My son in law is about your age. He came here from The US to play baseball for four months, met my daughter and never went back. He loves his life here, can’t believe the health system, the wages, the food, and living a short walk to the beach 😁

"Are farmers the richest people in Australia?" - no, but they probably should be. Nah, the richest people in Australia are mining magnates, property investors and the politicians they... collaborate with.

Our isolation is why we are such a good place to visit - we get excited when we see somebody new in our 2 square kilometres per person of land. Median income is more representative of what most people earn in Australia - it's still good but $20000 lower than the average. Median is around $70000 per annum, average is around $90000 per annum. The difference being that the top 5% obscene earners skew the average upwards for the other 95% Farmers are quite wealthy in good seasons, but it is the export companies that reap most of those profits. Losing the emu war has cost us big time - they have since recruited some 60 other bird species into their ranks and are estimated to cost the economy around 300 to 350 million in lost agricultural products every year. But there is no use complaining about it, they are our masters now.

We are pretty lucky. I live in Perth, Western Australia where we probably benefit the most because of the mining and oil and gas industry. Cleaners who work on these sites make a lot. My brother is a Rig Operations Manager for Woodside and earns $350k a year. Didn’t finish high school or attend university, he’s a mechanic by trade. So having your kids get a trade certificate is just as good as a Uni degree… I worked in Stockbroking for 13 years, didn’t finish high school or attend university.

Your reaction to house prices was perfect. Yes our housing market is sh*t and it's getting worse. Very poor policies.

'Uluru' is the official and traditional name used these days. It was formerly known as Ayres Rock.

My parents emigrated to Australia from England in 1972, my father had a trade and we as a family were accepted to become new immigrants. My parents were eligible for assisted passage, which meant that we only paid ten pounds per person for the flight to OZ. We were the last of the Ten Pound Pom's. dad had to have pre arranged employment but due to a problem getting a flight he lost that job. He went to the CES (Commonwealth employment service) and had a job the next day. Australia has just been a fantastic place to grow up in as I was thirteen when I arrived and my younger brother was five. My two older brothers who were in the RAF both came to Australia at a later date. The country at that time offered a multitude of advancement for anyone wanting to have a go. By chance my parents went for a drive one Sunday and were looking at a display of houses. The salesman quizzed them on their income and before they knew it we were waiting for our new house to be built. The cost was $26,000, for a house and land package.

Remember while we are a long way from Europe and North America, there are big populations places that eat food quite near us like Indonesia. Also we have easy access through the Indian Ocean to India and the Middle East.

"Ayer's Rock? Isnt this Uluru?" even the 'murican knows!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 you really are an honourary Aussie, Ryan!

You asked about farm sizes. The largest farm, or station in Aussie speak, is the same size as the state of Vermont, and just a little smaller than Maryland. It is called Anna Creek Station and is in South Australia. The biggest ranch in the US (in Texas, of course) is over seven times smaller.

It doesn't have to be kept cold. It's still alive. Edit: I went to Tweed River high school, on the border of Queensland and New south Wales. It's the southern end of the Gold Coast I took surfing as a school sport, and surfboard making as a subject in high school. Also there were kids in my class that were already professional surfers with sponsorships. I have very fond memories.

Australia is what America aspires to be!

Some old farming families are very rich. This is usually because they have large farms and have held them a long period of time. Unfortunately the Chinese have been buying a lot of farms here in Australia much to the annoyance of the general public. Many other farms are much smaller affairs sometimes passed from generation to generation and they often are just making ends meet.

That rubbish in suberbs was not Australia

You are learning so much about the world Ryan.

Ayres Rock was the name given to Uluru by the British. It has been replaced with its original Aboriginal name.

Ayers Rock is the english name for Uluru. Many Australian landmarks and cities are also now associated with First Nation names.

Sydney Opera House hasn't been a target in a war but a target wasn't far away. Garden Island where HMAS Kuttabul was sunk by a Japanese torpedo aiming for the USS Chicago in 1942, is less than a mile as the crow flies.

