What is britches? Lol
We do have some odd sayings or names for things that even I get confused over haha
Also depends where you go as well like in country regions they have a whole new language haha or at least it sounds like it when you listen to them talk. Some of the people are as we say bogan like (to me I take that term as them being slightly "stupid" or dopey) some might have a different term for it.
We also have councils here
They are made up of a group of people for different suburbs (if you have a different name I'm guessing its county?) that are ment to look after the parks, some roads, they collect our rubbish, our pounds are run by them as well, they also have sub-sections for different things. Where I live is run by Penrith council the only thing there good for is collecting rubbish and spending money on stuff we don't need instead of cleaning up our parks and making them safe for kids to play in (the suburb I live in isn't too bad but if we drive 10mins or so away parks and streets aren't safe to be at night nor are the parks safe for humans or animals, there's a lot of drug users who don't care where they leave there needles and also a lot of broken glass around) (the western suburbs of Sydney isn't the nicest place to be, some suburbs are ok though)
For the Americans some people refer to this area as an equivalent to the Bronx? I think that's how it's spelt lol