You know you're not in Kansas (or Indiana) anymore when....

People travel in taxi co-ops (that is you don’t have your own taxi but rather share with strangers who are going in the same general direction; a taxi stops and you tell the driver where you are going- if he is willing to take you he honks, if not he drives away)

You sleep under a mosquito net

You have two seasons: wet heat and dry heat

You follow a taxi with a potato sack and the limbs of two grown men sticking out of the trunk as the lid flaps up and down with the bumps in the road

Said taxi above (and all the following traffic) stops to allow trunk rider to retrieve his shoe that fell off 100 feet back

Church services last for three hours (you sit on backless benches)

Your church choir sings in three different languages (all the mother tongue of a handful of members in your church)

Children beg at your window when you stop for a red light

Neighbors collect funds to hire out the repair of the deep ruts in clay road (washed-out from daily afternoon downpours)

Head coverings for women refer to brightly-colored fabric wrapped several times around the head in many decorative ways

Your savings account is in the form of an extra home (culture mandates that you help relatives and friends in financial crisis if you have the money saved; if you have it in the supplies for cement and bricks for a new home, you are not obligated to give)

Taxis go on strike to protest rising gas prices; people miss work due to lack of other transportation options within the city. The next day taxi prices are up 33%.

Salespeople carry their wares on their head while walking down the street.