There are no footpaths in the burbs... Why? I have to walk in the road

Bread has hard plastic sealer things like the UK 10 years ago. Makes me feel all nostalgic

They don't knock here they just walk in I have been caught in a towel twice. Lucky for them I had a towel

Ants are everywhere. Big ones small ones look down the ground is alive.

Spiders I have yet to see a big one or a dangerous one its a lie to keep Brits out

Frozen food hardly exists. I am having to cook Its an experience.

They don't look like the do on home and away... I have encountered many a mullet and moustache. Even mullets with checked shirts its very scary....

You cant buy booze in the supermarket

you take your own booze to restaurants

They are bloody friendly these Aussies and boy can they talk Our neighbour keeps bringing us food parcels from her garden. Tomato's and the like

Crisps are called chips sweets are called lollies and you get 5 crisps to a bag of a chips. Handy for a pig like me.

Palm trees are a pita and keep shedding branches. These branches are huge and will not fit in my bin. I have a pile in one corner of my garden that i will never touch cos anything could be lurking..

Daycare is dirt cheap but hard to get I have been advised to put my name down whilst pg.... I'm not having anymore been pregnant here would be hellish well more hellish than i find it usually.

Hospitals are spotless Really clean.

The money looks like monopoly money and you can wash it and everything cos its plastic Its also impossible to copy

They round everything up or down to the nearest 5 cents so people who don't know better like me stand like fools waiting for change

I can buy fish and chips for 6 of us for under 15 quid Not sure what the fuss is though

The local 7 eleven shuts at 6???? go figure... I discovered this by assuming it shut at 11 and visiting at 8pm. No fags all night

My kids know the Australian anthem already because they have to sing it every morning at school along with the school anthem

They have started to call football soccor The football is crap here even crappy 1st division UK football is better.

The grass is spongy and hard and spiky all at the same time.

Parrots and cockatoos and such though very pretty to look at make you murderous at 6am when they are squawking outside......

Fruit bats are huge. Serious. I half expected it to be Kiether sutherland ala Lost boys...