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• Car insurance is optional
• Kids get govt subsidised dental care until they’re 18
• Most common prescriptions are $5 or free
• We did away with pennies because they’re pointless
• It’s common to go barefoot into shops and grocery stores
• Most kids in elementary school go barefoot
• Semi automatic weapons banned
• Kids get 20 hours govt subsidised daycare per week
• When you sell your car the license plate typically goes with it
• Most gas stations serve hot food and it’s good (by American standards)
• Online banking allows instant direct cross-bank money transfer, so nobody uses Paypal or Venmo
• Nobody pays by check, nobody carries around a checkbook
• It’s not unusual for public parks to have exercise equipment
• For short domestic flights, time between entering the airport and boarding the plane can be as short as 60 seconds
• The milky way is still visible in good sized towns
• Praying mantises are still common
• Money (bills and coins) feature women, nature, and explorers not war generals, bankers, and buildings.

There are like 4 days a year everyone just puts their old sofas, broken TVs and other junk outside to be collected by a garbage truck the next day. As this furniture is mostly usable, people in white vans go around to collect the most valuable stuff, which makes up most of the traffic in villages on those days and causes old people to complain about Polish immigrants.

The village children also have a look around if the weather is nice.

Unchecked gun violence by a population against itself

Going to the forest to pick mushrooms, nuts and berries. Going to the beach to pick up washed out amber. Having a lot of people grow their own food, even the city folk.

High medical bills

Being atheistic as the norm. Sky daddies don't hold much power here.

Living below sea level for generations, and only remembering when you see other countries flood.

People in the UK drink so much tea (or coffee these days), that breaks in soap operas (such as Eastenders) cause the national grid to be on high alert, due to the incredulous surge of power from so many kettles being turned on at once.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup

You are save to eat raw meat. I Love Mettbröttchen with Zwiebel.

• Not being able to afford healthcare and insurance.
• Half of the population worshipping a felonious, racist, homophobic sexist as if he’s a deity.
• K.C. Barbecue.

Losing a war with flightless birds.

spending to much time at work and to much time on medical billing and administration and spending to much time on taxes and other government paperwork while making enough for now if your lucky but knowing you won't have whats needed later in life

I can tell if you're Catholic or Protestant by the way you pronounce the letter H.

Going bankrupt due to medical bills.

Churches the size of castles full of people preaching humility.

school shootings (being common)

People playing and hearing songs with looped beats and vulgar lyrics through a bass boosted sound system which costed them several months worth of minimum wage to pay for having it on their cars. They generally drive slowly through streets near beaches in order to exhibit their "fancy sound systems" while all the vulgarity plays repeatedly. I guess it's unique from this green-and-yellow country where I live.

I could also say wearing flip-flops and bermudas on a daily basis, or one of the highest usage and dependency of Meta's WhatsApp worldwide, or the country with the most welcome (often too nosy) people. Or, through a more positive lens, the richest land where crops easily grow when you sow something, the highest ecological diversity (especially plants, it's so common to find exotic plants here), the highest climate diversity (you can travel south to meet snow, then travel north/northeast to meet hot climates, without leaving the same country), etc.

Proper Poutine