Regular Things Germans Do, Considered FANCY In America!
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
- After moving to Germany and living in Germany, we learned there are some things that Germans have or use every day that for Americans...are really fancy! 😊
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00:00 - Anfang
1:36 - Fancy Thing 1
3:11 - Fancy Thing 2
4:19 - Fancy Thing 3
6:28 - Fancy Thing 4
7:56 - Fancy Thing 5
9:26 - Fancy Thing 6
11:28 - Bloopers
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How often do you actually wear a suit? 😅
Well I really like wearing a suit. But I am a farmer, so i don't have many opportunities to do so. Generally "only" for special occasions like some birthdays, weddings or such. I guess about 5 times per year?
Konfirmation and my wedding. That's about how often I wore one. Won't wear one if i don't have to.
Whenever i attend a funeral.
I don't even own a suit but I like wearing a smart jacket when the occasion arrives. I also like buying silk ties and like using them whenever there is an occasion, but those are rare, and I don't like to be overdressed.
Christmas, NewYear's eve, and birthday parties.
People who knew me when I was young would probably wonder, because I once (1982) made a speech for all the professors and the Danish Queen mother at the university wearing a sleeveless T-shirt, shorts and sandals. That hit the news in Denmark. What did not hit the news was that it was a protest against a celebration where we, the 6000 students, were not invited. My 15 minutes of fame 😂
Two years later everyone was invited 😊
Suit? What it´s ?
A water cooker is the most normal thing in Germany while Americans find that very fancy.
Ya, that’s one thing we haven’t ever included in a video bc we were the rare Americans that had one even in the states before we ever traveled to Germany 😅 But you are correct! Very rare in the U.S. to find one.
We have two electric kettles, so we can boil more water at the same time 😅
@@PassportTwo Maybe it has to do with the voltage; 240 V = efficient time to boil water - 120 V = does not work well
Its the best way to heat water for our "Tea"
@@gerdpapenburg7050According to Technology Connections, the difference is not that great and a kettle is still the most energy efficient way to make hot water.
From what I’ve heard, the most plausible reason for Americans not owning a kettle seems to be, that most Americans don’t drink tea or other beverages that benefit from having a kettle and because of the alleged inefficiency of running a kettle with 120v.
He said Toast Bread!!!
Einer von uns, einer von uns.
🤣👍💪 Germanised!!
Teil des Schiffs, Teil der Crew...
assimilation as planned.
@@vHindenburgDeutsches Brot braucht *immer* einen Captain 😂
Toast ist aber kein Brot 😠
I'm disappointed the first thing is not "Going to a hospital" 😂
Or "trusting the police to actually be respectful, helpful, and well-trained". Or "sending your kids to school with no fear they're going to get shot today". Or "walking / riding a bike basically anywhere". Or "taking a long-distance train as a viable method of transport". Or "completely closing the blinds so you can sleep in the dark".
@@empirate100 taking a long-distance train? In Germany? XD
@@iohallas4808 Well, it's going to be late of course, DB's service isn't getting any better 😆. But I _can_ go from any place to anywhere else by train here. If there are people living there, chances are I can take the train to go there.
The police in germany dont have a good standing imo.@@empirate100
@@TZBeatz Actually, trust in the police is very high in Germany, at 77% (2023). Only very few institutions or professions here enjoy this much support from the general populace (e.g. courts of justice; doctors). Compare that to the meagre 35% (2022) of people saying they generally trust the police in the US!
Among things Germans take for granted but Americans treat as a luxury, you forgot to mention healthcare.
Talked about healthcare in other videos but this can be added again to another video on this subject 😉
Waiting months for an appointment and getting treated bad is not partically luxurious. And it’s not free, you are forced to pay up to 1000€ per month for health insurance.
@@dukathneu it's true, that it can take some time to get an appointment for a specialist. But if you try at different clinics in your area, usually you can get one within 4 weeks at most. And if you are in real trouble, you can always go to the hospital, where a specialist will check and treat you. Of course our insurance isn't free, but it's obligatory and the employer pays half. There are enough studies and videos comparing German healthcare to American healthcare, and it's a fact, that in Germany it's way cheaper and better.
@@dukathneuand we still pay less and get better treatment, than you would get in the US.
There are a bunch of studies on this, like "Mirror, Mirror 2022: Reflecting Poorly" or "U.S. Healtg Care from a Global Perspective, 2022: Accelerating Spending, Worsening Outcomes"
Even if you are wealthy in the US, as long as you aren't laughably rich, you will usually have worse healthcare outcomes than poor people here.
