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Did you really call our recycling system a "foreigner tax"? Oh wow, so next time I'm visiting the US I'll call your tipping system a "foreigner tax" simply because I didn't inform my self before. A bit cheesy, don't you think? Oh and btw: there are so many videos here on YT, from German people and foreigners living here, where you easily could've gotten these information from. Even I as a German notice them popping up in my feed from time to time. Maybe I'm watching too many content in English. Advice: Next time you move to another country, maybe inform/educate yourself. Cheers.

As a German I can definitely recommend taking the bicycle to the grocery store rather than the car. You can park closer to the entrance, often avoid traffic lights, avoid fuel costs and carry the same amount.

scam? More of a first world "problem" ;) I mean, you can walk to your grocery store, buy a few (fresh or processed) things every day, the price including tax (MwSt, VAT) is clearly stated, as is the Pfand, either by the symbol on the bottle or jar, or on the price sign "Mehrweg" next to the product...whereas in the US, unless you live in central NY or some other east coast city, you'd have to drive to the grocery store for 15-30 mins and would buy loads of (mostly processed) things in bulk, and would be "scammed" at the register, as the tax is never indicated in the US...by that logic, you could also call the price tags without tax in the US a "scam" ;)

You can always look at the product and you will see if there is a deposit or how you can recycel it. @ 6:16 you hold the glas into the camera and "Mehrweg" is visable.

5:33 I love how you swipe your finger across the tiny little "Pfand" with a sigh of frustration. while the largest displayed word, clearly states "MEHRWEG". But usually, Pfand-containers have a lable or an icon on them, that very clearly states, that they're Pfand-bottles, also quite common is an icon with some sort of instruction on how you're to dispose of the container, especially with spray-cans that do not belong in the standard-trash (And while we're at it, it pronounced "pfund")

Congrats on passing your driving test :-) Just so there’s no misunderstanding: Germany has full driver’s license reciprocity (only eye test and first aid required for conversion to German license) with 27 US states, partial reciprocity (eye test, first aid, and written test required), with 10 US states plus DC, and no reciprocity (driving lessons, written exam, practical exam, eye test and first aid required) with 12 US states, one of which is NY. A more accurate statement in this video would have been: If you haven’t bothered to check the requirements before moving to Germany and try to convert a NY state license, you will be treated like any new driver. You could have easily obtained a license from any of the full reciprocity states - like my Californian friends did - before moving here. By the way, depending on when you apply for the conversion, a license from any state will take 5-6 months to process because they won’t issue the German license until your US license is no longer valid for driving in Germany (6 months from date of entry).

I do like the resolution of turning "scammed" into "I feel scammed" --- which, I suppose, if you don't know about it (and if you don't know about it you don't exactly look for it either) is fair. -The bottles actually usually have an icon (square with a bottle inside iirc) --- those you can throw away usually have a trashbin on them. Kinda small and again: if you don't know that's something you have to look for you don't look for it.

My guy, the German Pfand system is discussed in every beginning German class. German companies are required by law to issue a receipt, even if customers don't want them (§ 146a Abs. 2 Abgabenordnung (AO). If you didn't want your receipts or didn't pay attention to them, that's on you. I'd also recommend signing up for a pronunciation course if nothing else - I'm also American and don't think most Germans would have understood your pronunciation of "Mehrweg" and "Pfand." (I know, immigrating is hard. But the issue with the jar deposits is a you problem, and it comes across as if you're trying to present the jar deposit as some sort of German scam. Another useful German word, if you didn't know it already: Lehrgeld.)

Hey New York boy, can you do anything else besides insult your host country, since you know remarkably little about it. As a German, I don't find it funny. Not at all. I'll therefore spare myself the trouble of addressing the many mistakes in the video. I would like to give you one tip though: you don't show off your Porsche, you just have it. Anything else seems "slightly" boastful (typically American). Especially if you're unable to keep the battery full. Try a Tesla.

"Expecting everything to be the same as in the US" is now called "being scammed"? Come on dude, you are moving here, it is you job to figure out how things work around here.

