Why are so many Foreigners Leaving Germany? Why I'm finally leaving for good! Ep 1
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Why are so many foreigners leaving Germany? How do you know when it's time to say Goodbye Germany? If the english speaking sub reddit is to be believed, it seems like many foreigners either have decided to leave or are planning to do so. And now it's my turn, why am I leaving, where am I going next, find out in this video.
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Watching you from Poland. Sadly the weather is also sad here in winter but I was surprised how everything digitalized here and bureaucracy is straightforward and easy.
Poland is investing in its infrastructure and yet Germans will still look down on the country and spit while having to fax health insurance forms between offices. It's crazy 😂😂
@jhrggh- Well said👍💯👍. I am Asian living in Germany. I am planning to leave after living here for almost 8 years. Germans love to look down on Polish people and also other ethnic groups. Germany still uses fax machines which is a big joke. Germans have a superior attitude but they can't see that their country is far behind when compared to other countries. I love Poland and how safe, efficient and educated people are. Polish people speak English very well and are also friendly.
I live in Frankfurt and we have a lot of the same issues you said about Berlin. Lots of aggressive people on drugs on the streets and it is worse now after Covid. Everything is dirtier and the U-Bahn is now in disrepair. The German mentality? Just complain about the problems and never fix anything. The German mentality needs a change, now. I was at the Bürgeramt to apply for a passport and the person working at the desk was basically SHOUTING at me to complete the last page only. I give her the application and say there is nothing to fill on the last page and she starts berating me, yelling until she turns the application over and then turns very quiet. It turns out SHE forgot to include the last page 😂😂. I decided after that I was going to leave after finishing my degree because nothing will get fixed, especially after this year's election. Safe travels and all the best you explorer!
What's with this year's elections? 🤔🤔
@@24wallachian Personal opinion: I am not a political scientist but I have a lot of thoughts about the election. Merz has shown himself as someone without principles focused solely on getting himself to be Chancellor and willing to disregard everything in order to get there. Especially with the most recent vote on the Bundestag motion, he is willing to use AfD support for his own gains and it will only be a matter of time before a CDU/CSU and AfD coalition. Meanwhile the common people will struggle even more and be squeezed by the cronyism a new CDU/CSU government will bring, made worse by AfD scorched earth policies.
Everything is worse because of the foreigners coming in. After a certain point, it is nearly impossible to fix things. German mentality is not the problem. Certain people have to be kicked out of Germany.
@@24wallachian … it’s just another charade, a dog-and-pony show that will end like it always does: the losers form a sh¡tty coalition to continue their sh¡tty politics and the winner gets shoved aside and vilified. That’s democracy, allegedly.
Berlin is not like the rest of Germany. It's going downhill for about 10 years now. "Talahons" are a problem in general but Berlin and Frankfurt have become really bad. You definitely missed the real Germany when you've never been outside of Berlin. I find the title of the video very misleading because "I'm just an explorer" is not really the answer to "Why is everyone leaving Germany?". What bothers me the most is the job market and the low salaries.
I lived in Berlin for 4 years, Hamburg for 6 months, Munich for 5 months, Frankfurt for 1 year, Düsseldorf for 5 months... German, the food, the dirt, the boredom, aggressive people and bad doctors are everywhere, believe me. You work half the year, so you pay for the Syrians and Ukrainians, their apartments and their food and everything... I speak German so well that they think I'm German, and yet I have no friends, as foreigners know! You wait for an appo with a doctor like 3 months and they're bad & incompetent... The quality of the appartments is shit!! Germany is communism and a paradise for lasy poor people
Yeah using the term "talahon" ur def. One of those racists german clowns 😂😂😂
You made my day talking about the winter from your perspective 😂😂 - "horrible winter blues" indeed! I also want to stay inside all the time, and I see these German families out for walks with their kids and dogs in the miserable cold and ask myself how they do it??? I'm from Hamburg, but lived all over the world, mostly in warmer countries, for half my life. Now I've been based back here for ten years, and every winter I tell myself "this is is the last time, not doing this again next year" but then something happens, a job or a pandemic or a relationship, and I end up stuck for most of the winter :-/ Have not yet given up hope that I'll manage to make it out in time next year!
