American reacts to Cost to live in GERMANY vs AMERICA
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NO RYAN! This is the third video in a row you've been making that mistake. You keep getting your conversions mixed up!
1 USD will get you 0.92 EUR
or
1 EUR will get you 1.09 USD.
This means the EUR is worth more than the USD, which it has been pretty consistently in the last 20 years or so.
I assume after the last video he did it on purpose this time, because he knew he will get many comments for repeating that mistake
@@pixelbartusI assume he doesn't read the comments... :(
I hope both are false but one of both hypothesises must be true 😅
He doesn't read comments, I wouldn't bother.
he probably just prerecorded videos@@gamingtonight1526
@saladspinner3200
You are getting the exchange rate wrong. In fact, the Euro is 10% more valuable than the USD.
he gets is totally wrong all the time. apparently, he didn't notice it in the comments section of earlier videos. by now I've given up on hoping he might get it some day.
That made me get confused so much!😅 Thanks for clarification. From what my research says the US$ was only worth more than the euro was for a few weeks in 2022 and only by 2-3 percent.
The last three videos he got it wrong 😬
Classic American 😂
I mean he is from murica...
About the rental costs: You have to keep in mind, that German salaries are different from the US ones. The German average net salary in 2023 was 2.425 € (2636,67 US Dollars)
So 1.233,43 € (1341,09 US Dollars) for renting a single room apartment in Berlin is about half the average salary of a German. And there are a lot of people who do not earn the average pay, but work in lower paid jobs!
And what Americans call a "one bed apartment" is not the same as we call a "one room apartment". She talks about one room, a kitchen and a bathroom. So you would have to live and sleep in the same room.
The differences between the rural and city rental costs are exorbitant. The more rural, the cheaper and the closer to the city the more expensive. And please remember what you have learned before in so many videos: A German rental apartment might be absolutely not furnished and might not have a kitchen. So yes, at the moment our rental costs are exploding. And a lot of the poor old, retired people can't even afford a one single room rental any more!
And when you rent one in Dresden for 550.33€ a month, but you are working in a low salary job and may have only a net pay of 1.100€ (1196,02 Dollars), then you are still paying 50% of your income for the rent. And that does not include electricity which is three times as expensive here as in the US.
The problem with the inflation is, that in general it is decreasing, but the food producing brands keep the prices on the highest inflation level we've hat a few months back.
If you work in retail in USA you get 1500 usd and rent can be 1900 . IT doesnt look better :)
@@LU-jo2jz 1900 for a single room apartment? thats nuts
You ignore the fact, first you need to find an affordable Appartement in named cities. In Berlin or Munich its total war. Often the potential renter with best monthly income will get the Appartement...
one bedroom apartment equals at least a 2 room flat in germany, since it would be bedroom + livingroom/kitchen and bath. 1 or 1 1/2 room apartment would be exactly that in english ;) the "bedroom" usually classifies it as seperated from living room. also prices are matching this, even though the smaller 1 room apartments arent much cheaper. additionally german rent strongly depends on the size (squaremeters).
However, one should not ignore that the American average and even median salary is deceptive due to the extremely polarized distribution of income and wealth. The US average salary is pushed by a handful of super earners, whose income, however, has no benefit for regular employees, but _does_ have an impact on rent prices, etc.
Always remember, german and US apartment descriptions are different. A one bedroom will give you a living room PLUS a bedroom. In germany, a one room (1 Raum) will give you one ROOM.... so a living room, not a seperate bedroom.
This is important to know! Also a 'bedroom' in the US is somewhat standardized and you can expect a decent minimum Size. In Germany not so much... I've seen "2-Zimmer-Wohnungen" where one of the two rooms had 8m² (=86ft²) and they didn't even had the decency to call it a "1.5-Zimmer-Wohnung" (sometimes tiny rooms that are just big enough for your toddler or as a storage cabinet are counted as half a room but would be considered as a walk-in wardrobe by Americans)
I think, half rooms are mainly mentioned when your kitchen and living room are the same room. If a room is completely separate, it's a full room regardless of the size.
@@cheleya2721 might be... but I had a 2-and-a-half-room flat that hat a living room, a bedroom, a kitchen and a bath and an additional small room...
And I usually expect the kitchen to be separate unless it is specified as "Wohnküche" or other ways of saying that living room and kitchen are combined
@@cheleya2721 nope. Used to live in a half room as a teenager. We had a 3.5 rooms apartement. There were 2 normal sized bedrooms, one living room (with a door, so that's the third room), dining area between a separate kitchen and living room and my little cozy half room with ca. 7 m2.
But she is explicitly stating ‘bedroom’ in the graphic. She is nit stupid.
to all commenters: we all know that Ryan always messes the dollar-euro thingy up.
So, facing the fact that even the dollar is not worth a dime will definitely break his heart...
Let's show him we care
actually, perhaps he should react to a video of himself... constantly using google wrong to see the currency rates... as in them dumb 'muricans ;)
He's calling it wrong but get the exchange rate right.
I kinda think he stopped reading his comments.. 😂
Did he ever read them??😂 or there is a possibility he reads as well as he does math...🤣🤣
He propably records several videos at a time and there is a time between record and the video being up so him knowing what the comments say has multiple videos of delay.
The Definition of a 1 Bedroom Apartment is different in Germany and the US.
USA says Studio apartment and Germany say 1 Bedroom.
So it's just one room for living with a open kitchen included or separated and a bathroom.
Very good point!
Yeah when I rented a short term (4 months) in Leipzig I was shocked that it wasn't a studio (coming from Australia)
The owner replied "yes I get that a lot from anglos, and through here is the balcony..." "A balcony ?!"
That being said, I rented a place in Hamburg for 1 month that was a studio, but that was very much more meant for people travelling on extended business trips.
