American Reacts to Odd Maps of Europe..

[@MartinSGill]

The Dutch are tall because most of the country is below sea level and they need the extra centimeters to see their neighbours :D

[@Robalogot]

The Dutch are tall because they remained neutral during WWI and didn't suffer the famine that came with it.

[@navelpicker]

@@Robalogot In which case the Swiss should average 200cm...

[@notircm]

or, just in case, the water invades the below sea level, at least they have their heads over the water 🤣😂😅

[@haemmertime]

lamarck would be very proud of you

[@Patrik6920]

the Duch r tall beqause thay measure everyone at sea lvl

[@ReaperOfSouls83]

The air quality here in northern Italy is for 2 reasons: 1) geography= we have alps and mountains on 3 sides so there is no air circulation. 2) industries= there is a strong concentration of industries in the area, it doesn't help a lot with the air issue

[@colla555]

And the river Po, which spreads fog during winter, doesn't make it any better I guess.

[@padmeamidala4883]

In southern Switzerland we receive all the pollution and smog from Milan region

[@jarluhtraed9725]

​@@padmeamidala4883 as i say to my swiss uncle and aunt "you are welcome"

[@ReaperOfSouls83]

@@padmeamidala4883 we are all on the same boat my swiss friend

[@ReaperOfSouls83]

@@colla555 make sense

[@olgahein4384]

About the age of leaving the house: I don't know about the rest of Europe, but here in Germany we are talking about leaving the parent's house when we are LEAVING. Like, officially and stamped, with their own space under their own name. It does NOT include university/college time usually. During apprenticeship, most young people keep living with their parents (cause that can start at age 16 and is not paid enough). Young folks with higher education who go to university/college also stay with their parents if possible or move into dorms or a "WG" (shared living space) and most of the time and stay registered under their parents name, while having their temporary shared space registered as secondary space. Hence, most people 'leave' their parents house officially, when they do so for good, after finishing their education and already working or about to start a job. In my case, i officially "left" my parents house at the age of 23, even though i moved out (and never moved back) 2 months after my 18th birthday.

[@DenUitvreter]

Same here in the Netherlands, they haven't counted the many who rent a room in a different city at 18 or 19 to go study.

[@darris1939]

That is just not true though, not even for most of Germany… when we move out we move out lol

[@ahkkariq7406]

There may be different rules in the different countries. In Norway, it is legal and common to keep your parents' address as your official address while you are a student, especially if you move far enough away from home that you can get a grant for having to move for studies from the Norwegian Education Loan Fund. If you get married or have children as a student, you must report moving. I assume that the low age in this country is due to many people choosing vocational education and moving away from home when they become apprentices.

[@lucone2937]

In Finland the students are economically supported to live on their own, and student apartments are relatively inexpensive comparing to normal rents. Besides most Finnish men go to army around the age of 19 because there's a universal military service for men (since 1917), and a voluntary military service for women (since 1995). I think most parents want to courage their adult children for independent life. If you move to your own apartment at the age of 20, you will learn all kinds of practical skills that are necessary, and not depending on your mother and father what to do. If you live your parents when you are around 30, you might have become rather spoiled kid.

[@uztre6789]

That's definitely one reason. The other, and I assume that's true for a lot of the eastern european countries as well, is that especially in rural areas, people often have old, big houses that are self-owned. So, a lot of people will never really leave their parent's house but rather live in another part of the house, where they have their own appartment. It might even be a combination of both; they move away for university but keep being registered at their old address, then when they're finished they find work in the area and move back into the house. Lots of people I know have done it that way in the village I live in.

[@freedomfighter22222]

Luxemburg stands out on just about all per capita maps because they have a small population and a lot of workers that live in Germany, France and Belgium. So their economy and consumption is made by a much larger pool of people than their population lets on, the reason the coffee consumption is so high is because people come across the border and get a morning coffee on their way to work.

[@brick_n_heim9552]

And Coffee is much cheaper in Luxemburg so many buy their Coffee there.

[@legolo7214]

Passing Luxemburg, which happens a lot when you travel between the Netherlands, Germany, France and Belgium, you make sure you do the mandatory stop at a gas station. It´s even worth some extra kilometers because you definitely save money byuing fuel, coffee an cigarettes there. Sometimes small gas stations with like 3 petrol pumps offer more coffee in their tiny store than the average U.S. walmart. 😂

[@JoriDiculous]

True. When we used to drive to Spain from Norway (Well, my parents mostly) Luxemburg was the one obligatory stop for fuel and coffee :)

[@mukkaar]

Yeah, I was actually wondering. People in Finland consume a lot of coffee per day. More than two times that would be actually insane. Honestly it would be totally unmanageable levels of coffee.

[@espneindanke9172]

@@legolo7214 A 25 pack of cigaretts costs 6,50€ in Luxembourg... 10€ in Germany. That means that you could save 56€ if you buy the legal amount to bring it over the boarder (400 cigs. p.p.).

[@freedomfighter22222]

The Dutch are tall to keep their head above the water line

[@josteingravvik2381]

😆🤣

[@josteingravvik2381]

😆🤣

[@zepter00]

all short people in Netherlands just drowned when dam was broken

[@RealConstructor]

That is a bit difficult, I live 6m below sealevel. I’m only 1,86m tall and need to be a giant to get my head above water.

[@zepter00]

@@RealConstructor so stand on a bar chair

[@aniieesteiner]

The reason why Swedish kids leave home so early is how "high school" (gymnasiet) is organised, in the very sparsely populated country. Sure, here in Stockholm, where I live, there are high schools to choose from around every corner (ok.. not really), and most kids have a maybe 20-30 30-minute commute. But in municipalities in both northern and southern Sweden, it can be very far. Veeery far. Just two examples from my own family, I have one relative in the north who lives 2 hours away from the nearest high school, and one in the south that would have a 1-hour commute. Both by (normal) car. And in Sweden, you start high school at 16, but you can't drive until you're 18. So a lot of high school kids live in the towns where the high schools are even if their families live an hour+ away. Add to that, Sweden's high schools are more like mini-colleges, with study programs ranging from social science-focused, to natural science, to cooking, to child caring, and a ton of others. All schools don't offer everything, so if there's something you want to study that's not available where you live, you might opt to move into a school with a dorm, and Swedish law states that you must be registered as living where you have your main bed, so to speak. There are even super-niche programs, like the Professional Dance program, or the Ski Instructor program, both only offered at their single schools, respectively.

