5 Reasons NOT to Move to Australia 

The whole "friendly but not friends" thing is the same in most places on the planet, not just Australia

its a police state now.

Yup a nanny state 100%. Also be prepared to do not much. If you take out the cafe’s and Oprah house there is not much left unless you like bush walks. Also high taxes = high prices with everything uncompetitive worldwide. High power bills to.

I thought one of the reasons would be the lockdowns!

Living in Germany, I can relate with hard to make friends, too many rules and slow internet.... As a foreigners, it's harder to make friends in any country I think.

Each country has its pros and cons.. I loved all 8 yrs of my life in WA as it was quiet, peaceful and layback if you are staying in a friendly neighbourhood. It is slightly different in Sydney and Melbourne as it is quite similar to how it is back in my home country which also fast-paced and high-stress work-life with little or no social life. I guess we will need to adapt to the country which we decide to move to and see if it is suitable to the kind of life you would like to live in.

Number one reason : for not being constantly on lockdown.

I think friendly but not friends definitely applies to the US also (especially the south), to us Europeans it’s amazing how y’all love to talk to strangers and it can seem amazing at first until after years, you can count the number of American friends in one hand.

As a Thai Brit living in Brisbane I agree with all of these points! But I still love it here

So true Australians are not friends, they only are friends with their own kind, unless they are wasted. One of the things I miss from Europe is my social life, the few Australian friends that I have I need to book them 4 months in advance as they don’t have time for YOU but see them socialising every weekend on social media. One of the things I’ve noticed also is that are not very open and have a very backward mind. Australians that have lived abroad are a different kind, as they already have that open mindset, but if you trying to be friends with someone who was has never left Australia, good luck 😉😂

Australia not only has New Zealand, you guys are also pretty near some very beautiful countries like Fiji and Bora Bora too :)

In my opinion, immigrants from third world countries could be happy in Australia, no matter what. But, immigrants from first world countries like Canada and UK may not be happy to move to Australia. If they do they might probably return. I know two families that emigrated to Australia on PR visa from UK have returned to UK after six months.

This seems to be a very amazing place, I hope I can visit sometime in the future when all this is over. Seeing and sharing places like this is why I love traveling and make videos so much! And please keep up the great job! Subscribed!!

The tall poppy syndrome is a real thing and I'm glad you brought it up. I don't know why Australia doesn't value anything innovative or creative. Maybe to do with its convict past? Anyway, it's one of the reasons why I left.

I lived in Australia for 4 years and everything you are saying make sense, I have no plans to turn back to Australia.

Hello we really need help because we can’t book direct flight to perth WA. We are permanent resident and fully vaccinated. If we have stop over in Melbourne do we neede to do quarantine there before going to perth? Pls help us! Thank u

Paddy, you didn't say anything about Adelaide being ranked 3rd in the world. Look it up

I completely agree. I have lived in Australia all my life.

very funny video Paddy :) Would still love to take a trip to Australia when Corona allows it !

Are the drop bears dangerous?

Allow me to comment: friendship is never something that actually "happens". If one looks for people with similar interests via clubs, community centers or else - then, affinity will lead to friendship in time . This is a universal law

i went to oz 4 times and when we got back to the uk we realised we never had a conversation with anyone we weren't giving a dollar two compared to usa eu where we would get invited to parties within hours

I'm from Aus, but thinking of what would be better to move to, Thailand, Indonesia, or Vietnam?

I’m a plumber in Canada 🇨🇦 and my sister lives in Brisborn Australia 🇦🇺… do you think I can find a plumbing job in Australia as a Canadian citizen ? and if so how is the job situation particularly in construction side ? Thank you 🙏

Everything on this list is extremely accurate. For me personally tho the rules you showed examples for( I live in nsw if that helps ) I’ve never experienced, I’ve gone fishing with my uncle lots of times without a license and I’ve Jay walked many times without ever getting a fine. I’m extremely uneducated and some might say sheltered so maybe I’ll need to look into what I can and can’t do in the outside world lol

Are there too many bugs in Perth ?

