Anyone here visiting the YNT section should go look at the thread in the Yanks Abroad section about what hopefully will be a new YNT member, Carlos Elliot. Even if you don't want to for that reason, the thread is one of the tops of the year.
I can't believe I just read all 14 pages of that, but it is a very interesting thread from start to finish. If you're going to read it just focus on what Parmigiana(or something like that) writes.