Life expectancy is awesome! I work in healthcare and some of my best patients are well into their 90,s and they have the best sense of humour! They greet me with “how are you, f**ker?” 😂😂😂😂

And yet, Australia is having a housing affordability crisis.

The biggest problem seems to be that Australia allows foreigners to buy unlimited number of properties even just as investments, not as personal homes. Most such buyers are super rich Asian buyers who can not invest all their money in their own country. While most notions in Asia outright prevent any foreigners even when locally resident to buy and own ANY property in those countries. China is currently almost seeming to be trying to buy out Australia, both in homes, farm/rural properties and mineral/mining rights.

while it is true that we have loads of land to mine it also comes with a downside of taking certain minerals that insects need to locate where it is. quite a few years back I was working with a joint that fills and replants the aera that was recently mined out and even though we got all the animals for that aera that come back there was one species of spider that relied on the mineral that was mined to know where it was, now a single species isn't bad but what if they wanted to mine a spot where only a certain food source is found and we can't replant it or introduce it back to the area then that will be a huge problem later down the line.

Yep. Higher average salary and less hours of work! Hence better work/life balance for Australian workers.

Uluru is the traditional, and now official, name. It was called Ayer’s Rock, officially, until sometime in the 80s or 90s at about the same time as we got serious about recognising our country’s aboriginal heritage.

The spaghetti junction at about 2 mins is in Brisbane There are 4 major roads, 2 of which are underground, & access to the local streets in at least 2 places. Just before the airport link was opened people were allowed to walk about 1Km into the tunnel, I was one of them. One of the other roads is the Legacy Way which goes under the Show grounds, at ground level for a couple of Kilometres & then underground for about 4Km. That tunnel was open to the public for a walk through & I got to walk through it.

Yeah Ryan let USA & Australia be agile together 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 Great video 🙏

I have to say, as an Aussie that has always lived in Melbourne and seeing you react to my normal every day environment is very entertaining… after watching 2 of your reacts iv subscribed and will be watching all…. Love it… FAR OUR MAN

They “named” it after Henry Ayres but the locals called it Uluru waaay before.

History in Australia shows over 100 years house prices double on average every 14 years , sometimes it takes longer sometimes shorter that is an average . If you stick to the main cities it will generally stick to those averages better than remote areas . I bought a house in Brisbane in 2009 for $415,000 just sold it for $893,000 so exceeded the average a little as it was on 1012 sq mts of land but that is why i invested in it and why it beat the average , every day older your house is value goes down but land goes up . This was a rental property so we have what we call negative gearing , if my outgoings , interest on loans etc are more than rent coming in then I show a loss , say I loose $10,000 that loss will come straight off my income , so say I am in the 38 cents in the dollar tax range then I would save $3,800 so buying an investment property is subsidised but when you sell then you are up for capitol gains tax on the profit .Your principal place of residence is totaly tax free when you sell but you cant claim any losses either . A lot of people predict property to drop drastically here but I doubt we will see a crash . Prices have pulled back 11% in Brisbane but they are up 43% since start of covid so still up 22% in couple of years .

We have moved from 8th to 5th on the Human Development Index as of 2023 and we are only moving up.

As an Australian, it's nice that we have a seat at the big boy table and we punch above our weight.

When he said there had been no air raids on the Sydney Opera House so facetiously…the Opera House wasn’t built until the 1970s, a Japanese mini submarine sunk the HMAS Kuttabul in Sydney Harbour in 1942 killing most on board and Darwin was bombed by the Japanese 64 times over a year and a half and pretty much flattened..

Australia's PERMANENT migration program is basically broken down into two components: the SKILLED program and the FAMILY REUNION program (shorthand title). If my memory serves me correctly, by the mid 1990s the family reunion program was about 70% of the total permanent migration program (I stand to be corrected) . A change commenced in the mid-1990s, with a greater focus on migrants who had the most to offer to Australia's labour market and economic prosperity. Today, that 70 : 30 ratio now favours the skilled program. The TEMPORARY migration program is huge as well and covers such categories as foreign students, working holiday visa holders (aka backpackers with work rights) and temporary skilled workers who are brought in under an employer's sponsorship. The totality of Australia's migration program is a lot more complex than my summary, but you get the idea.

