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  • As a non-native working in German, the numbers are one of the trickiest parts.

    My jobs generally involve a lot of math and discussions of numbers, and I often struggle with swapping numbers around in my head. Especially because when you get to bigger numbers people often switch between (or use a combination of) listing individual digits left-to-right and saying multi-digit numbers.

    The though is when you occasionally notice natives mess it up!













  • It’s definitely true. There are so few places that are really walkable in the US and the demand is quite high… once you live that way, it’s hard to go back.

    We really need to build more walkable areas, but it’s difficult for a lot of (mostly-nonsensical) reasons.

    The only thing to keep in mind, however, is that the math changes significantly when you remove cars from the equation. Our rent is higher than somewhere less walkable, but it’s also roughly equivalent to the full price of owning two cars. So comparatively, we save a bunch of money despite higher rent.


  • The two are closely connected.

    You can’t really build affordable and convenient car-dependent style housing (think single-family suburbs) for everyone because they take too much space. So you’ll always end up with the situation where well-located houses are outrageously expensive and you get cheaper by buying something much further out. Essentially people are willing to pay a premium to no have to drive for a long time to get anywhere.

    The only reason why conveniently-located suburbs were ever affordable (think 50s or 60s) is because most people back then didn’t have a car yet, so the demand wasn’t saturated.




  • “I wish I could work at home tidying up the house for no salary and have no income of my own!”

    As a fun aside: both my wife and I would both love to do this! Unfortunately it’s just too tough financially in the modern world, so it’s never a really serious discussion.

    Plus we would have to flip a coin or something to decide who has to be the breadwinner.

    We don’t really have a relationship that revolves around power-roles though, so it’s a bit of a different discussion.


  • At least europe it has kind of switched to the opposite in recent years.

    I did a doctorate in physics and women had a much easier time finding PhD/post-doc positions because there is just much more funding available.

    Most groups in my institution were majority women.

    Professorships are still nearly all men, but that’s largely down to the sexism of the previous generations (back in the 60s-90s when they got their positions). This will slowly shift in the coming decades.