Emma Brooke moved from Berlin to New York City in 2022 after working throughout Europe and Japan. After a decade of working all over Europe and in Japan, I moved my job to New York City from Berlin in 2022. But in some ways, the differences have been just as hard to navigate as when I moved to Tokyo. Here are some of the biggest culture shocks I've encountered and how I survived them. Work-life balanceEurope's work culture is the stuff of legend — 30 days of vacation, two-hour lunches, and no emails after 5 p.m.

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