Well well well, if it isn’t the RE1 to Magdeburg stopping at Berlin Alexanderplatz.

The rural town where I grew up had passenger trains for 120 years but they were discontinued in the 90ies. My mother likes to say “when I was a kid we took the train to visit my uncle”. But now getting in or out of there requires a car.

So I had to move in a city for the “privilege” of having barely acceptable transit by European standards. And it still feels weird to take a train multiple times a week when some of my friends and family never did in their entire life.

God I wish that were me

I know I’ve made it because I don’t even have to leave my house.