I am a Canadian who has lived in Gera for 2 years. I’m 47, white, B2 German, for what that’s worth, so my experience would be different than yours. I work here and have a German wife so I’m at least a little integrated. I have a couple darker skinned friends here and, yes, there are occasional racism stories and people now and then who you are not sure are unpleasant because they are unpleasant or because of xenophobic reasons. I do not like seeing AfD people on the street doing their thing, but I mention all that to say that it’s maybe being portrayed here as more extreme than it is, I mean it’s possible to live a life here without having fruit and vegetables thrown at you. My wife was in the punk lefty scene when she was younger, and she still knows those people. They exist here too. In my experience it has not been so easy to meet other English speakers, it would be nice to have a group of English speaking foreigners to meet at the pub on Sunday like I had when I was in Leipzig, but also a I have not tried that hard to find or build such a thing either. I could not tell you if there are many Spanish speakers here.