Number ten ..... Belgium ... multi-lingual (French, German and English) ..... they forgot half of the country speaks .... DUTCH (as theis native language). Greetings from .... a Dutchman.
@@daniard2034:says who? A Dutch speaking Belgian with no problems whatsoever with his french speaking or English or German speaking (or any of the 190+ different language speaking compatriots).Nough said 🎉
The first time I worked in the Netherlands many many years ago, I fell in love with the place & would have stayed there permanently but responsibilities at home & their reluctance to move put paid to that life, despite my continued efforts. I worked there several times over the years as I couldn't get enough of the place, the relaxed culture & the friendly people. It was just so refreshing. My daughter tells me her Mum (my now ex) often mentions her regret in not moving back then as she knows it would have meant a better life for all of us. Shame.
Germany is shit, the only reason I have been in Germany is because I'm forced to because of geography. Otherwise I wouldn't set my foot in that country.
to create a top 10 list is insanity in and of itself. The "best European country to live in" varies so much depending on a million factors. Do you want to work? What field are we talking about? Do you want to live in a big city? The countryside? Do you prefer hot climate or cold? Or maybe temperate? Can you speak the local language? Do you want to buy property? Or acquire citizenship? ... This just feels like someone closed their eyes and threw a dart onto a map of Europe 10 times lol
right, most of the "the best ..." videos are but still beautiful and they seemed to have seen/heard things for the first time we Europeans know these facts and even more about the other 50 different regions of Europe but they seemed to have enjoyed it and it widens their horizon ... apart from natural features the US is more or less the same all over while Europe is different everywhere (regional) and in all of ways: natural, political, cultural, sports, food, languages, fashion, art, architecture, history
There are countless factors that would go into consideration choosing 'the best country to live in' in Europe. I for example really can't stand the heat, so warmer countries are totally out for me (italy, greece, spain, portugal and most of France). Others can't stand the cold. It's also very likely that the 'happiness' index was also taken into consideration into that list, and THAT was made by a survey to the citizens of the country. Traditionally, the nordic countries are at the top (usually it's between Finnland, Norway and Denmark). In that list Germany is always very low rated, and the reason is simple: Germans complain. A lot. If there is the slightest flaw in anything, germans will find it and point it out and remember it. There is barely any other country where the citizens are as aware of its problems like the germans. On the good side that means that improvements can be done easier (to solve a problem you first need to recognize the problem), on the downside germans are never really satisfied with the status quo. So, as long as german citizens have even the slightest influence on the ranking of their country on any positive list, Germany will not be in the top 10.
Spanish here :) Yes, you can live more than OK with 25K/year (basic needs, rent, going out or travel, etc etc.). However, there is a huuuge difference in the cost of living between cities/autonomous communities. We love it here though :)
german here, to add to that Spain has a big youth unemployment rate, so jobs to enter a certain market or niche might be rare and it might be hard to get higher paid jobs without connections also it might be strenuous on the partnership if one of the couple knows spanish while the other does not - to move somewhere pick a country you both know the language of equally well, or both don't and need to learn together.
@@whattheflyingfuck... That also depends on the job. Here in Germany you totally need to know german to for example work as a cashier. Not as much though if you work as a mail man. And if you work at a lab or research facility you HAVE to know english and in some facilities german doesn't even matter. Talking about jobs here, ofc german bureaucracy is a whole other thing. There you better know german or bring a translator with you.
Quite a few subsea road tunnels in Norway. Longest right now is Ryfast at 8.9 miles. A much longer one is under construction called Rogfast and will be 17 miles long. Can read about both on wikipedia.
I'm from Spain, and I can assure you 25.000€ anually is not poverty level (that would be around the 10K mark). Average salary is around 28K annually here, but a lot of people earn below that, and there's a lot of unemployment.
Spain is a complicated mess. Most "states" are autonomous and the federal government hasnt much pull. They are also agrarian and tourism focused and have massive population centers with nothing in between. Thats why the low income,however cost of living is also low so it balances out
I'm Norwegian and I agree... I love Sweden but I would get depressed and feel lonely if I didn't have "my" fjords and mountains around/nearby me. In Germany and Austria I would miss our culture and Scandinaviaism and those small things that separates us from more Southern parts of Europe... I'm half Finnish and I love Finland but I can't live there because it's flat. Scotland I love, and I don't know what it's like to live there. But I like the nature and the people. Ireland is also awesome. Lovely nature but way too flat. I need waterfalls lol, streams, mountains, the blue, and our plants and I need blåbær and jordbær and good fish. I want the safety and I want the varied dialects and landscapes. I could go on forever, haven't even mentioned economic or educational matters (or the rest of/other matters). Basically there's a ton of places I would LOVE to go for long periods of time, but knowing I will return soon enough. The only place I MAYBE could live outside Norway is Sweden lol because it's a short way home :P And there's some okay familiarity in the Northwest or could be close in the south(west). I'm not so sure at all moving outside of Scandinavia. I like the culture we have going on and I like that I can trust my fellow Norwegians, and Swedes, Danes and Finns. OK, enough rambling!
I think Italy is underrated by the way. Been in Toscana/Tuscany. What an amazing people and great place. Way too hot, though............. lol need proper snow in the winter too
@@SebHaarfagre I live in a pretty flat place. All places that i have lived in are pretty flat and i have always wanted to have more mountains. I want to move to Norway at some point in my life. There are so much about Norway that feels just right. The nature, mountains, the people. I dont think i could move outside of Scandinavia either. My picks is based on what I know about those countries and those not in the list are countries i don't know enough about. Or they lack something important for me. Like Denmark, i like the people but not the flat country. Finland is on the list because of the nature and the people but i would have to much trouble learning the language. Scotland and Austria has amazing nature. Norway is the only place at the moment that i want to live. Those other places i want to visit. :)
@@Marina_-_- I like warm weather too. Sometimes the seasons messes with you. Especially if you have a outdoor passion which mostly is done during summer. But there are so much other stuff that is way better in the north. There are beautiful places in the southern part of Europe and nice people.
Expedia's Travel Guide series (with focus on tourism) is a pretty good run-down of great cities to visit as well if there's any particular country you're interested in, their video on Stockholm is really nice. 😉
Frenchman here South of France may be beautiful on many aspects, but these years (and more espacially the ones to come) if you don't wanna DIE from heat during summer avoid it at all costs. Heatwaves there are more and more violent. And it's without mentioning that the Mediterranean coast is too much crawded. Except for Paris and its suburb, the Northen half and the West coast (especially for example Brittany in the West which is very popular, or Burgundy and Alsace on the East) are, in general and in my opinion, best suited if you are looking for a place to move. While the South, espacially the South-East,is nowdays just for tourism and its unique landscapes
10 Belgium population is 11.59 M 9 Spain population is 40.72 M 8 France population is 67.75 M 7 Denmark population 5.8 M 6 Finland population 5.5 M 5 Sweden population 10.42 M 4 Portugal population 10.33 M 3 Republic of Ireland 5.1 M 2 Switzerland population 8.7 M 1 Norway population 5.5 M The smaller nations have higher GDP than most nations and their big companies make a lot of money and also they have higher taxes for social programmes. BUT as you can see they have a good quality of life as they all want that lifestyle. The US on the other hand had 321 M people and more poverty than most countries as the US pays for excessive military and NASA space program. All of the top ten have a mixture of Conservative, Liberal and Left wing politics either leading the country or in coalition with the other major parties and they all have parliamentary democracies. Unlike the US where the old model of Federal government which did NOT work for Romans either, who used that system until the Roman Empire was destroyed.
