i love that you show eastern germany. love it!

It is normal to put security first in all business activities. You shouldn't get rich at the expense of other people's health. The big difference in this approach between the US and the EU was one of the three key areas of concern that prevented the free trade agreement.

Und jetzt werden die Straßen wieder dreckig und unsicher.

you cant really compare the US to Europa... since you cant really compare one country in europe to the other.... even the german speaking countrys are totally different.

You spent the last 5 minutes talking about community... then express how "solidarity" was never discussed. That is simply a good community. Not a difference in concept, just a difference in word use.

Everything that makes America so special will go away the minute our aquifers dry up and we stop having so much damn food available.

I’m sorry but the food everywhere in the world is better than in America. Fast food and ultra processed food isn’t something to be proud of. Sorry.

According to multiple studies, the Nordic countries are the best place to achieve the "american dream" - not the usa.

The credit card myth: have you meanwhile found out? If not, here‘s the reason: Europe has the debit card system called EC. Pretty much everyone uses this card to pay in shops, hotels and restaurants. Credit cards are a foreign invention, being mostly used outside of Europe, so they‘re not very prolific here. European people usually only have one for trips outside of Europe.

The Autobahn use to be without speed limited. I traveled on Autobahn in 80's and had no limit ate the time.....

There is no war between Europe and the US. It is only the grooming of the American public that forces them to look for enemies everywhere. The US today is one big mental hospital based on millions of mindless slaves. And no, it's not patritoyism, it's propaganda that Europe went through decades ago and knows well what it will end. And freedom, of course, is about following orders, because if you disagree with this "freedom" from the point you become the enemy. The U.S. is one big labor camp, where those who don't have money end up in the dumpster. And, of course, everyone sees danger everywhere. These are the standard methods of holding a totalitarian society by the face. Methods that are downright textbook. Rule and divide.

1 in 300.000 per year or day or month? Cause in an 11.000.000 metropolis that is still 37 kids... and I wouldn't want to be one of them. Also what s got choking to do with kidnapping? The fact that choking is more likely is irrelevant.

American healthcare sucks 😮 unless you ars very rich 😮 Makes me happy to pay 35% of my income every month for somethink that I will hopefully never need. And at the same time, the kids I don’t have, can get a free education from university 😅 but most importantly, I can sleep easy at night 🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰

I see your German genes found their way back home.. Congratz, happy to have you here in Europe :) Back in the Obama years I had hope for the US, but the blatant superficiality and materialist approach and extreme uncaring for others is really turning the US into a third world country. I would totally not be surprised if a civil war would break out tomorrow.

I live in Germany since 6 years. Every time I go back to the US I feel like it gets wore and worse. I don’t feel like I can live again in the US. I agree with and support your perspective. Great video!

Est Germany Landscamp beautiful, but the people are shiiiii

Take off your pink glasses. Leipzig is still the poorest city in Germany. About 25% of the population are poor. It has one of the lowest GDP's of all big cities in Germany and it's not going to get better anytime soon. Just because the population is growing doesn't mean, that the city is developing well. Leipzig is still the capital of poverty in Germany.

🤣😂 im a (german) laid back driver and i get often bullied 😭 buuut i don't really care I also think that the whole TÜV thing is totally over the top... all it does is cost you money and time for no good reason.

Probably because we are AfD and right-wing. Although East Germany is the more beautiful Germany. Very nice post.

I like roundabouts, it gives a quick rest to quickly plan and think especially if you took a wrong turn, unless you can immediately go without stopping, maybe my opinion will change when I`ve been driving longer. (UK) In the UK we also have mini roundabouts.

A destination in eastern Germany? On my bucket list is: Visiting "Mecklenburg Vorpommern Seenplatte": Renting a house boat with friends ("men's vacation for a week") or my family, chilling, fishing, having every day a barbecue and jumping 100 times a day from the roof into the water.

