I know hundreds of people who dream of leaving their home country. At the same time, I myself have never dreamed of moving somewhere for permanent residence from my beloved Petersburg. But I have been living in California for a little over two years now. During this time…

When we first moved to California, we didn’t plan to delay getting local licenses (you can read the story of my immigration here). And literally in the first couple of weeks we learned what was being done and how. We thought, let’s prepare a little and go to take the test. My husband downloaded...

My husband and two children and I went to Hawaii in September. We chose the island of Maui for our vacation. We rented a condo here right on the beach - it’s not quite an apartment, but not a hotel either. Large one bedroom suite with living room, balcony, kitchen and…

In the state of Arizona, Antelope Canyon is located, which can hardly be compared in scale with the world-famous Grand Canyon, but which will surprise you with its bizarre rocks of incredible shapes and magical light. The land on which the canyon is located belongs to the Indians ...

I want to talk about how cars are bought in California, as there are several significant differences that personally surprised me. In California, there are two ways to own a car - buy or lease. Leasing is a broad topic and...

When I was writing this text, I tried to find at least something that could be cited as an example as an argument that prevents us from being happy in the United States, but I did not find anything. Nothing. The key word in this sentence is "us". Moving to…

For the first 1,5 months of living in a new apartment in California, we received an electricity bill for $ 179. This situation did not make us very happy, but it taught us a lot. And we decided to conduct an experiment "how not to go broke on electricity." Looking ahead, ...

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?". Prices…

When was the last time you were in the library? My two kids and I visit our local bookstore once a week, sometimes twice. And you will be surprised, but we don’t go there at all to read. But - about...

Soon it will be 3 years since I moved to California. In a past life, I lived in a city with a population of one million, worked in a managerial position in 2 jobs at the same time and thought about how my husband and I could go on a trip to Asia for several months. Since ...