@@dukathneu Tell me you don´t know what you are talking about without telling me you don´t know what you are talking about!
Side note: Germany has a law that says if you sell drinks your cheapest drink has to has 0% alcohol
This often means that they hike up the price of a water to be the same as a beer tbf
@@anzaia2164Fortunately not offen, but look rather a the price of Coca-Cola or other Soda
A non-alcoholic beverage does not have to be the cheapest item on the menu but there has to be at least one non-alcoholic beverage with the same price as the cheapest alcoholic drink.
"Der so genannte Apfelsaft-Paragraph ist eine Vorschrift des deutschen Gaststättengesetzes (GastG), nach der in Gaststätten mindestens ein alkoholfreies Getränk höchstens genau so teuer wie das billigste alkoholhaltige Getränk sein muss."
@@kackerlakensalat Der Vergleich passiert jedoch auf der Basis des Literpreises (GastG, § 6 Ausschank alkoholfreier Getränke). Und es wird trotzdem regelmäßig missachtet, weil es kaum verfolgt wird. In der Realität sehe ich es regelmäßig, dass Bier pro Liter in Restaurants am billigsten ist und auch Wasser, Tee oder Milch nicht billiger werden.
You only find unmoveble showerheads in public swimmingpools in Germany. Everywhere else we have moveble showerheads.
well, or both in one shower. One on top that you can't move or only swerve left to right and one that you can take off
and there mostly to avoid idiots from stealing the shower head or just breaking it, harder to break a fixed head above ^^'
Same here in Sweden.
Even my gym has movable showerheads
Same here in the Netherlands
Normal for Germans: kids can walk to school because we have usable sidewalks
Also normal: your kid wont get shoot walking to the school on a sidewalk by some bored guy
Also normal: SPAZIERGANG!
There are fixed showerheads that are sold as very fancy in Germany called "Regendusche". But those are often combined with a standard one with a hose.
They're also *much* bigger than those American ones and will generally actually get to every spot on your body.
As someone who has it theyre much bigger
The "Regendusche" is still movable around its spherical joint and usualy about 30 cm in diameter - thats about 1 foot for the americans who have problems with normal measurements.It must be so wide because the waterpressure in germany and mostly everywhere els in Europe would be to high for the "rain-feeling" ... but at least the waterpressure in some parts of USA is so low, that you can have the rain-feeling with just 2 to 3 cm - about 1 inch and the german Regendusche would make no sence at all because the water would only drip out at the rim.
@@gundleyG Nothing to do with water pressure, there are inserts for that. Regendusche = rain shower. It's not about the drops it is the idea to get wet on every part, just like in the rain. The slow falling drops you adjust with inserts. The waterpressure is not the real reason for them being so wide ;). Cheers
@@intptr88 No inserts for the lack of pressure :D Intervalldusche :D
Totally norm in Germany: Duvets filled with eiderdowns.
Calling an ambulance if somebody collapses in the street without asking the person for allowance because it doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
Eating everywhere and always from real porcellain plates and drinking from real glasses, using metal cutlery, except on some outdoor festivals.
Das sind meistens Gänsedaunen. Eiderdaunen sind viieel zu teuer.
@@karolabecker3297 Hm … 🤗 lost in translation. Ich suchte für einen Begriff für eine Federbettdecke.
Nope, duvets filled with downs are normal, but duck- or goosedowns. True eiderdowns are extremely expensive, due to the rarity of eiderdowns.
@@blablub81 Youre right. It is a bad translation. I meant normal downs and feathers.
Just FYI, allowance is english for "Taschengeld". I think the word you're looking for here is "permission".
As a German who grew up in the States, one thing that always surprised Americans was the fact that we almost exclusively use reusable plates and cutlery. Most families even have reusable plastic plates (from a big Swedish furniture store) for picnics and ither outdoor events. Using single-use dishes in a private home or at a private party is extremely rare. Meanwhile I just got back from an American wedding where the cake was served on paper plates. Talk about culture shock!
Ome more thing: sandy beach for napping and rocks for swimming
A movable shower head connected to a hose is a “luxury” that you can have for less than €10.
I think the point he meant to make is „it‘s not standard, and if you don‘t insist on it, your house most probably won‘t have it“
I was an international student in Michigan, and I remember going to a bar with friends once, and finding out that the restroom stalls not only had huge gaps, they did not even have doors. Even in my time in the Army our toilet stalls had doors... that was a serious WTF moment.
