The video guy is wrong. As an EU citizen, you can travel and stay in any EU country as long as you wish, and not up to 3 months as said in the video. That 3 month thing applies for non-EU people (for instance, an American person can stay up to 3 months in Spain, but a Polish person can travel and stay in Spain as long as they want).

That map of European rail lines didn't show even 5% of the actual rail lines. There are well over 300,000km of rail lines in Europe! The passenger network is roughly 10 times that of the US passenger network!

I think what makes the USA difficult to not use a car is the zoning rules. In Europe housing, shops and businesses are all mixed together. So it easier to walk or cycle to shops and work.

A small correction. As a EU citizen you can stay in any EU contry, including Swizerland (not EU) as long as you want to

One difference lies in the fact that in Europe the interest of the collectivity takes precedence over the interest of the individual. Less corruption.

There are no US train makers. The US requires trains to be made in the US, the manufacturers are all European or Japanese and simply set up assembly plants in the US. Train travel has been the norm in Europe for 100 years. The US built highways and placed its bet on the car.

Our biking routes arent just lanes in cities. its a vast plan of routes trough cities and nature (also a lot along canals and rivers). we also have a great deal of 'bike highways'.

I'm hooked on your reaction videos! Fascinating to see how Americans perceive Europe. Much love from Finland 🇫🇮 🇺🇸

I live and work in the same small city in Spain (roughly 66000 people), so I walk back and forth to work for 20 minutes each route, a total of 40 minutes and a little over 4 km every working day. But if you come from another town and you want to use your bike and public transport, you can take your bike on the train or the metro without paying extra. So you can ride your bike from the station to your workplace and viceversa. You have parking lots for bikes outside the station, your workplace or within a 3 block radius of work. It's mandatory by the local law and it's part of the European program of sustainable mobility.

I love Europe and being European ❤️❤️ Such a beautiful place to live in.

Side note from a Dane, having a car for work is not a nessecity. There are few places you can not go on a bike if you just leave a little earlier, and wether it's a blizzard, rain, or drought. You will find hundreds of thousands of Danes on their bikes headed to work every morning, even going 10-20km.

The thing I like in my area is that there's parking available for cheap next to where the city transport starts to really get busy. People who need to take the car from home can just park it and jump on a metro or a train. This means that even areas where public transport isn't that good can get most of it.

The other thing to mention are the good bus systems. Local and regional buses are high tech, modern and cheap. They are safe to use day or night and many schoolkids travel alone to and from schools.

This difference is also affected by City planning in general, in the US people live very far away from their work or stores or even medical services, meaning a car is needed more often and there just arn't a lot of public transport options. Meaning people in the US will take the car for whatever errand they got. City planning can do a lot to decrease travel time and distances.

I noticed that in recent years a new form of public transportation was introduced into my city: electric kickboard? I was surprised, but it's popular. It's another alternative to bus and bike if you do not want to drive a car. Edit: Yes, PUBLIC transportation. Anybody can use them, but I think you need to pay monthly fee to use them. I think it requires mobile app or something similar to turn it on?

So, Paris to Amsterdam is almost the exact same distance as Los Angeles to San Francisco: 381 miles. She quoted $30 for a 3 hour trip. That’s averaging 127 mph. You can purchase an Amtrak ticket from Los Angeles to San Francisco for $62 and travel time is 8 hours and 45 minutes. Also, the leg from Los Angeles to Bakersfield is by bus.

Story time: when we went to Orlando we needed to get the bus to Universal because that's how we planned it to keep costs down and our hotel was halfway between universal and Disney. The hotel staff couldn't tell us when the next bus will be. The bus stop didn't look like a stop at all, it had a post with a small sign on it but the sign didn't say bus or even had anything to make you think it's a bus stop lol. Once we waited long enough a bus did come and we did get a schedule but it was always late or early by 5-10 mins so had to plan for that. It definitely made me appreciate the bus service where I live in the UK, even if not perfect and very frequently frustrating!

There was a mistake in the video when he said an EU citizen can travel and stay in another EU country for 3 months, that isn't true, as an EU citizen, you can work, live and play in any EU country as long as you want. I think the 3 month things might be for none EU citizens that can stay in the EU for 3 months but I'm not 100% sure on that.

What you are called so beautiful at 04:18 is the DAMRAK at Amsterdam the Netherlands The dome at the foreground is the Nicolaas basaliek church

Gas just hit $10 bucks a gallon here (Finland) again, almost at $11. I personally haven't drive in a year, not specifically for that reason, but probably wouldn't have anyways. In the process of selling off my car atm.

