Sad, Sad Germany again

Brian, of course you feel normal. You are in the right place, plenty of people like you. Enjoy it! (by the way, the school shooter also felt normal).
PP: you do not have to invite me to leave, I AM leaving, and I said so. I am always ready to leave countries in which people react with xenophobia and and answers like yours when they have to face critics. So thank you for reminding me about how right I am to cancel the three years left in my visa and going to a better place.
To Want To Continue Living Here: What you say is sweet and I am very happy that you feel happy here. I respect your opinion as I expect you respect mine. Yes, as I said in my email, there are plenty of wonderful / wunderbar things in Germany, especially in Western and South Germany. But I also have MANY German friends living abroad, and they are honest enough to tell me that they ran out, not only of the cold, but also of stiff, sad and depressing compatriots. Some of them have come back to Germany after many years working abroad, invited by prominent German universities to occupy directing positions. They have survived months, maybe a year, before leaving again. The reason?: They love home, but they are tired of people who do not dare to call them by their first names and who kneel in front of them because they are "Professors". I respect different traditions and I am ALWAYS grateful to the countries which welcome me, even if they have done, like Germany, also horrible things to me (Brian, my very kind and German lawyer also won a lawsuit against the very German hospital who mistreated me... and he is German... does he have to visit a shrink too?) However, I have the permanent feeling that this country is always ready to attack the different again. No matter how much schools hammer on their children's mind that they have to respect differences. No matter how much people respect the law here. The tensions continue in a subtle, subterranean way. Sad people do not like shiny people, and sooner or later they try to fix it. Several posts ago, I saw a message from an alleged German (at least he signed something like Proud German, or German) telling another person in this forum: "People like you should not be allowed to reproduce....". Sounds familiar? )

Even readier to leave Germany.... 15 mars 2009, 08:37 - Signaler un abus