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 i thought this was some weird conspiracy poo poo, but luckily it's totally legit: https://caretakerparty.hotglue.me/
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a cautionary tale: https://twitter.com/BusinessInsider/status/1668594934448783361?cxt=HHwWgoCw3ZKQhaguAAAA
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"Unwelcoming" ist ein weites Feld. Alt text: The hugs are in the mail.
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Cost of living must mean "I get taxed twice on my us income and it blows" unless petrol is the only example here 
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Nothing too surprising, but it'll continue to be hard to attract academically trained Fachkräfte like this.
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Goa Tse-tung posted:a cautionary tale: Meine Aggression is ned micro 
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quote:Few people in my small town speak English, so I've taken it upon myself to take classes and learn the language. And right here are the main issues: 1. Small town 2. "They don't speak english so I graciously decided to learn the language of the country I moved to" what a loving take However, she is one important step closer to being a true German, at least judging by her skill in "complaining about gas prices"
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genericnick posted:Meine Aggression is ned micro lmao
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Mirco Aggression is my porn-star name.
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Germany sucks for immigrants and migrants alike, and should really get over it's "lern die sprache erstmal bevor du versuchst die sprache zu lernen" demands while begging for workers to come. The bureaucracy also sucks major rear end and people are generally unfriendly.
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Son of Rodney posted:The bureaucracy also sucks major rear end and people are generally unfriendly. Boo hoo about the unfriendly Germans, but good Lord does the bureaucracy suck. An American exchange student told me about a few of the many problems she ran into trying do get basic poo poo done and it was quite Fremdschämintensiv.
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germans being proud of their own rudeness never ceases to amaze me. it‘s lovely behavior. if it‘s also your local tradition, congrats, your local tradition is lovely.
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Californian freelance marketer army wife with their own blog and whinging to Business Insider might also be a bad personal fit with a lot of people regardless of Germans being German. Also, a lot of her complaints (rural town, no big stores, no ~ethnic~ food, unenthusiastic bureaucracy) is directly the result of accompanying her troop husband and thus ending up in some rural hicktown and being outside the scope of regular immigration/foreigner stuff due to special troop and troop accessoire rules. Randler fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Jun 13, 2023 |
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Germans suck but whether they're friendly or not kinda depends on where you go. Rhinelanders are pretty superficially friendly as far as I can tell, Bayern are rude but also friendly, let's not mention the rest.
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im friendly 
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pidan posted:Germans suck
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ich verstehe nicht was ihr meint, ich seh nur gute menschen https://youtu.be/WnP4w8eTAxU
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Hopper posted:And right here are the main issues: Funnily enough, I know this kind of behavior quite well. For a while, a relative of us lived in Spain and we used this as an excuse to drop by with family, staying at a Spanish family's home who were friends to our wayward relative. Thanks to this experience, we learned of German expats, who were living there in this small coastal Spanish town, yucking it up while somehow dodging learning Spanish for years. The locals tended to not like them very much. Now when I'm reading this, I'm imagining a German in Spain, behaving exactly like this, and not even understanding what the problem is. Humans, man. We're all the same inside.
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Babies Getting Rabies posted:germans being proud of their own rudeness never ceases to amaze me. it‘s lovely behavior. if it‘s also your local tradition, congrats, your local tradition is lovely. Nobody is proud of anything, but the complaints about rudeness are extremely culturally deaf and  Maybe do some research on cultural norms on politeness and adjust your expectations if you are likely to be offended by stuff like that. And it's been mentioned, 80% of her complaints can be explained by "lives in a lovely little town with mostly old people." I dare say that old people in lovely little towns are gruff and not likely to chat up non-native speakers elsewhere, too.
