- When is rains and you walk into a library, they give you a plastic bag to put your umbrella in
- There are hand sanitizers for customers freely available at most shop counters and all medical centres
Food/drinks
- They have a Boston Cream cake. A delicious sponge cake filled with custard cream and covered in chocolate
- Their corn on a cob (or mielies as we call them in SA) is yellow but has random lighter kernels so they look spotted!
- Their orange juices come with 'no pulp' or 'low pulp'
- Dunkin' Donuts is very common, you see them all over, the Boston Kreme donut is the best I reckon
- We've noticed that that restaurants give those little sealed plastic containers of milk when you order coffee. In SA, you get cold/hot fresh milk in a jug
Bus/T
- The CharlieCard is the card which you use to load up money for use on the buses or subway (like the Oyster card in London). You pay a discounted fee if you have a CharlieCard
- Fees are a flat rate irrespective of where you are travelling to (no zones like London). One bus trip costs $2 and a subway trip costs $2.50. Can't really compare to SA since I have never taken the bus :) I guess the Gautrain is comparable to the T - the Gautrain network is very small with limited routes, the T has 5 lines
Housing
- In Cambridge it is common for people to leave unwanted house items (furniture, etc) outside on the street for anyone to take. I guess that this has something to do with the high number of students moving/leaving here every year
- There are very few brick houses. Below is what a typical American street with houses looks like
Other interesting things I've noticed
- There are no parking guards. Street parking operates with meters
- There are no people at traffic lights selling things or trying to wash your windscreen
- There are no people selling newspapers at traffic lights. Newspapers are available in "boxes" in streets - some free and some coin-operated
- Fenway Park, where the Boston Red Sox play, can also be converted to a football stadium. Liverpool were on tour here last week and played at Fenway Park. There seems to be a couple of Liverpool supporters here. The team were training at Harvard University
- You can get weather alerts (for rain, severe thunderstorms, etc) emailed or via sms. Weather is a popular topic here
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