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I (German) married a girl from California, and we had plans about living in the US, raising our kids there. Before our wedding, I introduced her to my family, so we came over to Europe, and she wanted to expierence a real winter. So we planned to stay here for about 3 months. About two weeks in Germany, she just stated: "This is my home. I want to stay here. This seems like everything I looked for." And so, in a shocking turn of events, we scrapped all our future plans about the US and California, and live now in a small village in Germany. Planning your marriage is simple compared to the task of planning your future life. Sometimes strange things happen, and you end up in a place you never expected.

I've arrived in Bavaria back on the 3rd of June 93' thru the US Army. Stationed the next 3.5yrs throughout Bavaria. I met my Frau back on 28th of Jan 94'. We tied the knot in Nov 96', I then separated from the Army Jan 97' and gave it a chance at making a new life in Mittelfranken. 23 yrs later, plus 23 yrs working at a German company and plus 3 kids.....guessing I did alright for an Ami!

I love how you two stand in the garden playing some games with a beer bottle in the hand. Totally German :D

I'm from San Jose but I am married to a lovely German girl. We have five kids. And although I miss my ocean - the Pacific - almost every single day, I still think it was the best decision we ever made to raise our kids here in Germany. This country is just awesome.

My friends had a bilingual wedding - a nice touch was the bride (german) said her vows in english to her husband (american) who said his in german! very bad german but still a nice touch

Thank you for a very interesting Video. Tell Cody, I came to Germany 48 years ago to lecture for a year at the University and have stayed. I have never regretted for a moment my decision to remain here. I might have been happy in the USA, despite guns, racisim and intolerance, but I have had such a wonderful life here, I just cannot Imagine things could be any better. When I visit the USA I feel very foreign, which shows that I have totally integrated into the German culture. Don't look back, I am certain that he will have a fantastic life with Speedy and their children here.

Aww Nalf's parents are getting married :) Wonderful news for Cody and Mel.

Nick, your vids keep getting better. More confident, more deliberate, and better crafted. Keep up the good work.

Codys open mind according to his and especially to his kids future is amazing. Great dad to be!

Nalf, is it possible that your beer consumption raised slightly (not in a bad way, more to a german level) , since you live here? xD

Haha I married a German girl when I was 18 in America we lived there for 12 years and moved to Germany last year with our 2 year old daughter now and my daughter has dual citizenship so I can live here forever now funny how I found this video

I think everyone can take a little relationship advice from Cody and Speedy here: talk! Talk about the complicated stuff, talk about your opinions and find a solution TOGETHER. Great video, great talk!

Cool video! The background music in the beginning is perfect to wake up and be motivated right from the start. The camera angle when you two talk is cool. I feel just like hanging out with two nice guys in the garden and listen silently about what they talk about. Interesting insight from Cody. Thank you!

Thank you guys for coming and staying here. And it's good to see how you are interested in german things and trying to see new stuff!

Good Summer Vibes in SHA, summarized in good Nalf Video Vibes 😀 -like it! And I liked the relaxed seriousness you both had in your talk about Codys future with Speedy in Germany - thx to Cody for his openness!

Your skills of doing magical videos really improved 😍 love them all

We just went to Denmark to marry, it was so easy. It is recognized in both countries. I never wanted a big church wedding or something. So we had a easy Standesamt wedding in Denmark. :) And we are a couple since 18 years. :) Nalf, seems you feel some pressure now, since your friends get married and maybe have kids in the coming 2 - 4 years..... If you can´t find a girl in Germany or just feel like you stuck make a travel, sometimes a travel can change everything. It did for me, I went backpacking to Australia with 26 for 3 months and came back with a American - he stayed and we married(3 years later), today we have two kids and well, we live in the US for now, because of his job (I never thought I have to move there). I went for this 3 month travel, because I felt my life should be different, or something has to change. I never been out looking to pick up somebody or even had the thought, but it just happened. I am not a "party girl" or one you pick up easy (more the flower on the wall) I did not even go out at night there. And still - My husband did his backpacking travel over India to Australia - we just meet (no girls dorm, I was surprised) and talked and that was it. He stayed, he never left. :)

Thank you Cody for sharing. This perspective, dealing with uncertainty and your aclimation process is really interesting (as your situation is a bit different than NALFs). Would gladly hear more :-)

What a lovely and insightful talk, really appreciated it. Just goes to show how unpredictable life can be sometimes :)

NALF its your turn now to find someone !!!

Well done NALF, great video. Nicely done. Best Wishes to the couple.

Glad to see you are back in Germany! 👍🏻 Grüss Glück on the coming season

Really enjoyed this video and could relate so much!

I like your talk-videos, like this one the most.

