I'm German and I work in Silicon Valley and we get plenty of visitors from the German legislature. One of them always tends to ask me about what it would "to ge

I'm German and I work in Silicon Valley and we get plenty of visitors from the German legislature. One of them always tends to ask me about what it would "to get people like me to come back to Germany". I usually just tell them my approximate salary and ask them if I could earn even half of that as an Engineer in Germany. Usually I don't get an answer. Other things I often hear: - "They probably monitor how often you go to the arcade!" (usually followed about how they were in the opposition in the former East) - "So who usually tells you what to do?" (they don't get self organizing teams or lack of hierarchies) - "So how many hours a week do you usually work?" (they vastly over-estimate that) - "This is all nice, but they just want to stay at work longer!" (after I told them my usual hours) They are all reasonably nice people, but it's somewhat demotivating to see who actually runs Germany and how little they understand about other parts of the world. Maybe the visits help.