What is your perception of Australia?

Question

Have you been there?
Love it? Hate it? Reasons please, folks.

Answer 1

My experiences of Australia are it is an absolutely fantastic country to visit. People, can sometimes be a bit rough round the edges, but that doesn't matter. The weather can be blisteringly hot, depends on the climate you're used to. It is an amazingly versatile country - full of wide open spaces, relatively untouched. I really could not recommend the country enough!

Answer 2

I'a Brit who is in Townsville, Queensland for 7 months and I have visited here 6 times before.

Australia is mostly somewhere between good and excellent. The Australians that I have met are mostly polite, interesting and interested witty and speak to the point.

Food is mostly excellent quality at prices which stagger a UK resident, ($25 forTWO legs of lamb, $25 a kilo for best and I mean good beefsteak)

Roughly speaking $25 = 10 pounds

Their shopping malls are superb (2 pairs of Levi's for $100 i.e.40 quid)

Their provision of sporting facilities leaves one amazed but understanding why they produce superb athletes.

So far so good.

They care, generally, for the environment, but have a love affair with big engined cars, and petrol is ludicrously cheap by European standards but there is a hell of a row when prices go up. They live on the driest continent on earth and are desperately short of water, but every house has sprinklers going 3 times a week to keep the lawns green.

And there is this odd feeling I get in Townsville, that I am in a strange world consisting of the superbly athletic, and in the case of the young women superbly lovely, and the incredibly fat. Look, I come from South Wales and we have some serious fatties there, but I reckon Townsville leads the world in this department.

But over all I love it, and were I younger I would be moving heaven and earth to come out here permanently.

One last thing, I am not sure that Australians really understand how lucky they are, but that's not too bad a fault is it?

Answer 3

Love the accent. Love the famous folks you've given the world. Love the animals. Land looks amazing. Never met an Aussie I didn't have a blast with. Why do you wonder?
Don't worry, we're too busy messing up the middle east to head Down under!!

Answer 4

I live in Sydney. Australia. Metropolitan, friendly, multicultural, great health care system, great landscape, beaches, Sydney Harbour, diverse nightlife, great food, shopping and entertainment.

Lots of Americans observe that Sydney is a cross between San Francisco and New York.

Answer 5

Agreat country people are v ery very nice and place is clean Love that the Aussies are so dedicated to their wild animal habitat. No country could be bad if Steve Irwin lived there.

Answer 6

yes been dere but mainly at the northern territory.. general perception. layback .. looks like a stress-free life.... i think .. just wish my life was easy as that.. hehe.. and the customer service is great...

i'm going over to perth soon .. mabye i can tell u my perception then ..again.

Answer 7

Love the place, been there twice now (Lived there for 5 months), never had any problems or trouble at all.

Answer 8

Australia rocks! i love my home country! though i love other accents other than my own lol. i feel we are a passionate, laid back, friendly type of people. Of course it depends on the person though. We love our torists yey people are so much sexier when there not from your own country lol. Aussie Aussie Aussie oi oi oi!!!

Answer 9

Never been there. Perception? Surfers, really good looking people.

Answer 10

. Bloody hot today down under mate! Quite a relax place to live, if you like the beach and don't mind being away from the crowd.