American reacts to the German Government being ridiculous

[@vomm]

There are always discussions in Germany that residents should not anymore pay for roads that are used by the public. In my opinion, this is criminal. It invites abuse and corruption, when authorities can simply charge citizens to pay for infrastructure projects. And I say this as someone who does not own real estate. I hope this will finally be changed.

[@raistraw8629]

No No No, we have no money for this, you need a road in front of your house, pay it. We need the money for more important things, like rescuing the world and its people on it.

[@lukaspieper633]

@@raistraw8629 The thing is that refugees don't cost that much tax payer money compared to other expenses. There are PLENTY of more useless spendings that cost us MUCH more.

[@Al69BfR]

@@raistraw8629You know that your municipality has to pay for the streets in front of your house if its just in a residential area and not at a Bundes- or Landesstraße? And yes, I don‘t think this is a good practice, because why should someone pay as much as the price of a nice apartment just for the few meters of road in front of your house. There has to be a reasonable middleground without making homeowners poor people or paying back credits until the end of their lives.

[@raistraw8629]

​@@lukaspieper633 It's not only them, they weren't either my main thought.

[@lukaspieper633]

@@raistraw8629 Oh then I didn't get your point, my bad

[@helyushd6943]

the „eu“ in „teurer“ is pronunced like the the „oi“ in „noise“. This goes for most „eu“

[@nettcologne9186]

There are roads (interstates) that belong to the state, or to all Germans, and they pay taxes for them. Then there are roads (country roads) that belong to the federal states and are also financed through taxes. And then there are streets that belong to the municipality, and they usually don't have any money and get it from the residents

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Tut mir leid für den Kölner und dich. Was treibt ihr da in NRW?@@J.U...

[@manub.3847]

It also depends on what the local municipal road regulations say. Sometimes only residents who have a house directly on the respective street pay and residents with access to a hinterland property pay little or nothing. For new building plots, you usually pay part of the access costs as part of the development costs. You can often assume that you have to pay for the road renovation, if you have to take care of the "winter service" (snow and ice removal) yourself. *Unless extra property taxes are charged for this area. Our child pays the standard property tax and an extra property tax for the street because this is a "main street" and the city also cleans the footpath.

[@silkwesir1444]

@@manub.3847 Umm, everyone has to take care of snow and ice removal themselves, even tenants. Except when explicitly stated otherwise (e.g. the landlord pays a company to do that).

[@manub.3847]

@@silkwesir1444 Basically yes, but there are also city or community-specific exceptions. For our children, neither the street nor the footpath has to be cleared, while in our play street even the road has to be cleared by the residents. And those who live in the 30 zone area (the city only clears up to the Park & Ride area) also have to clear the road of snow and ice there, even though it is an asphalt road.

[@mabix69]

@@J.U... In Wuppertal wird etwas repariert??

[@davis_8082]

0:28 Oh Ryan.. Poker.. u killed me. Its the SIgn on highways in europe indicating you're gonna have to pay for the highway

[@chrisX1722]

yeah in some municipalities you have something called a Straßenausbaubeitragsgebürensatzung which regulates who has to pay what percentage of the construction / renovation of what kind of street

[@vomm]

Why can't you still not pronounce the term "realer" after 20 episodes with this show :D It has three syllables, not two.

[@OpaSpielt]

Someone should send him an audio file for real. 🖐👴🏼

[@MellonVegan]

​​@@OpaSpieltthat still won't help. Some people just hear a spoken word and instead of actually listening, they just think about which word that is or what it is spelt like and then they pronounce that in their native accent. sadly, some people are actually hopeless with languages

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

That wasn't my impression of him, so far...@@MellonVegan

[@drei-zwei-eins]

* Re'a'ler

[@MtheHell]

Just to clarify the 'framework', because you (and we!) like the reactions to that very much: The TV show itself is called "Extra 3", a satirical TV magazine by the TV station "NDR" ("Norddeutscher Rundfunk", the regional public broadcasting station of Northern Germany). "Realer Irrsinn" ("real lunacy/insanity") is a regular rubric/part of the show, dealing with odd/droll real events or foolish acts, often connected to communal politics. Every now and the, there is also a additional show called "Der reale Irrsinn XXL" as a ranking show of 6 of the most intriguing cases they collected over time.

[@nerdpraxis]

You did the Ü umlaut instantly without thinking in the correct way, good work !

