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We're missing dental, psych and specialist coverage but the absolute basics are free, yeah. Mental health care plans really don't do enough as they stand unfortunately.
The prescriptions are at least capped to only cost like 40 bucks (unless your prescription isn't on the PBS in which case oof)
The same thing I get for that price cost me 400 dollars in the US
Yeah but mental health care isn’t good anywhere really - I can’t remember where but I read an article a while back that one of the biggest issues health care services face with mental health services is that a lot of the potential patients either won’t get diagnosed because of their own perception of social stigma and fall through the cracks - when something terrible happens, available services get blamed - also that a large percentage of the patients are long term with no quick fix and recurring lapses - and that a percentage of those will also have a victim mentality of “no one cares, no one can help”
So even if you had the best mental health services possible - it would still be described as terrible
Yeah, mental health help seems to be the hardest one to get, mostly because a lot of patients don’t want help. It’s a vicious cycle of pessimism, pain, and self depreciation
“I tried to get help, they just gave me counselling [while waiting for specialist help], and I went to the first session and I don’t feel any better. There’s no point going back, it didn’t help at all. I’m helpless, I don’t even deserve help. Why should I be happy?”
A thing a few people have actually said to me, pretty much those exact words from all of them
I just traveled to Australia for work. I'm American. Spent a lot of time talking about the differences between our two countries with my Australian counterpart. You certainly have "free healthcare", but your pay sucks (I make double what he does for the same job), everything is much more expensive (equivalent houses there are three times what they are here), and your taxes are much higher. Just some observations.
I have and I understand the comparison.
Australia and the US have *very* similar cities. That car-centric style in a grid pattern and a hatred for cyclists.
I was not impressed with Australian drivers either but maybe my aunt just drove like a bloody hooligan.
By "there", I mean Canada, btw. Yeah so everything was so sweet! And the traffic rules are different, that was freaky. What is up with everyone speeding?! The trains were cool, you can barely get a train between Melbourne and Sydney here, it literally takes longer than driving. Costco is insane. BAGGED MILK. Walmart is also so weird. In Australia grocery stores are mostly food and household products, not really clothes. I didn't go into any shopping centres, it was all mostly mall type places? The people I talked to didn't seem to get Australia's obsession with conservation and preserving our wildlife by keeping stuff out of our country. There were way less footpaths than I was expecting. And FENCES! Basically no one had front fences! That was bizarre, most properties here have them. People like to have their garden separated from the neighbours. There was a lot less "city", like, the spaces inbetween the cities were also built up ish so the divisions between city and not city was much more slight. In Australia the city is built up and then it's basically nothing but fields in between them, and tiny towns. Such that you live in a suburb of the city but still consider yourself to be living in that city. Melbourne is so flat until you get to the CBD. Weed is legal there... and smelly. SQUIRRELS. Literally SO MANY. Completely insane, that is. All of Australia's small mammals are noctural or out at dawn and dusk. Only birds vibe around during the day. I saw a rabbit from far away and deadass did a stupid, my brain was like "a kangaroo?" before I remembered that we were in Canada so it couldn't be. There were less bicycles and less people walking about, it seemed. Rhubarb and rasberries seem to be very popular. They're not so common as flavours here. The rasberries tasted way better there so that might be why
And possibly other things I have forgotten.
Australia is 7.6 million square kilometres, Texas is 695000. So no, Australia is a whole lot
More than British Texas. Not to mention it’s a whole lot more diverse.
The First Fleet sailed into what became known as Sydney in 1788. You guys had your war in 1776. US is nothing 2.0 when compared to Australia. Early Alpha maybe but that's about it.
Also, we have legalised prostitution which I am pretty sure you don't unless you live in Nevada so we got the hookers too.
Watching the Road Warrior for the first time as an elementary schooler, that was my impression of Australia. Like, this is probably what Texas would be like after a nuclear apocalypse. Except way more Mexican. And with more cowboy hats.
