> There's urine in the train stations (either visible or smellable), elevators shut down by faeces, people shouting, yelling and preaching in the streets
I'm not reacting to any offense, as I agree the US has these problems. However this also describes very well my time spent in metropolitan Spain, France, and Italy.
The "roads have only one name" rings very true for me. I usually denote my road as "S Hwy X" (where X is a letter, not a number). But over the years the official USPS designation has changed slightly and different organizations have different naming standards, ranging from "Highway X" to "South County Rd X" etc. One time while attempting to make a credit card payment I discovered that the vendor validated the billing address against both my bank AND the USPS standard, which were doomed to never agree. Needless to say I did not end up buying anything from them.
The "roads have only one name" rings very true for me. I usually denote my road as "S Hwy X" (where X is a letter, not a number). But over the years the official USPS designation has changed slightly and different organizations have different naming standards, ranging from "Highway X" to "South County Rd X" etc. One time while attempting to make a credit card payment I discovered that the vendor validated the billing address against both my bank AND the USPS standard, which were doomed to never agree. Needless to say I did not end up buying anything from them.
Though I don't think many US programmers would think postal codes were small. My rural birthplace ZIP has a few thousand addresses and there are some ZIPs here with over 100,000. But yes indeed I learned quite a few things about the Royal Mail in the post.
I'm not reacting to any offense, as I agree the US has these problems. However this also describes very well my time spent in metropolitan Spain, France, and Italy.