Trivia about california from a Spaniard point of view

The dependence on the car is much worse than you imagine.
The Americans have lots of carbonated drinks besides coca cola & pepsi, the worst of wich is what they call root beer.
Almost all restaurants are big chains.
The infrastructure is old and falls to pieces, in Spain it is better.
The prices are listed without VAT everywhere, you have to calculate it.
Racial segregation is worse than you imagine.
They are very strict about selling alcohol to minors, and therefore there is a huge market of fake driving licenses, because the Yankees do not have a DNI (ID card of spain).
Theres probably more weed smokers than tobacco smokers.
They dress as if it was the year 2000 with loose pants, you can see if someone is European in most cases if they wear tight pants.
Toilets are wierd, they have water that covers almost the entire cup, not just the hole.
Many people have purifiers for the tap, me too just because im a bit paranoid.
Some of these things are very topical but they're still shocking
Thats for starters


Other stuff:
Los Angeles looks like an endless industrial estate, hollywood is shabby af, beverly hills too. However posh it may be, it looks like a industrial zone.
The cities are very dirty, and there are many homeless.
The houses are made with a derivative of sawdust or wood. It has problems with termites that eat their houses.
Beverly Hills houses are also made of wood.
There are bars called "sports bars" that have like 20 flat screens.
The coffee is disgusting, they drink it very diluted.
The hypsters get excited when you tell them that you are European and they shit on their own country exaggerating a lot.
All the feminist silliness happen here 2 years earlier than Spain, then Spanish TV copies it.
A pack of smokes costs 15 dollars, there is very little Lucky Strike.
Everyone wants to go to Barcelona, when you tell them that you are Spanish it is the first thing they say.
Also, they sell alcohol and tobacco in pharmacies, that's the worst.