London to Rome for £9??? You can't even get to Slough for £9

You and your family are the poster children for ideal immigrants. You did your research and made a thoughtful educated decision to move and what's more have made an effort to get involved and get on . More power to you. Glad to have you in Australia 💕

2:50 It also showed a NZ flag as the Aussie flag.

Love your reaction Ross. So glad you and the family came here and embraced your new life and are enjoying it. You really have become a true Aussie. Straya 🇦🇺

I admire you for sitting through some of this crap and as for Aussies traveling, I've been to quite a few places worldwide and nearly everywhere I've been there have been other Aussies

He knows so little of Australia that he showed a New Zealand flag at 2.50. I also don’t believe he has “lived most of his life” in Australia as claimed. No one who has lived in Australia for an extended time sounds like him.

Hi Mr Johnston, I enjoy your videos as they pretty much accurately reflect life here in Australia. I'm an Aussie (who's unfashionably proud of his British ancestry), but I feel lucky to be here - and I'm happy for your honest take on our country. Glad you're here, and cheers!

Public transport is pretty good in the major cities and the city to regional services are just fine. Not the best in the world but far from the worst. Why are we so car centric? It's a bloody big county and most of the people I know love to get out of town and go camping. Plus we don't have a problem traveling across the city to go visit a mate or relatives. I get that living in Europe has way more infrastructure and people tend not to move about such great distances all that often. But once you live in Oz you can't wait to get out and see this awesome continent - and that will be by car practically all of the time.

Hey Ross, Good reaction to a crap misinform video… they got a lot of things wrong, including showing the wrong flag, and non Australian footage. Glad you appreciate our beautiful country, and spreading the word. 👍🇦🇺 The narrator claimed to be Aussie… but he’s not. The accent and pronunciation was totally wrong.

To the git's credit, at least he didnt cite our snakes and spiders as a reason to not live here.....that one always does my head in!

As an Australian i feel sorry for people in Europe and the Americas as they are so far away and isolated from the land of OZ : )

The “indigenous” section showed pictures of Africans, American First Nations people and Pacific Islanders

I dont even live in Australia and that guys video was obviously nonsense lol. Great video mate. Really hope I can get out there one day. My wife has said she'd do it fir a year but that's it. She wants our kids to grow up near their grandparents. Not sure if I'll change her mind but will never give up.

thank you for information, very useful

Great video well done!! Gave me a great laugh!

thanks mate!

As others have mentioned: It is “a bloody big country”! I’ve travelled extensively through Europe & I really enjoyed it but I was so happy to get home & have some SPACE. To navigate all that space we need a car…it’s not rocket science 🙄😂

Lol love your take! Cheers from Tassie

33 years. Not one single millisecond have I regretted the move. I love my life here. In the very early years I did have occasional bouts of missing my family around birthdays and Christmas, but I never missed the actual country of England. I chose to move here and I take it warts n all. I have never viewed it with rose tinted glasses, nor have I looked back across the water with a dream like idea of where I came from. ( those type of whingey poms give me the shts!) I'm passionate about my beautiful country, consider myself Australian, find England to be foreign and am not at home when I go there. I could not agree more with your assessment of this numbat ( who is 100% NOT Australian !!) and his stupid video! But yes it is correct kangaroos and emus cannot walk backwards. .

Love your commentary, so funny 😂😂😂

Thank you so much, welcome to Australia mate!! 🇦🇺👍

I really enjoy your videos Ross. I was born here (in Melbourne), but my parents are from the UK (they're Geordies) so I have dual citizenship. Although I'm currently in Perth, Melbourne will always be home for me. A few years ago I had decided to get out of Melbourne and was toying with moving back to the UK (where my parents are from) or Perth. I googled wages in the UK and was dumbfounded. Wages in my field would be 1/3 of what they are here. I work with a lot of poms who have migrated here, and it's a constant talking point. They would never be able to earn in the UK what they do here. A lot of British people don't realise that we have really high wages here, so paying a few hundred bucks to get to Bali or Japan is no big deal. And why is he saying we don't invest in public transport here? Sydney is currently spending 20 billion on a new Metro, Melbourne is building Metro 1, Perth is building 3 new train lines and extending two, and Brisbane is building Cross River Rail. Geez Ross, where did you find this video, it's completely stupid. BTW, "Strine" is a word. Say "Strine" out loud and it sounds like you're saying "Australian" in a really thick accent. "Strine" is a derogatory term for the language bogans speaks.

