It's the little differences.

All Pulp Fiction references aside, I've noticed a few differences living in a city here vs. a city in the US.

* People take recycling here very seriously. At every fast food place, you seperate your own trash (food waste, paper, plastic) into seperate bins.

* Lots of little resturants. Tons of them. Everywhere. Some sit as few as eight people.

* "Well Being." This is some kind of new fad. You'd think well-being products would be confined to healthy food, but I've even seen well being cigarettes.

* Cigarettes. Tons of people smoke. All over the place. I think it must be like how the US was in the 50's.

* It's safe here. Kids run around everywhere. There is very little crime, and violent crime is almost nonexistant.

* There are two Starcraft channels and a channel that has Go games 24 hours a day.