What I tend to notice is that smaller countries tend to do better when it comes to quality of life for the people compared to bigger countries, probably because they tend to be more inwards looking, they have less of an ego to flex any muscles on the world stage, so they put more resources internally. If it's quality of life you want without all the BS on the world stage, you can't go wrong with smaller countries, especially in Europe and even more so in the EU. Bigger countries could learn a lot from smaller countries in how to treat its citizens better, but I don't see that changing any time soon because bigger countries want to be a player on the world stage and end up throwing a lot of resources in that area, which doesn't really help the local citizens. Hence, why I've come to the conclusion that if you want a high quality of life, pick a small country, ideally one that is surrounded by other safe countries, basically countries in the EU and around it.
One thing I find dishonest in most of those videos, is the way they portray education and healthcare as free, I am from Denmark and we are free to take what ever education we want and be treated at a hospital or at our doctor (the medicin we then need to buy can often be expensive and not "free") but we are also free to pay between 45 and 60% in tax, it is tax founded and if you don`t use either, you still pay, it is great with the solidarity, I am not complaning, it is a good thing with an educated population (even though it also come with a lot of indoctrination) and with next to no homeless and sick people living in the streets (the few who do is often because of drugs/alcohol making them unable to take care of them self) .
Switzerland…cost of living a little high?😂😂 that place looks like a paradise and cost like THE paradise😂😂. If you earn your money in Switzerland you will be fine. Because salaries are humongously high. And that’s why they make it very very hard to begin a new life there. But what a beautiful places. For me. The most beautiful country in the world. Astonishing
a good compromise is to live in Austria, and work across the border in Switzerland. Especially in any field related to tourism and hotels. (wages in switzerland are almost 3x from Austria just across the border, and cost of living in both of those countries is actually quite the same in comparison to what you earn (means: 3x less in Austria)
@@anashiedler6926 It's even harder to land a job in Switzerland as a frontier worker than to live and work in Switzerland directly. There was a time when it was impossible for swiss to get a proper paid job that accomodates swiss living standards, cause ppl form the neighboring countries would work for less (lower living expenses and lower wages in their own country for the same job), so the government made some law changes.
A well known Swiss writer is looking for a small apartment since at least a year in Zurich. She posts pictures of actual offers. Last one I saw: 17m2 for 1250sfr! She writes funny, sarcastic tweets around them... Seriously, these kinds of rents and "apartments"(rooms) are ridiculously expensive. Yeah, Switzerland can be VERY expensive. You - need - to have a well-paid job.
Finland's education system is as close to perfect as it gets. The rule is that it's illegal to charge for education services. So no private schools. This means that if the rich want their kids to be well educated then they need to make sure the public school system is amazing. Therefore, no one begrudges the higher amount of public funds being spent on education per child, because they actually tax the rich.
Spanish here. The reason why foreign people do not find a job easily is because we have a high unemployment rate in general, moreover, we have a very highly educated population because education is afordable, most of us can speak two or three languages, English being compulsory learned since we are little children (younger generation), so the competition in jobs that require this level of education is fierce and foreigners without perfect Spanish are usually instantly discarded because there will be similar candidates with it and decent English. In adittion to that, if you are not Europeean(and even being Europeean), having your university degree recognised, making you qualified for a lot of jobs is hard. There is also the fact that the access to being a public servant usually requires scoring very high in a range of official tests, that may be almost imposible without a considerable language profficiency and more requirements that foreigners may have difficulty in meeting. On the positive side, the living cost here is a lot cheaper, healthcare is fine(not in Madrid) and safety extremely higher than in USA(that's easy tbh) that's for sure, many Americans that live here, work telematically for foreign companies and others become English teachers in private academies(not a higly paid job at all but enough to eat). There are also many that come here to enjoy their life when they retire from working.
I found Your old comment. You should make radical changes in Your school and education system make the chidren from birth to be much more independent. A less macho too. You could the Danish education as role model at vital parts from there. You need more people active making jobs and networking much better. We are doing fane and has record in people working. We import import people for the vacant jobs. As its now for many years Your old system dont innovate. Sometimes new ideas demand new people from schrach. None should accept so many brains, hands and feet. Im nothing. But has followed southern parts Europe and compared to northern parts. When UK collapse again Denmark will buy it back and them in EU again. Regardsfrom here. I have been imployed many ears ago in 2 years. I had nothng and no hope. That was bad bad bad.
She asked why a college degree doesn't grant you a job in Spain. Some answers come from the extremely poor enterprise culture of entrepeneurs, which see workers as a burden instead of an asset. Teachers, engineers or primary healthcare doctors struggle to get salaries over 25K-30K per year. But in Spain you're taxed 43% as soon as you hit the 50K barrier. Also classism and ageism is a big factor. For example I'm 52 and got fired at 36. Haven't been able to get a job in the last 16 years, even though I applied to 800+ positions. In my sector IT businesses don't hire anyone over 40, as they prefer cheap unaware youngsters who don't complain for their worker rights. Cost of living is 90% of Germany's but salaries are cut in half.
In Portugal the issue with foreigners is all about the prices of houses (either to buy or to rent) since with foreigners having more money available, all the houses in the capital (Lisbon) and surroundings are getting more and more expensive. Unfortunately this is also spreading all over the country like in Porto, Coimbra and so on. However if you are just visiting instead of living here, you'll notice no such issue. Also, it should be said that even though we are kinda annoyed with the raising prices for houses, no portuguese will blame foreigners. We blame our government, the lack of rules to protect the taxpayer citizens, the promotion the government created for foreigners (by having lower taxes for a large period of time) and the landlords who are hustling for more profits, never the tourists or foreigners who just benefited from our awful and super corrupt government system. Believe me you would love Portugal, we have history, amazing food, almost everyone speaks English, people are welcoming, and of course we have the best nature views in the world. All this is just a small rectangle of land plus a few islands. You want seafood we have it. Meat also. Fresh vegetables and fruits are just our bread and butter. almost everything is organic with no added "extras". Snow? we have it! Vulcano? We have it! Stunning beaches? Again... We Have it! Amazing views? That's just natural for us, and so on and so forth. Just don't mix us with spanish and we'll be your best friends for life!! 😀
as a portuguese i am more worried how crime increased by more than 400% due the last years goverment policies, and most ministers end in court and the new ones also end in court due corruption, the prisons are close to have no guards by the next year as well.
Why do they mention the public school, education is free everywhere in Europe 🤷. (But I really appreciate Finland 🇫🇮 and Danemark 🇩🇰.🥰 The emergency is free too 🤷; in which civilization sane want let someone die (this is not our philosophy 🥺🤗).
7:45 While still somewhat true, sadly it's not as true anymore... Yep, Norway or Switzerland has to be the best country in the world. Norway is like Sweden but better.