Each and every country could make one of these videos but at the end of the day its about your goals and how willing you are to achieve it.

please let me out from Australia

I'm an Indonesian born US citizen and while I have not lived in other countries (except the 20 years in the US and now Indonesia), I'd guess that foreigners making friends in another country is difficult anywhere. Took me easily about 10 years from hating my life in the US to finally started establishing friendships (with my 'fellow American's), quite a few I still keep in pretty frequent contact till today and we'd make time to hang out when I do my annual visit to the US..I even stay at one of my friend's house during my visit it's a blessing to have them as friends. I think it's probably different if it was reversed a non-Asian tourist living in an Asian country probably easier to make friends with the local vs the other way around. My experience also as an international student in the US, it was easier to make friends with Japanese students, they're the most open and always interested in learning other cultures...and I'm sorry, but Koreans were the most exclusive of all, next to the Germans and the French. One of my good friends also was from the UAE, but sadly this was way before facebook, etc so he managed to give me a call back in the mid 90s but we lost contact after that. Ironically I find it way harder now for me as an Indonesian to start new friendships in Jakarta...people seem to be very money oriented, usually establishing connections due to a business opportunity in mind.

What countries are on your list of places to travel too? Btw awesome video like always bro

While I did break my streak of not seeing a snake for many years in Australia recently, I still don't think I've ever met anyone who's been fined for jaywalking here.

for the australian friends, you can make a lot of foreigners friends in australia. For the fine tickets, just pay them nothing will happen. The internet was defently ok, ethernet is always an option in case. For the trips, just visit asia after before to go back home actually australia really worth it

Sad whats happened to Australia. My whole outlook on Australia has changed this year.

Great video mate. Very objective and good pointers to better understand the aussie way 🇮🇳

Informative video!

I moved here on the 30th of November with Australian wife and this was paradise. 1/4 price land prices. (No fishing licence, no booze buses, no double demerit points) I opened a musical instrument shop in Gosford. It was simply amazing. A paradise on Earth for biz people. No GST, no superannuation, no credit cards just well to do musos with cash. They only knew 3 chords on the guitar but made good money. Professional guitar players got half :-)

I've grown up here but I totally agree with you about the nanny state. When my dad was growing up you could do all those things that are now illegal. Heck some of the things he did back then would get you shot now, like blowing up the neighbourhood letterboxes with double bungers 😂

Well, I lived for over 20 years. 1 year each country. In Australia I was In God coast for over year... Alice Springs for 2 years and now I am back to Europe and I still talk with my friends. It was the best country. For me it felt home. I would love to be back

I am Korean living in Australia for 13 years and omg, I feel like I made this. So very true.

Every country in the world has its good and bad points.

Good video. As a Thai have been living here for 13 years I love everything about Australia. I love rules and it’s awesome that people are follow the rules. I love paying tax that I can see my tax goes to good park, kids playground, good road, good welfare. I love doing the right thing that doing the right thing might be hard in Thailand but it’s easy doing right thing in Australia. Everything is good. I’m so proud to became an Australian.

"The big BANANA" 🤣🤣 You've killed me bro hahaha what a strong emphasis you used to say that! I'll get more informed about this BB :D

I live in Brisbane and I love it here. I’m from the U.K. originally but have travelled a lot around Europe. I totally agree with the Australians are friendly but not friends. So easy to say hello to people but very hard to make actual friendships here. Not sure why that is.

"Australians are friendly but not your friends" It's more like westerns are! rather than just Australians.

Thanks Paddy for another interesting and fun video.. I've learned so much from fishing license to tally poppy syndrome and also muscular kangaroos which I always thought those were photoshopped! hahahaha Totally agree about too many rules in Australia, I but I still love this beautiful land.

