Everybody says you don't need to learn Dutch and I have had many Dutch people say "Why bother learning Dutch... it's so useless everybody speaks English!"... And then I try and try to learn it and everybody replies in English and or doesn't understand my efforts.

Compatibility is key in choosing a flat mate. If you are older, you do not want a young flat mate. By the same token, if you are young, you do not want an older flat mate. Older people like peace and quiet, complete opposite of what most young people are after.

Exactly the same story in Berlin, Dublin, London, Lisbon, Milan etc etc

My family and I are foreigners in CR for 7 years and we love it. Czech people are so warm and friendly and helpful . Learn Czech or piss off.

To explain Czechs you must understand that they are (1) cowardly and (2) honor-less. These two trait explain rudeness to foreigners who have trouble communicating and speaking bad about them behind their back.

How was that last guy pronouncing his R so hard? Is that a Flemish or Belgian thing? Or is he a secret American or Scandinavian?

11:24 totally wrong ,thousands of students from Africa and Asia

It's interesting how I almost immediately didn't like the person who's later constantly complaining about Czech people being rude. What are the odds? 😂

Housing food weather cost.i can do this all day😂😂😂

The American guy is not an expat, but an immigrant.

I met a girl from Berlin in Dominican Republic when I was traveling. I live far away in California. I think things are much easier when you’re in a vacation when there is less stress involved. I really think it was a missed connection as we didn’t exchange numbers. Met her at the rooftop pool of the hotel. I saw this hot af blonde by herself at the pool. I am only attracted to true blondes , it’s a curse. She was listening to radio in German. I recognized the German language. I am of Turkish descent, took German at high school long time ago. I have always been interested in Germany due to huge Turkish community there, I find it so interesting, nonetheless I wasn’t raised close to culture or its religion etc. So I approached and to keep things interesting, I asked in German “wo wohnst du in Deutschland?” 😂 She said Berlin, but she wasn’t friendly or anything, was almost like a rejection. I mean this girl is off the charts hot, a 10 in my book. I live in the land of hot Latinas, Asians and brunettes, I meet hot Latinas all the time but it doesn’t do the trick for me. Also, the fact that a huge part of the population is obesely overweight is a turn off for me as I am into fitness. So after her “Berlin” response, convo quickly died. I did several laps in the pool but want to approach again. And longer I wait, more nervous I became, but finally swam back near her. Was so hard to do so. Have no idea what I said, but this time she opened up. Was unbelievable, I couldn’t make her stop talking which is a great sign. So she was a German teacher, teaching to Turks and Arabs for integration or something. She was of Polish descent. So to make story short, I actually enjoyed talking to her. Not just super hot, but also she gave me insights about living in Berlin etc. Was amazing. She almost missed her flight if I didn’t remind her lol. So we both were checking out, I asked her name, she said Karin with R sound like how Germans say from throat, which is super sexy lol was shy to ask her no. I mean this girl is a true 10 for me and hot Latinas I reject. She left the pool. I was walking down the hotel aisle. It was off season and hotel was empty. As I just passed a hotel room door, I heard it opening. It was like slow motion for me. If I turn my head and look back, I could feel she was there. But I kept walking..And now I am writing a long ass comment about the missed connection…Tried finding her, sent an email to a German learning school in Berlin that I found on the internet, but no reply back. I wanna find her, but now I run the risk of looking like a stalker maybe. It sucks..

She feels anxiety when she dosent have a ticket?? I know how to make all her anxiety disapprear!

Just so you know, life isn't a bed of roses here in the UK. At least you lot have regular sunshine.

Foreigners realize that we dont talk to strangers and speak our native language... Whatttt thats sooo crazzyy

The Czech people are obviously not as welcoming as Southern nations. I ascribe it to the climate and historical experience. 😂 The tourists and expats are forgetting that central Europe has always been the ground of foreign invasions. Historically, foreigner invaded, killed, looted, introduced their rules and held the Czechs in check. It is not so long ago that Russian soldiers were forced to leave. Imagine, just 35 years ago being open to a stranger ( not even a foreigner) might land you in jail, you could lose your job, your kid couldn’t study… it is still instilled in older generations. Not to speak of the fact that they were not taught to speak languages and are ashamed they cannot speak well. I don’t think they are unfriendly, it just take much longer to get there but then it is worth it. Customer service is truly bad though😂😂.

