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With more than 500k inhabitants Dresden is not small at all. Also, how is Dresden like? It's one of Germany's most beautiful and touristic cities. Lots of baroque palaces, churches, parks and art galleries.
This reminds me that I would really like to see a reaction video by you that actually centers around Germany's cities and landscapes, sights and culture, not just every day stuff like this.
Yes, it‘s Germany 12th largest city by population (wikipedia)
Wie kommst du am schnellsten nach Dresden? Steckst ein Finger in dein Arsch und drehstn.
How do you get as fast as possible to Dresden? Stick a finger in your ass and spin it.
Not as funny in English as in German, but well, already expected that outcome. But i like how close English and German are as the second sentence is almost identical in both languages.
@KW-ew2xqKommt darauf an, wo man sich befindet. In der Neustadt z.B. ists recht bunt. :)
It is called health insurance, but it works like a tax or the NHS (or even better if you ask the internet)
they are just differnt names
we pay ~15% of your income, half pays your employer, half is your deductable fee at the end of the month and will be substracted like your personal income tax directly from your wage.
And than you have free healthcare at doctors and hospitals, you only have to pay a share of 10€ for a medicine reciept at the pharmacy and 10€ per day for a hospital (max 280€ per year, if needed more is free).
This includes every emergency services or specalist treatment needed. Sicknesses like the Flu or measels are handled by your "Hausarzt", a general practitioner
prescription drugs don't always cost 10€, but 10% of the original price, with upper and lower caps, so that you never pay less than 5€ (that's why i pay for my ASS myself, less than 4€ per pack, and would be capped/raised to 5€), and never more than 10€. thus those 10€ are the price only when the original price would be 100€ or even much more (10% of "a lot", capped to 10€).
The Assumption of how the Deposit-System (Pfand) works in Germany is pretty much spot on.
Low Income People or Homeless People are actually collecting plastic bottle's or can's or ask others if they still need their bottles and if not if they could take them in order to bring them back.
When we were teenagers and were drinking alcohol in public parks or other places sometimes someone who did seem to need the money would come by and ask if we did need the bottles or if the person could take them, which is why most people dont throw their plastic bottles in the bin, but instead place it next to the bin, so that others can benefit off of it without having to dig through actual trash. Which helps lowering potential infection risk for the low income/ homeless people who need the plastic bottles.
The take on Tiping Culture is very relatable as a German aswell!
Since you asked, yes there is a Germany Ticket now which cost 49,99€ and is usable for all regio trains, so if you wanna travel big distances you will have to change the train you are in quite a couple times, which can be annoying. But before this Version was finalized there was a 3 Month Timeline where every German could buy a Ticket for 9€ that does the exact same as the Germany Ticket nowaday. So when this Ticket went live, every train had horrible delay and a bunch of people did raid a small Island in the North of Germany which was known for being wealthy and prestigous. Until a couple Hundred Punsk and Internet Trolls appeared there with Bear and Tents in order to declare war on the upper class, by drinking in public, party and litter everywhere and it was actually Hillarious 😅
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Pfand, that was one of my very first jobs in Germany, some 55 years ago, and growing up pretty poor. We went to every soccer game in Munich, where folks consumed lots of beer, and had to pay 20 c per bottle deposit. No cans back then. Of course, once the game was over, none of the drunks was in the mood, to go and stand in line to get back a buck, or so. So we roamed the stands during the game, and everybody was happy we took care of their bottles. It was quite exhausting, but we netted between 25 and 50 bucks a game, week after week, not bad for 2.5 hours work as a 15 year old.
Hey Dwayne, regarding the deposit (Pfand) for Plasik bottles you are absolutely right.
For Homeless people there is an action in Germany that is called "Deposit belongs next to it".
You should put your deposit bottles next to the trash can so that the homeless have not to search through the trash cans and can pick it up easily.
There is the Deutschland Ticket, a subscription that allows you to use trains, buses and trams throughout Germany. Exceptions are express trains, like ICE.
Oh ja ! Wenn!😅
In germany a tip is called "Trinkgeld" (drink money). it's suppose to honor the Quality of the Service and allow the Employee to afford a few Drinks after Work.😉
The "Deutschlandticket" for 49€ / Month did happen. You can use all public transport across Germany with it, except long distance trains. But you can use regional trains with it, so you can go across all of Germany with the ticket. It will take forever though. I went from Munich to a place near Hannover with it and it took me about 14 hours and I had to change a lot.
When she says Radio and Cable fees, she means the equivalent of the UK TV license, it just happens to automatically include Radio. If you actually want to contract the services of a cable TV provider - instead of buying a satelite dish or digital free TV - then the subscription fees for cable TV are on top of the TV license and vary depending on provider and what kind of package you decide on.
I would say health care in Germany is more like in the UK than USA. Most employees are insured automatically by their employer who pays his part and yours directly to the health insurance. So you pay about 7,5% of your salary. We can choose from different „insurance companies“, but the differences between them are small. They are not allowed to make profit. They all have to pay for the same issues (pretty much all of the issues. Except for glasses, dentures (50%) and in hospital you pay 10€ per day, but only for 2 weeks max.)
