Has some other pretty good nuggets there; esp complaints about the cost of gas and gasp, shock horror the lack of big box stores and 2-day shipping.
online purchases — excluding Amazon — take up to a week to arrive
How I know someone is young lmao. It used to take well past that for junk to arrive, and many places still have similar policies of slow deliveries here in burgerland.
This lady is just discovering what “living in a small town” is like, not Germany.
Seriously, this seems to be the crux of it; Otterberg had less than 10k residents as of census data from 2006(?), and so many of her gripes are things you'd struggle with in any tiny town in the US as well
This lady has obviously never ordered plants on Etsy only for them to show up dead a month later because UPS lost the package again.
I used to get monthly magazines in the mail that took a month and a half
Seriously, this seems to be the crux of it; Otterberg had less than 10k residents as of census data from 2006(?), and so many of her gripes are things you’d struggle with in any tiny town in the US as well
Otterberg is also like this 👌 close to Kaiserslautern where you could find all that. Also ofc Mexican food isn't as good in Germany as in the states and Asian food not as good as in Korea. But the Italian, Greek, French, Turkish cuisine you can find there is much better because it's fucking closer
Almost everyone I know who immigrated from Asia, as well as what I’ve read about many European countries, the idea of “shopping in bulk” is completely alien unless there’s an event. People often buy fresh food and cook fresh meals each day and eat with others.
I had a few people from Asia laugh when I told them I’d buy at least a month’s worth of food when I go shopping. They thought it was some esoteric joke
Yeah you wont get good mexican food anywhere, despite the relatively high number of Mexican expats haha. Although there are a lot of greek, Italian or lebanese restaurants instead.
I discovered gyros when I was visiting Berlin lmao, one of my favorite quick lunches now.
Average American priorities:
:geordi-no: healthcare
:geordi-no: safety
:geordi-yes: 2 day shipping on treats
There was an article of a white woman who raised her children in China. They had superior education, healthcare, transit (she let her kids ride the train by themselves). They couldn’t handle the lockdowns so they moved back to the US where her children are now learning mass shooting drills.
I don’t know if they moved back since China opened up, but if they decided to stay then :bruh:
I was teaching English in South Korea when I met my now-husband in 2021. He works for the US military, and I'm a freelance marketer who also runs a travel blog. We're both originally from the US. In January 2022, my husband got restationed in Germany, at which point we decided that I would follow after he moved.
Classic rushed military marriage. You met in 21 and by January 22 you were already married and committed to move across the planet? Dipshit.
And while food doesn't cost much more, certain products, such as electronics, cost considerably more than in the US. Taxes here are extremely high compared to Korea and the US.
In exchange you get good, cheap healthcare and transit. Americans are incapable of understanding the value of government services. Dipshit.
One aspect of living in Germany that's been nice is the healthcare. I spend next to nothing on insurance, and I can expense most of my visits and prescriptions so that they're essentially free. This is undeniably better than US healthcare, and I'll miss it. But coming from South Korea, where the care is even better than in Germany, I recognize it's the care, not Germany, that I'll miss.
The things you don't like - other country. The things you do like - not other country. Dipshit.
Also, who the fuck is this article even for? It's just some random troopwife whining. Who is the target audience? What is this responding to?
Business Insider will frequently drop banger articles likes “I Visited Italy Hoping For Italian Men To Obsesses Over Me. They Didn’t, And My Friends Partied All The Time And I Hate Italy Now.”
Written by some bougie Ivy League ghoul
It's one of these expat whining articles, but against a western country, which is a novelty, I suppose.
How much useless crap do you have to be buying for 2 day shipping to be a reason you don’t like living in Germany
Troop wife has nothing else to do presumably than to sit at home and consoom
Excuse me. She has a very important job. She is a freelance marketer.
I would be consooming so much food from every place in walking/biking/train distance
complaints about the cost of gas
:thonk: I wonder how that happened. Couldn't be from a western military disrupting the supply line.
It was rogue evil Ukrainians (slavs) who were disobeying the orders from the good US-aligned Ukrainians (white).
Emphasis mine.
I also experience weekly microaggressions in the form of rude looks and comments about my shaky German — even though I still know enough to understand when I'm being talked about.
