What's your favorite thing about the US?
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Re: What's your favorite thing about the US?
#35
Re: What's your favorite thing about the US?
I don't get asked that when I enter the UK using my UK PP.
Land of the free indeed.
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Re: What's your favorite thing about the US?
I can't believe all this freedom to do this, that and the other crap. For instance...when entering the US producing a US PP you are asked...'citizenship?'...'where have you been'....'what was the reason for your visit'...'how long where you there'...'where do you live'.
I don't get asked that when I enter the UK using my US PP.
Land of the free indeed.
I don't get asked that when I enter the UK using my US PP.
Land of the free indeed.
#37
Re: What's your favorite thing about the US?
Well I've been thinking what is it I like about the US, and to tell the truth I'm having a really hard time coming up with anything. I do like my house I suppose, but I liked my old house too and the one I lived in in UK just as much.
The winter here is nice and mild usually, but I pay for it with super hot blistering summer heat.
I have a couple of good friends here that I really like. I like my Dh and kids (the ones here with us) other than that not much daily life stuff thats different to UK really, eat sleep take kids to school, cook, clean, do laundry. Same shit different view, I wasn't unhappy in UK I'm not really unhappy here either, especially seeing we are planning our return to UK.
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Re: What's your favorite thing about the US?
Seriously I have never understood this at all. Seems like a really stupid idea. I wonder how many more crimes would be solved if license plates were required front & back in those states that only require one?
#39
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Re: What's your favorite thing about the US?
Maryland. I love that we get 4 distinct seasons. I'm close to mountains, rivers, lakes and beaches. I love the Chesapeake Bay and Annapolis. I'm within driving distance of some interesting cities (e.g. Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, Boston and New York). I can drive south to Florida in a day. I can drive north to Niagara Falls and Canada in 8 hours.
#40
Re: What's your favorite thing about the US?
I can't believe all this freedom to do this, that and the other crap. For instance...when entering the US producing a US PP you are asked...'citizenship?'...'where have you been'....'what was the reason for your visit'...'how long where you there'...'where do you live'.
I don't get asked that when I enter the UK using my UK PP.
Land of the free indeed.
I don't get asked that when I enter the UK using my UK PP.
Land of the free indeed.
To go for a trip to Cuba, or even say something nice about the leader of said neighbouring country, and get suspended from job with calls for you to be fired, and made to make a silly apology, and possibly still getting the sack.
(Re: Ozzie Guillen of the Miami Marlins baseball franchise)
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/10/us/flo...tro/index.html
#41
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Re: What's your favorite thing about the US?
I don't know about Maryland, but out west in Oregon we have lots of photo radar which photos your front plate and frowning mug. Same goes for red light cameras.
#42
Re: What's your favorite thing about the US?
Probably the New England landscape. It's probably the greatest contrast with Europe and the first thing I noticed when I came over for the first time. There are trees pretty much everywhere. NE was deforested by farmers like Europe but the farming sector collapsed in the 19th century and the trees grew back (though you can still see the stone walls were fields used to be). Although it's pretty urbanized round here it still feels like a tiny slab of civilization clinging to a vast wilderness. That means that the autumn and spring are beautiful. Then there's the variety of it. You can be going on a short drive and see an agrarian scene that looks like the UK, pine strewn lakes that look like finland and wooded hill country that's quintessentially North Eastern. To me, nothing beats going for a drive, finding a gap in the trees and seeing this shimmering blue landscape stretched out before you.
#43
Re: What's your favorite thing about the US?
Never thought Id say this but living surrounded by Giant Redwood trees is amazing
As is the view of SanFran from the Golden Gate bridge
The light hitting the hills in San Fran - cant explain it but it just seems so pure and clear and bright - odd really! (DH thinks im taking the "living in Humboldt hippy thing" rather too far!)
Nordstroms
Old Town Eureka - The Victorian houses and the "mom and pop" stores
The fact that if i wanted to I could go out shopping in my jammies and noone would bat an eyelid!! (I dont by the way! The standard dress is jeans and a hoodie cos its so cold half the time!)
Eureka library - best library ever (I do voluntary work there)
The customer service - I love being asked how i am and being told to "have a beautiful day, stay safe out there" when ive only gone in to buy a pint of milk!
As is the view of SanFran from the Golden Gate bridge
The light hitting the hills in San Fran - cant explain it but it just seems so pure and clear and bright - odd really! (DH thinks im taking the "living in Humboldt hippy thing" rather too far!)
Nordstroms
Old Town Eureka - The Victorian houses and the "mom and pop" stores
The fact that if i wanted to I could go out shopping in my jammies and noone would bat an eyelid!! (I dont by the way! The standard dress is jeans and a hoodie cos its so cold half the time!)
Eureka library - best library ever (I do voluntary work there)
The customer service - I love being asked how i am and being told to "have a beautiful day, stay safe out there" when ive only gone in to buy a pint of milk!
#44
Re: What's your favorite thing about the US?
He is the manager of the Miami Marlins - a team with a large Cuban American fanbase (the stadium is right in the middle of Miami's Cuban neighborhood) who don't feel too rosy about this leader of a neighboring country as he basically seized their property and businesses and expelled them. It would be kind of like becoming the manager of a soccer club in the Gaza Strip and then pronouncing your love and respect for David Ben-Gurion. You have every right to say that but don't expect the fans who support the club to be too pleased about it. As for losing his job - think about it from the club's management's perspective. They are bending over backwards to appeal to Cuban Americans - something the clubs financial future depends on - and then the manager goes and says what he said.
Last edited by HumphreyC; Apr 11th 2012 at 11:23 am.
#45
Re: What's your favorite thing about the US?
Probably the New England landscape. It's probably the greatest contrast with Europe and the first thing I noticed when I came over for the first time. There are trees pretty much everywhere. NE was deforested by farmers like Europe but the farming sector collapsed in the 19th century and the trees grew back (though you can still see the stone walls were fields used to be). Although it's pretty urbanized round here it still feels like a tiny slab of civilization clinging to a vast wilderness. That means that the autumn and spring are beautiful. Then there's the variety of it. You can be going on a short drive and see an agrarian scene that looks like the UK, pine strewn lakes that look like finland and wooded hill country that's quintessentially North Eastern. To me, nothing beats going for a drive, finding a gap in the trees and seeing this shimmering blue landscape stretched out before you.
I guess it's nature that I love here. So much of it untouched & untamed.
Last edited by WEBlue; Apr 11th 2012 at 11:38 am.