I am jealous of the healthcare, the maternity leave benefits, most of your job benefits such as paid time off, vacation time, shorter working hours. How clean the country is. Your transportation system. I also love your highway, driving laws. Autobahn rules make so much sense and people just drive better.
I sometimes still find myself mentally adding 9% when I look at prices at the grocery store. Lifelong habit. Then again there are some products in Germany that are "dishonest" about the actual price - pfand products. There was a big bin of Coke bottles at REAL that said "1 Euro each" and I tried to buy one with 1 Euro and was corrected, I had to pay 1.25E.
Meh. It's easy to add the percentage on at the end. It really isn't a big deal. I think 10% even though I'm in areas where it's only 6%. Adding 10% I know that I have the money.
There's a lovely little channel called "Call Me Armstrong", where a woman recounts her story and rehabilitation with a certain brain tumor (thankfully everything is getting better and better). In one of her older videos, she compares rough estimates of what her medical examinations and treatments would've cost in America versus what she paid in Germany. I won't spoil the end result, but afterwards I certainly felt much more appreciative of being able to live in Germany where I also have access to that kind of healthcare :) Here's the link to her video: ua-cam.com/video/zHcwOgbsBYk/v-deo.html
@@fricki1997 Anecdotal as it is, I was reading a thread on the "Ask Europe" section of Reddit, and some guy from Belgium I think it was, was blown away at the fact that in his relatively young life, he had spent the same, if not slight less on healthcare, than one of the people from America commenting had spent just to have insurance for his family in one month. It didn't even include any potential use of that insurance, just paying for the coverage.
@@aaronwhite1786 Yeah, Americans supposedly also have to pay less taxes...and yet, when you look at the bottom line they pay more for way less than we have. I certainly wouldn't want their system, I rather pay my (income based) contributions.
@@swanpride Oh yeah. We definitely pay less in taxes, but then we end up paying way more on the backend. It's the most frustrating part about the debate, because people look at taxes as the whole thing. They also don't remember that as an American we pay for our own insurance, then you pay into federal Medicare, and then you pay into your state's equivalent of Medicare, Medicaid. So Americans pay for 3 insurance types, while only being eligible for their private insurance, and that's all before you even set foot in a doctor's office or operating room.
As a person with lots of health problems living in Germany I'm so glad, that I do not have to pay for most things. Scoliosis brace (1-2 new ones a year while growing) for 8 years - 10€/for each (health insurance pays about 2500€ for each) Asthma medication: completely free as a kid, now 5€ each time I get a new prescription... If I have to go under scoliosis surgery one day insurance will cover the cost of about 150 000€. So grateful for all that!
@AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVER And how much do you pay for your insurance per month? Or are you still covered by your parents' insurance? Do you even pay taxes?
@@tschehahh True, the US is about the same size as Europe and traveling around the US you’re going to experience different cultural traditions based on the region that you’re in. It’s not like traveling to Europe but it is like traveling between countries in Europe. And the US is even more ecologically diverse than Europe.
@@erikhieronymus7015 one of the most beautiful places ever!! They' re a cluster of polynesian tropical islands a few hours east of Australia in the south pacific
Not many people in Germany have money and time to make round the world trips, I have seen some young people who did that after school if they have rich parents and can efford to not go to work. Later you have to go with the contract of your working company. In my experience it comes first, if I would take a vacation longer than 2 weeks I was screamed at, how selfish I was....it is all not that easy if most of your money goes straight to the high rental fee of a small flat.
I broke my shoulder joint two years ago while snowboarding in the Czech Republic. I still had travel health insurance from previous vacations, for which I had paid € 8.50 per YEAR up to this point in time. What can I say, for patient transport by snowmobile and ambulance, examination, x-ray pictures, orthopedic arm sling, second opinion at the German doctor and follow-up examination all together I didn't pay a cent! However, the "Auslandskrankenversicherung" has upgraded me: I now pay € 8.60 per year .. For physio afterwards, in order to regain full functionality, however, I had to pay a contribution. I think it was 9 € per hour. So for this stupid accident that happened during an unnecessarily risky freetime activity, I paid a total of 108 € (because of the 6x 2 hours physio). All in all I can say that the German / European healthcare system is pretty great!
WOULD BE A BUSINESS IDEA. to sell in the usa 😉 !!!! You know it, so you know how it should taste! since nobody has any rights; YOU ARE FREE TO COOK AND SELL
So funny that every foreigner sees Döner as typical German. Actually in Turkey Döner was a meat-dish on a plate. Later Turkish immigrants in Berlin tried to make the Döner more "western" and made a sandwich with meat and coleslaw out of it.
@@janpracht6662 Well, the Hamburger was invented by a German immigrant, and it is still considered typical American. The German Döner is very different from the one in Turkey. That's what happens, cultures influence each other.
@@swanpride The Hamburger was brought to New York by seamen (from Hamburg). They put fish between bread, later the Americans used cattle and added some more ingredients.
Yes!!! Nutella does taste better in Germany!!! I brought some back from Germany before the pandemic & had my husband blind taste test... He picked the German Nutella. I feel that it's more hazelnutty maybe? Coke tastes different. Definitely look forward to my German chocolate (Ritter Sport Cocos) every year! Diner Kebab is 10 out of 10 for me & completely different from a gyro. Love my gelato! OMG i could name so many things!
Yes! Deana clears up the confusion about Americans and their "connections" to Europe. I often hear Europeans complain when Americans consider themselves Irish, German, Italian, etc. It's definitely a thing here that though we are American we also like to keep our heritage close 🥰
We would call that failed integration. Suppose a Turkish couple comes to Germany with their children. At some point the children have children of their own. They would most likely say that they are Germans with Turkish roots. But they were born and raised here and their parents also grew up here and would describe themselves as Germans rather than Turks.
@@antjeschroeder That's how it works in the US. Almost everyone born here considers themselves an American first. But many people also like to acknowledge where their family came from.
The fact that your ancestors came from Europe does not make you European. And I know you Americans well enough to know that it's not about pride over heritage, but that you Americans can't stand something that isn't yours. You never learned that you can't have everything you see and be everything you want. Unfortunately, Deana is just another sad product of American society.
10:48 Languages barriers... Well this is another thing for English speakers to be jelous of non-English speaking european countries. Most europeans are at least bilingual, and younger generations speak more than two languages*. Besides, if you are a EU-citizen, you can not only work in other country, but also enjoy the Erasmus Programm for college students, that will allow you to improve your foreign languages skills. *ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Foreign_language_skills_statistics
Nutella is actually different throughout Europe. In Germany and Austria(and generally northern Europe) is less sweet then in southern Europe(specifically in the Serbia, Bosnia...). I'm from Slovenia and we check if our Nutella is meant for the Austrian or Croatian and Serbian market.
I’m Bosnian and live in the US , lived in Germany in the 90s and nutella was everything and they finally brought it to the us and I don’t even eat it bc it’s so sweet just not European chocolate
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@@mooselodge3881 Of course, you are right that we pay more in taxes here in Europe than in the United States - but always in such a way that those who earn the most also pay the most in taxes. And not only here in Europe - also in Australia, see e.g. this video: ua-cam.com/video/vrlzw9GJlNc/v-deo.html If you think it's too long, skip until 16:00
Maternity leave in France is 16 weeks for the 1st and 2nd Child, 26 weeks for the 3rd, 34 weeks if you are expecting twins and 46 weeks if you are expecting triplets and above.
That's a lot. But I guess it's easy to implement such things if a government/parliament can just decide. In Switzerland it's 12 weeks. Just this year there was this national initiative if fathers should get two weeks of parental leave (instead of 1 day). It was very controversial (who does the job if he's missing from work).
In Estonia we get 1.5 years maternity leave with 70% of your salary. And when you do not work you get 70% of minimum salary. Also fathers can take part of the leave when they wish.
German here and haven't broken a leg, but a few years ago I fractured the inner part of one of my hand bones, so I had to get an x-ray and then an MRI and wear a splint, all this included doctor check ups at the specialist. I wasn't unemployed (worked part-time during uni), but I don't remember if that was back when I was in uni under family health insurance or already paying my own (because the cut off is 25 or 27 in Germany, after that even if you're still in uni you need to get your own health insurance), but I don't think I paid anything for any of it... maybe a few Euros for the splint? I had to get compression bandages for my legs a few years back and I basically needed to rebuy a new one to give to the specialist so that they had enough for the other patient. I guess I could have just gone and buy my own, but this way they show you how to correctly apply them. That was like 8€ for the bandages? And I'm taking pills for my hypothyroidism, so I need a refill about every 3 months and I believe it depends on what drugs your specific health insurance covers/co-pays, but I only pay 5€ co-pay for my thyroid medicine each time. I think it's so inhumane to have to live a life were you're afraid to get a health issue checked out, this only makes things worse and more expensive in the long run...
I had some ER tests two years ago and it cost $1000 even with insurance. My bicep tendon surgery was a couple thousand. An overnight sleep study is $2000 without insurance, a root canal around $1500. A broken leg can run $5000 in the ER for a cast. Cancer or AIDS can be $50,000 over one's lifetime. Some medications are $1000 per month or $200 per pill/injection. Of course, many old drugs for common problems are much cheaper. A pair of old blood pressure medications is $10/month with insurance, or maybe $15 or $20/month without.
I remember my healthcare professor telling us a story about her friend who got appendicitis. She had refused to take an ambulance because of the cost and even went out of her way to go to a hospital much farther away than the closest hospital because the closest hospital was not "in-network", but she was still saddled with thousands of dollars in hospital bills because although the hospital was in-network, the surgeon who did the surgery was not.
As a Canadian I am jealous of a few things. Public transportation for sure. Ours sucks and pretty much non existent unless you live in very large cities like Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto or Montreal. Your architecture. Here a building is 50 years old. They tear it down and build new. In Europe they at least keep the facade to make things to remain looking the same. I also love the food. Yes we can get many of your foods here but somehow just don't taste same. Brotchen und Brodt in Germany are AMAZING. We cannot get anything that even touches that. Your baking. Our baking here cannot touch what Europe has. The cost of your cell phones and internet compared to what we pay. However, the cost of your gasoline is very very high. Our beef here in Western Canada is THEE BEST. Our cattle are grain or grass fed instead of corn which makes a very big difference to the taste. All in all we love visiting all of Europe. So much to see, do, taste and experience.
Germans are actually very upset about public transportation (delays, full vehicles, poor connections in smaller towns and villages, expensive). It may be better than in the USA and Canada, but there is still a lot of work to do. In Germany we actually pay much money for mobile phone contracts (compared to other European countries)
The Schengen treaty truly is one of the biggest advantages of being an European citizen. You can work and live wherever you want without all the VISA hassle. You want to retire to a Fjord in Norway, you can (Norway is not a member of the EU, but part of Schengen). Or live half of the year in Spain instead of living through rain in the Netherlands? Done. I remember when I went to visit my ex who lived in Trier, we would just drive over to Luxembourg all the time and this one time we didn't know where we wanted to go, so we just kept on driving down to France and went to Metz. We didn't need to bring any passport (we had our IDs and driver licenses) and we didn't need to stop at any border patrol, etc.
Schengen allows free TRAVEL (especially for foreigners, like Americans, with a common visa-free entry, and a common visa for other nations) up to 3 months, but not free residency. This is the EU. You must have enough money to prove to Norway that you can support you and your family. But then a possible residency is not based on Schengen, but on Norways EWR membership and EU-EWR reciprocity. And therefore you could also migrate to Ireland, which is EU member but not Schengen member. As an EU citizen you could travel freely to other EU member states also before the Schengen treaty, and still can to those who are not in Schengen. You just have to show your ID at the border, e. g. to Croatia (EU but not Schengen).
You know you can do that in the US, right? In the USA (and Canada), we have what are called snowbirds. They live in the North for half of the year and in the South for half of the year. To travel from Boston to Miami is farther than travelling from Amsterdam to Lisbon. And Boston is much colder and snowier than Amsterdam in the winter. There are also fjords in North America, although very few. But natural beauty and a peaceful existence can be found in just about any country, whether you must drive 1000 miles or just 10 miles to find it. It's not unique to Europe.
I think you missed one important point (at last for germany). The standardised apprenticeship for learning a handcraft. After finishing your education you have the right to be called _Geselle_ and can change between handcrafts enterprises more easily. After finishing another period of apprenticeship you have the right to be called _Meister_ (Master craftsman) and are allowed to start your own business. and another advantage. One Currency for 28 countries. You don't have to change the money, losing cash to pay the exchanger. And sometimes the same product is way cheaper in one of the other Schengen states and you're free to buy it there without the hassle of trade tariffs
All US states have the same currency. The Euro has its advantages for European countries, but it also has disadvantages, as we've seen when some countries are impacted by recession and other countries refuse to help them out. In the US subsidies automatically flow to poorer or recession-impacted areas.
@@Craftlngo That's not what I'm hearing unless you're referring to something new in the past two years. Greece and Italy had huge impacts from the 2008 recession, and Germany and the northern countries just said "Drop dead!" and "Tough cookie!" if Greece and Italy had their own currencies, they could devalue them. If northern Europe had done what a currency union should, it would have helped those countries and given them low-interest loans and a full entral-bank backstop. Maybe that's happening more now, but I bet it's not enough.
@@sluggo206 A currency union is not about bailing out other states. That is a state union like the US. Until you have influence on the individual memeber states' policies one should not be responsible for their fate. But admittedly the EU constructions and agreements have their faults. Economic markets but lacking on the political side.
