American reacts to Cost to live in GERMANY vs AMERICA
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NO RYAN! This is the third video in a row you've been making that mistake. You keep getting your conversions mixed up!
1 USD will get you 0.92 EUR
or
1 EUR will get you 1.09 USD.
This means the EUR is worth more than the USD, which it has been pretty consistently in the last 20 years or so.
I assume after the last video he did it on purpose this time, because he knew he will get many comments for repeating that mistake
@@pixelbartusI assume he doesn't read the comments... :(
I hope both are false but one of both hypothesises must be true 😅
He doesn't read comments, I wouldn't bother.
he probably just prerecorded videos@@gamingtonight1526
@saladspinner3200
You are getting the exchange rate wrong. In fact, the Euro is 10% more valuable than the USD.
he gets is totally wrong all the time. apparently, he didn't notice it in the comments section of earlier videos. by now I've given up on hoping he might get it some day.
That made me get confused so much!😅 Thanks for clarification. From what my research says the US$ was only worth more than the euro was for a few weeks in 2022 and only by 2-3 percent.
The last three videos he got it wrong 😬
Classic American 😂
I mean he is from murica...
to all commenters: we all know that Ryan always messes the dollar-euro thingy up.
So, facing the fact that even the dollar is not worth a dime will definitely break his heart...
Let's show him we care
actually, perhaps he should react to a video of himself... constantly using google wrong to see the currency rates... as in them dumb 'muricans ;)
He's calling it wrong but get the exchange rate right.
Ist das letztlich nicht scheissegal?
Wer es genau wissen will, kann googeln.
In ein paar Tagen stimmt das eh nicht mehr.
Es geht doch bei seinen Videos um ganz andere Dinge.
Zum Beispiel, warum Fastfood in Deutschland so teuer ist.
Die Lohnnebenkosten sind hier viel höher. Wir haben einen Mindestlohn, der nicht unterschritten werden darf, egal ob man Pakete ausfährt, kellnert, putzt oder alte Menschen pflegt.
Dazu kommen Steuern und eben die Krankenversicherung.
Von beidem zahlt der Arbeitgeber eine Hälfte, die andere der Angestellte.
Das sind höhere Kosten pro Mitarbeiter als in den USA.
Das muss man auf die Preise umlegen.
Und die Menschen hier waren sehr wütend, als Tierschützer heimlich in einer Schlachterei Videos machten, die zeigten, wie McDo und B.King ihr Fleisch beziehen.
Es hat sich viel geändert. Aber große Schlachtereien sind auf der ganzen Welt immer noch eine Katastrophe sondergleichen!
Viele Menschen wollten damals kein Fastfood mehr essen, und selbst heute sind viele Menschen skeptisch, gehen aber wieder dorthin, weil es gute vegane Burger gibt.
Die großen Ketten bestehen nur noch, weil sie ihre Lieferketten transparenter gemacht haben und lokal einkaufen.
Damit geht es halt nicht spottbillig, aber die Leute akzeptieren es für die Besserung im Gegenzug.
Gerade Deutschland ist da sehr "grün" und "ökologisch" denkend geworden.
Natürlich nicht alle Deutschen.
Aber im Gegensatz zu Polen, Russland oder Ländern wie Spanien, Portugal, Griechenland und dem ganzen Südosten Europas, wo sehr viel Fleisch gegessen wird, geht es in Deutschland und auch in Frankreich immer weiter zurück und die Menschen fragen verstärkt nach veganen Alternativen oder Fleisch aus organischer Haltung und lokaler Schlachtung, die den Tieren weite Wege auf der Autobahn ersparen. Dieses Umdenken verändert die Welt des Fastfoods sehr.
Zum Glück.
I kinda think he stopped reading his comments.. 😂
Did he ever read them??😂 or there is a possibility he reads as well as he does math...🤣🤣
He propably records several videos at a time and there is a time between record and the video being up so him knowing what the comments say has multiple videos of delay.
