You know you're Australian if....

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Juniper

Wow. You know, I really, really have to visit there someday, and I might not come back.

That happens. US Navy guys on liberty almost stereotypically visit an Immigration office after a week or so -- "Just lookin'." Oz would certainly be my personal second choice of anywhere to live on the globe.

Aussies and Americans get along, having really much the same temperament. Something to do with a fundamentally English society and the common experience of frontiering it into a broader, hotter country. And being hard on the natives.

I haven't met anyone from either country who wasn't having a complete blast visiting the other. And being thoroughly amused not only at how the other party talks funny, but also how far their own accent is currently drifting to how the funny-talking guys sound.