There is no "one currency for 28 countries." The eurozone (a.k.a. euro area) consists of 19 out of the 27 current EU member states. Denmark, Sweden, The Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Croatia all still retain their own currency. Even if you counted the 6 non-EU countries that have adopted the euro as their currency either through a monetary agreement (Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City) or unilaterally (Kosovo, Montenegro), you still don't arrive at 28.
When they were talking about ancient history I don’t think they were talking about the fact of the history. I think they were talking about being able to see and touch the actual remnants of that history. In the US, with the exception of the cliff dwellings in the southwest, you’re not going to be able to find a building that’s 1000 years old or more. When I was in Europe it was fascinating to visit ancient castles and cathedrals and old medieval towns. You just can’t find anything like that in the US. On the other hand in the US the natural beauty that you can find is better than anything you will find in Europe.
You won't find a BUILDING a thousand years old because the culture wasn't based on long-term houses or large central governments that would build large institutional buildings. The history is an oral history, so you can't just go look at buildings, you have to talk with people and spend time in the community. So it requires a different approach, for those who wish to.
Yeah, exactly, what Americans usually love is the opportunty to see all the old buildings and actually experience history. Naturally they can READ about it, but that's not the same as actually seeing something which has been around since the middle age (or is even older).
@@sluggo206 If you’re talking about my comment about the Clift Wellings in the southwest yeah they are 800 to 1000 years old and they’re actually buildings. I highly recommend you go and see them sometime.
Do not underestimate the natural beauty of Europe. The US has unique highlights like Hawaii or the deserts/canyons in the west. But Europe is littered with natural highlights, from the Nordic wonderlands of Iceland, Greenland and Scandinavia to the Alps/Dolomites to the coastlines/beaches/isles of the Mediterranean Sea.
@@dagda3000 I have to agree. I have visited the US and yes, the Nationalparks are beautiful and unique. But the Wattenmeer is just as unique, the Schären are have a calming effect which is hard to find anywhere else and naturally there are mountains too. Plus, I love drop stone caves.
There is a general misunderstanding about the minimum drinking age especially in Germany. The minimum age of 16 applies only for drinking in public. If you as a father drink a beer with your 15 year old son at home it is not against the law. Also it is allowed for minors to drink beer and wine in public if they are with a parent.
About payed parental leave fyi: in every EU country the mother gets 8 weeks of after giving birth and that is payed mostly 100% called Maternity Protection. That is for recovery and bonding with the baby. After that time she is allowed to work and in most EU countries she can take parental leave but won't get payed except for a few countries like Austria and Germany. In Austria it is also possible that mother and father share the payed parental leave that he gets this bonding too. But the best is not only that you get this time payed also that you keep your job for up to two years. They can't fire you during this time. I hope this information helped.
I’m an American and I agree with how Deana represented Americans. I’m definitely jealous of nations that have universal healthcare, mandatory benefits for workers (paid vacation time, maternity/paternity leave, etc), strong social safety nets, tuition-free tertiary education, use only the metric system (I worked at a chemical factory and found it frustrating that some parts of the procedures were in standard and some were in metric because if I needed to adjust the measurements due to needing to make more or less I had to do all kinds of math that wouldn’t have been necessary if we just used the metric system. I mean, as much as I don’t like the standard system, if the US only used that one then that’d still be better than the current way things are done where both systems are used simultaneously inconsistently throughout. Like I can buy juice in liters, but I have to buy drinkware in ounces. Ugh!), and great public transportation. As for specific products, even products that aren’t sold at Walmart an American can either go to an international store or order it online and have it shipped here. I’ve been to some international stores in the big metropolitan cities nearest me and found brand name products from those nations represented. I’m a nonIndian/nonNepali/nonBalinese practicing Hindu in the middle of Oklahoma and either can get items mailed to me from India or just go to a store in a nearby city and pick them up (or have them special ordered). I mean, when mentioning cars my thought was “I drive a Japanese brand car, so umm what’s the point?” I have seen a Renault here. I’m not sure where the person got it. Either they purchased it and had it shipped over or they found an international car dealership in a big city. Though I agree with Deana that it’s rare to see. It’d be like seeing a Tata here, though we are starting to see more and more Chinese car brands sold here....they’re mostly commercial vehicles, at least that’s what I’ve come across here. Most of the cars I see driven in my rural part of the state are Honda, Kia, Hyundai, Toyota, Chevy, Ford, Nissan, BMW, Mercedes, Chrysler, Volkswagen, Cadillac, GMC with a lot of people driving either trucks or SUVs of these brands if they exist in either of those types. The commercial vans here look a lot like those found in Europe with the most common brands I’ve seen being Mercedes, Ford, and Chevy. And there’s talk about changing the emergency vehicle sirens to be more like European ones due to multiple studies saying they’re better for pedestrians ears and some of my little city’s newest emergency vehicles have the checkerboard pattern on them now like I’ve seen on some European emergency vehicles (though ours have way more LED flashing lights all over them so not sure if the pattern was actually needed since they have so many lights on them I cannot imagine people not seeing them, especially at night!). Great video! Lots of fun!
Hands down....I am jealous of your health care system....I live in USA and have had 3 bouts of cancer.....to the point the only way I could rid myself of over 100K in bills was to file for medical bankruptcy....NOW after all this I feel like a total failure....I have NEVER not paid my bills....this defeated me MORE than cancer did.
Yes! I have a chronic illness and my monthly medical bills are easily twice my housing costs. No one should have to choose between buying their medicine or paying the electric bill.
Just 2 things I am really jealous of: die Bäckerei und Metzger . Ok...and vacation and holiday time off. Oh...and good cheap mass transportation. So yeah...4 things! Other than that, I'm OK. I can get pretty much get anything and everything else I want here in America. It also depends on where in America you live getting things you want. Some states are very "white bread and cheap beer". Stay clear of those states!
Hi, nothing is free. Hospitals are not "free". You just said you pay in taxes, which means lower take home pay. Do you have to go onto a waiting list to see a specialist? That could be deadly if you have cancer. Tell me the process if that happens, I am curious. I hear that in Canada with socialized medicine that is what happens.
@@gailpeczkis5292 @William Nauenburg - Not that I will go into a discussion for/against socialism, but yes that is the system we live in, and considering that I have worked in a low-paid job, and thus have not paid that much in taxes, I think I have received plenty for my tax money. I am retired now and both me and my wife + her daughter are living just fine from my retirement. My wife is from Thailand, which is why we are there 2 times 3 months every year - all of course without having to be afraid of getting sick. My own daughter graduated with a Magister of Arts (highest university degree) a few years ago. She received from the state the equivalent of approx. € 740 every month to live on, since she moved away from home when she was 20 years old. Think about it, if I were in need of a heart surgery - or other expensive/long-term surgery with a long recovery time - how could I afford it? Or when I get very old and need a nursing home - who pays for it? All of it - the state does. And yes - there may be waiting time for non-acute/life-threatening treatments - with a little longer here under covid-19.
Bloody communist ;) In Germany we have universal healthcare since 1883, introduced by chancelor Bismarck under emperor William 1st. Both notorious communists....
You guys are the cutest! I long for many of the things Europe has - great healthcare, awesome maternity leave (America sucks big time on this), don’t need a car in many places, easy to travel to different countries. And when you talk about the history - I know for me, there aren’t any buildings or sights from the medieval and ancient times like there are in Europe and the Middle East. Our country is so new. In Germany towns are planned out much better than in the US so that more people can walk and ride their bikes to get groceries and necessities.
American here jealous of most things you stated aside from the cars. I'm an Asian car brand consumer. Hyundais, Subarus and Toyotas for our family. The US education system and medical system is horrendous. Many European countries do offer excellent maternal care, some even do a year for mom and a year for dad. The US six weeks UNPAID and not guaranteed the same job just a job is terrible. It doesn't allow proper bonding time with the baby, the body is still healing, and many suffer from postpartum depression or anxiety and are not able to get proper care or are made to feel guilty. It is just horrible. I had a snowboarding accident two years ago that required a CT scan. We just barely paid off that bill after 2 years, the care was subpar and I still have complications from it but don't want to go back for a consult because of the cost. We have insurance too! And vacation time--we get it and then are discouraged from using it. My husband sells cars and has a manager who expects that he will still come in on his day off. It's insane. Now about the history, I think they more mean that America is only a bit over 200 years old. You go to Germany and they have churches older than the US. We went to the Porta Negra in Trier and the art museums, you can go to Italy to Venice or Florence, Paris to the Louvre, England's Buckingham Palace. The US has the Liberty Bell, Ellis Island, Boston, DC, Staton Island... our history is still young. So if you are a history buff, like me, Europe has a lot more to offer. I would love to be a German citizen. My husband and I both had grandparents from Germany and enjoyed the month we spent traveling around. Would love to live there full time. Your food is better as well.
When I was born in 1971 my mom went on maternity leave and when she went back to work she lost all of her seniority, vacation time and rate of pay here in the US. Also as an American my employer doesn't give holiday pay, vacation time or insurance and this is probably the 5th job I've had like this. It seems most places do not offer any benefits anymore.
The jobs that has alot of union do offer this stuff. My brother is a photojournalist for ABC News in Miami. He has a matching 401k, time in a half for overtime (he can easily make an extra $6,000 on top of his regular pay in just 3 days), and gets quadruple his pay on holidays. He also gets hazard pay which is an extra $400 when he works hurricanes, goes up in the stations helicopter, works protests, and goes to a country that's at war. My brothers union required mostly everything I listed above. The quadruple his pay for working holidays is his stations idea. Normally it would be doubled.
I'm American I have five weeks vacation,eleven pain holidays my medical, dental,prescription,and vision is payed by my employer and we have five emotional well-being days off you work for the wrong companies
Fun stuff. I'm from Illinois, just north of Chicago. I'm not jealous of the metric system. Worked in a medical field where everything's metric. All of my ancestors are from Europe. Europe's ancient history is my ancient history. Mine chose to leave! Yes, Drinking age should be 18 in the U.S. Old enough to vote, old enough to join the military old enough to drink. Yes. Medicine/Healthcare is crazy expensive here. I can buy chocolate from anywhere in the world here. Yes, higher education is expensive here. Specialty food lost me. You can get anything here. Anything. Some things can be harder to find but if you really want it you can find it. Vacation time. We would be "encouraged" to use our PTO but it was nearly impossible. When I quit my job I had 9 weeks of PTO in my "bank" which I received in $$. I'm the one with the sexy , well different, foreign accent when I vacation in Europe! So is all the "free" stuff in Germany actually free? The government in Germany, just like in the U.S., doesn't actually have their own money to give away. They have the tax payers' $$$ to give away. So, I'm not "jealous" of anything but I really appreciate the differences. Love Germany too! Lots of German blood in this American! The differences are what makes travel both interesting and educational. You guys are great.
I thought I knew everything about England after growing up with British books and TV shows, but it only took five minutes in the London airport before I started seeing words and products all over the place that I'd never heard of. The same is true in Germany and other countries, and reciprorcally in the US. By "chocolate" they really mean high-quality artisanal chocolate. Americans have long been wine connoiseurs, but only recently have become beer/tea/chocolate connoiseurs. And American companies like Hershey's (chocolate), Hormel (hot dogs), and Kraft (many foods) have gone for bottom-of-the-barrel crap like high-fructose corn syrup to make a buck, and most Americans don't know anything better. Yes, European chocolates are available in some some stores and cities, but maybe only the largest exporters and a few others, not all the small local manufacturers. Although Trader Joe's now has Belgian chocolate in 5 pound bars, so it's starting to make inroads. And high-quality American chocolatiers like Theo's have started to appear, but they're still very small and may not be available nationwide.
I kind of don't mind that the drinking age is 21 and as far as when you should be in the military honestly, honestly it probably should be older than 18 anyways. However I think that it should be much more gradual the drinking age in Europe a lot of times they will have a gradual drinking age. Like I was thinking maybe if you're like 16 or 17 your parents as long as you have parents permission and it's at your home you can drink beer or wine. And as long as it's not too drunkenness. At 18 you can drink in public like in a restaurant, a bar or a pub but no hard liquor. And you may be required to have a food purchase. But I still think it's okay to have the 21 or for the purchase of alcohol like a pack of beer. (At home party drinking is one of the most dangerous that young people get into all the time) The thing is like alcohol is one of the most health problems linked to consumption. So I don't think that it's a good idea to just lower the age. I just think that it should be gradual over time and that they should be learning to be responsible for drinking for 16 to 21 years.
Deana, you can get Lángos at German Christmas markets, though unfortunately not this year and I don't know if they're authentic enough, but I have had some really yummy Lángos over the years!
I met my boyfriend in Denver when we were both living there. 3 months ago I moved to Germany with him (he's German) and we agree pretty much with everything in both videos!
You both rock! I grow up in Wiesbaden! I haven’t been back in 10 years. My family and I were supposed to be going back for Christmas this year! You both make me miss Germany! I love your videos!! 💕
I am jealous of the mass transit and high-speed rail available in Europe. We do have ancient history here, but that is part of Native American history. I can get any kind of food I want here, so no jealousy here. As for the police that varies from state to state and region to region. There's always going to be a few cops who think they are omnipotent no matter where in the world they are. Our medical system here is a sham because the government is deep in the pockets of the insurance and pharmaceutical industry. The more prescriptions you need the more of a cash cow you become. You're absolutely right about universities. They should be available for free to those who have demonstrated merit rather than legacy I've had VW, Audi, and BMW all of which cured me of my German auto love. I will stick to Toyota and Honda from now on, thank you. Renault does have a silent presence in the US because they own part of Nissan.
