I moved to Germany and regret it. I've felt unwelcome by the people, and not even the great healthcare can convince me to stay.
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Stephanie Vollmer said that her healthcare and safety were better in Germany than in the US, but she said that she often experienced microaggressions.

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.

  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I feel like a trespasser here

    Wife of soldier in occupying military finds herself unwelcomed by the occupied nation, more news at 11

    edit: I kept reading, it gets dumber

    In-person shopping takes forever because there aren't big-box stores, and online purchases — excluding Amazon — take up to a week to arrive.

    Damn really? It can take UP TO a week for some shit you ordered from far away to be processed, picked, packed, mailed, and show up to your house? How strong you must be in the face of this struggle.

    Germany offers cuisines from other cultures, but it's nothing like the Asian or Mexican dishes I grew up with.

    This lady is just discovering what "living in a small town" is like, not Germany.

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      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

      • MerryChristmas [any]
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        1 year ago

        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.

      • SerLava [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I used to get monthly magazines in the mail that took a month and a half

      • SpanishSpaceAgency [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        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

    • Albanian_Lil_Pump [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      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

    • Sinister [none/use name, comrade/them]B
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      1 year ago

      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.