In Denmark, both dishwashers and dryers are common. She herself is making a typical mistake of generalization. European countries are very different from each other. We have different history, cultures and norms.
Mate, trust me. Its impossible to explain europe to some Americans, I tried. Some understood, some didn't. Try explaining how Britain is still in europe even though the boomers decided to leave the union. Idiotically. Yes, we would of had to pay for some stuff that used to be free, but then we would have an actual voice in important matters. The older generations just wanted their cake baked after they already ate the damn thing. 😂 Meaning, they wanted to leave the union after already ruining the country to a point we can't fix it without the help of the union. I need to get my Irish citizenship. 🤦♀️
Yea. It did kind of make me wonder where she was living if she thinks that's the norm. Perhaps she was trying to keep travel expenses lower by living out of lower cost hostels or something like that?
Duh. She is upfront about her generalization. YOU are making the mistake of generalizing: just because you have one, or it's normal in your country, it does not mean it's the norm in Europe or the regions she's visited and referring to. Congrats on bragging.
what yall in america don't seem to understand - clothes dryers absolutely destroy the fibers of clothing. in switzerland every household has a dryer but it usually only gets used for stuff like underwear or towels. my expensive clothes will be hung out to dry
@@calvinpeterson6056 I don’t know anyone in Italy who doesn’t have a dishwasher or clothes dryer. Even our student house in Spain has both. My mom dries our bed sheets outside because they smell so nicely after. During winter we use the dryer. It’s not because you see people dying clothes outside that they don’t have a dryer which this woman seems to thing 🤣🤣🤣
The American dryers do, as they don’t have energy classes. We, in Europe, have heat pomp dryers and will only have those from next year on and those don’t ruin your clothes, as someone working in that business, I know what I’m saying…
There was a documentary last year about seniors in the United States were actually retiring to cruise ships because it was cheaper for them to get an all inclusive package than it is to live in a retirement home. They don't have to pay for food, utilities etc. They have a doctor on board , their rooms are cleaned daily, There are ship board activities to enrich their lives rather than sitting in a retirement home hoping someone will visit you today. It really makes you think about where our priorities are as a society .
i've been seeing video's of old people not being able to retire in the USA at all. flipping burgers or food delivery or what not to get by as 80+ year olds. that's horrendous. and then the audacity to make it a feel good story because the old people can retire because people donated money for a big check. horrendous. in The Netherlands you get 1600 a month when you're of retirement age by default. if you want more you got to save it up yourself obviously.
@@GiblixStudio Ouch, that's a lot of money. My 85 y/o mother gets 475€ of monthly pension. If she hadn't had the audacity to save earlier in her life, she could barely survive.
@@LeNaInLoVe Because retirement homes in Norway are actually decent, unlike Sweden's... because trust me, when I get that old, I'm gonna live on a cruise ship, because I know how shite our retirement homes and our hospitals etc are. I mean, sure we can make tech companies like no other, but taking care of the elderly, paying people a decent wage, etc, is unheard of, You guys also earn roughly 75% to 250% more for the same profession in Norway than we do in Sweden. If I moved to Norway I'd make 10000Kr more per month on average for the same job. Sure I'd pay a bit more in taxes, but I'd at least have 25000Kr after tax in Norway compared to 19000Kr after tax in Sweden. And since our prices on Goods and services are comparable, with costs only being 1.2 times higher in Norway roughly, I'd still have more money left at the end of the month. And when I retire, I'm gonna lead a decent life, free from hard labor, because I'm 31 and I'm already suffering from back pain, and joint pains, due to working too hard for not enough money.
WHY would anyone want to live in a retirement home? Why not just ... live at home? We assume you spent a lifetime making house payments, right? And now you own it?
I occasionally go on business trips to Bulgaria. The first time I ordered a salad there, there was salt and pepper as well as vinegar and oil on the table. I tried a tomato and then wanted to prepare the salad. Then I noticed. This is a real tomato, I hadn't eaten it since I was a child. And then I tried a cucumber. Man! People looked at me a little strangely, but I ate the salad without anything. Curse the genetic industry with its bullshit saying: “The customer wants it that way!” => Make less and make it better.
@@heatherfruin5050 Probably the US? I didn't quite grasped that yet but apparently when you buy "vegetables" in the US, unless you shop in an organic store, they apparently already come "prepared", cleaned, sliced, peeled, etc. But I may be wrong.
Tbh, most of the tomatoes in Bulgaria are imported from Turkey or North Macedonia. You can still buy local production, but not from the big retail stores, and the price is obviously premium.
Omg, really??? there was a time when Bulgaria was exported it's tomatoes, pepper, fruits etc to most of Easter European countries - including USSR!!! how could you lost it all??? @@TsvetanDimitrov1976
It's not that America has a huge selection of goods in the Supermarket, it's that there are so many irrelevant selections. Like 100 types of basically identical toilet paper, or 400 types of Breakfast cereal. Breaking News ..... there really aren't that many types of Breakfast cereals until you start mixing stupid things together (Multicoloured, choc-chip, strawberry-Raisin Honey-Nut Fruit Loops).
Im from the UK and was speaking to an American friend. They were explaining that in their supermarkets they have 100 different brands of ranch dressing. Some cheap some expensive, some with slight variations to make them different. They use ranch dressing for salads, as a dip, as a sauce to put on fries, to put on sandwiches etc. But when they were in the UK. They were surprised by the wide selection of different types of dressing. They could get their ranch sauce. But also a wide selection that were more popular in the UK and across Europe. They had never heard of putting balsamic vinegar onto salads before and loved it.
Most things have a name brand and a store knock off. Some countries are like costco where they only sell one brand/size/price and if it breaks you tough shit.
Couldn't agree more. I've just come back from a trip to DC where I was regularly shopping in the supermarket. Yes, for example you have a choice of loads of different types of bread, but they're all sickly sweet, sliced, super soft crap. It's not really a huge choice, just lots of different brands.
This and with obsession to show off especially with things you cant afford. Oh my god so many people are willing to max credit card for new insanely overpriced apple toys and take outs and Starbucks etc. that will grow overtime into insane amount. Too many options America, its not healthy. Also this never-ending mission to make everything fast and more and more convenient make people spend even more especially if you even need left home and everything is just few clicks away.
I’m a Norwegian/American who has lived in both the US and Norway. I was born in Oslo, Norway, but my family (mamma, pappa and twin brother) moved to the US, to the Boston area. My mother was from Mobile so most summers we visited Alabama. In the late 50’s family moved to Seattle when my father got as position as Ass. Professor in English (he’s the Norwegian). In 1961 we moved back to Norway for four years. 1964 we moved back to Seattle when my father got a position full professor in English. From 1964 to 1985 I lived in New York, NY, Alabama (in city and rural), hitchhiked across the US twice, and back to Seattle. In 1985, over 4 days I married my wife, got my Norwegian passport (long story) and flew to Drammen, Norway and my job as a designer in the oil industry. Have lived here since, with regular visits to Seattle and other relatives in Canada and other states. In ’85, when we came to Norway, and people asked why? We answered we were Reagen refugees. Since then, we have seen the US “American dream” deteriorate. After our last visit to Seattle my wife and I have determined that we are staying in Norway. I own my house and the mortgage is paid off. The car is paid off. We both have been retired since 2019. While living here I have been treated for a broken ankle, broken shoulder twice, gum disease cured, pacemaker implanted and treatment for blood disease. My wife has been treated for breast cancer twice. All this has not materially affected our economy. I have the money to travel, eat out, buy electronics regularly and generally do not worry about how much money I have in the bank. Unfortunately, the American politics is creeping into Norwegian politics. Politicians are in it for the money, more monetary scandals are being exposed and social services are being sold to private money making enterprises.
Yes, I think all of Europe is slowly moving to the right politically. I think it is a reaction to refugees, but I could be wrong. I also find it interesting that you reacted much the same way to Reaganomics as I did in my comment, and I see how US politics poisons much of the landscape here currently. Stay safe and well. Peace out.
I think you’ll find that American political ideas are creeping into most governments as they have seen how being right wing in America opens you up to making money out of the less fortunate hand over fist and nobody can do anything about it….they are also acting as though the money that comes in is for their personal use only and don’t want to help the public. Our Tory government is trying to sabotage our National Health and also. trying to eliminate any civil rights the common man had fought for over the years!
It might surprise you but the rest of the world has PAID HOLIDAYS up to 4weeks. That means you can go away for a month to different places and still have money!
Thank you for this comment. I couldn't put it as well as you did. I'm from Lithuania and nobody believes me that we're moving towards destruction from one bad economics (communism) to another being American corpo democracy. Standard of life in Lithuania went of the roof after we joined European union. For those who were born in the 90s after Independence the life is good I'd say. Better then in western Europe at the moment, where I currently live. Better in a sense that if you smart enough you can still buy real estate and live your life. But the trends and the talking points are exactly the same as they were in America. During Reagan sell of new economic ways and current talking points of charts and numbers when talking about country and not mentioning how that effects society. Everything has to be monetized and constant talk about more privatisation to increase efficiency and let private sector develop. Charts are going up when you look at gdp and other similar stats. Every time taxation mentioned business get preferential treatment with phrase "by taxing bizz you tax consumer" while at the same time discussing if additive tax or income tax should be increased or maybe both and we need new military tax. All of them effect consumers directly but dicusion about taxing revenues of bizz is non existant basically. Free markets, commies etc. Same talking republican points came here. Recently government made description to impelent real estate tax. It hasn't passed yet. But how they handle that thing is horrific to me. There are no safety nets of any kind. For example if you're pensioner living in city center of capital on pension of 600 euros and now you get to pay property tax anywhere from 0.5 to 4 % it's up to city council. I'd say you're pretty f'ed of your property evaluated at 500k that's 2500 to 20000 a year. And the worst part that people I've spoken with those in their 30s from middle class are Okey with this. They say it's not going to happen even thaugh there's no safety in current legislation thst they try to pass. Landlords will be able to offload this tax on renters and of course since landlords are business and mobility is important for healthy economy (another talking point) they're not getting taxed since progressive taxation is just a taboo right now. It's horrible to watch people vote themselves into poverty. They are middle class now but as US even Germany trends shows they arent going to be middle class within a decade.
In the UK billboards on motorways are banned because they are distracting and cause accidents. We also don’t have advertisements for prescription medicines or lawyers. There must be millions of chemicals in the food in America to enable stuff to have such a long shelf life in the supermarkets.
@@dilligaf73 We have a lot of 'temporary' signs on the sides of old artic trailers parked in farmers fields round here instead, i hear it gets around all the rules on actual billboards. There is also a section of the M5 through Bham with a lot of modern billboards, but i think its mostly to try and hide Bham rather than advertise!
As a Canadian with family in the US, if Americans only understood how badly screwed over they were by the US health care system, there would be protests in the streets.
Not only that, lots of Americans believe their healthcare system is the best and would call anyone a “socialist” if said person criticizes it. It’s like a victim who willingly defends his kidnapper
@@maximkovac2000 Come on now, be fair. We have been at the top of positive infection rates in several categories before. I remember when Mike Pence made that one boneheaded decision that had rural Indiana leading the world in AIDS spread rates.
As an Spanish, most of middle class homes have dishwashers. Regarding to dryers, that's not so commun, but I know quite a lot of people, including friends and family, that have one. Not in my case, but here the weather is not that bad and clothes are easily dried outside. Maybe in winter it takes a little bit longer, but you can always line your clothes inside your home. And it's much environmental friendly.
Yeah same in France, almost everyone has a dishwasher but dryer are kind of stupid I prefer to hang my laundry it also avoid or limits the need for ironing.
Dryers are much more common in northern Europe, bordering on essential. Southern Europe obviously doesn't need them, look at the weather difference! Dishwashers? In the UK it usually depends on space and level of laziness.
I live in Sweden and I don't have a dryer, I used too but only used it 2-3 times a year so when it broke I didn't replace it. I hang my laundry on a indoor rack instead. The clothes last longer, it adds some moisture to the air and dryes in 12-24h.
I have to point out that Europe is a continent. Bulgaria, Croatia is way different than England or Sweden. Portugal is different than Norway, which is where I’m from. In Norway and Scandinavia generally, we all have dishwashers and dryers. And it’s not cheap to buy houses! But she’s got things right regarding each country, but it doesn’t account for all of the continent. Love your reactions though.
Very good reaction Ryan. I'm a bit confused about the dressing up part. It's my experience that Americans tend to dress like homeless people compared to Europeans. People in Europe dress very smartly by day and elegantly in the evening. Americans can't seem to get beyond baseball caps, jogging pants oversized t shirts and sneakers, regardless of one's age. There's nothing as horrifying as seeing a crowd of Americans standing in an ancient cobbled street or building in Europe whilst dressed like they just got out of bed.
You say: "It's my experience that Americans tend to dress like homeless people compared to Europeans." Yes yes and yes. It is my experience too. And jogging pants oversized t shirts and sneakers are for children. I agree with all your points. 👍
I was just in a big nerdy convention. One of the merch items was some "leisurewear" which looked like uncomfortable bedclothes; on one hand it was the kind of cloth I'd wear in the winter (sorry, I have no idea what is it called in English), but on the other the sleeves and legs were short. Other big-ticket items ran out on the first day. That one, I'd really like to know if they sold _any._
Even Europe differs in that. The mid-european countries such as Spain and Italy spend a lot more on clothes and fasion than the northern european countries does. In Scandinavia it’s not really necessary to dress up in suit and tie if you’re going out to eat, unless, obviously, if it’s a better type of restaurant with finer dining. But to just going out, it’s not very common to dress up nice. The total opposite in in the countries sorrounding the Mediterranean Sea where it’s a natural thing to dress up to go out to a café.
I think that some people forget, that Europe isn't one country and one culture. What is common differs among European countries. For one, dishwashers and dryers are quite common in the Scandinavian countries. Dryers are especially useful during autumn and winter, since drying clothes outside won't work most of the tme. I don't think that I have been without access to a dryer since childhood.
Italian here. when I was a kid I didn't have a dishwasher but then we changed homes and my parents bought one. like 20 years ago. no dryer though - they never thought it was important. In summer clothes will get dry from evening to morning and even in winter it will rarely take more than a couple days. Last year my bf and I bought a house and the previous owners left some of the appliances for us. first time ever either of us had a drier. He used it some times and then when the washing machine broke we bought a smaller one and gave the dryer to my cousin (he has a kid and another on the way so he was thinking of buying one). I do most of the dishes by hand because it's just the two of us, we only use the dishwasher when whe have guests. I think our situation is the most common here in Italy. we just have no need for dryers
yeah those things are pretty normal in central to northern european countries… she lived in the netherlands so I am not sure why she stated that (I live here)
I completely agree with her, especially about the quality of food in America. I found it very poor quality and lacking in flavour and the GMO food made me so sick. It was also very expensive and very bad for your body. I don’t own a clothes dryer because I hang my clothes outside in the fresh air to dry. It saves a fortune in power bills. I don’t need to be overwhelmed by a hundred choices of the same sugary garbage at the supermarket so I’m much happier going to a smaller supermarket that has 2 or 3 brands to choose from.
