We do use paper plates, but to cover food in the microwave, and then the same one for a sandwich later. It's usually relatively clean. Never for dinner guests. Otherwise just picnics or when regular plates are not an option, like if you're moving and have packed up everything. Also, for the picnics I like to use the ones that are eco-friendly and will break down very quickly. This goes for the "plastic" utensils as well. If I can wash and re-use them I will. I don't have to worry about losing regular silverware. Hubby uses them at job sites where their "lunch room" is a seat on their coolers in the shade in summer. Sometimes they come back, sometimes they don't.

I hear the Germans are good at baking things.

I shop at a farmer’s market every week. Not expensive. All year ‘round. Nobody I know uses paper plates. PAPER PLATES?

If not at the farmers markets are there affordable fruits and vegetables in American supermarkets then?

As a child I washed after going to the bathroom, but I don't think I washed before meals, at least not consistently. Oddly I knew to wash my hands after touching pets. I spent a few years in Memphis TN and I felt that the streets were much dirtier than they are in Minnesota where I live now. As far as public Christianity in the US goes, I find it tiresome.

Who pays $20 for honey??!! Not me. I NEVER use paper plates!

OMG 😂😂😂

You look cute today

south germany is different to north. south is a lot greater with happier, chilled people.

Alice Weidel is also dating a Southern Asian/Sri Lankan woman, slugs for salt, chicken for nuggets as you have said.

Die Temperaturen sind in Florida höher.....Lufttemperaturen in Österreich und Deutschland niedriger, daher nasse badekleidung wechseln. Ab Temperaturen ab 30 Grad wechsele ich 😂

This depends on where you live in the US.

Germany's life expectancy is 80.9. US is 76.3. And Germany's data is improving as the old East Germany anchor on their results slowly fades. Meanwhile US life expectancy fades due to multiple factors: COVID, obesity, gun deaths, traffic accidents, drugs, etc.

farmers markets not luxury and not knew in America. not sure how paper plates luxury. great for cookouts and parties. heated floors, not luxury, not always practical. if you live in the north, they're great. if you live where it's humid in winter, it's not practical.

I lived in South Korea for 6 years and I loved my heated floors,❤️❤️❤️

I hope you will come back to Europe, to Germany more precisely, soon. ❤

I'm just a regular American, but will never eat grocery store bread. My husband and family don't get it. But, i love good bread 😊

I always enjoy learning these little (or large) cultural differences ^^ I'm Dutch, so most of the time things work the same here as they do in Germany, or at least very similar. I would like to make one small remark about the video though; that I struggled to concentrate on what you were saying whenever the video would slowly zoom in. This was highly distracting for me (my cousin experiences the same thing, I found out recently) and I felt pretty overwhelmed, so much so that I finished just listening to the video and not watching anymore 😅 I hope you understand that I'm not angry or anything, I just wanted to share it, because it might bother more people too. Overall I love watching your videos, you make lots of interesting comparisons & it's fun to get a personal perspective on both sides 😉

I live in Canada and never served my guests with paper plates. Except for kids party happening outdoor.

Heated towel rails are not actually meant to heat the room but a lot of people use them for this.

Honey start a movement you have the platform. Work for a congress person. Get involved in our Government. You have the platform. I know you can help us all. Don’t just be like the government we already know❤ just trying to help all of the USA❤

Aldi here and their counter part here doesn’t have the same bakery goods? 8:52

Yes i do that, i allways change out of my wet bathing suit, i hate the wet feeling

Very nice said and all true, thank you!

Interesting list, missing a few that I would expected like length of vacation. Overall I like your list but it is clearly based on your short and long time expectation. Many of your points are based on government interjecting their visible or invisible hand into the citizens day to day life. Germany is a country where the government subsides many daily activities, like low cost public transportation. This is a good thing, if you have the money to spend. In the case of Germany a large amount of funds are available because they don't spend but a very small amount on defense (about .5% of GDP). They depend on the US to provide their defense (US spend 3% to 4% of a much larger GDP). The German historical low defense spending has become very obvious since Russian invaded Ukraine and they are now faced with a large catch up cost, which will start to impact their social programs. One last point, Germany's overall taxes are significant higher than the US and the Governments make the decision on how the money is spent, and Americans don't like the Government telling them anything and especially how they should spend their money.

In germany its often much cooler than it is in Florida when you get out the water. I never change when I am in Florida but I might do that in germany.

Here in Germany, it used to be "meat on sunday" but only because of the prices and the availibility. In the 50's, when the war generation grew up, they never wanted to be hungry again, so meat consumption got way up. It was "sunday roast everyday" now so the fear of going hungry got away. This is true about my Grand-grandmother, born around 1900 and for my Grandmother, born 1929. Now we are trying to live past the age of 65 so we eat healthier, drink less alcohol and smoke way less.

Haley, can you do a video on Florida? Current state of the state and the direction it's heading and cover topics like Infrastructure, modernization etc?

It was me.... Chris! I talked about the refrigerator beer in the US! I was told I'd get a yeast infection here In Germany by leaving my wet suit. I thought "hmm" -- a whole nation of Americans have been living in the danger zone for years and years! 😂 And when I first moved to Germany, I got cussed out all the time...for what, exactly I was getting cussed at, I don't know!