Let's be friends. I am Czech guy in my forties, working in an international corporation, no locals among my colleagues. Do you want to practice your Czech with me? I seldom drink, read too much, walk a lot. I don't follow Czech art or culture, I am open to outside influences. PS: there were always people from other cultures here, we had people from Vietnam, Cuba, some African countries... but they were never in large numbers and very visible. A lot of people still only travel between Czech Republic and places like Croatia. They don't need to learn foreign languages to buy an ice cream in Croatia. The experience with people in hospitality industry or cashiers in supermarkets... they are usually only marginally above slave labour... they should smile more, but somehow they did not get the message about the American dream yet.

People of Barcelona for 14 minutes describing/complainig what it feels like living in ANY major city in the world Do you really think that a waiter in any other million+ city can live whatever they like just on their wage?

Yep, 40 years living in Berlin and I can only agree. Many places are run down and dirty and there is a lot of drug related crime. Appearances can be misleading. Take the street I live in, it looks harmless, a typical middle class part of the city with well-to-do neighbours, most of them own their apartments. But we have break-ins, vandalism, - 6 cars were set on fire just a couple of years ago - and even violent robberies. The police don't seem to care or are ineffective because of staff shortages. Homelessness has become a serious issue with people living in tent colonies. The police never used to tolerate this and quickly shooed such people away, but now they seem to turn a blind eye. I could write a book on all the things wrong in the Berlin, all the things that make life unnecessarily difficult, and it's not going to get better anytime soon. The city has launched a huge project to build more apartments, but 80% of these will be in the mid-price range and far out of reach for the people who need them the most. If you think Berlin is cool, think again. Just because it offers the coolest night life - with astonishingly sky high prices - doesn't make it a livable place to live in.

These guys have no idea what they are talking about...

I live here in Barcelona for 10 years now. I only worked at international companies in the IT sector and I have no idea how do people survive here on those low local salaries. Apartments not only are expensive but close to impossible to find. Food is not as cheap as the man from NY describes. Prices of groceries went 50% up during last 2 years. Energy and water bills are also up there in the sky with their rates. In the nutshell the cost of living to local salaries ratio is absolutely terrible. You can see it in the street, you can feel it in the vibe of the city. i do not think anything can stop this trend unfortunately.

Where are the Germans?! 🤔😁

Ohh common. You like staying in Czech Republic and enjoy benefits but you don't even want to learn at least basics of the Czech language. Go to Germany, then you will understand that Czech people are nice people. Take it or leave it

Bit of advice learn native language if you want to engage with natives. Works universally across cultures ;-)

God bless you😂 I read title as Queer life and CHECHNIA and was thinking be last moments of some poor gay ..that is Czech one of the most liberal people and beer lovers. 🎉 Good to be gay Czech not so great CZechen

