I agree completely

I agree Amy! I’ve lived here my whole life but never looked at Perth the way she does. 🎉

Yeah, this video made me feel like I'm too harsh on my state. 😅😂🤪

Isn't she sweet. I see the city all the time and I don't see it in all its beauty

@@Leopard_Lover We do seem to take our wonderful state for granted.

Funny thing about this "little city" of ours, only 5 cities in the US are larger than Perth.

@@ricklorimer9984 you got me there! Did not know that. :)

I live in Perth; I love Perth; I will never move somewhere else!!! However... I hope you do travel a lot around the world too , like I do (I've been truly on all continents, except Antarctica :)). Interacting with different languages and cultures, outside self-centered Anglo-Saxon areas of dominance, will help you keep things in perspective, and maybe... even like Perth more? :)

​​​​@@ricklorimer9984 Err.. I think you might be going off a misleading metric there. For instance, New York City has 8 million strictly living within the densely compact section of urban build-up that happens to be inside the New York State boundary. However, its entire metropolitan population (which includes its spillover urban build-up into neighbouring States) is in fact closer to 20 million. There's atleast ten Combined Statistical Areas (CSA's) in the US that have a bigger population than Sydney. Not trying to be a smart arse. Just pointing out a fact that a lot of people tend to get mixed up with. Even I don't fully grasp it. But Perth would definitely not be among the top half-dozen biggest US cities, that's for sure.

@@eddielong8663 It obviously does depend on how you define the "city". But most websites use the same metric and do in fact list the population of Perth such that it would rank around 6 or 7 in the US, using the same standards.

Dawn and dusk I think. Is that "crepuscular"? :)

Are you for real? You need to go to Rottnest Island. The quokkas are all hoping around during the day. 😂😂😂😂

Hoping for what???

@@kathrynletchford5114They’re so much more active when it’s darker and even more so after people have cleared out. I was strolling around the settlement at 4 a.m. once and it was a full-on quokka rave - many, many more of them out and about, quokka fights, quokkas chasing insects, quokkas exploring - not the chill afternoon quokka scene at all.

⁠@@kathrynletchford5114the quokkas in the areas of high human traffic are more active during the day as they feed on peoples dropped food. They have to fight their nocturnal circadian rhythm, and are typically more sluggish as a result.

i thought that was all of australia xD. but i wouldnt know cause i never been to other states

that's a very long holiday! :D

Well that’s the best testimonial ever. I’ve been in Oz for 38 years and live in Melbourne which I love. From NZ.Perth is on our list to visit

Hi Karen, please come on over to Perth, we have lots of space, ha,ha

I thought most eastern ppl referred to us a as backwater wingers; but to be fair we generate 50percent of the wealth and materials for this country, and we get very little of the profits.

of course you'd love it, its the indians that have ruined the place.. not even the aboriginals were able to do that

I'm from Sydney, moved here 24 years. It definitely grows on you.

good on you. x

Go home

Mate he said perth was his home. You want him to go from perth back to perth?

Hear, hear!

Loving this Vibe. Cleary form Western Australia. Lol sorry couldn't help myself

I agree!! Except for Victoria.

Agreed. I was literally just in NSW for a few days and whilst there is way better infrastructure and more to do, it's nice coming back to Perth where the traffic isn't crazy, no toll roads everywhere, things are cheaper and just a more chill vibe in general.

How about NO! I don't want perth full of third world trash.

According to beauro of statistics Perth has now passed 2.3 million and expected to be 3 million by 2028

Weirdly enough almost 90% of the state population lives in Perth.

@@ACDZ123 You're mixing up 2 different statistics. Perth's population has hit 2.3 million but the 3 million figure is actually for Western Australia which is fast approaching 2.9 million (so hitting 3 million by 2028 makes sense). Perth will be somewhere close to 2.4 million by 2028.

@@GiveMeSpaceTravel-bg8td It's more like around 79% than 90%. About half a million WA residents live outside of Perth.

@thevannmann if you google you will get all sorts of wrong information..go to the Australian beuro of statistics...

😂😂😂 I can't hide the German in me 🤣

@@tantelondo9435 😊if you wanted to see kangaroos you should have gone to Rockingham or Kwinana golf course, they roam freely there.

Ha we need to bring some of that here with us 🤗

I didn't hear anything you could do besides a little sight seeing. I live in the suburbs nearby. Look how excited Tante got over bushland. sheesh. I believe that was king's park at the end. That's kinda cool but kangeroos get boring quickly. Horses and deer are much cooler because you can ride and hunt them. Also I personally think the modern bland look is ugly as hell.

