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What seemed weird when I visited your country
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: travel book ---Of course it's different from home. That's the entire point.
--- End quote ---
To start off, visitors to the USA.
Please keep it light-hearted.
Metope:
Everyone in the states drives all the time, everywhere. I understand why, because everything is incredibly spread out, but it's so weird to me. Especially on the west coast, everything is so wide and vast and open, the roads are so wide and... yeah. My west coast-based boyfriend told me he felt claustrophobic when he visited the UK because everything was so narrow and tiny, but to me this is the norm.
Also I'm 25 and I can't drive, which everyone I know from the states finds really weird.
LeeC:
A friend of mine who grew up outside the USA said there was 2 things really weird about the US. Our "car culture" and how cars are precious to us, and how we treat American history, though short, as some sort of religion or something. :laugh:
Jimmy the Squid:
I guess what seemed the most weird when I visited the US (I've been a few times and only to the east coast) is that everything is so cheap. I mean I know you guys don't get paid a lot but if I could continue making Australian wages I could afford a really nice flat in NYC.
Second weirdest thing was whenever we went to a cafe I would try to order a chocolate milkshake. Not a big deal in Australia, in fact very standard. In the US we could not find a cafe that did milkshakes and I have no idea why. Every waitress looked at me like I just asked to lick her eyes. Eventually we figured out that you have to go to like, diners and specific kinds of restaurants but it was weird.
cesium133:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 03 Nov 2013, 10:53 ---
--- Quote from: travel book ---Of course it's different from home. That's the entire point.
--- End quote ---
To start off, visitors to the USA.
Please keep it light-hearted.
--- End quote ---
I was amused by the one that mentioned the sales tax thing... when I went to Brazil, I was at a store with a couple other people, and saw something I wanted to buy for R$15, and was disappointed when I realized I only brought R$15 with me, so obviously I didn't have enough. They looked at me like I was a space alien.
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