Canadian in Australia

[headbang8]

Moved to Perth, Australia for uni studies. Am originally from Vancouver, Canada.http://www.

I moved to Australia from Pittsburgh when I was a teenager. On hearing my accent, many would ask "Are you Canadian?"
No, I would reply, I'm an American. Most then admitted that they thought as much, but they felt it was safer to ask the question as they did because so many Canadians get upset when everyone assumes they're American. Are you, personally, partly responsible for this, Kyle?

Enjoy Perth. Fantastic surfing. Great wine. Lots of sunshine. Boring TV.

 

[D_Prideaux Brayenass]

haha no I dont think you'd include me in that...

I think some Canadians do have a paranoia of being identified with Americans by default though, as many people can't tell any difference in accent.

Especially now, Canadians are fearful of being identified as sharing an American ideology thats "Bush-like" at the moment. Before that is was Vietnam.

I think the biggest reason Canadians dont want to be identified as Americans though is due to the "Ugly American" concept of US tourists who go everywhere and think everyone else should be / wants to be like America.

The fact is though that everyone is different; judge people as individuals. I think you'll find the more people have travelled and lived outside their own country the less hangups they have, and essentially drop their flag in conversions (and off their backpack too). And that goes for anyone, not just Americans or Canadians.

Kyle

 

[jeff black]

Hi guys,

IVe been on this site for a couple years and thought its about time to say Hi.

Moved to Perth, Australia for uni studies. Am originally from Vancouver, Canada.

www.gaydar.com.au/kyle24 are my photos.

Hey Kyle.

Welcome to the group, methinks you should move back to canada:biggrin1:

 

[headbang8]

Hey hungkyle -- I'm an American guy, moving to Oz in July (Adelaide). Here's to North America representing!

Let me guess...you're studying oenology.

I spent my teen and college years in Adelaide. At any student drinking bash, the alcohol is selected by virtue of it being teh cheapest way to get drunk. In most parts of the world, that's usually a keg of beer. In Adelaide, though, it was three litre bottles of wine calle flagons. When a winery (of which there are many in Adelaide...South Australia produces half of all Australian wine) finished a run of, say, a thousand bottles, and they had some left over, they'r put the excess in flagons and sell them cheap to the locals. Usually just labelled "dry red" or "dry white". You never knew what the quality would be like, but sometimes the luck of the draw gave you some superb wine. Alas, these became so popular that the wineries eventually had to start making genuine cheap wine to sell as cheap wine.

Live near the centre of the city if you can--North Adelaide, the south east corner, or Unley.

You'll love it.

HB8