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Australia in many respects is like going back in time to the 70's & 80's. That being neither good nor bad just sort of one of the facts of being here. You need to understand that because there is such a massive cultural gap between the cities and rural areas that Australia has two worlds, three really if you count the truly isolated communities further inland. It's nice if you are a person who craves a sort of return to a relatively care-free innocence. As for Australia being U.S. friendly they aren't unfriendly per-say. Keep in mind that outside of the U.S. things like the war in Iraq are not thought of as being successful, or in many case even legal and Australians in general tend to feel like they have a bone to pick with America. So me being American means to them I represent America including it's politicians and policies. So they like to corner me and ask me questions many of which I do not have an answer to because I am not a politician. I was reading in a local paper here that in the last 5 years Americans living in Australia have experienced an increase in the same experience I described, some of these people have even lived in Australia for 30+ years.

Well I met an married a girl who is Australian and we decided to move to Australia. It's been a struggle because of many factors, least of all being the declining popularity of Americans world wide but I am starting to find my place. My family and I have also been looking to bringing many of them over which will be interesting. Also I have a distant cousin who I've known all my life and our families were quite close and he is looking into coming over to work in the mines here and start a sort of share-farm with me in a couple years as I am currently studying horticulture and agriculture. SO it might turn out that I came all the way to Australia from Montana to be a farmer. Irony aye?