NTSC and PAL is a pain, but you should be able to find a solution, as people do like to import from America as most things come out before they do here.
As for scousers, I suppose if you want to have fun you may want to meet one, but check if their knife is metal or rubber, some of them aren't as smart as others, so you might get lucky
Generally they come out during the evening, but you can generally lure them out of little corners with mainstream repetitive music...but not Slayer that scares them away.
Yes - I am a git, but hey I'm attacking a stereotype of anti-social vandals - Although scouser refers to a person from Liverpool generally, but it's just another word for chav now anyway.
Moving here might be a bit of fun for you (A culture change without having to learn a new language - 'Australia' you say? Sounds too foreign to me
)- although I'd rather live in Sweden because of the raising prices here (In the last 10 years house prices have quadrupled) and as a young student I don't see myself officiailly leaving home (University don't exactly count as leaving) before 25.
Look behind you a threeheaded monkey!