Hannover!

OK so I got a good feel for my new home. It is my wifeypoos' hometown and it is beautiful. At first I saw busy streets, a dirty red light district, and a seemingly unfriendly street that should become the center of my street life, according to the love of my life. Then I saw the tree covered paths full of happy families and quiet neighborhoods. I meet friends of wife who have known her before her first breaths. I quickly learned to love my new home, like in a day. Perhaps it was the highly decorated ladies I meet on a walk. They looked like drag queens from afar, yet up close their white paint obviously concealed real ladies. Perhaps it was when they asked to marry me that I finally felt at home. (I said yes!) The graffiti is awesome here. Seems to be a flurry of wheat pasting right now. Not much in the way of installations so, I am inspired to make great new guerrilla art with a new friend I have met. Already planning some fun things. Keep you posted! Well perhaps it was when there was a food fight on a bridge between to 'hoods that I decided this town was cooler than I first thought. I left Portland, which is the coolest (debatable) town in the States, so I need fun things to do dammit!
I have found some things here pretty interesting, like how cheap organic food is. Really, how inexpensive everything is. Really good beer is a euro a bottle, pot is cheaper, and baby stuff is more affordable. Rent is, after Hawai'i, laughably cheap. That's right, Europe has a better cost to standard of living ratio. All taxes are included. Food and books at 7%, other goods at 19%. Even with a 19% tax stuff, like good bikes, is still cheaper than the states. Suck it, free market nazis.
I also joined a garden group. There are these gardens dating from ww2. individuals rent them for like 40 euros a month. the size is bigger than the average american yard. It is like a neighborhood of little hobbit cabins and gardens. I am excited to get my hands dirty and malama me some aina. I am even more excited to learn the strange heirloom varieties here. Not to mention being able to get timber from Europe's largest urban forest for my firepit. bbq on sundays!