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I came back from Germany in April. Infrastructure (trains, roads, airports) are wonderful, compare that with crawling slow internet.

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I can assure you that trains are as bad as Internet.

And I can assure you that the trains are much much better than in other parts of the world (eg: India). In India, trains running on time are an exception, not the rule. At least all the German trains that I've been on were on time to the very minute.

In Cologne, I have never seen light rail arrive on time, and I've used it daily for two years.

I take the train in a big German city every day. If my train were to arrive on time one day, I would share that information with all my friends as something more than exceptional. This never happens. I can't wait till i've saved enough to buy a car and stop using the trains and subway.

Take a train in America and then you will think the trains in Germany are absolutely beautiful.

Take a train in Japan and you will weep because no matter what country you are from, your trains suck in comparison.

I don't understand this German cliché, it's not insanely great but the amount of delays is the same as in France with better internet, cleaner toilets, and a descent price. Internet in Germany is a combination of shitty contracts, slow speeds, and deceptive ads. That is much worse than a descent service with clear pricings like Deutsche Bahn.

As someone from the UK I'd love to have trains like the ones in Germany.

I live a 40 minute drive from London but it costs £45 for a day ticket on decades old, cramped trains.

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