Australia vs UK

Christmas Trees in Australia.

14 December 2011 Australia vs UK

Not only is Christmas in the middle of summer here in Australia, but they also have school summer holidays at Christmas time too! Yes, I know that makes sense, summer holidays in winter would be stupid! But at the same time, a six-week summer holiday break with Christmas slap bang in the middle of it [...]

Television Advertising: Australia and the UK Compared.

28 September 2011 Australia vs UK

For many years now I have been a “timeshifter”. I don’t mean that I have a tardis or that I traverse space and time in any way, but I do record television programs to watch later. As a result of this I very rarely, if ever, watch a TV programme as it happens. The big [...]

The OECD Best Country Better Life Index

29 June 2011 Australia vs UK

We had not featured a survey on this blog for a while until Monday’s offering about the cost of living comfortably in Australia. But it seems surveys are like buses; nothing for ages and then three come along together. Today I read that 15-year-old Australian students came joint second with New Zealand (behind Korea) on [...]

Where’s All My Money Gone?

13 August 2010 Australia vs UK

Who is it, here in Australia, who takes on average 23 cents out of every dollar Australians spent? Surely there is only one answer to that, it has to be the taxman doesn’t it? No, it isn’t. Would you like a clue? Okay, so you’ve run out of milk, sugar, breakfast cereals and of course [...]

Buying a second-hand car in Australia Compared to England

4 August 2010 Australia vs UK

When I left England back in November 2007 I sold my car for £250. That’s around $400 in Aussie money. Not a lot, was it? But I loved my old car; I’d had it for about seven years. It was a Volvo Wentworth 940 Estate, 1991. It had done a few miles, around 170,000 if [...]

Finding a Job in Australia Compared with the UK.

21 July 2010 Australia vs UK

Searching for work in Australia. One of the most common questions I’m asked over at the Ask Bob section of the website is “what’s it like to find a job in Australia?” Like many questions, it’s a moving target. When we first moved here late in 2007 it seemed Australia was in the middle of [...]

Australian Education: A Half Term Report

31 March 2010 Australia vs UK

We’ve recently had a few articles about education in Australia, most recently I compared Australian education standards with those of the UK and the USA. Narrowing the field down slightly, today I’m going to look at the educational standards of one 6 year old little girl. My little girl. In January she started her first [...]

Australian Education Standards Compared to the UK and USA.

3 March 2010 Australia vs UK

I think it started when I got an email from Vivienne, a lady who has moved from Australia to the UK. She felt quite strongly that educational standards in the UK were better than here in Australia. I promised to look into it. Then, in a post I wrote about the cost of education in [...]

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I'm BobinOz and I moved to Australia in November 2007 after living in England for a very long time. Why did I move and what's it like here? All this and more answered right here at Bobinoz. Click here to read more on my about me page.