We recently asked our friends abroad to tell us about the things they found the hardest to get used to in other countries. We were overwhelmed with the number of responses. Here are the top ten strangest things to get used to abroad, according to our AfriForum Worldwide friends.

1. In Greece I was shocked at how people talk simultaneously and interrupt each other, and the loud and continuous talking.
2. Filling up my own fuel tank was definitely the strangest thing I had to get used to.
3. Having to drive 110 km per hour on a freeway, my foot is still used to 120 km per hour.
4. The absolute silence during a Sabbath in Israel
5. Good quality furniture that is left on the street for other people to use
6. Very straightforward and sometimes impatient, grumpy people
7. Your licence can be revoked in Germany if you are caught drunk on you bicycle.
8. Cold meat salad and sour potato salad
9. The punctuality of the trains, tubes, and buses in England
10. In Australia most people will not walk you to your car after you visited. They will see you off at the door and the first time it happened, it felt very weird. The nicest conversations usually happen at the car when you are about to leave.

Do you live abroad? What were the strangest things you had to get used to when you emigrated?

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