the guys american….

@@nelsonvh3033 with an Italian passport as well as a US one.

thats why Eu cool

@@nelsonvh3033 je has an italian passport, its complicated.....

I wish I lived in your city

Niemand ist immer nur nett. Mit sind ehrlich Menschen lieber, die dürfen auch mal Launen haben und nicht i mer nur positiv lächelnd rumlaufen.

Das sehen viele Menschen in unserem Land leider anders.

Stimmt leider nicht ganz. Es gibt Menschen, die unabhängig von Charakter und dem Wesen, Menschen einzig und allein nach der Herkunft oder äußeren Merkmalen beurteilen und in Schubladen stecken. Da wird viel pauschalisiert und mit stereotypen gearbeitet. Ist Gott sei Dank nicht bei allen so aber bei einigen.

​@@notnolz haha troll

@@JU-pq6qu WGT is the one I was referring to. I'll be there again next month.

@J U Junge, auf diesen LGTV- kann man sich selbst doch nicht feiern🤦🏻‍♂️

Friendly people? 😅 I live in Germany for 3 years and friendly is what they stand out the least. When you live here is totally different.

The friendlyness depends on the region as well 😂 Not that some regions are friendlier than others. The kind of friendlyness is just different. Where I live, we tend to be very direct and don't waist our time with friendly phrases. But people tend to be warm and sincere - and gruffly ;) I hope that you can call Germany home one day :) Where do you want to live?

I’m German. There are friendly people and not so friendly just like everywhere I think.

I mean the search for an apartment is painful for everyone here in germany, I live in Berlin and I am a born german and it's always rediciolous

Outside of the big cities and in the old East, English is not commonly spoken by people over 35 which excludes most Landlords. It's harsh, but at least attempting to understand and speak German (even badly) will get you a huge amount of goodwill. A lot of Germans are aware that their language is not easy to learn for English speakers and a little effort goes a long way....

He’s never going to be fluent in German. After 8 years living in Germany he’s still bad at speaking German. His accent is terrible, unable to conjugate verbs, know noun genders, decline nouns or use cases correctly.

@@lilawaffel186 true, but Berlin is an special kind of hell, renting-wise

@@evilrslade Goodwill is the key word here. It doesn't matter that my German is far from perfect, I always get compliments on my efforts and I do feel it has earned me a lot of goodwill from landlords. My English is great, but nobody in Germany gives a shit about that, because younger people speak it so well... But speak German as a foreigner, older Germans, in my experience, are just happy to see people making an effort.

Hi! That's not how we write that anymore. We decided we'd spell it "vermisse" instead from now on! Mit freundlichen Grüßen -Germany =P

@@BlackSun404 I love how it says like "oh yeah, about that.. we decided to not write it like that anymore" xD I mean its technically true but it still sounds funny xD

Oh same experience! I started working for a London based company and i could not understand why people in shops did not ask you if you needed help. or co workers that saw issues but did not say anything and than said, its rude to mingle in the situation ....

Ist ja auch eine tolle Stadt. Ich würde gerne dort leben.

@@einwitzigenname585 Das Besondere an Schwäbisch Hall ist, dass diese Stadt über die Jahrhunderte in keinem Krieg zerstört wurde, auch nicht im 2. Weltkrieg. Das macht das besondere Flair aus, es ist ein geschlossener Stadtkörper, erbaut nach dem menschlichen Maß und nicht für den Straßenverkehr mit Autos. Und vom vielen unvermeidlichen Treppensteigen bekommt man mit der Zeit nen hübschen Hintern ;-)

@gunter hagendorf. 👍

Passierschein A-38

French from the east of France aren't so different from south German, the real north east french not the "new" french addition from an other part of France. In the mountains with a more hostile climat, people are very reserve because the new incomers could only stay some months, then no need to be less reserve. But in case of real bad time, they will be there, use to stay together towards adversity. If the new incomers stay some years, they will open their houses and tables and integrate you. Real coconut people ! South of France is more friendly but in fact after some years you will discover that you're not so integrated, more peach people !

@@brigittelacour5055 I had multiple exchanges with France during school, but somehow never really connected with the people there.

