Yes. Waxing is a process where hot wax is spread over the body part with hair, a towel is placed on the wax and ripped off. This can hurt. In shaving, you cut the hair to the surface with a razor.
I am the complete opposite of you. I actually like having my legs a bit hairy and having my eyes grow into a unibrow. Though my sister hates it and she attacks me with tweezers all the time.
I'm a girl but I've never really been into doing the really girly stuff like getting my eyebrows all nice and cleaned or anything... I'm a tomboy so I say my eyebrows look fine.
I guess it depends on how presentable you want to look. I think I appear pretty decent on a daily basis. I clean houses so I really don't have any need to do anything super swanky with myself. I just do the basics and go.