It seems the video he reacts to is older .The last time I bought a pack cigarettes was 8€ ! And Milk in Aldi is 0,99 €
1400€ for a ONE Room appartment is quite a lot if you look at our average salary which is about 2000-3000€ per month
Iš better than incomes are 1500 and rent is 2000
@@LU-jo2jzwell that is true. In Germany the state is supporting you if you don`t have enough money for rent. It is called "Wohngeld"
But that is the point here. That the price is below average is the big achievement. Forget to live in a NBH in La or NYC. That 10-20 times average
In Munich 1300 is the monthly rental price for a 2-Zimmer-Wohnung (Bedroo, livingroom, bad, kitchen). Between 50 ans 70 sqm. The rent is 1100 to 1500.
1Zi-Whg are cheaper, but with London still the expensivst in Europe
@@sabalight2558 Very different from city to city. In Rostock the monthly pay for the same 2 Room Appartment is about 500-700
Hello Ryan, on the subject of Aldi or the other cheap supermarkets. So-called “knock-off” brands are very often products that are manufactured by brand manufacturers on behalf of Aldi under the name of their own brand. So it is cheaper because a brand name increases the price.
Correct. Manufacturers do this because the production lines are expensive. If they can produce more, they lower the cost per piece. So they make more profits with their name brand, while the store branded product helps paying of the production line.
I’m not entirely sure if I got it right. By so far it sounded like US supermarkets tend to have just one store brand, while many German supermarkets tend to have a multitude of store brands. Especially discount supermarkets have a high percentage of store brands. Aldi initially *only* had store brands, since big brands didn’t allow to sell their products cheaper, all had to sell it for the same price. Resale price maintenance was normal here in Germany, when Aldi started in the 1960es. In Germany that practice was declared invalid by a court in 1966 and by law 1974. In the US a court already found in 1911 that it violates their antitrust laws, which was before supermarkets became a thing.
I pay 430€ for a 1 room apartment in dresden with a balcony and basement room with a fantastic view and low noise pollution
loooooooooool really????? a 2 Room at my city cost 900-1.100€ (Cold)
@@blackchecker2009 lol I pay 500€ (warm) for a two bedroom apartment and the apartment has a balcony and a basement and a parking spot that’s included in the rent, and the apartment was built 8 years ago
When I bought my 4 room apartment, 1030 sqft, back in 2015, it was 110.000 Euros (120k Dollars, yes your Math is still wrong). The house was built in 1995 and has 8 appartments. I live roughly 50km from the center of Munich in a small village. You can reach the S-Bahn with a bicycle and then ride the City train for 40 Minutes to be in the center of Munich. This year, my apartment will be paid off and will 100% be mine.
50km from Munich centre? Is that even still Germany？😂 j/k
gz
No way this is true. I bought my flat in 2019 if Offenbach, which is one of the poorest cities in Germany, and I paid 350k for 75 square meters. And my apartment was built in 1968.
@stefan0325 you paid too much 🤣
For context: 5 years ago I bought an appartement Maisonette, ~75sqm in Nippes Cologne for 220k.
Popcorn is different, most Germans prefer it sweet, so that brown stuff glued to it is sugar.
how can someone enjoy salted popcorn is beyond me
@@trythis2006i don’t understand, how people like it sweet. If the cinema i go to has no salt Popcorn, i wont go there. But mabey i am the way i am, because i am only half German.
@@trythis2006 i can
A Döner nowadays can cost you around 6 € in less populated areas, but they get more expensive in bigger cities, like 8, 9, maybe more. It's crazy, ten years ago you could buy a Döner für 2,50€
And in the 80's (in devided Berlin), it was 2.50 DM, compared to e.g. Frankfurt 4.50 DM...
and 2,50 was one of the more expensive ones too lol i miss my 1,50-2€ döner
good old times... 2002 it was 3euros in münster
@@Monayla thats expensive for that time yo could get a 1 to 1,50 euro döner easily, 3 euros would be a ripoff lmao
Schülerdöner 1€ 😂
The prices you see in the supermarket already include the tax. So it's not like you are used to in the US. And no, the dollar is worth less, you will receive fewer euros. So, if you want to buy something for one euro, you need to pay 1.09 dollars for it.
"The prices you see in the supermarket already include the tax." - Yeah, that is often forgotten and can make a huge difference, depending on where you life in the States.
I swear Ryan finally discovered that rage bait can heavily drive community interactions, feeding the algorithm. So he converts the currency wrongly on purpose to bait people into commenting vividly. :D
This sadly works especially well on Germans because we are genetically coded to rectify someone’s mistake when they say something incorrect. It’s just the natural reflex.
Yeah i thought so too 😂
tbh im thinking that too. lol
Or is it just an indictment of the American education system? :)
These rent prices are "cold", so without heating, utility and everything else... but the biggest problem is simply getting one at all! You have to deep dive in the most shady shenannigans to find one and then to only get a chance to take a look at it. Even thougn its of course illegal it often involves paying just to view the appartment, lotteries, lots of dealing behind the scenes...
Or simply come to a small East Germany town and get your 6Xm² for 500€. Including heating and water if you are not wasteful.
@@kirahund6711hey mr landlord looking for a apartment
I live about 40 kilometers outside Berlin in a town with 50,000 residents. I live and work here in that town. My apartment is very affordable. I moved in 16 years ago, and initially, the rent was 260 euros. Currently, I pay 360 euros all-inclusive for 2 rooms, a kitchen, and a bathroom (50 square meters with a balcony). I don't need a car since my job is here in the town. I walk 10 minutes to work, eliminating the need for a car, saving on insurance and fuel costs. Additionally, all other essential services are within a 15-minute walk, including three supermarkets, a post office, three pharmacies, a dentist, a general practitioner, a bakery, and more. It's like hitting the jackpot in life. After covering all bills, I have about 1000 euros as pocket money. This is crucial, though not enough for major expenses. It all goes towards saving for retirement because every second person in Germany is affected by old-age poverty.
