Russian woman Daria Penionzhkevich moved to Texas from the Moscow region. In the first person, a mother of two children tells the site "Our Texas" about the work of pediatricians in the United States. “The fact that medical supervision of children in the United States and Russia is very different ...
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The Internet is filled with stories of those who use the airbnb service, renting a place for themselves in different parts of the world, but I'm going to tell you about how I rent an apartment through airbnb - ...
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I sat down the other day to reread my posts from a year ago about my first impressions when I just arrived in New York. When I was reading, I had tears of affection from ...
The victory of US Republican candidate Donald Trump in the US presidential election did not come as a surprise to me, but, like many, gave rise to a sense of anxiety about the steps of the future president. However, both external and internal ...
America is very big. Each state has its own unique nature, laws and history. It is difficult to talk about the common pros and cons for all parts of the United States, but I found 5 points that, according to my observations, are common to ...
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The Adventures of the Yellow Suitcase, XNUMXst Century Version, or How to Defend Your Rights If Your Flight is Canceled
By coincidence, this story really happened with a yellow Samsonite suitcase, and with its owner - my mother. I decided to share this story because I believe it will be useful to many. In August 2023, my entire family, including...
What to pay attention to if you are planning to move to another country
“Don’t confuse tourism with immigration” is probably the most common advice that people who have just arrived in a new country hear from long-time immigrants. Indeed, in practice, when forming an impression of a particular country, we first of all pay attention to...
How and why people renounce Russian Citizenship
Renouncing Russian citizenship is a complex and multi-stage process that requires a lot of effort, documents and time. My office gets this request quite often, so let's break it down in order. The first and indispensable condition for starting the exit process...
Noisy Toilets, Ice Drinks, and Inverted Dates: 15 Unexpected Facts About the US and Americans
When you live in the USA, these things seem quite ordinary to you, but they literally shock foreigners. Why do Americans bend their fingers back, why don't they pay taxes, why do they build toilets like this, and who really came up with the fries? Today I…
From the Holocaust to the war: how a San Francisco educator created an online theater with the participation of children from Ukraine
Elena Bilyak created her first theater in her native Lviv in the late 80s. As a student of philology, she came to practice at the school where she studied herself. The reporting of that time required not only lessons, but also the so-called “test events”, in ...
How a boy who immigrated from Kherson predicted the war that began 20 years later
ForumDaily has written more than once about the difficulties that modern refugees face. Immigration prisons, uncertainty about the future, long years of waiting for the consideration of their case for Russians or temporary protected status without access to a green card for Ukrainians have become natural today ...
Fire in Hawaii through the eyes of an eyewitness: a Russian-speaking tourist ended up in Maui during a disaster
Sergei Bystrov and his family flew to Hawaii from California to rest just a couple of days before the devastating fire, as a result of which the city of Lahaina on the island of Maui burned out almost completely. He witnessed these terrible events. Deadly wildfires in Hawaii have claimed...
The battle of the sexes in American style: what is the difference between the relationship between a man and a woman in the USA and in post-Soviet countries
Many immigrants from the post-Soviet space, starting relationships in America, by inertia act in the same way as they are used to in their homeland. This can often lead in a new country not only to love disappointments, but also to problems with the law. We list only the most prominent ...
The whole truth about life in America: 15 facts about the American dream
The American Dream is an expression that has taken root both in the United States and beyond the borders of this country that many dream of immigrating to America and making this very dream come true. At the same time, potential immigrants often have little idea of what awaits them in a new country ...
American irony: how an immigrant from Russia mixed up houses, almost became an alcoholic by court verdict and found new friends
This story may seem incredible to the average American, but it looks quite ordinary for an immigrant from the post-Soviet space, who has been familiar with Eldar Ryazanov's cult film The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath since childhood. Viktor Kislitsyn (not his real name) moved to the US in the 1990s…
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