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People have so many reasons to love their homeland, from friends and family living there, to nature, language, food, and so much more. But many would agree that even the most amazing of countries unfortunately have a darker side, too, which can be quite scary.
Members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community recently got painfully honest about what scares them about the country they’re from. They opened up after netizen ‘u/Efficient-Formal-195’ started a thread about it, and covered all sorts of scenarios, including violence, social issues, and other concerns. If you’re wondering what problems they face in specific countries, scroll down to find their answers on the list below, and feel free to share what troubles you about your homeland in the comments.
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#1
USA - I freak out at the thought that a young woman who was sexually assaulted must then (if impregnated) give birth to the child she never wanted because some bastards and their poisoned offspring are “pro-life”.
Mason Kronol 1 year ago
Ohio citizen here. Yes, where the 10 year old that was raped had to go to Indiana for an abortion. And now they’re trying to prosecute the doctor. I am over 50 (Bernie Moreno) but still vote for girls and young women as does my husband. I don’t where everyone else is.
The Scout 1 year ago
They are not "pro-life", it is just that they cannot stand the thought of women making decisions. There are studies that claim Roe vs. Wade did more to tackle the issue of crime and violence than any police or "law & order" measures ever could - just by preventing potential criminals from being born into problematic circumstances, saving lots of pregnant teens from social decline in the process.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
@The Scout: quite right. Why does anyone accept their dishonest propaganda term "pro-life"? They're anti-abortion misogynists. They don't care about living breathing babies once born, or their mothers. There needs to be some snappy phrase to describe the sort of people who oppose support for mothers and newborn babies whilst also falsely claiming to provide such support, which is what the US anti-abortion lobby does.
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Tracy Sellars 1 year ago
Or not only is she forced to carry the fetus but if there is medical issues she will not get the appropriate care and die. Meanwhile the rapist gets a smack on the wrist and told to not be a naughty boy.
notlikeyou1971 1 year ago
Prepare for the system to be overwhelmed pretty soon with r**e babies that are unwanted by bio moms/victims. Better reopen those orphanages. I know plenty of women who couldn't imagine raising them because they see the result of their being attacked every day if forced to do so. Before anyone says " but a baby is innocent ", what is that child the result of? Also they don't think about the bio mom and how the child is going to be paid for. Now if the state has to pay for them, or the child or mom isn't healthy, then what. These people are only Pro Birth. Once they force people to have a kid they walk away and don't see what kind of life it's going to have.
Anne Reid 1 year ago
Those same “pro-life” folks also rage about food stamps, subsidized housing, low-income housing and free school meal for low income families. Not to mention raising minimum wage or national health care. 😡🤬😡😡
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Sarah Matsoukis 1 year ago
And the rapist can get custody because she's too young to raise the child
Zoe 1 year ago
System of the down. We should be ashamed. I couldn't believe that we're so uneducated as a whole. Personally, I am ashamed to admit that we have picked up this same thing once again. It's backwards all over again. I can imagine his grinning, so very much punchable face, and I feel sick immediately.
Lucifer 1 year ago
I wouldn't put it past Republicans to bring back "witch" burning. They simply hate women.
Rhonda Barrett 1 year ago
Not true. I'm a Republican and I'm Pro-Choice. We're not carbon copies of each other, just saying.
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#2
Ukraine - Oh god. Missiles and drones that try to kill us every single day. F**k russia.
Lady Lestrange 1 year ago
Russia is the perfect example of how wrong people in leadership positions can become a threat to many.
Bill 1 year ago
Todays Russia is worse than the old USSR. Maybe putting the head of the old KGB was not the smart choice. Plus he has cancer so he gives f**k all about nukes flying he is dying anyway. Scary situation man. F**k You Vlad
Richienotsorich 1 year ago
Source? There are only rumours which are probably misinformation put about to undermine him.
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Sven Horlemann 1 year ago
I simply hope this get sorted out. And we will not be dragged into WW III.
#3
I am from the United States—I don’t care about people having different political opinions or beliefs but there is a massive issue on people being misinformed and wildly uneducated on certain topics.
axle f 1 year ago
...truer words, my friend. it's gonna be a bumpy ride...
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Huddo's sister 1 year ago
In Australia we had a referendum last year about whether to recognise Aboriginals in the constitution and create a national treaty. Leading up, I was pretty confident that it would pass. Then about 4 weeks before we stated getting more ads from the opposition whose big pull was that if you don't understand the proposal then you should vote no, and the government didn't really address this. They should have been out educating people, especially in regional areas where there was lots of misunderstanding or at least putting out more ads explaining what it meant, but they didn't. So of course the referendum came back as a majority no vote. I was, and still am, so disappointed, in both the general population who voted no, and the government who didn't address misinformation. Lack of education and propaganda that gives misinformation are so dangerous!
Tamra 1 year ago
Better left wing ideology than a lying, narcissistic rapist and felon.
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#4
Men, religion, politics and pollution.
I'm Indian.
Sahitya Madhavan 1 year ago
I'm with you. I keep thinking how I can leave this country I was born in.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
A friend of my sister's has had this twice in her life. She was born in India, but her family moved to the US when she was young. Then when she was a teenager her dad was able to get custody and move her to Australia. She has been very vocal about the reasons she is glad she no longer lives in either country and will never return. It's such a shame that the countries that could be better for a lot of people are so hard to migrate to.
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Sahitya Madhavan 1 year ago
Adding to this, the corruption and the never-ending population, and racism.
#5
United States. Health care is so expensive that people suffer and there issues get far worse. And people die because they can't afford health care.
Jenn Smith 1 year ago
Ironic, when there's so many "pro-life" people. Yay getting born! But f**k you once you breathe independently!
Abdullah Abd Rahman 1 year ago
Ironic,when it's the richest country in the world. Ordinary Americans are getting screwed daily by politicians and their filthy-rich donors and friends - and many don't even realise it.
Jon Steensen 11 months ago
...or because an AI algorith thinks that it knows better than the doctors, saying that this patient needs this treatment. I guess delivering what you promised simply isn't as profitable as just telling people "no", so the stakeholders can get their return on investment, and your Christmas bonus is safe because "you did good".
Dogcat vet (retired) 1 year ago (edited)
Its not perfect in other countries...article was out about a 95 year old woman fell in Dorset and was told she was not a priority and it took 15 hours before an amubulance came to get her (broken hip). Her husband stayed with her and got a respiratory infection. Thats not right either.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/30/pensioner-not-priority-999-broke-hip-nhs/?msockid=21002249426c663f1b8b370843066759
VisualHowlaroundTitleSequence 1 year ago
Pre-Existing conditions were eliminated by the ACA. No one but morons thought that was better.
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USA - American food. There’s literally stuff they put in our food that’s illegal in most countries.
