• Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    141·
    6 hours ago

    I really really hate this narrative. Time and time again people tell me they would love to come to Australia but it’s too dangerous.

    This isn’t a dangerous place, most of our wildlife is harmless and/or actively avoids people. It makes me so damn sad every time another friend tells me how deadly my home is, and even worse they refuse to listen to people who actually live here because they’ve been told Australia is dangerous their whole life.

    • Skua@kbin.earth
      13·
      6 hours ago

      Wait, people actually avoid Australia because of it? I mean, I do think of Australian wildlife as dangerous, but to me that means “don’t fuck about” rather than “don’t go at all”. And I live in the UK, where we killed everything that was even slightly dangerous to humans long ago

      • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
        4·
        5 hours ago

        absolutely correct… in australia, you respect the wildlife because it often has the ability to protect itself… its not like people die here every day from it

    • SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      10·
      6 hours ago

      It’s funny hearing people say this here in Canada. Like we have polar bears and moose and shit. A moose will fuck you up a lot worse than a big spider or whatever. I’m much more fearful of our wildlife.

      • Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        41·
        4 hours ago

        Yeah exactly right? I’ve had Americans tell me that snakes and spiders are too scary, snakes will actively run from people (mostly) and spiders don’t care about you they just want flies and stuff.

        Meanwhile in NA you’ve got powerful prey species that will just randomly wander through town, not to mention all the gun violence in the USA…

        Most dangerous thing here are the cars tbh.

      • phorq@lemmy.mlEspañol
        5·
        5 hours ago

        Moose and bears may break my bones, but spiders will always scare me. Plus Bullwinkle would have a hard time sneaking into my bed or shoe unnoticed…

  • gila@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    7 hours ago

    On the other hand, it’s not like we have 600lb bears charging around. Pretty much all kinds of attack by our land animals can be thwarted using the ancient & mysterious art of wearing enclosed shoes & pants.