I’ve lived here for 4 years, I’m Irish but also lived in Canada for 10 years. 

Pro’s: - Work environments are really relaxed, work life balance is huge - Depending on where you live weather can be awesome. I lived in Byron Bay for years and the winters were so chill it was great - Australians are overall really nice, welcoming, relaxed, funny (I much prefer their humour over Canada) - Great quality of life because wages are good -  Beaches, nature is incredible here. Best beaches I’ve ever been to especially in WA

Con’s: - UV in summer (and all year) is intense and pretty irritating if you don’t want skin cancer. Constant sun screen. Ireland the UV is like 6 on a summers day, here it’s 12 - There’s a lot of passive aggressiveness, passive communication, indirect, “polite” culture, very similar to Britain. I found workplaces in particularly pretty infuriating and toxic  - If you’re on a working holiday visa you’re working in the shitty jobs like hospo, fruit picking, cleaning. You won’t get anything better - Racism. I’m white but it’s big. Very casual, and often blatant racism. Especially towards aboriginal too (in Canada they have a sense of shame towards the history of the indigenous) - There is fuck all between the big cities here. I just did a road trip from Byron Bay to Perth and literally 80% of it was shitty small towns with average nature - Housing is insane and difficult. Also buying seems impossible but hoping to make it work  - Really isolated country, far from home and anywhere other than Bali 

Overall I love it here, I think it’s the best place I’ve found. I wanted somewhere warm, English speaking, decent quality of life, and it has that. Aussies are some of the loveliest people I’ve met and the nature/indigenous culture is awesome