I went to Taiwan a couple of years ago and it was different but not dramatically better or worse. Otherwise, no, I haven’t traveled out of the country much.

But the stuff that surprised me when we came to the USA was, for example, the availability of bananas. In the Soviet Union, I had gotten to taste bananas because my grandmother was one of the relatively few people at the factory where she worked who would occasionally have business trips to Moscow, and she would sometimes bring bananas back with her for me and my sister. Otherwise we would only eat fruit that grew locally and only when it was in season (except if my grandmother preserved it). So it’s hard for me to imagine going anywhere now that might impress me as much as the USA did then - I doubt even living like a Saudi prince would. (I guess the Saudi princes have authority over other people which is like nothing I’ve known. I’m just talking about their access to luxury products.)