"Free Toilets Everywhere": 27 Interesting Facts About The US People Understand Only After Visiting

How amazing the national parks are.

Its really 50 countries in a trenchcoat.

Distances -- No, you cannot go to New York City, Disneyworld, the Grand Canyon, and Yosemite in a week.

That the people here are very friendly regardless of what you've been told.

How so many people are so poorly educated.

When I visited the USA for the first time I was absolutely shocked at the amount of homelessness. I’d never in my life seen anything like it and I’ve traveled to third world countries. It was really confronting and unbelievably depressing.

Also they still use faxes.

Appetizers in restaurants are often enough for a main course.

There are truly breathtaking natural places and amazing indie musical scenes.

Also people are a lot nicer than we Canadians usually think. .

The variety of American cuisines and dishes, such as diffetent barbewue tyoes, Tex-Mex, Cajun, Carolina seafood boils, Maryland crabcakes, etc.

Avoid fast food and chains, go for the real stuff.

That virtually all tourist attractions, including museums, are free in Washington DC.

I think even people who live here underestimate the geographic diversity of the country. The Northeast and Southwest almost feel like different planets, let alone different regions.

How primitive the train system is.

The price does not include sales tax.

How much country isn't populated. I thought there would just be people everywhere but just mainly on the coast(s).

There's an overabundance of advertising nearly everywhere you go.

Things are big. Cars. Houses. Buildings. I don’t mean tall buildings. I mean very, very wide. They take up lots of space. I never noticed it until I visited other countries when I was around nine and saw how small cars and buildings and homes were. Especially Japan.

How sweet all the food is. ALL of it.

People really are that fat.

Free soda refills.

I found the class divides between upper and lower class to be rather apparent. One person seems totally normal then you talk to someone else who speaks as though they haven’t learned to read.

That the roads are poorly maintained.