The fact that the NRA the National Rifle Association changed its View to a more radical View of the second amendment in the year 1970. If you listen to the recent video on KZbin concerning the latest Omnibus gun control act worked on, they bring up every mass shooting event that ever occurred in history. Except for ONE "mass shooting" got no mention. What is this "mass shooting" that the government doesn't even want to talk about. What is this event that in 1970 rocked the boat of the National Rifle Association, and caused every second amendment organization to literally "freak out" in the year 1970. On May 4th 1970 members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators killing four, and wounding nine Kent State students. The impact of the shooting was dramatic. The event triggered a national wide student strike, that forced hundreds of colleges and universities to close. I find it sadly ironic that the demonstrators were demonstrating their displeasure over the war in Vietnam in general and the bombing in Cambodia in particular, carried out by President Nixon. War is a "mass shooting" on a major scale ! . As for the Second Amendment as currently written, I have some serious issues with it. It is poorly written, it is so poorly written and confusing that it must be reinterpreted by the Supreme Court. It does not explicitly say anything about self-defense. This has inspired me to write my new and improved version of the Second Amendment. I have named my new version. Second Amendment 2.1 In order to maintain the blessings of liberty and freedom throughout the land.The pre-existing natural right of the individual to self-defense, shall always be upheld and protected. The right to manufacture, keep and bear arms ammunition, and parts and accessories for arms, will not be infringed or impeded. By any law or mandate, by either the states, or the federal government. A free market being necessary for a free people.The right to manufacture arms for sale, including, ammunition and accessories, for arms, will not be infringed or impeded. By any law or mandate. By the federal government, or the state's governments. This includes both carrying for an individual, or carrying for a company, for trade or sale in another state. Or any city or town, within a state. For any other moral reason. Uninfringed or impeded by law or mandate. And there you have it my new and improved version of the Second Amendment 2.1 and for further Clarity, let me explain the term "pre-existing natural right of self-defense". The Second Amendment to the Constitution was adopted December 15th 1791. The concept of self-defense was created and adopted after the Norman conquest of England in 1066. Coming back up through time back to 1970 and the mass shooting event at Kent State University there was a famous rock and roll band called Crosby Stills Nash & Young they made a song called "Ohio". Previous to their song was the song written and produced,1964, by a young Native Canadian singer-songwriter, Buffy Sainte-Marie, The universal Soldier. I consider her song. The Best anti-war Song Ever written by a human being on this planet. It is my most sincere hope that my version of the Second Amendment 2.1 will one day be recognized as being the best Second Amendment ever re-written, and adopted into law. Also I highly recommend the following books, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, Adventures in Legal Land, by Marc Stevens. Government Indicted, by Mark Stevens, Freedom from Government by Trent Goodbaudy, And Natural Law, by Lysander Spooner. :-)

My wife and I lived in Leipzig for a year in 2007-8. We've returned a number of times since then. It's one of my favorite European cities.

Me at 8:27 🏙️

Really recommend Dresden, Magdeburg and saxische schweiz

There's less processed foods especially in the mediterranean diet.

I highly, *HIGHLY* recommend Schwerin, the capitol of Mecklenburg Vorpommern (the one most travelled to by Germans) They have a **BEAUTIFUL** castle with a golden dome, situated in a scenic lake. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY! The place has a lot of history, being build in the 18th century, being misused by the Bazis and used as a boarding school in the DDR, having a poltergeist roam the halls and lovingly upkept by the city. They still have the local government use it, as well as guided tours. Also just outside the city there is the Mecklenburger Seen Platte, a group of (7?) lakes which are idyllic for hiking or other outdoorsy activitys. Also I remember a little outside the city there is an archeological museum about wikings who setteled there roughly 1.000 years ago.

