Australia sure seems to be a better place to live for many reasons.

I was recently in the UK - I was horrified at how expensive everything was!

When fruit an vegies ARE in season in Australia, as your Brocolli example, you will pay less than HALF what it would cost you in the UK ..out of season BUY IT FROZEN and it will STILL be cheaper!

Interesting vlog… you have thought of lots of different aspects. Re ambulances.. the pricing & payment varies from state to state etc. .. all Qld residents are automatically covered Australia-wide by the Qld government.

Good information!! Thank you

I spent 8 years in Australia and loved it. That said, while we generally pay more taxes in Europe, combining work and parenting is much easier in here as you get either free or heavily subsidized childcare. I had plenty of friends in the Australian middle class who could only put their kids under 6 in childcare part-time and/or a few days a week. So one of the parents usually ended up not working full time, lowering their wage and professional growth. You'll find more stay home mums there than here (nothing wrong with that, as long as you're not feeling forced to). Of course, past a certain salary threshold that problem goes away.

So the best thing about the UK is that it's easier to leave?

In the UK, a flight into Europe is cheaper than airport parking or the train🫣

Thank you for the information

After visiting the UK last year I found the things I didn't like were; Parking was expensive, Using toilets costs money, VAT Tax, Fuel prices expensive, New car prices expensive, Wages low, Accommodation expensive, McDonalds crowded. (Loved the banana shakes though!) What I liked was, Food was cheaper by 20%, Public transport was amazing, Flights to Ireland/Europe short, affordable and convenient. In Australia you have hot days in summer, drop bears landing on your head the second you get off the plane, snakes everywhere just waiting to swallow you whole, and spiders as big as dinner plates landing on you the moment you go for a walk. Don't get me started on the 9ft boxing kangaroos that are usually seen in boxing gloves however if you can fight you should be OK.

Fruit and veg is seasonal and the prices are inflated recently due to world events. Capsicums were usually around $2.99 per kilo pre-pack bag and tomatoes were usually also $2.99-$3.99 in season...sometimes cheaper. Mushrooms used to lower to around $6.00 per kg too and I personally bought some last shopping for $5.98kg. The key is don't always shop at the big supermarkets (Coles and Woolworths) for fresh produce and meats. They are okay for alot of the packaged foods but going to the smaller chains can be a big saver.

Actually if you guys google it thier are only 2 states in Australia that ambulance is free. Queenland and Tasmania, I lived in NSW 6years ago paying my ambulance insurance but when we moved to Queensland we found out that ambulance is free my hubby experienced twice picked up by ambulance and never been charged. Australia got everything it just depends what states or areas you wanna live. Good luck on your journey cheers!

Ambos are free in Queensland and people love using it as a taxi service!

Ambulance is free in Queensland & varies from state to state. It’s never that much if you have a membership. For instance in Victoria it’s $49 (single) or $99 (families) p.a…..but you must have a membership otherwise you will be charged. There are quarterly payment options too. Hope this clarifies things😬

Talking about beer glass sizes, the first time I went to Broken Hill (where Mad Max was filmed) which is the start of the outback in western New South Wales, I noticed everyone drinking beer were using middy glasses. This is a size smaller than schooner glasses. My friend who who lived there explained that they drink from smaller glasses because it is so hot, your beer doesn’t get warm as quick as it would in a bigger glass.

The prices of fruit and vegetables wildly fluctuate in Australia, at the moments blueberries are $8 a punnet but 3 months ago they were around $3 a punnet.

Lovely video

Everyone talked about the beaches. I don’t know anyone that can afford beach properties in Straya.

Late to the comments., and from Melbourne in the state of Victoria. Travel in Melbourne is easy. We have the most extensive tram system in the world. The train system is good and very cheap due to a recent new price system. eg. We travelled from Wodonga , on the border with New South Wales, to Melbourne as retired pensioners for a little less than four dollars one-way for a four hour trip of hundreds of kilometres .Bus services are OK. The food may have been expensive due to the expansive flooding Australia has suffered. Crops (and towns) were washed badly affected.. Only today was I able to buy my first carton of soy-based ice-cream in a long time because the floods down the Eastern states destroyed the crops. Also we try to shop for in-season fruit and vegetables. Your emphasis on outdoor activity was mainly centred on the beaches. We also have MANY excellent, beautiful and interesting huge forests and big parks with associated activities including those on rivers and lakes.

UK travelers should get travel insurance for the stuff not covered by the reciprocal health agreement, including ambulance, medical evacuation and non-hospital pharmaceuticals. Australian residents or visitors can get ambulance cover for $4/month or it’s covered by regular health insurance.

Less than one Pound 20 P per kilo for brocolli when IN season.

