Random Czech Facts

Random Czech facts-

• 12% of your salary goes to pay for health insurance
• 30% of salary/ employer pays taxes too
• You have to pay to put a deposit down to “rent” a cart at the grocery store
• Cashiers sit down at the grocery store
• You have to pay for grocery bags
• 20% is the tax added to the restaurant bill, not including tip
• Beer is cheaper than water
• Tap water is safe to drink and tastes great
• They have cobblestone on most of there streets, even though its more expensive it saves the horses from hoof root and when they do work in the streets they just have to remove the brick to do work under the streets and they can just put it back when done.
• Drinking age is 18
• Cigarette packs say “SMOKING KILLS” in huge letters on the pack
• Spa care is covered by insurance, like when you get heart surgery, government pays for you to go to a spa for 3 weeks.
• You can buy unpasteurized milk at the grocery store.
• There is ham and cheese potato chips and bacon flavored popcorn at the movie theater
• Restaurants charge for take-out boxes
• Czechs consider the first floor, floor 0. And underground floors are -1. -2… So l am staying on the 7^th floor by the states, but the 6^th floor in Czech Republic
• There are no social workers in elementary schools
• No one uses their cell phones here as much as they use them in the states. No one is on them in the grocery stores or on the streets.
• When people get married, the wedding party drives down the street to the church honking the whole way.
• There is no ice in drinks and you have to pay for water everywhere, except my school.
• Czech say they can tell we are Americans by the shoes we wear