*sigh* This video is like the Avatar movies. More about capitalistic colonialism than about the access offered to the public. If you want to go on to private property, no one is stopping you from asking for permission. How do you think snowmobile trails are created? Want to use a beach front a private owner has? Ask them about using it for a day or two. You’d be surprised how many will give it. Not only that but most people in the United States have never even been to ANY National Park. Local park and maybe County Camp Grounds but a National Park? No. One can travel across the United States and not have to pay for any overnight stay by hitting either local public campgrounds or national campgrounds and camp for a few days before moving on. Most unattended area are free of charge or just ask for donation if you can. It’s disingenuous to say that countries in Europe has laws about free access to private land when the United States has more public land in total than some of those country within its borders. They even made a reality tv show about that Alaskan bush people. The only thing you cannot do in a national/state forest is build a permanent structure, hunt and fish out of season, cultivate the land, and harvest plants and animal out of season or those that are restricted due to conservation efforts. One can camp indefinitely in them so long as they move their camp around the whole of the area from time to time. As we can see, there are people who does that. FYI - All open waterway are Public Accessible. Which means that you can live rent free on a house boat on these body of water, your boat and you are still required to follow all local and national boating laws. All you need is an area to dock your boat while you need to go on land. Usually, people will give you access to a private dock and allow you to cross private property to gain access to the road.

Dresden used to be the government place of a King. For sure there are more historical things there in in a "free town", a kingless, self-governing town like Bremen.

You should really learn how to say "Bremerhafen". You butchered the word, sorry. We don't write it "Bremmen", wie write it "Bremen". And there is a difference in how to say it therefore. Would you like it if Germany pronouce US towns with completely broken pronunciation? I guess not. So return the courtesy. After all, you're living in Germany, so you have easy access to people that know how to say town names correctly.

Been to Rostock (meh) and Leipzig (great). 30-odd years on, you can still see differences between the old West and East Berlin

I don’t think there’s an east germany now

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Do not mix it. You and your husband really need to only speak English with him. Let the Germans teach him German. I am not talking from no knowledge. My son is now 19 and grew up in Germany with me an English dad and his German Mam. We never broke the rules.If you or your husband speak german with him, you will mess him up. Trust me.

Running out of food? How does that happen when not in the middle of a natural disaster or war?

Nice contribution....its nearly all true whats U talking about the differences by infrastructure between USA and Germany. But the main reason why US streets much more larger than german Streets u miss. Its because: Germans CAN drive, americans don't. 😊

Reduction in traffic accidents or just Reduction in traffic from all the people avoiding them because they suck. Oh let me quote smoking industry study how great smoking is for you.

The American dream is built on the homeless and the poor, Shitting on the poor is a way to get more money. I'm from Sweden and I think The US really needs to get its shit together. Tax the billionaires! Jeff Bezos? Tax the shit out of him, he wouldn't notice it! Zuckerberg? So proud of his country that his yacht is registered in another country, how patriotic... Etc, etc, etc...

It's funny how Americans want to go back to the countries that their ancestors were trying to ESCAPE from. We're talking countries where people even went to BRAZIL in order to ESCAPE from. Makes you wonder.

Because East Germany doesn’t exist. See you later guys! 😄✌🏽

When I think of East Germany , I think of Silesia and Pomerania.

Keeping up the pretence of wealth costs the American society a lot and even more and more. It requires a lot of global sources from all over the world, which seemingly started to dry out for the US. They need to be more and more aggressive to drive the necessary income towards the US, and they don't even pretend to be nice and friendly to their "partners" any more.

I lived for a year in Leipzig and have returned twice for a month each time. It's a lovely city and Saxony (which also includes Dresden) is full of places worth visiting. Perhaps my favorite is the region known as the Sächsische Schweiz (Saxon Switzerland), the sandstone mountains located along the Elbe between Dresden and the Czech border. Take a train from Dresden, get off in, e.g., Bad Schandau or Königstein, and take a hike through beautiful countryside with gorgeous views of the Elbe to another town with a train stop then take the train back to Dresden. It's a great day trip, even from Leipzig (which adds an additional hour or so train ride to and from Leipzig to Dresden).

yikes im pretty sure its not the europeans who obsessively compare themselves to the US, its more like the other way around!! we're just super entertained by the massive horrible car crash that is america!! you want to look away, but you cant.

