I have been there 5 times and love it.

Their telly is the s***est in the world because their outdoors is the best in the world. Fantastic quality of restaurants & wine to easily compete with Europes best. The beaches, oh! the beaches and the surf ... etc.

BUT! The Aussies themselves. When I am there I find I just dont gel with the natives and get drawn to the ex-pats.

My sister has married one (moved from Newcastle UK to Newcastle down under!)

Lots of Aussie based contributors on here so tell me - are they a bunch of sport obsessed fascists or what ?

When they kick out your front door. How you gonna come ?

Ive spent quite some time over there too, totally agree, its a great place, I can imagine it would be good to bring up a family there, great outdoor life,good weather, fresh food, beaches, good standard of life.

One thing that really strikes me about Aussies is how confident they are.They are also ultra competitive in the work place and on the sports field. The women are not backwards in coming forward either😉

Quite a macho culture, they have a high amount of male suicides.

Words from an Aussie Eagle !
We actually like you guys, the banter between both countries and culture is the opportunity to take the $iss but I have always embraced the English as friends and always will ( except I have to admit I do struggle generally with people from Manchester !)
Our cultures ( although Kerms disagrees) is pretty aligned, we love a laugh and a good old yarn and if there is banter to be had you will get it all in good spirits.
Yes we are a competitive lot and enjoy a good fight, but shake hands and have a beer after a game with our opponents.
If the thread is aimed at the whinging Indians in the cricket, then you are probably right in saying that we may turn things up a notch against those guys, particularly over there on their home decks.

We are the lucky ones, with beautiful weather, beaches etc and well our women are pretty good too ! The English are always welcome here and in 99.9% of cases you will always find a friend here, and a fellah to share a beer or 12 !
We need more Palace fans here though so get over here.
COYP

Red & Blue since ' 76.. And what a fine year that was and has been ever since... !

Some insanely dangerous and poisonous creatures, though.

A bit like Cardiff on a Saturday night.

NP Keems, yes Sydney is one hell of a sprawl and keeps getting bigger and bigger, I don't know how people can live so far from the city tbh, there are new suburbs springing up, it seems every couple of months, 100,000 people moving to Sydney every year will do that.... many Chinese!
Never heard the British airways joke in my 53 years of life so brought a little laugh there.... pommie b******s is certainly a term of endearment, unlike some references to other ethnic groups which have a little more teeth 😗
I agree with the comment above re some boring places and people, and the bogans / Bevan's or westies as we call them are the bottom of the food chain that are very stereotypical to a larger than what I would like % of the population... to frame and stereotype them you can pick them a mile away
Just look for mullet hair cuts, black t shirts, thongs and hotted up ( if they're not stolen lol) cars usually with a VB ( Victoria bitter), West End Draught, XXXX lager or Resches pilsner in their hand ! Oh, and a large number are usually visiting Centrelink ( social security) every week..... oh dear oh dear now I sound a little up my backside don't I !

Red & Blue since ' 76.. And what a fine year that was and has been ever since... !

I've been here for six years and love it. Gave up my palace season ticket for it and don't regret it. South Australia has lots of palace fans who meet at the Adelaide casino to watch the games. They love their sport Gere but are the worst losers on earth,they can't handle it.in general people are happy here and friendly,not like south London where anger and attitude live. I love Australia and Australians. Standard of living here is so much better, you're all being ripped off.

I don't need to sell my soul...he's already in me.

Crystal Palace Supporters Club Adelaide Regiment