About 3 months after I was hired by a well-known University in the US, I fell and broke my leg, severely enough that surgery was required. The University tried to fire me. I did get a lawyer and they didn't succeed. A friend of mine was fired because of breast cancer. Them's the breaks in the good ol' USA.

I’m on sick day number 4243. mandatory insurance isn’t that bad. I’m a bloody socialist communist whatever-ist European. I got all these names when i told someone i wish they had the same freedom of not going broke if they have a disability

Hayley, your videos have a solide base, I learned a lot about the differences about the US and Germany from you, thank you very much! Please have a look into the 6 weeks-limit to beeing ill at work. After 6 weeks, there is a big chance , actually there isn't an unlimited amout of time in Germany, you can be sick....:-)

What a strong decision, but I like it. I do that every Springtime, but I am a man. So I do feel that about the almost sexual sensation while performing the first Shower ❤😂

Big B00ba video! Thanks Hayley. 🥵🥵🥵

I agreee, that it is much more easier to move without a kitchen or a lot of closets. But what is, when you find after a long search a flat that you like, but the kitchen is so ugly? And I like it to put my plates and my cutlery in my own kitchen closets. And the same with the closets in my bedroom, I prefer to put my panties in my own closet. Its the same with a bed, who doesn´t prefer to sleep in his own bed? And I can choose myself the style of my kitchen and my closets. And I think that Germans don´t move as much as a lot of Americans. So, it is partially a benefit to move without so many furnitures, but on the other side I love my own things around me. And an AC is not really necessary here in Germany, because our houses are all build stone on stone and I think it is not as hot as in a wooden house. Also in the summer it is perhaps only 2-4 weeks really hot, sometimes not even that. And electricity is expensive here. And Garage door openers are getting more common, people who build a new house today mostly have an electric garage door opener. And I am living in a new build house with 9 flats in it and we have our washers and dryers in an extra room of the basement, where we have a lot of space to hang our laundry if we have no dryer. Why it is often in the kitchen or in the bathroom is another long story.

One day we will share our experience, but you are the one I find to be very honest, expressive, and able to put into words the issues people struggle to come forward. I really like your video, but we have a different problem. In my culture, women are superior to Men, and we have to adapt our daughters to downgrade and look for equality with men. It is tough, like putting 6-foot-tall kids to adjust and live in a 5-foot ceiling of society.

How ridiculous to have a refrigerated beer storage section in a shop! Beer does not spoil at room temperature, so that is a complete waste of ressources. And any refrigerated beer in US-shops is particularly ridiculous, because you may not even walk out of the shop and enjoy that refrigerated beer on the street. To change your bathing suit after bathing in freshwater makes sense, because there can be cercaria (parasites) in the water, which will cause skin irritation after the first exposures, but if you get dry after leaving the water, they will hardly affect you. No laws against insults is an ambivalent thing in my mind. Generally, I am fine with that. But it is only fine, as long as you can really use gross insults against whoever you want. If you may not insult a policeman, or if you cannot insult many people, because they are likely armed and dangerous and you cannot insult your boss, because he is allowed to fire you, it just becomes suppression.

Porzellan hat hier in Europa eine grosse Tradition, die Mädchen haben früher für ihre Aussteuer gespart und sogar selber die Bettwäsche und tischwäsche angefertigt......und ich würde meiner Familie niemals Pappteller auf den Tisch stellen .Man kann es auch übertreiben mit saves time.....essen ist auch Kultur ❤❤❤

I love my United States !

After suffering through crappy bread for years in the US, I finally learned how to make my own sourdough, German-style bread. I haven’t bought bread in about three years now, and I am so glad that I learned it. It’s not that hard. But I do miss proper Brötchen. I haven’t mastered making those taste authentic. If you live near a WinCo supermarket, their fresh pizza dough works really well for pretzels. You dip them into a boiling solution of water and baking soda for about 30 seconds before baking, and they taste great. You need to thickly flour the baking sheet, though (cover it with parchment, or aluminium foil, which is completely covered with flour). Bake at 220 C until golden brown. You need to get creative here to get better tasting food. Also….paper plates….the first time I saw that I was incredulous. I live in a state that is very much into the environment, and even here people don’t bat an eye using them. SMH

The best cleavage on KZfaq!

Beer must be kept fresh

My husband is from the UK. He can’t comprehend how we in the US earn our PTO as we go. You’re not just given 25 days or whatever they get in the UK right when you start. He asked what you do if you have a planned vacation and haven’t earned that time. Well you can ask for it off but you might not get it and you’re only paid for the PTO you’ve earned thus far. Also the sick days coming out of PTO (that’s how mine works) just doesn’t make sense to him.

Bidenomics...he tells us it's working

Couldn't you dress yourself somewhat more decently. Your very deep decolleté is considered vulgar by well-behaved people in Europe.

I found the comment about the beer and it was @christinemunger7054 (not Christian) THANK YOU CHRISTINE!!!

bathing suits - posibly in Florida, the bathing suits dry much faster...