And do you know that the vast majority of today fruits are artificaly created and didn't exist in nature before? GMO products are not that different, they can just make things faster in selecting better features and combining them together, GMO products is something what rest of the world should finally accept. Or look at dogs for example, these artificaly created monsters are not natural, so when people have these artificaly made dogs, why they deny GMO products? It doesn't make any sense, nothing is natural, when you eat banana, it didn't exist few hundreds years ago, it's artificaly bred by people. GMO products do the same things, just faster, it's about combining features of existing products and removing features you don't want, it's not like these things grow in some crazy lab next to nuclear power plant or something. Some people thing that these modified products can bring some ecologic catastrophe when you bring it to other continent and it spreads into nature, but artificaly bred products can do the same, today bananas didn't exist, today dogs didn't exist and it's everywhere now. It already happened and you can't stop that.
Across American food has become homogenized by big restaurant chain owners. I want the mom & pop restaurant with mom at the front of the house serving their customers, and Pop in the kitchen preparing "his" excellent dishes. Individuality, and originality exists all over Europe with excellent results, while the big chains are killing off the little, interesting restaurants in America.
I’m from the UK, born in 1958. The USA seemed to be an amazing country when I was young. Thanks to my job, I worked in the US (in 15 states) multiple times so probably 50 trips. I was always in hotels so not experiencing “real” life, but worked with lots of really nice people. To be honest it didn’t really take me long to figure out that the US I’d been impressed with when I was young didn’t really exist.
No, Ryan. Refering to your intro: It's about having skills. In the Netherlands we can use a lot of people with the right skills. We provide work, help you with housing and further integrating into our society. You don't have to wait until a certain age!
The skills are a major problem. In Europe, we have to actually learn a craft from the ground up and be unionized and, in most cases, a member if a guild that ensures excellence. By contrast, the so-called freedom Americans have is the freedom to practice any craft without proper training. I met plumbers in the US who were proud of having had a six-month "apprenticeship". People graduate from high school with a third grade reading level. I am not kidding.
+1. That said, it's those who don't shy away just because it isn't easy, that have success and tend to get more out of it. Those who want it handed to them, tend to have -a- an experience that reflects their effort.
I used to go to the US and Canada once to twice a year. It's 10 yrs since last time, and even up till 2013, I was blown away by the marketing "noise" everywhere. I could never live in the US, with the condition I'm currently having, not being able to work full time. Not talking about health insurance. Even Canada, that was cheaper than the US, food prices has risen a lot. I'm so grateful I live in socialist Norway 🙏🙏
I'm an American who has been living in Germany for over 20 years. I can't even imagine returning. I have a great job, amazing health insurance, and 31 days of paid vacation per year.
@@mariannehaglund6745I'm not sure you know what socialism is. Norway has a great safety net for people down on luck and great social services. If you're an American you equate it with communism.
On one of my many holidays in America i couldn't sleep so i went for a walk at 3am . A police car pulled up and asked me where i was going !!!!! Everyone in the UK will go for a walk for pleasure .
a few years ago i was on a holiday on maui and due to the jetlag i woke up at 3 or 4 in the morning every day so went for a walk on the beach and watch the sunrise. for the first few days the police or security people would question me even though it was tourism area... but the joggers and other early birds wouldn't be out before 5 a.m. 😅
It wasn't the police that bothered me when I went for a stroll in LA and Chicago at nighttime, it was the ever-present thought that walking the streets alone wasn't a safe thing to do, even in quite nice parts of those cities.
@@billybudd5854 i wouldn't dare to walk in those cities at night and alone 😰 i live in a german city with a pretty high criminal rate and i'm careful but i can't say i'm afraid when walk the city at night - i live in the worst part of the city as well but i still don't feel unsafe.
I live in London and regularly go for a 3-4 am stroll, especially in the local park. It’s quiet and relaxing at night. It was a life saver during the Covid years
I know how I feel about the US. I lived and worked in Stockholm, Sweden for 32 years and now I’m semi retired in Sicily. NOTHING could get me to move back to the states. Life is simply better in Europe. 😂
@@FortunateXpat - That alone explains quite a hell of a lot. In short, you're hardly a real American. Californians and New Yorkers know NOTHING about the common experience of the most common Americans. They might believe they do - but nope. Kamala Harris is also a perfect example. But idiot Joe Biden isn't capable of explaining what he believes because he's a goddamn puppet. He just waits for his strings to be pulled. If you claim to be an X pate, then why do you still behave as if you exist in the USA?
ever thought about why the European architecture is so different? it makes sense for the time these old houses were built. many houses and city centers were built before america was even discovered. the house i grew up in was built around 1600 - 1700 .
@@nightstriker5885so....discovered? If you don't report the findings you didn't descover it you just went in it 😂 Like the stupid argument of people saying that the native descovered america because they were born in it...Imagine descovering life on another planet and someone said "nu hu we didn't discover it, life discovered itself" 😂
Yes lollll on a holiday in Boston my host / friend took me to his sisters house telling me it was really old !!!! it was built in 1900 lolllllll at the time i lived in Macclesfield in a house built in 1730 .
*Discovered by Western European colonisers. Native indigenous peoples were already living there for centuries before Europeans arrived and wrecked things for the native people of the americas.
In fact, houses in Europe have a limit around 1300. Roughly after that time houses were built on a stone foundation instead of wood rammed into the ground. Why do I mention that? Well, quite a few old houses have been analyzed by radiocarbon and it turns out, a lot of houses are several hundred of years older than everyone thought. For example, our house is dated as 1800, but I suspect 1500 because of the style it was built. And what is very different is, how aware we are about our history. We try to learn from the past for a better future.
Some of her statements about Europe does not take into account that Europe is diverse. For example in Norway almost all households have a dishwasher, and most households have a dryer for clothes. The type is a little different because most of ours collect the water in a tank that you have to empty, but that also let's you put the dryer anywhere without extra installation. I think dryers quickly became popular here because of the winter season. If it was summer all the time then people would probably be content with drying the clothes outdoors, even if that also works in winter, the drying in the winter is slow. First the clothes freeze into hard sheets of fabric, then the ice slowly go directly from solid to gas. It works because cold air is very dry, so it kind of sucks water molecules directly from ice. We can not otherwise dry clothes by hanging it up indoors because that can quickly cause mould to grow everywhere. So dryers with water collection tanks makes a lot of sense in Norway.
I couldn't live in America just because I love good food, I often eat food in season. Now it's November and the tangerines and oranges are so delicious. They are sweet and juicy also the grapes,apples, pears,chestnuts,hazelnuts,quinces, walnuts, cabbage, turnips and pumpkin. And that's just everything from November to March, every season there's something different and they're super delicious. In spring there is: Carrots, rhubarb, strawberries, leek, asparagus, spinach,lettuce, mushrooms and wild garlic ect. Summer: Cucumber, carrots, iceberg lettuce, radish, fennel and tomatoes. Also strawberries, blackberries, blueberries,raspberries,currants, cherries,mirabelle plums,plums ect. Fall: Grapes, raspberries, blackberries, plums, pears and cranberries pumpkin, onions, endive, white and red cabbage ect. Germany has a lot season food and many take it.
Re: healthcare. Saw a story not long ago of a couple of Americans involved in an accident in the UK. The ambulance arrived, and she protested they couldn't afford it, they'd get to the hospital by taxi. The ambulance driver replied: "It's already paid for. Now get in the f***ing van." As a UK taxpayer who'd paid for that, I'm glad! The NHS may not be big on pretty vases of flowers, nice single rooms like hotel rooms, but it's there and it works.
What you do for a living, how many hours you do it every week, and by association how much money you make, is a big part of your persona in the USA. Almost to a point where it starts to define you as a person. It's certainly a topic that comes up quickly when meeting people. Not so much so in Europe. Your job doesn't come up immediately over here because that information doesn't say that much about you as a person.
Here in Spain, working more than 40 hours per week is frowned upon. Communists in the government wish them reduced to 37.5 hours next year. In fact, working more than 80 extra hours *PER YEAR* is completely illegal, and brings thousands of euros in fines to companies. Even with that, unemployment doesn't get below 14% 😟
This is something that hurts me, as a person living in another country ( a stunning, natural, slower paced, with great work life balance) country to watch folk, desperate for what we have and wanting out of their larger, consumerist, work obsessed, etc, country.... come here and then bring it all with them, slowly changing our home into theirs. Come here if it mends your life and soothes the soul!, if you desire the life we live, embrace it, join in with our culture, but please leave the life you're escaping behind.
My family had a drier which we bought while living in New York and brought it to Europe. However, since there was no ventilation designed for driers in our bathrooms, it could only vent to the bathroom itself, and after humidity reached certaim point it bacame useless. So, it was rarely used and in the end thrown out as unnecessary. The "secret" why European or Asian food tastes diferent is thus: American zonig regulations forbid stores in residential zones. This means that the stores are far away from the houses and people buy provisions for the whole week or more; consequently additives and preservants are needed to keep groceries "fresh" for a long time. In Europe and other parts of the world there is usually several small stores and sometimes a farmers market 10 minutes by foot away. So people buy little quantities of fresh bread, vegetables, meat, fish, etc. every day. No preservativves or sugar needed.
Fun fact, in France people were sooo fed up with billboards that a piece of legislation that almost forbid them unless they don't ruin the landscape... Since then, the number of ads just went down, the economy did not collapse and we can enjoy a more peaceful and beautiful landscape...
Everybody in the US complains about the cost of living, just do the math. ALDI is the most successful and cheapest chain in the US. WHY? They do NOT have 30 kinds of bread or 10 brands of milk? ALDI can get higher rebates from suppliers and has to throw away less due to the end of shelf life. ALDI makes a good profit still because they do not employ people to collect the shopping carts from the parking lot, no greeters at the door, there are fewer management positions etc. and they still pay better wages than Walmart etc.
About 3 years ago, we gave an 85-year-old grandmother a paid full medical examination with a stay in the hospital for 7-10 days. And it cost $1300. Cancer was detected. With these results we went to the state polyclinic and she was scheduled for surgery. She was operated on for free. Russia.
Nice, please stop killing innocent people elsewhere and we can talk. In fact, when you can criticize your leaders and set up a competing party without committing suicide from a clip of bullets or flight from window in a hospital while unable to get up from bed... You do not have a say.
Actually too much choice, specially if theres no meaningful difference between them beyond the packaging and marketing, is a bad thing. Its more mentally taxing and one spends first more energy and time on deciding what to pick and then one is also experiencing the regret or lesser enjoyment due the feeling of missing out on the other options they could potentially pick. no choice is bad but too much superficial options, more than one can ever realistically need or even distinguish between, is also bad and prolly even worse considering the overall impact, both personal due spending more on stuff you dont need and dont even really want in the end and societal due wasting so much resources and human potential and creating so much pollution and pointless wastage by making more and more increasingly more useless stuff.
Just my personal opinion what I perceive as the mainstream American way of life: You hustle all the time to buy things you don't need to show off how well you're doing to other people (which are not really relevant to you) while your most precious asset (your time!) is ticking away. Spending time with your loved ones - this hopefully includes yourself ;) - is more important than working or buying stuff.
Drug advertising is very limited in NZ, usually over the counter type drugs, but not ones you need a prescription for. It's nothing on the scale of the US.
yes, that puzzled me a bit, partyly because i don't watch a lot of telly, but then I recalled a "soluble asprin, the sort doctors recommend", or some-such.
Australia also has over the counter drugs ads on TV. And quite often even especially during flu season, you would see ads for sore throat, nasal congestion, cough, hayfever, etc.
Just thinking about seasonal food. Strawberry season is an event in the UK, they are everywhere and everyone who sells them really pushes that they are British strawberries. They are incredible in season though so i support it. ❤
Selection in a grocery store. She means waste of food. If you have 100 products to choose of one item how many times every 100 items will be purchased before it expires ? Some will never be bought.
Also the huge shops are kid if overwhelming. In Europe we also have some of these megastores, but most of the shops are smaller - and more specialized. We have it all, but placed in smaller stores.
I think everyone likes to have different types of the same kind of products, i.e., whole milk, semi-skimed, skimmed, oat milk etc. But we don't need 100s of different BRANDS of the identical product.
Bit of a disclaimer from someone who lives in Bulgaria: You absolutely cannot rent an apartment for 150 dollars anymore in any city. You can't even rent a room for that in Sofia. She mentioned she lived outside of Sofia, but even so, I would guess it was more than 5 years ago. Rent has gone up at least 20% since I last moved in 2019. In 2023 the average rent for a one-bedroom in Sofia is like 450 dollars. You can get one for less if you don't mind living in a shoebox and/or a bathroom or kitchen that haven't been renovated since the 60s, but even then it's slim pickings.
In Europe, "old money" (people who have been rich for longer) don't flash money, but they get good stuff that lasts long. You'll see a perfectly preserved Volvo from the late 90-ties, with a shiny lack because the car was never parked in the street.
As a Bulgarian, I can say that yes, there are seasonal dishes that you don't eat in other seasons, and somehow as each season approaches, it's as if the organism itself is screaming - Hey, do you remember this great dish, you need it, do it, get it , eat it :)
Her point with the pace of life was actually underrated, because it sums up and takes credit to so many parts of your daily life. I won't say European lifestyle is completely the opposite, we too have a fast environment. But then you have islands of rest, where you take it slow and get slowed down. Cities with pedestrian zones, where you aren't confronted with traffic noise, pollution, fast movements (yes, that is really an important thing to relax, being at a place without rapid and permanent movements, where your eyes may rest and chill). The opportunity to be in a restaurant or café and sit there for hours without being kicked out. Even the famous US (restaurant) franchises give you a feeling of being home and welcome as a customer to take all the time you need. You may sit for hours in a European Starbucks with a single coffee and nobody begs you to leave. The fact, that you may leave your house and walk and not do everything with your car, gives you a much more aware life than racing from activity to activity. And maybe our societies are much more willed to frugality. Being pleased with what you have. You dont't need to have the ultimate newest things, you may take your time to replace something until you buy something new and don't go shopping, whenever an updated version comes to the market. Even though we obviously do have those "trendsetters", too. You can't win a race, if you'll never take a break. And that's why many other countries have a higher life standard and experience than the USA, where you run for your life.
Definitely true. I found it crazy when I learned that Americans don't take holiday even if they're entitled to it because it can stop them being promoted at work and cause them to be looked down on. In the UK it's illegal for an employer to not allow you to take holiday, to the extent that I've worked with people who were forced to take holiday because the company was worried about being prosecuted because every year they were paying the person for the holiday they weren't taking and if they were audited they could be accused of not allowing the person to use their holiday.
@@kaneworsnop1007 Here in Germany you have to take at least one "long" 10 workday (2 weeks) holiday a year by law. Usually I'm against these kind of nanny state laws but sometimes you really have to protect people from themselves. What I also like here more and more every year I get older are "quiet Sundays". Almost everything is closed, no Trucks on the streets, people are not allowed to make loud noises (like vacuum cleaning, mow the lawn etc.). Yes, it can be very inconvenient but the "peace" you get in return is priceless.
She makes a very good point I unfortunatly think are lost on many older and especially younger Americans. The issue with the US from a European perspective is not "capitalism" per se, but rather Consumerism with a capital C! Most of Europe are capitalist/mixed economy as well, but does not follow the same intrusive and ever present consumerism that is so prevalent in the US. Also the obsession with "Branding", that seems to be on the forefront of so many young Americans, that they actually strive for making themselves inot a "brand". This to most Europeans would be seen as taking away from you individual value as a person here, and certainly not something to strive for, were as in the US it seems to be the opposite. And this "ideal" certainly seems to be a consequence of ever present "consumerism" propganda and the insane influence your corporations have on your every day lives...