Brandenburg FTW. und Jackpot! In Schöneberg rufen Sie bald auch Deine €360 auf. Für das WC.
The menu is in english, because the restaurant is in -Berlin- , which is a very international city. Some say, Berlin is the least german city in Germany.
yeah its not very german-y but also because it was occupied for so long, its a special kind of shithole
not berlin, trier
@@juergenpotzkothenyou are right. I don't know how I came up with that. I think there is also a "Burgeramt" in Berlin.
Ryan, get your math right. Euro is worth more than $
Thats wrong, 1 Euro is 1,9 US-Dollar so Dollar is more
@@lillybeyer4672 You're wrong, 1 Euro buys 1,09 USD right now, meaning the Euro is worth more
@@AHVENANthat doesnt make Sense to me how Can you give more ($1,9) and get less (1€) and say it is worth more, it is not an assult i just don’t know how to calculate it, my knowledge is that 1,9 is bigger than 1.
Can you explain how it works?
Its about exchange rates. The euro is stronger than the dollar, because 1usd exchanges to 1 USD. So, if something is 1200 euros, it converts into >1200 usd, (not less, like Ryan is thinking). Or, differently put: you can buy more dollars with euros than you can buy euros with dollars.
@@lillybeyer4672yep exchange rates is the keyword you can trade 1 euro for 1.09 dollars or 1 dollar into 0.92 euros, so when people say euro is a stronger curreny, all they mean is that 1 euro is worth more than 1 dollar
That means appartements became twice as expensive as 2009. Up to then I was living in Berlin, in central Prenzlauer Berg paid 6,- Euro/m² for my 80m² appartement, which was then 480,- plus costs for heating and electricity.
Btw. Berlin has a center, but nobody want to live there. Berlin is several cities in one. You live e.g. in Prenzlauer Berg, Friedrichshain, Kreuzberg, when you're young, in Schöneberg when you're gay, in Wilmersdorf when you're an old widow. Each of this neighbourhoods have everything you need, you don't have to go elsewhere. When you come from Friedrichshain and go to Charlottenburg it feels like coming in another city. You're not familiar, different people living there a.s.o.
Holy shit. 1.233,00€ for a 1-bedroom apartment is pretty expensive. Is that a 60m² loft?
And where do you still get 1 liter of milk for 70 cents? 12 eggs for 1,82 €?
That video must be at least 4 years old...
18:50 Traveling without Ticket is definitely a bad idea, even if you get away with it - because when you get caught the 3rd time, you go to jail!!! 😂
Note that "1-bedroom" in Germany means that bedroom and living room are combined and sometimes even the kitchen is integrated in this one room. No extra room for your couch and tv. The whole apartment (including kitchen, bathroom, maybe hallway) is often times not much bigger than an average hotel room with ensuite. When I visited someone living in NYC and she told me she's living in a 1-bedroom apt I was baffled when I found out she has one bedroom AND a living room (AND a kitchen).
For my 2-bedroom apartment (meaning one bedroom and one living room) in Hamburg I'm paying 625 Euro (roughly 680 USD 😉). But that's just because I live here since 2015 when rents were cheaper. My next door neighbour (same floor, same apt size), who moved in recently pays 795 Euro.
Also the food prices in this video seem quite low to me. Some of them are higher now.
No, "1-bedroom" in Germany means there is one bedroom. And a living room and a kitchen and a bath. But nobody uses that.
"1-room" is the one where everything is in one, and surprise, that is used to describe exactly that!
Die meisten der genannten Preise sind eher niedrig. Allerdings reagiert er ja nur auf Videos die schon mindestens ein Jahr alt sind. Das sollte man berücksichtigen. Genauso die Durchschnittlichssummen die sie genannt hat, die Berechnungen dafür beruhen auf alten Statistiken.
@@steemlenn8797 The "x-bedroom"-term isn't used in germany at all. I assume the creator of the original video is to blame for this mistake.
With the prices mentioned in the video this could absolutely be 3 room apartments. It would have been much easier to just use squaremetre/squarefeet prices.
I'm living in Hamburg, close to let's call it tourist harbor. Prices in my Neighborhood vary from 20-35 € per squaremetre. Without utilities.
I have a living room, a bedroom, kitchen and bathroom. 42 m², 970 € + utilities. I'm living at ground level, so I also got a small garden. For me the price is totally okay and I'm also paying for the grat location, but It would be to small to live here with 2 or even more people. Also it took an eternity to find this relatively affordable apartment and there were like a million other interests for it, I just happened to be the lucky one to get it. Before that I lived in a 70 m² shared flat in a crappy neighborhood 30 minutes away from the city center using public transportation and that thing was 1500 €.
@@tostrmofo6686 Its not too small to live in with 3 people, you just don't want it. (Though it's also not build to enable 3 people to live in).
42m² is Tokyo size for a small family (couple or couple with young child). - 1LDK size.
I live in a small East Germany town for 500€ on 62m" nearly freshly (when I moved in) renovated 1962 brick building.
Demand and Supply.
@@DrJuanMontoyaHast Recht, das ist ein Argument. Gerade in den letzten ein-zwei Jahren sind die Preise ja stark gestiegen ...
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We have 49€/month subscription now. This however is only for some trains. The long distance/fast trains are not included.
So you can drive with Bus, Tram, S-Train, Regional Express, ... .
But not ICE, IC
Obviously lol. What did you expect!?
A very important distinction not made in the video
Your conversion rate is wrong. 1300EUR is cca 1400 USD.
Rents are high if you compare net income, but again, you don't have to spend a lot more to move around, go to school/uni, stay healthy, eat healthy, etc, which is alot more expensive in USA.
