And the food prices too.

@@SH-qs7ee And building prices, all prices actually 😁

Umm a bit? You meet totally fed up?!?

Actually, I never get sick of the prices when they go down😂

Still a lot cheaper than in England.

Haha yes indeed, it baffles us to begin with, but hey we’re more than happy to have a public holiday 😁

I think they get I’m the holiday but every holiday is a “bank holiday”, no pressure to celebrate something specific

Nah mate , it's just the Aussie way of life to take as much time as possible off work and get paid 😀 weather it's Australia Day, Anzac Day etc: BBQ Beers camping trips yepppp gotta love our public Holiday's

@@katrinataylor2108 dont be disrespecting Anzac day. Its not an excuse for a day off. Youre meant to spend the morning commemorating the soldiers of Gallipolli

@@jeringatai3156 yep and now it is not a long weekend but the actual day the 25th of April regardless.

Haha yes! We use it all the time now 😆

@@TheBAMFamalam I think it also has its roots in the "she'll be right" mentality in Australia, and trying to find mutual peace/understanding in a situation or potential conflict rather than exacerbate it. Somebody bumped into me at a winery last year after I simply stepped sideways (and this is out on the grass, not inside), so I spilled most of my beer, but I immediately apologised to him even though I couldn't see him but he would've seen me. This would be a completely foreign land for Texan gunholders with their open-carry.

@@DaveWhoa Don't worry about parts of America with open carry they have the lowest crime rates . Go to some parts, as I have ( Cleveland ) and everyone carries a concealed gun and the criminals use them often . Chicago one weekend 27 people shot dead all gang related in about a 5 Klm radius ( you can bet they were all illegal guns ) and that has the toughest gun laws .I like it here .

@@DaveWhoa it’s certainly the friendliest place we’ve ever been 🐨

@@grahamoldfield3474 gosh, we’re definitely glad to be home here in Oz 😬

A lot of the produce in the UK was imported, hence all year round cheap prices. However, although it confused us to begin with (just because we weren’t used to it), it’s actually a massive win for Australia, that we are all eating locally grown, seasonal produce 🇦🇺

@@daviddou1408 The most fertile soils and reliable water supplies are on river flats, which is where most vegetable farms and dairy farms are.

@@daviddou1408 yeah that’s it; farm the flats, put the buildings and expensive stuff on a hill. Your dad was a wise man.

@@TheBAMFamalam Noticeable price fluctuations are quite rare here in the U.S. We have seen it in the recent months because of the pandemic causing supply chain issues but the prices of things you mentioned are pretty much stable throughout the year.

Yeah I learnt about the uk subsidies and controls from Clarkson farm! Seems very interesting and odd, since at the end he does the math and I think he only made 15-20K that year after being compensated what a joke

Nasty bastards all teeth and claws

keep telling lies and we will be known internationally as a bunch of liars....i dont get it....

Or the three kinds of bullshit the bullshit found in the paddock the bullshit , politicians and used carsalesmen feed you and the bullshit you tell your mates to see which way they jump ...

i dont think they arrived "all up tight", to me they just seemed excited about a new journey and stage in their life, with an understandable sprinkling of apprehension due to the unknown

@@DaveWhoa Well they did seem up tight to me. i got the feeling that off camera there were arguments, people felt tense to me. i may be wrong but that is how it seemed to me. fast forward it to today, and the wife is the most effervescent of them all, and back then she was the one that seemed the most up tight. But, it all seems good now. Just goes to show what a little bit of 'letting go' can do.

Oh dear haha - I think it was more just us getting used to being on camera - it doesn’t come naturally at first to have a conversation with a lens. That and our style of filming and video has evolved over the last few years - we’re super glad that we’re coming across more naturally and open though 🥰 Thank you so much for following our journey 🥰

@@OTDPlantagenet why don't you go and live in the UK for 12 months and see how you cope. Don't judge others unless you have walked in their shoes.

@@maureenackerley8024 ah Maureen be happy, they are beautiful people, there is no need to tell anybody off. 🥰

Some people still do that mate🤫

@@rustybogans2508 North QLD wouldn't surprise me!

