I live near Frankfurt and it was very interesting to her your opinions on this city! First of all, I think it's very unfortunate that you, and many other visitors have the district around the train station as a first experience in Frankfurt. This area is terrible, dirty and sketchy. I would not say it's dangerous per se to walk through there (at least not compared to some parts of American cities for example) but it's unpleasant and makes you feel not safe for sure. Unfortunately the districts vary vastly and while some can be very nice (Sachsenhausen, Westend, Ostend, Bockenheim), others just feel cold and industrial. BUT the district between the train station and the downtown is the only area that is sketchy and really dirty. Frankfurt is one of the best connected cities in Europe: You can easily reach Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, etc. in just a couple hours by train or by car, the airport has the most direct flight connections in the world and you're smacked in the middle of Europe so Paris, London, Berlin, Rome, Madrid, etc. are all quick to reach. Wiesbaden, the odenwald, taunus, the nearby vineyards, & the Rhine are just a couple near by things to check out and explore too. The area around the river is very beautiful in the spring, summer and partially in autumn too. As far as the weather goes, yes, the winters aren't super cold but they can be very dark, grey and rainy. The Taunus mountains are just 20 minutes away by car and those can be used for excellent trips into the snow! The summers here can be very hot tho! The last couple years we've pretty much always had a bunch of very unpleasant days around 100° Fahrenheit, the evenings and nights tend to be cool and pleasant tho. Overall I understand your points but I also feel like if you know the city and the area, it can be absolutely fantastic living there! Thank you!
Thanks for sharing. It's something that we discussed. We talked to each other about how unfortunate that the area around the train station is most people's first impressions of a place. We did stay in different districts though and they were way better, but at the end of the day, that train station area still causes the city problems for overall ranking. We really appreciate you taking the time to write what you did! It's great to read.
There is a saying when it comes to Frankfurt: "You cry twice when you get sent to Frankfurt - once when you arrive and once when you leave." Many people might have the feeling as you did, not too happy about it maybe sent from London or New York etc, but then they start to love the City. Its a great city once you really get settled here, you learn to love some of the "dodgy" areas and frankfurts internationalism etc. Its not a typical German city its very special. Its Frankfurt
It is unfortunate your experience in Frankfurt was not positive enough for you to “expat” it. I find Frankfurt is a very international city which is really great for many reasons, especially for expats. It also has a lot of cultural offerings - museums, theatre (even an English Theatre!), festivals, etc. As you mentioned, the restaurant scene is robust and many with international cuisine. It has a very good public transportation system and a major airport. It’s location is very central which means travelling to different parts not only of Germany but of Europe is quite convenient. It’s a major city but not overwhelmingly big. I did “expat” in Frankfurt years back and it was a wonderful experience.
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The Hauptbahnhöf train station in Frankfurt is the largest train hub in Europe and, as a result, has gathered transients, drug dealers and the prostitution buildings right in its vicinity. It is the area of town that everyone knows to avoid and seems to be the main focus of your video. Eighty percent of Frankfurt is completely awesome. It has a really cool mix of old European and super modern architectures all intermingled. It has gorgeous parks throughout the city. It is excellent for biking virtually anywhere you want to go. It has a killer drinking section in old town Sachsenhausen where the bars are in the old beamed houses and the streets are the old fishscale cobblestone style. You feel like you have gone back in time. The Opera and theater section is pristine and gorgeous with some fabulous architecture. They have a nice zoo. They have killer festivals throughout the year. They attract top name artists for live performances. They have a super efficient airport and, once you wade through the muck of the main train station, you have access to all of Europe without ever needing a car. Oh..the local trains and buses are great and, yeah, the food, beer, and wine are so, so good. Plenty of castles nearby and river cruises and Frankfurt has an amazing Christmas market in the Romer platz that is magical. I would move back there in a heartbeat. I'm sorry that your impressions were so negative.
Guys, you have done a great job to prepare that video. I definitely recommend you to promote yourself via social media. Your videos deserve more views. P. S. I am not a agent or smth like that)) I just a user who noticed this video have really low view rate compared to the quality
Thank you so much! We have a main channel that's 60k subs now and we wanted to get back to exploring the world through our content so that's what this channel is about. We can't quite put our finger on why it's not getting more views but we're keeping the main thing the main thing and that's @expatseverywhere - Josh & Kalie
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Frankfurt has been a city of contrasts for decades in Germany in a very small square. In the 70ies/80ies the city has the negative framing of Bankfurt, Krankfurt. Mainhattan turned the framing in the 90ies to a positive - it compares with NewYork or London, but is even 15 times smaller...
