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I hate, hate, hate Australia

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Einsty · 05/10/2011 07:21

So this is an unashamed venting thread, so back away now if you would love to live in Oz or do, and love it.

Short story, back a year after a decade in the UK and am still adjusting, I guess.

Aus has changed a lot, and mostly in ways I don't like. Just want to get a few things off my chest so I can stop muttering and get on with it.

First whinge: service - Australians think they are famed for it, but it is almost universally shit. Unattentive, almost resentful, and clearly beneath the person working in a shop, funky cafe or suburban small business. Want to go elsewhere because they haven't looked at you when serving you, or acknowledged keeping you waiting, brought the wrong order, not brought your order, or overcharged you. They couldn't care less.... And then I keep hearing how dire things are in retail. Any wonder!?

Second whinge: racism. I spent a decade swearing it didn't exist in multicultural Australia. Does it what? I hear curry muncher and noodle all the time.

Anyhow, that is two off my chest - I just feel that Australia is so busy boasting about itself and being self congratulatory that it is failing to realise it has taken it's eye of things that count - like truly world-class childcare and education. Standards are low and I reckon we - because I am now here for good unfortunately - will eventually regret how smug Australians are...

Sorry, came too late to the thread a few weeks ago to but in but have wanted to vent ever since...

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pollyglot · 11/02/2017 21:09

But then, in the 70s, my elderly Brit relatives were outraged when I arrived in the UK by ship, having made friends with a girl with whom I was going to flat in London. Their objection? Her father was a panelbeater.

Draylon · 31/03/2017 12:02

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anon050 · 31/03/2017 17:04

I'm soooo homesick for Sydney. I just cannot wait until I move back ( thankfully English DH is on board). I desperately miss the sunshine, the harbour, some of the foods. I really miss the ease and quality of friendships in OZ. I want my future kids to grow up with Aussie values and spend their childhood at sandy beaches and being outdoors.

I think living in another country can be amazing at first and it's all wonderful but eventually family or memories will catch up with you. If you hate Australia you need to move back to the UK. It's not the country that is aweful, it's your perceptions of it. It's like me, I absolutely loved England at first and was in all my element living here for several years. I sadly no longer feel this way. It's not England that has changed. It's me. Once homesickness sets in it's like an irrational dark cloud and then no country will have the shine your homeland does. Just like not only do I need to move back to Australia, it needs to be Sydney. If it was Darwin or Queensland, I'd still be unhappy. It's about returning to familiarity.

Piesy · 13/04/2017 01:46

Moved from one of the Down Under countries to live in the U.K.

A Brit in my office said to me: Ah yes.. you're from the Commonwealth. You bring the common, we bring the wealth..
Grin

necronomicon · 08/08/2017 01:16

It never ceases to amaze me how often you find these vile, hateful, uninformed rants from a sad Brits with a massive chip on the shoulder when it comes to Aussies (although the original post was quite civilised. Nonetheless, many others are not and the point is still valid). It never ceases to amaze me that some of you Brits want to view us as bunch of classless, uneducated, uniformed, nasty and arrogant, stupid, racist bastards, yet you post vile rubbish on the net about us on an almost daily basis (where are the Australian pages saying "We hate the British!" "We hate the Americans!" by the way?) You gifted the English language with the word "Hooliganism" (ever been to Spain and Poland and seen the signs up that say "No British"?) and then have the hide to call us classless, drunken louts. British sport fans and tourists are the worst travellers in the world. What pot calling the black nonsense! What a shining example of intelligence, wisdom, and cultural refinement some of you are too, with your posts full of spelling and grammar mistakes and loads of F-bombs and C words. Try using punctuation for once in a while too, like full stops, commas, and paragraphs (by the way, where are the Australian pages saying "We hate the British!" "We hate the Americans!"?)

This uneducated, classless, Australian moron is doing a PhD in the translation and exegesis of ancient Chinese texts at the University of Sydney (and not I am not of Chinese extraction). Judging from the level of command of the English language that most of these posts are written, it’s clear that a great many of the authors probably grew up on a council estate and were expelled from high school, and have now come to Australia in search of a better life. While it is true that Britain and the US have some Ivy League type universities which are more established and more world class than Australian ones, it is also true that among the general populace Australians have a higher rates of educational attainment as well of as higher completion rate of tertiary studies than British and Americans. Ours of standards of literacy and numeracy among school children are also higher than both aforementioned countries. Many Australian teachers who have gone to Britain to teach have documented how behind UK schools are in educational standards compared to Australia, and vice versa- many British teachers have come to Australia to teach and have said how much more ahead we are. Education is something for the whole. For the masses. Not something for blue blooded, aristocratic elite. Your views about Australians being uneducated and stupid betray your old world snobby, arrogance and Eurocentric racism; the belief that all non-European cultures have nothing to offer and are inferior. This is one of the main reasons why Europeans left such a rotten, class-conscious society with no social mobility and opportunities, and moved to Australia in search of a better life (some of you, in fact, still do).

On the contrary, Australians (by world standards) are high educated and smart. We have invented many things, and a made a contribution that greatly outweighs the size of the country and the population of its people and influence in the world, such as a vaccine for cervical cancer (In 2006, Brisbane-based medical researchers Professor Ian Frazer and Dr Jian Zhou developed the world's first anti-cancer vaccine. Known by the commercial name, Gardasil, the vaccine protects women against four strains of a virus called human papillomavirus (HPV), known to cause three-quarters of all cervical cancers), the cochlea ear implant (The Bionic Ear), WIFI, Penicillin (1939 Australian scientist Howard Florey in the employ of Oxford University), stem cell research (the technology was sold to the Americans), the artificial heart value (invented by Chinese Australian Victor Chan) and pioneered some of earliest heart transplant operations, drugs to treat HIV (Australia has the Kirby Institute in Sydney which leads the world in HIV/AIDS research, The black box flight recorder, invented by Australian scientist Dr David Warren, Australian doctor Mark Lidwill and physicist Edgar Booth developed the first artificial pacemaker in the 1920s, the ultra scanner, plastic spectacle lenses, inflatable side and raft on airplanes (invented by QANTAS), and many more.

