They can be found in some suburban areas but the vast majority of Australians will basically never see a kangaroo anywhere but a zoo. In rural and regional areas they're far more common, and if you live on a farm then you fucking hate them.
Sure, I'd say most Australians could drive less than an hour and see a kangaroo, any highway will do, but that's not the question that was asked. In ordinary day-to-day life the majority of Australians are not ever going to see a kangaroo hopping around their suburb, 65% of us live in capital cities (40% of us in Sydney and Melbourne alone), and most of the rest live on the coast. It's not how foreigners think it is.
Again, the vast majority of Australians are metro, 90% of us live in cities and not in rural or regional areas, and the fact you don't like it doesn't change reality. The questioner asked whether kangaroos were as common in Australia as squirrels are in the US, and they absolutely aren't.
But you're not the other half of Australians. Nearly all of us live in cities, and only those in the outer suburbs might see the occasional kangaroo. Rural Australians are a tiny fraction of the population.
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u/nomoreteathx 17d ago
They can be found in some suburban areas but the vast majority of Australians will basically never see a kangaroo anywhere but a zoo. In rural and regional areas they're far more common, and if you live on a farm then you fucking hate them.