As a Canadian who relocated to Australia four years ago via California, it's refreshing to live in a society where the default expectation is that adults will b

As a Canadian who relocated to Australia four years ago via California, it's refreshing to live in a society where the default expectation is that adults will behave as such. Consider: * it's perfectly legal in Australia for adults to drink alcohol in public parks * heck, your local council government will probably also have installed gas BBQs in your public park so you can cook sausages to enjoy with your beer * no idiotic and humiliating TSA-style security theatre on domestic flights in Australia * children walk to school all the time by themselves without their parents being investigated for neglect etc. Government provided BBQs are inconceivable in California since (gasp!) the hot plate may burn someone and the lawyers wouldn't like that. Similarly something as basic as providing public toilets at a place like Huntington Beach (in Orange County!) is a fiasco as the stalls don't have doors, because they might provide privacy for drug addicts shooting up. For the 99% who aren't drug addicts, tough luck, a right to privacy while you do your business obviously isn't worth anything anyway. I could go on, but from a distance the American claim to be the "land of the free and the home of the brave" is increasingly farcical.