Impressions of America

[Softball Bat]

As most know, I have lived in S. Korea for 17 years.
I am in transition back to the U.S.

Since going to S. Korea in 2006, I have been back to the U.S. a handful of times -- usually for not longer than a month.
I am currently in Houston, and have been in the States since the middle of September.
I paln to remain in the U.S. until March, and intend to then go back to S. Korea for a few months, before finally settling back here in Babylon for good later in 2024.

When you live in a place (America) for a long time, you very much tend to become assimilated to it. Y'all are assimilated to life here.
But when you came into a place from outside (S. Korea), your view is much different.
I am not assimilated to America.

Here are some of my impressions of America...


1. People are generally very unhealthy.
Obesity, obvious lack of exercise or physical fitness, limps, bad skin, stress, glazed eyes.
It is rare to look around and see a person who is very fit, at least here in H-town, and also in Brooklyn, NY.
Brooklyn is a cesspool, btw.

2. The cell phone culture is not progress. It is a pain in the @ss.
Cell phones are supposedly making our lives easier, but the opposite is true.
It has become difficult to live in Amerika without owning a cell phone, but if it was up to me alone, I would still not own one. Being married means I do not have the freedom to operate in ways that only satisfy myself.
Seems like everything you do requires some sort of code, verification, text confirmation, PIN #, or other such bullsheet.
Phone is beeping all through the day, phone must be with you when you go to a store, phone is your god.
Lose your phone and you're fvcked.
Do your own check out job at the grocery store, bag your own goods, etc...
Use to be nice, back in the day, when you could roll into a store, get your item, pay your cash, and be out the door in no time.

3. The cost of living is very high now.
A person can live MUCH cheaper in S. Korea, and health care is also MUCH cheaper and convenient.
No comparison.

You can also live without a car in S. Korea, if you live in the northern half of the country, which most do.
Excellent, and clean, subway system.
The subways in NY are a filthy rat hole by comparison.

4. Beautiful women?
Are they here in the States?
Don't seen many AT ALL in Brooklyn or in Houston.
In S. Korea, there are lovelies ALL OVER THE PLACE.
Virtually every time you venture out in S. Korea, you encounter attractive women.

5. People are struggling.
People are struggling in S. Korea, too. I think most everywhere now.
We are in very bad economic times.
In America, people are wandering around inside of the their own demise, and they seem mostly oblivious to their enslavement.
It is like that to an extent in S. Korea, also, but it is... different.
S. Korea is about 20 or 30 years behind America as far as cultural degradation.

There is more, but that is enough for now.

[Sudden Sam]

My South Korean friends, even having lived here for years, are dumbstruck by so many Americans’ lack of interest in getting an education and improving their lot in life.

They’re also disgusted by our littering.

[Roach]

What about body odors and cleanliness? I have heard it said we "occidentals" stink to the nose of an asian, maybe due to a red meat diet.

And in SoKorea is canibus legalized in any way or what level of criminality does having it carry.

[Softball Bat]

I haven't heard about the odor thing, Roach.

Cannabis is legal nowhere in Korea.
I am not sure what the penalties are.

S. Korean society is very conservative and repressed compared to American society.
Family is still emphasized, kids are required to wear uniforms to public school, and p0rn is illegal.

P0rn sites are blocked in S. Korea, and other "racy" sites are blocked.
Cruising around on the internet, I would occasionally go to a site that I found was -----> blocked.
If you go to a blocked site, a police warning comes up on your computer.

[Carson]

What you described sounds a lot like Athens.

Except the women here are hot and we can get porn.

[The Seer]

What about body odors and cleanliness? I have heard it said we "occidentals" stink to the nose of an asian, maybe due to a red meat diet.

And in SoKorea is canibus legalized in any way or what level of criminality does having it carry.

You need a good whiff of Kimchi breath coming at you.

[The Seer]

You can also live without a car in S. Korea, if you live in the northern half of the country, which most do.
Excellent, and clean, subway system.

Probably a good idea to minimize DRIVING in that country, especially by the women....


