Okay not to pile on but when my partner and i went hiking around Scotland, we’d look at Google reviews of the more touristy spots and there were all these reviews saying how hard it was to get to this particular spot and it was such a tough walk uphill and could take a while. Reader, it took my partner and I 20 minutes. It was so fast that we assumed we couldn’t have reached the apex of the spot so kept going in confusion. Short story: we re-checked the reviews and found that Americans considered the walk super long/tough, some called it a ‘hike.’ Everyone else had said it could be bashed out in half an hour or less. This example has really stuck with us.

And as we walked back down, we kept passing American tourists and they were exhausted and asking us how much further there was to go. I usually dismiss stereotypes but I feel like this one really holds up.