And American "bread" is pretty much cake. The very idea of cutting the crusts off untoasted wonder bread because "it is too hard" is just mind-boggling... then again, considering the costs of dental treatments? I decided not to get a root canal in the US (for 800+ USD) because I knew that I would be back in Germany three weeks later, where I paid 60 Euros, and that only because I wanted a ceramic filling, rather than metal.
You actually get dental problems by not using your teeth as they are meant to be.
There are even theories that all the soft food leads to jaws not growing properly, thus teens needing braces.
@@viomouse Wouldn't surprise me. Of course the fact that there is sugar in just about everything, and mostly this high fructose corn syrup sh*t at that, does not help
I am always amused when I see the Austin Powers movies making fun of the Brits' teeth, but we all know that you need 32 hillbillies in a room to get a full set...
@@carstentripscha4609 LOL!
Tooth root issues may not be the best example ... or dentist stuff in general. While for the very most part still way cheaper, root issues do tend to get expensive really quick in Germany as well (as in: a few 100 € or even in the low 1000s - no problem at all). And then there is the issue that dentists' fees for the same thing can easily vary by a few 100 % between dentists for no discernible reason whatsoever.
@@keinschwein8467 pretty much all of these expenses are paid by the healthcare provider though. Unless its purely aesthetic they will pay for pretty much anything that is medically necessary. It makes sense though since tooth problems can lead to various other ailments.
From personal experience: Airtight windows with multiple stacked glaspanes for insulation are standard in Germany. Whereas in California I only ever saw single pane windows with half inch gaps between the sliding parts. When I asked American colleagues about this, they said they did not need temperature insulation because winters were not cold (while the AC was running on full blast to keep the heat out).
(live in Germany)
Unless you can't really see it I think I have only seen once windows with multiple glass panes. My windows are also not 100% airtight and water also comes through, so there is that.
Man kann es meistens bei doppel verglasten Fenstern nicht sehen und die sind hier gesetzlich verpflichtender Mindeststandart. Die meisten Fenster sind mittlerweile dreifach verglast. Ausnahmen sind entweder schlechte Vermieter oder Originalfenster in unsanierten Altbauten, aber hier müssen sie nachrüsten, wie gesagt gesetzlich vorgeschrieben.
Ich habe bisher nur 3 Schicht Fenster gesehen und finde generell auch, das die Haustüren in den USA absolut inakzeptabel dünn sind😂. Ich meine mein Haus hat ne Tür die mindesten 2 mal so dick ist. Nicht so ne Sperrholzplatte aus dem Baumarkt
Public pools or school gyms will have fixed shower heads, probably because of easier maintenance and less danger of damage.
The Cuba embargo also leads to Americans treating the very common Havana Club Rum as some kind of liquid gold.
Well, to be fair, it is the best rum 🍹
Ah, good old Havana Club Añejo 3 anos rum, the ingredient that helps baking delicious chocolate cakes!
I remember that I bought a bunch of bottles on sale for ~8,90€, nowadays they're on sale for ~11,-€, regular price is about 14€.
So, I'm always checking if that stuff or HC Añejo Especial is on sale...
In addition to bread, the thing I remember when I was a student in the US in 95/96 is cheese. There was the cheap large packs of orange cheddar (and one type was halfway edible) but other cheese I would have been considered normal in Germany was sold in tiny portions in the Deli section as French/Swiss style cheese (it was AFAIK not imported but some might have been) as a luxury item.
There are people, who think swiss cheese is a special make or a brand or something.
Then the US isn't for me. Don't get between me and my cheese.
@@HalfEye79My cheese is my castle! ❤️
The reason why you don’t see the junk cars in Germany is that *every* car has to go through a main inspection every two years to check for road worthiness. This is done by certified inspectors/companies of which the TÜV is the best known. If the inspector deems the car unsafe to drive (for you to drive or a danger to others) you have to repair the car within a month and get the car to the inspection again, or you unregister your car. If you don’t and you get caught, there will wait a hefty fine for you.
This applies to *every* motored vehicle on the road. Cars, motorcycles of every kind, tractors, etc.
