Not everything is trying to kill you. Everything *could* kill you, but it usually can't be bothered.

She lives in Sydney... The only deadly animal still left there is us.

For the record, guns are not banned in Australia. We simply need to demonstrate that we are of sound mind and have the training and facilities to safely store and use them.

I’m an American living in Australia, I’ve seen this woman’s videos and she just reviews life from the perspective of someone living in very urban Sydney. I live in Canberra and had a poisonous spider on my patio and a red belly slithered across the road in front of me while driving, and can’t tell you how many walks I’ve had to turn around on or detour due to a brown snake on the path. But also she literally has no idea what’s happening around Australia outside of Sydney. There are somethings that are great, some that aren’t. It’s just a different country with a different culture. It feels like she’s trying to hard to get Aussie’s to like her.

I had a cardiac arrest the night before cancer treatment 5 years ago Defibrillator implant after one week coma 9 weeks of radiation every day chemotherapy 2 days a week . Didn’t pay one cent. EDIT obviously I’m from Australia and loving my second chance at life. I’m 55 now and know what’s most important than ever before. Family and friends. LIFE IS TOO SHORT EVERYONE

If there’s a a pub, that’s considered a town. In Australia anyway.

In Australia we kind of view wildlife as: if you leave it alone it will probably leave you alone. The wildlife isn’t out there hunting you down like a serial killer. If you see something deadly, you just don’t touch it 🤷‍♀️. It’s pretty simple.

Another difference is voting and most Australians don't judge you on who you vote for, we really don't give a rats a345 what political party you support. As long as you're a good person, that's what counts.

So you have brown bears, black bears, wolves, coyotes, mountain lions, bobcats, gila monsters, rattlesnakes and scorpions, so nothing dangerous there

From a born and bred rural Australian some of this is very urban. We see kangaroos very very often to the point of sheer nuisance value. Especially when driving in the evening or early morning. Koalas in the wild are not so routine but I have definitely seen more then I can count over the years. There are many many towns in the outback and many people living well out there running cattle etc. We visit outback townships and stations in the running of our business. Most urban Australians have not experienced true outback travel, as the true outback doesn’t begin until you are at least five hours inland.

AS AN AUSTRALIAN I beg to differ with many of her opinions

Freedom is not the right to carry guns. Freedom is not needing to carry a gun.

I was offered Fosters at a pub in England and I was very offended. He laughed and said he was playing, and that they only had it on tap for American tourists 😂

Not only do Australian not drink Fosters, it's almost impossible to find... It's not even in the top 100 beers consumed in Australia

The Port Arthur massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 28 April 1996 at Port Arthur, a tourist town in the Australian state of Tasmania. The perpetrator, Martin Bryant, killed 35 people and wounded 23 others, the deadliest massacre in modern Australian history. The attack led to fundamental changes in Australia's gun laws. Two of Bryant's victims were known to him personally and were killed at Seascape, a bed and breakfast property. The majority of his victims were killed in a shooting spree at the Port Arthur Historic Site, a popular tourist destination. Using two semi-automatic rifles, he began his attack at a small café before moving into a nearby gift shop, killing twenty people indiscriminately in a short amount of time. Many others were killed at the site's car park, including several children. After killing its four occupants, Bryant stole a vehicle at the site's tollbooth and drove to a nearby service station, where he killed a woman and abducted her partner. He continued to fire at passing vehicles before finally returning to Seascape with his hostage, who was then killed. He set fire to the property but was captured the following morning. Bryant pleaded guilty to the killings and received 35 life sentences without parole; his motives have been subject to debate. The massacre led to a reassessment of Australia's gun laws by the newly elected Howard government. The National Firearms Agreement between state and federal governments was announced within two weeks of the massacre, establishing heavy restrictions on the use of automatic and semi-automatic weapons and creating a gun buyback program, a national gun registry and a waiting period for firearm sales.

True story I went out to dinner at an Outback Steakhouse in Florida a few years back when I was in the US on an military exchange program, and the bar tender asked if I was Australia, I said yes and his response was “your not going to like it here”

She obviously doesn’t go for walks in the outer suburbs at dusk… Roos are fairly easy to find in green belt areas

Australian private health insurance is so much better here. Here, your doctor decides what tests and treatment you need, not the health insurance provider.

