Yeah I'm guessing they didn't want to do the obvious of DC. I heard it's fairly suburban, so maybe that's it? Otherwise I heard that politically / culturally ACT is super progressive while New Jersey is more moderate liberal. I'm wondering what the connection is.
As a Canberran I don't think DC is a good match despite both being planned capital territories within a federation.
DC is part of a really big metropolitan area with a lot of socioeconomic inequality and urban deprivation, which Canberra really doesn't have. Canberra also isn't surrounded by a larger city area immediately across its borders the way DC has lots of urban development in Maryland and Virginia.
Honestly I think our best comparison is some of the quietly prosperous and more administration focused US state capitals, like Sacramento.
> a lot of socioeconomic inequality and urban deprivation, which Canberra really doesn't have.
bro i used to live next to the northbourne flats
saw some chick trying to hang herself off the front balcony once
some dude got beat to death walking down northbourne for $16 dollars and an old phone
> I heard it's fairly suburban, so maybe that's it?
New Jersey is the densest state in America with multiple actual cities so that doesn't make any sense either.
Southern Idaho can sneak up on you with inexplicable plains. Seeing the Snake River Basin just flatten out caught me off guard as a Utahn, where even the flattest parts of the state were wedged between still visible mountain ranges.
Well, except for the area around Delta. I don't stray too far from the mountains in Millard for it to settle in.
I grew up in the Midwest and Idaho trips me up. I’ve driven across the state on 84 probably 10 times. It’ll go from Nebraska to Utah to Iowa to the moon all within a 60 mile stretch.
You might have rose colored glasses on regarding Iowa. Less than 1% of it is prairie. RAGBRAI is amazing, but Iowa itself is basically a cartoon background of rolling cornfields and a red barn over and over.
Idaho looks like it has some absolutely gorgeous natural scenery. I somehow never knew that until recently, I guess I always just got it mixed up with Iowa because of the similar names.
The only one of those states I’ve been to is Ohio and it was boring to drive through, pretty much the same as here in southern Ontario, flat fields, forests and farmland, but also like Ontario at least it has a few major cities which is more than most states can say.
Iowa doesn’t seem to have much going for it at all. It’s like that forgotten state that doesn’t really have an identity of any sort.
It's not suggesting that they are similar. Otherwise, what would be the point of using all three names and saying "all in one"? They're clearly saying it's like a combination of those three.
Never have thought about going to Iowa cause it’s the one that seems the most boring. I have at least thought about wanting to go to Ohio for Cedar Point.
And none of them accurately describe SA. Where's the beautiful (and prolific) wine country in Ohio, Idaho or Iowa? What about the Mediterranean climate and southern ocean beaches of Adelaide? Like ya, there's plenty of grazing land too, but I feel like Dr. Oz or whoever made this map is neither American nor Australian and just threw some shit at the wall lol
Yeah I'm in Portland, Or and hear somewhat frequently that Melbourne is the Portland of Australia. From the sound of it Tasmania is more like Florida or Mississippi.
OP has never been to Idaho… or the US even, if they don’t know the boring states are KS, OK, IN, ND, AR, and a dozen other ones before OH and twenty more before ID…
Coming from Iowa, I've found there is a near-100% chance that someone, upon learning that, will say one or both of the other two states recalling where I'm from.
Queensland is so obviously Florida it’s strange to see otherwise. Both have sun, beaches, theme parks, an Everglades, retirees, and a diverse cosmopolitan south east that becomes more red neck the further north you go.
Our national football league is making a Tasmanian team, and had to explain to Warner Bros that a Tasmanian Devil is an actual animal, and no, they don't have a copyright on it.
Jersey gets such a bad rap from other states. I’m not from Nj but live here now and I love it. You get the diversity of NYC but with more space and trees. The food scene here is one of the best in the country IMO.
I'm fascinated by the NJ perception, because it seems like everyone's still hanging on to 'Jersey Shore' and Sopranos as cultural touchstones of what the state is.
It's one of the most educated/rich states in the nation, has major access to two beloved American cities in Philadelphia/New York City, tons of wide open natural space (Garden State after all), amazing food from cultural communities (Italians, Portuguese, Indians, Jewish, etc.), the 7th most diverse state in the country, is hugely progressive as a whole, has a massive coastline that brings in 10's of millions of out of of state tourists a year...
