SamuelRSmith on 22 March 2016
| tokilamockingbrd said: Welcome to USA. I recently spent 10 days in Cambodia which was wonderful. In the US our big issues are things like college tuitions too expensive and people wanting to make a middle class income by working at McDonalds flipping burgers. Being in Cambodia gave me some perspective. For example I bought a beer, can of soda, and some chips at a local shop and they gave me a total of $1.50, I gave her $2.00 and declined to take my change. I did it because I did not want 50 cents worth of their currency (they don't have US coin), the lady was extremely grateful. I learned later that 50cents was enough for her to live on for 1 day.... As bad as the media tries to make the US seem it is still amazing. I have spent alot of time in other countries the past few years for work, and with the exception of enjoying some activities that are illegal in the US, I am always happy to come back. |
I had a similar experience with my family in Morocco. My dad wanted to make sure that we had good seats around the pool each day, and he noticed that the pool cleaners were out every morning a few hours before anybody else woke up. When he tipped one guy the equivalent of 9 usd to reserve seats every morning, he was extremely excited, turns out that it was roughly equivalent to his weekly salary at the time.
