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@utebellasteinweg3976 Жыл бұрын

You can buy a house, renovate and sell it. You only have to pay taxes for it. If you wait 10 years, you don't have to pay taxes. So it's not forbidden

@ZacXCVIII Жыл бұрын

That’s very true! The Additional tax just makes it almost impossible to profit off it.

@holger_p Жыл бұрын

You talk about the income tax. Well that's quiet normal. If a fruit dealer buys a box of apples for $10 and is selling it for $20, of course the difference is his income and he has to pay taxes for it. It's already a comittment to cancel the tax for a home you lived in yourself for 10 years.

@MarcoGoldweida Жыл бұрын

It’s also called „Spekulationssteuer“ and there is a difference if you just buy a house and sell or if you live in the house. If you live in the house 3 years yourself you might not need to pay this tax.

@Fanwithnblades Жыл бұрын

The only thing he got wrong was the emergency lane thing, it's taught that if a emergency vehicle is near by you are to pull off to the side of the road,not sure what part of the US that guy is from?

@syntheee Жыл бұрын

@@ZacXCVIII The 10-year-rule where you have to taxes for the capital profit only applies if you bought a house and didn't use it as your residence.

@user-ru6iu3td2i Ай бұрын

I think your content is super. Having grown up in Switzerland with a German father, you are always so on point. Totally endearing and sympatisch!

@Rebecca-sv4yq Жыл бұрын

I'm from Hildesheim, Germany but I lived in Chicago for a year to work as an au pair. So your videos really helped me to deal with my reverse culture shock when I came back!

@user-fh5fp7zr7v Жыл бұрын

i am from Darmstadt Germany and live in Fayetteville, NC for the last 20 years. Your videos are so true and funny. Enjoy your time in Germany !!!!!

@MarcoGoldweida Жыл бұрын

Nice Video, like your content. I am from Germany, also lived in Stuttgart for 2 years and now i am living in Missouri since 1 year (2 more to come) and it is so funny how you point out the differences - most of them are so true.

@ZacXCVIII Жыл бұрын

Awesome! I hope you’re enjoying Missouri!

@successtorrestv2709 11 ай бұрын

I come from Africa, Ghana and everything you said is true 😊

@korax67 Жыл бұрын

Greetings from Greece. It's always amusing to see how Americans react to the European way of living. I guess we will face the same cultural shock when we visit USA ...

@derauditor5748 Жыл бұрын

A 16 year old with a Beer doesn't do much damage on his own. A 16 year old with a car? I don't want to be near that.

@joejames10 8 ай бұрын

Greetings from Kenya Zac Loving the content because Im learning German rn

@Sir_Mike Жыл бұрын

I love your videos ! I'm from Germany and it's interesting to see my country through your eyes :) 9:12 You can also drive through the most eu states without Border control... That's crazy ..

@blan88s76 Жыл бұрын

I'm from Romania but I live and work in Germany. It was not such a huge culture shock for me when I moved here, of course things go more smoothly here and I like all the rules but seeing how different from the US it is, it's interesting. I've never been to the US.

@kallo182 Жыл бұрын

Rumänien liegt ja auch nur zwei Länder weiter. Natürlich gibt es da nicht so einen Kulturschock als wenn man von einem anderen Kontinet kommt.

@robbiebubble3670 Жыл бұрын

I think the biggest difference for people having less accidents in the first year of driving is that we actually get teached how to drive a car from trained people. Not just our parents taking us on a drive and then you get your license for 20 bucks or so 😂 And then also with all the guns around it‘s probably save to say beer is more dangerous in the U.S. 😅

@ZUCKERWATTEQ 9 ай бұрын

I love how positive your video is ❤ maybe it will help people see our beautiful country in a positive light. 😊

@Limburg92 Жыл бұрын

In the Netherlands starter homes are rentals, buying is settling! Germany is about the same.. We can't get mortgages that easy.. You need to have start up money, for an basic home of 180.000 euros like 10.000 euros to get an mortgage for 180.000.

@ZacXCVIII Жыл бұрын

Very interesting!

@walkermedr Жыл бұрын

I live in Vermont but I lived for 3 years in Germany. I try to go back now every few years.

@knitterscheidt 9 ай бұрын

I adore the persona you created for your short videos. It's interesting to see your more serious side. Keep up the good work Zack. My grandparents were from Germany and I spent time there as an exchange student and I noticed all these things. I also felt safer in Germany. In the U.S. a car is considered freedom but in Germany I realized not having a car is more free. To be able to hop on a clean, fast efficient train and go anywhere free of hassles was so wonderful.

