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.
www.businessinsider.com
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.

  • SerLava [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    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

    • CommunistBear [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      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

      • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        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.