Tell that to the Mothers Against Drunk Driving who changed US drinking age back to 21 from 18. Remember 16 year olds can drive in US and 16-21 people caused a disportunate share of car accidents via drunk driving. In US you have to drive or be driven to have an after-school job as a teenager because of the distances involved. In US a typical commute time is 30 min to an hour at speed.
@@robertkoons1154 The need for a high drinking age is related to the lack of public transit and the car-dependent ways neighborhoods are built. In Germany or the UK you can drink at 16 and take the subway or a night bus home. My friend in Bristol drove a truck of kegs for a living, but at night he took a bus to the bar so he wouldn't have to drive back.
Volvo. People in US don't live in cities but in suburbs, US cities have not been designed for public transit since 1920. Cars took over as design point for cities since then. Distances between points in US are long. US has more than one car per capita for adults. One reason public transit died in the 1920s is gypsy drivers would run just ahead of transit cars and pick up passengers and take them directly to their destination for less money. Planned cities have been failing in the US ever since then. MAAD became a non partisan political force in US and forced the drinking age change. You can always get point to point faster in a car, except in an extremely densely populated place like New York city. Drinking and driving don't mix.
@@robertkoons1154 Don't you think we don't habe suburbs in Germany? Ie around Frankfurt there is the so called "Speckgürtel" which is basically living space in the surrounding area, mostly for families. And yes, there is public transport into the city.
@@swanpride German suburbs still has better public transportation than US suburbs. I looked up how long it would take for me to take the bus from my house to work (I'm in the suburbs). It would take me 5 hours to get to work. Driving it took me 30 minutes. It took so long because I had to change buses 4 times and the bus went way way way south to just go back north. I was on the bus for 30 minutes each time. I had to wait 45 minutes for the bus at each bus stop. I wasn't going to get up at 2 am so I could be at work by 7 am. Actually even if I wanted to do this I couldn't. *Edit it is obvious you haven't been in US suburbs.
About the atheist one, I had this conversation in a comments section before and it goes more to the fact that you won't have to worry about losing your job or being otherwise discriminated for being an atheist. I'm German and people from Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands all agreed that it was no big deal if you'd say you're atheist. And someone from Spain said people were really laid back there, too, which surprised me more than Scandinavia for example. I think in Europe it might depend on the area (like Poland or Bavaria are obviously different in this point), but overall I don't think you have to worry about being kicked out by your parents or losing your job just for being openly atheist in Europe. And those were the concerns of the Americans in the comments section, which us Europeans thought was wild.
Not quite right - I am an atheist, and have never had any problems - we have some problems with racism facing Muslims (a lot) and Jews (not quite as much). Forgot it - I'm from Denmark
My mother worked in Bavaria as a cleaning lady in a kindergarten run by the Catholic Church (Caritas). She is divorced, remarried and left the church years ago. She mentioned this directly in her job interview and it was noticed by the HR manager with a shrug of the shoulders - no one cared about that 😂 a lesbian friend of mine is married to a woman, works in a Christian hospital and according to the employment contract "Christian moral values" were prescribed, yet it was no problem at all - no one really cares about that. If the employer is a part of a religious community (f. e. Catholic Church) and you do not apply to their moral standards, you may be rejected as an applicant, or if you lied during the interview, or change your behaviour away from Christian moral values the employer is allowed to fire you for this reason. This is actually legally deposited here in Germany despite all discrimination laws.
@@eastfrisianguy yeah, Churches as employers and the kindergartens they run are the only employers in Germany that are legally allowed to ask you about your religious affiliation during interviews. It's interesting, I've heard of women in Germany that got divorced and remarried and lost their jobs at Caritas or the kindergartens they worked at
Thank you for these comparisons! Language nerd commentary: envy refers to wanting what someone else has; jealousy is wishing that the other person did *not* have what you want to have.
Absolutely! Jealous of: medical care without losing your home, free education (even university), being able to live without a car, being able to work in another country (my dream) & travel easily within Europe very cheaply. I would live in the EU in a heartbeat! (I'm American, in California.)
@@pashvonderc381 It's not so easy to get a long-term visa, and as long as I've worked in the U.S. for over 40 years, I need to continue until I finally get Medicare and my Social Security.
All the world use the metric system, but over there is a land with stars and stripes and a very complicatied measuring system. They define inches in millimeters and calculate with fractions and log decimal places.
The US does use metric just not for everyday use. I had to learn the metric system and Kelvin temperature measuring system when I worked in the medical field. I still can change units from US customary to metric to Kelvin (if measuring temperature).
Another UA-camr was complaining lately that some of the plywood he was using, was slightly under a quarter inch and would sit not tight enough in the mortise he made. If he had used the metric system he would have known that some of his pieces are 6 mm thick and others are 6.35 mm. Guess which is which.
AFAIK there is no subsidized medicine in Germany. Your insurance pays the price and to somehow control costs people have to pay between 5 and 10 Euro for the medication as "co-pay".
They've been converting to the metric system since the Metric Conversion Act was passed in 1975. At the current rate they may have fully converted in the year 2500 or so.
I watch a lot of different vids, and I'm like.... "Any day now, please?" US just forgot the memo apparently. XD (I definitely prefer the metric over US units. Lol) (I also love that most places give you the final price with no hidden costs, Alabama has an 8%, and where i live a 9% sales tax!!)
I consider it a part of being bi-lingual, growing up in America but adopting SI in Germany. So I know can picture both a mile and a km, a cup and 236grams, but I don't have any idea how tall I am in cm cuz it never comes up: )
As an American I am not envious of other countries because as your lovely wife explained so well l have respect and appreciation for Germany it's culture as well as my Own in America by the way I am Appalachian from WV. Is your Wife Appalachian? I appreciate your Chanel I am in Florida.
I spent a month in Stuttgart in 2019 and two weeks in 2014. I love Germany's train system. It took me a while to learn the system but once I got used to it, it so awesome.
In our small rural farm town (Oxford, Ohio USA) it's easy to use transport other than cars because we have bike lanes, extra crosswalks (some with flashing lights-you must yield to pedestrian college students), University Miami buses between 3 cities, & private buses/Vans (for the many towns encompassed by the Cincinnati metropolitan area). It's much harder to get around if you're not a college town or aren't near a city like you said.
I've lived in France, Portugal, Spain and Holland, and I have friends from all over Europe. Trust me when I say on top of it not being a big deal, being an atheist is actually looked upon positively by at least 80 percent of people.
Ah nice. I have this week and then 3 weeks from dec. 23 😁 then i get my NEW 30 days per year Plus my 130 Überstunden 😁so another 3 and a half weeks to take free.
What the US lacks is humanity. The dollar rules here. Vacation, health care, equity, these are things the United States lacks. We treat our own quite savagely
There is also a TON of Native American history that shouldn't be overlooked when it comes to Ancient History. There were many thriving cultures on the American content before Europeans came, and those cultures left some awesome relics.
Medicine (and health care in general) in Europe is less expensive simply because the general idea is that EVERYONE chips in with the cost and EVERYONE benefits. The single payer / Universal health care systems largely eliminates price gouging by Big Pharma. Health care costs are generally capped - anyone that unexpectedly needs a lot of health care (an accident, cancer, whatever) gets whatever care the system is able to provide (immortality is NOT available) without exorbitant bills. The slack is taken up by those of us that are healthy and do not need much care and, you know what: We do not mind that we might be paying for others! One day it probably will be our turn to need a lot of care.
@@guidofietz and no independent rancher in the mid-west will want to (in universal health care) pay for the eventual rehab of a black cocaine addict from alabama)!!
I love the many ways in which you can open your windows in Germany, the food, the sweets and the bread!!! Ich liebe die Altstadt! I love how you all get such long vacations. What I do love about the USA but not so much in Germany are the store hours. Didn't like that I could not shop after noon on Saturdays. When do Germans shop? Do you even have time to go shopping after work if they close so early? Love that you all have so many castles (been to a few)
Public transportation in the US is getting better in most cities with the fact that bond measures are providing funds along with private investment to build and extend existing and new light rail, subway and bus rapid transit lines. What really messed the US up mass transportation was that the Federal Government in the 50's and 60s' bowed to the Automotive industry and instead of combining the existing street car and trolley network with personal cars and having both coexist on the streets, city officials across the country ripped up trolley and street car tracks for file reliance on the interstate highway system. It wasn't until the 70s when elected officials in major cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas etc began seeing what the increase in how much time people were spending in traffic, that was when the powers that be started to figure out that maybe putting all of their eggs into the interstate highway system basket at the expense of mass transit and Amtrak may have not been the best strategy Hence why many cities including my hometown of Los Angeles have been playing catchup ever since . The US tried to switch back to the metric system in the 70's , but due to the fact that the imperial system had been in use for so long and the cost of changing everything back was too expensive ( the US went through two gas shortages on the 70s for example where the price of oil shot up ) , the government felt it wasn't worth it. Me personally, since I'm not any relation to Albert Einstein when it comes to math, it doesn't really matter one way or another whether we have the metric or imperial system. There's always Google for conversion table assistance. I'm in favor of Universal healthcare due to the choice it gives to people. If we had some kind of hybrid of it here, where people could choose whether to enter into a public healthcare system or whether to go on the private health insurance market, the cost of the private insurance would be cut in half. I would jump at the chance of not having to pays as much back in student loans as I currently do if we had low cost higher education where borrowers could pay back what they according to what their salary is compared to what the system is in the US which is on a basic level, paying a predetermined monthly amount determined by whatever loan servicer company a person's loans are with. Since I didn't go to a four year university straight out of high school, instead I went to a local community college and transferred to a local university a few years later , the legal drinking age didn't affect me that much and the fact that I'm not a drinker anyway.
Public transit is getting better but it's still far below the standard in Germany, the UK, Canada, Spain, Switzerland, etc. The Metric conversion failed partly because education was so bad: it focused on tedious metric-imperial conversions rather than on what native Metric users do.
@@sluggo206 Probably not since the metros in Switzerland, Paris, Madrid and the Tube in London aol date back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. And at that time in the US' history, this country was just recovering from the outcomes of the the Civil and Mexican-Anerican wars and most cities weren't large population centers like they are now. And in between all of that , we fought in two World Wars , had a very significant movement called the Civil Rights movement that began after WWII which started with a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. So the powers that be@ the time were as bit busy with all of that and getting the above-mentioned interstate highway system up and running. I will contend that public officials were more than a little wasteful with public funds at times during the 70s and 80s which coupled with Nimbyism which is still very present today in many ways , some of the reasons for Nimbyism are justified and some others aren't were factors that led to delays in building in many cases accessible light rail option for low income workers to get back and forth to their jobs in some of the more affluent parts of a particular city. I am no civil enginee or world renowned political Scientist however my degree is in PolS. I have been learning a lot about this subject from videos on UA-cam
@@danielleporter1829 The US had the most miles of rail in the world in the late 1800s or 1900, and the most extensive streetcar and interurban networks. Not just metros but all of it. If we had kept it and kept improving it, we would have a network like the Switzerland Germany and Japan and China do now. But we threw it away to spend the money on interstate highways and airports instead. The Civil Rights movement did not affect the budget capacity much; it was our transportation priorities. Why did Rosa Parks have to sit on a bus that was probably half-hourly and ended at 7pm when Montgomery must have had a streetcar network earlier? Nimbyism is a major factor. In fact, racism is a large part of the reason why the US and Europe have such different transportation networks. Nimby whites didn't want to live in the same school districts as blacks and working-class people, manipulated zoning to keep apartments out of their neighborhoods, and wouldn't pay taxes for public transit because they thought it only benefited people who couldn't afford cars who they assumed were lazy and black.
@@danielleporter1829 And much of Germany's city rail was built after 1970. A new wave of construction built or modernized light rail lines and added downtown tunnels all over Germany, in cities down to 200,000, which Americans claim is far too small for it. Train and bus networks like that are what give you the freedom to live without a car.
Well the thing with the History is that there are no medieval castles and things like that in the USA but there are lots of them in Europe and it's really fascinating to visit them.
Even in Europe there are apparently two different types of Nutella. Either soft, glossy and quite sweet in the South (Italy, Spain, but also France, parts of Switzerland and even the Netherlands and Belgium), or harder, less glossy, with more cocoa and less sugar in other countries (like Germany).
Very interesting! Nobody wanted to believe me that the Nutella tastes much sweeter in the Netherlands than in Germany, when I spent my vacations there 😂 Nice that I was right 😁
Das liegt am Weißbrot. Auf Weißbrot kann man schwer die deutsche Nutella schmieren weil es reißt. Daher ist in allen Ländern die dieses typische Weißbrot essen die Nuttela weicher und Cremiger.
In New Jersey we have every kind of food and the supermarkets carry almost everything. But if you drive 50 miles into Pennsylvania things get harder to find. There are things we eat in New Jersey that most people in Pennsylvania have never heard of. I think i would love trying everything you two are eating in your travels and thank you for bringing us all along. I am disabled and traveling would be to difficult for me so i travel vicariously through your great videos.
The hidden state sales tax in USA.... or Sugar Tax in some cities... Alabama has an 8% sales tax, but where I live in Alabama, it's 9%. =_= It's bullocks. XD
In Lithuania moms get fully paid leave 2 months before childbirth and 1 year after, in the second baby year of life 80% of salary, and new fathers get four weeks fully paid leave in addition :)
In Michigan, many young adults used to drive over the border into Canada to drink at 19 legally there. It’s not as easy as it used to be (even pre-COVID) but is still a thing.
