The state of Victoria sucked for sure in Covid, over a year of lockdown. Other states had barely any, here in SA only 3 weeks total. I feel like Victoria's experience was overplayed as Australia's.
Even the gun thing, Australians have more guns today than before the Port Arthur Massacre gun grabbing.
I reckon you would have liked it, lots of places you can completely disappear if you wanted, in lots of environments.