The contiguous urban population of Frankfurt is 2.7 million. The city has around 800,000 inhabitants without these suburbs. And 5.6 million people live in the greater Frankfurt area. So the city is bigger as expected.
Agree - near Frankfurt main station attracts quite a lot of ‘fragrant’ people 😅 (same around Rome…) I find areas right around central train stations in Europe can be quite ‘iffy’
As far as I know Frankfurter Apfelwein often contains "Speierling" too - that is giving it its "special" flavor. de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speierling en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormus_domestica
A fairly good analysis! I live here in the Westend area. Although the area around Hauptbahnhof is shady, I would definitely say the other areas are much better, especially Westend, Nordene, Bockenheim. Housing is certainly a factor and I am already paying a higher rent for a smaller space in the downtown. It is best to move away from the downtown where you will find similar conveniences, especially transportation and supermarkets. But I must also add that the totally different feel she mentioned after leaving the train station and seeing the parks and skyscrapers is just subjective. Actually that is what most people like it in here. It’s a relief being around much better places like a park after getting out of a shady area like Hauptbahnhof. But the way she made faces like how it was a put off is totally weird. Maybe it is a typical American perspective and Americans like it all crowded and busy. It is not that the US cities are well planned and are flawless. You should consider that as well.
Good video guys. I especially liked the pub scene where you were trying, and reviewing, different drinks. I think Frankfurt would be worth a visit but, based on what I saw, I wouldn’t want to move there full time and I would want to visit in the late spring or summer. Cheers!
Thanks, Tim. That was basically our impression. Thank you very much for the feedback on the pub scene. We'll try to include stuff like that when we can. 😁
Let someone show you Frankfurt, before you give the wrong information to the world. Did you try the Applewine pure? It's better to pour some sparkling water. Mispelchen is a different fruit, it's not an apple. Google Translation for Mispel is Medlar. The drink mispelchen contains of Calvados, some of the fruit water (as they come in a glass or can) and a fruit itself. Calvados is actually French, but it is Apple Liquor.
The apple wine? I like it !:) Been to Berlin in winter it was the coldest place I have ever been! I guess Frankfurt isn’t that bad but it’s a very conservative feeling overall. Nice video thanks
I lived on the outskirts of Frankfurt 30 years ago. Maybe it has changed, but then it was the most awful experience. The town centre was dead, as the more middle class people live in the smaller towns out of town. In the city it was full of immigrants. I come from Hamburg and used to work and socialise in the inner city, Reeperbahn etc. I always felt safe as a woman travelling in Hamburg, but not in Frankfurt later in the evening, in almost empty public transport. I found the people unfriendly. I moved there as my best friend was doing a training course there for 3 years,. She hated it, too. People there have no humour, and especially did not understand sarcasm. A lot of people have big gates facing the street and live their life behind these gates. We used to say they go into the cellar to laugh so their neighbours do not find out they are having fun. It was full of drug addicts shooting up in public, especially around the main train station.
You should go and visit Frankfurt again. While the area directly in and around the Hauptbahnhof still has junkies and beggars, the surrounding areas, even just 100-200 meters away from it, have vastly improved and have upscaled. And other parts of the city have also changed. I first came to the city a few years after you and I can say the Frankfurt now is definitely much nicer than before.
agree on many things - but as Americans i wonder you should be used to see poverty and addicts all around the big cities in the states, shouldn't you - I mean Michigan, parts of Chicago, San Fran, L.A., NYC .... rough areas even as large as some European small cities
Not where we're from and keeping in mind we left the US 15 years ago. Josh is from a small town on the border of VA/TN and Kalie from Florida. Seeing an addict on the streets was very, very rare. Basically, it only happened when we traveled to places like LA, SF, Chicago, NYC.
