Born in Germany to a Hessian mother, lived there twice for a total of 11 years. Left just before the wall came down (wish I had stayed at least for that). In m

Born in Germany to a Hessian mother, lived there twice for a total of 11 years. Left just before the wall came down (wish I had stayed at least for that). In my experience, Germans have a strong debt aversion. Even the young did. My mom's friends would buy new cars by reaching into their purses and pulling out stacks of bills and counting them out in total. It never seemed anything other than weird to me. "The slowest things to change are habits of thinking."