You can usually follow their conversations when you hear them in public. Of course some people are even louder, like Balkanians or Italians, but I don’t understand them.

I burned everything. Created autostart menus, info files. Never touched it again until last month. I chucked it all out. Latest one labeled 2007.

Never been to the US but I’ve worked with software where tax had to be set up per country. The US was something else. It’s different per state, area, city. Weird taxes like “we’re gonna build a new stadium tax”. I really wonder how people work with that in real life. Do you go to the register, have it scanned and then decide if the price is worth it?

It’s been the short name since 1992 but the English speaking world didn’t really pick it up until the government started pushing for English speakers to finally use it in official documents

If you hear, let’s say, Somalia, normally people would know it’s roughly somewhere east in Africa, Uruguay somewhere in South America etc.

I’ve traveled a lot and only from Americans I’ve heard them say about countries they’ve “never heard of it”. When I say I’m in Czechia, they just call it Chechnya, when I say I’m Dutch they love to mix that up with Denmark for some reason, etc.

Their excuse is always the same too: their school sucks. Dude, we didn’t learn this stuff in school neither. It’s common interest about the world around you, watching the news, etc. Half the countries you “don’t know” were bombed by you.

Yeah we don’t really do school cafeterias. You bring your own food. My middle school did sell some greasy snacks like sausage in a bun but you won’t see a decent lunch being sold

I thought it was EU law but apparently it depends on the country. It’s 3000 in Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal and other countries have other limits. But it’s not surprising this is not a thing in Germany, they really try to push for cash

There’s not a lot of places accepting those currencies. Either take a European currency or US$.

But better to not take cash at all, especially that much. You have to declare it etc. Just pay by card and use ATMs if you really need cash.

It’s illegal to buy anything in cash over 3000 euros

They’re very uncommon. I once got paid cash for fruit picking in France. It was the first and only time I carried 200 euro notes. No shop accepts them. ATMs give out 50 euro notes max.