And as a fun fact: If you have a drivers license and you get caught drunk on your bicycle (for which you don’t need a license), you can loose your drivers license. 😅
I think theres also a cultural difference. Germans in general tend to take good care of their cars especially the exterior. I was flabbergasted by the quantity of beat up cars (as in dents all over the place, nothing major like Ive seen in the US) when I first traveld to Italy and France as a boy
6:27 „Schlag die Tür nicht so zu, das ist kein Panzer!!!“
A old joke says with a german bakery you can live everywhere outside of Germany.
A friend of mine is living in Austraila. He try to work as a minening engeneer. But can not find work. One month before his wife will say thanks to the community and make a self made cake festival with her german Torte=cake.
The boss of big Store find it so luxery and tasty. He build a cake corner. She seels more than 50 cakes in 14 Days.
So she starts a german bakery in Australia... he build the mashines and bring up cake and bred to the costumers.
Sandy beaches, for longer stays (and lying down reading and/or building a sandcastle), rocky beaches for walking along them and maybe finding a pretty stone.
Also, those fix showerheads can be found in communal showers in Germany, like those in swimming halls.
Ah yes! That’s where I’ve seen those types of shower heads! Saunas and pools 😊
Right. AND when a Gym offers a shower, those are also fixed ones.
@@PassportTwo As an architect, long since retired, I always find comments on these sorts of things hilarious. The shower-heads, toilet compartments, and the two-way residential windows [Which you did not mention this time.] are all available in the U.S. from American manufactures. The reason you "never" see them is because U.S. builders build to the lowest cost to themselves. You can ask for an upgrade but they will demand more money than the product is actually worth because it's a hassle for them and the ordering process interrupts their work-flow. Once I realized that this was how it would be, I refused all residential work and only took aviation, municipal, educational, and corporate work. Reminder: The U.S. is a "bottom line" economy. Always has been. Always will be. Once one understands this, it explains most of the everyday differences one sees between the U.S. and Germany.
Ironically enough Germany is cheaper than America. And unironically again home ownership in America has gotten way worst. If you didn’t know HOA is one hell of a invention.
Oh, come on. Even for a German this Basecap backwards thing doesn't scream "American" but "12 years old". (Like fore the actual content though)
It screams "Calvin Kleinen"!
Rocky Beach of course, because Justus, Peter and Bob are living there. Duh! ;D
???
@@juwen7908 It's just a joke. :)
There is a German audio play series ('Die drei Fragezeichen') that takes place in a fictional town in California called Rocky Beach.
@@gretahaase5509 ich weiß, deswegen die ??? 😉🤣
@@juwen7908 Oh, sorry, das habe ich dann fehlinterpretiert, aber jetzt wo du es sagst ... Guten Morgen an mich selbst *lach
@@gretahaase5509 Nicht zu vergessen, dass die Serie ja eigentlich tatsächlich amerikanischen Ursprungs war. XD
For sure there are some rusty cars in Germany, but they don’t pass the TÜV. You have to work so that they will pass the TÜV.
Or you get pulled over by the police and send home by bus.
xD there are people who turn their car into a "Ratte" (a "rat", like the animal) where they make them look old and decrepid, they still all have to go through the TÜV. the funniest part is, when they paint them in rust color.
some of those cars are really funny looking.
Some rust is actually fine, as long as it isn't on the important bits.
@@lauramarschmallow2922 Which is what Americans call "Rat-rod", funny enough! I wonder who got it from whom
The wine thing is specific to the "wine states" and regions in germany.
I travel for work a lot, and came across different areas, where beer reigns supreme and the wine section is MUCH smaller, than in a grocery store in Rheinland Pfalz or Baden Würtemberg.
And, the best thing in Rheinland Pfalz, at least for me, is the ability to buy wine at mostly every winery. Every Winzer i came across so far, sells their wine in their own little shops, and most of the times its even cheaper, than in the supermarkets, and youre able to try the different wines and choose one you like, instead of buying blind and hoping for the best.
I am currently living in Berlin and have family in Rheinland-Pfalz and have never noticed a difference in the price of wine or the size of the wine section. The sortiment is often different that is true. And buying at the Winzer is always the best option.
Sandy beaches!
My personal luxury item in Germany is the floor heating in our house. I woudn't want to be without it during the colder months.
You might know what happened in France the last time when people could not afford bread but were told to rather eat cake! That's why the price of bread is regulated by government.
No, it is not regulated. The price varies from 35c for industrial made in supermarkets to over 1€ "hand made" in bakeries. And, as overall, the price does not say something about the quality. The one and only bakery in our town supplied two qualities. Tasty and fluffy or recycled cardboard, depending of the baker in service. But after a second bakery opened it was closed only three or four month later... Greetings from France.
