Comments on Is Seattle Germanic? Or is Germany Seattle-ic?

Seattle is the ultimate "brain drain."

Stretching it Dan.

All of Europe is changing, aging population. Low birth rates. and live/work where ever you please.

And America would love to have some of their so called problems, ie. more benefits for the working class.

Of more interest is why 300,000 French folk live in London. The French hate to pay taxes, some scheme, or ?????

“They don’t want to change anything. Everything is discussed endlessly without ever reaching a solution.”

Sounds just like Seattle...

I'm kind of conflicted about Seattle process. I mean, I'd love it if we could make fucking decisions already, but at the same time, we don't end up with decisions that are highly popular with half the people and despised by the other half. It may be that when we finally do take action, we end up with something with near consensus agreement. On the other hand, I wanted my fucking monorail.

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The young French move to London because they can make way more money there as professionals and the old Brits move to France because their money goes far and the food is way better.

I've worked with a few Germans in my time at the UW, nice people. Wish I knew more of them, but all I see around here are Swedes.

I just read the article and I would have to agree with a lot of the points. The "blockage" seems to be a real problem here. I'm currently a student in a Master's program at a university in Bavaria. After having come from the American university system, everything here feel very bureaucratic.

For instance, as far as I understand the way universities are structured the main focus is on groups headed by professors ("fiefdoms" if you will). These groups are called Lehrstuehle and encompass this professors research as well as whatever classes they choose to teach. It seems like a great idea for research, but what it causes is a very high barrier for entry and stagnation in the research as these same people set the direction for decades. Since each professor usually gets his/her own Lehrstuhl, it also means that there is a very limited number of professors (and therefore research and classes) that can be supported by the university at any one time.

All in all it makes it very hard for new things to come about and frustrating for up and comers to be given a chance.

And I should admit my brother got his BA in Hamburg, Germany, in German Lit, and I took four years of German myself.

The class structure in Germany for education and research does still exist - moving here is a way to free it up.

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