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1. You need to translate yourself continuously
2. Getting some weird lemon cordial when you clearly asked for lemonade
3. The obsessive need to make everyone you meet try Vegemite
4. You didn’t think you were a coffee snob until you drank it overseas
5. You start saying g’day and mate for the hell of it, even when you don’t say them back home
6. You constantly have to explain to people why you left Australia
7. Saying you're from Sydney or Melbourne or "the other part" because it's easier to explain
8. Telling the story about drop bears is actually kind of fun
9. People will believe anything about Australia
10. Rationing the survival packages of real food sent from friends or family
11. 8 hours anywhere internationally is a short flight
12. Visiting New Zealand doesn’t count as overseas
13. Realising that our accents really do sound like Crocodile Dundee and deciding never to talk again
14. Aussies are everywhere
15. The real reason you won’t go back … there’s no Netflix
16. Realising that most other countries' politicians are worse than ours
17. You’ve heard all the “Down Under” jokes
18. … and being asked what the future is like isn’t new either
19. Most people don’t understand what a real beach is
20. When it comes to shopping everywhere else gets a better range than we do
21. People think we are British (except the British of course)
22. Everyone drinks Fosters but us
23. Telling someone you’re from Australia is like telling them you’re some celebrity
24. Most of all you realize how lucky we really are – minimum wage is double most countries and our paid holiday time is something you won’t find anywhere
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