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Cake day: February 5th, 2025

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  • Was thinking the same thing. I grew up in a European city and didn’t own a car until my mid-30s, when I moved to a rural area. When visiting the US for business, north of Chicago, I wanted to just walk to the next mall, as it was just 2km according to maps. But there was simply no way of doing that safely. No sidewalk at all, busy road. We are often quick to judge people for taking a car for even short distances. But often there really is no other safe way.





  • It’ll be fine, although I fully understand why you’re nervous. As others said you will definitely walk or bike a lot more. Most people speak English to some degree and are open to help you. There’s the old joke that in the US 100 years is a long time and in Europe 100km is a long distance. It’s kind of true. If your parents live over 100km away in Germany you will never see them again because it’s just too far. If you’re moving to the area “around Hamburg” you might not visit Hamburg proper that much. And Hamburg is the only city in the north. The next cities are Bremen, Hanover and Berlin, which are all to the West, South and East respectively. All of them are very far away from Hamburg, so you will never visit them. To the north of Hamburg there is nothing but tiny villages until you hit the Danish border.