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What's a skill that's taken for granted where you live, but is often missing in people moving there from abroad? (kyu.de)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I was thinking about that when I was dropping my 6 year old off at some hobbies earlier - it's pretty much expected to have learned how to ride a bicycle before starting school, and it massively expands the area you can go to by yourself. When she went to school by bicycle she can easily make a detour via a shop to spend some pocket money before coming home, while by foot that'd be rather time consuming.

Quite a lot of friends from outside of Europe either can't ride a bicycle, or were learning it as adult after moving here, though.

edit: the high number of replies mentioning "swimming" made me realize that I had that filed as a basic skill pretty much everybody has - probably due to swimming lessons being a mandatory part of school education here.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (17 children)

I'm Danish. Opening beer with a lighter or other things that aren't technically a bottle opener.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What if you do it wrong and you make the lighter explode, taking a finger with it

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Why would it explode?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Cigarette lighters don't explode that violently if they're punctured. The greatest hazard would probably be getting plastic in your eye. If you do it wrong the lighter usually just gets scratched.

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