@@ichselbst880 It was officially regulated until the late 1970s and I am pretty sure it was still quasi-regulated when I was in France several times in the 1990s.
@@bartolo498 Good old times, long ago 😁
Well that's an urban legend. Marie Antoinette never said these words.
@@VincentVega217 That's right, but at that periode any reason was a good reason to cut the hairs until under the chin...
That fresh Baguette is on Sale 59cents..at German kaufland Grocerychains..at the baking Aile..😂😂
I am in my forties, Portuguese, if half German, live in Portugal, and I have never lived in a house without a movable shower head, usually you can either use it fixed, or non fixed, bother options available. And no, I am not reach, working class.
Vehicle inspection for safety and emissions is mandatory in the European Union.
The lack of safety inspection in the US is one of the reasons the mortality on the road is so high in the US. The stroads are supposedly an other one.
Bread (and staple foods in general) have a reduced VAT in many European countries. I live in Ireland and there is no VAT at all for stable foods here, while Germany has a reduced VAT of 7% for most foods (as well as for books, tickets to cultural activities, and public transport).
How to build a castle on a rocky beach? Sandy beach seems to be more entertaining, at least it feels more comfortable to the feet.
... He said "toast bread!" 😂
There's also grassy beaches by a lot of lakes which are quite nice.
Big fan of the baltic sea, die Badewanne der Berliner😉
So, sandy beaches with Strandkorb, that's it for me 🌅
Greetings from Berlin 😎
Y’all they don’t just let you drink on the train, they serve beer on the train AND pour it into a glass for you. Not to mention actual meals on actual plates. Like is there a dishwasher on the train too? Wild…..
That's something I do consider a luxury, though - you only get that kind of dining car in the higher class of long distance trains... Basic regional trains have some simple snacks and bottled drinks on offer at best, sometimes from a vending machine, often nothing at all.
Random question of the week: I prefer sandy beaches. You can walk around bare footed and not hurt your feet or spraining your ankle. It's also the only type of beach we have in the Netherlands.
it seems that water is more expensive than beer. that could also be. But it is regulated by the veterinary office that a non-alcoholic drink must be cheaper than an alcoholic drink in the same quantity, e.g. 1l water or Tea €4.00 and 1l beer €10
Rocky Beach only, if it‘s about the „???“ (three Questionmarks) - a subject you could make a video of its own about.
To answer the question: Sandy beaches are way better than rocky beaches.
Gotta admit the first "Fancy Thing" surprised the hell out of me. Why, for the love of god, would anyone consider building a toilet wich isn't private? I could never go into on of these stalls, except maybe if I barricaded the whole room...
I also don’t understand the toilet situation…😂
@@PassportTwo In the past, I heard that it's supposed to be a safety measure. By allowing someone else to look in, they can check if the occupant is unconscious.
I don't remember how valid that claim is, though.
Two reasons: less material makes it cheaper to build and in the USA employees are seen and treated as cattle. So they want to make sure that the employees feel as uncomfy as possible at the toilet and spend there less time.
Sometimes they try to sell it as some kind of safety measure but that's utter bollocks.
@@dansattah Utter bollocks. If you want to know if someone is unconscious on the loo, just knock on the door and ask if they're okay. If you want to be able to see if someone is collapsed on the floor of the stall at a glance, a ten inch gap from the floor is plenty. You don't need a door that only covers the area between knees and shoulders.
That is not a Germany thing. It is a civilized world thing.
We have those immovable showerheads mounted to the wall here in Germany, mostly in swimmingpool changing areas. Either in public ones or school pools. Sometimes in fitness studios aswell (not always though).
Oh, and it's sandy beaches for me (if there's a shower at one of these it's most likely a fixed mount aswell).
Hahaha I couldn’t even hear the airplane that you complained about in 11:35 because there was one right above my head here 😂
those bathrooms would make me crazy... i literally have nightmares where people can see me sitting on the toilette. this is literally a nightmare for me! LITERALLY! OMG
the movable shower head thing is like 50 bucks for the complete set including screws and dowels
In the most modern Showers, there's two Showerheads in Germany. One static and one movable. If it's an older house/apartment and there is only a bathtub/shower, then you have in Germany one Showerhead.