You must be old if you remember a time before public safety laws came into affect.

@@zacks1690 well I started work in the mid 60's...so I must be getting on a bit..🙂

You’re right, that would be very unAustralian 👑😁 Funny story - the first time we went to an open house after moving here - a few mins before the open home started, the owner walked out of the house with a bottle of beer, drank from it, and then got in his car and drove off! We couldn’t believe it, it was 9am! 😬

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Oh haha excellent idea! 🏟

And in Victoria, we have the day before the AFL grand final off so it also becomes a long weekend.

In Victoria it’s called Strasburg, not Devon. 😂

Strasbourg in Victoria, a person from SA, tried to tell me its Fritz???? I said to her, what hell, is Fritz???. When I holidayed in Adelaide, had to get cheese, and Strasbourg, went to the local 'Delicatessen', was nothing but a milkbar?? So sad. Had to go to the Adelaide market, in the city, to get these basics.

And called "Belgium," in the lower half of the South Island

And as othef poster said Belgium in NZ south of Chch, otherwise called luncheon sausage. I call it peasant roll as tastes like arse 😂

Never before have I heard 'Windsor sausage'. It was always 'devon' or occasionally 'luncheon meat'.

It sure is strict, although I think NSW has some pretty thought rules too from what we’ve heard 🍻

We noticed the price fluctuations when we arrived in Oz 6 years ago, although we agree it’s gone up even more recently 😬

@@TheBAMFamalam Yes, grapes can go from $4/kg to $10.

Haha bonza! 🐨

that's what you got back then for stealing a loaf of bread - being sent to a sunny paradise lol

Christian, not restricted to Catholic. Western Civilisation from Constantine was founded on Christianity.

look up dogman as an occupation and all will be clear

Well I'll vote against it. The Westminster system is far better than any other for of gov't.

@@alangibson3293 I'm offering 11 extra long weekends a year. Vote winner if ever there was one.

@@alangibson3293 You have no idea what the Westminster system is, do you?

The drive-thru bottle-O doesn't make sense to me. I had a friend in the UK who worked at one of the BP's petrol stations. One of her jobs was restocking the alcohol. In the store.

@@SH-qs7ee Australian petrol stations aren't licenced to sell alcohol. A small selected few might but they would be few and far between. Licences to serve alcohol are expensive and highly regulated. If you go to any establishment selling alcohol, each bar has requires its own licence. 3 bars is 3 licences. Going back to my hospitality training in the early 90's, that is. A bottle-0 is a shop on its own. Not as many have drive-in's now but they are excellent for large purchases for stocking up and parties.

@@TheNakedWombat I meant in the UK, you can buy booze from the servos

dogging isn't really said by anyone I know besides poms. Not that it isn't done but I wouldn't say its in the commin vernacular. Young people are more likely to say dogging/dogged to mean treating unfairly, metaphorically screwing someone rather than literally. I'm sure enough people would know what it means, but probably only because we still get TV from the UK. Then again, maybe I just hang out with the wrong people.

We sure do, and we certainly wouldn’t change it 🐨🇦🇺

We sure do! Thank you so much for watching 🥰🥰

@@TheBAMFamalam You’re a pleasure to watch.🙂 puts a smile on my face, so job well done I say.👍🏼

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It is funny to think that back in the good old days of the early 1800s the conviction in England for stealing a loaf of bread is "right, that does it! We're sending you to a sunny paradise!"

@@DaveWhoa ikr😆 if they only knew! There’d be no bloody bread left.

We couldn’t agree more ❤️

Yeah, nah. Pull the other one mate.

Best country in the world? Locks their citizens in their homes and won't let them out. Uh-huh.

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Thank you so much for all the background. We know the lingo, but not where it all originates from, so that’s super interesting 🥰

Exactly, what’s hard about that? 🤣🤣🤣

😂🤣😂🤣 The first time I heard 'yeah nah' was on a football show way back. It seemed to be an expression of 'I don't know what to say'. It sounds bogan to me. lol

We Melburnians never say yeah-nah, we're far too sophisticated. Kidding! But I have never heard anyone say that, ever.