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Yup, in actual cities 90% of people don't gives a poo poo, and will speak English to you. I am also wondering how much of the rudeness is based on negative experiences with armed forces personnel. If all your reference frame for foreigners is "base personnel from next door living here for years and never bothering to learn our language" that's probably not going to work in favor of army wifes. And about bureaucracy: it is apparently no better in the states. A friend talked to me about her experience searching for a Steuerberater over there who was able to help her do her taxes after moving from new york to Louisiana in the Middle of the year, which meant a 50/50 split of regulations to adhere to, it took her drat near 2 years to find one who could. And don't ask about changing the name on her social security from her maiden name to her marriage name as a foreigner. German bureaucracy sucks but the US is no better for immigrants.
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Me, stepping off the plane to Germany: Endlisch nomaaale Leude
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I'm friendly. gently caress you!
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Good morning, I’m passing through this small town in England. 
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Totmorden, setzen, 6.
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Honestly the bureaucracy has been a lot less lovely than its reputation would suggest. I'm sure it varies with where you live of course, and who you are. But my experience has been largely positive. Everything takes a lot longer than I'm used to, but it all works. The people I've interacted with have generally been, if perhaps not always friendly, at least genuinely helpful and wanting to get things done, which is really more important to me. I'm very grateful to be dealing with the immigration system here, and not the one in my country of birth. It might take a while to get things done, but at least I'm not subject to arbitrarily cruel bullshit like visa lotteries, or high stakes interviews with fascist border cops pumped up on post-9/11 paranoia.
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I can see how a lot of people end up having an awful time though. If you walk up the day you need some document, expecting a same day appointment and someone to help you figure out the forms, you have no chance. My experience with US bureaucracy is that it was a lot more tolerant of people coming in completely unprepared, with stuff like people stationed at the DMV to guide people to the right stack of forms and pre-screen requests even before people got to the front of the line. No such thing in Germany, where at best you'll have a guard at the door who absolutely will not let you in without an appointment, but might tell you the website where you can go book one.
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It varies a ton by Sachbearbeiter*in too, first one I had was a shithead who would only reply by snail mail even if I emailed and said idgaf about Datenschutz for comms, next one then replies by email immediately and is helpful.
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I cannot understand that you are allowed to take bikes with you on public transport during rush hour here lol. Like, maybe learn from the netherlands, a country that knows a thing or two about handling bike traffic: 
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Gotta say I understand where you’re coming from and I hate it too but some people are legit not able to do large distances by bike. Now if it were electric bikes I’d understand and ultimately the issue isn’t allowing or not allowing them on public transit, it’s building deece infrastructure for bikes instead. If you hate bikes fahr an der Spitze des Zugs 
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Seems like a regional issue. I've seen trains with rush hour rules for bikes posted.
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Is halt nich Bullerbü wa
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Double post because this Ampel thing is so dumb https://twitter.com/rbb24/status/1668633356110815233?s=46&t=U9-noZ1-LnfK-riQSG1xvQ And then there’s this cursed way of entgendern right here yikes https://twitter.com/berlin_radler/status/1668657372024254475?s=46&t=U9-noZ1-LnfK-riQSG1xvQ
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It's pretty easy to explain, they're too cheap to add additional train cars, the trains are already way too full, and a normal bike will take the space of 1-2 people. It's about money, as always. You can always bring a folding bike.
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Zwille posted:It varies a ton by Sachbearbeiter*in too, first one I had was a shithead who would only reply by snail mail even if I emailed and said idgaf about Datenschutz for comms, next one then replies by email immediately and is helpful. Yeah I think I benefit heavily here from being in a city that is... Not volldigitalisiert, but at least further along on the path to Digitalisierung. They prefer to handle things via email and appointment booking is all done online.
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nawilo_420 posted:I cannot understand that you are allowed to take bikes with you on public transport during rush hour here lol. I found the only Spießbürger in Berlin!
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ephex posted:I found the only Spießbürger in Berlin! #schickeriwa
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Don't take bikes on trains during rushhour, worse than Fußballfans on trains during any time
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Take your bike on trains whenever you like but understand that your bike is low priority when there's no space. Also if there's rules about not taking bikes during rush hour then obey them lol, what kind of commuter train doesn't have those.
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