It all depends in where you’ve come from & what you can do there. When you grow up with something you often don’t really “ see”, but take for granted. I’m sure Europeans don’t get it when Aussies get all enthused about 400 Year old, narrow laned “ Old Towns” in their cities. As far as ksngaroos go & the bush generally, the more you learn about the flora & fauna & spend time out in it over every season the more you comprehend its uniqueness. Look deeper my friend. But I do agree that the last decades worth of “ new buildings” In Perth are pretty generic & Elizabeth Key heavily overdeveloped ruining what had been an iconic parkland bordered river frontage. 😟

You need to remember that some people spend their entire life in snow, or have never seen a sandy beach, or have never seen a marsupial bigger than a mouse. I'm born and raised in Perth, and always wanted to "get away when I grow up", but after travelling the world in my 20's, I realized how special this place is. Perfect place to raise a family.

@@minhnhi111 If it weren't for so much government overreach there'd be far better places. Australia is basically China's pet.

well, we in the east say you guys "Live on the other side of the planet" but that's not disrespectful, just (well ALMOST) true. 🤭🤭🤭

Not jerks, just aloof. They have too much dignity to pander to humans.

That's not the reason.

As the video poster stated, flights are cheap between Indonesia and Perth. Cheaper for us to get there than the East Coast, and far cheaper while we're there. Whilst this is good fun for Perth locals, I do think that simple fact isolates us a lot more than people realise from the East Coast. I think I spent less on my last trip to Thailand than my last trip to Sydney. That might not be great for National unity. And I don't know how to change it. Jet fuel costs what it costs, and you can't coerce East Coast hotels to give Westralians cheaper rates. So we remain estranged cousins.

@@tsubadaikhan6332 the increasingly warm summer temperatures in Perth is another issue to contend with.

"Narrowgin" lol i know you mean Narrogin, Enjoy the trip and the 50th!!

@@wazza9089yeah, that's the one! 😁 and I will.

It is indeed a jewel. I've lived in 3 other capitals. But I've been here one year. When I had to return to Melbourne i hadn't even left the airport and I just missed perth. Rare feeling. It really is Xanadu. Hard to get to, but hard to leave.

Id prefer everyone just go back to where they came from..👍🏼

definitely a lot cleaner than indonesia

We just love digging up our environment and frakking the hell out of our wildlife. As is about to happen on the Ningaloo. But yep, so pride of our mining, I mean community.

@@triarb5790 A conservative mining state where they blowup indigenous caves and the future Premier works for the only media outlet. But shhhh… the weather is good and beaches are nice.

she coulda went to that cemetery (pinnaroo valley memorial park). its a beautiful park, only a 20 min drive from the city, and there are literally *tonnes* of kangaroos there. And they all just chilling on the fresh cut grass under big shady trees. they eat all the flowers people bring there, but hey, they deserve them ^_^

@@DemonsCrest1 Visiting a cemetery to see Kangaroos is probably too weird for most visitors.

Just one slight correction . The metropolitan beaches are all yellow soft sand and this extends north and south of our very long coast line. There are obvious changes in colour the further north you travel but every part of our huge coast line is interesting for viewing, fishing, swimming and/or surfing taking pictures wonderful sun sets and I can go on and on. We love visitors so come and enjoy some relaxing time with us. .

well said, we should be proud of all of Australia and not just from the city or town we are from.

yep. and if you ever want to, feel free to say more nice things about our city ^_^

thats what i just said. and then the next comment below i read yours xD. Yep. pinnaroo is a lovely place.

@@DemonsCrest1And Marangaroo golf course is just down from there - plenty of roos there, too.

I don't reckon we give you a bad wrap (I'm from Melbourne) - we like Perth and WA. It's just too far (and expensive) to get to for most people. 😊

I live in Sydney, no one gives Perth a bad wrap. It’s a beautiful place.

Apart from a few jokes about how isolated we are, I don't think anyone actually gives Perth a bad wrap.

@@JacoJohan46664 Oh there is much much but it could get political. More like the fiasco with our old premier and the mining magnate from NSW that had a lot of goes at WA, or the GST debacle where WA makes most of the money but had a lower cut of the GST just to name two of many times WA has coped it.

That sounds scary and exciting at the same time 🙈🤩

i know that feeling. once i was sitting in my room at night time on the computer, and then i noticed some gloowing eyes right beside my window. crapped my pants almost. but then when i turned on he lights and moved closer i realized it was just a cute and curious kitten peering through. i think i would have got a completely different reaction if I saw a 6'2" kangaroo looking at me xD

See you soon!

@@Quinctili I hope so 😊

@@40yrsago , the best coffee in the world, worth the trip just for that.

