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How does it feel? Depends: If I am busy, running errands, going shopping etc. I don't notice, normally. But when I walk through my town centre for leisure it's: Man I'm so lucky I can live here and sometimes it still feels unreal, even after decades.
agreed. i'm from rhineland-palatine, i see the river from my balcony, and it's something like you're used to it so much, you don't even notice it. think of someone from NY walking over time square every day. tourists are WOOOOW!, you are meh, same thing every day. but at some times, something special happens, and you just think Ooof! I'm really living in a dang pretty place
And i'm sure that goes for everyone, no matter where they live
That’s definitely understandable
Same
my town is just 830 years old... so nothing special!
She always talks about brothers Grimm... Their fairytales are not SET in the blackforrest. But most of them could be imagined to have happened there. The brothers did not "write" the tales like an author would, but they collected them fairytales, which were traded through generations. Remember 500years or more back the whole of Germany was much less populated and there were big areas of unsettled or rarely settled land, mostly dark woods, swamps or mountains... these areas were raelly dangerous and the habitat of many unknown things.
Das stimmt!👍
Every morning, I am looking right up to the Eberstein Castle, in the nothern part of the Black Forrest. And to be truthfull, most of the time, I do not even see all this beauty arround me anymore. Thank you for a reminder. Greetings from Germany
The US is not too big for trains ... I mean: whole Europe is connected with railways and Europe is huge as well. You can even take a train to the UK (let's call it island) as there is a tunnel 50m below the sea, connecting the countries ...
Weren't trains also important for settlers? If I remember correctly the invention of railroads were really important in the us history.
The US has a pretty extensive and fairly dense rail network still. But the vaste majority of it is in private hands of many competing companies and those private businesses prioritize the extremely profitable cargo transport over public transport ... which makes most passenger trains a slow and insufferable thing to use as they are just pressed in between the snails which are cargotrains. The service got so bad that most passenger lines simply went out of business as slow trains cant compete with planes and cars.
@@diedampfbrasse98 It's not really true. The tracks in the US are bad. It doesn't matter for mass cargo like steel, coal, ore, grains etc., but most tracks are singles, meaning you need passing tracks and sometimes have to wait a long time for the train that goes into the other direction. Another problem is maintenance. You often have to slow down to 15-20mph because tracks can't handle higher speeds. Even the 'fast' trains in the USA are slow compared to European fast trains. The fastest US-train has an average speed of 70-80mph because of bad tracks while an European passenger train goes on average 100mph - in France the TGV has an average speed of 130mph.
If the tracks were better maintained, every direction had it's own track, if you had passing tracks for faster trains and if the tracks were a better quality to allow high speed trains you could often be faster with a train than flying. And US-American train companies handle trains like airplanes with passenger lounges, arriving early for check in etc. In Europe you can arrive 1min before the train leaves and be still on time if you have your ticket. The time between arrival and departure of a train is most times only a few minutes and not the long time it is in the USA and you don't have to arrive early to check in. Trains are treated more like buses, where you have a ticket when getting on the train and the conductor checks your ticket while the train is already moving again.
People always look for the travel time, but that is not the right way to do. If the train system in the USA were like the European train system it would be faster. For international travel, they expect you to arrive at the airport 3 hours prior to departure and 2 hours for domestic travel. That are 2h wasted time for domestic travel. Time you do not have to waste if you use a train in the European train system. And add to that you can use your phone, laptop etc. in the train, something you can't do flying and you have no weight limit to your luggage - except your ability to carry it. And another thing is for longer distances you could user a sleeper car in an overnight train. It would take longer than a flight, but you arrive well rested because you could sleep in a bed and not in a small airline seat or had to get up early.
It is not true that the Grimm tales are set in the Black Forest. They are set in (German) Forest, yes. However, there is exactly one German fairytale that is explicitly set in The Black Forest.
Otherwise: pretty nice video - and that bridge over the black forest has only been open for a few months now, so this really is a recent video!
What do we Germans think seeing those "unreal" places?
Well, we know it's pretty. But there are a few such places in the country and so, yes, it is another nice place.
Baden Baden, btw, is a place where many retired people live - and for historical reasons, it is the town that draws the most Russians in Germany.
14:34 Europe as a whole is about the same size as the USA. Nevertheless, we have a very well-developed rail network in Europe. The argument that the USA is simply too big is nonsensical. By the way, the U.S. once had a very good rail network (before cars get popular), but that has unfortunately disappeared over time, because almost only car infrastructure was taken care of. With a different focus, the U.S. could certainly be a rail leader.