Rose the Cook 1 year ago
I avoid food made in the USA because of the listed ingredients most of which are just numbers,
Ace 1 year ago (edited)
1. If it's being sold in the EU (and the rest of Europe, de facto) then it must conform to EU rules. 2. The numbers have meanings, don't just assume that all of them mean something bad. 3. You're probably right though.
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Trista JW 1 year ago
We do not. Only the middle-class and above do. And with how fvcking stupid our economy is, it'll only the high-class being able to get a hamburger at McDonald's soon enough
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not to mention how everything is spiked with sugar and fats, because people naturally craves high calorie content. When things like simple toast is loaded with so much sugar that it should be classified as cake, it makes it very difficult to keep a healthy weight, if you don't have the time to cook everything from the ground up.
Ivana Hotdog 1 year ago
And yet, Kinder Surprise eggs are banned because someone MIGHT choke...
Trista JW 1 year ago
First of all, people can and will eat whatever the hell they want and no one has the right to say anything otherwise. Secondly: if you're afraid to eat what the fvck we've got here, just avoid this extremely fvcked-up country's food. It fvcking sucks @$$ anyway, so you're damn sure not missing out on anything (I can and will say that because I was born here-- our food is fvcking boring as all hell!)
#7
Germany- Rise of support for fascists in politics.
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
I really don't wanna sound like a tinfoil hat, but I'm starting to notice a trend that there's always a surge in reports of immigrant violence / crimes when there's some elections about to happen in Europe. I'm not saying all of them, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of those incidents were staged by the fascist parties and their supporters to fan the anti-immigrant hate.
Orysha 1 year ago
There are no surge in immigrant crimes, immigrants are just the perfect scapegoats for most politician and many mass media are owned by fascist bilionaires (ever heard of Vincent Bolloré for instance?)
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Sven Horlemann 1 year ago
Not just a German problem, unfortunately. Though I feel we still got it under control, even with the upcoming election. I hope I do not regret writing this. German here.
nm (he/him) 1 year ago (edited)
Extreme Right is rising in Europe because the stupid Leftists demanded open frontiers for immigrants. The peoples are fed-up. Nobody cares how many Europe can accept. And the newcomers will transform Europe to the sithole they escaped from.
Richienotsorich 1 year ago
This. Western civilisation birth rates are down because people can't afford to have families, however the population keeps rising and rising. The only people having large families now are immigrants.
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Sarah Matsoukis 1 year ago
Germany has become spineless, expensive, outdated in some ways and also everyone is just bitching but no one wants change either
IORN 1 year ago
Well... every action has a reaction. Unchecked migration, judges delivering slaps on the wrist for rapes and armed attacks, education getting worse, what could you expect? That's how you get people losing trust in current government and starting to believe the extremists are the solution.
Jon Steensen 11 months ago
I thought you've been there, done that, and figured out that it was a really bad idea.... Well, I guess once those who has experienced it firsthand dies of, and can no longer warn others, societies are bound to make the same mistakes... If only we had the ability to learn from history, we could avoid a lot of future problems.
Captive 1 year ago
You are repeating the populistic right BS. Can I take a guess on which party you prefer?
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#8
Iraq - Teen marriage and teen moms as a teen.
Winter 1 year ago (edited)
Where abouts was it that they have just lowered the age of consent... from 18.... to nine (9) ? Oh yeah... Iraq (dunno if I can do this: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/women-and-girls/iraq-poised-to-lower-the-age-of-consent-for-girls-to-nine/ )
Sven Horlemann 1 year ago
As disgusting as a country led by men can lead a nation. Everyone should oppose this.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Badly worded, but I think they meant that, as a teen themselves, the rate of teen mums is scary
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USA. The sheer amount of mentally ill people wandering the streets. I’m talking the extreme cases. Experiencing psychotic breakdowns in public and being left alone to spiral out of control. Frightening and heartbreaking.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Even scarier: All the mentally ill people that turned up to vote on November 5th.
axle f 1 year ago
Even scarier....the ill? well?...millions who didn't bother voting at all..
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Lady Lestrange 1 year ago
Rise and shine! It's more of a global issue than just The USA. (IMO)
Der Kommissar 1 year ago
The sheer amount of mentally ill people wandering the halls of Congress
Abdullah Abd Rahman 1 year ago
Sorry to say America is a sick country, in every sense of the word.
Tyranamar Suess 1 year ago
This is bc the US grossly misunderstands anosognosia. They genuinely think these people should be "free" to make "choices." Once you're severely mentally ill, that part of your brain that is responsible for insight, I.e. knowing you are mentally ill, no longer works. These people aren't rationally weighing risks and benefits, and then "choosing" to eat out of trash cans and live in a tent. They are insane. And making insane unhealthy choices. We need to protect them from themselves. It's started to turn around. But I literally had a woman in my ER once who was talking to people that didn't exist, shoving pieces of trash up her arm pits over and over, and growling at us. And I was told I had to let her go bc she had "food" (trash), clothing- stained, smelly, and worn but warm enough for the weather, and "housing" (Her cardboard box on the street). I let her go. But never again. I will not give in to pressure like that again. That woman needed help. So frustrating.
frederick clause 1 year ago
The USA won't provide proper health care for the masses, how can they be expected to provide mental health care?
Curbz81 1 year ago
I think the spirit of OP is the extremely mentally ill, not just ones with mood or personality disorders. Its the same in Canada. People have the freedom to be free, and as another commenter wrote often people in psychosis do not think they are. And therefore don't want treatment. And in Canada we talk about a lack of funding but often its a lack of clout. Once someones is no longer an IMMEDIATE risk to themselves or others they can decline treatment.
#10
U.S.
How everything America has built over the last 100 years about to collapse because of the constant neglect of the government and corporations. And how profits matter more than making sure its citizens have food, water and shelter.
Lucifer 1 year ago
Thank Reagan, the president who said government is the problem, for the unbridled greed of corporations and uber wealthy. They took tech developed by government agencies/funds (Tax payer money) and turned around to steal more wealth from the same people.
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
Reagan is currently rotting in hell, waiting for heaven to trickle down.
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Republicans say government is the problem. Then they get elected and prove it.
Skywitness 1 year ago
Our old form of government was tottering so the electorate has voted in a kakistocracy! How tough is it to medically induce a 4 year coma with the option to extend if the nightmare hasn't ended?
#11
The escalating violence. We have deadly assaults, bombs and assassinations in broad daylight on a monthly basis. Kid soldiers carry out murder and they are like 12 (!).
Ultimately I blame a catastrophic immigration policy over a 10-20 years period. There has never been a real plan on how to assimilate foreigners into society, which has lead to greater dived between ethnicity and cultures. That has paved the way for a new generation of kids with no prospects because they receive no support or encouragement at home, because their parents have never been part of the society. This has grown exponentially over the years but no one (or at least far from the majority) has dared to address the problem given the cultural and racial connections.