Forget Drop Bears… Vampire Possums are the real threat!!!

Ryan you really need to watch Australian KZfaqrs who travel our country fulltime. They actually show you reality of our vast country. Some of them have never seen a croc in the wild even though they are purposely trying to find one. I travel myself & go in the bush regularly along with going up Nth QLD every year. I have never seen anything in my life other than a redback spider. We don't have lions or bears which actually can hunt you on land. My father who was born in Nth QLD used to walk bare foot as a boy around his farm. Brown snakes who were resting at the bottom of his verandah used to run away as soon as they felt vibrations. Kangaroos also keep to themselves. The boxing Kangaroos you see are not in highly populated & only fools will approach one of those animals. Yes, we have these animals, but we enjoy the outdoors & learn to live harmoniously with them.

We don't say "Fall". Instead, we refer to it as Autumn.

the reason most of our roos are dead on the road is because the stupid thing jumps onto the road infront of your car as you drive past

4:01 In 50 years never had to deal with anything worse than a red back. The snakes in the ceiling/veranda - not dangerous. Spiders in the wellies- not dangerous. I live in the sticks. I worked on a neighbouring farm, by neighbouring I mean we share the same road not that we are in visual range. My nearest neighbours are a rowdy bunch who go moo. We holiday by going bush - camping in remote areas without facilities. 8:05 WTF is an eshay? Apparently derros in labeled sportswear from western Sydney. 8:49 Ffs that’s like comparing a Northern Territorian to a Sydneysider. The difference would be bloody obvious. Aussies are not all the same. We also have different dialects of English and Auslan from state to state. Australia is larger than the continental US. You have to add little old Hawaii and Alaska to become bigger. 23:27 Oh hell no. We have more than 2 major parties for one. Even the major parties need the support of minor parties and independent elected persons without a party. We don’t have filibusters or government shutdowns. The very idea is abhorrent. We don’t vote for a Prime Minister. If the Prime Minister doesn’t have the support of their party they do not remain Prime Minister. The PM also does not have absolute power, nor is it implied by the job title.

We get paid pretty well. No tipping required.

Australian toilets flush in an entirely different way to American toilets anyway. American toilets start out almost full of water and then have a siphon action to drain, making the contents swirl on the way down. Australian toilets (in common with s lot of the world) have a much lower water level and then actually "flush" in the true sense of the word, meaning they release enough water into the bowl to flush the contents away. Hence, there's no swirling drain action to have any noticeable rotation. This difference is also why all of the American complaints about blocked toilets sound weird to Australians because that just doesn't happen here unless you deliberately try to clog it.

Ahahahaha! Either an Eshay, a Bogan or Crocodile Dundee! That made me laugh out loud.

The only place more common than the side of the road to see kangaroos is the meat section of any supermarket here.

That tax thing is true. When I was living in Thailand I had American friends that were living there that were still expected pay American tax on their income. The USA is one of only three counties that do this, and Australia is not one of those. At the time it blew my mind!

I’m 76 years old and during my life time not one person has been disemboweled by a Kangaroo.

G'day Ryan, Ive just driven from Sydney to Darwin, Sydney to Port Augusta in south Australia then up through central Australia, started the drive wearing 2 pairs of socks,long john under wear, jeans,2 t shirts, hoody, morning temp 5c.I'm in Darwin after 4 days driving, now wearing thongs flip flops,boardies and a t shirt, temp right now 29c over night low 16c, road kill, Roos heaps lost count,cattle 40+,camels 4, emus 10+,wombats 10+ and a lot of other mangled creatures. The outback is mind boggling vast and flat, this is the third time I've done this drive and I'm still amazed at this country 😲😲😲😲😲🐪🦔🐨🐃🐂🦘🦘

Freedom to live in a safe environment where you do not need guns to protect yourself. For your children to attend school without fearing mass shootings.

