100 DIFFERENCES Between AMERICA and AUSTRALIA 

***DISCLAIMER** A couple of these are not true to all parts of Australia and 1 is just flat out wrong. Below are my corrections: 6. There IS sales tax (what they call GST) but it's included in the price. So there is no tax after the ticket price 31. I have never been to school in Australia to know first hand, but I have heard many conflicting opinions on the "calling teachers by their first name" one. I think it must be a difference between states or types of school (public/private or age of students) 39. THE MAX SPEED LIMIT IS NOT 100kph, it's 110kph besides in The Northern Territory where it is 130kph. I WAS 100% WRONG on this one. 92. The two animals I showed have different names (I'm just an idiot and don't know how to spell lol) in America its an "Opossum" and in Australia it's a "Possum". Pronounced the same but spelled different.

As Australian i think wearing school uniform is a good thing cause it makes everyone equal, even the poor kids who can't afford to wear casual cloths everyday you know what I mean.

"Here in Australia they do use the metric system" you know like the other 99.9% of the world does

Starbucks failed here because Australians actually have standards when it comes to coffee.

You forgot to mention the legal drinking age is 18 in Aus vs 21 in US

Don’t forget when your saying good morning to your teacher in Australia you say it slow af

I love that you call roundabouts "traffic circles". That's so adorable.

Yes we have sales tax, it’s called GST and is already included in the price of what you’re buying, as it should be. And yes we don’t have tipping because our employees are not hired beggars. We have actual living wages.

You CAN left turn on red in some places in Australia, if it's signposted

“Traffic circles” also known as roundabouts 😂😂

"There's no white eggs in Australia"....lol wut

Here's some things you missed 1)Drinking age is 18 2)The word C*** is more of a greeting than a swear word. 3) You can wash your money without losing it.

This frustrated me. I’m a 14 year old Australian. We do NOT call our teachers by the first name that is extremely disrespectful and the dotted line on the road means you can overtake traffic. If it’s a solid like you cannot. And yes we all swear a lot

I’ve never had a problem getting leftover food in a container at a restaurant, you just have to ask.

You got my like the moment you pronounced “Melbourne” properly. Very unusual, much appreciated.

Almost all restaurants in Australia will allow and do "To go boxes", there's even a slang for it - "Doggy bag".

Mcflurries 100% used to be mixed up here, but then they got Mclazy.

Bruh if I called my teacher by their first name I would get in trouble

We have ‘sales tax’ it’s just already added on to the price

About the houses in school, we still learn and do everything with everyone from other houses, the only thing about the houses is that when we do school sport carnivals it’s the teams. But other then that the houses at school mean nothing. Edit** you don’t sleep in the houses, it’s just a term, there are no houses at school.

The sunscreen is given out because of the risk of sun cancer in Australia

I'm an Australian living in the US and watching this out of a combination of homesickness, curiosity and procrastination.

mate we call them "roundabouts", not "traffic circles"

"There is a dotted white line. It feels like you can drive on the other side" That's because you can mate

Having school uniforms results in less bullying and is cheaper for parents than buys casual cloths for the kids.

The main difference is that Australia has Universal healthcare and the US does not.

my guy, cussing is apart of the Aussie culture lmao💀

Fosters is an Aussie beer, well known but not drunk by Aussies. We sell it to foreigners.

In Australia they use the metric system. Actually that's true of EVERY country in the world other than the US, Myanmar and Liberia.

Wow. How crap must the public transport in the U.S. be if Australia has "awesome" public transportation?

If someone put tomato “maranara” sauce on my meat lovers someone is getting hurt😂 meat=barbecue

With the road dividers, it's a bit daunting at first but on "narrow" back streets, it basically means "You can use this to overtake another vehicle so long as there is no oncoming traffic"

The breathalyzers are why the drinks are measured exactly.

If you ever want to work out how many Aussies watch yt just simply make one of these videos and get a couple things wrong 😂😂

I have been swearing since I was like 11 it's commonplace

There is sort of a left turn on red, it's our "turn left at any time" sort of thing. It's not generally part of the traffic light line-up and is split by a triangular island.

