I always wondered if you just walk around cities and film yourself all day, setting up cameras and walking towards it, hundreds of times a month?

Laudable and promising. I'll have to listen to the video again, because either you're actually mumbling at some crucial points, or I was unfocused for brief moments, *_precisely_* when you announced stuff like what lodging you've found and the time frame of your stay . No problem! The videos are beautifully edited, so watching this one once more is no harsh punishment for being distracted.

I see you are in "Pompey"! This video really resonates with me. I moved to Spain in 2007. I needed the change as my life wasn't going anywhere and I wasn't happy. I love so much about the UK and I work at Kings college every summer, love the place! My friends who live there however tell me that it's really difficult to survive there and it's not what it was. I feel a sense of familiarity and dissonance at the same time these days

@@terrylodge4846 I totally get that. I find it is rarely black and white but usually a mixed bag

Your last sentence is very much appreciated.

Thank you. Looks like we could use that right now 🙂

@@britingermany definitely

Back at you 😊 I've only been to Germany briefly for the world cup The people were so warm and friendly and the countryside looked beautiful. Somewhere I would like to return to visit Kind regards from England

Exceptionally cold and bad damp weather though kind if takes the shine off it imo. Summer is great in uk if you can make it 😂

​@@augustusmaximus891Germany is colder and equally as damp

Lovely to hear you have a great time there

@@britingermany "Had", it's a couple of years ago. My point was actually also that, London can be a great place to live, not only to visit - apart from the fact that you have to pay ridiculous amounts of money for a rathole. But: I had the first garden flat in my life there.

I had a wonderfull time in Switzerland. Perhaps they are not so cute and charming, but the life is very safe and they have a high quality of life. Country is soooo beautiful.

London has changed dramatically in the last years, you won’t find the same London if you come back….many businesses are closing down as well.

@@madameversiera This is, what everybody tells me. Especially the Londoners, I'm still in contact with.

Totally. As an employee, even on a "good salary" its tough

@@britingermany I think you said you have a better quality of life in Germany. It would be great to hear more about that. Is the pay better? Is housing cheaper? Are there better opportunities for leisure? You could maybe do a whole video on this. We're English and left the UK in 2005 because it was hard work and we were getting nowhere fast - except into debt. I think it’s extremely difficult for the majority of people to just get by.

It’s true, I earn a low income and my life is very hard. I work everyday and most of the income is taken by bills and rent.

Even the chances of inheriting there are obstacles. Had to sell parents home to fund their nursing home. There is tax and fines and fees for everything. I cannot afford my own freehold property, had no choice to buy a leasehold flat/apartment (feudal system), I pay full price via a mortgage, property returns to the owner after 125 years, unless I pay £0000s to extend the lease. I also pay ground rent to the owner £300 a year and services charges to maintain our building. England is a rip off and very corrupt place. Politicians are so corrupt by donated money, they do whatever folks with money says :(

Used to love the UK before they tried dividing the people and Used tax funds to commit ethnic cleansing

Thank you Andre. I was beginning to think I was the only one who thought this 🤣🙏

​@@britingermany oh no! How could you?! However the "Hamburgers" are known to be a bit more anglophile than most other parts of Germany.

I agree 100%. Both our languages got many same words, same written, different spelling or the other way round. We like beer & pubs, listen to the same music, like football & sports , share the same religion, our home is our castle, we like fiddling with cars , computers and electronics , like a small talk with our neighbors, like fishing and hunting or playing in a band. My home is in the north of Germany in the outskirts of Hamburg . I spent 2 years in England in east Anglia (Essex), in a small town called Harlow. It was a good time for me. A flat and beer were still affordable☺ I know some english people which lives here in my area. Some are more then 20 years here. And two of them are lovely women , working as english teacher here, I met them now and then at the supermarket.

@@britingermany you are definitely not. 🙂

I had a German neighbour in Denmark. He had lived in England for some time and had a totally different opinion

That is a very valid question. Seeing as it’s a more services based economy usually an office job or some kind of shop/restaurant/hotel