Hi Loners 👍🏼 YES the bridge going from Sweden "Malmö" and the last km before Denmark "Copenhagen" the bridge Diving in a tunnel under the water.. my first time was a bit tricky because the bridge going down.. It's esyer to drive from Copenhagen to Sweden because its dark then coming the light and the sea on left and right side....🇸🇪❤️🇺🇲❤️🇸🇪
Yes, I missed your videos. I really appreciate every single one of them. Thank you so much. You know, you'd be absolutely welcome if you decide to move here :D
Switzerland is nice if you are rife with cash and they tend to be rather restrictive with migration. Not sure who cooked up this list, but I suggest looking for other video's not made by some ill informed US real estate agency.
Tbf though, if you can WORK in Switzerland, then living there is not as expensive. But yeah, they are super selective about that and will always prefer a swiss citizen above a foreigner. I live at the swiss border and EVERYONE wants to work in Switzerland - they pay much more, and even when you keep living in Germany and pay german taxes on your swiss income (and with the complications that come with having to pay your taxes yourself, not something we are used to here), the income will be much higher for most jobs than in Germany (jobs like retail, truck driver, etc).
Have lived most of my life here in the UK, but have stayed in Norway (7 months) and Spain for just over 3 years, both are great places to raise a family. However, Spain seems to be getting stricter when it comes to outsiders getting work there over the past year or so and prices (like most of Europe) are steadily getting to the extreme. Norway is much more wild than most other countries in Europe, thus there's less infrastructure, which means there's less taxes to pay for said things (I Read once whilst there). Petrol (Gas) in the US has always been cheaper than Europe so this is one thing you guys may find shocking when driving in Europe, but the plus side is that Europe unlike America or Canada has interconnected rail ways meaning one can travel all over Europe by train and all cities and many towns have on time, low price public trams and bus services to.
I mean Norway has pretty insane infrastructure in rural places, I would be surprised if we are not spending more per capita than the vast majority of countries in Europe when we're building bridges for hundreds of millions connecting 200 people on an Island directly instead of by ferry. There are plans to connect the entire west coast by a highway without any ferries that's going to cost like 38€ billion by the plans and that is probably going to end up costing 60€ billion when the entrepreneurs have actually started building and been able to set their claws in the project.
well, Paris and the rest of france are 2 very different places. Paris sees 4 ot 5 times more tourist that inhabitants per year. considering that the tourist will probably not come back, nobody is friendly there ... they are all stressed out and specind so much time in traffic that they have almost no life next to work. In the rest of france you have lots of touristic places but also middle sized cities where it is nice to live. Accomodation is quite expensive compared to salaries, but nothing compared to the madness of Paris. ANd this is not only for south france but all over france. and lavander is only in a very small area of france. but you have everywhere good wine and cheese ... All over europe the education system is by far better than the US one, because you do not need to get yourself broke to benefit from it, and it is high quality.
Not a very good original video. On it's own best to live, visit and work are hard to combine already. Somebody did some quick google searches and flung this together. Not worth my time watching this if it wasn't for you two.
Where are the Netherlands? Where is Austria? All the 4 listed northern countries are blessed with long, dark, fuckin' cold winters.I'm a southern German, lived in the south my whole live and I nearly can't stand our winters. And ask for Oslo, 1000 miles up north...? The guys, which put up this silly list, should spend a winter in northern Sweden. More then 2 month, no daylight...
Take this video with a HUGE grain of salt,couse there is no such thing as a perfect country to live, even more now with the war in Ukraine making everything very expensive, something u will u feel all over europe. Then again, compared to the US,any other country is better to live in unless its a communist country.
Parisian are not welcoming to any one :P More seriously IDK when this video came out but in Spain unemployment isn't as bad as it was 10 years ago and in France the, i quote the video, "low cost of living" isn't as true as it was like 10 years ago. BTW the Portuguese bridge that looks like SF is normal because it was the same company that build it and in Lisbon they have earthquakes hazards. And there is a Statue looking exactly as the Rio de Janeiro Corcovado statue, so you can take a picture with both the bridge as SF and the Christ statue as in Rio in the same shot. I find it funny.
Norway is a risky bet from my point of view. The country is unbelievable rich because of its oil resources. I would not exactly bet on the profitability of those oil resources in the long run. I doubt that they can afford to keep doing things exactly as they do right now if that's the case. But I could be wrong, of course; I am in no sense an expert.
Norway is probably the only ressource reliant country in the world right now that _actually_ has a plan in the mid (to long) run. A lot of the oil profits are sitting in a fund to benefit the citizens in the years to come once they've run dry of oil or the oil price has crashed dramatically.
They dont spend oil money directly, but instead balance the budget using up to 3% of the profits from the "Government Pension Fund Global", or more commonly referred to as the "Oil fund". Oil and gas companies are taxed at around 75-80% total which is then funneled into this and invested globally. It actually owns over 1% of global equity markets.
Instead of larding some share holders abroad, Norway nationalised their oil industry and created a huge nest egg for after the era of fossil fuels. Imagine that,.. it actually uses its wealth to the benefit of all its citizens.
@@chubbymoth5810 It's currently at 15,13 *TRILLION* NOK (divide roughly by 10 for Euro, so 1,5 trillion EUR) and Norway owns at least 1.7% of the entire world's stocks. So yeah not exactly a "risky" bet
This must be an old video because it has outdated information in it. Illegal immigration causing most problems for example in Sweden has become unsafe in lots of areas.
More respect if offensive Irish stereotypes weren’t mentioned. and why do American people always try (and fail) to imitate other countries' accents? Please stop.
Only when you live in the Cologne or Bonn area. I live in the south-west of Germany (Black Forrest) and i'm a 15 minute car drive away from France. I think you need 2 hours to cross all of Belgium at the furthest away points.
I think that such a ranking is always stupid. Everyone expects different things from a potential new homeland. Above all, the differences within each country are very often extremely large. What is true in the north of a country can be exactly the opposite in the south,what is true in the capital can be completely different in the neighboring city.
What a ridiculous list! The Netherlands, Italy, Slovenia and Austria or Germany not being in this list is absurd, placing countries as Portugal (the poorest country in west Europe and quite grumpy people imo) and Ireland above them is just bonkers.
Isn't it funny that when a government cares about and works for their citizens the country prospers! The Nordic/Scandi countries seem to get the balance right more than most.
^Yep! But only if you like 5 hour days in a long fuckin' cold winter (of course only in the south). This is the reality, in all northern countries. I'm livin' my whole live in southern Germany, and I can't nearly stand the winters here...
@@adamclark6756 Sorry... I lack those "vampire genes". I really like long bright warm evenings. And to be honest, I haven't met a Tommy who wouldn't feel the same way. No matter whether in Portugal, Spain, France, Greece, at home in Germany, or anywhere else in Europe where I met Britons. I would guess that you are exotic in Britain. But don't get me wrong... You're welcome to live however you want. And if you prefer to be in the far north and watch the northern lights, then so be it... Greetings from southern Germany!
A list of the best places to live and work probably looks very different from a list of the best places to visit. To work, the list was missing Germany, Luxembourg and Austria. To visit, Italy, Greece and Croatia were missing from the list.
Ireland has a huge accommodation crisis at this moment, houses are very expensive to buy, and for rent... And the weather is not very friendly. But people are lovely❤
Most of the world has a housing crisis . As someone who works in hospitality I know for a fact that of three countries mentioned in that video that people are flocking to Ireland to work as wages are extremely bad there. Also a lot of Europeans are coming to Ireland to holiday as we don’t have extreme weather eg heatwaves where people can’t even go out . Yes Ireland has problems as does everywhere, am fortunate to have travel a lot of the world and this is a great place to live.
