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In the past 20~30 years, there are many "capable people" in China who have gone to the United States to develop, including celebrities, doctors, scientists, athletes, etc., and some people have even been charged with "treason" and have to change their nationality.
That's because these people generally believe that developed countries like the United States have more opportunities and will live better in the United States, and they have also driven more people in China to follow the trend and immigrate to the United States.
But as more Chinese people go abroad, everyone knows that the United States is not what it says on the Internet, the good places are really good, but the "bad" places are also really bad.
Just like Wu Kequn's lyrics wrote, "The moon in foreign countries is not relatively round", today let's take a look, what is the real United States like, is it the same as your impression?
Meat is cheaper than vegetables
Whenever the price of pork rises in the mainland, people lament that it is too difficult to eat meat, and the dinner table is basically full of vegetable leaves, but the situation is reversed in the United States, because most of them cannot afford to eat vegetables at all.
For example, a hot dog or burger in the United States usually costs $1.5 or $3.5, but a regular vegetable salad can sell for $8, and people with average conditions will choose to eat high-calorie foods such as meat.
This is also one of the reasons for the high obesity rate in the United States, and there is also a popular saying in the United States that "the poorer the people are, the fatter", between eating saturated and eating well, they generally choose to eat full, and in front of filling their stomachs, gaining weight is secondary.
No nightlife
In the mainland, important banquets are generally held at noon, while in the United States, important dates and dinners are held in the evening.
But people usually get home before 9 p.m., when the streets are empty, and the United States is much less interesting than China's square dances with aunts and uncles and night market stalls loved by young people.
Because guns are legal in the United States, if you don't hurry home at night and still wander on the road, then the chances of encountering shootings and robberies will be high, and you can't enjoy the nightlife if you don't want to be in danger.
Long-distance reliance on "flying"
The economy of the United States is quite developed, and the aviation system and highway system are well built, but they have almost no railroads, and even the subway is very depressed.
If you want to travel far in the United States, the first choice is to fly, because there is no high-speed rail to provide you, and for short distances, you can use a private car, even if it is an average family, there may be several cars.
However, public transport is poorly developed, buses are barely visible, the subway is too old to operate, homeless people take shelter from the wind and rain underground, and even rats have to frequent.
Fear of the police and disrespect of the police
The police profession is very respected in China, and the common people have high respect for the police, but in the United States, they are not like this, they will be afraid of the police, and they will not dare to provoke the police at all, but they will speak ill of the police behind their backs.
In the eyes of the American public, the credibility of the police is very low, they think that the police only serve the powerful, and the people will not necessarily ask the police for help when they have something, because the police are really not necessarily on the side of the public.
When you encounter traffic police on the road, please be obedient, pull over and raise your hands, don't rummage through your documents to prove that you are okay like in China, because the police can't see your hands, they will feel that you are groping for weapons, and they have the right to shoot you with one shot.
Education is also divided into classes
Like in China, schools in the United States are divided into public schools and private schools, but the level of education between the two schools in their countries varies greatly, and the difference in tuition fees is not half a star.
Public schools are free, and some will provide meals and snacks, but the tuition fees of private schools are frighteningly high, as high as $300 for a textbook, and more than $2,000 for textbooks in a semester, and many civilians simply cannot afford it.
And ordinary people are not qualified to step into private schools, because the United States pays attention to "elite education", and children whose parents are elites are most likely also elites, and it is normal for the family to come from Harvard, and under the influence of social class, educational resources are only tilted to elite families.
Tramps everywhere
Don't say that there are homeless people in China, with the efforts of the mainland for so many years, there are really a lot fewer homeless people on the street, but there are many homeless people in the United States, and even people who are not homeless people will take the initiative to become homeless.
According to statistics, there are about 8.51 million people in New York, and there are 77,000 homeless people, which means that there is one homeless person for every 122 people, not including the poor who live in public housing areas.
If you walk on the streets of the United States, you will see a lot of beggars, disabled people, drunkards, addicts, etc., but the United States has a certain amount of assistance for them, so many poor people will give up making money and take the initiative to become homeless.
There is a lot of pressure on daily consumption
Rough data show that the general income of Americans is 3000~4000 US dollars per month, and Chinese especially like to convert US dollars into RMB, and then sigh "Wow, American wages are so high"!
In fact, it can't be calculated in this way, of course, in the United States, you have to spend in dollars, and you have to pay a lot of expenses for three or four thousand in your hand, which is about the same as the proportion and level of domestic consumption.
But the more difficult thing for Americans is that they need to pay a lot of taxes, such as buying groceries at the supermarket, the label is a price, and it will be more expensive at the checkout, so you have to be mentally prepared when paying.
It's hard to see a doctor
Don't be confused, the United States is indeed a country with very high medical conditions and standards, and many countries will go to the United States to seek opportunities for diseases that cannot be cured.
But the medical consumption in the United States is really expensive, and for example, tooth extraction costs thousands of dollars, which discourages the public who can't eat enough.
Moreover, many people will not choose to go to the hospital for diseases such as fever and cold, because the process of seeing a doctor in the hospital is very slow, and the patient must be carefully examined at the beginning, and then cautiously prescribe some basic medicine, and the operation of injection and infusion will not appear casually.
Moreover, if there is an emergency at home, residents will also choose to drive or call a taxi, and they ignore the ambulance because of its high cost.
Service is gratuitous
In the U.S., the service industry is a very popular profession because the person being served gratuities separately and the staff earns extra income.
In fact, the law of the United States does not stipulate that you must tip, which is the potential cognition formed by the local culture of the United States, and generally gives 10%~20% of the total consumption of the service staff as a tip, if you go to the United States to eat and do not tip, the waiter will think that you are not polite, and will think that you are a poor ghost.
No appearance anxiety
If you have people around you who have studied or worked in the United States, you can ask them whether there are more fat or thin people in the United States, and the answer you get must be that there are many fat people.
Americans are more open-minded and open-minded, and they will not casually discuss who is fat and who is thin on the street, let alone brazenly show off their figures, because they will be beaten.
And they are also informal in dressing, and they are likely to casually grab a pair of big flower shorts and small suspenders and go out, and then pair of flip-flops, how comfortable and comfortable it is.
In the eyes of Americans, appearance, figure, and clothing are not so important, and being able to eat and live is better than anything else.
epilogue
China is in a stage of rapid development, and the living conditions of people in China are also improving, so if you have the opportunity to go out and see as much as possible, don't be blinded by the information on the Internet.
And whether the United States is really good or not, whether it is worth your past development, is judged by yourself, not in other people's words.
It's not easy to create, if you enjoy it, you can pay attention to it and like it, this is a gift for you~