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I live in the area where the show is set (the Morton Bay region north of Brisbane) and it’s delightful how many details we recognise in the show.

Having lived in the US for 10 years and returning couple of years ago (with my first 30 years in Australia), I feel like Bluey does a great job of showing some key cultural differences between these countries. I’ve seen some American viewers get quite cross by what they see as a totally unrealistic portrayal of life, but things really are pretty fundamentally different over here.

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Moreton Bay? Nah, their home is almost definitely around Ashgrove, Red Hill, Kelvin Grove, Paddington, somewhere around those parts. Suburbs just to the north-west of the CBD, based on having been around those a pile and having seen most of Bluey.

And extrapolating from things that are inevitably close, as listed in https://blueypedia.fandom.com/wiki/Real-Life_Locations

And the buses aren't Translink livery, they're all blue, white, and yellow, so definitely somewhere within BCC, not Moreton Bay Region (although I shouldn't assume you meant the Moreton Bay council).

That said, you could be using Moreton Bay when you really mean SEQLD anywhere north of the Brisbane River, it's been known to happen.

I'd say Moreton Bay was a region of Brisbane where Bluey is set, I don't think OP meant 'its from my suburb or street'.

I'm Australian but never seen the show, what about it do some Americans find it totally unrealistic?

I got quite excited once because I thought I recognised Mt Beerburrum in the background of one of the Bluey episodes. I hadn't visited that area in decades.

I'm Australian living in UK for 10 years - I haven't watched it, but a friend who's a parent talks to me about it and I've seen clips and it makes me nostalgic about things that I've completely forgotten. Like "crumbed or battered" fish, or "bush wee".

100%. Said as an Aussie who has been living in the states for a decade

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