The Differences!

People don't drink milk by itself and it ALWAYS comes in a box.

On city busses you must give up your seat for: Handicapped, Elderly, Pregnant, Women with small children aaaand Obese people!

People here eat roughly 4 meals a day: Breakfast, Lunch, Misto, and Dinner. Misto is a grilled ham and cheese that people usually eat between lunch and dinner!

No one has a coffee maker. They make coffee in a similar style to a french press and then in goes into one of those dispensers that you often see at business meetings and offices for people to drink from for the rest of the day.

People here buy gas tanks that hook up directly to the stove/oven you don't buy gas from a company.

Dryers don't exist. Just clothes lines.

Automatic cars are RARE and expensive.

Lunch and dinner consists of: Rice, Beans and Meat and sometimes salad. Usually the meat is fried.

Breakfast is usually bread and butter, NOT TOAST, or crackers and jam with coffee or juice.

Almost every store will offer you the option to pay for your purchase in 12 payments. Sneakers, Tv's, Dishes, you name it, you can divide it.

When baby girls are born they get their ears pierced immediately.

Lots of US cities have rats, cities here have dogs. Brazilians call them "vira latas" or "Can lifters"

Mops don't exist. You put a wet rag over your broom and go from there.

Everyone owns a water bubbler or something similar. The water here has too much fluoride to drink.

The phone companies mostly run on credits. Add credits to your cell phone and they only get used on outgoing calls or texts. Generally it's pretty cheap.

Kitchen and bathroom sinks don't have a temperature option. The water just comes out a cool/warm temperature all the time.

Reading for pleasure isn't popular over here.

Drinking is legal in way more places. You can have a beer at the mall, in an ice cream shop, in a nice clothing store, on the beach, just about wherever!

The drinking age is 18 here but I was never carded!

It's common for kids to live with their parents until they're through with college, and not have their first job until after they graduate.

If you order yourself a plain hamburger it will come with: lettuce, tomato, potato stix, corn and peas. Other popular toppings? Ham, bacon, and fried eggs.

Pineapple is not an appropriate pizza topping here, but fish and eggs are. Also dessert pizzas are very common here!

Big Brother the TV show is insanely popular over here. I think Big Brother Brasil is on their 13th season?

Older women dye their hair until they are SUPER old.

I'm sure there are TONS more, but these are all the ones I could think of and the ones I've experienced!