“How have your plans to stay abroad changed after hearing the election results?” Change my life plans because of how the presidential election played out in my country, are you crazy! Well, maybe not… I was recently asked this question by a reporter here in Germany ….I think she was hoping I would say that in deep despair I had decided to change my German residency status to permanent because it would make a good news story. Unfortunately, for her sake, I didn’t. But it did