I’ve been living in Berlin for almost nine years. I love your video, and can definitely relate with everything you said re - winters here. Your energy is infectious and you have a new subscriber 🎉
Yaaaas Gyal! the video quality has been upgraded as well as the audio, someone bought new equipment haha awesome video!
I think you are a great person. Good look wherever you go
Just find you with this video and omg such a nice vibe you have!! Basically you are shining. I hope that you will find more happiness and blessing where ever you go and live. I think they will be very lucky to have you🧡 I lived in Austria for 6 years and another 6 in Germany in region Frankfurt. So far my first reason to stay here was my job opportunities and experiences in my field architecture. I fluently speaking German and English everyday at work, and kind a like people around me. But I totally understand everything you mentioned in the video. Sometimes I also got a point that I question my life here, but most of the time in winter or when I see a junkie sitting next to me in the subway. I will follow you next videos right after this one. And I’m excited about where you go. Who knows maybe you will lead the way for your followers. Thanks to you that you are sharing your journey. Nice to meet you 🧡
The hair is giving and it is great to see you back here.
Thank you so much. I’m glad to be back 😊
You are so right about fees for overseas students in Australia. The universities are run by overpaid vice-chancellors who regard foreign students as cash cows . Its a source of shame and corruption
I have loved your channel! I just moved to Germany 6 months ago from America. So far I have enjoyed living in Europe!
welcome
I love that for you. Wish you all the best 😊
how did you find work? or did you transfer internally? fellow American trying to move 😅
@@saratabatabaei7403i got a job on the military base in Germany!
Am in Germany too may we be friends?@@jcychick
Were you able to find a remote job that will allow you work outside the country ? In my experience some remote jobs wouldnt let you relocate or leave the country. I will be happy to know that some employers are flexible.
thanks for sharing and for your honesty, especially about Berlin!!! excited for your travels ahead!!❤❤❤
Thanks for watching and I can’t wait to share their experience living journey ahead with you all.
I live in bergisch gladbach small city close to köln and Leverkusen,which is much better like what she said when you get older and have family such places are better.but I find NRW as the best state as a foreigner to reside in germany
i left germany this year and it was the best decision ever. that country is rotten
I agree with you. I’m counting down the days until I get my citizenship, hopefully soon. I’ll most likely move out because salaries in neighboring countries are much better, and the quality of life in Germany has declined significantly.
My dear sister i am telling you being born and raised here to a german mother and egyptian father .. being of north african descent ... I cant stand it anymore .. the level of racism is insane .. the way german society tries to outplay ppl with different backgrounds of migration disgusts me to the core .. u wont miss anything here .. i grew up they would call us "kanacken" or "sandn..." .. looking at gaza and its domestic politics the country is lost ...
I get bored too when I am too long in one place, I live in Germany for 7 years, and I would like to move in an another country but I don´t know where...I am exited to see where are you goin, maybe I get some Inspiration! Thanks!😘
You totally get it! Stay tuned and I hope you get some inspiration. Thanks for watching
Can you get more into detail on how you managed to get the tech job in Berlin? How important were your acquired German skills? My boyfriend is of Ghanaian (but with UK citizenship) and has a BA degree in Computer Science, 20 years experience of running his own IT company and currently studying for a Cyber Security MA degree. So far the application / interview experiences for tech positions have been frustrating some traumatic, so he stopped applying for now. The bureaucracy also drives us crazy. Despite all his skills it should be much easier. We'd really need some advice. He's not ready to move here before he hasnt secured a job. Thanks. Oh yeah and Berlin is also the grumpiness capital of Germany. Good on you for moving to a hopefully more positive place. I suggest Portugal. XD
Does he have a work permit? That’s where it starts if he doesn’t live in Germany and his address on his application won’t be a German residential address.
Tho I know some Nigerians in Tech working for German companies from Nigeria but they are not employed, it’s freelance work. So basically German companies can’t really employ you as an employer before you live here - too many regulations have to be met.