Private insurance exists too, and in the last decades many hospitals were sold off to private companies from municipalities. That went wrong for a lot of towns. They will not employ more people. Quite the contrary. They cut costs wherever (not) possible. And people prefer public hospitals to work in. We have a need for nurses and doctors, too. And nurses don’t get paid enough.
Hello. A little correction regarding payment for hospital stay. It‘s actually a maximum of 28 days per year that you have to pa for, so you pay a maximum of 280€ per year for hospital stays (not just two weeks). 😊
@@c.lexington3099 oh. Thank you! Is that new? As in: has it changed in the past 20 years?☺️👵🏻
Hey Dwayne, I think the monthly radio and TV bill needs to be explained a little bit.
We have (more or less) three types of TV in Germany:
1. State radio and television. The oldest TV and Radio Stations like ARD (first TV channel), ZDF (second TV channel) and many local TV channels and radio stations. These are financed through the broadcasting fee (radio and TV bill) which every household has to pay (18,63 € per month).
On the other hand, they are not allowed to interrupt their main films with advertising. There is only advertising as a short block between the programs.
2. Private television stations that finance themselves through advertising (RTL, SAT1; VOX etc.)
3.Encrypted Pay TV Stations like Sky where you pay a monthly fee.
Best Regards from Germany.
State Radio and Television is absolutely wrong. It has nothing to do with the state. It is PUBLIC TV and Radio (Öffentlich-rechtliches Fernsehen)
@@real_doombastic OK. I agree. Maybe my traslation was not the best. Lets call it public TV.
@@dietrichengel2149 😉
The same goes for car batteries regarding the deposit and every store selling those are obligated to take dead batteries Bach without charging the customers. For regular AA or AAA and similar each electronics store selling such batteries are obligated to take them back or at least provide a small container usually next to the batteries on the shelf
You have to consider that the mentioned 1 bedroom flat means, that you only have one room, not a bedroom plus a living room. The sizes of the room can vary. Sometimes those flats have a shower in that one room or in the kitchen.
Radio/TV in Germany is either public stations or private stations. Private stations cover their expenses by selling advertisement opportunities. They also charge for receivers, streaming...
Public stations don't have very many advertising interruptions of your favorite shows. They are publicly funded and therefore independent. They are *not* funded by the government. They are funded by some (!) advertisements and fees by the inhabitants, natural and incorporated, of Germany. The fees are controlled by a governmental institution. It is important that these are fees an not taxes.
There are pros and cons about that system -- in my opinion the pros are more important. Others may have a different opinion.
This message is not a complete treatment of that matter and highlights only a few points. All necessary information is publicly available.
The rent being a lot cheaper in Dresden is due to it being in East Germany where the GDR used to be. Wages tend to be lower there but so is the cost of living.
.. and most of the time the rent is 'cold', so you must pay extra for heating, Internet and -I-don't-know and it can be really expensive.
Dresden is not that small actuall. It has a bit more than half a million inhabitants. And the city center is gorgeous. It has a lot of old houses. So Dresden is at least worth a visit.
About the colored eggs. Originally it was a easter tradition to hide those eggs. But as it is with Christmas, at some point shops decided to sell them year round.
well, if you have the industry to boil and color eggs, you don't want to use it only for half a month per year. That just isn't feasible. So they started to produce and sell it year round. And it is very convenient for snacks and to-go meal packs...
I read somewhere that they are colored simply to be able to distinguish them from raw, unboiled eggs.
Don't forget it was considered to be one of the most beautiful cities in europe (before the russians went there...or the brits launched the biggest bomb attack in history)
From the end user's perspective the public health insurance system isn't all that different to the NHS.
Health insurance is mandatory, the contribution is automatically deducted from your salary, just like a tax.
The only real difference compared to the NHS is how the system is organized internally. It's not run directly by the government, but by (highly regulated and non-profit) "private" insurance companies. Citizens can choose their insurance, which might give them different perks and slightly varying coverage; but overall the system is still "universal", as it will always cover the basics, insurance providers have to accept everybody (regardless of e.g. preexisting conditions), and the price is fixed anyways.
The "private option" for self-employed or high-income people has its pros and cons. While premiums might initially be cheaper (when you're young an healthy) they can quickly become (much) more expensive with additional "risk factors" (like e.g. age). In theory it should be hard to change back to the public system, so that people should really think about making the change to private; but unfortunately there are some loopholes (just earn less than 65k for one year and you automatically fall back into the public sector). This has led to some underfunding in the public sector, as higher earners don't contribute during their working years, and then flood back into the public system when they get older (and more expensive). Hence there is actually quite a lot of criticism towards having this option at all.
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Dresden is in Saxony and is a very beautiful city. According to the Dresden population register, 572,240 people had their main residence in Dresden on December 31, 2023. That is 3,067 residents or 0.5 percent more than in the previous year.