I’m an American living in rural NSW for 7 years from Texas. The cost of things here really are higher but the offset is higher wages yes. I had to sign a declaration when I applied for my permanent resident visa that I understood that Australia was an expensive place to live and I understood. It’s definitely not always hot. It’s winter now. Gets down close to 0°C. But here’s the thing, a lot of houses aren’t insulated. So it feels freezing because of the lack of insulation. New homes are starting to use insulation. But especially when you aren’t coastal it gets so cold because the water doesn’t keep the temperature balanced. Yes we have to pay dual taxes over a certain income amount. So I have to pay to the USA and Australia and have to at minimum declare my income regardless of income. We see live kangaroos near my house often but we live near hills so they come down for water in summer. Yea they are on the road a lot so inevitably get hit. But they are often chilling about 100 metres from my house where the local pool is looking for water. They are the little ones tho. Not the ones on steroids 😅. Nah the toilets just woosh violently 😂. They aren’t as slow as USA toilets and generally have far less water in the bowl!

My dad was bitten by a redback spider in front of me when I was 12, on his thumb. I didn't know. He said, "tell mum I've driven myself to the hospital, I've been bitten by a bloody redback." Mum was very cranky that he drove himself. Not half as cranky as dad was when he got home. He was unapproachable for another week. He was like a bear with a sore head. I was just glad he got the anti venom.

“Aw-ssys” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 NO IT’S PRONOUNCED “OZZY’S”❤❤❤

If a wild Koala can see you, you are unlikely see it, They very good at hiding.

I live in Hobart, we have smaller types of kangaroos called wallaby’s. Wallaby’s are more active in the night and come and graze in our front yard. The suburb I live in does get snow settle on the ground occasionally as well during winter.

I'll tell you a fact about Aussie summers: If there's a heatwave, expect affected areas to readily approach or exceed 40C (104F), even if it is by the coast. Sydney once had a heatwave where temperatures peaked over 40. Tasmania is usually the only state that gets spared, and talk about Tasmania, it's not the coldest place in winter. It's Canberra in the ACT

Australians really don't drink Fosters. 😂😂

We are a nanny state in a lot of ways and now that I see the alternative, I like living in a nanny state.

I have lived in Australia for half my life. First half Vancouver Island with cougars and bears, second half of life, combination, city and country life in Australia. I am almost 70, so been in Oz for 35 years. Yes, experienced snakes, sharks, angry Emus, stingers in the ocean and current country life style, kangaroos outside at night. We also have platypus in our local river, echidna (porcupine), wombats. If you visit cities only, you will not see these amazing creatures in the wild. You can stay, for example Raymond Island which is a koala sanctuary. They are everywhere. Such a wonderful experience. Is it expensive in Australia…yes, but worth it. X

I live in the middle of the Sunshine Coast (pop. 350k) in Queensland. Here there are wildlife corridors through the housing estates and we get a lot of wildlife in our yard. I answered the door after hearing the bell and it turned out to be an eastern grey kangaroo that had bumped the bell while tasting a potted plant. Imagein the shock on the faces of both the kangaroo and I when I answered the front door!

In regional Victoria we have very active living mobs of kangaroos.

Snakes in the ceiling is mainly in QLD - but you're sort of right that a lot of these animals are dangerous in part because you don't see them. Part of the misconception with "expensive" is that people look at cost but ignore wages (as you allude to) - although I could believe that the costs themselves are cheaper. Nope, she's wrong about the blokes - we're all surfie stunners. I think on of the 80s/90s sketch shows had a thing (I forget what ad they were sending up) "We believe that Australia brews the best beer in the world.....which is why we send Fosters overseas". NB I also heard (not sure if it's true) that Crown Lager is actually Fosters. Beer is quite regional - a Vic will probably drink Carlton, someone from NSW might drink Tooheys, a South Aussie might drink Coopers or West End, a QLDer might drink XXXX (because they can't spell beer), a West Australian might drink Swan or Little Creatures and a Taswegian might drink Cascade or James Boag. Some of these brands (and a few others) might be more popular more broadly, but there is a strong connection between region and beer. Aussie Cuisine is surprisingly multicultural, I guess because our population is. We love steak and pies and all that, but we also enjoy Chinese food, or a Turkish or Greek Kebab, or an Indian Curry.....and you're probably more likely to find a fast food shop selling those foods As well as living on the coast, I think very major city has a fairly major river or lake (close to the CBD). I think Australia is theoretically hotter than US on average, but there is a lot of variety - the major cities are probably in at lease 3 different climate zones (Tropical, Sub-tropical, Temperate), and inland there's others again Australia actually has a Government that seems closer to the people than others (like the US). It still has issues, but even a lot of seemingly controversial decisions have broad public support. Maybe this is a stereotype in the opposite direction, but it feels like a peaceful protest is more possible in Australia wtihout escalating into a riot. Kangaroos and Koalas depend where you live. I regularly see kangaroos (And am scared of hitting one on the way to work early in the morning). You definitely do see a lot of kangaroo road kill even in some cities. Koalas are quite common not far from most cities - but they're hard to see because you have to stare into gum trees to see them (which is difficult to do when you're driving through at 100km/h).