Imagine the USA without the 2nd amendment , modifying the 1st amendment, universal healthcare and a fairer tax system. I would live there.

I brought my house in 2004 for $100K. Since buying it we have added a huge extension, done the back and fount yard(spent about $200k doing it up). a bit of renos here and their and now we have just had it evaluated and our house is worth $750k . i am in Adealdie i live like 5 min walk to the beach and a 10 min walk to the river. 25 mins to Adelaide. we have a train station 6 min walk away, shopping center online 10 min drive away. Kids school is only a 15 min walk away. Yeah i love where we live

The narrator says "there's been no air raids over Sydney opera House." Re war in the last century. I understand his point, we're very fortunate! BUT as an Australian I must point out (as most in the Northern Hemisphere have no knowledge of this) that Sydney Harbour WAS attacked during WW2 by Japanese submarines (May-June 1942) some servicemen were killed. (The Opera House didn't exist then though). And a week later more submarines started shelling the coast. But even more so, Darwin Harbour and town was pretty much flattened by earlier air raids February 19, 1942. Several hundred were killed including American servicemen on the USS Peary. (Yet US Americans know nothing about this). It was the same people behind the Pearl Harbor attack a few months earlier. The evacuation a few weeks prior of many civilians, aside from workers, kept the death rate from being even higher. There were over 100 air raids in Australia over 20 months (Mostly Darwin but several other places too). There was some censorship and playing down of the attacks, at the time. My great grandfather was stationed in Darwin. If interested in knowing more.... Bombing of Darwin, 80th anniversary 2022. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a86HaK6AmrHGd4E.html Darwin Military Museum, bit of background about attacks and the museums aim. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p7qJgJmVs9iupGw.html Darwin Bombing 'Experience' - Military museum. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l9V7Zsd-u82RYZ8.html Attack on Sydney Harbour & Newcastle. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bZiqa6Say7ido5c.html Anyways, aside from that I did enjoy your reaction and the topic overall though👍. We punch above our weight in many ways.

I'm not sure what a maccas salary is in the u.s but my daughter gets $22.50 an hour here.

Thanks for the smiles again today, I look forward to my daily pick-me-up from your video commentary. This one you could so have done yourself, you were ahead of him at almost every step. Ryan, almost the whole world says aluminium (al-you-min-ee-oom). When the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists (IUPAC) was set up in 1919, they established a naming system for chemicals. The later known metal elements of the Periodic Table (77 0f 118 total elements) were given the ending -ium, indicating metal (helium an exception). Aluminum, which was originally called alumium by an Englishman, was brought into line with all the others and renamed aluminium. America said, no, we're not changing. They also said no to changing sulphur to sulfur, sulphate to sulfate, etc. So IUPAC caved and allowed both world and American spelling of these names. Our longer life expectancy is actually not a product of a greatly healthier lifestyle. Life expectancy is based on death rates, so our longer life expectancy is more our universal health care system, commitment to community health (e.g. gun laws, universal vaccination programs, etc) and isolation. If everyone in America had access to universal health care, more people would see doctors before issues became severe, people would not die as young. Foreign investment in houses is now being controlled more severely. We were downsizing and selling our beautiful home five years ago. We made the decision not to sell to Chinese investors, we wanted a family to enjoy living in a cul-de-sac with the bush behind, an oval and a kids park next door. Sale set up, then the sale fell through, three times. Our agent investigated and found that a Chinese investor had set up families of different nationalities to front us as the buyers. The reason the sale kept falling through was the government kept making the rules for foreign investment more and more rigorous. We were delighted not to have been duped. Final sale went to a beautiful immigrant family who we see when invited back to the block party each Australia Day.

