Are you salty about my playlist? (“Does my music annoy you?”) an acquaintance asks his friend, smiling. The five of us sit at his house and play board games, eat snacks and drink cider, more like lemonade. He is from California, works and films in Washington...

You can eat cheap and fast in America, or high quality and expensive. There are grocery stores with very low prices, where the food tastes quite artificial, with a bunch of enhancers, flavors, and colorings that are “identical to natural.” However, there are also high-end supermarkets, and many more...

For a year in America, I managed to live in ten apartments in different parts of Washington and the suburbs, and I am very happy about that. Despite the inconvenience of moving, I studied the city and the housing market. I also saw a typical American life. It would seem, well ...

“Look at the car we drove around the vineyards in California,” an American colleague showed me photos of a brand new red Porsche 911 that he and a friend rented on vacation. — I’ve long dreamed of riding one of these! Listen to how the engine sounds!” I asked how they...

In the United States, the end of summer is officially considered not August 31, but September 20, on the autumn equinox. However, the results of summer 2020 can be summed up now: for obvious reasons, it passed under the banner of “developing domestic tourism.” List of countries where American...

In their desire to achieve Western values, Ukrainians often downplay their worth and fail to recognize their own advantages. However, it is worth remembering how sincere and hospitable Ukraine is, and how strong and talented its people are. This is confirmed by three Americans who, without having Ukrainian...

The monument to the 26th US President Theodore Roosevelt has become the latest “victim” of the movement to remove monuments that symbolize colonial expansion and racial discrimination. The Museum of Natural History in New York has decided to demolish a bronze sculpture depicting Roosevelt on a horse, and next to him African and indigenous people on foot...

“My friend lives in Oklahoma, she is an ultrasound technician, and together with her husband she receives $8800 a month in unemployment benefits, and now it is more profitable for them not to work,” my friend Valeria, who lives in New York state, told me. She's a dentist and...

Hygiene and compliance with quarantine rules are among the reasons why the densely populated countries of East Asia were able to quickly contain the rate of spread of the COVID-19 disease. My friend Xiao is from Beijing. She came to study in the USA 8 years ago, speaks almost without an accent and ...

This year in Washington for the New Year, heavy rain and +11 are predicted. Needless to say, this does not carry a special feeling of the approaching holiday. There is no fairytale atmosphere, no expectation that some small miracle is about to happen. And where is the holiday? Nights with ...