@klarasee806 6 ай бұрын

If many Germans could afford to buy a house at the age of 25, we would run out of space immediately 😅

@ZUCKERWATTEQ 9 ай бұрын

I would love to have a house. But it's only possible at the countryside. And I don't wanna go there..

@blondkatze3547 Жыл бұрын

I agree with him, that most Germans who buy a house live there forever. We had tent our house for three years and then bought it afterwards. We have now been living in this house in the country for twenty-six years and feel at home here.🙂🌺

@nadymsalem3687 Жыл бұрын

I guess the housing topic is a black and white view. The whole renting market is just completely different, and it’s quite easy and convenient to rent houses here and be flexible when you’re young. When you start building a family you start going into buying. For life? Yeah, sometimes, but often enough not.

@nadymsalem3687 Жыл бұрын

Love your videos. Grown up in Germany and can see many underrated things here as well as in the US - let’s talk about the position of traffic lights on crossroads, so underrated how it’s done in the US 😉

@LarsPW Жыл бұрын

In the US there is just a lot of more space to build single homes than in Europe. To build a home in Germany was in most circumstances more expensive than to rent a flat since decades. The "leashless kids" are harmless compared to those of many tribes living freely in nature since thousands of years all over the world. Kids up to two years old are kept closely at their mother, more close than the babies in industrialized countries; mothers often carry them around all day. But four year olds are running freely through the rain forests using even machetes hunting small animals like birds to have a meal they prepare themselves on fire.

@arnodobler1096 Жыл бұрын

I am glad about our relatively stable real estate market, in contrast to the USA. 2008/9 the crisis could soon repeat itself and again many US citizens lose their homes.

@kinga2184 Жыл бұрын

I live in Poland, but I have a lot of friends and some part of my job in Germany, I speak German fluently. I've never been in America, so this comparison is totally interesting for me, thank you!

@ZacXCVIII Жыл бұрын

Awesome! More to come!

@sarahelen1877 Жыл бұрын

Hi Kinga, when I visited Berlin I loved to see a train going to Poland; I thought like "oh my goodness, I should to take that one!". Unfortunately my schedule didn't allow me to do it but I came back toy country (Peru) to visit Poland too the next time I go to visit my family in Germany

@kleinecat5098 5 ай бұрын

Hi Zac, im from Trier. Born in Wiesbaden. I have family in Florida. I like your vids very much ❤

@manuel0578 6 ай бұрын

I wish we would have starter houses in Germany. German houses are way too big and expensive to live alone in or even with a partner without kids.

@Julia-lk8jn 10 ай бұрын

It's interesting how a lot of these things are interconnected. Houses are a lot more expensive because open space is so rare; Germany is just much more densely populated. Which also means that there are long distances, and connecting all cities and towns with public transport needs a lot more infra-structure per pax tayer --> (almost) everybody needs cars to move inbetween places. And sprawling cities / suburbs (lots of space, remember?) without public transport mean getting around by bicycle within a city is harder. So if you need a car that badly, it'd be very unpopular to raise the driving age, or make the license expensive by adding a lot of classes on how to safely drive in the rain, in the dark, on a highway ... Which means that if you don't want to lose a lot of your teens to car accidents, you'd better at least not give them booze on top of car keys. Also means that people get their license when they are plum spank in the middle of "you're not the boss of me!!!!" phase --> different driving behavior.

@juanpablovasquez95 9 ай бұрын

I love your Channel

@sibyllewalker8777 Жыл бұрын

Tübingen. Come and visit. I'll show you around.😊

@JohnHazelwood58 Жыл бұрын

What a great and nice reaction! *thumb_up Thanks for that and greetings from the very south part of Germany! :) P.S.: I've only been once to the USA and it was a real nightmare! But it has nothing to do with the USA itself! It was just bad luck. I got to New York on a monday evening on the 10th of september 2001 ... took me many (!) years to cope with the stuff that happendend the next day(s), i saw and experienced ... I'm done! :-/

@franz1102 Жыл бұрын

"thump up" is working like that: you press the "windows key and the dot key" then you get the emoticons you want, try that. 🤗😎

@sarahelen1877 Жыл бұрын

Oh Gosh what an experience 😢

@CheezInspector 7 ай бұрын

America has a huge population relative to Germany. It's easier to have patience in traffic or to have lower odds of kidnapping in Germany, for that reason alone.

