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  • viking@infosec.pubtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    Zero is the norm in Germany, and I appreciate it that way. Other than providing housing until I moved out at 19 shortly after finishing high school, I got no monetary support from family.

    Plenty of good advice, assistance with where and how to apply for grants, actual help on how to conduct research during uni, helping carry stuff when I moved houses, helping to draft my first cv and cover letters, and moral support and whatnot, sure.

    But money? Other than maybe sending me 200 Euro for my birthday or ordering pizza when I visited, nothing, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Nothing prepares people more for adulthood than being responsible, and at the same time not feeling you have to pay back.



  • Saunas in Germany are more an adult thing, at least as a kid I never went to any, nor do I remember seeing kids there when going now.

    Showers in school had individual cabins or at least some dividers between them and curtains to close them, and typically you’d leave your towel hanging on a hook right in front, dry yourself quickly and wrap up to walk back. There was a brief moment of nudity when changing back into regular clothes, but nobody was ever really looking at anybody else.