[@Divig]

Came here to say this. Many of my friends in gymnasiet (15 to 19 year olds, depending on when your birthday is) lived on their own.

[@drCox12]

Interesting. I didn't know that but it makes of course a lot of sense in countries with regions that are sparsely populated. That said: Is home schooling a thing in Sweden (like you learn at home/from your parents and then just take official exams) or is high school attendance a mandatory thing?

[@Cuasimodo-d7q]

Too much text. Can u pleaser resume it in once sentence

[@fulf]

​@@drCox12 Home scooling is not a thing in Sweden. Hig school is not mandatory but it can be hard to get work if you dont attend. Hig school is basicaly for learning a proffession or get knowledge so you can attend college

[@drCox12]

@@fulf Ah ok, thx :)

[@MausTheGerman]

I live in Germany about an hour away from Luxemburg border and literally everyone from our area drives to Luxemburg for buying coffee in huge amounts. It’s much cheaper there due to less taxes. That might be the reason why Luxemburg is showing such high number on coffee consumption (when it’s measured by the sales amount)

[@simonhirschmugl5134]

I know some people (including myself) who were in the area as tourists or for work and just decided to stop in Luxembourg, drink a coffee in a cafe and leave the country again.

[@ONCE_A_MOA_ALWAYS_A_MOA]

As a Dutchy we go to Germany to tank

[@magnusnilsson9792]

@@ONCE_A_MOA_ALWAYS_A_MOA As a Swede we go to Germany for beer, or as we call it "öl", stop selling us oil.

[@Taskwyre]

@@magnusnilsson9792 Be honest. Getting the Danes to finance the Fehmarnbelt tunnel between Germany and Denmark was really a secret Swedish ploy to get German alcohol faster and cheaper.

[@thomasalbrecht5914]

5:20 basically, air quality and population density correlate. Big conurbations have industrial production, heating, traffic… all related to combustion of fossil fuels. On the seaboards, it gets diluted a bit better. In northern Italy, you have the plain of the river Po, which is densely populated and also surrounded by mountains keeping the prevailing westerly winds out.

[@oakld]

I find hilarious, that in a good hotel in Belgium the receptionists speak very broken English and then you cross borders over to Netherlands and and a cleaning lady at petrol station toilets speaks flawless fluent English 😂

[@okklidokkli]

They should switch jobs.

[@joschmo4497]

Francophone people probably driving down the averages, they can't speak foreign languages to save their lives. Same with Italians and Anglos.

[@andread5560]

History. The reason is historical . NL and England are two nation with strong link in theyrs history. Just to give an example William of Orange become king of England.. The orange is still the family of NL kings now.

[@oakld]

@@andread5560 I agree, but I think a part of that is an attitude to foreign language and consequently it's education. There are other factors I guess too, like closer proximity of Dutch language to English and that they speak more languages than just French in Belgium. The point of the original comment was just the difference itself, seen from the outside 🙂

[@andread5560]

@@oakld all true. And the language spoken is always linked to history. Just to give you an example. 42% of english word come from france lnguace and 14% come from latin. Word like wall come from latim vallum , the verb to move come from latin verb moveo , the word super come from latin superior . French : subterfuge come from french , army come from the french word armee , general come from the french word le general . All for historical reason. Latin cause rome conquered england 2000 years ago , the french from the normas that conquered england 1000 years ago.

[@101steel4]

Americans speak at least one foreign language. Usually English.

[@MiguelFerreira-dc8bv]

@@sopalen ahahah

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

I would go further and say most americans don't speak anything but a foreign language.

[@ChR0nos_7734]

The rent in Eastern Europe/Balkans isn't cheap. €490 on a €800-1000 salary is a lot of money. Balkan people don't leave the parents house cause they have no money, and in 80% of cases they'll inherit the house. They also live on a separate floor of the house which has it's own enterance from the outside. The reason Northern part of Italy has bad air quality is because Po River valley is surrounded by mountains on 3 sides and a lot of industries are located there, city of Milan has 1.4m people and Grande Milano metropolitan area up to 6m people, Turin with metro pop. of 2.2m people and Parma and Modena with both with around 200k people

[@Michael-kt6gi]

And Piacenza! 😂

[@BlackHoleSpain]

Ratio is better than ours in Spain, with €900-1000 rents over a €1500-1800 salary

[@colla555]

The same goes for Germany. Even outside a big city, you can easily pay 1300€ for a 60-square-meter flat. On a net salary of 2000-2500€ if you earn well.

[@joschmo4497]

Yes, as a Croat I can confirm. The standard is to build a bigger house and have separate apartments. So living together, but not really. I mean I don't think that's bad, for those of us who CAN manage to have that. Those that have to rent, RIP. There are benefits to it, like my brother and sister are both married and have kids, they always have parents around who are more than happy to watch over the grandkids. I don't get this idea that you should move away from your parents ASAP. Why? If you don't hate your parents or have to move for work, why would you? Even if it was more affordable, why waste money like that? Sorry western Europeans, but maybe it's time to consider you're the ones doing it wrong. It contributes to so many other negative factors

[@jur4x]

Or look at Russia. €800 pcm in Moscow. Most people outside Moscow don't even earn that much. A lot of people in Moscow don't earn 80k rubbles a month.

[@speerboom]

About the temperatures in Europe, they tend to be lower than in the US. Simple reason is, we’re way up north. Your northern cities compare to the South of Europe. For example New York is at about the same latitude as Madrid and Rome. The Netherlands is centrally located in Europe (along the N-S axis at least) but is north of Maine. Meaning if we disregard Alaska, then over half of Europe lies further to the north than any place in the US.