Hello Ryan, on the subject of Aldi or the other cheap supermarkets. So-called “knock-off” brands are very often products that are manufactured by brand manufacturers on behalf of Aldi under the name of their own brand. So it is cheaper because a brand name increases the price.
Correct. Manufacturers do this because the production lines are expensive. If they can produce more, they lower the cost per piece. So they make more profits with their name brand, while the store branded product helps paying of the production line.
I’m not entirely sure if I got it right. By so far it sounded like US supermarkets tend to have just one store brand, while many German supermarkets tend to have a multitude of store brands. Especially discount supermarkets have a high percentage of store brands. Aldi initially *only* had store brands, since big brands didn’t allow to sell their products cheaper, all had to sell it for the same price. Resale price maintenance was normal here in Germany, when Aldi started in the 1960es. In Germany that practice was declared invalid by a court in 1966 and by law 1974. In the US a court already found in 1911 that it violates their antitrust laws, which was before supermarkets became a thing.
When I bought my 4 room apartment, 1030 sqft, back in 2015, it was 110.000 Euros (120k Dollars, yes your Math is still wrong). The house was built in 1995 and has 8 appartments. I live roughly 50km from the center of Munich in a small village. You can reach the S-Bahn with a bicycle and then ride the City train for 40 Minutes to be in the center of Munich. This year, my apartment will be paid off and will 100% be mine.
50km from Munich centre? Is that even still Germany？😂 j/k
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No way this is true. I bought my flat in 2019 if Offenbach, which is one of the poorest cities in Germany, and I paid 350k for 75 square meters. And my apartment was built in 1968.
@stefan0325 you paid too much 🤣
For context: 5 years ago I bought an appartement Maisonette, ~75sqm in Nippes Cologne for 220k.
That's incredibly cheap.
You're forgetting that wages and salaries are much lower than in the U.S.. 1200 euros is a good bit of money for the average German who doesn't own their property and works a mid-income job. And on top of that you can expect to pay 200-300 euros worth of utility.
Berlin for example is known as a poor city and I know plenty of people that come away with maybe 2,200 a month. That rent would be unaffordable for them.
@@DaGuys470poor with 2200? A lot americans get just min ,which is 13 / hour.Not everybody get good incomes
Mid income Jobs its not good money in USA also
@@LU-jo2jz 2,200 before tax, so around 1,600 after tax, it can be lower
@@DaGuys470 do you live in Germany?
Well, that sounds cheap over all. But consider how much lower the income is. Lower mid income starts around 25k annual before taxes. And it caps out around 80-90 for normal employees.
25k before taxes is the absolut minimum wage. 12€ per hour is minimum wage. 40hour working per week. It is exactly 25k. Average is more like 35k
@@georgwinter8406 not starting a discussion here I said starting low midrange. Which is +1€ over poor.
Depending how you define that it can go down as far as 18k net.
The median income in Germany is around 45k.
These prices can be realistic, but still are definetly on the cheaper side. Also, the public transportation prices, at least for regional rail and busses are kind of redundant because auf the 49€-Ticket.
13:34 Döner kebab prices these days range between 5 euros on the cheap end to 10 euros on the expensive end. The place nearest to me charges 7 euros per döner. Oh and about ten years ago it was pretty normal to get a döner kebab for like 2.50, with 5 euros being the "premium" price.
im so glad that the privately owned place in my hometown is still only charging 3.50€. went there since i was in school, 20+ years ago.
everywhere else it shot up during covid, from 3.50 pr 4 to 5.50 for the regular döner.