Also when doing remote work, almost no company will employ you and allow you working from outside of the EU because of cybersecurity and bureaucratic reasons. Even if you live in the UK, you would have a hard time getting employed by a German company. Maybe this is something you need to keep in mind why it doesn’t work. Getting a job in tech is not difficult here but you need to be already living in this country.
Oh and Tech is not a field where not knowing German won‘t land you a job because especially in that field English speakers are highly welcome.
@@carmenamakaHAHAHA ,cybersecurity, reason - biggest lie ever
13:11 I can understand :) heheh just arriving from 2 months vactions in my home country Argentina tunned by 28 degrees temperatures heheheh
Thanks. I can relate with most of your reasons for wanting to leave and know quite a no of people who have left. Came to Germany almost 7 yrs ago but recently decided that I have to at least leave with the passport 😁. I've attempted leaving earlier but for some reason it hasn't worked out so I interpreted that as God wanting me to first get a hold of that passport as someone who currently doesn't have a 'privileged' passport 😂
Hahaha God’s plan!
Why would God want you to suffer in a cold hell?
I love your energy!
Thank you 🙏
I’m living in Germany and don’t plan on leaving, but I find it so tiring how people constantly lecture you in the most patronizing way possible
This is just a suggestion, not a patronizing lecture :-) Next someone does that just tell them: "jaja, am deutschen Wesen soll die Welt genesen..." that usually shuts them up.
@ 😆 will do
ignore the teaching and patronizing people And stay away from toxic people. There are still enough great people in Germany
Hi , I have just the same "condition" you have , I am sure it makes our life more difficult but also interesting :-) You have very positive energy by the way, thank you for this ! :-)
I never believed in Hell, however living in Germany for a year showed me what hell looks like. I am glad I moved out of Germany. Best decision of my life.
I’m going through that hell, in the process of executing my exit plan
@@bmn6283no place is better
I’m so sorry you had such a terrible time and happy for you that you followed your heart to find your happy place. Wish you all the best
@@bmn6283wishing good luck
What happened?
Its interesting, a country famous for its quality and efficient industry, but when you go there you meet quite the opposite thing.
Love this! Your energy is so infectious. I'm also thinking of moving to Germany for my Masters but I'm looking for scholarship opportunities. Do you have any? And which uni did you attend in Berlin?
if you go to public universities (which are almost all), you probably won't have to pay anything if it's consecutive studies. there are some scholarships but we don't really have a scholarship culture here. regarding your questions it's pretty much "it depends on your individual circumstances". I suggest you look into the universities you're interested in and contact the student counseling services about your individual situation and how it'll work.
When you spoke about the tuition fees for international students in Australia, I began to laugh😂
I remembered when I first started my search for a country to go to for my masters degree, how shocked I was when I found out the cost of education for foreigners. I was seeing schools demanding NGN50m+. It was crazy.
Your energy is radiating!
yes - the winters are harsh & unpleasant here & much too long - Me, as a German hate this long dark months. - But it seems, you come from the South of the USA, because in the North, in States like Michigan, Masschusetts etc. the winters are even longer & colder than here in Germany ..
Interesting to hear as a German you dislike the winters like us foreigners,
there is no racism, there is no crime, living peacefully even though we have different ethnicities and skin colors, we don't blame that, this is Indonesia which lives in harmony and peace.
Love from Indonesia people❤
I hope you come back in Indonesia ❤
I live outside of Berlin, a small city not far away. I’m happy we choose not to move inside Berlin really. Wishing all the best 🎉
Germany is just a one side of Europe. Life is quite tasteless but there's more order in daily life (it was better before), trust me bureaucracy is worst in other countries like Italy and France too. But anyone who has a chance to live in another place (other continent) wouldn't really stay here. Europe unfortunately is so behind. Wish you all the good luck!
Thank you. My primary reason for leaving is that I just love to explore. Germany is a good place to live. It’s just time for me to explore somewhere else
Why dont you have a chance, to live out of Germany? You must not live in Germany. (Why are you in Germany?)
