Time is enlarging in here. Time is never short. No traffic, no busy roads either with people nor any vehicles. Life is to live for me. Is not it funny? It does not feel like you live your life in a very metropolitan city. It feels like you always have to rush and should never run out of excuses.
Lateness becomes the routine… A very stressful routine that makes relationships, meetings and socialising less bearable.
Remember the clichee, Germans are punctual. The reason is their roads are open, their trains, trams, and buses are mostly on time, the system is working like clock. You can only be late if you fall asleep. Is it the same in many other countries? Only in some nordic and anglo-saxon cities, but definitely not in central/eastern/southern Europe, or Asia where the population grows faster than the corn.
Things are mostly late in London/Istanbul (and probably other cities that I have not been to such as Mumbai, New York, and Tokyo?) Just guessing. But not the same in most German cities, and most certainly Hamburg. Hamburg has great city planning and great engineers. Here you do not get stressed over being late unless things haven’t been in your favour that day. As you can see, this gives me so much comfort. I’m tired of crowded and lamely engineered city roads/railways. Even in London I would say the same for the railways. If you would like to get from North London to North East London, you cannot take a train straight to the east: You have to go back down, then up and right again. So much loss of time and patience. And you are very likely to be late even if your calculations assumed you were to be there a little earlier.
Let me stop digging further on transportation. I just wanted to describe my peace in this cleverly engineered city. I feel good to be on time, without thinking of all the consequences any more.
I think that makes a chapter on its own, so let me leave it here.
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