4. Beautiful women?
Are they here in the States?
Don't seen many AT ALL in Brooklyn or in Houston.
In S. Korea, there are lovelies ALL OVER THE PLACE.
Virtually every time you venture out in S. Korea, you encounter attractive women.

You'd almost have to TRY to avoid seeing hotties in the states...and Brooklyn & Houston wouldn't be my first choices for fox hunting.

No question there are hot women in Korea, like everywhere else, but the panorama of physical traits is a lot more limited than a melting pot country.

[Kierland]

“Probably a good idea to minimize DRIVING in that country, especially by the women....”

You are the laziest POS here. Could you at least TRY and post something more substantial than “Asian women no drive good” please?

[Softball Bat]

My South Korean friends, even having lived here for years, are dumbstruck by so many Americans’ lack of interest in getting an education and improving their lot in life.

There is an extreme "education" culture in Korea, and it is intense.
There is also an intense "work" culture.
Leisure is not valued that much.

School was 6 days a week (well, every other Saturday was off) for the first few years I was in Korea.

Opportunities are much more limited in S. Korea than in America, and if a kid falls behind, he will end up in an undesirable life position.
Kids face a lot of pressure from parents.
They are in school for long hours. Most kids attend an "academy" after school, where they focus on a specialty or two.
It is very common for a Korean kid to be in school/Academy from 8:30 am to 8 pm or later.

The suicide rate is high in S. Korea, in part due to this extreme work and education culture, and in part due to the fact that Koreans tend to be very high strung.

[Softball Bat]

No question there are hot women in Korea, like everywhere else, but the panorama of physical traits is a lot more limited than a melting pot country.

True.

Maybe Houston and Brooklyn are not the places to be looking for hot women, as you note.
But, I am just giving you the impressions that I have at this point.

Walk out in Korea and there are many lovelies to be seen.
Almost none here (Brooklyn, Houston), at least that I have seen.

[Screw_Michigan]

Maybe Houston and Brooklyn are not the places to be looking for hot women, as you note.
But, I am just giving you the impressions that I have at this point.

Walk out in Korea and there are many lovelies to be seen.
Almost none here (Brooklyn, Houston), at least that I have seen.

Oh please. You're gonna tell us with a straight face that a borough with 2.7 million people doesn't have very many hot babes? You're gonna tell us that Houston, a giant city with TONS of hot babes of Mexican and Latin descent, doesn't have many hot babes? I wouldn't want to live in Houston but if you had to, it would be for the babes. And the food.

I think you are making shit up.

[Screw_Michigan]

There is an extreme "education" culture in Korea, and it is intense.
There is also an intense "work" culture.
Leisure is not valued that much.

School was 6 days a week (well, every other Saturday was off) for the first few years I was in Korea.

Opportunities are much more limited in S. Korea than in America, and if a kid falls behind, he will end up in an undesirable life position.
Kids face a lot of pressure from parents.
They are in school for long hours. Most kids attend an "academy" after school, where they focus on a specialty or two.
It is very common for a Korean kid to be in school/Academy from 8:30 am to 8 pm or later.

The suicide rate is high in S. Korea, in part due to this extreme work and education culture, and in part due to the fact that Koreans tend to be very high strung.

So I take it they don't have full time "tennis school" in South Korea?

[Meat Head]

TONS of hot babes of Mexican and Latin descent,

I need to know how do you set the odds on how many are half or quarter breeds?

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Uncle Dave

[Diego in Seattle]

My South Korean friends, even having lived here for years, are dumbstruck by so many Americans’ lack of interest in getting an education and improving their lot in life.

There is an extreme "education" culture in Korea, and it is intense.
There is also an intense "work" culture.
Leisure is not valued that much.

School was 6 days a week (well, every other Saturday was off) for the first few years I was in Korea.

Opportunities are much more limited in S. Korea than in America, and if a kid falls behind, he will end up in an undesirable life position.
Kids face a lot of pressure from parents.
They are in school for long hours. Most kids attend an "academy" after school, where they focus on a specialty or two.
It is very common for a Korean kid to be in school/Academy from 8:30 am to 8 pm or later.

