If you have lived in a big city all your life, you are not expected to realise the complete changes from country to country. Living in a close knit town, then coming to a place like Australia where there are hundreds of miles with nothing can be a shock.
There are miles and miles of nothing between food and fuel stops. There is lack of medical services for hundreds of miles. When you leave a city like Melbourne and decide to travel to Western Australia you will be in for a culture shock. To learn more