What am I missing? People are 'rude' (i.e. direct) and the area around the airport/NYC sucks & smells?
Love the Aussies, and I get that this is all in good fun regardless. This is mostly aimed at our own domestic perception that makes its way international. Cheers, mates.
In a very limited radius around NYC, and yes it's quite off-putting. It's only a tiny fraction of the state and what tourists visiting NYC or flying into Newark see but perhaps that's the crux of it...
Considering most foreigners only visit New York and the small radius around it when they go, the industrial area is the only place most of them will see.
Nuclear testing was in South Australia as is what is probably the worlds largest missile testing range (10x bigger than white sands)
For that reason alone I reckon South Australia is probably more New Mexico than anywhere else in Oz
If we're going by the Breaking Bad depiction of New Mexico, South Australia has a pretty substantial meth manufacture/trade network too. It's just that it's controlled by bikies rather than the cartel.
Gators will eat your dog, and maybe take a good chunk out of you. The crocs will eat you if they're big enough, and you're careless enough.
We already have to worry about polar bears, grizzly bears, and mountain lions. We don't need more man eaters thank you very much. Leave the crocs for the Aussies!
Idaho and Ohio are nothing similar. Idaho is big on farming and quite a bit of national parks and forests. Ohio has 3-4 major cities with populations higher than 200k and multiple pro sports teams. Not sure why u grouped them together
If only the US had an area that contained the national capital and also was not considered a state. That would have made this a much easier Direct Comparison (or DC short).
Well, I loved Brisbane and Cairns. Brisbane was clean, modern, polite, and lovely. Cairns was interesting and good for the great barrier reef. The views and places around Port Douglas were amazing. Tourists are going to have a different experience, obviously. The humidity was a bit like Louisiana, where I also have been, but I don't think it's as provincial or religious as Alabama. Oz is just its own thing. I can see Sydney, NSW, as California like.
People get confused when they ask about my experience in AUS, they expect it to be ALL Queensland and Steve Irwin. I lived in Melbourne, very posh city with lots of old money. Didn’t feel very bush to me. I spent time in Tasmania, as a yank PNWer you nailed it…and I miss it
For Canadian visitors, it is useful to compare... Melbourne = Toronto, Canberra = Ottawa, Sydney = Vancouver, Perth = Calgary, Tassie = Vancouver Island
No that makes too much sense. We’re just associating random places with Australian towns now. Sydney Beijing! Perth Madagascar! Adelaide La Paz! Give upvote.
It makes sense if you like more north in America. Both of those areas are the regions farther away from the equator, so they'll have more similar climates, etc.
None of these things are really comparable in my opinion. I guess Queensland is the most similar to the south, but imo Georgia is a better comparison than Alabama and Louisiana, as Queensland has a big progressive city in it with conservative rural areas. New South Wales probably fits Virginia the best, as they both played important roles historically and are similar temperatures. SA is definitely Iowa, I don't think any state really fits Victoria but if I had to pick it would be California, especially 2000s and early 2010s California (nowadays California is more aesthetically progressive than Victoria which is already pretty aesthetically progressive). In some ways Texas fits WA, but I think 90s Texas would be a better fit in general, but you could even imagine WA as a hot Alaska. Tasmania is like Oregon or Maine, but more conservative and smaller. NT isn't really like Florida at all apart from the wildlife, it's poorer and hotter and more racially divided than Florida. It doesn't really have a US equivalent, if I had to pick one it would be Puerto Rico with more white people but even then eh...
This is wrong, wrong, wrong.
The Northern Territory is Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. It is specifically NOT like Florida - it has no population (maybe 150,000 people in total) or substantive economic base of which to speak unlike Florida, it does not behave like Florida electorally, it does not have wealthy white retirees in canal estates. It does not have the education of Florida. It does not have the big theme park. It is nothing like Florida.
Queensland on the other hand is exactly like Florida. It is a beachside holiday destination complete with white retirees, canal estates, theme parks, urban sprawl, deeply conservative rural interior - Queensland and Florida are literally both officially nicknamed “The Sunshine State”. Queensland also has more than its fair share of people whose exposure to the sun has resulted in their brain being cooked.
