I'm a simple emigrant, and it's tearing me away from the local service

If your main problem is that waiters don’t smile, while social-services workers or people in budget sectors spend most of their time with a frown, then you still don’t understand how wonderful everything is. When I lived in Russia, I thought about it roughly the same. But after moving to Germany I understood what bad service really means. And this isn’t even about the fact that waiters or store clerks treat customers as if they were uninvited relatives three generations removed who came to a closed party. I've had no internet at home for five days. Some global glitch on the provider’s side happened and now in some parts of Frankfurt there’s no network. Can you imagine that? It turns out there’s a problem, people are suffering (and I’m not talking about not being able to watch Netflix, but about the fact that most people are still working from home and can’t work this way), and they work at a leisurely pace exclusively during business hours, of course. For me, as someone used to deadlines “yesterday,” and simply to the idea that work must be done, it’s perfectly normal to work in my own spare time or until 5 a.m., for example, and only then go to sleep with a clear mind (or continue with other tasks). And to imagine such relaxed service for such money, I couldn’t have before. My friends surely immediately thought of two ideas: go work somewhere with public Wi‑Fi or set up a hotspot on their phone. Let me answer right away. Here they haven’t yet heard that cafes and restaurants can offer free Wi‑Fi to customers, and I won’t even mention city networks. As for the second: for 10 euros a month you get 2 GB of mobile internet. So about a day and a half of active use and that’s it. Beyond that, speeds are enough to send text messages in messengers and occasionally VK, and about a minute and a half to upload each picture. It’s good that we run our blog on Telegram, Instagram, for example—an unaffordable luxury. Do you think tomorrow the internet will appear in our IT and banking city? #frankfurt