@vroomkarnik Жыл бұрын

I'm from Australia 🦘 But still enjoy your videos and shorts a lot - they give me an insight into a different culture and part of the world !

@ZacXCVIII Жыл бұрын

Awesome to hear!

@Bundeskaiser 6 ай бұрын

I lived in Stuttgart until the end of 2022. Then I moved to the Swiss Border (basically between Bodensee and Schwarzwald) and are very happy here. I don't miss Stuttgart at all and see no reason to come back.

@eem-22 Жыл бұрын

1 st haha I am looking at an exchange year to Germany 🇩🇪 this December I think it would be a grate opportunity do you have any tips about learning German as a second language?

@TheyCalledMeT Жыл бұрын

4:16 *tax free you can sell it when ever but they will charge it as regular income so you pay income tax (on the margin not the sales price) .. and that's typically quite high if you can afford flipping houses i.e. 40k margin would very likely result in 15-20k taxes

@jonlork1937 Жыл бұрын

One important difference between drinking with 16 and 21 is, that drinking doesn't needs to happen in secret. It's nothing special to drink a Beer or a wine and it looses it's fascination. We still have problems with alcohol intoxication and young people becoming alcoholics but less then the us have. It also gives a bigger opportunity to educate the right use of alcohol when younger people know what you talking about.

@Kivas_Fajo Жыл бұрын

We live in the same town, Bro.

@sailing_the_seas 10 ай бұрын

Interesting how people from the US experience Germany/Europe. I think Europeans would get a similar culture shock when moving to the US.

@thisismyname9510 3 ай бұрын

Its funny in the US People can Go to the military at 18 but cant drink Alcohol😁

@Absbor Жыл бұрын

good video

@Dahrenhorst Жыл бұрын

Of course its not forbidden or something like this to sell a house after you've bought it for 10 years. You can sell it anytime you want. The caveat is, that the profit you may make will be taxed, if you sell that house within 10 years after you've bought it - if you made profit. And that profit will simply be added to your yearly income and taxed accordingly (and which actually may reach 40%, if you are a high income earner). After ten years, that profit is tax free. As far as I know, this is not different how this is done in the USA. If you flip houses there, the income generated by that will be also taxed, won't it? Regarding those "rescue alleys" - it's required by law. If you don't do it, you will be fined - between 240 and 320 €, one month loss of your drivers licence (you are not allowed to drive any car), and 2 points in the German traffic offense database (8 points, and you will loose your drivers license for good, and can get a costly new one only after doing a psychiatric test to establish your "street worthiness"). So no surprise, that most Germans follow this rule, it's not altruistic, it's enforced.

@witthyhumpleton3514 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting to hear the perspective, on flipping houses though, the tax in Germany is specifically designed to keep people from flipping them regularly, it's not a coincidence. Laws in general tend to be quite a messy situation, but it originated from the center left in Germany during a time where people worried that housing would be used as financial assets, rather than housing, leading to increasing prices as people want their assets to appreciate, and more problems for people to buy houses because the prices have appreciated. It's clear to see there were plenty other regulations that would have been needed to really prevent the forming of a housing bubble, since this one policy clearly wasn't enough, but I wanted to point out that it is not an accident, it was intended to make it more difficult for people to play around with a resource that people in society need as financial speculative asset.

@zbh-gl3gg 7 ай бұрын

The thing about the house is only the case for people who have the income, the money to finance it. But, lots of people in Germany do not have the possibility and/or to finance a home by themselves. They have to rent a flat or apartment simply because they won’t get any credit from the banking institutions. And in addition, one problem is that the idea of tiny houses is outside if the mind of German government institutions although it becomes even popular in society.

@svenanonym 5 ай бұрын

The costs of a driver’s license in Germany are also underestimated. You're out of 2000-3000 euros and then you can't drive everything

@mariokrings Ай бұрын

7:49 as if going from Boston to Atlanta or from Chicago to El Paso or from Nashville to Seattle weren't traveling to a different culture...

@Veit-A.-G.-Mayer Жыл бұрын

Actualy we can drik beer here in Germany when we are 14 but with our parents allowing it

@poisonHD73 Жыл бұрын

dere (hallo) from vienna 😉

@Nikita-tk4sw Ай бұрын

About 10 years tax is not so true. You can sell this house even after 2 years, but the main thing is that this home must be your place of living. So it is not a big deal to live in house 2 years and then sell it without tax) Also, in my opinion, why people under 30 rent instead of buying, because EU is smaller then USA, and there are many countries. So many of people try different locations. But homes in USA is not cheaper than in EU/Germany. If you want to buy house in NC/SC somewhere in small area it will cost minimum 300k$. It is far away from city. Good house will cost around 400-500k. Who can afford this? All? No way) If we talk about houses in hype locations like California and SF/NY there all is much worse.