A few years ago something happened. The violence became much more cynical and ruthless. Only when the violence hit middle/upper class neighborhoods, things started to happen politically. In desperation, politicians are now enforcing stricter laws to strike down on criminality, some of which are either totally ineffective or morally questionable, and I feel this will only widen the divide and prolong the problem. You’re not really fixing the real issue, only putting band aid on it. Sad part is, and this goes for all democracies, the ruling politicians are swapped out every 4/8 year, which makes it difficult to work long term.
I live in Sweden.
ScarletRos 1 year ago
Wow. I have a Swedish friend who had been living in Australia for many years but returned to Sweden around three years ago. She recently came back to Australia for a holiday and she said these exact things. I couldn’t believe it. I thought Sweden was a reasonably peaceful country. Seems not sadly.
Content Wombat 1 year ago
It feels like the same thing is happening in the UK - I've had to stop watching the news because it's so bleak at the moment.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
It feels bad, but actually the UK is incredibly safe overall. The level of violence around when my parents were little was shocking - and, back then, the police generally ignored reports of any sort of domestic abuse.
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That scares me to. Living in near a pretty small town and now we have a lot of arsons, shootings and violence.
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
This is so sad because I know many Swedes and Spanish who went in the 50.running from Franco who have been assimilated into Sweden. Many who are now retired prefer to live in Sweden then Spain.
Panda Panda Bo Banda 1 year ago
Over here (US & Canada) we still think of Sweden as a model country
Ece Cenker 1 year ago
4/8 year term is not a problem. Many things have been achieved in the past in these terms. The problem is there is no will to actually solve problems, anymore. If there were "states" would carry out long term projects even as "governments" changed.
Campy 1 year ago
Are you going to offer a counter-argument or just have a hissy fit? You live in Sweden, do you?
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US citizen here, probably the amount of shootings, I don't mean just school shootings, shootings in general, supermarkets, gyms, parks, hell, your own house, and even if we ban guns, criminals will still have guns because they don't care about the law at this point.
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
Banning guns won't have an immediate effect but will in the long run. It a proven fact. As the supply of guns dries up and it gets harder to buy or sell they will be less guns on the street..in most civilised countries we can't carry short arms. If I'm a hunter my guns must me locked in a safe. The police come and check.
Abdullah Abd Rahman 1 year ago
Banning guns in America is a fantasy. US politicians, Democrat or Republican, will always support their wealthy, gun-supplier donors and friends. Gun-supplying is a syndicate in America.
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Nils Skirnir 1 year ago
US is the most violent ‘developed’ country and more violent than a lot of ‘undeveloped’ ones. Not just gun violence, but stabbing, beatings, and other violence too. Some countries actually warn citizens about visiting US.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
And every state has hundreds of white militias armed to the teeth. Ironically, they all want guns for "protection" and the end result is that they probably will be the group we need protection from.
Apachebathmat 1 year ago
Sadly I doubt I will ever return to the states, I just don’t feel safe at all. I have some dear friends there but they would rather come here to the UK anyway so at least I still see them
#13
It will sound bad, but immigration. I don't want my progressive country (Spain) to become more and more islamic :(.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
I don't see any problem with a country becoming more islamic, christian, or Pastifarian. The problem is letting any religious group (except perhaps Pastafarians) force their religious ideology on others.
Multa Nocte 1 year ago
Hey! I have been a Pastafarian from Day 1 and we NEVER force our beliefs on others! Ramen! May you be touched by His or Her noodly appendages!
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Donna Peluda 1 year ago
The issue is that we make religious exemptions for eastern religions so when Islam comes along they jump on the band wagon. Religion needs to be eradicated but taxing them and called what it is, Mythology.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
The best way to discredit a religion is to make it live up to its claims.
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Ελένη Κ. 1 year ago
I know what you mean. Greek here and I feel exactly the same. Especially when all these immigrants are disrespectful and violent.
Solidhog 1 year ago
What I find more scary is that in this day and age how there are so many people who commit acts of violence, discrimination and war because of an imaginary friend with no physical evidence of proof over thousands of years. And we still think we are the most intelligent beings on this planet.
stella rossa 1 year ago
It's racist to tell this. So far-right and fascism is growing in Europe.
Richienotsorich 1 year ago
Two biggest incidents of fascism this last year have been attacks on 'right-wing' political candidates (Trump and Farage). Please don't believe it is only right-wing that behave this way.
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Captive 1 year ago
Nobody is spreading Islam in Spain by force. The question is, why does it bother you so much?
Richienotsorich 1 year ago
Being LGBTQ and not wanting to fly from the top of a building too (I'm not but I don't want to see this happening).
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US: Ignorance. Most are not willing to invest the time to understand, read, gain knowledge on what is happening in our country which leads to poor decisions based on headlines and social media posts.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
Government to the corporations: "I keep them stupid and you keep them poor"
Trista JW 1 year ago (edited)
When an entire country is fed nothing but lies from all political sides, propaganda, AI is being used in politics and the damned news, the truth is covered up constantly and ouir goddamned "leaders" are fvcking lying, scheming, dirty douchebags, of course the majority of the people who live in this $h1th0le are going to be ignorant dumbfvcks.
#15
Cartels.
A lot of people in Mexico are not experiencing DIRECT violence of Cartels. But the violence they impose is wholly downplayed by our government (they're complicit with them, obviously) and it still scares me so much, even though I love my country. I really hate that Mexico = absolute brutality of Cartels, while they're being almost glamorized in pop culture. I hate that someones mentions Mexico here in Reddit and you have to read morbid jokes about Cartels and d***s - I mean, I know it's unavoidable, but it stings when it's so close to you.
There are lots of towns I used to travel to when I was a little girl, charming little towns and cities that are completely taken by organized crime. It's heartbreaking and scary.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
And most of the guns that the d**g cartel have were provided by American gun dealers.
Salvador Ciappara 1 year ago
Ah. Right. Again. It's all The United States fault
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michael reid 1 year ago
The Spanish managed to conquer the brutal Aztecs but they never really changed them apart from their language.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
This is what keeps me from travelling to Mexico. Even my Mexican cousin downplays it, saying it's as bad as Canada. I feel safe here, walking down the street at night, than I ever would walking in the Mexico during the day.
nm (he/him) 1 year ago
I had been in Mexico twice back in the 70s. It was poor then, but it was safe.
#16
Proximity to Russia. It's literally the only thing that I feel threatened by there as otherwise it's maybe not the best but still a chill place to live (Latvia).
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
NATO has never failed yet. NATO also has three independent nuclear deterrents, which means even if the orange rapist pulls the US out of NATO, European NATO members still have a deterrent that Putin can't help respect.