@@E85stattElektro with school exchange you spend most of your time at school with your friends or on day trips with your teachers and school friends, not a lot of time only with your host family and alone with your french exchange friend. The exchange I made in my youth was during holidays with only 2 or 3 day trips or meeting, the other days of the fortnight was with the family. My family, my German family and my brother German family were a bit strict, we weren't allowed to meet the other of the exchange apart the organized activities, in order to create a link, to " bath" in the culture. The families have to integrate and "educate" the young foreigner. My brother and I were very happy with our families. That exchange turned to a school exchange, it wasn't the same. My kids did school exchange too, and we had the German kids home. As they left home early to go to school and came back around 17-18 :00 it was difficult to create a link and there was only 1 weekend free but with a party on Saturday, then Sunday was a rest day, they were to tired to do something. I was very frustrated, feeling to be only there to feed them and give them a bed ! And only during 2 years as the kids change schools for the 3 last year's in France ! I understand well why my kids didn't have a link with their exchange friends. I did 5 years of summer exchange plus continue to see my German friends after the baccalauréat.

Actually, I cannot imagine this to be different anywhere else in Europe. Is it already an American fear not to be loved ? Americans in Europe are just treated like anybody else, like fellow people.

My experience as a naturalised Swiss originally from the US: people in Switzerland as well as in Germany may have their disagreements with America concerning politics, sociology, economics, BUT they do not confuse America with Americans. They allow the American to kind of identify him/herself as to their own qualities and accept (or not, as the case may be) according to those qualities. I've had many, many discussions on this side of the pond concerning America, so in agreement with my Gesprächspartner, some not. But they never devolved into a lack of respect for the other individual - something (here it comes) I cannot say about conversations with Americans. This ability to agree to disagree is something I greatly appreciate here. And now, looking forward to my next trip from Switzerland (my home) to the Odenwald area of Germany in a couple of weeks.

@@holger_p Indeed, we Germans don't love other Germans either, we hate us with a passion!!!1 ;-)

Oh yeah, that's right. The most unpleasant thing that happened to me once was that I received a "Förmliche Zustellung" from my partner personally! Well, he works at the post office and our apartment is in his area. And he actually had to fulfill the protocol, ask me my full name (which came across as pretty weird) and then confirm that he personally delivered the letter to me. It really was the weirdest thing that ever happened to me.

@@Freakyboss but that's just the professional way to do it, finally the best way to do it for both of you.

We have our problems too. Es ist nicht alles Gold, was glänzt.

Same here in the US. You absolutely want to open letters from USCIS or court and tax (IRS) letters....

My first letter from the government was a survey in Germany

@@HelloOnepiece The small variant of Volkszählung? The Mikro-Stichprobe? it is like in the US, they do micro surveys on randomly selected residents for the census (called Micro-Census) and every X years they do a complete census.

@@PascalGienger I mean not unusual, but kinda weird/funny to ask someone who has been there circa a month, what do they think about the city and the criminality here

In some areas that shouldn't be a problem at all.

@@Andreas_Cologne even so for english speaking people in Ramstein, Wiesbaden, Grafenwöhr, Ansbach and Kaiserslautern. ;-)

@@Andreas_Cologne Dutch Texans don't understand modern German all to well...

If you want to be guest anywhere you cant avoid local specialities incl language. Isnt that the point of travelling?

Why do you get medical bills? O.o If you have a public health ensurance you only get bills if you stayed in hospital (10 € a day or so) and if you got special treatments not covered - but they inform you about the cost beforehand and you hqve to sign for it. So it can never happen to get medical bills without knowing about them and hoe much you have to pay beforehand.

You probably just have an easy time getting jobs because of your german reputation.

Because you stick them in yourself

There is an easy way to get screens on your windows. Buy some mesh in your local hardware store, cut it to measure and install it on your windows. Where is the problem? Btw, I'm German.

@@astridlung4162 Of course you're German. You think having screens in your windows is a do-it-yourself project. German home builders don't builder homes for people, the build them for insects.

"Germans are quite reserved towards foreigners"Eh, I would say that it's more of a "Germans are quite reserved towards anyone". At least for me that's the case...

Canadians are generally more used to working with people from different backgrounds than most of the world's citizens. That could partially be why (saying this as a Canadian in Germany myself).

Well, some americans behaving in a way.... hrmpf. Especially the people who voted or supported Trump or people like him. He did do a lot of damage to his country. The ugly american...

...thank for Spezial. 😊

🥰Try a Zwergla,my favorite.

​@@MrsInfamous22 how about a Mahrs U 😋🍻

Mahr's U and Hefeweizen are delicious.

