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An order of magnitude higher and it'd be of similar magnitude to the entire USA. I tend to think of Australia as pretty similar (if literally polar opposite) t
by tempestn 4y ago
An order of magnitude higher and it'd be of similar magnitude to the entire USA.
I tend to think of Australia as pretty similar (if literally polar opposite) to Canada. Similar population and standard of living on a similarly large but largely inhospitable landmass.
- cecilpl2 4y agoAustralia is basically Hot Canada.
- 3pt14159 4y agoAustralia: Our brother to the hot south with more sex appeal and far less marriage material.
- adra 4y agoI was just quoted a stat that said boomer retirees have sex way more frequently than any of their younger cohorts. So weird and depressing if true.
- codeyperson 4y agoMaybe single people are less likely to retire
- BurningFrog 4y agoTravelling there it felt like Big California.
- joveian 4y agoExcept that Canada is just cold while Australia has the whole evolutionary arms race thing going on.
- spiralx 4y agoAustralia has almost everything wrong you can think of climate-wise: cold Antarctic currents hitting the west coast causing dry winds with little moisture, on the east coast there's a narrow strip between the coast and the long N-S mountains that gets moisture, but even then the mountains are barely high enough to trap winds and cause rainfall. The very north gets monsoons, the inland is a baking desert and only the very south is temperate. If you want an idea of scale, there's a single cattle farm in Australia operated by less than a dozen people that is larger than Texas.
- eesmith 4y agoAnna Creek is 23,677 km2 according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Creek_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Creek_Station and 15,746 square kilometres according to https://www.williamscattlecompany.com.au/anna-creek https://www.williamscattlecompany.com.au/anna-creek . Texas is rather larger than Anna Creek, at 676,587 km2 of land according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas .