TIL that McDonalds is still open in Venezuela…

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A friend married to a Swiss-Peruvian American noted that her husband comes across as a white Latin American with Latino music blasting from his car, but his brother is the Swiss American.

There’s a part of me that wonders why would they leave when they’re in Germany, and well, Germany can’t fail.

OTOH, sometimes you don’t fit in to a place despite having ancestry from there. :-(

*I'm one of the OGs*

You: An OG in two countries.

Me: Always a stranger in a strange land.

Me: War stories? There was a war in Haiti? :-P

I'm admittedly starting to wonder about the number of children of *black* American members of the military and Germans, and how many of their kids married fellow Germans like you.

“Y’all wouldn’t last a day in 1944 to 1950 Germany.”

FWIW, I think you’re one of the few black people I know with war stories from the other side. At my high school, if you had stories from the other side, you were generally Italian. One kid only existed because the Russians needed a tailor for their uniforms…

Did somebody discover her long lost immigrant from a third world country stories?

I see it rather every so often, but a sizable chunk of my coworkers and customers are working class types where it’s a bold yet somewhat popular choice.

I’ve jokingly noted this is what happens when Germans watch Anglosphere reality TV shows and then replicate them with locally produced versions.

There’s definitely an interesting class marker with tattoos on your hands versus just your arms and other body parts that can be covered up with long sleeve clothes.

So in short, you hit 450 EUR net for the month and then you check out until next month?

Weird to me, but it probably makes sense with the German tax regime. Of course, I suspect in some less that honest places the rest of the month is worked on a cash basis…

What’s the 450 basis contract?

Correction: It’s 500 USD per month in NYC Metro.

It said full time! :-)

FWIW, at 10 hrs per week, here that implies roughly 1250 USD, but a server job here earns tips which can make it very lucrative in comparison to Europe.

Per month, that sounds like Polish wages! How can you pay rent on that?

What’s the ratio supposed to be?

450 EUR per week?

I like this term. :-)

We’re not old! :-)

We’re just not as young as we used to be. :-/