LOL - the biggest changes were mine! I’ve been living outside the states for 13 years now, so I see it like a foreigner. Some things are great, like how easy it is to find everything in the stores. But food in the supermarkets is really expensive, massive portions and pretty bland (almost plastic). Even upscale supermarkets were nothing like the town market and butchers and fish markets ten minutes from me here - the taste of stuff is so much richer. Even though I was within walking distance to a lot of stores when I was visiting the US, almost no one else was walking and the infrastructure was not set up for walking. Drivers had no respect for pedestrians (this was in Houston) - they fly past people halfway through a crosswalk like it’s nothing (not sure if they don’t know they’re supposed to stop, or don’t care). Tipping - I hate tipping. Not because I’m a spendthrift but because it angers me that the waitstaff in a restaurant is not paid a living wage and they are forced to hope for decent tips.

People were nice enough, and the food in restaurants was decent and there were a lot of good cuisines you just don’t find here in Croatia (outside Zagreb and other larger cities). And the craft beers are light years ahead of Croatia, at least for now.