I am impressed by how much random Australian life knowledge Ryan has picked up.

The design of toilets in Australia is very different from that in the States and they use much less water than the USA. The water level is much lower than in the States. When you flush, there is insufficient water for it to spiral so it doesn't. In any case, the Coriolis effect is so weak, toilets are far too small to show it. Other things such as the direction of the flow and the shape of the bowl determine which way it flushes. You can see the Coriolis effect on seabreezes and in thunderstorms but these are substantially larger than toilets. Coriolis is zero at the equator so those people showing tourists that water spirals clockwise south of the equator and anticlockwise north of it are cheating. But they entertain and make a living out of it so who's to say they are wrong?

In Victoria you’re going to see more Kangaroos, Koalas, Echidnas and Wombats.

I have 7 resident koalas in the bush at my house. If you want to see a koala, come over for a barbie at my farm and I’ll point them out.

As an Australian I've seen more alive wild wallabies and kangaroos than dead ones. Wild Koalas can be hard to spot, it would be easy to walk right by a tree that has a koala in it without noticing it, they are usually pretty high up and don't advertise their presence.

Only snakes in our Aussie ceilings are Pythons and they don't want to hurt us.

In the list of the world's freest countries America doesn't even make the top 10

30 Mins from the centre of Brisbane & the Koalas & Roos are fairly common.

I haven’t seen a Fosters beer for sale here in AU since the late 80’s tbh! It’s definitely not consumed by Aussies! I live in South Australia, and the rest of the country calls our state the nanny state.. too many rules cos apparently we don’t know how to look after ourselves or something!

Me again! One time I was up in Broome which is about 2 and a half hrs by flight north of Perth. One night I was down at the beach walking along the shoreline when some guy started shouting at me to get back repeatedly. Now I knew that there were poisonous jellyfish at this time of year but I wasn't in the water? So I headed up the beach to see him only to be told that there were big salties in the water and you wouldn't see them coming they would suddenly come lounging out of the water and take you. now I was reading as the two workmates that I was with didn't say anything when I told them I was going for a walk on the beach they said oh yea didn't ye know?

I'm 38. I've been a bartender for 15 years. I've never seen a fosters ever.

I was working in USA and told co-workers, that in Australia fjust on dusk walking home from the railway station kangaroos sneaked up behind you out of people’s gardens and nipped you on the Achilles tendon just above your heel. They believed me.

As an Aussie born and bred, I was somewhat surprised to find a scorpian inside our Air BnB....not something that I've ever seen in Sydney. Mind you - I've never seen a funnel web even though I live in an area that they exist.

When emptying a sink, water circles around the plug hole in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere - maybe that's what people mean about backwards. If you're at the equator, it goes straight down.

Tropical places like Darwin and Cairns don't have 4 seasons...they have two...the Wet and the Dry.

