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.

  • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    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?

    • Albanian_Lil_Pump [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      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

      • blobjim [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Germany is still supposed to be a US vassal after all.