Wenn man zu blöd ist… 1. wenn man ein Produkt mit Pfand kauft, ist auf dem Kassenbon deutlich sichtbar das Pfand ausgewiesen 2. ist auf dem Glas ein Pfandzeichen angebracht 3. kann man auch mal selber googeln und herausfinden, dass Pfandbons innerhalb von drei Jahren nach Ausstellung eingelöst werden müssen, sonst verfallen sie 4. informiert man sich als Ausländer besser mal vorher, was man beim Umschreiben des Führerscheins beachten muss; bei einem Führerschein aus manchen US Bundesstaaten kann man seinen Führerschein innerhalb des ersten halben Jahres mit Sehtest und Erste Hilfe am Unfallort einfach umschreiben lassen, manchmal muss man auch die theoretische Prüfung wiederholen 5. wer baut denn heute noch die Batterie aus, dafür nutzt man ne Powerbank

One year in Germany? Return machines are usually clearly visible in every grocery shop! The fact that you have to pay a deposit is labelled on every receipt and is often even indicated on the drinks themselves... Honestly, my answer? 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

From one New Yorker in Munich to another - I'm now thinking about how many Euros I've put in the recycling over the years 😅

Where is the scam?

oh i didn't know these glass jars contain a pfand and i lived in Germany for over ten years😅 i thought that it was just the plastic and glass bottles

haha: you made my day! I always give pfand to the poor: just place it somewhere outside, well visible. Driving a " " car: you can afford pfand wasting, I suppose?

every bottle or jar that cost you Pfand is supposed to have a small black and white label with Bottles and arrows that are shaped like a circle on it. Normally you find that label next to the barcode.

If you can read, you have a clear advantage.😂 Glückwunsch zur „Fleppe“! 🍀(Good luck with your Translation-App! 😉) Btw: There is a „Einweg-Pfand-Symbol“. 😉

Well made video. You deserve way more love from UA-cam!

Greetings! Ex Rochesterian here. Viele Grüße aus Nürnberg 🍺🥨

Dude! Get yourself a power bank for €60 and bypass the car battery with it. I do this all the time because I drive so infrequently and it works wonderfully. PS: Congrats to your driving license! PPS: PPS: The deposit voucher is valid in the same(!) supermarket for 3 years after the end of the current year.

Can happen to a native German, too, if they somewhat do not recognize that rules have changed. Usually the plastic bottles for buttermilk etc. were simple Einweg bottles - since a year or so they have Pfand on them, too. I have thrown some into the plastic before I recognized that...

a good beer festival - one liter beer about 5 Euros less than Oktoberfest, more cozy, small but food and drink what you need Oktoberfest - more attractions, another vibe with more international visitors Simply join both festivals LOL

Pfand receipt ... I always keep it in the fingers ...otherwise I forget it on the checkout 🙂 driving license ... one step forward ...no ... 1000 mini steps in several months ..Welcome to German driving license habbits 🙂

Best end ever! 😂

Taking the battery out of a modern car could be a much bigger problem than the Mehrwegpfand.

Nice ride man.

Excellently presented! Love the timeline footage. I have been recognized through the court system but still trying to get everything transcribed so I can go and get a passport. Also appreciated the nod to possibly renouncing your US citizenship. I have three citizenships now and I have lived outside the US for 12 years. I never intend to go back to the US, so am considering renouncing my US citizenship.

I’ve been enjoying your videos for a little while now. Greetings from Nürnberg from a former American Citizen. I came to Germany over 25 years ago and have been a German citizen for a little more than 11 years. At the time, German law didn’t allow me to become a German citizen without giving up my American citizenship. That was fine for me because managing finances was becoming increasingly difficult, even then. With all the restrictions and regulations for US persons with regards to banking, reporting assets to the USA and filing tax returns, I remain mildly perplexed about the broad enthusiasm that American Citizen UA-camrs in Germany have about the new possibility to maintain dual citizenship. Emotionally, I understand it, but logically, expatriate Americans are at a huge disadvantage compared to naturalized citizens who did not maintain their American citizenship. I still wonder how American long term (open ended) residents of Germany do financial planning including investing, retirement planning and buying real estate. My life is a lot simpler in Germany in this regard without American citizenship. I am curious about your thoughts.

I admire your resolve. I love that you have footage through the whole process, too.

Did you need to know all the pasta shapes and names ? For Germany you will need to know all the sausage and bread names.

