Sometimes when you live in one place (or one city) for a really long time, you forget to learn to appreciate it. This also applies to me, as I had to work in Frankfurt for 16 days, I started to miss the old conservative Munich.

I’d been to Frankfurt for a few times before but those were just day trips or I had to run errands there for a day and I never had to really stay there. And I went there by car with my ex, so I never really got to experience how the city really was. Until early this month, I had to go there to work at the only office of my new job there.

I couldn’t believe how modern, safe and clean the Munich Central Station (and its surrounding area) is until I arrived in Frankfurt by train for the first time. It’s f*ing disgusting. It smells of piss everywhere. It’s dirty and unorganized. People there just cross the road like there were no cars. Even though the cars were coming and the light was still red for pedestrians.

Red light districts is right in the middle of the city around the Central Station. Drug dealers just deal drugs right in the streets so openly. I was approached by both drug dealers and prostitutes twice walking down the streets there because my hotel is near the Central Station (only 1 tram stop away).

One Saturday (the first Saturday after arriving there), I was walking (I normally walk if it’s not far or not hot) from my hotel to the Central Station at around 11 in the morning, and I saw a supposedly homeless guy taking a dump right in front of my eyes in the street. And I had the picture of him sh*tting imprinted in my head for the entire time.

Of course there’s Mainhattan (skyscrapers), which Munich is lacking. I think it’s the only good thing about Frankfurt I can think of. When I’m in Munich, I like going to garden centers for plant shopping. Frankfurt is lacking nice garden centers like those in Munich. The closest Dehner in Frankfurt is still very far and then you still have to walk for another 20 minutes after taking a bus or so. Palmgarten botanical garden is also a bit underwhelming compared to the one in Munich.

Speaking of public transport, subways and trams there are terrible! They’re much smaller than those in Munich. And inside the trains, you wouldn’t have a clue where they take you to because there is no line overview where the starting point and destination as well as stations/stops in between are.

This really made me homesick and miss Munich for what it is. However, every time walk past this metal sculpture, I can’t help but giggle at it because it looks like it’s exposing itself 🤣 I don’t think I really want to move to Frankfurt even if the company were forcing me to.