22 “Culture Shocks” Encountered By This American Woman Who Moved To Australia

i once asked (on BP?) why you put on a price without taxes and someone told me, so you can compare prices without the changing taxes in the differnt states.. but if a product costs 5$ with taxes and 6$ with taxes in a different state, i don't gaf that the taxes are different? it is just more expensive in state b? wth?

Not just Australia. True of pretty much everywhere EXCEPT America.

Also situation in many countries except US...

Yep, still pretty common, even in places where the weather is not great, like the UK, because the cost of running a tumble dryer is excessive.

i only understand dryers in countries were it rains frecuently. And even in that case (for example in Ireland or UK) they still dry their clothes outside when it is warm and dry. In Spain we obvioulsly don't have these, if it rains we hang them indoors.

Perfectly normal where I live in the US.

In México city its common to have rains from march to august, yet we hang the clothes. We even has this bad joke about aztec god of rain liking our clothes as sacrifices, once you hang the clothes it star to rain (jajajaja pretty funny!! I know it doesn't make sence for you but belive me is funny)

I absolutely love the smell of "sun kissed" sheets, so I hung a line up in our side yard. It is completely enclosed & not in view of the public. But my neighbor is a complete c*nt & reported it to the HOA, who told us we would be fined of it were not removed. Seriously? How am I bothering you? She would literally have to stand on a step stool to see over the fence. Power trippin' f*****g bitch.

After sleeping in sun dried sheets you'll never want to put them in the drier again (they smell like sunshine!)

I only use the tumbledryer for towels and bedsheets because if I let them dry on a clothes rach outside, they will turn out very hard/rough.

I'm beginning to think this woman is stupid. People in America line-dry their clothes too, the issue of paying waitresses a living wage is well known, and Americans have known that other countries have better healthcare for years. This is not "culture shock", this is "person who lived under a rock decides to move across the globe, and is amazed by all the normal things she's seeing for the first time ever"

Hanging clothes outside where others can see it has somehow become TACKY in the U.S. You'd be considered a very bad neighbor if you did that. It's really a shame.

Virginia USA, I don't even own a dryer. It goes on the line.

Tbh in my family we use the washing line MORE than we use the dryer. We only use the dryer for when we need to dry stuff rlly fast

Sorry to say,US are the biggest ressource of the Klimate…. Sad…

Whats stopping you from doing this in the US?

Renewable energy.......The Sun....for as long as that lasts....teehee.

A good environmentally friendly idea, but some people with allergies can't (pollen will bond to wet fabric). Also, many suburbs & cities have bylaws against hanging laundry, as it is considered an eyesore.

I tried that in the US but some tee shirts got bleached in the sun.

I always check the weather to see if it's going to not rain. If not, washing goes outside. I only use the tumble drier in the winter and if it's rainy spring and autumn. Plus, I so love the smell of air dried washing!

Our water is so chalky, when we dry towels outside, they get dry but hard like sandpaper.

Where I live we're not permitted to hang our laundry out!

We have so many 'flying spiders' here in my state. They make little balloons with t their webs to get from one place to another, and they're tiny, super tiny. But you still swell up from their bites...in your clothes, on your sheets, IN YOUR PANTIES! NOPE, sorry, I remember how nice my stuff smelled as a kid from line drying, but I also remember the many welts that added onto the mosquito, deerfly, horsefly blackfly bites all summer. If i could stop one way of getting bitten, I was pleased, and I have arachnophobia from years of fresh air sheets

Also happens in many other countries, that's the best way to dry clothes.

Solar and wind power at their best!

Wait I do this all the time I thought it was normal

Dryers play havoc on clothes and linens. Nothing like drying outside in the fresh air.

It's hard to even find a clothes line in the US.

This isn't uncommon in the states. Granted I am older then most commenting but I prefer to hang my clothes to dry except my towels.

Another 'everywhere but the US"?

Countries like Australia and India do not need dryers... Put the clothes on the drying line and tadaaa... they are dried within mins... Only the monsoon season plays havoc..

Same in New Zealand! I once moved out of a rental place because it didn’t have an area that got sun but was also sheltered from the rain.

Wait, what? Americans don't hang their laundry outside? I knew it was the land of wastrels (wasting money, electricity, etc) but that's just mental.

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But the birds

She is probably talking about soft drinks aka soda coz tap water refills are free in Australia.

I still can't believe that I cannot make direct transfers to anyone's US bank account from my US bank account, but it's true.

Been the same in the UK for many years now. Bring your own bags or pay for them, your choice.

Yeah, too big, too much in the USA.

Australians are next level casual about everything.

They have cameras. They'll catch you. I wish I pay at the pump but here in UK, my local gas station requires me to fill up and then go in and pay. Never seen anybody do a runner.