I used to work with Daniela she is an absolute diamond

As a Czech, I think that their observations are somewhat correct but a bit superficial without real understanding of what is behind it. The truth is that Czech people are not very friendly towards foreigners in general. But we can make friends with foreigners as individuals. And sometimes it is not as difficult as it may seem. But let me give here some points about Czech culture in relation to foreigners: 1) Czech people like and prefer their own culture and language. We accept foreign influences but very few and very slowly. We consider Czech culture to be superior to others. Yes, we are patriotic even though we do not usually admit it or even realize it. And we are happy with this and do not want to change this approach. And we will not. Either accept it and become one of us or go somewhere else. 2) Czech people in general distrust foreigners. This is partly due to history and partly to what they can see happening in other European cities flooded with migrants and high criminality. Czechia is one of the safest countries in Europe and we definitely want to keep it like that. Distrust towards foreigners, especially those who look like African or Muslim migrants, is a means to this end. 3) Yes, Prague is different than the rest of Czechia. But not always in a positive sense towards foreigners. This is caused by the fact that Prague suffers from a terrible overtourism, where a small minority of service providers make lots of money from tourists but the rest of Czech society suffers and bears the unpleasant consequences such as high prices of everything or aggressive drunk foreign males behaving like complete animals. So in Prague, people are more used to foreigners but it does not mean the people are friendlier. 4) Older generations do not speak English and are not willing to learn it. This is a fact and foreigners have to count with that. Also many young people in small villages do not speak any English at all. In Prague or bigger cities this is slightly better. So do not count on other people understanding you. 5) This will be hard to swallow, but most Czech people are internally racist (with an exception towards foreigners from eastern Asia) and very very very islamophobic. They do not admit and they do not show it openly but it is true. When they see a darker foreigner (especially a young guy) most of Czech are very very distrusting and not willing to interact. This does not mean they cannot make friends in the end, but it will very very slow process when the foreigner would have to break the distrust and persuade that he is not like the "others". This is easier when the foreigner comes as an expat and can hang out with colleagues. But it is very hard to make friends "on the street" or "in the pub", almost impossible. And if you are about to hang out with a larger group of Czech friends, do not expect that the whole group will speak English just because of you. Your not understanding is your problem not theirs. 6) Czech people are very well aware of what is happening in western European cities, flooded with migrants. We do not want this to happen in our country. We do not want migrants from Africa and we especially do not want Muslims in our country. We accept there are a few mostly Turkish people running their kebab/döner shops but that is all we do not want their numbers to grow. Czech people, even the liberal ones, are very antiimmigration (see a note about Ukrainian refugees below, for them the split is about half to half). 7) There are lots of Vietnamese people (maybe hundreds of thousands) living in Czechia. They came already during the cold war era as worker invitation program organized between Czechoslovakia and Vietnam. Most Czech people like them because they are very hardworking, learned the language and integrated very well. So if a tourist from Asia comes to Czechia, he might be confused with these Vietnamese Czech. Be prepared for it. But that is not a bad thing. Czech people do generally like east Asians - Vietnamese, Koreans, Japanese (unless they do not know how to behave - some Chinese, I am looking at you!) 8) We have very very complicated relationship towards Russian tourists (in general we do not like them at all - especially if they exhibit so called Russian mentality - entitled and loud). And it is also very hard for Czech people to distinguish Ukrainian person from Russian. After Russia invaded Ukraine, many hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians came to Czechia as refugees. It seems that Czech society is divided by halves, one half like Ukrainians the other half not. So if you are speaking Russian or Ukrainian, you will be confused for Ukrainian refugee and you may experience very very different approach by different Czech. Ranging from very welcoming approach to very hostile one. Which I think is very unfortunate because Ukraine deserves our support. 9) Czech language is very very difficult for foreigners to learn and understand but if as a foreigner you want to stay longer, you definitely should learn at least the basics. It is a total icebreaker. When Czech people see you are trying, they immediately give you 50 positive points to your score, which can get you from "probably an enemy" to "maybe a good guy" category. When learning, concentrate more on pronunciation rather than some difficult stuff like declinations. Be assured that as a foreigner you will never ever learn declinations unless you come from Slavic country. But correct pronunciations (especially these letters: žščřďťň) is crucial and it is not so hard to learn. 10) Czechs are the most atheistic people in the world. We simply do not believe in God. We think God is a fairytale good only for brainwashing children. If you are openly religious person and you take religion seriously, then do not come to Czechia. In the best case, people will laugh at you behind your back... If you are a believer, then you will need to practice this at home, that is where we believe any religion belongs to - in other words, religion is your private matter, you can silently practice it but nobody wants to see it. And this is especially true if you are a Muslim. While we can accept people of other religions (Christians, Jews, Budhists etc. are OK), we do not and will not accept Muslims. So no public muslim praying in the middle of streets like it is practices in some western cities. You would be laughed at or spat on (in Prague or other cities) or kicked to your head and beaten up (villages) very quickly. Openly Muslim women with covered hair are despised and looked upon as brainwashed zombies. If you are a Muslim and come to Czechia, you will have to hide it really really well. ----- So that's it. As you see we are really not very friendly... but it is our country and our culture and we like it and we want to keep it. But because we a just a small country a nation this kind of unfriendliness is our only protection. We distrust foreigners in general but we can make very good friends with individuals, if they convince us they are good people and pose no threat. And if you want to stay longer you will have to become one of us and if you manage it, you will not regret. :)

So first of all, i was born in Berlin, still live here and i do know a lot of native Berliners. You hypocratical people actually dont care about us, about our history and you never take the time to ask or make sense. Then most german people nowadays that live in Berlin are NOT Berliners, those are others germans that you say are distant, dont open up or are hard to read. US BERLINERS are direct, very open we do not follow the rules, we are rebellious, brave and stand for what we believe in. Most of us just left the city because you are stiff, fake, ignorant and do not contribute anything important to our city. You just come here, take from the city, embrace the liberal and unconventional spirit and wonder why some of us are just angry about you haha. This article is absolute nonesense. What about actually asking Berliners (native people who were born here) how they feel about what is happening to our city, how our tradition is repressed, how every country, every religion, any people are allowed to take all tze space and we are being pushed out? How does it feel that the wall was seperating families over night? How does it feel thaz ypur grabdmothers were building the city after the war? How do you cope or deal woth the history of germany amd what have you learned from the past of your ancestors to create a better world and future? How about actually asking the important questions? And giving those the chance that as the people in the interview say, are hard to grasp or understand. I love Berlin and i love the multikuli aspect, please dont get me wrong. But every city or country feels unseen when the space for us is less, our culture is repressed, but its space for everyone else. We must look at germanys past, we must understand what has happened, also all of you who move here. Because only then we can grow together.