You guys need to try using logic and reason sometime when you try and discuss something, as opposed to using the very basic and primitive, "fight versus flight", tribal, animal instincts we get from our ape ancestors. It will make you come across and as more intelligent and less stupid. And try to not to employ angry, Nazi, white-supremacist rhetoric when calling others (whole countries and continents of people) racists. It makes you look like a hypocrites. Stop buying our property and taking our jobs as well.

Thank you and have a nice day.

ClamBakeSnake · 08/08/2017 01:20

Someone is upset.

(There were a few typos in your post though. Thought you'd like to know).

necronomicon · 08/08/2017 01:32

Got better things to do than sit on this thread all day and post messages. It's 24 degrees in the middle of winter and the sun is shining brightly.

ClamBakeSnake · 08/08/2017 01:38

Off you pop then!

necronomicon · 08/08/2017 01:47

By the way, there is a such a person called a dentist. You Brits should try visiting one once in a while with your horrible, yellow, Jack-O-Lantern teeth.

ClamBakeSnake · 08/08/2017 01:50

Next you'll be crying and stamping your feet. Now be sensible and get out into the sunshine and see if you can shift some of that bile.

Glastokitty · 08/08/2017 01:53

Its funny how people slag off Australia on here, yet so many people are desperate to live here. FWIW I've lived for long periods in the UK and Ireland before emigrating here, and there are racists everywhere. Aussies are just more outspoken about it. However its a truly multicultural place, I'm friends with and work with people from all over the world, and everyone is given a fair go. I've actually seen less prejudice here than I did when I lived in London.

But its different strokes for different folks, if you don't like it no-one is making you stay or even visit. Personally I bloody love it, the beautiful weather (yes we have seasons), the jaw dropping scenery, the beautiful food, great work life balance, and the Indian Ocean at the end of the street, I still pinch myself to believe I live in such an amazing place.

Kursk · 08/08/2017 02:18

Racism in Australia is no different to the UK or USA. The only difference is that Australians are not as reserved as British, and don't have the verbal filter.

Kursk · 08/08/2017 02:22

necronomicon

For the British, every other country is beneath them. They dislike Americans, Australians, Indians, Syrians.

realhousewife23 · 08/08/2017 03:08

[Quote] What a shining example of intelligence, wisdom, and cultural refinement some of you are too, with your posts full of spelling and grammar mistakes

The irony is laughable.

WS12 · 08/08/2017 03:29

I so heart here you're coming from. I'm English and moved here last September with my Aussie hubby and I get what you mean when you say Australia has this feeling of superiority when I think actually, it's not as good as it's made out to be.

One thing with Aus (and I think it's down it's sheer size!) is that services here are very poor. I'm in country Victoria and we get forgotten about. We don't have natural gas - that's gas to everyone in the UK- you have to buy it bottled. Only just getting broadband, no fibre optic or super fast. No such thing as next day delivery. I can do my food shopping online but must collect 35km away. Today on the news it said they're still debating gay marriage - STILL debating it. Come on! This is just a short list.

For me Australia is so behind the rest of the world. I love it for its wildlife and climate (winter and autum as summer is really hot, massive spider friends make an appearance, and spring we are swamped in flies).

They're only just getting those sandwhich thins in the shops. Only now. And the yogurts are rubbish too 😳.

WS12 · 08/08/2017 03:32

Oh and I'm sick of being stood in the park when it's 14 degrees and someone clocking I'm British. "This is tshirt and shorts weather for your lot isn't it" 😫 #€%$+¥$€%

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Ginandplatonic · 08/08/2017 03:42

I will never understand people who move to a different country then whine that it's not exactly the same as the place they left. Confused

Here's the thing: Australia is not one homogeneous mass. If you find your bit of it has lots of racists, or is too hot, or too isolated, or has bad schools, or too many bugs, or whatever then find somewhere where that doesn't apply - I guarantee there will be somewhere, it's a big place. OK maybe not the bugs - they're unavoidable!

necronomicon · 08/08/2017 03:55

Too right. You're not wrong there!

necronomicon · 08/08/2017 03:56

The likes of the people that start these blogs are not deserving of a fully polished and edited essay in response.

WS12 · 08/08/2017 04:01

Gin you are completely right 👍 It's such a big place there has to be somewhere right for everyone.

We had thought about going to Melbourne but there's so much crime down there now it's unreal.

My DH has suggested Queensland but my DS complains when it's too sunny 😂😎

Appraiser · 08/08/2017 04:06

This thread is 6 years old

With less than 120, I wouldn't say "us English" all feel this way.

Why activate an old thread?

Appraiser · 08/08/2017 04:07

*120 posts

WS12 · 08/08/2017 04:13

Appraiser I just saw the original date. Who reactivated this thread? I assumed it was current!

MissBabbs · 08/08/2017 05:09

There were 17 million in Aus in 1990 , now there's 24 million - it can't be that bad a place to live.

specialsubject · 08/08/2017 09:04

Yep, UK population has also grown beyond sustainability so the same must apply here.

That post from Mr stereotype is hilarious.

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