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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is hilarious all the clips from foreigners loving:

free refills on coffee, soda, iced tea. Free ice water. And free ice dispensers when you get your soda and at hotels.

Free chips, salsa / warm bread at many places. Tourists loving ranch dressing on the side.

Air Conditioning is common and free even in cheap hotels. Hotel room sizes are way bigger than European hotels rooms.

BBQ is cheap and good. Other places have huge portion sizes.

The size of some of our stores like Bass Pro Shop, supermarkets.

How easy it is to road trip. Automatic cars, massive multi-lane highways, easy to find, cheaper gas along with free and clean bathrooms at many places like Buc-ee's. Convenient drive-throughs.

How friendly and welcoming many people are. Red Sox realize Scotland is playing in the World Cup in June in Boston so let's have a Scottish Day at Fenway Park. Many Americans are willing to talk to strangers and can be incredibly kind. Many Europeans have a guarded reserve about them.

Late night eats going to Waffle House at 2 am or other places.

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And this is what the WC should be for all our visitors. A chance for us to show off a bit and to let our visitors see our cute quirks and lives. A chance to marvel at our Costcos and our supermarkets (different scale than most other places in the world). A chance to see teeming multi ethnic cities that truly are “all-American”. A chance to explore our national parks and other parts of the country if visitors decide to extend their stay.

But we had to make it a miserable experience for some fans and teams because of our insane border policies. That is not great and we are losing some of the aura we could have gained.

Separately, not our fault, but FIFA overpriced this WC so Americans and foreigners alike were priced out so we weren’t able to entertain everyone we couldn’t have.

But overall, agreed, this is a wonderful event to watch the pure joy of the game and to showcase America. [/quote]

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