Okay, I hereby renounce any claim to not being "spießig" (roughly "square" or "bourgeois," but in a specific German way that I recently described here).
Why? Because this week I went out and bought hedge-type plants specifically for the purpose of creating a visual barrier between my balcony and the next one over. Seems fair enough, really, to want my balcony to be an extension of my apartment in the sense that it's a place where I can be alone and not have to make conversation with anyone unless I want to...but as a (German) friend of a friend helpfully commented, "I thought only spießig Germans did that." Well!
The balconies, before:
The hedges arrive home! By bike, of course.
The balconies, after. Yay! Now neighbors on both sides have privacy and nice plants to look at. Win-win.
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