About selection in a grocery store: Aldi has 2 brands per type of product, for some it may be three. If you go to a bigger store of a different chain with more floor space, you might end up with an entire shelf dedicated to 20 different brands of the exact same product. That's a huge logistics overhead to keep all that shelved. And you pay for it. You pay for the the logistics to get all those different products to the shelf, you pay for the logistics of keeping them stocked and you pay for whatever surplus inevitably gets thrown in the trash. And that's just the financial side. It also wears you down to have to make those choices for every single product (or have to search for that brand you like)
In the UK hospitals have Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments that you can just turn up at. You speak to a nurse with very little delay. If you have an urgent condition you will be seen immediately. If not quite so urgent you will be triaged within about 30 minutes - blood pressure checked, etc.) Then you might be called in for tests after a hour or 2. There will be a sign in the waiting room saying how long you can expect to wait. That is normally hours, but only for non-urgent conditions. I was taken in by ambulance after a car accident and was seen immediately. I went back a few weeks later about a persistent cough - part of my right lung had collapsed, but it healed by it self after a few months. I later had an echocardiogram to try to find out why I had blacked out whilst driving. All that was free, of course.
Dryers are in probably 50% of households, we just don't like how much electricity they use. On a laundry line, the energy comes directly from the sun and the wind, can't get more energy efficient than that!
@@SheWhoWalksSilently Those exist?! Burning gas creates heat, but how would gas make anything spin and tumble? Combustion engine? Never heard of those dryers
I think it's mixing prices over time. Today, in a quick search. a one-bedroom apartment costs €600 in Croatia, where the average income is less than €1200. The cost of living in Europe rose a lot after Covid.
Pretty much every town and City in the Uk has markets where you can buy fresh seasonal fruit and veg, even London. I use the supermarkets for packaged goods like flour & sugar etc. But I buy my veg from a market stall and my meat from a traditional butchers, It makes for much more flavourful and nutricious food at home!
@@JeroenJA Exactly the comment I was going to make; strawberries may be available year round in the supermarkets but it is only in late summer when the locally grown varieties become available that it is worth buying them--unless you really like flavourless sacs of mush! When I was a boy we always had a strawberry bed in the garden and nothing beat the taste of those little beauties--except, maybe, the peas eaten raw straight from the pod (don't tell my Dad, I always blamed the birds!)
The thing about food is simple. For us in Europe, the ingredients, preparation and eating our meals is a sacred act. We savour every moment and every bite which in return means we eat the meal longer and thus eat smaller portions. I personally will take any chance to cook myself. Ideally from ingredients bought from local farmer markets. No bought sauces and seasonings. I make it all myself. It can take me easily 3 hours to prepare the meal but the feeling of pride when my family enjoys every bite of it and we have a good time eating it. Priceless. Its the little things in life that matter.
That is a bies. For you maybe but for us european... noo makeing food is a choor and hard to find time for that with full time work and near alk the duty.
@sziszi5516 I'm an European as well. That is exactly why I wrote: 'I will take any chance to cook myself'. This means that if I can spare the time I will do it. The first part of the comment, which wasn't my personal take, was about us in Europe appreciating quality and proper meals and enjoying them. But of course it can differ from country to country and from person to person. If some people enjoy stuffing their faces with instant noodles and ready to eat meals its their choice. I would die like that though
German here. We dont have "doctors that are not 'your' doctors". I can make an appointment with any general practitioner I like. They scan my social security card, tell me to sit in the waiting room for like 10 minutes, the doctor will see me and tell me how to get rid of my ailments or refer me to a specialist. Not a specific one, just "oh your ankle's sprained, go and get an x ray on that - we cant do that here so here's a recommendation". They can still direct me to the next best place that can do what needs to be done but they arent required to send me to a specific hospital or anything. Its so weird to me to think of doctors as something to be avoided unless you really cant, and then they can only refer you to other prople in the same guild. or network.
Awww, you must still have good doctors there, not money hungry lazy ass jerks, who treat you like sh*t and then, if you live through it without contracting another disease, you're lucky. Good doctors have become such a rarity in my country.
@@m0t0b33it’s because cash is king in the US,literally everything is done for profit,the doctors profit from the medication they prescribe,they get a certain percentage from the drug companies,hospitals profit from your illness through your insurance,the insurance companies make profits off you by charging extortionate amounts of money for healthcare cover that at times doesn’t even cover the entire cost of the care you may receive Everything in the US has a price Just ask your politicians They get paid by corporations to get you to vote against your own interests The almighty dollar is king I’m afraid
@@m0t0b33 Here in Spain doctors earn as much as any other engineer, about 30k euros per year. They're not money-driven. 12k is the minimum wage. Average blue-collar workers get 18k and average white-collar jobs get 30k per year. Sadly is the half of the salary paid in France or Germany.
I'm also from Germany and have a hard time when I need to see a doctor. No one wants to have new patients. It is always a hassle when I get a cold and need a sick note every two to three years.
Germans do not have "social security cards". They have personal ID cards and insurance cards. What Germans do not have are anything like "out of network costs/services."
As a European/Scandinavian, I wouldn't say we dress up just to go outside. Rather, we 'make ourselves decent' in the morning, and then we can go wherever if we need to. :) Here in Denmark, a typical female daytime look would be mascara, maybe a bit of powder and lipgloss (not always), and hair combed or in a ponytail. Some style their hair more than others, but many people wear their natural texture, which is fairly straight, but often with some waves. With that, we will often wear a nice pair of jeans, well maintained boots or sneakers (maybe with a small heel, but you mostly see flats). And a stylish, relaxed sweater, well fitted t-shirt or a stylish (and practical) jacket. I also think all the biking in Denmark means that most Danes have a pretty good posture, and a fairly healthy complexion. All this in combination, I think, is what can make a fairly casual look pretty stylish. Many other european countries have somewhat similar ways of doing things, with their own spin on it. When we shop, I think europeans in general focus on having a slightly more 'curated' wardrobe. And mainly buy fewer things of higher quality, that they know they will wear for a long time, and feel good in. We do have fast fashion, but not quite as fast, I think. And they are a smaller part of the wardrobe. Whereas, in America, it seems like fast fashion (maybe) make up a larger part of the wardrobe. American closets are much bigger, so it will quicker get out of hand than a European wardrobe with much less space. So I think Europeans just have a different idea of what loungewear is, or what effort to put in. Americans seem to be a bit 'all or nothing'; either they do nothing at all about the appearance, or they go all out and spend hours on an amazing and elaborate look. Whereas Europeans spend a bit of time on a daily basis, but when we dress up, it is not as much. I don't have much experience with Americans, other than what I see on the internet, so I could be entirely wrong. :)
A dishwasher and a dryer are also popular in Europe. In the Netherlands, people very often need to have a dryer because they do not have a garden or balcony to dry clothes. The dishwasher only fits in houses and kitchens that are big enough to put one inside. When I had a bigger house, I had one and it is so convenient. However, I am glad that our supermarkets are not that big. I do not need so many brands to chose from, and I think that these supermarkets are time-consuming. And what about the waste of products and food? If no one buys them and they expire?
going to the ER in Belgium, they cant display any wait time, since they work on a "triage" system : when you come in, the nurse at the desk accesses your condition. things that are critical, or need emediat care will get a red wrist band, and they will be treated first (they have an average waiting time of 0 min) less critical but still urgent cases get an orange wrist band, and there average waiting time will be around 10 min. they you get to yellow which is about 60 min, than green : 120 min and than the least critical cases get a blue wristband and that might take up to 240 min befor they call you in (depending on how crowded the ER is, and how many more critical cases come in at that time) but usually you are seeing a doctor around 30 to 45 min after you checked in. they hand you a flyer with all that information when you get in, everybody gets it, and no one is fussing about it.
You tried....I managed 6 months and my younger sister booked 6 weeks holiday and cam back home after 2 weeks....there was a shoot out near where she was and they lost her luggage with all the baby food and she did not want risk buying the baby formula in US.....When I was there survived on Amish market....
I lived there in the seventies and loved it the people were kind and welcoming. Last time I was there was 2018, will never return it was expensive and people were rude.
Medical in the US is absolutely insane. My wife got a quote for some dental work and it came to $185k. She ended up getting it done in Bulgaria for $2000 with better materials, higher quality dental work and they even offered a monthly payment plan with 0 interest. There is something very wrong with medical in the US. It was literally cheaper to move to Bulgaria for a year, pay rent and bills and get the work done there. The entire trip cost less than half of the initial quote.
Lived in the States for 31 years, and although the grocery store looks extremely full, a lot of the cans and bottle areas have a lot of the same stuff. I think here in the UK we have big supermarkets and have more variety.
And in much of the Mediterranean and France, they are a notch up again from the UK, in terms of quality. I think the UK is placed somewhere in between the USA and Europe in terms of food quality. Leaving the EU will most likely mean the UK will become even more like the USA for food choices. Food products that are banned in the EU, are already on their way to the UK.
I'm vegetarian and Britain has a great choice, variety and quality of food for me. Often I've found it difficult in continental Europe to eat well. I live in a rural area and get fruit and veg in season mostly, even quite small supermarkets often have veggie sausages or tofu which they don't in France or Spain. My local area has lovely asparagus, strawberries and apples. Cheese and cider. I lived in Greece for 2 years - lovely clementines, melons and figs but apples and strawberries were poor. Regional and seasonal food is the best.
There is nothing better than Balkan food. I'm from Serbia and all across you have food, organic food, the most beautiful human being and life... maybe most of you don't believe me but come here and try it.. you are not be disappointed.. much love from Beograd ❤
When I lived in Romania, it was like in the US... Big house, car, all about status. I moved abroad and I live in a small studio now, no car, no flashy stuff. I live a minimalistic lifestyle and I like it this way.
it's the same in all the post-socialist (east block) countries. I am from Brno (Brinn/Brün) and it's looking more like western countries in the past 5 years. Same goes for Prague. But if you'd come to smaller cities or rural areas you'd see the same lifestyle. Heck, there are 5 million cars in the 10.5 million people country. Also in the country where half the people never needed the car, since our public transport is one of the best in the world (in the major cities).
@@krystofk.2279 for real. I used to live in the 2nd largest city in Romania, Cluj. And you can get a bus or tram every 5 minutes, they are electrical and it is very convenient to get in any part of the city. On every Friday, they make the Eco Friday and the bus and tram are for free for everybody. Do you think it matters? Nope, they use the damn cars. Thousands of cars and scream that they don't have place, parking spots. When they built the parking spots, "but where are the parks for kids?". When they built sports places for kids, "you should have made a parking space". I swear, some people are just miserable in their life.
Here in Scotland my uncle had a rubbish chomper in the sink in the 70s it was a novelty. I have never had a dishwasher in my life. I have a washer dryer but the dryer is only used in an emergency. Clothes are hung out or on a clothes horse
My eldest daughter has lived abroad for most of her adult life. She completed a degree then supplemented it with a TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) qualification. She has lived in China, Japan and is currently in Myanmar. My youngest also finished a degree, supplemented it with TEFL and has lived in France and Myanmar where she became active in helping communities. She set up a charity and has worked with displaced persons all over the world. She is currently in the US working at the UN which sends her into conflict zones to assess situations. I am so proud of all of my daughters.
@@andreajohns-o6w They did it all themselves. They are all self-taught. I just gave birth to them and loved them as much as I could. I hope I managed to instill some decent values, I think I did seeing how much they all strive to help others.
As an Aussie the best part of summer is knowing that Mangoes are in season. We have always been taught buying fresh produce when in season will help keep costs down. Whilst we still have fresh produce selling all year round you notice the price difference as the more expensive the item is means they have been imported in.
I don't have a dryer - I can afford one, but they are terrible for the environment, and I just let it air dry. If I need to e.g. wash a duvet I can do it at the local launderette, which will have large-size washing machines and dryers. Same with the friends I know who don't have a dryer (the majority) - they can afford one, they choose not to have one.
I headed off for a short holiday in 1989, returned in 1999. I always chose to travel alone and that made meeting people very easy. I spent most of my time in Ireland and the Netherlands. After coming back home to Australia I left again for a year in Florida in 2000-2001. I don’t think I will tell you here what I actually thought of the US, I’ll just say I was very happy indeed to return to Australia after that! Happy arvo Ryan.
the problem with the logic of: maybe after i retire i'll go to a cheaper country is that when a lot of people do that, the cost of living for locals gets increased. Gentrification and rent costs affect locals and then locals can no longer afford living because foreigners induce landlords to raise prices to get more since people paying in dollars give them better income. For example, in Medellín - Colombia, many many USA foreigners are coming to live here or to work here and thousands of people can no longer afford living in their neighborhoods due to the increase of costs because foreigners can easily pay the increase. its a big problem.
Similar thing happens here at the south of Spain but mostly germans looking for good weather. IMO the should go back to where they came. They have money, we have weather. If you want to be here give me money or go back to your country.
Business owners set prices, not retirees. I don't see why having an influx of retirees somehow forces food producers to increase prices. Couldn't they just profit by selling more at the original prices? And "foreigners induce landlords to raise prices.." - sounds like letting the guilty off the hook. Foreigners don't set rent prices (by "induction"!) . Landlords set rent prices. And they are solely responsible if they increase them. Nobody says "Hey Mr Landlord, that place you're charging $500 for, I've got more money that sense so I'll pay you $1000 for it".
I’m a Brit who grows fruit and vegetables in an allotment; we are so used to eating food with flavour, it’s obvious when something is supermarket bought, however good looking, the taste is cardboard in comparison.
I'm sad they don't really have a big choice in the matter. You can do fine and not really push yourself, but those expensive bills and God forbid something happens to your health... Can't afford to take it easy in such a pressure-full environment. :/
In France : we had a culture of little shop ,butchery , backery , grocery store held by a familly and when the big company open the walmart equivalent in france ,we see the change very well , many small buiseness died because of the competition : -cheaper stuff -less quality -more choices ( bad choices not more best choices ) -tricks to make you buy so the deal always is : you want something bad but cheap go to the super market . but if you want good stuff its ,little shop , and of course luxurius item too . In USA its the opposite you have the convenience the low price the low quality and people open shops for wealthy people to make luxury sells .
@@scotthullinger4684 nope. I am not american. I don't own a gun, I have no need for one.... I was a bit tipsy and asked two cops for directions back to my hotel at 2am. The female cop just said "move on or I will arrest you for being drunk in public..." -So I moved on and spent the next 4 hrs being drunk AND lost in public...
Endless options is not necessarily postive. You can maybe realisticly compare around 4 items. I knew a dogbreeder who only let out at max 2 puppies when somebody came to buy. They usually pick the one they connect more and are happy that they found the dog that suits them the most. In reality she had 8 puppies but people could never find the perfect one and would always question their choice as in "Maybe I should have gotten the other one"
There are tons of studies on decision-making in cognitive psychology and economics that show that our judgment becomes more inefficient and less accurate with rising numbers of available options. The human brain and its working memory have limited capacity and can handle only a small number of information units at the same time. Too many options make the decision-making process unnecessarily time-consuming and deplete cognitive resources that could be used for more useful operations. It's less likely that your chosen product will satisfy your needs and on top of that, more money will be spent.
The amount of selection in grocery stores and produce being available all through year has increased a lot here in Finland in last decades. Like first when you could buy strawberries in the middle of winter it was exciting but soon you noticed they had no taste at all. Probably because they were picked raw and transported from other side of world. Also lots of exotic fruits that I just wonder how they should taste if you ate them where they are being grown.
