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Ask An Australian @aussie.zone Chef_Boyargee @aussie.zone Banking as an expat
We’re working on setting up the ability to spend money easily in Australia. We’re looking at Wise for transfers and starting to live in Aus. As we roll into collecting pay, are there any banks or credit unions that are recommended or actively discouraged from using?
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Ask An Australian @aussie.zone Yoga @lemmy.ca Do people actually say Seppos?
I was asking an AI for suggestions for how to refer to the impending sovereignty threat that is the dying empire of American plutocracy.
Yank and Yankee feel completely gutless to me but Seppos stuck out as both crude (referring to septic tank which rhymes with yank) and appropriate (being full of excrement). The origin is supposedly Australian.
I'm mostly just checking it doesn't have a racial element or some other dark history that Deepseek didn't mention.
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Ask An Australian @aussie.zone Balthazar @lemmy.world How much regional diversity of accents is there in Australia?
I've always considered the Australian accent to be fairly homogeneous across regions, but certainly there isn't the extreme diversity that the UK and America have. How much diversity is there, and what are the various characteristics? How long would it take you to tell a Cockroach from a Cane Toad when you meet him in the street?
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Ask An Australian @aussie.zone worldlyspecimen @lemmy.world Moving to Australia without a drivers license
I'm applying for a working holiday visa and I'm planning on arriving the first week of September but I don't have a drivers license and, obviously, I cannot get one in Australia without citizenship - how hard would it be for me to get/work a job without a car? Given that I would most likely start with farm jobs, would it be possible to do so without having a license?
I'm asking because it would take approximately three or four more months for me to get one where I live
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Ask An Australian @aussie.zone IncongruousMonkey @aussie.zone cooker?
where did we get the term "cooker" from? I know what it means, curious of the origin.
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Ask An Australian @aussie.zone HeartyBeast @kbin.social Travelling from the UK to Aus for 3 weeks - advice on gettting a SIM?
Hello Australian chums - and of course, congratulations on your win today at Lords.
At the end of the month me and the family are travelling to the West coast for 3 weeks to see family. Mainly spending out time in Broome, but we've got a 4x4 some small (carefully prepared, cautious) trips into more rural areas.
Our cellular UK provider's rates for using phones is ruinously expensive, so I'm looking for advice on
- Which cellular provider you would recommend to get a - presumably pre-paid SIM while we are out there. Main criteria are
- Probably want about 4-8Gigs data, mainly calls within Australia with probably about 3 hours of calling back to the UK during this period on one phone.
- Anyone know whether it is possible to get the SIMs before we travel in the UK? Or best to get them in Oz? and if the latter - best place to get them?
Sorry for the shopping list of questions. Any advice gratefully received.
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Ask An Australian @aussie.zone Treevan 🇦🇺 @aussie.zone Which State is the worst and why is it the state you live in?
Queensland: because Queenslanders live in it.
You can't explain that.
Someone can post "why best" after the third party app/API debacle winds up.
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Ask An Australian @aussie.zone TheHolm @aussie.zone Why Woy Woy can be Woy, but Wagga Wagga never Waga?
Asking as person who live in Australia for 20 years but never got answer on this question?