DanG
Headphoneus Supremus
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So I moved to Europe (specifically, Germany) a little less than two months ago. In America, I drove to work for about 45 minutes -- when there wasn't any traffic, that is -- and worked in a cubicle all day. My coworkers were great, my boss was great, the pay was great, and the taxes were WAY lower. But now that I'm here in Germany (in Freiburg), I walk a little less than 30 minutes to work through a historic city and I still can't get over it. I think it's because I'm used to a country where "old" is 200 years. When I go to one of my local supermarkets, I can buy an astoundingly tasty bottle of St. Emilion Bordeaux for €16. Strasbourg, France is an hour to the north by train, Basel, Switzerland is half an hour to the south. But when I talk to my friends here, who are all German, nobody understands. "You're in Europe... okay...?"
It's truly a privilege to get to live where modern civilization was born, but beyond the abstract historical aspects, it's just so beautiful. So the question is -- do you European Head-Fiers ever just stop and look around you and think, "I live in an amazing part of the world!" Will I eventually just get accustomed to living here and lose my wide-eyed childish amazement? Do you ever just think about the happy fortuity of your place of your birth? Or is it just our human nature to take what we have for granted, our base condition, if you will, for something normal, simple, boring?
It's truly a privilege to get to live where modern civilization was born, but beyond the abstract historical aspects, it's just so beautiful. So the question is -- do you European Head-Fiers ever just stop and look around you and think, "I live in an amazing part of the world!" Will I eventually just get accustomed to living here and lose my wide-eyed childish amazement? Do you ever just think about the happy fortuity of your place of your birth? Or is it just our human nature to take what we have for granted, our base condition, if you will, for something normal, simple, boring?