It doesn't feel like any other day but comfortable and not fake. This is what some corners in Germany look like. Even in Hamburg there are streets that look like something out of Harry Potter. But I never saw them as fake, the style was stolen from us and the towns are older than any film😂 The others disney like are fake. Many places in Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Scandinavia, etc. also look like this.
This is a typical village that attracts tourists
It is No Fake.😅😉 Greetings from Germany.❤️
No don’t deny it
Let me have a moment of fairytale ☹️
Seeing you watching our Country let me feel very proud of living in germany ^^ I love my city and our architectur ^^ and I live in a little city called Salzwedel. We have those little streets with little shops and for you it would be like seeing harry potter or a farytail ^^ I love to see that you are so impressed by our country ^^ Please feel welcome to visit germany sometime ^^
People saying the US is too big for a rail system are really showing they don't know much about US history as the US was once smothered in railway lines and stations, so much so that 80 percent of mid western farms were within 5 miles of a train station. Even after US rail peaked and early cars, trucks and planes ate into its business it still employed over 2 million people before the Wall Street Crash and had over a quarter of a million miles of railway routes during WW1. There's barely a town or city that didn't have a train station and a tram system but these were later ripped down to be replaced by roads.
The funny thing is the original versions of Grimm's Fairy Tales are really dark and brutal. Really disturbing stuff, people often children getting punished by fortune for their "bad" behavior. They are for example burned to death, starved, mutilated and killed in many other ways.
Beware of German fairy tales 😄
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Hi! I,m German but lived abroad 20 years. So I realy apreciate the scenery and culture that we have in
Baden Baden and area . I don,t take it for granted anymore. Just absorb IT every time I look at IT.
I was born in Baden-Baden (the "spa town from the video) :) Of course, every place has good and bad sides, but every time I am at home, I am overwhelmed by the beauty of this city. The landscape, nature, and culture make you relax and calm down as if you were on vacation. For me, it is one of the most beautiful places to live. And it is ideally located near France and the Black Forest, so you have so many different leisure activities and landscapes within 30 kilometers. (even vineyards) So yes, as a German, you can really appreciate the beauty of the city you live in. Especially when you go for a walk or to the market in your free time.
I live in this area of germany (between Heidelberg an Neustadt) and can confirm, this is exactly how it looks here in most parts. Of course, we have very urban areas and planned cities like in Ludwigshafen or Mannheim. But a 10minute drive outside you have this beauty.
Definetely not fake, very real :)
We live it day-to-day but appreciate our very lucky space in time.
I don’t „see“ those places anymore in my day to day life. But when I spend leisure time, I enjoy the view every second I am sitting in a café.
One reason why I watch such videos is because I don't see all the beauties anymore. When you grow up in such a wonderful country, you lose sight of it and it's just everyday life for you.
America is too big for a well-developed railway system ... Nonsense! Europe is bigger than the U.S. and see how well everything is connected here - even across national borders! By the way... The USA was also built up with an excellent railway system in the founding days. There were trams, railways, buses all over the country - thanks to your car industry and corrupt politicians, none of this exists anymore!
It's not the size but the population density that's the problem. Europes population density is very high so there is enough travel to sustain nation or state wide public transport. The suburb living structure makes public transport more difficult to sustain even in cities.
@@gnommg That something is difficult is not an argument - but a convenient excuse! America flies to the moon and does not want to create even such a trifle as functioning public transport - the joke of the year!
3:36 _How do we feel?_
Unfortunately, because we have these historical and cultural treasures around us, you get used to them very quickly. It's somehow nothing special when you do your job or have other things to do. Only when you go outside and enjoy the time do you realize how beautiful it actually is.
That's why everyone should be happy to live here and for me everyone is welcome here (as long as you are friendly and hardworking).
Well you had more trains in the past in the US. But the tracks were reduced.
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The Brothers Grimm's fairy tales aren't from the Black forest. They interviewed ladies from Hesse. That's some hundred kilometers north of the Black forest. (My local proud made me do this statement.)
Private paths through vinyards: Basically you can walk any path in Germany - unless there are special "private property" signs. Trespassing is not a thing here.
How does it feel to live in Germany. My Bavarian - near the Alps perspective: On the one hand it´s everyday´s life - nothing special. On the other hand I appreciate it to have the opportunity to visit castles, museums, churches, just walk wherever I want to go, I have more than 10 lakes within 20 minuts biking, mountains within an hour by car, mainly for free, low crime rate, clean environment. A life with the neighbours - not against them. This is our freedom of life. Relaxing.