Those cities have very high rent if you're single (it might end up like 40%-50% of your net income). It's hard to live in EU capital cities if you're living single.
For a studio apartment in San Francisco, CA, the average rent is $2,707. When it comes to 1-bedroom apartments, the average rent in San Francisco, CA, is $3,479. For a 2-bedroom apartment, the average rent is $4,518.
he really thinks usd is worth more than euro he did that in other videos aswell
how much living space ??
@@johnsmith-cw3woYeah but in Germany people earn way less. While the numbers are lower it’s always compared to what you earn. You look at what you earn in the US and than at what we pay here. That seems good sure. But we earn different than people in the US. It doesn’t work that way.
@@Falco2Itachi I just look at the general results... and the general results are that 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
I drink more milk than the rest of the chat together and i dont rember the year in which i got "fresh" milk for 0,70€.
She propably misstook the restwater from the milk , after the industrie took out the suggar for their gums, as milk.
You're forgetting that wages and salaries are much lower than in the U.S.. 1200 euros is a good bit of money for the average German who doesn't own their property and works a mid-income job. And on top of that you can expect to pay 200-300 euros worth of utility.
Berlin for example is known as a poor city and I know plenty of people that come away with maybe 2,200 a month. That rent would be unaffordable for them.
@@DaGuys470poor with 2200? A lot americans get just min ,which is 13 / hour.Not everybody get good incomes
Mid income Jobs its not good money in USA also
@@LU-jo2jz 2,200 before tax, so around 1,600 after tax, it can be lower
@@DaGuys470 do you live in Germany?
Two things Ryan: 1) The actual rent for someone looking for an apartment in a major city here in Germany is higher. Maybe the video was referring to the "Mietspiegel": an average that landlords shouldn't exceed by a large margin. The problem is: they do. Moreover most people with an affordable rent from back in the days usually don't leave their apartments for many years. This leads to a big discrepancy in actual rent paid, that isn't being represented by the average rent very well.
2) Several of the cheap brands at ALDI here in Germany come from the same production sites as the expansive ones. So the quality isn't that bad. Often products are getting rebranded in order to justify the cheaper price and maintain the expensive brands "quality image".
I'm not sure, how old the video is, he is talkin' about. Last week, when I bought the last time milk, it was 90 Cent and not 70, like she explained it...
Ryan, the USD is worth less than a Euro!
For 0.92€ you get 1 USD.
For 92€ you would get 100 USD.
If you head to a store, and you wish to buy 1 sausage, which costs 2 Dollars, the sausage is worth more than a Dollar.
After all, you will have to pay 2 Dollars for 1 sausage.
Now, what if you could buy a Euro in a store?
Then you would need to pay 1.08 USD for a Euro.
Hence, 1 Euro is worth more, than a Dollar, just like the sausage.
You're just looking at the inverted conversion rate, which tells you, that we could go to a "store" and buy 1 USD by spending 0.92 Euro. With 1 Euro, I could buy 1.08 Dollars though.
These prices can be realistic, but still are definetly on the cheaper side. Also, the public transportation prices, at least for regional rail and busses are kind of redundant because auf the 49€-Ticket.
Americans make a lot more money than Germans so of course things are more expensive in the US.
You have to take income differences into consideration when comparing costs
It's been a while since milk was 70 cents. I paid 95 cents last friday and I didn't even get a fancy brand like in the Video, just a noname supermarket brand.
Regarding the rent amounts, don't forget she's talking averages in her video. That basically means roughly half the appartments will be more expensive.
average or median?
If you have 10 guys, 1 person owning 10 millions and 9 persons owning nothing, then on average you have 10 millionaires and median you have a have-not.
I could have bet 10 million I don't have that one smartass is gonna come along about this. That's why I wrote "roughly". In all likeliness, 1300€ for rent in a city like Munich won't be that much of an outlier to make a significant difference between average and median.
Well, that sounds cheap over all. But consider how much lower the income is. Lower mid income starts around 25k annual before taxes. And it caps out around 80-90 for normal employees.
25k before taxes is the absolut minimum wage. 12€ per hour is minimum wage. 40hour working per week. It is exactly 25k. Average is more like 35k
@@georgwinter8406 not starting a discussion here I said starting low midrange. Which is +1€ over poor.
Depending how you define that it can go down as far as 18k net.
The median income in Germany is around 45k.
Hey, Ryan. Today when i looked up EUR - USD Course, it was 1 EUR = 1,09 USD
restaurant prices went up quite a bit over the last 2 years. Döner is 6€ or more around here. Benzin is 1,80-1,90 €/l today.
Depends on the city, and the net-wage is lower in Germany. Yes, I am German, have lived in Germany for many years.
One thing to note is that Aldi off-brands are often rebranded. It's a well known concept which allows suppliers to service both ends of the market without hurting their margins.
I'd die if the rent was as high as the American ones. My income is about 1200€ a month (trainee wage) and it took me 5 years to even be able to afford an apartment that's bigger than a shoebox. I save nothing some months and 100€ at max.
My mum who's been working for 40 years only makes about 200€ more than me every month (retail). Even when I'm done with my apprenticeship next year I'll make about 2200€ if I'm lucky. An apartment in a big city would still be half of my income. I'm not sure how much Americans make but i can assure you a 1200€ one bedroom apartment is NOT cheap to us, especially to people who are young or working in low-paying jobs :D
America has higher net wages than us Germans...