Love your work mate

Classic had a good laugh Welcome to Australia and enjoy :)

Great video and glad things going well for you. Me and my wife moved to Australia in 2017, although my wife struggled to break into her healthcare profession and had to work in aged care; in a job that really bored her. Furthermore, we got locked down for over 18 months in Melbourne pretty much and it caused us real trauma when borders were closed for us to leave country. Great country and great people.......

Cry me a river, this guy had no air conditioning in his bedroom. Come to think of it, I didn't have air conditioning for the first 60 years of my life; can't imagine how I pulled through. It probably explains why I'm so bitter and twisted, well adjusted and content. This disaffected goose shows us the New Zealand flag at 2:50, seriously!! For a man who says he's "fluent in how this country functions" (but less fluent in how to speak the language) he shows that he hasn't got his head around Australian politics when he speaks of the "opposition coalition government". Make up your mind petal, they're either the opposition or the government; they can't be both. I could go on, but what's the point. Finally, where did he get that footage of indigenous people who aren't Australian first nations people; just goes to show he's right across his subject and speaks volumes to his credibility.

this guy is not Australian . but you are mate

Great vid bro, your a Brissy boy ay, I'm from Morayfield! 😁

*laughs in New Zealand* , that is, whenever they compare Aus to NZ. There’s a reason despite our difference in populations, there are 10x more kiwis in Aus than there are Aussies in NZ.. 😆

WoW if that's what Australia is like i'm glad i didn't move there i'll just stayed rugged up here in Tasmania the land down under the land down under.

Right I’m old enough to remember dial up and next to that it’s great ha

"Australians don't travel much overseas"? Is he kidding? His accent sounded English and since he stated his country as India, I'm guessing he was educated over there.

11:16 "Torr-EST Strait Islander" - Never heard any Aussie pronounce it with a "T" at the end.

When its near 4000 Km Top to bottom and the same across its pretty normal to get other weather i Reckon.

Haha, loved your reactions. What a weird video you reviewed! Is the narrator even real or is it an AI voice? Either way, good to see you putting up more great content 👍

I'm glad you like living in Australia so much. I agree that guy is pretty stupid. I could say all those bad stuff about California. Natural disasters, bad weather, high costs etc. I am glad I came to USA but I do regret moving here. I miss Australia so much and hope to have the chance to move back. I still call Australia home

Originally from Arizona, USA so the heat is something that can be similar, currently living in a rural town in Idaho. We have 1-6mb/s internet and no public transport. I am torn between Australia and New Zealand and am leaning to Australia as of now but I haven’t seen a single thing so far that is worse than what I’ve already thrived in. Everything seems about adiquite and on par or better than what I already have

Thank you Ross...this should be shown in schools...

Thank you Ross for making this video and pointing out how absurd some of these videos about Australia are. I live in Europe and I constantly have people ask me ''dumb'' questions about Australia just because they watched some video claiming how horrible the weather is or how ''dull'' the lifestyle is. I get so frustrated sometimes , especially when asked about bugs and ''deadly'' snakes that end up in people's toilets. Augh!!! 😤

Ross, thank you for casting your lot with Australia and defending it from the no-nothing knobs. Born Aussies love their country too, but those who've *chosen* to live here get extra brownie points.

It does get darn hot here. So I just hibernate inside under the a/c on those crazy hot days 😁

This vid cracked me up 😂

I’m so surprised he didn’t mentioned the spiders, snakes and sharks. I’m from Melbourne and so many of us traveled to Europe after high school, aged 19 years old. So many Australians travel to England/Europe after school having not seen Australia at all.

"Strine" is a thing, its the really thick Aussie accent that's laden with slang - usually considered to be spoken by the uneducated

Glad u an aussie now. Welcome brother

Australia's not perfect by any means but he really seemed to be struggling to get to 10. Can't think of any of the nominated problems which are unique to Australia. And then most of the time he was backpedalling when he nominated a problem. I wonder if he can nominate better countries based on those 10 criteria.

Showing New Zealand flag.

1:05min: Mate, tf!? The weather in the netherlands can be really quite upsetting! And Ross: Yes, it is hurting my feelings - for at least 4 whole months of the year...

my train ticket from Milton Keynes to London Euston and then Victoria (daily travel card) is currently approximately 55 pounds (it was I think about 48 pounds when I used to do the journey - its gone up). Thats over 100$ day to travel intoi London by rail. The car parking in Milton keynes for the day back then 8 pounds a day - around 15 dollars. Also communting into London by car is not really viable. The traffic is horrendous, to park daily plus congestion charge plus petrol would probably get close to the cost of the train ticket, but with a much longer and stressful journey every day. In Perth WA I drive into the city. Takes 30 mins. However sometimes I catch the train which is about 5$ each way. The distance is less than MK to London of course. But I always get a seat and its a nice relaxing way to travel.

