Whenever they hear you speak with an accent, they ask where you're from. And when you say Germany, they talk about having ancestors there. So they are really very open to foreign people. That's something we are not used to in Germany. The work atmosphere is different, too.
People call each other by their first name.
That's pretty much a no-no in Germany. It's a lot more formal there, and that was something I had to get used to. Now it's harder for me to go back to Germany and be formal with people. When you have a project, and you come to a point where you disagree about things, I always say right away what I think about it and why I think my opinion is the correct one. I think it should be like this.