I havent heard anyone use the term 'microaggression' in a long time
Microaggressions in a sentence like "X caused me microaggressions" became a euphemism and verbal tool used by people - particularly bad people - to say "X really made me fucking angry".
It's like the boomers who go ballistic when they hear someone speaking in another language because they're paranoid that they're being gossipped about.
My spouse and I speak a foreign language together and in the defense of white racist shitheads (???) we are usually trash talking them. They also don’t know that I suck at this foreign language so I use it more to make myself look like a genius (I’m white).
My cousins would all speak English but whenever they want to be racist towards whites, blacks, or Mexicans they’ll switch to our language lol
I've been to Germany. To be honest never felt more at home in a place. But i also look very German i guess as people where coming up to me and just asking me stuff in German.
I traveled around Northern Italy and everyone could tell I wasn't local but always seemed to think I was from about 30 miles away. Italian speakers thought I might be from Austria and the South Tyrolean German speakers would just open up speaking Italian to me thinking I was Venetian or something.
Somewhere out there under the Alps is a little village full of me's
That's been one of my dreams to travel Europe. I'm a blend of a whole bunch of stuff so despite being white no one ever really looks like me. But I have some secret hope that my people do exist somewhere
Everybody just automatically thinks I'm Irish, which is cool because everybody on Mainland Europe loves the Irish, but bad because then I open my mouth and they know I'm American.
But also, not actually Irish, so checkmate, you racists.
tbh I've loved every place I've lived more than I do America. Maybe it's a grass is greener thing but even Japan, where I lived for six years (long enough to experience some of the drawbacks of living there), I would trade living in America to go back there in an instant.
I had that happen to me but it was a camera crew doing interviews. It must've been funny to hear my dopey American accent come out instead of German.
My friend wanted me to take some photos of him flexing with the sun set in the back ground and some lady on a bench came up to me and told me, in German, if you two would like to get more romantic I'm fine with watching over here. At least that was the translation my German friend gave me. Lol.
Ah yes, crazy horny Germany. Simultaneously too repressed and yet, not repressed enough.
I've only been to Bavaria but even I liked it. Talked with a woman who grew up in East Germany who said she kinda misses it the welfare state and the society, but not the Stasi.
Imagine telling an American that you miss your even more robust welfare state than the pretty good one you have right now
Germans are pretty friendly. Sure they're more reserved than Americans and they have a sometimes biting sense of humor that some might find insulting but is honestly quite charming. (Germans actually understand sarcasm very well, it's just not as dry as the British version and a bit more absurdist)
I remember reading some Reddit posts from soldiers currently stationed in Germany giving an overview to a newbie recruit. They were reminiscing and praising their American military base for essentially being a mini American town with burger kings and McDonald’s and how it made them less homesick
And then people wonder why the Americans can't win any oversea war. The personnel stays in a mini-mericantown and never mingle with the local culture nor try to respect and blend in
Vollmer is from Sacramento, California, and said that she experienced culture shock in [literally any geographic designation].
I crossed the street and realized I was a women without a country. Such culture shock.
''In-person shopping takes forever because there aren't big-box stores, and online purchases — excluding Amazon — take up to a week to arrive. Coming from the US and South Korea, where same-day or next-day delivery is more common, this has been an adjustment. And while food doesn't cost much more, certain products, such as electronics, cost considerably more than in the US. Taxes here are extremely high compared to Korea and the US.''
lol
''I miss the comforts of being surrounded by people like me — English-speaking working professionals from diverse backgrounds— and the foods from those mixed communities.''
I like diversity, as long they speak english. you moved to the countryside and complain it's not cosmopolitan enough
Hilarious because German city food is pretty culturally diverse (I will admit asian food cultures are under-represented and the average Chinese restaurant is dire compared to Australia)
Yes. A bit harsh to compare a landlocked Europe country to a country in the Pacific Ocean which has a huge Asian demographic.
Freelance marketer
Married a child murderer in Occupied Korea
Don't really think I need to read any more.
American treat pig disappointed in trough rations lmao.
Germany makes the US look like a fucking third world country.
I assert that the Unites States of America is a developing country.
It's not even classified as a Full Democracy by lib organizations.
