Have you ever read a questionnaire on the Internet: are you in love with Australia? Just ask yourself a few questions.
Are you an optimistic person?
Do you love nature?
Do you like seafood or steak?
If life is slow, don't you get bored?
Do you like wine?
Would you stick to jogging, walking, walking the dog every day?
Would you like to go to a coffee party if a friend often asks you out?
If more than half of you answer yes, you are likely to fall in love with Australia. If you answer "yes" to all three questions, you already have a strong Australian temperament.
Australian temperament is what, is slow and leisurely.
The reason why many Chinese choose to emigrate to Australia is that they are fed up with the fast-paced, nervous life at home and choose to settle in Australia, in order to "slow down, see the scenery and lead a life".
This is a place that can clean and upset, fresh air, ecological and healthy environment, many incredible animals and plants, local people's leisure and comfortable life, can give a sense of slow and leisurely.
But while enjoying the comfort of this slow pace, newcomers must also feel the inconvenience of slow tempo.
New immigrants said they had heard of a slower pace of life in Australia before they went to Australia.
Wasn't it okay to think it was slow? But with the real cost of emigration, the slow-paced life is a bit unbearable for a person accustomed to a fast-paced life, and life seems to have become less convenient.
The shop closed early
The most unacceptable thing about living in Australia is that many shops close at 5 p. M. Only the supermarkets in the mall will open until nine o'clock in the evening.
When I first came to Australia, the most surprising thing was that the pressure of life for Australians was so small that opening a shop and doing business was the same as office's commute hours.
For people who are used to the domestic rhythm of life, they ask out friends to go shopping after 5 or 6 o'clock, but in Australia, the shops are closed after work. Where can we go to shopping?
Have long been used to, where to go shopping before opening google to find out shop hours, so as not to run for nothing.
There are fewer 24-hour restaurants.
In China, midnight snacks are essential to nightlife. In the middle of the night, you want to buy something, eat something, find a 24-hour restaurant, really do not want to go out ele.me, Meituan, you deserve to have.
If you look at Australia, the food court restaurant in the mall is usually closed at 5: 00.
In Australia, with the exception of Sydney's Melbourne area, most restaurants are closed at night and do lunch business at noon.
Some restaurants serve only alcoholic and alcoholic snacks at night. There are many friends who do not like to cook complain, just a period of time, dinner really do not know how to solve ah, do you eat junk chain of fast food every day?
The Post Office Bank is closed on weekends
Post offices and banks, as well as other public services, are closed on Saturdays and Sundays. If you're an office worker, you'll have to ask for leave to go to the post office and the bank if you work from Monday to Friday.
A new immigrant complained that the banks, the post office and other public departments were closed on Saturdays and Sundays, but left work earlier than some companies on weekdays, so many things had to be done at lunch.
One time did not want to ask for leave, before leaving work at 5 o'clock to cover half an hour ahead of time to slip to the post office package, the post office staff throughout the face, urged you to fill this fill that, finally before 5 o'clock to finish the matter, he tossed a sentence to come early.
Go to the hospital, wait for the dead.
In China, hospitals follow the first-come-to-come principle, but if there are more doctors in the clinic, the number will soon arrive. Or, the Toto relationship, looking for someone, seeing an expert consultation is a matter of minutes.
In Australia, of course, private hospitals have money to talk about. If you want free medical treatment, you can go to a public hospital for no money, but wait.
In public hospitals, due to the shortage of medical resources and humanitarian principles, each patient is treated according to the principle of treating serious illness first.
Common colds fever, wait a day may not be able to turn on. The hospital here is for emergency patients. No bleeding? Then wait.
So, even if you're dying, it's normal to wait in the hospital for hours without seeing a doctor. Most distressing is, the drainage operation may wait until the disease develops to the end, the person is gone, also does not have the line.
Traffic is small and slow.
Australia's public transport is not very developed, many remote small places, buses are an hour, some weekend closed. Unlike the domestic public transport network, subway, three-minute bus shift.
Taxis are not running all over the street looking for guests. To take a taxi, call or book an online reservation, or go to a special taxi stand to wait. It's hard to walk without a private car.
Some people may have said, drive yourself, how convenient it is to drive.
But it's not easy to get a driver's license here. In order to test the license plate, many people spent more than half a year to pass the road test, but only to get a learning license. It will take two and a half years to pass the road test if you want to get a formal driver's license.
Maybe the slow pace of life is bound to be linked to the inefficient environment, but let's think about it. How can we enjoy Australia's good mountains, waters, and cultural customs while enjoying the world's peace and security? And ask here to provide such convenient services as at home?
So let us not forget our original ideals and aspirations: we come to breathe cleaner air, to forge ahead in a more mature and equitable society, to live in a more comfortable manor, to stroll on a more charming beach.
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Now that immigrants have arrived here, the first thing to do is to clear the past and start over again, and set up a good state of mind.
Australia, like all countries, has Australia's problems, but perhaps from the very beginning, as an Australian resident, trying to build a better Australia, it is more pragmatic and respectable than blaming and complaining.