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11 Curious Facts about the USA

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Here you may get the feeling that everyone knows each other, because you can hear dialogues from all sides: “Hello! How are you?". If you are standing in line at the supermarket and hear this addressed to you, smile and say, “Okay! How about you?".

Food prices are fairly stable. For example, in June 2014, the cost of packing a cherry tomato weighing 910 g cost $ 4.99. Now it costs $ 5.99.

In the US, cheap housing loans (4%) and cars (0-2%).

In California, you can not anywhere to put the grill and fry kebabs. It is possible to make open fire only in specially equipped places, where usually there are already common grills, and anyone can use them for free.

Here are very common credit cards. Having a credit card is not only desirable, but necessary. In addition to banks, each store offers to have its own credit card, so people have dozens of them. Also, each resident has a credit history, which is paid attention to when issuing loans or submitting documents for rental housing.

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There is no roaming in the US - no matter what state you are in, just use your SIM card.

Here you will not die of thirst - there are fountains with free drinking water everywhere.

Americans' favorite word "sorry". You will hear it even if, while buying a bicycle in a store, you run into a sweet old lady with a cart. Yes, she will be the one to apologize.

In California, there are free public toilets everywhere. And they always have toilet paper.

All American schools have an official rating, and housing prices are directly dependent on the rating of schools. The higher the school's score, the more expensive the rent and purchase of real estate in the area.

In addition, schools have such a requirement as no more than 20 passes during the year. In case your child misses more, they can be expelled from school or left for the second year. And they can even pass on papers about poor attendance to the court to find out the reasons for such irresponsible attitude of parents to the child and his education.

Original article published in personal blog Maya Buriakina and reprinted with permission of the author.

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