What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
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PS we have cheese.
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Maybe Donald Trump will put a wall around SF when he's taken care of the Mexican wall.
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.... Which voted in 2016 for a Republican senator and voted for Hilary by a much smaller margin (about 2,200 votes) than the number of voters who voted for the Libertarian and Conservative candidates (about 3,000 votes in aggregate), and in fact was taken by Hillary with less than 50% of the votes cast, so hardly a bastion of liberalism!
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After so many years in the US it's a bigger culture shock when visiting the UK.
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I experience a sort of culture shock when visiting the UK. The streets are so narrow and it all seems so crowded. I've been here over 40 years though
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I don't get the uniquely British obsession with masonry construction and repulsion from framed houses.
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I notice that dampness in the houses when I go back to the UK
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Re: What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
My firm has a facility in North Kingstown RI and I was encouraged to go and see "the castles" in Newport.
Needless to say I laughed out loud at what American's consider a castle here....
Oh, and going to a renaissance fair for the first time. All these American's walking around with terrible English accents is just a scream!
Needless to say I laughed out loud at what American's consider a castle here....
Oh, and going to a renaissance fair for the first time. All these American's walking around with terrible English accents is just a scream!
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Re: What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
My firm has a facility in North Kingstown RI and I was encouraged to go and see "the castles" in Newport.
Needless to say I laughed out loud at what American's consider a castle here....
Oh, and going to a renaissance fair for the first time. All these American's walking around with terrible English accents is just a scream!
Needless to say I laughed out loud at what American's consider a castle here....
Oh, and going to a renaissance fair for the first time. All these American's walking around with terrible English accents is just a scream!
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Not sure why they called them that -- the residences in Newport were actually summer cottages.
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It's hardly their fault the Normans never made it over here though ...
Other than it being a little historically inaccurate, I have a good time when I go. For a while, it was the only place around here where I could get a pint of cider.