Britain also used to have industrial areas linked to towns and villages. A lot of villages grew around mines , clay works etc, or going further back into history ,the wool trade and weaving , think of the Cotswolds. The small mining Village where I grew up ,in South Derbyshire ,was basically a mining village . It used to have various local shops a small garage . Most of the locals would have worked in the large number of local pits , pipe works ,along with the large number of Engineering companies serving them and producing a wide variety of goods . The next village to my home village had not only a pit but a small shoe factory and going back a few hundred years a foundry . Our local towns were heavily industrialised, even when I started my apprenticeship, my local large town being dominated by Brewing Ale . It had a large foundry company ,lots of small Engineering businesses , the company I did my apprenticeship at designed manufactured industrial locomotives for export all over the world . They designed bespoke machinery , manufactured large worm reduction boxes and gear boxes and was old enough to have had a hand in manufacturing parts for the very first tanks of WW1 . The variety of products and factories around my local area was astounding, especially when you consider the area is ,or was, very rural and not a large industrial city . Sadly our politicians from all of the three big political party’s,threw this all away ,with their policies over the years and decades .Before we joined the then common market we were an industrial based economy ,as Germany ,fortunately for the Germans, still is . I am an Engineer and the short sighted deliberate politically motivated industrial decline has been astounding since I served my Engineering apprenticeship ,in the late 1970s , and early 1980s . From a high skilled manufacturing,industrial based economy we are now a low skilled ,low paid ,dumbed down economy ,based on the service sector , banking,insurance, coffee shops ,retail and the new god in the economic policies of our brainless politicians, house building ,designed to fuel an ever insatiable demand in consumerism ,fuelled by mass immigration. All completely unsustainable on a collection of little islands , but that doesn’t bother our esteemed politicians, so long as they survive their term in office and line their pockets. 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

They don't work, they are rich... English countryside is for rich only says my neighbor from UK.

@@michaelhart895 A spot on summary, especially about house building and consumerism fuelling the economy. Our agricultural land is being used as the fuel for the fire, high immigration being used by politicians to drive consumption. It is totally unsustainable.

@@mynaturalperfume828 i imagine they all quote Jane Eyre whenever they have conversations 🤔

That’s great to hear 😀

@@britingermany There had been social media since 2004 ........... so to say there was none in 2008 .. that is not true , we had facebook Bebo , Myspace MSN

20 years is a long time and after a while you lay down roots.

Thank goodness

Can you actually get a German passport; as I thought it was EU.

@@steffanhoffmann As long as you a german citizen you can get a passport.

@@paulogrady6679 👍

Well the good thing is that it's not far away and app can always go back for a visit

Southern Germany is indeed pretty., i think it is generally more beautiful than Northern Germany. However, the medium to large Cities in the north have a lot of authentic british pups! ;-) Especially in Hamburg. Plus, there is a certain Scandinavian influence. 😊

@@GrouchyBear411 I agree with you, I think southern Germany is more picturesque than northern Germany but I think the northerners tend to be more Anglophile.

Lived for a while near Trier so, the drive to France, Luxembourg & Belgium was super easy. At the time, nobody ever checked our Passports & border checkpoints were often unmanned. I brushed up on my German language before arriving & found that most people locally liked to demonstrate their English speaking proficiency. There for a year, only ever spoke a handful of German words. I felt really at home there. Lived 10 years in SoCal too, this is an entirely different story. Back in England now & it's totally different. English culture is now being diluted with incompatible cultures who don't even bother with the courtesy of learning the English language or customary ways . They don't integrate with UK culture & expect the UK to adapt to their customs. You're better off staying where you are. The people you remember are gone. What's left is the whipped, brainwashed masses giving their country away.

Lived in Woodbridge Suffolk for 3 years from 87/90. It’s a beautiful country and I loved the Pubs, and Fish and Chips.

yes you only have too open your eyes.

That would have a massive impact on both sides of the country, economically and socially, if the north separated, and probably a mostly negative one. I think it would be just as impactful if not more than brexit.

nothing good to say? have you seen manchester's regeneration over that time? the new mayors are the beginning of the independence that the north needs to thrive without london trying and failing to decide what's best for them. let's see what the next 25 brings. im quite optimistic now that there is a universal desire for evolution and change

​@@dungcheeseMORK999 yup the north benefits a lot from fiscal transfers from london and greater south east. the north runs a tax deficit which is funded by a tax surplus in the richer parts of the country. no offence to the other commenter but only someone who hasn't lived here for 25 years would want independence, not people living here

@@bordedup546 lets hope so...ireland leading the way

Thanks Ingo. I was thinking it was alarmist a bit too slow but glad to hear your feedback. 🙏

Yes I do think that was very significant

No one cares about the empire we just want a functional nation which the UK is no longer. It's quickly becoming a failed state.

very few people I grew up with were ever mentioned the empire in everyday life. The memory was fading many ytears ago. If u look at the countries that became independent, some of them have done very well but others have given a poor account of themselves.

Thanks a lot for your kind comments 😀

It's all different...I think there is a no resentment against Europe as group of diverse cultures. It's the commerce and its powers in the hidden which rules everything: not only the contracts but the public opinion, just anything.