[@andreadee1567]

Bureaucracy is beautiful. Normally it helps keeping things correct and fair. Then comes an amount of things that are really complicated but still fair. Some things are complicated but unfair. And then you have those beautiful incidents which makes the whole world think: Germany lost its mind. But at least they can laugh at us. I feel sorry for bureaucracy victims. Something like this can happen to nearly anyone.

[@hh-kv6fh]

A borderline case are “almost public roads”, which are open to the general public for use but are privately owned. These include, for example, driveways and parking spaces of retail stores or public facilities. Due to the lack of road dedication, the road and right of way do not apply in this case, but road traffic law applies due to use by the general public.[3] This form of (generally usable) private road has been criticized in the 2010s, as municipalities are increasingly trying to relieve the burden on public budgets by transferring the costs to the owners of the roads.[4] Private roads or private paths are roads that are not publicly owned, but belong to developers, homeowners or investors. They are not a consequence of the increasing privatization of the city; they already existed at the time of the founding. Nowadays, many new development areas have private roads, often access roads to underground car parks or properties. Because they are of no use to the general public, the public sector does not contribute to the costs of development and maintenance. The owner is obliged to ensure that the property is in good condition and must bear the costs of cleaning, snow removal and maintenance. To do this, he is free to close all or part of his street to public use. Some private roads are reserved exclusively for residents, others also allow public transport. Building law stipulates that every property must be accessible from a public road. If this is not possible, for example because it is a property on the other side of the property, access is usually via a private path on another property. In this case, an easement must be set up between property owners as a private law regulation in order to enable the owner of the undeveloped property to use the other owner's private path and thus secure the access road for him. Under public law, the development must be secured by a construction burden on the property that serves as access to the undeveloped property.

[@Microtubui]

first time I saw that and I am from Bünde looool. it needs an american to react to my hometown to know that this was on TV XDXD

[@groundloss]

It is directly next to the Pegasus Restaurant. Is the road actually already renewed by now? I dont really remember, but if my memory servers right nothing has happened there?

[@stef987]

As far as I know, it's common in Germany (not sure if everywhere) for residents to pay for the street in front of their homes. Btw. there are also "private streets" that are owned by the residents living next to it, they can't be used by everyone, unless the residents allow it. But I think it's usually side streets that people don't really need to go through and there's always a sign saying "Privatstraße" or "Privatweg" (private path). "Unfair" is an English word used in German for decades (so older people use it, too). "Fair" is, too.

[@manug2508]

Tbh, i've never heard of people having to pay for a none private road other than by their taxes. And i live in Germany for over 40 years now, so i wouldn't really call it common. But it turns out that it doesn't seem to be the case in several states, so i might just have been lucky so far.

[@irminschembri8263]

Don't worry, you don't have to pay for roadworks like that everywhere in Germany. If you build a house in a newly devoloped area but you pay "Anliegerkosten" ONCE here in Southern Germany and from then on it is the city's/states/ federal government's duty to keep it up to ( our normally good) standard !

[@arthur_p_dent]

it's a matter of State (Bundesland) legislation. The rules on how much the municipal administration can charge you for roadworks vary by Bundesland and some Bundesländer may have abolished these contributions altogether.

[@Maaaggii]

And the best is... it is not universal for every state in Germany. Over half of the states you don't pay anything.

[@franconianbike]

@02:23; Taxes in Germany are for buying weapons for other people's countries. And to build expensive windmills and solar parks, of course. What makes you think that they are spent on infrastructure?

[@Elfo_]

The state government does not want to charge these fees anymore and the opposition of the government wants to abolishes them completely: "Road expansion contributions are to be abolished: Contributions should also be reimbursed retrospectively. The state of North Rhine-Westphalia wants to take over road expansion contributions completely. The CDU and FDP state parliamentary groups announced this together with Minister of Construction. However, the final abolition, for which the SPD and Greens had previously spoken, will be postponed to an appointment after the state election."

[@Why-D]

Residential streets in the residential area, that mostly are for the locals, can be paid (sometimes have to be paid) by the residents, and the longer your ground is at the road, the bigger is your share. Street you drive through, country road, federal streets or Autobahnen are paid through the taxes.

[@wustenfuchsgaming1226]

We got the Same here in Stade with the Schölischer Straße, the People there should pay 5000€ up to and in one Case over 250000€... Just in Time there was Voting for Regionalpolitics and the new set in Charge Partys demolished the "Straßenbaubeitragssatzung" who regulated this Irrsinn. One Case of Voting helps.