[@_asphobelle6887]

True, but also this map's title is "countries that never had above 35°C" but then only Ireland and Iceland are coloured, meaning most of Europe does in fact experience temperatures above 35°C at least occasionally. The map is a bit strange, to be honest, to show only this one arbitrary data point; it would have been a lot more interesting to see the max temperature recorded in each country, or at least different ranges like under 35°C, 35-38°C, something like that. Summer temperatures over 40°C are pretty common in Southern Europe. Where I live 32-33°C is pretty normal on a hot summer day, 35-36°C is hot but not exceptional, and the recorded all-time max is slightly above 40°C (or 102°F) *at the moment* (it was set in 2023, beating a previous record in 2019 or 2020, that had beaten one in 2003... so yeah, it may be that in a few year this new record will be exceeded again).

[@Salve01]

How about Alaska?

[@speerboom]

@@Salve01 Nothing about Alaska. I clearly stated ‘if we disregard Alaska’. However if you do want to compare Alaska to Europe, then the southern most part of Alaska lines up with the north of Ireland, England and Germany and Anchorage lines up with Bergen (Norway) and Helsinki.

[@wessexdruid7598]

@@Salve01 The UK is in the same latititudes as Alaska & Newfoundland. The contiguous US states are in the same latitudes as the Mediterranean and N. Africa. No wonder they have high temperatures?

[@wessexdruid7598]

@@_asphobelle6887 It does seem odd to mark Northern Ireland & Scotland as having experienced temps over 35°C, then say the Republic hasn't.

[@IceWolf75]

Those are traditional hats, no one wears them. :)

[@Pystro]

The hat shown in the western part of Germany is actually worn by some. Admittedly, many people that do are around 60 years old. And if you do it might make you look a bit like a criminal or a smuggler (which the name "Schiebermütze" means, I think). But yeah, I would agree that how much the different hats get worn varies wildly, down to like 1 in a million. For the "Schiebermütze" I would guess 1 in a hundred.

[@tompsu9536]

@@IceWolf75 and the black and white hats in southern Sweden are given when graduating. We also have them in Finland.

[@grummbeerbauer3527]

To me that looked like the stereotypical "Heinz Becker"-style Batschkapp, and today indeed it is usually only worn by (very) old men only.

[@mr.m7724]

the hat shown in belgium is what we wear in poland

[@WalintHUN]

As a Hungarian I see that and I'm like wtf is that... we have a few types but that small picture was unrecognizable for me...

[@JillHughes-n1h]

They should ask how long they live together before they marry

[@princessmona1432]

I know Norwegians that live together for 5 plus years before they get married, and then wait 2-3 more before they have kids. Then there's those who does the complete opposite and have kids before age 25, unlikely to be married but have probably been together for 2-3 years. I think people here are slowly becoming aware of the issues that can come with having kids late, but it's a difficult economy to be young parents in.

[@sillyjellyfish2421]

About the eastern europe and leaving home - many post-communistic areas still have tons of so called 2 generation houses where one house usually has 2 floors which work as separate living units, with the original idea being that kids DO stay living with parents indefinitely, eventually caring for them at the old age. For that reason, a decent number of people literally never leave, kind of artifically rising the country average in these statistics. They just turn from kids living with parents and granparents to (now that granparents are likely dead or in an actual nursing homes due to serious health issues) themselves being the adult generation in the house with parents being the older family unit there. It's just that if only one in 10 family units has a situation like this, still living with parents even in their 50s and 60s, even though the vast majority of young people leave sometime atound 25, the number is highly skewed up

[@Motbilder]

We have those houses in Sweden too. So it's common that the kids move out at 20 and then their parents rent out part of the house. That's what my parents did.

[@tonys1636]

The UK and Ireland Have a higher age for the kids leaving home due to the high property prices, even if married most are not earning enough to rent let alone buy. Average house price in UK over £350,000, London £600,000. Ireland catching up fast and Dublin often more than London now. In many European countries one can buy a whole village for less than many UK houses.

[@DelphiBellatrixRiddle]

11:51 For this I'd like to note that some European countries have more than one official language so one might speak more than one language without speaking any foreign language. For example Finland has two official languages, Finnish and Swedish, which are mandatory along with English and especially in bigger cities knowing 3-4 is the norm

[@ClemensKatzer]

Thanks, I was thinking exactly the same. What about Scotland and Ireland? Switzerland?

[@DelphiBellatrixRiddle]

@ClemensKatzer those too. Finland was just the easiest example since I'm Finnish

[@ClemensKatzer]

@DelphiBellatrixRiddle As said, I was thinking of it too because I live here since 2000. Originally German, perhaps that's why Switzerland came to my mind. Finland is a great place to live and raise a family. Finnish language is ... a bit of a challenge :-)

[@jacksat2252]

The Dutch are taller because they need to keep their head above the waterline .😂 Sorry, as a Belgian I could not resist.❤

[@josteingravvik2381]

😆🤣

[@paulocarvalho6480]

Cool and funny answer. 😂

[@Pidalin]

You should be silent, after Netherlands will be flooded, you are the next. 😀

[@edonveil9887]

Norwegians and the Swiss have one leg shorter than the other.

[@josteingravvik2381]

@@edonveil9887 😆🤣

[@watcherzero5256]

On the pollution map the Low Countries and south eastern UK have a high population density, you can also see Paris, Moscow, St Petersburg, Athens, Madrid and the Rhine-Ruhr standing out. Northern Italy is quite populous but also the mountains on three sides trap the pollution.

[@DenUitvreter]

Lots of heavy industries near ports and rivers, ships burn pretty dirty too.

[@Darwidx]

But I would say It's pretty acurate map, on most maps Poland is red because of lack of winds that blow away CO2, this map represent actual production of toxic gasses, not their location, so I assume Italy actually isn't overrepresented by moutains.

