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What's a skill that's taken for granted where you live, but is often missing in people moving there from abroad? (kyu.de)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I was thinking about that when I was dropping my 6 year old off at some hobbies earlier - it's pretty much expected to have learned how to ride a bicycle before starting school, and it massively expands the area you can go to by yourself. When she went to school by bicycle she can easily make a detour via a shop to spend some pocket money before coming home, while by foot that'd be rather time consuming.

Quite a lot of friends from outside of Europe either can't ride a bicycle, or were learning it as adult after moving here, though.

edit: the high number of replies mentioning "swimming" made me realize that I had that filed as a basic skill pretty much everybody has - probably due to swimming lessons being a mandatory part of school education here.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same in the US. Most schools do not have their own pool and swimming is not a required skill. Tons of people don't know how to swim here.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Many schools in Germany also do not have their own pools. You will be transported on a bus to the closest one.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is schools with their own pool? Heck, half the inner city schools dont have a proper gym hall and use public ones.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think one of the schools close to mine actually had their own pool for some reason. We always went there.