The crazy thing is that the influx hasn't even slowed. It's just become so normal to have people pouring over the border, that they've gotten better at hiding it from the public and we've all gotten inured to it.

Don't really notice it, until you go shopping downtown and notice that nobody is speaking German, futily search for an apartment, or are standing in the train station and there's a group of like 10 exotic-looking dudes staring intensely at you across from a group of 10 heavily-armed cops staring intensely at them, and it's like,

Well, this is rather awkward.