Then you should visit south europe. Europe is divided by the alps in a lot of things, like potato or tomato as main ingredient in meals. But also in culture itself. Everything north of the alps is kinda cold and seems unhappy/angry and stressed all the time and south of it people seem chill, happy and friendly.

As others said Switzerland. It’s beautiful and all but really expensive. It really took away a big part of fun when I went there. But not only that, I thought the swiss people seemed sometimes kinda "rude"or maybe a better word for it “cold” and a little annoyed if it came to tourists. I get it, it’s a small county and a lot of people are visiting each year, but it still wasn’t fun for me to be there and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone to go there.

And North France near the German border like Strasbourg. The city and the region is beautiful as well, but the people are often like the cliché everybody knows and that sucks if you’re a tourist. But the south of France like Marseille and the Provence is always worth a visit. The people are chill, enjoying life in the typical mediterranean way and are often friendlier (and often speak English at least in the bigger cities/tourist areas).

As mentioned by other commentators, negative, emotional news sell the best and the news nearly perfected this method during the last couple of years. Yes, it isn’t as good as pre pandemic times, but it’s not the worst. For me it really helped to limit my news time to max. once a day (like in the past with the newspaper in the morning or a news show in the evening) and watching things called “good news”. In Germany some TV shows have this category so I never searched it on social media or YouTube, but I bet there are some channels/pages dedicated to good news (like there is a new treatment for disease XY or here is a good step in the fight against climate change, but sometimes just news like “the big panda isn’t as endangered as it was”.

It’s a complex topic cause… it depends. I know a guy that lives in Germany and works in Luxembourg (he is the coffee delivery guy for a lot of people xD). If I remember correctly, he pays taxes in Luxembourg and has to fill out a form each year for the German tax office that he or more exactly his company is paying his taxes in Luxembourg. Cause one big thing in all the european countries I know is, that as an employee your workplace pays your salary based taxes. Most social contributions like pension payment is also a Luxembourg thing, but health care is a mixture. He pays the biggest part in Luxembourg but has to do a little extra payment in Germany, so he can visit a German doctor like someone that pays his healthcare only in Germany.

But it’s different for every country.

And also another funny thing I know: The US is the only country in the world where you have to pay taxes just cause you’re a citizen. No matter if you’re living and/or working in the US. So for example a US citizen working and living in Germany still has to pay a (small) amount of US taxes. For example if I would work and live in Italy I would only pay taxes in Italy even though I have a non Italian passport.

That seems true. The country is very small so a lot of people can live in cheaper places like German/French/Belgian border villages. I once met a guy living in belgium and working in Luxembourg city and he needed 40min via car (and the city isn’t right next to the belgian border). Same for the other countries. So yeah, I would also guess 50% of the coffee consumed shouldn’t count.

Ooohhh let me tell you! Not only is the coffee and gasoline cheaper, but also champagne cause there is no champagne tax like in Germany (don’t know if you have this as well). And also taxes for tobacco is lower so it’s cheaper and at last: there is no “Pfand” for canned sodas/beers (great for things like festivals). But the one thing a lot more expensive in Luxembourg are clothes. That’s why a lot of people living in Luxembourg love shopping in Trier (Germany).

Hope you have a nice trip :) The shopping is great at every gasstation at the boarder (they have most of the time a little shop with exactly the cheaper stuff on top), but the capital of the country is nice to visit as well :)

What data are they using? If it’s amount of coffee sold vs. population, at least Luxembourg is wrong. I know people who drive 2-3 times a year around 300km from Germany just to shop gasoline and coffee in Luxembourg. Both are so cheap that it’s still worth it. Cause there is no tax on coffee it’s 20-50% cheaper as in Germany. The same for Belgium. So germans and belgians love to buy coffee in Luxembourg.

Edit: exactly this question is written by the author of the linked article. So it is plausible that the data or the result from the data is wrong.

Schneesturm (snow storm) or Ameisenkrieg (ant war) in German.

Oh I feel you! I ate spaghetti Bolognese ice cream a couple of years ago and I couldn’t stand it. Ice cream is great and Bolognese is great but not mixed together.

I just wanted to buy safety pins. I couldn’t find any. Looked at the supermarket, dm even mall like stuff like Galaria Kaufhof, nothing. The only place at that time I could buy some was amazon or as you said, another soulless online retailer with the worst shipping companies.

Celebrated it once in Munich and was told it’s the second biggest St Patrick’s parade in Europe, but don’t know if it’s true. It was definitely fun, but thanks to a parade member I suffered some hearing loss cause he screamed out of nowhere right into my ear (he was dressed as a viking and thought it would be funny to “scare” people). So no intention going back personally.

And I learned that it’s an American tradition partying and celebrating loudly and the old Irish way is a very quiet and serious one, no partying at all. Did it change? Do people in Ireland celebrate the day like parts in the rest of the world?

Or both.

I definitely miss knowledge stuff like r/eli5 r/nostupidquestion r/space r/science r/todayilearned

I browsed reddit a lot learning new stuff everyday while drinking my morning tea. But the thing I miss the most are the comments. So many posts got debunked or verified or explained even more with sources in the comments. Because of course there is a guy or a girl somewhere learning all about one type of drywall installation for 30+ years telling everyone why this wall installation in the gif can only be in 5 mile radius in Norway.