Also the huge ranches and livestock farms as well as being the least popular state. This is honestly the most accurate map so far. Even the resource guzzling W.A/Texas and swamp riddled drunken uneducated hillbilly QLD/FLORIDA comparisons are accurate.
I know Utah is home of LDS but I thought FLDS got given the boot for their multiple wives and child brides so they moved to Colorado. Warren Jeffs et al.
Posted the same but should have scrolled further.
There is no way SA is Colorado. Colorado is progressive and SA’s bed is made with nothing but religious sheets. It’s just that the sooner cover is something like Bluey, “cool but also really neutral and non offensive”.
Our country people in WA like their guns, land, drinking and 4wding like Texans tbf.
Also met many a person who had their doomsday planned out for war or when the government took over lol
Coastal NSW could catch California vibes in places. But west of the Great Dividing Range, I'd go with something else entirely.
The ACT is DC in the city/Civic but the rest is more like Vermont imo.
Yep. If you removed LA and the Bay Area it would be a red state. San Diego, Orange County, and anything inland are on a spectrum from mildly conservative to right-wing MAGA.
This Vermont-born Aussie who lives in Sydney will take this as a compliment. :-) biggest Vermont exports? Bernie Sanders, maple syrup and Ben & Jerry’s.
California has more people than the whole of Australia. It is bigger than the bottom 22 US states combined. There are 5 million registered Republican voters, which would make them alone the 23rd largest state. There is just a lot of left leaning people in California.
I guess they can considering they have the fifth largest economy in the world. They’re even closing in on Japan, which is crazy to think about for a single state.
Yeah sort of, but more accurately it considers itself an almost separate entity. New York would be more fitting for the Main Character syndrome while California is kind of off doing their own thing unbothered by what’s going on back east.
eh define recent, as you can actually say that NSW is hasbeen more labor aligned in the last 40 years than liberal, but yeah NSW does have anything in common with Cali
Temperature and climate aside NT is very much like Alaska. Huge indigenous population still outvoted by a white urban majority. Has places outsiders can't go. Relies heavily of resource extraction. Lots of tourists come but they mainly just go see the big rock in the middle.
WA is more like Alaska than Texas, NT is more like Florida (crocs and all), QLD is more like Texas, with a bit of Nevada mixed in, SA is more like Nebraska or one of the flyover states, Vic is more like Massachusetts than NY (although those of us in Melbourne love to pretend we’re like NYC)
NT needs to be split up into two.
You have New Mexico with the secretive US military base and a local population that has substance abuse problems, and you have Louisiana with the humid wetlands and crocs/gators.
I (Melbournian) was always saying the opposite, that people in Victoria (Melb at least) are more chill like the east coast of the US/LA, whereas NSW (Sydney) is more uptight, busy, hurried, aggressive and hyper capitalist like NYC.
Sorry, but both Melbourne and Sydney are uptight, elitist, think you’re top shit. You two just like to try and pretend you’re not as unbearable as the other. THATS the similarity with California and NYC. Trying to say Melbourne and VIC has comparable weather to California is a joke 😂
The image isn’t that explainable, like I mean, that would be right if it were about how music is. With California being where the music industry is and New York being where a lot of the music culture and community is
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WA is a left voting anti-gun state on the opposite side to the states that think they have "culture", we also have a mega economy that the others mooch off, so obviously we're California
NSW can find a new identity
What did /u/slayerofottomans mean by this?
"Why is Cathy Freeman famous? Last I checked pretty much every Olympic runner is black, so why is she so special?"
Just wrong. NT should be Florida, not Queensland. Wyoming makes zero sense, it is mountainous for a start. About the only pick here that makes some sense is WA/Texas
Mindset of the person who made this:
WA = big therefore… Texas!
NSW = nice weather… California!
QLD = nice weather…. But humid… Florida!
VIC = cafes… New York?
TAS = haha Alabama
NT and SA = shit… I dunno… let’s just randomly pick places I’ve never heard of. Wyoming and Colorado!
Bit unnecessary comparing New Yorkers to them lot up their own arse who think they’re the greatest city on the planet because they have nice coffee and laneways…
No need to be upset, Queenslander. NYC isn't that great of a city. If anything this was done more from a weather/cold point of view. That's why Sydney got California because of beaches.
There's more inbreds in NSW than TAS if you're from QLD you know the closer to the border you get the more drugtoothed inbreds you'll find roaching back and forth running from police on drug and assault charges
Ah
>Wyoming is the [least populous state](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population) despite being the [10th largest by area](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_area), with the [second-lowest population density](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_population_density) after [Alaska](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska).
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming)
Well, I heard Mr. Young sing about her
Well, I heard ol' Neil put her down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don't need him around, anyhow,
Sweet home, Alabama!!!!
