>>>>>and we can choose to buy any sized soda we can afford
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>>>>If only the Floridians learn to drive :) and be civil on the road :), it would be a paradise.
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>>>In my experience, it's not the natives who drive restlessly. It's the migrants who retire there.
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>>It does not matter where you come from (North/NorthEast/SouthAmerica/CentralAmerica), you either have a culture or you don't :)
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>Noticed and actually behave accordingly. That is, when in Rome... so you have me driving my usual medium speed, look far ahead, not hasty moves - when I'm at home. As soon as I cross Danube into Belgrade, I start driving as they do: swift, take the first chance you get, rapidly switch lanes, keep just minimum distance.
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When in Rome - You should try Torino or Bologna, Italy. As my wife commented, "They sure save a lot of paint by not even marking the lanes on the streets". At a red traffic light the number of lanes vary according to the size of the vehicles. On what normally would be a 2 lane street this varies from 3 to 5 lanes. While stopped you blow your horn. As soon as you see the caution light on the intersecting road you start creeping forward. On a green light you blow your horn and boldly move forward dodging the cars from the intersecting traffic that are now running the red light. Once you have broken the ranks of the red light runners you gun the engine and jockey for lane position so you can get through the next red light before the intersecting traffic establishes field position.
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>>I was in Florida just recently and noticed that the drivers consider the red light only as a suggestion :) Especially when the pedestrians are crossing the road on green.
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>I've spent a month in Orlando, a dozen years ago, and noticed none of the kind. It's probably a coastal phenomenon.