I live on a Greek island and we have sandy beaches and rocky beaches here. And we also habe pebble stone beaches, which are my favourite, because you don't lay down on rocks, but you also don't find sand around the car and house after going to the beach.
I absolutely prefer sandy beaches, if I want to lay down, catch some sun and go swimming. Pebble beaches are only an option in the autumn or winter, when I just want to go for a walk fully clothed with shoes on, then walking on pebbles is more comfortable than flowy sand. But that is a very specific purpose. In general, sandy beach it is.
Showerheads you can take off the wall because of the hose are the standard here. A bit fancier would be a rainshower (big, fixed showerhead) on top of that
That stache is sick af dude 🔥🔥
I think one reason for the different showers might be different timelines for indoor plumbing and different preferences for bath vs shower. In Germany there would have been bathtubs with running water (maybe an electric hot water boiler if there was no central heating) before showers became common. So these bathtubs could more easily be equipped with the hose + showerhead (without having new tubes in a wall) and thus they became standard also for new houses/bathrooms.
I grew up in an apartment building from the early 1950s. Heating was with coal-burning stoves until they put in central gas heating in the early 70s. There was no running hot water until we got an electric boiler in the kitchen in the 60s, and to take a bath you literally had to fire up a boiler in the bathroom. You either washed your face etc. In cold water, or had to pour warm water you had heated in the kitcheb into a bowl perched across the tub. Small wonder we only took baths once a week, on Saturday nights.
Also, the only rooms that could be heated at all before they installed gas heating were the living room and bedroom(s). Fun times...
When you showed the image with the run down car and bison in Oklahoma I wondered if there are actually still wild bisons in Oklahoma. Thanks to chatgpt I now know there are - in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge 😅🙈 it's over 100 years old. FINALLY I know there's something cool and interesting about Oklahoma
the shower heads absolutely killed me while in the US. also the water pressure was quite low and temperature was just warm or cold with no steps, so i felt kinda not done cleaning and booked a spa after 2 weeks :D
i prefer sandy beaches for most things because rocky beaches are uncomfortable to walk and lay on and you cant play in them (i'm not a child i just enjoy playing with sand). i do love boulders on sandy beaches for climbing though
"basically alone in their Cuban boycott"? What other country on this map is "red"? They ARE alone.
I grew up in Rheinland-Pfalz
Did you ever visit Idar-Oberstein?
Its dirty now, but 20 years ago it was such a beautiful place.
I moved to Berchtesgaden fifteen years ago from Atlanta Ga and you are correct about the cars here-they are much better maintained and that also keeps intersections free from oil, oil in general on the road, little metal parts you have to dodge every now and then. The roads here are clean. Great video. Habe d''ihre :)
In fact you can't have oil on the streets, they will clean it up and charge the one causing the spill. My friend had a mishap with his car with the result he made an oil trail o the street, and within hours the Feuerwehr came to clean the mess. Lucky for him nobody saw his car as the culprit, else would be a hefty fine.
Rocky beaches are great in my opinion, but it comes down to what someone plans so yeah.
Haha, the toilet stall issue gets even more insane when you show Americans WHY they have to pay for using the bathroom in Germany. They get these immaculate, clean bathrooms that don't smell bad, are bright and airy, have individual stalls with completely closing doors, ground to ceiling walls, aaand... A rotating, self-cleaning toilet seat each and every time you flush. If you want additional disinfectant you often can find dispensers in each stall for the germophobes.
Once you get out of the stall to wash your hands multiple sinks with no-touch faucets, paper or even cloth towel dispensers, and since the pandemic, automatic hand sanitizer dispensers. Consider that you pay 70 cents for the usage, but get a voucher for 50 cents redeemable at any of the hundreds of such rest stops within Germany, I find the final cost of 20 cents for all the service supplied to be a fair price. Agreed, inconvenient at times, but totally worth it.
RQotW: definitely sandy beaches. Much better to dig holes into to hold drinks containers, sink a beach umbrella into, etc. Most rocky beaches also have dark rocks which heat up even more than sand in the sun. The feeling of soft, wet, warm sand under your feet is soooo soothing. What's not to like?😊
The price on the Autobahn for toilet use is now 1 euro, but then you can get a similar deduction at the cashier.
I remember my first stand up toilet in rural France. You walk into a maze, bring your own toilet paper, put your feet in position and try not to get your clothes wet or dirty. Although we have visited France many times we have only used such facilities a few acute times 😂
As somebody who works at a Sanifair-Supplier: THank you for "getting" it. Anyone wh ever hat to shit in a dirty rundown toilet on the autobahn decades ago will also agree...
