What I love & what I hate about Germany

[@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany]

Take note, i had to get sarcastic with this one......there are things to love and hate about living anywhere but I could not really think of anything I hate here.

[@julianzacher161]

Wait a couple years to come 😂 it sure will...

[@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany]

@@julianzacher161 probably not as much as you think. I have moved around so much in my life and i know plenty of what i hated from each place. Yes, some things to hate and dislike will come and go but I will not forget that i have lived places that i hated much more. A popular thing being weather for example, its really not that bad here LOL

[@julianzacher161]

Oh no, the weather is great here...and it might get even better over the next century 😂 like you said, I just meant you'll find a couple ( or few ) things to go absolutely mad about, like everyone, everywhere...in general I think there are more things to like, than there are to dislike, agreed 😁👍

[@MBrieger]

Having lived in the US for 30+ years, there are things I love and hate about America. Top of my list is "being in your face" and making yourself different and provoke people. Example: Getto Blaster noise everywhere. Americans have to impose themselves and force their opinion on others. Fake religion. That is a subject on its own. Oh, it is Sunday, let's mow the lawn and use a leave blower. Make sure there is no chance that anyone can actually enjoy themselves on a day off. Indicator when you want to make a turn? Obsolete. Everyone should know where I want to go. Americans can't drive. Money. All green, all the same size. Where is the American Disability Act in that? Being Paranoid. This is the country where fear lives. A special one as German. No matter how much you can prove that a certain way is better or more efficient or logical, an American may even admit it, but still does it his way, regardless of how wrong it is. There is no healthy food culture. Even Whole Foods doesn't have one. They only have specialty products at higher prices. The basic thing to really love is for as long as you play by the rules and have the money, you can really do what you want.

[@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany]

@@MBrieger nailed it

[@Ansgar72]

It calls "Fachwerkhaus" ^^

[@Jack_Kahuna_Laguna_IV]

it translates to "wattle and daub" in english, i guess

[@mangolassi_.]

@@Jack_Kahuna_Laguna_IV Timber framing, actually.

[@Marlie40]

Vielleicht war er ja mal in Celle :)

[@PropperNaughtyGeezer]

@@Jack_Kahuna_Laguna_IV I thing "halftimbert".

[@danielrauer5864]

If you are interested in Fachwerk from personal or professional interest you should really visit Celle, it is 30min away from Hannover. Almost the entire inner city is Fachwerk. Also interesting: The higher the building gets the bigger it gets, every storey is 20-30 cm larger than the lower one to save space on the ground.

[@bluecat2741]

I love the little clips you put in between 😂. They gave me a good laugh, much needed these days.

[@michaelgrabner8977]

The building style is called "Fachwerk" = "Truss" in english which derives from "Old French" = "Trousse" and that kind of construction first appeared in the 13th century in Europe. A Fachwerk/truss is an assembly of beams or other elements that creates a rigid structure. In engineering, a truss is a structure that "consists of two-force members only, where the members are organized so that the assemblage as a whole behaves as a single object". A "two-force member" is a structural component where force is applied to only two points. Although this rigorous definition allows the members to have any shape connected in any stable configuration, trusses typically comprise five or more triangular units constructed with straight members whose ends are connected at joints referred to as nodes/vertices. The expression "Fachwerk" just means literally "worked/built in pads divided squares" = "in Felder geteilte Flächen (= Fach/Fächer) gewerkt/gebaut (=Werk)" which is literally short noted in one compound word (an example for german language efficiency) for that construction explaination I gave above in the previous paragraph.

[@MBrieger]

Michael, Du hast wohl Recht, aber das Problem kommt, wenn Du mit jemanden redest, der Häuser in USA baut. Truss bezieht sich hier auf den Dachstuhl und da haben die Americaner keine Ahnung wie das gebaut werden sollte. Da wird alles so verbaut, das der Raum nicht nutzbar ist. In Deutschland kann man den Dachboden zumindest eingeschränkt nutzen. In den USA ist das nicht möglich. Deshalb wird die Garage vollgepackt und das Auto davor geparkt. Kommplett Hirnbefreit, mit der Ausnahme, das die Trussen vorgefertigt werden und das Dach deshalb "scheinbar" schneller drauf ist. Statik mag auch eine Rolle spielen.