[@voldavkuk]

I'd like to add, that your favorite German television show is NOT called "Extra three" but "Extra dry". It is a German joke about: 1st) The humor in northern Germany, "trockener Humor" is "dry humor". 2nd) This show is produced by the "third broadcasting channel, NDR" in northern Germany. There is where the "3" originates. And "three" is called "drei" in German. You can pronounce the "drei" like the English word "dry" if you like... 3rd) The combination is - for English speakers: Extra dry or for German speakers: Extra drei (knowing, that here it doesn't mean the number three) So it is written as "Extra-3" but pronounced "Extra dry".

[@stef987]

I must admit that as a native German speaker, I wasn't able to get the joke on my own, probably due to the German pronounciation/"Extra dry" needing to be pronounced with a heavy German accent.🙈

[@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl]

Äs e neetiff spieker ai äm nau ievänn moor konfjusd...

[@voldavkuk]

@@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl You're welcome 😊! Bzw. Ju arr wellkomm!

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

lol... You have Swedish roots, right?@@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl

[@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl]

@@melchiorvonsternberg844 not exactly. More Swabian roots. The ancestor known to come from the farthest north was born somewhere around Minden/Westphalia.

[@rhysodunloe2463]

The problem with roads and streets in Germany is that as long as its not a federal or state road (Autobahn, Bundesstraße, Landstraße) it is paid by the Landkreis (like a county) or the village/town itself. And in those cases the residents often have to pay their share. But most of the times it's not one big bill that you have to pay immediately all at once but so called "reoccurring fees". See it as an additional property tax. My granny lives in a street without a neighbour on the other side because there's a very steep slope going down to the next street. This slope and the upper street where her house is also belongs to her property but the village has the rights to that land and also the duty to care for it. Like mowing the lawn on the slope, fixing the streetlamps and the railing that keeps children from falling down, etc. But a few years ago she received a bill for mowing the slope although there's a contract that states that the municipality will pay for those costs. The problem was that in the past most of the work was done by municipal workers - the village had their own gardeners for public ground, the church yards and the cemeteries. But due to funding cuts after most of the workers retired they had to hire a contractor for those jobs. And the new mayor thought "Why not let the residents pay wherever possible?" Luckily my granny didn't have to pay that bill in the end because the contract that her mother in law made with the village over that piece of land excludes our family and any post-owners of that property for 100 years from any maintenance costs that occur beyond the half of the street. And its only been sealed in the 1960s. So another 30+ years.

[@Lisa-xn9xc]

It's a law that the town can make the residents pay, when they improve the road. If they just repair the road the town would have to pay. In many cases they towns just don't repair the roads for a long time and then decide to improve the broken road... The reason behind that law is, that a better road will improve the house prices. How the towns handle this is very different. Some decide not to charge the residents at all. Others use it as a way to earn money. I heard of a case, where they built a street years before, but didn't build the last 5 meters of the sidewalk to save some money as they would lead nowhere. The town couldn't charge the residents, because technically the road wasn't finished. Years later the town needed money, so they built thos unnecessary part of the sidewalk. At that point the street was technically finished and the town could charge the residents for the whole street, that has been built years ago.

[@klamin_original]

Some districts and even the whole state of Bavaria have given up on this practice. Residents in Bavaria don’t have to pay anything for road construction anymore. In other states they still have to. Remember that the US and Germany both have a federal system where these differences between states are possible.

[@JackDaniel432]

In the state Baden-Württemberg it's the same. Depending on the level of the street, the town(Gemeindestraße), the district (Kreisstraße), the state (Landesstraße) or the federal government (Bundesstraße, Autobahn) has to pay.

[@mats7492]

2/3 of the states in germany have abandoned these fees already.and its quite likely the other third will follow soon

[@klamin_original]

@@mats7492 that’s good to hear

[@steemlenn8797]

"Straßenausbaugebühren" are quiet a hot topic. Most states have aboslished them by now because people living there were always furious. First thing you need to know as an American is that property taxes here are far lower than in the US. If you take that difference, you easily get to the 24'000€ during the lifetime of a village street. But of course people here also live paycheck to paycheck a lot and then complain when non-regular but foreseeable expenses come up. It's not like "Straßenausbaugebühren" are some secret tax only the initiated know about. (Since childhood I have lived in a rented appartment and I still know all that stuff in this post after all.) Savings rate is only 10-12% and that already includes all the rich guys. The amount is calculated by the length of the street your property is touching (that's probably why the farm has to pay that much) and how much the street is used by local people only. residential steet - people living there pay a high %, through road, people pay a lower %. Though 85% is the highest I have ever heard about.

