Today we want to talk to you guys about things we miss about the US.
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So in today's lesson we're going to tell you some
of the things that we miss about living in the United States.
So we are from the United States, but right now we don't live there.
So it's a little bit of a cultural lesson for you guys.
And we just want to share that with you, so...
More of us story sharing time.
Story sharing time.
Do you want to...you share first. Ladies first.
Okay, so the first thing I personally miss about the US,
probably the thing...
Not that I miss the most, but just that comes to mind first is the food.
Food! Food. Oh, I missed you so much.
And what I mean about the food, I don't mean like American burgers.
Really, that's what you miss?
No, I miss ethnic food, and the availability of having
all of this ethnic food everywhere like from Indian to Burmese to...
Mexican food.
Mexican, which is really good in California where we were.
And just all kinds of different ethnic food.
Oh my god. Sushi. Yeah, there's so much and I miss it so, so much.
Yeah definitely in bigger cities there's a lot of food varieties around there which is nice.
And it's authentic because you have people from
different countries who lived there and who started these restaurants.
So for the most part, I think it's authentic and delicious.
The one thing that I miss and maybe some of you would think its controversial.
I don't know. But I really miss the beer.
And I don't think...generally I don't think the US is known for its beer.
Most people don't think about "Oh, the US. Great beer."
But they should because there's a lot of different micro brews there and...
But you mean craft beer, right?
Craft beer, yeah. Of course. Yeah.
Not the beer that they export to other countries generally.
But there's a lot of micro breweries and craft beer in the US
that's really become popular over the last 10 even 20 years, so...
You guys they have chocolate beer. It's like coco beer. It's incredible.
There's a lot of good beer. Yeah. Really good beer.
But craft beer. It has to be craft. Not Budweiser and all of that crap.
Go for the beer stay for the food.
So the next thing I miss that comes to mind is very important.
To you.
To me now.
Well yes. Because first of all I I missed the convenience of shopping.
Online shopping. The one-stop shop kind of thing.
I used to be huge into buying of Amazon Prime.
Which if you guys don't know you get same-day shipping.
So you can buy something in the morning and get it to your house.
It was annoying. Like I thought it was annoying because she'd get something every day.
And then half of the stuff she'd return and be like "Yeah, I don't like this" or "It doesn't fit."
But it's free returns.
So it's kind of incredible because you have this huge
availability and you can sit there with your coffee and order things
It's so much better than shopping, honestly in person.
But...so I miss that.
You're making it seem like the lazy American. Like don't want to leave the house.
It's convenient. And like all those big stores that you have a lot to choose from, a lot of options.
Yeah, there's a lot of those like Costco's, Walmart's.
Where if you need something you just go there and they have everything.
And I know they have Costco in a lot of places all over the world.
But there...I think there's a lot of those places in the US.
Yeah, but I mostly miss Amazon Prime.
I miss it so much.
Speaking of shopping. Another thing that I miss and I guess you do too would be the cheap products.
So there's a lot of things that I think are much cheaper in the US especially like electronics and clothes, jeans.
And, it's nice not having to pay a lot for some of this stuff.
Yeah, a lot of sales that they have.
But you have stuff that's usually very expensive that can be on sale for like 70-80% off.
And it's a really, really good sale.
So I'm...yeah, I miss that. That's a good one.
Okay, so the next thing we miss is...I miss a lot - like every day - is this store.
This grocery store called Trader Joe's.
And we are dedicating a whole category to it because it's so good.
So it's a cheap store for food that has a lot of organic ingredients.
And everything they do...
This video is not sponsored by Trader Joe's.
No. But we just like it. We love it.
It's such a good story that we miss and everything...
It's important. It's a private grocery store, so you're only going to find it in in the US.
Yeah, sadly. So it just has everything good, high quality, cheap.
And they change their stuff a lot, so you always get good food.
It's kind of along the healthier line as well.
More health food, I think.
I miss it.
Yeah.
Another thing that I miss, and this is pretty much just me, I think, is sports.
I really miss sports. And obviously you can see
sports while you're outside of the country, but I miss talking about it, too.
I really enjoyed talking about sports with friends and family and...
Everybody loves sports.
You know I love sports.
You got to love sports.
Oh man, I love sports.
Yeah, it can be a cultural thing. Why are you laughing?
I'm laughing because I so don't miss that. I'm so happy that's over.
Because I'd walk into a room and everyone's like "Did you see what Belichick did?" or whatever.
It's like a different language.
Great conversation starter.
Okay, so I don't know why we left this like...
What?
It's like number 7 on our list.
Well, this is not in order.
It's not in order.
Of course not.
But we miss family and friends.
Yeah.
Obviously.
Definitely not an order of priority.
No obviously this...
Family and friends...well, after sports.
I don't know. I guess.
First family and friends, and then everything...
Well food though. That's a...
Okay, anyway. So we obviously really, really miss our family. Both of our families are in the U.S.
It'd be nice to be closer
Yeah, and our friends and everyone. We have a kind of a nice group of friends that are back there.
In the Bay Area, so shout out to all of you guys.
Even though you're probably not watching this.
I think another thing that we miss, which again is not
something that I think is a huge deal is of course the language.
Just being able to easily speak to people.
Be able to understand. That's one thing, sometimes, we miss the language.
You can eavesdrop, which is nice sometimes.
Yeah, you can eavesdrop.
Yeah, you're somewhere and then you hear all these kind of conversations.
You're so nosey.
It's fun. It's like a little drama sometimes.
And to read the labels.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
It takes me sometimes a really long time. Like if I'm trying to buy something in the grocery store.
To translate everything. The ingredients.
She spends a lot of time and energy translating the the food labels.
Didn't have that problem at Trader Joe's, did we?
No.
So one of the...I don't really eat fast food too much
I'll put that as a disclaimer.
But one fast food that I I miss and I really loved
being...spending 15 years in California was In-N-Out.
So if you guys know, In-N-Out is a...if you've heard of it is like a burger and fry chain.
And they have really...
It has a bit of a cult following.
In-N-Out. And everybody is, you know fanatic.
Like it's the best fast food out there, which I disagree with.
Because being from the Southeast, better than In-N-Out is Chick-Fill-A.
No.
So if you're ever traveling, especially on the east coast of the United States, you see a Chick-Fill-A
stop by grab some chicken. You won't regret it.
It's okay.
It's amazing. I am part of the Chick-Fill-A cult.
It's great. What do you mean? You said you loved it.
No I said I liked it.
You said, "Oh, this is amazing."
I said it was good.
For fast food it's incredible
I said it was good.
I kind of miss, I don't know if you miss it as well, is just how casual things tend to be.
Whether it's work or just out in society or whatever.
It's increasingly more Informal, which I think is a good thing because I like to be casual and you...
Whether it's the way people look or whether it's the way people talk.
Not that I tend to be formal when I leave the US.
But I just miss...you see other people they're really dressed up
and really formal and it makes me feel like...
Don't do nothing stupid. Just dress casual.
I enjoy casual. I want casual.
And how about casual Friday again. Huh re-instituting casual Friday.
No, I like it too. But not just because of that it just kind of blurs the lines between like classes and...
In the U.S. it's a little bit or more casual.
Well it's harder to tell, I think.
Yeah.
Because people like to be casual.
Yeah, I miss that too.
Not to the point where people end up wearing pajamas at the grocery store.
It's like too much. It's taking it to...
So here are the things that we miss about the U.S.
And we want to know from you.
If you've traveled abroad or lived abroad what were the things from your country that you missed?
Yeah, let us know in the comments.
What do you miss about your country when you're away?
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