Spent alot of time in Spain, including Barcelona & I could never live there. I really don't understand why people struggle there, when just 20kms away they can live on half the costs.

Interesting

some germans are the most disgusting people you will ever meet

Like Paris≠France Nowadays Berlin≠Germany

The whole world has gone to pot and formerly nice cities are becoming unlivable.

Especially the American tourists 🤓

All of the problems the people in the video mention would be solved if they spoke the language. I get it it’s hard but how can you expect people to treat you as friends if they don’t even understand you

Judging Czech people based on Prague experience is like judging US people based on L.A. experience. Also Czechs don't like foreigners because they usually come from the east and they are often low class troublemakers.

The only ones who earn are the business owners..for others nobody cares

Vamoss ❤❤

Feel free to leave if it's so bad, we don't need you here. We have to wait for years to get a house, why should an expat have one sooner? And administrative problems? Well, that'll be the same in every 'foreign' country. We are not here to serve you. Adapt or leave...

It's interesting how people define "to live comfortably" - they describe living with roommates and just being able to cover your bills. This is so far from "comfortable " to me. That would be a nice, roomy apartment on your own, bills covered, savings, and the ability to go out to dinner, on vacation whenever you want, and generally not thinking about money when going about your daily life. Much closer to 5K/month at least in Barcelona.

You have an amazing channel, I've been in BCN for 12 years, but thx to remote job, I moved outside, far from Catalunya. I have a much better quality of life and people is more friendly too :)

what a stupid woman, we speak several languages, so you can always ask people on the street or in a company, shop what you want and they will certainly help you. everything is in Dutch, yes, it's crazy, you are in the Netherlands, but when we receive mail at home and it is important for all residents, it is in Dutch, English, and even in Turkish or Arabic. that will never happen in her country, nor in any other country in the world. It's much better to go back to your own country :) she says administration things/problems, we, my colleagues always help you even in English, German, French or any other language. If you speak a language that a colleague, we have several nationalities working in the Netherlands, then that person can help you, just ask. problems with looking for a home, yes, but you can also live outside Amsetrdam. learn the language, we also have to go abroad and what a problem if someone speaks English, so I don't really understand her problem.

I lived in Malta from 2017 -2019, the younger Maltese generation will suffer the same fate. The gaming industry changed the landscape of the Country and has built up the economy short term, but what are the long-term consequences? Houses, apartments, and hotels are built at an exponential rate, not always to the highest standards. Migrants, not always skilled builders are plucked off the streets to complete these builds, and I know of two apartment blocks that collapsed during my two-year stay. The transport infrastructure is unable to cope with the increase in population, also Food is 2-3 times more expensive than it was even 2-3 years ago. Older Maltese people can capitalise on the boom, buying second homes for Expacts to rent at now overinflated prices. Meanwhile, the young Maltese, many of who are not able to find a career path in the lucrative gaming industry for one reason or another are stuck in what is now deemed low-salary jobs compared to the many expats living on the tiny Island, unable to keep up with the cost of living compared to real wage terms, unable to get a foot on the property ladder.

Tresooooor🤘🤘🤘🔥❤️I was there soooo many nights-days…in 1994 there were still a lot of underground parties…I went with my gf …crazyyyyyyyyn…Wahnsinn…kein Strom…kein normales Licht..keine 🚾 ..nur Generatoren die für genug Strom sorgten damit der Bass dröööööööhhhhhnt…kein kaltes Bier…🥲

Just make sure YOU NEVER VISIT ANOTHER COUNTRY HYPOCRITES. What a bunch of lazy bums.

and this is different to other major cities that attract inflow of non natives?

Lol...interesting that they are opposing people showing up with money and the USA is open border to people with no money, and no skills...

Expats? You mean immigrants

At the beginning, everybody likes this cyberpunk, dark/dirty style of Berlin but in the mid/long term, with addition of grey and cold weather and unhealthy habits, people all end up in the same common place, depression.

After watching this video I completely agree with the Dutch people not inviting her. She seems very entitled and arrogant. She really has no idea

UK is the best country in the world especially Manchester is too better than Barcelona about quality of life,salaries and career jobs. Come in Manchester!!We wait you with huge pleasure.