz, we were at a BBQ and sure enough, they had a chicken standing upright on the BBQ with a can of beer (only about 10% full) shoved up its jacksie. The beer flavours it, apparently. Not sure what the burning paint on the can does to it but they don't seem to mind that.

Someone else said about the climate in Melbourne being somewhat similar to ours. Of anywhere in Australia, Melbourne is probably the closest to ours but it's not remotely similar to our climate. It is very changeable though. We were in Melbourne one day at about 12 noon and the wife's uncle told us to be careful, there was a storm coming in at 3pm. We laughed because there wasn't a cloud in the sky. It was clear blue. But sure enough, at about 2.45pm the sky got cloudy. 5 minutes later it was very dark. 5 minutes later it turned jade green and hailstones that actually dented the car started falling. Mad weather altogether.

I don't think you ever need to understand what Danny Healy Rae is saying. Just mark it down as gibberish.

you forgot sexist and chauvinistic....!!!

Yeah, something seems to have happened after the Cromwellian invasion that caused them to become separated and then they just stuck to themselves.

Although when you read about the behavior of the Gaelic Chieftans, you can see some similarities.

This. Very much a nanny state. The penalties for mundane stuff are insane. Leaving a car window open an example. The Irish over there collect all sorts of fines and I guess than stems from the absolute lack of enforcement/Garda laziness we have here.

Culturally it's pretty empty feeling as it's so new. And in general it's just lacking variety of something for travel options.

Great quality of life otherwise. You can earn savage money and live pretty comfortably with good services in the cities.

Say that, I much prefer it here.