I have so many takes to tell of my travels to the US. In my 20’s I was desperate to go there, after visiting the country countless times in the last 20 years I have no desire to return there.
We love the States, having discovered that Americans in America are so much less loud, brash and opinionated than they are when they're tourists in our country. Instead they're (for the most part) friendly, helpful, deliverers of infinitely better levels of customer service than we experience in this country, and they have an incessant interest in visitors from overseas - my elevator pitch was that I was from 'old' York not New York, and they couldn't get enough of it.
So after half a dozen long road trips over the years, we're up for some more.
Interesting and entertaining read as always. Me and kids were in NYC this summer with a different perspective and perception than you had. Maybe it’s because I am an foreigner in UK (despite lived here 22 years) as well as in America…
I have so many takes to tell of my travels to the US. In my 20’s I was desperate to go there, after visiting the country countless times in the last 20 years I have no desire to return there.
We love the States, having discovered that Americans in America are so much less loud, brash and opinionated than they are when they're tourists in our country. Instead they're (for the most part) friendly, helpful, deliverers of infinitely better levels of customer service than we experience in this country, and they have an incessant interest in visitors from overseas - my elevator pitch was that I was from 'old' York not New York, and they couldn't get enough of it.
So after half a dozen long road trips over the years, we're up for some more.
Interesting and entertaining read as always. Me and kids were in NYC this summer with a different perspective and perception than you had. Maybe it’s because I am an foreigner in UK (despite lived here 22 years) as well as in America…