Unfortunately if you shop at either Coles or Woolworths you're going to be a victim to Greedflation. Shop at Aldi or your local markets instead and you'll see a big difference in prices.

I've lived in aus for 20 years and have never heard of ambulance insurance.

The beer measurments still confuse me and I have lived here for 13 years. But I agree schooners are the perfect size. You wouldnt want a warm beer😂

I have lived in Oz for 17 years now, in Perth. Still can’t get over the price of something’s here but when you factor how remote you are and how much people get paid, it does make sense why. I miss the football (times), family and friends…and the takeaways are def better there, but otherwise it’s Straya all day long for me, esp as my kids are growing u p here and are very very active. Loads of camping, beautiful weather and beautiful places and heaps of time at the beach and in the ocean. Thanks, off to grab some 🥦🥦🥦

Every KZfaq British couple like Australia better than UK.

In relation to ambulance, pensioners, unemployed people do not pay. People with private health cover are also covered. The rest of us usually get ambulance insurance which is around $100 per year for a family and $52 for single and this will cover you

Having ambulance cover in Australia is really cheap….i don’t know why it isn’t compulsory

NHS has collapsed in UK

Chocolate and partially Cadburys have changed their ingredients to cater for the international diets ‘Jewish Hal-well or the Islamic equivalent (excuse the spelling mistakes) so if you want the melt-in-your-mouth experience try another brand like Nestles or any other foreign brand, anything but Cadburys, not so common in supermarkets but it can be found

In the state of Tasmania (the state you left off you're map of the country 😭 ) Ambulances are free for Tasmanian residents

Ambulance insurance in Australia is cheap. It varies from State to state. Usually around $60per year. Free for those on Social Security, children, pensioners. I think in Queensland it is free.

Okay about the ambulances thing. If you join ambulance Victoria membership. It’s around 100 annually. You get ambulances for free. Well 100 dollars.

I find the Brits are the only ones that complain about the chocolate here. Personally I’m not a big fan of chocolate, but I found no difference between Aus and the UK. Maybe I missed something. When compared to the US, then I do understand a difference. Theirs is horrible.

The thing about chocolate is a funny comment, plenty of cold places in Aus!

Living in the west coast of Australia we buy huge branches of bananas grown there for a few dollars

i prefer uk beaches esp the south. also easier to get to other countries

I'm Australian. Chocolate is poor. Oil based I'm afraid

Not all States have "Pay for Ambulance". In Queensland it's free

Make this video again after you both have been here for a few years. You seem nice people but you are both still in Australia honeymoon mode

I disagree with you on chocolate as well.

Good luck finding somewhere to live in Aussie especially in the major cities Rents have increased since the end of the Pandemic. House prices thru the roof. Local Aussies are really getting anti immigrant as it is forcing them to pay more for housing.

Nsw ambulance call-out fee is $428.

Yo it’s fookin Scott adkins mate.

Help me move! What visa do I need to move me and my family

I'm from a town called Scunthorpe and oh god it's fucking awful. If you've ever heard of it, please let me know.

The schooner is so your beer doesn't get hot

Thanks interesting. As someone who has lived and worked in both countries a few of my impressions you may not agree with. At least in the cities we Australians would possibly be described as more "woke" than UK and certainly US. Heard a US culture warrior go off about Qantas and Virgin paying respects to the traditional owners of the land when they were landing - hate to think if he knew that "welcomes to country" are universal at many meetings. Again in the public sector as a Senior Manager I earnt about 2.5 times what my EA did - but in the UK it was 5 times. Not in private sector but in Australian public sector less huge variations. Maybe more egalitarian - in Australia everyone called me by my First Name - in UK was shocked to be called "Sir" or "Mr" by staff like security guards and cleaners. Told them not to - but they found it odd/difficult. Again you may not agree but I think our politics is so much more "grown-up" than UK and US even though it can be brutal - we have a few, but generally, less nutters. Think compulsory and preferential voting helps, (My wife has just got a letter saying she did not vote in the State Election and will be fined - she did and has to send a stat dec in to avoid it). I have both passports but even though it cost 300% more I would give up my UK one before my Australian. To me the only disadvantage of living here, as you recognise, is that we are a long way from anywhere - but you get used to 12-21 hour flights.

Anyone that's has a heath care card like unemployment or pensioners disabilitys do not pay for ambulances in Australia 🇦🇺

I think only Queensland has free ambulances in Australia ❤

Ambulances……$1000? Err…..no! Beer glasses different sizes/names depending on state - schooner/pot/pint/middy….

More money in AUS??

Chocolate must be like mothers milk because I found it rubbish in the UK.