@@voxdraconia4035 I remember the times before Sanifair when you had to pay 50 Pfennig for gross toilets. But even in this stinky times we had some kind of privacy.
At first I thought - sandy beaches, all the way. If you want to stay and lie there - yes sandy. But then I thought, I like to take a walk alongside the shoreline. That is really hard work on a sandy beach. It is much easier on a rocky beach. So yeah, for walking along the shore line - rocky beaches.
Ideas for things in the US that seems luxury for us: Definitely AC 😂 In germany, if someone has AC in their house, they got some money - we have AC in hotels tho. Also those big fridges with ice cube machines in it - my parents bought one and even they are well off middle class, they often refer to it as an luxury item ☺️
Another thing is takeaway/ordering food/restaurants - because groceries are very cheap in germany, it is way cheaper to cook at home than going out, so for most people buying ready made food is considered a luxury while in the US my impression was, that it's sometimes cheaper or the same price to eat at some place.
As I see it, AC is considered the cheapest option for heating and cooling a building in Germany too. They are found much more often in comparatively inexpensive modular and mobile homes than in expensive single-family homes, which rather contradicts the idea of luxury.
@@marcromain64 Really? I've only seen AC's in Hotels and Expensive houses, never in a cheap appartment or lower middle class house.
AC will get much more common, because they work as heat pumps too, but contrary to those, who feed the existing heating system, they can cool in summers, that will get warmer every year.
Well about the cars we're obligated to have them checked on a schedule and the vehicle gets retired if it it does not pass the check and you fail to have it fixed up in short time.
Which my bad forgot about for months and had the checkup be confirmed at a local police station (with additional fine).
On the plus side cars on the highway usually won't be desintegrating.
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3:00 on top of that: these fully enclosed toilet stalls have usually brick walls. They're more sturdy than most American HOUSES!
11:20 it depends. For bathing: sandy beach. For snorkeling and exploring the wildlife: rocky beach.
I used to buy my wine in a drugstore called Rossmann. (only 4 euros and really good) :D
There are rocky beaches, that are absolutely stunningly scenic, while a "good" sand beach is just bland. But a good sand beach is also convenient and more comfortable, while you can't really comfortably spend time at any rocky beach, regardless of how beautiful it is. Or at least not on the ground.
One, sandy beaches for basically everything (swimming, sun bathing, hiking, walking the pet ect.)
Two, how expensive would you consider the average restaurant in Germany?
Recently, my family went to a Greek one on the Baltic coast. At 15-20 EUR per meal, it felt like a moderate one.
I used to think restaurants in Germany were very expensive bc of what I was used to paying at restaurants in Oklahoma. However, on our recent trips back home I learned how expensive it has gotten to eat out in Oklahoma/Texas and no longer consider eating out in Germany that expensive in comparison.
I need to comment quickly before watching....I wonder if you will mention health insurance🤣🤣🤣
There are beaches inbetween. with tiny pebels. Kiesstrand. you can ly and walk as on sand. It doesn't go every were as sand.
I like all beaches, as long as they're reasonably clean and I don't have to share them with too many others. Preferably with good options to go in quickly.
4:19 - Cars USA vs. Germany
As far as I've heard, it's also hard to keep your car in good shape in the USA when most of the roads, especially the interstate roads, are just a series of potholes.
I once heard that you could easily renovate all the roads in the country with the money Americans spend on garage visits because of pothole damage.
And that showerhead is only the middle-to-high level. A rainshower head combined with one of those is another notch up.
Very nice and informative video! :) I prefer sandy beaches, rocky beaches are so painful on the feet.
Which town's midtown is your sweater about?
Sandy beaches. You cannot build any castles on rocky beaches, or can you? ;-)
Rocky beaches, there you can see fish if you go snorkling. The sandy ones are boring
2,80€ for a baguette is a really good price. For example sourdough bread costs 4-5€ where I live, which is northern Germany.
I love the beach with sharp stones and a lot of rocks and boulders - no sand means no anoying people :D
There is a common saying here in Germany that the car is "der Deutschen liebstes Kind"/ The "German's favourite child" - which nails it (though nothing beats Luxembourg). And though my car is kind of junk-ish it still is in better shape than the one I drove in France😂
Yes.. It's actually quite cool with us 🤗
Very intersting.