@sabrinastrauch2950 Жыл бұрын

I love you 😍 😂

@kallo182 Жыл бұрын

This Rescue Lane on the Autobahn (like on this Picture) works only in Theory. In reality ist mostly a Chaos, and Cars move over first, when the Ambulance is strait behind them. Also like in other Videos "How good and disciplinated the Drivers drive on the Autobahn" ... pfff sorry, that is only in Theory. Drive a few Hours on the Autobahn and you will see its pure Chaos. Most time on the Autobahn is like: The right Lane is complete empty The middle Lane drive a few Cars with 120Kmh The left Lane is complete full with Cars, and they driv 123Kmh.

@Marshi32 Жыл бұрын

True with the houses. We prefer quality. And yes...quality houses are not affordable to people younger than 30. Even not affordable for the most germans during their whole life (they have to rent): Example: Me, in my 30ies, owning a house that was about more than half a million $/€. But...my kids will still be able to live in it (if they want to), even if I´m already dead...cause this house will last decades...

@zorabw8948 Ай бұрын

Not all people do the Rettungsgasse voluntarily. There are serious legal consequences (at least fines that will blow your mind) if you obstruct an ambulance. You could even end up in court if the injured person does not get medical help on time. I am from Stuttgart. Maybe I will run into you one day because I often run errands around places where your videos are filmed.

@aglandorf75 Жыл бұрын

Hey, speaking of history : did you ever watched 'Schindlers list'? If you don't, brace yourself, that movie is hard to watch. I mean really hard to watch. I was emotional exhausted for hours afterwards.

@eat.food.not.friends Ай бұрын

There it is again, the German guilt. That has nothing to do with the video at all. Do you Germans have to make that part of your identity? Why don’t you write it on your forehead right now?

@arendvangeel6436 Жыл бұрын

If there is an emergency on the road in the US how do they rescue the people?

@scarba 7 ай бұрын

I’m Scottish but live in Germany. I assumed that the reason for alcohol from 21 in the states was to compensate for the fact that there are such young drivers. It’s mostly teenagers who would risk alcohol and driving I assume. In Germany because they drink wine with parents at home or a beer, it’s not such an excitement or new thing to do if you are allowed to do it. Also only low alcohol percentages, beer and wine are allowing. Higher percentages from 18. I do dislike the tiny attractive bottles of hard liquor they sell at the checkout in the supermarket. Kids are always desperate to try them.

@eat.food.not.friends Ай бұрын

🇦🇹 I am from Austria🇦🇹 Vienna.

@geddon436 Жыл бұрын

She lived 12 houses!!!??? I'm making the connection between you and investing.

@thegoodoldshoe7380 Жыл бұрын

10:00 Do you mean Spaziergang?

@ZacXCVIII Жыл бұрын

Genau! Haha

@S2GSzymanskiG Жыл бұрын

First 👍

@ingevonschneider5100 Жыл бұрын

Never heart that you have to live ten years in a house before you can sell it. You can buy and sell and move and buy and sell as you want to.

@ZacXCVIII Жыл бұрын

You can sell but due to the Speculation period of 10 years you will have a capital gains tax to pay. If you sell during the speculative period, the income you make from the private sale is taxable, according to Sections 22 and 23 of the German Income Tax Act. (Which makes it very unlikely to show net profit and benefit from the sale). I understand why Germany may want to control this but in the US you don’t have such thing.

@ZacXCVIII Жыл бұрын

But there are ways to reduce the Spec Period. I could make a video comparing the two countries on Home ownership and processes.

@budapestkeleti6404 3 ай бұрын

Spaziergehen

@ThePrincessSedna Жыл бұрын

Bavaria

@okalsdi Жыл бұрын

Im from Austria

@ZacXCVIII Жыл бұрын

Moin!

@ThePrincessSedna Жыл бұрын

Servus 😍

@luidorluidor2830 Жыл бұрын

Robust!