I had to catch a train 🚆 to Dusseldorf and I had Uber take me to the train station. I’m from Los Angeles and we skid row and I’ve taking a bus there to Las Vegas. Frankfurt OMG !!!!! Is 5 times worst, at least in LA the drug addicts have tents and tarps, hear everything’s out in the open you see everything defecation everything I seen so much I did not going to get out the car. The guy said that we’re here at the train station and I told him this is it and I did not want to get out of the car. You are so right, so anybody going be careful . This was 8/20/2023, Oh forgot when you’re waiting for your train in on when you’re on the platform they were drug addicts that have money in their hand and say that they’re a couple dollars short I’m sorry euro short can you give them some money they’re in your face all day you see them every 10 minutes
Frankfurt old town Dosent exist. All new buildings what are covered to look like old. WWII Frankfurt was bombed flat and nothing left behind. Transport is expensive. Summer temp is not 20. Its above 26 and 30. All summer
So so false with facts. Germans Dosent speak English!!! Hate speaking it and learning. Lived Germany 4 years and few times were able to use English. Salaries is low 1600 for normal people. Rents are cheaper in Sachsenhausen area.
Everybody who's mother tongue isn't English is a disgrace to me. Why don't they speak English like me? There is no reason for other languages than English! I guess thea are just to lazy to learn my language...
I live near Frankfurt and it was very interesting to her your opinions on this city! First of all, I think it's very unfortunate that you, and many other visitors have the district around the train station as a first experience in Frankfurt. This area is terrible, dirty and sketchy. I would not say it's dangerous per se to walk through there (at least not compared to some parts of American cities for example) but it's unpleasant and makes you feel not safe for sure.
Unfortunately the districts vary vastly and while some can be very nice (Sachsenhausen, Westend, Ostend, Bockenheim), others just feel cold and industrial. BUT the district between the train station and the downtown is the only area that is sketchy and really dirty.
Frankfurt is one of the best connected cities in Europe: You can easily reach Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, etc. in just a couple hours by train or by car, the airport has the most direct flight connections in the world and you're smacked in the middle of Europe so Paris, London, Berlin, Rome, Madrid, etc. are all quick to reach. Wiesbaden, the odenwald, taunus, the nearby vineyards, & the Rhine are just a couple near by things to check out and explore too.
The area around the river is very beautiful in the spring, summer and partially in autumn too. As far as the weather goes, yes, the winters aren't super cold but they can be very dark, grey and rainy. The Taunus mountains are just 20 minutes away by car and those can be used for excellent trips into the snow!
The summers here can be very hot tho! The last couple years we've pretty much always had a bunch of very unpleasant days around 100° Fahrenheit, the evenings and nights tend to be cool and pleasant tho.
Overall I understand your points but I also feel like if you know the city and the area, it can be absolutely fantastic living there! Thank you!
Thanks for sharing. It's something that we discussed. We talked to each other about how unfortunate that the area around the train station is most people's first impressions of a place. We did stay in different districts though and they were way better, but at the end of the day, that train station area still causes the city problems for overall ranking.
We really appreciate you taking the time to write what you did! It's great to read.
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There is a saying when it comes to Frankfurt: "You cry twice when you get sent to Frankfurt - once when you arrive and once when you leave."
Many people might have the feeling as you did, not too happy about it maybe sent from London or New York etc, but then they start to love the City.
Its a great city once you really get settled here, you learn to love some of the "dodgy" areas and frankfurts internationalism etc.
Its not a typical German city its very special.
Its Frankfurt
Thanks for sharing!
It is unfortunate your experience in Frankfurt was not positive enough for you to “expat” it. I find Frankfurt is a very international city which is really great for many reasons, especially for expats. It also has a lot of cultural offerings - museums, theatre (even an English Theatre!), festivals, etc. As you mentioned, the restaurant scene is robust and many with international cuisine. It has a very good public transportation system and a major airport. It’s location is very central which means travelling to different parts not only of Germany but of Europe is quite convenient. It’s a major city but not overwhelmingly big. I did “expat” in Frankfurt years back and it was a wonderful experience.
Thanks for sharing your take on it! What a hub it is, right? - Josh & Kalie
Greatest City in Germany. Worth a visit and a wonderful place to live.
This seems to be a very interesting place, I hope I can visit sometime in the future. Seeing and sharing places like this is why I love traveling and make videos so much! And please keep up the great job! Subscribed!!