I was about to say they still insist on a wet signature above digital signatures. My peeps there complain about the paper work.
it's very simple. Anyone who has money and the opportunity emigrates. Anyone who has no money and doesn't want to do anything and doesn't want to get fines can enter the country without any problems. That why so many move to switzerland for more money and safety
🌎 You say, you can go to Germany. Why? // Germany is full of people - and it is about to be in a war in 2026, experts say. Germany is the main European point in war in future
Me as a Berliner looking for an appartment thinking, when are u leaving so that u can hook me up with ur appartment lol 😂 #im serious tho
😂😂😂 tell me you live in Berlin without telling me you live in Berlin 😂
@Waleochronicles hahahahha I just gave u one more reason to leave Germany lol
I want to move to Germany and be a psychologist. I currently live in America and it’s absolutely chaos here!
Germany is having a NATSEE rise with the AFD and you think that's not a chaos? entire industries are failing and lots of immigration and also it is 80 years exactly this year since 1945 lol good luck going there.
It’s chaos everywhere. Someone once said “pick your suffering”. I think it’s always about compromise, nowhere is perfect. Wish you good luck
@@Waleochronicles grabe your bible and choose your friends ,even tho humans are cant be trusted but only one in christ you can trust,,,,,,,,
I want to move to USA since I was 15yo, I live in Germany and believe me, here you won't make money and people are constantly in bad mood 😂
At least many common Americans still have empathy there and their personality.
I moved to Germany when I was 12 years old from a post Soviet country. Already as a child I didn't like German culture.
My first thought about them was:
"Bunch of emotionless zombies"
Some people are walking as they are already dead. And all was 20 years ago.
Now it's even worse, because the situation got worse.
With exceptions of some eastern or southern German cities.
You speak soo well… ❤️💯💯💯
How else did you expect her to speak. Ignorance!!!
I LOVE HER LAUGH !!! ITS CONTAGIOUS!
Come to visit my country, Italy🇮🇹♥️. You Will find true art, love and food.
entrepreneurs and highly educated people leaving Germany and welfare lovers move to Germany....pretty sad actually
I moved to Germany(Köln)
in November now it's February I'm leaving. i hate it here 😂 next week I'm moving back to The Netherlands(Rotterdam) 🇳🇱
you Dutch? and why? and have you considered other German cities?
@@AurioSmoke Germany can Suck the life out of you.
Oh no. I’m sorry to hear that. Life is too short to live in a place you dislike. Wish you good luck
@@dominicj7977 I'm Portuguese 🇵🇹
I came across your video ramdomly but it was really interesting. You have a great cool energy (not to mention you are quite a beautiful woman). Maybe i will watch more of your videos...
Did you apply for a citizenship?
I am feeling the same like you.
You're hilarious, good conversationist 😅
Thank you. You are very kind
I would like to see the juicy part "up in there". Lived in Ber for 10 years, 13 years in total in DE, my german is still at B2 level. But I am too lazy to leave.
Living here is not for the weak and Germany as a first world country needs to modernize a lot of things. Their lack of teaching kids about IT for example in the Gymnasium surprised me 🙄
The complaining culture is irritating. Imagine at work nurses complaining that geriatric patients need a lot of attention. They are senile and sick. That's why they are in a hospital to start with. The best part is that they complain but say nothing at company meetings. They have no problem-solving skills at all. 😂😂😂
Where are you leaving to?
I have no clue who you are , but somehow I miss you sis😅
Where is Wale going o? 😭😭😭 You look like someone that will go to Japan or Singapore
You should have moved to NRW..it's really better here.koln or dusseldorf
How good is your German language ability?
You are able to move from one place to another and love it because you are still young. There's an adage that says that when a man is getting old he keeps his farm nearer home..Yes Germany is cold in winter but Canada is colder German's bureaucracy is not new. On the whole I have not learnt much from this video
I like the addage you shared. It's a nice one. The video wasn't meant to "teach" you anything though.
Training as a restaurant or hotel specialist takes 3 years.
Ok.