This "Fairytale" is real - no one really sees this anymore, here.
This beauty is normal for us - no big deal, you know😉
The Black Forrest has nothing to do with the Gebrüder Grimm. They lived near the Thüringer Wald and there they wrote their faity tales.
1) None of the tales collected by the Brothers Grimm was set in the Black Forest. They collected the fairy tales of the Harz region and neighboring regions in Hesse and Thuringia. Afaik they came never near to the Black Forest, which has its own tales.
2) The castle of Heidelberg is not situated within the Black Forest, it is far north of it and belongs to the region of the Palatinate of the Rhine (actually it was virtually the capital of the Palatinate before it was destroyed by French troops in the Seven Years' War). Heidelberg is the second oldest German university, but the first was in Praha, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, so it doesn't really count. (The university of Praha was multilingual and divided in 4 "nationes": Bohemia (Czechs, southern Slavs, Hungarians), Poland (Poles, Silesians and East Slavs), Bavaria (Bavarians, Austrians, Swabians, Franconians = East Franks, Ripuarian Franks and other Rhinelanders), Saxony (Lower and Upper Saxons, inhabitants of the Margraviate of Meißen and Scandinavians)):
Heidelberg was also the "it spot" for US tourists after and even before WW II; Mark Twain lived here for three months with his family, and after WW II Heidelberg became the most important US military base in Europe: until 2013 the Campbell Barracks were the HQ of the United States Army in Europe and Africa.
3) Baden-Baden (or Baden in Baden) is a relatively small city (or town) with less than 60,000 inhabitants. In medieval times it housed the residence of the Margraves of Baden, but they moved after the city fire of 1689 to Rastatt. Baden-Baden started out as Roman military spa around 70 AD (then called Aquae); imperator Caracalla built in 2013 the emperor's thermal bath here, but soon after the region was conquered by the Alemanni. In medieval times many kings and emperors visited the spa (by the way: until the end of the late middle ages bathing was always naked and mixed gender); but during the Seven Years' war the town was burned down by French troops, and the spa was closed for some time. It was rebuilt and reopened at the end of the 18th century and became during the 19th century one of the main destinations for Russian tourists, after Princess Elisabeth of Baden had married Tsar Alexander I, the grandson of Catherine the Great. Especially famous authors like Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Gogol visited Baden-Baden often and wrote about it. Most of the buildings are therefore not so old, but built in the 19th or at the start of the 20th century.
4) The Black Forest is nowadays mostly firs, spruces and pines, because they were planted there. During the time of wooden sailing ships the Black Forest provided the wood for the keels and planks of the ships built in the Netherlands; the logs were rafted down the Rhine to the Netherlands. The Black Forest is also the home of the cuckoo clock, which was manufactured in the winter and transported with the rafts in the spring down the Rhine; the clock dealers then ferried over to England, where the clocks were in fashion.
5) Neustadt an der Weinstraße (lit. new town at the wine road) is again in the Palatinate. It was founded in the 13th century by merging some smaller villages. The Hambach castle was a meeting point for the German national democratic movement in the early 19th century since the "Hambach Festival" of 1832.
As far as I know, the Brothers Grimm had no special connection to the Black Forest. Their collection of fairy tales is based more on oral traditions from the Hanau area (east of Frankfurt) and Kassel. Later, the Grimms worked in Göttingen and Berlin.
Neustadt translated into English actually is 'New York'. :)
North America was settled en masse by the train. Most routes are rather short, day by day.
Let me answer it that way.
New Yorkers are not constantly in awe about their skyscrapers and skyline.
People from Rome perhaps even hate their favorite attractions, because there is no room for them, only for tourists.
Parisians couldn't care less about the Eiffel tower.
You get the picture...
Say it! Say it! Say it! *hahaha!😆
Big COMPLIMENT - the lady's pronunciation is actually great
Well, she shows you the "nice" parts of the cities. But they are real, really real :-) Been there last year travelling Black Forest.
The sauna is always naked, fully totally naked. It is a sauna.