Is the riding without a helmet really that serious? I live in perth and alot of kids around me don't wear helmets. Also j-walking at a red light isn't a law, is it? I do that often and no one has told me I can't

yooo they got the slurpee brings back the good memories

Really accurate on every point. I moved to Aus 13 years ago, and while you can make close friends with Ausi's in Melb with a lot of work, I found it impossible. Most of my closest friends in Aus are from overseas, or Ausi's I met overseas.

Do people in other countries not say morning when they walk past on a path by you. I’d find it weird for that not to occur.

Hello Paddy, I enjoy your videos so much thank you!

Australia to me is really cozy, my community is nice and always says “good morning” or greets me in any friendly way. But I totally agree to all of the things you have said.

I love the content especially that 1 to 3 are really true 🤣🤣 too many rules and some are just stupid rules ❤

Tall poppy is definitely a thing in AUS. Its the reason I only lived there for a year.

If you really want to bring tourists here we need to have on arrival visas from all the considered safe countries and I think we should have on arrival visas to any country that Australians have on-arrival visa to it's only fair it's almost impossible for my Thai girlfriend to come here

I have to say you are bang on with every point. I’m 30 and have lived all my life in Australia. Something I’ll add is that tall poppy syndrome is worse the smaller the city or town gets

Paddy: Australia has slow internet connection My wifi: No need to expose the fact that I decided to stop working for 5 minutes, then switch to the lowest video quality

Interesting about innovation. Once innovation would have been considered a strength of ours, but now I think of it, it’s usually only out of necessity. There are still some who manage, but we don’t make it easy for anyone 😅

I wanted to consider retiring in Australia but I believe they recently got rid of the one way to do that (certain income which I would meet). I do not believe there is an option any longer

Wow💕

Learned an incredible amount about your country in a few minutes! Loved this.. The ambition portion was fascinating to hear.. Here in the states, we throw a block party for an idea that gets any traction haha. Much love mate! Australia sounds like a wonderful country.

So true. A lot of Asians don't have any Aussie friends even though they have been living in Australia for a long time.

Coming from Aotearoa, New Zealand by this time next year surely. Coming 100% vaccinated, w my partner working in the healthcare industry and myself in the small business side. Musr admit, the healthcare access for kiwis is a little bit daunting but hopefully no broken bones or venomous bites during our time there

Love the fishing part

I live in South West London and the aussies I've met here over the years are also friendly but not friends....most only really hang out with other aussies or sometimes kiwis, live in houseshares with other aussies and, pre covid, spent their free time either travelling or out drinking at the Australian bars (before they closed). They don't tend to want to know anyone outside of their clique. This is why i decided against going to aus on a working holiday visa...and I'm glad that I did!

living in a australia i thought the reasons are cus of lockdowns, hailnardo sometimes and... MAGPIES

That was actually so accurate.

Really good video. I think you make some really good points. I am not sure Australia is as isolated as people claim. We are on the doorstep of 50% of the world’s population. So while from the southern parts of the country it is an 8 - 10 hour flight to Asia, that is actually closer than anywhere in the Americas and most of Europe.

My first vacation in Australia 20 years ago…. I was told by the locals to go home. 20 years later i seen the same thing happened to others…. Sad

Australia and Canada are similar. Australia with an edge on weather. I really enjoyed the layout and overall atmosphere of Sydney. I would consider moving there but hear it’s very expensive for accommodation. Can’t wait to visit that city again though.

Thank you for sharing watching netherlands

Awesome

High income tax rate and SALES tax are the major concern to foreigner........ message from hong kong

Also, Australia is damn expensive!

