Posted on 09/24/2007 2:07:56 PM PDT by george76
Silke Gawenda's hometown has its charms -- ramparts and timbered houses from the Middle Ages, and quiet streets lined with linden trees.
A little too quiet for the bright 18-year-old, who is counting the days until high school graduation so she can leave Wittstock for college in the more prosperous west -- joining an unprecedented exodus of young women from what used to be communist East Germany.
"Wittstock is so dull, I just want to get out of here," said the 18-year-old with a blond ponytail and blue eyes, who wants to study graphic design. "There's no future here for me -- no jobs, no night life and no way to get a good education."
More than 60 towns in the east with populations above 5,000 have fewer than 80 women per 100 men... That compares to a ratio of 51.1 percent women to 48.9 percent men for all of Germany.
Why women? That's a topic of intense discussion. Steffen Kroehnert, the sociologist who did the report, points to female-headed households and a lack of male role models in education.
"The guys in rural East Germany are real mama's boys,"...
More than 1.5 million people have left eastern Germany since the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 -- most of them to the former West Germany. In the early days more men left, but that changed quickly after German unification. Since then, two-thirds of those leaving were female...
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
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They must be infatuated with the nanny state, which allowed communism to flourish.
Gawenda - I wonder if that is a Sorbian or Wendish name?
Gentlemen of FR, surely we can find a position for this young lady and her friends!
Other way around
I knew a guy who married an au pair from Poland.
Other way around
The relationship between those that want to be cared for by the State and the State the pretends to care is symbiotic.
The ones who weren't mama's boys left in the first wave.
Pics?
High school student Silke Gawenda smiles as her friends look on in Wittstock, Germany, Thursday, June 16, 2007. Gawenda's hometown has its charm, ramparts and timbered houses from the Middle Ages, and quiet streets lined with linden trees. A little too quiet for the bright 18-year-old, who is counting the days until high school graduation so she can leave Wittstock for college in the more prosperous west, joining an unprecedented exodus of young women from what used to be communist East Germany
There’s nothing unusual about high school kids thinking that the grass is greener anywhere else but home. I’m a little surprised that it’s mostly women, though.
Are they attracted by the deranged feminazism of the West?
One hopes it’s something else.
I was in East Germany in 1983 and you can’t begin to describe the oppression
Maybe they think they’ll find better prospects and mates abroad.
It’s amazing (to me anyway) to think that the current h.s. seniors were born around the time that the wall came down — from here on forward it will be entire generations that never knew life under the communist tyranny.....
Apparently. But why would the women think that so much more than the men? In the article, the women claim the men are basically useless. But women have been claiming that about their local men for thousands of years. It doesn't really explain the dichotomy.
*ducking and running for cover*
Two golddiggers?
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So how is this much different than bored young ladies living in Conway, New Hampshire or Elko, Nevada fleeing in droves to Los Angeles or New York City.
Young ladies seem to get bored in nothing places and want to go where the action is. So do young men.
These German women aren’t so rare. That want action, fun, money and opportunity.
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