In everyday use in this part of the world you never hear the word near-sighted. In Australia and I think a lot of other British English countries, short-sighted

In everyday use in this part of the world you never hear the word near-sighted. In Australia and I think a lot of other British English countries, short-sighted is the plain English term for myopic. (But the thing is most of us know that the US uses the other term)