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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • Nuremberg ist quite a nice location and offers nice scenery, beautiful nature and also some international flair due to its university.

    However, it is located in Bavaria and that is, at least for me, a total show-stopper. Federal politics and politicians are pretty right-oriented and conservative. The local party, the CSU, is corrupt, incompetent while staying cocky and so are many people in Bavaria. Germany (i.e. the taxpayers) just got handed a 220 million Euro debacle because the former Minister of Transport, Andreas Scheuer, wanted to enact an illegal law and signed contracts beforehand - despite severe warnings. This is not a solitary incident, it’s the party’s modus operandi. Despite all the failures in the past, the party gets the vast majority of votes in every elections - which speaks volumes about the local population.

    It might not be tangible if you stay for a short time and spent most of your time at work. But if you stay longer and are exposed to politics and peoples’ general attitude, it might be different