Always keep one thing in mind:
Median US household income: $74,580
Median German household income: €42,000
which makes cost of living high. The average German still spends around 30% of their wage on rent.
thats not how it works.
while yes, straight up the income, germans spent a high part for housing. the difference is: from whats left, they don't have to factor in a lot of expensive stuff. they don't need to think about healthcarecosts, educational-costs or are in big troubles if they get laid off at one point in life.
count in a healthcare premium for 800-1000 a month and then you still have oop-costs and all the hassle with in-network-facilities.
in case of an emergency, you may not even be able to choose your ER.
count in education that is basically free in germany. no student debt.
count in financial security if you have no work for a time.
if you just cut all those social-benefit-cost no german needs to think about (and this is also is a big mental relief to just don't think about such stuff) from the us-household income, then this numbers are very different.
and at this point i don't even mentioned that you have unlimited payed sickleave-days and usually 4(mandatory minimum) to 6 weeks payed vacation on top of around 10 public payed holidays. or payed parental leave up to 48month for BOTH mother and father (splitted into 24m+24m) and and and.
if you count that in too, the numbers flip completely.
@@Deus_Ubique That's total bullshit. They do need to think about healthcare costs, from that already much lower median income of 42,000 € they have to pay the mandatory state healthcare cost + if they want to get care that's anywhere near decent and without months long waitlists, they have to get a private health insurance. Same with the "free" education: if you want your child to be completely illiterate but fully up to date on 925 genders and recite the heroic acts of climate godess Greta Thunberg, send them to a "free" public "school", if you want them to get real education, you'll have to pay for a private school.
To that comes that taxes are much higher, with types of taxes unknown in the US. So Germany, while one of the richest countries of Europe, if it was a US State it would be among the poorest and the most highly taxed.
@@Deus_Ubique No, you are wrong. Regards from a German.
@@janosnagy3096 Exakt.
University Fees (Semester Beitrag) are normally around 200-300€ per Semester which means per 6 Months. It includes a discount on food in the "Mensa / Canteen", free Sport (Courses and using of Fields/Tracks/Halls) and some other subsidys ull never use.
Semesterbeitrag is one word in German.
@@olgakipke3720 Korrekt.
In Berlin no free sport included eventhough you get cheap rates BUT most importantly those 300€ include free public transportation here.
First: If you get only 0,92 Euro for 1 Dollar, the Euro is more worth. So you have to pay more Dollars not less. And you earn less money for the same Jobs in Germany. So you have to put that into relation. What I don't get is her origin of the monthly costs for the pharmacy. If you have a chronic disease you have to cover monthly you can count that, but I for example buy maybe 2-3 times a year some drugs there and that will definitive won't cost that much.
When I heard the milk prices i was like "how OLD is the video??" Prices have gone up much since then.
Remember when looking for prices of eating out at a restaurant: tipping is not mandatory! That price is the final price, in the US the price is always at least 15-20% higher than what is printed. I find eating out in the US a lot more expensive than in Europe, even though at first glance it might look the other way around!
To make it very clear: the prices are different from state to state, city to city, village to village and inside that cities and villages also. I think it was approximately 10 years ago when i lived in an apartment with rent including heating (think it was called so in english!?) for 360€ on 56m² (602 sqft). With Internet, Phonebill, and so on I had to pay approx 500€. But the Town and especially the environment was not so good to live in.
Now I'm living in the beautiful town of Rostock with a very good environment and i'm paying for all that things and more just approx 800€ on 72m² (775 sqft).
You can also rent an apartment for more or fewer money. It depends on the state, city/village, environment and, above all, the size of the apartment.
Mostly all prices you can find online are average prices and can vary greatly because of these factors!
Side Note: Wanna really love to see what you would think about east german Cities like Dresden (you WILL love the buildings!), Potsdam, Schwerin (veeeery wonderful castle in a lake and the capital of MV) or even Rostock. Most TH-camrs are just in the western german cities but hardly one can be found from this pearls!
Greetings from Germany! 🇩🇪 😁👍
8:35 Inflation in Germany was mostly driven by energy prices (especially the energy prices paid by small and middle enterprises). Those prices are however falling now.
Fun fact.
If you bike in the Netherlands and you see someone wearing a helmet, it will most likely always be a German.
In Netherlands almost NOBODY USES A HELMET.
