“If you want to hate the US, watch the news. If you want to love the US, drive through it.”

"We only do sizes big, bigger, biggest here in the US. If you are ever hear and get to stop at a Five Guys, their fries are amazing, but order a small, because they put the container in the bag and shovel a bunch of fries into the bag way overflowing the container anyway."

"One of my favorite quotes from this World Cup was from a German Fan who said: 'If you want to hate the US, watch the news. If you want to love the US, drive through it.'"

"You should try to go to Montana one day. I don't understand how the sky could be bigger till I went there."

"Honestly, wild to come in with the idea that an urban area with a population larger than Belgium is going to be all glam and no grunge. LA absolutely has glamorous areas and a ton of hugely wealthy neighborhoods; they just don’t always align with the tourist hotspots, Hollywood being the peak offender. You need to spend time in the hills, or other beach cities that are not Venice or Santa Monica."

"Paris is the same way. It's supposed to be elegant and refined, but lots of it is dumpy."

"NYC is [a] very different thing than NY state."

"Yeah, never really thought about it till we were there. Just assumed "New York' was one homogeneous region."

"As a BC resident who used to frequent Washington, the difference is immediate to me. The roads are in worse condition, giant billboards everywhere, every highway exit surrounds you in fast food, it seems very obvious to me."

"Probably red tide. Happens here every 3-5 years, and the smell is horrible."

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