Hi from the UK. I'm wide awake cant sleep, so nice your video popped up, love your vids. Have a nice day! HO! please look up the Vicar of Dibley it's soooo funny and very British... HaHaHa

Due to the strong automotive industry and the lobby behind it, there were also plans to actually make Germany a pure car driver country with a few routes as visual prestige, the former German Federal Railways were catastrophically run down at the end of the 80s, in Berlin the tram lines were abolished in the western part to create more space for smelly cars and parking lots that are too concrete. The car driver city of the future regardless of the environment, fortunately the wall was still standing. Only since 1991 has Germany been working on a functioning railway network again, of course the car lobby and its politicians are fighting again. Similar to the US with the guns.

For comparison, current recommended fuel price in the Netherlands right now is $ 2,58 per liter ($ 9,77 per gallon)

I live in Finland (EU) And use a bicke year around if possible. Even in winter you can bicke here without eny big problems.

8:52 Try Open Street Map (OMS) and chose CyclOMS or Cycle Map layers. Still European cycling way network is incomparably more dense, but at least you do have a cycling map of the USA.

7:41 this is not accurate. Being part of the EU has very little to do with the public transport and city planning in the Europe. It is much more to do with very long spanning traditions, historical reasons and difference in moral priorities of placing the people, nature and communities before corporations and profits. That has nothing to do with EU, all it does it makes it easier, but it is not the reason for it

Here in Ireland public transport is good I live in Dublin where there is a good bus tram and train system. Also most of the streets in the city are now car free which means restaurants cafes and bars have outdoor eating and drinking areas. I have noticed there is less pollution.

In the Netherlands (where i live the last 9 years )even today Dutch people build bicycle roads.I mean to build something like bicycle road it's not easy and it's not happening over a day but i think every country need them

The biggest modern problem is jobs and distance. If you need to travel far, you mostly can't rely on public transport because it takes long time so you need a car and then you need parking but that's either very expensive or just can't get any parking because it's too densely packed.

We have shared bicycle/pedestrian sidewalks, one one side it bicycle and the other pedestrian.

The city I was born in is part of the largest tram system (208 km / 130 miles) in Germany. It connects three federal states (Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, and Baden-Württemberg), three cities with more than 100000 inhabitants (Ludwigshafen, Mannheim, Heidelberg), and several smaller towns and villages. It's part of VRN, a "Verkehrsverbund" (comparable to a metropolitan transport authority) with a size of just shy of 10000 square kms / 3850 square miles with 3 million people living there. The VRN also provides regional trains, busses, ferries, and cog-rail trains. You only need one ticket for the journey regardless of how many changes of vehicles there are. Prices are affordable: for single-use tickets depending on the distance (between 1.50 and 4.50 Euro). Monthly tickets are between 45 Euro (for students and children) and 145 Euro for adults with special tariffs for the three big cities (60-100 Euro resp.). Connections are reliable (in the daytime, per line in every direction: tram - every 10 minutes, city busses - every, 10, 20, 30 minutes, regional busses - every 30 or 60 minutes, regional trains - every 30 or 60 minutes). The trains and trams are fast. Most lines are faster than driving the same distance with a car.

When I go to Brussels I take a train. It stops in my village (every 20 minutes) its a 10min ride and costs me €6 ( round trip). By car it is more than 30 minutes and I pay €14 to park.

An easy way to start a cheap public transportation system whithout doing a massive investment in US is what most european cities are doing: public bikes (some of them are even electrical bikes). In many european cities you will find everywhere bikes parked in public stands. Whith a card linked to your ID, you can unlock a bike, use it to get where you need to get and leave it in any public atand you find near your destination. Implementing a full electrical bikes system in Madrid for 2 million people had a total cost of 15 million dolars, less than 8 dollars per citizen. Now every citizen has acces to an electrical bike for 30$ a year.

According to that map there was only 3 railroads in Norway. We have trains going ALL over Norway.. criss cross.. you can get anywhere. And roads and bridges and tunnels everywhere. With busses etc... You don't need a car.

that must have been a fairly old video fuel prices are way higher right now, where i live its £1.91.7 per litre

Paris-Amsterdam in 3h ok (maybe a little more), but 30$ is very cheap. It would usually cost a lot more. You can get cheap tickets if you book long in advance, or unusual schedule. For instance I can leave tomorrow for like 170$ (lasts tickets). If the trip is next month I can get a single ticket for ~80$. So it's usually not that cheap...

It would be fair to mention the link of the original video in the description.

You have to remember most Europeans drive smaller economic cars, which can do 50 to 60mpg, and that is city driving.

Can't hardly believe the 8 to 1 parking spaces.