In Germany we say "Wer Hirn hat, schützt es." (means when you have a brain you protect it) 😄
i have never seen anyone in Germany wear a helmet, other than kids, old people, and people on a road bike
Aldi doesn't have "interesting" suppliers, usually they themselves buy at the standard suppliers, but can negotiate far lower prices with them if they cover up the brand so its not undermining the suppliers sales under the og name. So you get brand products under fake names that some Aldi marketing guy came up with...
Gazoline average price: $7 for diesel, $7.50 for normal gazoline (Gallon prices). If u need to fill up ur car at a gas station close to a autobahn, u pay 10-20% more.
Talking about the cat, checking behind him to make sure it can't hear him. Classic
Have you still not realized that the euro is worth MORE than the dollar?
It just shows that you're not interested in the comments under your videos.
Thought the same.....we just had that😂😂😂
Or he prerecords them quite a while in advance
It is 5% worth more than the dollar. That is literally one to one parity.
Was für ein giftiger Kommentar. Geh mal in die Sonne und lass dich drücken. Dass er nicht die hellste Kerze aufm Kuchen ist, ist doch grade der Witz an diesem Kanal.
@@michaellichtenauer339no it literally isn't😂
the exchange rate. again and again. 😂
really ?
at this point, this is straightup american ignorance at display.
I'm assuming he's either recorded these all in a row or that he's just doing it as a bit at this point.
Relax dude. It's an innocent mistake.
15:46 that's sucuk pide, a turkish dish afaik
Hi!
The german costs are similar to Hungary.
1 month earlier we spent 12 days in California and our favourite city was San Francisco. We ate 2 pizza (it was delicious) for 63$. It was the most expensive pizza in our whole life that we ever had. And last weekend we spent the day in Szentendre (it’s a nice little town near Budapest) and had a great meal in a traditional local restaurant. We paid 60$ for three course and the drinks. So it’s a huge differences for us, but the american road trip was incredible. We loved it! ☺️ a girl from Hungary
One bedroom in Germany means literally one room. If it is only one bedroom, there is no extra living room, no extra dining room, maybe not even a closet. it just one single room with a tiny kitchenette and a seperate bathroom.. maybe 300sqft in total.
1100 EUR for an apartment may sound cheap, but your salary will also be only 1500 per month here.
The median net-wages in Germany in 2023: 2165€
1500 is just bullshit.
Something to note: There is now the 'Deutschlandticket' allowing you to travel with all regional (not Intercity) trains and other means of public transportation for only 49€ a month
70ct for a L of milk? I can only drink "Weidemilch", the other one tastes like chewing on metal. It's 1,50€. 25ct "pfand" (so it's 1,25 since you get 25ct back when returning the bottle). And then you have really good tasting milk.
I just started doing this since this year. The milk I drank prior usually was around 90ct-1€.
70 is discounter price from some supermarket brand/chain I don't go to.
Bottle? Bro, TetraPak
Oh, fun fact: Some people think the rent for the flats in capitals are to high. There _lives_ in trains with the Bahncard 100. Because with the Bahncard 100 you can use Bathrooms with showers and _eat_ for free in the DB-Restaurants!
The Center of Munich is not the most Expensive Area of Munich - the Outer parts like on The Starnberger See are way more Expensive!
The semester fee at German universities is around €300 to €500 per semester. The universities I know use this money to pay their students a free ticket for local public transport and sometimes also specialist books for their studies.
25:30 You don't have to know German to start studying, but depending on the country you came from you have to successfully absolve a mandatory german course DSH 1 and sometimes 2. All Exams can be written in english if you prefer to do so, since most university (not all) support it. The lecture can be in english or german or a mix of both. Some few universities even allow you to write your thesis in Latin.
renting has become very expensive over the last 10 years. for a meriade of reasons and not just in the big citys. when i got my first own aparment in 2009, the rule of thumb i grew up with was: rent should never be more then 33% of your net income. it was a 2 room apartment, for 320€ just rent. you can expect that same apartment now goes for 550€ and iam living countryside. back then in 2009, we were the only ones there having a look at the aparment, nowadays, you have 15 people wanting it and take that visit tour and because people know, that living space has become rare, there will likely be this one guy, whispering to the landlord "if you take me, i pay 100bucks extra a month"
Minute 16:19 - When you know that the worker is getting paid 17-20 eur/hour, you don't feel the obligation to leave tips. In Italy you see usually every person on the table leave 1 or 2 euros per capita if the services was good... And this means NO TIP at fast foods because there isn't any service at all.
