Even if it was true, would that in the case of NL indicate anything in regards to its taxes-welfare state?
I thought it was a widely held "fact" that the NL is overcrowded and that dutchmen should try to find their lebensraum elsewhere.
I thought it was a widely held "fact" that the NL is overcrowded and that dutchmen should try to find their lebensraum elsewhere.
It's a pity though, cause the metaphorical meaning of living "room" is precisely what I meant.
Sometimes bordering on (self-) censorship. So that caution is not necessarily a good thing.
I agree that one should be careful when using emotionally charged words, but I also think that playful usage might be a way out of the self-censorship that surrounds a great many dreadful historical events. Not just in Germany.
It's easy to imagine the Netherlands having the same problem. Of course, emigrating to a less dense country is an easier solution.
Modern Germany is dense, yes. But guess what: People are migrating en masse from states like Saxony-Anhalt (118 inhabitants/km²) to Baden-Württemberg (301 inhabitants/km²).
[1] In quotation marks, because there was no state called Germany back then.