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TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
Well, they are backed up by the biggest military alliance with the most modern weapon systems available - Russia already has massive (and unnecessary) casualities in Ukraine, imagine them having to fight against 32 more countries
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago (edited)
32 more countries, yes - but for all that their armed forces are ready, willing, and able, Belgium and the Netherlands for example don't really show up on the graph against Russia... Then again, NATO now has Finland and Sweden in the alliance and that definitely bothers Putin. Despite their small populations, both of them have long been equipped to give their Eastern neighbour serious trouble if need be. Modern or not, Finland and Sweden have troops and equipment which very definitely work properly in their climate.
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Lack of affordable housing.
swiftpanthera:
It scares me how global this issue is.
Verena 1 year ago
I live in a very touristy region. Locals have difficulties with finding affordable housing, because it is difficult to find space to build houses for permanent residency. But building a new holiday park with 300 to 400 real houses (two levels, big living room, big kitchen, several bathrooms and 3+ bedrooms on 120m2 plus big garden) is absolutely no problem. We have more than 20 of them along the coast, plus existing villages turned into resorts.
Petra Schaap 1 year ago
one would almost say... take them! not me ofcourse. But just imagine.
Load More Replies... notlikeyou1971 1 year ago
Definitely housing is not affordable here.Before people say " why don't you move " I can't. I am also disabled handicapped with multiple worsening health issues. If I could change my situation, I would have already done. I live with 3 other people for the time being ( don't even know if I can stay permanently) .I am priced out of everything. Everyone became so greedy.
V 1 year ago
Yeah, our kid has a chronic health condition requiring hospital appointments every 2-3 months, if we moved to a regional area we would save money on rent, but would not earn as much money doing what we do, plus we would need to buy and run a car plus have to travel to the city every 8-12 weeks. Any money we saved on rent would be gone, plus a good bit extra, very quickly.
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 1 year ago
With all the problems in the world and the skyrocketing cost of living, I am surprised people are still having children! Why add to the problem? Why create another human to endure suffering?
Sand Ers 1 year ago
No the issue is that the lack of housing is driven by greed.
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#18
> What's something in your country that genuinely scares you?
I live in the US and this last election cycle genuinely scares me.
It's not specifically that Donald Trump won... But more the apparent apathy from a substantial chunk of the country.
Something like 40% of the electorate just didn't bother to vote.
And now, after the election, we're seeing stories about folks discovering what tariffs are.
And I'm just having a hard time wrapping my head around that level of apathy. I mean - I'm a nonbinary queer weirdo so I've clearly got issues with the Republican platform - but that's not even what I'm talking about. Trump is proposing policies that would have a substantial financial impact on most folks in the US... And apparently something like half the population just doesn't care enough to vote?
I don't like dealing with politics. I don't find this stuff fun or interesting. I've got tons of things I'd rather be doing with my time. But I'm not rich-enough to just throw my money away, so I'm going to take a couple hours to figure out which candidate is actually going to be the best for my finances.
And, apparently, something like half this country just doesn't care.
There's so many big f*****g problems in the world... And this last election cycle is going to be felt around the world for years to come... And folks just don't care?
How do you possibly fix anything if people can't be bothered to even show up to vote? If they can't spend an hour or two looking at actual policies and positions? If the best we can possibly hope for is that maybe folks will just vote for their team? If even something as real and immediate as your own pocketbook isn't enough to motivate people?
gbic 3548 1 year ago
Amen. Down with apathy. Up with thinking for yourself, spending just a little time researching what your vote for candidate A could do for yourself and what you care about. Time for brain use the next election go-around, people. Thos who didn't vote? Get your heads out of your asses.
michael reid 1 year ago
Surely some of those who did not vote will have looked carefully at both sides and come to the inevitable conclusion that there is very little to choose between them in the long run. Of course they have different ideas etc. but the end result is the same. Disappointment and ultimately, no control personally over the outcome during the period in office. I speak from experience, I'm in UK.
Load More Replies... Ace 1 year ago
I hear you, but the skewed, screwed, two-party system and the electoral colleges mean that for many people their vote, literally, will not count, so why bother turning up? Yes, it sucks, but it's not simply the fault of those individuals who didn't vote. You need to look elsewhere for the real problem.
Winter 1 year ago
No, it's not that they *don't care*, because they *do* care! A lot! About are the lies and deliberate misleading rubbish they're constantly fed by jerks like Trump and his cronies! Unfortunately, what they *really don't* care about is educating themselves and learning about the world around them, and what's going to happen to them if and/or when these tariffs are raised!
Jon Steensen 1 year ago
I think the low turn out percentage has it part of its root in some politicians delibrately making it more difficult to vote than nessesary, in the hope that it is mostly the oponent's voters that will be excluded. Furthermore, the right has done all they can to muddy it up, with their "alternative facts", which seem to be whatever Donald Trump thinks will suit his agenda i the current moment. There is so much probaganda out there, and the journalists do such a bad job combatting it, that I think a lot of people have a hard time figuring out what is up and what is down, and what the actual state of the country is. Finding good and reliable sources for information, is something that should be taught at school. It is when people can distinguish between real data and lies that the become vulnerable to giving power to conmen.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
When I look at the numbers for the 2024 election it makes me think that trump didn't win so much as Harris lost. The voting age population increased by about 10 million between the 2020 and 2024 elections. trump got about 2.7 million more votes in 2024 than he did in 2020, which means the percentage of people who voted for him stayed almost exactly the same (29.42% >29.35). Harris got about 6.8 million fewer votes than Biden got in 2024, which was a substantial reduction in the percent of people who voted for the Democrat's candidate (32.2% > 28.4%). All those people who didn't vote for Harris had their reasons, but rather than vote for her opponent they simply didn't vote. If they had, perhaps many of them would have voted for trump, but if they just cared enough to vote we'd almost certainly have seen at least a common vote majority for Harris.
Heather Menard 1 year ago
They care but they knew no matter what the orange man was going to win and they really have no way to change it
#19
Scotland is boringly safe and unvenomous compared to other countries, but one thing that is happening here that I find massively concerning is the way cash is being phased out. They like to use the "cash isn't safe because of covid" argument but that's so obviously not the reason. Maybe I sound like one of those tin foil hat people but I don't want to find out what kind of shit the government will pull when money only exists digitally and every transaction is monitored.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Even if you've never even seen tin foil it's perfectly reasonable to want the option of paying in a manner that doesn't guarantee that it's easy to know who bought what, and when the bought it.
Space Invader 1 year ago
There's also a far more practical reason: Cash works when power or internet infrastructure are down.
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
Except - cash is only a symbol of money. The "real" money already only exists in bank records, and has done for a very long time. When "every transaction is monitored" - that worries me, except most transactions are already monitored. On the other hand, just so long as the UK government doesn't ban end-to-end strong encryption, our banking and shopping records will remain safe from government peeking and prying.
