[RowanH]

> NZ today is a tough place to stay alive.

This might be a low effort reply, but a bunch of us manage too :)

In all seriousness every country has it's own unique things that locals are very much familiar with and outsiders it's just foreign to.

Australia - predisposed to critters that want to kill you. Checking your shoes for spiders is a thing.

America - well I'll leave the obvious out, but there's some pretty nasty deserts you'd not want to be caught out in, or the odd cat 4 Tornado, or my favourite from last visit, walking past a tree that had head high claw marks all through it (either Cougar or Bear, wtf, that was like a 20min walk from the hotel in boulder!!)

Then there's Canada -40c anyone? That's really not meant for human survival.