Australians-are Home and Away and Neighbours a realistic portrayal of Australian life?

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Xanthe â™«

To be quite honest - there is nothing about the lifestyles of anyone on neighbours or home and away that I can relate to. It is very unrealistic as far as I am concerned.

Most people don't know their neighbours that well - and for those who do live in a street that does know their neighbours that well (I was lucky enough to a few years back) it is still rare to see your neighbours quite that often. Especially since most people work full time - they don't have time to be out socialising at all hours of the day.

Also - my school was nothing like the ones they have - we would have been expelled for half the stuff those kids get away with - and we weren't allowed outside the school grounds for lunch (or any time during school hours) without a permission slip.

Elliot

They're soap operas; they're not realistic portrayals of anything.

theforbiddenstep

OH GOD ......... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Phil O

no where is all the ethnicity?

Future Eagles Mummy!!

You know what, I have been an on again off again watcher of Neighbours & H & A for years and it never occurred to me that they had a distinct lack of the non-white. Apart from the odd guest appearance now and then. I feel a sudden urge to write to both places to find out why!!

jstnfox

Hell No, Im Australian and think Home & Away not Neighbours should be cancelled. Home & Away is stupid but Neighbours is ok.

foxy

god no, and by the way, just hearing their theme songs is enough to make me want to get drunk.

Mel

A very over-exagerated portrayal maybe.

They try so hard to include all the issues in society and by doing so make it so unrealistic.

Have you ever noticed the story lines between the two copy each other?

They are pretty poor, but I still watch them.

Essendon Bomberman

So...... Aussies live their lives like terrible actors, it that what your saying? thats just h&a, neighbours is entertaining and good to watch.
Neighbours = Yes
H&A = No

Anastasia

In a way of course not, as they are tv show's and overly dramatized but I actually can relate to home and away. It's filmed where I live and that's what schools are like around me and they wear normal clothes that we were and the Summer Bay defiantly has that small town feel. I dont think anyone can say straight not at all as they definitely have some similarities. Well I notice them being an aussie teenager.

molly

No I agree with Phil we are a multi-cultural society.

Jazza B

Yes, every Aussie family has relationship dramas every day, bomb scares, houses lit on fire, fall down holes, give birth in places far from hospitals, affairs, betrayals etc. That all happened to me last week, in fact!

Zebra

I was going to say exactly the same as Phil. No, as they are all white people. Australian TV is segregated. You'd think it was old school South Africa! It's all white, all the tv shows & all the newsreaders, weather people, etc. Then they have the SBS channel which is where all the ethnic people are. Very strange to me as I am from NZ where it's very multicultural. Our soap opera, Shortland St, is very racially mixed with storylines about Indian women who have to do what their parents say & they're conflicted re trying to adapt to NZ, etc. It looks to me like UK soaps are similar.

You do see people in Australia that live the surf lifestyle by the beach, etc but of course not every Australian is like that & alot of Australians have never been on a surfboard. As for neighbours, god, do they ever leave blinkin Ramsay St & their local cafe?! I think most people are out & about alot more than that & aren't obsessed with the happenings in their immediate suburb!

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