I am 100% German but I know the net salaries are much higher in America
one thing to consider: MANY younger americans had to move back in with their parents. They could simply not afford renting or buying a place to live where they work. i see this where i live here in Georgia. Metro Atlanta is not a cheap place compared to the rest of georgia. Still cheaper than the much of the country though. Yes, salaries are a good bit higher here in the US. But they need to be to cover the cost of everything. Think car insurance at 2 grand. university costs a LOT. University of Georgia tuition is just over 11 grand a year for state residents, and just over 30! grand for out of state students. Both just above the national average. GA Tech a good technical university is not much higher. So for a german student and an american student cost of living is VERY different. Median income in georgia for an individual is just above 30 grand. lets just say it is much easier to buy a house if your income is above 100 grand. also helps with repaying your student loan, you know from paying 11 grand a year for tuition for 4 years.
@@uliwehnerstudying in america is a waste of resources and time, i would argue that over the years their status as a great study country is over, you should visit any of these prestigoues school and ask those students some simple questions that even a 5th grader in a 1st world country could answer easily but they struggle hard or straight up doesnt know like what the state they live in or who was the last president, ect
@trythis2006 i am sure ga tech is a quality institution. At the same time. Students can only go to the schools they have reasonable access to. They can't all move to germany or india
Fun fact.
If you bike in the Netherlands and you see someone wearing a helmet, it will most likely always be a German.
In Netherlands almost NOBODY USES A HELMET.
In Germany we say "Wer Hirn hat, schützt es." (means when you have a brain you protect it) 😄
i have never seen anyone in Germany wear a helmet, other than kids, old people, and people on a road bike
Always keep one thing in mind:
Median US household income: $74,580
Median German household income: €42,000
which makes cost of living high. The average German still spends around 30% of their wage on rent.
thats not how it works.
while yes, straight up the income, germans spent a high part for housing. the difference is: from whats left, they don't have to factor in a lot of expensive stuff. they don't need to think about healthcarecosts, educational-costs or are in big troubles if they get laid off at one point in life.
count in a healthcare premium for 800-1000 a month and then you still have oop-costs and all the hassle with in-network-facilities.
in case of an emergency, you may not even be able to choose your ER.
count in education that is basically free in germany. no student debt.
count in financial security if you have no work for a time.
if you just cut all those social-benefit-cost no german needs to think about (and this is also is a big mental relief to just don't think about such stuff) from the us-household income, then this numbers are very different.
and at this point i don't even mentioned that you have unlimited payed sickleave-days and usually 4(mandatory minimum) to 6 weeks payed vacation on top of around 10 public payed holidays. or payed parental leave up to 48month for BOTH mother and father (splitted into 24m+24m) and and and.
if you count that in too, the numbers flip completely.
@@Deus_Ubique That's total bullshit. They do need to think about healthcare costs, from that already much lower median income of 42,000 € they have to pay the mandatory state healthcare cost + if they want to get care that's anywhere near decent and without months long waitlists, they have to get a private health insurance. Same with the "free" education: if you want your child to be completely illiterate but fully up to date on 925 genders and recite the heroic acts of climate godess Greta Thunberg, send them to a "free" public "school", if you want them to get real education, you'll have to pay for a private school.
To that comes that taxes are much higher, with types of taxes unknown in the US. So Germany, while one of the richest countries of Europe, if it was a US State it would be among the poorest and the most highly taxed.
@@Deus_Ubique No, you are wrong. Regards from a German.
@@janosnagy3096 Exakt.
@@janosnagy3096 US salaries look better but in reality, its very common for people to share apartments or houses. In Germany its way more rare for that to happen because people can afford rental housing on their own. The whole salary comparison is a stupid idea because both countries are totally different in what you get. Its like comparing prices, yea, great, 399$ is not 399$ in the US, because taxes are per state AFTER, love that hidden crap, or how your forced to tip 20% on your meals. It stacks up fast.
Technically, you pay around 20 a 30% on that average income for Social Security, Pension, Unemployment, ... Your employer pays another 20% that is hidden to you (its not on your salary pack check paper).
That is it, now you are 100% covered and the only extra cost you have getting sick, is at worst a minimum payment of a few euros for medication, unless its not covered (aka, something really exotic or that is for beauty stuff like boob jobs, teeth implants etc).
* You also forgot that in Germany, you get unemployment coverage for 70% of your base salary.
* That you get up to 2 years PAID time off, for mothers paying 70% of the salary (can also be split over the father).
* That you get at minimum 20 days PAID holidays (more typical is 25 a 30 days in Germany).
* That you get paid sick days off, and for long term sickness (+1 month), you are constantly covered.
* You pay into your pension plan, aka, no need for separate saving
* Reeducation is free (if you want to change carriers to different fields) and you also get financially supported.
* Workhours are 37~40h, not 50, 60 or whatever bosses pull in the US. Overtime IS checked and if you know your rights, is paid out correctly or in time off (times 1.5 or 2).
You can get urgent care within a few hours, no doctor or medical office refuses any type of investigation if its urgent. Yes, you wait longer for less urgent care, between 2 week to 3 months. If you look around or take your time looking over bookings, you tend to find a opening with not too much trouble, within a few days.
Education is free, simple as that. Only in Uni you may pay a bit, depending on the country. But we are not talking U.S. 50k to 100k/ year, at worst its around 5K.
Yes, i am German and yes, i have European friends that live in the US and know darn well some of the mass difference between both countries. You earn more in the US, but that is a illusion because of all the way that wealth gets removed via healthcare, rental costs, car costs, insurance costs, and yes, even food prices because fuck is the US expensive when you want bio or same quality food as we considered standard in Germany / EU.
Germany aligns with California. Amazed at how people do not know any better.
Like i said, different countries and you can not simply compare income vs income, as there is so much differences in actual living costs, live costs etc that drain that higher income in the US way more, then it does in DE.
First: If you get only 0,92 Euro for 1 Dollar, the Euro is more worth. So you have to pay more Dollars not less. And you earn less money for the same Jobs in Germany. So you have to put that into relation. What I don't get is her origin of the monthly costs for the pharmacy. If you have a chronic disease you have to cover monthly you can count that, but I for example buy maybe 2-3 times a year some drugs there and that will definitive won't cost that much.
