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Like they don't mind the smells and all and they obviously get their work clothes dirty, which is something that would be difficult for someone with OCD, but it has to be done after all. What you describe though just isn't normal at all and why are they letting a kid pee on the floor. Poor kid

No worries I don’t find your message rude at all.

And I wonder where you live? Like is it a national-cultural thing as well I’m wondering too.

So in Germany because the country is much smaller than the US all the farms are near each other (as opposed to Ohio where I’m from where the farms are very specious). So most of our neighbors are farmers as well. And a few farms here are very clean and organized but there are two that are horrendous, even my in-laws farm is not that bad. And it makes me think if they treat their farm like that then I wonder how their homes must look like. One farmer’s farm smells so bad that it stinks up his entire street (like we live far enough away that it doesn’t affect us but when I walk past it it’s awful). I avoid walking there now. He has a pile of literal sh** right in front of his house I’m not exaggerating it’s a hill of literal sh**. It’s so bad that even his wife left him. The other farmer has junk everywhere and has random animals some of them escape and run onto the street. Not as bad but still crazy. Even my in-laws talk down about these farmers.

The streets here are filthy because of the tractors, my husband says it’s because the farmers are too cheap to put brushes behind their tractors to brush away the dirt. And then the people who walk around with their horses just let their horse sh** in the street and don’t clean it up. This is one reason why I absolutely hate horses now. Horse poop bigger than my head just right there in the middle of the road where people drive their cars and ride their bikes etc.

I hate walking outside I hate it here so much. I just miss living in the suburbs.

And then I’ve noticed there’s SO MUCH litter here as well. I made a post about it before but I’m shocked by how much Germans litter because the stereotype is that Germans/Europeans care about the environment. They also smoke a lot here so there’s cigarette buds all on the ground of the parking lots. Like I literally never want to hear an American complain that America is dirty again. Like maybe it is in poor ghetto areas, sure but not the suburbs we don’t have litter or cigarettes on the ground everywhere. Idk if it’s because we have more ash trays and more trash cans and also I think we have people who do community service who clean up litter on the side of the roads. My husband also looked it up and saw that Germans do smoke a lot more than Americans do… another thing I’m shocked by.

The people here also don’t cut their grass so the grass is just wild and looks really unhinged and dirty. I can go on and on. Also I made a post that some of the homes here are so old that they’re rotting and falling apart. Like I thought this was only a thing in the countryside but no even in a more suburban area the homes are just falling apart. One plays we drives by I couldn’t believe it. Like I know in America there’s really bad areas too which I hate but like the suburban areas are pretty and clean. Like !!! I have so much to say about this.

Nothing has made me appreciate my country so much than moving to another country.

1. They let flies walk on their food. Like it’s one thing to get a fly in your house and whatever that happens but bc they don’t have screens and we live on a farm so there’s more flies than normal - they have flies in their house and they just let the fly walk on their food like… don’t even try to swat them away.

2. My SIL’s husband makes food and lets it sit out overnight. Doesn’t put it in the fridge or anything. With flies in the house mind you. And people have died from leaving their food out too long (recommended time is no more than 2 hours) and eating it because of bacteria. Especially pasta which is what he usually leaves out. How this man hasn’t gotten severally ill idk. A miracle.

3. My SIL just had her daughter naked all the time and her daughter just pees on the floor or ground. And if she uses the potty she doesn’t wash her hands and I’ve seen them just take the pee from the potty and throw it into the trees/bushes like HELLO???

4. Walking in the house with their shoes on. Firstly you shouldn’t walk in the house with your shoes on at all but ESPECIALLY if you live on a farm. And my SIL one time when they were still living with us I had JUST gone to IKEA and bought a new rug and set it down in front of the front door. My SIL that SAME DAY came in and wiped literal HOURSE SH** on my new rug and just left it there. Honestly I’m too nice of a person because I really wished that I would have cussed her out for that. And told her to buy me a new rug bc wtaf? wtf? Am I the crazy one??

5. Another time with the rug situation I was vacuuming it up while I was heavily pregnant and it was EXTREMELY painful. Like I think I passed out after that because of how much energy it took out of me to do that bc I literally had zero core strength and then my SIL’s husband and comes in and dirties up the rug. I was so pissed