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I’ve traveled to a few cities in Germany and what I’ve observed is that the food scenes in big cities are quite diverse and I love that.

However, when I feel like trying local German food, I feel that many German dishes are generally more expensive than foreign food like Asian or even Middle Eastern. For example, I can easily find authentic good Pad Thai that cost roughly €12-€15 and it tastes exactly like how it’s made in Thailand. But if I want to have good Schnitzel, it would cost at least minimum €20 (if I’m lucky) but often more to even above €30. In my country, local tends to be more accessible and much cheaper even in a big metropolitan city considering the imported ingredients and stuff.

Why’s that? Don’t Germans often eat German food? And how come that in some big cities like Berlin or Cologne (and more) seem to have more foreign restaurants than German ones?

I'm not French and I don't live in France, but I have close friends living there and they're very happy when they passed probation and now have CDI contract. They claimed that it's now going to be hard to fire them even though how bad they perform. It's going to take months or years to fire people just because they're bad or company needing to restructure or financial problem.

Anyone have experience with getting fired or laid off before? What's your experience so far?

So I get curious about work culture in the US. I live in Europe and I've never been to the US yet. Here, if you have a doctor appointment or some paperwork related to the governmental stuff, you can always block your calendar and leave for a couple of hours from work and then come back resuming your work. You can't do any of this (at least in the country I live in) during the weekend and past work hours.

Also, if you get sick, you just don't have to show up to work. Some of my colleagues are out sick for 3-4 weeks straight while still getting paid and their 30 day annual leaves remain untouched. If they're sick for too long, then their insurance will compensate for that too — but they can't simply get fired just because of that.

I'm 90% Southeast Asian with 10% middle Eastern. However, I'm tall, hairy and have beard and I have a protruding forehead with deep set eyes. I often get mistaken for being from Latin America and sometimes a bit from Mediterranean or even Turkey.

I had lived in Asia my whole life until I moved to Western Europe recently. In my own country, random people would speak English to me or straight up asking me why I don't look local and if I'm mixed with something or not. Here in Europe, Europeans never ask me that. They'd only ask me at a certain point once they know me a bit. Most of the time, when I introduce myself and where I'm from, they'd be like "oh I could never guess..."

I never feel offended when someone asks me that. To me, it's just curiosity. It's just funny how sensitive people in the West are (which I assume it has to do a lot with past history), while it's the opposite in my own country haha.

I don't have that many friends, but often times when I'm outside, I run into people that I know whether it's acquaintances or people I've dated. It gets even awkward when you see those you didn't have good time with when dating and we just look and pretend like we don't know each other. I'd say at least 2-3 times a month, this happens to me. This happened very rare to big cities I've lived before.