Your US train excuse was "nice" but not counting. 😂
Bad Wildbad.... been there the last time in 1979.....and i am there in 3 days...lol
Oh I love all of Allisons travel videos!! I watched all of them a dozen times! She makes absolutly stunning, very informative and interesting videos! I‘m a huge fan of her as you can read 😂
Would love to do a trip with her one day, but this will stay a dream that never comes true:) She seems to be such a nice person to meet in real life 😊 I know that you do just german related videos on this channel, but you need to watch her other travel videos in private! I can highly recomment them ❤
3:40 „do the locals worship every day the architecture?“ … no, every human get used to it’s environment and think of it as normal. That’s way it is important to travel and see other places.
The US is not to big for trains. It's just underdeveloped and the train tracks are bad. Trains would be often faster than a flight, because in Europe you do not have to arrive 2h early for check in with a train like you have to with a domestic flight. And you have no weight limit for your luggage, can work on the train with phone and laptop and in overnight trains you can sleep in a real bed. You can arrive 1min before departure and it would be okay. US train tracks often allow only speeds of under 20mph and are one direction only. You need to wait on passing tracks for trains that go into the other direction and cargo is prioritized. It can happen you have to wait 2h for a cargo train, because it's so slow (weight & bad tracks)
There are even car trains, where you drive your car on a wagon and you stay in a coach on the same train and can drive your car of the train when you are at your target. You can sleep, work, play with your kids and enjoy the landscape. Just imagine getting from NY to LA in the middle of the winter with your car on a train and don't have any stress with traffic or bad weather conditions.
12:25 Just for most US-Americans to explain : It was a private path on private property, but in Germany you can use the private paths like public paths as long as there is no sign that using it is forbidden. As long as you don't climb over fences, walls or locked gates and stay on the path it is not trespassing and you don't get shot in Germany if you are trespassing. Signs that trespassing is forbidden mostly exist when there is a danger like on construction sites. Other limitations are signs that forbid entering via bicycle, horse, bike, car etc. If a gate in the path is not locked, you can open it, but you have to close it behind you. If it is street it can happen that there is a sign 'Privatstrasse' (private street). It's a warning that you can't expect conditions like on a public street for example clearing the street from ice and snow in the winter time.
Germanys oldest university Was built in Prague.
Seriously... Back then it was part of the prussion empire
Im also aware of my past...found out a lot about it.
Its kinda cool, when you find out, in what way you are "related" to those buildings. Ig i know for sure, my great grantparents and their family were IN cologne cathedral several times and even donated stuff to the local museum
Heidelberg as a city and university precedes the Prussian Empire. The uni was established on the 18th October 1386.
:) baden baden is a 20minutes drive away from here
She just should have asked at the entrance of the spa what she had to deal with
It's like in every country. You have places that look like from postcards you know and places you would rather not like to see. But thanks for the credits! 😄
I man ot from those places you show in your video, but also in my town there are spots you would say "this looks fake, like in a fairy tale".
How do we feel? I think that youtuber NALF described it the best: If you life in such a place it's normal, the downside is that you might not appreciate it as much as a tourist or a visitor, because you see it every day.
It's like I would ask you how is it to life in a city like LA or New York, places most germans only know from TV shows and movies.
For most people buildings etc like this are "normal". Of course there is nothing like that in each village or town. But if you went once in your life to a bigger city like Hannover, Dresden and so on, you will see similar things. So going to Baden Baden would be a nice trip but nothing special. A bigger reaction you'd get from most Germans seeing things like the train mainstation area in Frankfurt am Main. There are maaany drug addicted people on the street, a lot of dirt, poverty (caused by the drugs). We more react to those bad things than to those beautiful places. Not willingly. It is just like that...
8:05 German BAD means BATH … „As a protected title, only state-recognized spas in Germany may be given the city prefix Bad.“ … de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_(Kurort)
12:25 she might be totally wrong there. it could as well have been a private path maintained by the vineyard. but this is Germany and not the US so she is well within her rights to use that path through the vineyard even if it is private
thats real...
Towns that misbehave have to add "Bad" in front of their name.
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Well, no. Those are towns known for their good air, the baths with health-improving features, or similar that is good for your health. They also might be a bit more expensive than other towns.
how do germans see those places,.. hmm.. for me its something among the lines of . it depends.. :)
if i am out shopping, commuting to work.. and something among those lines.. i dont realize those places becasue i am occupied.. if i go out to take a hike, a bike tour,.. or just to enjoy myself .. i realize how lucky i am to have those places around.
Here is a hint: The Altstadt (old town) of Freudenberg looks unreal. A video suggestion would be "Wochenende im Siegerland: Alter Flecken - die Altstadt von Freudenberg" (ua-cam.com/video/AlK0EPOKQMg/v-deo.html), but can also just google for images of "Freudenberg Alter Flecken". And yes, it is real and people live there.
