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“Free Toilets Everywhere”: 27 Interesting Facts About The US People Understand Only After Visiting
Article created by: Rūta Zumbrickaitė
With the internet, it seems that you can learn about everything you wish. And that's partially true — you indeed can learn a lot online on various topics. Yet, sometimes there are things you can only fully comprehend in real life.
Like certain cultural aspects of a country — it's one thing to read about them online, but it's a whole different thing to experience them in reality. Today, we prepped you a full-blown list of things that you can comprehend only after visiting the United States. So, let's jump in to see what they are, shall we?
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#3
Distances -- No, you cannot go to New York City, Disneyworld, the Grand Canyon, and Yosemite in a week.
#6
When I visited the USA for the first time I was absolutely shocked at the amount of homelessness. I’d never in my life seen anything like it and I’ve traveled to third world countries. It was really confronting and unbelievably depressing.
Also they still use faxes.
#7
Appetizers in restaurants are often enough for a main course.
There are truly breathtaking natural places and amazing indie musical scenes.
Also people are a lot nicer than we Canadians usually think. .
#8
The variety of American cuisines and dishes, such as diffetent barbewue tyoes, Tex-Mex, Cajun, Carolina seafood boils, Maryland crabcakes, etc.
Avoid fast food and chains, go for the real stuff.
#10
I think even people who live here underestimate the geographic diversity of the country. The Northeast and Southwest almost feel like different planets, let alone different regions.
#13
How much country isn't populated. I thought there would just be people everywhere but just mainly on the coast(s).
#15
Things are big. Cars. Houses. Buildings. I don’t mean tall buildings. I mean very, very wide. They take up lots of space. I never noticed it until I visited other countries when I was around nine and saw how small cars and buildings and homes were. Especially Japan.
#19
I found the class divides between upper and lower class to be rather apparent. One person seems totally normal then you talk to someone else who speaks as though they haven’t learned to read.
#21
The amount of choices we have in the grocery store are incredible. That and the amount of food waste.
#23
How many religious billboards are around. I didn't realize it until we had family visiting from overseas.
ETA reference as to some of their locations, as it seems a lot of people have not been subjected to them.
https://83fortruth.org/billboard-locations/.
#25
Every pedestrian will wave at you when you drive by and you must wave back, it doesn't matter if you know each other.
I'm exaggerating but still.
#26
How scrumptious my Aunt Edith’s blueberry grunt is, especially when hot off the stove and topped with fresh whipped cream from my cousin’s dairy farm near Skowhegan.
#27
The truly huge amount of food in grocery stores everywhere.
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