A farmer's success depends on the location, the crop grown, rainfall (how reliable and when it falls) and quality of soil. Crops like wheat and barley grow well down south where there's winter rains and harvest time is in late spring and early summer as it dries out.

That light show you were distracted by is in Sydney each year and it’s called the Vivid Light Festival. It’s held around May/June and attracts hundreds of thousands of spectators. You should see if there’s a KZfaq video on it.

The closest major civilizations closest to Aust is Asia.

Love the Aussie reacts vids

4:55 yes, we say aluminium correctly 😁😁

Ryan, you should apply, you might be surprised !!! I was born an AUSTRALIAN, and I am so thankful for that !!!

Us Australians are bloody hard workers mate. If you want to be creative, hard working or an entrepreneur Australia is the place. I had a really fun market business that averaged approximately $147.00 per hour, two days a week for 16 years. Now i just have a little online business called Treats 4 Dogs & work about one day a week instead.

Love the reaction to the average price of housing in Sydney 🤣

I LOVE that you noticed the use of the coloniser's name for Uluru! More and more First Australian names are being used again for places and I am all for it!

‘Uluṟu’ is the Aboriginal name that ‘Ayer’s Rock’ was changed to some years back now. We always knew it as Ayer’s Rock and many still call it that. There’s a lot of places that they are trying to change to the Aboriginal name. Even the city Melbourne is also known as Naarm

Ryan if you go 30 to 60 minutes drive from the cities like Melbourne you can buy a nice home around $500.000 to $750.000 in the suburbs and remember we do have quite high wagers so a working couple could own a home within 10 years if they wanted to the key is getting a good paying job example a chippie can make $1200 to $1500 AUD P/W even a factory worker can make $800 or $900 P/W

Ayer’s Rock was its European name but that was changed back to its indigenous name Uluṟu in 1993

Ryan Ayres Rock was the original name for Uluru

Australia’s biggest beef markets are Indonesia and Vietnam live exports. So nearby countries.

Australia has a shortage of many workers but not always skilled. We actually have a shortage of farm hands in Australia and are trying to get more backpackers and the like just to pick the fruit our farmers are growing.

You really need to Google Aluminium and realise that it's not the same word that the US uses, that is Aluminum. Also the US spelling is ONLY used in the US, the INTERNATIONAL STANDARD is Aluminium. Notice the extra I at the end that changes how you pronounce the word. A good rule of thumb with most things is that if there are two ways of doing/saying it, the US is doing/saying it wrong.

When it comes to real estate, this video was spot on regarding ( Australia ). Allow me to give people who read these comments an example. I bought 2 properties 10 years ago, one in Australia and one in Japan. The one in Australia was 370k, the one in Japan was 253k. The Aussie property is about a 45 minute drive from the CBD in Sydney. Forward 10 years, it is now worth 700k at a minimum. It is a 2 bedroom apartment in what was a brand new building at that time. The property in Japan was a new 3 level home high up on a hill, so I have a view of the whole city under me. This house would cost me at least 10 times that in OZ, it’s only 7 kilometers from the city center. Most people assume Japan is an expensive country, when in fact it isn’t.

FYI: when the video says "the sydney opera house wasnt air raided" or something along those lines, that isnt to say Australia wasnt bombed. for example the city of darwin in northern Australia was levelled by japanese bombs during ww2.

WA is rich because of our mining industry 😁 but in general Australia is pretty rich 😊

The only riches l tasted today was some God dam chocolate mud cake from woolies ...oh and l won 42 bucks on tattsloto. Happy valentine's day..everyone yanks you have to wait a few more hours

What is the current national minimum wage? From 1 July 2022, the national minimum wage is $21.38 per hour or $812.60 per 38 hour week (before tax). Casual employees covered by the national minimum wage also get at least a 25% casual loading.