8:49 - That's because it was designed and build by the same company, just a few years later. The 25th of April Bridge (that's its name) shares two things with two San Francisco bridges: the design is similar to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and the colour is the same as the Golden Gate Bridge. 🙂
I am from Germany but also from the EU, 25k is like poverty Level Herr also. Dont known hat they got wrong producing this Video. The German average income is 50k annualy, and the EU states share the same currency and goods are also priced very the same in all of the EU. (USD and Euro are nearly the same value) So the Statement in the Video makes no sense...
Here in Spain the cost of living is aproximately 90% to that of Germany, but however, salaries don't even reach 50% for white collar jobs. Blue collar ones hardly get 1500€. Also taxes are too high here. The tax brackets in 2023 were 19% between 0 and 12450€, 24% between 12450 and 29200, 30% between 20200 and 35200, 37% between 35200 and 60000 (increased from 50000 last year), and 45% if you earn over 60000 (last year was 43% over 50k, I don't know which is worse). The Prime Minister himself gets 88K per year!!!!!!
@@BlackHoleSpain "Blue collar ones hardly get 1500€." "Spaniard" here. A member of my family, who is law graduated, with 2 masters (the compulsory to work as a lawyer + another master in international law), and more than 6 years of labor experience, earns 1500 € per month. However was lucky enough to have found a workplace, because as I suppose you must know, law graduates in Spain are among the most unemployed of university graduates.
Haver casi todos los países tienen sus cosas buenas y malas ,no hay ninguno mejor que otro .La gente se empeñan en ver que su país es el mejor pero no es así .Hay que mejorar y no relajarse creyendo que tienes el mejor país
The " fighting irish" does not exist in Ireland. It's a weird American stereotype and a bit insulting. Also Ireland is part of the EU which is a single market shared with 26 other European countries which includes trade agreements with a lot of the rest of the world so imports do not increase prices.
coast of croatia is best for climate hot summer and easy winters, year pay after tax 24000 euros, so for four of us 50000 euro yearly pay is enough to live nice, and that is medium pay for two
If you are worried about not increasing demand for housing/apartments: I heard in Italy they sell houses for 1€ in villages, in order to revive them (after almost everyone else has left). They actually want people to move there. The catch, you have to live there for at least 5 years if IIRC, and a lot of renovating is probably waiting for you.
Yeah, but renovating is not the only problem. Those houses are right in the earth quake area of italy. For german standards all of italy is an earth quake area, but the south (where these houses are) has it especially hard. Most of these houses are destroyed thanks to that and you would have to renovate them again and again. But i think all that included, it's still cheaper than buying a house for example in Great Britain at the moment.
@@olgahein4384don't they live in California? Anyway, I find northern countries beautiful (to watch on TV or visit briefly) but the climate would kill me quickly.
@@Marina_-_- Did you mean to answer to my separate comment maybe? There i talked about nordic countries and climate. But yeah, i know someone who also can't live until it's above 30°C, for me though 20°C is the maximum comfort zome (especially when i'm moving like workout or at my workplace). So, Iceland is pretty much my dream country (sadly, not in the EU).
@@olgahein4384 no I was just saying that they are used to warm weather and long summers so I am not sure if they would love living in colder climates no matter how good the conditions or economy or everything else is.
5:35 I’ve been on this bridge 😊, this is a tunnel under the sea turn into this long bridge. (I checked it is named « Øresund ». This is a masterpiece of engineering.🤓😄🧐
Hi from Spain, all that the video says about my country is true... is hard to find work, here the prices are low on cost of living and the healthcare is 1 of the best of the world and is totaly free, to many people of other countrys of europe find here a place for retire as paradise, ask a German or someone from UK cuz we are invaded lol xD "is a joke we love you guys" xD and in summer go to Mallorca or Ibiza ... you will see... The problem here in Spain is the government thats it, well and the unemployment. Just choose rain and cold on the north, center is cold winters an hot summers, coast the best place for live (not the north part if you like sun and be warm) and south is like hell just get fried on summer... xD
Here's an interesting fact about Europe: If you attend a private school, people will look down on you. The highest standard of education is believed to be attending a public school, whereas degrees earned from private institutions are thought to be the lowest. But admission to the best public schools is highly competitive.
For Spain you should definitely be talking MrLboydReacts. He's an USAmerican that spends 50% in Spain and the rest in the USA. A collaboration video with him would be great.
I like to do the McDonald's Test for determining how expensive it is to live somewhere. It's simply comparing the price of getting a large combo meal. I went on holiday recently and we stopped in Lucerne, Switzerland. Went to Burger King for lunch. I tend to eat big breakfasts, cheap lunches and local cuisine for dinner while travelling. It lets me try local foods while not spending all my money. Anyway, the large meal at Burger King in Lucerne cost just over 20€. A similar meal would cost about $15 in Australia and maybe $13 in the US. And 20€ is roughly $30 in Australian dollars for comparison. So, yeah. I paid $30 Australian for a burger, fries and a drink. It's expensive there, but everyone gets paid really well, so it kind of balances out.
Number ten ..... Belgium ... multi-lingual (French, German and English) ..... they forgot half of the country speaks .... DUTCH (as theis native language).
Greetings from .... a Dutchman.
and they all hate each other haha
@@daniard2034 Well, there are french speaking who can speak Dutch but they refuse to.
@@daniard2034:says who? A Dutch speaking Belgian with no problems whatsoever with his french speaking or English or German speaking (or any of the 190+ different language speaking compatriots).Nough said 🎉
I wanted to replay the same thing. It's over half actually, Flanders is more populated.
Vlandern, Flandres, some of us know, my girlfriend is from Wallonia (so she speaks French), lol... 😮😊
The first time I worked in the Netherlands many many years ago, I fell in love with the place & would have stayed there permanently but responsibilities at home & their reluctance to move put paid to that life, despite my continued efforts. I worked there several times over the years as I couldn't get enough of the place, the relaxed culture & the friendly people. It was just so refreshing.
My daughter tells me her Mum (my now ex) often mentions her regret in not moving back then as she knows it would have meant a better life for all of us. Shame.
oh, its the bad video with belgium in it but neither germany nor austria. Top ten with these picks is insane
Germany is shit, the only reason I have been in Germany is because I'm forced to because of geography. Otherwise I wouldn't set my foot in that country.
Im a German living in Switzerland and I don’t want to leave just like many of my German colleagues and friends
Nevertheless, more Americans are now moving to Germany than vice versa.
Almost 300,000 Americans now live in Germany
@@inotoni6148 and 300,000 Germans (including myself) now live in Switzerland, especially doctors and well-educated Germans
to create a top 10 list is insanity in and of itself. The "best European country to live in" varies so much depending on a million factors.
Do you want to work? What field are we talking about?
Do you want to live in a big city? The countryside?
Do you prefer hot climate or cold? Or maybe temperate?
Can you speak the local language?
Do you want to buy property? Or acquire citizenship?
...
