When we moved back to the U.S. from Hungary last summer I expected to discover all sorts of profound observations about life back here. That didn’t really happen. Maybe it’s just hard to see your native culture from a different light.

Anyway, after 9 months this was all I could come up with, so here’s the short list.

1. Everything is easier and faster in America. Super efficiency. Yet Americans are some of the busiest people on the planet. You’d think they would have all this free time to enjoy life.

2. Orlando is one of the best landscaped cities in America. Landscaping crews edge the grass along sidewalks and blow all the debris clean afterwards. But no one walks anywhere. They all drive their cars.

3. Cars in America cost about half as much as a starter home. They are approximately half as big, too.

I had some other political observations, too, but airing those here would only get me into trouble.

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