The new Masters of death by the old one
Rothenburg ob der Tauber is ,.... have a look. 😊
Did she use the words Deutsche Bahn and efficiency in the same sentence? xD
Yes, she really did! I had to repeat that part several times to trust my ears 😂
How does it feel to live in such houses or cities...
I will try to explain tje feel that i have in these houses or areas, even if i am only visiting.
Every house has a kind of soul. And so finally every city also has. This soul grews with time and the people, living and working in these houses and streets or events taken place there. New houses have less history and therefore less "soul" developed. I think for americans a good way to understand what i mean is (even this house isn't that old still) The Empire State Building and one new skyscraper.
And then imagine, that some of the houses or cities in this video are older then several hundreds of years. Anf kept in good condition so that people can still live in.
You feel that, if you live in there and normally that causes also a feel of respect and curiosity about what happened to this place, before you are going to be a little part of its history.
Unfortunately i habe the feel, that it is more done these days to tear older houses down and build new ones instead of keeping good condition of the building and repair it.
Thanks for the question and the video. Keep it up!
14:15 if USA would even TRY to setup the same density of railroad Net EUROPE (comparable in landsize) has, it would be a step in the right direction.
Totally understand
She likes our Railsystem?!?!?!?!?! She must be the only person in the world
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It is not illegal to wear swimmsuits. But maybe not convienent to be the only one dressed. But mostly there are not so many places to be nude. But as usually in Europe all the saunas
Um, there _is_ a train from north to south Australia.
Trans-Siberian Railway, probably the longest in the world?
@@arnodobler1096 Surely the longest for passenger transport, yes. The Trans-Eurasia-Express is about 1000 km longer. But it runs on the Trans-Sib-rails for a most of it's way.
I think most of the Germans love Germany also.😊
East Germany - Schiffshebewerk Niederfinow ua-cam.com/video/jpmbZujYSBc/v-deo.html Übersetzen müsst ihr allein.
traveling can be difficult for some Americans because they finally are stepping out of their bubble!!! Culture Shock 😮
she does pronouce a lot of things incorrect indeed.
Europe is the same size as the US, including Russia, and we have a very dense rail network. It only means you have to pay slightly higher taxes on fuel and use the proceeds to build a rail network. China is huge and it has a dense high speed rail network. It's just about where you spend your taxes
If it looks fake you should travel more I bet you'd like it seeing the world outside of the Americas.
How would it be for a US citizen to walk up to a hotdog stand? Maybe you will admire it for its beauty? No, it is just another object on the road. I might once in a while contemplate it, but most of the time it's just there. Like it always has been.
Das ist ein sehr schöner teil in Deutschland aber, aber nicht alles , das letzte Bild war Frankfurt der moderne teil liebe Grüße aus Düsseldorf ein hotspot im Westen
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Hello? Austrailian train, what should that be? (sry Aussies, idk which kind of train you have) we have the ICE what can ground fly like drive more than 300 kmh (that’s a lot even in mph) and specially the USA with unbelievable much of empty space would be a dream place to do a “ground fly”…if there wouldn’t be that kind of bad railways out there :P
Dude, don't call my country and my home area fake XD
Though i believe where i grew up you woull believe it's fake for real. Even as a child and a teen, being used to it (and yeah, most ppl who grew up here don't make such a fuss about the beauty of their home, till they have to live somewhere else), i always thought that my home village and city next to it (where i travelled to by bus through the forest every day) was beautiful and even magical. I loved it there till i hit puberty and realized, there's nothing much to do for teenagers who are more into partying than beautiful landscape and the fresh clean air and water.
My home was btw a village called Unterkirnach (founded in the 14th century i believe), and the neighboring city was Villingen-Schwenningen (a double city since the 1970s, united into one as a symbol for the unification of Swabia and Baden into the state of Baden-Württemberg, also the christian union of a catholic and a protestant city. Villingen was founded in the 8th century with traces of settlements from thousands of years ago, it became an official city in the year 999 and had it millenium celebration when everyone was in the 'end of the world' state in 1999. Schwenningen was first mentioned in documents in the year 817 but no one knows when it was founded. It was also known as the biggest village of Germany for many centuries, being bigger than several cities but only got the recognition as a town in 1907.).
