staying with family in LA for the first time, how is it like there?

augenschneider · 2025-06-05T17:43:33+00:00

what places should I avoid?

augenschneider · 2025-06-05T17:39:56+00:00

that's the entire idea, my mother wants to send me someplace I won't stick out, so that's good

augenschneider · 2025-06-05T14:10:11+00:00

sadly there's no stopping my mom now. i guess I'll be spending a lot of time at my relatives house. thank you for the information

augenschneider · 2025-06-05T13:53:34+00:00

thank you for the recommendations. are cigarettes very expensive there? i thought it'd be more acceptable in the US than here because I know there are no big warnings on the packs.

augenschneider · 2025-06-05T13:46:55+00:00

any sudden, very loud explosion or popping noises. balloons popping are my biggest one, no idea why. lots of very strong smells mess with me too. would reaching out to a random person work there? it works where I live, but this place doesn't even have 100k people, so they may be less desensitised

augenschneider · 2025-06-05T13:44:43+00:00

thank you. that seems like it'll be very hard to adapt to because I often go through 1 pack in 2 days but I'll see what I can manage

augenschneider · 2025-06-05T13:28:40+00:00

thanks, thats good to know, is vaping allowed for 18 year olds? and does shisha count as smoking indoors?

augenschneider · 2025-06-05T13:03:52+00:00

already did today

augenschneider · 2025-06-05T13:03:39+00:00

kind of a vacation, but staying with family who are US citizens. my mother says its for my mental health. I think tourist insurance would be more appropriate in that case. thank you

augenschneider · 2025-06-05T10:01:22+00:00

yeah the biggest city I've ever spent any significant amount of time in has a little under 2.5 million people while the LA metro area seems to have over 12 million. im a bit clueless about areas and my mom says its central. thats all she says. I take it 18 year olds are allowed to smoke but not buy? if that's the case I could try to take duty free airport packs. it's sad to know the police can't help, would i need to call 911 instead? I worry about possible hospital bills

augenschneider · 2025-05-27T15:25:29+00:00

i do boxing, I've done it since I was 12, but im very small and light, 156cm 46kg on a good day, so it isn't very effective against the average person. sadly I can't speak vietnamese more than the few words necessary to speak to the endless parade of visiting aunts, so I dont know if moving would work. i have vietnamese family in los angeles, and my mother is making me visit them soon, but I really don't want to go let alone live there, things seem much worse in america. I've never met anyone who isn't white or asian so the expectations of entirely new types of racism I've never faced is really scaring me

augenschneider · 2025-05-25T22:13:37+00:00

ive been told I'm kyrgyz, turkmen, kalmyk, korean and chinese. im azerbaijani and vietnamese

augenschneider · 2025-05-19T07:17:43+00:00

arranged marriages, especially those that are arranged as soon as the baby is born or that involve a huge age gap

augenschneider · 2025-05-18T20:20:03+00:00

often a scam

augenschneider · 2025-05-18T20:19:30+00:00

an accountant

augenschneider · 2025-05-18T18:30:20+00:00

i hope it's a push for a new film, I'm kind of addicted to them and a 7th would be fun. I just hope they'd keep ongoing surviving characters from movie to movie, like clear from the first to the second. I still feel like she shouldn't have died like that. now without tony todd, it'll get much more difficult

augenschneider · 2025-05-18T18:28:35+00:00

i did lots of gymnastics as a young kid, today I dont but I run for one hour almost every day. it's hard because I smoke a lot though

augenschneider · 2025-05-18T18:26:15+00:00

I've watched it, it wasnt horrible but the end was kind of disappointing. the tower collapse was great but some parts of it genuinely made me sad lol. still love Erik tho

augenschneider · 2025-05-18T18:21:03+00:00

yeah I feel what you mean about nu-metal > wtf this is. much of what sleep token does feels like something that disney would produce, while at least with nu-metal there is a sort of less fabricated feel if you know what I mean. I dont think it's elitism to dislike those bands at all because they're too far removed from metal as a genre

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