Translation: Here the ONLY critters that kill/ eat you is because you trespassed on them BUT, where you live it is critters that see themselves as above you on the food chain. Like when my cousin in Texas posted pics of the family kids playing in the nearby lake and the family in Texas freaked out. Where my cousin lives they have bull sharks in the rivers.
I remember, when I lived in Texas, looking for scorpions in the yard with a black light. There were plenty of black lights around back then. The scorpions would glow in the dark.
The girl next door got bit by a rattle snake when she reached for something under her kitchen sink.