Every US Expat who comes to Germany making a video about the culture shocks complains about the open times of the Shops. "In the US we are used to 24/7 open times". At the same time they are so surprised about the lower prices. Well to open your shop 24/7 you have to have staff. And who do you think is paying for these? Of cause the customer does, by paying higher prices. Convinience costs money.
Not sure why they would be surprised by the lower prices. 20% of Germans make more than 4K USD after taxes, while most Americans make more than 4K after both taxes and health insurance premiums.
@@ujmm If Germans would be stupid enough to give up their 6 weeks of paid holidays, parental leave, healthy food, job security, about 5 years longer lifespan, not being shot at or robbed, accept a lousy education system, forget about close to free Universities, work on weekends, have unpaid over hours, we would make the same or more than in the US, but when shall we enjoy life? Money is nice, but having a GOOD LIFE is far nicer! Your energy is cheaper but Your lousy built houses need AC in Summer and tons of Gas in winter. You produce per capita the most CO2 in the world.
@@RickTheClipper I'm not American and I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say. Also: More money does not mean higher purchasing power when we're talking about two different countries. So an American does not automatically have a higher purchasing power if he earns more than a German of course. But no American should be surprised at the low cost of food in countries with significantly lower salaries. That's the general rule.
@@ujmm The median per person income for all workers in the USA is around 41500 $ ... 3460 $ per month. So half of the workers have less than that per month.
yeah occaisionally you'll see posters for political parties in people's windows if they're a card-carrying party member and it's election time, but no, no posters or politicians inside people's homes. It's because we vote for parties and their programmes, and less so for individual politicians.
Never seen any politcal posters in people's houses in Belgium either. The only time you might see a few posters here and there at windows is before election time, but that is also very rare. And I've definitely never seen car stickers with politicians, not even during election time.
Charlie said: "How is it that our companies are selling stuff for 4 times more, then shipping it over seas" I guess it will depend on the product. Do notice that some USA brand abroard are also manufactered abroad. Something like the brand you mentioned, Lays, may be using local grown potatoes and make their Russian variant of Lays chips, in Russia itself. Like I am Dutch. I know Heineken has factories in other places around the world. Not all Heineken is made in the Netherlands itself. It really depends. And it goes the otherway around as well, for my country, The Netherlands, dutch folk are consuming products they think were made abroard,... but are actually made locally here in the Netherlands.
Because its not made in USA or Netherlands, its made locally, Heineken just gives license to produce for one of the local brewery, same with other stuff. Also you just see price 4 times cheaper, but average annual wage in Russia is 14000$, its overinflated, most Russians make close to minimum wage, its 200$-300$ a month or 2400$-3600$ a year!
My god !!!! I am not American cityzen ( European ).I travel all around the world every month including US. ! It is so unusual to see & hear american like You ! You have a very good analysis about this kind of culture shock !!! . To be honest ! when I was young, USA, (around 1985's) was a real expression of the american dream ... Nut now ! I am not sure about this ! To explain my feeling , last month in LA, I was smoking a cigarette outside my hotel 20 ft far of the entrance, when a lady with a big smocky Ford F350 park this truck behind me. When she leave the vehicle ( Engine running ) she look at me and said. "'You should be shame to smoke in a public area !! 😖" . I was totaly schoked by this remark ! ( how my cigarette should be more dangerous for health than this truck running for nothing !!!! ) ... I realy mess USA from 80"s an 90's when it was realy a country of liberty and when peoples was so kinds with the freedom of others ... ( Sorry for my aproximative English ... I am not English native ) ... Nice video ... Thank You
Your videos make me appreciate Europe more. Maybe it's because when you live somewhere you often take things for granted. The friendliness of people here depends on how you are towards people. I live in the Netherlands and when I go to the store I always talk to the cashier and they are friendly and open to small talks. If you are in the south of the Netherlands it is more relaxed, but in big cities you have more diversity of people.
@@silviahannak3213 Germanic is the connecting factor in how the English and Dutch languages got started, funny tho how different they have became. F.e : Lake is meer in Dutch while in German meer(lake) is Sea. And Zee in Dutch is Sea ,while the German word See means Lake. Haha, and numbers f.e. 22 twenty-two in English, is 2 and 20 in Dutch and German. But it used to be 2 and 20 in the old English too. Peper (pepper) is the spice in Dutch, Paprika's aren't a spice so why did it become called a pepper in English??LOL :) : Languages are quite funny how they sometimes match and mismatch
I was staying near Portland on vacation last august, Oregon is a beautiful state but Portland shocked me in so many ways. The poverty, boarded up shops, streets overrun with homeless people, zombie drug addicts sleeping in doorways or just standing bent over. How can they survive? Nobody seems to care about their welfare. It’s so sad. I think that they have been written off as people who can still be saved by the American system. Sacremento was a bit better but I wanted to visit San Fransisco again and stay overnight before my flight back home. I had stayed there, about 10 years ago. My brother refused to let me stay there, he said it’s a dangerous place to wonder around these days.
I had that "car supremacy" same culture shock after I was stationed in Rota, Spain for 3 years. In Rota, I never drove anywhere except to go to work on the base. But out in town, I walked to the beach, the stores, the restaurants, the dance clubs, the bars, and everywhere within Rota. Then I got stationed in Georgia and I couldn't go anywhere without a taxi and I had to go buy a car, which I really didn't want to do. Coming back home to the states actually cost me more money that I could've saved, had I continued living in Spain. I also lived in Germany when I was in high school and I had learned back then that Germany is so much more pedestrian friendly than the United States is.
Thing is, competitive inter-school sports is simply not a thing in Germany. There's mandatory PE at school, sure, and each year the high schools have a track-and-field competition, but ONLY for the school you're attending. If you want to play competitive sports, you'll have to join a sports club ... and they'll often use the schools' facilities for training in the afternoons and evenings, which keeps the fees down -- and unless the team actually plays in a league, all the coaches get is a small sum to cover stuff like phone calls, gas and so on. There are no sports scholarships to colleges, either.
My BFF is an American who lives in Belgium (she met a friend of mine on FB 15 years ago and she moved here for good 10 years ago). She goes back 1 or 2 times a year to see family and she also told me that the first week or 2 she has diarrhea and stomach cramps.
It's funny to see how different the USA is compared to Europe i.g. I am Dutch and find it hilarious how patriotic many Americans are, how bad their food is, and how car-centered the USA is. How their Infrastructure is not maintained well, and how Americans i.g. don't know much about what is going on outside their country. And how Americans react when they find out how things are outside the USA, either ""it sucks, America is the best country in the world F.U!!"" OR ""How much better other countries do things when compared to the USA. " Well the NL is far from perfect, no country is perfect but you and other reaction UA-camrs make me feel happier about living here, the NL sucks less for me because of UA-camrs like you that point out how less worse off we are here compared to where you have to live your life. Thank you very much for making me feel less negative about the country I live in.
I am German, living quite close to the Dutch border. You are too humble. The Netherlands are not perfect, but pretty close to it. If I only think of your infrastructure, I really envy it. We could learn a lot from you.
Speaking about infrastructure, in France there is a rising niche of urban cycling content trying to raise awareness about how to make cities easier to cycle into. And very often they refer to the Dutch infrastructures as model to follow on that front.
Lucky you in the Netherlands! I'm very happy to be a Brit, I love my country and my fellow Europeans but we are often told that Finland and the Netherlands are doing better than we are. And you have given us Virgil Van Dyck (thanks!).
