The ivy league universities in the USA are literally sold out to DEI along with other important industries like the military and science. The USA is not even worthy of being on any comparison list. From what I observe in headlines it appears in Europe as in the USA, violent migrants have free reign to harm locals as if it is a deliberate scheme by leaders of their countries?
One difference not mentioned that I think a lot of Americans would notice is the culture of smoking. In my part of Portugal, second hand smoke exposure is a much bigger issue than in USA and that should be noted
I'm just discovering your work on yt and have seen a few videos. Thank you, it's interesting and you speak well 😊 It's nice to hear foreigner's point of view. :)
@@karllux-d6g yes. The US is almost like Australia. In Australia almost every living thing wants to kill you. In the US almost every living person wants to kill you, including the police and the president (Bleach injections?! Really?! 🤔). In Europe even some police forces don't carry guns. So, yes, a trillion times safer.
@@NunoFerreiraX It's a great place to make money and to spend it too. It's freaking expensive here. Not a perfect place, true, but why are millions of immigrants trying to move to the US every year? We have our issues, yet still just about every immigrant wants to move the US if they had the opportunity.
Dave, I lived in Switzerland for 10 years with a wife and daughter. I did not find health coverage overly expensive and it was incredibly comprehensive. The two times I had to go to the emergency ward I was immediately treated and paid nothing, was not even ask for my insurance information. Not sure what you mean by it can be expensive?
@@antonijaume8498 You want to make an argument with me? I lived there 10 years. while I raised a daughter. I moved back to the US and now live in Portugal, in part thanks to you. And I would never describe Switzerland’s Health care as expensive. Everything is covered. Medications mailed write to your door at no charge. I paid a monthly charge for our insurance about one 20th of my salary and never paid anything else. I saw a weekly therapist, had cataract surgery. Never paid an extra dime. The charges in the US were draconian compared to Switzerland.
@@antonijaume8498 Would you like my friends in Switzerland to contact you so you can get the real scope on the cost? The cost in the US, I moved from California to Portugal in Feb. are draconian compared to Switzerland.
Sorry Dave, but education in Europe IS largely better, and it is not just funding, it is political. While you have textbooks being printed in conservative states, that insist in presenting creationism as an alternative to evolution, that is just unacceptable from an education standpoint. Also, the education system in the US needs to understand that the US is part of the world and not the other way around - teaching world history, world geography, world politics is mandatory for a progressive society. Finally, you indulged in a fallacious argument, as Ohio is a state, not a country. If you ask any American (and most people outside Portugal) where Alentejo is, you will hear only crickets. What is appalling is that most Americans can't point to Argentina or Bolivia on a map, and those are on the American (South) continent. That's not a stretch...
Greetings from Tokyo 🗼😊 Ive been living in Usa, Korea, and now Japan Always was curious about living in europe, i did a year in london as a kid but I was too young too remember Thanks for the information 😊
Good video, love the content, living vicariously thru you, topic was very detailed and balanced, solid points on the USA VS EU discussion, are you still in Portugal or now you are Dave In Europe
Well, my country 🇨🇿 isn't so rich, but I didn't pay for my uni studies, public transport works pretty good, I've got 5 weeks paid holidays + 5 free days... On the another hand housing isn't cheap and food is much better on the south 😉
Doesn't it bother you that for him the states in the US are the same as countries in Europe? :) Instead of somehow refuting the fact that Americans are stupid, he confirmed it. :)
Hey Dave, we're visiting Portugal for the first time from Oct 8-23 and the forecast is rain rain rain. Do you think we should expect it to be constantly raining/storming, like is that typical for Northern Portugal in October? Or is it usually like a few hours a day and more chill? Can you put your finger in the air and give us a forecast ;)
It's autumn, it's starting to rain and we really miss it after months without rain. Go to the South (Alentejo and Algarve) for warmer weather and less rain
Hi Dave, it is nice to see that you are enjoying Portugal. May I ask a personal question? What are the jobs that non-Portuguese residents, like yourself, work on? How realistic it is to get a job if you speak more than one language and one of them is Portuguese. Keep enjoying Portugal. Thank you.
I was just in Amsterdam last week and then Porto. The prices are not the same. Porto is almost as cheap as Mexico and Amsterdam was as expensive as any big city in the US
@@daveinportugal totally, I was just making that comment because you said the prices were the same, in my experience they were very different. A coffee in Amsterdam was 4-5x more expensive, therefore prices not the same…
@@daveinportugal upon further thought maybe you mean in equivalently popular destinations prices are the same, so Porto compared to a same size city in Netherlands the prices are the same? I travel to Europe quite a bit and I find that prices vary greatly by country. We usually end up in Greece, Spain and Portugal because France, Germany and Italy aren’t worth it
There's been a sharp contrast between the video you made last year and this particular one. lol. I guess reality does set in with time. Time is always a deciding factor.