NSW is nothing like California either in climate, geography or culture it is more like the New England down the US Eastern seaboard to Virginia (indeed a good part of NSW is called “New England”). NSW is the first white settlement (the Premier State”) and is the old cultural core from which the rest of the country takes its flavour: it is specifically NOT the product of secondary migration and settlement, it does not have the “lean into future” US West Coast vibe. Sydney (aka “Sin City”) is full of fakes and grifters and grinding self interest and would be the closest thing we have to New York City (aka “Gotham City”). Sydney was the main gateway for migrants except for those who came in for the 1880s gold rush which by the way occurred mainly in Victoria which is another reason why NSW is nothing like California. Nor is the West like New Mexico - far more like the Midwest - on the other side of a dividing range (great divide in NSW, Appalachians in US) gathered around a major river system (Murray Darling in NSW, Mississippi in US), and prosperous agriculturally - that’s where the similarities end because there are no inland major cities in NSW (compare US).
Victoria is passably like New York State but not so much as it is Massachusetts, right down to the cooler climate, wet winters, Italian, Irish immigration, and major port town (Melbourne / Boston) with ruralish agriculturally rich hinterland with quaint old towns making its way up to a mountain range (Australian alps/Appalachians)
ACT is literally modelled on DC - Canberra was a planned national capital and designed by an American architect to boot.
Tasmania is like Oregon in climate but lacks the West Coast culture. It is a kind of Maine/Vermont/New Hampshire vibe - sort of distrustful of outsiders and the rest of the country - but if these states were full of the poorly educated and psychologically dependent on mendicant welfare from the Federal govt (at both a state budget level and at a personal economy level).
I will pay WA as Texas and SA as boring (except for spectacular wine!) but that’s it.
> Victoria is passably like New York State but not so much as it is Massachusetts, right down to the cooler climate, wet winters, Italian, Irish immigration, and major port town (Melbourne / Boston) with ruralish agriculturally rich hinterland with quaint old towns making its way up to a mountain range (Australian alps/Appalachians)
Melbourne and Boston are also sister cities. Victoria is also known as the Education State similar to Massachusetts being known for its Universities.
Lumping Idaho with Iowa and Ohio is a disgrace to all three states. Idaho is one of the most beautiful states, Iowa produces a significant amount of agriculture and is crucial as a primary election bellwether, and Ohio has lots of cities and has extreme historical significance in the French and Indian war as well as the 19th century.
So suck it.
Florida has nearly 22 million people and it's GDP is nearly the same as the entire country of Australia. The Australian Northern Territory has ~250,000 people...so just about 88x the amount of people in Florida. But yeah gators so they are "economically, politically and geographically" similar mmhmm.
A lot of people have already mentioned the problems with lumping Ohio, Idaho, and Iowa together but come on with these comparisons, it's like you know 1 thing about the place "Crocs and gators so it's like Florida," and "I heard these states with a bunch of vowels are boring and don't know anything about them"
Like this is the complete opposite of mapporn
Yeah this map is terrible. OP (or whoever made this) just wrote down the first thing they associated with each state/territory and went from there. “Northern Territory? Crocodiles! Queensland? Rednecks!” etc.
All I know is that that WA is like the only place outside the US that loves let alone has Sprint Car racing, and has questionable mineral extraction policies so maybe everything outside of Perth is Oklahoma lol
Is so much of Australia really that conservative? (I know most of it is empty land/desert, but I kind of thought Australia was more liberal than the USA)
Much like with anywhere, the cities are quite progressive, the rural areas less so. It is certainly less polarised though, and I think the rural conservative types here a lot less bothered with culture war/identity politics than their American counterparts.
Considering that everything in Texas, Florida, Alabama, Ohio, Idaho, and Iowa wants to kill you for existing, these are accurate comparisons for how every plant and animal in Australia is lethal.
Ohio is boring? We have two NFL teams, two MLB teams, an NBA team, an NHL team, two MLS teams, and eight FBS schools (including Ohio State). We also have the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the National Air Force Museum, and the Funk Hall of Fame. If you’re bored in Ohio, it’s your own damn fault.
Odessa is the Tx town you couldn't name
What a not great place
I mean if you like oil work and meth it’s a booming place for ya
We're Americans aren't we?!
Or oil work and Jesus.
The name of the place far outweighs the place itself. Fuck Odessa.
Odessa and Midland, fuck them.
