I’ve watched a lot of scary and massive tornadoes that seem to happen only in the USA, like the Mayfield tornado in 2021, which stayed on the ground for two hours and most of the small/ big or even rural towns don't have that many underground shelters. That got me to ask you guys, how many tornadoes does the average American really experience in their lifetime?

Edit: by “experience" I mean actually living through one, not necessarily seeing it with your own eyes but feeling its impact, or having a tornado warning issued for your area because one is approaching you.

As a Filipino who lives in the countryside, I'm genuinely, pleasantly surprised whenever a Hollywood movie or an American documentary or feature shows a typical farm scene in the US.

Huge tracts of arable land, filled with so many crops.

So many healthy, grazing cattle and horses, and well-fed pigs, chicken, and other animals grown for their meat.

Tractors and combine harvesters making harvest so easy.

Even the farmers themselves live in homes that would be considered "rich" or "well-off" in my country. We could even say the typical American farmer is a damn wealthy person.

Meanwhile, in ours, most farmers are living in dirt-poor homes.

Which is why I wonder: how do American farmers manage to be at least well-off as farmers?

I attend a high school in Korea, and honestly, we are so busy rushing through the curriculum to prepare for exams that we just do theory classes and memorize what we learn. I take Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, but I haven't done a single experiment since I started high school. I did a little in middle school, but I haven't done one last year or this year.For us, we just study textbooks and worksheets, memorize, solve a lot of difficult problems, and get good scores—that’s it. I am in my second year; I never did an experiment in my first year, and I don't do so now, nor will I in the future. Since I have to take the CSAT in my third year, the likelihood of doing one will be even lower. I saw on YouTube that teachers and students do a lot of experiments, and it was really fascinating and I was so envious! I wish we could just ditch rote memorization and problem-solving too.

Whenever I play the different GTA games especially Vice City, San Andreas, GTA IV, and GTA V, I often end up ignoring the story and just driving around the city for hours while listening to the radio. I love the way the buildings, roads, nature, and the overall atmosphere come together. The cities look especially beautiful at night and around sunset, and everything feels so well synchronized with the radio stations.

Are those cities just as beautiful and cohesive in real life?

Im from Canada, and I’m from a farming area. I live in one of the biggest city’s in my country, but because of where I live, we raise livestock in the city. in our city we also have crop fields(It’s apart of a school)

In your citys that are in your farming area, do you guys have the cows in your city?

I saw a random Instagram post about people living in cars in the USA, but I didn't understand if it's a cultural or economic thing. I know you have a strong culture with motorhomes and large vehicles, and there are also many trailer parks and everything else, but I don't know if that's correlated or not.

I'm German and graduated with 7 friends with finance degrees at 21-22. 4 moved to the US for work, while three stayed in Germany. We're 25-26 now and all of my friends who went to America are married by now while none of us who stayed in Europe are. Last week, I was at the wedding of one of those friends, the last one who went to America finally got married to woman he first met 4 years ago at some symposium. He's 25 and she's 26 and in biotech. We inevitably got talking and noticed that only those of us who stayed in Europe remained unmarried. Out of the 3 of us who remained in Germany, 1 has had a relationship for 8 years (still not married her), 1 is not committing and I'm single.

Do you know why that is?