Sadly the UK is far more like US than Europe, we have universal healthcare but it has been so badly defunded that we have thousands dying on waiting lists and awaiting ambulances every year, shocking
For people who are planning to move to Finland and work here, I hope you will stop complaining about having to use and learn the Finnish language in Finland. There are only a declining number of 4.9 million people who speak Finnish in the world (Finland's population is about 5.6 million and not all Finnish speakers even live in Finland), and due to the dominant influence of the English language, the Finnish language has recently been declared "near threatened" and it is advised to protect it in order to preserve it to avoid levels "vulnerable" and "endangered", which, according to the calculations made by the researchers, are not far away. Also, if you move to Finland, there is no reason to startle, scare or be afraid about taxation, but it is good to be prepared in advance that taxes in Finland and other Nordic countries can be high and, for example, the taxation of earned income is progressive and rises sharply alongside with the increase in the income level.
I live in Spain and some things that I noticed are: * If they can avoid work, they will do it. They have said that themselves, many times. * If they can avoid following rules, they will do it. They're rebels without a cause. * If they can avoid learning, they will do it. I've heard many teenagers say that what they study will never serve any purpose, that they will never use it and the custom is to take a course on a trade and start working. People don't have the idea that going to college is important. It's not the opposite but getting an education is not relevant. * Houses get occupied very easily and police doesn't act quickly at all to solve that issue. * Illegal immigration is being promoted in Spain. They pay immigrants a sum of money every day, they give them shelter and food. * People here get angry very easily. * They are not interested in learning English at all. Is it the same in Portugal? Public transportation is also an issue and cities seem to be dirty.
Okay fair enough... Lichtenstein is a stretch. But knowing where Ohio is, is completely irrelevant both historically as well as culturally. But you may expect knowing basic things about let's say historically important countries like for example the Netherlands or Portugal. Doesn't seem too much to ask 😅
I think private insurance should not be allowed, it is no different than having someone cut in front of the line because they paid to take your turn. If you can afford private insurance and want to be seen quicker in a better facility, then you should pay to improve the system for everybody!
Europe has way better work/life balance. You are lucky to get a week vacation when you start work. And you are lucky if you can live on two jobs, much less 4 days a week.
The amount of portuguese couples without money for a property of their own, and the amount of abandoned places in Portugal, is such a sign of how negligent the government is towards their own citizens. They rather have people in misery, than to repurpose abandoned properties. And there are SO MANY in Portugal. It's really just sad. The minimum salary barely cover the rent of a ROOM, in Lisbon... how can they expect the economy to grow if people are surviving, while SO MANY PLACES are abandoned.
Saying quality of life is not better in the EU is wild, in america you have multiple shootings a month, no public transport in the majority of the country, are always in the edge on civil war like twice a year, no public health care, tipping culture, should i go on? quality of life is not just work, work for us is not the most important thing in our life, but still, basically everyone in europe goes to work or school without being worried of being gunned down
The Overton window has moved so far to the left that anything to the right of the far left is "Far Right. Who says they are " Far Right " ? What does "Far Right" even mean now ?!
Please don’t say Europe, say the country. Europe is too diverse, so your comment does not make sense. For reference, If I worked in New York and latter in Springfield Ohio, I am sure both experiences would be completely different.
@@carlosalbuquerque5672 I can’t understand why liberals are not patriots and love communism so much. If you think socialism is so great then you should go and live in Europe.
Underfunded schools in America? Nope. Just a lot of money wasted on bureaucrats and buildings instead of teachers to help our kids. FUNDING is not the issue, it is how they spend the money that is the issue. I like your videos a lot, but I think you missed on this one.
Honestly, if i end up having to move to europe (theres a non-zero chance the supreme court might make gays fight in the purge), im not going to be happy about it. So... sorry in advance europe.
It is when governments became involved in “healthcare” that it became expensive. We should not have healthcare systems; healthcare should be an ecosystem of choice, and without government infusion it could be very affordable. Anytime something is manipulated by government, the cost will go up, the efficiency will go down, and choice and innovation goes out the window, - it will become something that the best is only affordable to those who have the money to go to private options. Everything should be “private!” This, of course, goes double for education! Government should be nowhere near education ecosystems. Government should be completely detached from these life pursuits, and the cost will go down, choice will increase, and the manipulation and propaganda that is infused into public systems will vanish like a bad dream.