For what?? For management yes, but not for service. If you need 3 years for service, then I have bad news for you
@@dayaana.vasileva Hotel or restaurant specialist, like cook, is an apprenticeship in Germany and other countries. You can work unskilled in a pub or a simple restaurant, but in an upscale restaurant it is more than a plate cab. The US term “low skill job” is stupid and derogatory.
Hotel- oder Restaurantfachmann, ist wie Koch ein Ausbildungsberuf in Deutschland und anderen Ländern. Du kannst ungelernt in einer Kneipe oder einfachem Restaurant arbeiten, aber in einem gehobenen Lokal ist es mehr als Tellertaxi. Der US Begriff "low skill job" ist dumm und abwertend.
@@arnodobler1096 oh okay I get you. But as I understand in that video she spoke about unskilled work in restaurants like service
@ I criticize the term “unskilled”, as she did in the video by the way (bravo!). I come from the industry. A restaurant can manage for days without a chef, but only a few hours without a dishwasher.
Do you have any idea how much product knowledge a waiter needs to have? Wines alone! I'm talking about professional establishments.
The jobs are underestimated and devalued.
So grey in Berlin
Very true
Berlin winter is a joke. Visit Finland
Indeed. Berlin winters are brutal on the psyche
WOW!!!!!
The same for me👍🏻
Come here to Slovenia
gestern waren noch 84 Millionen hier
Und? Was soll der unnötige Kommentar?
I have that same "condition" 😅
I think you needed to move away from the city. You would've been just fine
Too late now. :)
Please change microphone so hard to understand muffy.
Hasn't anybody taught you the word "Fernweh"? That's your condition ;)
Unrelated, you are beautiful ❤️
Toutes les grandes villes européennes sont une catastrophe ! Gauchisme, wokisme etc. Il faut vivre dabs de petites villes je pense.
du musst einen Spaziergang machen. Deutsches Sprichwort
come to Madrid Spain
How abt hair? Real?
When it comes to drugs Germany is better compared to other countries. Talk about the drug problem in UK, USA, CANADA, AUSTRALIA,.....etc
Have you been in Germany for 6 years and don't speak any German?
I do infact speak German.
@@Waleochronicles Aso ok.
Hast Du nicht richtig zugehört?? Sie erwähnt es mehrfach, Idiot…
The sun is awaiting for you on the other side.
I can’t wait 🎉🎉🎉
Yes, you have complained the whole video non stop. Glad that you could get a cheap masters degree in Germany. You evidently have never been on a New York subway if you think a couple of drunk people are a problem. And btw, bureaucrats are everywhere in the world, in the US it is not any better in many respects. All the best for you in your next country!
are you polish?
You evidently missed the point of the video. But as I said, I am also now fully integrated hence the complaining, what can I say, I’ve been Germanized 😊
There is no way you can ever, EVER compare the German bureaucracy to the United States, UK or any other western countries. I was born in Germany, went to college in the UK and I have been living in the US for 12 years. The bureaucracy in the US is a breeze compared to the German one. Everytime I have an appointment with the German embassy I get anxiety cause I know they will ask for a trillion things for one simple thing.
@@Waleochroniclesyou don’t understand the difference between how Germans complain and others. Germans do it productively. They say and fix it afterwards.
@@johannab7715 I'm not sure though if it is really better everywhere. In the UK yes, I lived there for some years. But when I lived in Portugal for some month I remember I had to register with the police and there you not even had to give the house number, but also which floor and which side of the floor, like left or right😆
Study in your own countries and uplift it . Germany js tired of all the immigrants who want freebies .
You see Many Womans, stay Curouse Travel, lern Much. They go mire and mora Far from Nature. At End Remain alone without Familly. I thik you know it well but trying to hide. If iyou want to change it, build your own Familie and live like a decent woman. Just open up yourselt and know well where is your place.
Wer ist denn alle? Was soll das immer, dieser Narzissmus
No one will miss u Here 😂😂😂😂
Hahaha
You not being arrogant. You have a very interesting story. I wouldnt have wanted for you to settle for a waiter job when you are a corporate professional. (There are exceptions, hard times, experience rampup etc dont get me wrong). Get your 🪙 and 🥖. Shalom.