Lifestyle changes

You can't live a simple life here in US, you need to be sophisticated. The manner in which you talk, your pastimes, cars you drive ,food you eat, toiletries you use, dresses you wear, gadgets you have, the locality you stay - all -in- all you are a sophisticated human here. You need to be one ( or act one!) to live here, else you are driven to extinction.

It’s not the passion for living , but the necessity for increases in sophistication that is very evident in people around me.