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
For years now my wage is deposited in the bank every month. Using cards is easy. I don't carry a lot of cash. Once or twice a month I draw 100 euros from the ATM to pay small things. But cards make it easy.
Boo 1 year ago
I think I have like 8 quid in my purse. I keep forgetting it's there and just use my debit card.
Load More Replies... Libstak 1 year ago (edited)
This is the single only thing that scares me in Australia too. There have been examples constantly of failures of non cash systems in banks, including internet and ATM's etc but they are still pushing cashless at us. ATM's for example, were supposed to reduce fees by reducing tellers in banks, now it's card transactions and electronic banking. It's all a lie, ATM's and eftpos have paid for themselves 1000 times over yet fees keep rising and because they collude you can't get around it.....how many more fees and controls will they impose when you have no cash and therefore no choice yet again? Too many blind and naive people just calming walking to the cliff with smiles on their faces and a Starbucks in one hand and an iPhone in the other.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I agree. Also, there are still many instances where you do need cash, like market stalls, garage sales, charity donations, school events, etc. If we phase out cash completely, are all these people meant to have a card reader?
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RabidChild 11 months ago
When all your money is digital, not only is every transaction you make traceable, your wealth is not in your control. Accounts can be frozen or balances stolen with a few keystrokes and good luck getting it back.
Ghostpotato 1 year ago
We're pretty much already there in Sweden, there aren't a lot of places where you can use cash nowadays. But what freaks me out more is that some people have taken the next step and gotten implants instead of carrying cards. That just feels too much like the start of a Black Mirror episode to me!
Thatkamloopsguy 1 year ago
I worked in retail during covid and had to handle cash every single day, rarely washed my hands and never caught anything.
I’ve Seen Things 1 year ago
Using cash or card doesn’t worry me, it is the add on fees to use a card many businesses on-charge that annoys me. Cash has no fees, cards cost the business or buyer, and only the banks profit.
Richienotsorich 1 year ago
Dunno where you are but I can't recall ever being charged extra to use a debit card in the UK.
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Greek here. The fact that things that SHOULD be working safely, aren't.
Last year a passenger train crashed head-first into a freight train because the changing of the tracks on Greek railways is done manually by remote workers through a communications system, and something was communicated wrong. 57 people lost their lives because the direction of a passenger train wasn't changed manually. This happened after multiple complaints (across multiple years) from people in charge of the railway were sent to the government about how unsafe the system is currently, which were all ignored.
On top of that, there seems to be a very intentional cover-up of the whole incident, possibly because something bigger is tied to the explosion that happened during the crash and killed many of the victims. For one, the crash site was covered with gravel and concrete a week after the crash, allegedly to cover up evidence. Also, video evidence that was showing what was loaded into the freight train before it started its course went mysteriously missing.
Now most of us are not only even more skeptical of our government (as if we weren't before), but we also don't trust the railway or the metro to not literally kill us.
stella rossa 1 year ago
That was a murder! Not incident. And the government is covering up this. The question is WHY Greek people 4 months later voted again (42%) the same government.
#21
China - the Uyghur concentration camps. I’m from that area and I couldn’t believe it when the news first came out. As a matter of fact, I didn’t learn about many negative historical events of China until I left, and I can never look at the CCP the same way.
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
I couldn't bear to tell my wife the bank she got my grandson, which plays, "If you're happy and you know it clap your hands". Please correct me if I am wrong, but that is a song the Uygurs are required to sing in the forced labor situations?
#22
I’m from the Middle East (specifically Syria) so basically it’s “dictatorship”.
#23
American here. The tribalism that comes with our political system is what scares me the most. So many people on both sides don't see each other as American, it's all us vs them, and the only discussions we can have are arguments and fistfights.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
I find in online forums if I challenge a conservative with a fact that disagrees with their statements, they respond with insults and vulgarity. Can't back up your statement with data or provable facts? Then attack the other person. This has happened on even non political forums like one about vinyl records versus digital CDs. People are just more vulgar and insulting these days.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
Doesn't look better elsewhere too though, we have the same going on here in Germany with parties being too busy praising themselves / bashing others instead of working for the well being of the people
Verena 1 year ago (edited)
The Netherlands, too. It turned into an Instagram competition to collect likes, instead of getting things done, even if unpopular. However, many problems are caused by overpopulation and overconsumption. 8 billion people currently living on Earth are more difficult to organise and provide for, and produce more waste, than 2.5 billion 75 years ago.
Load More Replies... Tobias Reaper 1 year ago
I know we in the UK maybe argue about who we are voting for and who gets in power but OMG you Americans take it to a new level. You idolize your politicians making out they are the second coming its like a cult.
Tamra 1 year ago (edited)
I've only noticed this with Trumpers. Everyone else expects the people they vote for to do their jobs, and then they get on with their lives. Trumpers are very, very different.
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#24
Indonesia: Religious extremism and increasing taxes.
Sven Horlemann 1 year ago
The first is the worst. Religion should always, in all aspect, and all directions, teach respect.
My O My 1 year ago
A good 20years ago a classmate of mine went from germany to Syria or Libanon with her family. The kids were both girls, 14 an 16 years old. We never found out to which of the countries they finally emigrated (the girls parents were originally from somewhere in the middle east). I often think about them
TribbleThinking 1 year ago
That would be Catholicism. Escapee ex-Catholic here. We had a bishop in the family. And child abuse through the generations. My mother is a Sunday School teacher and a solicitor who worked in child protection. I grew up watching her throw my sister from toddlerhood onwards across the room where she was stopped by hitting the wall.
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Canada;
Cost of living,
Lack of housing.
Chaos_Object:
The endless opportunities to become homeless.
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
The mere existence of phrase "cost of living" should be enough to make people riot. We've grown way too complacent and defeatist.
Jill Rhodry 1 year ago
and in the US they just voted to increase their cost of living but voted for the 'economy'🤦🏻♀️
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 1 year ago (edited)
In my opinion, the crumbling healthcare system is so scary. We don't have enough family physicians, and the ones we have right now are either not taking any new patients, or are being very choosy. You have to have a family physician to get referrals for things like dermatology, oncology, psychiatry, etc. You can't just call up a specialist and make an appt. without a referral. But it sometimes can't be just a walk-in clinic doctor. It has to be from a designated family doctor. Mine retired long ago.
JenniB 1 year ago
Cost of living in places where people want to live and can find work. I mean there are some beautiful very northern areas with a reasonable cost of living but there are no great jobs. People want to live within x # of kms from the big cities (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver) but can't afford those. This is why WFH is so important (but not alwasy possible I get it), people could move to beautiful areas and not have to commute to the big cities. The big three and their suburbs will never be affordable again and we are running out of space to build in them...