Yes Ryan, it is true, any American living overseas has to pay taxes to America and the country they live in. They have to revoke their American citizenship to stop paying taxes.

kinda means - "kind of". like "how's ya go en", - means how are you going! NO ONE here drinks fosters beer - its crap. As an Aussie I always love coming back to Australia - we are free as. crime and violence is way lower than USA

I live in a country town in Australia and I was late for work and my boots were all wet so I had to put on my steel cap gum boots I hadn’t worn in a year, I didn’t have a choice for time, I slid them right on, spiderwebs and all, drove the 20 minutes to work and basically threw them off for my new pair in my locker, I don’t know if it was just my brain but I could feel things moving the whole time. I didn’t know what was in them but my brain was telling me every single spider was in those boots, I never checked after either so I didn’t freak myself out more 😂😂😂 I was also bitten by a poisonous snake when I was 9 out in the chook pen, my local hospital didn’t have anti venom and the one ambulance wasn’t there so they bandaged my leg to limit blood flow and my mum drove me to the nearest city for 2 days of anti venom rounds 😂😂😂in the city the snakes might not be there but they are where I live yet we don’t stock anti venom 😂

As an Australian who has visited America, I felt like I was in a parallel universe. Everything is the same but different. 🇦🇺🦘🌏

I have never known anyone in Australia to drink Fosters...and that is 75 years!

🇦🇺Even a Dog has the potential to Kill you !....and They're everywhere !....Just remember that If you are looking for Death, It will probably find you ! I'm a 74 year old Aussie and only ever been bitten by 2 different dogs and a heap of mozzies !...In other words...I don't go LOOKING for trouble ! Regards from Australia 🦘🇦🇺👍

I came across a tiger snake 2 months in the country... in the city... in a backyard... I eat it, roasted with wild garlic... I toke it as a welcome offering from the Land...!

I’m an “Aussie” living in Illinois, & I wanted to compliment you on your “Bogan” comment!! Too funny 😂 Keep up the great entertainment 👍 Cheers, Mate!

The snakes in the ceilings is usually in more tropic areas and the python is the most usual snake who seem to like ceilings.They are scared of you.

Sorry mate, our kangaroos and koalas haven’t read the road rule books. Yes, they get hit by cars and trucks regularly as they attempt to cross roads at dusk or dawn. They at times sit on the bitumen roads to keep warm and a lot of times they won’t move, or then jump in the wrong distraction and get hit by oncoming vehicles. I’m in South west Sydney and we have road signs asking drivers to look out for koalas that may be crossing the roads.

She lives in Sydney.... She doesn't know the Real Australia 🤦‍♀️

Ryan, you rock. At first you were a slow burn and it took some time to get to appreciate you. But now I do enjoy watching your reactions to Australia, and I have enjoyed watching the evolution of your knowledge of Australia. You could probably eventually go out and speak to high school students about travel to Australia once you have made the trip yourself. You have a good connect with younger audiences. 😀👍

koalas live in eucalyptus trees , they only eat eucalyptus leaves , they are permanently stoned 😂

Fosters beer has not been sold in Australia for almost 20 years. It's cats piss.

She’s right in many aspect especially Fosters beer. If you turn up at a pub and ask for that you’ll be laughed out of the establishment! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Remember she's "stuck " in Sydney predominately

Absolutely no one drinks fosters. I don’t even remember seeing an ad for it, let alone someone actually drinking it

I've never been colder than I was in Brisbane when it hit 2 degrees... and I've lived where we got two feet of snow a day. The thing with Australia is that in the top 2/3 of the country the old houses are built for stinking hot summers... meaning little to no insulation, and lots of breezeways.... so when the temperature drops, it FEELS freezing. Also because it can be 25 degrees one day, then -4 overnight, so the switch in Temp makes it feel way colder too.

They don't even sell Fosters in Australia lol

The kangaroo statement is not quite accurate. In the cities and big towns you won't see them much at all but rural areas and in the bush they're everywhere. I live an hour out of Perth and am looking at two of the buggers trying to get at my fruit trees right now. Thank goodness for fencing 😂.

Ryan, the reason you will mainly see roo's as road kill is that they are mainly NOCTURNAL, they spend most of the day resting in the shade of trees, then is late afternoon they start getting active on the search for fresh growth, at night their GREAT eyesight lets them down, as when they cross a road or take fright they move FAST towards openings(clearings) and head in the direction they can see better(further, couple that with car and truck brights lighting up the road. they bound off in the most open direction. STRAIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE OF THE HEADLIGHT BEAM away from the vehicle. roo doing 30-40mph car doing 70-100MPH road kill. there are more cars damaged by livestock collisions, roo's,wombat's, cattle,camels,sheep,goats,alpacas than most citys.have fender benders. have seen HUNDREDS of roos at night on main highways between citys. the Roo's like the fresh grass on the verges of the road.