We’re super glad you’re enjoying them Jim, thank you so much for subscribing 🥰🥰

That’s so funny - in saying that, the roads would probably have been safer if the 40 mile rule wasn’t in place 😬

The distance was actually 20 miles. We would go up to North Richmond (about 25 miles). Picton was about 35 miles from me. When feeling lazy, Wallacia but at 18 miles that was a bit iffy if there was a check on actual distance. The Liquor Act (1912) specified a distance of 20 miles within the Cumberland County and 10 miles elsewhere in NSW. (I had to look that up.)

@@sigmaoctantis1892 Yes that makes sense as I lived at Revesby and it certainly wasn't 40 miles to Picton where our neighbours went of a Sunday...Thanks for that!!!

Thank you for the heads up ❤️ We just watched, what a treat to wake up to 🥰

Different with everything or ruled by the Unions ???

@Gary peters Oh but she kept Queenslanders safe remember, she said it at least 3 times in every press conference !!!

@Gary peters Okay, well with the lowest primary vote in Labor's history it seems to me that people did not vote for Albo but rather against Scomo.

@Gary peters I dis-agree, look at how many seats were won by Greens this election in Qld. When it comes to sheep, most Green voters don't even know the policies of the party. Australia's carbon emissions amount to 1.4% of global emissions, when it was realised that this true figure looked bad it then all became about emissions per capita and of course Australia, big country, small population, came out as the worst, more polluting than China or India per capita ! The sheep have swallowed this whole to the point that they believe if Australia cut's itself off at the knees all floods, cyclones, bushfires etc will magically stop. Even if all the planned cuts to our emission materialise our output of carbon will be reduced from 1.4% to 0.9%. China and India are increasing their use of coal by more than this annually. I am not a denier, I am a realist, without the biggest polluters cutting back all Australia can do is window dressing at great expense to ourselves. I am also concerned that with the intense focus on carbon all the other toxic substances that we pump into the land, air and sea are being overlooked. Alternative views deserve to be heard.

The LNP government moved the Labour Day holiday. The ALP government moved it back to its original date. Why do Tories have to lie about *everything*? Its a disease.

You eat chicken 🍗 on Good Friday? Yikes 😱, wouldn’t happen in Victoria. Schools in Victoria are all closed over Easter as it’s part of the Term 1 holidays.

Canada is the only country I've been to, but I found it pretty easy to feel at ease there as everyone was chill and relaxed

@@DaveWhoa Yeah, different accents and climates aside, our two nations seem to share a great deal culturally.

When I travel from Australia to the US, I know I'm in a foreign country, everything is quite different. But when I travel to Canada, as an Aussie I immediately feel right at home. The people, the lifestyle, the vibe in Canada is much more like Australia. Accents are a bit funny - especially in Montreal :-) - but otherwise Aussies and Canadians are brother nations, for sure.

In NSW, 24th May was Empire day then it became Commonwealth Day. At some time later, it was moved to the first Monday in June.

We used celebrate on 24 May, with fireworks and people having bonfires (outdoor fires) in their gardens at home (at lest in my state, NSW). A half day holiday at school so you could buy your fireworks and get the fire ready. That came to an end by the early 1970's or so.

Whatever comes last is the answer. I think of it like ‘yeah’ = ‘yeah, I get what you’re asking’ but ‘no’ = ‘it’s a no from me’.

@@clairem730 nah nah yeah

Thank you so much

Oh my gosh, luckily the roads wouldn’t have been so busy in the 80’s 😬 We would have been with you on preferring to drive, yikes! 😊

@@TheBAMFamalam Funny thing is travelling back one day he gets caught for speeding by the Radar , the cop walks up to the car , quick as a flash he says to the copper " want to buy a cheap radar Detector" holding his in his hand . the Copper ignored the 6 pack of beer and the dozen empty cans on my floor and the fact that he still had a can of beer in his hand !!