I am from Austria but living in Iceland. In Austria the legal drinking age is the same as in Germany (beer and wine from 16 and the hard stuff from 18). In Iceland the legal drinking age is 20. What is also drifferent is that in Iceland they have special shops for alcohol. In the regular supermarkets you can only find things that have a VERY low alcohol content (I think 1%).
@@DeanaandPhil Same in Sweden and Norway. "systembolaget" for Sweden de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systembolaget . Prices for beer and wine are high. Restaurants also need special (costly) licenses to serve even beer. Up in the North they had big problems with alcoholism especially in the winter, and thought that this kind of soft alcohol ban may help. In the US I found similar rules (unwritten?) only in Utah, enforced by the LDS mafia.
I’m European living in California. I bought my first car in California because it’s impossible to move around without one. My first car was Chevy impala but I switched to Mercedes after 6 years because Mercedes is like a ballerina and new impala is more like a kindergarten ballerina 😂 people in US are not jealous about European cars in terms of availability, they are jealous that they can’t make such a beautiful cars 🤷🏻♀️
Canada is about the same. My American friend's insurance would not cover the birth of her baby because they had not selected that option on the plan. Therefore, her pregnancy was a preexisting condition and not covered. So sad:(
I am from Croatia. We can legally drink when we turn 18, it does not matter what alcohol you drink. You go to clubs with an ID so the bartender can see if you are legal, and if you want to buy alcohol, you have to show your ID to the seller. If you go out with an older crowd, they can buy the drinks for you. We had the police enter the clubs and turn on the lights (they are usually dimmed down), stop the music and check everyone's ID's. We had the police check points in the city where we usually went to clubs, where they would ask people walking around (if they suspected them to be underage and drunk) to stop and take the alcotest. If you are underage and caught, you go to the police station, your parents are notified, you appear in front of a judge and they can give you a warning, a fine and a threat of jail if you are caught again. My late fathers friend had his daughter caught underage and drunk. She was on a probation of sorts. She was 17, and they told her if they catch her again, during the next year, drunk and out in the clubs, she would go to jail. So, every country has their own laws and it depends on your luck. I know a lot of people who went out and were not 18, they would drink and party. They were always carefull not to get wasted and they acted normally on the street so they never had issues with the police (never got stopped on the street). I love that our police is relaxed and they are not forcefull. I love that our police is doing their job but still is mindfull towards the general public. There is a video of our national soccer team coming home from the World Football Championship and you can see the police that is guarding the football players, they are so chilled and nice towards everyone. I respect every country in the world, but I still love my Bosnia & Herzegovina and Croatia the most.
When I went to the New York auto show the worker there had never seen so many people who didn’t have licenses. I don’t have a license and neither does my mother big reason why it would be hard to move. I remember my boyfriend mentioning why my mom wouldn’t move to Florida once she retired she doesn’t have a license which means she would be relying upon someone and or she has no way of getting around. That’s what’s good about public transportation in places like New York, you don’t need to be reliant upon someone if your car broke down or you don’t have your license etc...
been in Germany for a short time, i’m a fan almost everything except the grey sky, one of the many things made me happy, is the enormous selection of chocolates and candies in the store , heaven 😍and Germany is a walkable country, walk and walk and so happy to walk everyday, a lot of parks to walk
100% trains are the thing I want the most. The environmental benefits, the health benefits, and the social benefits of public transport are so visible. I live in San Francisco a couple blocks from a BART and Muni station, but I still have to have a car to get to my grandparents’ house in a different part of the bay and it sucks. I wish I could take a train there.
My grandma owns a card she pays maybe 10€ a year on it that allows her to get literally everything that is medicine for free and she never payed anything for the insulin tho
@@ACEsParkJunheeWreckedMeHard THAT PAYS THE HEALTH INSURANCE HERE IN GERMANY !!! IF AMN HAS CRONIC DISEASES, YOU ARE EXEMPTED FROM PAYMENT FOR MEDICINES! OTHERWISE IT IS ALWAYS SO 5 EURO THAT YOU HAVE TO PAY IN THE PHARMACY
@@joergfro7149 Insulin is still ~10 times more expensive in the US to comparable western Nations. Why? Unregulated Capitalism. "They charge you, cause they can." Yes, my insurance would pay for it, but in the end me or the society will pay for it anyway. True. But in the US it's still 10x more for the same amount which is just US Pharma having a good time celebrating anti-Communisn or however you want to call it. 😅
I agree with almost everything. Especially with the abnormal costs in the American health care system. But, there are also drugs which are cheaper in the USA at Walmart and which you can only get much more expensive in a pharmacy in Germany. .
fun fact the drinking age used to be 18 and the voting age used to be 21 and we literal switched it around, to now the drinking age is 21 and voting age is 18
It's sort of the way it should be. If you are old enough to die for your country you should be old enough to vote. It's the same with the drinking age. If you are old enough to die for your country you should be able to drink.
To answer the alcohol question At 3:35 in Georgia🇬🇪,though it's still wildly debated whether we are in Europe or Asia cause of our location,still Georgia is more of a wine country,where teens from 14/15 can drink wine beer and champagne and all that but when entering the clubs you have to be +18 or else no booze 🤣 It's weird in Georgia when it comes to alcohol because in regions outside of the capital you can drink as I've said from 13 but in the capital city its more restricted, probably allowed from 16 but I am not 100% sure so yeah Btw I am 17 myself and wine is my specialty 🤣🇬🇪🍷((I am not alcoholic I promise))
When I lived in England for 8 years, I saw a LOT of cheaper prices on cars then in America, even for the more expensive style names. I also LOVE public transport SO much more in the UK and Europe compared to the USA. I live back here in the US now and regret so many things I miss over there in comparison
as far as maternaty leave goes here in the netherlands we have 16 weeks, in case you're baby is born 1 week past due date you just get a week extra but if you're baby is born a week before you just keep you're 16 weeks. you can choose more in excange for less income but I don't now for howlong ang howmany % you then get (I am a stay at home mom so i don't know exactly :P). as far as cost go you do not need to pay much if you choose a hospital birth over homebirth without a medical reason you pay it yourself at least some of it, if you have a medical reason why you need to go to a hospital you pay nothing. I had a c-section 7 months ago (and one 2,5 years ago) and if I did need to pay it myself It would have been around 5000 euro and that is including the stay in the hospital in my case from saturday night about 2.30am til monday about 11am and food medicine care and all. I only paid about I believe 800-900 euro to have kraamzorg ( this is a kind of nurse that comes to you're home for 8-10 days to help you with the care for the baby and check you're wounds and also helps with household stuff like cleaning) but most of that is also paid by insurance. haha sorry long comment but yeah much info not easy to get it compacter haha :P love you're channel you always make me smile
Your car has metric parts, your coke is in a 2-liter bottle, your nutrition label has grams, all rulers/thermometers/measuring cups since the 1980s have both units. Last week I wanted to know how many calories the sugar in my recipe was, and the sugar was in cups but the calorie stat was in 100 grams. "Yikes, I don't know how many grams are in a cup!" Fortunately my dual-unit scale said 450 grams = 16 ounces so I weighed my cups of sugar and figured it out.
I think the "being able to work in a different EU country as a EU citizen" meant "working there without needing a visa of any kind." In Romania too, you can have a few weeks of paid holiday, as well as plenty of maternity leave - not sure if it's paid or not, as i didn't have the pleasure to experience that. Giving birth here = free -probably, you'll have to pay if you choose a private hospital/clinic, but even then you can find out how much you're expected to pay (for instance, you could be told it costs 300 euros, and you can be almost certain it's not going to be less than that; i don't know how much it costs though, so the price is a random number i came up with); doctors' appointments/check-ups during pregnancies and after = free; emergencies treated in the ER=free. All these regardless of whether you have health insurance or not.
I find it really weird, that in the US the blinkers of a car are at the same spot as the brake light. Why not two different light as i.e. in Germany? 2 different things = 2 different lights
Recent American cars have a center red brake light in the rear in addition to the dial-purpose side lights. Also, the side lights blink for turning but are on steady for breaking. Do you also have trouble distinguishing between a steady red traffic light (meaning stop) and a blinking red light (meaning stop for a moment and then go).
It's the law in the US. US laws require it the way it is. Dont like it then dont look at the car. My husband brought his Mercedes over from Germany and had to change the turn signal to the US way before it was street legal
I'm from Canada and I'm DEFINITELY jealous of most things Europe has to offer, especially in comparing to Canada. And no offense to Americans, but overall, Canada has it so much better than America, and Europe is leaps and bounds better than Canada. I definitely want to move to Europe... ASAP!!
Yes. Us British people have just been deprived of our European citizenship by the collection of crazed racists who won a loaded referendum and then took us out on bad terms. I love free movement and people from different places right here, and love being able to travel to other places freely.
You'd have to ask more of the question of what am I not jealous of. *Say one Fahrenheit I do think Fahrenheit is pretty cool. Especially for the weather. For Celsius for pretty much everything else. As far as the lower drinking age I think the only people who care about that are under that age like everyone else doesn't care about it. So I'm way older an 21 so I don't care too much the only thing I would like to add is I would prefer a much more gradual drinking age like it is in Germany and other European countries like drinking hard liquor over a certain age versus drinking at a restaurant. I think 21 is fine but I think it should start younger and be more gradual. Like the UK as it where it's okay if you're 16 as long as your parents are there. 18 maybe yet just a restaurant we can drink wine or beer but you can't purchase you know a pack of beer. Until you're like 20 or 21 I think that would be more fair.
I died when you said crêpes 🤣 More seriously though, I think that going to university in Europe is only for work in Europe is messed up. I am not sure if that makes sense, but basically if you go to University in Europe the US doesn't recognize the credit and will probably deny you work.
I guess that depends on your field of study. When I was doing my diploma in computer science and mechanical engineering (the latter was my minor/Nebenfach), there were companies from the US (and from Germany) trying to actively recruit new employees. I guess they wouldn't have tried that if they didn't recognize the credit.
I am jealous of the healthcare, the maternity leave benefits, most of your job benefits such as paid time off, vacation time, shorter working hours. How clean the country is. Your transportation system. I also love your highway, driving laws. Autobahn rules make so much sense and people just drive better.
It's basically all Europe you could be jealous of.
Goddamn socialism!!1! :D
Do you also love the taxes they pay for all these free things?
I'm glad I saw your post before I listed all the same things.👍
@@ricknieland368 YES!!!
Americans should envy us Europeans the most: price labels with the final price and tax (no need to add tax).✌️💪👍😋
It's as easy to add 10% as it is to convert from millimeters to centimeters. :)
I don't see what the big deal is. If you can't afford something after the tax is applied, you probably shouldn't be buying it anyway.
I sometimes still find myself mentally adding 9% when I look at prices at the grocery store. Lifelong habit. Then again there are some products in Germany that are "dishonest" about the actual price - pfand products. There was a big bin of Coke bottles at REAL that said "1 Euro each" and I tried to buy one with 1 Euro and was corrected, I had to pay 1.25E.
phil had a heart attack reading that
Meh. It's easy to add the percentage on at the end. It really isn't a big deal. I think 10% even though I'm in areas where it's only 6%. Adding 10% I know that I have the money.
Health insurance is a really big thing. It makes life so much easier
True! Not having one sounds potentially catastrophic...
There's a lovely little channel called "Call Me Armstrong", where a woman recounts her story and rehabilitation with a certain brain tumor (thankfully everything is getting better and better).
In one of her older videos, she compares rough estimates of what her medical examinations and treatments would've cost in America versus what she paid in Germany.
I won't spoil the end result, but afterwards I certainly felt much more appreciative of being able to live in Germany where I also have access to that kind of healthcare :)
Here's the link to her video: ua-cam.com/video/zHcwOgbsBYk/v-deo.html
@@fricki1997 Anecdotal as it is, I was reading a thread on the "Ask Europe" section of Reddit, and some guy from Belgium I think it was, was blown away at the fact that in his relatively young life, he had spent the same, if not slight less on healthcare, than one of the people from America commenting had spent just to have insurance for his family in one month. It didn't even include any potential use of that insurance, just paying for the coverage.
@@aaronwhite1786 Yeah, Americans supposedly also have to pay less taxes...and yet, when you look at the bottom line they pay more for way less than we have. I certainly wouldn't want their system, I rather pay my (income based) contributions.
@@swanpride Oh yeah. We definitely pay less in taxes, but then we end up paying way more on the backend.
It's the most frustrating part about the debate, because people look at taxes as the whole thing.
They also don't remember that as an American we pay for our own insurance, then you pay into federal Medicare, and then you pay into your state's equivalent of Medicare, Medicaid.
So Americans pay for 3 insurance types, while only being eligible for their private insurance, and that's all before you even set foot in a doctor's office or operating room.
As a person with lots of health problems living in Germany I'm so glad, that I do not have to pay for most things.
Scoliosis brace (1-2 new ones a year while growing) for 8 years - 10€/for each (health insurance pays about 2500€ for each)
Asthma medication: completely free as a kid, now 5€ each time I get a new prescription...
If I have to go under scoliosis surgery one day insurance will cover the cost of about 150 000€.
So grateful for all that!
@AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVER
And how much do you pay for your insurance per month? Or are you still covered by your parents' insurance? Do you even pay taxes?
I am jealous that you can travel to another country rather easily.
agreed! There basically no borders within the EU! =)
So covid also travels easily 😉
The US has 50 states, travelling round there is kind of travelling through different countries, or?