[@michaelgrabner8977]

@@MBrieger Mir ging es rein um die Bauweise und dem Begriff..und "Fachwerk" heißt auf Englisch nun mal "Truss" das ist einfach "alternativlos" auch wenn man vermutlich dann bloß den Dachstuhl damit assoziiert falls man mit Architektur nichts am Hut hat...aber mich kümmern nun mal keine "Assoziationen" sondern bloß "Fakten"..Und ich habe einen Truss ja auch in meinem mittleren Absatz meines Kommentars genau erklärt um was für eine Bauweise es sich bei einem "Truss" im Detail eigentlich handelt....übrigens in der Form wie man es auch in einem richtigen Architektur- oder Ingenieurs Studium abgefragt wird..ein Dachstuhl ist ja bloß eine Anwendungsform der Trussbauweise. ...es gibt ja übrigens auch viele alte Brücken in Truss-Bauweise und nicht nur Dachstühle in den USA nur so nebenbei bemerkt...und wenn man nach England schaut die ja auch englisch sprechen schaut die Geschichte sowieso auch anders aus weil dort gibt es auch noch vereinzelt alte Fachwerkhäuser natürlich nicht in der Anzahl wie in Deutschland aber dennoch gibt es sie...

[@MBrieger]

@@michaelgrabner8977 Ist schon klar Michael. Ich wollte nur den Unterschied zwischen den Begriffen heute vs. damals oder Deutsch vs. Amerika hervorheben. Wenn in den USA jemand von Truss Work redet, ist das immer nur der Dachstuhl. Als Deutscher würde ich ggf. das ganze Holzkonstrukt dazuzählen. Auch wenn das hinter Stuck verschwindet. Ich habe hier einige Häuser gebaut.

[@michaelgrabner8977]

@@MBrieger Ich vestehe ..aber auch in den USA wird Ingenieurswesen und Architektur gelehrt somit gibt es genug Menschen dort die Truss nicht nur mit einem Dachstuhl assoziieren.

[@MBrieger]

@@michaelgrabner8977 Naja, und es gibt viel Panik und Politik. Es lohnt sich mal die Firma Simpson zu Googlen, die Angst und Schrecken und viel Geld ausgegeben hat um Unsinn in den Hausbau zu bringen. Dank der Panik vor Erdbeben. Aber nochmals, begrifflich ist Truss in Amerika immer nur der Dachstuhl. Der Rest ist "Framing".

[@obsession247]

I like the videos. It's really interesting for a german like me to hear about Germany from a different perspective. Thank you!

[@Harulfr]

About the bicycle-trust-issue: There is a huge difference between cities and the countryside in germany, that has to do with the social composition of the people that are living there. In general the city people are younger in average and come from a whole lot of cultural and economical backgrounds, whilst the village people (lol) tend to be older, financially secure and more or less adhereing to a shared value system, which allows the "Vertrauenskasse"- System to work. You wouldn't be very successfull trying to sell eggs in that manner in the middle of berlin, as well as there are lots of villages where you can leave your bike outside without worrying about it getting stolen. 🤘 geile Videos, mach weiter so 🤘

[@matzomatics5204]

Problem with bicylcles is, that a lot are stolen and brougt to poland and so on (if media are trustworthy on this issue). On countryside they often ger stolen after heavy drinking if the "offender"needs a ride home. In this case you can find your bike usually at a central spot in your village the next day.

[@franziskamuller4743]

Even in Berlin Kreuzberg the vegetable and fruit shops sell their goods like the described eggs

[@deinemamainhd]

When I grew up I stole bikes but we never stole from the trust based shops. I guess that's a line we didn't want to cross

[@YukiTheOkami]

Oh and when you rise a bike you have to use the bike lane/path or you have to be on the street with the cars exeptions are people with handycaps and children

[@aopt471]

I don't lock my bike most of the time but I'm living in a village. When ride to town I then do lock it.

[@thomascaspari82]

Me too.