The suicide rate is high in S. Korea, in part due to this extreme work and education culture, and in part due to the fact that Koreans tend to be very high strung.

Sounds similar to the work environment known in Japan as "karoshi."

[Softball Bat]

Oh please. You're gonna tell us with a straight face that a borough with 2.7 million people doesn't have very many hot babes?

I am sure there are some.

In fact, I saw one attractive young lady when I was walking outside in Brooklyn, and it startled me.
Totally unexpected, based on what I was encountering every day I was there.

In Korea, if I walk outside to the bus, take the bus to the subway, and take the subway for 6 or 7 stops, it is a GIVEN that I encounter a half dozen pretties.
Every time.

Similarly in Brooklyn, I rode the subway most days, and was out and about, and I saw almost NONE.


Take a visit to South Korea, SM.
Go to Seoul for a week and see if I am lying.


Now, part of this is also cultural.
Koreans don't go out of the house looking ratty.
If someone goes outside, they dress "up" (at least slightly). So, women attempt to present themselves well in public, and this helps the appearance.

But it is more than that.
There is not a severe obesity problem in Korea, and as I said, the culture is 20-30 years behind America as far as cultural degradation.
Looking good matters in Korea.
And there is also not an extreme "feminist" culture there.
In public, women want to look like women, and women want to look appealing.

It is what it is.

[Softball Bat]

I wouldn't want to live in Houston but if you had to, it would be for the babes.

Good luck!

[Softball Bat]

So I take it they don't have full time "tennis school" in South Korea?

Not that I am aware of.
But I was not involved at all with tennis in Korea.

[kcdave]

TONS of hot babes of Mexican and Latin descent,

I need to know how do you set the odds on how many are half or quarter breeds?

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Uncle Dave

Having traveled this road, I will guarantee you that quarter breed mexi puss
is much better than quarter breed filipina puss.

[Softball Bat]

TONS of hot babes of Mexican and Latin descent,

I need to know how do you set the odds on how many are half or quarter breeds?

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Uncle Dave

Having traveled this road, I will guarantee you that quarter breed mexi puss
is much better than quarter breed filipina puss.

Kierland, upon seeing this post!

[Softball Bat]

Well, I am gnu in America, and in Korea I never had to touch my clock.
We never fiddled around with the time over there.

I heard we are supposed to do something with our clock this weekend.

What day?
What time?
What do I do with my clock?


Thank you for your help and consideration!

[kcdave]

What day?
What time?
What do I do with my clock?

Zack, where ya at bro?

[Diego in Seattle]

Well, I am gnu in America, and in Korea I never had to touch my clock.
We never fiddled around with the time over there.

I heard we are supposed to do something with our clock this weekend.

What day?
What time?
What do I do with my clock?


Thank you for your help and consideration!

There's an area of Indiana that doesn't adjust their clocks.

[Bill in Houston]

Well, I am gnu in America, and in Korea I never had to touch my clock.
We never fiddled around with the time over there.

I heard we are supposed to do something with our clock this weekend.

What day?
What time?
What do I do with my clock?


Thank you for your help and consideration!

What kind of clock do you have?

Many people don’t need to do anything!

[L45B]

There are plenty of places in Brooklyn to get your bifocals reframed, Bat.

As for a “hot girls per square foot” metric, I’m not sure you’re gonna compete with NYC, at least in the US. There might be more hot chicks in Houston, but you’d have to get into your car and drive an extra mile to see each one. In NYC, just take a leisurely stroll to the next avenue, they’re walking all over the place. If not Brooklyn, Astoria Queens or Central Park. Plenty of variety. Get those bifocal checked.

[Softball Bat]

In America, people are wandering around inside of the their own demise, and they seem mostly oblivious to their enslavement.
It is like that to an extent in S. Korea, also, but it is... different.
S. Korea is about 20 or 30 years behind America as far as cultural degradation.

Cultural degradation.







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