I just spent a year in Germany but I had to reconsider my decision to stay …….Germany is a wonderful and beautiful place……if you’re German. You will be expected to adapt to the German ways of life (in addition to learning very fluent German, no small feat) As an American I feel more individualistic, which doesn’t quite fly there……if I don’t feel like sweeping the front of my house on Saturday morning like everyone else I don’t want to be shamed into it……I recently moved to Bansko, Bulgaria ……at least people mind their own damn business……