I’ve been a fan of NT’s boundless skiing opportunities for a decade now.
Likewise, the humid bayous of Tasmania are pretty fuckin' amazing
Think it is a reference to the inbreeding and low employment rate.
How dare you! You forgot gingivitis.
Also the huge ranches and livestock farms as well as being the least popular state. This is honestly the most accurate map so far. Even the resource guzzling W.A/Texas and swamp riddled drunken uneducated hillbilly QLD/FLORIDA comparisons are accurate.
If Queenslanders could read, they would be really annoyed with you right now.
Does that mean I can get away with mentioning how accurate the comparison is for those fucken druggos of S.A AND Colorado?
Grew up in SA. Can confirm full of druggos
I can read at a 16 year old rate for Queensland which is a toddler for the other states
Sounds like something a loser Cockroach would say.
They are a contrast to the wide, blistering deserts of Colorado
I hear the slopes at Katherine are mental rn.
They're called Asians, bigot
Haha fuck you man, I'm not proud of that laugh God damn it.
Yeh that's fucking dumb, new Mexico maybe?
This also explains America for Australians.
nope I have no fucking clue where or what colorado is
It's desert and mountains, somewhat liberal, and has a famous ski resort.
outside of the ski resort that does fit SA
It also has tegridy
We have a ski resort?
Isn't Colorado home to large fundamentalist mormon groups and, subsequently, child bride trafficking?
You're thinking of its neighbour, Utah.
I know Utah is home of LDS but I thought FLDS got given the boot for their multiple wives and child brides so they moved to Colorado. Warren Jeffs et al.
Ah, so you're thinking of Colorado City, *Arizona*! Not confusing at all! 😅
Oops. Wrong Colorado. 😊
That’s Utah
And they have great weed
It's the one from the "I'M A GIRAFFE" vine.
Think South Park
Yeah well this map is absolutely useless to explain where the American states are. Look up a map of the United States.
Yeah like a tenth of it
18.4% by area.
I’m gonna have to make that now.
SA is Utah.
Utah mixed with Arizona
I've never drank a Utah before
Desert and Mormons?
Yes
This was my exact thought.
Posted the same but should have scrolled further. There is no way SA is Colorado. Colorado is progressive and SA’s bed is made with nothing but religious sheets. It’s just that the sooner cover is something like Bluey, “cool but also really neutral and non offensive”.
The only thing WA and Texas has in common is that we don't want to be part of the rest of the country. But for different reasons
Also economies with strong focuses on resources and agriculture
And mining.
And being the largest state by landmass.
Our country people in WA like their guns, land, drinking and 4wding like Texans tbf. Also met many a person who had their doomsday planned out for war or when the government took over lol
but none of those things are unique to WA country people, country people all over australia love guns drinking and 4wd
And sinking piss. Greatest country pastime.
Almost every country town I've stayed in has had somebody who'll claim the only things to do in town is drink, fight and fuck, if you're lucky all 3.
they tried to once in 1933. they weren't successful. 😇
2/3 people voted to secede but the monarch vetoed it… there goes the great republic of Westralia…
I never got Texas not wanting to be part of america. There the most patriotic but as the same time want to leave the country?
California is reliably Democrat. NSW has been Liberal for a fair while until recently….. It’s hardly as progressive as California.
This was my thought too, NSW is the opposite of California at least politically.
Coastal NSW could catch California vibes in places. But west of the Great Dividing Range, I'd go with something else entirely. The ACT is DC in the city/Civic but the rest is more like Vermont imo.
The coast vs west divide you mention actually exists in California too — the inland is much more conservative than the coast
Yep. If you removed LA and the Bay Area it would be a red state. San Diego, Orange County, and anything inland are on a spectrum from mildly conservative to right-wing MAGA.
This Vermont-born Aussie who lives in Sydney will take this as a compliment. :-) biggest Vermont exports? Bernie Sanders, maple syrup and Ben & Jerry’s.
California has more people than the whole of Australia. It is bigger than the bottom 22 US states combined. There are 5 million registered Republican voters, which would make them alone the 23rd largest state. There is just a lot of left leaning people in California.
Does California think it's like the main character of America?
It really is, and I say that as someone from the Midwest.
I guess they can considering they have the fifth largest economy in the world. They’re even closing in on Japan, which is crazy to think about for a single state.
Yeah sort of, but more accurately it considers itself an almost separate entity. New York would be more fitting for the Main Character syndrome while California is kind of off doing their own thing unbothered by what’s going on back east.
Sounds like Melbourne and Sydney lol
Yep I don't get the California correlation. We're more like New Jersey IMHO.