I might go to Australia considering my father is an Australian and like half my family is there in NSW and QLD. NSW police seems fun

Hi Ross, I'm considering moving over to Australia myself, and to Brisbane also. I'm a plumber/gas engineer currently living near Liverpool, I know there's a mass shortage of trades people there, which is what I'll be looking to come over on with my visa. Just wanted some advice on what process you guys went upon arrival in the Aus, where you stayed, how you found work, how you decided where to live etc. Thanks, Luke

Showing Brisbane which is the third largest city not the second.

Me and my partner are moving to Aus from the UK soon on a permanent skilled worker visa. Could you do a video around pregnancy, childcare and schooling? Would we pay the full amount or would so be covered by Medicare? We would like to know our options for the future. Many thanks 😊

What’s up Broski 🦋

Maaaate loved your reaction to this & reading the comments. Hell yeah, he's a bona-fide douche bag & sure as shit is no Aussie. As others have said being an Australian is really a state of mind. Spent many years living & travelling O/S & loved it. At 1st the ancient castles, buildings & cobble stone streets were really exciting. But after a few years I yearned & longed for modern architecture, blue outback skies & endless horizons. Somewhere along the way a DEEP, PASSIONATE, burning love for this wonderful land grew to point that you couldn't scrape me off Australia again to live with butter knife. Despite your accent mate you are 9/10's of the way there. Your positive attitude & obvious love of this wonderful country by default makes you one of us. A wonderful ambassador for your adopted country 😁

Showing a Kiwi flag in a whinge about Australia is a dead giveaway . All of this guy's talking points can be applied to any other country , e.g. racism , cost of living etc ....really ? Yep bogus .

Bravo 👏

For too many years from the dawn of tv here, and radio, It was always British-centric, as being a colony, it was good form for radio announcers to sound british.... the same for early tv. Then we ended up with mostly tv shows from the Uk and USA from the 60's ( right until today as well ) and we got yanks on our screens to ad nauseum. in 1992 the govt mandated a percentage of broadcast time had to be aussie content, which gets reviewed regularly. Hence now we see a lot of our selves on our tv's.

I suffered with no aircon as it needed replacing for 7 weeks over this summer here in Western Sydney. Try being inside my place in the Arvo with all doors and windows open and still it's in the high 20s. Some days it high 30s and that was inside my place. Complaining about the weather and heat. 🙄

he is not Australian sounds nothing like us

There is a word is Aussie Slang which I have forgotten. It refers to being gently dragged on a net on the back of a boat. Not a fishing net, though, just a large net for people to hold on to after a day of scuba-diving.

Great video mate....your accent is definitely becoming more aussie...Well yeah, the weather is crap these last 2 weeks thanks to La Nina (NSW & QLD) it's a once in a 100 year event....Internet is fine. Isolated...that is a definite PLUS, especially with what is happening in Europe...There is no way this guy was born & bred in Oz 🙄 Yes, Kangaroos & Emus cannot walk backwards. NO country is perfect & Oz certainly isn't, but I would rather be here than anywhere else...

Bless man welcome. I watched some and was like ok these people have never been here. Haha 😂 welcome enjoy ur family is gorgeous. Bonza wtf he’s never been here

At 2.50 he was flying the New Zealand flag, I don’t think this bloke knows where Australia even is

I'm currently living in Sydney & rely on Public T'port. It's actually a very reliable, convenient, run very regularly and will take u pretty much anywhere here for a reasonable price. This is a Legacy of the 2000 Sydney Olympics when they simplified & improved the entire Network for the massive influx of Olympic Tourists. Always room for improvement, but I think its far superior to 99% of Public T'port Systems in the World (I have tried several).

Watching this in February 2023 - the UK had three PMs in two months. Did anyone notice the image at 11:14? Not an indigenous Australian. And like Ross, I would also like to know where this guy is actually from.

Ross mate you’re one step away from shoving a jumbuck in your Tucker bag. Aussie’s not about an accent, it’s about attitude!

Best internet I found in Australia was in a place where they rented gaming pc's by the hour.

The term Lobster for a $20 note is something I’ve never heard in Perth or Melbourne. Maybe it’s a Brisbane thing. 🤔

Manageable? Mate one winter it got to 14° in Brisbane 2019. It got freezing.

At 2.49 that is not even the Australian Flag .He also forgot to mention getting giddy hanging upside down when living here down under .

2:50 isnt that the flag of a suburb of Wollongong?

My biggest frustration with Australia was the house prices.......to buy in a good suburb in Melbourne with any life and facilities cost £ 600,000 +. Thats a huge mortgage to pay.

