Quote from traderNik:
Wow!
I'm a little surprised at the multicultural part though - I would have though it was a basically homogenous society, with aborigines and the predominant non-white ethnic group being S.E Asians.
Anyhow, sounds great and what about the weather (for a Canadian that is huge!!).
I dont know if your being facetious tradernick, as far as ethnocentricity goes, the larger cities have their enclaves same as anywhere, and numerically, i suppose its fair south east asians make up the majority, according to officiall statistcs. Theres lots of places, eg, western sydney, where there just arent many shop signs in english, just like "chinatown", there are predominantly lebanese, or arabic speaking suburbs.
(Yes, i realise they all hate each others guts)
That being said, the australian capital territory is "different" due to the respective wealth of the public service, who truly are actually culturally diversified, reasonably educated, and so upper middle class as to make Canberrra perhaps the least affordable places to own a house, if judged from the mean.
As far as weather goes, i can only imagine a canadian would feel right at home here, honestly its pathetic-i lived in outback newsouth wales, and north queensland, stinking hot inhuman environments really.
From a canadian perspective, cold but not shovelling snow in winter, hot, very hot, but no blackflies in summer-although its middle of summer here, and compared to the outback or queensland (with floridian humidity) its just lame really.
Put it this way-the kind of seasonal weather in this region, is such that it would make the snowbird migrations in the states totally unnecessary.
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