That is the big difference. People in European countries are mostly aware their particular country is not perfect and other countries do some things better. In the US, people are subjected to constant propaganda claiming they live in the best country and have the most freedom of any country in the world. That is despite in world rankings for freedom, the US is not even in the top ten.
@@leec6707Rightfully so to be proud of your country,.....Finland imho is ahead of the NL, we here aren't better we are doing things differently. F.e. ""We"" (most of the rest of the world) drive on the wrong side of the road, "" when something ain't broke don't fix it"" ;) Okay Virgel hmmm... your welcome LOL
NALF has family in the US - he has been back several times. He has a GF in Germany and his younger brother has come to play for the football team he used to play for.
In The Netherlands you're not allowed to cross the road within X meters of a pedestrian crossing (zebrapad) or traffic light with pedestrian lights, but you don't have to cross using a pedestrian crossing or traffic stop. I can't remember the distance - it was something like 30 meters i think, very short. But we are taught it is safer to use them, and usually walk-lines are so logical that the safest route is also the fastest route to walk. Same for cycling.
@@weerwolfproductions What i mean, in the U.S. it's almost always the fault of the pedestrian if she/he get's hit by a car. In the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe it is the other way around, the stronger traffic participant must be more cautious not to hurt weaker, like pedestrians and cyclists. Ofcouse you wouldn't try to cross a dangerous heavy traffic road as a pedestrian. Where I live, cars stop for pedestrians if the road is congested slowly moving traffic. In the U.S. you have five lane roads in each direction with a zebra crossing. It feels like using the zebrapad is still jaywalking.
@@wWvwvV I am always surprised at the agggression pedestrians and cyclists get from car usera in the USA. Don't they understand that the more people walk and cycle and take public transport, the less congestion there is for cars?
I know of so many people who visited the US and got sick. Some of them stayed sick their entire visit. That's really uncommon in other countries with exception in places it's a risk to get food poisoning (and sea food is advised against) but that's kinda different. It's really weird how many I heard that have gotten ill overseas.
Well, it used to be better here, but over time they put crap in our food! Our government is trying kill us by poisoning our food, dividing us racially, & perpetuating staged mass shootings & lying about others that never happen. That's not true America!
the american FDA makes people sick so the health industry can make money. number 1 reason for personal bankruptcy is medical bills. think about it. the government is literally farming their citizens. its not symbolic or metaphoric...it is literally. make the poor sick and let them die. farm the rich with higher pricing so they stay poor.
I didn't get sick when I visited the USA many years ago, but I gained quite a bit of weight. Back home I lost it again, without being on a diet, just eating like I always did
I seriously suggest you watch the videos from either Strong Towns or NotJustBikes about how the American car centric infrastructure ruins small town economies as it is basically a Ponzi Scheme of expansion. You HAVE to expand to pay for what you've already got.
yup. parkinglots and highways don't pay taxes, they require taxes to maintain them. Also you get more taxes if you build denser than just single property homes. That's the reason for those postage stamp lots with McMansions build nearly to the edges of the property, it's to optimize taxes from the new neighbourhood by building as densely as possible while still technically being full of single-family homes. But mixed zoning, walkable cities and less car-centric infrastructure cost less to build, less to maintain, and is safer.
They definitely use local potatoes. I live in Belgium and where I used to live there were potato fields to our left and that farmer had a contract with Lays.
Sometimes there are outletcenters outside of cities, and they where pupular in th 90s, but as many customers then went there to buy, there were problems for the shops in the cities, so they stopped building them. Now you try to bring the shops into the centers of the cities back. Typically you have some dicounters like LIDL, ALDI and others in the outskirts, but also in every city district. They like to have one discounter like LIDL, ALDI, Penny together with a grocery store like REWE or EDEKA together. But the parking lots will fit onehundred cars, may be twohundred, but are still accessible by bike, bus or by foot.
Lay's Crisp (chips) were invented in Britain by Walkers Butchers in 1948, Walkers had the largest potato crisp factory in the world which operates in Leicester. They sold the business to Frito Lay in 1989 they at the time owned PepsiCo. Great video and very informative Thank you.
Hey Charlie you’ve got a big garden now. In spring you can start growing Some vegetables and see how that goes. I’ve saved a lot this summer by growing cherry tomatoes
I can't remember the last time i used a cheque. I think it was in the 80's. I remember taking out a Travellers' Cheque when i went to Scotland in the 90's but already i could PIN money from bankmachines (not yet in most shops) so I ended up returning the Cheque to the bank when i came back. And it's been over 6 years since i touched physical money (coins or notes). I live in The Netherlands.
In Denmark checks went out officialy in 2017 but was not used much before eighter 😀 i have personally never had or used a check and I am 50 y. Hi from Copenhagen Danmark
We don't cash checks in Europe because everything money related is done online. We have bank accounts and can receive and send money to and from them in real time, even with our phones. Checks are a thing of of the past millennium.
About food prices: US shops have dozens of basically the same thing, be it bread, be it milk. This results in more food degrading and being thrown away. The people who work 24/7 get paid, and the guy who collects the shopping charts gets paid. The number of cashiers in a given Walmart are 3 times that of Germany, and guess who pays their check. Go to a ALDI, they have maximum of 3 of the same kind. It is obvious that You get a better deal if You order 1 Million pieces of whatever from ONE company, instead of 10 times 100000 from 10 companies. This is what ALDI and other German supermarkets do, order high quality products on a small variety in huge amounts, brings down the price. And as NALFS brother said, the Internet is full of clips of Americans in Europe telling they eat the same food but loose weight
How car-oriented this country is is unfortunately also shown by the many pedestrian deaths that have been rising and rising since 2016. There were already 6,000 that year and the numbers have been rising significantly ever since.
9:04 being apolitical is the main problem in Russia. People don't want to be bothered as long it doesn't concerns themself. That's how the war is possible. Sorry, @ItsCharlieVest you say the same.
8:25 That was and not is - By law you aren't allowed to buy weed in the Netherlands if you aren't a resident. Coffeeshops will ask for an ID and if you don't have an ID with a Netherland address - no chance to buy any weed. Sure there are always some shops that will not ask for an ID, but that makes it not legal.
Living relatively close to the border here - got a few coffeeshops fairly close by and that street somehow is filled with Belgian and German license plates…
Those strip males, Germany and the Netherlands have those too, but the old city centers of every town are attracting many people and that's what you see in the pictures from Europe. But those strip males you guys talk about, we have them plenty..
What also contributes to the long drive through Oregon is not only the size of Oregon (it is a big state, bigger than the UK) but also that you have speed limits on your highways. If I limit myself to driving around 100 km/h (65 miles per hour) on a freeway and 55 mph (around 90 kmh) on a highway - well, then driving takes some time
"Paprika" is the german word for bell pepper (same word for the seasoning produced out of dried bell pepper). Hot peppers are called "Peperoni" in Germany. Stripmalls: Nope, as far as I know, there are none in Germany. You will have a hard time to find a stroad to begin with. But that does not mean, that mostly car centric shoping centers do not exist, they are quite common, even though some accessibility for pedestrians and via public transport to those places is also usually included.
Here in Spain don't have that Stripmalls like the ones in USA but we have some malls on the outside of the cities, usually on the industrial parks with a big parking lot (for an European, a very small thing for an US citizen) and some kind of public transport (bus usually) because workers go to the nearby factories by public transport.
Paprikapowder is usually smoked bell pepper with cayenne pepper to make it hot. Here in the NL there are out of town stripmall like things, but usually these are for business that need space like larger furniture shops (Woon boulevard) and car dealer ships and the occasional hardware store.