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
In Australia people are moving further and further from the city because it's cheaper. I moved 1.5hrs away from Melbourne because that's where I could afford to buy, but the rate of crime is even worse than where I had been renting in the outer suburbs. I would love to be further from town too, but the price of houses is higher there too. There is a great town 15mins away that I go to church and fitness classes in and is closer to my mum's house, but even with the higher price of housing there, there is a lot of crime, mostly by young people.
Load More Replies... Panda Panda Bo Banda 1 year ago
It's true that Canada has admitted too many temporary foreign workers that led to increases in inflation and unemployment, but it disgusts me that we're blaming the immigrants who are just looking for a better life.
Christina 1 year ago
What gets me is the weird stereotype that us Canadians are somehow nicer than other people. No. Not a thing.
Traveling Lady Railfan 1 year ago (edited)
Maybe at one time. But life's made many of us "hard". I will say, has someone with Ontario license plates driving around in Nova Scotia and new brunswick, if I ever stop the car to look at a map complete strangers would drive up and ask if I was okay, did I need any help, was I lost? And the same thing happened in Saskatchewan and manitoba. They noticed here from out of province, they just want to make sure everything's okay. That happened once in Northern Ontario too but most of the time, there's just too many people in southern ontario, you just kind of learn to keep "mental blinders on" you can't afford to help everyone all the time. There's too many people, and it could be a scam or a trick. In certain parts of the country people are still kind to strangers even if that is naive
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Brazilian here. My country is dominated by crime, mostly by drug trafficking and corruption.
#27
Nepal - Corruption is something that has killed my country over the years.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
I am beginning to believe corruption is the default state of humans. Religion was an attempt to control that corruption. But of course the religions became corrupt as well.
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Norway - S*icide season is coming up :/.
As have been stated already Seasonal depression is pretty real when the sun disappears from your life (even when the sun is out, it's very weak and the vitamins you might catch from it in summer is literally just gone). Add the "most wonderful time of the year" over commercializing, and everyone seeing their family and loved ones will put a massive looking glass on your possible lack of loved ones and the fact this time don't feel too wonderful for everyone. "everyone else is happy, but I'm not" but supercharged.
I first started noticing the trend in 2017 when 4 people I knew personally left in the span of 3 months. It was even mentioned in the Kings speech the year after
Jon Steensen 1 year ago
Remember to take your vitamins! The won't be the solve-all solution, but being such an easy thing to do, it is a step in the right direction, and may help you deal with the lack of energy that comes for a vitamin D deficiency.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
From what I've read, most vitamin supplements aren't helpful for most people most of the time. Vitamin D is one of the exceptions (along with folic acid if you're going to be pregnant - spina bifida prevention). Those of us who live in countries without much winter sun really ought to be taking vitamin D supplements.
Load More Replies... Apachebathmat 1 year ago
Sadly this is an issue in a lot of places, loneliness at this time of the year can be a killer. Always be kind, you never know what someone is going through
keyboardtek 1 year ago
I grew up in Buffalo and thought winter depression was normal. Moved to the South and it improved. Still even in a warm climate, the lack of daylight causes the Blues. So I bought a therapy light and it helps immensely. I turn it for a couple of hours on when the sun goes down.
Kyle Simonson 1 year ago
This isn't really new. Books have been written about suicide and Scandinavia.
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago (edited)
So sad to hear this 😢 it's true about less sunshine, more depression though
#29
UK - Lack of housing. I worry for the next 2 generations.
Emma S 1 year ago (edited)
💯 I'm British and this scares me as well. The Salvation Army hostel has been closed down in my city meaning even more people on the streets. Social housing is virtually impossible to get now because there aren't that many available thanks to demolitions and the right to buy scheme. Many private landlords are charging high rents for poor quality housing, in addition to the sometimes thousands of pounds being charged upfront before you even move in. If tenants dare to complain about landlords not doing repairs, landlords can hit them with a section 21 eviction notice. Buying a house is only possible if you can save up the 10% deposit, which is nigh on impossible if most of your income is going towards paying for privately rented housing. Only last year, our then Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, had the bare faced cheek to call homelessness a lifestyle choice and wanted to make rough sleeping a criminal offence, because the sight of seeing people sleeping on the street or in tents was ruining her view or something.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
A lack of housing in the UK was solved after WW2 by a massive programme of house building to provide council owned homes for rent. The same could be done now, starting inside six months, if the political will were there. I found out recently that there was cross-party support for council housing wiping out private rented accomondation right up until Mrs T's lot took over in 1979. Sometimes, you really can blame the government.
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Matt Du 1 year ago
I blame the rich and the government for letting them get away with it. We need a progressive tax for ownership. The more houses you own the more you're taxed. This wont put a dent in the middle class that have saved for a holiday second home but it will slowly suffocates the rich corporations out of the market, lowering prices, making building/renovating houses to gain profit more enticing and forcing a turn over of property so the young can get onto the ladder.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
That's what Australia is going through now. First they added tax for properties that didn't have anything built on them for x number of years. Now they are looking at changing negative gearing. In a way, Covid helped push this, because places that were air bnbs etc were made to accept other short term rentals. I hope it is going in the right direction, but who knows. My state has an election next year and it is highly likely the current government is going out and I know the opposition has more motivation stop these changes.
Load More Replies... Liz The Biz 1 year ago
What annoys me is that nobody every seems to want to address the issue of all the empty houses and flats in every village, town and city in the UK. They cannot claim that there is a housing shortage when there are thousands and thousands of properties laying empty. OK so some of them might need renovation work but why can't they do what they did in Liverpool and sell them for £1 each on condition that the new owners carried out the renovation.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago (edited)
Because most of the empty houses are owned by private property investors, not by the council as in Liverpool. The private property investors are waiting for the right phase of the property market to spend money on renovation - and in the meantime, the less housing there is on the market, the more they can charge for the houses which can be inhabited. That's why the government needs to take control of housing policy and pass laws to force private property investors to either get the homes inhabitable (meeting proper standards), or force them to sell. Compulsory purchase might be another route to getting the empty homes back into use.
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David L 1 year ago
The ONS report that from 2010 and 2020 the population is has increased by 4.3 million (6.9% increase). Hardly surprising that we have a national housing shortage
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago (edited)
If we had a sensible housing policy implemented by the government, we'd have no housing shortage. Do you really think that housing for that many extra people couldn't have been built in a decade if the government had wanted it built? The government changed the rules after Brexit to increase immigration. Having done that, a competent government would have implemented a sane housing policy to address the inevitable population increase - except, of course, the Conservative party went barking mad years ago.
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I'm yet to see this lack of housing? There's plenty of houses, just too many people due to other factors and the fact our government give them precedence over those that have actually paid for it.
#30
Rapid population growth from immigration paired with the lack of housing available in liveable areas 🇨🇦.
