How Primility Helped Me Stop Worrying and Relax Into a Crazy New Culture

Well, it’s not a rumor …

Sure, they don’t cut the whole thing with a nail scissor. Just the edges. (90 degrees had to be 90 degrees.) I’ve even seen a couple of people using a bubble level to give their hedge its last perfect touch.

As an open-minded person who visited different cities, countries, and cultures on this planet, growing up and living in this stuffy German village with 3,000 inhabitants was my personal purgatory.

Everything is organized, efficient, and clean. Everybody is hard-working and always just-in-time.

Every house, every garden, and every street is so clean and perfect that sometimes you start wondering if you are in a Disney World Resort. (Note: If you see Mickey Mouse somewhere walking around, you might have a big problem.)

And when you grow up under these special conditions, living abroad in a totally different culture can be quite a challenge.

Because no matter how much you disagree with your home country’s philosophy — like I did — it is still part of your soul.

You grew up with special behaviors and typical habits, and there’s no way to hide it.

I decided very early on to leave my home country to look for a place where people care about life and each other, instead of showing their neighbors how accurate the garden is. Or how clean their car is.

I found that place ten years ago in the Canary Islands.

My first exciting thought after leaving Gran Canaria’s airport to drive to my new home was “Wow, potholes on the highway.”

I was even excited about the bunch of unsorted electricity cables hanging outside houses like psychopathic vines capturing their victims.

That was the moment when I realized that I had reached a destination far away from my comfort zone.

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