An Italian expat living in Australia has called out the nation’s “awful” dating culture, highlighting the one habit she says is to blame.<\/p>\n
The woman moved from Italy to Australia a few years ago and posted her unfiltered opinion on Australian dating culture on Reddit.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019ve been in this beautiful country for a few years now, but I have to say that the dating culture here is quite awful\u2026,” she wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The woman explained that the main reason she believes dating culture is so bleak Down Under is that Australians refuse to mingle outside their own social groups.<\/p>\n
She added that people rely too heavily on dating apps.<\/p>\n
“The reason is that here, pretty much everything is online (through dating apps) and there are no real connections,” the woman wrote.<\/p>\n
“From where I\u2019m from (Italy), most of the time we meet new people outside, like bars, clubs, places, etc\u2026<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m not saying that dating culture in Italy is perfect, but at least it is more natural and less on dating apps.<\/p>\n
“Here, everyone relies on dating apps, and when you go out, everyone stays only in their own circle of friends and doesn\u2019t interact with others.”<\/p>\n
The woman pointed out that the habit doesn’t just affect dating, but also makes it difficult to form new friendships.<\/p>\n
“It’s as if they are afraid to go speak to new people, even just to make new friends, not only for dating,” she added.<\/p>\n
“On the surface, everything is nice, but as soon as you try to click a deep connection (either dating or friends), it seems hard.<\/p>\n
“That\u2019s my point of view so far after a few years down here.”<\/p>\n
Commenters largely agreed with the woman’s take, saying Australians tend to sideline deep conversations.<\/p>\n
“The worst thing about meeting people in Australia is that it’s so easy to meet and get along with people, but so difficult to make actual friends,” one person said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Most Aussies are open to a superficial level but closed off beyond that, and you’ll meet a lot of people that you’ll really get along with but never see again.”<\/p>\n
“You’re definitely European, then – much deeper conversations. There have been rare exceptions, but still nothing that I wanted to pursue,” another person commented.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s as though people don’t like to challenge the norms\/status quo, but life is much deeper than your job, where you live and what kind of music you like.”<\/p>\n
One commenter wrote that some Australians confuse meaningful conversation with “trauma dumping”.<\/p>\n
“I upvoted this because this is definitely a red flag, but I wanted to add the caveat that some people these days will call anything ‘trauma dumping’, and it’s a very easy deflection to remain emotionally unavailable,” they wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One Australian sprang to the nation’s defence, claiming that people open up more to friends they’ve bonded over shared interests.<\/p>\n
“Australians go beyond that once they have a group of shared interests,” they wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“If you are just someone I work with, or just someone I play sports with, and nothing else aligns, there is a lot less emphasis on making a deeper connection.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Italian expat living in Australia has called out the nation’s “awful” dating culture, highlighting the one habit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,34179,21,30615,8080,18632],"class_list":["post-44816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australian-dating","tag-austrlia","tag-expat-in-australia","tag-reddit","tag-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}