Someone who voted for Brexit here. No resentment toward Europe at all. That's a media lie. It was toward the institution of the E.U.

Totally agree ..more about loss of sovereignty in decision making ...now it seems our uk politicians have forgotten how to take serious decisions

Would it not be possible as a teacher on England? I suppose it depends where and what kind of specialisation.

​@@britingermany I live in Japan and this happened to a colleague of mine. The new threshold is 39k a year. If you can't make that, then your family can't live in the UK, which means by extension, YOU can't live in the UK.

Thanks a lot Philipp 😀

Benidorm is screening brit visitors re Alcohol , we don't want them here, some few year ago drunken foot ball hooligans knifed the opposing supporters !

Thanks you Ralf. Exactly. I have learned that know one really knows what they are doing and those who cry loudly about immigration or the rich or the EU are just charismatic sophists who are oversimplifying things.

@@britingermany York is a nice city and I like it better then London

Thanks for sharing Ron. Glad you enjoyed your time here

British and Germans have so many historical and cultural links they are blood cousins. And like good cousins they like to wrestle from time to time.

"mutual empathy between the British and Germans…….in spite of WW11" WW11? 😀

Thanks so much Lauren. Yes I can highly recommend it if you get the chance. But like you said there are so many things to love about Germany. Lucky us right?! 😀

@@britingermany yes, in many ways, very lucky.

The problem is that we were taught not to be proud but instead feel guilty. We used to be a proud country.

​@@Marianne-Bachmeier-Extremist I've never been taught to feel guilty. Absolutely never. I remember hinting at such a kind feeling within me receiving the immediate response from an Israeli "Why? You haven't even been born then. What's that supposed to be good for?" His family had lost almost all of their Polish relatives due to the Shoah. He pointed out that we have a responsibility obviously. However guilt is an aspect of an individual person.

@@michaelburggraf2822 All we're taught is WW2 and a bit WW1. Rarely anyone even knows about other important eras in German history and if you put your focus on these eras, you're automatically viewed as someone who is playing what happened in those 12 years down. Media, education and politics don't want proud Germans, they want to get rid of Germany.

Thanks for sharing🙏

Thanks for watching 🙏

Thanks a lot Nick I really appreciate it

We are not importing people from the anglosphere who apart from an accent hold our values and traditions but are creating a Tower of Babel of competing factions and one looks set to dominate . Without the indigenous British set to become a minority by 2066 but likely to be sooner , the British culture will wither on the vine and Britain will just be a name for multicultural land of no one or the latest conquered Muslim state , or there will be war , either scenario is the fault of corrupt politicians.

Thank you so much. I’ll do my best

Funny, my lifelong dream is to escape my country to live in Blighty...

It went down hill after 1997 when Blair got into power.

@@damianbutterworth2434 100% agree. The 90s were the last good decade. Blair destroyed a nation.

@@DavidBeattty In England those are called nightmares.

Yes, mass immigration

Awww Thanks Torsten. Yes I do love the pies😀. And I know what you mean London is just so out of reach in terms of living costs. But at least for a short trip it’s doable 😀

I think your description of London is so accurate and insightful; both nuanced and profound. I lived in London for 7 years and my daughter has lived in London for the last 15 years. Every time I go to London it simply knocks my socks off. The history, the profusion of green spaces, the architecture, the culture and entertainment options are breathtaking. When going to a West End theatre production you often find yourself sitting next to people from different sides of the planet or, as on my most recent London theatre trip, next to a businessman on a 2 day stopover in London on his travels from Singapore to the USA. And the quality of theatre productions in London are world class, only being rivalled by Broadway imho and I would say overall that London's West End edges it. I would move back to London in a heartbeat if I could afford it - any one of the houses in one of the beautiful terraces by the architect John Nash in Regent's Park would do just fine! Thank you for this wonderful video :)

The cost of living in London is almost entirely down to the cost of the roof over your head, whether rented or bought. It's primarily about land value with the building being a small factor. House prices went crazy from late 1960s when Parliament 'rectified' the situation of high quality social housing so that landlords had more 'customers'. There were ups and downs after that but, on the whole, roof over head a massive increased compared to normal income levels. That has left much left money to spend on food (we still have among the lowest food prices vs our comparator countries) and home fittings and furnishings (hence lower quality of them and lower quality of work to build houses and install fittings and furnishings)

​@@cuebj You have described the main societal problem in modern Britain. Don't let go of your social housing!

