The podcast series EASY GERMAN had an episode on February 14, 2023, that featured discussion of American shower heads (almost always fixed above head level) versus European ones (usually detached and on a hose). Find it here:
https://www.easygerman.org/podcast/episodes/361
This reminded me of something I was reading recently. Christa Wolf (Wiki here, 1929-2011) was an East German novelist and essayist. In 1992-93, she was awarded a fellowship at the Los Angeles Getty Center, with an apartment in Santa Monica. She memorialized her year in California in 2010 in the book Stadt der Engel oder The Overcoat of Dr. Freud (2010). Its translation in 2013 (City of Angels) was widely reviewed (NYT, New Yorker, etc.
From Day 1, she hated the shower.
"I climbed into the shower, whose head, unlike in Europe, was attached to the wall, so that "special techniques" were necessary to reach my whole body."
In different words, exactly the same point as made by the Easy German podcasters during their visit to the US.
https://bqwebpage.blogspot.com/2023/02/european-and-us-shower-technology.html