[@TackerTacker]

I had no idea that was a thing

[@TimoGockel]

This is a common law in Germany. These are the so-called "Erschließungskosten". So you should never buy a house next to an unfinished road in Germany or it might get expensive. You can even be charged retroactively for road construction that was made before you were even born.

[@montanus777]

in short: you should never buy a house.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Äh, nope. There is also a law, which works in the whole republik I think, that roads which existed befor 1872, are not chargeable for that. So check out, which road exists that long and you can buy a place there, if any is for sale...@@montanus777

[@joko6560]

they are getting charged, because a better road to their house boosts the value of the house itself. If you wanna sell your house after the better road is finished, you can get more for your house, so you have to pay for the road.

[@suit1337]

unfair is not a german word, it is an anglicism - the german word would be "ungerecht"

[@JustBigL66]

on the 9th of November you should watch "Be deutsch" by Jan Böhmermann. Its a song but i think it would be fun to see your reaction to it

[@Rick2010100]

My mother has a similar problem. The road in front of the house was pretty fine, but the sewerage had to be renovated and expanded because the municipality had grown drastically and in front of her house was the main pipe to the sewage treatment plant. When the sewer line was replaced, the perfect road was ruined and is now a bumpy road. The municipal administration now wants to make the residents pay for a new road surface, they don't want to pay a cent and are threatening to sue. The community has now come up with the idea of redesigning the street and making it traffic-calmed. That would then allow them to pass on the costs of the new road surface - or so they believe. A court will probably have to decide that too, because the residents don't want a redesigned street.

[@lilg2300]

german bureaucracy is next level, thrust me!

[@joel17721]

In my city they tried the same the residents went on a strike and in the end the road wasnt renewed

[@Gotenks-e1l]

"here the residents pay 65%" , "here the residents pay 85%" ... No they pay 100% because thats they only money the city has, the residents money and maybe some money "from the government" which is also only from the people. So what they actually mean is when its 65% the people pay 35% of the cost, and then the people that live near the street pay another 65% of the cost. What that means is that they didnt handle the money of the citizens properly and used it in a wasteful way and now they need more money to change this silly street and probably then even put half of the money in their own pocket 🤦🏻‍♂ This disgusting manner of talking when they seem to not even be aware of where they get the money from, everything that a country does is financed by its citizens. And these burocrats from the citiy say 65% , like if they would have payed the other 35% by themselves 🤦🏻‍♂

[@jensschroder8214]

The city has to repair the road using tax money. That's why it's often cheaper for the city to let the road break down and pass the costs on to residents. This regularly leads to trouble. In some federal states the laws have been changed and the city also has to use tax money to build new buildings.

[@spicyrumo]

you need to watch more of this show, almost every episode of realer irrsin would be good to react to

[@Gnoccy]

This is how it works in all of Germany. The point is, what they have in front of their house doesn't really qualify as a road yet. It is the temporary construction path that was put in when the houses were build. In Germany, if you build a house in a newly developed area, you are responsible for paying the road connecting to your house. And I'd say that makes sense. Why should the rest of the town foot the bill, if you live way out of town and need hundreds of meters of road just for yourself? But that argument gets murky if the road is also used by through traffic.

[@S0oo]

To explain Germany in a nutshell: Politicians will talk about stuff for decades without anything happening, than use exclusively low and medium income households to fix the damages that could have been prevented decades ago. Maybe a potential next video for you: They once again trying everything in their power, so we can only retire at 70.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Not for me! The grace of early birth... I remeber the last great Chancellor, Helmut Schmidt very well and I remember how he was removed from office by traitors. These politicans, started 40 years ago, a lot of mess. 32 years of CDU rulin' made it, how it is today...

[@AlonsoFan2023]

Retirement at 70 will be fun. I know several people who have told me independently of each other that they were already told at the employment office at the age of about 62 that they don't have to write any applications because companies no longer take them at that age.