I’ve only seen one koala in the last 20 years and that was last year we were in the middle of no where on a highway going around a bend and it decides to walk out from a bush onto the road. Luckily I was able to avoid it!!!! That same day I also saw a wild Emu on the side of the road which I don’t think I’ve ever seen. So that was an interesting day lol

One thing to clarify is that we are allowed to own firearms, though all firearms must be registered. The licensing is pretty straight forward, just police check and a firearms safety course. Semi automatic and fully automatic firearms require special licensing, restricted to farmers and pest control. I guess it's up to the individual to determine what freedom means regarding that.

Fosters is not even sold in Australia anymore. Where I often go for a walk is through koala country, the most I have seen on one walk was 15 during baby season, 5 of those were babies sitting on their mum's backs - yes I am fortunate :)

69 years old live in Sydney, only seen one snake North of Brisbane but they don't carry AK 47's.

Drop bears being mislabelled as a "joke" is our greatest trick 😉

I live in Queensland, Australia and every summer at work we find Eastern Brown Snakes (2nd deadliest snake in Australia) at job sites.

As far as I know, only two countries tax their citizens if they're living permanently abroad. The USA, and China.

First of June is first day of winter. Tasmanian here enjoying the cold mornings.

I'm really uncomfortable with an American commenting on our gun laws and also about nanny state, she's talking about times when we didn't know that much about covid, and also most ppl in vic were happy with decisions made by Dan, the ring of steel saved my mother's life

Kangaroos are feral in parts of Australia. It is very common to see them as road-kill, but, in some outer suburbs, the Perth hills (for example) and the country areas, it is easy to see them in the cooler parts of the day. They feed at dusk, and will often just jump into the road. I once hit a joey, when driving at around 5.30pm in the hills. (Very, very upsetting!!!) I live near Armadale, an outer suburb of Perth, and used to regularly see roos grazing in my previous home's back-yard, because there was bushland near the property. I still (living in a different house) sometimes see them when driving in the late afternoon along Tonkin Highway. Normally, the only way to see a koala is to visit a zoo or sanctuary.

I was surprised to find out recently that Outback Steakhouse actually exists in Australia now. It's probably just catering for the US tourists and serves the sames menu items as in USA.

"GIVE ME SOME FAIRY BREAD"... I died. You sound like my 5 yr old at a kids bday party 🤣 Hi from Bunbury Western Australia, we just had a tornado that i thought you would have mentioned on "this week in australia".

Wow born and raised here for the past 59 years and have never heard the term “eshay”

I lived in Sydney & we regularly had funnel Web spiders coming into the house. My mother used to flatten them with a shovel

Australia is closer to the equator than the USA so yes it's summers are longer and winters shorter and warmer than the USA. Summer highs.....not much difference. Australia is the driest inhabited continent on the planet BUT we do get rain and it tends to all come at once. So it floods as well.

I had a scorpion crawl across my bare foot while watching TV in my garage. Lol😅😂

I’ve come to learn recently that spiders are actually really important, they keep the fly & mosquito populations low. Also if you leave them alone they won’t bother you you. Also we do have Outback Steakhouse here. It’s actually an American owned & founded restaurant chain that is loosely “Australian themed”

As for Medical Costs, I had pancreatic cancer, had operation, spent 5 wks in hospital.. how much did I have to pay? Nothing!

Fosters is actually terrible beer. We do not drink fosters. And I’ve never seen a snake anywhere near my house, and no they aren’t hiding in the roof 😂I do get huntsmans in the house, but they aren’t dangerous and I let them stay where they are. I give them a name and let them be

Many things in Australia cost more, especially housing and motor vehicle expenses, but yes wages in Oz are higher, and healthcare and education costs are WAY lower.

A standard sink, uninfluenced, drains the opposite direction either side of the equator. But an Australian toilet is typically a washout style, which prevents the spiral effect seen in US-style siphon toilets.