It doesn't matter whether you actually have radio and/or TV or internet, you have to pay 18 euros plus some cents to have the opportunity to use those services by law. The price is per housing unit (flat or house), so you pay the same price if you live alone or have a big family in your flat/house.
The video seems to be older. The liter of milk is 99 Cents and the reason for colored. boiled eggs is that the egg has an additional seal and therefore has a much longer durability. And yes, we have a 49 Euro subscription ticket for all buses, trams, tubes, and local and regional trains (not valid for long-distance intercity trains). However, from 403 entities (297 counties and 106 bigger cities) one county (Stendal) left the contract at the end of last year.
7:02 it’s not exactly a radio fee. You pay for access to the public media streams so ARD/ZDF for TV (equivalent to BBC 1, 2…) and public radio (doesn’t matter if you listen to it via old fashioned radio or over the internet) WDR/SWR/NDR etc again equivalent to your BBC radio stations. It is the access to the media that you pay for as these channels are publicly founded. Therefore you are required to pay this per apartment whether or not you’re actually listening to the radio or watching those channels. You have the access so you pay.
you would love to live here in Dresden. There used to be a direkt weekend flight from standsted to dresden by ryan air.
Haha, Dresden (328km²) is bigger than Munich (311km²) and an amazing City. btw. the 4th biggest City in Germany.
😂 No
@@d.p.b.7170Doch :)
when you earn 30.000€ before taxes all this prices are looking much higher instantly xD
many people get like 1500€-2000€ a month after taxes or even less (sure many get more but they dont have the problems paying anything i assume)
paying 1000€ for rent when you have only this much a month is kinda a problem. so many people cant even afford to rent in the city and rent in smaller cities around and have to travel to work
Dresden is an old town in Saxonia, not that small. It's a center of baroque architecture and music in Germany.
16:50
Our son worked as a waiter for a long time. He received by far the most tips of all his colleagues (75 to 100 euros per day, on a good day even 150 euros). If the waitress is unfriendly, she will receive little to no tip.
i love her dry humor😂
Health insurance refers to a monthly contribution paid directly from gross pay, half by the employer, other half taken from the employees pay. Just 1/3 of healthcare is private insurance. Still, majority of hospitals, nursing homes are not government owned, but owned privately - working conditions are BAD. And they are getting worse and worse.
Health insurance Companies are non profit based, that is , why it is affortible for the public. Health insurance is mandatory, that is why the state is playing for insurance in case of unimployment , beeing a Refugee , or various reasons.
4:27 Please keep in mind that Germany is a low wage country. Buying a house is simply out of reach for so many people.
8:28 I don‘t know where she goes shopping, but I haven‘t seen such prices for years. Double them and you end up in realistic areas.
16:21 absolutely 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
If you think that Germany is a low wage country, try Italy.
7:25 Kitchens are usually not included in the rent for a flat. Sometimes the landlord will offer a small mini kitchen (essentially a cupboard, 100 to 120 cm wide, containing a sink, two hotplates and sometimes a very small fridge) or you can take over the kitchen from the previous tenant for a transfer fee. But as a rule you buy your own kitchen (there are lots of "kitchen studios" where you can get it in your own personal style), and many people will take them with them if they move.
8:20 hard boiled eggs for e.g. a lunch snack came in fashion during the last two decades or so. They are colored (like easter eggs) to be better distinguishable from raw ones, and the coloring is simply part of the boiling routine.
9:15 Organic wine starts at the same price range.
10:00 Lidl is the discounter branch of Kaufland. The Aldi sign shown in 10:03 is Aldi North; afaik the Aldi in the UK belongs to Aldi South (the two brothers Albrecht split the family business between them back in the 1960s, allegedly over a dispute if they should sell cigarettes or not). There are three discounter chains called "Netto" in Europe, one in France, one Danish (with subsidiaries in the UK (until 2011), Poland (since 2020 including former Tesco shops) and Sweden (2019 sold to Coop)) and the German one, a subsidiary of Edeka.
eggs : in europe, uncooked eggs are also unwashed to keep a natural protective layer. after boiling them it is gone and they need to get some artificial protective layer instead. i rarely have seen transparent varnish, and more usual is to color them instead, just like easter eggs which are also their origin when 10-15 (?) years ago they first appeared as seasonal items at easter.
All videos about Germany only talk about health insurance. The other social insurances and taxes are always forgotten.😂
An example:
Single (not married, no children)
Income: +3500€
_______________________
Taxes (Income) : - 432,75€
Health: -285,25€
Unemployed: -45,50€
Pension: -325,50€
Care (disability/disablement): -80,50€
______________________________
After all: 2330,50 €
I don't know where she got her prices from in the video. But they are probably not quite correct. Housing prices have risen dramatically in recent years. Especially in larger cities and student cities. If you can get an apartment at all, because there are a lot of people looking for apartments! But the prices are much higher. In addition, she didn't say whether the additional costs, heating, electricity, etc. were included!