4:21 I live in Dresden, Outer New Town, about 3 to 4 tram stops (a 30mins walk) from the city center and I pay about 670€ including side costs a month for a 3 1/2 room - 70m² appartment. But the contract is pretty old, for a new contract you would pay 2 to 300€ more...
One thing to keep in mind is that in the USA certain jobs will get you a way better wage compared to that same job in europe.
I have a bachelor degree as a lab tech and after multiple years I am still making less than my mother who works in a factory. Even worse for some off my colleges with a masters degree that are even making less than me because they are younger.
Ryan, you have to add 10% to get the US Price !
Here in Frankfurt a Döner usually costs around 7-8 € nowadays. But it's a more expensive city, second after Munich.
Actually inflation is a lot higher in Germany you should not trust the statistics. and even if the rents appear to be pretty cheap compared to America, you should not forget the average income is a lot lower than in the US. You still haven't realized you have still been making the same mistake concerning conversion rates
Typical 1 room apartments in Germany have a size between 20 and 45 m²; about 3% of all apartments are 1 room apartments. The average rent for such an apartment in university cities is about 350 Euro per month, but since this is an average, the rent in the most popular university cities will be significantly higher.
Here in Germany every supermarket has their own line of knock-off brands that are super affordable an mostly taste the same or pretty similar to the original. Also driving without a valid ticket is a crime in Germany, means after 3 times you could go to jail.
Burgers have the reputation of being fast food, that’s why burger restaurants give details on what it takes to prepare your meal.
There is some outdated information: by law, an apartment is required to have a functional basic kitchen with at least stove, oven and sink. This law is around for nearly 10 years now, I think.
Banana's cost range from 1,29€ to 2,49€ per Kilo depending on trade mark/ organic or not
The monthly rent without heating, water and energy is about 10€ per squaremeter. I guess you might have to pay more in newer houses, though.
It is not a very big city, and the bus/train connection to the next big city is about okayish, as well as the connection to the next big airport. Luckily, very low noise is heard from the airport even though living like 20 minutes by car (around 40 minutes by bus) from it.
9:10 as of March 2024, one liter of milk is 0.99 Euro in most shops (aldi, penny, lidl, rewe) and no more 0.70 Euro as stated in the original video
I can't wait when he finds out what the equivalent of a Bahncard 100 costs in Austria. Or what the price cap on a flat in Vienna is.
The suppliers in Aldi that noone has ever heard of are called "private label" they are suppliers partitially or completely owned by the stores that sell them, sometimes they are just the same product with a different label, packed in the same factory as the original but sold with a smaller profit to get customers to buy at that super market, its a system found by the Albrecht brothers who are the owners of Aldi.
Edit: the different look at the pop corn might come from the caramelization, in Germany caramel popcorn is the regular so its brown-gold and the size of hers was probably small, theres usually three size options.
I live in a small city (about 37k people live here) and I pay 440€ + ever extra expenses for my small apartment (I have a kitchen, a big living room, a bathroom with a tub and shower and a bedroom)😅 I’m always blown away by how expensive American apartments are in a month 💀😅
I never tip. Even a job as a waiter in Germany pays so well that the waiters don't have to rely on tips. We have a pretty good minimum wage. Since January 1, 2024, the minimum wage in Germany has been 12.41€ per hour. For comparison: In the USA the minimum wage is $7.25 per hour.
Well, you have to look at the wages here instead of over in the US. This price for a 1 bedroom apartment is higher than a lot of wages people get here. And Haribo is made here in Germany, so you have to add the price for shipping it to the USA ^^.