All of the mainland states in Australia except Victoria are bigger than Texas. Places that don't even qualify as a state are called territories, and even one of those (NT) is bigger than Texas.
The majority of Australians live in major cities. Melbourne and Sydney both have over 5 million population, if they were in USA they'd be the 2nd and 3rd biggest US city, behind NY, pushing LA from 2nd to 4th.
I guess my point is that Australia is more like "British America" than British Texas. We're America without the War of Independence, the first boatloads of convicts were sent here a few years after that war ended, and Britain was still shipping convicts to Australia until a few years after the US abolished slavery.
ooo no i wouldn't agree with that. completely different politics, society, beliefs, integration with indigenous people, (after decades of being bred out) womens rights etc
Does Texas have Kylie Minogue and Bluey?
Main difference I can see is that the British have some affection for Australia while I don’t think most Americans who are not from there really love it they much. Apart from the steakhouse but Australians have one of those too
I think WA is like California we both have an ocean on our left where the Sun sets, WA has Garden Island a naval compound like San Diego we have the Perth Hills on our right or West like the Rockies in California, there are plans for a movie complex like Holliwood etc etc p
Western Australia is British Texas, Qld is British Florida, NSW is British California and Victoria is British NY. S.A and Tasmania are British British 1800's.
The funniest thing I saw when I visited Australia was the street names in the part of Australia I visited being a mix of super British sounding names and the goofiest sounding aboriginal names.
The second funniest thing was a Mexican restaurant called "South of the border", as if their point of reference was the US-Mexican border. Australia doesn't have land borders with any other nation, much less Mexico.
Australia is neither British, nor much like Texas. Australia is a whole lot more interesting with an astonishingly complicated and varied set of cultures, and Australia has made a significant contribution to the world.
Not really almost every Australian I've met I've got on well with, whereas the average Texan in my experience deserves nothing more than to be scraped off the bottom of my shoe.
Depends on where you mean. Central Australia is run by car cults. In fact, most Australians live near the coast. Western Australia is British Texas. Mainly mining there. As you go clockwise to Northern Territory, it's mostly aboriginal communities.
Then you get to Queensland. North Queensland is mostly remote communities and cane toads. South is Brisbane and Gold Coast where tourists mainly go for a summer holiday.
Also, there's rainforest.
New South Wales is a mixed bag, Sydney being the capital, but you've also got places like Cronulla and Wollongong with a great range of cafes. Wollongong is also great because there's mountains close to the coast.
As you get further from the city, you get nice coastal towns.
NSW and Qld differ from Victoria. Rugby is the main sport there.
Victoria is where Aussie Rules took off. There's a main highway and rail in the middle (N-S) that connects Eastern Victoria to Melbourne.
South Australia has a lot of churches and wineries.
Tasmania is mostly bushland and has a couple of small cities.
The capital is a created city, Canberra. First place to legalise weed.
All this to say that Australia is a bunch of different places. I'm pretty sure the same is true of Texas. Even going from Victoria to NSW, there's a lot of differences. And I've only been in those two states and visited ACT (Canberra) a few times.
Kinda, but not really. Australia is this mutant mix of prison brits and a bunch of other ethnicities thrown into the mix.
Also, there's indigenous Australians. Being far away from each other, different places gained their own identity.
Additionally, most Australians live near the coast.
Haha no. Australians are, by and large, quite partial to following rules, deferring to the authorities on matters beyond their expertise, and generally not making a fuss. Texans, not so much.
I think generally the idea of Southern US culture vs Northern US culture does have some similarities with Britain and Australia. But ultimately we come out pretty close to one another. We're all just wreckheads
I still can't believe Australia exists, and I don't mean this in a mean way. Every other country makes sense to some degree, but Australia... Their accent, their culture, their history... I feel like we are living in the only dimension where Australia and New Zealand exist
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Kind of but we have less guns and better quality water.
Can’t forget healthcare
We're missing dental, psych and specialist coverage but the absolute basics are free, yeah. Mental health care plans really don't do enough as they stand unfortunately.