Nope they grow more 90% of all strawberries that are sold in Europe in the Netherlands in greenhouses, they never get enough sun to develop any taste at all lol
The free trade within of Europe has changed a lot. In Germany we get a lot of fruits and veggies from southern Spain where stuff can be grown all over the year. There are downsides especially to the region where this stuff comes from but in general being connected to the rest of the world is a good thing. Extortion done in the process though is not. Every time something unusual becomes suddenly available and is super convenient and cheap there is something fishy about it.
It sound like it would be cheaper to get international health care and a plane ticket when you need some medical attention than paying for US health care , and you get to travel as a plus
The more I watch reaction videos comparing the USA with what goes on elsewhere in the world the more thankful I am that I don't live in the USA. Perhaps Ryan you could find a video that shows examples of what the USA does better than elsewhere because I'm struggling to think of any apart from producing reaction videos which I think yourself and some other Americans do very well.
Echo cardiogram in Poland done privately cost between 40 to 80 USD with the report, publicly is free of charge (but one may wait a week or two for the appointment)
It's why retired American's used to move to Florida, for the weather and cheaper cost of living. Florida stopped being cheap 15 years ago, and American's now move to Mexico, taking all their money with them. Costing the U.S. economy billions!
And that in it self causes problems for the countries they retire in. Portugal is an example, they used to offer tax breaks for retirees from the UK and US for them to move there but they had to remove the tax breaks recently because outside money is destroying the housing market as only foreigners with american(remote) jobs can afford a proper life style anymore.
To me, the most obvious example of the difference of the level of costs was the cost of dental cleaning under anesthesia for my daughter's dog. In the US she paid more than $900 and in Cyprus it cost €80.
6:39 In Australia the vegetables are seasonal but because Australis is large most seasons are covered. It does reflect in the price when produce is out of season. We also have table lands that are cooler and have different seasons. I shop by price and grow the expensive herbs and vegetables that I like and cannot usually afford. A lot of seeds come from colder regions so when you buy seed they may not germinate. Just keep the seeds from the plants that work and your away.
I think the "selection of stuff in the grocery store" refers to the numberless brands and so on. In America, you have thousands of brands of the same product, while in Europe it's usually a few really big, international brands and a number of local / country-specific brands (+ the own brands of the store). For example, you will get the same brand of cheese from Lidl in Germany, Chechia, Hungary, and Croatia, but most of the brands will change according to the country because it makes no sense to have all the products from across Europe in each country and each store. - Hope that helps! :)
I don’t like these type of videos where people glorify living in European countries. They come here to study at our universities because it is cheaper, pushing out local students, and than they go back to the US to go earn a big salary. Leaving our countries with less high educated people, forcing companies to hire expats. And than they come here as so called expats, never integrate, never learn the language, pay 30% less taxes, push locals out of the big cities since they can afford a higher rent because of that tax benefit, and after a few years when they lose their tax benefits they leave again and go to the next country. Please stay in the US and improve your own system instead of taking advantage of ours. Maybe I am a little bitter, but we have so many problems at the moment, and we really don’t need these people making the problems even worse.
Here are the facts: In Germany, households have: * a washing machine: 96.2% * a dishwasher: 75 % * a tumble dryer: 43% The rarity of the tumble dryer is indeed striking.
Well, it needs a lot of additional space and european houses aren't as huge as american houses. And they need tons of energy...and it's way more probable folks in europe have the opportunity to let clothes dry outside without it getting dusty or with too much pollution...and of course therefore it's still culture to teach your children how to hang your clothes up on a line.
In England most people have tumble dryers and a majority have dishwashers these days. There probably are some countries in Europe however that don't have them. Even though I have a dryer I prefer to hang my washing on the line in the summer as nothing beats fresh air drying your stuff. As for billboards I found them awful whilst living in the US. We have as much choice in grocery stores as the US regarding food maybe not so much junk food. However we have plenty of snacks and all our food is without those nasty chemicals that are allowed in the US, yet banned here. I really missed good cheese when I was there.
I LOVE doing the dishes by hand and hanging up my clothes to dry. Its just a couple of minutes where you can turn off your brain and not stress about things. Give me some headphones and a good playlist and i could do this shit all day.
Most middle class people in the UK and a lot of working class people have washing machines dryers and dishwashers, but I think you'll find more dryers in Norther Europe due to the weather in Spain or Italy etc you mostly don't need them as it's almost always warm. I don't have a dishwasher as I'm single and live alone so washing up for myself is easier and cheaper by hand, to your ECG: 6 months ago I collapsed in the city centre of Liverpool was taken by ambulance to the University Royal Hospital was give a CAT scan and an ECG was told I fainted because I had a heart block (meaning my heart kept skipping a beat) was taken the following day by ambulance to the Specialist Heart Hospital and had a Boston Scientific Pacemaker installed brought back the same day by ambulance to the Royal hospital given a private room the next day a full MRI scan and kept in for a further 9 days for observation then sent home in a taxi all of which cost me £0.00 I wonder what this would have cost me in the US ? We tend to have better food because our laws don't allow for most of the chemicals in US food and GM food isn't a thing nobody would buy it
Same here in Germany. I run the dryer 1-2 times a month in a 4 people household with 2+ machines per week. I run it only for stuff like towels, curtains, bed covers,... while air drying is perfectly fine for cloths.
In Canada my (German) family uses the dryer any time the clothes would get frozen rather than dry on the line. I assume you guys do similar, eh? Most people here use only the dryer all year, especially in cities. In some places clothes lines are banned, or there's people fighting to ban them. Because they're 'ugly'.
@@tristanridley1601 We typically have a separeate room for air drying, in the summer we often hang them outdoors, but not in the winter. And we always have the option to hang our laudry indoors, so that nobody would get disturbed
I’m from Gold Coast Australia and I visited your beautiful city of Orlando a few months ago, I was shocked and couldn’t stop staring at the huge number of people ranging from 30’s through 50’s that were shockingly obese. I apologise everyone but I felt despondent because I know how hard it is to lose weight. They were happily dressed in bathers and enjoying the pool and the service menu. Is it really over eating or what they’re adding to the foods?
There's apparently a lot of added sugar in their foods. Their produce isn't as fresh as ours and I don't believe they label their products like we do. Let alone the hormones they add to meats, poultry, etc.
In regards to her comment about so many choices in a grocery store, do we really need 200 different kinds of cereal or 50 different types of deodorant or 30 different breads? Yeah, it’s more overwhelming than it needs to be
Over here, most towns have a farmers market, on certain days of the week. We have them in the London area, but of-course not at city centre (so tourists miss out). Eating out - most locals know where to eat well and at affordable prices - when you LIVE in a place, you have to know, as you'll be doing it quite often. Paying tourist prices in down-town locations is simply not sustainable long term.
Having 327 options in the cereal isle and 129 different types of bread adds nothing to your life and is not a good thing. 30 cereals, and 10 types of bread would be more than enough.
Yes, as an European the first time I visited the US, I was shocked by how far apart everything is in the US. I was in Seattle that time and my husband and I wanted to go straight to the Pacific, not just the Seattle bay. Well, it took ous about 4 hour. And on this one street, we passed maybe two or three other cars. That's it. Yeah, I wouln't want to live without a dishwasher anymore. We also have a dryer for the clothes. I don't like using it all the time but for towels and bedsheets, it's very convinient. "In-season" and "out-season" is not, that it isn't availible. You will find everything all year round if you want. But the thing is, it cost more and dosn't taste as good, so many people wait for the season to eat different vegetables or fruits.
I will say that a lot of people in Europe don't use dryer even if they own one. Why to spend money on electricity if it will dry without that. Dryers are good if you need to dry something very quickly.
@@mehallica666 I live in Scotland I know that. Still use dryer just occasionally. But I admit there are even colder places in Europe. But if you look at average you can live happy life without dryer.
@@mehallica666 But that's what's what dehumidifiers are for? It's kind of a must if you live in a cold humid climate so a dryer is just overkill at that point. I have a washer-dryer combo, but clothes never come out smelling right out of the dryer program. Look, maybe I'm spoiled by growing up in Greece where no one has dryers (because literally why?) but, my dehumidifier's on basically 24/7 already so why bother wasting more electricity?
Montenegro is one of the poorest Country in Europe. It's not strange that prices are so low. Living for example in Italy or France would be surely cheaper than in USA, but not so cheap (aside for universal heathcare which is absurd US has not).
right 👍 i would be overwhelmed if my backery had more than 10 types and it secures the quality of the products edit: 10 is a lot! my backery has 5 or 6 types and than 1 or 2 specials per month/season/occasion
I already get overwhelmed, if a specific bakery has a lil too much of a range. "8 different types of bread loafs? Man.. that's a lot." I like em smoll and to the point.
I don’t know any European who doesn’t have a dishwasher and clothes dryer. Even in our student home in Madrid we had those. No idea where this woman lived 🤣🤣🤣
My wife and l had a holiday in Italy a few years ago on a coastal town. Fresh fish, meat and vegetables in the local market, 23:39 small local supermarkets European like Aldi or Lidl. We in the UK have Farmers Markets in several towns one of the best is in the Midlands called Ludlow has food festival and a drame festival as well
Spain and Portugal en Croatia and certain other countries can have very cheap rentals if you know where to find them. The Netherlands has a crazy housing market as well, with prices that will go to the roof, because affordable housing is very hard to find. But I heard from friends, who went to visit the US that other things were cheaper in the Netherlands than in the US.
@@may51973 Not only in the big cities, small cities as well. I have seen a 2 bedroom apartment for 750€ in the ~20k inhabitants city i live in, the minimum wager here is 760€
In Spain depends where you go. Typically a rent in Madrid or Barcelona is easy 1000 euros rent per month minimum. In a small town in the middle of Castille and Leon it can be 150 euros. I'm Spanish/Basque and in the basque country rent is in between 800-1500 euros, I studied in Salamanca a University town in the middle of nowhere where I payed 150 euros. It was SOOO cheap... I couldnt believe it. Of course no one wants to live permanently in Salamanca but everyone wants to live in the big city... so that has skyrocketed city rents because a lot of young people move there.
Actually advertising drugs (medical not narcotics) is not completely illegal. But it is restricted to over the counter ones, like ibuproven or cough syrup etc. In Germany, this is followed up with a disclaimer as well. However due to regulations, it is not something that is as common as in the US. Ryan, do pay attention. The higher rental prices she names are in, at least what she mentions "Australia and Hong Kong". Last I checked neither of these are in Europe.
Also, because health care is so cheap no one will go to a pharmacy and self-prescribe a drug. You go to the doctor, leave a few euros for the consultation and then go get whatever was prescribed, regardless of brand or advertising.
@@nicolasdenis7094 True. But I think this is a good thing. As it will lead to less addiction to certain meds. And also, I think big pharma are problematic. The DSM-V which used to be the diagnostic tool for any sort of psycholigical healhcare problem, was written by Big Pharma, and was written in such way that it would lead to more healthcare problems, simply to sell more meds. Which is why I nowadays suggest to people to use the ICD-11. Also a diagnostic tool, bur under the direction of thw WHO.
Speaking from Germany: All kinds of cale are in season right now, including cauliflower, brussel sprouts etc. All kinds of radishes. potatoes, carrots, onions still also. Certain kinds of salads like lambs lettuce. I cook a lot of Sauerkraut and brussel sprouts right now. Mmm, Sauerkraut 😋 it is also dirt cheap, precooked packaged Kraut starting at 1,60 € / kg. You also get organic carrots for 1€/kg and normal brussel sprouts for 1,75 €/kg.
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In Denmark, both dishwashers and dryers are common. She herself is making a typical mistake of generalization. European countries are very different from each other. We have different history, cultures and norms.
Mate, trust me. Its impossible to explain europe to some Americans, I tried. Some understood, some didn't. Try explaining how Britain is still in europe even though the boomers decided to leave the union. Idiotically.
Yes, we would of had to pay for some stuff that used to be free, but then we would have an actual voice in important matters. The older generations just wanted their cake baked after they already ate the damn thing. 😂
Meaning, they wanted to leave the union after already ruining the country to a point we can't fix it without the help of the union. I need to get my Irish citizenship. 🤦♀️
Was about to write the same every one i know has a dryer. and all except me and my dad has a dishwasher
same in Norway.
Yea. It did kind of make me wonder where she was living if she thinks that's the norm. Perhaps she was trying to keep travel expenses lower by living out of lower cost hostels or something like that?
Duh. She is upfront about her generalization. YOU are making the mistake of generalizing: just because you have one, or it's normal in your country, it does not mean it's the norm in Europe or the regions she's visited and referring to. Congrats on bragging.
what yall in america don't seem to understand - clothes dryers absolutely destroy the fibers of clothing. in switzerland every household has a dryer but it usually only gets used for stuff like underwear or towels. my expensive clothes will be hung out to dry
When they look worn we use them for working around the house and buy new
We understand perfectly… it’s just not that important…. If the clothes are that important we hand wash them and hang to dry
@@calvinpeterson6056 I don’t know anyone in Italy who doesn’t have a dishwasher or clothes dryer. Even our student house in Spain has both. My mom dries our bed sheets outside because they smell so nicely after. During winter we use the dryer. It’s not because you see people dying clothes outside that they don’t have a dryer which this woman seems to thing 🤣🤣🤣
YES! me too...
The American dryers do, as they don’t have energy classes. We, in Europe, have heat pomp dryers and will only have those from next year on and those don’t ruin your clothes, as someone working in that business, I know what I’m saying…
There was a documentary last year about seniors in the United States were actually retiring to cruise ships because it was cheaper for them to get an all inclusive package than it is to live in a retirement home. They don't have to pay for food, utilities etc. They have a doctor on board , their rooms are cleaned daily, There are ship board activities to enrich their lives rather than sitting in a retirement home hoping someone will visit you today. It really makes you think about where our priorities are as a society .
i've been seeing video's of old people not being able to retire in the USA at all. flipping burgers or food delivery or what not to get by as 80+ year olds. that's horrendous. and then the audacity to make it a feel good story because the old people can retire because people donated money for a big check. horrendous. in The Netherlands you get 1600 a month when you're of retirement age by default. if you want more you got to save it up yourself obviously.
Yeah, heard about it ..... 🤯🤯
It would be unheard of here in Norway.
@@GiblixStudio Ouch, that's a lot of money. My 85 y/o mother gets 475€ of monthly pension. If she hadn't had the audacity to save earlier in her life, she could barely survive.
@@LeNaInLoVe Because retirement homes in Norway are actually decent, unlike Sweden's... because trust me, when I get that old, I'm gonna live on a cruise ship, because I know how shite our retirement homes and our hospitals etc are. I mean, sure we can make tech companies like no other, but taking care of the elderly, paying people a decent wage, etc, is unheard of, You guys also earn roughly 75% to 250% more for the same profession in Norway than we do in Sweden. If I moved to Norway I'd make 10000Kr more per month on average for the same job. Sure I'd pay a bit more in taxes, but I'd at least have 25000Kr after tax in Norway compared to 19000Kr after tax in Sweden. And since our prices on Goods and services are comparable, with costs only being 1.2 times higher in Norway roughly, I'd still have more money left at the end of the month.
And when I retire, I'm gonna lead a decent life, free from hard labor, because I'm 31 and I'm already suffering from back pain, and joint pains, due to working too hard for not enough money.
WHY would anyone want to live in a retirement home? Why not just ... live at home?
We assume you spent a lifetime making house payments, right? And now you own it?
I occasionally go on business trips to Bulgaria. The first time I ordered a salad there, there was salt and pepper as well as vinegar and oil on the table. I tried a tomato and then wanted to prepare the salad. Then I noticed. This is a real tomato, I hadn't eaten it since I was a child. And then I tried a cucumber. Man! People looked at me a little strangely, but I ate the salad without anything. Curse the genetic industry with its bullshit saying: “The customer wants it that way!” => Make less and make it better.