What about crocs and magpies?

Yeah I'm offended living here. I'm going to move OS and go to Tassie 😂

Straya’s 2nd largest city is Melbourne, regularly voted the most liveable city in the world.

Hi Ross some advice please my partner is the main visa applicant she qualifies as a early educator teacher in Queensland what’s the best suburbs or what area are you in? Please

I Travelled Paris to Rome to Vienna for about 30Euros back in 2012.

Is it true that Kangaroos and Emus can't move backwards?! 😯

Why the NZ flag at 2:50 while talking about Australia?

What’s with the NZ flag? 😂😂 You called it, this guy is not Australian and has no idea. My parents were Scottish, they loved it out here from the second they arrived. Our weather can be volatile but more often than not it provides us with the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors, sun, swimming, barbecues etc. a lifestyle I otherwise wouldn’t be able to take for granted had my parents not immigrated. 😎

Yes the $50 is a pineapple and the $20 is a lobster but the $10 is a Pavarotti (because it's a tenor/tenner).

Actually, ‘strine’ is correct. It’s just older Australian. ‘Strayan’ is more recent.

As an Aussie its pretty obvious this guy was not raised in Aust, simply by his accent.

Yes we have crap internet, but put it in the context of the size of the country and population, goes someway to explaining it. Yes there are plenty of countries that have great internet but have a much larger population and are much smaller geographically.

Sorry darling, but you got Latino in your DNA? Thank you so much for all the love your family is showing for this beautiful country. I was born in Chile 🇨🇱 but come here in 1975, I personally love living in Victoria-Melbourne. But I have been to other states but I couldn’t see myself living anywhere else.

4:35 "it's isolated, both geographically and metaphorically." So is Texas. Takes at least two days to go from end to end.

I think people that complains about life in Australia is because they haven't live in England with an average salary hahahahaha. I love England but I don't miss it at all . I am not English I am caribbean. You can see it in my bad writing . Love your videos !!!

I just moved from Norwich England. The Internet here is way better than I ever had in Norfolk I thi k it was the worst in the world . The weather here is suppose to be really weat and cold this days but I am still wearing shorts and going shopping by walking in my flip flops I could never ever do that back in england not even in summer .

Your accent isn't changing, though love how you are trying... Love these videos... Keep them coming x We where both watching and commented just before you... " if you don't have air conditioning... Well who's fault is that" 🤔🤔🤔 Internet... Well nevermind, that Australia hasn't got the best Internet, but let's put this into some perspective... How big is Australia? Isolation... In our opinion we are quite looking forward to some of this aspects... We both work with the general public and yes we will may have to continue with some of this, but coming back to a possible larger property that isn't hemmed in will be amazing, fingers crossed! Travel... £9.00 WTF??? I bloody wish!!! Public transport... Yes in Hull is quite good... Around Hull!! But across the bridge in Scunthorpe well this shocking... And the cost has just gone up AGAIN! Cost of living is going everywhere...& Yes its bloody SCARY. Racism... This is a hard one... Yes it's everywhere and it's horrible that it is.. But like you said, learning about the past events, poor choices, we hope that we can move forward and not let things ever happen again. I have been listening to some podcasts and want to learn and understand more, but again if you want to move into another place, country, culture, wouldn't you want to know about the place you are going to live.????

Gonna assume everyone noticed the New Zealand flag at 2:53 LOL.

Ssshh! Don’t tell everyone how good the place is, they’ll all want to be here! 😂🇦🇺

Great video, Iv been offered a job to move to Australia melbourne and should be taking home around 4100 aud. Do you think 4100aud will cover all costs for rent etc etc with a wife and 1 child? I've tried looking everywhere regarding all prices and can't really get a definitive answer... I don't mean the dead on price ill be paying just a rough guide and would that 4100aud do it in melbourn? Cheers!

New Zealand flag!!! Red stars. Oz has white stars and a few more.

You may be an enthusiastic Aussie now but you're still using that English tendency to judge people by their accents. I'm Australian but, due to my English father, have always been told I sound 'posh'. Despite this, my parents struggled to make ends meet financially, as I do today. BTW - my friend flew from Milan to London for £17 just five years ago.

Tbf my flights to Milan from Stansted we're £11 😉

Did you use a visa agent?

Theres, no way that guy is Australian with a accent like that,

Australians over twenty don't say "step foot in". Our equivalent is "set foot in".

only way to find out about a country is to go there. i was in Australia for 2 months loved it the only thing i didn't like was the culture was almost exactly the same as the UK so i wasn't seeing anything that different