A few pointers:
The appartment prices are cold rent, means you have to consider at least 50% of that number on top for water, electricity and heat. That will be more in Berlin and Munich, so your average rent is higher than the numbers shown. Same goes for the groceries, the prices are at least +0.50€ right now for milk, eggs and dairies.
Next, she did a very bad job of being precise with her "bedroom" description. We count the exact rooms and a bedroom is considered a room. So in a 1-Room Appartment, you get exactly that. One room. A small bathroom and toilet, but thats it. Rarely an actual kitchen.
And thirdly: We average the rent per square meter, so to actually have an idea of the prices, you need to know how big the room is we are talking about...
13:34 Döner kebab prices these days range between 5 euros on the cheap end to 10 euros on the expensive end. The place nearest to me charges 7 euros per döner. Oh and about ten years ago it was pretty normal to get a döner kebab for like 2.50, with 5 euros being the "premium" price.
im so glad that the privately owned place in my hometown is still only charging 3.50€. went there since i was in school, 20+ years ago.
everywhere else it shot up during covid, from 3.50 pr 4 to 5.50 for the regular döner.
Have you still not realized that the euro is worth MORE than the dollar?
It just shows that you're not interested in the comments under your videos.
Thought the same.....we just had that😂😂😂
Or he prerecords them quite a while in advance
It is 5% worth more than the dollar. That is literally one to one parity.
Was für ein giftiger Kommentar. Geh mal in die Sonne und lass dich drücken. Dass er nicht die hellste Kerze aufm Kuchen ist, ist doch grade der Witz an diesem Kanal.
@@michaellichtenauer339no it literally isn't😂
Aldi doesn't have "interesting" suppliers, usually they themselves buy at the standard suppliers, but can negotiate far lower prices with them if they cover up the brand so its not undermining the suppliers sales under the og name. So you get brand products under fake names that some Aldi marketing guy came up with...
1100 EUR for an apartment may sound cheap, but your salary will also be only 1500 per month here.
The median net-wages in Germany in 2023: 2165€
1500 is just bullshit.
in germany we eat sweet popcorn, no salt inside. only sugar
@13:30 a Döner Kebap currently is about 7 to 7.50 € (~8 USD). Still the best fast food available.
Out of curiosity: where? Here in Fulda (a rather small, inexpensive city) a Döner is something like 8-9 €...
@@user-bn6vj9qm2b Allgäu bis Schwarzwald; kenne aber natürlich nicht jeden Döner.
My car is not that expensive. I have a small model. About 40 euros for my insurance per month(I got a rabat from my parents insurance), I drive about 6000 km a year, gas is maybe 80 to 100 euros a month. Repairs and official permit is about 350 euros every 2 years. The car was unused when I bought it and did cost me 17.000 euros. My car is a very small car with 71 ps
About rent: I have 64 sqm, 2 bedrooms at the edge of the northern Ruhr area. Rent is 500 euros with utilities. Heating is done with gas, so for heating and electricity I pay about 200 euros a month. For internet and mobile it is 30 euros a month.
The prices really depend on the area you are living. My area is medium cheap.
it depends on the size of a 1 bedroom apartment. it could be 20 m² or it could be 60 m² ....
University Fees (Semester Beitrag) are normally around 200-300€ per Semester which means per 6 Months. It includes a discount on food in the "Mensa / Canteen", free Sport (Courses and using of Fields/Tracks/Halls) and some other subsidys ull never use.
Semesterbeitrag is one word in German.
@@olgakipke3720 Korrekt.
In Berlin no free sport included eventhough you get cheap rates BUT most importantly those 300€ include free public transportation here.
Actually inflation is a lot higher in Germany you should not trust the statistics. and even if the rents appear to be pretty cheap compared to America, you should not forget the average income is a lot lower than in the US. You still haven't realized you have still been making the same mistake concerning conversion rates
Remember when looking for prices of eating out at a restaurant: tipping is not mandatory! That price is the final price, in the US the price is always at least 15-20% higher than what is printed. I find eating out in the US a lot more expensive than in Europe, even though at first glance it might look the other way around!
Gazoline average price: $7 for diesel, $7.50 for normal gazoline (Gallon prices). If u need to fill up ur car at a gas station close to a autobahn, u pay 10-20% more.
THE RENT OF MY HOUSE IN THE HAGUE ,the Netherlands is. 595,41. EURO.
I live in Amsterdam and pay for a shared appartment 610e :)
But that's not the capital! Kappa.
may i ask how much Square meter?
15:46 that's sucuk pide, a turkish dish afaik
Hello Ryan,
the US gallon of diesel costs between €6.36 and €3.69 ($6.93 to $7.29).
The US gallon of gasoline (95 octane ROZ with 5% ethanol content) costs between €6.43 and €6.89 ($7.01 to $7.51).
The US gallon of premium gasoline with 100 octane ROZ and above costs between €6.69 and €8.06 ($7.29 to $8.79).
All prices for Munich, excluding motorway gas stations on March 6th, 2024 - 16:00 UTC; including all taxes.
! bedroom means just one room, bathroom and kitchen. Normally around less than 20m2. (all together) So enough space for a bed, a wardrobe, a table and that's it.
Rent = 1,200 Euros... but the average single household earns like 1,600 Euros - 2,500 Euros - depending on the job. Which means that a basic worker cannot afford an appartment in Berlin or Munich or Hamburg. (the salary increases of course if you have an academic background, I am a teacher and have a net income of 4k per month).
I pay 750 Euros for a 3 bedroom appartment with a garden and a garage (75m²) in the countryside...
8:35 Inflation in Germany was mostly driven by energy prices (especially the energy prices paid by small and middle enterprises). Those prices are however falling now.
