...there are huge bird gangs that infest the trees and occasionally go apeshit and all start squaking and flapping together. usually this happens for extended periods in the evenings, but also randomly during the day. and the crows make sounds like dying babies.

...they have drive through booze stores called bottlemarts. you drive into what looks like a mechanics garage, and they fill your car with drinky poos, and then you drive away.

...there is a way more suburbia than urbia and it is impossible to get a cab.

... qtips are called cotton buds, americans are called seppos (after septic tanks), yeast infections are called trush, and pitchers (of beer) are called jugs.

...burger king is called hungry jack's and uses the old school "two bun" logo. mcdonald's is the same, but more expensive and has an aussie burger. how come we don't have a canuck burger?

...boys (even the more geekily inclined ones) try to impress me with their car's "system."


...the internet sucks. even at the massive lan party i went to last weekend. i have to go to the library just to play WoW. but this matters less because its always nice outside, and there are beaches.