It can be somewhat deserted because we have a huge amount of passive underutilized public space that doesn't draw people into the focal points anywhere near as well as they should. Exasperated by obscene amounts of very low density nondescript suburban sprawl. Which is harder to create a critical mass of community identity and spirit, so by and large we have a very atomized population. Unfortunately a lot of people aren't motivated enough to leave their suburb or for some, their homes. The city also grew in fits and starts, and was the smallest of mainland state capitals by a fair margin pre WW2. So Perth never had the scale of pre car-centric inner mixed zone density that a Sydney or Melbourne had/has, or even Adelaide. Perth's growth took off post WW2 which unfortunately meant postwar mono-purpose planning schemes and a city designed for cars rather than people. There was also wide Architectural vandalism in the 60s-70s with the demolition of Perth's many character rich Gold Rush and Federation era grand old buildings, replaced by alienating internationalist style and brutalist eyesores. Still Perth has many great features but because of bad luck with the timing of growth bursts and car-centric planning, it's not the most lively city, or have a strong civic identity. Yet it's mostly clean, attractive enough, comparatively safe, good for families.

@@PjRjHj I totally agree with you on the architectural destruction in the city during the 60's and 70's. I arrived from Adelaide in 1968 and was horrified by what was happening. When I asked a city representative why they were destroying those beautiful buildings, he cheerfully told me that Perth was going to be modern, just like Sydney!

Perth should be another Dubai with our natural resources... but unfortunately we only get to keep 34 cents for every dollar we generate back... with most of it going to other states.

@@frankmat Agreed and NSW are complaining again saying we get too much...

@@x-Floki-xNSW can go and......

@@phildavenport4150 Agreed!

The Vines definitely. As well if you have transport a drive up to Yanchep National Park 40 mins north of the city is another good place to see wild life. True story in Dec 23 I took a work colleague from Mongolia up there to see Kangaroos and Koalas. We saw Koalas up close in the enclosure there although they are often up the trees there. But looking for Kangaroos because it was a hot day in the high 30's (noting Perth has a dry heat no humidity usually) there was not a kangaroo in sight. They were all under bushes and trees somewhere out of sight. A bit disappointed we went to have a cold drink (Beer in my case) at the Yanchep Inn that is right in the middle of the park. When we sat down in the Beer Garden ( an outside al fresco area in Pubs) at a table our guest noticed something moving in a bush 2 metres from where we were sitting and it turns out it was a mother Kangaroo laying down resting with her Joey (baby Kangaroo) playing next to her! So the mother Kangaroo thought it was a good place to hide in the Pub! We then sat and enjoyed the live outside entertainment at the pub while it got later and cooler and soon we saw about 30 Kangaroos outside of the pub on the grass coming out to graze.

Yea just go to any golf course , I live near one and have to be careful of roos on the road

​@@crazymusicchickme too..🦘🦘🦘

I’m a member of Melville Glades golf club in Leeming, 10-15 minutes south of Perth, and it has a population of approximately 600 roos within the course grounds … lots of international tourists come to photograph them

Well said the Wait Awhile is BS ,public transports extensions,no Toll roads and cycling infrastruture and no pokies.

Great place for a holiday. However, your summer weather is so hot. I've lived in a few areas of WestOzz from the desert to the coastal areas ... beautiful however the summers are so hot. Being a Queenslander, I retired to Cairns. Love Perth and Hobart two extremes both enjoyable ... I'm glad the lady likes our country. More power to the Sandgropers.

@@laggordo I love the Perth heat, wouldn't have it any other way. 😀👍

@@laggordo Great place to live, not just holiday* aww can't handle a little heat?

As someone who's travelled a bit, almost any place can be fantastic, YOU just have to put the effort in to find the good things around. My first job out of school was in South Hedland from Perth, and that place could nearly put anyone off travelling forever. But, you find the right people and places to hang, and the local's secrets, and it's actually cool AF. The best place in the world is nearly always where your friends and loved ones are. So make good friends wherever you go, and you'll always find opportunities for good times. Make the effort to keep in touch with the friends you make along the way. It doesn't have to be frequent, and as you get older you realise it's never a waste of your time.

@@tsubadaikhan6332 Lived in South Hedland 1987 for 12 months, some tough hard men lived there back then,,then i moved to Broome for work to rebuild Cable Beach after the cyclone 🌀 smashed the place.

they recently added a whole bunch of new stuff. the whole "Elizabeth Keys" place is pretty new. before that, it wasnt as good ^_^

@@DemonsCrest1Elizabeth Quay.

Shh it's our little secret. Don't tell everyone our Perth is the best place on earth!

@@TM-trade We share the Beauty, likes of this place of the Earth....

yea, when my mum visited last time, the flowers there sucked as well ^_^

You obviously haven't seen Melbourne in the last 5 years.