andrewducker | (Reply)

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I think, at going on 54, I'm probably more part of the problem here as an immigrant to E Germany, rather than part of the solution.

Definitely in the countryside, it's lots and lots of old people. Depressing amounts of whom are ALSO anti-immigrant. The former communists seem bizarrely attracted to the new far right...

At least we are getting lots of Ukranians. Who don't attract the same racist bullshit. I'm lucky, I don't LOOK especially "foreign" but those who do can get a lot of shit. My and 2 Russian ex-colleagues did ponder our luck. In one big renewable energy solar installations company I worked for, I remarked that company-wide ALL the "workers" were immigrants, while ALL the management were German. Being white and speaking good German I might have had a bit of a chance. Maybe not too...