Ok, so the prices for food aren't right either! 1 liter of milk today (and I mean the cheap one!) costs 1,15 € So it seems that her video is either older or she lives in a different country than me!
8:17 the different colour eggs is an Easter tradition but nowadays they are sold all year round. Traditionally you colour your eggs yourself with different techniques.
The origin story is actually quite logical. It started way back in the times that refrigeration didn’t exist. As they didn’t want their eggs to spoil or rather eat spoiled eggs they coloured the eggs that didn’t get eaten right away in different colours depending on days or weeks so they knew which eggs were the oldest. Pretty cool
just want to say hello and want to say thanks for your content. i really enjoy your videos. you are great. greetings from Halle (Saale)
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All costs are always included in the monthly maintenance costs for cars. Insurance, fuel, workshop costs such as repairs and maintenance, loss of value (based on the purchase price), vehicle taxes and car care (cleaning) as well as km driven.
Yes, we do have the 49 Euro ticket covering local and regional transportation nationwide.
The BahnCard mentioned costs *much* less than owning a car, so tgat sounds reasobable as well if you regularly travel long dustance and want to get to your destination faster than with tegional trains on the 49 EUR susbscription.
The Big Mac is actually the opposite of the same price everywhere. It kind of mirrors the financial strength of a country. In countries with a wealthier population, also the Big Mac is more expensive. You can even read about the so called Big Mac Index. ;)
The price of McDonald's products isn't the same everywhere in Germany.
In germany especually the big cities you will often see bottles that sit around outside- and homeless people collecting them to make some money
Most often orderly place on purpose by the beverage consumer next to or near the rubbish bins or glass bottle containers for convenient retrieval by poor or homeless folks.
@@NormanTheDormantDoormat yes
8:15 we have boiled eggs. because there is a legal loophole. normally boiled eggs are forbidden in supermarkets. but at easter there is an exception. at easter you can always buy boiled and dyed eggs. at some point a company realized that there is no time period in which the dyed eggs can be sold. since then, boiled eggs are available all year round. the only condition is that they have to be dyed.
10:24 that was another netto that came from denmark, i think. we have another german netto that comes from edeka, a german supermarket chain. by the way, lidel and aldi are also german companies. i would be interested to see how things will go with them after brexit
15:40 Yeah, I don't like it either. It's not a tip, it's a must. A tip is a bonus for good service. In the US this is only done to hide the price. So you don't know how much it really costs and you later realize that you paid way too much. Just like with taxes in stores. You simply add it at checkout. So you don't know how expensive it really is.
24:45 I don't think anyone in Europe has free health insurance. In the UK you have to pay them too. They also pay taxes. If you had to pay everything yourself then the taxes would be cheaper. With us it is just more transparent and is deducted from the salary. But when you go to the doctor everything is free, if you want to put it like that. Even people who do not have their own income are insured through the social network. Insurance is required by law for everyone and there are only a few exceptions.
I would say the situation is similar for us. Although the hospitals are privatized, since everything is regulated by the state, there is also a shortage of nurses and doctors. because they are also poorly paid
Finally, her price information is no longer correct today and I would say that everything is more expensive than what she said
The "quarrel" seems to be quite one-sided. I have visited Great Britain, both England and Scotland. And many of my friends too.
When I visited Italy a few years ago, I had my little dog with me and an older English lady approached me and asked about my little poodle. I answered her very kindly and when she noticed my German accent, she turned around and left without another word. I was quite shocked by this rude behavior.
In Scotland I only met nice people, it was a very nice experience. The younger English people were all very friendly too.
I like your videos, keep it up!
the colored eggs are colored to distinguisch them from non-boiled once. they startet selling them one easter and just never stopped.
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We pay 14.6% of our gross income to health insurance. This covers all costs (doctor's visits, hospital, operations, patient transport, rehabilitation, dentist, gynecologist, specialists of all kinds, examinations and treatments of all kinds, etc. Unfortunately, we still have to pay additional money for various things, e.g. €5 per medication, €10 per day in hospital, but for a maximum of 14 days a year, for physiotherapy
Radio & TV: If you have a cable TV account, you have to pay for it. But in any case you have to pay around 19€ in 2024 for public service broadcast (like BBC) even if you don't have a TV or radio.
Deutschland Ticket started in May 2023. That's pretty good! A 49 euro subscription for using city and region transporation (Bus, Tram, Sub and Train) in entire Germany. ICE, IC and EC are excluded. Must travel a lot from Dortmund (Area Ruhr) to Düsseldorf. So, this is awesome! :)
26:19 yes, we do pay a relatively small amount (compared to other countries) for our healthcare insurance and the treatments covered are mostly standardised so no health insurance is better then the other. At least not in the basic coverage. There are small differences but they are negligible. Unless you are privately insured. So if you earn above a certain amount you are “kicked out” of the subsidies public health insurance and you have to either choose a private insurance or choose to remain in the public insurance but pay the full amount. This is so that the rich contribute a little to the system.