Bruh because of lack of government involvement is the reason healthcare is expensive in the U.S. Lobbying occurs easily if the government isn’t involved
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The ivy league universities in the USA are literally sold out to DEI along with other important industries like the military and science. The USA is not even worthy of being on any comparison list. From what I observe in headlines it appears in Europe as in the USA, violent migrants have free reign to harm locals as if it is a deliberate scheme by leaders of their countries?
You didn’t speak about car culture vs public transport culture.
One difference not mentioned that I think a lot of Americans would notice is the culture of smoking. In my part of Portugal, second hand smoke exposure is a much bigger issue than in USA and that should be noted
I'm just discovering your work on yt and have seen a few videos. Thank you, it's interesting and you speak well 😊
It's nice to hear foreigner's point of view. :)
Better healthcare in Europe? Yes.
Work/life balance? Yes.
Education? Yes.
Better food? Yes.
Polarised politics? No.
Safer? Yes.
Solves all problems? No.
It is not safe, some cities are rape and murder capitals with extensive no go(no policing) zones. You have to stay updated to survive.
@@karllux-d6g yes. The US is almost like Australia. In Australia almost every living thing wants to kill you. In the US almost every living person wants to kill you, including the police and the president (Bleach injections?! Really?! 🤔).
In Europe even some police forces don't carry guns. So, yes, a trillion times safer.
Agree 100%, and yet we have more Europeans living in the US, than American living in Europe.
@@jetta6548 great place to make money, not so great to live.
@@NunoFerreiraX It's a great place to make money and to spend it too. It's freaking expensive here. Not a perfect place, true, but why are millions of immigrants trying to move to the US every year? We have our issues, yet still just about every immigrant wants to move the US if they had the opportunity.
Como sempre, excelente Dave!
Obrigadissímo Gislaine 🙏🏻
Dave, I lived in Switzerland for 10 years with a wife and daughter. I did not find health coverage overly expensive and it was incredibly comprehensive. The two times I had to go to the emergency ward I was immediately treated and paid nothing, was not even ask
for my insurance information. Not sure what you mean by it can be expensive?
From what I've read, Switzerland has the most expensive healthcare of Europe, but still short from the USA cost.
@@antonijaume8498 You want to make an argument with me? I lived there 10 years. while I raised a daughter. I moved back to the
US and now live in Portugal, in part thanks to you. And I would never describe Switzerland’s Health care as expensive. Everything is
covered. Medications mailed write to your door at no charge. I paid a monthly charge for our insurance about one 20th of my salary and never paid anything else. I saw a weekly therapist, had cataract surgery. Never paid an extra dime. The charges in the US were draconian compared to Switzerland.
@@antonijaume8498 Would you like my friends in Switzerland to contact you so you can get the real scope on the cost? The cost in the US, I moved
from California to Portugal in Feb. are draconian compared to Switzerland.
I agree with everything you said, thanks for another amazing video.
Dying to live in Porto. I'm so jealous ❤
on Food:
The food cost (both grocery and restaurants) is way cheaper in Portugal and Italy than in the Netherlands, so Dave's example is not correct.
Groceries and especially restaurants are crazy expensive in the Netherlands. Portuguese living in the Netherlands.
As always interesting to watch.
Sorry Dave, but education in Europe IS largely better, and it is not just funding, it is political. While you have textbooks being printed in conservative states, that insist in presenting creationism as an alternative to evolution, that is just unacceptable from an education standpoint. Also, the education system in the US needs to understand that the US is part of the world and not the other way around - teaching world history, world geography, world politics is mandatory for a progressive society.
Finally, you indulged in a fallacious argument, as Ohio is a state, not a country. If you ask any American (and most people outside Portugal) where Alentejo is, you will hear only crickets. What is appalling is that most Americans can't point to Argentina or Bolivia on a map, and those are on the American (South) continent. That's not a stretch...
Love the video!!! I'm taking a flight to Porto tonight!!!!!!!!
Greetings from Tokyo 🗼😊
Ive been living in Usa, Korea, and now Japan
Always was curious about living in europe, i did a year in london as a kid but I was too young too remember
Thanks for the information 😊
Greetings! Thank you for watching Jonathan! 🙏🏻
Good video, love the content, living vicariously thru you, topic was very detailed and balanced, solid points on the USA VS EU discussion, are you still in Portugal or now you are Dave In Europe
I'm staying Dave in Portugal and will have a series traveling the world called Dave on Earth 😉
The best🙌🏼
Always catching the attention 🫡
Awesome video. In my view, it's spot on!! Congrats!!