[@watcherzero5256]

@@Darwidx No its a not a map of pollution production, its a map of Air Quality... Where the pollution is sitting. For example you can see the pollution being carried away from Madrid by the winds, the same for Belgrade you can see it being carried towards Hungary with a large patch of yellow hanging over very sparsely populated farmland.

[@Darwidx]

@@watcherzero5256 Then idk how it's work, is it in one specific day where air in Poland were better quality ?

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Also a sign of the blue banana, that densely populated area for northern England through the low countries and western Germany into northern Italy. Huge population density, lots of industry

[@leopartanen8752]

That coffee consumption map is pretty misleading, because it only tells how much coffee beans are imported per capita and not how much people actually consume it in their own country. 🙄 In Luxembourg they don't drink that much coffee, but rather 6.5 kg per capita. They import it that much but they grind and roast it, and then export it elsewhere. 🇱🇺 We Finns drink 12.0 kg per capita, but only import 11.8 kg per capita and that 0.2 kg per capita is basically Swedish coffee brands. 🇫🇮 Norwegians drink the second most 9.9 kg per capita, but apparently they drink much more Swedish coffee brands in Norway. 🇳🇴 Sweden imports 10.1 kg per capita and drink 8.2 kg per capita, so 1.7 kg goes to Norway and 0.2 kg goes to Finland. Approximately. 🇸🇪

[@micade2518]

Leaving home at an "advanced" age is generally motivated by the cost of housing ... the highest the rent, the longest one stays at mum and dad's.

[@johan.mp4]

Maybe not highest rent, but rent versus income. Sweden has high rents and people move from home at an early age.

[@joschmo4497]

@@johan.mp4 Yeah, paid for by mummy and daddy. 17.5 lol yeah they don't even have jobs but they're moving away. All this shows is statistics can be deceptive and not report what's actually going on.

[@gazibengazi]

12:39 No, that's Bosnia, Serbia is next to it with 20.7%.

[@BoredSquirell]

2:50 a minor note - all marriage statistics you can find online for Spain, Italy and France are completely off. Most people go for, i think the translation is "registered partnership", which is basically marriage but without religious connotations. It's usually not included in statistics even though most people do that. But the average age is probably the same

[@janasvasta2602]

Well, where I come from, these "partnerships" are actually marriages and always are included in the statistics, because you can not have a religious ceremony without it being registered at the registars office, otherwise it is not a valid marriage. While you can have a civil ceremony without the religious one. And this is practically the norm throughout the entire Balkans. Including the getting really drunk part at the party 😂😂

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

@@janasvasta2602 here the religious one Is optional. The government cares about the civil "contract". And with about 35-45% of the population not being member of any of the churches (numbers differ a bit depending on the source of the statistic), many people won't even have a religious ceremony.

[@kerouac2]

In terms of marriage ages, most western Europeans tend to live together for about 10 years before thinking about marriage.

[@gerbenvanessen]

I have been with my girlfriend for 3 years, I see reddit posts about americans getting engaged to eachother after a year and am like "wtf are these idiot dwarves doing?" ... I am Dutch, hence other people being Dwarves.

[@Alias_Anybody]

@@gerbenvanessen People outside the swamps handle it similarly though. That's actually a Murica vs Europe thing.

[@LednacekZ]

also it is not stated if it is the age of their first marriage.

[@stoferb876]

Yep that checks out. I used to play music on a lot of weddings for a while (in Sweden). Very often the wedding couple had not only lived together for years, they often had a couple of kids together too. Super-common.

[@Lisdodde]

We’re together since we were 16, living together/moved out since we were 20, married since we were 27 (got our masters degrees first), which is apparently still young for a Dutch couple)

[@Dqtube]

4:04 This map can be misleading because many people do not live with their parents but still have an official address there. This is because many of us do not want to change our address unless it is necessary. There is a lot of paperwork involved. So many of us don't change our address until we get married or buy our own home, but at the same time we may be studying or working for a long time in a completely different city or country.

[@Niki91-HR]

Well in the Balkans for example multigenerational houses are a cultural thing. Some people never leave the parents house even when getting married. But ofc everyone has its own flat and separate entry. I am a Croatian woman, am 33 and still live at home with my dad and sister, and our grandma was with us till she died in 2021. Its totally normal to leave your parents when getting married... some leave earlier because they move cities because of university.... but its nothing to look down upon. Also most of the people who do live at home go to work, contribute financially and so on. Its just a cultural difference. EDIT: I forgot to mention that sometimes it is also due to money...rent isnt necessarily cheap with our salaries

[@w0t3rdog]

Swede here. Just got married couple of months ago. I am 32, wife is 33. BUT! We've been together for about 11 years, and we have lived together for about 9 years. Hell, we already have a house and 3 kids before we married. Marriage is just a formality, and it makes things easier if anything were to happen to either of us. We had a small City Hall marriage. Just our parents and our kids. Also, I was 16 when I moved away from home. I wanted to go to a different school that had a particular education I wanted. Most graduate from "highschool" in their 18th year and if they dont work right away, they probably move away for University in some other city.

[@azminek7154]

4:10 Until very recently in Eastern Europe and the Balkans it was the custom that kids only move out from their parent's house/childhood home when they get married. This may wary by country, but it wasn't all that uncommon that the young couple live with one of their parent's, usually the girl moves to the guy's family. It's also very common to refer to your parent's home as your (other) home after you moved out. Like when you visit your parents, you visit home, or if your relationship fails, you move back home.

[@azminek7154]

As for language, especially in Eastern Europe depends on language families. Some of the Slavic languages are very closely related or outright mutually intelligible so you can claim to speak a foreign language with little to no additional learning. While for others, like Romania and Hungary, they have much less closely related languages and studying foreign languages didn't really become a priority until they joined the EU. By today a lot of the people below ~40 speaks at least some English and/or German.

