Canberra: The Laid-back Australian Capital 

as a canberran myself I can’t thank you enough for mentioning the weirdly threatening road safety signs

apologies for hating so much on that gigantic roundabout

You have done my city justice mate, not the first I've heard people say that about Floriade tho 😂 Little disappointed you didn't show the Dong-owl statue too.

One thing that would be cool is to do an aesthetics comparison of Melbourne Metro and Sydney Trains for the different purposes they serve.

Your videos are insanely well made. I don't really have any interest for Canberra but I still watched the entire video just for the amazing editing and style.

As an Aussie you got me more excited about Canberra than I ever have been visiting there. It's cool to see someone from somewhere as far away as Norway really diving into Australia, thanks for the great videos as always

Canberra is a brilliant city to live in. Well planned and intelligently maintained, it provides a phenominal standard of living with plenty of opportunities. There is no shortage of wonderful people that live in this great city. Plenty of great places to visit, enjoy and appreciate. 🙌

Every single Australian has a magpie story. That's how you know you're a true Australian. Great video - I will be moving to Canberra within the next few years as my partner is in the Navy and has to study at the academy there and I work as an analyst with the Govt (jobs prospects are amazing in Canberra). It's an unusual city - the federal government offices attract the best and brightest in the country so the demographics are tilted towards high paid, well-educated people.

Foreigners tend to appeciate Canberra far more than Australians do. I'm a Canberran and i've travelled a lot, but always love coming home to Canberra. Very few cities have made me think i could live there after being spoilt living in a place like Canberra. Ironically our government does tend to look towards europe and scandinavian countries for ideas more than anywhere else also.

Other countries use cameras (that are probably broken) to avoid traffic outlaws, Canberra is literally telling you're gonna die if you do such stuff. Awesome video as always! Looks like a nice cozy town!

I moved to Canberra a week ago so this video is serendipitous. Also, best Australian accent on a Norwegian I've ever heard.

Came for the Wii font, stayed for the Australian tourism vlogs - I get to visit for the first time in May when I go to Melbourne so you’ve caught me at the perfect time

Love these video essays, feel like i could listen to you talk about anything.

lived there my whole life and I would say that this is a pretty spot on representation of canberra! if you're looking for an exciting holiday destination i would definitely not reccomend it, but canberra is a very lovely place to relax, and especially to live in :)

Oh wow, you actually got to Canberra! Just a note, be careful on the planned city topic (urban planning is a big deal here), because, it's kind of sad -- because, it's not that the city was planned that gives some of the odd features (Sydney & Melbourne were planned on grids), but the era. Canberra was majorly built after car-dependence and suburbia were enshrined in many countries' planning. A nice little pdf to skim is "The Griffin Legacy" (spend time admiring the subdivision map of City Hill), it shows what could have been (basically urbanist utopia) if the Griffins (Walter and Marion) had been employed faithfully rather than as the creators of a plan that could be used in any way the organiser's wanted (Californian bungalows galore...more American than the Americans who wanted Australian). It was actually a lot of symbolism we lost, like people above parliament (democracy), and equality with cumulative massing (ie not Euclidean zoning) -- basically liveable streetscapes, as we see with organic non-planned cities. But anyways, Canberra is becoming a better city _now,_ as with many cities, and it will be interesting to see what happens.

I've lived in Canberra my whole life, it's pretty boring when you've been here for so long, but it is an amazingly pretty city at times with it's very green surroundings and planned design. Atleast until you go south into the Suburbs, then it kinda just sucks. Still some amazing spots around southside regardless.

Hey love to see my home shown off, I love this city and I am glad for more people to see it! Thanks for the great video

Thank you for a new video! Your videos are so professional and good.This are the perfect videos that I like!

A note on that annoying roundabout: 'Civic' or the CBD is actually considered east/right side of that annoying roundabout. The left side is primarily the Australian National University campus with a series of offices on the edge and sparse restaurants.

Thank you for this video, seeing these familiar sights bring back so much memories😢Canberra has been home for the past 5 years for me, now that I’ve left, it brings tears to my eyes. It may be a boring travel location for most, but it’s a magical city if you live there - it grows on you💕

loved the chill vibe in this video!! really well made. keep it up!!

Great video. Really enjoyed your cinematography and it’s always fascinating to hear what foreigners think of our major cities. Cheers! 👌

Those bicycle lanes completely separated from the road sound like a dream for me. Although the city looks a bit too artificial imo

So others have probably commented this, but they’ve just begun a huge project to reshape the way the roads work around City Hill. This is being done part of the extension of the light rail network southwards over the lake, but it’s long been recognised that having a nice hill with a park in the middle of the city that’s inaccessible due to being surrounded by a road is kind of ridiculous. When the project’s finished you will be able to seamlessly walk across the middle of City Hill, just like you wanted to.

A video on the town where I live was not one I expected from this great channel 😂

this made me so incredibly homesick as only a year ago I moved from Canberra to QLD. Lots of memories

Glad you said biking, this is one of the best things to do in the ACT by far.

I live in Sydney and i've never been to Canberra but now I kinda want to go

You never know when those australian roads will brutally attack you. Stay safe, folks.

The best one of those road signs is the one in Belco that says "PEE KILLS"

the maggpie animation brought a huge ass grin to my face

Lovely video, need to visit Canberra again.

Indeed, Canberra IS three hours away from Sydney if driving a motor vehicle (depening on start point and destination are and time and day of the week). But the time would differ if considering cycling, pogo stick, supersonic jet, sedan chair, goose-stepping or even just walking.