Where do you live that you haven't eaten a tomato since you were a child ? 😊
@@heatherfruin5050 Probably the US? I didn't quite grasped that yet but apparently when you buy "vegetables" in the US, unless you shop in an organic store, they apparently already come "prepared", cleaned, sliced, peeled, etc.
But I may be wrong.
@@heatherfruin5050 Water tomatoes are present every day but real tomatoes ... 😊
Tbh, most of the tomatoes in Bulgaria are imported from Turkey or North Macedonia. You can still buy local production, but not from the big retail stores, and the price is obviously premium.
Omg, really??? there was a time when Bulgaria was exported it's tomatoes, pepper, fruits etc to most of Easter European countries - including USSR!!! how could you lost it all??? @@TsvetanDimitrov1976
It's not that America has a huge selection of goods in the Supermarket, it's that there are so many irrelevant selections. Like 100 types of basically identical toilet paper, or 400 types of Breakfast cereal. Breaking News ..... there really aren't that many types of Breakfast cereals until you start mixing stupid things together (Multicoloured, choc-chip, strawberry-Raisin Honey-Nut Fruit Loops).
so true
Im from the UK and was speaking to an American friend. They were explaining that in their supermarkets they have 100 different brands of ranch dressing. Some cheap some expensive, some with slight variations to make them different. They use ranch dressing for salads, as a dip, as a sauce to put on fries, to put on sandwiches etc.
But when they were in the UK. They were surprised by the wide selection of different types of dressing. They could get their ranch sauce. But also a wide selection that were more popular in the UK and across Europe.
They had never heard of putting balsamic vinegar onto salads before and loved it.
Most things have a name brand and a store knock off. Some countries are like costco where they only sell one brand/size/price and if it breaks you tough shit.
Couldn't agree more. I've just come back from a trip to DC where I was regularly shopping in the supermarket. Yes, for example you have a choice of loads of different types of bread, but they're all sickly sweet, sliced, super soft crap. It's not really a huge choice, just lots of different brands.
This and with obsession to show off especially with things you cant afford. Oh my god so many people are willing to max credit card for new insanely overpriced apple toys and take outs and Starbucks etc. that will grow overtime into insane amount. Too many options America, its not healthy. Also this never-ending mission to make everything fast and more and more convenient make people spend even more especially if you even need left home and everything is just few clicks away.
I’m a Norwegian/American who has lived in both the US and Norway. I was born in Oslo, Norway, but my family (mamma, pappa and twin brother) moved to the US, to the Boston area. My mother was from Mobile so most summers we visited Alabama. In the late 50’s family moved to Seattle when my father got as position as Ass. Professor in English (he’s the Norwegian). In 1961 we moved back to Norway for four years. 1964 we moved back to Seattle when my father got a position full professor in English. From 1964 to 1985 I lived in New York, NY, Alabama (in city and rural), hitchhiked across the US twice, and back to Seattle. In 1985, over 4 days I married my wife, got my Norwegian passport (long story) and flew to Drammen, Norway and my job as a designer in the oil industry. Have lived here since, with regular visits to Seattle and other relatives in Canada and other states.
In ’85, when we came to Norway, and people asked why? We answered we were Reagen refugees. Since then, we have seen the US “American dream” deteriorate. After our last visit to Seattle my wife and I have determined that we are staying in Norway. I own my house and the mortgage is paid off. The car is paid off. We both have been retired since 2019.
While living here I have been treated for a broken ankle, broken shoulder twice, gum disease cured, pacemaker implanted and treatment for blood disease. My wife has been treated for breast cancer twice. All this has not materially affected our economy. I have the money to travel, eat out, buy electronics regularly and generally do not worry about how much money I have in the bank.
Unfortunately, the American politics is creeping into Norwegian politics. Politicians are in it for the money, more monetary scandals are being exposed and social services are being sold to private money making enterprises.
Yes, I think all of Europe is slowly moving to the right politically. I think it is a reaction to refugees, but I could be wrong. I also find it interesting that you reacted much the same way to Reaganomics as I did in my comment, and I see how US politics poisons much of the landscape here currently.
Stay safe and well. Peace out.
I think you’ll find that American political ideas are creeping into most governments as they have seen how being right wing in America opens you up to making money out of the less fortunate hand over fist and nobody can do anything about it….they are also acting as though the money that comes in is for their personal use only and don’t want to help the public. Our Tory government is trying to sabotage our National Health and also. trying to eliminate any civil rights the common man had fought for over the years!
It might surprise you but the rest of the world has PAID HOLIDAYS up to 4weeks. That means you can go away for a month to different places and still have money!
@@sydneycopsey1190 , actually 5 weeks holidays in Norway. 6 weeks after 60 and 7 weeks after 62.
Thank you for this comment. I couldn't put it as well as you did. I'm from Lithuania and nobody believes me that we're moving towards destruction from one bad economics (communism) to another being American corpo democracy.
Standard of life in Lithuania went of the roof after we joined European union. For those who were born in the 90s after Independence the life is good I'd say. Better then in western Europe at the moment, where I currently live. Better in a sense that if you smart enough you can still buy real estate and live your life. But the trends and the talking points are exactly the same as they were in America. During Reagan sell of new economic ways and current talking points of charts and numbers when talking about country and not mentioning how that effects society. Everything has to be monetized and constant talk about more privatisation to increase efficiency and let private sector develop. Charts are going up when you look at gdp and other similar stats.
Every time taxation mentioned business get preferential treatment with phrase "by taxing bizz you tax consumer" while at the same time discussing if additive tax or income tax should be increased or maybe both and we need new military tax. All of them effect consumers directly but dicusion about taxing revenues of bizz is non existant basically. Free markets, commies etc. Same talking republican points came here.
Recently government made description to impelent real estate tax. It hasn't passed yet. But how they handle that thing is horrific to me. There are no safety nets of any kind. For example if you're pensioner living in city center of capital on pension of 600 euros and now you get to pay property tax anywhere from 0.5 to 4 % it's up to city council. I'd say you're pretty f'ed of your property evaluated at 500k that's 2500 to 20000 a year. And the worst part that people I've spoken with those in their 30s from middle class are Okey with this. They say it's not going to happen even thaugh there's no safety in current legislation thst they try to pass. Landlords will be able to offload this tax on renters and of course since landlords are business and mobility is important for healthy economy (another talking point) they're not getting taxed since progressive taxation is just a taboo right now.
It's horrible to watch people vote themselves into poverty. They are middle class now but as US even Germany trends shows they arent going to be middle class within a decade.
In the UK billboards on motorways are banned because they are distracting and cause accidents. We also don’t have advertisements for prescription medicines or lawyers. There must be millions of chemicals in the food in America to enable stuff to have such a long shelf life in the supermarkets.
I see billboards on M25. Admittedly, only two, but I only drive a small section of it, and I've always seen them advertising to advertise there, lol.
@@dilligaf73 We have a lot of 'temporary' signs on the sides of old artic trailers parked in farmers fields round here instead, i hear it gets around all the rules on actual billboards. There is also a section of the M5 through Bham with a lot of modern billboards, but i think its mostly to try and hide Bham rather than advertise!
Billboards are banned in 4 US states, they are my home state of Vermont, the other 3 states are Maine, Alaska and Hawaii.
@@paidwitness797. Need a few billboards on the M62 to hide Oldham. 😂
I've had bread that didn't mold or grow stale for months
As a Canadian with family in the US, if Americans only understood how badly screwed over they were by the US health care system, there would be protests in the streets.
they think its top 5. its not even top 50.
@@kylemenosThe US isn't top anything positive 😂
As a Belgian, I indeed can't comprehend why they're still not protesting on the streets??
Not only that, lots of Americans believe their healthcare system is the best and would call anyone a “socialist” if said person criticizes it. It’s like a victim who willingly defends his kidnapper
@@maximkovac2000 Come on now, be fair. We have been at the top of positive infection rates in several categories before. I remember when Mike Pence made that one boneheaded decision that had rural Indiana leading the world in AIDS spread rates.
As an Spanish, most of middle class homes have dishwashers. Regarding to dryers, that's not so commun, but I know quite a lot of people, including friends and family, that have one. Not in my case, but here the weather is not that bad and clothes are easily dried outside. Maybe in winter it takes a little bit longer, but you can always line your clothes inside your home. And it's much environmental friendly.
I have a drier and I prefer not to use it, unless it is really necessary. The cloths last longer
Yeah same in France, almost everyone has a dishwasher but dryer are kind of stupid I prefer to hang my laundry it also avoid or limits the need for ironing.
Norway, most people have dryers. Hard to dry clothes outside in the winter here. Haven't been in one home that didn't have a dishwasher...
Dryers are much more common in northern Europe, bordering on essential. Southern Europe obviously doesn't need them, look at the weather difference! Dishwashers? In the UK it usually depends on space and level of laziness.
I live in Sweden and I don't have a dryer, I used too but only used it 2-3 times a year so when it broke I didn't replace it. I hang my laundry on a indoor rack instead. The clothes last longer, it adds some moisture to the air and dryes in 12-24h.
I have to point out that Europe is a continent. Bulgaria, Croatia is way different than England or Sweden. Portugal is different than Norway, which is where I’m from. In Norway and Scandinavia generally, we all have dishwashers and dryers. And it’s not cheap to buy houses!
But she’s got things right regarding each country, but it doesn’t account for all of the continent.
Love your reactions though.
Very good reaction Ryan. I'm a bit confused about the dressing up part. It's my experience that Americans tend to dress like homeless people compared to Europeans. People in Europe dress very smartly by day and elegantly in the evening. Americans can't seem to get beyond baseball caps, jogging pants oversized t shirts and sneakers, regardless of one's age. There's nothing as horrifying as seeing a crowd of Americans standing in an ancient cobbled street or building in Europe whilst dressed like they just got out of bed.
You say: "It's my experience that Americans tend to dress like homeless people compared to Europeans." Yes yes and yes. It is my experience too. And jogging pants oversized t shirts and sneakers are for children. I agree with all your points. 👍
I was just in a big nerdy convention. One of the merch items was some "leisurewear" which looked like uncomfortable bedclothes; on one hand it was the kind of cloth I'd wear in the winter (sorry, I have no idea what is it called in English), but on the other the sleeves and legs were short.
Other big-ticket items ran out on the first day. That one, I'd really like to know if they sold _any._
i'm an Aussie and even as casual as we are, we don't do fashion as badly as American tourists.
Even Europe differs in that. The mid-european countries such as Spain and Italy spend a lot more on clothes and fasion than the northern european countries does. In Scandinavia it’s not really necessary to dress up in suit and tie if you’re going out to eat, unless, obviously, if it’s a better type of restaurant with finer dining. But to just going out, it’s not very common to dress up nice.
The total opposite in in the countries sorrounding the Mediterranean Sea where it’s a natural thing to dress up to go out to a café.
Yes, it's my recent experience also : Bad dressed people, in jogging pants, some even wearing Crocs (I have Crocs, but use them only at home).
I think that some people forget, that Europe isn't one country and one culture. What is common differs among European countries.
For one, dishwashers and dryers are quite common in the Scandinavian countries. Dryers are especially useful during autumn and winter, since drying clothes outside won't work most of the tme. I don't think that I have been without access to a dryer since childhood.
@@bathoryx Especially at the moment. It is like living on a saturated sponge! 😳
@@bathoryx In the UK, one consecutive day without rain can be rare.
Italian here.
when I was a kid I didn't have a dishwasher but then we changed homes and my parents bought one. like 20 years ago. no dryer though - they never thought it was important. In summer clothes will get dry from evening to morning and even in winter it will rarely take more than a couple days.
Last year my bf and I bought a house and the previous owners left some of the appliances for us. first time ever either of us had a drier. He used it some times and then when the washing machine broke we bought a smaller one and gave the dryer to my cousin (he has a kid and another on the way so he was thinking of buying one). I do most of the dishes by hand because it's just the two of us, we only use the dishwasher when whe have guests.
I think our situation is the most common here in Italy. we just have no need for dryers
yeah those things are pretty normal in central to northern european countries… she lived in the netherlands so I am not sure why she stated that (I live here)
I completely agree with her, especially about the quality of food in America. I found it very poor quality and lacking in flavour and the GMO food made me so sick. It was also very expensive and very bad for your body. I don’t own a clothes dryer because I hang my clothes outside in the fresh air to dry. It saves a fortune in power bills. I don’t need to be overwhelmed by a hundred choices of the same sugary garbage at the supermarket so I’m much happier going to a smaller supermarket that has 2 or 3 brands to choose from.
quite agree with all you say !
And do you know that the vast majority of today fruits are artificaly created and didn't exist in nature before? GMO products are not that different, they can just make things faster in selecting better features and combining them together, GMO products is something what rest of the world should finally accept. Or look at dogs for example, these artificaly created monsters are not natural, so when people have these artificaly made dogs, why they deny GMO products? It doesn't make any sense, nothing is natural, when you eat banana, it didn't exist few hundreds years ago, it's artificaly bred by people. GMO products do the same things, just faster, it's about combining features of existing products and removing features you don't want, it's not like these things grow in some crazy lab next to nuclear power plant or something.
Some people thing that these modified products can bring some ecologic catastrophe when you bring it to other continent and it spreads into nature, but artificaly bred products can do the same, today bananas didn't exist, today dogs didn't exist and it's everywhere now. It already happened and you can't stop that.
Across American food has become homogenized by big restaurant chain owners.
I want the mom & pop restaurant with mom at the front of the house serving their customers, and Pop in the kitchen preparing "his" excellent dishes. Individuality, and originality exists all over Europe with excellent results, while the big chains are killing off the little, interesting restaurants in America.
I’m from the UK, born in 1958. The USA seemed to be an amazing country when I was young. Thanks to my job, I worked in the US (in 15 states) multiple times so probably 50 trips. I was always in hotels so not experiencing “real” life, but worked with lots of really nice people. To be honest it didn’t really take me long to figure out that the US I’d been impressed with when I was young didn’t really exist.
No, Ryan. Refering to your intro: It's about having skills. In the Netherlands we can use a lot of people with the right skills. We provide work, help you with housing and further integrating into our society. You don't have to wait until a certain age!
same goes for germany
The skills are a major problem. In Europe, we have to actually learn a craft from the ground up and be unionized and, in most cases, a member if a guild that ensures excellence. By contrast, the so-called freedom Americans have is the freedom to practice any craft without proper training. I met plumbers in the US who were proud of having had a six-month "apprenticeship". People graduate from high school with a third grade reading level. I am not kidding.
+1. That said, it's those who don't shy away just because it isn't easy, that have success and tend to get more out of it. Those who want it handed to them, tend to have -a- an experience that reflects their effort.
The DAFT scheme make it easy.
And yet for the last two years people have been struggling due to the housing shortage.
I used to go to the US and Canada once to twice a year.
It's 10 yrs since last time, and even up till 2013, I was blown away by the marketing "noise" everywhere.
I could never live in the US, with the condition I'm currently having, not being able to work full time.
Not talking about health insurance.
Even Canada, that was cheaper than the US, food prices has risen a lot.
I'm so grateful I live in socialist Norway 🙏🙏
I'm an American who has been living in Germany for over 20 years. I can't even imagine returning. I have a great job, amazing health insurance, and 31 days of paid vacation per year.
Norway isn't socialist.