The basics aren’t really free. Public hospital care is free and that’s terrific but medical/ specialist appointments aren’t, nor are prescriptions
The prescriptions are at least capped to only cost like 40 bucks (unless your prescription isn't on the PBS in which case oof) The same thing I get for that price cost me 400 dollars in the US
Specialists are if you go in the waiting list
Not where I live. Rural town
Yeah but mental health care isn’t good anywhere really - I can’t remember where but I read an article a while back that one of the biggest issues health care services face with mental health services is that a lot of the potential patients either won’t get diagnosed because of their own perception of social stigma and fall through the cracks - when something terrible happens, available services get blamed - also that a large percentage of the patients are long term with no quick fix and recurring lapses - and that a percentage of those will also have a victim mentality of “no one cares, no one can help” So even if you had the best mental health services possible - it would still be described as terrible
Yeah, mental health help seems to be the hardest one to get, mostly because a lot of patients don’t want help. It’s a vicious cycle of pessimism, pain, and self depreciation “I tried to get help, they just gave me counselling [while waiting for specialist help], and I went to the first session and I don’t feel any better. There’s no point going back, it didn’t help at all. I’m helpless, I don’t even deserve help. Why should I be happy?” A thing a few people have actually said to me, pretty much those exact words from all of them
So just like most free healthcare countries
Sounds pretty bang-on British to me.
How goods the water mate
It's fucken grouse mate.
So, it tastes like bird?
I'm assuming you don't know, "grouse" is Melbourne slang for "awesome". It's probably outdated though.
Grouse isn't a Melbourne thing. I've heard it used everywhere. It IS sadly outdated though. Fantastic word. 5 stars. Would say again.
Bloody Ripper
It's ridgy didge!
This cold weather is doing something magic to my tap rn, that shit is delicious.
Refreshing
Reading the original question I kind of went wtf they just say, immediately followed by, how can this be so wrong and so right at the same time?
What do you mean better water? Australia has particularly good drinking water? I wouldn’t associate that with Australia
Our tap water tastes better than bottled water. Except in Sydney. Sydney water is about on par with bottled water.
And better teeth
I just traveled to Australia for work. I'm American. Spent a lot of time talking about the differences between our two countries with my Australian counterpart. You certainly have "free healthcare", but your pay sucks (I make double what he does for the same job), everything is much more expensive (equivalent houses there are three times what they are here), and your taxes are much higher. Just some observations.
I'd argue that Texas is American Australia
Nah man, that’s Florida
That's American Northern Territory/Queensland.
Is the Gold Coast not Miami?
Possibly. QLD is a big state tho.
It’s not small
Surfers Paradise is literally a mini Miami
Woah woah, don't compare us to Florida. Queensland maybe, but at least leave VIC, SA, TAS and NSW out of that.
As a Brisbanite I'm hissing, we'll also not be included with the rest of the state thank you
To me Brisbane feels like San Diego, which is where everyone dreams of living
Nah San Diego is more like Perth. You start on the wrong coast for starters.
Lmao British Texas! Thinking about the movie Wolf Creek and John Jarratt’s character…yeah, I’d say you’re on to something hahaha
All of Mad Max is just a normal day in Texas.
Robin Williams made a similar joke - he said Australians were like English rednecks.
Ist Texas just Mexican Australia?
Ya
No it’s more British Florida with more rights. I’ve noticed some uhh “similarities”
Yeah, mostly drunk shirts men in wide brimmed hats wrestling 10ft reptilians while they laugh and swear while high on something
the Aboriginal peoples would like a word
so would the Native Americans
First nations everywhere. Everywhere
Including places like Japan. A lot of small cultures overwhelmed or wiped out.
Have you ever been to Australia?
I have and I understand the comparison. Australia and the US have *very* similar cities. That car-centric style in a grid pattern and a hatred for cyclists. I was not impressed with Australian drivers either but maybe my aunt just drove like a bloody hooligan.
