Berlin - Post Report Question and Answers

If you move here, you can leave behind your:

Slow grocery-bagging. You gotta bag fast here. Also leave behind your expectations about mowing. Public parks don't get mowed or weed whacked very often - Berliners like to let nature do its thing. This contributes heavily to the insane allergy season here. - Aug 2023


Idea that Germans are efficient. - Jul 2015


Preconceptions of Germany. They aren't all Neo-Nazis, but aren't all lederhosen wearing country folk either. There are definite divisions in German society. Expectations of everyone speaking English. It is not a reality. Your expectations that it will be like America. It is not. - Aug 2013


SCUBA gear. - Dec 2011


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