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I live in the United States, Texas to be exact, my question is if I were to move to Australia what sort of culture shock would I encounter? What are the difference in the culture that I would notice most?

Personally I think as far as locations in the States, Texas is probably the most similar to Australia.

Anyway, I am not moving, I am just curious for your thoughts.

JAHamilton77 wrote: Personally I think as far as locations in the States, Texas is probably the most similar to Australia.

Dear god I hope not.

Depends on the city, Sydney is similar to San Francisco, Perth similar the San Diego. Its not the different, just less sorta run down in parts, less homeless, less Mexicans and less blacks. More laid back. Can't buy beer at 7-11s and gas stations. Same TV and movies, but worse here because our cable sucks. I'd estimate nicer people as a whole.

Less run down, less mexicans, less blacks???? oh the less mexicans and blacks the better, it appears your saying. Hope im mistaken because thats just ignorant

Sydney is like San Fransisco?

Ok I will mark it off my places to visit.
Why in Gods name if you were going to pick a city in the USA to say something is like would you pick San Fransisco?

Sydney is like San Francisco! Well they're both on the coast I suppose...

Taki... wrote:Sydney is like San Francisco! Well they're both on the coast I suppose...

They have many things in commen

JAHamilton77 wrote:I live in the United States, Texas to be exact, my question is if I were to move to Australia what sort of culture shock would I encounter? What are the difference in the culture that I would notice most?

Personally I think as far as locations in the States, Texas is probably the most similar to Australia.

Anyway, I am not moving, I am just curious for your thoughts.

Firstly, being from Texas you may find the airport people may not take too kindly to you wanting to bring in the six shooters

Anyway, here's some differences you may notice although they're not all cultural...........

The mental gun culture of the US is almost non existent here. You'd be pleasantly surprised at the lack of gun related murders

We have a health system which doesn't first ask you "do you have insurance?" before deciding whether to treat you

Our political leaders are not all millionaires and a pauper can become head honcho. The terms 'conservative" and "liberal" don't mean much here

We drive on the right side of the road (the right side being the left side of the road in this case ). The high price of fuel compared to the US would blow you away

When ordering a sandwich the shop assistant will not rattle off 27 different types of bread for you to choose from

A relative lack of race riots

Our footballers whilst not as big as yours, hit much harder and without the helmets and padding

We talk funny

For a start we are about the same size as the united states, but we have a population about the same as Texas.

Apart from that it's hard to say as I've never been to the states.

walford wrote:For a start we are about the same size as the united states, but we have a population about the same as Texas.

Apart from that it's hard to say as I've never been to the states.

The US is a fair bit bigger than Aus. It's interesting that the population of the biggest city in Texas in 2000 was just under 2 million yet as you say, the state's population is larger than the whole of Aus

Des1 wrote:Less run down, less mexicans, less blacks???? oh the less mexicans and blacks the better, it appears your saying. Hope im mistaken because thats just ignorant

Shut the hell up. I did'nt state if it was either good or bad, you're just some ignoramous looking to start shit. The fact that you choose to interpret a harmless, factual comment in that manner says alot more about you that it does about me. When you go to the states the different ethnic mixes is one of the very first things you notice, its just the way it is and if you don't like that then too bad.

JAHamilton77 wrote:I live in the United States, Texas to be exact, my question is if I were to move to Australia what sort of culture shock would I encounter? What are the difference in the culture that I would notice most?

Personally I think as far as locations in the States, Texas is probably the most similar to Australia.

Anyway, I am not moving, I am just curious for your thoughts.

Having never been to the USA I dont know what things are like over there, but as you would be aware our leader John Howard always has his head up GWBs arse so we are and will become more Americanised as time passes which is a great shame.We are lossing our own to be replaced by yours.

You will note here we have no "bill or rights" so government seem to try to screw Australians for the benefit of just about eveyone else on a constant basis.

We have gun laws which have meant that law bidding people do not have a right to own a gun, which has led to more crime as the criminals of course can still arm themselves with no problem.

An American from Montaina said to me 20 years ago that we had a great country that was being destroyed by hopeless governments, I got offended and said same in USA he said no - we shot them and they know it that is why the US leaders always look after their own first or someone will shoot them, he said to me that if we wanted good government we needed to shoot a few politicans dead so they took their job seriously.

20 years ago I thought the Montaina farmer was nuts, today unfirtunatey I think he may have been onto something........................

Oh please. That guy was talking out of his ass. Care to site some examples of people being screwed due to a lack of a bill of rights? Not that it has made much difference in the US..... look no further than the Patriot act and unauthorised wire-taps by the present administration as evidence of that. I'm also curious as to how the country is being "destroyed".

R_jay wrote:Oh please. That guy was talking out of his ass. Care to site some examples of people being screwed due to a lack of a bill of rights? Not that it has made much difference in the US..... look no further than the Patriot act and unauthorised wire-taps by the present administration as evidence of that. I'm also curious as to how the country is being "destroyed".

In one word - agriculture.