In Germany there is more than just two parties you can choose from. Most are smaller ones, never getting into the parliament, though. But todays there are often 4, 5 maybe up to 6 parties depending on the Bundesland (similar to a state uin the USA), with more or less success.
16:47 We actually have "Einkaufscenter" in Germany. But they are organized differently. Taking the shopping center nearby as an example. It is located right in the city, easily zo reach by butls (bus stop in front), walking or bike. If you come by car there are two 4 stories parking houses near by on both sides. You walk into the center and all shops (distributed over three stories) are open to the middle aisle. There are smaller stores as well as larger ones (Aldi, for example) as well as restaurants and fast food. You always are in climatized space, protected from the weather outside. If you come by car you need to be aware that there is a small hourly fee (50¢, iirc). But when you purchase something you usually can ask for the first two hours to be free. Closed on Sunday, for sure. The German way. 😊
The thing about the strip malls isn't that you do not have an equivalent in Germany (or Europe), but more that they aren't as focused on cars. The main difference in concept would be, that in Germany those are in the city center, which are - as NALF said - in most cities a "Fußgängerzone", meaning pedestrian only areas. So, no cars, no motor cycles, and bikes only if you're careful. (The term "Fußgängerzone" is mostly used in the context of city centers, but is technically every area where no cars etc. are allowed.) However, these city center areas, in most German cities called "Altstadt" (old town) also consist of shops, bakeries, book stores, banks, street food stands etc, all next to each other; size and variety depending on the city of course.
What Nalf is trying to say(imho) is that US strip malls are just a poor “ersatz” for the regular European town center where you have all those services (since ages) like stores, bakeries, banks, doctors, and churches, and the town hall, in walking distance plus nice outdoor cafes and beautiful architecture and art
My hometown of Dordrecht, NL, has similar things to strip malls, if the word means just a couple of designated major stores next to each other on one street, without any housing nearby. I live close to what's called the 'woonboulevard'. (It's not even a boulevard, but what the heck, it's capitalism, so anything goes when it comes to advertising.) It means 'Living or residential boulevard.' It's basically everything you need for your house. Kitchen stores, bedroom stores and construction markets. It's on a street parallel to a major highway. Funny enough it's got a cycling path going both ways, but not a complete sidewalk, lol. We're more cyclist friendly than pedestrian friendly it seems.
We do have "strip malls" in Germany. For sure not as big and often on the outskirts of towns and more often not in the shape of a strip but more like a cluster with Lidl on one side and Aldi on the other and then a shoeshop or a drugstore...... at least where I live in Southern Germany. :)
the feeling ill on coming back is less about chemicals and just simply what happens when you move a significant distance. Different places have different bacterias and such and once your gut cultivates the bacteria of a certain region, moving to another area means you suddenly dont have the right gut bacteria and thus become ill. Its why you almost always feel ill trying new food on holiday, not because the food is "bad" but because your body needs time to adapt to the new nonsense your gut has to go through. There are ways to mitigate it and it also depends how healthy your guts are normally too!
I am subscribed to his channel. It appears that he plays American football as a job in Germany but I've no idea how that works. I would not have thought it was a popular enough sport there to be done as a profession.
You don't become a millionaire, but you can make a living. I don't know what the Unicorns pay, but a colleague of mine played soccer in a small town about half the size of Schwäbisch Hall and was paid €5,000 a month in the 4th division 10 years ago. The Unicorns are in the 1st and only league and are often champions...?🤔 Such small clubs usually have a local main sponsor,a larger medium-sized company, who feeds them so that there is something going on in the countryside.
I played American Football in the NL ""The Lelystad Lizzards"" (yes should be spelled Lizards we misspelled it by mistake LOL)from 1986 till 1992, just before the NFL Europe League got off the ground. The thing is the NFL wanted to make the sport more internationally known (read ""make money"") and started a European franchise, talent from the USA got a job opportunity to make a living from playing in that league. Former fellow team members of mine even made it to play professionally in that NFL Europe league for some years. AF is a small sport outside of the USA and Canada(sort of ) it will never become a big global sport. It was the best team sport I have ever played tho, and how it was/is regulated is an example of how to keep the rules updated and the sport fair. A special shout out to The Kenion Ohio College Lords AF team,. who taught us Lizzards how to play AF back in 1987 and became a force to be reconned with in the NL, thanks, guys!! Like how to get into sports in America by is via School, their team's talent scouts etc.etc. to make a name and money of etc.etc., In most of the rest of the world, it doesn't work that way.
I can tell you Germans love comperisons, and reaction Videos to any thing, about Germany more over we all speek englisch. I´m sure you will get a lot of views with this.
Paprika (bellpeppers) are that expensive in the USA? Here in The Netherlands I give my guineau pigs half a paprike a day. They are really cheap here in the Netherlands.
may i just say, i'm not much of a sports person either but i do follow Liverpool, because that club is different and has arguably the best manager in the world leading it. you should watch something about the LFC and that crazy guy named Klopp, i think you are going to like him.
4:55 Weird that I don't see more coments about that, but you forget the minimal / average wage in the said country, for example, russian groceries sound very cheap in US dollars, but that because if you convert their rubles monthly pay in US dollars, they earn like 4 - 6 hundreds.
4:40 Not all American brands ship their product overseas. They just have a European or German/France/Polish headquarters with a factory and all. Coca Cola will have a factory in almost every EU country i guess (or a license deal with a brand like Heineken or Vrumona who then does the work for them). If all US products would be shipped the price would be crazy.
At a strip mall you'll find a collection of all the shops and stores that are banned from an american suburb - in Europe it's more like a strip of shops in a residential area, let's name it a "shopping street"...
When he mentioned food he only showed the additives that are banned in other countries. That is just the tip of the iceberg. American beef, pork, chicken, eggs and bread are all banned in most of Europe. When American chain restaurants want to open in European countries they have to change their recipes or they will not be allowed to make or sell their food.
American brands are (mostly) not shipped from the US to Europe, they're made locally. I guess besides shipping costs and freshness, it is also easier to conform to regulations without having to sell better quality stuff to Americans. There ARE malls and strip-malls here. They're not seen as such though, they're simply a conglomeration of various shops in one place, but in essence, they're strip-malls. They're quite hateful places and have similar problems to the American ones, except they're not so huge, barren and they're much better kept. Usually roads with 2 lanes per direction, with lots of traffic lights, and there IS pedestrian infrastructure, but you're not meant to walk there, and very few people do. It is very unpleasant, noisy and hot in the summer. You're supposed to drive there, but that's no fun either, particularly when everybody is going there. A couple of weeks ago I had my motorbike in for a service, and had two hours to kill. The workshop is in one of these areas, and there is a big mall close by, with a new shop I wanted to visit. So I dropped off the bike and walked about 1.5km there. And then I couldn't get in! I couldn't find an entrance. There were stairs leading up, but they ended on walkways with some emergency exit doors you of course couldn't open. I've been running around there for a while until I found a restaurant with a open-air area on one of these walkways and walked in through it, doing my best to look as if I belonged there. Makes you appreciate how unwelcome you are without a car. But frankly it sucks with a car as well. It is so big that it has several multi-storey parking-garages in it, and even so you have a long walk to get in.