[@twinmama42]

10:45 Luxembourg is the coffee capital of Europe? Coffee is cheap in Luxembourg (as is sparkling wine, cigarettes, and gasoline). In some of the bordering areas in Germany you won't find any gas stations anymore). People from Belgium, France, and Germany drive to the Duchy and fill their cars with cheap gas. Then they grab big packs of coffee, cigarettes, and sparkling wine. It makes sense financially, of course, it's not good for the environment. I live about 200km from Luxembourg but when I'm in the general vicinity (e.g. in Trier) I take the short drive to Echternach, get gas, and buy my stuff.

[@morbvsclz]

Getting married younger on average is usually strongly correlated with strength of religious influence on society / socially conservative view points in a country. Among other indicators of a lack of Human Development 😛 Funnily enough Nations with both of those stats often also have higher STD and teenage motherhood rates.

[@jespermattsson816]

The sneeze thing isn't the sound you actually make, but the word used to represent the sound.

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

When I was at school in London (aged 8-13) and knowing that knocking and running was illegal, some of we wicked boys would target the most grumpy harridan in our school's neighbourhood. She lived on a narrow terraced street nearby, where houses had no front gardens. One day we tied a rope to her front door knocker, and across the street tied the other end to another front door. There was little traffic in those days. So we watched from a safe spot while she attempted, unsuccessfully, to open her door. The poor neighbour across the street would today be referred to as collateral damage. 😅

[@Zibi21]

Air polution in Poland and other inland countries is heavily suffering from getting poluted air swept in from Germany and France since the winds go from atlantic ocean into midland the polution is also swept and pushed onto other countries.

[@Emulator833]

Some additional information for Turkey, 190 euro for rent is for Ankara which is the capital but not the biggest city so if it was Istanbul it would probably be close to double of that but you are right average wage and expenses wildly differ. Except the grey hat which we call "Kasket" none of the others are correct "Fez" was used in Ottoman times but nobody uses it in moden day Turkey in fact its actually banned but its not really regulated. Other two hats in the picture, i have not seen in my life. Some other actual Turkish hats would be börk or kalpak.

[@Liggliluff]

The map would be more useful to split each country into smaller regions to compare the prices of the major city of each region.

[@HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey]

In the UK we have many bi-lingual speakers of say Gaelic and English, Cymraeg and English or Cornish and English, Irish Gaelic & English but as they have spoken both all their lives ask if they speak a 'foreign' language they will without thinking say 'No'.

[@Misterjingle]

Same in Spain and France! Breton, Basque, Catalan, Occitan, etc

[@MILICEVIC87]

I am born in Bosnia and Hercegovina, and yes we are pretty tall. I am 195 cm, thats about 6feet 4inch. And nearly all of my male relatives are above 6feet tall. And about the other statistics. I speak 3 languages, croatian, german and english. Married with 25.

[@vintageman91]

In Sweden , we had 34 celsius a couple of times, likely even 35 the last few years. 17.5 is actually very early to move away from your parents here. In the bigger cities, many dont move away until 30 or 31 because of the high prices, long waiting and lack of housing.

[@aleynamorca1365]

Fez has been illegal in Turkey since 1925. Only ice cream shoppers wear it-as a costume - or oblivious tourists. Nobody would bother to report you but if you ever visit Turkey, I recommend you to not wear it at an airport or something.

[@HenrikJansson78]

Why would they be illegal? Seems weird, is there a good reason for it?

[@Dreyno]

⁠@@HenrikJansson78It was mandated as the standard headwear of the military and religious and civil officials in the Ottoman Empire. Turkey became a republic in 1923 and was made a secular state. Amongst the reforms was the 1925 outlawing of the Fez which was seen as divisive. The flat cap replaced it as the everyday hat for men in Turkey.

[@aleynamorca1365]

@@HenrikJansson78 For 21st century it looks like a weird law but back in the day there were a lot of reforms to secularize the country. So, everything that has any religious meaning was banned including certain clothes. But of course, it's an outdated law.

[@Matej_Sojka]

The reason why people live with their parents until average of 31 is because housing prices are really high here so young people cannot afford it easily. Second reason is that people can be away for work, either another city or country and still have permanent residence officially at their parents residence.

[@princessmona1432]

Coffee culture in the nordics are something else. Coffee is for breakfast, for work, in the office, meetings, waiting rooms, cafe, guest visits... Be somewhere and you'll be offered coffee. Considering it gets really cold and dark during the winter, seasonal depression and general gloominess over the weather is common. Imagine forcing yourself out of bed at 7 in the morning, it's pitch black outside and cold.. especially in the arctics where there is no sun during the winter and you have to push through the whole day while it looks like night time? Nothing is better then than a warm cup of black coffee to kick up your gears.

[@Dreyno]

Ireland at 28° feels way worse than Spain at 36°. Humidity (the ground is a massive sponge with all the rain) and the relative dew point make it uncomfortable. Also, the houses designed purely for warmth (no awnings or shutters, carpeted floors etc. air con is rare because it’s rarely required and even the angle of the sun at higher latitudes can all contribute to it feeling hotter than it is. And then there’s conditioning. If all spring it has been between 8 and 12 degrees, raining and windy, a week out of nowhere of 25° heat feels like a sauna. People aren’t used to sweating and putting up with it when they’re not being active. In hotter countries people accept that in summer as normal.

[@llucioo]

5:58 yeah, in northern Italy the alps and the geography of the Pianura Padana makes it way less windy on avarege, so the smog tends to stay concentrated there

[@raymondhardy8468]

I left home and became independent at 16. This was late 1980s . This was Australia and the norm, for teenagers going into trade employment/ apprenticeships. Cost of living now too hard for apprentices as on basic wages

[@Alexandros.Mograine]

The first map is kind of interesting because in the more expensive countries more people live on their own. In the balkans+eastern slavic countries the proportion of rent from your wage is alot bigger than in western/northern europe. Russia for example, rent might be 500-800 but people make like 600-1000 in euros. In Finland you would make probably atleast 2k a month, and thats for the lower end.