The dotted lines tell you when it is safe to overtake (no blind spots on the road). Sometimes it's a dotted and solid line. That means if your direction has a dotted line it's safe for you to overtake but traveling in the other direction it is not safe (solid line). Obviously double white lines means it's not safe at all to overtake.

You would only call teachers by their first names if you’re an adult at tafe/uni. I don’t think any high schools are for first names but teachers will get nicknames based on their surename

Hilarious. I love hearing from American's on how shocked you guys are to a lot of our cultures and differences. We probably aren't as shocked by yours as we are exposed to so much through the media in general. Cheers for the confirmation of our crazy ways that are normal to us.

We have “Turn Left Anytime With Care” where you don’t have to stop at the red light but if that sign is not there you have to stop at the red light...

A "traffic circle" is called a roundabout mate

"Community urinals", we call em the trough

Every school I went to I would’ve got yelled at by my teachers if I called them their first name

"Fosters Larger it brings out the flavour - we've taken it all round the world" lol

"I dont know why it (chocolate milk and juice) isn't mixed up to begin with." It is, but it separates after sitting for a while. Is that not a thing in America? What are you guys putting in your drinks that the laws of physics don't apply to them?!

We don't think tomato sauce is ketchup. We know it's different, it's just that we don't really use ketchup at all. Most places don't even sell it, so if you ask for ketchup, you'll get tomato sauce because it's the closest thing we have.

Hahaha you’ve got a lot to learn my friend, the Australian news landscape is far from rounded

I feel like u should specify what state ur talking about coz as a south australian a lot of this seems to only apply to gold coast/subtropical

It’s 110km an hour, not 100km. Fosters is Australian but aussies don’t drink it, it’s more for export.

It is extremely un-Australian to charge for sauce, especially on a pie..

Great vid mate. I few inaccuracies but generally very accurate for someone that has only been here a relatively short amount of time. Well done!

Never seen anyone drink beer out of their shoe and I’ve lived here since I was four and I’m 56 now.

I'm seventy-three and I've never seen a "shoe-ie". ... and Fosters is awful, but it does exist ... it's just that people with taste don't drink it.

Lived in Australia nearly 30 years I’ve never seen free sunscreen ever

The reasons for the dotted/solid lines on the road are for letting you know where its acceptable to overtake someone if needed like for an ambulance or a groom late to the wedding. Two solid lines means you can't cross them under any circumstances. If there's one solid and one dotted it means only the people on the dotted side are able to overtake if necessary and a single dotted line means either side can overtake if needed but you really only find those lines on long and empty roads .

Good job! I enjoy the video, lots of interesting info

I’d recommend to get out of the city and go out and see some of the country areas of Australia because the city and country here are worlds apart. And yes no one here likes the flies

When in America I was amazed by so many other differences. 1. All car lanes had to stop when a school bus was dropping a child off 2. Cars would pull over when a funeral procession drove past 3. Target sold food 4. K-Mart was a struggling brand 5. Strip Malls were far more common than Malls 6. Farms would have signs stating what brand of seed they were using 7. 4 Way stop signs (it was mentioned here, but OMG it was based on order of arrival and you had to trust others) 8. Drive through ATM's 9. Drive through Petrol stations with no shop at all 10. All the health risks they must mention for EVERY advert involving medication 11. Soooooo many lawyer commercials 12. They really, REALLY love their flag 13. Finding an actual cafe. I found many coffee shops that only sold varieties of percolator coffee 14. Asking for a latte and being told they don't sell that fancy stuff 15. It's been a few years, so it may have changed but the amount of cheques people used in shops blew my mind 16. Food coupons 17. They nickname their coins. (nickel, dime) 18. Huge drinking cups for fizzy drinks 19. Going out to eat and some waiter constantly keeps refilling your glass so you have to tell them to stop 20. Being served potato chips with my burger (also might be a regional thing)

Thanks mate well done on the video

Great Video! You pack in so much content in your videos

The Office is on 'Stan'. Another streaming service we have here in Australia.

We have some of the worlds best wineries. So it’s not imported as much.

Australia is like that one cousin who loves animals can be wild but sometimes chill

Thank you this was was really helpful and quite entertaining to watch😊

McCafe started here in Australia, and so did polymer money.

