Some observations about US

September 17, 2022

Its been 4 years since i came to the US back in 2018. Before landing in NYC.

• Large houses and vast empty spaces for a middle class family.

• Ludicrous public transport(except for NYC).

• Generally clean neighbourhoods (except for some downtowns). Really clean and well maintained roads.

• Implementation of the idea of meritocracy(at least in large tech corporate companies) is probably better than any country in the world. Strong anti-discrimination laws. Caste, gender or race based discrimination absent almost

• Its Land of immigrants, yet some percent of population hates immigrants.

• Immigrants(fist and second gen) building many valuable companies. Can’t imagine an immigrant suceeding in India.

• Work life balance way better than in India(from what i’ve been told). Easy to work for 8 hrs a day.

• Decent life for workers, even though it is the epicentre of capitalism.

    Anyone earning close to minimum wage(20$/hr) in California - 3200/mo can live by comfortably without sacrificing on health and well being. Math:
        - rent : 1700$ (if staying with roommate or parter)
        - 1500 disposable income
            car $300
            utilities $100
            Food:
                10 restaurant meals : 15$ = 150$
                groceries 250$
                Total : 400
            travel (1 vacation within US):
                ticket: $300
                food and acco : 300
                Total: 600
  

• Healthy disregard for government or authority

• Segregation of neighborhoods based on race.

• Quantity of food at outlets starbucks chipotle

• Mostly friendly and reasonable people in cities. Had only one racist incident in 4 years.

@misc{madur2022_us_observations,
  author       = {Sai Sourabh Madur},
  title        = {Some observations about US},
  year         = {2022},
  howpublished = {\url{https://sourabhmadur.github.io/2022/us-observations/}},
  publisher    = {sourabhmadur.github.io}
}