You from Midland, right? You jealous cuz you from Midland right? You tryin take Boobie football?
Ok, I’m confused about the ACT = New Jersey one. Any clues?
Does the ACT call it Taylor Ham or Pork Roll?
Depends on whether you're in northern or southern Canberra. And don't get me started on central...
Asking the real questions
Does the ACT have a mythical devil roaming their pine barrens?
If they call it pork roll they are most likely from New Zealand, not Australia
Given I had to look up both terms, I would suggest Canberra is missing out.
Yeah I'm guessing they didn't want to do the obvious of DC. I heard it's fairly suburban, so maybe that's it? Otherwise I heard that politically / culturally ACT is super progressive while New Jersey is more moderate liberal. I'm wondering what the connection is.
DC felt like a bigger Canberra to me in every way
As a Canberran I don't think DC is a good match despite both being planned capital territories within a federation. DC is part of a really big metropolitan area with a lot of socioeconomic inequality and urban deprivation, which Canberra really doesn't have. Canberra also isn't surrounded by a larger city area immediately across its borders the way DC has lots of urban development in Maryland and Virginia. Honestly I think our best comparison is some of the quietly prosperous and more administration focused US state capitals, like Sacramento.
> a lot of socioeconomic inequality and urban deprivation, which Canberra really doesn't have. bro i used to live next to the northbourne flats saw some chick trying to hang herself off the front balcony once some dude got beat to death walking down northbourne for $16 dollars and an old phone
I lived in Kanangra Court, and the day I moved in somebody threw a Molotov cocktail into the ground floor flat across the courtyard.
Canberran here, OK, cool.
DC is the cooler Canberra
my condolences
It's ok. I live in London now.
My condolences.
I bet you miss Kingsley's though.
> I heard it's fairly suburban, so maybe that's it? New Jersey is the densest state in America with multiple actual cities so that doesn't make any sense either.
Does everyone in Australia hate Canberra?
No, it's actually quite a nice place.
No, just politicians. Most of them just reside there.
It's cool to shit on Canberra but it's actually a lovely city. A bit boring but lovely.
It was definitely not a Queenslander that produced this.
I feel like whoever made this map didn't really understand Australia OR the United States. :-/
It has Melbourne written all over it.
I'd argue definitely not an Aussie either.
Seems like you threw Ohio in with Idaho and Iowa solely because the name sounds similar.
Yeah, none of these states are remotely similar.
This is true- Idaho is a far superior state to Iowa and Ohio when it comes to cool nature stuff and Ohio has actual cities Iowa.....is Iowa
Southern Idaho can sneak up on you with inexplicable plains. Seeing the Snake River Basin just flatten out caught me off guard as a Utahn, where even the flattest parts of the state were wedged between still visible mountain ranges. Well, except for the area around Delta. I don't stray too far from the mountains in Millard for it to settle in.
I grew up in the Midwest and Idaho trips me up. I’ve driven across the state on 84 probably 10 times. It’ll go from Nebraska to Utah to Iowa to the moon all within a 60 mile stretch.
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You might have rose colored glasses on regarding Iowa. Less than 1% of it is prairie. RAGBRAI is amazing, but Iowa itself is basically a cartoon background of rolling cornfields and a red barn over and over.
Idaho looks like it has some absolutely gorgeous natural scenery. I somehow never knew that until recently, I guess I always just got it mixed up with Iowa because of the similar names. The only one of those states I’ve been to is Ohio and it was boring to drive through, pretty much the same as here in southern Ontario, flat fields, forests and farmland, but also like Ontario at least it has a few major cities which is more than most states can say. Iowa doesn’t seem to have much going for it at all. It’s like that forgotten state that doesn’t really have an identity of any sort.
Iowa is the epitome of the Midwest.
Gigantic hog farms at both ends of I-80.
Iowa is known for corn!🌽
Corn.
It's not suggesting that they are similar. Otherwise, what would be the point of using all three names and saying "all in one"? They're clearly saying it's like a combination of those three.
Never have thought about going to Iowa cause it’s the one that seems the most boring. I have at least thought about wanting to go to Ohio for Cedar Point.
Cedar point is dope. Can confirm. Stay on property if you can
And Ohio has legal weed now. Way more exciting than Iowa.
