Australia is generally nice but having lived in both places, on the whole, I much prefer Canada. I found the cold much easier to handle than the heat, although that may have been my lifetime of acclimatizing to it. But the two biggest issues I had with Australia were:
1) The cost of living is extremely high, especially in the major cities, and;
2) The people were generally pretty nice but there always seemed to be an undercurrent of anger, violence, racism and sexism.
That said, Melbourne was my favorite city in Oz and I'd happily go back to visit.
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