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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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Knowing where to swim is easy in Australia.

You go to a beach patrolled by our awesome Surf Life Savers. Think like Baywatch, but they are real.

The life savers put flags out in the safest area, and they keep an active watch in the area. You swim between the flags.

No flags, no swim. Simples.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

i never been to australia. For me as a good swimmer even as a kid the flags at the balticbsea cost meant nothing. my sports club would regularly go for a camp at the balticbsea and the stronger the waves the more fun we kids had. With such a background that the flags are just a hint for old and unsporty people, it is easy to underestimate the ocean.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A lot of people who don't grow up here don't know this though. I used to go on trips to the beach with my international student friends and they had no idea what those flags are and why you should swim between them.