[@NameName-mz3qx]

ANNND WE all know why ;)

[@sausagefruit7690]

4:55 In bigger cities or regions, there are still driving our U-Bahn (Subway Trains) in the mid-night or they have night public transport active (like buses etc.). Since the timetable change in December 2020 within the public transport, we have the Metro buses in Frankfurt that are driving 24/7, so it depends where you live. :D

[@SileX406coup]

It's quite easy to explain why walkers split. Let's say we as germans are known for our effectivity, so by splitting up on a path we are able to get out of ones way taking the least amount of time and the shortest distance. So it is way easier to split and stand on each side of the path than crossing the whole path and fear to possibly run into my partner. I hope you get my drift. ^^

[@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany]

That is so german🤪

[@peterheynen]

In German this architecture style you were talking about is called "Fachwerk" :-) But yes, many already named it here :-D

[@asdfadafads]

they are suprised because you must ride on the Road where the cars are if there is no bikeway (Radweg, Fahrradweg) you can get a ticket if you ride with your bike on the sidewalk and also if you ride on the wrong side of the bikeway. Maybe thats why the people are suprised, because you are not supposed to ride on the sidewalk?

[@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany]

Nope

[@Frathkraus]

It depends on the sidewalk traffic signs. In general it is not allowed in Germany to ride a bike on the sidewalk.

[@supertaati8107]

In chemnitz nobody gives a fuck. They all ride their bikes on the sidewalk

[@Frathkraus]

@@supertaati8107 What people do, is another story. Here in Dresden it is similar. 😉

[@Yili2468]

It’s ignorance. One of the weirdest characteristics of people. They shouldn’t be surprised as they consequently refuse to take note of what’s going on next to them. Rücksichtnahme ist ein Fremdwort für zu viele.

[@KingQwertzlbrmpf]

About the old buildings, i sometimes put it like this: I'm from a tiny little village in the middle of germany. But the bell in our churches belltower already hang there for five years when columbus first set foot on the american continent. The first written mention of that village had been more than 300 years before columbus. And archeological finds indicate that humans lived in the area almost continuously since the neolithic age.

[@TheHeroesAreHere]

Hey man, I just recently discovered your channel and I love it :D I'm from the "Saarland" and I think you should do a video where you react to the different dialects (i.e.: Saxony vs. Berlin vs. Bavaria vs. Saarland). Keep it up :)

[@LibertyDino]

I don't miss the deposit on bottles in cans. In Austria there are several extra containers for these and it seems to work nicely and comparing to the places I have lived in in Germany the city I am calling home at the moment seems mostly nice and clean.

[@maximilianjacobs4893]

Something small, and something that really surprised me about the US, in Germany the prices are within taxes and in the US it's like extra what makes everything so complicated.

[@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany]

Yes, if it says 2.99 you will pay about 3.20.

[@annaturba]

I really like the little clips you put in there.

[@pulldem]

Where u find these music guy looooool Straight from the Psychatrie

[@LukenBaby]

As a bicycle person myself, I wholeheartedly agree!

[@TheWolf42]

In Germany you are supposed to drive on bike lanes or the street if you are older than 10 years old. If people walk on the bike lane or you drive on the walkway, don't be surprised

[@glennfiddich2945]

In Berlin, the public transportation works 24/7. At night you may not be able to take a train at 3 am, but there are always busses (and on weekends the subway also works throughout the night) that bring you home. Enjoy your stay here, good sir :)

[@nicoschnoor2084]

At 3:50 is the word you are looking for: "Fachwerkhaus" :)

[@andrewk.707]

U have to see the ´´Schnoorviertel´´ and the Dom in Bremen ;)

[@NightPaddle]

Living in Hannover and beeing interested in Fachwerk? You have to visit Goslar, which is about an hour from there. ;)

[@rickholte9103]

i m not sure where in Hannover you are but some parts of the city have a "ghost"-tram, its no where written about that tram but it pick you up between 2am and 4am somtimes😅

[@ThePentadactyl]

Old houses: Have you visited Celle? Celler Innenstadt ist super :-)

[@richardkeenahan3803]

ThePentadactyl Man I agree with you on this, lived in Celle a few times and the Altstadt is so beautiful

[@kuroservamp6827]

for the deer in the headlights part, i go by a simple rule: i go to the (my) right because i am supposed to, like in traffic, the faster thing goes left. i don't turn around when i hear a bell ring, i just go to the right because that is how traffic works that is my rule of thumb. i actually get a bit mad in my mind when someone doesn't follow that (personal) rule....and i am german xD

[@brootalbap]

About the bike thing: I know many people that consider it a "Kavaliersdelikt" (trivial offense). You get a bike stolen, then one night partying you are drunk and want to get home and you see a bike that isn't locked up and you lend it to get home. That's how it often happens. People out partying and they need a ride. The weird circle of life of bicycles.