There is a reason why US wages are so much higher than over here in the EU. You have to earn that much to buy the bare necessities - and then you may not be able to afford them...
just to mention I just bought a USA brand of cookies in Brazil, I could smell something likely chemicals, but I thought this was probably safe, and just a different recipe from what I'm used to, so I gave it a try, and boy oh boy I was wrong, that was full of chemicals, with just 2 of them I got sick, my stomach was not having it, so my belly started to hurt, I also started to burp like 3 minutes after I ate it, and you must say "well you probably wasnt well", so I thought also, so I left there a few days and tried again with ONE, and again the very same problems. So I hate to throw food away, I really do, when I dislike something or when I see that I won't be able to eat some food before it goes bad like fruits, or other food when I go on a trip, I give to charity, and homeless people, in this case, I threw into the garbage, and no kidding I draw a radioactive symbol, but I really should have sent to the sanitary vigilance and prosecuted, bc how that is even allowed to human consumption is beyond me. And by the way, WTF you guys put in your milk??? like around every place I been in the world the milk goes and smells off in 3 to 5 days, is USA that thing can surpass easily 30 days.
I can walk to the store, then grab lunch a few doors down, etc. I can get a bus to the pedestrianised shopping area and find everything I need without a car. In the UK we have retail parks, which are similar to your strip alls! I went to one recently because they had a big toy store! I hate it, it is off of a motorway, the surface roads are wide and confusing, the car park is very busy and chaotic, it is loud, it smells like exhaust, it is hard to access without a car and walking around the perimeter of a car desert takes longer than if it was built on a human scale anyway, so people often drive from one part of the parking area to another, rather than walk with all their shopping. I hate this type of place, I hate driving as a way to commute, driving is only fun when the roads are quiet, and you aren't in a rush! Who would want to drive to work every morning? Cycling is less stressful (all the stress comes from drivers nearly killing you - close passes, overtaking you and turning in front of you, not seeing you at junctions, tailgating you, cutting corners and nearly running into you head-on, opening their doors randomly in front of you, etc!)
Imagine how much social housing could fit in those parking lots? House people, not private vehicles! With the amount spent on infrastructure servicing sparse suburbs that can't even generate enough tax to maintain itself, you could easily afford housing projects!
I'll go to one of your first questions about grocery prices being cheaper compared to US prices. A large part of the price of ANY product is the LABOR cost to produce it. If a US laborer is making $20/hr and the Russian Laborer is making $4/hr, where is the COST going to be higher? You can be TOTALLY amazed at how much the price of something is, but not taking that COST into consideration is a bit disingenuous. The average wage in the US is $76K/yr and the average wage in Russia is $13K/yr. That means the cost to PRODUCE the item in the US is on average *_SIX TIMES HIGHER._* Of course it's going to be more expensive here!!
In the uk we have some places like a strip mall difference is that there is buses that go there majority of the time and the car park is not as big as the us version. There can be times I've been where finding a spot to park can be tough
Do you think people in other countries have the same income as US Americans? The price of a bell pepper (Paprika in german language) in Russia seems cheap to you in the US, BUT what if Russians have an income of only about $200 or $300 a month? Do you still think it's cheap for them? Have you ever thought about it?
Hello, the problem with politics in your country (in general, im not expert) is, that you have right, left and that´s it. No middle "man" to represents you, as you said you can agree with some parts from both parties. In my country (czech republic) during election we have doesns parties. to House of Commons get every party that gets (I believe) over 5% of votes. If no one gets majority (not sure how much that is 🙂) then they have to work together, make coalitions. it can get pretty messy, for suru, but still better than US, as as an outsider right now, it seems to me you have only the extreme left and extreme right and nothing else.
you should watch a rugby game .just a whole game ! ( not a video with rugby biggest hits ! ) Its not very big in the netherlands but its 2nd sport in europe ,hope you like it. Rugby fans a not like soccer fans ..they dont fight .
Charlie, the price difference is simple: you have more of a deregulated free market, we have more Regulation, even price controls. The reason for that is that communism was for a long tíme strong in Europe, even in Western Európe, so the ruling class had to make some effort to make life more bearable for the workers. Same in Japan.
The small talk you find in America is translated as shallow here. They don’t really want to know how you are doing or where you are going to. It’s just empty talk with no depth.
The one that kills me is "so what are yoru plans for the weekend?" 🤨 None of your business. I'm aware i should be friendly so I've learned to have some ehort canned responses. Truth is is I dont know .. depends in my miod Sat morning 🤷
I guess it is because we have Price Regulation. Even your Stuff is cheaper here. Incredible. But you have to know....we know (not all, but some) that whatever comes from the US might be very unhealthy. The EU allows only food which is consumsble.(No risky, cancer causing ingredients) I wonder if they got rid of the cancer stuff in the yellow Skittles. Salad..that expensive? Why?? The readymade or the fresh stuff?
Americans miss the point for bad costumer service in germany. It is how we want it. If I demand 24/7 service, friendly employees no matter what and immediate responds then costumers will come to my company and demand the same. I don't demand it, so people can't deand it from me.
That's exactly your problem, that you ignore any discourse on the 3 topics. How do you want to resolve the clash between religions without discourse? How do you want to be democratic without political discourse? And how are you going to get fair pay if you don't even talk about it? 🤨
Every US Expat who comes to Germany making a video about the culture shocks complains about the open times of the Shops. "In the US we are used to 24/7 open times". At the same time they are so surprised about the lower prices. Well to open your shop 24/7 you have to have staff. And who do you think is paying for these? Of cause the customer does, by paying higher prices. Convinience costs money.
Not sure why they would be surprised by the lower prices. 20% of Germans make more than 4K USD after taxes, while most Americans make more than 4K after both taxes and health insurance premiums.
@@ujmm If Germans would be stupid enough to give up their 6 weeks of paid holidays, parental leave, healthy food, job security, about 5 years longer lifespan, not being shot at or robbed, accept a lousy education system, forget about close to free Universities, work on weekends, have unpaid over hours, we would make the same or more than in the US, but when shall we enjoy life?
Money is nice, but having a GOOD LIFE is far nicer!
Your energy is cheaper but Your lousy built houses need AC in Summer and tons of Gas in winter. You produce per capita the most CO2 in the world.
@@RickTheClipper I'm not American and I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say. Also: More money does not mean higher purchasing power when we're talking about two different countries. So an American does not automatically have a higher purchasing power if he earns more than a German of course. But no American should be surprised at the low cost of food in countries with significantly lower salaries. That's the general rule.
@@ujmm The median per person income for all workers in the USA is around 41500 $ ... 3460 $ per month. So half of the workers have less than that per month.
It still amazes me how many American cars have cracked windshields and they just keep driving with it.
Another culture shock: this huge crack in the windshield of Nalf's car! That would never ever pass the TÜV safety inspection in Germany.
I am Dutch. Never in my entire life have I seen political posters or portraits of politicans in anyone's house. And I am a house-careworker.
yeah occaisionally you'll see posters for political parties in people's windows if they're a card-carrying party member and it's election time, but no, no posters or politicians inside people's homes. It's because we vote for parties and their programmes, and less so for individual politicians.
Never seen any politcal posters in people's houses in Belgium either. The only time you might see a few posters here and there at windows is before election time, but that is also very rare.
And I've definitely never seen car stickers with politicians, not even during election time.
Charlie said: "How is it that our companies are selling stuff for 4 times more, then shipping it over seas"
I guess it will depend on the product. Do notice that some USA brand abroard are also manufactered abroad. Something like the brand you mentioned, Lays, may be using local grown potatoes and make their Russian variant of Lays chips, in Russia itself.
Like I am Dutch. I know Heineken has factories in other places around the world. Not all Heineken is made in the Netherlands itself. It really depends. And it goes the otherway around as well, for my country, The Netherlands, dutch folk are consuming products they think were made abroard,... but are actually made locally here in the Netherlands.
