"Getting used to Perth" a Perth Travel Page by Purpleshade

I have considered Perth my home since I emigrated 11 years ago from the UK, but a couple of years ago I realised that I had become totally used to things that I used to find very strange when I first got here. Here is a list of what you get used to round here.

• You’re not surprised when a 4WD overtakes you in slow traffic by mounting the curb (just because it can)
• You prefer Hungry Jack’s to Macdonalds
• You have to go out in a thunderstorm and you realise you don’t have a raincoat or wellies
• Every room in your house has ceiling fans, you have 3 large portable fans and a split system air-con in the lounge, but you only but you only have one portable fan heater.
• You reply ‘Good Thanks’ when someone says ‘How are you?’
• At traffic lights. Red means stop, green means go, orange means GO FASTER
• You plan a summer picnic without even contemplating that it might rain.
• You realise that you haven’t put shoes on for the whole weekend, you even drove to the shopping mall and did the shopping barefoot
• You have 5 bathers and no winter overcoat
• You buy more sunblock than handcream
• You never use a hair dryer in summer, in fact you think it’s a good idea to go to bed with wet hair.
• You think it’s too cold to go swimming in the spring until the temps been over 30 for 3 days
• You know that Whoop Whoop is not a real place and that you’ll get blank stares if you refer to lemonade as ‘pop’
• You drive a car with a 4 litre engine and think think a 2 litre is really a bit too small
• It doesn’t surprise you that summer flowers grow in the winter
• You plant your new lawn in autumn, not spring, because it will dry out before it can grow in summer.
• You plant your house plants in the shade garden (outside) and they grow into a jungle