[@milliethemog]

Wattle and daub i think that old building style, quite common in England aswell bro!

[@nicktankard1244]

It's funny you mentioned not being able to take a tram at 2am. That's exactly what i do here in Berlin after a bar. Trams here are 24/7 and other transport is 24h on Fridays and Saturdays. That's awesome.

[@naneneunmalklug4032]

Hi Eric, just found your channel in the middle of the night and watched some vids and ... I hate to break it to you ... You are the most German American I ever saw (and I watch a lot of these Am/Ger vids). Complaining about pedestants using the bike lane and NOT MOVING OUT YOUR WAY WHEN YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO USE IT MORE THAN THEY DO because they should use the sidewalk next to it... That is so German. And I absolutely agree with you! Greetings from Münster (westphalia) the one and only bike capital of Germany. (Seriously, if you walk on a bike line here or even if you just try to cross it to get to the other side of the street, you risk being yelled at and being "weggeklingelt"... belled/ringed away? Violently hitting the little bike bell to tell you off for not paying attention to bike traffic)

[@JdgKdoFhr]

You need to come to Dresden!!!! Pretiest "oldtown" of the country...next step would be Prague...

[@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany]

I've been!

[@HoldMySoda]

This is my fourth video of yours that I watch. And somehow you catch me. I think you have a lot of interesting things to tell. I am wondering what a are doing for living? Maybe you let me know. However I am gonna subscribe your channel. You made me curious.

[@smaragdwolf1]

The Tram Nightlines depend on the City. Mostly bigger Cities have a reduced Tram schedule at night to maintain the major routes, but they offer (atleast in my City) to call you a Taxi, when you would be otherwise stranded in an area without further connections. The fewer Trams also wait longer at specific stations, so that customers from other Lines dont have to wait half an hour for the next Tram. Here, its mainly the North-South route and the west-east route, which are near the bigger pub-locations. Not so much Trams at night....but still better than letting drunk people roam the City at night....when other people want to sleep.

[@holgerschurig4430]

Every german bike weights 15 kg. There are those old bikes that actual weight 15 kg ... no one wants them, no lock needed. Then there are newer ones, that weight 12 kg. But you need locks for 3 kg. And then the super carbon fiber bikes that only weight 5 kg. You need locks for the front and rear bike, and for the frame, totalling to 10 kg. Ergo: all bikes here weight 15 kg !!!

[@hrafnadottir2618]

Do you know the city Nienburg? It's pretty near to Hannover and in this city is the oldest "Hotel" that still exist in Europe, build in 15. century

[@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany]

Oh really?! I was in Nienburg once, I saw a concert at the Jazz Club. I guess I need to go back again! Thanks!!

[@skystink]

When I play this with 1.4x speed it still sounds natrual.

[@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany]

🤪🤣🤣

[@worldhello1234]

@3:48 Framework houses.

[@GodlessEndeavor616]

It's called Fachwerkhaus. Timbered house in english I think. You are not supposed to ride the bike on the walkway. If there is no cycle path you have to ride on the street.

[@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany]

in many places around Hannover the bike way and walk way are parallel and share the space i would call the "sidewalk" nothing dividing but a line on the ground and you know people do not pay attention to that. So any "complaints" I make are when I am in the right place and people walking are not. I had someone yesterday walk into my way, looking right at me and then stop to look at his phone. Something like this happens a lot too, as if they want to be hit. I think I will make a little instagram post about this.

[@omegajoule]

@@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany Germans mentality on traffic: the stronger vehicle gets all the moral and often legal blame in case of collision. Truck>car>motorcycle>bicycle>pedestrian Pedestrians can tend to feel invincible in Germany, because everyone around has to avoid running them over, while motorized vehicle drivers are expected to be on high alert always. The old "what if it's a mindless child or animal". Sometimes I don't pay attention walking because I'm like "they'll watch out so I don't need to" and admittedly been caught off guard by cyclists many times, wich is bad.