@@grahamoldfield3474 why doesn’t that surprise us?! 😬😆 Someone else just commented about old licensing laws in Sydney that meant you had to drive 40 miles away from home to be able to go to the pub on a Sunday! 😆

@@TheBAMFamalam Im NOT that old 😁

@@grahamoldfield3474 haha I didn’t read when they were 😂😂

Haha we’re such goofs when we film 😂😂

It is a good point, we had never been breathalysed before moving here 😊

That's NSW for you.

I haven't seen any RBT stops in Melbourne for years, but you will be given a test if the police pull you over for anything.

Oh my gosh, 2! The Brits really need to hear this, they’re missing out 😆

Thank you xx

🥰 Cheers to you too 🥂🥂 Thank you for watching xx

It’s great to hear a story from the other perspective! We’d imagine there’s heaps of strange things in London as a newbie! 😆

Actually that’s not uncommon here in Aus either. There’s a couple in my local area in outer suburban Sydney where you’ve got three sets to cross the one street. One to get to the island. Another to get from the island to the other side. Then one more to cross the slip lane for cars turning left off the main road.

@@markboorman9583 Annoying that you'd need one for the left turn lane since you're supposed to give way to pedestrians there anyway... If people learned the road rules we wouldn't need so many traffic lights.

"First Nations people", please NO. They are Aboriginals, Aborigines or Countrymen (or women) the first nations thing is an American, where they actually had nations, our Aboriginals largest "grouping" was the extended family and they looked very crossly at every one elses extented family and still do. In the NT we have "declared dry areas" and these are defined by the resident of Aboriginal communities and it is an offencewith heavy fines, to take "bomba" into them.

Queens birthday is the anniversary of the Queens coronation. Makes zero sense why its called Queens birthday when you can just call it Queens anniversary

@@davidstokes8441 Yeah mate I know, but there are so many lefty extremists on utube just looking for a reason to be enraged I choose the least offensive name for them. Still got me stuffed why at any official function they have acknowledgement to country when they themselves had no concept of ownership of anything.

I recall the bottle shop always being called the Bottle-O at least since the 70’s. So much so that the actual name of my local is “The Bottle-O”. Just like Davo, Robbo and servo, I’m ducking down the bottleo to grab a slab is just a part of the name shortening vernacular

@@markboorman9583 You're right I forgot about the chain store called Bottle-O

The best way to purchase tickets for UK trains is online in advance, you can get them alot cheaper from some websites. It sure is amazing here ❤️

Thank you 😁🥰

Maybe for foreign drivers? We’d really struggle driving on the other side of the road 😬

Even spotted those signs in English near autobahns in Germany in the 60's .

so your saying to keep heading down the freeway the wrong way...interesting

It’s so that we can easily purchase alcohol at all hours 😆

That’s a great point you make about how things can vary so much from state to state. Thank you for watching 🥰

A dogman works on high rise building sites that use cranes. They strapped the chains and rode the steels as the were hauled up to the working level signalling to the crane operator. Now a dogman is someone involved with dogging, "Workers who need to exercise judgement to sling loads or who direct crane movement from outside the crane operator's full view." Wikipedia.

In Canberra supermarkets are allowed to sell alcohol, and they do. Coles and Woolies have a standard shop fitout to fit in with *every* jurisdiction, so those two don't have it, and have separate premises here. Independents/IGAs etc certainly do: there is quite a large supermarket nearby where I can buy my cheese and bread, and then wander across the aisle to get the wine.

@@steelcrown7130 In Victoria Aldi sell alcohol. Other supermarkets do, but the area is separated with separate cash registers.. The reason Aldi do is because all the staff are 18 years or over.

My local supermarket has a liquor section that you can walk through to from the general section but the grog has to be paid for in that area not a the normal registers. Yeah-nah is a very common expression in NSW - there is even a road safety campaign based on the expression.