You need to try some Pie & Mash... Arments more specifically, google it ;)

Thank you for commenting. That means a lot 🙏

Thank you for commenting 🙏

Hello there. It’s obvious dependant on individual circumstances but I think in general the standard of living is higher in Germany. For me and the U.K. it was a case of absence makes the heart grow fonder😀…and I think some relationships function best at a distance 😉

Thanks a lot Tom. Yeah London is just astronomical!!

Thanks Peter! I think it is important

Yes I can highly reccomend it. Especially with weather like this

I also love Manchester! But gritty but it has real character and the people are more friendly than in London 😀

British beer? Really?

@@elipa3 absolutely! I am German, even Bavarian and adore British beer!

@@theonlymadmac4771 is something wrong with you :) ?

@Vladimir Kuhn Must be. Saying that as a Bavarian. I am flabbergasted.

Well it sounds like you should just take a holiday for a couple of weeks there and stay where you are. You can gain a lot of insights in just a few weeks

Thank you for watching

Thanks for commenting. I appreciate it 🙏

Thank you very much Paul. I think we did. Maybe a silly example but I remember you used to support he football team in the town you lived....now people just go for the richest most successful club, this feeling of supporting "our local boys" seems to have gone.

Oh yes! Don’t get me started on the roads. That is going to be something I talk about in my next video. Just a rather unrelaxing stressful experience in the Uk

@@britingermany Thanks for getting back to me! Yes, Germany (I lived near Köln) had rush hour clog but in general, the autobahns were pretty good. In UK, you can be certain that you will meet roadworks, accidents, shear weight of traffic etc. The contrast is with Portugal where the motorways are all toll roads and are a pleasure to use...but expensive. I am tempted to say you get what you pay for but the German roads are also free and far better. There really are certain things that the Germans do better!

@@rogerhardy6306 yes the roads in the U.K. especially around the south of England are just too small for the volume of traffic. Yes I think there are many things to be thankful for in Germany

I am German and I used to visit the UK frequently, at least 3 times a year. After BREXIT I wouldn‘t set a foot on this island anymore😮

@@cassandra8620 why would Brexit affect you in that way?

Thanks a lot 😀

Thanks a lot Peter. I do think we still have a lot in common with the Germans even after all that has happened

Thank you for your comment Paul🙏 I appreciate it .

Thanks a lot and greetings back to Munich. I hope you’re loving the cool wet weather as much as I am😉

@@britingermany I am living in an attic flat - so yes I do 😅

Exactly! Bashing gets us nowhere other than to wallow in our own misery and self pity

I'm not sure about your last point. It might be objectively accurate in that our culturally the Uk has more in common with Europe but people tend to identify with things they understand. Seeing as US culture is everywhere on our screens, phones and high streets and it takes quite a bit of effort to learn about "European culture" I would bet that the average Brit identifies more we the US than Europe...but that's just my take I could be wrong.

Thanks a lot and same to you 😀🙏

I think it is too early to see the full effects of Brexit. Lets not forget that the pandemic and Russian sanctions are taking their toll..it is quite frankly extremely complex but putting politics aside what I felt and experienced during my time here was a positive upbeat atmosphere...

Brexit was driven by racism, no doubt. Disgraceful, egregious, and the single biggest act of national self harm of the last fifty years.

I love Germany as a proud Englishman now living in Australia, there is a lot to be admired in the way they do things

Remember the Christmas Truce of 1914.

Propaganda that is why Grandfathers and Great Grandfathers fought, Our Governments made us believe they were the enemy and the mugs believed they were fighting for their country, they used them to fight their wars to not lose their power of the ruling class.

​@@JamesDeemons Yes. All could have been "sorted" in grandmothers (Queen Victoria's) garden ... by the King, Tsar and Kaiser ...

Most Britons are ignorant and swallow constant lies about other countries, especially Germany.

I recommend Christopher Clark 'The Sleepwalkers - How Europe Went to War in 1914'. An eye opener for me was the role of diplomacy in the prequel to.the war. And a Britain had a leading diplomatic influence.

Awwww😀

Thanks a lot Ian. Very glad to have you 🙏

Oh wow! That might have more to do with your speakers than my voice😉. Thanks a lot that would be pretty cool👍🏻

@@britingermany All I know is that only your voice does that. It's a gift. I've heard some people use the term a "golden voice". Don't let that talent go to waste.

I agree! His voice would be ideal for voice-overs.

Thank you Andrew

Very well said👍🏻. Thank you

"The NHS in England is a disaster and it can only get better." Our far right governing Conservative Party is determined to make sure that it can only get worse. And thus speed up the process of privatisation and takeover by foreign healthcare corporations.