Thank you! One important thing is hardly ever mentioned when talking about gas prices. In the US the gas price is always per Gallon!! Every where else it is per litre! So gas prices over $4 are considered weryyy cheap like in the EU. So the US gas price should be divede by about 3.8 to get the litre price to be able to compare international gas prices.

The train from Paris to Amsterdam is actually a stretch of 800 kilometers or so so that is almost 500 Miles for 30 dollar

Well for the gas prices you can change that 1 in to a 2 for the netherlands as it skyrockets in the past months

2.5$/ liter for gasolina today In France

1,88 dollar gas price hahaha I wish. Its over 2.30 euro per liter now. This is more that double of what this video shows.

Also I think the problem in USA 🇺🇸 is that at age 16 you are allowed to drive that is part of problem they should move it up to 18 years old like in EUROPE 🇪🇺

Europe history 🧡🧡🧡🙏🙏🙏 I love reaction 🧡

Something laking in the video is to show the population density maps of EU and US. The part of US lacking railroad/highspeed way are the part with low population density.

Hi "My Girl" Tysheen, I hope you're doing fine. I want you to react to this - It's barely 9 minutes long so fits into your requirements. This "thing" is produced on Ellan Vannin (The Isle Of Man) once more and costs about 18.000 Euros. Without further ado, let's just have plain fun: The Smallest Car In The World (TopGear YT channel)

those who bike ( even if not every day ) but every now and than THE BALANCE WILL STAY VERY STRONG IN THE OLD AGE and also the reflex..... while the most dangerous for the old people who lost balance is the fall and fracture's.... See the old people in the countries where they bike a lot...!

3:40 only one year ago and you can opnly dream about that prices...^^

The narrator is wrong about Europeans being able to just stay 3 months in another EU country. Actually you can go without documents to another EU country and live your whole life there, and nobody asks you a question, because you have equal rights as a native citizen of each EU country!

Sweden gasoline price right now is $2.46 xD

Well, there is some controversy about the free travel in the EU. Far right people claim it supports "import of crime", while others still claim it promotes import of beggars. While the second opinion has some merit as begging abuses the intent of the law - to promote free settlement for employees and promote work opportunities.

From a swedish point of view the flag is very attractive, at least if you only take the colors of the flag into account! Blue and yellow! Blue where it counts, and yellow when the populace needs us to be! Democracy!

This is a bit false information. In my country, Hungary, we have dozens upon dozens of rail networks, that are medium speed 80-120km/h interconnecting, and six, highspeed, interconnected highways. This does not include everything. Low speed tracks or main roads. There are many four or six lane main roads, connecters and so on, joining onto the highway, or just leading traffic through main cities. The road and rail coverage is usually pretty great in Europe.

in europe, countries are interconnected basically since the start, the borders have changed a lot in the continent history and when a ruler aquired a new territory he had to make sure it's connected to his other territory, at least making roads for their army to come and defend it as fast as possible and to collect taxes efficiently, since almost every border was a part of both countries around it at a time, every countries in europe are connected to each other like one big country and when the times of war ended, this connectivity was a great way to improve trading and diplomacy. but France is still the core of it, with germany and the UK but an old patriotic rivalry want me to tell you to ignore germany's industry and to consider that the UK is no longer in the EU (lucky them)

You should react to a channel called Wendover Productions, this guy has lots of videos like this, some very very interesting ones on America

Live in Vienna im Paying for Public Transportation 1€ per Day or 365€ for the whole Year. I can use every Train,Bus and Tram in the City. So i have no need for a Car. Public Transportation here is much Cheaper and Faster than a Car

I love my Europe!No offence for our allies !✔✌

We dont have high speed rail here in the UK. Our maximum speed on 4 main intercity lines is 125mph. So many other countries have far superior rail networks. Japan and South Korea have some of the most advanced. To point out we invented railways is a bit embarrassing we are so far behind.

he totally messed up the maps the one he used to show for train lines is only showing international rails not the 10 times more regional trainrails. & what da Hell @Tysheen Orane , why didnt you link the origial video in the desription???

Se sei cittadino europeo, puoi stare tutto il tempo che vuoi in tutta l'Unione Europea.

I can get a 1 hour 18 minute flight from Manchester airport England to Amsterdam return for £41 that’s $49.82 USD.

Look at that beautiful picture 6:02 ruined by all those cars parking there. Cars and roads are necessary. But cars, enmasse, just don't belong into cities.

3:34 Cool, my place Is #1

As a European, this is not true. The EU is well designed, but it's pretty basic. It's not "insanely" well designed. The EU has many fields at which it could grow or it could excel a lot better. It has many political incompetencies, problems, and I'm afraid, political corruption too. The EU is far from perfect, but it's the very minimum what I would expect from a European community and institute.

