Personal Narrative: Moving From India To United States

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When I moved from India to United States, I encountered an environment different from the one I had become accustomed to. In India I had a normal busy life burdened with school homework and I was satisfied with it that I never thought out of a box for a better life. Maybe the concept of what is a better life was never clear to me. However, everything changed when we moved to United States in 2014.

There was no longer burden or the constant pressure from school which made me fascinated with the world around me. Moving was a deep cultural change. Here everything was advanced in technology from traffic signals to the bathrooms.

Things like traffic signals are operated by sensors which control the traffic and changes signals accordingly which

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