Benefits of the EU ? Is that the EU that morphed from a free trade zone to infiltrating every aspect of our life . The same Eu that we joined with a massive industrial base and left as a warehouse for foreign made goods ? The same Eu we paid in billions to , to improve infrastructure throughout the poor countries of the Eu where once they were up to scratch our industries moved there with EU grants , while our infrastructure fell apart ? The same Eu that gave us 8 million low skilled immigrants that decimated living conditions for the working class, who saw their wages decimated while housing , welfare and social costs spiralled out of control and you wonder why the NHS is overrun ? I could go on but you will never understand because you are a migrant and only see things through your own lens and what is best for you . Any country can and will take some migrants and they will be welcomed if they are productive, law abiding and embrace their new country but on the scale we have had in the last 30 years I see it as a true picture of our tolerance that we have let it just happen . Germany as Sweden is now is fully enjoying the fruits of uncontrolled immigration , maybe you feel less attached to Germany now because of the enrichment it has received has made it less like the country you left behind.

@Fred Amber Richard Tice stated some time ago "Brexit was about stripping down all regulations (protection of labourship, environment, banking etc) and to convert the NHS into a private health system US style". He was smiling when saying that... My London born spouse and I are living in Germany, but we have regular contact to our English friends and family living in the UK. One of our friends might need a new knee, the NHS people were telling him to go private, would cost him £25.000. All the best to you with greetings from Germany 😊

The NHS is not funded properly- this is the main issue, as well as staffing shortages. Germany and France spend 7% more on health than the UK, and it shows. The NHS is under pressure, there is no doubt, but it is nowhere near as bad as the self serving myth making by the right wing press makes out.

Live in germany over 30 years and germany has gone the same way not the country i came to in 1989 and its getting worse

Thank you for the support Lola. I appreciate it

Thanks for watching Annie. Yes But I had just left Uni then and didn't have anything to loose so the financial crash passed me by.

I agree that UK institutions need a radical overhaul and modernised. I don't agree about Scotland heading for independence unless something severe happens to shake people in Scotland. We just had a long period of the SNP being dominant in national politics and a leader that until very recently was highly regarded as a politician. During that 8 years there was very little movement in the polls regarding independence. It seems doubtful the SNP will find a better leader than Nicola Sturgeon. And despite Brexit, Boris Johnson and the likes of Reece-Mogg running the Tory party there has been no boost towards independence in polls. The polls don't show enough demand for independence in Scotland to justify another referendum and I don't know what would change that.

@@Ok_yes_its_me Yeah, although the scottish polls in favor of independence may change with every day the tory chaos continues, and the fallout from Brexit is reaching reality.

Who is talking about the British Empire? It's not any kind of discussion in England and hasn't been for generations. If you can drag the British Empire up as a talking point, then why not the Germans and their Nazi past, they concluded at about the same time. And arguably, the Germans also had a way more brutal Empire than the British ever did. If you mention the Empire to any English person, you'll catch them cold. They'll need a few seconds to scratch up some thoughts about it.

@@jasonallen6081 I agree, however catching an English person cold regarding the empire? I reckon we should have kept it going strong. But obviously that will upset the happy clappers 😂. Doesn't matter now anyway unfortunately.

@james3547 I'm damn proud of being English and see so much about us that it's worth being proud of, but we have to fight against this thing we're being subjected to lately. This exaggerating the negative and eradicating the positive it gets me so angry because every other nation in Europe has a dark past. In fact, they have worse and darker history's than we do. It's a concerted effort to judge us in isolation. This Englishman in Germany fella is struggling with the subject/object part of his critique. Doesn't apply them equally to both places he knows well. Germany is a good nation, but there are nowhere near as many unicorns running wild as he'd have you think. He conflates the EU with Europe, one's just a political union, and the other is a geographical fact.

I decidedly stayed away from any of those terms on purpose as they are too emotionally loaded.

In my opinion, the line between patriotism and nationalism is very thin. Many people don't even notice when they cross that line. That's why many people here in Germany are very careful about patriotism, which I appreciate. Unfortunately, we have a history of crossing this line a few times.

The Nazi Era of course cast an enormous shadow, but we should not forget that nationalism in Germany was the fluke, or exception - a very extreme, and violent one, sure - yet brief and unusual. The Germans were a patchwork of tribes and local cultures in the two thousand years since Romans first documented them, and it reverted back to that within a generation. That local diveristy, the absense of a centralised Paris or London, that ought to be embraced as typically German.