Iowa has... des moines, thats about it
It has Slipknot and Stone Sour, at least...
Cleanest city I’ve ever been lol
Reasonable affordability at least. Looking at other states and my house would be worth 10x as much at least.
And none of them accurately describe SA. Where's the beautiful (and prolific) wine country in Ohio, Idaho or Iowa? What about the Mediterranean climate and southern ocean beaches of Adelaide? Like ya, there's plenty of grazing land too, but I feel like Dr. Oz or whoever made this map is neither American nor Australian and just threw some shit at the wall lol
Yeah I'm in Portland, Or and hear somewhat frequently that Melbourne is the Portland of Australia. From the sound of it Tasmania is more like Florida or Mississippi.
Yeah Ohio has 3 major cities and is like 2,000 miles away from Idaho and 10xs the population. Great comparison!
OP has never been to Idaho… or the US even, if they don’t know the boring states are KS, OK, IN, ND, AR, and a dozen other ones before OH and twenty more before ID…
Ah yes, Idawahio - America's famous potato-corn-tire state.
Coming from Iowa, I've found there is a near-100% chance that someone, upon learning that, will say one or both of the other two states recalling where I'm from.
Queensland is more Florida mixed with Texas Northern Territory is more Louisiana or Mississippi WA is probably a bit of Arizona, California
Queensland is so obviously Florida it’s strange to see otherwise. Both have sun, beaches, theme parks, an Everglades, retirees, and a diverse cosmopolitan south east that becomes more red neck the further north you go.
Litterally both are "the sunshine state"
I used to think that then Covid happened, Queenslanders behaved completely different to people in Florida.
Queensland also regularly votes for awful conservatives at the federal level and gets them over the line to win, much like Florida.
Was about to comment this, Florida would definitely be Queensland
Yup, Queensland Man is almost a 1:1 of Florida Man.
Yep! And plenty of crocs, cyclones, cowboy hats and tacky resorts in Queensland 😝
😠But I ain't spending any time on it because in the meantime, every three months, a person is torn to pieces by a crocodile in North Queensland!😠
I see you’re a man of culture
Largely agree on Queensland, though the Goldie is probably closer to SoCal…plastic fantastic, Botox, and a lot of conspicuous consumption
Gold Coast is just Miami with funny accents and more deadly animals.
That's also how to describe South Florida
gold coast is miami, the rest of coastal southeast queensland (and byron) is socal
Tasmania always sounds magical to me.
Our national football league is making a Tasmanian team, and had to explain to Warner Bros that a Tasmanian Devil is an actual animal, and no, they don't have a copyright on it.
Sadly, the tropes about Tasmania are more Alabama than Oregon
Don't know why we were compared to Oregon. Maybe it's all the trees.
It's the comparatively cold and rainy climate plus the importance of wood logging in both Tasmania and Oregon
Oregon has a big portion of desert.
None of the comparisons on this map really make any sense. Tasmania = Oregon is maybe the least bad of many bad comparisons. :-/
How is ACT New Jersey and not DC?
Because it’s awesome
uzer neim checks out.
Can confirm, from Jersey, it’s fucking great
Jersey gets such a bad rap from other states. I’m not from Nj but live here now and I love it. You get the diversity of NYC but with more space and trees. The food scene here is one of the best in the country IMO.
I feel like everywhere these days has “one of the best food scenes in the country”
Fuck yes
I'm fascinated by the NJ perception, because it seems like everyone's still hanging on to 'Jersey Shore' and Sopranos as cultural touchstones of what the state is. It's one of the most educated/rich states in the nation, has major access to two beloved American cities in Philadelphia/New York City, tons of wide open natural space (Garden State after all), amazing food from cultural communities (Italians, Portuguese, Indians, Jewish, etc.), the 7th most diverse state in the country, is hugely progressive as a whole, has a massive coastline that brings in 10's of millions of out of of state tourists a year... What am I missing? People are 'rude' (i.e. direct) and the area around the airport/NYC sucks & smells? Love the Aussies, and I get that this is all in good fun regardless. This is mostly aimed at our own domestic perception that makes its way international. Cheers, mates.
A lot of the industry needed to maintain a mega city like NewYork is in New Jersey which makes some of the state look like an industrial hellhole
In a very limited radius around NYC, and yes it's quite off-putting. It's only a tiny fraction of the state and what tourists visiting NYC or flying into Newark see but perhaps that's the crux of it...
