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    Einfache Erklärung, was Deutsch ist!

    Ordnung ist die halbe Miete.

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    1. DarkeysWorld on

      Well you have to stop somewhere otherwise you are cleaning the whole streets sidewalk.
      So why not stop where im supposed to?

      Doesnt feel german to me. Feels more like logic

    2. Keppi1988 on

      Haha call me German but I don’t see what the issue here is. 🤷‍♂️😅 they cleaned the snow in front of their property which is what they have to do. The other side must do the same and everything will be cleaned up.

    3. emu_fake on

      So how many extra meters would you do in both directions to not be considered „german“?
      1 house? 2 houses? Whole block? None?

    4. SeaAerie1851 on

      I don’t get it. All I see are people who are not fulfilling their obligations.

    6. MagYkHeap on

      So should they clean the whole neighbour hood or what you expect from these people? Not German just logic as you only have to clean in front of your house not in front of others.

    7. ryl0p3z on

      Been living in Germany for 5 years now and it makes sense to me. You can be nice an help out an elderly neighbour if they aren’t able of course we see this a lot but at some point it’s not your job to clear the whole street.

      Why don’t we start taking everybody’s rubbish out for them whilst we are at it?

    8. the-real-shim-slady on

      In other countries they wouldn’t bother at all, is that what you mean?

    9. Pretty_Trainer on

      You see exactly the same in Canada. Even people clearing only their half of a staircase.

    10. JohnPoet27 on

      Do you expect them to clean the whole sidewalk?! They are not municipal workers. This is common sense.

    11. yes_yes_yes_no_no on

      I swear to god, if you do the part of your neighbour as well just because you want to be kind and loving and giving and what not, he will get pissed.

    12. MarkHafer on

      Or compare that to the netherlands, where they just don’t clear the sidewalks at all.

    13. KeepinItCleanYall on

      Not sure about the Germaness of this but I know it’s not American because the extra snow would be piled up in front of the neighbor(s) people didn’t like.

    14. Repulsive_Fox9018 on

      In Canada, I once shared a tiny front yard with my neighbour between our driveways. Each half was literally four mower swipes, three minutes tops. It literally took longer to bring the mower to that patch than it did to mow it. While I was there, of course I invested three more minutes to do their side to, because why not? Maybe the neighbour would return the gesture, but that was just a curiosity, not an ulterior motive.

      That neighbour FREAKED OUT on me every time, accusing me of shaming and calling him out for not mowing his side first. He even complained about it to a cop that lived in the neighbourhood. And he NEVER did my side if he did get out there first.

      I never stopped doing it, because the dude really needed to learn to chill out. Sadly, he moved out three months later before WWIII could break out.

    15. Much-Jackfruit2599 on

      The people who complain about others not going the extra meter to clean their non-elderly/disabled/absent neightbours are those who put their dirty dishes at into the sink, expecting the early shift to do them.

      Same with roommates.

    16. princess_cloudberry on

      My neighbour has plowed my sidewalk before. Lots of Germans are thoughtful and communal.

    19. minus_uu_ee on

      The problem is that if you clean the neighbor’s sidewalk, they take it as an insult more often than not.

    20. Mr_Memchiker on

      I’m absolutely on the side of people saying «I’m not german, this is just common sence», but something inside of me still adds the thickest comical german accent to «Do you exzpect zem to clean ze whole neiborhood?»

    21. Additional_Net3345 on

      This isn’t German specific at all. This is what residents do in snow. They shovel their walk.

    22. satmun on

      I think if you own the house its legally required to clear the front and spray the salt. Also logical so that people don’t slip.

    23. Acceptable-Extent-94 on

      Our neighbours are away only their old dad is home so we cleared their path and street front. That’s also German.

    24. chrissme92 on

      What do you mean though?! A house owner’s obligation is to make sure the sidewalk in front of their property is cleared and safe. Do you expect this person to continue cleaning the neighbours sidewalk? If they did, would you expect them to do the other neighbours too? Because you always have to stop at an arbitrary line. Do you expect them to clear the entire street’s sidewalk?

    25. Plastic_Feeling_5073 on

      I live in a very small street that basically just connects two other streets. There are two houses on the sidewalk. We have this unwritten „rule“ that whoever starts cleaning their sidewalk also cleans the other one. So sometimes they don’t need to do anything and the other times I don’t. I think the limit of this courtesy would be at max 3 houses in the street, everything after that I would just clean my sidewalk

    26. Haunting-Stranger-14 on

      If you not befriended with your neighbour or they are old. You stop at your property.

    28. DeathRobotOfDoom on

      If you mean cleaning or removing snow from the sidewalk or driveway, that’s just the law. You can get in trouble if somebody slips and hurts themselves in front of your property. Whether a thick layer of snow is better than a thin layer of ice… that’s a different matter.

      If you mean they stopped right at the property line, what did you expect? Do you also mow your able-bodied neighbor’s lawn, clean their windows and take out their garbage?

    29. SatisfactionEven508 on

      „If everyone takes care of themselves, everyone is taken care of.“

    30. Fantastic_Peanut_764 on

      well, I’m the first to agree that Germans tend to be overly bureaucratic and squared within processes, and many times non-sense rule-based thinking.

      however, this post here makes no sense either. What would you expect? That the person from left house would clean the pavement of right house? I mean, it’s just logic and fair, isn’t?

    31. nonchip on

      nonsense. that’s got nothing to do with orderliness and everything with me being legally obligated to clean that much at 5AM in -5 degrees when it’s dark out before then fighting my frozen car for half an hour and be shouted at by the boss for being 5mins late, then work until it’s dark out again, so *that is exactly how much i’mma clean*.

    32. Cuxtercall on

      Question: if I clean the sidewalk in front of my neighbour’s house and somehow it becomes slippery afterwards since I didnt use salt or sand and wouldn’t be as slippery if the snow would still be there. If someone slips now, is it my fault or my neighbour’s?

    33. Unregistered38 on

      This is also how it is in canada unless you have a very good relationship with your neighbours 

    35. HerrFerret on

      A friend visited us in small town Germany and his daughter’s bike dropped a speck of oil on the street.

      Panic immediately set in, and I rushed inside for detergent and when I came out some elderly gentlemen were clustered around pointing and going ‚ol?‘. Ol? Ol! ol?

      They then supervised the application of the detergent and the subsequent wipe.

    38. FoxTrooperson on

      It would be even more German, if you get a surveyor to show you the exact location of your boarder and only sweep to this exact spot.

      Guess what, I’m a surveyor and I have done this several times.

    42. BlackyJ21 on

      I haven’t factchecked this but I heard from a friend that his dad was about to get sued by his neighbor because he cleaned it and did not salt it afterwards and they said he was trying to hurt them by making the ground in front of their house slippery.

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