Traveling Lady Railfan 1 year ago
In my town, house prices have doubled in under 10 years and almost all "green areas" (Fields / forests / Meadows) have been eradicated to stick single household dwellings or multi residents. It's disgusting. The roads aren't being improved to keep up, and it's basically a big 'screw you' to any wild animals. So all the coyotes and foxes and raccoons and deer and skunks and opossums and all the other critters who used to be a part of our life, well bug off, we need all this land for more people.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
So many areas in Australia are finding the same. There are housing developments where it can take 1-2hrs to get kids to school by car because of the traffic, even though it should only be a 20 minute drive, there are just not enough schools and roads to get to them. Green space is diminishing so quickly. There are a number of developments that are going up near me on flood plains, in an area that keeps getting more and more floods!
Load More Replies... notlikeyou1971 1 year ago
In the US it's getting ridiculous and the language barrier is awful. You can't even communicate with employees anymore in stores,Lyft or delivery services. I feel like I should take down customer service phone numbers to leave feedback, too worried it'll cause problems
Richienotsorich 1 year ago
Canada at least has the space to expand. Try living in Southeast England where they are desperate to build on any and all available land despite our roads grinding to a halt every day and a rail network that's hundreds of years old and extremely expensive. Hotels are ridiculously expensive as we're housing thousands of immigrants in them, meaning the ones that aren't can charge what they like.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
I say this, too, but despite the size of the country, most of the land is uninhabitable. Either due to it being farmland, protected nature parks, or it's not suitable for development. Most of the population is crowded near the US/Canada border, and the majority live in the southern Ontario pocket. There is not as much reliable, affordable public transportation that goes from city to city, province to province. Some roads are seasonal, cutting off communities in the summer until winter, when the lakes have frozen over.
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I'm from Ireland and at the moment, there are a large number of crises converging and reaching tipping points because the governance over the last decade has been so unbelievably ineffectual. Wages are good, but that's about it. There are not enough houses, so homelessness is at an all time high. Rents are astronomically high if you're lucky enough to find a place. House prices are climbing almost day by day. Juvenile delinquency and violent crimes are becoming extremely common and because police pensions have been slashed, there aren't enough of them being recruited, and any time one of them actually does bother doing their job, the courts are as likely to let someone walk free as convict them. A lot of this has given rise to a wave of right wing nationalism, with certain parties running for our upcoming election on the basis that "Ireland is Full", targeting asylum seekers and refugees with online hate and, in some extreme cases, violence. There have been spates of arson attacks on buildings that are rumoured to be earmarked for direct provision for immigrants. About a year ago, a young girl was attacked by a man with a knife and hurt grievously in Dublin city centre. It was rumoured this man was not Irish and within hours these knuckle draggers were out to "protect Irish children" and the city was being looted, police attacked, city buses and trams were being burnt out all over the city.
Things are bad over here at the moment and it's hard to see how they're going to improve because it's just f*****g everything at the minute.
#32
Venezuela - authoritarianism in the new country im living at, I don't want to go through the same things.
#33
India - Our education system.
Lady Lestrange 1 year ago
Although Indian education system had the potential to stand out, the amount of politics and corruption even at such a basic level ruined everything.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
You want to see a corrupt school system? In China if you want your kid to be near the front so he can see the chalkboard, you have to bribe the teacher.
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#34
Religion, difficulty with accessing to services providing abortion, how much rent has become expensive aka inaccessible to many, cost of life compared to salary..(I live in Italy)
#35
Brazilian [justice system] is the worst, the most expensive in the world, 1,6% of the GDP, 84% of which goes to salaries and retirements. Judges gain an absurd the normal way and technicalities. The kind of thing one justified the high extras (not even salary) because he needs to buy 500 dollar suits (3000 reais).
#36
Canada here. And it's moose.
Sounds stupid, but hear me out. In rural areas, moose often cross roads/highways between towns. The number of times I've seen and heard of people hitting them unexpectedly is insanely high and the outcome is always a coin toss.
It's a terrifying experience.
Verena 1 year ago
Zealand (Netherlands) has decided that all deer need to be shot, because too dangerous for traffic. Zealand is a very rural province, with a few high speed roads. There is one highway, with 100-130 km/h, and a couple of motorways with 100 km/h. Deer are not a problem there. The rest is 80 km/h, no deer problem there, and 60 km/h roads. The latter are "the problem". These are roads crossing the fields, mainly used by agricultural traffic and very local traffic. People like living in Zealand due to the nature and animals close by. So you know that there are animals around, so you have to stick to max 60 and keep your eyes on the road. Accidents with deer happen to young people racing over the "empty" roads and having eyes and minds on their smartphones. It's not the deer being stupid, it's the people.
JenniB 1 year ago
Canadian born and raised, 48 years, never seen a moose or a bear for that matter. This is incredibly regional and considering we are the 2nd largest country in the world (by area) it is a small percentage of our population that worries about this but I guess it is one of our stereotypes lol! I worry more about Canada geese tbh, those buggers are relentless.
Deborah 1 year ago
Canada geese scare the hell out of me. I live in the U.S., mid-Atlantic area, and they are just all over the place.
Load More Replies... Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Apparently not all that many people die as a result of hitting a moose with their car. OTOH, a fair number of people die as a result of a very upset moose trying to get out of their car.
Lisa Howard 1 year ago (edited)
I’m one of the 50/50 who survived hitting a moose. Also hit a deer
Jon Steensen 1 year ago
yep, especially since they are basically cows on stilts. Hit a deer, and the front of your car may be smashed in... But with a moose, the majority of the bodymass is higher, and hence it will be the windscreen it smashes through, and you sit right behind that.
#37
UK - The absolute idiots running this country and that they are letting convicted p*dophiles go free while they send police to investigate children for saying something hurtful to someone else in their class.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
Hey, we have that in Germany too - Gang raping a 14 year old doesn't mean prison but oh boy are kids in trouble for sharing content of the wrong political party
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
Ah, someone who has fallen for the propaganda lies in the Daily Mail. Yes, they are having to let criminals out of prison early, but that's because the previous government of 14 years followed policies of worsening the crime rate, locking up more people, and running down the prison estate so that we don't actually have the space for everyone who's supposed to be locked up.
David L 1 year ago
Over 10,000 foreign prisoner in UK jails, who are almost impossible deport. Attack the police in Manchester airport months ago and still no charges brought but post on FB and sentenced to prison in less than 2 months for up to two years. But it's all propaganda!!!
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Russian here... Hmmmmmm
Let me ttttthhhhink...
Bears. Bears are scary.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
I would be more scared about getting conscripted to serve in the next human wave Russia throws at the front to be honest
Jill Rhodry 1 year ago
apparently the life expectancy after being conscripted in Russia is 1 month
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UK resident here. Creeping authoritarianism, unaccountable elites and a massive assault on free speech.
