A comparison of a perfectly adequate lock for parking a bicycle in Tokyo, Japan (right) with a barely adequate lock for doing the same in Bremen, Germany (left):
This is the kind of comparison that is difficult to pick up in GDP statistics.
When I relocated from Berlin to Tokyo, I coincidentally brought exactly the model on the left. It took me more than a year to reassure myself that I can get away with a lock weighing almost two kilos less over here.
When I relocated from Berlin to Tokyo, I coincidentally brought exactly the model on the left. It took me more than a year to reassure myself that I can get away with a lock weighing almost two kilos less over here.
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