Because its not made in USA or Netherlands, its made locally, Heineken just gives license to produce for one of the local brewery, same with other stuff. Also you just see price 4 times cheaper, but average annual wage in Russia is 14000$, its overinflated, most Russians make close to minimum wage, its 200$-300$ a month or 2400$-3600$ a year!
My god !!!! I am not American cityzen ( European ).I travel all around the world every month including US. ! It is so unusual to see & hear american like You ! You have a very good analysis about this kind of culture shock !!! . To be honest ! when I was young, USA, (around 1985's) was a real expression of the american dream ... Nut now ! I am not sure about this ! To explain my feeling , last month in LA, I was smoking a cigarette outside my hotel 20 ft far of the entrance, when a lady with a big smocky Ford F350 park this truck behind me. When she leave the vehicle ( Engine running ) she look at me and said. "'You should be shame to smoke in a public area !! 😖" . I was totaly schoked by this remark ! ( how my cigarette should be more dangerous for health than this truck running for nothing !!!! ) ... I realy mess USA from 80"s an 90's when it was realy a country of liberty and when peoples was so kinds with the freedom of others ... ( Sorry for my aproximative English ... I am not English native ) ... Nice video ... Thank You
Your videos make me appreciate Europe more. Maybe it's because when you live somewhere you often take things for granted. The friendliness of people here depends on how you are towards people. I live in the Netherlands and when I go to the store I always talk to the cashier and they are friendly and open to small talks. If you are in the south of the Netherlands it is more relaxed, but in big cities you have more diversity of people.
In the netherlands a bell pepper is a paprika, and yes paprika is ground up bell pepper, which we call paprika poeder(powder)
Oh cool. Paprika is a german Word. Didn't know it's the same in the Netherlands.
@@silviahannak3213 Germanic is the connecting factor in how the English and Dutch languages got started, funny tho how different they have became. F.e : Lake is meer in Dutch while in German meer(lake) is Sea. And Zee in Dutch is Sea ,while the German word See means Lake. Haha, and numbers f.e. 22 twenty-two in English, is 2 and 20 in Dutch and German. But it used to be 2 and 20 in the old English too.
Peper (pepper) is the spice in Dutch, Paprika's aren't a spice so why did it become called a pepper in English??LOL :)
: Languages are quite funny how they sometimes match and mismatch
Same in Swedish.
I was staying near Portland on vacation last august, Oregon is a beautiful state but Portland shocked me in so many ways. The poverty, boarded up shops, streets overrun with homeless people, zombie drug addicts sleeping in doorways or just standing bent over. How can they survive? Nobody seems to care about their welfare. It’s so sad. I think that they have been written off as people who can still be saved by the American system. Sacremento was a bit better but I wanted to visit San Fransisco again and stay overnight before my flight back home. I had stayed there, about 10 years ago. My brother refused to let me stay there, he said it’s a dangerous place to wonder around these days.
I like to think that the german word for mermaid is meerseemin, seeing as in dutch its zeemeermin xD @@petermaardananders6803
I had that "car supremacy" same culture shock after I was stationed in Rota, Spain for 3 years. In Rota, I never drove anywhere except to go to work on the base. But out in town, I walked to the beach, the stores, the restaurants, the dance clubs, the bars, and everywhere within Rota. Then I got stationed in Georgia and I couldn't go anywhere without a taxi and I had to go buy a car, which I really didn't want to do. Coming back home to the states actually cost me more money that I could've saved, had I continued living in Spain. I also lived in Germany when I was in high school and I had learned back then that Germany is so much more pedestrian friendly than the United States is.
Thing is, competitive inter-school sports is simply not a thing in Germany. There's mandatory PE at school, sure, and each year the high schools have a track-and-field competition, but ONLY for the school you're attending. If you want to play competitive sports, you'll have to join a sports club ... and they'll often use the schools' facilities for training in the afternoons and evenings, which keeps the fees down -- and unless the team actually plays in a league, all the coaches get is a small sum to cover stuff like phone calls, gas and so on. There are no sports scholarships to colleges, either.
My BFF is an American who lives in Belgium (she met a friend of mine on FB 15 years ago and she moved here for good 10 years ago). She goes back 1 or 2 times a year to see family and she also told me that the first week or 2 she has diarrhea and stomach cramps.
I appreciate your open-mindedness and intellectual curiosity. Another good video ! Hello from France !
It's funny to see how different the USA is compared to Europe i.g. I am Dutch and find it hilarious how patriotic many Americans are, how bad their food is, and how car-centered the USA is. How their Infrastructure is not maintained well, and how Americans i.g. don't know much about what is going on outside their country. And how Americans react when they find out how things are outside the USA, either ""it sucks, America is the best country in the world F.U!!"" OR ""How much better other countries do things when compared to the USA. "
Well the NL is far from perfect, no country is perfect but you and other reaction UA-camrs make me feel happier about living here, the NL sucks less for me because of UA-camrs like you that point out how less worse off we are here compared to where you have to live your life. Thank you very much for making me feel less negative about the country I live in.
I am German, living quite close to the Dutch border. You are too humble. The Netherlands are not perfect, but pretty close to it. If I only think of your infrastructure, I really envy it. We could learn a lot from you.
Speaking about infrastructure, in France there is a rising niche of urban cycling content trying to raise awareness about how to make cities easier to cycle into.
And very often they refer to the Dutch infrastructures as model to follow on that front.
Lucky you in the Netherlands! I'm very happy to be a Brit, I love my country and my fellow Europeans but we are often told that Finland and the Netherlands are doing better than we are. And you have given us Virgil Van Dyck (thanks!).
That is the big difference. People in European countries are mostly aware their particular country is not perfect and other countries do some things better. In the US, people are subjected to constant propaganda claiming they live in the best country and have the most freedom of any country in the world. That is despite in world rankings for freedom, the US is not even in the top ten.
@@leec6707Rightfully so to be proud of your country,.....Finland imho is ahead of the NL, we here aren't better we are doing things differently. F.e. ""We"" (most of the rest of the world) drive on the wrong side of the road, "" when something ain't broke don't fix it"" ;)
Okay Virgel hmmm... your welcome LOL
NALF has family in the US - he has been back several times. He has a GF in Germany and his younger brother has come to play for the football team he used to play for.
17:39 jaywalking is not a felony in Europe. It's an invention of the U.S. car lobby.
In The Netherlands you're not allowed to cross the road within X meters of a pedestrian crossing (zebrapad) or traffic light with pedestrian lights, but you don't have to cross using a pedestrian crossing or traffic stop. I can't remember the distance - it was something like 30 meters i think, very short. But we are taught it is safer to use them, and usually walk-lines are so logical that the safest route is also the fastest route to walk. Same for cycling.
@@weerwolfproductions What i mean, in the U.S. it's almost always the fault of the pedestrian if she/he get's hit by a car. In the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe it is the other way around, the stronger traffic participant must be more cautious not to hurt weaker, like pedestrians and cyclists.
Ofcouse you wouldn't try to cross a dangerous heavy traffic road as a pedestrian. Where I live, cars stop for pedestrians if the road is congested slowly moving traffic. In the U.S. you have five lane roads in each direction with a zebra crossing. It feels like using the zebrapad is still jaywalking.
@@wWvwvV I am always surprised at the agggression pedestrians and cyclists get from car usera in the USA. Don't they understand that the more people walk and cycle and take public transport, the less congestion there is for cars?
@@weerwolfproductions It's the same here in Finland.
Germany is famous with its orange plantages by the North and Baltic sea, that´s why oranges are cheaper there of course.🤣
The European Handball Championship is currently taking place in Germany. True ball artists🤯
Cash your check? Lol, I forgot those still exist over there. Haven't seen one in years!
