Name: 【日常英会話】ニューヨークに住んでるアメリカ人夫婦の話が面白かった
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We try to go on a different trip every year to a different country.

Yeah, so we've been to Costa Rica, Germany, Spain, Denmark.

And then last year around this time we went to Turkey, which was really cool.

We spent about five days in Istanbul, which is one of the favorite places we've ever been to.

We only went to Istanbul, but it was probably the most different country we've been to compared to all the other places.

The main religion was more different than anywhere we've been, so I think we learned more there.

Do you feel that prices in Japan are cheaper than in New York?

Yes, it's cheaper than New York for sure.

We're still getting adjusted to the conversion rate, so it's hard to do the math in your head every time you have to buy something, but New York is very expensive.

Typically, let's see, for dinner in New York, if you go to a nice restaurant in Brooklyn, for both of us, if we both get an entree and maybe two or three drinks, it will be easily $100-$150 depending on what you get.

Here, it seems like when we've done the conversion rate, it's been closer to $60-$70 for a comparable meal.

So it's been about half as expensive to go out to eat at restaurants.

We're going to go shopping today, so I'm not sure as far as a lot of the brand names or different things, if it's different, but I imagine it's probably a little bit cheaper here.

Yeah, and then we haven't been to a grocery store, but at a 7-Eleven, a convenience store for food, it's been a lot cheaper.

So where do you recommend if a Japanese tourist wants to travel to New York?

Well, we live in Brooklyn, so we think that's the best borough in New York.

It's a very pretty neighborhood where we live.

Brooklyn is a good place to go that's less touristy, so you won't get sucked into a restaurant where you might end up paying more than you want to for not as good food.

And it's more neighborhood-y, so you get to see it's not as loud and not as crazy.

But it is still good to go to the city, go to Central Park.

Seeing Times Square is worth just seeing, but you don't want to stay there or spend too much time there.

We went there actually a few weekends ago.

What do you do on the weekend in New York?

We have a dog, so we bring our dog to the park and we hang out there if the weather's nice.

A lot of times we'll meet friends there and have a picnic, hang out, drink some wine, eat some food.

Going to bars, sometimes during the day or at night.

We try to get out during the day if the weather is nice on a Saturday.

We stay in and go to the grocery store, prep for the week.

Yeah, try to go to the gym, get ready for the week.

When we have people in town, we'll do more of the New York touristy things.

We'll go to the Brooklyn Bridge or we'll go to one of the museums or go see a Broadway show, but we usually save those for when people come and visit us.

Sure, so we actually went to high school together.

We've been together since 2009, so a long time.

Do you remember your first impression of her?

We knew each other before we started dating because we were in the same high school, but we were never really friends.

Actually, one of my friends dated him in middle school, so I knew of him.

But I didn't have as good of an impression of him.

I thought he got into trouble with his group of friends.

But then once I realized that wasn't the case, we started dating.

We started dating end of high school and we went to college together.

Then we lived in separate cities after college.

I was in Atlanta, Georgia for three years and he was in Washington, D.C. for a year.

Then we ended up moving to Brooklyn afterwards.

Because we knew each other for so long, I think we kind of grew up together, which was nice.

We met when we were in high school, so we were still kids.

So we kind of grew up together and matured together.

Which helps because the changes happen together, not separately.

We were in our hometown where we both grew up at.

There's this bridge that kind of overlooks the city.

I had had the ring for a couple months at that point.

I was kind of hiding it from her so she didn't find it.

I knew that I was going to do it this day.

I had to do it that day because timing worked out.

We should go outside and take a look at it.

Why would we want to walk when it's raining outside?

So I kind of knew at some point he was going to do something.

So then he got down on one knee and proposed in the rain.

Is there anything you want to try in Japan during your trip?

I like food so I just want to try all the different stuff.

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【日常英会話】ニューヨークに住んでるアメリカ人夫婦の話が面白かった

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