My mum had a similar idea in the late 1960s, how far away could she get from her family. It was between Australia and New Zealand. She only went home once in the mid 90s and realised that the move was the best thing she ever did.

Are you aware how relaxed you are now?? You’ve loosened up and have become a laid back Aussie. It makes me so happy

My parents brought us out in 1990 from the UK. Ended up living in the same suburb as "Ramsey Street" by pure coincidence. It's actually a really nice area

My family moved to Australia 🇦🇺 from England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 in 1977 and yes it takes a bit of time to get used to it and I was home sick so in 1988 I went back to England on a long holiday and that cured my homesickness for good. In 1992 my grandfather who raised me was dying of cancer he had always been homesick as well plus he had always wanted to see Egypt 🇪🇬 I was lucky enough to have the funds so I took him to Egypt and England wonderful memories and it settled him and couldn't wait to come back to Australia were he passed away 3 years later knowing he had made the right decision to move to Sydney Australia. I love England but Australia is by far the best country in the world to live no matter where you come from. Excellent video mate and welcome. 💯✅

136 days 10 hours 58 minutes and 34 seconds until our one way flight out

Man, you’re very good at this.

OMG your no nonsense straight talking way of saying things really does make me chuckle 😂🤣 brilliant Ross, love this video 👌

What a pleasure it is to have you guys in Oz 🎉 🥇

Watching it as Ukrainian from Perth now 😅

WELL DONE ROSS your just like one of us now!!!! 🇦🇺 SA

Mate, made my day yet again. Love your outlook on life.

My parents were in exactly the same situation except Australia/Canada. Came the winter of 1963 (when we thought the world would freeze) and Australia won. My father didn't leave these shores for 35 years. I thank them every day.

Bring a plate of food unless the hosts are Italian-Australian...then you should bring takeaway containers for all the leftovers they'll make you take home with you. I brought 3 containers to my last family dinner and still didn't have enough 😅

The weather one caught us out on our first day in Melbourne! But in our defense we aren't taught about Australia at school (as you would know) so you only get the stereotypes! Oh, and when we come to QL next year we will have to do a collab! (This is Rob Reacts, but this is the Vlog channel)

When I was younger, "goon bag" wasn't a term. They were called "Chateau Cardboard" For me, it is still is.

Love you outlook and delivery - the dry sense of humour could fayre well on the comedy scene!

Hilarious videos mate. Well played. Aussie living in Briz Vegas enjoying your banter. Keep it up.

Just subscribed, thank you for this video. Although I’m from OZ, I have been away for 25 years ( not in the prison or jail sense ). I’ve been a teacher in American International Schools overseas. Going back in March 2023. In some aspects, I will certainly feel like a new arrival in the country.

Hi Ross, you are a really good presenter, I think you could make a career out of it. Lots of luck for your future!

thanks for another great video working to move there soon

Great presentation Thanks

I always get a laugh thanks Ross…Cheers…

Very entertaining. Good humour, and it was interesting to hear what some of the hurdles for an expat moving here are. Loved the Mad Max reference, I have never bought a brand new car in my life 😂

Great advice. Keep it up Ross

Ross, you are really very good at this YT stuff. Brissy is a great place to live, I lived there for more than 20 years, but retired back here in my native country NSW. Still go there to see my kids and grandies though and relish each opportunity to do so.

Good comments Ross… I live not far from “Ramsey Street” (actually known as Pin Oak Court, Vermont South). It’s not a bad area to live and raise a family, as I have done over the past 20 years. The only problem was the constant mini bus tours of UK tourist driving past the house…😄

your videos are excellent ...from South Africa we busy immigrating to AU

My family and I are moving to Northern Queensland in a few months and your videos are helping so much! Appreciate the content. Can't wait to experience it all!

Fosters was a very popular beer til they started exporting and carrying on that it was “australia”, we all dumped it then lol

Congrats on your new baby

With the cost of petrol going the way it is, the smart people are investing in kangaroo transport.

Fosters was a thing in the 80s, even advertised on TV, but it all but disappeared by the 90s. I was astounded, when I visited my wife's rellos in Yorkshire, to find that they were drinking the stuff. I, myself, was sampling all the lovely local beers and ales.

I like this. Your good at this brother

I was born in the UK and got sick of home, so I came to Australia 40+ years ago and now live in beautiful Perth. Learn more about Western Australia at the West Coast Times.

I grew up in Australia, my parents and I moved to Melbourne in 1985 and then we later moved to Sydney - I cannot imagine what it would have been like to move from Hungary to Australia in the 80's, no internet, KZfaq videos, Google maps, nothing.....just go and hope for the best....

You and your family are the type of folks that make Australia such a great place to be.

I spent 6 years in Australia, am friendly and sociable. Never been invited to an Ozzie household. Not once.

🤣🤣 sugar Cain champagne for Bundy i like that saying 👍well done. Love the dig at Ramsay St.

Well said Rosso.

I'm watching your videos one after another.

