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“Stadtliche luft macht man frei” is an old German saying. City air makes you free. Life in a small town can be stifling. That close-knit family wants you to be just like them. God forbid you want to do or see anything new. The moving-to-a-big-city trope is as old as cinema, and has strong roots in reality.
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I agree with the sentiment, but Germans have a horrible track record on what makes you free.
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Came here to try to make this joke. You did better than I could have, I was trying to create a Germanic folk hero named Arvid McFry
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The prefix “Mc” or “Mac” is Celtic anyway, not Germanic, so you failed in that sense too.