Hey Pandas, What Is Something You Thought Was Normal In Your Hometown But It’s Not?

What is something you thought was normal growing up that you realized was very Different from other towns and cities?

Emergency Sirens.
Thought every town and city had emergency alarms.
I grow very close to Chemical Valley so growing up there were Emergency Sirens test every monday. Also a few accidents where everyone had to take shelter.
I was asking about my new towns emergency system when found out that most places don't have them.

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Meeting people at The Forks. I didn't realized how unusual this sounded until I was telling someone from out of town looking for a good place to eat. Told him go to The Forks as it's next to the train station. He looked at me and just laughed like I told to go eat off of a giant fork or something. It threw me off. I thought everyone knew about The Forks, just like everyone knows West Edmonton Mall or Banff. It didn't help that I wasn't used to talking to people outside my city.

It's actually a site that has been a popular social and trading grounds for centuries, and possibly over a millennia. It's called the The Forks because it's where 2 rivers meet creating a fork in rivers, like a fork in the road.
It's not a modern tourist trap. The Market Square used to be stables to hold the horses pulling wagons and carts. Now it's got food kiosks, a bar, cafes and restaurants on the main floor and worldly, folksy cultural wares shops, a ballet studio and art galleries on the 2nd floor and a 4 or 5 story lookout tower. The Terminal building across the rotunda is also an interesting building with many stores, cafes and restaurants with an antique store in the basement.
close by is the Children's Museum, a skate park, The Canadian Museum of Human Rights, The Manitoba Theatre and the still in operation Union Station railways. It's the most popular place to go for fireworks on Canada Day and where the city places markers of the highest floods. When the river is at normal levels there is a long river walkway. In the winter the Assiniboine river becomes the 2nd longest skating rink in Canada.

Sorry. Once you get us going on our cities it's hard to stop lol.

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