I’m from CT living in Germany here and thank you. I’m so ashamed of Americans who are clearly ignorant and condescending to others about their ignorance. The person who thinks Alabama is a different planet needs to take a slow drive around the poor side of upstate New York, because it’s just an urban/rural divide, which Europe also has (though what that divide means will be different in every country- it took a while for me to understand middle class and rural culture, because in CT, the rural areas are either in the bottom or top decile of wealth).
Köln to rural Bavaria seems to me like about as big a divide as between San Francisco and distant suburbs of Dallas to me. I’ve been to all of those places, and to be fair, Texas (and Bavaria) are different from my typical experiences, but that level of difference is actually normal.
I’m from CT living in Germany here and thank you. I’m so ashamed of Americans who are clearly ignorant and condescending to others about their ignorance. The person who thinks Alabama is a different planet needs to take a slow drive around the poor side of upstate New York, because it’s just an urban/rural divide, which Europe also has (though what that divide means will be different in every country- it took a while for me to understand middle class and rural culture, because in CT, the rural areas are either in the bottom or top decile of wealth).
Köln to rural Bavaria seems to me like about as big a divide as between San Francisco and distant suburbs of Dallas to me. I’ve been to all of those places, and to be fair, Texas (and Bavaria) are different from my typical experiences, but that level of difference is actually normal.