@@tschehahh True, the US is about the same size as Europe and traveling around the US you’re going to experience different cultural traditions based on the region that you’re in. It’s not like traveling to Europe but it is like traveling between countries in Europe. And the US is even more ecologically diverse than Europe.
@@tschehahh yep
except that our neighbours speak different languages
I met Germans and several other Europeans in the Cook Islands and I was jealous they had enough vacation time to go on a "round the world trip".
What are Cook Islands?!
@@erikhieronymus7015 one of the most beautiful places ever!! They' re a cluster of polynesian tropical islands a few hours east of Australia in the south pacific
Not many people in Germany have money and time to make round the world trips, I have seen some young people who did that after school if they have rich parents and can efford to not go to work. Later you have to go with the contract of your working company. In my experience it comes first, if I would take a vacation longer than 2 weeks I was screamed at, how selfish I was....it is all not that easy if most of your money goes straight to the high rental fee of a small flat.
@@insideAdirtyMind Yeah
I broke my shoulder joint two years ago while snowboarding in the Czech Republic. I still had travel health insurance from previous vacations, for which I had paid € 8.50 per YEAR up to this point in time. What can I say, for patient transport by snowmobile and ambulance, examination, x-ray pictures, orthopedic arm sling, second opinion at the German doctor and follow-up examination all together I didn't pay a cent! However, the "Auslandskrankenversicherung" has upgraded me: I now pay € 8.60 per year ..
For physio afterwards, in order to regain full functionality, however, I had to pay a contribution. I think it was 9 € per hour. So for this stupid accident that happened during an unnecessarily risky freetime activity, I paid a total of 108 € (because of the 6x 2 hours physio). All in all I can say that the German / European healthcare system is pretty great!
I’m jealous of the bakeries, for sure. Also the doner and the currywurst/pommes.
WOULD BE A BUSINESS IDEA. to sell in the usa 😉 !!!! You know it, so you know how it should taste! since nobody has any rights; YOU ARE FREE TO COOK AND SELL
So funny that every foreigner sees Döner as typical German. Actually in Turkey Döner was a meat-dish on a plate. Later Turkish immigrants in Berlin tried to make the Döner more "western" and made a sandwich with meat and
coleslaw out of it.
@@janpracht6662 Well, the Hamburger was invented by a German immigrant, and it is still considered typical American. The German Döner is very different from the one in Turkey. That's what happens, cultures influence each other.
@@swanpride The Hamburger was brought to New York by seamen (from Hamburg). They put fish between bread, later the Americans used cattle and added some more ingredients.
Lol I almost eat it every day
Yes!!! Nutella does taste better in Germany!!! I brought some back from Germany before the pandemic & had my husband blind taste test... He picked the German Nutella. I feel that it's more hazelnutty maybe?
Coke tastes different. Definitely look forward to my German chocolate (Ritter Sport Cocos) every year! Diner Kebab is 10 out of 10 for me & completely different from a gyro. Love my gelato! OMG i could name so many things!
OMG Weißwurst... Curry Sauce... Going daily to the bakery... On & on...
Well, when you want more hazelnuts, Nudossi is way better. Okay, not everyone likes the dominance of hazelnut.
Diner Kebap is a good spelling.
Yes! Deana clears up the confusion about Americans and their "connections" to Europe. I often hear Europeans complain when Americans consider themselves Irish, German, Italian, etc. It's definitely a thing here that though we are American we also like to keep our heritage close 🥰
We would call that failed integration. Suppose a Turkish couple comes to Germany with their children. At some point the children have children of their own. They would most likely say that they are Germans with Turkish roots. But they were born and raised here and their parents also grew up here and would describe themselves as Germans rather than Turks.
@@antjeschroeder That's how it works in the US. Almost everyone born here considers themselves an American first. But many people also like to acknowledge where their family came from.
The fact that your ancestors came from Europe does not make you European. And I know you Americans well enough to know that it's not about pride over heritage, but that you Americans can't stand something that isn't yours. You never learned that you can't have everything you see and be everything you want. Unfortunately, Deana is just another sad product of American society.
10:48 Languages barriers... Well this is another thing for English speakers to be jelous of non-English speaking european countries. Most europeans are at least bilingual, and younger generations speak more than two languages*.
Besides, if you are a EU-citizen, you can not only work in other country, but also enjoy the Erasmus Programm for college students, that will allow you to improve your foreign languages skills.
*ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Foreign_language_skills_statistics
As an engineering student in America, I am VERY jealous about the metric system...slugs, kips, ksi, psi, ft/lb ugh!!!
@AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVER False, approximately 4.9% of the US are scientist or engineers who most likely do care 😜
Nutella is actually different throughout Europe. In Germany and Austria(and generally northern Europe) is less sweet then in southern Europe(specifically in the Serbia, Bosnia...). I'm from Slovenia and we check if our Nutella is meant for the Austrian or Croatian and Serbian market.
I’m Bosnian and live in the US , lived in Germany in the 90s and nutella was everything and they finally brought it to the us and I don’t even eat it bc it’s so sweet just not European chocolate
And the french Nutella is more soft because of their baguettes.
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I think that by history they mean European medieval towns, ancient castles, - the architecture and the atmosphere of these places... 😊
Good point!
I think there's no more intesting than the free health care.
Imad Rafik which isn’t since the taxation is double the US
@@mooselodge3881 Of course, you are right that we pay more in taxes here in Europe than in the United States - but always in such a way that those who earn the most also pay the most in taxes.
And not only here in Europe - also in Australia, see e.g. this video: ua-cam.com/video/vrlzw9GJlNc/v-deo.html
If you think it's too long, skip until 16:00
@@mooselodge3881 bruh. we still get enough money to live, but we get the important things important.
Maternity leave in France is 16 weeks for the 1st and 2nd Child, 26 weeks for the 3rd, 34 weeks if you are expecting twins and 46 weeks if you are expecting triplets and above.
That's a lot. But I guess it's easy to implement such things if a government/parliament can just decide. In Switzerland it's 12 weeks. Just this year there was this national initiative if fathers should get two weeks of parental leave (instead of 1 day). It was very controversial (who does the job if he's missing from work).
In Estonia we get 1.5 years maternity leave with 70% of your salary. And when you do not work you get 70% of minimum salary. Also fathers can take part of the leave when they wish.
If you birth and bring up triplets, you deserve way more than that....
in Lithuania maternity leave is 2 years with 80% of salary.
Maternity leave in Poland lasts up to 52 weeks and is paid about 80% of salary.
German here and haven't broken a leg, but a few years ago I fractured the inner part of one of my hand bones, so I had to get an x-ray and then an MRI and wear a splint, all this included doctor check ups at the specialist. I wasn't unemployed (worked part-time during uni), but I don't remember if that was back when I was in uni under family health insurance or already paying my own (because the cut off is 25 or 27 in Germany, after that even if you're still in uni you need to get your own health insurance), but I don't think I paid anything for any of it... maybe a few Euros for the splint?
I had to get compression bandages for my legs a few years back and I basically needed to rebuy a new one to give to the specialist so that they had enough for the other patient. I guess I could have just gone and buy my own, but this way they show you how to correctly apply them. That was like 8€ for the bandages?
And I'm taking pills for my hypothyroidism, so I need a refill about every 3 months and I believe it depends on what drugs your specific health insurance covers/co-pays, but I only pay 5€ co-pay for my thyroid medicine each time.
I think it's so inhumane to have to live a life were you're afraid to get a health issue checked out, this only makes things worse and more expensive in the long run...
thanks for sharing! I think your last sentence sums it up nicely! =)
I had some ER tests two years ago and it cost $1000 even with insurance. My bicep tendon surgery was a couple thousand. An overnight sleep study is $2000 without insurance, a root canal around $1500. A broken leg can run $5000 in the ER for a cast. Cancer or AIDS can be $50,000 over one's lifetime. Some medications are $1000 per month or $200 per pill/injection. Of course, many old drugs for common problems are much cheaper. A pair of old blood pressure medications is $10/month with insurance, or maybe $15 or $20/month without.
I remember my healthcare professor telling us a story about her friend who got appendicitis. She had refused to take an ambulance because of the cost and even went out of her way to go to a hospital much farther away than the closest hospital because the closest hospital was not "in-network", but she was still saddled with thousands of dollars in hospital bills because although the hospital was in-network, the surgeon who did the surgery was not.
As a Canadian I am jealous of a few things. Public transportation for sure. Ours sucks and pretty much non existent unless you live in very large cities like Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto or Montreal. Your architecture. Here a building is 50 years old. They tear it down and build new. In Europe they at least keep the facade to make things to remain looking the same. I also love the food. Yes we can get many of your foods here but somehow just don't taste same. Brotchen und Brodt in Germany are AMAZING. We cannot get anything that even touches that. Your baking. Our baking here cannot touch what Europe has. The cost of your cell phones and internet compared to what we pay. However, the cost of your gasoline is very very high. Our beef here in Western Canada is THEE BEST. Our cattle are grain or grass fed instead of corn which makes a very big difference to the taste. All in all we love visiting all of Europe. So much to see, do, taste and experience.
Germans are actually very upset about public transportation (delays, full vehicles, poor connections in smaller towns and villages, expensive). It may be better than in the USA and Canada, but there is still a lot of work to do. In Germany we actually pay much money for mobile phone contracts (compared to other European countries)
The Schengen treaty truly is one of the biggest advantages of being an European citizen. You can work and live wherever you want without all the VISA hassle. You want to retire to a Fjord in Norway, you can (Norway is not a member of the EU, but part of Schengen). Or live half of the year in Spain instead of living through rain in the Netherlands? Done.
I remember when I went to visit my ex who lived in Trier, we would just drive over to Luxembourg all the time and this one time we didn't know where we wanted to go, so we just kept on driving down to France and went to Metz. We didn't need to bring any passport (we had our IDs and driver licenses) and we didn't need to stop at any border patrol, etc.
Schengen allows free TRAVEL (especially for foreigners, like Americans, with a common visa-free entry, and a common visa for other nations) up to 3 months, but not free residency. This is the EU. You must have enough money to prove to Norway that you can support you and your family. But then a possible residency is not based on Schengen, but on Norways EWR membership and EU-EWR reciprocity. And therefore you could also migrate to Ireland, which is EU member but not Schengen member.
As an EU citizen you could travel freely to other EU member states also before the Schengen treaty, and still can to those who are not in Schengen. You just have to show your ID at the border, e. g. to Croatia (EU but not Schengen).
Schengen is about movment between the treaty states. The EU treaty allows meber states' citizens to work in all member countries.
@@Henning_Rech "EWR" (Europäischer Wirtschaftsraum) is German. The term in English is EEA (European Economic Area).
You know you can do that in the US, right? In the USA (and Canada), we have what are called snowbirds. They live in the North for half of the year and in the South for half of the year. To travel from Boston to Miami is farther than travelling from Amsterdam to Lisbon. And Boston is much colder and snowier than Amsterdam in the winter. There are also fjords in North America, although very few. But natural beauty and a peaceful existence can be found in just about any country, whether you must drive 1000 miles or just 10 miles to find it. It's not unique to Europe.
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She was seriously ill and in one video she makes a side-by-side calculation of incomming expenses
I think you missed one important point (at last for germany). The standardised apprenticeship for learning a handcraft. After finishing your education you have the right to be called _Geselle_ and can change between handcrafts enterprises more easily. After finishing another period of apprenticeship you have the right to be called _Meister_ (Master craftsman) and are allowed to start your own business.
and another advantage. One Currency for 28 countries. You don't have to change the money, losing cash to pay the exchanger. And sometimes the same product is way cheaper in one of the other Schengen states and you're free to buy it there without the hassle of trade tariffs
All US states have the same currency. The Euro has its advantages for European countries, but it also has disadvantages, as we've seen when some countries are impacted by recession and other countries refuse to help them out. In the US subsidies automatically flow to poorer or recession-impacted areas.
@@sluggo206 so does it in the EU-Currency-Union with the european stability mechanism
@@Craftlngo That's not what I'm hearing unless you're referring to something new in the past two years. Greece and Italy had huge impacts from the 2008 recession, and Germany and the northern countries just said "Drop dead!" and "Tough cookie!" if Greece and Italy had their own currencies, they could devalue them. If northern Europe had done what a currency union should, it would have helped those countries and given them low-interest loans and a full entral-bank backstop. Maybe that's happening more now, but I bet it's not enough.
@@sluggo206 A currency union is not about bailing out other states. That is a state union like the US. Until you have influence on the individual memeber states' policies one should not be responsible for their fate. But admittedly the EU constructions and agreements have their faults. Economic markets but lacking on the political side.
There is no "one currency for 28 countries." The eurozone (a.k.a. euro area) consists of 19 out of the 27 current EU member states. Denmark, Sweden, The Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Croatia all still retain their own currency. Even if you counted the 6 non-EU countries that have adopted the euro as their currency either through a monetary agreement (Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City) or unilaterally (Kosovo, Montenegro), you still don't arrive at 28.
When they were talking about ancient history I don’t think they were talking about the fact of the history. I think they were talking about being able to see and touch the actual remnants of that history. In the US, with the exception of the cliff dwellings in the southwest, you’re not going to be able to find a building that’s 1000 years old or more. When I was in Europe it was fascinating to visit ancient castles and cathedrals and old medieval towns. You just can’t find anything like that in the US. On the other hand in the US the natural beauty that you can find is better than anything you will find in Europe.