Thank you good sir 🙏🏻
Well, my country 🇨🇿 isn't so rich, but I didn't pay for my uni studies, public transport works pretty good, I've got 5 weeks paid holidays + 5 free days... On the another hand housing isn't cheap and food is much better on the south 😉
Why would an European know where Ohio is located? what historical significance it has?
@@afonck5550 Cuyahoga River fire, Gold Star Chili, Rutherford B. Hayes, Bone Thugs n Harmony......
Doesn't it bother you that for him the states in the US are the same as countries in Europe? :) Instead of somehow refuting the fact that Americans are stupid, he confirmed it. :)
@@ianbent0n why would the world ever need to know about those lmao
@@lorenzosimao6259 Agree with you
Some of the greatest indigenious Native American tribes, that’s what historical significance it has.
I love your videos, and I love Porto ❤️ a minha cidade.❤️
Haha 🦗 Nice video, Dave! Tho, I miss my usual LOL at your huffy upward opening hike uphill in Portugal. 😂
Hey Dave, we're visiting Portugal for the first time from Oct 8-23 and the forecast is rain rain rain. Do you think we should expect it to be constantly raining/storming, like is that typical for Northern Portugal in October? Or is it usually like a few hours a day and more chill? Can you put your finger in the air and give us a forecast ;)
It's too far ahead to know for sure. But it does rain quite a lot in that region, yeah. Sometimes for the whole day. Good luck!
It's autumn, it's starting to rain and we really miss it after months without rain. Go to the South (Alentejo and Algarve) for warmer weather and less rain
Hi Dave, it is nice to see that you are enjoying Portugal. May I ask a personal question? What are the jobs that non-Portuguese residents, like yourself, work on? How realistic it is to get a job if you speak more than one language and one of them is Portuguese. Keep enjoying Portugal. Thank you.
Armenia and Georgia are in Asia.
I’m just going to step aside and let the discussion begin on this one. Let’s keep
it civil boys and girls….
europe ends in the caucasus
No, it is in Europe
I was just in Amsterdam last week and then Porto. The prices are not the same. Porto is almost as cheap as Mexico and Amsterdam was as expensive as any big city in the US
One cannot compare Porto with Amsterdam. It would be Lisbon that would be on par
@@daveinportugal totally, I was just making that comment because you said the prices were the same, in my experience they were very different. A coffee in Amsterdam was 4-5x more expensive, therefore prices not the same…
@@daveinportugal upon further thought maybe you mean in equivalently popular destinations prices are the same, so Porto compared to a same size city in Netherlands the prices are the same? I travel to Europe quite a bit and I find that prices vary greatly by country. We usually end up in Greece, Spain and Portugal because France, Germany and Italy aren’t worth it
I was referring to general grocery store prices. But the prices of rent and cost of living of Lisbon is now fairly close to Amsterdam
@@daveinportugal when is Dave going to Basque Country?!? I’d love to see it! Our favorite places in all of Europe so far
Nice vid
There's been a sharp contrast between the video you made last year and this particular one. lol. I guess reality does set in with time. Time is always a deciding factor.
Sadly the UK is far more like US than Europe, we have universal healthcare but it has been so badly defunded that we have thousands dying on waiting lists and awaiting ambulances every year, shocking
For people who are planning to move to Finland and work here, I hope you will stop complaining about having to use and learn the Finnish language in Finland. There are only a declining number of 4.9 million people who speak Finnish in the world (Finland's population is about 5.6 million and not all Finnish speakers even live in Finland), and due to the dominant influence of the English language, the Finnish language has recently been declared "near threatened" and it is advised to protect it in order to preserve it to avoid levels "vulnerable" and "endangered", which, according to the calculations made by the researchers, are not far away.
Also, if you move to Finland, there is no reason to startle, scare or be afraid about taxation, but it is good to be prepared in advance that taxes in Finland and other Nordic countries can be high and, for example, the taxation of earned income is progressive and rises sharply alongside with the increase in the income level.
Another banger Dave!🎉
I live in Spain and some things that I noticed are:
* If they can avoid work, they will do it. They have said that themselves, many times.
* If they can avoid following rules, they will do it. They're rebels without a cause.
* If they can avoid learning, they will do it. I've heard many teenagers say that what they study will never serve any purpose, that they will never use it and the custom is to take a course on a trade and start working. People don't have the idea that going to college is important. It's not the opposite but getting an education is not relevant.
