To emigrate or not to emigrate!

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Preezy
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PostRe: To emigrate or not to emigrate!
by Preezy » Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:46 am

Photek wrote:
Preezy wrote:Living in Australia must be a bit like living in America. Perfectly fine, but there's always a nagging fear that bubbles just below the surface that you could be killed at any moment. No thanks.

It’s very likely that i’ll Retire in Minnesota or at least have a Home over there. I don’t mind it but if we lived there now I’d probably have a fear that my child could be shot in school, something that simply isn’t a worry here.

US - death by guns
AUS - death by spiders/snakes/sharks/crocodiles/more spiders/more snakes/jellyfish/even more spiders/loads of snakes/spiders in your house/snakes in your garage/strawberry floating massive spiders on your face at night/snakes on a plane/god there are so many spiders here, why are there so many spiders?/anti-vax wackos

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by 7256930752 » Wed Mar 07, 2018 11:01 am

Preezy wrote:
Photek wrote:
Preezy wrote:Living in Australia must be a bit like living in America. Perfectly fine, but there's always a nagging fear that bubbles just below the surface that you could be killed at any moment. No thanks.

It’s very likely that i’ll Retire in Minnesota or at least have a Home over there. I don’t mind it but if we lived there now I’d probably have a fear that my child could be shot in school, something that simply isn’t a worry here.

US - death by guns
AUS - death by spiders/snakes/sharks/crocodiles/more spiders/more snakes/jellyfish/even more spiders/loads of snakes/spiders in your house/snakes in your garage/strawberry floating massive spiders on your face at night/snakes on a plane/god there are so many spiders here, why are there so many spiders?/anti-vax wackos

I've always been the same that all that stuff really puts me off Oz yet I don't think about it in the States despite them having a pretty big number of horrible creepy crawlies.

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PostRe: To emigrate or not to emigrate!
by Rax » Wed Mar 07, 2018 11:19 am

Its beacuse the lunatics with guns are a much bigger threat in the US, makes the creepy crawlies less terrifying.

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PostRe: To emigrate or not to emigrate!
by Parksey » Wed Mar 07, 2018 11:26 am

Everyone bar the UK has weird insects, basically. Living abroad has made me realise our wildlife is (somewhat endearingly) bland as strawberry float. You're never going to pounced on by a badger, for example.

Here in Japan, it's the bloody cockroaches, the noisy as Hell cicadas and the annoying mosquitos. Thankfully I've been spared the terrifying mukade centipedes.

It's very British to decide not to move somewhere because of the insects. strawberry float that, I'm staying where it's perennially cloudy and 10 degrees.

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by 7256930752 » Wed Mar 07, 2018 11:27 am

Rax wrote:Its beacuse the lunatics with guns are a much bigger threat in the US, makes the creepy crawlies less terrifying.

I'd be with Trump running unarmed against an active shooter before I would tackle a brown recluse spider.

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PostRe: To emigrate or not to emigrate!
by 7256930752 » Wed Mar 07, 2018 11:29 am

Parksey wrote:Everyone bar the UK has weird insects, basically. Living abroad has made me realise our wildlife is (somewhat endearingly) bland as strawberry float. You're never going to pounced on by a badger, for example.

Here in Japan, it's the bloody cockroaches, the noisy as Hell cicadas and the annoying mosquitos. Thankfully I've been spared the terrifying mukade centipedes.

It's very British to decide not to move somewhere because of the insects. strawberry float that, I'm staying where it's perennially cloudy and 10 degrees.

If a poisonous spider can be described as 'aggresive' then man has no place there.

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PostRe: To emigrate or not to emigrate!
by Moggy » Wed Mar 07, 2018 11:31 am

Parksey wrote:You're never going to pounced on by a badger, for example.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/here ... 023369.stm

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PostRe: To emigrate or not to emigrate!
by Dual » Wed Mar 07, 2018 9:36 pm

[quote="Parksey"]Everyone bar the UK has weird insects, basically. Living abroad has made me realise our wildlife is (somewhat endearingly) bland as strawberry float. You're never going to pounced on by a badger, for example.
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This is how we came to rule the world; not spending our time surviving snake attacks day to day.

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by Lex-Man » Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:14 pm

Dual wrote:
Parksey wrote:Everyone bar the UK has weird insects, basically. Living abroad has made me realise our wildlife is (somewhat endearingly) bland as strawberry float. You're never going to pounced on by a badger, for example.
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This is how we came to rule the world; not spending our time surviving snake attacks day to day.


We killed all the dangerous stuff in the UK before moving outside the country. We use to have boars here back in the day.

I'm quite tempted to emigrate, think I might try Denmark or moving back to Japan. If either of those countries will have me.

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