This just feels like someone closed their eyes and threw a dart onto a map of Europe 10 times lol
Typical US american: somewhat ignorant and sugar-coated POV.
right, most of the "the best ..." videos are
but still beautiful and they seemed to have seen/heard things for the first time
we Europeans know these facts and even more about the other 50 different regions of Europe but they seemed to have enjoyed it and it widens their horizon ... apart from natural features the US is more or less the same all over while Europe is different everywhere (regional) and in all of ways: natural, political, cultural, sports, food, languages, fashion, art, architecture, history
There are countless factors that would go into consideration choosing 'the best country to live in' in Europe. I for example really can't stand the heat, so warmer countries are totally out for me (italy, greece, spain, portugal and most of France). Others can't stand the cold.
It's also very likely that the 'happiness' index was also taken into consideration into that list, and THAT was made by a survey to the citizens of the country. Traditionally, the nordic countries are at the top (usually it's between Finnland, Norway and Denmark). In that list Germany is always very low rated, and the reason is simple: Germans complain. A lot. If there is the slightest flaw in anything, germans will find it and point it out and remember it. There is barely any other country where the citizens are as aware of its problems like the germans. On the good side that means that improvements can be done easier (to solve a problem you first need to recognize the problem), on the downside germans are never really satisfied with the status quo. So, as long as german citizens have even the slightest influence on the ranking of their country on any positive list, Germany will not be in the top 10.
Sweden is also one of the best countries to live in
I absoulutly agree.
Spanish here :) Yes, you can live more than OK with 25K/year (basic needs, rent, going out or travel, etc etc.). However, there is a huuuge difference in the cost of living between cities/autonomous communities. We love it here though :)
german here, to add to that Spain has a big youth unemployment rate, so jobs to enter a certain market or niche might be rare
and it might be hard to get higher paid jobs without connections
also it might be strenuous on the partnership if one of the couple knows spanish while the other does not - to move somewhere pick a country you both know the language of equally well, or both don't and need to learn together.
@@whattheflyingfuck... That also depends on the job. Here in Germany you totally need to know german to for example work as a cashier. Not as much though if you work as a mail man. And if you work at a lab or research facility you HAVE to know english and in some facilities german doesn't even matter.
Talking about jobs here, ofc german bureaucracy is a whole other thing. There you better know german or bring a translator with you.
This is only a personal choice, it ´s hard to say what is the best, because European countries are very different in many ways
"You always hear of the fighting Irish" - You yanks love your stereotypes
same goes for "The French are rude to Americans"
Quite a few subsea road tunnels in Norway. Longest right now is Ryfast at 8.9 miles. A much longer one is under construction called Rogfast and will be 17 miles long.
Can read about both on wikipedia.
I'm from Spain, and I can assure you 25.000€ anually is not poverty level (that would be around the 10K mark). Average salary is around 28K annually here, but a lot of people earn below that, and there's a lot of unemployment.
Thank you for beeing so interested in my place. You are one of a few. I am german. I love to be EUROPEAN
isn't there germany missing?
Nope
Spain is a complicated mess. Most "states" are autonomous and the federal government hasnt much pull. They are also agrarian and tourism focused and have massive population centers with nothing in between. Thats why the low income,however cost of living is also low so it balances out
looks like us
As a Swede, my list would be:
1. Norway
2. Sweden
3.Germany
4. Austria
5. Finland
6. Scotland
7. Ireland
Not sure after that.
I'm Norwegian and I agree... I love Sweden but I would get depressed and feel lonely if I didn't have "my" fjords and mountains around/nearby me.
In Germany and Austria I would miss our culture and Scandinaviaism and those small things that separates us from more Southern parts of Europe...
I'm half Finnish and I love Finland but I can't live there because it's flat.
Scotland I love, and I don't know what it's like to live there. But I like the nature and the people.
Ireland is also awesome. Lovely nature but way too flat.
I need waterfalls lol, streams, mountains, the blue, and our plants and I need blåbær and jordbær and good fish. I want the safety and I want the varied dialects and landscapes.
I could go on forever, haven't even mentioned economic or educational matters (or the rest of/other matters).
Basically there's a ton of places I would LOVE to go for long periods of time, but knowing I will return soon enough.
The only place I MAYBE could live outside Norway is Sweden lol because it's a short way home :P And there's some okay familiarity in the Northwest or could be close in the south(west).
I'm not so sure at all moving outside of Scandinavia. I like the culture we have going on and I like that I can trust my fellow Norwegians, and Swedes, Danes and Finns.
OK, enough rambling!
I think Italy is underrated by the way. Been in Toscana/Tuscany. What an amazing people and great place.
Way too hot, though............. lol need proper snow in the winter too
Wonderful countries but the Americans (generally) like nice warm weather. In every video they wonder why there is no air-conditioning.
@@SebHaarfagre I live in a pretty flat place. All places that i have lived in are pretty flat and i have always wanted to have more mountains. I want to move to Norway at some point in my life. There are so much about Norway that feels just right. The nature, mountains, the people.
I dont think i could move outside of Scandinavia either.
My picks is based on what I know about those countries and those not in the list are countries i don't know enough about. Or they lack something important for me. Like Denmark, i like the people but not the flat country. Finland is on the list because of the nature and the people but i would have to much trouble learning the language. Scotland and Austria has amazing nature.
Norway is the only place at the moment that i want to live. Those other places i want to visit. :)
@@Marina_-_- I like warm weather too. Sometimes the seasons messes with you. Especially if you have a outdoor passion which mostly is done during summer. But there are so much other stuff that is way better in the north. There are beautiful places in the southern part of Europe and nice people.
Expedia's Travel Guide series (with focus on tourism) is a pretty good run-down of great cities to visit as well if there's any particular country you're interested in, their video on Stockholm is really nice. 😉
Frenchman here
South of France may be beautiful on many aspects, but these years (and more espacially the ones to come) if you don't wanna DIE from heat during summer avoid it at all costs. Heatwaves there are more and more violent. And it's without mentioning that the Mediterranean coast is too much crawded. Except for Paris and its suburb, the Northen half and the West coast (especially for example Brittany in the West which is very popular, or Burgundy and Alsace on the East) are, in general and in my opinion, best suited if you are looking for a place to move. While the South, espacially the South-East,is nowdays just for tourism and its unique landscapes
10 Belgium population is 11.59 M
9 Spain population is 40.72 M
8 France population is 67.75 M
7 Denmark population 5.8 M
6 Finland population 5.5 M
5 Sweden population 10.42 M
4 Portugal population 10.33 M
3 Republic of Ireland 5.1 M
2 Switzerland population 8.7 M
1 Norway population 5.5 M
The smaller nations have higher GDP than most nations and their big companies make a lot of money and also they have higher taxes for social programmes. BUT as you can see they have a good quality of life as they all want that lifestyle.
The US on the other hand had 321 M people and more poverty than most countries as the US pays for excessive military and NASA space program. All of the top ten have a mixture of Conservative, Liberal and Left wing politics either leading the country or in coalition with the other major parties and they all have parliamentary democracies.
Unlike the US where the old model of Federal government which did NOT work for Romans either, who used that system until the Roman Empire was destroyed.
Bridge-Tunnel combined between Sweden and Denmark :-) Live in Sweden then you got access to Finland, Norway and Denmark in an easy way :-)
What I tend to notice is that smaller countries tend to do better when it comes to quality of life for the people compared to bigger countries, probably because they tend to be more inwards looking, they have less of an ego to flex any muscles on the world stage, so they put more resources internally.
If it's quality of life you want without all the BS on the world stage, you can't go wrong with smaller countries, especially in Europe and even more so in the EU.
