You know you've been living in (Freiburg) Germany when:

• You find yourself standing at a completely deserted intersection waiting for the green man. (And you've walked 200m out of your way to get there)
• You travel to the UK and almost get killed by the traffic because they're driving on the left!
• You travel over a few hundred kilometres on the train with four or five (or 8!) connections and are not surprised when you arrive on schedule.
• You are used to traveling "in" the bus, tram or train as opposed to "on" it (after all - who travels on the roof!).
• You get to the bus stop one minute before schedule only to see the tail-lights fading into the distance.
• You are equally alert to the dangers of being hit by a bike or tram as a car.
• You shock people just by telling them you don't own a bike.
  
• You are aware of the "fluidity" of bicycle ownership.
  
• You regularly eat the local specialities: Türkish döner kebap and Italian ice-cream.
• You never throw a bottle away but instead keep it in your bag/pocket/room until you take it back for "Pfand" up to six months later.
• You shop for groceries at about three or four different supermarkets because of their subtle price and range differences.
• You know everything about the local beers - where they're brewed, which is best, etc - and would never consider drinking a beer from another part of the country (let alone an import!!).
• You find that you putting the verb at the end of each clause in English keep.
• You have the desire to put multiple nouns together as one word in order to achieve a germannounconstructionsimilarity.
• Talking about national pride won't make you any friends at parties but talking about the success of the national football team will.
• And on that note, you know that football involves 11 men and a round ball, and that, while Germany has the best football team in the world England and Holland have the worst (Australia is pretty ok!).
  
• You don't even notice that you are regularly inside beautiful buildings, hundreds of years old, that were destroyed in war(s) only to be rebuilt in their original style.
• You are not surprised by the lack of skyscrapers in the cities.
• You are surprised and somewhat shocked when customer service staff or waiters are friendly to you.
• You start to think that Australia's entire area is filled with poisonous snakes and spiders.
• You've seen heaps of Europe but not much of Germany.
• You're used to seeing dogs everywhere - on the streets, in trains, trams and buses etc. - bare are surprised when you hear a dog bark.
• You know that beer, sausages and sour kraut are not just German stereotypes.
• You are used to travelling anyway within 50km of home on a fabulous public transport system for free!! (Well you paid 63€ per semester for the privilege)
• You don't notice anymore that although you've never touched a cigarette, your clothes constantly reek of smoke.
• You take it for granted that in bars you get table service!
• You are used to the question: "you're from Australia! Why on earth would you want to come here?"
• You know that Bavaria is not Germany and you can't speak Bavarian anyway.