What is the thing you miss the most from your country???

[Carito_ 5]

Hello everyone!!! I am finally in the US with my husband, and everything has been great...! Even though I like the US a lot, there things that I really miss from Mexico...

Besides my family -of course- and my friends....

The thing I miss the most is FOOD!!! I miss all the spicy dishes, but especially chilaquiles and snacks like corn with cream, cheese and chili pepper and the CANDY, and I mean the salty/spicy candy... My husband doesn't like any of these, when I gave him some candy to try he hated it!!! I think it is very funny how we are so close (Mexico and the US) yet are very different in some things... I would love to hear what you miss the most from your country... The random things...

And good luck to everyone who just moved to the US!!!

[Penguin_ie 5,986]

Food is a big thing for me too- strong, milky tea (fortunately found a local shop that sells Irish tea bags!), tea biscuits (plain cookies, nothing like it here!), and good dark chocolate that doesn't cost a ton. I also miss reliable, cheap public transport.

[Marilyn. 340]

I miss my family and that is about it...

[P & A 0]

I miss the food too!!! But only some things, my husband loves mexican food so we eat it quite often, and almost always have some jalapenos or serranos around!, I miss valentina on the movie theaters, real corn tortillas ... ohhh and I miss my Pilates classes, here they are a lot more expensive.... There is a grocery store here in Utah called Rancho market, it was nice to see so many Mexican products, they sell all different kinds of mexican bread, I never liked or ate sweet bread in mexico, but when I found it at this store I got super super happy just to see it....I miss my family and friend too.

[Leo&Farah 0]

I definitely miss the food. All the cheap but tasty food you can get at hawker stalls. A fusion of chinese, indian and malay cuisines all readily available. There are just some things you can't get here. I also miss all the little shops where they have hundreds of hair accessories which put accessory shops here to shame. And shoe shops. For some reason, shoe shops here list inventory based on shoe size. In Malaysia, they would have hundreds of shoes in a shop and you'd ask for your size. The shop space is utilized better with more variety and choices. Lastly, I miss pretty chiffon and cotton summer and batik dresses you can buy there. Only place I found something similar was at the Swap Shop in Ft. Lauderdale.

[LlamaInvasion 76]

YES, food. Public transportation. Oslo's public transportation is amazing; nothing in the US even comes close. Also, our free healthcare and maternity benefits.

[N M 96]

Public transport, Sheffield Wednesday games, (and although I'm a non-drinker) British pubs!

Food is both yes and no. On the one hand it's surprisingly easy to buy British groceries in northern Colorado (processed items such as Weetabix, marmite, chocolate bars, marmalade, custard, salad cream, Branston Pickle, Robinson's squash, Irn-Bru etc are even sold in our local supermarket) - but it's almost impossible to replicate true British meals. The ingredients, water etc just aren't the same over here.

I would KILL for some proper Yorkshire fish and chips. Never mind a bacon butty. America doesn't have the bread, or the bacon to do that.

Miss British humour too.

I also miss London. Terribly. Its wealth of culture, its history, its cosmopolitan/ multi-racial population, its size, the anonymity of it.

But I love my wife and my daughter more, so here I am.

EDIT - And how could I forget...... Social healthcare, and a welfare state that's fit for purpose.

FURTHER EDIT - And how could I forget this - decent annual leave (I had 32 days in London - it's 12 days here).

Edited February 18, 2012 by N M

[Brother Hesekiel 2,235]

I miss nothing. I can get all the food I want here, and more. Food I have never heard of even.

Are you seriously saying you can't get Mexican food in the United States?

[Moomin 292]

Zendium toothpaste, liquorice, and tab water that tastes good. That's the things on a daily basis. There's much more but it's only once in a while(free health care).

[vaneskygh 1]

I miss just being there. It's funny but I miss things that I've never consider it meant something or even worse I used to hate. I miss walking on the street, I miss our accent, I miss the horrible traffic, I miss the noise, I miss the weather, I miss the food, people the list can go on. There's always something to miss about our country but oh well, We are in the States. Isn't it the most diverse country in the world? I honestly think if we would have been lived in other country the culture shock would have been worse.

[felb 0]

Definitely food!!!

[ZedbraGuy 6]

I miss lots of things, loads of different food items. Especially decent tea bags, custard, trifle and groceries that aren't so horrendously expensive. I miss my friends and family and even my old job which was much better than my old one. I miss a decent amount of annual leave too, I was in my old job long enough that I was about to get five weeks off... and now I have two, and even then not for nine months as I need to complete my probation period. I also miss driving which I must get around to sorting out. I also miss free healthcare, decent public transport and a source of unbiast media coverage

Am I regretting coming?

No, I made this decision for the right reason and it will work out for the best, and both my wife and I hold out hope we might be able to move to England one day

[paojack 41]

I miss nothing. I can get all the food I want here, and more. Food I have never heard of even.

Are you seriously saying you can't get Mexican food in the United States?

Is not the same at all!!! Mexican food here (american style) is all cheesy and mostly everything has green chilli!

[Marilyn. 340]

Is not the same at all!!! Mexican food here (american style) is all cheesy and mostly everything has green chilli!

then you are not going to the right places...lol

[Carito_ 5]

I miss nothing. I can get all the food I want here, and more. Food I have never heard of even.

Are you seriously saying you can't get Mexican food in the United States?

Is not the same at all!!! Mexican food here (american style) is all cheesy and mostly everything has green chilli!

It is very very different!!! The food from the small restaurants, the sauces, the veggies... Like paojack said, it is all cheesy with weird cheeses that we don't use, they put all those "taco seasonings" that before moving here, I had never seen before... The whole experience of eating in Mexico, the multiples courses, the long talks, the loud tables, big families is very different... Here in restaurants they just want you to eat and go fast!! What's the fun in that???