After a few days back in the USSSSA... my whole perceptions are without comparison or judgment this time around. I found the Bay Area 'hecticness' to be calm for me after the big cities of Europe. I found supermarket checkout lines to be friendly and easygoing - one can actually converse with the cashier about 'life' outside the supermarket. I found breathing deeply in city air was OK - I wasn't going to be second hand smoking on every other step.
On the other side, I did find the commercialization and advertising here to be WAY over the top - i feel inundated by every single media and visual stimuli to BUY SOMETHING. I feel like recoiling into my own closed space of selected podcasts and downloaded video/movie rather than the commercial variety.
Everything feels bigger and roomier. Even the people (as the DDR movie 'Friendship' said) are bigger and juicier.
Ok, did I really think I wasn't going to pass judgement? nahhhh.... these are just mere observations... rriiiigghhhttt !
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