Re: Question for those who live in the US
In the US, people are very kind.
From what I hear, people from the coastal regions are always struck by how friendly people are in the south.
In the US, a lot of people live in houses rather than apartments.
This is true. Again, not so much in the bigger cities, though.
Also, the housing market has done some very strange things in the past few years. Sure, more people live in houses, but unless you know someone who will offer you a place to stay, you'd almost certainly need a few years to afford one. It's not impossible to do it sooner, if you live in a cheaper area with lots of available space, and have enough financial security and credit history to get a good loan. My sister built her first house when she was 20, but my father is an electrician who knows lots of people in the construction business, and who has a curiously easy time of findin
g jobs for family at his company. In spite of all that, everyone agrees it was a very risky thing to do without having had time to build up much savings.
Oh, and you know how I complain about mosquitoes all the time? The first time I went to my sister's house is also the first time that I heard a real, cartoonish out-of-tune-orchestra swarm of blood-sucking doom.
In the US, people do not laugh at others.
Oh, they do that all the time. Just not at disabled people. Well, some people do. Some people do and then make sure to lament that they're going to Hell for it. (The going-to-Hell lament is practically obligatory if a comedian wants to make a joke involving disability!) People are still slamming Donald Trump for apparently making fun of a disabled guy (I don't know what happened. This election is terrifying and I am hiding in Louisiana until it is over. ).
I suppose it might be worse in other countries. After all, the complaints around here are more about being treated as helpless or incompetent or in need of constant pity, rather than mockery. I've heard of a few places that come close to the sorts of things that Afrim has described; just a couple days ago, I heard someone refer to those sorts of places as "Happy Homes for the Blind". The "Happy" is meant disparagingly. However, these "Happy Homes" don't seem to be so well-known outside of their local areas (and the NFB, who meticulously keeps track of everything there is to be offended over), so far as I can tell.
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