[@S0oo]

@@AlonsoFan2023 Handyman will literally die in other peoples houses because of this. Also why keep the old guy that's basically at 150% salary or higher but only brings in 40% of work? I'll quit my job at some point, go into politics for a couple years and get the big state checks for retirement

[@matthiasnieuwenhuisen7181]

Sometimes a residential road in a new neighborhood is built only as a "temporary road", e.g. with no sidewalks and other amenities. And some decades later the cities decide to improve it and argue that now it is the initial construction of the road for which the residents have to pay the most part of the costs. I think that this also happended here, that's how the differences between 50% and 85% of the fees come from.

[@tosa2522]

The way in which road expansion contributions are handled varies greatly in Germany. In the city where I live, all property owners in the city are involved in equal parts. As a result, you have to pay less at once, but all the more often.

[@petebeatminister]

So much about the advantages of owning property in Germany. Just in case you still wonder why so many people rather rent than buy.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Ähm... Dir ist aber schon klar, dass ein Hausbesitzer diese Kosten auf seine Mieter umlegt, sofern sie anfallen? Du bist also so oder so gefickt! Aber es ist natürlich vom Bundesland abhängig (grins) und ob die Strasse schon vor 1872 existiert hat. Vermutlich, hat das ursprünglich etwas mit der Reichsgründung ein Jahr vorher zu tun... Für meine Familie gilt, wir sind doppelt safe...

[@AlonsoFan2023]

@@melchiorvonsternberg844 Ich würde sagen, dass kommt ganz auf den Vermieter an. Sofern das Gebäude keinem größeren Unternehmen gehört, kann man auch Glück haben. Ich wohne seit 2005 im gleichen Haus, die Kaltmiete hat sich 2021 zum ersten Mal leicht erhöht. In den Jahren davor gab es Renovierungsarbeiten an allen Außenwänden, Bau einer neuen Garage, Schimmelentfernung im Keller und der Außenwand. Diese Kosten hat der Vermieter immer vollständig selbst getragen. Das macht aber sicherlich nicht jeder Vermieter. Meine Freunde und Arbeitskollegen konnten es nicht fassen, als ich ihnen erzählt habe, dass ich für 180qm Wohnfläche mit Garten und alten Weinkeller 15 Jahre lang die gleiche Miete gezahlt habe.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Wohl wahr... Aber ich bin da sowieso raus. Der Familiensitz, du verstehst...@@AlonsoFan2023

[@E85stattElektro]

You are a bit like a Frenchman. They also don’t pronounce the last letter of the word.

[@berlindude75]

0:08 "Realer Irrsinn" (real lunacy) = RAY-AH-LAIR IRR-ZINN (approx. pronunciation)

[@MichaEl-rh1kv]

The rules for residential streets differ a bit from state to state, but in most the municipalities are entitled to request some share in the costs of renovating or expanding the street from the residents; the share of each resident is calculated according to the length of street bordering the property (which seems often to be a bit unfair). Sometimes there are also complaints if current residents are charged with a share of the cost to enlarging a street in order to use it for connecting a newly developed zone at the end of the street... All told, the percentage of the total costs they request from the residents in Bünde seems rather high.

[@017renegade]

It's not only the roads. My dad was surprised with a 30k bill for the renewal of the sewage system he's connected to.

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

Those bushes are topiary ryan, they are manicured into those shapes

[@th.a]

NDR stands for Norddeutscher Rundfunk. It part of the German Public Broadcasting Service. NDR belongs to the ARD - 'Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland'. ARD is also referred to as 'Das Erste'. The first German Television Channel. The second one is simply called ZDF - Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, e.g. Second German Television. The ARD is the umbrella company for the third channels of the public broadcasting services. The third channels are regional and used to be one per federal state. E.g. WDR = Westdeutscher Rundfunk/West German BroadcastingService, BR = Bayerischer Rundfunk = Bavarian Broadcasting Service etc. Extra 3 is a political satire show that is produced by NDR and broadcasted on both channels, the ARD and NDR.

[@Fochest0r]

I'd love to see follow ups of these stories. Did they all pay? How many people are still living here? I mean with the owner having to pay 210.000€... you are completely destroying the property value of any of these houses. They cannot sell their house because they'd have to deduct the road construction costs off the value.