Personally I think having three passports would be baller!

I heard getting rid of US citizenship might cost about 10.000 Dollar to pay to USA, and you have to take the line for Non-US flying back to the "old home" German citizenship .. you have to give your squirrels some European brown ones as friends LOL or a Wolpertinger

I'm just here for the squirrel content. Nice to see the process from end to end now that you are through.

And I thought there was a lot of bureaucracy in Germany! And why are you subjecting your poor cousins to the same horror in Italy? Do they want to live in Italy? Or in Germany? Then why don't they just try it here, without the ancestry stuff, as Americans who take a job here and get German citizenship after 5 years easy-peasy?

Glückwunsch zum italienischen Pass! 😁👍🏾😎 Viel Erfolg beim deutschen Pass. 🍀 Du wirst ja berichten, ob das einfacher geht. 😉

I am from Bavaria, as a man you must not order a Radler! This is a mayor sin and the most severe insult to our beer and culture! If you can not handle the alkohol, it is no big deal. Order a water, some food, but Never a Radler. Only a woman may be allowed to order it, but if you sit on a table with some real locals (not the city folk/Isapreisn/Zugroaste), if you order a Radler you will be the laughing stock of your table and even the neighboring ones! Maybe we are to polite to say it directly, but we want you to leave then.

1, why would anyone need a gallon of milk? 2. beer is more expansive here ,then in Czechia or Germany , so dont drink beer in ITL. 3. Star butts are not real Coffe at all 4. Burger king in ITL? Really? :D 5. trains are one of the best in the world but on main routes, regional trains are avarage or under avarage.

Gösser is not German it's Austrian beer

6:04 die ganzig das spargel

Lol, I really appreciate your subtle sarcasm in this video! 😂 You were using modern public transit all along! 😏 Love seeing those nice U-Bahn trains, buses, and trams. 🙌

You just saved my life with this video, the last part about the breaker. Thank you

still a working persons drink unlike Oz where beers are now a rich persons option

thanks for explaining it to us dum dums.

Thats called taking the train or the very fun activity of drunk cycling, which is actually legal up to 1.6 permille.

Since Musk went crazy and supported Trump and destroyed Twitter I don't like what Musk stands for anymore and now he stands for Robotaxis 😂

Are self driving taxis really the future of transit? Maybe I have to often "the future ofs" experienced in my life and that makes me sceptic. What happend to "the cars take all our jobs" by those who worked in horse selling and everything around horses and then there came the whole automotive sector with the whole supply chain and horses became a hobby. What happend to "The computer will make everything faster and cheaper" and "the computer will take our jobs" and then there came blue screens, even higher workloads, costs for maintenance and updates and so on and the whole IT-Industry. What happend to the tube? So, 20-something cent per kilometer? Are costs for 24/7 maintenance and support included? What about profit margin (which definetly will rise)? What about the fewer tax paying workers that have no skill for other jobs? Is it really in the interest of a state/country to have a industry (where most companies pay less tax than the average worker) which replaces the workers in the individual transport sector? And ... why taxis? Wouldn't it make more sense to start with self driving busses, trams, subways and trains? Especially vehicles on rails should be much easier to switch to self driving. Might there be a reason why those are not self driving yet?! Just thinking out loud.

Oh, we do have autonomous driving! It's called „Public Transit“! 🤭 Works all across Europe and is pretty much unknown in the US. 😁😂

... I'm waiting for self driving vehicles .. Waymo is in the streets in commercial usage in a few cities in the west of USA In Munich BMW is still testing, and discussing how German laws and reguations can be fulfilled (or changed) - check some YT videos. All other car producer develope as well somewhere. I guess what German producer are doing, is not to promote a ready level-5-self-driving car but to promote a lot of assistance system for highways, in traffic jam and so on. By this it's easier to get permission to run the cars Tesla Cybervan and Cybercab were just recently announced, the cab for 2027 and I guess, add two more years for delays. For existing self driving busses check also YT. So Tesla's Cybervan is not a new idea. I guess in Germany it will take 10 more years to see a bunch of self driving vehicles. One reason is that we love to drive our (manual transmission) cars 🙂 .. "Freude am Fahren"