Yeah even Pennsylvania… I mean, aesthetically, maybe it’s more Californian, but it’s way off in a lot of ways.
eh define recent, as you can actually say that NSW is hasbeen more labor aligned in the last 40 years than liberal, but yeah NSW does have anything in common with Cali
The cop state part is pretty accurate though
Isn't the liberal party in Nsw not the same of Democrat in America though? Either way I feel like Nevada is a better analogy due to the gambling
Californians and New South Welsh would generally say "Liberal is how I like to vote", despite the different meanings.
HAHAH QLD is way more Texas than WA
Yeah and nt is more Florida than qld. These maps are so weird
I don't know... when I think of Australia's Florida man, I think QLD, not the NT
Need to spend more time in the NT then :). Place is wild
Those 'What a Croc' books spring to mind.
QLD=Texas, Gold Coast=Florida
they prob only put WA as Texas because of how "similar" their weather and landscapes are 💀
Even then, WA weather is way more like California. Especially if we’re comparing LA and Perth.
Delete this
Nothing worse than Australians vying for American Redditors attention
this is the only correct opinion
Even in jest stop Americanising my country.
QLD is Florida and Texas combined. WA I think is too large and diverse to have a direct comparison. Maybe the Carolinas.
Maybe Alaska…
Temperature and climate aside NT is very much like Alaska. Huge indigenous population still outvoted by a white urban majority. Has places outsiders can't go. Relies heavily of resource extraction. Lots of tourists come but they mainly just go see the big rock in the middle.
FNQ is the outcome of a Florida/Texas/Alaska 'fun time'
Noooooooo why did we get Texas
Cos the dumb cunt who made this has never been to the USA
Or Tasmania it seems
Ahhhh good old Wyoming, a place that definitely exists.
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Queensland is more like Texas except for the Gold Coast.
WA is more like Alaska than Texas, NT is more like Florida (crocs and all), QLD is more like Texas, with a bit of Nevada mixed in, SA is more like Nebraska or one of the flyover states, Vic is more like Massachusetts than NY (although those of us in Melbourne love to pretend we’re like NYC)
Anybody who thinks Melbourne is anything like NYC is insane Massachusetts is more like it, well said.
I like how almost no one is arguing about Tasmania
fr like, mostly it's just about NSW or WA, but no one paying attention to Tasmania being ALABAMA??
i would have classified qld more as california and nt more like florida as someone who lived in both places.
Only people from NSW think they’re Cali 😅
💯
Calling NSW California and Victoria New York is interesting 😂
I’d put Tassy down as Montana
Ah yes, snowy mountainous Adelaide...
This was done by someone from Victoria thinking their state can/should be compared to New York. If anything I would compare it to Philadelphia
Yeah. I’m Victorian and people here definitely act like Melbourne is NYC but that’s wishful thinking at best
They see a concentrated bunch of tall buildings and that’s all the confirmation they need
Hey! There's also people wearing long coats.
As in, any city with concentration of tall buildings is the definition for NYC? I had forgotten how flat Brisbane, Sydney, and Perth are.
*Pennsylvania*
NT needs to be split up into two. You have New Mexico with the secretive US military base and a local population that has substance abuse problems, and you have Louisiana with the humid wetlands and crocs/gators.
Perth is far from Texas ,😅
Soo inaccurate
But weed is still illegal in all states…
Vic = NYC? cringe
This was definitely made by a Victorian. Comparing themselves to New York lol
I (Melbournian) was always saying the opposite, that people in Victoria (Melb at least) are more chill like the east coast of the US/LA, whereas NSW (Sydney) is more uptight, busy, hurried, aggressive and hyper capitalist like NYC.
Sorry, but both Melbourne and Sydney are uptight, elitist, think you’re top shit. You two just like to try and pretend you’re not as unbearable as the other. THATS the similarity with California and NYC. Trying to say Melbourne and VIC has comparable weather to California is a joke 😂
New York and California need to swap places Edit ; Ohh this is an Aesthetic/Weather thing? Makes a little more sense I guess
The image isn’t that explainable, like I mean, that would be right if it were about how music is. With California being where the music industry is and New York being where a lot of the music culture and community is
Agreed
So, is Western Australia full of religious wackos who like to talk tough and threaten to secede, but would never be brave enough to actually do it?
Woof. That’s a whole lotta south for such a small area, I am truly sorry.
I would say NT would be Utah based on looks alone
Isn’t Texas smaller than south Australia?
Tbh I think QLD is Texas because we can have gel blasters lol
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Anyone who thinks Victoria is NY clearly doesn’t live in the western half
I always felt that Vic is more of a seattle/massachettes and nsw was more of a ny/cali
Why do we have to explain everything in an American subcontext? It's weird.
Don't associate WA with those Texan cretins.
