Transplants: Talk trash about your adopted city/state

In My Humble Opinion
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What, do you simply fly over the rest of the country?

It’s a slight hikack, but Chicago has great Mexican, and equally great Chinese (and no, just because it has white rice doesn’t make it Chinese).

Hijack over. :slight_smile:

-Cem

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Lincoln, Nebraska to Honolulu, Hawaii

Actually, I cannot think of anything to complain about :wink:

But, in the spirit of the thread:

No, it is not always freezing on the mainland. Summers are far hotter than here.

Turn signals let people know you’re changing lanes.

Yes, I know you love the bass to Eminem. The rest of us may not. So turn it down.

Yes, I love how you decked out your Civic. But did you really need to mess with the muffler?

Yes, I will bring back Krispy Kreme donuts and Bath & Body Works after I get back from the mainland.

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New York Times reviews of Golden Unicorn, Big Wong and some other place, and friends had been there and “loved it.” I am forced to conclude my friends and the Times lack taste…

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Here’s a European perspective (transplanted from Germany to the Netherlands):

  • why can’t you people make decent bread?
  • why can’t you people make any decent beer other than Grolsch (which is practically German anyway, since it’s from Enschede)? Belgium is smaller than you are and look at them.
  • stop littering. Amsterdam looks like a dump (even when the garbage men haven’t been on strike, like they were last week) and most German cities don’t.
  • why is a train ticket so damn expensive? I pay 235 euros (that’s US$287) to go from home to work for a month (a round trip of 62 miles a day).
  • Dutch cuisine (as if there actually was such a thing). You guys are lucky the English get all the ribbing, because the Dutch cuisine is much worse. If it wasn’t for all the Indonesians, Surinamese, Antillians, Chinese, etc. here, I would probably have starved already.
  • the place is too damn flat. I know it’s not your fault, but I miss seeing a hill or even a mountain now and then.
  • the language. You sound like you’re hocking up a loogie all the time. Although I must admit Dutch women have very sexy voices. For some strange reason Dutch women seem to have much deeper and rougher (almost masculine) voices than their German counterparts, and I think they sound damn fine.
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I thought of another one.

Giving me directions by telling me where I need to go to apply for this job is right where a mall used to be. This is not very helpful for somebody who has lived here since February and has no way to know where a mall USED to be!