StrangeReno Things

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Here's a list (continuously updated) of good and bad things that I'm learning about Reno!

Thumbs DOWN

  • There is no dinner: people come back home around 5 or 6 pm and sandwiches of unlikely size are fired
  • No recycling, not even for plastic. In some public places they do it, but just a bunch of them
  • They use air-conditioning with no sense! Example: get in car. Even if outside there's a nice sunset breeze, put the air at maximum and windows closed. no sense!
  • It's illegal to drink alcohol in the streets 
  • Guns. Seems like if you don't have one you can not be a true american
  • Everyone has a car. No one is walking around, especially at night
  • The bus is once every 30 minutes on average, rarely in the evening
  • Food waste. So much food waste!






    Thumbs UP
  • People (my housemates in particular) like to chat a lot around the table after daily activities, they like to stay together
  • Walking down the street everyone will talk you like: "hey man, wassup?"
  • Air is so fresh! Humidity is around 4% on average
  • They love Italians
  • They love food (but they can not cook it)
  • California is right over the corner
  • Lake Tahoe
  • There are stores for buying literally everything x10 the size you can imagine: food, clothes, whatever. Everything is just so BIGG

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    1. Tadde13 settembre 2019 alle ore 20:58

      "There is no dinner: people come back home around 5 or 6 pm and sandwiches of unlikely size are fired"
      Sure you're not cooking dinner at the old time zone?

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