{"id":179,"date":"2009-02-04T22:14:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T05:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=179"},"modified":"2009-02-04T22:14:15","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T05:14:15","slug":"americanized-away-for-too-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Americanized – away for too long"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know that you’ve been away from Germany for too long, when:<\/p>\n

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  1. you’re unable to identify your Golf Kombi rental car in the parking area (because they don’t sell this model in the US)<\/li>\n
  2. you wonder why people are driving so slowly (140km\/h) on the Autobahn (they used to drive faster when I still lived here)<\/li>\n
  3. you wonder how people can live with such small fridges<\/li>\n
  4. you are amazed by all the cute little trash cans people have (where the heck do you put all the packing material from your Amazon orders?)<\/li>\n
  5. you wonder when the Weinbiet tower was cut in half (apparently it was only taller in my memories)<\/li>\n
  6. when you find Germany’s busiest airport, small, cramped, inconvenient and “Stueckwerk”, lacking an overall broad vision (did you ever walk the new Terminal 1 parking garage walkway? Low ceilings, non heated, no buses, no conveyor belts and elevators that only go up or down – not both – a strange place indeed)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Looks like I’m a spoiled and confused\u00a0American with a German passport by now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    You know that you’ve been away from Germany for too long, when: you’re unable to identify your Golf Kombi rental car in the parking area (because they don’t sell this model in the US) you wonder why people are driving so slowly (140km\/h) on the Autobahn (they used to drive faster when I still lived … Continue reading Americanized – away for too long<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}