[@mats7492]

its unkely that they would have to pay.. how legal these fees are in the first pßlace is already questionable

[@nathantshitenga2029]

the populitation of the town is still the same plus minus a few people but yes most of them had to pay a bit so that the roud could be fixed but by far they didnt had to pay all the 210 grands just a fraction of that.... The rest was payed buy the municipal and the federal state

[@embreis2257]

no, you got that wrong. access to that road makes the property valuable in the first place. and that farm is probably worth millions now. they knew they had to pay for that road for decades and should have prepared for the day the bill is due

[@DJone4one]

It is standard practice for residents to share the cost of roads, since they are shared. However, it is often unfair what the costs are for a household when the city wants 210,000 euros from you. Depending on the size of the property, the share of the road that is used is calculated. So if you have a large plot of land, you have to pay more because you "share" a larger part of the road. In most cases, social situations are not taken into account, e.g. if someone earns little or is a pensioner. But that's what the court is for, which is sometimes helpful. Maybe not in all cases, but in some cases, the residents do not have to pay anything or only a small fraction of the demanded costs, which is then justifiable. But it still seems unfair, because we generally pay taxes and therefore people think that the roads are paid for by the money. The fact that the municipal budget also pays for other things from the tax revenue, such as teachers, city employees, police, etc., is something that very few people realise.

[@jensschroder8214]

The public radio and TV stations NDR Northern German Radio (and TV broadcasting ) WDR West German Radio MDR Central German Radio SWR Southwest German Radio BR Bavarian Radio SR Saarland Radio HR Hessian Radio RBB Radio Berlin Brandenburg Radio Bremen then the private channels: RTL, SAT1, Pro7 and more

[@ropeburn6684]

There's a traditional and legal principle in Germany: "Eigentum verpflichtet", roughly "property is (or creates) duty". It means that if you own land, there are certain duties coming with it. In this case, paying for street renovation.

[@embreis2257]

2:08 'who's gonna pay.' not every road is being paid for by taxes. there are four different classes of roads in Germany and they are similar to the US as both countries are federations. federal roads, state roads, county roads and city/town/village roads. roads build in residential areas to connect them to the general road system are being paid for by the residents living along that road - once! it is not just the road they have to pay for but also the sewage canal underneath, the side walk, the lamp-posts and trees etc. however, they do this only once and then the town/city etc has to maintain the structure. sometimes, it takes decades before residents are actually expected to pay for it. the delay has various reasons. in many cases, the road is being build as a makeshift solution in order to connect a new residential area and then left this way. once it is no longer avoidable and the road needs to get repaired it is being remade properly and then the residents get the bill for the first time edit: 2:54 these people are very old and should know how things work. it is not a new law but a very old one and they were told when this road was first build as a makeshift solution. anyway, the sum they have to pay depends on the size of their property and the length of the road adjacent to their property. Ryan, you are confused because this report is not really interested in explaining the law but entertaining the viewers by showing perplexed, surprised, unprepared or forgetful citizens who twist the facts according to their narrative. these people are not victims, it is not some sort of luck or bad luck if they have to pay or not. *these people are property owners* and live on a road where they are obliged to pay for the construction (because that road was build only to connect their houses to the general road system) and they knew they are obliged to pay for it since this road was first constructed as a makeshift solution. they just forgot and didn't bother to make financial preparations for the day they actually get the bill. they had decades to prepare for it. now they are surprised and act all innocent.

[@MellonVegan]

Honestly sounds ridiculous. The day that anyone tries to get money out of me for building/restoring a street that I didn't order, I'm going to tell them to fuck off and move away I mean how can anyone be legally obligated to pay for sth they don't want? How is bs like this even possible?

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

You have no sense, for law and order, right?

[@Slingshot-Phighter]

Its Pronounced: Re-aler Irr-sien

[@norbertrottenari4516]

you got to love the german bureaucracy

[@VideoStefan17]

7:35 NRD --> Nord Deutscher Rundfunk --> North German Broadcast We Germans call ourself "Deutsch".

[@groundloss]

Coming back onto this topic, todays newspaper reads: new law coming into power in 1st April 2024 that will protect citizens from having to pay for roadworks on the road with their own house next to it like in this case.

[@EvilGNU]

And you wonder why having your own property isn't even that popular in many places in Germany. Unless you are a big conglomerate and can wave away those costs.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Ja... Oder schon deine Vorfahren haben die richtige Entscheidung über den Wohnort getroffen. Grüße aus dem großen Süden...

[@moover123]

maybe they could sell their house and move to a flat

[@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece]

How bills like those are handled vary village by village. This definitely is a buyer beware situation. And a good reason too avoid tiny villages because they change the rules mid game all willy nilly. Where I live all of those bill are split over the entire village always and allocated by square meters. So it's not a wild gamble like this example. But my grandparents had an experience exactly like that. Also this where different types of streets matter. The main streets are indeed state owned and and people living there don't have to pay anything for them. That also played into my purchase consideration. Sure, this main street is louder during the day, but we are in the middle of nowhere. so most of the time simply no one drives though here.