Depends on the size of their farm and how much produce they sell. Big farms who supplies a massive amount of produce. Meat, wool and dairy are better off then the smaller ones

I've been to Europe, Asia, and the USA. I'd much rather live here in Oz. Oh, whilst I have Aboriginal blood, it's still Ayres Rock to me, not Uluru. We bought this house in 1981 for $70K, our previous house in 1971 for $15k

@7:51 I don’t think that’s Australia. Correct me if I’m wrong

Coal and iron ore are a major exports as well. Mine workers are paid well but have to live or travel to remote locations working 12 hour 7 day and night shift rosters.

Kite surfing 😂❤ 11:22

As an Australian, 1:30 is Definitely part of our Top Ten. Australia Has lots of Locations you would want to Visit, Our Fast Food is like, Definitely Top Ten in the World! (Which makes Tourism Easier!) We're Just Buddy Buddy to EVERYONE Here! Which helps when you need to go somewhere and lost your wallet. We're not Terrified of Bubbles and Balloons Here! It's just so Great Down here! So Tourism Gets a big Plus Because of that, and we are definitely in the top ten Western countries to go to even though we have literally nothing here lol!

"The rich get richer, the poor get the picture"

Some farms are owned by companies. My husband works for one. They grow alot of vegetables. And the owners are Millionaires.

Ayers Rock is still one of the official names. It basically has a double name. The Wikipedia article fits with my memory of the time: "In 1993, a dual naming policy was adopted that allowed official names that consist of both the traditional Aboriginal name (in the Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and other local languages) and the English name. On 15 December 1993, it was renamed "Ayers Rock / Uluru" and became the first official dual-named feature in the Northern Territory. The order of the dual names was officially reversed to "Uluru / Ayers Rock" on 6 November 2002 following a request from the Regional Tourism Association in Alice Springs"

I live in paradise . I am an older person. When I go out people treat me with respect and kindness. It is about the Aussie soul. Bless Australia .

Happy Arvo mate most of our cattle exports are live freight the walk on ships sent to not so far away places like Asia I enjoy your show see you mate from us in Brisbane Queensland

We don’t talk about the emu wars 🤷🏻‍♀️ Ayer’s rock is the colonial name for the red rock at the centre of Australia the local traditional name is Uluru, thankfully the traditional name is starting to become more commonly used. Australia will let a lot of people in as international students however they have a very hard time getting permanent citizenship, although a lot of students Dont come here hoping to stay as the courses they do here equate to much higher qualifications in their home countries and therefore the whole family put everything they have to send the students here in the hopes of them coming home and being able to provide for their families.

You laugh at the house prices, but in Australia / NZ that’s normal. Average (pretty bad houses) are a million dollars. You have to be a millionaire to be an average human now.

2:01 Dude that my capable! Melbourne!🤩

Australia = Aluminium USA = Aluminum (it's in the i before the last um). That's the why we say Al-you-mini-yum. As for Ayers Rock, yes, it's Uluru. Wikipedia explains the name issue quite well.

Best part of the day Ryan! 👍 No worries! 🤗 Are we that isolated? We have a huge international migrants population making us "worldly"!? 😊 Mining, mining, and more mining! 🤑 This guy is a slow speaker! 😒 Food, feed the world, grow good cows and sheep! We have ships too Ryan! 🥶 Human development, no1 priority! 🤗 Surfing classes at every beach! 😉 Congo, no go! 🥺😡 Peace and health, and no wars except against America and Emus! 😄 Bring in the Skilled! 🌟🇦🇺👍 Your welcome here Ryan! 🫂 Dream destination, oops, border lockdown! 😥 It was Ayers Rock, the native tribes renamed it! 😄 South Australia just released 24,000 "new" building blocks! 🤩💥 You are right, we had a sudden influx of money from Hong Kong!?? 😉 Inflated market values! 😒 That was North Sydney skyscrapers, keep your lights on, international trade! 😥 That was informative! 😁 Water sports, hey just try them all! 😄🙋

I believe “Uluru” is it’s indigenous name, many Aussies (particularly white ones I’m guessing) called it “Ayers Rock” for many years- until more recent times when it’s been more consistently called Uluru.🤷‍♀️

Aires rock is what it was called officially before it was officially changed to Uluru which is a local indigenous name for it

I always laugh when people say we’re isolated! We’re not isolated because we can, and do travel everywhere in the world and can be there in a day. We do have access to passenger jets! LOL! Aussies travel overseas much more than Americans do, even though we get more than 800,000 thousand visitors from the US annually.