​@@Anerisian Yes. In diversity we are united, the same goes for the EU27 😊 Frohe Pfingsten

@@Anerisian Nationalism in the German people existed before Hitler, before Bismarck. You ought to look into German Romanticism. The idea of a master race was not completely of German origin. Example: Arthur de Gobineau. It was an evolution and a desire to be like France and Britain. To be sitting at the big boys' table. As for Germany after WW2, federalism in the political structure and its constitution (Verfassung) were heavily influenced by the US system. Notice the French political structure is the opposite; it's very centralized and top-down.

Thank you for watching

Yes thanks a lot Guido. I think that was the “do I feel at home in Germany video”. I was actually quite surprised at how at home I felt. Of course it was a holiday so totally different than if I were to live and work there but it was nice to go back😀

Well everyone tells me I have a Germany accent when I speak English so yeah you could say I struggle with that 🤣. Interesting point about the burglar clams. I did not look out for that

@@britingermany In Germany I am frequently asked whether I am Dutch. I could understand it when I was younger and had blond hair, but despite my hair loss, I am still asked whether I am Dutch. I have also been occasionally told in the UK that I have a German accent, but my German friends would laugh out loud at that.

Congrats on the move😀

which germany lmao. I think you always making it worse than it is, when you live in a different country.

@@maruia-bv5iz If by ´you´ you mean expats in general then I think you´re wrong. Studies have been done that show that expats tend to be if anything more positive about their homeland than they were when they lived there. I know that when I´m talking to German people about Scotland (NOT England!) I always stress the positives - the beauty of the countryside and the warmth, generosity and friendliness of the people - in contrast to the stereotype. But I keep my other thoughts to myself.

I agree (from Glasgow) been in Luxembourg since 2004.

@@salsabil44Scotland still has a good community feel.

Good luck with the move 🤞

@@britingermany Vielen dank!

Thanks. Glad someone recognised it😀. It was my first time there and I was pleasantly surprised

Thanks for sharing. We can agree to disagree 😉

@@britingermany no problem with that at all. I like your videos, nice to see Brits in Germany (beats seeing all those Americans coming here). While I don't agree that we have more in common with you than other Europeans, I still like you and I still consider Manchester home, partially. If our paths ever cross we can settle the disagreement the way they should be settled, over a pint! In the meantime I will make sure to hit like!

@@christiandengler6689 haha thank you 😀

It can be a long a turbulent journey but I think you learn so much through and it beats staying in one place and bemoaning the situation

How did u find it living in Spain please tell me more about your expierience of Spain i love UK and germany as well would love to stay in Germany or spain

What i love about germany the punctuality of the Germans i like order

Thank you🙏

errm is that supposed to be funny?! Thanks anyway

​@@britingermany The English always use that 'compliment' as a nonchalant, casual racist remark to remind me that they can hear it from my accent that I'm an immigrant.

Actually the most annoying thing for me is having to stand in a different line at the airport and always remember to take my residence card with me…luxury problems I know

@Davidlynch9049 Do you anticipate Canada applying to the EU? Or would that be detrimental to Canadas predominant trade relationship? It certainly took a really long time to negotiate the trade agreement between Canada and the EU. Its not very nimble. The UK is not like Hungary, whose entire international trade is goods based and intra EU. The UK economy is services based, not goods based, and the EU has done very little for dealing with services trade, much on tariffs and little on non tariff barriers. Half the UKs trade is non EU. One size does not fit all. When the EU market is saturated and does not have the capacity to increase its purchases, but the RoW does, but regulation and trade agreement hampers expanding RoW export, its quite the dilemma, especially if you make significant payment to be part of a market that also hampers growth outside of it for what you have to sell, and also make your purchases from that same market disproportionate to your own sales. Thats a lot of investment for a diminishing and unbalanced return.

​@@shelleyphilcox4743 You are utterly mistaken if you think your tiny island empire will get better trade deals than the EU can negotiate for itself. As it can be seen from the trade agreements with f.e. Japan and others the UK is now in a very weak position. Your whole argument is upside down.

@@FutureChaosTV Well, if the EU isnt even negotiating trade deals that include improvements in services exports and the UK can do that for itself it is an improvement. I'm certainly interested in more just trade deals, so the UK can certainly do that too. What do you think the EU actually is? It's not just a trade organisation. It is collective might in order to extract the best deal for itself over weaker entities. Its mission is to expand and gain increasing might, centrally managed. Trade is used to exert political and economic influence. The EU even created a department called 'Protecting Our European Way of Life' which had to quickly be amended to 'Promoting Our European Way of Life' It doesnt change the brief, but it sounded slightly more palatable to people. The wealthiest, whitest most Christian countries banding together to exert political, economic and cultural influence around the world, with a centralised administration and policy makers and implementers who you cannot vote for. The Commission is appointed. The President is not even a spitzenkandidat selected by the Parliament. The President of the Commission serves a term twice as long as the President of the Council...why do elected Heads have a shorter term than the appointed President of the Commission, which is supposed to be an administrative role...yet surely you see it's the leading political role in the EU? Anyway, it's interesting that you call the UK a tiny island 'empire'. What's very clear is that the UK has rejected empire by leaving the EU, because that is what the EU is. Have a think about it, read some history about how empires were created in history, especially european ones (including the British empire). Trade, territory acquisition through power either economic or military, political and economic influence and imposition of culture and centralisation of administration. You might think it's a nicer empire because it doesnt use weapons, unlike empires in history, but it is, nevertheless an empire.