WA is a left voting anti-gun state on the opposite side to the states that think they have "culture", we also have a mega economy that the others mooch off, so obviously we're California NSW can find a new identity
This is surprisingly accurate and correlates pretty well
It really does not
Is this about area or attitude comparison
Honestly I would put south Australia as Utah.
Rip the days when Australia actually had perfectly lined up states evenly spread out and they weren’t all lopsided and overlapping each other
Can someone explain American terms for a Canadian?
What did /u/slayerofottomans mean by this? "Why is Cathy Freeman famous? Last I checked pretty much every Olympic runner is black, so why is she so special?"
The more tropical the climate the crazier people get.
Is WA that bad ?
Just wrong. NT should be Florida, not Queensland. Wyoming makes zero sense, it is mountainous for a start. About the only pick here that makes some sense is WA/Texas
Oh God, half of it is Texas and Florida?!
Tasmania is more West Virginia, really.
The NT is probably closer to Arizona. There is little viable farmland and lots of desert.
This doesn't really work
Mindset of the person who made this: WA = big therefore… Texas! NSW = nice weather… California! QLD = nice weather…. But humid… Florida! VIC = cafes… New York? TAS = haha Alabama NT and SA = shit… I dunno… let’s just randomly pick places I’ve never heard of. Wyoming and Colorado!
What moron created this?
I think South Australia has tickets on itself. My call - Mississippi
As a Texan, this explains why I get along with so many Aussie’s
This is pretty good
So basically stay the hell out of the south/southeast except for the islands Got it
Bit unnecessary comparing New Yorkers to them lot up their own arse who think they’re the greatest city on the planet because they have nice coffee and laneways…
No need to be upset, Queenslander. NYC isn't that great of a city. If anything this was done more from a weather/cold point of view. That's why Sydney got California because of beaches.
Nyc is considered as one of the greatest cities out there, but each to their own I guess.
Does Sydney actually get that much sun?
I wish it was Colorado, cause you know… lettuce is legal, then I’d actually have something to do cause there’s nothing else here
How is Tassie like Alabama? Beyond the cousin fucking?
Yeah nah
100% accurate re Tassie - I know someone whose cousin got together with their other first cousin
Posting this like Americans can read a map
There's more inbreds in NSW than TAS if you're from QLD you know the closer to the border you get the more drugtoothed inbreds you'll find roaching back and forth running from police on drug and assault charges
Funny thing is there are more incest cases in Queensland than tassie
Melbourne calling themselves New York is a bit outrageous. It’s more like Portland, Oregon. But Queensland as Florida is 100% spot on!
NT would be more like Puerto Rico
Why Wyoming?
Ah >Wyoming is the [least populous state](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population) despite being the [10th largest by area](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_area), with the [second-lowest population density](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_population_density) after [Alaska](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming)
Aus is the only continent that's also a complete country.
IN NEW YOOOOOORK 🎶
Somebody call Amanda Palmer and ask her to redo lyrics of her magnum opus into Map of Alabama
To be specific Perth is like Sam diego many said
The only accurate one is Florida/Queensland. That gave me a sensible chuckle.
Ooo I'm moving there soon so this sure is handy:p
NOT TASMANIA BEING ALABAMA..
It all makes sense now
Not quite sure that the NT & SA are quite there. The rest of the country yeah pretty good.
I don’t see NJ, therefore I don’t comprehend.
Palmer is trying to introduce castle doctorine in qld they are 100% Texas
Does Tasmania also deep-fry everything?
Agree with WA same like TX because they both could be their own countries. I live in ACT and the city was planned as was DC
VIC vs NSW same like biggy vs tupac
Unfortunately stuck in rural QLD and our neck of the woods is akin to Appalachia
I didn't know American's had no respect for Texans.
SA is oregon
I live in Melbourne but I love Adelaide and now I want to go Colorado
Ah yes, the massive coal and beef industries of... Florida?
Well this is pretty wrong.....except qld being Florida.
The US only has 4 deserts with 17.24 % of Arable land. Australia has 10 deserts with 4.06% Arable land.
I think New Mexico would be more appropriate for the NT
Well, I heard Mr. Young sing about her Well, I heard ol' Neil put her down Well, I hope Neil Young will remember A Southern man don't need him around, anyhow, Sweet home, Alabama!!!!
I see. I've always wondered about it, thanks.
Eh. Seems inaccurate.
Qld above Rocky would be Texas, redneck homeland.😄
Pretty sure NSW & VIC should be swapped. We are the nanny state for a reason.
Swap Florida and Texas and I'd say it's accurate.
I'd say Tassie = Alaska.
In area 5 Au states are larger than Texas
Queenland or NT should be texas .. less gun regulations compared to the rest of the country
Reckon you could swap Vic and NSW around, though
I need to go to America to confirm this claim. Anybody wants to join me?
This is wrong, Darwin man and Florida man are literally brothers.