Americans have really become desensitized to how good they have it.
During my summer internship in Germany in 2018, I learned that the hard way. If you forgot to buy groceries on Saturday, you were out of luck, everything shut down on Sundays, so you’d go hungry until Monday.
Even during the week, if you left work a little late and missed the 8 p.m. cutoff, every grocery store in town was already closed.
On top of that, the food in the small town where I lived (Saarbrücken) was pretty terrible.
After that experience, I moved to the U.S. for grad school and I was genuinely mind-blown.
The abundance, convenience, and quality of everything felt almost unreal by comparison.