To make it very clear: the prices are different from state to state, city to city, village to village and inside that cities and villages also. I think it was approximately 10 years ago when i lived in an apartment with rent including heating (think it was called so in english!?) for 360€ on 56m² (602 sqft). With Internet, Phonebill, and so on I had to pay approx 500€. But the Town and especially the environment was not so good to live in.
Now I'm living in the beautiful town of Rostock with a very good environment and i'm paying for all that things and more just approx 800€ on 72m² (775 sqft).
You can also rent an apartment for more or fewer money. It depends on the state, city/village, environment and, above all, the size of the apartment.
Mostly all prices you can find online are average prices and can vary greatly because of these factors!
Side Note: Wanna really love to see what you would think about east german Cities like Dresden (you WILL love the buildings!), Potsdam, Schwerin (veeeery wonderful castle in a lake and the capital of MV) or even Rostock. Most UA-camrs are just in the western german cities but hardly one can be found from this pearls!
Greetings from Germany! 🇩🇪 😁👍
When I heard the milk prices i was like "how OLD is the video??" Prices have gone up much since then.
Don't be fooled by the "weird" ALDI brands. These are sometimes exactly the same products as more expensive brands.
One bedroom in Germany means literally one room. If it is only one bedroom, there is no extra living room, no extra dining room, maybe not even a closet. it just one single room with a tiny kitchenette and a seperate bathroom.. maybe 300sqft in total.
You might want to look into what you called "knock of brands" at Aldi's.... Aldi in Germany sells brand products like for example Nescafé from Nestlé under a different (knock of sounding) name . The product is the same though. I am not sure if it is the same in the US but might be worth checking out? New to your channel and am enjoying your react videos a lot🤣! Cheers from Hanau Germany
That is a knock off brand. They are not selling "Nescafe" they are selling some other store brand name. Also, just because it is made in the same factory as Nescafe, doesn't mean it is the same as Nescafe. I have a friend who works at a chocolate factory and he said they use cheaper cocoa when they make the stores own brands than when they make the expensive brand.
The student contribution mentioned in her video is about 300-500 Euros per semester, so 600-1000 Euros/year, depending on the state and university. This includes tickets for public transport, subsidised dining hall food (e.g. proper meals for less than 5 Euros), subsidised sport offers, child care (for mature students), and administration in general.
And you can’t easily opt-out of the ticket, you have to pay for it whether you use it or not.
And if you collect too many semesters some states still charge you and extra 500 bucks/semester🎉
You have to earn First this Money. And in avarage you earn under 2000 Euro. So the half of your Money goes to your rent. This ist very expensive.
I'm from Germany near Dortmundd. And we finally find a new apartment, much bigger then now. We will move in June and I love, really love, going around and compare different prices for our new kitchen. I love compare the plannings with the little featers every kitchencenter offers us. I'm so in love. The kitchen from this apartment will be handed over to the next tenants.
1. She doesn't specify the size in m2.
2. That's without electricity, water, internet, television, telephone and other utilities
3. Appartements are usually completely unfurnished
4. One Room Appartements are exactly that, one room and a small bath, no separate room to sleep or for the kitchen, etc. In total the usually are somewhere between 20 - 40 m2
"Not normal as in normal for the world, but normal for where I live" is sooo perfect and such a great way to acknowledge things.
Regarding Inflation, it's largely based upon a sample basket that was built 10+ years ago, and included things such as a fraction of a plasma TV, which is rare now to even get and actually more expensive than a modern LCD TV. But we also get numbers without all the luxury goods added in, and those were about double for necessities, so it was more like 20% inflation instead of the 10% listed on your chart for food, rent and toiletries. People are not going to spend big on a vacation when food prices noticeably rise from month to month. Similar for car prices during the pandemic, where our garage would sell used cars for new car prices.
Car transport costs in that video seem vastly overstated, at least as an average, considering a lot of people now have the option of working from home. My gas costs for example are down 60% even with more expensive petrol.
23:44 Popcorn in Germany is sweet not salty, maybe that's why it looks different.
I rent 3 room + kitchen 80 m² (~860 foot²) apartment since 2016 for 720 € warm(water and heating included) + 40€ internet + 70 electricity total ~830€ or 902$. It is in Heidelberg, cIty with many students and turists.
Döner prices are around 6-7€. Before the inflation (2019) they were around 4€. In the 90s you could get one for just 2€.
We still had Döner for 2,50 € in 2015 in Hannover. Its crazy how fast the price was rising
Ryan, you have to add 10% to get the US Price !
Did u know Trader Joe's is actually ALDI
At 20:27 rumors were mentioned that there would be a monthly ticket for €49 throughout Germany the following year. This ticket actually exists now. This means that all public transport can be used throughout Germany.
the exchange rate. again and again. 😂
really ?
at this point, this is straightup american ignorance at display.
I'm assuming he's either recorded these all in a row or that he's just doing it as a bit at this point.
Relax dude. It's an innocent mistake.
the thumbnail killed me 🤣 "cheap" 🤣
If you work on minimum wage you`ll have like 1200-1300 € and then you have to pay 600€ for your 30m² appartement.. and you call it cheap 🤣
I dont know who pays 500€ per month for a car. Its more like 100€ for texas and insurance. And Gas is like 1,70€ per Liter. And the car depends on the price.
Hi!
The german costs are similar to Hungary.
1 month earlier we spent 12 days in California and our favourite city was San Francisco. We ate 2 pizza (it was delicious) for 63$. It was the most expensive pizza in our whole life that we ever had. And last weekend we spent the day in Szentendre (it’s a nice little town near Budapest) and had a great meal in a traditional local restaurant. We paid 60$ for three course and the drinks. So it’s a huge differences for us, but the american road trip was incredible. We loved it! ☺️ a girl from Hungary
The Center of Munich is not the most Expensive Area of Munich - the Outer parts like on The Starnberger See are way more Expensive!