That's my dream, to live in Norway
@@mariannehaglund6745I'm not sure you know what socialism is. Norway has a great safety net for people down on luck and great social services. If you're an American you equate it with communism.
@@aleksa-77-7 Nah, Norway doesn't consider itself socialist. Social Democracy =/= socialism. Norway is a mixed economy, not a command economy.
On one of my many holidays in America i couldn't sleep so i went for a walk at 3am . A police car pulled up and asked me where i was going !!!!! Everyone in the UK will go for a walk for pleasure .
a few years ago i was on a holiday on maui and due to the jetlag i woke up at 3 or 4 in the morning every day so went for a walk on the beach and watch the sunrise. for the first few days the police or security people would question me even though it was tourism area... but the joggers and other early birds wouldn't be out before 5 a.m. 😅
It wasn't the police that bothered me when I went for a stroll in LA and Chicago at nighttime, it was the ever-present thought that walking the streets alone wasn't a safe thing to do, even in quite nice parts of those cities.
@@billybudd5854 i wouldn't dare to walk in those cities at night and alone 😰
i live in a german city with a pretty high criminal rate and i'm careful but i can't say i'm afraid when walk the city at night - i live in the worst part of the city as well but i still don't feel unsafe.
I live in London and regularly go for a 3-4 am stroll, especially in the local park. It’s quiet and relaxing at night. It was a life saver during the Covid years
Walking in Europe is a joy to many.
Italians and Mediterranean Europeans will often go for a walk after dinner (passeggiata). It’s a lovely tradition.
I know how I feel about the US. I lived and worked in Stockholm, Sweden for 32 years and now I’m semi retired in Sicily. NOTHING could get me to move back to the states. Life is simply better in Europe. 😂
And you lived in WHICH city in the USA? Just curious - @FortunateXpat
@@scotthullinger4684 Grew up in the SF Bay Area and then lived in NYC.
@@FortunateXpat - That alone explains quite a hell of a lot. In short, you're hardly a real American. Californians and New Yorkers know NOTHING about the common experience of the most common Americans. They might believe they do - but nope. Kamala Harris is also a perfect example. But idiot Joe Biden isn't capable of explaining what he believes because he's a goddamn puppet. He just waits for his strings to be pulled.
If you claim to be an X pate, then why do you still behave as if you exist in the USA?
FortunateXpat Eres un tipo inteligente. Saludos desde Madrid
@@joseluisluque449 Grazie mille! 😀
ever thought about why the European architecture is so different? it makes sense for the time these old houses were built. many houses and city centers were built before america was even discovered. the house i grew up in was built around 1600 - 1700 .
vikings would say difrent to that claim about discovered more like made public to the world
@@nightstriker5885so....discovered? If you don't report the findings you didn't descover it you just went in it 😂
Like the stupid argument of people saying that the native descovered america because they were born in it...Imagine descovering life on another planet and someone said "nu hu we didn't discover it, life discovered itself" 😂
Yes lollll on a holiday in Boston my host / friend took me to his sisters house telling me it was really old !!!! it was built in 1900 lolllllll at the time i lived in Macclesfield in a house built in 1730 .
*Discovered by Western European colonisers. Native indigenous peoples were already living there for centuries before Europeans arrived and wrecked things for the native people of the americas.
In fact, houses in Europe have a limit around 1300. Roughly after that time houses were built on a stone foundation instead of wood rammed into the ground. Why do I mention that? Well, quite a few old houses have been analyzed by radiocarbon and it turns out, a lot of houses are several hundred of years older than everyone thought.
For example, our house is dated as 1800, but I suspect 1500 because of the style it was built.
And what is very different is, how aware we are about our history. We try to learn from the past for a better future.
Some of her statements about Europe does not take into account that Europe is diverse. For example in Norway almost all households have a dishwasher, and most households have a dryer for clothes. The type is a little different because most of ours collect the water in a tank that you have to empty, but that also let's you put the dryer anywhere without extra installation. I think dryers quickly became popular here because of the winter season. If it was summer all the time then people would probably be content with drying the clothes outdoors, even if that also works in winter, the drying in the winter is slow. First the clothes freeze into hard sheets of fabric, then the ice slowly go directly from solid to gas. It works because cold air is very dry, so it kind of sucks water molecules directly from ice. We can not otherwise dry clothes by hanging it up indoors because that can quickly cause mould to grow everywhere. So dryers with water collection tanks makes a lot of sense in Norway.
I couldn't live in America just because I love good food, I often eat food in season.
Now it's November and the tangerines and oranges are so delicious.
They are sweet and juicy also the grapes,apples, pears,chestnuts,hazelnuts,quinces,
walnuts, cabbage, turnips and pumpkin.
And that's just everything from November to March, every season there's something different and they're super delicious.
In spring there is:
Carrots, rhubarb, strawberries, leek, asparagus, spinach,lettuce, mushrooms and wild garlic ect.
Summer:
Cucumber, carrots, iceberg lettuce, radish, fennel and tomatoes.
Also strawberries, blackberries, blueberries,raspberries,currants,
cherries,mirabelle plums,plums ect.
Fall:
Grapes, raspberries, blackberries, plums, pears and cranberries pumpkin, onions, endive, white and red cabbage ect.
Germany has a lot season food and many take it.
Re: healthcare. Saw a story not long ago of a couple of Americans involved in an accident in the UK. The ambulance arrived, and she protested they couldn't afford it, they'd get to the hospital by taxi. The ambulance driver replied: "It's already paid for. Now get in the f***ing van." As a UK taxpayer who'd paid for that, I'm glad! The NHS may not be big on pretty vases of flowers, nice single rooms like hotel rooms, but it's there and it works.
What you do for a living, how many hours you do it every week, and by association how much money you make, is a big part of your persona in the USA. Almost to a point where it starts to define you as a person. It's certainly a topic that comes up quickly when meeting people. Not so much so in Europe. Your job doesn't come up immediately over here because that information doesn't say that much about you as a person.
Here in Spain, working more than 40 hours per week is frowned upon. Communists in the government wish them reduced to 37.5 hours next year.
In fact, working more than 80 extra hours *PER YEAR* is completely illegal, and brings thousands of euros in fines to companies.
Even with that, unemployment doesn't get below 14% 😟
This is something that hurts me, as a person living in another country ( a stunning, natural, slower paced, with great work life balance) country to watch folk, desperate for what we have and wanting out of their larger, consumerist, work obsessed, etc, country.... come here and then bring it all with them, slowly changing our home into theirs. Come here if it mends your life and soothes the soul!, if you desire the life we live, embrace it, join in with our culture, but please leave the life you're escaping behind.
My family had a drier which we bought while living in New York and brought it to Europe. However, since there was no ventilation designed for driers in our bathrooms, it could only vent to the bathroom itself, and after humidity reached certaim point it bacame useless. So, it was rarely used and in the end thrown out as unnecessary.
The "secret" why European or Asian food tastes diferent is thus: American zonig regulations forbid stores in residential zones. This means that the stores are far away from the houses and people buy provisions for the whole week or more; consequently additives and preservants are needed to keep groceries "fresh" for a long time. In Europe and other parts of the world there is usually several small stores and sometimes a farmers market 10 minutes by foot away. So people buy little quantities of fresh bread, vegetables, meat, fish, etc. every day. No preservativves or sugar needed.
Fun fact, in France people were sooo fed up with billboards that a piece of legislation that almost forbid them unless they don't ruin the landscape... Since then, the number of ads just went down, the economy did not collapse and we can enjoy a more peaceful and beautiful landscape...
I wish we had that here in Australia.
Everybody in the US complains about the cost of living, just do the math.
ALDI is the most successful and cheapest chain in the US.
WHY?
They do NOT have 30 kinds of bread or 10 brands of milk? ALDI can get higher rebates from suppliers and has to throw away less due to the end of shelf life.
ALDI makes a good profit still because they do not employ people to collect the shopping carts from the parking lot, no greeters at the door, there are fewer management positions etc. and they still pay better wages than Walmart etc.
Ryan mentioned the term "spoiled brat" in the beginning, that's all that's needed to be said... 😆
Yep. And where does Aldi come from? ;)
@@Micha-qv5ufGermany.
@@Micha-qv5uf Germany, the home of efficient labor
ALDI also owns Trader Joe’s i believe..
About 3 years ago, we gave an 85-year-old grandmother a paid full medical examination with a stay in the hospital for 7-10 days. And it cost $1300. Cancer was detected. With these results we went to the state polyclinic and she was scheduled for surgery. She was operated on for free. Russia.
Nice, please stop killing innocent people elsewhere and we can talk. In fact, when you can criticize your leaders and set up a competing party without committing suicide from a clip of bullets or flight from window in a hospital while unable to get up from bed...
You do not have a say.
Actually too much choice, specially if theres no meaningful difference between them beyond the packaging and marketing, is a bad thing. Its more mentally taxing and one spends first more energy and time on deciding what to pick and then one is also experiencing the regret or lesser enjoyment due the feeling of missing out on the other options they could potentially pick.
no choice is bad but too much superficial options, more than one can ever realistically need or even distinguish between, is also bad and prolly even worse considering the overall impact, both personal due spending more on stuff you dont need and dont even really want in the end and societal due wasting so much resources and human potential and creating so much pollution and pointless wastage by making more and more increasingly more useless stuff.
Just my personal opinion what I perceive as the mainstream American way of life: You hustle all the time to buy things you don't need to show off how well you're doing to other people (which are not really relevant to you) while your most precious asset (your time!) is ticking away. Spending time with your loved ones - this hopefully includes yourself ;) - is more important than working or buying stuff.
Drug advertising is very limited in NZ, usually over the counter type drugs, but not ones you need a prescription for. It's nothing on the scale of the US.
I was just going to say the exact same thing.
Same in the UK. Over the counter meds only.
Same in Sweden as well, only like cough meds and headache pills.
yes, that puzzled me a bit, partyly because i don't watch a lot of telly, but then I recalled a "soluble asprin, the sort doctors recommend", or some-such.
Australia also has over the counter drugs ads on TV. And quite often even especially during flu season, you would see ads for sore throat, nasal congestion, cough, hayfever, etc.
Just thinking about seasonal food. Strawberry season is an event in the UK, they are everywhere and everyone who sells them really pushes that they are British strawberries. They are incredible in season though so i support it. ❤
Selection in a grocery store. She means waste of food. If you have 100 products to choose of one item how many times every 100 items will be purchased before it expires ? Some will never be bought.
With the sheer amount of additives, can those products even expire?
@@naphackDT🤢
Also the huge shops are kid if overwhelming. In Europe we also have some of these megastores, but most of the shops are smaller - and more specialized. We have it all, but placed in smaller stores.
i'll never understand why anyone would need more than... idk 5? brands of... butter or anything else to choose from 😩
I think everyone likes to have different types of the same kind of products, i.e., whole milk, semi-skimed, skimmed, oat milk etc. But we don't need 100s of different BRANDS of the identical product.
Bit of a disclaimer from someone who lives in Bulgaria:
You absolutely cannot rent an apartment for 150 dollars anymore in any city. You can't even rent a room for that in Sofia. She mentioned she lived outside of Sofia, but even so, I would guess it was more than 5 years ago. Rent has gone up at least 20% since I last moved in 2019.
In 2023 the average rent for a one-bedroom in Sofia is like 450 dollars. You can get one for less if you don't mind living in a shoebox and/or a bathroom or kitchen that haven't been renovated since the 60s, but even then it's slim pickings.
I mean, I had a lot of fun letting my two-bedroom for $320 :) But you're right, everything goes up in price, like most places.
Kristin dives deeper than the typical travel vlogger. Always enjoy her insights.
In Europe, "old money" (people who have been rich for longer) don't flash money, but they get good stuff that lasts long.
You'll see a perfectly preserved Volvo from the late 90-ties, with a shiny lack because the car was never parked in the street.
Dunno where she lived, dryers and dishwashers may not be in every household but they are not “rare” in Holland, Germany or Switzerland. 😂
As a Bulgarian, I can say that yes, there are seasonal dishes that you don't eat in other seasons, and somehow as each season approaches, it's as if the organism itself is screaming - Hey, do you remember this great dish, you need it, do it, get it , eat it :)
have you been to slovenia btw? what do you think about it?
@@Sindigo-ic6xq Yes. An extremely beautiful country, in my memories it is like a fairy tale.
@@kalinxristov1654 I love both, Slovenia and Bulgaria. Greetings from Germany :)
Her point with the pace of life was actually underrated, because it sums up and takes credit to so many parts of your daily life.
I won't say European lifestyle is completely the opposite, we too have a fast environment. But then you have islands of rest, where you take it slow and get slowed down. Cities with pedestrian zones, where you aren't confronted with traffic noise, pollution, fast movements (yes, that is really an important thing to relax, being at a place without rapid and permanent movements, where your eyes may rest and chill). The opportunity to be in a restaurant or café and sit there for hours without being kicked out. Even the famous US (restaurant) franchises give you a feeling of being home and welcome as a customer to take all the time you need. You may sit for hours in a European Starbucks with a single coffee and nobody begs you to leave. The fact, that you may leave your house and walk and not do everything with your car, gives you a much more aware life than racing from activity to activity. And maybe our societies are much more willed to frugality. Being pleased with what you have. You dont't need to have the ultimate newest things, you may take your time to replace something until you buy something new and don't go shopping, whenever an updated version comes to the market. Even though we obviously do have those "trendsetters", too.
You can't win a race, if you'll never take a break. And that's why many other countries have a higher life standard and experience than the USA, where you run for your life.
Definitely true. I found it crazy when I learned that Americans don't take holiday even if they're entitled to it because it can stop them being promoted at work and cause them to be looked down on. In the UK it's illegal for an employer to not allow you to take holiday, to the extent that I've worked with people who were forced to take holiday because the company was worried about being prosecuted because every year they were paying the person for the holiday they weren't taking and if they were audited they could be accused of not allowing the person to use their holiday.
@@kaneworsnop1007 Here in Germany you have to take at least one "long" 10 workday (2 weeks) holiday a year by law. Usually I'm against these kind of nanny state laws but sometimes you really have to protect people from themselves.
What I also like here more and more every year I get older are "quiet Sundays". Almost everything is closed, no Trucks on the streets, people are not allowed to make loud noises (like vacuum cleaning, mow the lawn etc.). Yes, it can be very inconvenient but the "peace" you get in return is priceless.
She makes a very good point I unfortunatly think are lost on many older and especially younger Americans. The issue with the US from a European perspective is not "capitalism" per se, but rather Consumerism with a capital C! Most of Europe are capitalist/mixed economy as well, but does not follow the same intrusive and ever present consumerism that is so prevalent in the US.
Also the obsession with "Branding", that seems to be on the forefront of so many young Americans, that they actually strive for making themselves inot a "brand". This to most Europeans would be seen as taking away from you individual value as a person here, and certainly not something to strive for, were as in the US it seems to be the opposite. And this "ideal" certainly seems to be a consequence of ever present "consumerism" propganda and the insane influence your corporations have on your every day lives...
About selection in a grocery store:
Aldi has 2 brands per type of product, for some it may be three. If you go to a bigger store of a different chain with more floor space, you might end up with an entire shelf dedicated to 20 different brands of the exact same product.
That's a huge logistics overhead to keep all that shelved. And you pay for it. You pay for the the logistics to get all those different products to the shelf, you pay for the logistics of keeping them stocked and you pay for whatever surplus inevitably gets thrown in the trash. And that's just the financial side. It also wears you down to have to make those choices for every single product (or have to search for that brand you like)
Aldi is very close to the supermarkets that are almost the only option for most Canadians. American stores have dozens of brands instead.