[@AK-my2lh]

@@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany Haha, you start to think like a german.

[@AcidBeast]

When I was teenager I lived in a mid-sized town and while I usually locked my mountain bike up I occasionally forgot the keys and still would find it where I left it when I came home from school. Nowadays bikes get stolen from closed up apartments complexes. It's mind-boggling.

[@sepplmayer7414]

It is called "Fachwerkhaus" with the wood and the bricks etc.

[@felixniehues376]

10:03 I completely understand this, especially because there are extra Bicycleways everywhere and People dont care about it. I'm from Germany too and in my small Hometown, there is just one mainstreet with a "Fahrradstreifen" or "-spur". And i never ever had drove on this thing in my life because its a Speed 30 Kmh-Zone, but the People drive there with 50 km/h, also the Street is very very narrow though and i hate it.

[@johmayo7042]

Lol I got stupid drunk in Duesseldorf, caught the last train to Solingen...fell asleep, and woke up back in D'dorf! Fastest way to sober up for the FIRST train to Solingen!

[@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany]

Hahaha! Oops

[@Trefalas]

100% mate moved from a smaller town to a city and there are so many horrible pedestrians who wouldn't even notice other pedestrians until they are right infront of them. Like even if the sidewalk is fairly big they will take all the space until collision is almost unavoidable.

[@hajotge12]

@Krautsalat 1. Who was the genius coming up with Krautsalat for your channel? 2. How do Americans like Rammstein without the lyrics? "The style of houses": Fachwerkhaus

[@Mister__Jey]

Oh, yes, and I don't know how it is now, but in villages it's actually a different story. I know when I grew up in a village until I was around twenty years old, I was there. I often left my bike outside in front of our house and didn't lock it and it was never stolen. There are even bicycles at bus stops that are not locked and they are not stolen. I don't know if that's still the case. But in general in the village this is seldom the case. I also know that we often had our door open, so it wasn't locked and no one broke in. So that's a completely different matter in the village.

[@smarthomedirekt7935]

After leaving a comment on one of your other videos, I learned that you're actually living in Hanover??? Maybe, now it's the right time to "out" myself being German-American, cause now there are two of us in this otherwise very German town :D

[@omgsolikevalleygirl]

On the campus of my US university I had my bike stolen 4 times over the years :D Someone must have made a business out of scouring the campus at night/weekends finding unattended bikes. These bikes were even locked though -

[@jabba8003]

You really had me on this one ^^: "I hate to be able to buy beer at the kiosk, walk down the street and trink it." I was so shocked that I had to stop the video, while just thinking: WHAT?!

[@Jake-in5qf]

5:40 i always asked my mom, when i saw something like that, why you do it because, obviously, you simply can take all of the eggs or whatever is inside there, and leave. And she always said: Yes you could do it but you simply dont do something like that

[@promcheg]

Locking bikes: meanwhile I have two locks, on the frame and front wheel. Two times came back to find my bike missing front wheel XD

[@lachslarve9517]

Visit Wernigerode for almost completly original central architecture

[@noobledebooble]

Hi. The buildingstyle you ment is called "Fachwerk"

[@ProfTydrim]

About the bike thing: It really depends on where you're living in germany, but oftentimes unlocked bikes are seen as a public good that is stolen to get home by drunk people, but is 'returned' to the community by just leaving it unlocked at whereever you're going, for someone other to take. Some are obviously flatout ripped off, but I wanted to mention, that this type of 'crime' is a factor

[@ursus4203]

you have to visit Potsdam and Sanssouci

[@kiesi1711]

In my opinion Dinkelsbühl has the best looking City Lots of Oldenburg houses of course Fachwerkhäuser. In the Region of Dinkelsbühl is the summer breeze openair. For the metalheads out there.

[@MrsESsmich]

I love you memes :D. I would like to know how the process of moving was for you? All that organisation and paperwork? How does this work?

[@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany]

Thank you. Regarding your questions about my move I will only say that it takes a lot of patience, planning And good friends to help along the way! And lots of paperwork!