Went there for a couple of months a couple of years ago...too many rules regs for me..can't see me going back

Yes exactly Australians are so so many can only speak English none of my friends relate with my love of Asian culture and yes I do agree with you with people saying hello but when you're in public indoor places many people are very quiet and this is coming from an Australian I just wish we really had some more nightlife and other activities to do Australia seems to only build shopping centres

I think our unspoken tourism slogan is "don't come here" The bumper stickers that read F-Off we're full also rings true. We suck at tourism tho. Our service industry does not give a toss about the guests at all. Hence, don't come here applies by default. I get that vibe from so many people from all different walks of life. We're getting better at integrating our culture regionally but still have a long way to go to ensuring an equality with the custodians of this land. Our shared story needs to evolve and it is, albeit slowly. I'm proud to be born Aussie. I'm the result of one parent not from Australia. Multi-culturism can work here. But the example in paddy's video's are true, people stick with their own brand. Abroad i've encountered the same thing tho. I was a part of an ex-pat community in Thailand for the first 6 months of this year. Same same. Anyway great video Paddy.

It truly is a Mad Max Wasteland.

House prices?

there's also a big galah, a big panda and a big rocking horse. Also, there's metal cockroach statues along some of the country roads. (:

I was born in Australia 70 years ago. No way I would live there now.

Also if you're hoping for an economy all you'll find is a massive housing bubble

You're the Man Paddy,, Top Post again, Thai's are shy to speak English to strangers, my Wife after 9 yrs in Oz, still hardly talks, and she has spoken English now some 20yrs,, Cultural Thing i reckon,,, as i Luv to give my Thai a whirl when we are at Cabramata, Sydney Suburb for Asian Community.

Too many rules? As an American, Australia and Canada both really puzzle me. Both are huge sparsely populated places, yet they tend to have far more rules and regulations than we have here.

There a big problem with a society when you cannot enter a zara if you don't have the permission of a doctor or police officer asking you what are you going to buy in a grocery store or why you are sitting on a bench in a park. it a good referenced to not want to move there even if it go back one day to normal.

WE WILL MISS YOU AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺

So its a good place to live for me as I am so busy and don’t have time for friends.

Wow what an ambassador!

I live in Melbourne, Australia, l'm sick of my Optus internet cutting out all the time, thankfully l have almost 600GB of 4G rollover Aldi data to use on my phone 📱

Excellent video. I cringe seeing overseas visitors riding around with no helmets as I know the police are brutal and will fine them no matter what. I was fined with friends crossing the street at 12am with no traffic. Police were hiding. We pleaded for them to not fine our student friend and a woman who crossed with us who couldn't speak English. They refused. We complained to the police hierarchy the next day.. no result..

Good on ya Paddy. Ya tall poppy 👍

What about the spiders? I know they are in plenty in the regional cities but will Arachnophobia be a problem if you are in one of the bigger cities like Melbourne or Sydney?

Australian government is scary. I will never go to that prison island.

Good vid... my thoughts is one of the challenges with making friends in Aus/NZ with Oz/Kiwis is often friendships go way back to early school days so its hard to 'break into' into those friend circles with so much history/longevity etc and also the sporting codes are generally quite different and also the sense of humour... As the countries continue to become so much more international in mix it will over time become much easier.

the big banana cracked me up :DD

i litreally have an obbesseion with aussie, cuz my mom used to live to live there and when i was 5 and ever since ive asked her to tell me stories an stuff, btw im soon 15. and its my dream to move there despite stuff liki this

Melbourne having lockdown riots.... why are they still locked down and why are children being separated from their parents?

I was quite surprised about the helmet and red light crossing fine. Coming from Germany I thought it couldn't get any stricter..... Crossing a red light only costs 20€ if fined and wearing a helmet on a bicycle is completely up to you. 😅

Must be 5:1 the ratio of Law-enforcement officer to the citizen in order to detect all the rule violation. I think Australia perhaps has 10 ! Paddy starts new direction of his channel and possibly bring the comment section to the "new level". เรื่องจริงที่ขำไม่ออก ห้ามคนไทยพก กะปิ น้ำปลา น้ำพริก เข้าOz โยนทิ้งสถานเดียว

I couldn’t imagine living anywhere else. At least you don’t have to worry about being shot when going to the shops

As an Finnish, I’ve been Australia 2 yrs ago and I don’t like this country because too many spiders in the houses or dangerous species, very hot climate, I hate the Australian products and slangs.