To David Lynch -I completely agree with you. RS. Canada

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Thanks a lot 🙏

Hello there and thanks for sharing. I think it is natural and normal for countries and cultures to change and evolve. Maybe it is because I grew up in the countryside and my parents still live in that same house but for me not a lot has changed. I think most of these changes happen in the larger cities the pace of life and rate of change in the rural countryside is a lot slower

I would disagree with that. I think there definitely is a shared culture and shared traditions. Millenials...thats me by the way 🤣 and zoomers are critical across the board in most countries not just the UK and well that's a whole topic for another time. I know I was only there for a few weeks but I got a very strong sense of "Britishness"

Millennials don't hate their country, but it has done little for them.

"There is no country, no shared culture, no shared tradition, no shared identity. Its just a geographical area. " - Do you speak of the UK or of Germany?

@Marge UK - subject of the video. Where I am from.

@@JD83000 Ah, thank you! I was a bit confused about that yesterday. 🙂It was a little late for me, apparently- half my brain was asleep already, I suppose.

Thanks for sharing Uli. I’m certainly glad I made the move

Yes it's it's very complex but I would say it is struggling especially when it comes to standard of living

Yep... as you would expect with adding 10 million new inhabitants over only 25 yrs. Sure....gdp goes up....but now that's devided over 67 million folks not 57 like in 1997

​@@jasbindersingh2441I think a lot of people dont quite grasp the magnitude and speed of the population growth in the UK. I was pointing out how challenging it is to absorb growth at the rate of entire nations in such a short time and the pressures on developing infrastructure and services to keep pace so rapidly....it takes quite a while to develop capacity in highly skilled people like teachers, doctors, nurses, dentists and housing, road and railway infrastructure. The population has grown, in 23 years, by the equivalent of the entire population of Sweden or Portugal. Or Denmark plus Estonia plus Slovenia. At the same time, some EU countries have lost up to 20% of their population, which no one wants to discuss how damaging that is for them either. Immigration is not bad, its a good thing, but it has to be managed responsibly, with care, planning and respect for all the impacts that occur with high levels of moving populations as well as the changes in the domestic population growth or decline. The UK was one of just 3 countries that opened its labour market in full in 2004 to new ascending states. Sweden and Ireland were the other two. Other countries had a very different approach, Germany is an example that kept its labour market fully closed for the maximum allowed 7 years. In the same time period, Germany's population has grown only slightly, about 2m I believe. The UK also never implemented the 12 week rule on unemployment and everyone was able to stay, settle, fall in love, get married and have families and this is the case for members of my family too, so I feel a little cross when the UK gets labelled as xenophobic, which we clearly are not!!!!! No 12 week rule here. No one had services and support like healthcare access withdrawn to push them to leave during periods of unemployment. Thats what we decided at the time and should absolutely honour, as we did, after leaving the EU. I also believe that opportunity in the UK should be based on being able to offer proper opportunity for a home and job. People uproot their lives to leave family and friends so there needs to be a real opportunity, its just irresponsible otherwise. Opportunity should also be on a level playing field no matter where you are from, and not privilege for some over others based on where they were born...it doesn't seem fair otherwise. It is frustrating that people dont want to have a nuanced and practical conversation about how we all reasonably plan these things to everyones benefit.

@@shelleyphilcox4743 It’s worth comparing the population of France with that of the UK. In 1960, the UK had over 5 million more people. But by the mid 1980s, France had overtaken the UK. ( The population of the UK flatlined between 1970 and the mid 1990s.) By 2004 France had over 3 million more people than the UK. In 2020 the populations of the two countries were more or less the same. Yet the pension age in France is lower than it is in the UK. It’s only now going up from 62 to 64. We (British) can only dream of that. How have they achieved this?

