What is it like living in a rural town in Australia?

want to live out of a small hut in tas t bh

Shithouse cobber

Mount Shitpost

Based.

>Explain this,
SURPRISE!

Are Americans welcome? Serious question.

it took 30 applications to any shit kicker retail or mcjob to get anything other than an automated reply telling me to fuck off
ive seen a weird amount of random Americans working in shops

yep. why wouldn't you be?

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Rural? Nah. For me, it's the 'gong.

I post on (nu-)Jow Forums, in Australian hours, so at the very least you know I don't fit expectations.

And I heard a lot about other English-speaking countries' disdain for Americans, particularly the British.

NO

>I post on (nu-)Jow Forums, in Australian hours, so at the very least you know I don't fit expectations.

What made you want to move to Australia?

yes but expect banter

why not just go to a yank rural town though

I lived in a small town of a few hundred people, maybe, for a few years. It had two pubs, a bowling club, a tiny general store and a couple of small tourist shops which I only ever saw open a few times. Oh, and a post office. It was around 40 minutes drive to the closest large town, which was technically "rural" but didn't feel particularly different to any old medium sized township near the coast.
One night one of the locals tried to set my hair on fire at one of the pubs, because it was long as a lot of the locals didn't like me, being a "city" outsider. It may be worth mentioning that I moved from a suburb a little south of Newcastle (NSW), which was in no way the "city".
It was a nice looking town, or really, they had a nice main road that looked gorgeous in the autumn. It was one of those rural towns where a local is someone born into one of the maybe dozen families who have lived in the area for generations; where everyone else was an outsider for life.

As a young kid I spent a few years growing up in and around Broken Hill. Awful climate but an interesting place to at least visit once in your life if you've never been far enough inland to find yourself in red sands territory.

Hardly. /ausnz/ is one big blog and ERP chatroom full of homosexual normalfags. Rural Australia is pretty backwards for the most part and are not a fan of fagets.

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the disdain isn't really aimed at distinct normal acting Americans its more 'Americans' like you see saying stupid shit on tv

Seeing Australia depicted in American media and self-portrayed by amazing works like "I Come From a Land Down Under" video and song made a deep and abiding impression on me that you just have to take off the rose-tinted glasses to see that Australia is the wonderful and enchanting kingdom that people imagine Paris or Rome to be. And at the same time, being colonial like America is you know it's a constant journey and a nation always in the making.

Next I could see just how significant it really is, from a cultural perspective but also from a geological and zoological perspective, I knew right then when I saw Steve Irwin's shows that everything is different there, I knew I had to one day breathe its air and perhaps smell the embers of "shrimp on the barbie" with some of the great Australian friends from online who may say I'm annoying and a dumb son of a bitch but I can always sense the pride and joy within them of knowing me, deep down even though they'll never admit it, and that is a quality in a people that's worth its weight in gold.

Now this was all years ago, and those feelings have just sunk into me. Gone vintage like wine. I didn't get to go when I first made the intention. Intention turned to dreams. And when you've dreamed long enough, you find a short stay just won't fulfill those dreams. More and more does one ache and realize it would be better there at least after everything else has gotten stuffy, creaky, wrinkly and moldy. You can't just 'visit' a continent. You have to become one of its own some way or another.

True story, but really I didn't mean to say "welcome to move there", just welcome in general. It was a misunderstanding.

Americans are always welcome, Don't believe Jow Forums memes.

>I Come From a Land Down Under
As in the Men at Work song?

>I knew right then when I saw Steve Irwin's shows that everything is different there
Yeah, we have a swath of birds and plantlife that apparently can't be found around the world. You get so used to hearing and seeing it everywhere that it would feel somewhat alien to move somewhere without the sound of birdsong or hint of shrubbery, even in the inner city.

>You can't just 'visit' a continent. You have to become one of its own some way or another.
That's a nice way to put it. She's mold you to shape, alright. Spend a few summers here and you'll start to unconsciously match the local rhythm. Australia is like China in that it assimilates outsiders, no matter how hard you try to fight it, lol.

I live in a town of about 4000 people. It is boring, everyone knows of everyone.