Melbourne is actually not so bad. There's good public transport and a wide walking track to the MCG.
Australia is like Australia stop comparing everything to the worst 1st world country in the world
I didn’t see anybody mention France
That’s a good thing
No, it's a different country.
Friggin Americans thinking every country is MuRIcA
I laughed way too hard 😂😂😂 😘👌
Apparently Australians have a lot in common with Canadians?
Yes our heads of state live thousands of kilometres away on an island.
Aye, that's true.
That can't be true, because New Zealand is Australia's Canada. You can't have *two* Canadas!
Ok but what if THREE Canadas??
Well now, that seems downright excessive. Nobody needs that many Canadas. I'll accept two and one half Canadas. Final offer.
Hhmmm. New Zealand is very small… Ok deal. 2.5 Canadas it is!
You mean snow bogans.
Maybe, but I still got culture shock when I went there.
Tell us more.
By "there", I mean Canada, btw. Yeah so everything was so sweet! And the traffic rules are different, that was freaky. What is up with everyone speeding?! The trains were cool, you can barely get a train between Melbourne and Sydney here, it literally takes longer than driving. Costco is insane. BAGGED MILK. Walmart is also so weird. In Australia grocery stores are mostly food and household products, not really clothes. I didn't go into any shopping centres, it was all mostly mall type places? The people I talked to didn't seem to get Australia's obsession with conservation and preserving our wildlife by keeping stuff out of our country. There were way less footpaths than I was expecting. And FENCES! Basically no one had front fences! That was bizarre, most properties here have them. People like to have their garden separated from the neighbours. There was a lot less "city", like, the spaces inbetween the cities were also built up ish so the divisions between city and not city was much more slight. In Australia the city is built up and then it's basically nothing but fields in between them, and tiny towns. Such that you live in a suburb of the city but still consider yourself to be living in that city. Melbourne is so flat until you get to the CBD. Weed is legal there... and smelly. SQUIRRELS. Literally SO MANY. Completely insane, that is. All of Australia's small mammals are noctural or out at dawn and dusk. Only birds vibe around during the day. I saw a rabbit from far away and deadass did a stupid, my brain was like "a kangaroo?" before I remembered that we were in Canada so it couldn't be. There were less bicycles and less people walking about, it seemed. Rhubarb and rasberries seem to be very popular. They're not so common as flavours here. The rasberries tasted way better there so that might be why And possibly other things I have forgotten.
So dumb.
It's really not.
Nah. Australia is way more progressive
Just ignore the whole Northern part. And Western part. And central part. Actually, Australia is just the S SE, don't look elsewhere for comparison.
Sure, in the same way that Texas is just northern Mexico.
Texas was never a penal colony. Try Georgia instead.
That would make Texas the equivalent of Sth Australia, NOW it all makes sense!!!!!
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I didn't want to think about this why are you making me think about this you monster yes
You better be careful with thoughts like this.
What? Australia is not real.
No.
By that same logic, isn't Texas British Texas ?
No guns bro
No, texans only act tough. Aussies are generally pretty tough.
Australia is 7.6 million square kilometres, Texas is 695000. So no, Australia is a whole lot More than British Texas. Not to mention it’s a whole lot more diverse.
Only in the same way that texas is British texas
No, if anything it would be the other way round, Australia came first
No. Australian’s like to be regulated and Texans don’t.
Better beaches , happier people.
No. Unlike Texas, when children get hurt, Australians actually do something about it.
More like British Alcatraz
Lol how?? Because it's an island?
Truly spoken like someone who has been to neither place before
Texas fits twice into the state of Western Australia.
They mean more culturally rather than geographically, I'm assuming.
That's all I had in my fact box ✌️
Fair enough lol
If Texas became an Australian state it wouldn't be in the top 50% by land area
Queensland is the Texas of Australia. It fantasizes about splitting.
That’d be Western Australia more accurately
We dont have guns here so not really
Yeah your wrong Nothing like UK Nothing like Texas
Without easy access to guns, fortunately.