[@peterlustigslatzhose69]

The Clip of „Konis Hupen“ made me laugh so hard!!!😂🍻

[@eiskalteshandchen9036]

Most bikes get stolen by drunk people just want to get home an easy way. Alcohol complicates many things far too often

[@LukeHellwalker]

Sick 1914 shirt bro. Grüße aus Thüringen!

[@m.larimar765]

Hi, you got to move to Berlin.... Always Trams the whole Night^^ and the bars are open whole Night too Ive been Living In munich and yes It Sucks to go out ( And quite tooo early out of the Bar,,, and having NO TRAM... Thats Bavaria pure. So i moved to Berlin

[@flauschschlangepictures2893]

Visit Nürnberg. It's got a lot of the Gotikgebäude.

[@kuroservamp6827]

fun fact, i know only from summer breeze but every can that is brought to a "store" on the festival ground is not brought there for "pfand" but the actual "pfand" that would be given is donated to a critically ill children foundation. We are aware of that and collect all cans in separated bags to donate and support that

[@Mister__Jey]

I can understand that with the pedestrians very well. But it is also very annoying with other road users, i.e. other cyclists or even driving a car. When people are on the road or on the bicycle lane. Just yesterday I rode my bike around town for about 30 minutes. And then I have to pay attention to how the others behave so that no accidents occur. Almost 5 accidents would have occurred in the 30 minutes alone. People who were on the road where I had to brake hard because they didn't get out of the way. People who walked on the bike path where I had to ring the doorbell and who also dodged to the left and the other to the right. Then there were three people who crossed a street where there was no traffic light, probably no zebra crossing, and yes, it came right in my way when I got there on my bike, and one of them also had her dog with her. And the other two quickly ran across the street and the one with the dog stopped. Yes and what do you do then? The enema continues the other one stops, then the dog stands there too. So brake. Gosh, it's not that hard to obey the traffic rules, is it? Above all, when you are in a bicycle city, you should get that by now. And the last example was that I drove to a traffic light, but I was green and there was also a pedestrian traffic light and there were people waiting for green. But they were definitely still red, because as a cyclist I had green. And one of the pedestrians just said to take a few steps forward and stop in the middle of the bike path. And yes, if I hadn't slowed down hard here, I would have knocked the case over. I do not get it.

[@ThePentadactyl]

the absolut worst thing in Germany are neighbours who have garden gnomes. Usually retired people, extremly fussy and picky about making sure that all other neighbours are good behaving, slavishly following all rules. Like Vic Frohmeyer (Dan Akroyd) in "Christmas with the Kranks"

[@johanneslehmann4915]

Not getting public transportation at 02:00: you are in Hannover?

[@Andi_mit_E]

The relationship between bike riders and pedestrians depends on where you are. If you walk NEXT TO the bike lane in Munich the biker runs over you without braking and yells at you. When you walk ON the bike lane in Bremen the bikers ring their bell and excuses for begging you to leave the lane. I experienced both of it. :-D

[@ChristianBurkart]

You're absolutely right with the walker/biker problem. I hate that too. And sometimes it becomes actually dangerous.

[@sleepyinsanity]

bikes are supposed to go on street roads or bike lains maybe thats why they were suprised

[@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany]

So, you are assuming I was wrong.

[@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany]

My point was that I am in the bike lane when this happens and people walk into my lane without looking ;-)

[@svenbuscher2104]

@@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany Ja, das passiert häufig. Und kaum einer kennt die Bedeutung der Klingel. Wenn ein Fahrradfahrer klingelt, dann doch nur um freundlich auf sich aufmerksam zu machen. "Achtung, bitte aufpassen". Viele Leute fühlen sich aber auch angegriffen und verscheucht, so als hätte ein Autofahrer gehupt.

[@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany]

@@svenbuscher2104 I often do NOT ring my bell if i see a way to get safely past. because, i think as you just said, many times ringing the bell surprises people and that slight moment of panic causes me to make an emergency stop. I actually use the klingel most often when passing a slower bike.

[@LadyZora90]

You're the first man with long hair I'm thinking of: Wow, he's damn attractive! 🙊 I like your videos and I'm glad to hear that you're happy here in Germany 😊

[@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany]

🥰 Thank you!!