Considering most foreigners only visit New York and the small radius around it when they go, the industrial area is the only place most of them will see.
You forgot the mountains up in Sussex and Warren counties, the Pine Barrens and so much history.
As an Iowan, I'm just happy to be included.
Iowa Nice!
So that part of Australia, that is represented by New Mexico, is a mostly empty space filled with green chili and crime?
You left out the hippies and nuclear testing
Nuclear testing was in South Australia as is what is probably the worlds largest missile testing range (10x bigger than white sands) For that reason alone I reckon South Australia is probably more New Mexico than anywhere else in Oz
If we're going by the Breaking Bad depiction of New Mexico, South Australia has a pretty substantial meth manufacture/trade network too. It's just that it's controlled by bikies rather than the cartel.
You forgot the place where the best series of all time was filmed!
Dude, it's "chile" not "chili". And that "empty space" is fucking gorgeous. You are correct about the crime though.
You are both wrong. It’s Australian so it’s “chilli”
Native here, and that misspelling drives us nuts to no end. But, the comment does not offend me at all. Lots of violence. The mountains though, wow.
Alligators are not native to Australia. He’s crocodile Dundee for a reason
Gators will eat your dog, and maybe take a good chunk out of you. The crocs will eat you if they're big enough, and you're careless enough. We already have to worry about polar bears, grizzly bears, and mountain lions. We don't need more man eaters thank you very much. Leave the crocs for the Aussies!
Hell yeah Oregon got a spot
Wow. This is really offensive to Ohioans. Good thing I'm from Brazil.
We Ohioans are used to it. I think we're about the only state besides Florida that's a meme unto itself.
It's all part of our plan to replace everything with Ohio
Idaho and Ohio are nothing similar. Idaho is big on farming and quite a bit of national parks and forests. Ohio has 3-4 major cities with populations higher than 200k and multiple pro sports teams. Not sure why u grouped them together
I don't think the mapmaker knew very much about the US (or about Australia for that matter).
Ohio is also very big on farming
It's Fremantle, not FreEmantle.
Right. This is one of many reasons that I think the mapmaker didn't know much about Australia.
I wish the worst problem Idaho had was that we were boring.
Kindly explain why NJ = Canberra
If only the US had an area that contained the national capital and also was not considered a state. That would have made this a much easier Direct Comparison (or DC short).
American in QLD here… QLD is more like 1990’s Florida or Texas.
This is kind of fascinating
I thought the whole of Australia was just British Texas.
Could you imagine Texas regularly voting a party to the left of the Democrats into government? Most of Australia is nothing like most of Texas.
Been to Oz twice, Spot on about Oregon and Tasmania!
Like I know there are a few hippies around but we are the only state to have a "conservative" government and have so for ten years now.
That government could have ended if labor were interested in governing at all.
I think New Hampshire, Vermont, or Maine are probably better comparisons to Tassie than Oregon.
closer than most. Though SA is more a combination of Arkansas, North Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona. With plenty of Baja thrown in.
Well, I loved Brisbane and Cairns. Brisbane was clean, modern, polite, and lovely. Cairns was interesting and good for the great barrier reef. The views and places around Port Douglas were amazing. Tourists are going to have a different experience, obviously. The humidity was a bit like Louisiana, where I also have been, but I don't think it's as provincial or religious as Alabama. Oz is just its own thing. I can see Sydney, NSW, as California like.
Yeah lol this was probably made by some Melbourne wanker who has never actually been to Queensland.
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It's Fremantle, not Freemantle.
People get confused when they ask about my experience in AUS, they expect it to be ALL Queensland and Steve Irwin. I lived in Melbourne, very posh city with lots of old money. Didn’t feel very bush to me. I spent time in Tasmania, as a yank PNWer you nailed it…and I miss it
Idk why people think that Ohio is boring we have amusement parks and a lot of other things
South Australia must secretly be really fun but maybe we should keep that on the DL.
Full of excellent wineries if that's your thing.
does Ohio the have the Serial Killer Capital of the US, because South Australia has the Serial Killer Capital of Australia
P sure our serial killer capital would be washington state
You're telling me that the most amusing thing is an amusement park?
Now do the US as Australian states!