Bigger countries could learn a lot from smaller countries in how to treat its citizens better, but I don't see that changing any time soon because bigger countries want to be a player on the world stage and end up throwing a lot of resources in that area, which doesn't really help the local citizens.
Hence, why I've come to the conclusion that if you want a high quality of life, pick a small country, ideally one that is surrounded by other safe countries, basically countries in the EU and around it.
Like asking Americans 10 best states to live in. Its horses for courses.
One thing I find dishonest in most of those videos, is the way they portray education and healthcare as free, I am from Denmark and we are free to take what ever education we want and be treated at a hospital or at our doctor (the medicin we then need to buy can often be expensive and not "free") but we are also free to pay between 45 and 60% in tax, it is tax founded and if you don`t use either, you still pay, it is great with the solidarity, I am not complaning, it is a good thing with an educated population (even though it also come with a lot of indoctrination) and with next to no homeless and sick people living in the streets (the few who do is often because of drugs/alcohol making them unable to take care of them self) .
Switzerland…cost of living a little high?😂😂 that place looks like a paradise and cost like THE paradise😂😂.
If you earn your money in Switzerland you will be fine. Because salaries are humongously high. And that’s why they make it very very hard to begin a new life there.
But what a beautiful places. For me. The most beautiful country in the world. Astonishing
a good compromise is to live in Austria, and work across the border in Switzerland. Especially in any field related to tourism and hotels. (wages in switzerland are almost 3x from Austria just across the border, and cost of living in both of those countries is actually quite the same in comparison to what you earn (means: 3x less in Austria)
@@anashiedler6926 It's even harder to land a job in Switzerland as a frontier worker than to live and work in Switzerland directly. There was a time when it was impossible for swiss to get a proper paid job that accomodates swiss living standards, cause ppl form the neighboring countries would work for less (lower living expenses and lower wages in their own country for the same job), so the government made some law changes.
A well known Swiss writer is looking for a small apartment since at least a year in Zurich. She posts pictures of actual offers. Last one I saw: 17m2 for 1250sfr! She writes funny, sarcastic tweets around them...
Seriously, these kinds of rents and "apartments"(rooms) are ridiculously expensive.
Yeah, Switzerland can be VERY expensive. You - need - to have a well-paid job.
Finland's education system is as close to perfect as it gets. The rule is that it's illegal to charge for education services. So no private schools. This means that if the rich want their kids to be well educated then they need to make sure the public school system is amazing. Therefore, no one begrudges the higher amount of public funds being spent on education per child, because they actually tax the rich.
And the education is free on all levels, even in university.
Spanish here. The reason why foreign people do not find a job easily is because we have a high unemployment rate in general, moreover, we have a very highly educated population because education is afordable, most of us can speak two or three languages, English being compulsory learned since we are little children (younger generation), so the competition in jobs that require this level of education is fierce and foreigners without perfect Spanish are usually instantly discarded because there will be similar candidates with it and decent English.
In adittion to that, if you are not Europeean(and even being Europeean), having your university degree recognised, making you qualified for a lot of jobs is hard. There is also the fact that the access to being a public servant usually requires scoring very high in a range of official tests, that may be almost imposible without a considerable language profficiency and more requirements that foreigners may have difficulty in meeting.
On the positive side, the living cost here is a lot cheaper, healthcare is fine(not in Madrid) and safety extremely higher than in USA(that's easy tbh) that's for sure, many Americans that live here, work telematically for foreign companies and others become English teachers in private academies(not a higly paid job at all but enough to eat). There are also many that come here to enjoy their life when they retire from working.
I found Your old comment.
You should make radical changes in Your school and education system make the chidren from birth to be much more independent. A less macho too.
You could the Danish education as role model at vital parts from there. You need more people active making jobs and networking much better.
We are doing fane and has record in people working. We import import people for the vacant jobs.
As its now for many years Your old system dont innovate. Sometimes new ideas demand new people from schrach.
None should accept so many brains, hands and feet.
Im nothing. But has followed southern parts Europe and compared to northern parts.
When UK collapse again Denmark will buy it back and them in EU again.
Regardsfrom here. I have been imployed many ears ago in 2 years. I had nothng and no hope. That was bad bad bad.
She asked why a college degree doesn't grant you a job in Spain. Some answers come from the extremely poor enterprise culture of entrepeneurs, which see workers as a burden instead of an asset. Teachers, engineers or primary healthcare doctors struggle to get salaries over 25K-30K per year. But in Spain you're taxed 43% as soon as you hit the 50K barrier. Also classism and ageism is a big factor. For example I'm 52 and got fired at 36. Haven't been able to get a job in the last 16 years, even though I applied to 800+ positions. In my sector IT businesses don't hire anyone over 40, as they prefer cheap unaware youngsters who don't complain for their worker rights. Cost of living is 90% of Germany's but salaries are cut in half.
In Portugal the issue with foreigners is all about the prices of houses (either to buy or to rent) since with foreigners having more money available, all the houses in the capital (Lisbon) and surroundings are getting more and more expensive. Unfortunately this is also spreading all over the country like in Porto, Coimbra and so on.
However if you are just visiting instead of living here, you'll notice no such issue. Also, it should be said that even though we are kinda annoyed with the raising prices for houses, no portuguese will blame foreigners. We blame our government, the lack of rules to protect the taxpayer citizens, the promotion the government created for foreigners (by having lower taxes for a large period of time) and the landlords who are hustling for more profits, never the tourists or foreigners who just benefited from our awful and super corrupt government system.
Believe me you would love Portugal, we have history, amazing food, almost everyone speaks English, people are welcoming, and of course we have the best nature views in the world.
All this is just a small rectangle of land plus a few islands. You want seafood we have it. Meat also. Fresh vegetables and fruits are just our bread and butter. almost everything is organic with no added "extras". Snow? we have it! Vulcano? We have it! Stunning beaches? Again... We Have it! Amazing views? That's just natural for us, and so on and so forth.
Just don't mix us with spanish and we'll be your best friends for life!! 😀
as a portuguese i am more worried how crime increased by more than 400% due the last years goverment policies, and most ministers end in court and the new ones also end in court due corruption, the prisons are close to have no guards by the next year as well.
Why do they mention the public school, education is free everywhere in Europe 🤷. (But I really appreciate Finland 🇫🇮 and Danemark 🇩🇰.🥰 The emergency is free too 🤷; in which civilization sane want let someone die (this is not our philosophy 🥺🤗).
7:45 While still somewhat true, sadly it's not as true anymore...
Yep, Norway or Switzerland has to be the best country in the world. Norway is like Sweden but better.
Hi Loners 👍🏼 YES the bridge going from Sweden "Malmö" and the last km before Denmark "Copenhagen" the bridge Diving in a tunnel under the water.. my first time was a bit tricky because the bridge going down.. It's esyer to drive from Copenhagen to Sweden because its dark then coming the light and the sea on left and right side....🇸🇪❤️🇺🇲❤️🇸🇪
Spain and Ireland above germany? What a strange list lol.
The bridge in Portugal was made by the same company as the one in San Francisco.
In Spain you can live with 15k/year. I do it in Valencia city (3-4th most important city here)
Yes, I missed your videos. I really appreciate every single one of them. Thank you so much. You know, you'd be absolutely welcome if you decide to move here :D
Switzerland is nice if you are rife with cash and they tend to be rather restrictive with migration. Not sure who cooked up this list, but I suggest looking for other video's not made by some ill informed US real estate agency.