The #2 is maybe as the "shower" in Germany was first more a bathing tube to stand in ... and the water for the shower came from the faucet, you also fill the bathing tube with. A "solo shower" wasn't common for long.
About the need of space, it changes since years ... no "full bath" anymore, just a shower. Also a "rain shower" (where you have a big but fixed position outlet above you) is seen as a kind of luxury now ... but them have a 2nd outlet for the hand. The showers with wall mounted outlets are common at public places, eg. swimming pools and so.
At #3: If your car fail at the TÜV (mainly requirements, security stuff ... breaks, stability, pollution, windshield ... a crack in the windshield can/will cause a fail, as your security is not longer given), you are not longer allowed to operate it (you can fix it within a short time-frame ... but if you drive it, the police will stop you at any chance and after a covered time-frame also stop the further use).
Living close to the Baltic coast, in my opinion each type of beach has its merits. Rocky beaches are fantastic for beach walks and adventuring afternoons with kids and dogs, especially when the weather isn't swim-friendly. Summer swim afternoons with sunbathing and sand castles obviously require a sandy beach... I'm lucky - both kinds of beach are easily reachable for me, by bicycle, bus or commuter train in less than an hour.
Oh wow that's an expensive baguette 😀 In Czechia, French Baguette is sold for about 10-20 CZK, which is less than a euro 😀
sandy beach! with palm trees and a turquoise sea. nothing better than that.
I was a little disappointed that when you talked about bread, you only mentioned baguette. That's French. We have countless darker colored bread types, from the light grey Bauernbrot all the way to almost black Pumpernickel. Made from different types of flour and some of them with add-ons like sunflower seeds or walnuts.
If you‘re talking about bakery prices, you habe to go to the „Lidl bakery“ it‘s just perfect
Well, bread and other baked goods are quite expensive in a bakery but not in the supermarkets, there you'll get everything for less than half of the bakery prices.
There is actually a reason for beer not being cheaper than water: there is a law that's commonly called "Apfelsaft-Paragraph" ("apple juice paragraph") saying that in bars, restaurants, etc, there has to be at least one non-alcoholic drink on the menu that's cheaper than the cheapest alcoholic one, which is supposed to prevent alcohol abuse.
Ouh the question is kind of a hard one. For laying I take sandy beaches but if I don't plan to lay down I take rocky beaches just for the rocks. I a rock solid geology fan and love looking at stones and rocks. I could do that all day long. So it's a 50/50
Hygiene products: being taxed as 'essentials tax' and not 'luxury tax'...
In Switzerland you can definitely find a bottle of wine for less than 3 CHF even tho you'll automatically get a head ache
There are many old cars in germany. But all of them have to go to the inspection every 2 years so it really rare that one of them just breaks down under its own weight.
From somebody who was last in the US like 20 years ago - when I was in the US (specifically in Arizona) I saw a lot of totally run down cars, but also a lot of decently well kept cars that would not stand out in Germany. IMO the average car is about the same, but the worst cars are much worse in the US, if that makes sense.
The most random thing is thinking that anybody would prefer rocky beaches.
27 days paid vacation plust 9-12 paid days off (depending on region) is LUXURY to Americans
Random question, but could this "theater kid" thing be a more american thing, or is it simply because I live in a rural area with not much theater around?
Sandy beaches, usually. Really enjoying your videos (from Sweden, so it's also interesting to compare your view of Germany with Sweden :-) ).
Funfact: Next to the Headquarters of BMW in Munich is the HQ of the Beerbrand ,,Fanziskaner"! 😂
sandy beaches fs, loved the video
Baguettes as example for fancy items is kind of funny, given that a Baguette in the grocery bag is one of the more common movie stereotypes.
My grandaunts had handset for shower more than 55 years ago in Italy.
Like most of your videos, it's pretty fun and interestingly to get the "outside perspective"m something that I also had during my studies.
But I'll make one horrible comment (and it also applies to Germany... maybe... I live next to Frankfurt which is known as very uppity):
When *exactly* is it *luxurious* to wear a plain notched lapel two piece?
I usually wear three piece suits with a peak lapel unless I wear some combination of especially summery nature.
I also often wear double breasted suits, and *those* should *never* have a notched lapel (though there where some in the 80s... and horrible🤣).
And I'm "just" a bespoke orthopaedic shoemaker.
addendum: rocky beaches!
Prosit!
Raoul G. Kunz