I think there’s a few like that in the UK too - Licencing laws there have defo been kept up to date though 😆

O.K. the issue of where alcohol is banned in Australia falls into different categories. And this has come about for reasons that people do things in public that lead to problems. So, you can drink alcohol in licensed premises at home, and certain licensed venues, like football - cricket games. To drink alcohol in a public place, is an offence under Queensland law. Basically a small community organisation can obtain a liquor permit to sell alcohol at local horse race meetings - fishing club - shows. The permit must be on public display, and the people holding the permit must comply with the permit conditions. Such as alcohol in some cases may not be sold in glass containers given "glassing" incidents with serious assaults. And all alcohol must be sold in plastic cups - beer or spirits. It's not an anarchic hangover. It comes from people getting glassed with glass bottles or glass cups. Police will patrol these venues and the bar staff must be trained in Responsible Service of Alcohol training, or you wont get a liquor license permit issued to you. The other real issue of recent times has been king hit punch of people from behind. Causing death or serious injury, mainly occurs where alcohol is sold. This has all come about so people can't sit in the street and drink alcohol, it causes problems when they have to much to drink and police are called to disperse a fights or brawls. you can sit in your own back yard and drink alcohol. However here again, providing no injuries or assaults occur. Queensland Police are also notified of underage parties. And they have the right to enter your premises and inspect drink containers to see no one under 18 is consuming alcohol. If adults present and are supplying alcohol to underage people, you can be fined even if at your house. The issue of dry communities are Aboriginal communities. So in Queensland there are DOGIT communities. Or Deed Of Grant In Trust. So remote aboriginal communities have an alcohol ban, where the people in those communities can't go outside those communities and buy alcohol, and if you travel through these communities you can't carry alcohol. You will see large signs entering these communities warning of these rules. A lot of people will pull up outside these communities and people will come out and but alcohol at inflated prices. That is why if you travel through one of these communities and you ignore the warning signs, telling you, don't bring alcohol into these communities, you will be fined. DOGIT communities are dotted around rural and remote Queensland. People traveling by road in North Queensland, should take note. Their communities do serve alcohol, they have their own licensed premises. However the opening hours are limited to limit the consumption of alcohol, and that is why it is illegal in those communities to posses alcohol outside that premises. Meaning someone is bringing in alcohol from outside the community and selling it illegally. The problem is, huge social problems within those Indigenous communities. They have their own council. And their council will ban the sale of alcohol unless sold at a licensed premises in their communities. The ban on alcohol is to try an stop people from being drunk most of the time. And the murders - and never ending violence in those communities is a direct link to over consumption of alcohol. The abuse of alcohol also leads to huge health risks. Children are often born with FAS, or Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. In so far that children don't even get a meal at home. So the local Indigenous Council will ruin a meal program at the local schools, they pay for breakfast - morning tea - lunch - afternoon tea. so the children get at least two or three good meals a day. The reasons are not stupid laws. The reasons are from decades of first hand experience those communities know and experience. So to control the violence they must control the alcohol consumption. The laws are left up to the local council, which is all indigenous community people from those communities. So it is Aboriginal people, making laws for Aboriginal people. These laws are not there to annoy people. If you are having a quiet drink and minding your business it all works out. The idiots ruin it for everyone. The Police report to the government after a serious incident involving alcohol related violence. And the Queensland Government passes laws how alcohol can be sold or served at any public event. Basically in Queensland any venue that sells alcohol must have a Liquor License issued by the Queensland government. If the people holding the liquor license do not comply. Then Police will patrol their premises heavily. And issue fines, or give them notices to appear in court as to why they should hold a liquor license. And again, the idiots ruin it for everyone. It depends on the incidents at those venues by the patrons. And whether Police are called regularly, and if Police are assaulted. Then the licensee is then in breach of his liquor permit. In that his Responsible Service of Alcohol is being ignored, and they are fined accordingly. If they ignore these warnings they will face court as to why they should hold a liquor license. So, a tough topic. Not as simple as it sounds.

Thank you 🥰

Yes that’s true!

Haha we didn’t! I think we have spoken about that in another video - it is certainly another one that caught us out 😆 We did not know that 👑😊

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Oh, someone else commented on one of our videos a few weeks back that there seems to be a 2 week cycle!

@@TheBAMFamalam That's it! But don't let it discourage you from visiting some time (if you haven't already). Not quite as much history lying around here as London, but you could easily fill a week visiting attractions, and try a different cuisine for dinner each night.

@@maxfan1591 we haven’t yet, but I’m sure we will visit one day 😁