I live in Esslingen, Germany right now and Pay €600 per month including utilities, for a 1 bedroom apartment. We call that warm rent.
getting away with buying no train ticket seems worth it at first, but youll most likely face jail time when getting caught like 3 times or more, depending on what the judge decides. if you only ride like once every few months, yea go ahead and just risk it, nobody is stopping you. metro and bus controls are pretty rare, but they do happen. commuting daily will always get you checked every now and then.
and on actual trains you should buy a ticket 8 out of 10 times ig
Did u know Trader Joe's is actually ALDI
Now there is the “49 euro ticket”. You can travel throughout Germany for €49 per month. But not with the express trains.
1:30 thats Rent, not Buying Price... you need to pay that monthly
i live in Düsseldorf, my Flat 1 Bedroom Flat cost 365€ a month :D
also for Traveling in Germany just buy the 49€ Ticket or also called "Deutschlandkarte" with that you can ride any train, bus, metro and tram (even some Ferrys) a whole month in all of germany
Wich is Basicly the Bahncard 100 which was 4144€ for now 49€ xD
28,50 Euro for one (57 Euro for two) person in a restaurant is normal nowadays in Hamburg. When I order a big plate with grilled meat, fries and salad I pay about 18 Euro, a dessert is about 6 Euro, a beer (0,5 litres) about 5 Euro. With a second beer and the tip for the waiter you easily get over 30 Euro. 🙄
Two things:
1. Apparently the video is a bit older, because now we've had that "Deutschland-Ticket" for quite a while already. For 49€ per month you have access to all local and regional public transit. So if you don't mind changing often between regional trains, you can travel the entire country for this fee.
2. idk where she gets that number for cost of a car, I say it's BS. A realistic amount is something around 250-300€/month _including_ a compact-class car (like a VW Golf or so), provided you keep it for at least 10 years. (So if you upgrade to a new car every 3 years you'll obviously pay a lot more.)
30 minuts in bus to Londo's city center in a flat of 4 rooms, each room costs 750 which give a total of: 3000€
Beware Ryan: If you want to live in the center of Berlin and live a decent life, you may want to live in style. Because it is your home. And old apartments in buildings from the golden age of the city - like built in the 1920s - will offer you at least 15,000 sqft, 12ft floor to ceiling high walls, balconies, 2 bathrooms, etc. but they will cost you around 4,000 Euros cold. Anything smaller is impossible to get, because the demand for cheaper apartments is overwhelming.
one Bedroom Apartement in Germany means only Bedroom, shower will be a shared one with other people and no Kitchen available. about 250Scuare feet.
Those "knock of brands" you find in supermarkets (it is not only Aldi) are often called "Hausmarken" here. That translates like "house brand" meaning it is a brand the supermarket chain distributes themselves. There are others that are simply "cheap brands" but usually thise are not even that bad, sometimes for non food items even better than the name brands.
Also, best of all, some of those aldi etc. Knock offs are made by the same factory as the well known brands, maybe just to a very slightly changed receipe.
Funny thing, in the magazine "Stiftung Warentest", the German variant of Consumer Reports, those are quite regularly rated better than the more expensive brands.
Regarding costs for health, that was an average. Most people spend nothing to a few euros a month. But the number seems weird to me. But if you have high spendings for reasons of for example a chronic illness, itis at least tax deductible.
Overall, prices are higher today, as that video is obviously from around 2022, since then prices have gone through the roof for groceries for example, although it has settled down somewhat, but right now not yet back to what it was before or what she showed for prices.
Private insurance depends a lot. In general with private insurance it seems coverage is better than in the US and there are not really any things that specific insurance might exclude etc.
Oh, about that popcorn, that small one at a cinema is already about 5 Euros.
And the "regular one here is sweet popcorn, not salted or buttered. although you can usually get salted popcorn.