Everytime I see the gas prices pop up I laugh. The amount of times I heard people in the US complain about high gas prices is hilarious because we know you're the best off lol. Which is good thankfully, because ya'll are much more car dependent.

If I take my bike to school I can get there almost as fast as with the bus Edit: about 20 minutes to school and 25 home because there’s a big hill that goes down on the way to and up on the way from school

FYI the flag is the one from the EU, not from Europe. Europe doesn't have a flag. Also, trains are a good alternative to the car, as long as you live in or close to a city that has a railway station. I live in a small village and for me, the car is simply unbeatable. The bus comes and goes twice a day (8 am and 16 pm) and between that, I'm f'd. A walk to the nearest train station takes me about 2 hours, with a bike around 1-1/2 hours. From there I have to ride the train 45 minutes and 30 minutes on the bus again, just to get to my workplace. With a car, it's just 30 minutes. As long as it's this way, I can't rely on bus or train. To add to that, trains are 50% of the time not on time, which means I will miss the bus that I have to take to my workplace 50% of the time, which in return adds another 20 minutes that I have to wait for the next bus. Also, I have to walk from the final bus station to the work place which is another 15 minutes. The car just can't be replaced at the moment and I garantuee that alot of people that don't live in or near cities will have a somewhat similar experience. The grass is not always greener on the other side. And by now, our gas costs around 2-2,20€ per liter. Gas, water and electricity is also up by a bunch. Not to mention the cost for food and other supplies. I feel like these videos just make it seem like it's heaven on earth over here, when many people just want to get out of Germany because of our tax system, cost of living, education and opportunities for a well paying job. I wouldn't call Europe "insanely well designed", I would say it's as well built as it had to 40-50 years ago. But with all the train, car and bus talk, I and many others from the villages here forget, that the more we are connected to cities, the more urbanism wins and takes away the charme of those places. We need more work outside of cities, than inside for us to keep our way of living and also have a close work place that doesn't need huge transportation to be reached.

Why do you show the EU flag when talking Europe The flag does not represent Europe the EU and Europe are not the same

IDK where ppl get the idea there are more cars in USA then in EU.

Did you just say "Gas here is very, very expensive" after looking at that chart where the US had the cheapest gas...?

It's funny how you said petrol is too expensive in USA, but graph said that petrol in France is 3 times more then in the USA. Petrol in USA is pretty cheap, but American cars are too large, with large engines, so they use way more petrol. It's not about the prices of petrol in USA it's about inefficient cars you guys drive over there.

What do we call street cars here, oh yes, street cars. You are hilariously cute. Petrol in the UK is now about 2 dollars 50 cents, per litre I have bought myself a mobility scooter which is battery powered for local trips around my village. Needs must.

The fuel is such a wasted opportunity. USA offsets cheap fuel with pointless fuel guzzling engines. It probably costs the same to do a hundred miles on either continent

Ye, not so sure, public transport in my part of Europe isn't great, mainland Europe is another story but even here things can get complicated!

US citizens have it good from a Brit's point of view. We pay around US$7.50 for a US gallon of "gas". Then parking our car in most towns will set us back around US$2.50 for an hour's parking time. Then there's somewhere around US$125 per year to be able to drive our car on the roads anyway, and an annual test for the vehicle's safety at around US$50 every year PLUS whatever repairs have to be done. Then there's car insurance on top of that. You guys would appear to have it easier.

We call those mode of public transport Trams NOT Street Cars. Street Cars to us means that there is a Street with parked cars. 💂‍♂️💂‍♂️💂‍♂️💂‍♂️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧💙💛🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

Large scale infrastructure projects require huge investments of time and money. In the UK we are currently building a high speed rail line, which will take at least another decade (probably two) to complete. The estimated cost is around £100 billion, but I wouldn't be surprised if the actual cost was more like double that figure. It will probably never recoup the investment, but there are other factors that come into play, not just financial.

Ok, when he speaks about European Transport (rail transport and bike transport), he surely doesn't refer to Eastern Europe which is 50 years behind all Europe (thanks to russian backed communism).

What he forgets with the Freedom of Movement thing is unless you are fluent in the host country's language then it's impractical to work there. I found this when I moved to Sweden from the UK after University and had to come back after 6 months because I didn't speak Swedish and as such couldn't even get a job in McDonald's. Everyone in Europe learns English though so in reality FoM for the UK meant tens of thousands of Europeans coming to the UK (especially from the poorer Southern/Eastern parts of Europe) every year and only a handful of Brits going the other way

Street Trams.