The difference between NHS and the German healthcare system is difficult, there are upsides and downsides to both systems. It’s true, you tend to wait a lot longer for a doctors appointment in the uk then in Germany but it can happen here too. The Hospitals and private practices or clinics are all understaffed and underfunded. In Many hospitals etc you’ll see old equipment being used, the staff is overworked and underpaid.
I’ve experienced that the university hospital are usually the best but that is just my opinion.
8:15 Easter eggs.
21:00 Having travelled via train a couple of times in the UK, the biggest issue is the having to plan ahead. It works kinda like flying or like high speed trains in Germany. Dirt cheap and I do mean dirt cheap if booked early, stupidly expensive when booked late. But your trains are so much more comfortable, at least London to Newark on Trent and Manchester to Rotherham. Also much more punctual.
25:00 Healthcare in Germany is highly regulated. There is so called private insurance (you pay based on your health and age and may get some preferential treatment) and statutory health insurance (premiums are based on your income). You get either one or the other. But insurance is state mandated, you'll get into trouble if you don't get insurance. Despite popular belief, you can actually be uninsured though (been there bc I'm an idiot). The difference to US healthcare is in the mandates and the high level of regulation.
As to the quality, one of the main things Germany has going for it is a high number of hospital beds (a standard metric used to ascertain capacity). That was a fortunate thing during Covid.
Just from personal experience, though, I have only gotten both a correct diagnosis and the right treatment once in my entire life (when I broke a toe). With everything else, bc I didn't necessarily have everyday conditions and circumstances, the doctors were usually clueless and not very helpful. Also, everything is done by the books, to a fault. There is little regard for individual needs and more "table x says your condition warrants y appointments with a physical therapist and no more/no less, whatever you may actually need". And to my knowledge, healthcare workers aren't very happy with their working conditions. Lastly, alternative "medicine" is huge here and even paid for by insurance (while some proper treatments are not), which is obviously a huge issue. Thanks, lobbyists.
25:40 Nah, same issues here, as far as I know. Privatisation of certain things just doesn't work out well. Just look what it did to our train system. We had one of the best public transport networks in the world in the 90s and then DB got privatised. 30 years of cut costs later and they're still in debt (which was what privatisation was supposed to change) and the network is in shambles. If you live in a densely populated area like me (e.g. any place in NRW, which is the state that is home to 1/5 of all Germans), you may have one in ten trains being on time. I used to commute to a nearby city for work. Never again. Literally 5h a day for some 60 km each way, just because of constant delays and cancellations. Especially during peak hours (which is when it matters).
29:10 You guys actually have the highest average tuition fees in the world, afaik. I mean, just in case you didn't know. In Germany, what you pay is just an administrative fee, some 300+ € in NRW, at the moment. You don't necessarily have to know German to study here, though. During my master's degree, lecturers would usually ask if everyone attending spoke German and if not, the lecture would be held in English. Some programmes and unis also have a lot of international lecturers who don't speak German either, so their classes will always be in English. I guess that depends, though. I studied geosciences, palaeontology specifically, and with such a small field, a lot of international cooperation is kinda inevitable. Most programmes, however, require you to have certain average grades for qualification to enroll. Depends on the number of applicants. It's just a way to distribute the limited number of spots. It's a bit more complicated than that but for most, that's how it works.
When was that video you reacted to recorded? Because milk is at 1,09€ and more per liter now...
If I remember correctly, the "Netto" in the UK was the one from Denmark (yellow logo with a black dog on it). The German Netto has nothing to do with them. However, In northern Germany (close to DK...), both chains are on the market.
In cities (and other places?) we have shared car pools. If you need one, you can get one..., there is a organisations...
11:44 there’s actually more and more countries or areas implementing this “Pfand” system as it is very ecological and economical. But in Germany we’ve had it since forever! 😊
And on public bins there are stickers saying to leave bottles with this system stamp on them next to the bin. That way the low-income or homeless people can collect them without having to go through the rubbish!
Of course renting prices depend on where you live, if it is a big city for example Berlin, Cologne or Munich or small towns in the countryside or suburbs. Also depending on the size of the flat.
I live in a small town, the rent for a 1 bedroom is up from average 500 euros plus costs for electricity, heating, water, Tv, phone.
And the newer the flats, the more you have to pay (better insulation meaning lower costs of heating).
The majority of flats are owned by housing companies, very few have private landlords.
But as a matter of facts prices are increasing in Germany, from groceries to energy costs. A big part of enacted laws referring environmental issues, higher fees for everybody.
If you buy wine at Aldi in Germany, you can get away with less than 3 Euro. lol
London is one of the most insanely pricey cities to live in in Europe! Even back in 2004 we heard horror stories from people who paid several thousand pounds a month for a tiny apartment. I think the highest rents in Germany are the inner cities of Munich, Frankfurt and Berlin. Frankfurt certainly because so many bankers live there. Dresden is in former East Germany, where even 33 years after reunification both salaries and prices are lower.