We’re putting in our 491 visa for Western Australia at the end of the month! Your videos are getting me through the process.. you’re fucking funny!

Thanks Mate

Omg ross i love the way you describe things😂. This assumption that all aussies are descended from convicts is wrong. There were a small amount of convicts sent out initially then after that most were free settlers and now we have a good percentage of immigrants with no anglo saxon descendants at all. Anyway, hope the new bubs is doing well.

Sugarcane champagne, actually never heard that one before. Cheers Great video, just one bone to pick. I don't consider Aus very far away at all.

Thanks for your insight! One of my biggest concerns about moving to Melbourne is that I'm extremely prone to skin cancer. I'm not sure that shirts and sunscreen would be enough.

So accurate with yes that’s why I am moving there, in response to the their first response😭🤣🙏

I agree with you Ross I could never go back and live in the uk especially not now 😊

Had a giggle at the AFL joke!

Foster's? *Noooo,* get it away from me! [makes warding-off-vampire cross with fingers] I'd rather drink a glass of industrial runoff. Cheers mate, great video 🙂👍

Ross you missed your calling, how this channel hasn't blown up has me buggered. Side note, how's Sam going with the new Baby? Hope Sierra is settling into the Family and Aurora adjusted quickly to being a big Sister. 👍

YES! When we went to a gym comp in nz, the other competitors asked: ‘do you ride kangaroos’ uh, sure. Not like they can kill you.

Can you tell us which suburb of Brisbane you chose to live in? My parents moved to the UK in the 50's, and as soon as possible I returned, and have never regretted it, and that was nearly 40 years ago.

I visit the UK and Europe often and the thing that always grabs me is the prevalent evidence of cigarettes

Mate I just moved back to the UK after 3.5 years in Australia. I've been back a week and starting to miss it already. The job market is so competitive here and wages 1/3 lower.

Good on you mate, bet you miss Arsenal if you were a season ticket holder going by the pictures in the background do you now follow Brisbane Roar? Can't wait to head back to Qld I'm one of those unintentional boomerang migrants, long story!

Nice words about our land OZ ; And you are right about " Fosters " Wink-wink ;-)

Strewth crikey and fair dinkum , you are spot on the much maligned wine cask (goon)can be a fantastic experience for my turn to host our local wine tasting group (another avenue to get pissed )I served up cask wine in bottles from a previous blind tasting and the different cask wines all scored higher than the original labels , you can of course get some shit wines but if you look you can find some beaut tasting stuff . I was going to comment on your other topics but talking about grog has made me fancy some plonk so I'm off .

Mate I've bought all my cars second hand, never spent more than 4 grand on one. Yeah had a lemon or two but all in all most of em have been good cars.

So here are some examples of the price of cars in Australia / UK compared, Brand new, Volkswagen Golf Life hatch, Australia $36,990 Drive away* UK £25,610.00 Tesla model 3 (brand new) Australia $63,900 Drive away* uk £44,490 now I'll let you do the honours of the exchange rate and differences in average wages.

Strong Arsenal Fan. Gunners for life.

I've lived in Nz as a kiwi and here in Aussie and it only mkaes a difference on how fussy you are. Ok.. The weather! Beer and the cost of food and fuel.. Housing costs are blowing out in NZ too.. as we say waddyawant!

G’Day, good work again loved it except for the Fosters facts. Todays Fosters is not the same as it was in the 70’s & 80’s, then it was much better but even then it was made for export. Today's Fosters is not even owned by Australia. The main ones now are Victoria Bitter, Melbourne Bitter & XXXX. In the 80’s It was mainly all Carlton & United brews. In the 60’s it was only C.U.B beers followed in the 70’s Courage beer which tasted like vomit and I know what that tasted like. Cheers & Stay Safe. 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦

G'day ol son...welcome to Beautiful Queensland (Beautiful one Day, Perfect the Next) im just outside Brisbane....at ipswich....Welcome my friend Welcome!!

How long did it take before you could buy a car?

My Australian friend keeps telling me to move over there.

Not all days are hot, some days are f*****g hot! :)

Before Covid, Used cars were a lot cheaper, but then the new cars stopped being imported (due to lockdowns, etc), so the price of used cars went up. They will go back down eventually.

I can't believe we almost moved to Australia. I'm terrified of spiders and snakes and I absolutely despise roaches and other creepy crawlies. That's one reason we stayed here instead.

I heard newport flats is a rough area, am I right?

The origins of AFL actually go back to early settlement where it was heavily influenced by a game the Indigenous people of western Victoria played the ball made from possum skin, filled with charcoal and tied with kangaroo-tail sinew. The sport or game was called marngrook. It had no goal posts the major elements of the game was kicking the ball high into the air, then leaping to catch it. Tom Wills was raised as the only white kid in his area, and is said to have played the game with the Aboriginal children was believed to have created the game fairly much as we know it today.