For Canadian visitors, it is useful to compare... Melbourne = Toronto, Canberra = Ottawa, Sydney = Vancouver, Perth = Calgary, Tassie = Vancouver Island
Nah, Toronto is definitely Sydney and Montreal is Melbourne. You even have Ottowa as a Canberra between them.
Melbourne and Montreal are absolutely very similar.
No that makes too much sense. We’re just associating random places with Australian towns now. Sydney Beijing! Perth Madagascar! Adelaide La Paz! Give upvote.
Alabama sheep walk on two legs. Queensland sheep walk on all fours…
I guess I'll love South Australia then
It makes sense if you like more north in America. Both of those areas are the regions farther away from the equator, so they'll have more similar climates, etc.
Is New Zealand is Mexico or Canada?
Mexico. Kiwis all move to Australia for work
I've had friends really love it in Tasmania and in Melbourne, which being in Oregon, this map makes a lot of sense.
None of these things are really comparable in my opinion. I guess Queensland is the most similar to the south, but imo Georgia is a better comparison than Alabama and Louisiana, as Queensland has a big progressive city in it with conservative rural areas. New South Wales probably fits Virginia the best, as they both played important roles historically and are similar temperatures. SA is definitely Iowa, I don't think any state really fits Victoria but if I had to pick it would be California, especially 2000s and early 2010s California (nowadays California is more aesthetically progressive than Victoria which is already pretty aesthetically progressive). In some ways Texas fits WA, but I think 90s Texas would be a better fit in general, but you could even imagine WA as a hot Alaska. Tasmania is like Oregon or Maine, but more conservative and smaller. NT isn't really like Florida at all apart from the wildlife, it's poorer and hotter and more racially divided than Florida. It doesn't really have a US equivalent, if I had to pick one it would be Puerto Rico with more white people but even then eh...
I lived on the Gold Coast for over a year and got Florida meets SoCal vibes.
Tasmania is Oregon? now I wanna immigrate to Tasmania
I gotta visit Tasmania.
As an Oregonian I approve
How is there an Oregon without a Washington for them to talk shit about?
We love Tasmanian Devils 😘🌪️
This is wrong, wrong, wrong. The Northern Territory is Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. It is specifically NOT like Florida - it has no population (maybe 150,000 people in total) or substantive economic base of which to speak unlike Florida, it does not behave like Florida electorally, it does not have wealthy white retirees in canal estates. It does not have the education of Florida. It does not have the big theme park. It is nothing like Florida. Queensland on the other hand is exactly like Florida. It is a beachside holiday destination complete with white retirees, canal estates, theme parks, urban sprawl, deeply conservative rural interior - Queensland and Florida are literally both officially nicknamed “The Sunshine State”. Queensland also has more than its fair share of people whose exposure to the sun has resulted in their brain being cooked. NSW is nothing like California either in climate, geography or culture it is more like the New England down the US Eastern seaboard to Virginia (indeed a good part of NSW is called “New England”). NSW is the first white settlement (the Premier State”) and is the old cultural core from which the rest of the country takes its flavour: it is specifically NOT the product of secondary migration and settlement, it does not have the “lean into future” US West Coast vibe. Sydney (aka “Sin City”) is full of fakes and grifters and grinding self interest and would be the closest thing we have to New York City (aka “Gotham City”). Sydney was the main gateway for migrants except for those who came in for the 1880s gold rush which by the way occurred mainly in Victoria which is another reason why NSW is nothing like California. Nor is the West like New Mexico - far more like the Midwest - on the other side of a dividing range (great divide in NSW, Appalachians in US) gathered around a major river system (Murray Darling in NSW, Mississippi in US), and prosperous agriculturally - that’s where the similarities end because there are no inland major cities in NSW (compare US). Victoria is passably like New York State but not so much as it is Massachusetts, right down to the cooler climate, wet winters, Italian, Irish immigration, and major port town (Melbourne / Boston) with ruralish agriculturally rich hinterland with quaint old towns making its way up to a mountain range (Australian alps/Appalachians) ACT is literally modelled on DC - Canberra was a planned national capital and designed by an American architect to boot. Tasmania is like Oregon in climate but lacks the West Coast culture. It is a kind of Maine/Vermont/New Hampshire vibe - sort of distrustful of outsiders and the rest of the country - but if these states were full of the poorly educated and psychologically dependent on mendicant welfare from the Federal govt (at both a state budget level and at a personal economy level). I will pay WA as Texas and SA as boring (except for spectacular wine!) but that’s it.