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The Hauptbahnhöf train station in Frankfurt is the largest train hub in Europe and, as a result, has gathered transients, drug dealers and the prostitution buildings right in its vicinity. It is the area of town that everyone knows to avoid and seems to be the main focus of your video.
Eighty percent of Frankfurt is completely awesome. It has a really cool mix of old European and super modern architectures all intermingled. It has gorgeous parks throughout the city. It is excellent for biking virtually anywhere you want to go. It has a killer drinking section in old town Sachsenhausen where the bars are in the old beamed houses and the streets are the old fishscale cobblestone style. You feel like you have gone back in time. The Opera and theater section is pristine and gorgeous with some fabulous architecture. They have a nice zoo. They have killer festivals throughout the year. They attract top name artists for live performances. They have a super efficient airport and, once you wade through the muck of the main train station, you have access to all of Europe without ever needing a car. Oh..the local trains and buses are great and, yeah, the food, beer, and wine are so, so good. Plenty of castles nearby and river cruises and Frankfurt has an amazing Christmas market in the Romer platz that is magical.
I would move back there in a heartbeat. I'm sorry that your impressions were so negative.
This is lovely that you are exploring different areas and countries. Thank you kindly for sharing
Thanks, Avery. We've always loved traveling and exploring different places. We're glad to share it. - Josh & Kalie
Guys, you have done a great job to prepare that video. I definitely recommend you to promote yourself via social media. Your videos deserve more views.
P. S. I am not a agent or smth like that)) I just a user who noticed this video have really low view rate compared to the quality
Thank you so much! We have a main channel that's 60k subs now and we wanted to get back to exploring the world through our content so that's what this channel is about. We can't quite put our finger on why it's not getting more views but we're keeping the main thing the main thing and that's @expatseverywhere - Josh & Kalie
Your videos are quite decent for the views that you get. Been following since sometime. You’ll should probably research bit more about how to get more views, you’ll deserve it. ( pls ignore if you are already well versed with how viewership algorithms work )
Frankfurt has been a city of contrasts for decades in Germany in a very small square. In the 70ies/80ies the city has the negative framing of Bankfurt, Krankfurt.
Mainhattan turned the framing in the 90ies to a positive - it compares with NewYork or London, but is even 15 times smaller...
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. - Josh & Kalie
The contiguous urban population of Frankfurt is 2.7 million. The city has around 800,000 inhabitants without these suburbs. And 5.6 million people live in the greater Frankfurt area. So the city is bigger as expected.
Agree - near Frankfurt main station attracts quite a lot of ‘fragrant’ people 😅 (same around Rome…) I find areas right around central train stations in Europe can be quite ‘iffy’
That's what we've found too. It's not too different than Porto although it'll be interesting to see what happens to Campanhã. - Josh & Kalie
I found this in Tokio Ueno too. You can find this in every big city around the world.
Although, this video gives a different impression, the sun does shine eventually. 😞
As far as I know Frankfurter Apfelwein often contains "Speierling" too - that is giving it its "special" flavor.
de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speierling
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormus_domestica
A fairly good analysis! I live here in the Westend area. Although the area around Hauptbahnhof is shady, I would definitely say the other areas are much better, especially Westend, Nordene, Bockenheim. Housing is certainly a factor and I am already paying a higher rent for a smaller space in the downtown. It is best to move away from the downtown where you will find similar conveniences, especially transportation and supermarkets.
But I must also add that the totally different feel she mentioned after leaving the train station and seeing the parks and skyscrapers is just subjective. Actually that is what most people like it in here. It’s a relief being around much better places like a park after getting out of a shady area like Hauptbahnhof. But the way she made faces like how it was a put off is totally weird. Maybe it is a typical American perspective and Americans like it all crowded and busy. It is not that the US cities are well planned and are flawless. You should consider that as well.
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Good video guys. I especially liked the pub scene where you were trying, and reviewing, different drinks. I think Frankfurt would be worth a visit but, based on what I saw, I wouldn’t want to move there full time and I would want to visit in the late spring or summer. Cheers!