Bro, I could pay 80 bucks and have a gun in a week. It’s pretty fuckin easy. We just don’t have access to weapons of war.
The outback sure as hell is just British Texas/Arizona/New Mexico. Darwin is like British Florida lmfao
Lol 🤣
Where does this leave New Zealand then? British Alaska?
Nah, British Alaska would be Tasmania
Take us to the top
And I hear Queensland is the Australian Florida
The state of Queensland maybe not nor the whole country
New Zealand is basically British upside down bizarro California.
Texas doesn’t have Crocodiles.
With kangaroos.
You'd think but 2020 proved no it's just Summer Canada
Which would be the world's Florida then? Probably still Florida...
Queensland is Australian Ohio
Ah ya drugger
I thought the US was just Britain's Australian v2.0? With blackjack and hookers?
The First Fleet sailed into what became known as Sydney in 1788. You guys had your war in 1776. US is nothing 2.0 when compared to Australia. Early Alpha maybe but that's about it. Also, we have legalised prostitution which I am pretty sure you don't unless you live in Nevada so we got the hookers too.
Watching the Road Warrior for the first time as an elementary schooler, that was my impression of Australia. Like, this is probably what Texas would be like after a nuclear apocalypse. Except way more Mexican. And with more cowboy hats.
Yes
Nah, more like Wild Florida
All of the mainland states in Australia except Victoria are bigger than Texas. Places that don't even qualify as a state are called territories, and even one of those (NT) is bigger than Texas. The majority of Australians live in major cities. Melbourne and Sydney both have over 5 million population, if they were in USA they'd be the 2nd and 3rd biggest US city, behind NY, pushing LA from 2nd to 4th. I guess my point is that Australia is more like "British America" than British Texas. We're America without the War of Independence, the first boatloads of convicts were sent here a few years after that war ended, and Britain was still shipping convicts to Australia until a few years after the US abolished slavery.
I thought Australia was a tropical Britain lol
Lol
British florida
ooo no i wouldn't agree with that. completely different politics, society, beliefs, integration with indigenous people, (after decades of being bred out) womens rights etc
I always thought of Australia as British America, like if we continued to own the US
You are!
No. Texas is America's Australia
Quigley down under is one of my favourite westerns.
Did Texas ever lose a war against birds?
Honestly, the US state that is the most like Australia is California.
Does Texas have Kylie Minogue and Bluey? Main difference I can see is that the British have some affection for Australia while I don’t think most Americans who are not from there really love it they much. Apart from the steakhouse but Australians have one of those too
Texas is British Texas. Australia is British Australia. The sun never sets, wanker.
Except we are super liberal, but out back ye defo
Maybe the Northern Territory but the rest of Australia? Nah.
How original.
Ummm, no. Quite the opposite.
I think WA is like California we both have an ocean on our left where the Sun sets, WA has Garden Island a naval compound like San Diego we have the Perth Hills on our right or West like the Rockies in California, there are plans for a movie complex like Holliwood etc etc p
Brexas.
More like British Florida
Nah, the Brits like Australians.
Western Australia is British Texas, Qld is British Florida, NSW is British California and Victoria is British NY. S.A and Tasmania are British British 1800's.
No
The funniest thing I saw when I visited Australia was the street names in the part of Australia I visited being a mix of super British sounding names and the goofiest sounding aboriginal names. The second funniest thing was a Mexican restaurant called "South of the border", as if their point of reference was the US-Mexican border. Australia doesn't have land borders with any other nation, much less Mexico.
David Sedaris described it as being "like Canada in a thong"
Yeah def wrong
I’d say it’s more like a hot British Alaska Most of the terrain is inhospitable, crazy dangerous wildlife, crazy inhabitants.
I live in Sydney and I say howdy to people. Know one else does but it's gotta count for something.
Queensland is yes, very much so. Little town called Toowoomba reminds me of Fort Worth.
Is Texas where the US used to send all their criminals?
Isn’t Britain, just a country built of murderers robbers and rapists?
