Subj : Re: Hola
To   : The Godfather
From : Adept
Date : Sun Apr 16 2023 13:21:03

 TG> No they are pets for the kids and free eggs for us :)  With eggs costing
 TG> $4.99 each egg these days (kidding not that high) it is a nice bonus to
 TG> have free "backyard fresh" eggs.  It's been a fun learning experience

Nifty!

Kinda similarly, I know someone who's basically vegan, and doesn't eat eggs, but will eat eggs from the backyard chickens because they know how the chickens are treated, that they won't be slaughtered because they're not quite productive enough, etc.

But it's also just kinda neat because it's _not_ uniform, and sometimes people end up changing egg-eating habits due to the egg-laying habits of the pets.

 TG> for sure. While other neighbors in our "hood" also have chickens, all it
 TG> takes is one change in our HOA bylaws, so the eggs have also been a
 TG> handy bribe to keep the neighborly peace.

Ugh, HOAs. But... probably best to not dive into that particular challenge, here. Not that I've ever even had to deal with an HOA.

 TG> I'd definitely find that to be very challenging.  I'd find it lonely if
 TG> I were extroverted while maybe rather awesome if an introvert able to
 TG> simply say "sorry I don't speak German" all of the time ;)  When at

Eh, pretty much everyone speaks English anyway. Yeah, different levels, but especially in certain areas, people will wind up speaking to you in English if your German isn't great.

Less so where I live, mostly because people don't generally use it on a daily basis. But pretty much everyone under 55 or so has had maybe a decade of English instruction.

 TG> work, are you around mostly english speaking coworkers and bosses? 

Yeah. My team is international, in a variety of ways, and theoretically people are supposed to speak English, even if it's all Germans.

But with my immediate team in particular, a few people are US-based, and the team as a whole is probably only a third or quarter German.

The _rest_ of the office is mostly German, though.

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