Originally Posted by
Roy
I have heard from a Pole who used to work in various regions and little towns across Germany that is very characteristic for people from this country to mostly marry/get into relationship with people who they grew up with usually from the same small town even if they move to a bigger city to study, find a new job. They just tend to return to their little homeland eventually to start a family. He told me it is one of the cultural differences between Poles and Germans, their very strong association with 'their land, little microregion'.
Also he told me that in some old German little towns people tend to look ... eerily similar to each other. As if 50% guys were the slight variation of the same guy despite them not being even cousins. :D But 50 kms from that place it will be a perceivably different look that gets 'repeated', people will be samey but a different kind of samey. I think it has something to do with the fact that there used to be hundreds of distinct political entities, independent duchies until very late in history.