Traveling to US

>>18591762
California is so large and so diverse, what to expect depends on where you're going.

Where in Cali are you headed (and why)?

>>18591793
Fremont, in Silicon Valley. It's for a "coding bootcamp". Spend the month learning C language

Bay Area native here. Fremont is a boring piece of shit. If you have a car you can drive to San Francisco which will have more to do. You're also not terribly far from Great America which is a pretty fun theme park if you're into that. Make sure you get out to a beach at some point. SF is overrrated for that, try Santa Cruz. Just know that's a bit more of a drive (but not significant).

Also live in bay area
fremont is full of asians lmao
so big thing to remember is to tip whenever you go someplace to eat
tipping is a pretty important thing
get a friend who can show you around
other than that there's not much to be worried about

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>>18592681
Are you going to have your own transportation?

As others have said, Fremont itself is pretty boring. But the entire Bay Area is very physically beautiful, so even if you're trapped in Fremont you can still head out for walks/hikes/bike rides. You'll be even better off if you can escape on weekends to places that are not Fremont (e.g. go see music, opera, or art in San Francisco, relax at Ocean Beach, climb to the top of Mt. Tam or Mt. Diablo...).

So bring good walking/hiking shoes even if you have no other forms of transport.

I don't know where in Canada you live, but American and Canadian large cities are a lot a like. Think of Fremont like a close-by suburb of Toronto, it shouldn't be that surprising to you. (Then again if you're from Nunavut...)

Biggest tip: don't stay inside or too close to where your coding camp is, the Bay Area is one of the prettier areas of the world, go out and experience it.

I hope your month in the Bay Area is great!

>>18592915
Hah I won't have my own transportation. I don't even know how much downtime I'll get, but yeah going for walks and doing a bit of urban exploring was something I was looking forward to.

And thanks!

>>18592731
No worries about tipping, I always tip here at home too. Super normal thing

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>>18593652
Just as a general life-advice thing, if you have choices between time spent coding and time spent out - choose the time spent out.

Coding you can practice anywhere. Physically being someplace, especially a place as nice as the Bay Area, isn't something you can do at home.

It also occurs to me you might want to look for professional talks that are happening while you're in the area. If you're learning to code I'm assuming you might want to do something with it, and that depends as much on personal connections as knowing tech. San Jose is just around the bottom end of the Bay, and SF is just over the bridge. You'll value the friends you make and the experiences you have far more than knowing what x++ means.

Again, have a great time in my old home.