Top ten things to enjoy in Australia
- personal safety and freedom to walk around without concern for yourself or your children
- things work - traffic lights, bus services, electrricity supply
- it is clean
- less pressure on children at school
- politicians and government officials are approachable and helpful
- Aussies are friendly and accommodating
- Aussies are community orientated
- Job sharing (work only 2-3 days a week while someone else makes up the difference)
- everything is well organised and well executed
- government run health insurance (Medicare)
Top ten things to miss about Africa
- Family
- Friends
- your pretigeous career, if you had one
- disposeable income
- cheap labour
- inexpensve property
- rugby, if you are a supporter
- the veld, the many different animals and the smell of a bush fire
- the humor
- the indigenous people
Top Ten things you may not enjoy about Australia
- Aussies being personally affected / offended so easily by how you express yourself ("South Africans are too direct")
- the 8-10 advertisements at a time on free-to-air TV
- the price of property
- the price of things generally
- starting your career over
- reporting to someone less qualified than you are
- doing house chores yourself(gardening, cleaning, ironing, etc.)
- people with very large tatoos, peircings and 'interesting' clothing
- ignorance / stereotypes about Africa / people from Africa
- pertual broadcasting of rugby league at the expense of rugby union
Last update: April 2011









