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Changes between Spain and USA

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Moving to the most further country and state I could ever think of, adding that the culture and customs of my SO are completely different to mine, this made everything a little bit more exciting and also, difficult.

There's a list of the most noticeable changes I've felt; 


  • You don't go anywhere without a car.  This suburb and I guess all the USA was made for riding cars. You won't find anyone waking on the streets. No one walks to their job. Are you going to high school or even to the theater?  You need a car. 
    The roads in this city have approx 4 lanes each side. Parking lots are an extended thing, they are huge and placed everywhere. There are no roundabouts, not even one.
    The good thing compared to Spain is that everyone respects the traffic lights, and for a simple reason; skip and you'll have 100% possibilities to get smashed  by a car. ヾ( •́д•̀ ;)ノ Also no one is allowed to stop on the road, not even inside towns, this and picking people is completely forbidden. Roads are for driving fast to home not for stopping.



  •  The fridge is now filled with Asian leftovers.  Boxes of pig ears, tendon with peanuts, Taiwanese rice with beef, red bean pancakes, kimchi rice,  Korean seafood pancake, baozi and zongzi from 99 Ranch, frozen mochi ice cream, all kinds of Indian curry and the list goes on. Since this weekend we celebrate his birthday with his parents more dim sum left overs will come, I'm sure (∗॔꒪⺫ॢ꒪)

  • «Take your shoes off!»  I'm not sure if this is because of the wooden floors or because It's how people do it here. But even in his parents house, our apartment or friend's house no outdoor shoes are allowed inside. Period.  They will always offer you slippers to walk inside, each house usually has more than one pair or size available. 



  • California is the state with the more Asian population Nothing wrong about it, since I have use of memory  I liked Asian culture, their food, felt curiosity for their culture and got fascinated by their pop culture. And the difference is overwhelming. For instance, where I live there's luckily 2 "Chinese" restaurants and I never got to try real Asian cuisine until I came here.  Here you can get to try all kind of Asian food and all kind of stores with goods you could think about it. And that's a thing I always wanted to try, eat different foods, go to the famous Daiso or those stores with huge rilakuma stuffed animals ꒰⑅ᵕ༚ᵕ꒱˖♡

  • Swiping credit cards, taxes and tips.  This is the most stupid thing ever, I swear. The difference is that in Spain you have to give the shop assistant the credit card, they insert it and unless you have to enter your secret code you don't really do anything whereas in the USA you have to be the one who swipes the card.  Sometimes I just stood there waiting for them to ask my credit card, or give it to the shop assistant while getting some weird looks.  Taxes, your new best friend. All the prices here for food, clothing etc don't have the tax added. For example; see a nice shirt for 9$, you only have 10$ and think "oh, I got the exact money!". Nope, after they add the taxes you won't have enough.  Tiping is now my new enemy,  I never had to tip anyone, even at a restaurant, you just pay the food an leave, if you want to tip that's awesome for them but is not obligatory like in the USA.  If you tip in Spain it might be that euro coin you don't want or few cents if the price is close to a round number, but never a 15% - 20% of the price. I still think it's crazy. ( 」。╹o╹。)」


Those are some of the changes I felt while living here, I'm sure there are more I can't think about them now. I'll might add If I can think about a good one.

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