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Bulgakov's stories about death and inheritance from a Russian-speaking lawyer in the USA

Man is mortal, but that would not be so bad. The bad thing is that sometimes he is suddenly mortal, that’s the trick! (Mikhail Bulgakov) Since I opened my office in New York, I had to change my specialization: to replace international divorces, disputes about ...

Post-Soviet family foundations that surprise Americans

Just as we are surprised by the orders and traditions in America, so Americans look at us as if under a microscope and note differences in everyday life and habits. Our family has been living in America for several years, and American friends do not miss the opportunity to talk about our -...

Features of American real estate, and why there are no fences

I often receive questions about American housing. You all probably watch films where they show houses that are not surrounded by fences, which greatly surprises our compatriots. How so? This is true? - subscribers write to me. Yes, Hollywood often goes too far and exaggerates some...

Personal experience: 5 things that startled me in Los Angeles

Several years ago in May, after a sleepless night, saying goodbye to rainy Moscow, I flew into another life. Los Angeles is a city of clear azure skies, where the sun shines 329 days a year! Oh, miracle! Of course, the weather factor greatly influenced my decision...

What does NOT like our tourists in the US

Our people always don't like something. Where the Australians or French clap their tongues with delight, ours grimace and grimace. Either the cities are too flat for them, now everything is too regulated, now it is tasteless, and when there are no arguments, it becomes very expensive, writes Alexey Gavrilyuk in ...

Julia Dyadyura

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Five truths about life in the USA that will turn your mind

When moving to America, be prepared to enter a different world with new rules, they told me before leaving. And they were right. After living in the USA for several years, my opinion has changed dramatically on many issues. Of course, “white” did not become “black”, but...

Tatyana Vorozhko

Journalist of the Ukrainian Voice of America Service

Why do Americans work for wear and tear and pay for workaholism

Once my husband and I met in the store his friend, whom he had not seen for five years. And the first thing he told him about his life was the number of hours worked last week. We never found out whether he got married or ...

Tatyana Vorozhko

Journalist of the Ukrainian Voice of America Service

'Vanity size' and four more 'crazy' and wonderful American shopping trends

Buying clothes has always been a problem for me. As a child, back in the Soviet Union, there wasn’t much choice, and my best clothes were sewn by my mother. Chinese down jackets, which were the first, along with Turkish jeans, to penetrate the Iron Curtain, following the bears...

Personal experience: 50 changes that happened to me in a few years of living in the USA

I managed to live 2,5 years in New York, half a year in Boston and a month in San Francisco, traveled exactly half of the states and visited a hundred cities - of course, a huge amount of impressions accumulated. I'll make a reservation right away, I haven't lived a day with my compatriots, but I stayed in thirty airbnb locations, so I met and became friends ...

10 myths about Americans that you will say goodbye to when you move to the USA

During my life in the USA, I said goodbye to many of my stereotypes and prejudices about Americans. Here's just one of them: in the States they eat only fast food, so there are a lot of overweight people there. Myth 1: All Americans are workaholics I lived for a long time believing this myth. Until I started working with Americans and realized...

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