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[contrarianarchon]

The silliest thing about moving to a new country is that I'm having to reindex all of my intuitions of where to go to buy things and it's terrible. I haven't spent years walking through malls here and I don't know what's good for college-student tier lunches and where to go to stock my apartment with X or Y or what to do when it's 3am in the morning and I am two continents away from the only bottle of heartburn medication I am personally assured exists. (I get heartburn once every few months if that so bringing something for it didn't come up when picking medication for travel but when you have it and you can't sleep because pain then suddenly that's a much bigger deal; also - been super sick these past few days among which heartburn was one of many things. Feeling better now though. Mostly)

Does anyone have advice for catching up on a new city/country/continent's state of material goods and where to obtain them?