Both the mainstream parties are guilty of causing and encouraging this slide, but the current government is really showing what the powers the establishment have been steadily putting in place for the last 3 decades are capable of. Now an attack on small farms and the introduction of Blackrock to "invest in the UK." And that's without mentioning the seeming rush by the USA and UK to escalate the war in Ukraine.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
I know the OP will never see this, but hold on - the change in inheritance tax rules was meant to be a curb on wealthy investors buying land purely to avoid inheritance tax. It was poorly thought out, yes, but wasn't meant as an attack on small farmers. Also, the only nation escalating the war in Ukraine is Russia.
Limey 1 year ago
Give it 6 months. Once Trump is in the white house, the US will be escalating the situation in Ukraine along with any other situation Putin cares to create.
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#40
The anti trans propaganda used in the latest election in the US.
They’re really focusing on us in really scary ways.
I wish they would go back to largely ignoring us.
E.V. 1 year ago
They're running out of people to demonize. Eventually they'll come after everybody.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
I grew up in an all white suburb. Even though we were all white kids, some kids got ostracized for simple behavior traits, or because they were not so bright, or they were fat. Humans naturally are cruel to any others who are different. Some are bullies and born a.s.s. holes. The nature of humans is for some to have to oppress others. White bullies just start with anyone not white. Trump and the Christian Fascists added anyone not straight.
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USA - Certain snakes and spiders.
featherytoad 1 year ago
Try the southeast. We have American Cockroaches as long as your middle finger.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
As an Aussie, cockroaches freak me out more than snakes and spiders and in my state we don't get massive ones!
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UK - Stray dogs. Literally wild animals running the streets and killing people and nothing gets done at all. Terrified of my kids playing in the street.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
Utter madness. There is no problem with stray dogs killing people on the street in the UK. The dogs that do kill are pet dogs almost always at home, killing people at home.
Placebo Domingo 1 year ago
It can't be, The only thing DM writes about is royalties.
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Bluebreeze 1 year ago
Lived in the UK nearly 50 years and never seen a stray dog, never heard of anyone else seeing a stray dog, never heard a report of anyone seeing a stray dog. I mean, I found a dog once so I hopped out the car and knocked on a couple of doors before I found the owner whose garden it had escaped from. Does that count?
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
It's not scientifically rigorous, but Google and Reddit (in general and in the specific post this comes from) say this person is delusional, and that stray dogs are uncommon and not an obvious hazard in the UK. That said, possibly unlike the poster, I have no idea what Facebook has to say about it.
Emma S 1 year ago (edited)
Strays dogs are rare to see in the UK. We are a nation of dog lovers so even if a dog was stray, it wouldn't be very long before it was reported to the RSPCA or somebody has taken it in. The only wild animals you're likely to see on the streets in the UK are hedgehogs and the occasional fox on the hunt for food in the bins.
Load More Replies... Apachebathmat 1 year ago
Eh? You still in Dickensian Britain? There is no such problem you tit
Julie S 1 year ago
We've had a problem with XL bully dogs attacking people but they are not strays they are people's pets.
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T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
Thrilled not to see South Africa on the list. We have numerous problems including crime, electricity, water availability... But we also have a good track record for getting together and getting things done when it counts (not you, Zuma, thula wena). I still have hope.
Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago
The rise in gang rape in Spain. The terrible housing crisis. A third of the country at risk of poverty. Inflation and the awareness that when (not if) the next economic crisis hit we'll suffer it the most.
Julie S 1 year ago
Can't believe no one in the UK mentioned the rising knife crime. It's some scary shít.
Gin 1 year ago
It is, but maybe because it's actually not very country specific. Knife-related violence has been on the rise worldwide since 2014. The UK isn't alone or the worst. We need to be very aware of how stats are collated. Here in the UK, the mere possession of a blade or sharply pointed article in a public place can be a crime and is added to “knife crime” It does not necessarily mean that anyone has been harmed. In many other European countries, possession is not a crime and therefore their “knife crime” statistics may be much lower. When we look at homicide rates for European countries, there are 20 that have lower than the UK and 23 that score higher and a handful that don't adequately record their homicides.
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The Doom Song 1 year ago
Australia- not the snakes or spiders but the freaking magpies are terrifying
Norm Gilmore 1 year ago
The magpie was introduced into NZ from Australia for insect pest control. Guess what. It's now a pest. And (not related) my regions local rugby team is called The Magpies. :-)
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Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 year ago
Australian. The rise in domestic violence, and general violence against women. A women is killed almost every week, a direct result of domestic violence. And police pretty much ignore it, and pleas for help. There have been instances where known domestic abusers have been taken back to their wives/girlfriends BY POLICE who just happen to be the abuser's friend, and the woman has ended up killed shortly afterward. It absolutely disgusts me.
Tobias Reaper 1 year ago
Teletubbies tall mutants with tv in their stomachs that talk an alien language that live in a land with sentient sun that has a babies face this is scary stuff man
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
Thrilled not to see South Africa on the list. We have numerous problems including crime, electricity, water availability... But we also have a good track record for getting together and getting things done when it counts (not you, Zuma, thula wena). I still have hope.
Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago
The rise in gang rape in Spain. The terrible housing crisis. A third of the country at risk of poverty. Inflation and the awareness that when (not if) the next economic crisis hit we'll suffer it the most.
Julie S 1 year ago
Can't believe no one in the UK mentioned the rising knife crime. It's some scary shít.
Gin 1 year ago
It is, but maybe because it's actually not very country specific. Knife-related violence has been on the rise worldwide since 2014. The UK isn't alone or the worst. We need to be very aware of how stats are collated. Here in the UK, the mere possession of a blade or sharply pointed article in a public place can be a crime and is added to “knife crime” It does not necessarily mean that anyone has been harmed. In many other European countries, possession is not a crime and therefore their “knife crime” statistics may be much lower. When we look at homicide rates for European countries, there are 20 that have lower than the UK and 23 that score higher and a handful that don't adequately record their homicides.
Load More Replies... The Doom Song 1 year ago
Australia- not the snakes or spiders but the freaking magpies are terrifying
Norm Gilmore 1 year ago
The magpie was introduced into NZ from Australia for insect pest control. Guess what. It's now a pest. And (not related) my regions local rugby team is called The Magpies. :-)
Load More Replies... Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 year ago
Australian. The rise in domestic violence, and general violence against women. A women is killed almost every week, a direct result of domestic violence. And police pretty much ignore it, and pleas for help. There have been instances where known domestic abusers have been taken back to their wives/girlfriends BY POLICE who just happen to be the abuser's friend, and the woman has ended up killed shortly afterward. It absolutely disgusts me.
Tobias Reaper 1 year ago
Teletubbies tall mutants with tv in their stomachs that talk an alien language that live in a land with sentient sun that has a babies face this is scary stuff man
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