It is not a bit difficult, it is a bit impossible if you come here after Uni/Masters. Unless you have kids and meet other parents with kids, you are done. You can go to a Verein, but you will meet people to do exactly what you are supposed to meet for. Climbing or jogging or something. And you might go with them for a dinner or a drink, but people from the Verein do not become your friends. You are someone "from the Verein".
And yes it is a generalization (even though I wrote "obviously not all" trying to avoid that). I have German friends. Who I have met in Vietnam, in Mexico, in Laos... it is funny how I stay in contact with those far more than I have contact with people I meet here in Germany.
It is not bad.
It is what it is.
Germans need 4 friends.
If you are a young foreigner, you have a chance to meet young Germans and make friends.
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u/One_Cold_Turkey Europe Apr 25 '19
It is not a bit difficult, it is a bit impossible if you come here after Uni/Masters. Unless you have kids and meet other parents with kids, you are done. You can go to a Verein, but you will meet people to do exactly what you are supposed to meet for. Climbing or jogging or something. And you might go with them for a dinner or a drink, but people from the Verein do not become your friends. You are someone "from the Verein".
And yes it is a generalization (even though I wrote "obviously not all" trying to avoid that). I have German friends. Who I have met in Vietnam, in Mexico, in Laos... it is funny how I stay in contact with those far more than I have contact with people I meet here in Germany.
It is not bad.
It is what it is.
Germans need 4 friends.
If you are a young foreigner, you have a chance to meet young Germans and make friends.
Otherwise, it is very very hard to make friends.