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

Guessing the council or whatever it's called only repairs roads within the village, but won't repair there section of road because it's too expensive. Home owners outside the village boundary are being forced to pay for road repair outside there properties, not a good look for the council.

[@mats7492]

Right now only 7 out of the 16 federal states in germany still demand citizens to pay these fees.. its quite likely that these fees are not gonna stand if they are in front of the higher courts..

[@robertheinrich2994]

regarding pronounciation: in "realer Irrsinn", in the word "realer", which is a comparativ of real, the two vocals are actually pronounced seperately. re-al. not like in enlish, where everything gets munched together, in german, there are quite a few vocals that don't like to mix. it also depends on the order of the vocals. usually, german is pretty straight forward, the letters are pronounced in the way they come. there are only a handful of letters that essentially join, like "ei, ai, sch, sp, st, au, äu, ch, tz..." if everything else fails, you can even pronounce the letters one after the other.

[@rwsrwsrwt]

In the context of "realer Irrsinn", the word "realer" is a declension of "real", not a comparative. (It's not "realer" than real, but it gets its ending because the noun it refers to is masculine - if it was feminine you'd use "reale" and if it was neuter you'd use "reales".)

[@robertheinrich2994]

@@rwsrwsrwt you are right. my german classes in school were 25 years ago. and I hated one of my german teachers. but he was also my history teacher, and he whined about what happened in the 1940ties. school in austria was fun 😀 by the way, my english skills are not a result of the austrian schooling system but because of my desire to watch stargate and the german torrents were really slow 😀

[@SatieSatie]

According to my quick research, the Straßenausbaubeitrag is still levied in 7/16 states of Germany (soon only 5). Liebe Nachbarn, was stellt ihr da drüben an? 😂

[@nytrq8115]

I live in Bünde and I love how we got a Realer Irrsinn Episode

[@dr.curium5822]

My town wanted to renew our Streets what would cost 30k - 70k € per House. No one wanted that so the Major had the idea that every house in town should pay a little bit. Now i have to pay about 230,- € per year.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Well... The bigger question is how long you would have to pay...

[@dr.curium5822]

@@melchiorvonsternberg844 2025

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Klingt, sagen wir mal erträglich. Den ersten Weltkrieg, haben wir erheblich länger abgestottert...@@dr.curium5822

[@LeksDee]

I don't understand why everything the government builds is always so expensive.. How is asphalt so expensive, it's not like construction workers get paid a lot...

[@porky1118]

7:00 Aren't roads the USP for having a government who is allowed to collect taxes?

[@th.a]

'Realer'' is pronounced differently than the English 'real'. The e and a are pronounced separately. Re-a-ler. It's like the Spanish football club Real (Re-al) Madrid.

[@TZBuer]

It's a City thing. And not in all of our 16 states.some state don't have Resident to pay for roads. And all roads and street which would the city, town or muncipility have to pay 100% will not or very late be repaired

[@jbp246]

I'm German and have never heard of residents having to pay for street repairs, this confused me so much 😂

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Well... Wait for it...

[@mawen_]

I think it makes more sense to pronounce Realer Irrsinn as "re aler ursin"? Just a thought 🤔

[@Horrorhorst]

6:43 Doch! 😊

[@Gaston413]

5:35 Ryan, this real-world insanity happens because German authorities strictly adhere to the wording of laws made by bureaucrats who have not properly thought through all the consequences of their laws. Many authorities also often do not use their possible room for maneuver to deviate from these laws. Sometimes they also have no room for maneuver in implementation and are forced. However, it is very likely that these demands will not be implemented in the end, because for some residents this is practically an expropriation of their residential property and their land because of the high costs. After the first protest, many authorities stubbornly insist on their demands until the courts decide that the authorities have decided disproportionately. The citizen can never know in individual cases, however, whether a court gives in the right. The more people it affects, the greater the chance that a court will rule against the disproportionate demands of the authorities.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Counter question... Do you belive, that anywhere in the world, it is different?