[@ohl6667]

Isolation? Start to grill, open your beer and enjoi the time!🤘🏻🍻

[@FreddyKruegerl666]

Have you ever been to Austria?

[@nordwestbeiwest1899]

Think your bell is too quiet and too small for your bike! Buy a Dutch bicycle bell that is nice and big and loud.

[@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany]

The bell is not a problem but that so many people walk without looking and then i need to use the bell! Ha!

[@mowana1232]

Depends on the situation of course, but a lot of times it's actually better to shout out something like "Entschuldigung, Fahrrad auf ihrer linken Seite" (Sorry, bicyclist on your left). Doesn't work all the time, but it doesn't shock people as much as a ringing bell in my experience.

[@schoomacker]

the word you were looking for is "Fachwerkhaus" = "half-timbered house" in english words

[@kronii8771]

come to Frankfurt bro..best city in germany! Some trains even run the whole night :)

[@ylvazora7065]

The style that you mean is Fachwerkhaus :3. I love them too and you can buildt them even today

[@Jan_Seidel]

*A little guideline for foreign bikers* The people are actually surprised that you ring the bell and so close up too. So they split to let you through the middle. Why? I can't tell you :) They normally rely on the biker will find its way around as it is quicker. Notice: if you drive towards a pedestrian and he walks towards you and sees you. Normally the pedestrian will ignore the bike and all are good. Some people start to step to one side, unfortunately the bike took the same side, both now try to evade each other and both swap to the other side and crash together. So experience has shown the likeliness for an accident between pedestrian and bike is to ignore the bike as pedestrians. So being ringed at from behind "up close" ignites an primal instinkt of immediate danger. And sh*t hits the fan. Ring from far behind if you see your path cluttered up. The far sound lets the people turn around, picture the scene and then take appropiate action

[@SaschaFenris]

You mean a Fachwerkhaus. The wooden construction called Fachwerk.

[@89halligalli]

Let me know if you need some guidance in Hannover :)

[@daniellehurrell6620]

I have seen a few of those honor system tables around here in Ohio where people sell their excess summer vegetables. It's really nice! I hope people are being honorable 😊

[@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany]

I grew up in Wisconsin and it was something I did see a lot. So i think it is common in rural America too. But then moving into city areas that began to disappear

[@Jeff.Wilson]

As a Ukrainian living in Germany it's very cool to see an American living in Germany who wears t-shirt of a Ukrainian metal band 1914! So amazing! Huge respect for having a broad taste and looking into different music markets :)

[@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany]

Watch my video about metal in germany, i point out that metal has no boundaries! 1914 are awesome! Your home country has a few very nice bands in different metal genres...Jinjer, Stoned Jesus and Space of Variations

[@Jeff.Wilson]

@@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany Yeah, that's a nice video too, I already commented it like a week ago :D Jinjer has some insane marketing people working for them, they managed to tour Europe with Arch Enemy and played on bunch of fests including Wacken. Interestingly, those bands you mentioned aren't exactly my cup of tea, I'm more into Ukrainian black, we have quite a strong underground presence on that scene. For example Drudkh is probably one of the most well known bands, has tons of positive reviews on metal archives. Other really cool band is Stryvigor, I'd say their recent album "Lifelong Journey" is really worth a listen for every fan of atmospheric black. And another one is Severoth - I even saw a guy in their t-shirt here on ElbRiot. But that kind of "dark solitude" music requires of course related mood... Btw, former drummer of Stoned Jesus plays now in brutal death band Schizogen, that's if you're into some sick stuff. They were supposed to come to northern Germany in may, but unfortunately due to whole covid thingy their tour was cancelled.

[@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany]

@@Jeff.Wilson i will check them out. I have heard a bit of Drudkh. Going into that direction with music i prefer it live. Its a whole different feeling, power, when felt live.

[@Jeff.Wilson]

@@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany yep, it's hard to beat a live performance with all that energy 💪 Although Drudkh are a purely studio project... Fun fact, one of their founders works as a history teacher in school :)

[@hazardeur]

You kinda sound like a danish guy speaking english by now. Good work. a few more years down the geography line and you'll saund leik a propa tschörman in no time!