CHEQUE not CHECK!!
@@Wordavee1 Depends on your global location
I know of so many people who visited the US and got sick. Some of them stayed sick their entire visit. That's really uncommon in other countries with exception in places it's a risk to get food poisoning (and sea food is advised against) but that's kinda different. It's really weird how many I heard that have gotten ill overseas.
Well, it used to be better here, but over time they put crap in our food! Our government is trying kill us by poisoning our food, dividing us racially, & perpetuating staged mass shootings & lying about others that never happen. That's not true America!
the american FDA makes people sick so the health industry can make money. number 1 reason for personal bankruptcy is medical bills.
think about it. the government is literally farming their citizens. its not symbolic or metaphoric...it is literally.
make the poor sick and let them die. farm the rich with higher pricing so they stay poor.
I didn't get sick when I visited the USA many years ago, but I gained quite a bit of weight. Back home I lost it again, without being on a diet, just eating like I always did
I seriously suggest you watch the videos from either Strong Towns or NotJustBikes about how the American car centric infrastructure ruins small town economies as it is basically a Ponzi Scheme of expansion. You HAVE to expand to pay for what you've already got.
yup. parkinglots and highways don't pay taxes, they require taxes to maintain them. Also you get more taxes if you build denser than just single property homes. That's the reason for those postage stamp lots with McMansions build nearly to the edges of the property, it's to optimize taxes from the new neighbourhood by building as densely as possible while still technically being full of single-family homes. But mixed zoning, walkable cities and less car-centric infrastructure cost less to build, less to maintain, and is safer.
Lays isn't shipped here, they (PepsiCo) have a factory near my city and they use the potatoes from the farms in this area.
They definitely use local potatoes. I live in Belgium and where I used to live there were potato fields to our left and that farmer had a contract with Lays.
Sometimes there are outletcenters outside of cities, and they where pupular in th 90s, but as many customers then went there to buy, there were problems for the shops in the cities, so they stopped building them.
Now you try to bring the shops into the centers of the cities back.
Typically you have some dicounters like LIDL, ALDI and others in the outskirts, but also in every city district. They like to have one discounter like LIDL, ALDI, Penny together with a grocery store like REWE or EDEKA together. But the parking lots will fit onehundred cars, may be twohundred, but are still accessible by bike, bus or by foot.
Lay's Crisp (chips) were invented in Britain by Walkers Butchers in 1948, Walkers had the largest potato crisp factory in the world which operates in Leicester. They sold the business to Frito Lay in 1989 they at the time owned PepsiCo. Great video and very informative Thank you.
Lay's "chips" were around years before Walkers started making crisps.
In my city we have both, pedestrian zones (especially in the "old town", the city center) and a few strip malls of different sizes.
Hey Charlie you’ve got a big garden now. In spring you can start growing Some vegetables and see how that goes. I’ve saved a lot this summer by growing cherry tomatoes
Well...to cash your check is really not a thing in Europe. We are almost not using checks.🙂
'Cheques' are very 1980s.
I can't remember the last time i used a cheque. I think it was in the 80's. I remember taking out a Travellers' Cheque when i went to Scotland in the 90's but already i could PIN money from bankmachines (not yet in most shops) so I ended up returning the Cheque to the bank when i came back. And it's been over 6 years since i touched physical money (coins or notes). I live in The Netherlands.
In Denmark checks went out officialy in 2017 but was not used much before eighter 😀 i have personally never had or used a check and I am 50 y.
Hi from Copenhagen Danmark
We don't cash checks in Europe because everything money related is done online. We have bank accounts and can receive and send money to and from them in real time, even with our phones. Checks are a thing of of the past millennium.
About food prices:
US shops have dozens of basically the same thing, be it bread, be it milk.
This results in more food degrading and being thrown away. The people who work 24/7 get paid, and the guy who collects the shopping charts gets paid.
The number of cashiers in a given Walmart are 3 times that of Germany, and guess who pays their check.
Go to a ALDI, they have maximum of 3 of the same kind.
It is obvious that You get a better deal if You order 1 Million pieces of whatever from ONE company, instead of 10 times 100000 from 10 companies.
This is what ALDI and other German supermarkets do, order high quality products on a small variety in huge amounts, brings down the price.
And as NALFS brother said, the Internet is full of clips of Americans in Europe telling they eat the same food but loose weight
How car-oriented this country is is unfortunately also shown by the many pedestrian deaths that have been rising and rising since 2016. There were already 6,000 that year and the numbers have been rising significantly ever since.
9:04 being apolitical is the main problem in Russia. People don't want to be bothered as long it doesn't concerns themself. That's how the war is possible. Sorry, @ItsCharlieVest you say the same.
8:25 That was and not is - By law you aren't allowed to buy weed in the Netherlands if you aren't a resident. Coffeeshops will ask for an ID and if you don't have an ID with a Netherland address - no chance to buy any weed. Sure there are always some shops that will not ask for an ID, but that makes it not legal.
Living relatively close to the border here - got a few coffeeshops fairly close by and that street somehow is filled with Belgian and German license plates…
Those strip males, Germany and the Netherlands have those too, but the old city centers of every town are attracting many people and that's what you see in the pictures from Europe. But those strip males you guys talk about, we have them plenty..
What also contributes to the long drive through Oregon is not only the size of Oregon (it is a big state, bigger than the UK) but also that you have speed limits on your highways. If I limit myself to driving around 100 km/h (65 miles per hour) on a freeway and 55 mph (around 90 kmh) on a highway - well, then driving takes some time
"Paprika" is the german word for bell pepper (same word for the seasoning produced out of dried bell pepper). Hot peppers are called "Peperoni" in Germany.
Stripmalls: Nope, as far as I know, there are none in Germany. You will have a hard time to find a stroad to begin with. But that does not mean, that mostly car centric shoping centers do not exist, they are quite common, even though some accessibility for pedestrians and via public transport to those places is also usually included.
Same here in czech language and some other different european languages .
Here in Spain don't have that Stripmalls like the ones in USA but we have some malls on the outside of the cities, usually on the industrial parks with a big parking lot (for an European, a very small thing for an US citizen) and some kind of public transport (bus usually) because workers go to the nearby factories by public transport.
Paprikapowder is usually smoked bell pepper with cayenne pepper to make it hot. Here in the NL there are out of town stripmall like things, but usually these are for business that need space like larger furniture shops (Woon boulevard) and car dealer ships and the occasional hardware store.
Don’t forget the ‘fashion outlet’ things… it’s same principle as stripmall but tweaked into a few ‘streets’ that connect to a parking lot.
@@irbaboon1979 Well, the one that I go to (in Roermond) is city centre adjacent.
Nalf is about the only one who uses a video format that fills out my whole screen of my cell phone. Love it!
In Germany there is more than just two parties you can choose from. Most are smaller ones, never getting into the parliament, though. But todays there are often 4, 5 maybe up to 6 parties depending on the Bundesland (similar to a state uin the USA), with more or less success.
10:20 Some of the chemicals used in food in the USA is outright banned in the EU for health reasons.
16:47 We actually have "Einkaufscenter" in Germany. But they are organized differently.
Taking the shopping center nearby as an example. It is located right in the city, easily zo reach by butls (bus stop in front), walking or bike.
If you come by car there are two 4 stories parking houses near by on both sides. You walk into the center and all shops (distributed over three stories) are open to the middle aisle. There are smaller stores as well as larger ones (Aldi, for example) as well as restaurants and fast food. You always are in climatized space, protected from the weather outside.