The most absolutely insane prices you get in places like Venice... or the German North Sea island of Sylt.
since 2021 based on the "Mietspiegel-Index" Stuttgart is the most expensive city to rent an appartment (FUB-Wohn-Index), Berlin even when the rent raised a lot in the last years is much cheaper than Stuttgart, Munich and Hamburg
In Germany and France where I have lived since living alone (i.e. without my parents), paying a deposition if buying wine, beer (anything sold in a glass bottle - you do get refunded if you bring back the empty bottles to the shop.
i live in a small Town in Germany near to "Dortmund" and i pay 630€ per month for a 120m² 3 1/2 Bedroom flat on the first floor. 5 minuntes away from doctors, supermarkets, schools and kindergartens. Cars are not allowed to drive faster then 11km/h on the main street here so no one get hit by accident
It seems that NRW is relatively cheap when it comes to rent... my girlfriend pays almost €200 less for her apartment than me... for the same size. (She lives in Dortmund 😁)
@@real_doombastic yeah but there are big diffrences.. in cologne it is far away from that pricing
I think the prices are no longer up to date. And the much bigger problem is probably finding a free apartment. There is almost no affordable housing in cities. Things may look better in the countryside. (Sorry for the bad English. The translation is from Google Translate)
yes. I haven't checked how old the video is, but I guess it was made before the war in Ukraine started and the heavy inflation began in European countries.
The original video is only 1 year old or was uploaded there. But the housing situation described is much older. Guess about 10-15 years.@@Herzschreiber
Die Übersetzung kann YT doch mittlerweile automatisch, oder?
Tbh, all major grocery chains in Germany have budget friendly options. It's just that non-discounter stores will offer expensive items, as well. You can shop cheap at Edeka but you can't as easily overspend at Lidl.
Edit: about the recycling system, never really thought about it that way but it may be one of the very few things about/rules in Germany that virtually everyone supports. It just works.
Less biking than in the Netherlands isn't really worth mentioning. They literally do it the most in the world. We have the 2nd highest percentage of bike ownership in the world, just after the Netherlands, for what that's worth. Although I believe that is a shared 2nd place, don't remember with whom.
TV licenses in Germany are usually every 3 months, it covers the computer, radio, television, and it doesn't matter how many devices you have as a private person. I pay around 58 Euros every quarter.
10:48 In my region (Thuringia(Eichsfeld)) many people (including me) collect their deposit bottles, give them back and give the money to homeless or needy people. Or we put our deposit bottles on seats, park benches or besides of trashcans, so that homeless people can take them with them and collect the deposit themselves. This is very common in Germany.
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The knock on effect of good idea's ❤
I'm from Yorkshire ( Scarborough area) now live 7years in Schmiedefeld am rennstieg not far from you!👍
I pay 16.60 euros per month for my mobile phone contract. The service for this: 5G network, 25 GB Internet, free and unlimited calls to all German telephone networks, free unlimited SMS (for those who still use this service), ROOMING in the EU under the same conditions!
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Bottle deposit: If you only look at the European economic area, then Germany and Austria also have such a system for bottles and cans in Switzerland, as well as Croatia, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, the Netherlands and Denmark.
29:22 in general all education is free in Germany. So from primary school to university it is free. preschool, kindergarten and nurseries are unfortunately not free
RMV (Frankfurt and surrounding area) 200 Euros to get from your home to work and back. By public transport. No seat reservation. 3 hours a day standing up and changing from Bus to S-Bahn to regional train every 15 minutes. Gotta love it.😂
Average cost für a single apartment, so 2 - 2,5 room apartment (kitchen, bathroom, livingroom and bedroom), with roundabout 30 - 40 m² is 750 - 800€. That's average around germany. The highvalue citys like munich and berlin are above smaller towns are under. You can get a relative cheap apartment and drive 20 - 30 min to work in town.
Living (rent) varies in every city. The big citys like Berlin, Hamburg, Munich is much much more expensive than in other cities in Germany. I drive 75 km to work because i couldn't aford rent near Munich. I pay now 894 €per month. And our 49€ticket is just recently done and i think will not stay. Five years ago i lived 28 km from Munich and payed 124€ for may train ticket per month. So it differs huge where you live in germany. 1 bedroom apartment 25qm cost a fortune in Munich.
Boiled eggs in Germany are colored or painted, so that the customer can differentiate them visualy from fresh eggs. This was taken from a german easter tradition.
those prices, she mentiones, are way higher nowadays, then they were at that time the video was made. even the rent has climbed up a lot
Okay her video is older. Theese days, the prizes are diffrent. Some are cheaper and some are more expensive now.
The "Deutschland Ticket " is there! You must be a German Citizen to get it (they plan to open it to tourists at the end of 2024). It Coast 49€ per month and you can use, Trams, City Busses, Local Trains (S-Bahn, U-Bahn, RE = Regional Express, RB = Regional Bahn, MEX = Metropol Express) in whole Germany! Very handy for me, before I had to pay per month for the ticket 170€ whole Network of Stuttgart, today 49€ in whole Germany. a huge saving. I can ride with RE and multiple train change in 12 hrs from Stuttgart to Germany for 49€ and can free use the public transport in Berlin as an exsample.