Uluṟu was called Ayer’s Rock by Colonists. It is now known as Uluṟu, the traditioal name for thousands of years, you are correct. Also, the tent city you stopped to focus on, is not in Australia. We have our share of homelessness but not like that. And, Ryan, please, it’s emyou, not emooo. Cheers!

Are we rich? Nobody told me 😊

ayer's rock was the name given to uluru by english settlers. it was recently and correctly renamed to its native name "uluru."

2 bed unit is about 400k to 600k in west suberbs Melbourne

Hi Ryan. there must be a reason for having the most liveable cities in the world IT IS CALLED...high standards. especially IN FOOD. WE do not tolerate artificial shit in our food..l a chicken drum stick in Aust. is half the size of an American equivelant because hormones and penicilin is taboo so is bleach to clean chicken. Honey must be 100pc honey if it is labled honey.. In Australia is DOLLAR IS NOT GOD.. The people is everything You have a good one mate.

We are rich because we deserve it

Are we rich? We are in the ways that count. Being born in Australia is winning the lottery of life.

Actually the fact that we have so much mineral wealth, breaks my heart. For instance, our unbelievably stupid govt, has allowed Adani to build a huge shipping jetty, for loading COAL on to ships, right over the top of a huge slice of the Great Barrier Reef. Coal should be left in the ground, it’s so polluting, but of course it’s worth way too much for them to do that. They have even started fracking all over the place, and have sold huge tracts of our best fertile land, to foreign interests. Although we are extremely big, not a hell of a lot of our country is suitable for farming

Ayers Rock? He's Definitely a Pom, Definitely British. It's ULURU Mate! Thumbs up for using the correct word Ryan! We Definitely have a Housing Problem, though. It's So hard to buy a house ANYWHERE In Australia. Rent is Really high too.

Don’t worry about living in Sydney. Perth is a waaay better place to live….

Distance has never stopped tourism. The further the better for a lot of people.

Americans and Canadians are the only ones that pronounce it differently. We use the British pronunciation. After all it was a Brit that discovered it and eventually settled on the word. Alu MIN ium.

Uluru is the Aboriginal name for it. Ayers rock is what the rest of us call it.

Why’d no one tell me we were rich 😂💜

Many Australians are homeless, unable to afford rental costs or compete for available rentals ($800 per week). They are living in tents in caravan parks, in short term holiday accommodation like cabins, couch surfing or in their cars. A lot of these people have jobs and had good rental histories, they are not homeless by choice or due to addiction or mental illness. Australia is a harsh place to live for many people now. Few people can afford to eat beef steaks regularly. That has become a luxury. Cost of fresh fruit and vegetables has risen so much that many Australians are now nutritionally deficient. And you can forget about eating crayfish (lobster) one of our most lucrative food exports. A whole generation of Australians has grown up not being able to afford to eat crayfish

I am, you are Australian. I love my country no matter what

And we get the 💩 taxed out of us

When you export cattle for beef, it's typically more economical to transport the animal live so that you don't have to worry about spoilage or refrigeration. This is also preferred by many markets who prefer to slaughter their own animals, i.e. to keep the meat halal.

G'day mate, Australia and the USA had an open-door policy for young people under thirty. Any young American could come over to Australia and start living here and it was reciprocal for Australians going to the USA. I do not know why they stopped it.

beef and sheep are shiped live on the biggest ships in the world .check it out

'Uluru' is pronounced 'Ayer's Rock' or whatever is your preferred pronunciation.

The city is brisbane at the beginning . North side where all the tunnels come back up from under the city