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That must've been quite some time ago.

With multiple areas with >50% migrants you can count yourself lucky if ppl even speak German fluently enough to hold a conversation.

And the last holdouts that are still mostly natives are usually in the countryside... And the du/Sie rule has always been an urban convention.

Personally, I think your friend just noticed the phrasing and made an issue out of nothing



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