@@stshnie Achieved by having a massive constant debt of over 100% of GDP baked in for decades? The UKs debt situation was better, but post Covid it's pretty dire again having racked up debt on that, however, it's not as high as France. More to the point, how does Germany keep their debt to GDP at about 50 to 60% of GDP in the usual run of things, disasters like covid excluded? Spend less than 1% on defence and less on foreign aid, but retirement age is higher than France but lower than the UK. Moldovans retire at 63 for men and 59 for women, but life expectancy is about 10 years shorter too at 72 compare to around 81 or 82. The French do live longer than Brits and Germans by a years or so. The French also dont spend as much GDP on defence or foreign aid...they do spend more on health as a % of GDP and of course pensions. Im sure there are other different spending priorities as well. We used to say there was a big difference in the tax burden as well, the UK had lower taxation. I'm not sure that's the case any more!

Glad to hear it 😀

Take your time to plan and research. It's a big decision

Thank you so much! Very well said 🙏

@beatus72 😊 Yes, apart from a tiny correction: Nedderdüütsch/Plattdeutsch/Lower Saxon language is a language, not a dialect, and has, like every language its own dialects as well. Like Welsh, Scottish or Frisian, Nedderdüütsch/Lower Saxon language is registered at the Unesco World Heritage as a "protected minority language" 😊 About 5ish million Northern Germans are still speaking the Lower Saxon language. Hol di fuchtig met groetens ut Bremen 😊 All the best with greetings from Bremen

@@saba1030 Jo, danke, du hast natürlich Recht. Sprache, nicht Dialekt. ^^ Ich hoffe, ich habe den Rest in halbwegs verständlichem Englisch hinbekommen.

@@beatus7251 Jo, alles bestens 👍😊

​@@beatus7251 Sicher, aber meine Meinung nach, sind Französisch und Englisch ähnlicher als Deutsch und Englisch.

I think where ever you stand Brexit has happened and we have to make the most of it. There’s no use hopping and praying for another referendum

Thank you very much 😀💈

Thanks a lot and glad to have you here 😀

@@britingermany, my pleasure 🤗

Yes Germany had no choice and it was really a very sudden change. For the UK it has been a very long process and will continue to be so I think

I agree on Britain and Germany, but I wonder where France fits in? I think possibly their stubborn nature and passion has helped them avoid the slow decline from an imperial power that Britain has had, and when it comes it will be more sudden. I think a lot of it can be summed up in that Germany accepts that's it's no longer an imperial power in the old sense but seizes the opportunities that the new world provides. Britain also accepts it's no longer an old imperial power, but harks back to the good old days and blames everyone else for their current state. France though buries it's head in the sand and still thinks it's an old style imperial power. I do worry for all 3 though. Britain will continue it's decline until we realise where the world is going and start to make the most of it instead of trying to stop it. France is in for a rude awakening when they finally wake up to their position in the world today (including the EU as power shifts east). Germany needs to be careful that it doesn't gamble too much in the game of neo imperialism, since there are far better players with far less scruples (China, India and of course Russia for just 3).

This is comment is complete rubbish I'm english & I can tell you we brits don't have an imperial mindset at all, our decision to leave the EU was purely cultural, English people are island people, we are not continentals & we largely lack a european mindset, being governed by a franco-german dominated project was simply unbearable, it just didn't suit us mentally & emotionally & was an historical error that we ever joined, we're an anglophere nation, we have much more in common with americans, canadians, aussies & kiwis than we do with french, germans etc.

​@@elvishprincess321 I totally agree with you. I'm English and find the comment about our feeling of loss of empire, very strange and has never once enters my head. If anything, it's the Germans that long for an empire and being in the centre of the EU, gives them that feeling. They have finally achieved what the failed to do 84 years ago.

@@elvishprincess321 I disagree. I think we have far more in common with France and Germany. We have Germanic and Norman blood.

But who cares. Just say people came from across europe and you are true in any relationg. Why pointing out details. You could also say "Blondes" have played a huge part. It's true for sure, but completly meaningless. In the same way, the birthplace is meaningless. But that's a common missconcept.

Ok that is interesting. But more in politics or do you think in general society? as in men Vs. Women? locals vs. immigrants?

you are right. the dysfunction is similar.

& the reason may be similar - the politics of all 3 countries are very heavily influenced from Israel. For initial evidence I offer Google (or a better search engine that doesn't bias results towards what it thinks you want to think) - type in the name of a politician & the word Israel, do it again & again especially with well-known politicians, then go through the same names with any other country instead of Israel. What you find will be very suggestive of a pattern...

Sorry to hear that but I think all countries have changed a lot on the last 30 years...I think many would say the same about Germany.

@@britingermany you do have a point.

Thanks a lot Alexander

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