[@sidetracked5044]

We played ‘knock a door run’ as kids in the UK. The law is definitely not enforced 😂

[@nelltheretrogamer]

Those "achoo" words were actually quite similar to each other. Some other sounds, like animal noises, are described very differently in different parts of the world. Dogs can go ham-ham or bup-bup or hev-hev, people hear very different things. Also all kinds of sound effects, like knocking on the door or the sound of rain falling, can be written and heard in lots of different ways. (I remember when I was 7 years old, I had a book that was translated from English. One of the characters was called Pam. I showed the book to one of my schoolmates and when she saw the name, she got a laughing fit that went on forever. Because for us, especially at that age, "pam" was the sound effect that a fart makes. She just couldn't believe that someone is called that.)

[@ClemensKatzer]

Hau hau! (Finland) wuff wuff (Germany)

[@begui2613]

7:45 I absolutely LOVE onomatopoeias in different languages. It's hilarious when you realize how different they are. I recommend looking up sounds of different animals, its crazy 😂

[@Sephiroth988]

Northern Italy is highly polluted because the Po valley is enclosed on 3 sides by mountains, so there is very little wind and air circulation in that area.

[@91uzsi]

Wow! An american who can read a map! Respect!

[@tonys1636]

Countries like Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Scotland, Switzerland and Wales have more than one official language so the people may consider the ones not used daily as a `foreign' language.

[@davidz2690]

Ireland and Scotland pretty much only speak English. It’s not like Wales where a huge chunk of the population speak Welsh at home

[@haystackhider7158]

All those coffee shops makes the dutch high LOL

[@emiliofederici9459]

The pollution map shows areas with big cities and industrial areas are: for example in northern Italy the "Paduan Valley" is a big (big for European standards ;) ) flat around the Po river (the longest in Italy) where are a lot of big cities (Milan, Turin) and most Italian industries are. So the air is more polluted. Same goes with the area around the Netherlands and London.

[@sillyjellyfish2421]

The fact that Alps work as a wind block there not allowing that polution to mix up and spread is also "helping"

[@emiliofederici9459]

@@sillyjellyfish2421 Exactly! The Paduan Flat is a triangle incapsulated between the Alps to the North and West and the Appenines to the South. The only way air can escape from it is from the shorter eastern side that opens to the Adriatic Sea (where Venice is).

[@walkir2662]

Also the Ruhr Area in Germany. Yes, we lost most of teh industry, but it's still a major metropolitan area with ~5 million of people and teh according number of cars.

[@Naelhinn]

Same goes for France, you can clearly spot its three biggest city, Paris, then Marseille on the Mediterannean sea, then Lyon.

[@Bzhydack]

In Poland too, this region is Krakow and Upper Silesia.

[@Brauiz90]

1:43 - UK is hell for DHL drivers... they do this every time! When you're at the door, they're gone and your package is on it's way to a pickup point/ post office 11:07 - I'm German, now living in Austria for 2 years and these two countries were pretty low because we have lots of tourists and english is pretty helpful there.

[@Christian_Johansson]

6:25 that white and black hat in Sweden is one that people wear for their graduation from högskolan(university-ish) so it's not a hat that people wear at other times :) This was fun btw

[@nonotorious1467]

Ireland doesn't get hot but it's perpetually humid, if it was hot it would be a tropical island.

[@TheLizzerazu]

The hat in Denmark is the hat you get when you finish gymnasium (college??), and only wear for a few days while you party. You see mostly caps on younger people, few hats like southern irish ones on elderly people. Mostly we wear nothing, except in the winter.

[@ulvsbane]

The Dutch are tall because they have evolved to keep their noses above sea level. Everyone short has drowned by now :p

[@Hadewijch_]

Air quality in the Netherlands, Flanders is mostly poor due to the very intensive livestock farming that is taking place in those areas. These areas have extremely high pig and cattle intensity. The hat's map is about 400 years outdated for most countries.

[@Tom-Lahaye]

The hats of course are traditional styles which emerged a century or more ago. Most of them are not daily worn anymore, but some styles like the flat cap and the Bavarian hat are still relatively popular, and some styles have spread over more countries. Lots of head wear you see on the street is based on non European styles with the baseball cap as the number one in many countries, and also Australian and New Zealand hats (broad rimmed oiled leather hats) are popular by men in outdoor activities. In the colder periods the beanie is the head cover of choice. Personally I wear a dockers cap or a flat cap depending on activity and dress I wear.

[@Barking_Schnauzer]

You shouldn't compare just rent prices, but the real cost vs. the income. So for each country it would make more sense to show how many % of the salary that rent is. You'd be surprised how expensive Central & Eastern Europe suddenly gets - simply because of the crappy income.

[@CatsLilaSalem]

Lastly, in Europe 1 foreign language is English of course, and France and Spain used to be known to not speak English but it has improved in recent years

[@sillyjellyfish2421]

That, but also lots of languages are either already partially recognizeable to each other (slavic country neighbours) or people commonly live across the border with many families being bilingual (benelux, slovakia - hungary, swisserland) so people count themselves as such, because they are, even without actively studying any of those languages. They simply learn those languages naturally.

[@Misterjingle]

English is not the only foreign language, the number of people not knowing English in France is even worse in %. For example, I grew up in Provence, and when I was in school, a lot of people took Spanish or Italian as a second language. They now speak it very well, but they didn't have much interest to learn English. Latin languages are easier and closer culturally :) And back then, English wasn't that useful. But, with globalisation, It starts to change and the new generation tend to learn English more.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Yeah, I've been learning english since 4th grade, which is pretty much the standard in German (statistics say at least 81% learn english), with higher schools often adding french, latin or spanish. Then we have a bunch if immigrants and their descendants, with turkish and russian being especially common. Turkish from guest workers and the 2-3 generations coming from them, and russian mostly from those germans who went to southern Russia as guest workers in the 18th century. So the majority knows german and english, some also a third language and a few a fourth.