Ross wrote:

JAHamilton77 wrote:I live in the United States, Texas to be exact, my question is if I were to move to Australia what sort of culture shock would I encounter? What are the difference in the culture that I would notice most?

Personally I think as far as locations in the States, Texas is probably the most similar to Australia.

Anyway, I am not moving, I am just curious for your thoughts.

Having never been to the USA I dont know what things are like over there, but as you would be aware our leader John Howard always has his head up GWBs arse so we are and will become more Americanised as time passes which is a great shame.We are lossing our own to be replaced by yours.

You will note here we have no "bill or rights" so government seem to try to screw Australians for the benefit of just about eveyone else on a constant basis.

We have gun laws which have meant that law bidding people do not have a right to own a gun, which has led to more crime as the criminals of course can still arm themselves with no problem.

An American from Montaina said to me 20 years ago that we had a great country that was being destroyed by hopeless governments, I got offended and said same in USA he said no - we shot them and they know it that is why the US leaders always look after their own first or someone will shoot them, he said to me that if we wanted good government we needed to shoot a few politicans dead so they took their job seriously.

20 years ago I thought the Montaina farmer was nuts, today unfirtunatey I think he may have been onto something........................

You're spot on with the comment about the Americanisation of Australia. It's a real shame as we're losing our identity and by the time someone comes to the conclusion that it wasn't a good thing, it'll be way too late to change it

But I think you're dead wrong about the guns business - take a good look at the relative gun related crime rates for the US and Aus and you'll see a massive difference. More guns does not prevent gun related crimes

R_jay wrote:

Des1 wrote:Less run down, less mexicans, less blacks???? oh the less mexicans and blacks the better, it appears your saying. Hope im mistaken because thats just ignorant

Shut the hell up. I did'nt state if it was either good or bad, you're just some ignoramous looking to start shit. The fact that you choose to interpret a harmless, factual comment in that manner says alot more about you that it does about me. When you go to the states the different ethnic mixes is one of the very first things you notice, its just the way it is and if you don't like that then too bad.

Like I said 'hope im mitaken' which im happy to say I am because the world has enough ignorant people so we dont need another. Now get back in your pram

bollox wrote:

walford wrote:For a start we are about the same size as the united states, but we have a population about the same as Texas.

Apart from that it's hard to say as I've never been to the states.

The US is a fair bit bigger than Aus. It's interesting that the population of the biggest city in Texas in 2000 was just under 2 million yet as you say, the state's population is larger than the whole of Aus

Thats because the state has several large cities, 4 of which areover 1 million people (Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, & Austin) and others which are approaching the mark (Fort Worth, El Paso), then there are other bigger cities that have well over 100k people like Lubbock, San Angelo, Laredo, Chorpus Christi, Brownesville, Arlington, Irving, etc etc etc. The population #s dont tell the whole story as these cities are surrounded by subdivisions & unincorperated areas which are not classified as cities themselves, but are continually being sucked in by the larger cities. Texas is a fast growing states, and its not just due to the copious numbers of Mexicans flowing across the border.

Anyway enough about all of that. Thanks for the info about Australia, I was just curious about some of the major cultural differences between the two nations.

JAHamilton77 wrote:

bollox wrote:

walford wrote:For a start we are about the same size as the united states, but we have a population about the same as Texas.

Apart from that it's hard to say as I've never been to the states.

The US is a fair bit bigger than Aus. It's interesting that the population of the biggest city in Texas in 2000 was just under 2 million yet as you say, the state's population is larger than the whole of Aus

Thats because the state has several large cities, 4 of which areover 1 million people (Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, & Austin) and others which are approaching the mark (Fort Worth, El Paso), then there are other bigger cities that have well over 100k people like Lubbock, San Angelo, Laredo, Chorpus Christi, Brownesville, Arlington, Irving, etc etc etc. The population #s dont tell the whole story as these cities are surrounded by subdivisions & unincorperated areas which are not classified as cities themselves, but are continually being sucked in by the larger cities. Texas is a fast growing states, and its not just due to the copious numbers of Mexicans flowing across the border.

Anyway enough about all of that. Thanks for the info about Australia, I was just curious about some of the major cultural differences between the two nations.

Yeah, that's what I thought. It's still difficult to picture that one state in the US can have the population of the whole of Australia

p.s. speaking of differences and specifically our accent...........in the early 90's a guy from our version of 60 Minutes went and interviewed Tyson for a story on Jeff Fenech. Tyson was in the gym and the guy asks him "so you reckon Jeff Fenech's a good bloke?" (bloke = local slang for fella). Tyson had never heard the word and thought he said "a good black" Tyson looked puzzled with that face he usually pulls when totally confused and where severe violence could erupt at any minute. The reporter quickly worked out that he may get hammered shortly so rephrased the question

Same thing happened with a Jeff Harding sparring partner (a black American). Sparring wasn't going too well and Harding's trainer yelled out "WTF is wrong with you blokes" They apparently had a good laugh when the matter was clarified