About Usainoz

Currently Lives:

Currumbin Valley, QLD, Australia

Citizen of:

United States

Some Forum Posts:

Australia: Advice on coming to Oz:

I an American living in Australia. I married my Aussie in 1985 and have lived here since 1987. doesn't 17 years fly by. It will help you that you've lived other places. Australia was alot different when I moved here. Before Cheap calling cards (you can get them for as little as 4. cents a minute to the US from the post office), before emailing, & almost before breakfast at McDonalds. Still, Australia can have a small town sort of feel. The shopping malls still close at 5:30pm except for late night shopping on Thursday night. As for the people. Australia seems to be a generation behind America in the battle of the sexes. I'm 41 and it was an adjustment coming here with the attitudes about gender roles. When I travelled back to the US to see family on my own, I was asked by people here if my husband was going to LET me go. I didn't know how to answer them. However I think the younger generation is alot better. My age group tend to socialize with gender separation. If you go to a BBQ it will take about 15 minutes for male and females to separate. Some Australian men give the impression, unless your dating material, you couldn't have anything interesting to say. Hopefully this won't apply to you. As the larger cities are better, and I live in Queensland which is known to be a large small town. Getting used to different brands, different ways of doing things is frustrating, you think of something you want to do or get and it doesn't exist. The illusion is that the countries are similar. Things aren't much different, but everything is alittle different. The biggest issue is how close are you to your family. It's a long expensive plane trip. Which becomes more expensive when you have kids. My family became more important to me after I had kids. So we've spent alot of money travelling back and forth. Canberra is a pretty city, pretty cold in the winter but nice and close to the snow. I don't mean to be all negative. there are great things about Australia you wil enjoy. there is a online USA foods place to get some of your foods you'll miss. It's in melbourne www.usafoods.com.au. If you're ever on the Gold Coast feel free to look me up. We celebrate Thanksgiving every year. Anything in particular you want to know just ask.

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