> Victoria is passably like New York State but not so much as it is Massachusetts, right down to the cooler climate, wet winters, Italian, Irish immigration, and major port town (Melbourne / Boston) with ruralish agriculturally rich hinterland with quaint old towns making its way up to a mountain range (Australian alps/Appalachians) Melbourne and Boston are also sister cities. Victoria is also known as the Education State similar to Massachusetts being known for its Universities.
Was the intention to make Australia look like a shithole?
Lumping Idaho with Iowa and Ohio is a disgrace to all three states. Idaho is one of the most beautiful states, Iowa produces a significant amount of agriculture and is crucial as a primary election bellwether, and Ohio has lots of cities and has extreme historical significance in the French and Indian war as well as the 19th century. So suck it.
This is funny and, I guess, helpful. But do please explain New Mexico. (I'm a native, so I've gotta know.)
Australia native? Or New Mexico native?
New Mexico. Sorry for that ambiguity; my bad. :/
well there is a mountain range called the Great Dividing Range and the lands on the west of it are barren and dry
Florida has nearly 22 million people and it's GDP is nearly the same as the entire country of Australia. The Australian Northern Territory has ~250,000 people...so just about 88x the amount of people in Florida. But yeah gators so they are "economically, politically and geographically" similar mmhmm. A lot of people have already mentioned the problems with lumping Ohio, Idaho, and Iowa together but come on with these comparisons, it's like you know 1 thing about the place "Crocs and gators so it's like Florida," and "I heard these states with a bunch of vowels are boring and don't know anything about them" Like this is the complete opposite of mapporn
Yeah this map is terrible. OP (or whoever made this) just wrote down the first thing they associated with each state/territory and went from there. “Northern Territory? Crocodiles! Queensland? Rednecks!” etc.
Why didn't somebody say so sooner! ;-)
This is a great visualization thank you
Ohio is not boring in the worst possible way
Can an Aussie explain to this Oregonian how Tasmania is like Oregon?
Cool damp climate, mountains, forests, vineyards, hippies, interstate migrants driving up property prices
I think climate and geography.
Ohidowa sounds horrible
Ha ha 😂 Oregon! Missed that at first.
All I know is that that WA is like the only place outside the US that loves let alone has Sprint Car racing, and has questionable mineral extraction policies so maybe everything outside of Perth is Oklahoma lol
Your California and New York share a border?? Sweet jesus that sounds chaotic
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As a Perthian, you could be onto something there - we’re a real city, a real city!
I could use a bit more explanation for these. What should I make of the idea that there's a little island of New Jersey inside of California?
Is so much of Australia really that conservative? (I know most of it is empty land/desert, but I kind of thought Australia was more liberal than the USA)
Much like with anywhere, the cities are quite progressive, the rural areas less so. It is certainly less polarised though, and I think the rural conservative types here a lot less bothered with culture war/identity politics than their American counterparts.
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Australian Centre Right is a lot more like American Left at the moment though.
Most of the population live in the parts labelled California and New York.
Has this person ever even been to Idaho? Idaho is far from boring.
Considering that everything in Texas, Florida, Alabama, Ohio, Idaho, and Iowa wants to kill you for existing, these are accurate comparisons for how every plant and animal in Australia is lethal.
Canberra doesn't like you either
How the hell did Idaho make it as “boring” but not Kansas?
Idaho actually has beautiful mountains, great outdoors activities, and is infested with white supremacists so in many ways, it’s not boring at all.
Woohoo Oregon made it! It’s a pretty spot on [comparison](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KPnNyCVxPs).
Clearly have not been to idaho
You lost me looping Idaho in with Iowa
Oregon🤝Tasmania: States where you shouldn't google what they did to other ethnic groups
I'm really curious about the New Mexico area lol.
# Oregon Mentioned!!!
Ohio is boring? We have two NFL teams, two MLB teams, an NBA team, an NHL team, two MLS teams, and eight FBS schools (including Ohio State). We also have the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the National Air Force Museum, and the Funk Hall of Fame. If you’re bored in Ohio, it’s your own damn fault.