* Houses get occupied very easily and police doesn't act quickly at all to solve that issue.
* Illegal immigration is being promoted in Spain. They pay immigrants a sum of money every day, they give them shelter and food.
* People here get angry very easily.
* They are not interested in learning English at all.
Is it the same in Portugal?
Public transportation is also an issue and cities seem to be dirty.
Okay fair enough... Lichtenstein is a stretch. But knowing where Ohio is, is completely irrelevant both historically as well as culturally. But you may expect knowing basic things about let's say historically important countries like for example the Netherlands or Portugal. Doesn't seem too much to ask 😅
I think private insurance should not be allowed, it is no different than having someone cut in front of the line because they paid to take your turn. If you can afford private insurance and want to be seen quicker in a better facility, then you should pay to improve the system for everybody!
Beautiful in theory but the reality is that poorer counties can’t pay good doctors enough and the system becomes corrupt.
Good video Dave.
Europe has way better work/life balance. You are lucky to get a week vacation when you start work. And you are lucky if you can live on two jobs, much less 4 days a week.
I'm portuguese living in switzerland and the healthcare it' s top but realy expensive 🍻
You seem to have Portuguese blood, Dave. Am I wrong?
Hey Dave, i thought you sold your house on the Silver Coast and left Portugal. Did your plans change?
Not in any video did I ever say I was leaving Portugal.
Georgia is not in Europe though.
The amount of portuguese couples without money for a property of their own, and the amount of abandoned places in Portugal, is such a sign of how negligent the government is towards their own citizens. They rather have people in misery, than to repurpose abandoned properties. And there are SO MANY in Portugal. It's really just sad. The minimum salary barely cover the rent of a ROOM, in Lisbon... how can they expect the economy to grow if people are surviving, while SO MANY PLACES are abandoned.
Saying quality of life is not better in the EU is wild, in america you have multiple shootings a month, no public transport in the majority of the country, are always in the edge on civil war like twice a year, no public health care, tipping culture, should i go on? quality of life is not just work, work for us is not the most important thing in our life, but still, basically everyone in europe goes to work or school without being worried of being gunned down
How does one exceed their health care coverage in the USA?
Bueller? Bueller? Anyone? Anyone?
Dave, I thought you had changed the name of this channel to not Dave In Portugal anymore? What changed?
Ohio, next to Pensilvânia, Michigan, west virginia and the rest i forgot 😅
To be fair, how many Americans can pinpoint Ohio? Pretty sure, over here on the west coast, most of us woils have a vague idea and have to guess.
Are your parents the ones in France, Argentines? Brother just left Paris?
I think that one is called Nathaniel Drew
This is some guy name Dave
@@lxportugal9343 Think they are brothers.
@@tabithan2978 No, Nathaniel brother is another person.
As a Ukrainian it's news to me that we don't have a universal healthcare
The Overton window has moved so far to the left that anything to the right of the far left is "Far Right. Who says they are " Far Right " ? What does "Far Right" even mean now ?!
I went toEurope for work once. Never again. It has nothing on the Mid West.
Please don’t say Europe, say the country. Europe is too diverse, so your comment does not make sense. For reference, If I worked in New York and latter in Springfield Ohio, I am sure both experiences would be completely different.
@@carlosalbuquerque5672 I can’t understand why liberals are not patriots and love communism so much. If you think socialism is so great then you should go and live in Europe.
Underfunded schools in America? Nope. Just a lot of money wasted on bureaucrats and buildings instead of teachers to help our kids. FUNDING is not the issue, it is how they spend the money that is the issue.
I like your videos a lot, but I think you missed on this one.
Honestly, if i end up having to move to europe (theres a non-zero chance the supreme court might make gays fight in the purge), im not going to be happy about it. So... sorry in advance europe.
It is when governments became involved in “healthcare” that it became expensive.
We should not have healthcare systems; healthcare should be an ecosystem of choice, and without government infusion it could be very affordable.
Anytime something is manipulated by government, the cost will go up, the efficiency will go down, and choice and innovation goes out the window, - it will become something that the best is only affordable to those who have the money to go to private options. Everything should be “private!”
This, of course, goes double for education! Government should be nowhere near education ecosystems.
Government should be completely detached from these life pursuits, and the cost will go down, choice will increase, and the manipulation and propaganda that is infused into public systems will vanish like a bad dream.
Ideas from the American world do not apply in Europe, fortunately...
Haha, this idea is so outdated
Bruh because of lack of government involvement is the reason healthcare is expensive in the U.S. Lobbying occurs easily if the government isn’t involved
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