aardSep 2, 2023

What's a skill that's taken for granted where you live, but is often missing in people moving there from abroad?

https://kyu.de/post/1055442

What's a skill that's taken for granted where you live, but is often missing in people moving there from abroad? - kyu

I was thinking about that when I was dropping my 6 year old off at some hobbies earlier - it’s pretty much expected to have learned how to ride a bicycle before starting school, and it massively expands the area you can go to by yourself. When she went to school by bicycle she can easily make a detour via a shop to spend some pocket money before coming home, while by foot that’d be rather time consuming. Quite a lot of friends from outside of Europe either can’t ride a bicycle, or were learning it as adult after moving here, though.

Show threadgrabyourmotherskeysSep 2, 2023
Winter driving and shoulder season driving. Snow, ice, black ice, freezing rain, slush, hydroplaning, driveway clearing, walkway maintenance, windshield scraping, and keeping an emergency kit for breakdowns. Stuff like that.
Show threadNaja KaouthiaSep 2, 2023
Was a bit of a learning curve for me, having moved from subtropical Florida to Colorado the land of eternal winter. I bought a Subaru.
Show threadgrabyourmotherskeys

I had an Uber driver in Florida last time I was there (business) and when he found out I was from Canada he told me he went to Boulder in the winter for a vacation and thought it would be cool to rent a car and drive up a mountain. Yeah, he was pretty freaked out by that driving experience. :)

Good call on the Subaru. My wife had a couple and they were great in the snow. First car we ever had with heated seats, too!

Sep 3, 2023 at 1:32amWeb
Show threadNaja KaouthiaSep 3, 2023
When I first moved here I thought to myself, “Damn there’s a lot of Subarus around here.”. The reason became abundantly clear during my first winter lol.
Show threadNaja KaouthiaSep 3, 2023
When I first moved here I thought to myself,”Damn there are a lot of Subarus here.”. The reason became abundantly clear during my first winter here lol.
Show threadPopSharkSep 4, 2023
I used to (sometimes skipping class) drive in the mountains almost every day when I was living in Boulder attending CU. I loved it and miss it dearly.
Show threadgrabyourmotherskeysSep 5, 2023

I’ve never been there but I lived in Banff, Alberta for a while when I was 19 (which was a while ago). I was cooking at a hotel there and living in residence. Sometimes I thought I’d stay there forever but I love the ocean, too. Jokes on me, I live in a city hours from the mountains and a day from the ocean now. :)

Something about a mountain town after a snow storm… Pretty cool.

Maybe I’m old but I love John Denver’s Rocky Mountain High. Takes me back.