@bennosimpson 11 ай бұрын

Ich komme aus Ludwigsburg, 20 km von Stuttgart. Warst du schon auf dem Hamburger Fischmarkt in Stuttgart? Tolle Sache, gibt es nur 10 Tage im Juli p. Jahr, frische Fisch Spezialitäten und gutes Jever Bier vom Norden. Wir sehn uns!!

@geddon436 Жыл бұрын

How did you get started in investing?

@aarongeorge9414 Жыл бұрын

Ich komme aus Indien

@Retikulum01 3 ай бұрын

I´m probably the only one from austria here

@mobilfone2234 11 ай бұрын

the tax is only on a possible profit......

@play4alley 13 күн бұрын

California

@Warwipf Жыл бұрын

We simply don't have the space to let everyone just build low-quality houses everywhere. There's too many people living in Germany for everyone to be able to live in a single family home. I mean the US is like 28 times bigger than Germany and only has 4 times the population. You guys have a lot of empty space and less restrictions. Your system is obviously preferable, but we can't really adopt it. Edit: Should have probably watched more of the video before commenting lol

@novadarkknight9135 Жыл бұрын

Of course there are better ways to walk around in German citys. They had 100 of years to built and live there. The US is just too new for that. The alley he walked through look like it's been there for a very long time. That's the same reason Germany has this very old Churches. It's very old culture.

@nowhere683 Жыл бұрын

I would say Germans level up their houses 😅

@rccook4651 11 ай бұрын

You and your friends should consider yourselfs lucky It's not that easy for over half of the adults in America to be able to buy a home. You have way over stated how affordable it is in America to buy a home .

@sandyakabatteriehuhn Жыл бұрын

If you pay mortgage, you don't own a home though.

@DieBrille1 5 ай бұрын

utter nonsense... you can sell your house whenever you want. The taxes might be higher, if you sell ist really quick, but noone ist forced to live in a place for minimum 10 years :)

@hagenmassar4555 Жыл бұрын

Please spell "spazierengehen" once again. `ggggggg

@jasonnicholasschwarz7788 Жыл бұрын

Also as to the renting culture, Germans dont like to take responsibilty. They like blaming stuff on others, for example the landlord, the council etc. Owning a house means look after your own shit without anyone toblame incase it goes wrong. This translates to many other areas in social life in Germany. People like complaining, but they dont see the point in taking action themselves. They sit and wait for the next person to get his hands dirty. Which is one ofmy hates hates about Germany and Germans onteh whole. And yes, i can say that, because I am german and experienced the effects of that mentality first hand. Germany could be just heaven. If it werent for the Germans...

@Dahrenhorst Жыл бұрын

That's not true. Just compare the number of police reports or lawsuits at court between Germany and the USA (per capita, of course). The police station in my little town was just reduced by one officer, because the number of police reports is steadily declining (more than 30% over the last 10 years). Yes, of course Germans do complain, but have you ever been in Italy, or Greece, or France, or China, or the USA? Go there, and you'll learn what a complaining society is. Germans are particularly apathetic in this regard - although those who do complain, do it very loud.

@jasonnicholasschwarz7788 Жыл бұрын

@@Dahrenhorst Thats what I mean, they don't act accordingly if something bothers rhem. If they live in an appartment house, they dont have to do anythin at all, its all up to the janitor or the Hausverwalter. If Germanswere more used to solving problems themselves, the country would be a very different place.

@Dahrenhorst Жыл бұрын

@@jasonnicholasschwarz7788 Renters not only don't need to do such things, they even are not allowed to do so. Anything beside minor repairs or replacements (like a broken lock or a defective light bulb) must be done by professionals. Its in the contracts.

@jasonnicholasschwarz7788 Жыл бұрын

@@Dahrenhorst Yes, I know. But what this does is it creates a kind of mindset that causes people not to really care and just pass the solution of a problem on to someone else which is a general problem in Germany.

@Dahrenhorst Жыл бұрын

@@jasonnicholasschwarz7788 Is that the reason that Germany is failing so badly in engineering and technology and nobody wants to buy our products? That Germans don't like and don't want to solve problems?

@jasonnicholasschwarz7788 Жыл бұрын

Homes in Germany are not really pretty, I think. Comparing with Belgium or GB or the states. Also, they are old, partly renovated so you see the different add ons and stages of renovations and some never look finished. And they're rather small and the yards too. I live in Belgium right now, and the average house size is 150 to 200 qm. the yards are huge. And they cost just the same as a house in Germany. Also architecture in new builds in Germany---yuk! Why dont they go for more attractive houses if they spend so much money?