So, yeah, what you saw in this video is and always was just our average everyday sight. As a teen we would leave school premises during lunch break (totally normal here btw), walk through the medieval city wall side gate 2 meters next to it, turn left into the medieval hospital garden of the former Franziskus church (btw the same church that sent out monks around 1300 to found the village where i grew up, for acriculture and the red sandstone that was so popular for churches in the area) with the hospital they ran there, and sit on top of the same several hundreds years old city wall next to the 'Romaias' tower (a former prison tower) that was named after its most famous inmate: Romaias the giant, a troublemaker, a soldier, a war hero, a traitor and a prisoner - and the only one to ever escape that prison tower.
Alright, reading all this i can see how it may seem fairytale fake to an american now. Believe me, go further south and/or east in Europe and you will see stuff like that on a whole other level.
Even for me those places feel kinda "fake". Greetings from "the real" part of Germany 🤣
All American go to Heidelberg, Neuschwanstein or Rothenburg ob der Tauber.... so boring ... If you want to see a real German castle, dont go to Neuschwanstein!!!! Heidelberg is nice, but there are far more beautiful cities in Germany.... By the way... the Gebrüder Grimm region is in Hessen. A lot of fairy tales are from Oberhessen. The Grimm Brothers grew up in Steinau (Hessen)!!!
As an American living in Germany, I can assure you I would never want to live or raise my children in USA. Period
I definitely understand
14:10 so what? russia is huge too, even bigger than the US and they made railways their primary choice of transport. it is doable. the size of a country is no excuse. the US lacks the political will, that is all. admit it. 14:31 no, it's not difficult. the US did it in the past. it was a country with extensive railway networks - if the US could do it over 100yrs ago, why should it be difficult today?
The real reason for the bad rail infrastructure in the us is simple. Guns. No one wants to sit in a train with hundreds of people who could carry a gun and have a bad day. Hail to the weapon lobbys😂
You become blind to what you’re accustomed to
Sorry, but one thing got me a cringe. The lady was misinformed. Said fairy tales were never in the Black Forest. To keep German culture alive the Fairy Tale Route was founded after 1975. : inviting people from all over the world to follow in the footsteps of the Brothers Grimm from Hanau (Hesse) to Bremen (North) and immerse themselves in the dazzling worlds of German fairy tales, sagas and legends. It doesn’t lead into the Black Forest at all, not even close.
She copied and paste so to speak: “were set in the dense Black Forest of South West Germany’s Baden- Wurttemberg state” No idea why.
this whole defeatist "the US is too huge for a functional public transport rail network going to every noteworthy city" is just nonsense ... just take a look at the diverse euroasian continent and the extensive web of rail connecting pretty much all cities from small to large, going across countless borders, dealing with dozens of different national laws, regulations and political systems ... when a railnetwork can be build and exist at such scale and despite such national diversity it certainly would be easy to do something equal for a single, larger national economy which also is the richest in human history.
And its not a task for ages as even rotten economies like China have shown. Its just a matter of will.
The US should and could have a dense rail network, connecting all major cities, by now ... but as with all the other issues murricans are simply afraid of change ... always pretending it would get worst if they tried something "new". Ironicly that refusal to change had the US falling behind the first world on pretty much every important social-economic issue by now. Wonder when these people finally realize where this refusal to change and adapt has led them.
Like like like, filler word good Gen Z.
I am a German dont make tjis Piff..pafff wer are not in the USA,,,,hhahahah sorry
FAKE ???
I dislike these videos for showing Germany as this heaven on earth place. This is not what 99% of normal working class people experience. This is for folks with either money or too much time on their hands. The grass is not always greener over here, even if these clips make it seem like that. And how it feels? Well, I work, do my errands, maintain my house, pay my bills and if I have some free time at hands outside of that I go for a walk or attend one of my hobbies. Life here is like it is everywhere else, except it's more expensive than in most European countries. You always have a reminder to be proud of who and where you are, though most will claim the opposite. Germans themselves sometimes fall into the "it's good the way it is. It could be better, but we should be thankful for living here" trap. Most don't realize how brittle all of this is and how hard our ancestors had to work to achieve and maintain what they have left us (If it wasn't destroyed by allied forces). All this will go down the drain soonish, because there aren't enough people maintaining what we have and much rather do it like this girl and document what's left for themselves. So instead of being active, they tour places for their own enjoyment. Don't forget that Germany has been inhabited for thousands of years with towns, villages, monuments etc., whilst most of the US has been built from the ground up fairly recently.