...so, now you made it... me having an appointment with Bamberg...big trunk included....greets from lower bavaria to world's #1 in beer... upper franconia! ;)

Berlin is like another country

Berlin was a fantastic social experiment. When the wall came down, Berlin was a beautiful broken toy. We had almost no infrastructure, so we opened stores in our ground floor apartments, and clubs in our basements. In any other country. leaving a city of that size 'unguarded' would have led to the military having to restore order. Only in Germany can you tell the people 'you're on your own... don't go too crazy', and they didn't. We did what we wanted. Empty apartments were everywhere. The atmosphere was the coolest thing I've ever experienced. We had 10+ years of more freedom than I thought possible. People are still moving here searching for that, though it's mostly just shadows and echoes now. Having lived all over the world, I choose to live here, and it's an informed decision. I'm glad your experience here was positive :)

Not A Phobic But Is there a Islam Problem in Berlin or anything, I mean are Muslim immigrants increasing and causing problems/riots and any problem you faced, also Turkish & Syrian population is very much in Berlin. I will be Moving later this year or in start of 2024 to Berlin........

You were treated nice in BERLIN! That must be a parallel universe Berlin. 😄 No one is treated nice in Berlin, not even Berliners.

@@eily_b I live in Berlin and this is FAR from accurate, it's the nicest people I've met in Germany.

I don't about that I speak arguably better German than most natives but still know no one from the district I live in because 99.99% of locals are really incredibly reserved and generally to any creature that moves Even my neighbors told me to not bother them because they want to be alone....so I give up officially...best bet ist to live in a major city where u can befriend some niche foreigners espacially those from Asia and Latin america

​​@@njibra7666You propably just need to offer them a beer and they will open up.......or go do hobbies where people are always very open for contact, like camping, football, fishing etc

Kann ich als deutscher Auswanderer in der Schweiz bestätigen. Keine 10 Pferde bringen mich zurück nach D. 🇨🇭✌🏼

@@dk0898

So true, this difference also exists in Germany itself. Just compare the Rheinland with people from Bavaria or Baden-Württemberg. In the Rheinland it's so easy to get in contact with other people but it's possible that they do not know you anymore the next day. On the other hand it's very hard to build up a relationship with the people from the south but if this has happened it can last forever.

What can be more boring than a car salesperson?

those are really good video ideas!

Munich is insane. My parents own a flat in Munich and when they wanted to rent it out they were getting so many emails they couldn't even read them all. I think it depends on the city. I've heard crazy stuff about finding a place to rent in Munich.

@@helgaioannidis9365 Well, the renting market in every big city is insane. Berlin is the biggest and most popular with a huge housing shortage. I rather think it has something to do with the mentality in the south.

It depends on the growth of a city, me thinks.

When you say it's "the mentality in the south", what do you mean?

@@helgaioannidis9365 The mentality of the south of Germany. Especially Bavaria is very different from other areas in every respect.

Greetings from Gießen.

@@elipa3 Grüße zurück :) Ich blicke mit Nostalgie zurück an meiner Studienzeit in Gießen. Was ich übrigens vergessen habe zu erwähnen in meinem Kommentar, wegen Freundschaften usw: Deutsch zu lernen ist natürlich sehr hilfreich und empfehlenswert. Ich habe immer noch sehr gute Freunde in Gießen, (u.a. auch meine ehemalige Vermieterin) und habe mich nie irgendwie benachteiligt gefüllt.

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PREACH!

No complains ... no positive change❣

Your are right regarding everything you said Cathy and the older lady even more! 😀 As NALF pointed out it may take a little longer to get closer to the locals but in the end everything is well when people get to know each other. Making the effort to speak the local idiom helps a lot, but since most locals do know at least some English they sometimes get a little impatient in getting on in the conversation and will probably reply in to you in English (with the knowledge they themselves have which might in some situations get people into awkward situations ...😅Just give it time and everything will be fine.😀 Speaking as a local and native speaker (with no US military folks around me) 😅

So it is! The majority is glad that you are here!

You and your family are very welcome but not because of what's happening in Ukraine. Russians aren't our enemies or at least weren't until our stupid/corrupt government decided to follow the US stretegy in trying to weaken Russia (read RAND Corporation).

I think the part of percieved as not friendly but polite boils down to the phrase "Live and let Live". Basically if we are not familiar someone and dont have any other points of contact be it work related or in the same club etc., asking questions how your day went/what you´re doing etc. is considered nosy and suspicious. For example if my Neighbour across the street asks me how I´m doing its basically a 3-4 sentence conversation, if a random storeclerk or someone else I dont know asks me the same question I consider it weird. So in short its our way of being friendly and polite by respecting your privacy/time and not bothering you with small talk that doesnt lead anywhere. :) Regarding speaking german, dont be afraid to ask if someone speaks too fast to repeat it to you in german as you are learning and want to practice. We germans know our language is hard to learn and are glad if we can teach/help someone learn it. I once had a colleague learning german and when she asked something where I answered too fast, slipping into dialect/accent or mumbling a bit too much she asked me if I could repeat it and I gladly did since I noticed it myself from her look :D

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People being happy with something isn't necessarily a bad thing. I'm an Asian immigrant in Australia and Australians are quite humble people. Their pride for their country is quite a nice one and doesn't have the arrogance that some people like some Americans and Parisians seem to have. Parisians in particular even seem to have a bad reputation among other French people.