In the UK hospitals have Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments that you can just turn up at. You speak to a nurse with very little delay. If you have an urgent condition you will be seen immediately. If not quite so urgent you will be triaged within about 30 minutes - blood pressure checked, etc.) Then you might be called in for tests after a hour or 2. There will be a sign in the waiting room saying how long you can expect to wait. That is normally hours, but only for non-urgent conditions.
I was taken in by ambulance after a car accident and was seen immediately. I went back a few weeks later about a persistent cough - part of my right lung had collapsed, but it healed by it self after a few months. I later had an echocardiogram to try to find out why I had blacked out whilst driving. All that was free, of course.
Dryers are in probably 50% of households, we just don't like how much electricity they use. On a laundry line, the energy comes directly from the sun and the wind, can't get more energy efficient than that!
you can use magnets to do same job, but then nobody would earn money of it...................continualy
You guys don’t have gas dryers?
@@SheWhoWalksSilently Those exist?! Burning gas creates heat, but how would gas make anything spin and tumble? Combustion engine? Never heard of those dryers
@@maireweberThey are a north american thing. They still use electricity as well to spin the thing.
I think it's mixing prices over time. Today, in a quick search. a one-bedroom apartment costs €600 in Croatia, where the average income is less than €1200. The cost of living in Europe rose a lot after Covid.
Pretty much every town and City in the Uk has markets where you can buy fresh seasonal fruit and veg, even London. I use the supermarkets for packaged goods like flour & sugar etc. But I buy my veg from a market stall and my meat from a traditional butchers, It makes for much more flavourful and nutricious food at home!
yeah, i always look forward to strawberries in season :-) ,
those out of season have so little taste :(
@@JeroenJA Exactly the comment I was going to make; strawberries may be available year round in the supermarkets but it is only in late summer when the locally grown varieties become available that it is worth buying them--unless you really like flavourless sacs of mush!
When I was a boy we always had a strawberry bed in the garden and nothing beat the taste of those little beauties--except, maybe, the peas eaten raw straight from the pod (don't tell my Dad, I always blamed the birds!)
The thing about food is simple. For us in Europe, the ingredients, preparation and eating our meals is a sacred act. We savour every moment and every bite which in return means we eat the meal longer and thus eat smaller portions. I personally will take any chance to cook myself. Ideally from ingredients bought from local farmer markets. No bought sauces and seasonings. I make it all myself. It can take me easily 3 hours to prepare the meal but the feeling of pride when my family enjoys every bite of it and we have a good time eating it. Priceless. Its the little things in life that matter.
That is a bies. For you maybe but for us european... noo makeing food is a choor and hard to find time for that with full time work and near alk the duty.
@sziszi5516 I'm an European as well. That is exactly why I wrote: 'I will take any chance to cook myself'. This means that if I can spare the time I will do it. The first part of the comment, which wasn't my personal take, was about us in Europe appreciating quality and proper meals and enjoying them. But of course it can differ from country to country and from person to person. If some people enjoy stuffing their faces with instant noodles and ready to eat meals its their choice. I would die like that though
German here. We dont have "doctors that are not 'your' doctors". I can make an appointment with any general practitioner I like. They scan my social security card, tell me to sit in the waiting room for like 10 minutes, the doctor will see me and tell me how to get rid of my ailments or refer me to a specialist. Not a specific one, just "oh your ankle's sprained, go and get an x ray on that - we cant do that here so here's a recommendation". They can still direct me to the next best place that can do what needs to be done but they arent required to send me to a specific hospital or anything.
Its so weird to me to think of doctors as something to be avoided unless you really cant, and then they can only refer you to other prople in the same guild. or network.
Awww, you must still have good doctors there, not money hungry lazy ass jerks, who treat you like sh*t and then, if you live through it without contracting another disease, you're lucky. Good doctors have become such a rarity in my country.
@@m0t0b33it’s because cash is king in the US,literally everything is done for profit,the doctors profit from the medication they prescribe,they get a certain percentage from the drug companies,hospitals profit from your illness through your insurance,the insurance companies make profits off you by charging extortionate amounts of money for healthcare cover that at times doesn’t even cover the entire cost of the care you may receive
Everything in the US has a price
Just ask your politicians
They get paid by corporations to get you to vote against your own interests
The almighty dollar is king I’m afraid
@@m0t0b33 Here in Spain doctors earn as much as any other engineer, about 30k euros per year. They're not money-driven.
12k is the minimum wage. Average blue-collar workers get 18k and average white-collar jobs get 30k per year. Sadly is the half of the salary paid in France or Germany.
I'm also from Germany and have a hard time when I need to see a doctor. No one wants to have new patients. It is always a hassle when I get a cold and need a sick note every two to three years.
Germans do not have "social security cards". They have personal ID cards and insurance cards. What Germans do not have are anything like "out of network costs/services."
As a European/Scandinavian, I wouldn't say we dress up just to go outside. Rather, we 'make ourselves decent' in the morning, and then we can go wherever if we need to. :)
Here in Denmark, a typical female daytime look would be mascara, maybe a bit of powder and lipgloss (not always), and hair combed or in a ponytail. Some style their hair more than others, but many people wear their natural texture, which is fairly straight, but often with some waves. With that, we will often wear a nice pair of jeans, well maintained boots or sneakers (maybe with a small heel, but you mostly see flats). And a stylish, relaxed sweater, well fitted t-shirt or a stylish (and practical) jacket. I also think all the biking in Denmark means that most Danes have a pretty good posture, and a fairly healthy complexion. All this in combination, I think, is what can make a fairly casual look pretty stylish. Many other european countries have somewhat similar ways of doing things, with their own spin on it.
When we shop, I think europeans in general focus on having a slightly more 'curated' wardrobe. And mainly buy fewer things of higher quality, that they know they will wear for a long time, and feel good in. We do have fast fashion, but not quite as fast, I think. And they are a smaller part of the wardrobe. Whereas, in America, it seems like fast fashion (maybe) make up a larger part of the wardrobe. American closets are much bigger, so it will quicker get out of hand than a European wardrobe with much less space.
So I think Europeans just have a different idea of what loungewear is, or what effort to put in. Americans seem to be a bit 'all or nothing'; either they do nothing at all about the appearance, or they go all out and spend hours on an amazing and elaborate look. Whereas Europeans spend a bit of time on a daily basis, but when we dress up, it is not as much.
I don't have much experience with Americans, other than what I see on the internet, so I could be entirely wrong. :)
A dishwasher and a dryer are also popular in Europe. In the Netherlands, people very often need to have a dryer because they do not have a garden or balcony to dry clothes. The dishwasher only fits in houses and kitchens that are big enough to put one inside. When I had a bigger house, I had one and it is so convenient. However, I am glad that our supermarkets are not that big. I do not need so many brands to chose from, and I think that these supermarkets are time-consuming. And what about the waste of products and food? If no one buys them and they expire?
going to the ER in Belgium, they cant display any wait time, since they work on a "triage" system : when you come in, the nurse at the desk accesses your condition. things that are critical, or need emediat care will get a red wrist band, and they will be treated first (they have an average waiting time of 0 min) less critical but still urgent cases get an orange wrist band, and there average waiting time will be around 10 min. they you get to yellow which is about 60 min, than green : 120 min and than the least critical cases get a blue wristband and that might take up to 240 min befor they call you in (depending on how crowded the ER is, and how many more critical cases come in at that time) but usually you are seeing a doctor around 30 to 45 min after you checked in. they hand you a flyer with all that information when you get in, everybody gets it, and no one is fussing about it.
I am a Brit who lived in america for 2 years and what a let down it was so i went back home.
You tried....I managed 6 months and my younger sister booked 6 weeks holiday and cam back home after 2 weeks....there was a shoot out near where she was and they lost her luggage with all the baby food and she did not want risk buying the baby formula in US.....When I was there survived on Amish market....
I was there for 5 yrs as a teenager but did 5 yrs as an adult and came back too.
don't blame you you couldn't pay me to spend time in the most fucked up country in the world
Its always a disappointment when you discover the American dream is a myth a bit like that elusive element Unobtainium or Unicorn shit as we call it
I lived there in the seventies and loved it the people were kind and welcoming. Last time I was there was 2018, will never return it was expensive and people were rude.
Medical in the US is absolutely insane. My wife got a quote for some dental work and it came to $185k. She ended up getting it done in Bulgaria for $2000 with better materials, higher quality dental work and they even offered a monthly payment plan with 0 interest. There is something very wrong with medical in the US. It was literally cheaper to move to Bulgaria for a year, pay rent and bills and get the work done there. The entire trip cost less than half of the initial quote.
Lived in the States for 31 years, and although the grocery store looks extremely full, a lot of the cans and bottle areas have a lot of the same stuff. I think here in the UK we have big supermarkets and have more variety.
And in much of the Mediterranean and France, they are a notch up again from the UK, in terms of quality. I think the UK is placed somewhere in between the USA and Europe in terms of food quality. Leaving the EU will most likely mean the UK will become even more like the USA for food choices. Food products that are banned in the EU, are already on their way to the UK.
The illusion of choice...
I'm vegetarian and Britain has a great choice, variety and quality of food for me. Often I've found it difficult in continental Europe to eat well. I live in a rural area and get fruit and veg in season mostly, even quite small supermarkets often have veggie sausages or tofu which they don't in France or Spain. My local area has lovely asparagus, strawberries and apples. Cheese and cider. I lived in Greece for 2 years - lovely clementines, melons and figs but apples and strawberries were poor. Regional and seasonal food is the best.
@@OrangeNashThat is nonsense. Britain has plentiful very healthy food. Quite a lot from local areas and high standards of quality.
There is nothing better than Balkan food. I'm from Serbia and all across you have food, organic food, the most beautiful human being and life... maybe most of you don't believe me but come here and try it.. you are not be disappointed.. much love from Beograd ❤
When I lived in Romania, it was like in the US... Big house, car, all about status. I moved abroad and I live in a small studio now, no car, no flashy stuff. I live a minimalistic lifestyle and I like it this way.
it's the same in all the post-socialist (east block) countries. I am from Brno (Brinn/Brün) and it's looking more like western countries in the past 5 years. Same goes for Prague. But if you'd come to smaller cities or rural areas you'd see the same lifestyle. Heck, there are 5 million cars in the 10.5 million people country. Also in the country where half the people never needed the car, since our public transport is one of the best in the world (in the major cities).
@@krystofk.2279 for real. I used to live in the 2nd largest city in Romania, Cluj. And you can get a bus or tram every 5 minutes, they are electrical and it is very convenient to get in any part of the city. On every Friday, they make the Eco Friday and the bus and tram are for free for everybody. Do you think it matters? Nope, they use the damn cars. Thousands of cars and scream that they don't have place, parking spots. When they built the parking spots, "but where are the parks for kids?". When they built sports places for kids, "you should have made a parking space". I swear, some people are just miserable in their life.
but how good is that doc…?
@@mr.g5593 What do you mean?
@@alexia2189 nothing it went wrong place sorry.
In Italy we don't have a waste disposal unit in the kitchen, but we do separate waste collection (even with food). Do you do it?
Here in Scotland my uncle had a rubbish chomper in the sink in the 70s it was a novelty. I have never had a dishwasher in my life. I have a washer dryer but the dryer is only used in an emergency. Clothes are hung out or on a clothes horse
My eldest daughter has lived abroad for most of her adult life. She completed a degree then supplemented it with a TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) qualification. She has lived in China, Japan and is currently in Myanmar. My youngest also finished a degree, supplemented it with TEFL and has lived in France and Myanmar where she became active in helping communities. She set up a charity and has worked with displaced persons all over the world. She is currently in the US working at the UN which sends her into conflict zones to assess situations. I am so proud of all of my daughters.
And proud of yourself as well!!!
@@andreajohns-o6w They did it all themselves. They are all self-taught. I just gave birth to them and loved them as much as I could. I hope I managed to instill some decent values, I think I did seeing how much they all strive to help others.
As an Aussie the best part of summer is knowing that Mangoes are in season. We have always been taught buying fresh produce when in season will help keep costs down. Whilst we still have fresh produce selling all year round you notice the price difference as the more expensive the item is means they have been imported in.
I don't have a dryer - I can afford one, but they are terrible for the environment, and I just let it air dry. If I need to e.g. wash a duvet I can do it at the local launderette, which will have large-size washing machines and dryers. Same with the friends I know who don't have a dryer (the majority) - they can afford one, they choose not to have one.
I headed off for a short holiday in 1989, returned in 1999. I always chose to travel alone and that made meeting people very easy. I spent most of my time in Ireland and the Netherlands. After coming back home to Australia I left again for a year in Florida in 2000-2001. I don’t think I will tell you here what I actually thought of the US, I’ll just say I was very happy indeed to return to Australia after that!
Happy arvo Ryan.
the problem with the logic of: maybe after i retire i'll go to a cheaper country is that when a lot of people do that, the cost of living for locals gets increased. Gentrification and rent costs affect locals and then locals can no longer afford living because foreigners induce landlords to raise prices to get more since people paying in dollars give them better income. For example, in Medellín - Colombia, many many USA foreigners are coming to live here or to work here and thousands of people can no longer afford living in their neighborhoods due to the increase of costs because foreigners can easily pay the increase. its a big problem.
Similar thing happens here at the south of Spain but mostly germans looking for good weather. IMO the should go back to where they came. They have money, we have weather. If you want to be here give me money or go back to your country.
Business owners set prices, not retirees. I don't see why having an influx of retirees somehow forces food producers to increase prices. Couldn't they just profit by selling more at the original prices? And "foreigners induce landlords to raise prices.." - sounds like letting the guilty off the hook. Foreigners don't set rent prices (by "induction"!) . Landlords set rent prices. And they are solely responsible if they increase them. Nobody says "Hey Mr Landlord, that place you're charging $500 for, I've got more money that sense so I'll pay you $1000 for it".
I’m a Brit who grows fruit and vegetables in an allotment; we are so used to eating food with flavour, it’s obvious when something is supermarket bought, however good looking, the taste is cardboard in comparison.
The main difference between the US and Europe is: In Europe, we work to live... Whereas in the US you live to work.
I'm sad they don't really have a big choice in the matter. You can do fine and not really push yourself, but those expensive bills and God forbid something happens to your health... Can't afford to take it easy in such a pressure-full environment. :/
@@em0_tion Yeah that's very true.
And in the UK, we don't really live and we don't really work, either.
@@OrangeNash 🤣 Sounds familiar.
@@OrangeNash That's just yourself.
In France : we had a culture of little shop ,butchery , backery , grocery store held by a familly and when the big company open the walmart equivalent in france ,we see the change very well , many small buiseness died because of the competition :
-cheaper stuff
-less quality
-more choices ( bad choices not more best choices )
-tricks to make you buy
so the deal always is : you want something bad but cheap go to the super market .
but if you want good stuff its ,little shop , and of course luxurius item too .
In USA its the opposite you have the convenience the low price the low quality and people open shops for wealthy people to make luxury sells .
Been to the USA a few times, lovely people, beautiful stunning country, awful politics.
Sounds like pretty much every other place.
@@Notmyname1593I have been all over the world... America was the only place where a cop threatened me with arrest for asking directions... LOL
@@JokerInk-CustomBuilds - You probably had a gun pointed at the cop's face.
@@scotthullinger4684 nope. I am not american. I don't own a gun, I have no need for one....