[@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany]

haaaaa!!! who knows, my voice and speaking changes so much LOL

[@theRealBeatJunkie]

@@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany The way you pronounce "house" is pretty German actually. At least in this video.

[@Mister__Jey]

Or we often went bowling, that is, once a week, and we went to an old, typical German restaurant. And we always wrote down what we ordered on our beer coasters. And that was actually always correct, because in the end everything is billed in full anyway, and then of course you have to agree the amount. And the German owner always entrusted us with that and also believed that we would do it honestly, and we did it honestly. When the restaurant was then taken over by a non-German couple, that was no longer the case. Since we were no longer allowed to write down on the lid what we ordered, about beer or how much beer and how much schnapps and so on and when we were allowed to do it again, the owners did not slip and constantly looked over their shoulders, that we always write it down properly. So there was no trust and we changed the restaurant.

[@okkosiemers6423]

Two of the things you hate do overlap: No public transport for drunk people and stolen bicycles... I grew up in germany and it seems like a lot of my friends stole a bike to get home when they were drunk a few times. Not proud of it :( I definitely share your thought about the" deer in the headlights" mentality of walkers. So true...

[@Mister__Jey]

Because bicycles are usually not stolen by Germans, but rather these are often Eastern European gangs who organize it I currently live in the bicycle city of Münster. And I'll tell you in the last 15 years, I think 8 or 9 bicycles have been stolen. But now I have four rivers on my bike. A big chain lock just for my saddle. A large chain lock for the frame. A U-lock for the front wheel. A U-lock for the rear wheel. It's a bit annoying when unlocking, but it has not been stolen and is in the middle of the city.

[@Dr_Klops]

The building stile is half timbered.

[@Ben126LP]

Oh yeah, these pedestrians walking deth and blind just anywhere (and some cyclists too). That deer comparisment sums it up pretty good

[@niteu]

Bagging my groceries doesn't bother me so much. Getting bombarded by the next customer's stuff immediately after paying is not the yellow of the egg...

[@berndheghmanns1437]

Most things are simple, but hard to do. :)

[@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany]

Germany in a nutshell🤣🤣🤣

[@moritzmaximus827]

Moin Eric, maybe you already have answer it, but why do you hate it that you can buy and drink beer everywhere? And did you already visite Hamburg? Thats where I live, beautiful City and the train runs all night long :D

[@tonyme7426]

You do not ride on the path because that is there for pedestrians. Either you use the bike path or ride on the road. That explaines why there are surprised, you are not supposed there.

[@MrFrankMacro]

From 3.30 you designate a "half-timbered house"

[@MrFogwolf]

the reason why you lock up your bike? When some people walk along and get drunk ... he see the bike... and tschüss "i went home faaaaaster" ;-)

[@EinfachLogischVideos]

imo chill down the extra clips just those which really fit^^

[@Mister__Jey]

One of my brakes on my bike screeches extremely loudly when I brake hard and meanwhile when I experience something like that, people just walk around on the bike lane or just walk across the street without paying attention to the bikes, then I brake relatively late then very strong, but so that it squeaks very loudly on the brakes, so that people get scared. And I think maybe they'll finally learn something to behave a little more sensibly in traffic and pay more attention to cyclists. Many are then surprised, and some even get angry. I always think that's the best. People don't obey the traffic rules. If I wasn't careful, an accident would happen. And these people get upset even though they almost caused the accident.

[@lalobaquesabe8096]

verdammt süß! das musste ich jetzt loswerden...

[@mr.copernicus8054]

Agreed!

[@jancleve9635]

Why do you hate the Public drinking and Kioske?

[@KrautsalatAnAmericaninGermany]

That was sarcasm. I really do not.

[@TheSherlockHomez]

Pfand is genius for 3 reasons 1. Fuck yeah, saving the planet (or atleast creating more conciousness towards recycling) 2. People tend to give their Pfand to homeless people begging for food and money etc, People that otherwise might not donate at all 3. You can leave a bottle with pfand laying around at most public places like beaches or parks and someone will count on it and search the same spots every day for the pfand in order to maintain their finances. Of course it is more dignifying for those people if the bottles are just orderly standing next to the bin, but still, it makes for less waste.