I live in a single bedroom in Berlin (not the city centre) for less than €700. So it seems really strange to me that in your area as you say "in the middle of nowhere" it would be more expensive. Wow
Maybe the popcorn looks different because german popcorn is sweet so what you think is different is perhaps the caramelized sugarcoating? It was actually a pretty big culture shock for me when I learned sweet popcorn isn't just like a global thing. I remember so, so many american movies and little old me just assumed it was sweet popcorn. Pretty sure It was like 18+ years ago when I was a teen. It absolutely broke my mind for a bit lol.
popcorn is different because in germany there is no butter popcorn. Its either with sugar or with salt
Groceries are cheap, eating out is expensive. So just mealprep for a week and everything is fine, you have just one day of work and everything is readily available and cheap. ^^
Minute 22:53 - German insurance costs more or less like US, but the coverage is much much better. Medical debt is very very rare and medical banckrupts are non-existents
I hate the "bedroom" metric. Tells me absolutely nothing. When I moved to Münster to study here, my studio apt. had 17 sqm. The one after that in Bonn was 30 sqm. My current one back in MS is officially at 27 but bc I live under the roof, the floor area is actually over 40 sqm. It's 2-3 times the size (and 2 times the price) but counts towards the same category.
Anyways, when I last checked out the renting market, the issue was that while you could get smaller flats, they didn't get any cheaper below a certain size. And this is a student city with long waiting lists for dorm rooms. My 500 a month is well below what I "should" spend with my current salary (I'm not bothering moving again before I buy my own property) but for a student, 500 a month is basically all they have. I think the state says you need about 700 per month as a student or sth., which means that with 500€ rent + 100-ish insurance and 65€ per month uni admin fee, you won't be eating much.
Haha, I live in the center of Berlin. I have a flat with 2 rooms and 50m². I pay about 380€ cost for heating and water incl. 😊
520€ for owning a car / month? More like 200€ a month with car included. Maybe she mixed something up here. 520€ could be taxes and injurance for a car / year
Sounds about right for car, insurance, gas and maintenance.
The unknown brands in Aldi are their own brands. So Aldi can control the prices of their brands.
The restaurant prices are completely over the top. It of course always depends. Some tourist hotspots obviously ramp up prices, but I have gotten very good meals in those categories for 2/3 of that in my trip to Hamburg, which is a fairly rich city, last week, and it's not like I even tried to go by a cheap dining guide or had any local knowledge of the best bang for the buck. I live in a small town close to a medium sized city, so not even rural, and it is even cheaper there. So unless these are purely Munich tourist prices, it is WAY overestimated. 2 people mid-range, 57€? Where the hell did she go for that? I went to a really good greek restaurant in a historic building literally yesterday with one other person, and beside a meat heavy main course each we had a starter fried zucchini, garlic baguett, cheese platter, big salad with excelent dressing, tomatos, tzaziki, figs, complementary ouzo, a wine, a mokka made at the table and a juice each, as well as a small dessert, and the price was a respectable 36€ (without tip), because it wasn't a fast food place, then it clearly would have been cheaper. You can ALWAYS pay more with food, but unless you really search for it, it is almost a challange to get 57€ between only 2 people.
I dunno, if i go to a greek restaurant its like 20 (like you can have a bifteki for 18, but if you want a metaxa schnitzel its closer to 22 - as an example) for the main dish and 4-5 for a drink - so thats already 25 per person. And I live in a ~200k citizen city in north hessen - so nothing "fancy"
I did notice though, that eating out seems to be quite a bit cheaper in bavaria (my mum moved to franken a few years ago) - their prices are wild to me.
In the city with over 1200€? That's far too expensive. And that for a 1-room flat.
I live in a house with 140m² of living space and pay around €1000 a month for everything. Property tax, heating, water, rainwater, electricity and rubbish charges. Berlin, Munich, Hamburg etc. are the most expensive cities in Germany anyway. I currently pay €40 per month for my landline phone and internet.
Does he even read the comments? 🤣
We have a rule of thumb: Anything above 10 € per squaremeter is expensive. And he's calling it cheap...that must mean, the rent in the US is even higher than that. Minimum wage in Germany is currently at 12,41 Euros (and yes, we have a comma as a decimal point) including taxes. Do the math for a full-time job of 40 hours per week, 160 hours per month...Depending on the tax rate, it's round about 1.400 Euros on the bank account for a Single. That's not a lot
600€ is already expensive......