You would love england 90% of the time using you car is a pain in the arse

It's not all like the video portrays. I'm from England and have lived all my life in a small town surrounded by the countryside and can tell you that the public transport we have is almost none existent. A car is completely necessary to live our day to day lives. Trouble is some people in the UK think that everywhere is London with its public transport and that's far from the truth. We have to take a car just to get to the train station and as for buses, in smaller towns like mine where private bus companies run the buses then routes are confined to profitable routes so only a certain area of town will be serviced by regular bus services because there's not enough people to make other routes profitable enough. This highlights the investment disparity between the likes of big cities and towns and finally villages which many don't even have a bus route at all and the only thing is maybe a postbox so people have to travel 20 miles each way in a car to get to a supermarket to buy food. This is a problem that's going become bigger as government here pushes for more green new deal and pushing up fuel prices without understanding that these small towns and villages are some of the worst paid areas yet they are the worst public transport areas where people have no choice but to have a car. It's amazing how blind government are in not seeing the fact that the areas with best public transport are the big cities with the best wages where people can more afford a car but can choose not to have one whereas more rural areas have little or no public transport, poor wages and where people are increasingly finding it hard to afford to own a car. This situation will lead to one of two things. Either people will desert rural areas to head for the city or most likely rural people will be cut off completely from larger towns and cities. Eventually it will lead to high unemployment in these rural areas because there's not enough jobs to sustain the population. An example being some of my work colleagues have a 90 mile round trip every day in the car just to commute to and from work to earn a paltry £25k a year. It means they can now barely afford the fuel to drive to work to earn the money they need to pay the bills. So it's ok trying to tax people and punish people out of cars in the city but government don't understand that strategy is no good in smaller towns because there's no alternative until the government spends billions in building an entire public transport system that doesn't even exist in these areas currently.

Europe is an amazing place to live in. Americans believe they live in the best country in the world: they are SOooo wrong.

The Netherlands is flat, as are all the places on the map showing a high density of bicycle paths... But try that in montainous areas or cities like Genoa or Lisbon... Good luck with that!

*Was*

I like you though.

Pretty much all of the arguments in this video are easy to make without having actively lived in both countries for years. I've lived most of my life in Germany and now in the US and the statements in the video are just totally wrong. Public transport is slow, inconvenient, unsanitary, inferior and even dangerous under some circumstances. Highspeed trains aren't worth it in the US since most of the US is rural. So there are certain urban regions with very well developed rail transport, like New England, California, etc. and mostly rural states like Montana, Colorado, Idaho etc. where it's not worth it because nobody uses it. And the billions of taxpayers' money wasted on a rail network that most people in europe are reluctant to use, and if only because the state is making gas and cars too expensive for a large part of the population through massive taxes is really everything, but certainly not "extremely well designed", such a statement is ignorant at best.

Reasons why its not so great. $30 for a 3 hour journey of 300 miles....

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I used to live in Belgium. Driving or taking the train to France, Luxembourg, Germany or Holland was just part of a normal day. I live in the UK now and believe we made a terrible mistake by leaving the EU. Shared sovereignty is better than me, me, me sovereignty but 52% of the population didn't see if that way.

EU did this because the cities (virtually all the cities) are old (ancient), you know what it means to drive a car into medieval cities? You goes crazy. Not to mention population density is much higher, that's why countries have favored public transport; sure, now that we know about the environmental problem have a public mobility that works is better.

Americans complaining about gas prices, what the hell is wrong with you guys.

For me the scariest thing traveling by train in the UK/Europe was going through the Chanel Tunnel being claustrophobic and all that water above me. And the fact Europe drives on the wrong so side of the road.

Even though we in the UK are out of the EU thank god, we do have the channel tunnel where we can travel to anywhere in Europe and beyond on the train. We can travel to Paris or Amsterdam for breakfast and then travel to Madrid, Barcelona or anywhere for lunch and travel back to London for Dinner in one day. You can't do that in the U.S. 💂‍♂️💂‍♂️💂‍♂️💂‍♂️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧💙💛🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

EU is most definitely not Europe.

Lol, what a skewed pile of "facts".

The European Union and Europe are not the same thing, it is very important to understand that. The UK for example is in Europe, but not the European Union. That flag with the blue background and the gold stars is the European Union flag ( in the UK we like to refer to is as "The Smurf's Butthole"), not the European flag. There is no European Flag because Europe is not a political entity.

Nice piece of propaganda that lot But Notice the word "centralisation" used .This is political speak for control ,more cameras ,more facial recognition etc .