In Germany you pay your monthly healtcare so you don't Go broke If you get hurt
yes, it is not free, but a "flatrate" like most people want for their phone.
pay once (a percentage depending on your income) and be covered however much or little it is used afterwards.
regarding to radio & cable bills: that's the fee everybody has to pay, to finance public tv and radio. you have to pay, even you don't use it. paying this fee doesn't mean, you can watch it. if you watch via cable, you have to pay the use of the cable connection. only via satellite, you have free access to tv...except private tv in HD - this must be payed extra.
If you go to NorthRhine Westphalia, the most populous part of the country,you'll get half a dozen cities to choose from, each from luxury to student- type accomodation. Consider the suburbs,; rhere's usually good public transport around the clock, and you cab get an 80sqm/2-bed flat in walking distance to the stores for around €600, including utilities. Tv license is extra, so's internet. NOT a new build, though@
Don't forget she is talking about average prices. Prices sure vary, especially on more quality food and drinks.
Take beer, for example. You can get 20 times 0.5l bottles at around 10€, but there are beers like Duckstein where you pay more for just 8 times 0.5 l.
Also, wine prices can differ greatly.
Fresh food from the farmers market can also be more expensive than those in a super market.
26:00 A lot of heath care got practiced in Germany, and things got worse.
Reason for this? Easy, profits. Private companies are aiming for profits, so the less people they employ, the higher the profits...
27:30 Ebay Kleinanzeigen got renamed, dropped the 'Ebay' part from their name.
30:30 I don't have any animals because I am single and not being at home too often and too long.
I would consider myself a dog person.
32:30 Living in a small city (about 50000 people) you pay around 10€ per square meter a month without heating, water, energy. This comes on top.
1 square meter is around 10.7 square feet.
There are also apartments with a kitchen, but these apartments are more expensive than comparable apartments without a kitchen.
No, you had the Danish Netto, not the German one.
The Danish Netto coexists in the north of Germany and causes confusion because, in addition to the name, they also use the same colors (yellow/black).
10:04 The German Netto uses yellow/red, though. The Danish one, furthermore, has -- as part of their black logo -- that schnauzer dog with a shopping basket in his snout, to help distinguish it from the other.
In 2022 I talked to a friend of mine who is a Dr. in some sort of machine- programm developing. I dont know the exact name of his job. His wife was a law student. They both have quite the large income and they planned to purchase land to build a house in a nice area. Due to covid and the increase in interest which skyrocketed (?) during that time they would have paid roughly 900.000€ for a medium sized house + land. The cost before the increase was roughly 500.000€. He told me that he chose not to build a house and instead buy an already existing one.
A mortal person would never be able to build a house for nearly 1 million without paying limb and liver for it. That said he earns roughly 4.000€ after taxes, where other friends of mine get less than half of that. Think about 1.600€ after taxes and now you pay up to 700 or 800€ rent per month electricity not included.
I for myself live single in a 2room + kitchen + bathroom apartment which is 45m² for 560€ a month and I do not live in the city.
Also: Cigarettes are 10€ per pack on average if you don't want to purchase off-brand sorts. The known ones are even more expensive.
I was growing up in a small town wich had his own branch part of a solid good university - i rented my own 2 bedroom apartment with 85m² for 330€ cold (without gas and electric costs)
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In my life so far I have had 2 dogs, one after the other (14 years each), 1 cat (15 years), 3 guinea pigs 9, 9, 12 years // 2 rabbits (10 + 15 years) I had guinea pigs + rabbits at the same time and 2 aquariums.
i live in a nice area in berlin ( prenzlauer berg) and my 2 room apartmertment is about 650€. If you are going to rent a similar one now it will probably about 800, but in a part of the city that is flooded with quite wealthy people , the real problem in berlin is to actually get a flat, as there are often hundets of people applying..
i feel like just dropping numbers of how much living costs somewhere makes zero sence without also mentioning the avarage monthly income in those regions.
there is zero relation of just saying here it costs this, there it costs that..
Also internet is more expansive as well as the price mentioned for whine is low range... not mid range... all of those infos are super much out dated sadly.
FREE Healthcare is a term from the Anti HC Lobby. It's not free in the UK DE or EU. Just funded differently.
That's why it's called universal healthcare and not free healthcare. At least I don't have to go bankrupt when me or my kids have to go to the hospital
@@Orbitalbomb true 👍
If you consider the high costs of medical care, the additional costs that we actually have to pay directly are ridiculously small. With the exception of things that health insurance only pays partially or not at all (for example dental care or glasses.) If I were an American, I would have gone bankrupt long ago due to my illnesses and surgeries.
no matter whether as taxes, insurance, etc, some percentage of the income has to be paid first. but then (when you need health service) it is (almost) free, without lots of copay, deductibles, etc, and with no surprising costs that could make you go bancrupt, and it won't exceed a few hundred € per year (eg 10€ copay per day for bed and food in a hospital, but already including any surgery, tests, doctors, nurses, drugs, etc, capped to 28 days = 280€ per year). that's what i call a "flatrate" (just like the phone), and say that it is practically free.
