Positives about living in Australia

[Thedramasummer]

So after seeing a glut of negativity regarding Australia I though I would try balance with a bit of positivity!

Please no shit throwing or nasty unfounded comments.

A beautiful country with the most interesting animals.
Egg laying mammals? ☑️
The most venomous snakes?☑️
Beautiful and noisy birds?☑️
I even enjoy the spiders here!

What do others love about Australia?

@Aebj we must be practically neighbours! We aren't going to the Symphony on the Green tonight, but we went to the last one as we used to live a five mins walk away from it. I did think your beach pic looked a bit familiar, going there tomorrow. We are in Waikiki, sounds like you're pretty close!

We are moving to a large rural property in a few weeks. So I joined the local community facebook page.

Kind of wish I didn't. The amount of people who have said we WILL have snakes in/around the house is quite astounding.

Ah well - I now have the local snake catcher on speed dial.

Still trying to get my head around drinking tank water, from the sky....or getting it trucked in.

It's only about 18 hours from England

Some countries will suit some people more than others OP. You can't control what people think or post.

I have lived in England for more than half my life and you couldn't pay me to live in Aus again. Its a boring, isolated country where any chance of a "a fair go" for anyone has long since dissipated and the at times hidden and close minded thinking is becoming more and more noticeable the longer I'm away.

@NarelleP77 you are on the wrong thread, I’m looking for positives only about Australia. Clue is in the thread title! If you don’t have any positives to share no need to post.

Perhaps you can start one about positives about England.

Still in moderator mode aren't you? You'd get better and fuller responses if you asked people's opinion of Aus rather than some fucked up bias point of view.

Ps. Breaking news you also don't get to decide who posts on your thread.

It’s a bit dictatorial and control freakish to jump on everyone who might have something less than shiny and wonderful to say about Australia. Like any country some really good and bad points.

@narellep77

Your opinion is perfectly valid. A bit odd, on a thread specifically discussing the positives, to go the other way though.

A bit like if somebody was telling you about their beloved pet. You might absolutely hate dogs but you'd be unlikely to stick the boot in with your opinion (I hate thise shit machines) because it is perfectly ok just not to say anything at all. Courtesy doesn't only apply in person you know.

Do you usually lack self awareness in conversation?

I’ve lived here for 13 years and we’ve had one python in the garden and one death adder, and we live right next to the bush, so it’s not like there are snakes everywhere. The death adder, we just phoned the local fire station and they came and relocated it.
Spiders - we get our house and garden sprayed so we dont get red backs (although we used to get them often in Adelaide) but they are small and slow anyway, just sit there on the web. We see huntsman spiders sometimes, and I don’t like spiders but I reckon i only see one a couple of times a year and we’ve only had a couple in the house which have been quickly dispatched with Mortein spray.
But we also get beautiful big butterflies, loads of birds, interesting lizards (we have a friendly blue tongued skink that lives in our garden), all of which I love. However, my parents have visited over 10 times and stay in the city where you don’t really see anything like snakes or spiders.
I also love the friendly, calm, laid back people. There is a total lack of care of “what will other people think about that”, as people have said upthread, people are just genuinely friendly and pleasant.

@NarelleP77 and @Poorlykitten

I don’t want lots of different opinions about Australia, I don’t want a well rounded list of pros and cons, I want only the good parts as I said in my original post. I don’t want the thread filling with negativity.

I don’t think I’m jumping on anyone, I’m politely asking to keep on topic. I will agree I am dictating the tone of the thread, I do not want it to turn into the usual Aus bashing.

There are pros and cons to living in any country. This thread is about the pros of Australia.

We had two huntsmen in the house, one on the car and we used to have one that lived in our lemon tree when we were in suburban (zone 1) Melbourne. We lived in the city before and after that house and never saw huntsmen there. Only time we ever saw a snake was out in Hepburn Springs in a dry creek bed - for non Melbournites that's a small rural place.

I get the fear of snakes and spiders, I understand less when people say they couldn't live in Australia because of sharks/crocs/jellyfish. I mean, they're pretty easy to avoid, it's not like you need to be checking your local pool just in case.

Drop bears are the biggest problem, I think the government really needs to step in with some kind of culling programme rather than leaving it to the state governments. It's not working.

All this is making me want to go, but like PPs it’s the thought of the huge huntsmen spiders that puts me off. I don’t think I would cope if I ever came across one in real life!

We don't get that many huntsmen in suburbia though. And they can't hurt you, they're just big. They actually eat all the other bugs, they're doing a service.

I've never seen a snake in suburbs either. I'm careful on the walking trails on the coastline, and I saw a few in Queensland but they were tiny.

I'm glad narelle is back in the uk. Sounds like a right knobber.

I have lived here for 13 years. I do not even know what a huntsman looks like.

[quote Thedramasummer]@NarelleP77 you are on the wrong thread, I’m looking for positives only about Australia. Clue is in the thread title! If you don’t have any positives to share no need to post.

Perhaps you can start one about positives about England.[/quote]
Although I agree that having a thread just for the positives is fab (I lived in the US for years and it annoys me that people who have never been like to criticise or have negative opinions), on the very first page we had:

Do you not have any of that in the UK? Add that to the miserable weather and it's no wonder the Brits are a cranky bunch

Which no one chose to pick up on.

But to stay on topic, from my one visit to Australia, I loved the weather, the scenery, the relaxed atmosphere, and most importantly, the koalas who were just the best.

I was super excited when I had a huntsman in my garage! They are very interesting to look at and keep bugs away, I was all for leaving it but my husband was concerned it may make its way into the car and attack him whilst driving so I rehomed it to the garden and haven’t seen one since.
Everyone I know here gets their house and garden professionally sprayed to keep the spiders away.

My husband tried doing it himself with stuff from Bunnings, but that just seemed to drive them into my house as had never seen so many spiders inside before.

@SnoozyBoozy I am only policing thread for anti Aus comments. The horrible dictator that I am!

Not far from NZ and hobbits and thermal areas and glaciers 😁

Not far? Its five and a half hours flying isn't it?

[quote Thedramasummer]@SnoozyBoozy I am only policing thread for anti Aus comments. The horrible dictator that I am![/quote]
Lol, that's ok! We had an amazing time in Australia (I have family there) and would love to go back and explore some more of the middle and west of the country. That's the problem for non residents - there's so much to see, you can't really do it all in one trip unfortunately.

Definitely can’t! We are trying to see as much of it as we can but the covid restrictions has put a stop to that recently.
The positives of that is we have instead explored more of our beautiful state last year instead of holidaying elsewhere!

@Bluenightowl

Not far from NZ and hobbits and thermal areas and glaciers 😁

Not far? Its five and a half hours flying isn't it?

3 hours from the east coast, which is nothing. Pre covid you could literally just decide to pop over for a week at short notice.

I usually couldn’t agree more about the states @tentative3 but the Scummo govt couldn’t organise a decent drop bear baiting and desexing program to save itself. So thank goodness the states are at least doing something. Feeling a bit jealous of Vic - Dan Andrews really knows what he’s doing with his “stay home, stay safe from drop bears” program 🐻 - countless Victorians saved from decapitation last year alone.

3 hours from the east coast, which is nothing. Pre covid you could literally just decide to pop over for a week at short notice.

Or even for a weekend

Except when u blank me lol
I see it 👀 idrc
It's nt abt how long u talk etc it's what sum1s intentions are
Someone can do things from ryt under ur noise or not evn speak r see n be loyal
I'd rather someone do it in front of my face than behind my back

@tami2k

Eh?

Ukhun?