Canberrean here. You did a good job of showing my city. As for the magpies, my daughters used to ride to school and they would tell me of the magpies that swoopped them but it took about 25 years for one to swoop me. Now, I'm terrified too.

Your vids are so good

Honestly, you missed my favourite museum in Canberra- Questacon! Questacon is amazing! I do agree about Floriade. I personally prefer the National Folk Festival (which is on right now). Also, Gold Creek Village is a great and underrated place to visit too :)

I love living in Canberra, but I prefer when other Aussies hate it. We want to keep it our little secret!

I'm glad you enjoyed it. 🙂

Subscribed expecting more video essays about music but loved this one also. Keep up the good work!

Beautiful Canberra ❤❤

As I found kids aged 7 to 15 love Canberra. They can cycle around safely and there are interactive kid friendly museums like Questacon.

There's now a track that goes over City Hill!

I didn't know people outside Australia didn't call their city centers CBD, I thought it was like a common phrase in the English language but I guess not

Nice passing along of the official narrative.

under rated video

one of the very few times I'v seen someone that (properly) understands the Parliamentary triangle

6:30 Thank you for choosing our takoyaki of Octoball Canberra!

They failed to mention that most of the shops close at 5pm. Also in the winter canberra pretty much shuts down.

Amazing work. You can make pretty much any topic interesting and appealing with your great audio and video editing and design. You're like a more laid Back "Ahoy," on youtube, if you know who that is.

id totally watch a top 10 embassy video where you go to each one in person

Amazing 7 minutes A wonderful trip in a graceful way that makes me excited to visit Australian Capital Territory Or I ask you if any activity of the Moroccan embassy🇲🇦 caught your attention? Thank you ❤🇭🇲

1:58 "but this is not a top 10 embassy video" I mean maybe not but I would watch that

Tip for avoiding magpies - have eyes on the back of your head. They don't like to swoop straight at you, they swoop from behind to warn you about coming back. You can try painting eyes on your helmet, or most locals use zip ties to create a spiky, threatening head that maggies are less likely to dive bomb

It is extremely cold there.

Another thing to do is geocaching, so many good ones there!!

You missed my favourite road safety sign, perhaps because it's a little less threatening? "MISSING A CALL WON'T KILL YOU" Kill is in red, of course.

YOU DIDN'T EVEN MENTION QUESTACON WHAFDAWHBAEHIJFGSEWDABF thas the best part

I always though the Danish/Norwegian embassy looked like a Danish/Norwegian primary school. Which seemed very fitting.

What's the title of the song that started playing at 2:04 ?

0:24 my early 200s desktop background

That U B NXT sign is so 2006!

yo man what do u use to edit your videos? im still waiting for the next one man keep it up! ❤️

Cool..

Canberra is a great city.

You found 3 things? Wow

Miss Canberra and ANU

Those octopus balls are possibly the best thing about Floriade

Don't forget this: Speed cameras are used in the act.

As a Canberran I was a little sad you didn’t mention anything about Belconnen as it is Canberra’s most populous district and the district I live in but I’ll give you a pass cuz tbh there’s nothing particularly special about it. It’s just good in many ways, but nothing about it is great but it truly is a beautiful, relaxed and natural place to live that no one else should move to because the rent is getting so fucking high it’s starting to ruin it

Having lived in Canberra for three years... yeah...

"lane one form". You read/see it as " form one lane" when driving towards it . Similar wish reverse spelling of ambulance on vehicle, where you will see it as ambulance on your side mirror.

Drive n text U B NEXT

Poor roundabout

what about questacon?

same here

I wish they had magpie signs with the same vibe 😂

you hath not mentioned the questacon

Lived there for a year coming from England back in 2004. Nice enough place, but just felt a bit soulless

Weird to see where I live in a doco like this lmao.

As someone who has lived in canberra for more than a year I can confirm the signs don't lie as there has been 3 fatal car crashes on my road within 3 months of eachother

as a canberran i never realized that its a very tourist-y city - it always feels like a city where its built for the person living there but, yaknow, the 90% govmnt worker statistic proves me wrong

Canberra is just a big country town. The only good things about it are the war memorial and parliament house

Thanks for this take on our home, it's pretty cool to see what an outsider thinks. 1. Yeah, the maggies will kill you, esp in spring. 2. Yes, people die on ACT roads. If you look carefully you'll see us locals running down cyclists on the bike paths. 3. The big arse roundabout can be a pain, but we don't think twice about it.

And pentagrams!

I know this place

I moved to Canberra in 1981, all was good, but in 1986 while I was walking to the bus stop, I got hit in the head by a magpie. What the hell!! It was only then did I realise what was the most dangerous animal in Australia

from canberra and just moved to sydney, videos are great and very true. I hate the magpies with a passion!

I'm supposed to live there for 4 months, anybody got advices?

What an incredible video. What camera was it primarily shot on?

Lane one form 😂

it was funny

The joke of Australia is there.

why the flags half mast

Comfiest channel on yt

BLAKE KIRK @ 5:21 BLUE SHORTS TRUMPET LORD

You should have visited the Finnish embassy. It kicks you guys. Lol

good video though ..not lane one form -> form one lane or form one (p)lane(t)

Be like a local and just walk over captal hill!

Filmed in September, released in February. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

canberra is not the only place there are backwards sentences🙂