What's around you?

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Today, I've spent some of my evening hours reading stuff like this:
35 Things You Appreciate About America After Living in Europe
No convenience stores? EU, really? Not loving ketchup and pizza ordering? WTF are screened windows? Have no idea what solo cups are, and toilets are always a problem around here, too. Drinking fountains... there were a lot of them in USSR times at our beaches and recreation places like parks. Now there are only some wrecked remains. I think I've seen a single new fountain somewhere tho. #26 really made me surprised, too. This stuff is expensive and place-consuming so it's pretty normal we don't have those in our houses often, but I really thought EU uses them all over. It's better for environment not to use them at all, I guess...

In that double-culture article, both cultures are unknown to me, so reading it was twice as educating, I think!

In exchange: stophavingaboringlife.com/livi… - someone visits my city.

55 Toys And Games That Will Make ’90s Girls Super Nostalgic

Dolls, dolls, more dolls! I'd love having #8, I'm sure. Some items from the list were known in 2000s at my part of world, and #11 (tamagotchi) were a huge hit. Fake chinese ones, mostly. #25+#34 would have me occupied from time to time, too. And we never had troll dolls with jewelry, lol. Only plain ones, and in 2000s, too. #52... I'd mess with it even now!

In exchange: locals.md/2012/myi-deti-80-90-…

This one mostly has stuff from 80s and sometimes earlier which was used by 90s kids because it was cheaper to re-use old toys for young generation then buying new in times of total destuction and recreation of market. I've had some of those. A frog, a red ball, a "walking turtle" (on a photo with a donkey), a table hockey, a tiny kitchen (simplier than one in the photo), a wonderful old kaleidoscope, the electronic wolf game... Got stereoscope in early 90s and really started to use it way later. Also, tetris game which I wanted so badly and finally got it and spent hours and hours on it :D A bit more: 90ie.ru/19/igrushki/ (had that rainbow thing, too) Of course, there were a lot of more decent stuff, mostly imported from elsewhere: barbie dolls (maybe fakes) and furniture, lots and lots of Kinder Surprise (is that true that you can't buy them in USA?), little or huge puzzles, bubblegum stickers and tattoos (there were native ones, with mobby slang jokes and then lots of Turkish ones), etc, etc...


What is common and everyday at your places of living? Little houses or huge ones? Little amount of trees or a lot of them or none of them? Is your local store big or small, or are there a few ones you have to visit? What few things are  part of your personal culture, those you can't imagine your life without? I could ask questions for the whole day, but for now - it's midnight - and Punpun vol.13 already complered - so, goodnight, me.

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Hmm... I've always lived in pretty suburban areas of the US, so usually there are a fair number of trees around the places I live, but not anything you could really call a "forest". The number of animals has decreased a lot, but the ocean is nearby, so there are many seagulls and other birds, like pigeons and crows. And if you drive an hour or so one way, you can get to fairly populated cities, with sky scrapers and a large amount of people, but if you drive a couple hours another way, you can get to cows and farmland pretty fast, too.

I've never been fond of the city, especially places like Tokyo, which feel very cold to me. I like small, warmer feeling towns, like the place I studied in northern Japan, which wasn't complete nowhere, but to most Tokyo-ites would be considered the complete boonies.

Your city looks really beautiful from the second article, too, Road! I wish I could visit there someday.

I do like, though, the resources being near big cities gives ones: Libraries with loads of books. Amazing universities, professors and students. A huge variety of stores and services, especially art supplies.

And I do like waterfountains, ketchup, and readily available public restrooms, hahaha. But I think the person's article on Europe was kind of irritating... it was probably supposed to be funny, but...