Also, if it is cold then you need to pay more for the Heizung to work.......
Well what a coinsetend, erika is not only her name and channel but there is that german song.
my 50sqm apartment (2rooms) is 10 to 15 min away from the city center. my rent is 350€ a month
Berlin near by Mainstation and Alexanderplatz. 44 qm. 495€ plus 48€ for electricty.
I'm glad I can still rent a berlin 1-room apartment for ~450€ /m - in the outskirts anway.
My old district got gentrified to the point where you couldn't even get a single room for under 900€.
Keep in mind with her video that these are averages for the most part.
And yes, given the cost of living, 25k a year is a solid salary for one person. But it's hard to raise a family or save up for retirement / housing etc.
Good video and high standards. Thanks from Sweden 😊
20:45 my car is a realy "cheap" with it's fuel: with one full tank of my car (56 liters) i can drive about 800 to 900 km (if I drive only in the city maybe 750 km). It cost's me about 90-100€
Hahaha, I just freak out every time you say "oh - thats cheap!" ;-) Maybe a holiday in the US could make me feel very good again if I came back to germany....🙂
i was like... what a bedroom appartment is 1200 Euro?! thats fucking expensive... and he is shocked how cheap it is XD
We are 2 people and our grocery Bill is like 120 per week
this prices are old, here in bavaria the prices goes up to 30% higher last year
ryan when we get paid most people get around 1500-2000€ on their bank acc since thats our net-income after taxes
Google our taxes and non-optional social security fees before being too envious 😘
she is not eating much or expensive. I go out for lunch every workday and eat a good portion at dinner at home. For me that results in about 450€/month.
Concerning the kitchen threat 😦 ... I checked some current sale offers and you can get a complete 4 meter kitchen, including oven, fridge, etc. for less than 2000 EUR, i.e., less than a 2 months rent.
"An American Truck!"
Japan: Am i a joke to you?
I pay about 300Euros for my two room (38m^2) per month in the capital city of Tirol in Austria. Renting a home is cheap, owning it is expensive^^
As a apprentice I earn for a 40h/week job 750€ per month. My 1 room apartment with kitchen inside the 'bedroom' costs me 650€ round about. So I got 100€ to buy food. That is not much. Cause food is expensive too. Plus Internet and stuff .. meeeeh. If my parents wouldn't help me, it would be rough.
at my place a Döner cost just 4.50€. But i think the normal price is somthing like 6€ in my region.
1. Euro is worth more the dollar, 2nd 1 room in Germany means ONE ROOM no extra bedroom or anything.
That said my one room apartment in Germany cost me 230€ cold
This time your comments are inappropriate about living costs.
1200€ rent for an apartment are a large amount of money.
For example in Berlin, the average wage for an average worker is about 1700-2300€ netto (after taxes).
Plus heating, water, internet, phone, car, food, tickets, hobbies, children, clothes and so on.
And living in a city is not because it’s fancy. Mostly it depends on the opportunity of jobs and leisure behavior.
Or you have to study, then a room ca cost about 300-500€, because rooms for students near university are rare.
I am in Leipzig. Outside city center 55m2 = 600 square feet ….. rent is 438€
Will somebody tell this effing dope to read his comments section.
you don't understand. private health insurance for around 400 bucks is not the same. it covers everything - there is no co-pay or any additional cost then. and you can choose rhe doctor.
The thing with "scharzfahren" (black-driving) - so, riding a train without a ticket, can cost you up to 100 Euros... And the thing is, that this is not only a harmless thing. By law, you can get into jail for "schwarzfahren". This law comes somewhen from the beginning of the last century. So, normally you just get the fine, but if you are cathed up more often, there is a valid chance to go to jail. So, in Germany, think about it twice before you enter a train or bus without a valid ticket..... because: "Schwarzfahren" is a crime!