Tell me something that you have to do.....

Yup. This post just confirms why Australia will never be on my travel list. I’m content to look at its beauty on my computer screen. 🕷️ 😨

I have to remember to shut all the fly screen doors when I go outside or the rainbow lorikeets and magpies will walk into my house like they own it.
Not all Australian wildlife is out to get you, some just want food 😁
But I do not store any shoes outdoors that’s for sure (easiest place for a spider to live ever!)
Things like spiders and snakes I’m super used to, for me just the thought of bears and larger cats (lynx/mountain lions etc) that could come looking for me/attack me gives me the shakes!
I suppose for usa peas they are run of the mill, like snakes and spiders are for us Aussie peas?
As scrapalotomous said, plovers are super annoying and stupid. We had one nest on a roundabout and then get angry every time a car drove around it 🤣🤣🤣

When I used to commute into the city via the Metro (DMV subway) for work (pre-COVID), I had this routine down pat as well. My commute involved a train change and I knew exactly which car (and even which part of the car) to be in for the right exit, knew where to stand on the platform to get the door I wanted, etc. Have not commuted into the city since March 2020.

I do occasionally have to put flood defence barriers at all my doors as I live near a river and the house has flooded twice (not whilst I lived here), but I’ll take that any day rather that live near dangerous spiders, snakes, frogs, magpies and kangaroos etc!

I love this thread and the pictures! Not much to add from the Netherlands, I guess the main thing you need to watch out for are bicycles. From the left, from behind, from the right . We have about 24 million bikes n a country with less than 18 million people. So yes, when driving a car you are always aware of cyclists everywhere. When I am on my bike I am probably just as annoying

This is no longer the case, but one of my household duties was to walk down the pier and check the crab pots (traps) for captures and seeing if they needed food. If caught crabs don't have other food, they will start eating one another.

The disease aussies created to kill rabbits has made its way to North America and worked its way north to Alberta and is a horrendous death. It’s also transferred from wild rabbits to domestics, our pet bunnies cannot yet get vaccinated and we are very careful of what they are exposed to. 

we are not supposed to let moose lick our cars, now for one, I am not going to stop one from doing this. 
snow, cold, are a way of life but we generally don’t head out until checking wind chill values. It might only be -25C but could be -40 with wind chill. 

always keep your gas tank topped up, you never know when you might get stuck or the highway shut down. Deer at dusk and Dawn. Cougars, are a very real possibility, last year a small boy was attacked but rescued out west of the farm. Always have a self contained battery charger in case your battery drains from cold. 

i geocache, and really it’s pretty safe right where I am. I think if I cached anywhere else I’d die by snakes, spiders, or gators.