Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site ecrcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!mcvax!unido!ecrcvax!dave From: dave@ecrcvax.UUCP (David Morton) Newsgroups: net.jobs Subject: Re: International Headhunters Part 2 of 2 Message-ID: <183@ecrcvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 22-Dec-85 12:05:15 EST Article-I.D.: ecrcvax.183 Posted: Sun Dec 22 12:05:15 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 25-Dec-85 03:42:47 EST Organization: ECRC, D-8000 Muenchen 81, W. Germany Lines: 89 Summary: Expires: References: Sender: Reply-To: dave@ecrcvax.UUCP (David Morton) Followup-To: Distribution: net Organization: European Computer-Industry Research Centre, Munchen, W. Germany Keywords: In article tlr@umcp-cs.UUCP (Terry L. Ridder) writes: > >Lord willing, I will be spending a month in Europe doing some consulting >work in January. Good for you - give me a call and we can clear up some of the untruths below. >2. The housing in Europe in general is not like what we Americans are >use to. The houses are smaller, you probably not find a house to rent >at a price you can afford. Therefore, you will have to adapt to apartment >life. This is a very general statement. Prices and size vary according to location. >5. Kitchens are different. Again due to the fact that apartments tend to be >smaller the refrigerator probably will not have a freezing compartment. >Therefore, you will be doing food shopping alot more often than in the USA. But most houses in Germany/Austria have a large cellar and the the freezer is usually placed there. >6. Most apartments in Europe do not have built in closets. The people use >wardrobes. If you find an apartment where closets have been built in, you >will have to 'buy' them from at previous tenant. If you do not the tenant >or the landlord will tear them out. If they are built-in then they were probably built-in by the landlord and constitute a part of the flat. >7. Bedrooms are smaller, king and queen size beds will not fit in them. >(A friend took his king size bed to Germany and the only place it would >fit was the attic. Guess where he slept. That is correct, in the attic.) How big is a king size bed ? Either it was larger than 220*220cm or your friend rented a very small flat. >9. You will not find unleaded gas in Europe, therefore you cannot take >an American car that reguires unleaded gas into Europe. Not true. All stations on all German Autobahnen supply lead free petrol. There are lead-free stations in all German cities. In Austria the situation is even better due to a recent change in the law. >10. Drunk Driving in Germany is a felony. (prison sentence) Wrong again, unless you kill someone. You stand a good chance of loosing your licence and paying an enormous fine (quite rightly so) >11. Spouses have the hardest time adjusting to Europe. The spouse will >need a work permit. If they do not know the native language, they most >likely will not receive one. Wrong yet again (Say why do want to come to Europe at all ?) At the last count we have about 25 non-German nationals working here. Of those about 3 can speak German. The other 22 got a work permit by just filling out the appropriate form. >17. In some European countrys it is illegal to criticize the Government. Name one such country in Western Europe. >18. Will in a European country you are subject to their laws, and you >may not have a freedom of speech. I believe this is also true of foreigners visiting the US. >I hope that this information is of use to some people on the net. Most of this information is useless and created a very false picture of Western Europe. -- Dave Morton Tel. + (49) 89 - 92699 - 139 CSNET: dave%ecrcvax.uucp@germany.csnet UUCP: seismo!mcvax!unido!ecrcvax!dave