Tbf though, if you can WORK in Switzerland, then living there is not as expensive. But yeah, they are super selective about that and will always prefer a swiss citizen above a foreigner. I live at the swiss border and EVERYONE wants to work in Switzerland - they pay much more, and even when you keep living in Germany and pay german taxes on your swiss income (and with the complications that come with having to pay your taxes yourself, not something we are used to here), the income will be much higher for most jobs than in Germany (jobs like retail, truck driver, etc).
Have lived most of my life here in the UK, but have stayed in Norway (7 months) and Spain for just over 3 years, both are great places to raise a family. However, Spain seems to be getting stricter when it comes to outsiders getting work there over the past year or so and prices (like most of Europe) are steadily getting to the extreme. Norway is much more wild than most other countries in Europe, thus there's less infrastructure, which means there's less taxes to pay for said things (I Read once whilst there).
Petrol (Gas) in the US has always been cheaper than Europe so this is one thing you guys may find shocking when driving in Europe, but the plus side is that Europe unlike America or Canada has interconnected rail ways meaning one can travel all over Europe by train and all cities and many towns have on time, low price public trams and bus services to.
I mean Norway has pretty insane infrastructure in rural places, I would be surprised if we are not spending more per capita than the vast majority of countries in Europe when we're building bridges for hundreds of millions connecting 200 people on an Island directly instead of by ferry. There are plans to connect the entire west coast by a highway without any ferries that's going to cost like 38€ billion by the plans and that is probably going to end up costing 60€ billion when the entrepreneurs have actually started building and been able to set their claws in the project.
Fun Fact: "Around the world" was made by Daft Punk who is a French Duo 😎
25K in Spain is pretty good in most of the country. Perhaps not so great in Madrid or Barcelona.
Also look at France's West Coast. (Les Landes).
yeah u can live with 25 k in spain also in portugal greece u need more money if u go germany france uk
well, Paris and the rest of france are 2 very different places. Paris sees 4 ot 5 times more tourist that inhabitants per year. considering that the tourist will probably not come back, nobody is friendly there ... they are all stressed out and specind so much time in traffic that they have almost no life next to work.
In the rest of france you have lots of touristic places but also middle sized cities where it is nice to live. Accomodation is quite expensive compared to salaries, but nothing compared to the madness of Paris. ANd this is not only for south france but all over france. and lavander is only in a very small area of france. but you have everywhere good wine and cheese ...
All over europe the education system is by far better than the US one, because you do not need to get yourself broke to benefit from it, and it is high quality.
Not a very good original video. On it's own best to live, visit and work are hard to combine already. Somebody did some quick google searches and flung this together. Not worth my time watching this if it wasn't for you two.
Where are the Netherlands? Where is Austria? All the 4 listed northern countries are blessed with long, dark, fuckin' cold winters.I'm a southern German, lived in the south my whole live and I nearly can't stand our winters. And ask for Oslo, 1000 miles up north...? The guys, which put up this silly list, should spend a winter in northern Sweden. More then 2 month, no daylight...
South of France is wonderfull but there are a lot of people you can forget that 😂
Lynda is so linda!
Take this video with a HUGE grain of salt,couse there is no such thing as a perfect country to live, even more now with the war in Ukraine making everything very expensive, something u will u feel all over europe.
Then again, compared to the US,any other country is better to live in unless its a communist country.
Parisian are not welcoming to any one :P More seriously IDK when this video came out but in Spain unemployment isn't as bad as it was 10 years ago and in France the, i quote the video, "low cost of living" isn't as true as it was like 10 years ago.
BTW the Portuguese bridge that looks like SF is normal because it was the same company that build it and in Lisbon they have earthquakes hazards. And there is a Statue looking exactly as the Rio de Janeiro Corcovado statue, so you can take a picture with both the bridge as SF and the Christ statue as in Rio in the same shot. I find it funny.
Norway is a risky bet from my point of view. The country is unbelievable rich because of its oil resources. I would not exactly bet on the profitability of those oil resources in the long run. I doubt that they can afford to keep doing things exactly as they do right now if that's the case. But I could be wrong, of course; I am in no sense an expert.
What do you think Norway did with most of those oil resources?
Norway is probably the only ressource reliant country in the world right now that _actually_ has a plan in the mid (to long) run.
A lot of the oil profits are sitting in a fund to benefit the citizens in the years to come once they've run dry of oil or the oil price has crashed dramatically.
They dont spend oil money directly, but instead balance the budget using up to 3% of the profits from the "Government Pension Fund Global", or more commonly referred to as the "Oil fund".
Oil and gas companies are taxed at around 75-80% total which is then funneled into this and invested globally. It actually owns over 1% of global equity markets.
Instead of larding some share holders abroad, Norway nationalised their oil industry and created a huge nest egg for after the era of fossil fuels. Imagine that,.. it actually uses its wealth to the benefit of all its citizens.
@@chubbymoth5810 It's currently at 15,13 *TRILLION* NOK (divide roughly by 10 for Euro, so 1,5 trillion EUR) and Norway owns at least 1.7% of the entire world's stocks.
So yeah not exactly a "risky" bet
Where are Germany and Austria? lol, weird list...
They are in Europe, pretty much in the centre.
I'm not so sure about the accuracy of tfe vid.
im portuguese so
This is list is ludicrous this is the best countries for a tourist to live in.
This must be an old video because it has outdated information in it. Illegal immigration causing most problems for example in Sweden has become unsafe in lots of areas.
Bahaha No way to rile up the european Family like doing a country ranking...people get MAD 😂
More respect if offensive Irish stereotypes weren’t mentioned. and why do American people always try (and fail) to imitate other countries' accents? Please stop.
well, one has to cross belgium when moving from germany to france. that might take 2 hours. or was it one? :D
Only when you live in the Cologne or Bonn area. I live in the south-west of Germany (Black Forrest) and i'm a 15 minute car drive away from France. I think you need 2 hours to cross all of Belgium at the furthest away points.
@@olgahein4384 from hamburg. we went to bretagne via the netherlands and belgia.
Norway 😂❤
what's an x pat? someone who used to be called patricia? x pat! wtf
Somewhat superficial video…
:)
I'm guessing IF you two came to Europe for even a short period, you'll not want to leave and try and claim asylum to stay.
Belgien in and without Germany … can‘t stop laughing 😂🤦🏻♀️
I think that such a ranking is always stupid. Everyone expects different things from a potential new homeland.
Above all, the differences within each country are very often extremely large. What is true in the north of a country can be exactly the opposite in the south,what is true in the capital can be completely different in the neighboring city.
Ah, you talking about France.
Not biased at all ;) but I would put the Nordic countries at top, perhaps followed by the Baltic states, Poland, and Germany
Really wonder why they left out Germany? But, hey, nobody says that that video is 'objective'.
Ridiculous List. No Germany or Austria in Top 10 is funny. If its a personal choice, the maker of this vid should have point this out.
Germany? If you wanna be stabbed on the streets or obliterated by eco terrorists then sure. I’d agree with Austria though.
What a ridiculous list!
The Netherlands, Italy, Slovenia and Austria or Germany not being in this list is absurd, placing countries as Portugal (the poorest country in west Europe and quite grumpy people imo) and Ireland above them is just bonkers.