If you come by car you need to be aware that there is a small hourly fee (50¢, iirc). But when you purchase something you usually can ask for the first two hours to be free.
Closed on Sunday, for sure. The German way. 😊
the man who casually called Christian McCaffrey "a friend of the family" while doing sightseeing with him in germany :)
The thing about the strip malls isn't that you do not have an equivalent in Germany (or Europe), but more that they aren't as focused on cars. The main difference in concept would be, that in Germany those are in the city center, which are - as NALF said - in most cities a "Fußgängerzone", meaning pedestrian only areas. So, no cars, no motor cycles, and bikes only if you're careful. (The term "Fußgängerzone" is mostly used in the context of city centers, but is technically every area where no cars etc. are allowed.) However, these city center areas, in most German cities called "Altstadt" (old town) also consist of shops, bakeries, book stores, banks, street food stands etc, all next to each other; size and variety depending on the city of course.
What Nalf is trying to say(imho) is that US strip malls are just a poor “ersatz” for the regular European town center where you have all those services (since ages) like stores, bakeries, banks, doctors, and churches, and the town hall, in walking distance plus nice outdoor cafes and beautiful architecture and art
My hometown of Dordrecht, NL, has similar things to strip malls, if the word means just a couple of designated major stores next to each other on one street, without any housing nearby. I live close to what's called the 'woonboulevard'. (It's not even a boulevard, but what the heck, it's capitalism, so anything goes when it comes to advertising.) It means 'Living or residential boulevard.' It's basically everything you need for your house. Kitchen stores, bedroom stores and construction markets. It's on a street parallel to a major highway. Funny enough it's got a cycling path going both ways, but not a complete sidewalk, lol. We're more cyclist friendly than pedestrian friendly it seems.
We do have "strip malls" in Germany. For sure not as big and often on the outskirts of towns and more often not in the shape of a strip but more like a cluster with Lidl on one side and Aldi on the other and then a shoeshop or a drugstore...... at least where I live in Southern Germany. :)
the feeling ill on coming back is less about chemicals and just simply what happens when you move a significant distance. Different places have different bacterias and such and once your gut cultivates the bacteria of a certain region, moving to another area means you suddenly dont have the right gut bacteria and thus become ill. Its why you almost always feel ill trying new food on holiday, not because the food is "bad" but because your body needs time to adapt to the new nonsense your gut has to go through.
There are ways to mitigate it and it also depends how healthy your guts are normally too!
Most of the shopping streets in Belgium are car free and it is a pleasure to walk in it. Don't worry about cars.
Hey it’s the guy who plays American football in the Germs
I am subscribed to his channel. It appears that he plays American football as a job in Germany but I've no idea how that works. I would not have thought it was a popular enough sport there to be done as a profession.
yeah thats strange
You don't become a millionaire, but you can make a living. I don't know what the Unicorns pay, but a colleague of mine played soccer in a small town about half the size of Schwäbisch Hall and was paid €5,000 a month in the 4th division 10 years ago. The Unicorns are in the 1st and only league and are often champions...?🤔
Such small clubs usually have a local main sponsor,a larger medium-sized company, who feeds them so that there is something going on in the countryside.
I played American Football in the NL ""The Lelystad Lizzards"" (yes should be spelled Lizards we misspelled it by mistake LOL)from 1986 till 1992, just before the NFL Europe League got off the ground.
The thing is the NFL wanted to make the sport more internationally known (read ""make money"") and started a European franchise, talent from the USA got a job opportunity to make a living from playing in that league. Former fellow team members of mine even made it to play professionally in that NFL Europe league for some years.
AF is a small sport outside of the USA and Canada(sort of ) it will never become a big global sport. It was the best team sport I have ever played tho, and how it was/is regulated is an example of how to keep the rules updated and the sport fair.
A special shout out to The Kenion Ohio College Lords AF team,. who taught us Lizzards how to play AF back in 1987 and became a force to be reconned with in the NL, thanks, guys!!
Like how to get into sports in America by is via School, their team's talent scouts etc.etc. to make a name and money of etc.etc., In most of the rest of the world, it doesn't work that way.
I can tell you Germans love comperisons, and reaction Videos to any thing, about Germany more over we all speek englisch. I´m sure you will get a lot of views with this.
Paprika (bellpeppers) are that expensive in the USA? Here in The Netherlands I give my guineau pigs half a paprike a day. They are really cheap here in the Netherlands.
may i just say, i'm not much of a sports person either but i do follow Liverpool, because that club is different and has arguably the best manager in the world leading it. you should watch something about the LFC and that crazy guy named Klopp, i think you are going to like him.
4:55
Weird that I don't see more coments about that, but you forget the minimal / average wage in the said country, for example, russian groceries sound very cheap in US dollars, but that because if you convert their rubles monthly pay in US dollars, they earn like 4 - 6 hundreds.
Average salaries are much higher in the US than in the rest of the world, so they charge you more for everything. It's as simple as that.
Still blows my mind Americans still use cheques...
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Not all American brands ship their product overseas. They just have a European or German/France/Polish headquarters with a factory and all. Coca Cola will have a factory in almost every EU country i guess (or a license deal with a brand like Heineken or Vrumona who then does the work for them).
If all US products would be shipped the price would be crazy.
At a strip mall you'll find a collection of all the shops and stores that are banned from an american suburb - in Europe it's more like a strip of shops in a residential area, let's name it a "shopping street"...
In the Netherlands we also say paprika
And do not forget...those bell peppers could easily come from the Netherlands. We grow tons of them.
Hi Charlie, have a great weekend for you and your family ✌️🇳🇱
$1.50 for 1 "bell pepper".
In an upmarket supermarket i get 3 for EUR 1.99, including tax.
Funny enough the salad u mentioned didnt sound healthy at all, sause chicken en bacon arent all that healthy 😂
They are not shipping it over seas 😊 they are produced in that country or country next to them 😊
....each state in US could be a country on it's own.
It's strange Charlie that you have watched so many videos from around the world and still don't understand what party is for making your life better.
Seems pretty healthy to me to not completely agree with all of some other person's ideas.
both sides make good and bad points though and so i dont allign with either one
We could Build an amazing America with Democrats in public transit, public e-carsharing, public housing and public healthcare...
Maybe he supports an independent candidate. Anyway his political choice is none of your business
@@michalandrejmolnar3715Not that I'm for more government programs, but that's not what the Dems are doing either?
When he mentioned food he only showed the additives that are banned in other countries. That is just the tip of the iceberg. American beef, pork, chicken, eggs and bread are all banned in most of Europe. When American chain restaurants want to open in European countries they have to change their recipes or they will not be allowed to make or sell their food.
American brands are (mostly) not shipped from the US to Europe, they're made locally. I guess besides shipping costs and freshness, it is also easier to conform to regulations without having to sell better quality stuff to Americans.
There ARE malls and strip-malls here. They're not seen as such though, they're simply a conglomeration of various shops in one place, but in essence, they're strip-malls. They're quite hateful places and have similar problems to the American ones, except they're not so huge, barren and they're much better kept. Usually roads with 2 lanes per direction, with lots of traffic lights, and there IS pedestrian infrastructure, but you're not meant to walk there, and very few people do. It is very unpleasant, noisy and hot in the summer. You're supposed to drive there, but that's no fun either, particularly when everybody is going there.
