I like that my friend Wayne moved to Washington State to Handfast with his lady and live there with her and her offspring. He was a kind and generous host to me during my visit to Queensland and Uluru. If gas prices ever stabilize ( yes, I am a dreamer) I just may go visit them.
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Re: What do Americans think of Australians living in the USA?
Sun, June 1, 2008 - 6:59 PMAmerica is a melting pot and...well..whatever.
It's not about where they're from but who they are. If they're laid back and cool, then welcome!
Yet at the same time, concidering our current state of unrest....why would anyone move here? Love and marriage sure, but I'm looking to get out so people coming in confuse the hell out of me! lol
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Mon, June 2, 2008 - 1:05 AMI haven't met many Aussies in the flesh. My impression is that most Australian men sound like Crocodile Dundee, but that a few have British-sounding accents. I've devised a method to distinguish the latter from real British accents.
If I'm eavesdropping on a conversation in an airport (naughty me), and feel uncertain about the nationality of the speaker, I'll walk up to the bloke, and say, "What a charming Irish accent you have!" If I'm still standing 10 seconds later, I'll know that he's an Aussie. -
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Mon, June 2, 2008 - 7:36 PMMuwahahaaa :)
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Wed, July 16, 2008 - 7:38 PM<If I'm still standing 10 seconds later, I'll know that he's an Aussie. >
Nice on e Lazza :D
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Mon, July 14, 2008 - 10:49 PMQ. "What do Americans think of Australians living in the USA?"
A. Couldn't care less, probably.
A#2. I'd say: Please come!
Pleeease! And bring your sense of humor and love of vacations with you!
This is the melting pot as Pele said, and it's a damn big country (with a rich and long history of immigration) so I doubt anyone would really even notice! Unless you moved to a very small town and even then they'd probably welcome an immigrant that spoke English.
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Re: What do Americans think of Australians living in the USA?
Mon, June 2, 2008 - 1:17 AMNever bothered me much...except that Australian bloke working for the Republican party that used his GOP connections to stay here...okay, he did marry an American...but, um, still let's send some Republicans back to Australia...where they belong! (Heh.)
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Mon, June 2, 2008 - 6:31 AMMy friend Jan in Brisbane had a more British accent. she said it was from the girls school she went to as a child. Seems the wealthier folks do as they do here, such as sending their children to private schools for a 'real' education and training. BTW, she did have tons more money and education than my other friends in the area. Still, she was not a snob about it. -
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Sun, July 13, 2008 - 4:45 PM<U WILL SURPRISE!!!!!!!!! >
got subtitles? i may surprise - or even BE surpriseD - but I only speak english....am i too impatient to wait until it starts making sense?
....know your target audience....
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Wed, July 16, 2008 - 7:42 PMI was under the impression that America has been a bit oversaturated with the Aussies over the past couple of years? It's understandable I'd say.... -
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Re: What do Americans think of Australians living in the USA?
Wed, July 16, 2008 - 9:13 PMI dunno.
according to wikipedia, at least, only ten percent of the country is foreign born.
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"The top twelve migrant-sending countries in 2006, by country of birth, were Mexico (173,753), People's Republic of China (87,345), Philippines (74,607), India (61,369), Cuba (45,614), Colombia (43,151), Dominican Republic (38,069), El Salvador (31,783), Vietnam (30,695), Jamaica (24,976), South Korea (24,386), Guatemala (24,146), Other countries - 606,370.[23] "
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amer...Demography
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Re: What do Americans think of Australians living in the USA?
Thu, July 17, 2008 - 12:16 AMI agree with Pele and Ben. We Merkins have our prejudices, but I don't think that they extend to Aussies. My feeling is that we have a lot more similarities than differences.
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Mon, July 21, 2008 - 4:41 PM<Where did you recieve your impression from Gabsta?>
I remember a while ago, maybe around the Emmy's (I dunno, don;t pay that much attention really) when Nicole Kidman & Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe etc etc were big shit and all the littler actors made their way over and started to make it big. I remember reading something in "Overheard in New York" that sorta reflected an over-saturation of us, but it could've been a sole opinion?
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Mon, July 21, 2008 - 10:20 PMNow I understand where you were coming from when you said "oversaturated with Aussies". I don't do a good job of following the careers of movie stars and such. I'd never heard of two that you mentioned. And I didn't know that Kidman and Crowe had roots in the Southern hemisphere. I enjoyed Crowe's performance in A Beautiful Mind. But I don't remember seeing any of Kidman's films. I can recognize her picture, and knew that she was famous, and knew that she didn't have the greatest taste in men.
Hollywood, America isn't an accurate reflection of America in general, or even of the West Coast. (I live in Northern California.) But now that you mention it, there's an unwritten rule in the Star Trek TV series. You can't have more than one British accent on the same crew.
I'm thinking of Marina Sirtis (spelling?), from Star Trek TNJ. Charming woman, but her way of speaking struck me as being slightly odd, like someone who'd had a stutter, and had undergone extensive speech therapy. Years later, I saw her in a TV interview, and was very surprised by her British accent. Apparently Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) had first dibs on the British accent slot for TNJ.
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