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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.

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

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

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.

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

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.