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.

Figured this might spark a discussion, seeing how this seemed to come up every day on our subreddit…

  • geissi@feddit.deEnglish
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    2 years ago

    There are multiple issues I have with this text but a major one is this:
    >And I feel almost no support from the country as an expat

    I hate the word expat because to me it feels like someone doesn’t want to be part of the country they’re in.
    How then, do you expect to enjoy your time there?

  • Atahualpa@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Coming from the US and South Korea, where same-day or next-day delivery is more common, this has been an adjustment.

    She lists “same day delivery” as an actual argument for choosing a place to live - even before “being close to family”

    How much useless stuff do you buy, lady?

  • agarorn@feddit.de
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    2 years ago

    Interesting. As we need immigrants we should listen to people complaining.

    The big points I see: 1. Unfriendlyness with government agencies: I can second this. She mentioned living in Otterberg. I know that place, it is close to the Ramstein US military base, roughly 40k Americans live under an hour away. I know other immigrants who have also had bad experiences.

    1. Unfriendlyness from people on the village. Yeah, I heard it is hard to connect. If we don’t change we will not get the immigrants we need.

    But à lot of her points are plain ridiculousl.

    1. Learning the language is hard. Yeah, no shit. Was it easier in south Korea? That is always hard, and it is a full time job if you want to do it fastly. But this will happen everywhere. I see the point that it should be free to attract people, but I know that there are courses cheaper than 500 euros.

    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 this is ridiculous. There are big box stores. 15 minutes away is Globus. This shop used to be a real, Walmarts try to start in Germany. This is big enough to find all you need. And in the street it is located you find every other store just as in US stroad utopia.

    And boxes don’t take a week to arrive. Bullshit.

  • agrammatic@feddit.de
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    2 years ago

    The article is written in such an inflammatory way that I don’t think there’s anything valuable to take out of it.