My mates and go on big road trips around Australia all the time and wherever we would go we would start trying to get everyone to call bundy sugar cane champagne, I’m shook that it’s made it this far 😂

If your a tourist looking for a car, land in the city of Adelaide first. South Australia has no annual roadworthy tests. I know that sounds dodgy but if you have a bit of mechanical knowledge,you can save thousands on an old but reliable car which can easily take you around the entire continent without raising a sweat.

Australia’s nation sport is cricket.

Long & hard 🤦‍♂️😅 Ramsey St is available 😅😅

Sorry about the expensive cars.

Funny how our experiences are so wildly different. I find in general poms are happier here as it’s not too dissimilar but sunnier and better pay. I never worked as much nor have I ever had years without a vacation, so it’s the lucky country for some and not for some others. Do the upsides weight over the downsides, well that is still very much an open question…

Hey Ross I saw that you just made this video so I hope you have the chance to read this, If you're Single, from the U.S, don't make a lot of money like below 15k USD a year, is it recommended that you even consider to move anywhere in Australia? Is making connections and working your way up on a 462 visa still a good way to get PR? (12mo work holiday visa). Australia is quite the vision for me, and even if it requires me to start a completely different job or career that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. But I just haven't heard enough good successful stories from single people who migrated I just think the skilled migrations is way too complex to consider, I'm only 20 and I think it would even financially burden me if I studied for a trade. I could make a lot more money staying in the U.S due to my benefits from the military but I personally don't see myself happy even with all the money in the world to continue to live here. Not sure what to do :/

This is a fine video about someone enjoying their new life and valuing the difference. But something all “migrants” should be aware of is that you never go “back”. You can return to where you came from but it has changed and moved on, and so have you and so have your friends etc. You can enjoy the place ok, but recognise that it is different and value the experience. And I mean migrants to any place from any place. We are always moving forward.

I'm terrified of snakes. Have you seen any snakes?

We are not descended from Criminal elements living on Hulls used as Gaols because Gaols were full to capacity. Eventually sending the Hulls away but after 9months at sea, following Cptn Cook’s map, landed onto the Australian shore. BYO is so. You drink what you like and that amount you bring is supposed to be your quantity, so over drinking and having an accident or Booze Bus charge, so that the HOST will not be charged for supplying excessive alcohol to you (Irresponsible Service of Alcohol) isn’t going to be an issue.

I need help to get over there 😩

Goon sounds pretty good

Hey Ross. Quick question for you; how long did you rent for before buying? Did you find getting a mortgage easy enough? You’re younger than us though! Worried at 40 and 45 we won’t get approved. A video on buying (and renting) and the process would be much appreciated!

I think the AFL one is accurate 😅

I want to move from the uk to Australia quick as possible, and the alcohol i don’t drink much and I’d bring my own car over so that won’t be a problem

DEFINITELY as far as alcohol goes, it's BYO (bring your own) alcohol but at my place and people I know, we eat what is offered and don't bring a plate. Maybe the plate thing is a Qld thing...? lol Hahahaha Bondi is SO over-rated! lol Hahahah "long and hard" lol EWWWWWW NOBODY likes Fosters lol Well, when my father-in-law was alive, he did drink Fosters but we all bagged him out for it lol As always, awesome video!! 😍😍

G’Day again, just wondering, you do know Ramsay Street (Neighbours ) is in Melbourne, don’t you?

AFL isn't Aussies favourite sport, that's just for Victorians. Its Footie mate. I supported Parramatta Eels when I lived there.

I don't live in a major city but I don't even have locks on my house. Not worth the waste of money.

It's got nothing to do with your subject, it just that you are a very handsome man!

I never have anyone come to my house and bring food or alcohol. I would be offended. I live in Melbourne

Unfortunately you are not eligible for an employer sponsored or general skilled migration visa pathway :(

Ross are you really a teacher or are you working for Tourism Australia????

Mate if you can't find a good beer in Australia, your not a Pom Or Ozzie ?

thats right about AFL but it's not our national sport

He stated one of the secrets homesickness??? That happens when moving litterally everywhere

My parents came out in 1951, dad swore he would never go back and never did

My parents brought us here in 1958 and in my mother's final years she often mused "I wonder what you kids would be doing now if we hadn't come to Australia". My reply was always the same. Once I left school I'd get a job and buy a one-way ticket to Australia. I've taken to listening to LBC in the UK and I heard one of the presenters start an interview with a baroness and he called her by her first name and then immediately back-tracked and didn't quite apologise but he asked "am I allowed to call you that?". The baroness almost sounded embarrassed that someone was so obsequious. That, in a nutshell, tells me all I want to know about the psyche of the average Brit when someone on a liberal broadcaster could still be doffing the cap and tugging the forelock. This sort of servile nature is the reason why they have a welfare state that doesn't have enough money to support a welfare state. At least their peasant nature is not as bad as the Russians but they both still believe in the superiority of their "betters". That will always be Australia's saving grace - we don't.

Wait till you discover the best drinking game of all time: goon of fortune

What about the bugs