You need to do some further research on these countries to see the problems we are now having with mass and illegal immigration,
Isn't it funny that when a government cares about and works for their citizens the country prospers! The Nordic/Scandi countries seem to get the balance right more than most.
^Yep! But only if you like 5 hour days in a long fuckin' cold winter (of course only in the south). This is the reality, in all northern countries. I'm livin' my whole live in southern Germany, and I can't nearly stand the winters here...
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 from the UK here but love spending time in Iceland so i do love the short cold days in winter!
@@adamclark6756 Sorry... I lack those "vampire genes". I really like long bright warm evenings. And to be honest, I haven't met a Tommy who wouldn't feel the same way. No matter whether in Portugal, Spain, France, Greece, at home in Germany, or anywhere else in Europe where I met Britons. I would guess that you are exotic in Britain. But don't get me wrong... You're welcome to live however you want. And if you prefer to be in the far north and watch the northern lights, then so be it... Greetings from southern Germany!
A list of the best places to live and work probably looks very different from a list of the best places to visit. To work, the list was missing Germany, Luxembourg and Austria. To visit, Italy, Greece and Croatia were missing from the list.
Ireland has a huge accommodation crisis at this moment, houses are very expensive to buy, and for rent... And the weather is not very friendly. But people are lovely❤
What caused this "accomodation" crisis. All of Europe has an accomodation crisis. I don't know when this video was made but it needs updating.
Most of the world has a housing crisis . As someone who works in hospitality I know for a fact that of three countries mentioned in that video that people are flocking to Ireland to work as wages are extremely bad there. Also a lot of Europeans are coming to Ireland to holiday as we don’t have extreme weather eg heatwaves where people can’t even go out . Yes Ireland has problems as does everywhere, am fortunate to have travel a lot of the world and this is a great place to live.
8:49 - That's because it was designed and build by the same company, just a few years later. The 25th of April Bridge (that's its name) shares two things with two San Francisco bridges: the design is similar to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and the colour is the same as the Golden Gate Bridge. 🙂
I am from Germany but also from the EU, 25k is like poverty Level Herr also. Dont known hat they got wrong producing this Video. The German average income is 50k annualy, and the EU states share the same currency and goods are also priced very the same in all of the EU. (USD and Euro are nearly the same value) So the Statement in the Video makes no sense...
They were talking about Spain actually...
Here in Spain the cost of living is aproximately 90% to that of Germany, but however, salaries don't even reach 50% for white collar jobs. Blue collar ones hardly get 1500€.
Also taxes are too high here. The tax brackets in 2023 were 19% between 0 and 12450€, 24% between 12450 and 29200, 30% between 20200 and 35200, 37% between 35200 and 60000 (increased from 50000 last year), and 45% if you earn over 60000 (last year was 43% over 50k, I don't know which is worse). The Prime Minister himself gets 88K per year!!!!!!
@@BlackHoleSpain
"Blue collar ones hardly get 1500€."
"Spaniard" here.
A member of my family, who is law graduated, with 2 masters (the compulsory to work as a lawyer + another master in international law), and more than 6 years of labor experience, earns 1500 € per month.
However was lucky enough to have found a workplace, because as I suppose you must know, law graduates in Spain are among the most unemployed of university graduates.
Haver casi todos los países tienen sus cosas buenas y malas ,no hay ninguno mejor que otro .La gente se empeñan en ver que su país es el mejor pero no es así .Hay que mejorar y no relajarse creyendo que tienes el mejor país
The " fighting irish" does not exist in Ireland. It's a weird American stereotype and a bit insulting. Also Ireland is part of the EU which is a single market shared with 26 other European countries which includes trade agreements with a lot of the rest of the world so imports do not increase prices.
coast of croatia is best for climate hot summer and easy winters, year pay after tax 24000 euros, so for four of us 50000 euro yearly pay is enough to live nice, and that is medium pay for two
well none
for fries chocolates and waffles belgium and speakeng als dutch
07:21 - In the Us, they don't want you to thrive, because then you can take over.
If you are worried about not increasing demand for housing/apartments: I heard in Italy they sell houses for 1€ in villages, in order to revive them (after almost everyone else has left). They actually want people to move there. The catch, you have to live there for at least 5 years if IIRC, and a lot of renovating is probably waiting for you.
You are right!
Yeah, but renovating is not the only problem. Those houses are right in the earth quake area of italy. For german standards all of italy is an earth quake area, but the south (where these houses are) has it especially hard. Most of these houses are destroyed thanks to that and you would have to renovate them again and again.
But i think all that included, it's still cheaper than buying a house for example in Great Britain at the moment.
@@olgahein4384don't they live in California? Anyway, I find northern countries beautiful (to watch on TV or visit briefly) but the climate would kill me quickly.
@@Marina_-_- Did you mean to answer to my separate comment maybe? There i talked about nordic countries and climate. But yeah, i know someone who also can't live until it's above 30°C, for me though 20°C is the maximum comfort zome (especially when i'm moving like workout or at my workplace). So, Iceland is pretty much my dream country (sadly, not in the EU).
@@olgahein4384 no I was just saying that they are used to warm weather and long summers so I am not sure if they would love living in colder climates no matter how good the conditions or economy or everything else is.
That didn’t age very well for France did it? 😅
In spain 25000 is very good
I'm from Portugal
5:35 I’ve been on this bridge 😊, this is a tunnel under the sea turn into this long bridge. (I checked it is named « Øresund ». This is a masterpiece of engineering.🤓😄🧐
this is sad to see. :(
Hi from Spain, all that the video says about my country is true... is hard to find work, here the prices are low on cost of living and the healthcare is 1 of the best of the world and is totaly free, to many people of other countrys of europe find here a place for retire as paradise, ask a German or someone from UK cuz we are invaded lol xD "is a joke we love you guys" xD and in summer go to Mallorca or Ibiza ... you will see... The problem here in Spain is the government thats it, well and the unemployment. Just choose rain and cold on the north, center is cold winters an hot summers, coast the best place for live (not the north part if you like sun and be warm) and south is like hell just get fried on summer... xD
Here's an interesting fact about Europe: If you attend a private school, people will look down on you.
The highest standard of education is believed to be attending a public school, whereas degrees earned from private institutions are thought to be the lowest.
But admission to the best public schools is highly competitive.
For Spain you should definitely be talking MrLboydReacts. He's an USAmerican that spends 50% in Spain and the rest in the USA. A collaboration video with him would be great.
8:50 The bridge was made by the same company. Please see "Finland forest kindergarten"
I like to do the McDonald's Test for determining how expensive it is to live somewhere. It's simply comparing the price of getting a large combo meal. I went on holiday recently and we stopped in Lucerne, Switzerland. Went to Burger King for lunch. I tend to eat big breakfasts, cheap lunches and local cuisine for dinner while travelling. It lets me try local foods while not spending all my money. Anyway, the large meal at Burger King in Lucerne cost just over 20€. A similar meal would cost about $15 in Australia and maybe $13 in the US. And 20€ is roughly $30 in Australian dollars for comparison. So, yeah. I paid $30 Australian for a burger, fries and a drink. It's expensive there, but everyone gets paid really well, so it kind of balances out.
Sweden one of the safest countries in the world? Ha ha ha
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Yes, because you are already familiar with the northern part. 🤣🤣🫡