You forget in your calculation that you don't earn as much as in the US. The average salary in Germany is round about 2.300€ after taxes. So you pay in many cities more than 50% of your salary just for living.
We never pay per week, we pay rent per month. just like salaries, we get paid per month!! Maybe in UK you pay per week, I´m not too sure about this. In Germany or in many European countries people pay their rent per month! ^^ in eatsern German yfood, rent are so much cheaper that´s you earn less than other regions of Germany, it makes sense why people in eastern Germany earn less, lower salatry because of lower cost, makes absolutly sense!!
american maths again 😂😂
the euro is worth 10% more, not the other way around.
it works like this:
an item costing $1 would only cost 90¢, meaning you get the same item cheaper in €
Two things:
1. Apparently the video is a bit older, because now we've had that "Deutschland-Ticket" for quite a while already. For 49€ per month you have access to all local and regional public transit. So if you don't mind changing often between regional trains, you can travel the entire country for this fee.
2. idk where she gets that number for cost of a car, I say it's BS. A realistic amount is something around 250-300€/month _including_ a compact-class car (like a VW Golf or so), provided you keep it for at least 10 years. (So if you upgrade to a new car every 3 years you'll obviously pay a lot more.)
A Euro is not less then USD learn Currency conversion
Something to note: There is now the 'Deutschlandticket' allowing you to travel with all regional (not Intercity) trains and other means of public transportation for only 49€ a month
70ct for a L of milk? I can only drink "Weidemilch", the other one tastes like chewing on metal. It's 1,50€. 25ct "pfand" (so it's 1,25 since you get 25ct back when returning the bottle). And then you have really good tasting milk.
I just started doing this since this year. The milk I drank prior usually was around 90ct-1€.
70 is discounter price from some supermarket brand/chain I don't go to.
Bottle? Bro, TetraPak
One thing to keep in mind is that in the USA certain jobs will get you a way better wage compared to that same job in europe.
I have a bachelor degree as a lab tech and after multiple years I am still making less than my mother who works in a factory. Even worse for some off my colleges with a masters degree that are even making less than me because they are younger.
I think you overestimate the income of germans. 30 to 35k a year is already a good income here to live comfortably with. I think in the US the numbers are much higher, and parallel to that the prices in housing are different.
Wow, in France, we pay between € 20 to € 40 for the Internet (for € 40, you also have many TV stations, but I don't watch TV so I couldn't tell you much about that) , and the SIM card is included, for free, plus you can have a smartphone for € 1 a month, which is yours after 1 or 2 years, depending on the model. Rent is pretty much the same as in Germany, but in cities like Paris, it's like New York, very expensive for tiny apartments. Of course, we have deposits, and power and gas aren't included in the rent, you have to pay those yourself (about € 80 a month, depending on what appliances you have, the surface you have to heat in Winter, how much warm water you use etc. In my rent, water is included, but that's not always the case). And yes, one Euro is 1.09 US Dollars, not the other way round.
Yup, as a german I can tell you I'm incredibly jealous of the french system for mobile and internet in general. German internet sucks and is way to expensive (and depending on where you live you might not get any at all, neither landline nor mobile)
Imagine: I (living in a middle sized city in Northrhinewestphalia) pay 340 Euro for a 70qm appartement with a bedroom, a living room, a really large kitchen and a small bathroom. And all alone, all for myself. I am happy. 😊
Thats crazy. I guess you already live there a few years and got an old contract?
Median net income in Berlin is 2200€ or so. So this one room (not bedroom, one room) is about 55% of the net income. But that is "cold". Complete with all utilities and fees you are looking more towards 70% of the net income. And we are talking median income, so half the people earn less than that. How is that cheap. You don't get your US salaries and taxation there, you of course need to compare it to local net incomes.
@@kirahund6711 Median income of the "working people" (sozialversicherungspflichtig beschäftigt) is 2500-ish. So, 60% then. Still excessively expensive. Neither the video nor my point were about if one wants to live there or not. (There would be no way to convince me to live in Berlin at all, for example.) But if it is expensive or not to live in the city center for the people in the city. From the numbers I take "Otto Normalo" cannot afford to live in the city center. Even if it just a shitty 1-room shoebox. So, I stand by it, no reason to be amazed about the "low prices" there. ^^
German popcorn looks different, because almost 90% of Germans prefer it sweet, not salty…
I feel like it’s really hard to compare the cost of living in Germany with the US. Salaries are usually way lower in Germany and taxes are higher, but then again, health insurance is already deducted from your income when you look at your net salary. Let’s say someone makes $4,500 USD per month - they’d only earn around $2,850 USD net per month and I’d say that’s still a little above average of what most people’s monthly income is in Germany. So it also makes sense that rent would be somewhat cheaper. What obviously doesn’t make sense is that buying a home is so expensive in many German regions when you take into account how little money most people make.
I guess this video was filmed before the D-ticket was introduced - nowadays, you can travel by public transport anywhere and everywhere at any time for 49€ per month. The only restrictions are that it is only available as a subscription with ongoing monthly payments (you can unsubscribe at any time, but you have to do it one month before you want the subscription to end), and you can't use the D-Ticket on long-distance trains or buses. So, if you really want to go from one end of Germany to the other on a D-ticket, you'll have to switch trains several times and it will take a lot longer than taking a long distance train. For example, Hamburg to Munich is 6 to 7 hours by ICE, one switch max - but that costs almost 170€ one way, unless you book the ticket very, very early. Using only regional trains (for which you can use the D-ticket) it's 12-15 hours with up to 8 switches.
The semester fee at German universities is around €300 to €500 per semester. The universities I know use this money to pay their students a free ticket for local public transport and sometimes also specialist books for their studies.