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My last view yesterday of the US; one-way ticket. (lemmy.world)
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[+] 172 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)
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  • [–] 303 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    1. Move to Australia.

    2. Miss.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    How did you know they were a "Miss"?

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Because they found themselves in Australia, as opposed to New Zealand. They missed NZ by about 4k km.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    My take: Aussies are Americans with British humour.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    ...and really shitty Internet access.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Isn't American Internet also known to be pretty bad already? At least in many places?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    A lot of America is empty so this highly depends on what you mean

    In the city the internet is great

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    I grew up in the armpit of SW Oklahoma. My parents' Internet was 256 kbps in 2009. Today, they get a blazing 20 Mbps and it goes down all the time. My brother signed up for a satellite internet company that's a bit more reliable and gives him something like 50 Mbps, but iirc, his data cap is something like 250 GB and then it's overage charges. And I think he pays $120 a month for that plan.

    My wife and I live in the Oklahona City area and get 250 Mbps, and only because that's all we need. We were running 500 for a while, but we almost never needed that much. We have a 1 TB data cap and pay $50 a month.

    We're going to upgrade to fiber in the next few years. A local company is in our area and offers symmetrical 1 Gbps internet for like $80 a month. But there are upfront costs associated with getting it set up in the house that I don't want to swing yet. But I'm thinking more about it lately because I'd love to self host something like Nextcloud and get off of Google Drive.

    Anyway, yeah, internet in cities is mostly pretty good. Once you're out in the sticks, well, good luck.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    It really depends. I know of little towns in rural Idaho that have gigabit fibre to the house simply because the local phone company submitted the request for a federal grant. The money has been there since Obama, but utils need to ask for it, and certain local populations would rather starve than take any sort of handout from the federal government.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Oh my gosh, former Oklahomie for a while here! Can. Confirm.

    I once lived in the Northeast by Tahlequah, and the options were dial-up, satellite (with that awful data cap and terrible pings), or a couple guys running an ISP that involved pointing a receiver at a radio tower but download speeds were restricted to like 40kbps.

    For games I already had, SOME multiplayer was possible, and web browsing was mostly fine.

    Example of DL speeds though: Metro 2033 said it would take like 3 or 4 solid days so my long distance GF (now wife!) literally just sent game files to me on a USB drive through the mail. LOL

    Sadly they closed up shop, though.

    But somehow, when I lived with my grandma who lived in a place called "Hennepin", they got blessed with DSL. Made zero sense but I didn't complain! Even though I had to put a second router in bridge/repeater mode so it'd reach me at the trailer I lived in like 20 yards away from the house! (Trailer didn't even have plumbing. Winter was "fun." LOL)

    Absolutely wild how cut-off a lot of the country is.

    The big stinky desert city I'm in now has its problems, and Cox charges out the nose, but at least we get unlimited fiber out of it.

    Starlink might have been great for those folks if it wasn't headed by such stupid evil...

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Wife and I looked into moving to Australia after we visited Sydney. I work in IT so not a problem for me to find a new job and my wife is in healthcare. She is a respiratory therapist which is in high demand but looks like your end of the world does nursing with a speciality in respiratory therapy.

    Couldn’t figure out how that would translate but damn are we ready to jump over the bigger pond.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    How about engineers in NZ?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    Possibly stupid question but what do you mean by "we have no 2a"?

    Edit: 2nd amendment, thanks!

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    Although you may not recieve as warm a welcome in Aus at the moment.

    A LOT of Australians are mad at Americans for their political culture right now. We have transphobes and bigots here too and theres a lot of Australian bigots who are feeling very bold. Also theres a feeling from the more left leaning people that if we dont have enough resources and room for people fleeing ethnic cleansing, wars and famine we dont have the room for people who didnt like how their democratic election went. Also our cost of living isnt going down either...

    Not saying you will get a hostile reaction, or even a negative one... just temper your expectations.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    You're right. Have always considered Australia the US and NZ Canada.

    Americans fit in well in Australia so long as they're friendly and check their ego at the door. Australian culture is a big moosh of many cultures but tends to cringe at American culture. You kind of have to be more about yourself rather than be all about being an American, then you will fit in.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    We have no 2a, our stores are small, and we don't tip.

    These are the only examples you can come up with as to why Americans might "never shut up" about it being "better back home?" I'm having a hard time taking that seriously.

    I consider those to be GOOD things.

    Well yeah, so would roughly 90% of all Americans. Well maybe the small stores thing from a convenience standpoint I guess?

    What I'm saying is I'd like you to elaborate, this can't be the whole story (signed, someone who has seriously given thought to moving to NZ). :)

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  • [+] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Also anecdotal: I met an American in France one time. We were both travelling, so there were plenty of other things to talk about, but somehow he got onto the subject of how much he loves the 2nd amendment within 5 minutes of meeting him, max. I have no idea how he steered the convo there, it was like a magic trick. Blew my mind.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Step one have money.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Wrong. You don't need money if you're attractive because someone else with money will give you theirs.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    so ...

    Step one: Have money.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Wrong.

    Step 1: be attractive.

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