​​@@sikoyakoy2376on't know about that. Americans, Canadians and Australians always seem to have an inflated and most of the time unjustified sense of patriotism or pride for their city/region. I'm not German, but the mentality in my country is similar to the German one. People from New Zealand and the UK are a bit more similar to mainland Europe in that regard. At least in my experience. EDIT: Being happy with something is different from declaring it the best in the world. In my experience Australians aren't as humble as you make it sound like. Not even close actually. A bit better than North Americans tho, so if that's your main comparison, maybe that would explain it.

Everyone knows Sydney is better! 😉 Been in both, liked both. Australians are nice people!

@@schtreg9140 totally agree with you. Australian patriotism can get quite sickening.

I was there and it is very different from location to location and even at the same location. I have had both, the best and the worst experiences in my life with people. The countryside and landscapes are beautiful, the cities were not my thing and the differences between rich and poor where unimaginably big. Also you really have to get the drug problem under control. But as I said, stay in the countryside or selected parts of certain cities and I will agree, you will have a good time.

you should see foreigners "enjoy" German racism, that's a sight!

​@J U Ich bin aus Bayern und hab bisher nur Gutes über Köln und die netten zugänglichen Menschen dort gehört 👍🙂

@J U Hey, hmm ja kann sein, dass es allgemein etwas schwieriger ist in Bayern aufgenommen zu werden als anderswo, da hab ich jetzt keinen persönlichen Vergleich weil hier geboren und aufgewachsen. Aber ich hatte eigtl. schon immer das Gefühl, dass viele hier sehr offen sind. Es kommt wahrscheinlich stark drauf an wo man hinkommt. Hier in "meinem" ländlichen Gebiet sind die meisten heutzutage relativ aufgeschlossen, wenn das Gegenüber freundlich ist. Wir hatten aber auch immer schon Urlauber. Das Problem dürfte eher sein dass es in der Regel zuerst immer irgendeinen Grund braucht in Kontakt zu treten, das glaub ich ist aber in weiten Teilen Deutschlands sehr verbreitet... Also gut wer beruflich oder schulisch schonmal Anschluss hat... oder Club oder Verein... Ansonsten ist es vielleicht etwas schwieriger als beispielsweise in Köln... wie geasagt es kamen Leute begeistert wieder von dort zurück und sagten es wäre so leicht gewesen in Kneipen und Bars mit anderen ins Gespräch zu kommen und die Leute in Köln waren super nett. Hier kann einem das auch passieren, muss aber nicht... je nach Kneipe und Anlass... Von den schulischen Unterschieden hab ich auch schon gehört, die müssen gravierend sein. Ein Bekannter sagte er wäre in Berlin locker im Gymnasium mitgekommen, was hier undenkbar war und er musste die Schule wechseln. In der Realschule musste er sich dann anstrengen um im besseren Mittelfeld zu bleiben... kann man irgendwie kaum glauben solche Unterschiede in einem einzigen Land. Nun ja... so hat jede Region in Deutschland pro und contra denk ich... und wie gesagt, kommt es am Ende immer auf die genauen Umstände an, und auf etwas Glück wen man so trifft. 🙂

Da ich selbst in Frankreich lebe und vorher kurz in Baden-Württemberg lebte, kann ich nur zustimmen. Manchmal ist es sogar gut, wenn man nicht dauernd auf Menschen trifft, die einem sofort Freundschaft anbieten, obwohl man sich im Prinzip überhaupt nicht kennt. Echte Freundschaften beruhen immer auf Vertrauen, gegenseitigem Respekt und einer gewissen Liebe im platonischem Sinne. Unechte Freunde erkennt man immer daran, dass sie sich selbst einladen, Geschenke mitbringen aber im Gegenzug ebenfalls Geschenke erwarten und fast nie zu erreichen sind, wenn man tatsächlich mal ihre Hilfe benötigt.

While asking for a phone number might seem creepy for Germans, asking for another time for a beer is not. My suggestion would be a to join a Verein. There you will make „acquaintances“ which can grow into friendships. That is the easiest way for 50+.