[@MercenaryPen]

in terms of Luxembourg coffee consumption- I suspect that the statistics are skewed by the number of people working in Luxembourg but living outside Luxembourg

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

So all the germans and french who come over to work and drink coffee during lunch break?

[@MercenaryPen]

@@HappyBeezerStudios something like that- not to mention the Belgians who do the same

[@koppadasao]

Ding Dong Ditch is called Ringestikk in Norwegian. While ringestikk is legal, pumpestikk (Fill her up, and move off without paying) is a crime.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Ah, a classic Klingelstreich :D

[@SKEPonPCin1080p]

As an American, your geographical knowledge is phenomenal. It’s a breath of fresh air compared to others. An educated American person is seldom easy to find from time to time. Thank you!

[@krzysio53a]

Ian. As an European I have to tell you that your knowledge of location countries in Europe just based on the map is impressive, especially for an American. You can proudly tap yourself on the back. 😎😜😁

[@tompsu9536]

I'm from Finland and I speak 8 languages. Finnish, Swedish, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese. Fluently: Finnish, Swedish, English and German, the others I speak fairly well but not fluently.

[@ElkeSiegburg]

Wow! That's impressive🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️

[@prjw73]

Nou, dan kan Nederlands er ook nog wel bij.

[@Benito-lr8mz]

Si dime algo en Español i tal vegada en Valencia jo no se parlar altres idiomes😂

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Without even having been to Finland I can say that sounds about right. There are regions in western and southern FInland with a swedish speaking majority and it's official language besides Finnish. English is pretty much a universal thing in schools in Europe. I've heard of surprisingly many finns that they speak german and japanese.

[@TheMamosians]

Living in north England I can say flat caps are very popular. Though I see a lot of Russian winter hats a lot

[@davidz2690]

I live in yorkshire and never see anything other than wooly hats for winter😂

[@mdcuber2152]

I bet luxembourgs coffee consumption is so high because there only live rich people that work like 12 hours a day

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Map 1 - The Fact, that London is almost twice as expensive as Paris and more than double that of Berlin, to rent a 1 bedroom apartment, shows why there are so few actual Britons still living in London (approx. 36% British residents now).

[@noefillon1749]

Regarding air pollution, It might have a lot to do with the mountains and the wind patterns in northern Italy, and may be also the population density on the North Sea coastal area. The Netherlands, Belgium, south-east England, north-west Germany and North of France are a really densly populated area, even on European standards.

[@CleD999]

@iwrocker: The answer to why the dutch are so tall is because of our cow milk drinking culture. Most people drink milk during breakfast and lunch starting from the age the moms stop breastfeeding. Milk contains calcium, therefore helps with bone growth. It has even been genetically proven that certain specific lactose persistence genes originate from northwestern Europe making the people from this part of the world better equipped genetically to digest drinking milk into adulthood.

[@sedeslav]

5:06 In Croatia, many people have lived in the same place for centuries and in a series of generations because they are the owners of houses and land. That's why the children live with them, that is, "in their own house", which is much better than moving around and paying high rents. (on the map is number 32 in Croatia)

[@yaonyaon9460]

About the first map. Yeah, the prices are different but so are the incomes as well. I am a Bulgarian and can tell you that it's not rare for people here to get salaries around 1200-1500bgn which would be 600-750 euro. If 385 euros is only the rent, you can calculate how much is left for taxes, bills, transportation, and necessities. It is indeed cheap for foreigners, just not for the natives. By the way, this links to the latter map about the age of leaving home. When you don't have money to rent or buy, you obviously can't go independent. xD

[@zwiderwurzn5908]

I think the rental prices for the capital cities are not always comparable, because the capital is not always the most expensive city of the country. For example, rents in Munich are much higher than in Berlin, and in Istanbul they are probably higher than in Ankara and in Zurich higher than in Bern.

[@MellonVegan]

6:50 These are mainly traditional hats. And mainly men's hats, too. At least the ones for Germany are accurate but for the most part, you won't see any hats here, at all. Not during summer, anyways. A few people wear baseball caps but that's much less of a thing here. But those hats in the South look southern (Alpine) to me and the ones in the North fit the stereotype, although I wouldn't expect to see either on a head below retirement age, so to speak. Maybe some people wear flat caps but that's more of an English thing, at least nowadays. 8:25 We all sneeze independent of language but different languages have interpreted that sound (that can be very different between sneezes and people) according to their writing system and other factors. It's more about language than sneezing ^^

[@barawen_who]

In Spain we leave home late because rents are high in balance with salaries, also there is more people wanting to rent than renting houses

[@Ryuuoo_]

04:54 In some cultures/countries many generations live in same household. 07:52 It does.

[@millinamillota7537]

Hello, I live centrally in Berlin and pay €650 for 63sqm, two rooms (I've lived there since 2006) in full, without housing benefit and WBS. For the newly built apartments right next door, 1200 rent is charged for 45 square meters. The special feature for lower incomes is that you can apply for housing benefit. This means that the state pays (subsidizes) a small part of the rent. The other is the WBS (housing entitlement certificate), which is already subsidized apartments that are only rented to people with low incomes. As an example: A residential building has 20 apartments, then two can only be obtained with WBS.

[@anniep9871]

CONGRATULATIONS ON 200K IAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@iilcesco]

As for the hats. They're traditonal but sometimes you still see them around. The Alpine hat is accurate. Here in Italian mountains me and my friends use it for working under the snow, cause it's made to be waterproof so you don't need an umbrella😅

[@manweoettam]

Italian here. The costs of living alone is so high and the instability of jobs (with salary not adequate) is the biggest problem we have to leave our parents house even in our 30s. It is so since the 2008 world economic crisis.

[@marcblum7493]

About the rental don't forget it's the price for a downtown capital so obviously center London or Paris will be pretty expensive.

