Hi and I will let Joy know that he is the cutest...well he knows it already, I tell him every other second 😄😍...they all are.
Your family story is quite interesting and to bad you couldn't reunite with this side of the family.
I gather that even after Germany was reunited it wasn't all roses for those in the East, as we were led to believe over in England.
True and still to this day Germany is not really united. The trenches are still there and it may take another generation to overcome them. A lot went wrong after the wall came down and I think besides bleeding the jobs it is the psychological issue that is totally underestimated and forgotten. Loosing everything you know from one day to another without a supportive net was devastating for many. Also the devaluation by many on the other side, to this day.
It sounds like it will take generations for Germany to equalise.
My sister has a friend from East Germany who worked with her in England for a while. It was from her that we learnt just how hard it was (the suicides and all) and how much the companies in the West abused the situation for their own gain.
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Oh yeah...they were literally bleeding the east. Pretty much every company was closed or privatized, meaning they left for cheaper production places or hired from other countries. To this day if you do a job in the "west" and the same in the "east" you earn less working in the east. That's why the population shrunk to a minimum because everybody left to find a better paid job or a job period. Me included after high school. There are some cities that are rising within the last years, but only 3. Berlin, Leipzig and Dresden. The rest of the east became a deserted place.
I think I should start a little series about that topic, but I don't have a lot of pics anymore.
I second a series, even if you don't have many pics. Are you able to travel much at the moment. It would be interesting even to see pics of what it's still like today in places.
Good morning, I'm not able to travel and haven't been in my hometown in years. I may ask my parents if they have some and I'm sure I will find the one or the other in the www. I just know that my hometown is def not the same. The part of the city I grew up in, was built in the 80s and I remember the construction site. 20000+ people lived there and with the beginning of 2000 they tore almost everything down. So nothing from my childhood is there anymore. It is kinda like with Detroit lol, not as bad of course but same story. Our city even lost the status of a big city due to the shrinking of the population.
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