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What seemed weird when I visited your country
pwhodges:
s/scold/scald/
New taps are commonly mixers these days in the UK as well. The only separate taps in my house are the old ones in the utility room sink.
ev4n:
For the US, the biggest things for me were:
- race. subtle, but there, at least in the midwest and the south
- guns.
- cheap food/gas. Seriously.
- I found concrete roads in Houston to be very, very odd.
--- Quote from: Metope on 03 Nov 2013, 11:01 ---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.
--- End quote ---
At times in my life, a family day trip to a town or city anywhere between 50 and ~350 miles away has been considered reasonable.
It's one of the things that always strikes me when Top Gear UK, for example, criticizes american cars. Spacious interiors and soft suspensions might not be what sells in the UK, but over here, how can you NOT want that for something you might easily spend 10 hours a day in for days on end (or in my family's case, 20 hours a day).
Method of Madness:
As for driving in the US, the farther west you go, the longer a drive is considered reasonable. In the northeast, 50 miles is a day trip. Out west, 100 miles could be "down the road".
Metope:
Haha yeah, I've noticed that. It makes sense because the east was populated before cars were around, so it's more like Europe, while in the west everything was build and expanded with cars in mind. It really looks different too, I'd only been to the east before this year, it's really interesting how different it is.
When my boyfriend's band toured the UK last year, they'd rented a car to drive around in. They arrived in Glasgow, their first show was in Aberdeen and then Glasgow the day after, so they drove up to Aberdeen (it's a 2-3 hour drive), played the show and drove down again the same day. Everyone here thought they were mental.
Barmymoo:
I found it very funny how everyone I met in Indiana last summer was complaining about the rocketing price of fuel. I worked out that in Britain at that point people were paying about 2.5 times as much, and there was far less grumbling.
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