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Originally Posted by Targan
In the vast majority of Australia, if you leave civilisation and walk out into the wilderness without being very fit and knowledgable in bushcraft you will probably die within a week or even a couple of days. Finding water is the biggest problem as most of Australia is arid or desert. Even in the part of Australia where I live, potable water wouldn't be easy to find once the pumps stopped working and the desalination plants shut down.
Then there's being able to find food that won't kill you, and avoiding the various creatures large and small which can kill you (many of them without even really setting out to do so). And then out in the desert there's the terrible heat in the days and aching cold at night.
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Sounds a lot like southern Arizona (where I live) for a good part of the year. On Friday, at the local wilderness-style disc golf course on the edge of the Tucson suburbs where I play, not only did the mercury stop close to 100F, we heard tell of a territorial diamondback rattlesnake, a roving mountain lion, and a heard of Javelina (an aggressive peccary)- I didn't see any of them myself, but I've run into a large bobcat there twice. I live about 15 miles outside of town, about a mile from an old Titan missile silo. In the nine years I've lived out here in the sticks, we've killed countless scorpions, centipedes, and black widow spiders inside the house, and six rattlers in the yard. Although I like a lot about rural living, the wife and I have been pining for some of the conveniences of the 'burbs and are looking to move back there this summer. Bottom line is, I'm not cut out to be a survivalist.