Great talk! Got married to my Greek husband in a tiny village in southern Germany and remember the paperwork and the stress to organize accomodation for friends and family coming over from Greece and Italy. We had everything translated also into Italian despite Greek. Was a great wedding!! And the marriage is great, too. As a binational couple you are forced to talk more, so many things are not granted for your partner and I see that as a big strength. We really know each other very deeply and have respect for our differences. My best wishes to Cody and his future wife, they seem to be the kind of couple that works things out, whatever comes along :-) Greetings from a"germ" on a Greek island to the unicorns!!!

Compliments for the music selection in the Corn Hole scenes (Mozart Piano Sonata No. 16 in C Major K.545); I had fun learning this piece for a piano exam as a kid and still enjoy playing it now. Can I suggest you play this instead as an alternative to the ubiquitous Für Elise ?

I married a German girl, took her home for 7 years, but then we returned to Germany and have been living here since 9/11 and are probably going to stay living here forever 😊

This video is so reassuring to me :) It's really insightful to see, how your life can change radically, but you can make it into your new normal life and learn to love it.

It's always a pleasure when Cody is in your videos. I like this guy, or let's say it the American way: I love this guy he's the greatest. Well, besides you of course.

Thank you for sharing cody

When you said you didn't own a shirt, I subscribed.

Another nice one, Nick! I could watch you guys talk about life like this all day long :) Congrats to Cody and Speedy again! Seems like they have a very solid foundation to growing old together ❤️

Nice intro. Who wouldn't want to wake up to NALF's handsome face smiling at you?😍

Welcome to the club bro, been here for 7 years now I live by Forchheim in Bayern..adjusting was hard for me but I wouldn't choose another place to live Germany is great to live in but I still miss the states!

You know I was wondering if you owned a shirt xD I looove these videos

As i am both American & German (always a stranger in a strange land). i enjoy you lads & your adventures. Chicks obviously dig the summer apparel too ! Enjoy the ride!

Nalf, are you going to get Speedy‘s perspective as well? Would be interesting to know what she thinks about the same questions.

Liebe deine Videos, Keep it up 👍😉

Wenn du Gärten und Blumen magst solltest du nach Heilbronn auf die BUGA gehen, ist wirklich schön dort!

0:53 Amazing optical effect on the steps in front of the church !!!!!!!

Youre videos always makes me come down

My aunt married an Italian who had most of his family come over and my cousin married a South Korean who had his parents and sister come over. Multilingual weddings seem more daunting than they actually are, if everyone is nice. People will always find ways to communicate with one another. Only thing you need is for the texts during the wedding to be in both languages (which churches are fine with too btw if it's a christian wedding).

Your videos keep getting better and better. This one is a gem, it's so personal and honest. Thanks for sharing!

yoo I have the same thing as him, I also never once called back home from any sorts of summer camps or vacations

0:08 could be much more worse than wake up and see this face with this cute smile 🤭😌

My dad (English) married a mixed race German / Polish woman after WW2, and I married a Swedish woman, It makes for interesting living.

So lets find a better half for NALF that he‘s staying here 👍

As an American, and speak German as a second language, I would never refer to a German man or woman as a germ. How inappropriate and offensive.

Hi bro i am from india and love so much german people and german culture

when you stay in schwäbisch hall, you know many people that i know too..i came 15 km around of sha ..i hope you had a good time in germany and schenkensee 😉👍

love your videos, look forward to watching -part of my morning routine :-)

I did the German wedding - the ceremony can be in both languages and not twice as long! But that depends on who conducts the ceremony. We got lucky. I have had all those conversations! Great video!

I got married to an arabic speaking man from North Africa. It took us more than a year just to get all papers together. The most exhausting part was to get an appointment at the german embassy in Algiers to legalise the birth certificate. Then our migration office tested for 3 months if his passport is real. Then last November we got the ok and 3 weeks later we got married legally in the town hall office (Standesamt). Also the woman who did the wedding insisted on having an interpreter, although my husband said he understand enough german. Well it is a way to make money for german communities. (It costed 100 Euro to have an legally accepted interpreter). The ceremony was bilingual, and it took a while, because I told her how we met and stuff. But you can have it quick by just answering yes at the right time.

I can't explain how much I love seeing the streets of SH again!

And you sayd "I don't like to be naked in front of other people", in ur sauna episode. And now, you are basicly naked in INTERNET. Makes me smile out loud.

Hey, will there be a wedding video? :-)

0:33 In Geman there is a saying "Der Esel nennt sich immer zuerst" Does that exist in English? Sorry i am nitpicking. Love your videos so cinematic, not just because of the format.

I love your perspective as an American living in Germany. Unfortunately I don't have a deck/ balcony. But i would have put a hammock on it.

Also, this is a very nice rendition of Mozart's Sonata facile in C major.