@@Anson_AKBEspecially considering that any surgery will easily cost 4 digits and up (depending on extend etc.). Germany is ridiculous, you can get insurance for everything. Health insurance is one of the few I would never wanna miss though.
I do not agree that 1233€ for a 1 bedroom Apartment in Berlin is cheap or affordable. Considering most Germans usually make like 2-2.5K€ a month imagine having 700€ only left living in a one room Apartment hell nah.
And also considering the fact that we only pay under 800€ for a 3 bedroom flat + big living room + balcony + Garden + corridor + Kitchen + 2 bathrooms for the 5 of us living here in Duisburg
@@stupidboba92Duisburg halt. Wer will da wohnen? 😂 Wenn ich dich in den Harz kicke zahlst nur 500 und es ist noch dazu schön.
@@urbanmyth1519 Duisburg ist garnicht so schlimm wie viele meinen, kommt auf die Ecke an. Schön ist aber auch anders
@@stupidboba92 Sicher, aber das ist überall in D so. 🫡 Wenn ich NRW mit Rhein-Main Gebiet vergleiche ist das schon arg teuer hier aber gibt auch Dreckecken wo niemand wohnen möchte. Ich mach das hier noch paar Jahre dann geht's woanders hin. Lohnt sich nicht mehr bei den aktuellen Mieten hier noch den horrenden Aufschlag zu zahlen. Alles gute!
In Denmark university students get a monthly allowance of a little under £800 for the fist 5 years of studying.
The rent in those examples are monthly rent prices and not like your example per week.
I don't understand why videos like this always make generalizations. Do people only walk within 500 meters of their home? Food prices vary so much depending on which supermarket you go shopping in, it can even be more expensive or cheaper in the next district or town.
We have the Germany Ticket for some time now: 49€/m for travel the whole country and parts of Austria, Netherlands, Switzerland and Poland.
Health insurance is deducted from taxes, in Germany everyone must have health insurance, it is mandatory.
12€ for a 40 hour week is almost 1500 net.
In Hamburg, Germany's second largest city, costs a one-room apartment
450-1400€ cold rent.
It depends on the district.
I pay €700 cold for a three-room apartment.
I don't live in the city center but it takes 30 minutes by bus to the main station.
The buses run every 5 minutes,
so it works pretty well.
It's not just land, 5-10 minutes by bike I'm in Rahlstedt station, there's everything I need and good connection with trains.
1400 Pounds in London?
Don't you have a minimum wage of £10.42? The poor ones are screwed.
Privatised healthcare means that someone has to make a profit.
So money wise it's always less efficient.
(Depending on the efficiency of your government)
Mac Donalds in Thailand is pretty much expensive. For a Cheeseburger - Double of Germany and same price like a full Thai meal.
In Germany, waitresses are paid decently and tips are a thank you.
Dresden is beautiful
Well the transportation section is a bit outdated. A monthly subscription to public transport costs 49€ including all regional trains, s-bahn, u-bahn, cablecars, buses, and ferries.
I had fishes, a rat, a hamster, a cat, birds, bunnys, guineapigs as a child and now I have a dog.
This video is how old?
Costs are much higher now.
59 Euro all 3 month we pay for TV and radio Aldi, lille and netto are german stores
I'm a proud 'dad' of a Weimaraner (hunting dog). :)
PS
We the viewers are your 'pets' now. Care well for us. ;D
Dresden video: th-cam.com/video/3KSjGkcUJEg/w-d-xo.html
Dresden is the capital of the state of Saxony and the second biggest city in Saxony as well as the 12th biggest in Germany. The biggest city in Saxony would be Leipzig: th-cam.com/video/HJjKz_Epn7w/w-d-xo.html
Now there is the Deutschlandticket it costs 49€ a month and you are allowed to take any bus, tram, metro and regional train in Germany. Basically every public transport except long distant and high speed trains. But even with regional trains you can go from one corner of Germany to the other, it just takes much longer.
How old is this video? Prices are much higher meanwhile…
Hello Dwayne
First of all, thank you for your videos. Excellent!!!
But do you know the only train on earth that flies over the roofs of Wuppertal and over the Wupper? :-D
Schwebebahn 😀
Greetings Nick
Germany, Wuppertal. Or in English, double u in the valley
Love your vids
Here in Sweden we have Amazon but I have never bye anything there and I think at there are no Amazon in Norway
Hey Dwayne. Just discovered your Chanel and i enjoy watching your content.. just wanna say that the prices must be very outdated. Frankly speaking it is rather +50%(to 100%) today. Especially food, renting or even smokes.