Thanks, Tim. That was basically our impression. Thank you very much for the feedback on the pub scene. We'll try to include stuff like that when we can. 😁
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Let someone show you Frankfurt, before you give the wrong information to the world. Did you try the Applewine pure? It's better to pour some sparkling water. Mispelchen is a different fruit, it's not an apple. Google Translation for Mispel is Medlar. The drink mispelchen contains of Calvados, some of the fruit water (as they come in a glass or can) and a fruit itself. Calvados is actually French, but it is Apple Liquor.
The apple
wine? I like it !:) Been to Berlin in winter it was the coldest place I have ever been! I guess Frankfurt isn’t that bad but it’s a very conservative feeling overall. Nice video thanks
Thanks, Rachel. Kalie likes it because it has wine in the name. - Josh
Thanks a lot, good luck you guys
Our pleasure! Thank you.
Just stay where you are. All you do is to devastate the housing prices even more.
I lived on the outskirts of Frankfurt 30 years ago. Maybe it has changed, but then it was the most awful experience. The town centre was dead, as the more middle class people live in the smaller towns out of town. In the city it was full of immigrants. I come from Hamburg and used to work and socialise in the inner city, Reeperbahn etc. I always felt safe as a woman travelling in Hamburg, but not in Frankfurt later in the evening, in almost empty public transport. I found the people unfriendly. I moved there as my best friend was doing a training course there for 3 years,. She hated it, too. People there have no humour, and especially did not understand sarcasm. A lot of people have big gates facing the street and live their life behind these gates. We used to say they go into the cellar to laugh so their neighbours do not find out they are having fun. It was full of drug addicts shooting up in public, especially around the main train station.
Thanks for sharing your experience! Valuable insight.
You should go and visit Frankfurt again. While the area directly in and around the Hauptbahnhof still has junkies and beggars, the surrounding areas, even just 100-200 meters away from it, have vastly improved and have upscaled. And other parts of the city have also changed. I first came to the city a few years after you and I can say the Frankfurt now is definitely much nicer than before.
I was born there. I was just doing a search of American kids born in Frankfurt and here I am.
Wow. We're not American kids born in Frankfurt but we're glad that you're here.
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Nonsense - but matching quite good with the (looking intentionally) selected weather situation.
Sorry, not sorry.
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Maybe there are too much expats there?
agree on many things - but as Americans i wonder you should be used to see poverty and addicts all around the big cities in the states, shouldn't you - I mean Michigan, parts of Chicago, San Fran, L.A., NYC .... rough areas even as large as some European small cities
Not where we're from and keeping in mind we left the US 15 years ago. Josh is from a small town on the border of VA/TN and Kalie from Florida. Seeing an addict on the streets was very, very rare. Basically, it only happened when we traveled to places like LA, SF, Chicago, NYC.
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Do you have kids? Want to move but I am a single mom of 1.
Yes, we have one kid.
I had to catch a train 🚆 to Dusseldorf and I had Uber take me to the train station. I’m from Los Angeles and we skid row and I’ve taking a bus there to Las Vegas. Frankfurt OMG !!!!! Is 5 times worst, at least in LA the drug addicts have tents and tarps, hear everything’s out in the open you see everything defecation everything I seen so much I did not going to get out the car. The guy said that we’re here at the train station and I told him this is it and I did not want to get out of the car. You are so right, so anybody going be careful . This was 8/20/2023, Oh forgot when you’re waiting for your train in on when you’re on the platform they were drug addicts that have money in their hand and say that they’re a couple dollars short I’m sorry euro short can you give them some money they’re in your face all day you see them every 10 minutes
Yikes! What a rough experience. Thanks for sharing.
Frankfurt old town Dosent exist. All new buildings what are covered to look like old. WWII Frankfurt was bombed flat and nothing left behind. Transport is expensive. Summer temp is not 20. Its above 26 and 30. All summer
Agree didn’t like Frankfurt
Lots of blacks fighting each other around the station
So so false with facts. Germans Dosent speak English!!! Hate speaking it and learning. Lived Germany 4 years and few times were able to use English. Salaries is low 1600 for normal people. Rents are cheaper in Sachsenhausen area.
Everybody who's mother tongue isn't English is a disgrace to me. Why don't they speak English like me? There is no reason for other languages than English! I guess thea are just to lazy to learn my language...
You mispronounced the name of the river!!!!!