Aldona left the following comment on my post “Would I go there?”

… I did see a huge difference between the two sides. A HUGE difference! I also found that the teachers from the East were more interested in their pupils than the West. In the West you became a teacher so you could become a Beamte, and then you had it ‘made in the shade’.

It reminded me of this very interesting interview I saw on the television a few weeks back. Maybe I only liked it cause I agreed with it but to me it seemed like a very well balanced perspective on the differences between life in “the East” and life in “the West” as well as the losses and gains of an “East-German” family.