Come on down to Oz, bring your skills and stop worrying about snakes and spiders
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G’DAY and festive greetings from Down Under, where the sun is shining, the surf’s up and life’s a bowl of cherries. I gather it’s pretty grey back where you are. Cold temperatures and a bleak outlook — harbingers of gloom and despondency. Perhaps your miracle cure of Brexit is taking time to work.
![[Expats Teresa and Mike have developed a large following in the UK for their vlogs about what it’s like to migrate to Australia]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/656a1f3b-0ef3-4bd7-9871-591e256a2563.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
So much so that many of you want to migrate here, encouraged by images of yearned-for perfection, depicted on I’m A Celebrity . . . or by popular video bloggers. Be careful what you wish for. The Australia you see on I’m a Celeb might not turn out to be what you get when you land.
![[Many of you want to migrate to Australia, encouraged by images of yearned-for perfection, depicted on I’m A Celebrity]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/tp-graphic-Mark-Day-2612.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
This is true in both positive and negative senses. The positive is that while, yes, we might have the world’s most venomous snakes and spiders that can kill you in one bite, they generally don’t. Celebs might be tested by being forced to sit in cages with biting insects or drink cocktails of macerated bull penis and snake eyes, but these little nasties don’t really bother us.
True, we did find a nest of redback spiders under the trash bin in our kitchen the other day, but none of them bit us. And — don’t tell my wife — I saw a big brown snake and a slightly smaller red-bellied black snake in the garden at our country retreat.
Nothing wrong with that — they keep the mice in check, rather like the huntsman spiders in the Celeb dunny keep lethal funnel webs at bay. As to sharks. Yep, they’re out there, but not many people get eaten very often. So, please don’t get the idea that if you come here, automatically you will die.
