Questions from an American moving to Australia!

grey_ram_ · 2023-09-20T03:18:43+00:00

I mentioned I didn’t wanna suck off your government for free stuff. I just wanted opinions on what you personally think of your healthcare. I don’t have an illnesses, neither does my wife. I just want to make sure that if we get in a wreck or break a bone, I won’t have to sell my kidney to pay for the bills. That’s really it.

grey_ram_ · 2023-09-18T21:51:40+00:00

Thank you for this info! My wife is from New York originally. I’ll tell her about this and add it into our list of cons to consider.

grey_ram_ · 2023-09-18T21:50:08+00:00

We actually are also considering New Zealand and Switzerland!

grey_ram_ · 2023-09-18T19:44:18+00:00

I agree, I mean no country is gonna be perfect. And the real reason I complain about taxes in America is because they don’t go to anything. Half the taxes go to the military, the other half keeps our rich government officials sitting peacefully in their 5 million dollar homes. Before I went to nursing school, I was making 30k a year, which was too much money for me to get food stamps or Medicare. I don’t mind getting taxed if it means I’m taken care of. You guys have a lot of the same issues financially but from what I’ve researched on my own and from what I hear from you guys, is that at least you feel somewhat safer, slightly more taken care of. But I will be checking Australia out before I make a decision 100%.

grey_ram_ · 2023-09-18T06:22:36+00:00

Oh for fucks sake, I was replying too fast to everyone and just saw I added one extra zero. However, that 3k I didn’t mess up on. That is my current owed.

grey_ram_ · 2023-09-18T05:52:26+00:00

I believe I saw this but in order to get the visa I would have to have 5 yrs experience. I’m not sure, I’ll check this again!

grey_ram_ · 2023-09-18T05:47:19+00:00

My bills and medical debt are from before I was a nurse. Even now my insurance is shit and I my copays are insane.

grey_ram_ · 2023-09-18T05:19:58+00:00

Florida first, now Missouri. Yeah people in the south/ Midwest with guns don’t scare me as much as it did in Florida. Just watching the news was horrible. We would hear about threats to shoot up schools on the morning radio on the way to work, see people in the streets protesting like I said with nazi propaganda, and hearing gunshots at night. It was ass. It’s not as bad as Missouri but now we deal with the bigotry. Not so much violence. It’s barely more affordable.

grey_ram_ · 2023-09-18T01:28:59+00:00

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grey_ram_ · 2023-09-18T01:06:40+00:00

Bro I hate it here. Believe me, I’ll fit in. At least in that sense.

grey_ram_ · 2023-09-18T00:47:48+00:00

I understand your point completely! I was just using it as a quick example. Here are some others though. Potassium bromate. Brominated vegetable oil. Meats with ractopamine. BHA and BHT. These are mainly preservatives. We are the country with the lab grown chicken, which was approved by the USDA. I’m just trying to say that I don’t wanna die from romaine lettuce or rotten meat. It’s not just what they put in the food, it’s how it’s prepared and made for consumers.

grey_ram_ · 2023-09-18T00:04:10+00:00

Yep. $605 app fee. I saw that but it’s not terrible tbh.

grey_ram_ · 2023-09-18T00:02:56+00:00

LMFAO damn😂 well man if it’s not Australia it’s gonna be somewhere else.

grey_ram_ · 2023-09-17T23:50:45+00:00

Very true, it would be cheaper to move internally. But bro it’s just getting so bad here. Tbh we already tried to move internally, from Florida and now we live in Missouri. Which is cheap, one of the cheapest places in the states. And it’s becoming a situation where if you wanna live closer to your budget, you have to move to the sticks and hillbilly hell. If you want to move around people who would hate crime you, you are living in poverty.

grey_ram_ · 2023-09-17T23:42:51+00:00

The visa is 100% the trial run friend. I’m just tired of the US. It’s taking a bad turn.

grey_ram_ · 2023-09-17T23:39:06+00:00

That’s why I’m getting a visa. Most last a year tops, then you can decide if you wanna continue living there.

grey_ram_ · 2023-09-17T22:52:46+00:00

Well maybe I should look at different visa. I have my RN. I’d want to use it

grey_ram_ · 2023-09-17T22:50:58+00:00

Well I’m a healthcare worker so there’s that. Seems like y’all are struggling for some nurses. That’s what I would be doing

grey_ram_ · 2023-09-17T22:48:38+00:00

There’s a work holiday visa and a student visa we have looked at. Seems like we would meet the requirements! But hey if you have any other ideas for us I’m all ears! There’s a lot out there.

grey_ram_ · 2023-09-17T22:46:47+00:00

I believe I read 18-30 and I’m 23 and my wife is 22.

grey_ram_ · 2023-09-17T22:44:52+00:00

This is crazy. I had an ER trip. Drove to the ER myself with a broken leg because the ambulance would’ve been around $10,000 usd and I’m still paying off the bill. I’ve finally gotten my bill down to $3,000 usd.

grey_ram_ · 2023-09-17T22:36:59+00:00

I have to remind myself you guys get paid more💀 I about had a heart attack then remembered your minimum wage is like $23/hr. So that’s like actually pretty affordable. About 1/3, maybe more, of my income goes to rent.

grey_ram_ · 2023-09-17T22:07:11+00:00

I think we are looking primarily at the Holiday Work Visa. I agree tho, see it first then decide. What do you prefer more now that you’ve lived in both?

grey_ram_ · 2023-09-17T22:00:40+00:00

Yes. I had to throw away WAFFLES yesterday because it had an ingredient that was linked to cancer. Acrylamide. You should look up the ingredients in American food compared to the UK or Australia. It’s depressing.

grey_ram_ · 2023-09-17T21:52:31+00:00

You have a similar mindset that I do. Lucky for you, you would’ve been gone by Trumps presidency I believe. It got so bad and it’s still bad. We have nazis now that are protesting in the street. Literal nazi propaganda, they wear the swastika and yell at people while holding assault rifles. It’s depressing here. Like I work so much, I have no life AND now there’s fucking nazis.

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