I was a bit tipsy and asked two cops for directions back to my hotel at 2am.
The female cop just said "move on or I will arrest you for being drunk in public..."
-So I moved on and spent the next 4 hrs being drunk AND lost in public...
@@JokerInk-CustomBuildsthat much on serve and protect😉 they dont serve and protect themselfes from being kind😊
I enjoy your videos and comments plus learning more about the world around me.
Endless options is not necessarily postive.
You can maybe realisticly compare around 4 items.
I knew a dogbreeder who only let out at max 2 puppies when somebody came to buy.
They usually pick the one they connect more and are happy that they found the dog that suits them the most.
In reality she had 8 puppies but people could never find the perfect one and would always question their choice as in "Maybe I should have gotten the other one"
There are tons of studies on decision-making in cognitive psychology and economics that show that our judgment becomes more inefficient and less accurate with rising numbers of available options.
The human brain and its working memory have limited capacity and can handle only a small number of information units at the same time.
Too many options make the decision-making process unnecessarily time-consuming and deplete cognitive resources that could be used for more useful operations. It's less likely that your chosen product will satisfy your needs and on top of that, more money will be spent.
In Italy billboards on highways are banned because they are distracting. We also don’t have advertisements for prescription medicines or lawyers.
The amount of selection in grocery stores and produce being available all through year has increased a lot here in Finland in last decades. Like first when you could buy strawberries in the middle of winter it was exciting but soon you noticed they had no taste at all. Probably because they were picked raw and transported from other side of world. Also lots of exotic fruits that I just wonder how they should taste if you ate them where they are being grown.
Nope they grow more 90% of all strawberries that are sold in Europe in the Netherlands in greenhouses, they never get enough sun to develop any taste at all lol
The free trade within of Europe has changed a lot. In Germany we get a lot of fruits and veggies from southern Spain where stuff can be grown all over the year. There are downsides especially to the region where this stuff comes from but in general being connected to the rest of the world is a good thing. Extortion done in the process though is not. Every time something unusual becomes suddenly available and is super convenient and cheap there is something fishy about it.
@@psilovecybin5940Funny that. In the Netherlands we say it's the Spanish strawberries that lack taste because they grow too and too fast
In Italy, advertisements for cigarettes and spirits are prohibited on television.
It sound like it would be cheaper to get international health care and a plane ticket when you need some medical attention than paying for US health care , and you get to travel as a plus
The more I watch reaction videos comparing the USA with what goes on elsewhere in the world the more thankful I am that I don't live in the USA. Perhaps Ryan you could find a video that shows examples of what the USA does better than elsewhere because I'm struggling to think of any apart from producing reaction videos which I think yourself and some other Americans do very well.
It seems worse in every department.
I wouldn't live there either.
@@101steel4 salaries are one good thing I can think about, natural parks is another one, not much else
@@walter_the_danger salaries? The US has far more to pay out and is more expensive, so that levels it out. Plus parks?
We always banter it is the richest third world country 😂
See in Italy they have banned the production lab grown meats and the sale and consumption of it
Echo cardiogram in Poland done privately cost between 40 to 80 USD with the report, publicly is free of charge (but one may wait a week or two for the appointment)
It's why retired American's used to move to Florida, for the weather and cheaper cost of living. Florida stopped being cheap 15 years ago, and American's now move to Mexico, taking all their money with them. Costing the U.S. economy billions!
More money get wasted/shifted to the rich for pointless and illegal wars like Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Syria and the huge "aid" to Israel.
And that in it self causes problems for the countries they retire in. Portugal is an example, they used to offer tax breaks for retirees from the UK and US for them to move there but they had to remove the tax breaks recently because outside money is destroying the housing market as only foreigners with american(remote) jobs can afford a proper life style anymore.
To me, the most obvious example of the difference of the level of costs was the cost of dental cleaning under anesthesia for my daughter's dog. In the US she paid more than $900 and in Cyprus it cost €80.
6:39 In Australia the vegetables are seasonal but because Australis is large most seasons are covered. It does reflect in the price when produce is out of season. We also have table lands that are cooler and have different seasons. I shop by price and grow the expensive herbs and vegetables that I like and cannot usually afford. A lot of seeds come from colder regions so when you buy seed they may not germinate. Just keep the seeds from the plants that work and your away.
I think the "selection of stuff in the grocery store" refers to the numberless brands and so on. In America, you have thousands of brands of the same product, while in Europe it's usually a few really big, international brands and a number of local / country-specific brands (+ the own brands of the store). For example, you will get the same brand of cheese from Lidl in Germany, Chechia, Hungary, and Croatia, but most of the brands will change according to the country because it makes no sense to have all the products from across Europe in each country and each store. - Hope that helps! :)
I don’t like these type of videos where people glorify living in European countries. They come here to study at our universities because it is cheaper, pushing out local students, and than they go back to the US to go earn a big salary. Leaving our countries with less high educated people, forcing companies to hire expats.
And than they come here as so called expats, never integrate, never learn the language, pay 30% less taxes, push locals out of the big cities since they can afford a higher rent because of that tax benefit, and after a few years when they lose their tax benefits they leave again and go to the next country.
Please stay in the US and improve your own system instead of taking advantage of ours.
Maybe I am a little bitter, but we have so many problems at the moment, and we really don’t need these people making the problems even worse.
Good points!
Here are the facts: In Germany, households have:
* a washing machine: 96.2%
* a dishwasher: 75 %
* a tumble dryer: 43%
The rarity of the tumble dryer is indeed striking.
Well, it needs a lot of additional space and european houses aren't as huge as american houses. And they need tons of energy...and it's way more probable folks in europe have the opportunity to let clothes dry outside without it getting dusty or with too much pollution...and of course therefore it's still culture to teach your children how to hang your clothes up on a line.
In England most people have tumble dryers and a majority have dishwashers these days. There probably are some countries in Europe however that don't have them. Even though I have a dryer I prefer to hang my washing on the line in the summer as nothing beats fresh air drying your stuff. As for billboards I found them awful whilst living in the US. We have as much choice in grocery stores as the US regarding food maybe not so much junk food. However we have plenty of snacks and all our food is without those nasty chemicals that are allowed in the US, yet banned here. I really missed good cheese when I was there.
Uk is the 51st state 😂
@@hanes2I mean... more like 1st state right? 😂
I LOVE doing the dishes by hand and hanging up my clothes to dry. Its just a couple of minutes where you can turn off your brain and not stress about things. Give me some headphones and a good playlist and i could do this shit all day.
i love alot of these channels that are americans slowly convincing themselves over a number of years to move to europe
i wanted to move to the u.s. and that's why i started to watch those videos. now i want u.s. americans to move out of there... 😅
Probably most will move back because deep down inside they are Americans and can't live without Ranch Dressing 😅
but they need to fix their system first or they can't afford neither the dressing nor the salad
@@thomasbarchen And guns!
Most middle class people in the UK and a lot of working class people have washing machines dryers and dishwashers, but I think you'll find more dryers in Norther Europe due to the weather in Spain or Italy etc you mostly don't need them as it's almost always warm. I don't have a dishwasher as I'm single and live alone so washing up for myself is easier and cheaper by hand, to your ECG: 6 months ago I collapsed in the city centre of Liverpool was taken by ambulance to the University Royal Hospital was give a CAT scan and an ECG was told I fainted because I had a heart block (meaning my heart kept skipping a beat) was taken the following day by ambulance to the Specialist Heart Hospital and had a Boston Scientific Pacemaker installed brought back the same day by ambulance to the Royal hospital given a private room the next day a full MRI scan and kept in for a further 9 days for observation then sent home in a taxi all of which cost me £0.00 I wonder what this would have cost me in the US ? We tend to have better food because our laws don't allow for most of the chemicals in US food and GM food isn't a thing nobody would buy it
In Sweden, *everybody* have, or have access to, a dryer, but most of us don't use them that often.
Same here in Germany. I run the dryer 1-2 times a month in a 4 people household with 2+ machines per week. I run it only for stuff like towels, curtains, bed covers,... while air drying is perfectly fine for cloths.
In Canada my (German) family uses the dryer any time the clothes would get frozen rather than dry on the line. I assume you guys do similar, eh?
Most people here use only the dryer all year, especially in cities. In some places clothes lines are banned, or there's people fighting to ban them. Because they're 'ugly'.
@@tristanridley1601 We typically have a separeate room for air drying, in the summer we often hang them outdoors, but not in the winter.
And we always have the option to hang our laudry indoors, so that nobody would get disturbed
I’m from Gold Coast Australia and I visited your beautiful city of Orlando a few months ago, I was shocked and couldn’t stop staring at the huge number of people ranging from 30’s through 50’s that were shockingly obese. I apologise everyone but I felt despondent because I know how hard it is to lose weight. They were happily dressed in bathers and enjoying the pool and the service menu. Is it really over eating or what they’re adding to the foods?
There's apparently a lot of added sugar in their foods. Their produce isn't as fresh as ours and I don't believe they label their products like we do. Let alone the hormones they add to meats, poultry, etc.
Florida is shocking for obese people. The bigger they are the less they wear 😂
Although I suspect the rest of the US isn't much different.
Wenn die Leber voll Chemie ist, die nun mal nicht da hingehört ist es sehr schwer und und die Portionen tun ihr übriges.
In regards to her comment about so many choices in a grocery store, do we really need 200 different kinds of cereal or 50 different types of deodorant or 30 different breads? Yeah, it’s more overwhelming than it needs to be
They don't choose anything themselves, they buy what they are told to buy by advertising.
Breakfast cereals are junk food, invented less than 150 years ago. We'd be better off with none at all.
Over here, most towns have a farmers market, on certain days of the week.
We have them in the London area, but of-course not at city centre (so tourists miss out).
Eating out - most locals know where to eat well and at affordable prices - when you LIVE in a place, you have to know, as you'll be doing it quite often.
Paying tourist prices in down-town locations is simply not sustainable long term.
Having 327 options in the cereal isle and 129 different types of bread adds nothing to your life and is not a good thing. 30 cereals, and 10 types of bread would be more than enough.
I want to know how different they are. If you find 1000 DIFFERENT things that's cool. 1000 of the same thing? Why?
Yes, as an European the first time I visited the US, I was shocked by how far apart everything is in the US. I was in Seattle that time and my husband and I wanted to go straight to the Pacific, not just the Seattle bay. Well, it took ous about 4 hour. And on this one street, we passed maybe two or three other cars. That's it. Yeah, I wouln't want to live without a dishwasher anymore. We also have a dryer for the clothes. I don't like using it all the time but for towels and bedsheets, it's very convinient. "In-season" and "out-season" is not, that it isn't availible. You will find everything all year round if you want. But the thing is, it cost more and dosn't taste as good, so many people wait for the season to eat different vegetables or fruits.
I will say that a lot of people in Europe don't use dryer even if they own one. Why to spend money on electricity if it will dry without that. Dryers are good if you need to dry something very quickly.
You realise there are very cold and very wet parts of Europe, right?
@@mehallica666 I live in Scotland I know that. Still use dryer just occasionally. But I admit there are even colder places in Europe. But if you look at average you can live happy life without dryer.
@@mehallica666 But that's what's what dehumidifiers are for? It's kind of a must if you live in a cold humid climate so a dryer is just overkill at that point.
I have a washer-dryer combo, but clothes never come out smelling right out of the dryer program. Look, maybe I'm spoiled by growing up in Greece where no one has dryers (because literally why?) but, my dehumidifier's on basically 24/7 already so why bother wasting more electricity?
Montenegro is one of the poorest Country in Europe. It's not strange that prices are so low. Living for example in Italy or France would be surely cheaper than in USA, but not so cheap (aside for universal heathcare which is absurd US has not).
6:16 There are over 3,000 different types of bread in Germany, ...but not in every bakery ;-)
right 👍 i would be overwhelmed if my backery had more than 10 types and it secures the quality of the products
edit: 10 is a lot! my backery has 5 or 6 types and than 1 or 2 specials per month/season/occasion
I already get overwhelmed, if a specific bakery has a lil too much of a range. "8 different types of bread loafs? Man.. that's a lot."
I like em smoll and to the point.
I don’t know any European who doesn’t have a dishwasher and clothes dryer. Even in our student home in Madrid we had those. No idea where this woman lived 🤣🤣🤣
My wife and l had a holiday in Italy a few years ago on a coastal town. Fresh fish, meat and vegetables in the local market, 23:39 small local supermarkets European like Aldi or Lidl. We in the UK have Farmers Markets in several towns one of the best is in the Midlands called Ludlow has food festival and a drame festival as well
I lived on sausage sandwiches in Ludlow. Why? They were excellent! Closed by 10am or something! White bread, Cumberland and brown sauce!
Gosh I’m sooooo glad and thankful not to live in a giant psychiatric shopping mall.
Spain and Portugal en Croatia and certain other countries can have very cheap rentals if you know where to find them. The Netherlands has a crazy housing market as well, with prices that will go to the roof, because affordable housing is very hard to find. But I heard from friends, who went to visit the US that other things were cheaper in the Netherlands than in the US.
Portuguese here, Portugal is becoming very expensive to rent.
I live in Luxembourg. Housing is expensive. Unfortunately in Portugal, in big cities, rents are getting almost as high as in Luxembourg
@@may51973 Not only in the big cities, small cities as well. I have seen a 2 bedroom apartment for 750€ in the ~20k inhabitants city i live in, the minimum wager here is 760€
In Spain depends where you go. Typically a rent in Madrid or Barcelona is easy 1000 euros rent per month minimum. In a small town in the middle of Castille and Leon it can be 150 euros. I'm Spanish/Basque and in the basque country rent is in between 800-1500 euros, I studied in Salamanca a University town in the middle of nowhere where I payed 150 euros. It was SOOO cheap... I couldnt believe it. Of course no one wants to live permanently in Salamanca but everyone wants to live in the big city... so that has skyrocketed city rents because a lot of young people move there.
@@Alejojojo6 I think I'd be more than happy to live in Salamanca!
31:45 It is probably NOT the GMO food that adds weight to the US popukation, but the overuse of high fructose corn sirup.
Actually advertising drugs (medical not narcotics) is not completely illegal. But it is restricted to over the counter ones, like ibuproven or cough syrup etc. In Germany, this is followed up with a disclaimer as well. However due to regulations, it is not something that is as common as in the US.
Ryan, do pay attention. The higher rental prices she names are in, at least what she mentions "Australia and Hong Kong". Last I checked neither of these are in Europe.
Also, because health care is so cheap no one will go to a pharmacy and self-prescribe a drug. You go to the doctor, leave a few euros for the consultation and then go get whatever was prescribed, regardless of brand or advertising.
@@nicolasdenis7094 True. But I think this is a good thing. As it will lead to less addiction to certain meds. And also, I think big pharma are problematic. The DSM-V which used to be the diagnostic tool for any sort of psycholigical healhcare problem, was written by Big Pharma, and was written in such way that it would lead to more healthcare problems, simply to sell more meds. Which is why I nowadays suggest to people to use the ICD-11. Also a diagnostic tool, bur under the direction of thw WHO.
Speaking from Germany: All kinds of cale are in season right now, including cauliflower, brussel sprouts etc. All kinds of radishes. potatoes, carrots, onions still also. Certain kinds of salads like lambs lettuce. I cook a lot of Sauerkraut and brussel sprouts right now. Mmm, Sauerkraut 😋 it is also dirt cheap, precooked packaged Kraut starting at 1,60 € / kg. You also get organic carrots for 1€/kg and normal brussel sprouts for 1,75 €/kg.