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sparky_kat wrote: *sunscreen, sunscreen , sunscreen!!
*try to learn a little spanish (if you dont know any already) (it helps!)
*make sure the house/apt you move into has a GOOD cooling system (not just a a/c box hanging off the bedroom window)\
*ignore the self obsessed idoits

Moonbiter] Be prepared to discuss your annual income and that of your neighbours absolutely all the time. Use the words wrote:
ROFL, I have to practise the blond think I think. What you say about fine arts is sad, though. I was hoping there might be some nice symphony orchestras.

Doctors don't come from Sweden, porn stars come from Sweden.

Well I can do both, but I am primarily in CA for medical stuff, not anatomical

Start jogging, or you'll be a social outcast. Get botoxed, even if you don't need it. Spas are a way of life. You can have skin like Helen of Troy, but you must spend at least 5 hours a week with mud in your face and cucumber on your eyes. These people bring their own vitaminized bottled water to restaurants so the chef can cook their broccoli according to their dietary plan.

I'll rather be the leprosy of the whole society that do these things! I can't do jogging, I have no menisci left after all those years of climbing and ballet, but honestly I hated it before, too. I've never been to a spa and I'd rather be in a 1x1x1m locked cubicle full of cockroaches. I have a skin that make people ask me what "products" I use (the answer is none) and I am not going to put mud and cucumber on my face since I am pretty convinced not seeing anything will severely decrease my ability to analyse brain images. If needs be and the start stoning me, I can bring my own broccoli - guess you can just buy it somewhere before entering the restaurant?

Get used to earthquakes. They're so common people hardly notice them, which is pretty bizarre for a Scandinavian.

That's ok, I've experienced a few earthquakes in geothermal areas.

I think the thing that really got to me was that to a Californian, to a larger extent than anywhere else in the USA, life is a constant competition.
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You try to lead a non-materialistic life? I'll show you non-materialistic. Me'n my wife recycle condoms, I've used the same one since -87. What's you're golfing par at the moment? Really? Well I bench pressed 200 kilos at the gym this morning. Is that the new Mercedes? What'll that set you back? I'm thinking of getting the new BMW. Blah..blah..blah IT JUST WON'T STOP!

ROFL, it's horrible! Is there nothing you can do to stop this? Can't you just pretent to be a real looser as to convince them from the beginning that there is no competition? Or will that end up in a "who's the worst failure"-competition?

If you're going to live in LA and its environs, stock up on hepa filters. The pollution is truly nasty in that area, and you don't want a little one especially to suffer as a result.

And I don't mean Silur, of course.

Vicsun] I missed you last time you were in Denmark wrote:
Yes, that was a pity, but there will be other times, we will have this collaboration with the Copenhagen lab for many years to come and COP is the Scandinavian hub so I can't avoid it even if I wished to!

Bad cook? That is a serious issue, I'm afraid. I have an abundance of excellent conversationlists around me, so let's see, what else...do you have a pretty ass?

Craig] Stay clear of crabs. Crabs be evil. [/quote wrote:
Can you eat them? The water-living, even larger, Kamchatka crab, is delicious.

C Elegans wrote:1)
ROFL, I have to practise the blond think I think. What you say about fine arts is sad, though. I was hoping there might be some nice symphony orchestras.
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Or will that end up in a "who's the worst failure"-competition?
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Can you eat them? The water-living, even larger, Kamchatka crab, is delicious.

Moonbiter wrote:There are plenty of decent orchestras, it's the people who go to see them who are prats. Oh, and they have bouncers at the opera, that was a first for me. Then again, in LA they have bouncers absolutely everywhere.

No, the "worst failure competition" isn't on, unless your failure isn't your own fault. People in LA never fail, and if they do it's always someone else's fault. It would probably become a "who's your best friend who helps you the most" -competition. *She had a problem, but I gave her the number to my shrink... Well I put her in contact with my real estate broker AND loaned her the money...* and so on... As for the broccoli, you can't eat just any broccoli! :laugh:

The coconut crab is quite delicious, but sadly can't be found around LA. You can get crabs quite easily in LA, though....

Craig wrote:I'd give eating it ago, unless I was warned not to. I don't think I could o such magnificent Crustaceans though.

Also, watch out for androids.

fable wrote:Great. You're almost assimilated. So, when you are going to run out and buy your first gun?

dragon wench wrote:Yeah..but she won't be truly assimilated unless she buys the gun at Walmart....

C Elegans wrote:Hello again, dear fellow SYM:ians. Now I have moved to LA. It still feels weird that I now live in the US.

Since Moonbiter solved my major problem with moving here - not being able to watch football - I have no worries. Westwood, where I live, is actually a surprisingly nice area. The lab where I am working is only a 10 minute walk from where I live, and UCLA campus is nice and quite pretty. Now I only need to get used to the bloody Fahrenheit and get all my Kafkaesque immigration procedures done!

fable wrote:Alas, Walmart's not very liked, these days. Sad, indeed!

CE, avoid traveling too far north, or you'll run into The Land of Bush II. Though if he keeps hiring people who are every bit as competent as Bush's pals, he may not last very long.

fable wrote:Great. You're almost assimilated. So, when you are going to run out and buy your first gun?

fable wrote: CE, avoid traveling too far north, or you'll run into The Land of Bush II. Though if he keeps hiring people who are every bit as competent as Bush's pals, he may not last very long.

dragon wench wrote:But you can't deny that Walmart is a fixture of suburban North American culture (yes, we have em up here too)
Seriously, I know a great deal about the nastiness of Walmart...wouldn't set foot in the place if I was paid.

I can just see CE toting a gun in a holster, complete with cowboy hat.. Oh ...wait.. that's Texas..

Cuchulain82 wrote:Welcome CE! I hope you find your time in the US enjoyable.

Also, I agree with Fable (in all his facetious glory)- you should buy a gun. Seriously. I mean... you're here- why not? When I was in the Philippines I ate balut and sisig, and studied filipino stick fighting. You should shoot and see if you like it.

Lady Dragonfly wrote: You want to go to a gun show, trust me. At a gun show, find an unlicensed gun dealer. The unlicensed ones are not required to run any background checks so they'd sell guns to criminals, crazies, and, well... foreigners. I am not saying the licensed dealers would not do the same; they can forget to run a background check, sometimes. Who would blame them? They are humans after all. Sorta.

And remember, sunny California is the place where Mickey Mouse, blondes, drug junkies and child molesters feel equally at home.