The US is highway parking lot strip mall strip mall parking lot boring housing development strip mall highway boring housing development boring housing development parking lot parking lot strip mall highway strip mall highway parking lot strip mall strip mall parking lot boring housing development strip mall highway boring housing development boring housing development parking lot parking lot strip mall highway highway parking lot strip mall strip mall parking lot boring housing development strip mall highway boring housing development boring housing development parking lot parking lot strip mall highway strip mall

To mee, the former GDR is the most interesting part of Germany to visit. I normally travel by car and I love every state from Mecklenburg Vorpommern to Thüringen and the both Saxon states... I higly recommend to visit theese beautiful states of Germany.

I am very proud of you making such a great video about my home town ❤

German hear :) Englisch is my second language and I studyed medicine in it. I can olso speak little Latvian.

Haha das Foto vom Thubnail ist bei mir um die Ecke

American from Georgia. Left the USA in 1990 and have never been back (not even to visit). I lived in Germany for 8 yrs as a US soldier, but took advantage of University of Maryland courses on the American installations where I was stationed. These were full, language from the basic grammar up courses, lots of verb conjugations, vocabulary memorisation etc. The first grounding course in this overall German study was 4 days a week, everyday after work for 90 mins. After that course, it was usually 2 times weekly but 2 hours. The teacher was a German who lived locally. So, not only did we learn the language in a university speed course with full scope of grammar, we learned from a native who spoke with the local accent. PLUS, after the class was over, I could go out into the local environment and begin using what I had learned immediately. And I DID. I spoke German every chance I got. I studied vocabulary rigorously daily, going over entire pages of new words. I paid special attention to gaining new verbs, because this allowed me to say a wider variety of things. And when I got to the more complex levels of German sentence structure- like when the verb order gets split, or when a subordinate clause's word order gets reversed- I would spend hours saying these phrases and sentences out loud over and over, so they would come naturally when I had to do it in a real conversation. Anyway, I wound up marrying a German woman who was a medical student, and after 8 years of living in Germany, I could go to German cinema and watch a film, read German novels, magazines, watch German television and converse in about any situation with no problems (technical situations where I simply didn't know the words for things that I rarely encountered would still trip me up sometimes). We eventually moved to Scotland and I've been here for 25 years now and as we're divorced, I rarely get the opportunity to speak German any more. I do dream in it, from time to time, and I don't consider the time and effort in learning and studying German to have been wasted. I learned a great deal about my own language from learning a second one, and speaking and understanding German vastly improved my experience of living there, and I look back on that time now with great fondness and nostalgia. I also studied Spanish for a couple of years here in Edinburgh. And although I never put in the all out effort with Spanish as I did with German, I did still take local university courses that taught the language the same way: from the basic grammar up, and I did put quite a bit of effort into amassing a respectable vocabulary. At the height of my Spanish studies, I was reading Spanish novels written for teens, able to follow the plot of Pedro Almodovar films ;-) and I was ordering television series in Spanish and watching them. Plus, it helps to be able to take a relatively cheap holiday down to Spain and put the language to use. Every now and again, I run into Spanish tourists in the Edinburgh city centre who are quite clearly lost, and I can help them out and give them directions in Spanish, and although this is still a small pay-off for the effort of learning the language, it is still satisfying to be able to do so. I enjoy seeing their faces light up when they realise they've run into someone who can communicate with them in their own tongue. And that's what learning language is all about, reaching out to others and not demanding that all communication be done on your own terms. We might usually speak a common official language, but I feel like if others know that you've taken the effort to learn about their language and culture, this makes for a deeper understanding and trust between people.