{"id":405,"date":"2012-09-22T18:08:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T17:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andy-thomson.com\/?p=405"},"modified":"2012-09-22T18:08:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T17:08:51","slug":"introducing-good-and-bad-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/2012\/09\/22\/introducing-good-and-bad-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Good and Bad America!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good and Bad America – an idea ripped off from this site<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Being an immigrant gives you a wonderful opportunity to observe what is different about your new country. While life here is more ‘normal’ to me than my time in Japan, it is a different culture with it’s own sensibilities and traditions. Things are different here and I am hoping to write about them as I come across them.<\/p>\n

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The first three – hot stuff!<\/h1>\n

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For my first foray into good and bad I decided to focus on good.<\/p>\n

1. Starbucks everywhere!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I really love coffee shops. There is nothing like sitting in a comfortable coffee shop reading or using their internet. In Japan I virtually had my lunch in Tully’s everyday, during my year at Uni in 2009\/10 I did the bulk of my reading at Starbucks. Point is I really dig coffee shops and I love that they are everywhere here, not only everywhere but (where I live) easily accessible, no longer am I forced to drive into the middle of town and left endlessly circling looking for a parking place. Once I have a job and a car I am definitely going to be visiting the coffee shop more often.<\/p>\n

2. Spicy actually means SPICY!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I like spicy food. Those who know me know that poor Beth is forever having her mouth blown off when I cook. Many times I’ve heard ‘My mouth has gone numb!’. Vindaloo (and occasionally phaal) was my curry of choice back home. You can see I really<\/strong> <\/em>like spicy. In Scotland, I would always buy spicy foods or snacks and be disappointed at how bland they were. It was extremely rare that I found something that satisfied my incendiary pallette.<\/p>\n

Not so in the US. Spicy means spicy. Excellent!<\/p>\n

3. The cloud actually works!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since moving to the US I have been enjoying being able to utilise services like Google Music<\/a>. It’s great to be sitting anywhere that I have an internet connection and be able to access my music collection. This will be really useful when I have a slightly better phone. It’s nice to see these cloud storage services start to roll out in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good and Bad America – an idea ripped off from this site! Being an immigrant…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-goodbad","category-the-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}