You won't find a BUILDING a thousand years old because the culture wasn't based on long-term houses or large central governments that would build large institutional buildings. The history is an oral history, so you can't just go look at buildings, you have to talk with people and spend time in the community. So it requires a different approach, for those who wish to.
Yeah, exactly, what Americans usually love is the opportunty to see all the old buildings and actually experience history. Naturally they can READ about it, but that's not the same as actually seeing something which has been around since the middle age (or is even older).
@@sluggo206 If you’re talking about my comment about the Clift Wellings in the southwest yeah they are 800 to 1000 years old and they’re actually buildings. I highly recommend you go and see them sometime.
Do not underestimate the natural beauty of Europe. The US has unique highlights like Hawaii or the deserts/canyons in the west. But Europe is littered with natural highlights, from the Nordic wonderlands of Iceland, Greenland and Scandinavia to the Alps/Dolomites to the coastlines/beaches/isles of the Mediterranean Sea.
@@dagda3000 I have to agree. I have visited the US and yes, the Nationalparks are beautiful and unique. But the Wattenmeer is just as unique, the Schären are have a calming effect which is hard to find anywhere else and naturally there are mountains too. Plus, I love drop stone caves.
There is a general misunderstanding about the minimum drinking age especially in Germany. The minimum age of 16 applies only for drinking in public. If you as a father drink a beer with your 15 year old son at home it is not against the law. Also it is allowed for minors to drink beer and wine in public if they are with a parent.
About payed parental leave fyi: in every EU country the mother gets 8 weeks of after giving birth and that is payed mostly 100% called Maternity Protection. That is for recovery and bonding with the baby. After that time she is allowed to work and in most EU countries she can take parental leave but won't get payed except for a few countries like Austria and Germany. In Austria it is also possible that mother and father share the payed parental leave that he gets this bonding too. But the best is not only that you get this time payed also that you keep your job for up to two years. They can't fire you during this time. I hope this information helped.
I’m an American and I agree with how Deana represented Americans. I’m definitely jealous of nations that have universal healthcare, mandatory benefits for workers (paid vacation time, maternity/paternity leave, etc), strong social safety nets, tuition-free tertiary education, use only the metric system (I worked at a chemical factory and found it frustrating that some parts of the procedures were in standard and some were in metric because if I needed to adjust the measurements due to needing to make more or less I had to do all kinds of math that wouldn’t have been necessary if we just used the metric system. I mean, as much as I don’t like the standard system, if the US only used that one then that’d still be better than the current way things are done where both systems are used simultaneously inconsistently throughout. Like I can buy juice in liters, but I have to buy drinkware in ounces. Ugh!), and great public transportation. As for specific products, even products that aren’t sold at Walmart an American can either go to an international store or order it online and have it shipped here. I’ve been to some international stores in the big metropolitan cities nearest me and found brand name products from those nations represented. I’m a nonIndian/nonNepali/nonBalinese practicing Hindu in the middle of Oklahoma and either can get items mailed to me from India or just go to a store in a nearby city and pick them up (or have them special ordered). I mean, when mentioning cars my thought was “I drive a Japanese brand car, so umm what’s the point?” I have seen a Renault here. I’m not sure where the person got it. Either they purchased it and had it shipped over or they found an international car dealership in a big city. Though I agree with Deana that it’s rare to see. It’d be like seeing a Tata here, though we are starting to see more and more Chinese car brands sold here....they’re mostly commercial vehicles, at least that’s what I’ve come across here. Most of the cars I see driven in my rural part of the state are Honda, Kia, Hyundai, Toyota, Chevy, Ford, Nissan, BMW, Mercedes, Chrysler, Volkswagen, Cadillac, GMC with a lot of people driving either trucks or SUVs of these brands if they exist in either of those types. The commercial vans here look a lot like those found in Europe with the most common brands I’ve seen being Mercedes, Ford, and Chevy. And there’s talk about changing the emergency vehicle sirens to be more like European ones due to multiple studies saying they’re better for pedestrians ears and some of my little city’s newest emergency vehicles have the checkerboard pattern on them now like I’ve seen on some European emergency vehicles (though ours have way more LED flashing lights all over them so not sure if the pattern was actually needed since they have so many lights on them I cannot imagine people not seeing them, especially at night!).
Great video! Lots of fun!
Hands down....I am jealous of your health care system....I live in USA and have had 3 bouts of cancer.....to the point the only way I could rid myself of over 100K in bills was to file for medical bankruptcy....NOW after all this I feel like a total failure....I have NEVER not paid my bills....this defeated me MORE than cancer did.
Yes! I have a chronic illness and my monthly medical bills are easily twice my housing costs. No one should have to choose between buying their medicine or paying the electric bill.
Just 2 things I am really jealous of: die Bäckerei und Metzger . Ok...and vacation and holiday time off. Oh...and good cheap mass transportation. So yeah...4 things! Other than that, I'm OK. I can get pretty much get anything and everything else I want here in America. It also depends on where in America you live getting things you want. Some states are very "white bread and cheap beer". Stay clear of those states!
By far the most important one in this video: DÖNER! ;)
lifestyle!
Are they the same think Gyros think so
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@@brucekrygier5842 not quite a Gyros but kind of similar. :) Betther though imho
@@brucekrygier5842 nope defentily not totally different meat
In Denmark, we probably pay more in taxes than elsewhere, but all education and medical care incl. hospital treatments are free.
If you're paying taxes, then you are paying for state infrastructure and programs. It is not free.
Hi, nothing is free. Hospitals are not "free". You just said you pay in taxes, which means lower take home pay. Do you have to go onto a waiting list to see a specialist? That could be deadly if you have cancer. Tell me the process if that happens, I am curious. I hear that in Canada with socialized medicine that is what happens.
@@gailpeczkis5292 @William Nauenburg - Not that I will go into a discussion for/against socialism, but yes that is the system we live in, and considering that I have worked in a low-paid job, and thus have not paid that much in taxes, I think I have received plenty for my tax money.
I am retired now and both me and my wife + her daughter are living just fine from my retirement. My wife is from Thailand, which is why we are there 2 times 3 months every year - all of course without having to be afraid of getting sick. My own daughter graduated with a Magister of Arts (highest university degree) a few years ago. She received from the state the equivalent of approx. € 740 every month to live on, since she moved away from home when she was 20 years old.
Think about it, if I were in need of a heart surgery - or other expensive/long-term surgery with a long recovery time - how could I afford it? Or when I get very old and need a nursing home - who pays for it? All of it - the state does.
And yes - there may be waiting time for non-acute/life-threatening treatments - with a little longer here under covid-19.
@@majamogens Thank you for your very kind response. All the best for you and your family's future.
Bloody communist ;)
In Germany we have universal healthcare since 1883, introduced by chancelor Bismarck under emperor William 1st. Both notorious communists....
You guys are the cutest! I long for many of the things Europe has - great healthcare, awesome maternity leave (America sucks big time on this), don’t need a car in many places, easy to travel to different countries. And when you talk about the history - I know for me, there aren’t any buildings or sights from the medieval and ancient times like there are in Europe and the Middle East. Our country is so new. In Germany towns are planned out much better than in the US so that more people can walk and ride their bikes to get groceries and necessities.
Me an American who grew up in Canada, can confirm Metric is better. Also the 18 year old drinking age is great.
American here jealous of most things you stated aside from the cars. I'm an Asian car brand consumer. Hyundais, Subarus and Toyotas for our family. The US education system and medical system is horrendous. Many European countries do offer excellent maternal care, some even do a year for mom and a year for dad. The US six weeks UNPAID and not guaranteed the same job just a job is terrible. It doesn't allow proper bonding time with the baby, the body is still healing, and many suffer from postpartum depression or anxiety and are not able to get proper care or are made to feel guilty. It is just horrible. I had a snowboarding accident two years ago that required a CT scan. We just barely paid off that bill after 2 years, the care was subpar and I still have complications from it but don't want to go back for a consult because of the cost. We have insurance too! And vacation time--we get it and then are discouraged from using it. My husband sells cars and has a manager who expects that he will still come in on his day off. It's insane. Now about the history, I think they more mean that America is only a bit over 200 years old. You go to Germany and they have churches older than the US. We went to the Porta Negra in Trier and the art museums, you can go to Italy to Venice or Florence, Paris to the Louvre, England's Buckingham Palace. The US has the Liberty Bell, Ellis Island, Boston, DC, Staton Island... our history is still young. So if you are a history buff, like me, Europe has a lot more to offer. I would love to be a German citizen. My husband and I both had grandparents from Germany and enjoyed the month we spent traveling around. Would love to live there full time. Your food is better as well.
Buckingham Palace isn't a museum nor is a museum in BP...
@@guidofietz no one said it was...? It is an historical landmark.
When I was born in 1971 my mom went on maternity leave and when she went back to work she lost all of her seniority, vacation time and rate of pay here in the US. Also as an American my employer doesn't give holiday pay, vacation time or insurance and this is probably the 5th job I've had like this. It seems most places do not offer any benefits anymore.
The jobs that has alot of union do offer this stuff. My brother is a photojournalist for ABC News in Miami. He has a matching 401k, time in a half for overtime (he can easily make an extra $6,000 on top of his regular pay in just 3 days), and gets quadruple his pay on holidays. He also gets hazard pay which is an extra $400 when he works hurricanes, goes up in the stations helicopter, works protests, and goes to a country that's at war. My brothers union required mostly everything I listed above. The quadruple his pay for working holidays is his stations idea. Normally it would be doubled.
I'm American I have five weeks vacation,eleven pain holidays my medical, dental,prescription,and vision is payed by my employer and we have five emotional well-being days off you work for the wrong companies
Fun stuff. I'm from Illinois, just north of Chicago. I'm not jealous of the metric system. Worked in a medical field where everything's metric. All of my ancestors are from Europe. Europe's ancient history is my ancient history. Mine chose to leave! Yes, Drinking age should be 18 in the U.S. Old enough to vote, old enough to join the military old enough to drink. Yes. Medicine/Healthcare is crazy expensive here. I can buy chocolate from anywhere in the world here. Yes, higher education is expensive here. Specialty food lost me. You can get anything here. Anything. Some things can be harder to find but if you really want it you can find it. Vacation time. We would be "encouraged" to use our PTO but it was nearly impossible. When I quit my job I had 9 weeks of PTO in my "bank" which I received in $$. I'm the one with the sexy , well different, foreign accent when I vacation in Europe! So is all the "free" stuff in Germany actually free? The government in Germany, just like in the U.S., doesn't actually have their own money to give away. They have the tax payers' $$$ to give away. So, I'm not "jealous" of anything but I really appreciate the differences. Love Germany too! Lots of German blood in this American! The differences are what makes travel both interesting and educational. You guys are great.
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I thought I knew everything about England after growing up with British books and TV shows, but it only took five minutes in the London airport before I started seeing words and products all over the place that I'd never heard of. The same is true in Germany and other countries, and reciprorcally in the US. By "chocolate" they really mean high-quality artisanal chocolate. Americans have long been wine connoiseurs, but only recently have become beer/tea/chocolate connoiseurs. And American companies like Hershey's (chocolate), Hormel (hot dogs), and Kraft (many foods) have gone for bottom-of-the-barrel crap like high-fructose corn syrup to make a buck, and most Americans don't know anything better. Yes, European chocolates are available in some some stores and cities, but maybe only the largest exporters and a few others, not all the small local manufacturers. Although Trader Joe's now has Belgian chocolate in 5 pound bars, so it's starting to make inroads. And high-quality American chocolatiers like Theo's have started to appear, but they're still very small and may not be available nationwide.
I kind of don't mind that the drinking age is 21 and as far as when you should be in the military honestly, honestly it probably should be older than 18 anyways. However I think that it should be much more gradual the drinking age in Europe a lot of times they will have a gradual drinking age. Like I was thinking maybe if you're like 16 or 17 your parents as long as you have parents permission and it's at your home you can drink beer or wine. And as long as it's not too drunkenness. At 18 you can drink in public like in a restaurant, a bar or a pub but no hard liquor. And you may be required to have a food purchase. But I still think it's okay to have the 21 or for the purchase of alcohol like a pack of beer. (At home party drinking is one of the most dangerous that young people get into all the time) The thing is like alcohol is one of the most health problems linked to consumption. So I don't think that it's a good idea to just lower the age. I just think that it should be gradual over time and that they should be learning to be responsible for drinking for 16 to 21 years.
My German Dad would have totally agreed about the metric system ranking here.♡
FAHRENHEIT GERMAN ::: LOL
Quiet Sundays!
true!! We should have mentioned that! =)
@@DeanaandPhil Winzerfest, Weihnachtsmarkt and Asbach chocolate, too!
Can we please have a tutorial how Deana blowdries her hair????
PLEASE 😍
Deana, you can get Lángos at German Christmas markets, though unfortunately not this year and I don't know if they're authentic enough, but I have had some really yummy Lángos over the years!
true! We tried some at the markets here. However, the one from Budapest was on another level! 😁
I met my boyfriend in Denver when we were both living there. 3 months ago I moved to Germany with him (he's German) and we agree pretty much with everything in both videos!
You both rock! I grow up in Wiesbaden! I haven’t been back in 10 years. My family and I were supposed to be going back for Christmas this year! You both make me miss Germany! I love your videos!! 💕
I am jealous of the mass transit and high-speed rail available in Europe.
We do have ancient history here, but that is part of Native American history.
I can get any kind of food I want here, so no jealousy here.