Two Items - Ambulance charges vary from state to state - Health care n Australia is administrated via each state government and not the federal government - the cost is funded federally only. An ambulance in Queensland and the state of Tasmania are free - others states charge an individual fee - pensioners are free in each state. Chocolate- Being an Australian and traveled to Europe many times for months, I do not like European chocolate its soft and oily texture, when I was there my first time, I spat it out is was so awful -and refuse to buy it, I prefer Australian Chocolateers- suggest you try a private chocolate shop then supermarket varieties - there are over 20 chocolate manufactures in Australia besides the supermarket variety

i think backpackers pay lower tax in agricultural jobs :)

Isn't Ireland a better option to consider?

And what you forget to mention seeing the sunrise at bondi beach most people that live there are millionaires when you go out more inland you see the real grafters of Australia working just like us brits

Where are you living now? I remember you where going back to the UK for a wedding

Australian ppl are too wild 🤣

Stay where you are

Actually they ARE free, as you say, you take out insurance, which is MINIMAL!.

Switched video off after 30 seconds . I’m earning less in Australia / paying more tax . Plus the energy is very low with you both ! Take care have a lovely life .. I will never watch another video or recommend

UK: better education system (more well rounded, less private schools, better state education for all, better childcare, nicer schools), more culture, more museums, more art galleries, nicer public parks, better transport (UK is covered with public transport unlike Australia), universally walkable (Australia is car dominated unlike the UK), free healthcare, more polite people. Better TV and media too.

Ssshh, once word gets out.....

Uk is 20% tax Australia is around 32%

Say what you like every single deadly creature known to man is there Don't forget to check your shoes lol

The best of aus is that there is no class system and the worst weather is easily better than the best in UK.. the worst is that they have some of the most expensive living in the world, in the middle of knowhere. Aussies have also dropped there culture with the new generations who live on American videos from there phones. The best of the UK is they have retained there culture, there pubs are brilliant and they have a real value on being interesting and funny. The worse is that no one has a house, they all live in terraces, you can't talk politics or religion as they close up, dreadful class focus. Really I would say it comes down to whether you like shit weather or not....

Australian chocolate particularly Cadbury has deteriated. Now Halal No longer creamy

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Australia and the UK is not much difference the politics, racism and divisions are the same in both the UK and Australia most Europeans in Australia are originally from the UK and Ireland. Many left the UK in droves many are ten pound pommes.

Why are so many Aussies working in the UK?

not true now. uk pay is much higher now

Aiustralia has bigger houses and better weather tahn UK Australia >>>>>>>

australia may offer higher wages but you'll spend it all on food and rent

I disagree with Australia being more outdoors. We lived there for 17 years in Queensland. The weather is so hot that indoors was preferable. We are more outdoors in the UK.

When can you Grow a banana in the UK lol

less migrant problems in Australia.

I’m from NZ, been living in the UK just over one year. It’s one of the most miserable places I’ve ever lived. I lived in Australia for about 5 years in the past and to me, Australia is 100x better than the UK in every way except proximity to Europe

Yep, you get charged for an Ambulance even if you didn't call them and never wanted their service. They get your name, send you a bill for over $1,100.00 and then won't listen to reason when you tell them what happened. They're about as bad as tow truck drivers. I'm sure if you actually need them it's worth the money, but like any criminal organisation, they're always getting paid, no matter what.

No no no. If you work in healthcare or education, there are hardly any full time, permanent jobs. It's contact, term time and at half the pay. Eg I left England as a highly qualified Allied health professional on $42k PS 14 years ago, the only jobs available were part time (3 days a week), contact at the equivalent of $27k pro rata. Healthcare is better. Culture is awful, most people are poor and have to have second jobs as self employed.

So Australia is just somewhere you can make some more cash...go home.

Australia is a great place to live but like every other country it feels the pinch and has weak leadership for a Prime Minister.

Cant he talk in a normal voice? WHY IS HE FRYING HIS VOCAL SO BAD!!! AND "NO" HE DOESNT SOUND LIKE THIS NO ONE SOUNDS LIKE THIS!!! HE IS FRYING HIS VOCAL!! FAKING HIS VOICE!!

NHS is absolutely horrible

Real estate prices are absurd in Australia. Better NOT to migrate to here.

BOTH ARE LITERALLY COMPETING EACH OTHER ON … WHO FRIES THE VOCAL MORE….!!!! HOW ANNOYING THEY BOTH ARE?? FAKING THEIR VOICE / FRYING THEIR VOCALS!!! AND NO!! NO ONE SOUNDS LIKE THAT ITS JUST INTERPRETATION!!!!

Why are so many Aussies working in the UK?