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You'll be fine, Australia isn't bad. Just make sure to not be in Melbourne

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? Can you give a thumbnail sketch of why not Melbourne ? .

TIA,

-Nate

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I'm a Melbourne boy so I'll volunteer.

Melbs is the declining centre of left wing culture in Australia, where commies run the inner city, and unions in concert with a euro style technocratic government are running everything into the ground. Mass immigration is at an extreme level, a shared cultural life has become impossible.

Everyone of sense lives in the extremely wide ring of suburbs, where boomers reign and you're lucky to find a few real ones to commiserate with. Simple geometric reality means that everywhere with enough density for a vibrant cultural life is extortionately expensive and owned by foreigners and an old detached elite. The common feeling is the city is dying, everyone's plotting an escape to the countryside.

But it's not all bad. The pub culture is still good if you go into town, and it is still has a lingering legacy of being a centre of progress in labour organisation and Australian culture. I'm naturally prejudiced here, but I think Melbourne even still is the place where unexpected innovation will happen. The surrounding nature is paradisiacal, some of the earliest national parks, and it's all free, which you can't say in most other states. If you actually get around and talk to people you'll find a lot of very interesting perspectives, a wide range of strange types begrudgingly end up in Melbourne (but also commies, alas).

I still wouldn't recommend the place to a newcomer though. There's many world cities where you'd get what Melbourne has to offer, and cheaper, but in the rest of the country you're in the Great Southern Land. If you're not invested by ancestory in the place, such as I am, the noise and stupidity of the city isn't worth the hassle.

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Thank you Sir .

-Nate

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Where are the promised kangaroo facts...

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facts is an outdated concept but damn i wouldve liked that listicle

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Here's hoping the career change will be to your liking .

I laugh about the spiders thing, I used to work in a huge building crawling with them and for amusement I'd squish them with my thumb as the big burly Mechanics would cringe in horror sure I was about to get bit and die .

-Nate

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You're a male "I'm not like the other girls" with a larger thesaurus and a helping of sublimated intellectual narcissism. Upgrade to Paid.

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If you're going innabush recommend making a healthy amount of noise. Don't soften your footsteps, crack some trigs.

Snakes don't hang around to greet you. I've been here all my life and seen not a dozen wild snakes. As to spiders, they're not gonna bite you willynilly, just keep an eye out.

Nature could kill you here if it felt like it, but Australia is a grand land above we petty creatures. Keep a positive mindset about it and she'll be right.

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When you get on the plane everyone complains about the food and the legroom and the everything else, because nobody can say "Man I hope this plane doesn't crash" or they kick you off

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"No atheists in foxholes" is too dramatic. No atheists in a plane.

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Exited for you.

-Jan

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