[@Gaston413]

@@melchiorvonsternberg844 Different, yes, but not necessarily better. I suspect that in other countries common sense is sometimes more pronounced than the narrow-mindedness of German authorities.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

That was not my point either. I never talked about more or less better...@@Gaston413

[@Guderian2]

Sadly yes it is universal in germany: Residents/Home owners have to pay for road construction/renovations right in front of their house.

[@dnocturn84]

No, that's not true. It depends on the state that you are living in. My state (Thuringia) abolished the practice of making residents pay. It's roughly half of the German states, where you have to pay, the other half don't.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Certainly not, Herr Generaloberst...!

[@Guderian2]

@@dnocturn84 Oh i missed that, but now that you said it, yeah i remember that it was talked about.

[@louisr6560]

I can see how this might seem a bit off, especially with the way it is presented for comedic effect, but if you have a bit of context about how german construction/municipality law works, this is not only completely logical but also not even "unfair" in my opinion.

[@Drachselhuberjoschi_1]

It's Ray-Alllah earzeen😜 🙏

[@Drachselhuberjoschi_1]

Means real nonsense/madness/crazyness

[@rykmat2542]

This is insane. Our neighbour country robs its own citizens like a medieval aristocrat. Maybe I will start to understand why my ancestors hated living with German people in the same country so much. Grüß aus Prag. 😜

[@anthrax__]

welcome to germany at its finest hahahaha

[@Gaston413]

3:00 "unfair is universal" sure.... no.... we germans adopted it from you. You remeber, since you got us, we have your GIs here. 🤨This influences.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Don't forget the Tommies...

[@ursschnatterfleck6019]

210 000 - das ist unmenschlich und kann Jemanden komplett ruinieren.

[@Gamepak]

this strange sign is a double s teure strasse

[@minnaerd4412]

Oh, please, exercise your german pronounciation. Y😀es you can!

[@johnveerkamp1501]

YOU LOOKING ALWAYS TO THE WRONG. COUNTRY.

[@damienzwikstra1667]

you didnt pronounce it very well im sorry to tell ya

[@tubekulose]

Dear co-commentators, I'd like to advise you not to comment any of Ryan Wass's videos any longer. I repeatedly gave him "lessons" in German pronuntiation (nothing complicated; just things like not to drop vowels at the ends of words, like he did here again in "Bünde", or how to pronounce "ei" and "ie"). I've tried to help him maybe four or five times. Yet I have to notice he doesn't care at all and goes on making the same mistakes over and over again. To me it's obvious he doesn't even read these commentaries. Do yourself a favour and stop wasting your time writing this guy! I'm pretty sure these words of mine will not be removed and stay here for the rest of this channel's existence because he won't read them anyways.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

If you like it or not... That's the sad truth! I'm aware of this, for more than a year. But I like him and his kind of doin' his channel. Btw... He didn't need any protection, for sure...@@MaryRaine929

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Fair enough...@@MaryRaine929

[@martinhuhn7813]

Regarding your pronounciation: The german word "realer" has three sylables: "re-al-er" and the e is pronounced as the e in "end" whilst the a is a letter of its own right (pronounced similar to the o in "out"). In some of your videos I noticed, that a lot of your problems to say german words would go away, if you used the correct vocals. Rigarding jor pronaunziätschen: The jörmen wörd [...] - That is an approximation how my first sentence would be spelled, if the english was spoken with the german set of vocals. Usually it works like that: German a: like the a in "France" German e: like the e in "end" German i: like the i in "in" German ie: like ea in "real" or "heat" German ä: like the a in "and" German o: like the o in "on" German ö: like the ea in "heard" German au: like the english ou in "out" German ei: like the englisch "aye" German u: like the ou in "you" Regarding the content of the video: In many places, the residents at a street have to pay most of the costs of any revovation or renewal of "their" street, no matter how rediculuos the idea of the town or city is. In cases like the one in the video, it is very obvious, that it would not cost much, just to fill in the potholes and call it a day. But the residents who have to pay, do not even have a say in which kind of works are done there and in many cases, the whole project was either the stupid idea of lazy buerocrats or, for example, a favour for someone who benefits a lot but does not need to pay (aka known as curruption). The fraction of the costs for each resident is typically calculated by the length of the border of the property at the respective road. The result has ruined plenty of people and the courts failed to stop that (even though nobody understands, how something like that can be constitutional). Many communities got rid of that stupid system and just raised the property taxes for everybody a little bit. But that requires a lot of political pressure, because it is a big luxury for towns and cities (which are almost all in severe debt) not to care about costs and reasoning for such projects.