As for the police that varies from state to state and region to region. There's always going to be a few cops who think they are omnipotent no matter where in the world they are.
Our medical system here is a sham because the government is deep in the pockets of the insurance and pharmaceutical industry. The more prescriptions you need the more of a cash cow you become.
You're absolutely right about universities. They should be available for free to those who have demonstrated merit rather than legacy
I've had VW, Audi, and BMW all of which cured me of my German auto love. I will stick to Toyota and Honda from now on, thank you. Renault does have a silent presence in the US because they own part of Nissan.
If you’re old enough to serve in armed forces (18y.o.) then that should be the legal drinking age
Tell that to the Mothers Against Drunk Driving who changed US drinking age back to 21 from 18. Remember 16 year olds can drive in US and 16-21 people caused a disportunate share of car accidents via drunk driving. In US you have to drive or be driven to have an after-school job as a teenager because of the distances involved. In US a typical commute time is 30 min to an hour at speed.
@@robertkoons1154 The need for a high drinking age is related to the lack of public transit and the car-dependent ways neighborhoods are built. In Germany or the UK you can drink at 16 and take the subway or a night bus home. My friend in Bristol drove a truck of kegs for a living, but at night he took a bus to the bar so he wouldn't have to drive back.
Volvo. People in US don't live in cities but in suburbs, US cities have not been designed for public transit since 1920. Cars took over as design point for cities since then. Distances between points in US are long. US has more than one car per capita for adults. One reason public transit died in the 1920s is gypsy drivers would run just ahead of transit cars and pick up passengers and take them directly to their destination for less money. Planned cities have been failing in the US ever since then. MAAD became a non partisan political force in US and forced the drinking age change. You can always get point to point faster in a car, except in an extremely densely populated place like New York city. Drinking and driving don't mix.
@@robertkoons1154 Don't you think we don't habe suburbs in Germany? Ie around Frankfurt there is the so called "Speckgürtel" which is basically living space in the surrounding area, mostly for families. And yes, there is public transport into the city.
@@swanpride German suburbs still has better public transportation than US suburbs. I looked up how long it would take for me to take the bus from my house to work (I'm in the suburbs). It would take me 5 hours to get to work. Driving it took me 30 minutes. It took so long because I had to change buses 4 times and the bus went way way way south to just go back north. I was on the bus for 30 minutes each time. I had to wait 45 minutes for the bus at each bus stop. I wasn't going to get up at 2 am so I could be at work by 7 am. Actually even if I wanted to do this I couldn't.
*Edit it is obvious you haven't been in US suburbs.
The year my older sister turned 18, the U.S. raised the drinking age from 18 to 21🤣🤣🤣🤣 She wasn't happy.
About the atheist one, I had this conversation in a comments section before and it goes more to the fact that you won't have to worry about losing your job or being otherwise discriminated for being an atheist.
I'm German and people from Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands all agreed that it was no big deal if you'd say you're atheist. And someone from Spain said people were really laid back there, too, which surprised me more than Scandinavia for example.
I think in Europe it might depend on the area (like Poland or Bavaria are obviously different in this point), but overall I don't think you have to worry about being kicked out by your parents or losing your job just for being openly atheist in Europe. And those were the concerns of the Americans in the comments section, which us Europeans thought was wild.
Not quite right - I am an atheist, and have never had any problems - we have some problems with racism facing Muslims (a lot) and Jews (not quite as much).
Forgot it - I'm from Denmark
My mother worked in Bavaria as a cleaning lady in a kindergarten run by the Catholic Church (Caritas). She is divorced, remarried and left the church years ago. She mentioned this directly in her job interview and it was noticed by the HR manager with a shrug of the shoulders - no one cared about that 😂 a lesbian friend of mine is married to a woman, works in a Christian hospital and according to the employment contract "Christian moral values" were prescribed, yet it was no problem at all - no one really cares about that. If the employer is a part of a religious community (f. e. Catholic Church) and you do not apply to their moral standards, you may be rejected as an applicant, or if you lied during the interview, or change your behaviour away from Christian moral values the employer is allowed to fire you for this reason. This is actually legally deposited here in Germany despite all discrimination laws.
@@eastfrisianguy yeah, Churches as employers and the kindergartens they run are the only employers in Germany that are legally allowed to ask you about your religious affiliation during interviews.
It's interesting, I've heard of women in Germany that got divorced and remarried and lost their jobs at Caritas or the kindergartens they worked at
Thank you for these comparisons!
Language nerd commentary: envy refers to wanting what someone else has; jealousy is wishing that the other person did *not* have what you want to have.
Absolutely! Jealous of: medical care without losing your home, free education (even university), being able to live without a car, being able to work in another country (my dream) & travel easily within Europe very cheaply. I would live in the EU in a heartbeat! (I'm American, in California.)
Out of interest... what is stopping you?
@@pashvonderc381 It's not so easy to get a long-term visa, and as long as I've worked in the U.S. for over 40 years, I need to continue until I finally get Medicare and my Social Security.
I'm from Hungary. My lunch will be home made lángos tomorrow. You can try to make it at home too.
Isn't this splashing oil everywhere in the kitchen?
@@axelfiedler I use a high sided frying pan and not too much oil. I never had problem with splashing oil in this case.
All the world use the metric system, but over there is a land with stars and stripes and a very complicatied measuring system. They define inches in millimeters and calculate with fractions and log decimal places.
Three countries have not fully adopted SI, including America, which of course uses SI in science, medicine, military, auto production, etc.
The US does use metric just not for everyday use. I had to learn the metric system and Kelvin temperature measuring system when I worked in the medical field. I still can change units from US customary to metric to Kelvin (if measuring temperature).
Another UA-camr was complaining lately that some of the plywood he was using, was slightly under a quarter inch and would sit not tight enough in the mortise he made.
If he had used the metric system he would have known that some of his pieces are 6 mm thick and others are 6.35 mm. Guess which is which.
AFAIK there is no subsidized medicine in Germany. Your insurance pays the price and to somehow control costs people have to pay between 5 and 10 Euro for the medication as "co-pay".
Omg I agree on the metric system. I’m a Canadian living in California and JUST ADOPT THE METRIC SYSTEM USA! I beg of you!
They've been converting to the metric system since the Metric Conversion Act was passed in 1975. At the current rate they may have fully converted in the year 2500 or so.
I watch a lot of different vids, and I'm like.... "Any day now, please?" US just forgot the memo apparently. XD (I definitely prefer the metric over US units. Lol)
(I also love that most places give you the final price with no hidden costs, Alabama has an 8%, and where i live a 9% sales tax!!)
I consider it a part of being bi-lingual, growing up in America but adopting SI in Germany. So I know can picture both a mile and a km, a cup and 236grams, but I don't have any idea how tall I am in cm cuz it never comes up: )
The whole healthcare system uses it. It's just a matter of getting used to the measurements. I'm still not used to the celsius.
I am jealous of not paying medical bills. I miss being over there. I grew up over there in Germany. And I am jealous of the schools as well.
COME BACK !!
As an American I am not envious of other countries because as your lovely wife explained so well l have respect and appreciation for Germany it's culture as well as my Own in America by the way I am Appalachian from WV. Is your Wife Appalachian? I appreciate your Chanel I am in Florida.
I spent a month in Stuttgart in 2019 and two weeks in 2014. I love Germany's train system. It took me a while to learn the system but once I got used to it, it so awesome.
In our small rural farm town (Oxford, Ohio USA) it's easy to use transport other than cars because we have bike lanes, extra crosswalks (some with flashing lights-you must yield to pedestrian college students), University Miami buses between 3 cities, & private buses/Vans (for the many towns encompassed by the Cincinnati metropolitan area).
It's much harder to get around if you're not a college town or aren't near a city like you said.
I've lived in France, Portugal, Spain and Holland, and I have friends from all over Europe. Trust me when I say on top of it not being a big deal, being an atheist is actually looked upon positively by at least 80 percent of people.
Aaa vacation time, only 9 days to work and then im having a vacation for 4 weeks. And still have vacation time left 🤪😁
Ah nice. I have this week and then 3 weeks from dec. 23 😁 then i get my NEW 30 days per year Plus my 130 Überstunden 😁so another 3 and a half weeks to take free.
I have 44 days off per year😏😂
@@NoName-jp6le respect 😁👍💪
@@NoName-jp6le 🤣🤣 you work for the goverment or what 🤣🤣
@@rickb1055 No, at a big company. It‘s really nice with so much days. Living is so much better than working
I was never really bothered by the drinking age. I don’t really need to have alcohol in my life.
What the US lacks is humanity. The dollar rules here. Vacation, health care, equity, these are things the United States lacks. We treat our own quite savagely
There is also a TON of Native American history that shouldn't be overlooked when it comes to Ancient History. There were many thriving cultures on the American content before Europeans came, and those cultures left some awesome relics.
Medicine (and health care in general) in Europe is less expensive simply because the general idea is that EVERYONE chips in with the cost and EVERYONE benefits. The single payer / Universal health care systems largely eliminates price gouging by Big Pharma. Health care costs are generally capped - anyone that unexpectedly needs a lot of health care (an accident, cancer, whatever) gets whatever care the system is able to provide (immortality is NOT available) without exorbitant bills. The slack is taken up by those of us that are healthy and do not need much care and, you know what: We do not mind that we might be paying for others! One day it probably will be our turn to need a lot of care.
For US all this aren't benefits but SOCIALISM!!!
@@guidofietz and no independent rancher in the mid-west will want to (in universal health care) pay for the eventual rehab of a black cocaine addict from alabama)!!
I love the many ways in which you can open your windows in Germany, the food, the sweets and the bread!!! Ich liebe die Altstadt! I love how you all get such long vacations. What I do love about the USA but not so much in Germany are the store hours. Didn't like that I could not shop after noon on Saturdays. When do Germans shop? Do you even have time to go shopping after work if they close so early? Love that you all have so many castles (been to a few)
Still not used to the metric system, but have to agree that it makes way more sense!
I'm from Algeria and i'm jealous of both of Europe and America 😂
Public transportation in the US is getting better in most cities with the fact that bond measures are providing funds along with private investment to build and extend existing and new light rail, subway and bus rapid transit lines. What really messed the US up mass transportation was that the Federal Government in the 50's and 60s' bowed to the Automotive industry and instead of combining the existing street car and trolley network with personal cars and having both coexist on the streets, city officials across the country ripped up trolley and street car tracks for file reliance on the interstate highway system. It wasn't until the 70s when elected officials in major cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas etc began seeing what the increase in how much time people were spending in traffic, that was when the powers that be started to figure out that maybe putting all of their eggs into the interstate highway system basket at the expense of mass transit and Amtrak may have not been the best strategy Hence why many cities including my hometown of Los Angeles have been playing catchup ever since .
The US tried to switch back to the metric system in the 70's , but due to the fact that the imperial system had been in use for so long and the cost of changing everything back was too expensive ( the US went through two gas shortages on the 70s for example where the price of oil shot up ) , the government felt it wasn't worth it. Me personally, since I'm not any relation to Albert Einstein when it comes to math, it doesn't really matter one way or another whether we have the metric or imperial system. There's always Google for conversion table assistance.
I'm in favor of Universal healthcare due to the choice it gives to people. If we had some kind of hybrid of it here, where people could choose whether to enter into a public healthcare system or whether to go on the private health insurance market, the cost of the private insurance would be cut in half. I would jump at the chance of not having to pays as much back in student loans as I currently do if we had low cost higher education where borrowers could pay back what they according to what their salary is compared to what the system is in the US which is on a basic level, paying a predetermined monthly amount determined by whatever loan servicer company a person's loans are with. Since I didn't go to a four year university straight out of high school, instead I went to a local community college and transferred to a local university a few years later , the legal drinking age didn't affect me that much and the fact that I'm not a drinker anyway.
Public transit is getting better but it's still far below the standard in Germany, the UK, Canada, Spain, Switzerland, etc. The Metric conversion failed partly because education was so bad: it focused on tedious metric-imperial conversions rather than on what native Metric users do.
@@sluggo206 Probably not since the metros in Switzerland, Paris, Madrid and the Tube in London aol date back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. And at that time in the US' history, this country was just recovering from the outcomes of the the Civil and Mexican-Anerican wars and most cities weren't large population centers like they are now. And in between all of that , we fought in two World Wars , had a very significant movement called the Civil Rights movement that began after WWII which started with a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. So the powers that be@ the time were as bit busy with all of that and getting the above-mentioned interstate highway system up and running.
I will contend that public officials were more than a little wasteful with public funds at times during the 70s and 80s which coupled with Nimbyism which is still very present today in many ways , some of the reasons for Nimbyism are justified and some others aren't were factors that led to delays in building in many cases accessible light rail option for low income workers to get back and forth to their jobs in some of the more affluent parts of a particular city.
I am no civil enginee or world renowned political Scientist however my degree is in PolS. I have been learning a lot about this subject from videos on UA-cam
@@danielleporter1829 The US had the most miles of rail in the world in the late 1800s or 1900, and the most extensive streetcar and interurban networks. Not just metros but all of it. If we had kept it and kept improving it, we would have a network like the Switzerland Germany and Japan and China do now. But we threw it away to spend the money on interstate highways and airports instead.
The Civil Rights movement did not affect the budget capacity much; it was our transportation priorities. Why did Rosa Parks have to sit on a bus that was probably half-hourly and ended at 7pm when Montgomery must have had a streetcar network earlier? Nimbyism is a major factor. In fact, racism is a large part of the reason why the US and Europe have such different transportation networks. Nimby whites didn't want to live in the same school districts as blacks and working-class people, manipulated zoning to keep apartments out of their neighborhoods, and wouldn't pay taxes for public transit because they thought it only benefited people who couldn't afford cars who they assumed were lazy and black.
