Posted on 12/02/2023 8:21:19 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
I'm originally from the United States, but I've lived in Germany for over 11 years.
Moving to Germany was not necessarily an extreme culture shock, but many things have surprised me — especially when it comes to raising my three kids, who have all been born here.
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Anyway, it is not free!
It is paid by taxpayers!
This should be something interesting for you to comment on.
My MD in Spokane did not tell me to get vax. First time I saw him after Covid started, I walked in and he said: “ Did you get a vax?”
“I was going to ask you about that, but you’re a doctor and have to say yes.”
“You look very healthy to me. Come back in six months.”
Is that a terrific doc? He did not go to med school in the US where they are funded by Big Pharma so he has no prejudice about it. And I’m healthy as can be. Only people I know who caught covid are fully vaxed and boosted.
The article was from a city-dweller. Go outside of a city and see how car-free you can be in any country. I seem to recall multiple articles about women and children being sexually assaulted in Germany by “Asian” immigrants, even at public swimming pools. Also, human slavers are everywhere; it’s a terrible risk to take to not be cautious.
And yet a few hours ago we had a crap post about how all the problems in today’s world are the fault of boomers. If you mean it’s their fault for reproducing, I guess that’s right.
7 year old kids walk to school in my neighborhood too.
So it’s like living in America.
There are some things that are better in Germany than the U.S., most of them are because the majority of the population is ethnically european instead of the like the U.S. with only 62%. That's rapidly changing in Germany however.
My sister knows lived in Frankfurt for 16 years. Then when she married my BIL he was stationed in the embassy for 3 more yrars. This was mid 90’s and she had to pay $700 dollars a month for the health insurance for the “free “ medical care.
Then when she had a still birth the hospital kept her in the bed for 24 hours and she developed deep vein thrombosis and almost died. That never would have happened in the states.
Nobody owns a home. They all live in apartments. And those are costly. I’ve been there a couple of times. You don’t want to live there.
When did they make it illegal for kids in the U.S. to go outside all year round? I hadn’t heard about that.
Interesting how there is no mention of the crazy islamo-fascist “refugees” that have infiltrated all major cities in Germany or the crime wave that follows.
here in the America I grew up in, we kids were outside all the time...we walked to school or home if we missed the bus...we climbed trees, build tree forts, dropped hammers on our heads a few times accidentally and we had mighty "wars" with the neighbor kids....
I can't help it if the liberal idiots have made childhood a unholy mess....but they force kids to grow up fast with all this sex education nonsense....
I can tell you honestly that I was not sure where babies came from or how they got there until I was almost in hs.....its a blessing to be naive and joyful when you're a child.
if anything American leftists can be blamed for taking the innocence and joy out of childhood....
Though your great doctor wanted to see you in 6 months, even though he could tell from just your looks that you are healthy.
I applaud your very good health.👏
It’s illegal to homeschool your children in Germany.
First, you typically don’t get a private room in a hospital, and it’s a minimum of two folks...sometimes even six to a room. I visited a co-worker once (surgical situation) and his German health insurance was only to pay for general support, so he shared the room with 3 other guys.
Based on my wife’s stays...you can ring the buzzer all you want in the hospital room, and it might be 45 minutes before ‘Hans’ gets to your room for your problem. I’d also advise you to bring a couple days of ‘rations’ because whatever they serve in the hospital....is the bare minimum you need to survive. A week’s stay for a no-thrills procedure? You probably lose at least 3 pounds unless you sneak off to a cafe nearby.
Adding to German health insurance....there are different bundles. So you might be in a 4-star package for x-services, then find that the offering for physical rehab is 2-star at best. Or you might have alcohol problems and find that in-patient rehab offerings are marginal.
You can live in a car-free city (like Hamburg, Munich or Frankfurt). If you lived in Worms, Alzey, Trier, Speyer....you have marginal public transportation. I’d say from 84-million residents...at least one-third of society aren’t in a car-free situation.
All this chatter in the piece about bikes in the city? It’s nice...provided your bike isn’t stolen. It’s a pretty common occurrence now....bikes are swiped and you see your 3k Euro bike gone.
Kids free to walk around? Yeah, but it’s mostly due to common respect, low crime demands of the public, arrest efforts. I myself feel completely safe in walking around Mainz or Frankfurt in daylight hours. There’s two areas of Frankfurt that are probably not that safe in evening hours (after 10 PM). I’d tell you in general....once you exit a train in Frankfurt...walk directly to the next subway/bus...don’t linger in the train station or the block around the station.
German pre-school (kindergarten)? It’s more about getting kids socialized and agreeable than picking up language, math or knowledge skills. People might be shocked about the tactic. German kids at age 6....aren’t way ahead of Americans....it’s in the next five years that they progress ahead.
German pre-school/kindgartens? Gov’t admitted in the past month that they are missing several hundred-thousand ‘seats’. Just not enough facilities for all kids, and it’s heavily dependent on the town/village you live in.
I’m not anti-German or pro-German....just that certain things stand out. There’s no city in Germany that matches up to Baltimore or Detroit or New Orleans. That said...a lot more low-intensity crime than existed in the 1980s.
If you want meth, cocaine, etc...I can point to the right neighborhood in Frankfurt, or the city park of Wiesbaden where the drug guys hang out.
It’s not a cheap place...everything has VAT (sales tax) figured in and inflation is a harsh factor.
German authorities readily admit that around 15-percent of society is now in a welfare-status of some type. Affordable housing in metro areas (Bremen, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt) is a joke. You can’t miss job offering posters now....even on the buses and trains....tons of job, and simply not enough people to apply. Things got bad enough for lack of bus drivers in my local town....that they contracted out forty-odd French guys for a year in town.
Henry Blodgett - liberal-wing-nut, it turned out, “worked” on a Yahoo Finance Internet “show” named Daily Ticker, IIRC. The other guy on the show (and a relatively decent fellow) was Aaron Task.
Capital this; capital that . . . for a while, up until Blodgett suddenly turns up with Business Insider (his baby, from the sound of it back then), bashing the roots and soil of his financial success, while selling capitalism to subscribers.
Aaron Task’s work, was interesting. He was an actual gentleman.
No way would I ever live in that feceshole.
I was five years old in 1961. The Catholic elementary school I attended was two blocks from my house.
My mother walked me to school the first two days and after that I was on my own.
I ran around outside in all four seasons and had to be in when the streetlights came on.
I rode a bicycle without a helmet, played in the mud, climbed trees, played with fireworks and cap pistols and generally didn’t give a hoot about much else.
Wasn’t any the worse for it.
Today’s kids haven’t a clue about how care free childhood once was.
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