Well, where I come from...

[lilplatinum 7,142]

The brunch places in Hamburg are fairly lackluster sadly, except one that is good buck rather expensive and hard to convince people to shell out that much for a morning meal.

[Gumby 82]

 

Must be nice, people that want to eat an actual breakfast are rare here, there certainly are a couple places to go but its hardly common for people to eat a proper breakfast (then again they don't eat the nasty black scab like the English). I miss a nice steak and eggs at Katzs in Austin.

 

 

You eat steak and eggs for breakfast and have a go at the English for eating black pudding? (In case anyone is wondering what black pudding is, it's like Blutwurst but with more flavour and texture.)

Otherwise, I agree, German breakfast is fucking shit.

[lilplatinum 7,142]

Indeed I do, steak is delicious whenever it is served wheras a digusting hockey puck looking scab is equally disgusting regardless of the time it is put on your plate.

 

But otherwise a british fryup is pretty money.

[halfright 468]

Well, where i come from Black Pudding is a part of the staple diet, eaten cold or cooked ...

[hams 1,387]

On the theme of property:

 

Where I come from you have a kitchen installed in a rental property, together with basic fixtures and fittings.

 

Where I come from, as a lessee or purchaser you don't have to pay the estate agent blood money for doing sod all.

 

Where I come from there is no such thing as a Mietverein as landlords on the whole don't try and con you out of your deposit, or any other underhand way they can think of.

 

Where I come from properties normally have some type of character or individuality.

 

Where I come from, there is a realistic chance of getting on the property ladder.

[lilplatinum 7,142]

Is it difficult to purchase property in Munich?

[hams 1,387]

Difficult I suppose when you don't have 30% - 50% of asking price as downpayment; and also difficult to find anything one might want to buy in the first place as they all look the same i.e. not my style...

[Moondancer 5,723]

Where I come from, you can go out and have breakfast 24 hours a day. Something delicous, like waffles, bacon, blueberry pancakes, biscuits with sausage gravy, and all kinds of omelettes, or even a breakfast burrito.

 

Where I come from, I could land at the airport, and by evening, have rented an apt. in a complex with a swimming pool, party room, laundry facilities, and my apt. would have a kitchen already! No makler fees either.

[ocirats 937]

Where I come from, I don't get charged to call you to inform you that your shitty product is defective out of the box and needs to be replaced.

[punkinside 1,153]

 

I wonder what the correlation is, between countries where you can spontaneously do whatever you want -without regard for fellow citizens and without recourse to the police- and their national murder rates.

 

 

Wouldn't go as far as to correlate the tolerance of one man's party because he'll soon be the annoyed neighbour and a total lack of respect for life, as is happening now in Venezuela.

 

One is happy tropical tolerance, the other is total social breakdown after an almost uninterrupted economic free fall and being told continually by one side that there are imperialist traitors and saboteours hiding under every rock, and that we're turning into communist 1984 style hell on earth by the other.

 

Where I come from, people with a PhD could never become defense ministers, unless it was known that they cheated to get it.

[23Dan 662]

 

Where I come from, there is a realistic chance of getting on the property ladder.

London? Dream on. Maybe five years ago, but mortgages for first time buyers now are nowhere near as easy as they were and without a substantial deposit you've absolutely no chance. Couple that with the prices in London not having dropped (at least, not anywhere near as much as the rest of the country) and you're pretty much screwed.

 

If you'll pardon my mixed metaphores, there are a lot of rose-tinted rear-view mirrors in this thread.

[hams 1,387]

Pardon me Dan but you don't know my budget or tastes, let alone the Munich property market and all it has to offer. ;)

[Jazzmin 31]

Where I come from, it is acceptable (and not alarming/disgusting/odd) to ask a stranger or acquaintance "How are you?" when you meet them.

[garry entropy 776]

Where I come from they have give way signs on little side roads instead of a daft right before left rule which no one understands and is lethal for cyclists and confuses Germans at roundabouts,

People don't bother spending the weekend scratching out weeds growing in the gutter and giving you dirty looks because outside your house a couple of dandelions are growing,

If you nod to someone on the street that you pass every day they don't give you a look like a bulldog licking piss of a nettle,

People with fat arses a yard across don't always walk in twos and stop dead in the supermarket exit to have a fumble in the trolley,

They have tasty soft bread rolls and don't regard anything knackig a cardinal virtue,

have more than a handful of adjectives which are so predictable your can hear them coming a mile off, e.g. knackig, frisch, Keine Grenzen für die Fantasie, sour macht lüstig

effrischende, traum job traum frau traum haus family-typ fitness-typ sensitiv-typ busines-typ

wellness-typ das wird ein wahnsinstrip, TIPP TIPP TIPP TIPP TIPP TIPP

[Gwaptiva 7,116]

 

Where I come from, you can go out and have breakfast 24 hours a day.

 

 

Ah, breakfast at any time! Then I'll have some french toast in the Renaissance.

[Gwaptiva 7,116]

 

have more than a handful of adjectives which are so predictable your can hear them coming a mile off, e.g. knackig, frisch,

 

How about every item on a menu being succulent?

[ian 3,996]

Where I come from, nobody was taught a really fancy curly handwriting that only Germans can read.

[featherlight 1,368]

Where I come from you do not eat three large apples because it is 12 o'clock but the food is not on the table yet and then declare that you are not hungry when the food does arrive on the table 15 minutes behind schedule after the cook has been in the kitchen all morning... or refuse a second helping of the main course although you only had the tiniest portion first time round and then bang on the table 5 minutes later and shout indignantly that you are still hungry and what is for desert...? (Yet more anecdotes provided by my shockingly rude inlaws... maybe I should just write the book and have done with it?)

[featherlight 1,368]

Oh yeah, there was more to that scene, it is all coming back now... the first time the inlaws stayed with us... oh boy, such a nightmare.

 

So where I come from, if you have been offered fruit for desert because you demanded a desert although there was none planned by your frazzled hostess, you do not refuse a banana declaring that you do not like bananas and ask what else there is... and then order yourself a banana split the very next day when you are out and about town.

[featherlight 1,368]

Where I come nobody would give you a toilet roll holder for your birthday in a million years.