My son spends half the year in France and half the year in the US. Whenever he goes back and forth, a few things surprise him. He's shocked by how much smaller the roads in France are and has noticed Coca-Cola is better there.
I spend about half my year in Europe , an arrangement that's existed for the last few years mostly due to my partner's job as an international basketball trainer. The perks are tough to beat, and my work as a journalist means it's easy to jump on a flight as long as I have my computer with me. My teen son joins us frequently, mostly made possible because he homeschools and agenerally likes to travel.
Despite coming and going to and from Europe frequently, my son is always surprised by a few key differences between life in the US and life in France . And I don't mean the obvious things, like outlets (we have so, so many adapters) or the ease with which we can jump on a train in Paris and be almost anywhere in the city where we want to go in under 30 minutes; no, I mean the things that really matter to a teenager (or at least to mine). Coca-Cola is better in France, Dr.
Pepper is worse If there is one thing all three of us agree on, it's that, for whatever reason, Coca-Cola in France is the best Coca-Cola any of us have had anywhere else in the world (so far). We rarely drink it at home in the States because it always feels too sugary, but in France? We are drinking Coke multiple times a week. There is something so refreshing, so very nearly clean about i.