Are you packing your bags to move to Australia yet? ~

And there's always that language barrier, too. 
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Not so much, really. They are still commonwealth, and have not diverged nearly as much as you Amerrikans.

I bought a flag for that. "Guaranteed to scare off all known species of drop bears" so no worries. It iven have a "double your money back" guarantee in case it dont work.

Terrible tasting water?  Frequent power outages?  Temperate climate?  Really?

No power outages when I was there and the water seemed fine to me. Loved the Mediterranean climate though.

Can't beat the climate! Perhaps they've found a new source of water, because when I lived there you couldn't see thru a glass of water!


Don't get me wrong, I grew up there and loved the place.  It's more than likely changed since I left

I live in Adelaide and love my home town, although I admit there are problems.
The solution to the water problem is easy - a PuraTap filtration system. Gets the chlorine out too.
The power problems were caused when the (conservative Liberal) Olsen government privatized the system without building any safeguards into it. When the brown coal fired Port Augusta plant shut down, the private operators weren't required to replace it, and maintenance on the transmission lines has been pared back to the barest minimum as well. The current government is attempting to address that, by commissioning a new solar thermal plant and a new lithium ion storage faciility to feed power into the grid at night. We should have gone nuclear years ago, but the bogans refuse to allow themselves to be educated about it, preferring to listen to the fear-mongers.

Hmmm ... my references were to SoCal. Sorry ... rereading my comments it's obvious that the only person that I made that clear to was me.  Sorry again.

I've never been to Australia, but I'd like to ... very much.

Crazy Cora: Things seem different here. They say God made Australia last, don't you know, after he got tired of making everything else the same.
Matthew Quigley: Well, I seen some pretty country, that's for certain.

Ah, well SoCal's a different matter. Granted my problems with California water vary greatly. The water in the Bay Area and at Tahoe is amazing. The water here in the Valley is...eh. It's not brown or anything, but it can be quite hard. My house had a water softener. 

Actually most of us do, it's our government that doesn't. Apart from the xenophobic bogan element. Even those are happy to accept Seppos, Poms, Saffers and Kiwis.

So let me see . . . most of you Aussies want "illegal aliens" to invade your land (because that's really what happens when a country drops its borders and lets anyone cross their borders unchecked) and your government refuses to abide by the desires of the majority. Something very wrong with that picture . . . but it might explain a lot . . . 

Australians can be xenophoboc, but nobody has a problem with Seppos. We mock you, but don't hate you.

Oi!

The cockroaches aren't the problem, THESE are:

The world's most venomous spider 


The world's most venomous snake


The world's most venomous octopus


The world's most venomous fish


The world's most venomous jellyfish


And if you avoid those, there's still the great white sharks, crocodiles, bunyips, hoop snakes and drop bears.
Enjoy your stay!

What in Samhill is a bunyip?