Ok does he miss bidwell park or the smell of the oats in the the rain or the smell of the the rice fields burning? I lived in paradise CA for years but I miss Germany. Great vid Nalf too.

Nalf you really know your audience, commenting on the comments (shirt?) before they are posted lol

Cody when’s wedding I wanna be there for Polterabend.... Nalf you are drinking more beer.... Robi - noooo Germs.... As retired USAF I spent 13 years in Germany and 4 in England and rest in USA not in that order. Married a German woman, ( my ancestry being German ) but didn’t work out . So two of three great kids in Ramstein area and the third by me... it’s always fun when I come back every two years visiting family and friends .... so back to Cody and speedy, when’s wedding??? Nalf microphone not that bad....

Honestly, I don't think you are missing much in Chico or Willows. Since the fires there is such a lack of housing. The rice fields were interesting growing up, although I loved playing in the shop on the Ranch, but the mosquitos man are huge, fortunately they don't bite me, but my friends and family would be covered black in mosquitos. I spent some time there, but many eon's before you were even thought of. I had moved back and was living in Orland, CA because if you try to live in Chico they only show houses M-F between 10 am to 2 pm, and they don't care how old you are or how much you make, all they want is a cosigner on the lease with you. I was like, I am 50 years old and I have a great job. WTF! My company offered me a job in Georgia last year, and I took it after watching most of my friends lose everything in the fires. You are lucky your family is from Willows and wasn't affected other than the horrific smoke. Good luck with the wedding, and I am sure there will be plenty of opportunities for you there in Germany.

next time you should try "Bauerngolf " - a golf version with rubber boots/ wellies. Maybe you have better chances

one year later, life changed all over the world

For years, I assumed that--after I retired as an English teacher--I'd go back to SH to teach in the American school on Dolan Barracks (I was stationed there from1977 to 1980). Then they closed the base. :(

I used to live in Chico. Glad I left

We did the two parties thing (husband is Belgian) we got officially married in Belgium, and like you said with the proof of not being married thing, to get that paper I actually had to travel in advance to the US embassy in Brussels to get it there before they would even let us schedule the wedding with the town hall because that's not something that exists in the US. All of the other paperwork (birth certificate, FBI background check and a few other things) I had to get apostilled which was an annoying process. The official ceremony at City Hall was in Dutch only, so my family sort of just had to guess what was happening. Then we had a party back in the States for people who couldn't come. After living here in the US married for a few years, we're actually in the process of moving over to Belgium...ironically the paperwork process has been a lot easier than it was to get married there. Tl;dr good luck to him on the paperwork adventure!

You seem like a typical German man when you play those beer games in the Backyard and praise German sundays, because we Germans chill out on them :D I'm glad for Cody and Speedy! Maybe It will be the same with you eventually and you marry a German girl, too :) Greetings from Bavaria!

You guys are very handsome. !!

That was a great video, very interesting! You really need to find yourself a great lake to swim at. Nothing beats a hot summer day at a lake :-)

Absolut schön

missed those viedeos

I want this kind of friendship.

see you in Hamburg :-)!

The only downside to living in a small city like Schwäbisch Hall is that there are no stores where you can buy decent microphones. 😄

For the world, you are just somebody, but for somebody you are the world.

Congratulations to Speedy and Cody! NALF, if you are going to be shirtless on your deck all summer, wear sunscreen. ☺

11:08 Gesundheit!

Does your friend Robi usually refer to Germans as "germs"?

You've found your groove. Chest display works well.

Simultaneous translation at the wedding. Solved!

Employ Nalf at the Wedding to make Realife Subtitles XD

So etz Haller Mädli, da läuft ein Nalf frei herum. Fangt den endlich ein.

U know there is the choice of sport schools, of course not American football, but there are schools u have professional sports training, like real football;) or skiing

The wedding will basically like a Champions League Press conference. And only when "ja" was translated, it's official.

As a German it's totally strange to see that Cody has "bushy" armpits but a shaven chest. I would always do the opposite! But really great video! Thumbs up!

Deck furniture: You definitely need a sun umbrella too.

11:09 bless you😄

Hey at 0:50 look at the stairs. Any physics nerds here? What is happening their or is it a bug from compresion or somthing?

I'd love to meet you fellows very much!!!

My aunt married an American soldier. So I'm very interested in the USA. I always wanted to marry an American man. So, you are single, I'm single 😉☺️ But I'm living in Bavaria.

What do the initials NALF stand for?

This guy reminds me of Ben Cohen, the anti-bullying advocate and former professional athlete

As a guy from Oregon who's going to Germany for Uni I love Nick's constant insistence in Oregonian supremacy.

In Oregon as well as many other US states Cannabis is legal. Do you think Cannabis should be legal in Germany?

How old are Cody and Speedy?

Cody's future children could be into table tennis xp.

Challenge accepted 💪🏽😂