A couple of weeks ago I had my motorbike in for a service, and had two hours to kill. The workshop is in one of these areas, and there is a big mall close by, with a new shop I wanted to visit. So I dropped off the bike and walked about 1.5km there. And then I couldn't get in! I couldn't find an entrance. There were stairs leading up, but they ended on walkways with some emergency exit doors you of course couldn't open. I've been running around there for a while until I found a restaurant with a open-air area on one of these walkways and walked in through it, doing my best to look as if I belonged there. Makes you appreciate how unwelcome you are without a car. But frankly it sucks with a car as well. It is so big that it has several multi-storey parking-garages in it, and even so you have a long walk to get in.
Austria here. Yes there are some kind of strip malls in Germany and also in Austria but you dont see them very often!
There is a reason why US wages are so much higher than over here in the EU. You have to earn that much to buy the bare necessities - and then you may not be able to afford them...
just to mention I just bought a USA brand of cookies in Brazil, I could smell something likely chemicals, but I thought this was probably safe, and just a different recipe from what I'm used to, so I gave it a try, and boy oh boy I was wrong, that was full of chemicals, with just 2 of them I got sick, my stomach was not having it, so my belly started to hurt, I also started to burp like 3 minutes after I ate it, and you must say "well you probably wasnt well", so I thought also, so I left there a few days and tried again with ONE, and again the very same problems.
So I hate to throw food away, I really do, when I dislike something or when I see that I won't be able to eat some food before it goes bad like fruits, or other food when I go on a trip, I give to charity, and homeless people, in this case, I threw into the garbage, and no kidding I draw a radioactive symbol, but I really should have sent to the sanitary vigilance and prosecuted, bc how that is even allowed to human consumption is beyond me.
And by the way, WTF you guys put in your milk??? like around every place I been in the world the milk goes and smells off in 3 to 5 days, is USA that thing can surpass easily 30 days.
I can walk to the store, then grab lunch a few doors down, etc. I can get a bus to the pedestrianised shopping area and find everything I need without a car. In the UK we have retail parks, which are similar to your strip alls! I went to one recently because they had a big toy store! I hate it, it is off of a motorway, the surface roads are wide and confusing, the car park is very busy and chaotic, it is loud, it smells like exhaust, it is hard to access without a car and walking around the perimeter of a car desert takes longer than if it was built on a human scale anyway, so people often drive from one part of the parking area to another, rather than walk with all their shopping. I hate this type of place, I hate driving as a way to commute, driving is only fun when the roads are quiet, and you aren't in a rush!
Who would want to drive to work every morning? Cycling is less stressful (all the stress comes from drivers nearly killing you - close passes, overtaking you and turning in front of you, not seeing you at junctions, tailgating you, cutting corners and nearly running into you head-on, opening their doors randomly in front of you, etc!)
Imagine how much social housing could fit in those parking lots? House people, not private vehicles! With the amount spent on infrastructure servicing sparse suburbs that can't even generate enough tax to maintain itself, you could easily afford housing projects!
NO salt in Mc's fries since it's an option now - ask for salt or ask for no salt on fries- UK
I'll go to one of your first questions about grocery prices being cheaper compared to US prices. A large part of the price of ANY product is the LABOR cost to produce it. If a US laborer is making $20/hr and the Russian Laborer is making $4/hr, where is the COST going to be higher?
You can be TOTALLY amazed at how much the price of something is, but not taking that COST into consideration is a bit disingenuous. The average wage in the US is $76K/yr and the average wage in Russia is $13K/yr. That means the cost to PRODUCE the item in the US is on average *_SIX TIMES HIGHER._* Of course it's going to be more expensive here!!
In Russia, however, the average wage is only converted in US Dollar 720 $.
In the uk we have some places like a strip mall difference is that there is buses that go there majority of the time and the car park is not as big as the us version. There can be times I've been where finding a spot to park can be tough
I hate retail parks.
Where my ex wife lived in Bodmin, there was a bus stop for the free bus to the Plymouth shopping centre just outside her front gate.
Why is there "natural beef flavor" in the US MacDonald's fries?
Don't Americans like it when they fries taste of potato? 😂
Do you think people in other countries have the same income as US Americans? The price of a bell pepper (Paprika in german language) in Russia seems cheap to you in the US, BUT what if Russians have an income of only about $200 or $300 a month? Do you still think it's cheap for them? Have you ever thought about it?
Small talk is normal in the Netherlads.
Why would anybody need to go shopping at 2.00am? Obviously if a shop stays open for 24 hours, the merchandise will be much more expensive.
Shout out to Niki. He is making some good content.
In Sweden thats a Paprika 😀
Hello, the problem with politics in your country (in general, im not expert) is, that you have right, left and that´s it. No middle "man" to represents you, as you said you can agree with some parts from both parties. In my country (czech republic) during election we have doesns parties. to House of Commons get every party that gets (I believe) over 5% of votes. If no one gets majority (not sure how much that is 🙂) then they have to work together, make coalitions. it can get pretty messy, for suru, but still better than US, as as an outsider right now, it seems to me you have only the extreme left and extreme right and nothing else.
What surprised me most is that it's not the US 🤯
Not sure how old this video is but Germany has just now,say a few weeks ago decriminalised weed
you should watch a rugby game .just a whole game ! ( not a video with rugby biggest hits ! ) Its not very big in the netherlands but its 2nd sport in europe ,hope you like it. Rugby fans a not like soccer fans ..they dont fight .
I react to te food too. I'm from the Netherlands. And my tummy reacts too american fast food too. I'm so used to dutch food änd farmermarkets foods
not sure when the video is from .. but Weed is legal in germany now ..
Germany legalized weed jus a few months ago.. Like 2-3 months ago
Charlie, the price difference is simple: you have more of a deregulated free market, we have more Regulation, even price controls. The reason for that is that communism was for a long tíme strong in Europe, even in Western Európe, so the ruling class had to make some effort to make life more bearable for the workers. Same in Japan.
We call it paprika.
The small talk you find in America is translated as shallow here. They don’t really want to know how you are doing or where you are going to. It’s just empty talk with no depth.
In my city in Germany we now have strip malls as well with a nice, large parking area. Germany can vary greatly from region to region.
I just couldn’t be arsed with strangers asking about my life. None of your business.
Germany just legalized 420
The one that kills me is "so what are yoru plans for the weekend?" 🤨 None of your business. I'm aware i should be friendly so I've learned to have some ehort canned responses. Truth is is I dont know .. depends in my miod Sat morning 🤷
I guess it is because we have Price Regulation. Even your Stuff is cheaper here. Incredible. But you have to know....we know (not all, but some) that whatever comes from the US might be very unhealthy. The EU allows only food which is consumsble.(No risky, cancer causing ingredients) I wonder if they got rid of the cancer stuff in the yellow Skittles. Salad..that expensive? Why?? The readymade or the fresh stuff?
Blue Smarties disappeared for three years while they sourced a safer blue colouring.
Americans miss the point for bad costumer service in germany. It is how we want it. If I demand 24/7 service, friendly employees no matter what and immediate responds then costumers will come to my company and demand the same. I don't demand it, so people can't deand it from me.
3 things to remember don’t talk about religion political views and wages. It always causes problems.
That's exactly your problem, that you ignore any discourse on the 3 topics. How do you want to resolve the clash between religions without discourse? How do you want to be democratic without political discourse? And how are you going to get fair pay if you don't even talk about it? 🤨
Another super weird european sport that made it into the US is jai-alai.
Nothing shocks me when I visit the US. It is the same as it ever was. All the reasons why I left long ago.
top video again thank you
In Russland ist der Durchschnittslohn 640$ Mindestlohn 160$
Im. Monat
seen this on Amys channel lol
oh yeah lol
We have the homeless people here in berlin very much