@@danielleporter1829 And much of Germany's city rail was built after 1970. A new wave of construction built or modernized light rail lines and added downtown tunnels all over Germany, in cities down to 200,000, which Americans claim is far too small for it. Train and bus networks like that are what give you the freedom to live without a car.
Well the thing with the History is that there are no medieval castles and things like that in the USA but there are lots of them in Europe and it's really fascinating to visit them.
I wonder if legal drinking age is older because we do not have public transport as readily available so kids would drive intoxicated more often. 🤷🏼♀️
Even in Europe there are apparently two different types of Nutella. Either soft, glossy and quite sweet in the South (Italy, Spain, but also France, parts of Switzerland and even the Netherlands and Belgium), or harder, less glossy, with more cocoa and less sugar in other countries (like Germany).
Very interesting! Nobody wanted to believe me that the Nutella tastes much sweeter in the Netherlands than in Germany, when I spent my vacations there 😂 Nice that I was right 😁
Das liegt am Weißbrot. Auf Weißbrot kann man schwer die deutsche Nutella schmieren weil es reißt. Daher ist in allen Ländern die dieses typische Weißbrot essen die Nuttela weicher und Cremiger.
In New Jersey we have every kind of food and the supermarkets carry almost everything. But if you drive 50 miles into Pennsylvania things get harder to find. There are things we eat in New Jersey that most people in Pennsylvania have never heard of. I think i would love trying everything you two are eating in your travels and thank you for bringing us all along. I am disabled and traveling would be to difficult for me so i travel vicariously through your great videos.
The hidden state sales tax in USA.... or Sugar Tax in some cities... Alabama has an 8% sales tax, but where I live in Alabama, it's 9%. =_= It's bullocks. XD
In Lithuania moms get fully paid leave 2 months before childbirth and 1 year after, in the second baby year of life 80% of salary, and new fathers get four weeks fully paid leave in addition :)
Hello, I just want to let you know how happy I am that I found your Channel. You are both very funny, enternaining and you seem very nice.
Phil: Diana is asking how much a Baby cost at a Hospital.
I hope you take the hint xD
You can buy babies in US hospitals?
In Michigan, many young adults used to drive over the border into Canada to drink at 19 legally there. It’s not as easy as it used to be (even pre-COVID) but is still a thing.
I am from Austria but living in Iceland. In Austria the legal drinking age is the same as in Germany (beer and wine from 16 and the hard stuff from 18).
In Iceland the legal drinking age is 20. What is also drifferent is that in Iceland they have special shops for alcohol. In the regular supermarkets you can only find things that have a VERY low alcohol content (I think 1%).
Interesting! Sounds like the US where you have specialty liquor stores in certain states.
@@DeanaandPhil Same in Sweden and Norway. "systembolaget" for Sweden de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systembolaget . Prices for beer and wine are high. Restaurants also need special (costly) licenses to serve even beer. Up in the North they had big problems with alcoholism especially in the winter, and thought that this kind of soft alcohol ban may help.
In the US I found similar rules (unwritten?) only in Utah, enforced by the LDS mafia.
I’m European living in California. I bought my first car in California because it’s impossible to move around without one. My first car was Chevy impala but I switched to Mercedes after 6 years because Mercedes is like a ballerina and new impala is more like a kindergarten ballerina 😂 people in US are not jealous about European cars in terms of availability, they are jealous that they can’t make such a beautiful cars 🤷🏻♀️
some don't think they have cars in Germany, or anything else electronic for that matter!!
Canada is about the same. My American friend's insurance would not cover the birth of her baby because they had not selected that option on the plan. Therefore, her pregnancy was a preexisting condition and not covered. So sad:(
I am from Croatia. We can legally drink when we turn 18, it does not matter what alcohol you drink. You go to clubs with an ID so the bartender can see if you are legal, and if you want to buy alcohol, you have to show your ID to the seller. If you go out with an older crowd, they can buy the drinks for you. We had the police enter the clubs and turn on the lights (they are usually dimmed down), stop the music and check everyone's ID's. We had the police check points in the city where we usually went to clubs, where they would ask people walking around (if they suspected them to be underage and drunk) to stop and take the alcotest. If you are underage and caught, you go to the police station, your parents are notified, you appear in front of a judge and they can give you a warning, a fine and a threat of jail if you are caught again. My late fathers friend had his daughter caught underage and drunk. She was on a probation of sorts. She was 17, and they told her if they catch her again, during the next year, drunk and out in the clubs, she would go to jail. So, every country has their own laws and it depends on your luck. I know a lot of people who went out and were not 18, they would drink and party. They were always carefull not to get wasted and they acted normally on the street so they never had issues with the police (never got stopped on the street). I love that our police is relaxed and they are not forcefull. I love that our police is doing their job but still is mindfull towards the general public. There is a video of our national soccer team coming home from the World Football Championship and you can see the police that is guarding the football players, they are so chilled and nice towards everyone. I respect every country in the world, but I still love my Bosnia & Herzegovina and Croatia the most.
The legal drinking age in England is 5 (supervised on private property), 16 (in public with adult supervision) and 18 (in public with no supervision).
So why you can't get in some clubs/pubs when you are under 21?
When I went to the New York auto show the worker there had never seen so many people who didn’t have licenses. I don’t have a license and neither does my mother big reason why it would be hard to move. I remember my boyfriend mentioning why my mom wouldn’t move to Florida once she retired she doesn’t have a license which means she would be relying upon someone and or she has no way of getting around. That’s what’s good about public transportation in places like New York, you don’t need to be reliant upon someone if your car broke down or you don’t have your license etc...
Deana with her little bear plush -- so cute!
been in Germany for a short time, i’m a fan almost everything except the grey sky, one of the many things made me happy, is the enormous selection of chocolates and candies in the store , heaven 😍and Germany is a walkable country, walk and walk and so happy to walk everyday, a lot of parks to
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Yayy! I was waiting for this video! Love it 🥰
Hope you enjoyed it! :)
100% trains are the thing I want the most. The environmental benefits, the health benefits, and the social benefits of public transport are so visible. I live in San Francisco a couple blocks from a BART and Muni station, but I still have to have a car to get to my grandparents’ house in a different part of the bay and it sucks. I wish I could take a train there.
i´m from belgium we have here the same rules like germany in all points
i disagree,
U Guys have the best and safest Fireworks...
We suck at that Stuff....
@@Moneymark1979 really,? i dont knew that. But the safest means not so exiciting 😂 like yours
Google the price for insulin shots in the US and Germany.
That's why many americans go to Canada or Mexico to get them.
My grandma owns a card she pays maybe 10€ a year on it that allows her to get literally everything that is medicine for free and she never payed anything for the insulin tho
@@ACEsParkJunheeWreckedMeHard THAT PAYS THE HEALTH INSURANCE HERE IN GERMANY !!! IF AMN HAS CRONIC DISEASES, YOU ARE EXEMPTED FROM PAYMENT FOR MEDICINES! OTHERWISE IT IS ALWAYS SO 5 EURO THAT YOU HAVE TO PAY IN THE PHARMACY
@@joergfro7149 Insulin is still ~10 times more expensive in the US to comparable western Nations. Why? Unregulated Capitalism. "They charge you, cause they can." Yes, my insurance would pay for it, but in the end me or the society will pay for it anyway. True. But in the US it's still 10x more for the same amount which is just US Pharma having a good time celebrating anti-Communisn or however you want to call it. 😅
I'm jealous of health coverage, cheaper medicine, easy travel, the people, so many things!
I agree with almost everything. Especially with the abnormal costs in the American health care system. But, there are also drugs which are cheaper in the USA at Walmart and which you can only get much more expensive in a pharmacy in Germany. .
Not true. You can get them in drugstores. Just mostly plant-based.
fun fact the drinking age used to be 18 and the voting age used to be 21
and we literal switched it around, to now the drinking age is 21 and voting age is 18
It's sort of the way it should be. If you are old enough to die for your country you should be old enough to vote. It's the same with the drinking age. If you are old enough to die for your country you should be able to drink.
To answer the alcohol question At 3:35 in Georgia🇬🇪,though it's still wildly debated whether we are in Europe or Asia cause of our location,still Georgia is more of a wine country,where teens from 14/15 can drink wine beer and champagne and all that but when entering the clubs you have to be +18 or else no booze 🤣
It's weird in Georgia when it comes to alcohol because in regions outside of the capital you can drink as I've said from 13 but in the capital city its more restricted, probably allowed from 16 but I am not 100% sure so yeah
Btw I am 17 myself and wine is my specialty 🤣🇬🇪🍷((I am not alcoholic I promise))
When I lived in England for 8 years, I saw a LOT of cheaper prices on cars then in America, even for the more expensive style names. I also LOVE public transport SO much more in the UK and Europe compared to the USA.
I live back here in the US now and regret so many things I miss over there in comparison
as far as maternaty leave goes here in the netherlands we have 16 weeks, in case you're baby is born 1 week past due date you just get a week extra but if you're baby is born a week before you just keep you're 16 weeks. you can choose more in excange for less income but I don't now for howlong ang howmany % you then get (I am a stay at home mom so i don't know exactly :P). as far as cost go you do not need to pay much if you choose a hospital birth over homebirth without a medical reason you pay it yourself at least some of it, if you have a medical reason why you need to go to a hospital you pay nothing. I had a c-section 7 months ago (and one 2,5 years ago) and if I did need to pay it myself It would have been around 5000 euro and that is including the stay in the hospital in my case from saturday night about 2.30am til monday about 11am and food medicine care and all. I only paid about I believe 800-900 euro to have kraamzorg ( this is a kind of nurse that comes to you're home for 8-10 days to help you with the care for the baby and check you're wounds and also helps with household stuff like cleaning) but most of that is also paid by insurance.
haha sorry long comment but yeah much info not easy to get it compacter haha :P love you're channel you always make me smile
After two WWs, we did used the metric system. On bullets! Lmao
Your car has metric parts, your coke is in a 2-liter bottle, your nutrition label has grams, all rulers/thermometers/measuring cups since the 1980s have both units. Last week I wanted to know how many calories the sugar in my recipe was, and the sugar was in cups but the calorie stat was in 100 grams. "Yikes, I don't know how many grams are in a cup!" Fortunately my dual-unit scale said 450 grams = 16 ounces so I weighed my cups of sugar and figured it out.
I think the "being able to work in a different EU country as a EU citizen" meant "working there without needing a visa of any kind."
In Romania too, you can have a few weeks of paid holiday, as well as plenty of maternity leave - not sure if it's paid or not, as i didn't have the pleasure to experience that.
Giving birth here = free -probably, you'll have to pay if you choose a private hospital/clinic, but even then you can find out how much you're expected to pay (for instance, you could be told it costs 300 euros, and you can be almost certain it's not going to be less than that; i don't know how much it costs though, so the price is a random number i came up with); doctors' appointments/check-ups during pregnancies and after = free; emergencies treated in the ER=free. All these regardless of whether you have health insurance or not.
Deana's expressions and gestures are infectious.
I find it really weird, that in the US the blinkers of a car are at the same spot as the brake light. Why not two different light as i.e. in Germany?
2 different things = 2 different lights
Recent American cars have a center red brake light in the rear in addition to the dial-purpose side lights. Also, the side lights blink for turning but are on steady for breaking. Do you also have trouble distinguishing between a steady red traffic light (meaning stop) and a blinking red light (meaning stop for a moment and then go).
It's the law in the US. US laws require it the way it is. Dont like it then dont look at the car. My husband brought his Mercedes over from Germany and had to change the turn signal to the US way before it was street legal
I'm from Canada and I'm DEFINITELY jealous of most things Europe has to offer, especially in comparing to Canada. And no offense to Americans, but overall, Canada has it so much better than America, and Europe is leaps and bounds better than Canada. I definitely want to move to Europe... ASAP!!
Factss bro
You‘re welcome ... 😁
Yes. Us British people have just been deprived of our European citizenship by the collection of crazed racists who won a loaded referendum and then took us out on bad terms. I love free movement and people from different places right here, and love being able to travel to other places freely.
You'd have to ask more of the question of what am I not jealous of.
*Say one Fahrenheit I do think Fahrenheit is pretty cool. Especially for the weather. For Celsius for pretty much everything else.
As far as the lower drinking age I think the only people who care about that are under that age like everyone else doesn't care about it. So I'm way older an 21 so I don't care too much the only thing I would like to add is I would prefer a much more gradual drinking age like it is in Germany and other European countries like drinking hard liquor over a certain age versus drinking at a restaurant. I think 21 is fine but I think it should start younger and be more gradual. Like the UK as it where it's okay if you're 16 as long as your parents are there. 18 maybe yet just a restaurant we can drink wine or beer but you can't purchase you know a pack of beer. Until you're like 20 or 21 I think that would be more fair.
I died when you said crêpes 🤣 More seriously though, I think that going to university in Europe is only for work in Europe is messed up. I am not sure if that makes sense, but basically if you go to University in Europe the US doesn't recognize the credit and will probably deny you work.
CRAPS? Or the french version? 😂😂
I guess that depends on your field of study. When I was doing my diploma in computer science and mechanical engineering (the latter was my minor/Nebenfach), there were companies from the US (and from Germany) trying to actively recruit new employees. I guess they wouldn't have tried that if they didn't recognize the credit.