The fact most of them haven't a passport. I like that.
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Things you like about the Yanks
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This.
Or standing in the bar at a ballpark, beer in hand, just watching the game. No petty outdated rules, no tedious restrictions. Wonderful.
The Spanish
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They issue the second largest number of passports per year of any country
rocker959
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You get what you pay for. If the service people are paid well they provide better customer service. In the US the business has an option to be cheap. My guess is that you must frequent businesses that go cheap on paying the customer service people.
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OzMike
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Can't put my finger on anything really.
Daffy Duck
Stop bloody moaning!
"Small town" America is fantastic.
Once you get away from the big cities the people are some of the most welcoming and hospitable people you are ever likely to meet.
There seems to be a wonderful sense of community and belonging that's been lost in most of the UK.
And, yes, the scenery is amazing as well!
Once you get away from the big cities the people are some of the most welcoming and hospitable people you are ever likely to meet.
There seems to be a wonderful sense of community and belonging that's been lost in most of the UK.
And, yes, the scenery is amazing as well!
Chicago.
Ha ha. Lovely city in my opinion. Probably the place where I've been made to feel most welcome, immigration aside.
That's quite an interesting fact, not that it contradicts the post you replied to of course.
As an example, only 5% of Americans travelled abroad for either business or pleasure in 2009:
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/1920287
Lower West Stander
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Yep - agree too.
When I was moving back to the UK from New York, I was forced to take my cable box in a carrier bag back to the Time Warner shop on the Upper East Side. When I got there I was shunted into the far corner and made to wait 15 minutes for someone to close my contract even though there were shop staff everywhere seemingly doing nothing.
Yes - I was a leaving customer. But better customer service in the US is definitely a myth.
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Food. My favourite restaurant is in NYC and wherever I've been I have found excellent grub from street food, diners right up to higher end.
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HellBilly
Yes it is actually and I like the edge to the City, when you went over did you go too Harpos Heavy Metal/Thrash club or Smalls another good club is the Shelter inside St Andrews Hall saw Mustard Plug play there with the Koffin Kats last year it was acfantastic night.
Whilst I'm not disputing this it is actually quite time consuming and also limited to travel outside of the country. I work with many Americans and a guy who lives in North Carolina told me it would take him at least 4 hours to just cross the border and leave the US. If memory serves me correctly this is either a flight to Canada or the Carribean via Florida. If you want to go elsewhere you're looking at long haul. And when there's so much wonderful country and cities in the states I can understand why few leave the US for vacation.
Oh absolutely. If our country was a similar size with similar weather and terrain diversity, we'd be exactly the same.
This is something else that I've seen before and something else that I think is a total myth. If you think that American people like and respect success, I suggest you do a search for Donald Trump on Google - you'll find large numbers of people have little respect ... and there are more than a few taking the piss.
While over here in the UK, the people who frequently top polls for the most respected people are the Queen and Richard Branson (no, I don't get that either). And you only have to look at viewing figures for celeb programmes or sales of celeb mags to see that people avidly follow people who have made a few bob.
Of course, there are people here who take the piss too and there people in the US who fawn over Trump, that's the point. I don't think our attitude to celebrities in the UK is very different from the US.
I should make it clear that I'm no hater of the US: most of the music I listen to is American. I like and admire American writers. I'm a huge fan of baseball and like the idea of eating and drinking watching a game (if only they could offer some decent beer, it would be heaven). And, most of all, I like the American people - open and friendly almost to a fault.
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Theme parks
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Architecture. From Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry.
As an aside does anyone remember that thread some time ago when a poster claimed the US had no culture? Who was that?
As an aside does anyone remember that thread some time ago when a poster claimed the US had no culture? Who was that?