This is like 89% accurate. Definitely the best comparison I've seen of the two countries. And with your corrections in the comments id say 99%. The only one I found was the dashed line and solid line regarding traffic. The dashed line means you can over take when safe to do so. Even if its a lane for oncoming traffic. But if the line is solid they deem that stretch of road to dangerous to over take on. And legally you can not over take.

Well done! Very thorough!

I'm Australian and if you say the C word to your friend you guys are like best friends btw

As a Aussie I have never hear of Teachers or Doctors being called by their first name always their surname unless it's a Eastern States thing but some things are different state to state from what I got from friends who have lived in other states.

Fosters was big in the 80's here in OZ .But it tasted like shit after the novelty wore of ,so we sent it to the poms just for a laugh .They seem to love it .

Tristan...THIS.IS.AN.AWSOME.CLIP...And, for the record-I don't know what all the settings on my oven do, either...

Great video. This was a fun comparison especially because you included so much. Most I knew about since I have been in both countries, but many of the things you mentioned I have not really thought so much....yea sorry I dont spend much time thinking about McFlurries, Possums or toilet flushing, but at least I noticed they drive on the other side and have less stop signs :)

To go boxes are available, you just need to ask.

Dual flush toilets is an Australian invention.

So good. Well done, I loved watching this.

You know there are roads in Northern Territory that go 130km and a lot of highways have 110

Fun fact: our beer glasses change both in name and size depending on the state. This was a huge thing for me when I moved from Brisbane to Melbourne.

There are some beers from the fosters company. Such as Crown Lagers which are nice. But "fosters" itself, is NOT drunk.We used to do the mcflurries as a "mix" but the machines kept breaking. so they stopped.

The dotted line is an indicator for whether on not you can over take on a duel lane road, it’s solid when you shouldn’t overtake.

Fosters WAS a famous beer here, up to late 80's. Told they still make it overseas, from the original recipe. The cans were not green, they were blue.

Pretty accurate mate! I've now lived in California after leaving Oz. 17 years in and I think you nailed a lot of the big ones. I'm a bit older so I think the weighting could be different! Like Super and Medicare for all is a huge benefit to all Aussies. As is vacation time. Those three things improve the quality of life for so many people - particularly working class people.

Hey dude love your vid! A heads up on 43 the line is unbroken on most highways and around towns and cities usually with multiple lanes, however as the example you used with the picture, a broken line is used in back country roads with only one line to show when it is safe to overtake someone if they are too slow. Hope that makes sense😊 Also I just saw 45, in Sydney where I live there actually are some turn left on red signs soooo hahahaha

I found it funny that they’ll slap on a sunny side up egg where you least expect it like on a burger or a pizza. Fun video Tristan.

I’m sorry but we do not call teachers by there first names

Filling up the tank before paying is a trust thing!

Wow... appreciated your effort. Good job! 👍😁

One other big difference is every time I see a US cooking show the cheese always looks like is a bright orange. Our cheese looks more natural and less radioactive.

Hey mate! Just so everyone knows! The fastest speed limit in The Land Down Under is 130 klm // 80.7 mph!!! Have a fucken ripper of a day mate! Cheers

Drinks are more expensive because we don't need to tip. Relying on tips to pay your staff is dumb

Ohhh man the grocery shopping cars I absolutely hate it man .... took me years to get used to it lol 😂 well done 👍🏼 buddy !

Very nice video, well done

It's 4 weeks annual leave standard in oz

Fun fact: the reason why our toilets in Australia don't flush in a spiral is because we use a completely different type of toilet. This is also why the water level in out toilets is much lower than the US.

Awesome video, Tristan. How can you talk so fast man? Just great! And the 'agressive flies'? LOL :-)

Good on ya Tris.

You are not allowed to overtake on solid lines on the road. Only when there are broken lines.

The choco milk and juice thing is normal.. it’s either the pulp settling at the bottom or the chocolate flavouring resting at the bottom because of gravity m8.. I’d be worried if my juice or flavoured milk didn’t do that fam

The reason they measure alcohol here is so you know how much you've had if you're driving. If you've had 4 drinks, you've had 4 drinks. Not 4 drinks with the alcohol of 6 or 8 drinks.

Bloody great mate👍

There is sales tax, it’s just added to the price already