r/interestingasfuck 17d ago

/r/all Kangaroos are freaking scary.

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u/nomoreteathx 17d ago

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.

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u/nomoreteathx 17d ago

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.