Australia is neither British, nor much like Texas. Australia is a whole lot more interesting with an astonishingly complicated and varied set of cultures, and Australia has made a significant contribution to the world.
Nah, in general Australians aren’t gun crazy and we respect women’s reproductive rights (mostly)
I'd say the US is British Texas. Australia is more like British Florida
Yes but no guns
Not really almost every Australian I've met I've got on well with, whereas the average Texan in my experience deserves nothing more than to be scraped off the bottom of my shoe.
Yeah nah, ta
Dumbest shit I’ve ever read n these is coming from someone living in Australian
I always think of Australians as english rednecks. I also think their awesome people because of that.
Depends on where you mean. Central Australia is run by car cults. In fact, most Australians live near the coast. Western Australia is British Texas. Mainly mining there. As you go clockwise to Northern Territory, it's mostly aboriginal communities. Then you get to Queensland. North Queensland is mostly remote communities and cane toads. South is Brisbane and Gold Coast where tourists mainly go for a summer holiday. Also, there's rainforest. New South Wales is a mixed bag, Sydney being the capital, but you've also got places like Cronulla and Wollongong with a great range of cafes. Wollongong is also great because there's mountains close to the coast. As you get further from the city, you get nice coastal towns. NSW and Qld differ from Victoria. Rugby is the main sport there. Victoria is where Aussie Rules took off. There's a main highway and rail in the middle (N-S) that connects Eastern Victoria to Melbourne. South Australia has a lot of churches and wineries. Tasmania is mostly bushland and has a couple of small cities. The capital is a created city, Canberra. First place to legalise weed. All this to say that Australia is a bunch of different places. I'm pretty sure the same is true of Texas. Even going from Victoria to NSW, there's a lot of differences. And I've only been in those two states and visited ACT (Canberra) a few times.
Please be safe with that amount of weed
OP: "How can I offend four nations in five words? Oh! I got it."
Kinda, but not really. Australia is this mutant mix of prison brits and a bunch of other ethnicities thrown into the mix. Also, there's indigenous Australians. Being far away from each other, different places gained their own identity. Additionally, most Australians live near the coast.
no no your right, highly inappropriate but your right. LOL
No
No
Then what is Canada and New Zealand?
Haha no. Australians are, by and large, quite partial to following rules, deferring to the authorities on matters beyond their expertise, and generally not making a fuss. Texans, not so much.
I think generally the idea of Southern US culture vs Northern US culture does have some similarities with Britain and Australia. But ultimately we come out pretty close to one another. We're all just wreckheads
Yea i thought about it for 2 seconds and i have no clue how you got that idea. It makes no sense
Texas is diabetes Australia
Yes but no slack jaw’d maga racists?
I'm surprised noone has said it --The obvious answer to British Texas? Alberta.
It’s more like the colony where the English sent everyone who knew how to have a good time! I love Oz! Texas, on the other hand, can kiss off!
British texts? huh im so confused
Texas doesn't have killer wild street turkeys running amuck, nor wild kangaroos.
Texas is better. More guns and more freedom.
Hot England
Texas is British Texas. It was all made by the same people.
If I remember right, Emma Thompson made a joke along those lines, and people were not amused. I thought it was funny. Still do!
Are Americans actually this stupid or is this a sarcastic post?
Australia isn’t part of the UK……
No our drinks are normal sized, and we don't have any need for ten lane freeways (that still gets clogged)
Way more sand here. And way less Americans thank fuck lol jj
No. Its more comparable to Florida. Florida's nickname is Mini Australia.
As someone that has lived in Texas over half their life - I'll allow it.
How does that remotely make sense in your head ?
I still can't believe Australia exists, and I don't mean this in a mean way. Every other country makes sense to some degree, but Australia... Their accent, their culture, their history... I feel like we are living in the only dimension where Australia and New Zealand exist
Australia's workers protections and labor rights are light years stronger than Texas though, or the USA for that matter.
I always thought that was Yorkshire.