[@AC-dn7yq]

7:08 the hats are traditionals - like north germany is shown with a "Prinz Heinrich Mütze", Prinz Heinrich lived 1862-1929

[@trythis2006]

35+ is very common in summers but the difference is that we dont have air conditioners and europeans houses are built differently so they can get extremely brutal, i hear the ambulance in summer like 3 times a day

[@Lemonz1989]

They didn’t color in the Faroe Islands (between Ireland and Iceland) in the temperature map. The highest ever temperature measured there is 26°C (79°F). I moved to Denmark 16 years ago, from the Faroe Islands, and the summers here are brutal to me, even though many consider Denmark as a cold country. I’m just not used to temperatures like this 😅

[@fotticelli]

I was born in Poland but left at 21 and moved back a year ago at 65. I lived all that time in the Mid Atlantic, Washington, DC area so I'm used to summers there are hot and humid. Most summer days there are a few degrees over 90F (32 C) and very humid. Here they consider over 85F (30C) dangerously hot and send out those weather warnings over cell phone systems as if a tornado was about to hit. There are restrictions for work outside and mandatory, breaks for outdoor workers. I find it amusing. In the US they would be allowed to work at night only. On the other end there are no warnings for cold weather other than frost in late spring because of the crops and garden plants. I think there are bad road conditions warnings if the weather turns unexpectedly cold and snowy or in cases of freezing rain. On main expressways they have over-the-roadway warning signs with actual surface temperatures displayed.

[@Stelphy876]

8:58 in the past few years even the northern countries including scandinavia have experienced 40 degrees. i dont know about ireland, that would be very interesting now. but ye temperatures rising man

[@sergiolopezreyes4685]

Here in Spain people leave their parents' home really late mainly because of the high youth unemployment rate, the rigidity of the labor market, the low wages, and the sky-rocketing rent prices of appartments.

[@Dreyno]

Also, the idea that houses can be multi-generational was normal until not that long ago. People moving out of the family home just because they were over 20 years old wasn’t normal anywhere in Europe until the last few decades.

[@lorrefl7072]

The air quality in Belgium is so poor because we are in between some major countries and our highways connect all of those so we have a lot of big polluting trucks crossing our country to go to another country. That's also why our roads are a lot worse compared to like Netherlands, we have all that foreign traffic that doesn't pay taxes here but they do use up our roads.

[@alexanderkupke920]

The sneeze map shows how you would write down the sound you make when sneezing. due to different pronounciation those words written completely different sound the same to some degree. As a more obvious example, the englisch achoo and the German hatschu sound about the same. Of course there are some variations, but lets be honest, different people sneezing sound different as well. Regarding the map about not speaking a different language, I assume that map will change a lot over time. Here in Germany for example they started teaching English in Primary school already, latest at highschool you learn english and usually one or even two other languages (common ones here are French, Latin and Spanish, depending on what the schools offer.) As we have several forms of highschools (Sekundarschule, Realschule, Gesamtschule and Gymnasium) things and offers may differ, as well as there may be differences by state. also everything from a second language beside English on might be out of classes you can choose as well. Of course those offerings developed over time. In my parents generation there was for example still another additional school form, called Volksschule, which started like primary school but only went up to about age 14 and other languages just were not a thing Today going to school is mandatory until age 16. Volksschule was replaced during 60s to 70s by the back then Hauptschule, which was transformed into Sekundarschule recently. This is the most basic form of school which still was supposed to equip you with all writing maths etc skills needed to do an aprenticeship and learn a trade for example. Having good grades it is possible to switch to or continue at a differnt form of highschool as well. so while people today in their late 60s and older may never have learned a second language, anyone younger than that should have learned at least some English. I think englisch became a mandatory class in 1964. Today some schools offer bilingual branches, where they teach more englisch, first just an additional hour per week, later even classes like geography, politics or history are held at least partially in english for those branches. Often resulting in having already a quite high certification of english skills.

[@manweoettam]

The sneeze map is how you sound written in that language, but as I can read other languages the sound is the same.

[@rasmuswi]

The white Swedish hat is worn precisely one day in your life, when you graduate from high school!

[@Asa...S]

Where I live, Stockholm, you wear that hat for about a month, perhaps it's different in different regions of Sweden? You get to put it on on Valborg 🔥 (Walpurgis), April 30th, and then you get to wear it until you graduate in early June, and then you run out of the school and throw it in the air.

[@grummbeerbauer3527]

I wonder if the coffee consumption figures are simply based on coffee sold (vs. consumed) per capita. That would explain the figure for Luxembourg, as a lot of people living in nearby German (probably the French and Belgian, too?) regions actually drive their to buy coffee, cigarettes and top of their car's tank, as all this is really cheap there. And since Luxembourg has a really small population, that might skew figures significantly.

[@oilslick7010]

Look up the term 'onomatopoeia' regarding the 'sneezing map'. You can do this with all kinds of sound-words in all languages.

[@kmartyCZ]

7:46 - imho no. The sound is probably still the same (mostly). Difference is how you try to write it as onomatopoeia (which will certainly differ in each language).

[@ashleigh.]

Honestly, I think that hats one was a meme, I've never seen anyone wear anything but a cap seriously, except for farmers, they do like those slanted hat things

[@dirreeN]

Big reason it's 17,5 here in Sweden is because a lot of people move away from home when they start highschool! And Sweden were actually up there with the Dutch and Neatherlands, but we took in 2 million immigrants that's lowered our avg height slightly.

[@thorin1045]

the air quality would be almost perfectly fit with population density.

[@BananLord]

The hats weren't the regular stuff you wear on the head, it was about traditional hats from traditional wear. Although the bucket hat does look similar, at least in shape, to the Romanian clop.

[@juanfran579]

Regarding the map on foreign languages it is important to consider that it doesn't equal being monolingual. Spain, Italy and France have a number of local languages, especially in Spain a cinsiderable percentage of the population is at least bilingual but not necessarily including foreign languages.

[@noefillon1749]

Regarding the map about how late you leave your parents, I think it can give some insight regarding the purchasing power in different countries.