I moved to LA from Prague (big mistake). My 4th year in USA and I am ready to go back. It’s not a good life. Like today, worked 12 hours plus 2hrs drive home. This happens a lot. If I take vacation company gives me a guilt trip. Limited sick days. NO time for myself, friends, hobbies, travel. JUST work. Company OWNS you. You are your job, that’s your identity. People are shallow and only care about your status (where you live what car you drive etc..) No empathy plenty of individualism. Overconsumerism. Rat race. Hustling. Health insurance so complicated I feel like I need university degree to understand it. HMO PPO inside/outside net, different insurance for vision, dental and general health. Bad work/life balance leading to mental issues. Many ppl in LA are on antidepressants. Crazy homelessness. Zero architecture (cardboard buildings). Every city looks the same it’s all corporate chains. Made some $$$$ but that’s all. It’s not perfect in Europe but life is sooo much simpler and happy there❤️
@@frankdux5693 Hi I am glad you amd you dear one liked it! I took the beauty and cool vibe of it for granted, but the more I travel the more I appreciate it and I realize it’s kind of special. ❤️
@@dudoklasovity2093 we're planning to go back soon for a little break. We've been looking to take the kids somewhere over Christmas. We've been looking at Iceland or Switzerland. Then maybe Prague around Easter time. I like showing the kids different cities and cultures and stuff. It's good for them. They'll like Prague. When we were there last we did a river cruise, bus ride to the zoo. We walked over the bridge and up to the castle. They'll love all that. We just tend to do 3 nights in a city cos you can see a lot and then get yourself on the way home before they start getting bored. You know what kids are like. They only enjoy somewhere so long without water parks and beaches before they start getting tetchy.
Wow 😮 I honestly don’t know how you can bear living in LA with all that going on? Life in the UK isn’t perfect but that sounds just awful to me. The only thing LA seems to have going for it is the weather & I expect there are lots of friendly people but that work life balance is madness.
Thers a BIG difference between having culture ( Coke and MC Donalds) and BEING cultured... cultured is used more as a reference to knowledge of the world, a broad general knowledge, the fine things in life, reading classics, watching classics listening to classics, widening your eyes to other countries, accepting other cultures, traveling, all the stuff that brings knowledge on a broader scale about the world ...
A well rounded education. Instead of cram schools for a piece of paper. " but it's important,it's an 'ology' ". I remember that funny old advert of gran to failing student..
I have been in 92 countries and seeing the US as cultured because it has commercial for-profit specialties such as movies or corporate media undermines the whole concept of culture. Americans are almost the least cultured because they have no access to great art, museums, classical music ,opera, ballet, drama, etc so they grow up in sterile commercializes conformity. Americans know so little about the world that is true. I have never seen a commerical broadcast news item that was not either false or at least intentionally misleading.. The political system in the US is the most corrupt I have seen anywhere. No other country would allow or even require that office seekers or holders accept millions of dollars of bribe payments(lobbying) from corporations or wealthy people with an agenda as a requirement to be elected. Once in office they spent 60% of their time seeking money for the next election from the people who put them there and furthering the agenda of those donors. The legislature allows corporations overrule the citizens and to actually write the legislation that the politician never reads or understands. That would be illegal in any sane country. That complete bypassing of the masses is why we have has more wars than any country in history, against countries that did nothing to the US. The US has murdered 25,000,000 people since 1950 and not one of those people did anything to the US. Of the 273 wars, the only one in self defense was 1812 when England invaded and burned the capitol. All the others were for control or profit. Americans keep repeating they are the richest in the world when the average American is the poorest in the world is the result of poor education and media propaganda tied to political agendas. A poor person in a war torn country, where the US has created the conflict, might have nothing but they are less poor than the poor or middle class in the US. Give $1 to the poor foreigner and they had nothing before but now have a net worth of $1. Give an American $10,000 and they are still $250,000 in debt and that only gets worse by the month. The economy, due to the corruption of congress and whitehouse, has become financialized so nothing is owned but on subscription where the average family has over 100 separate bills that never reduce the debt. For example to get internet and TV in California my sister pays $240 a month for Comcast with low throtled internet and just propaganda programming. $1000 a month for utilities is common, There are 3-7 layers of taxes such as federal, state, country city, home owners association, and special assessments. The last time I was in the US my sister was fined $1000 for having a burned out exterior light bulb by a homeowners a new city agency. Her small community was just part of a country the prior visit but in the a few years since visiting the US the small community incorporated as a city of 12,000 population and taxes exploded, but also new agencies were developed to steal more money. The home we both own, is a duplex and since the other side was rented out, it required an inspection every 6 months for $800 to make sure it was legally inhabitable. The rented it to a women who stopped paying rent after 4 months because she lost her job, There was no legal way to evict the women. I visited and found a light fixture with no bulb in a 3 socket fixture that lit of a narrow walkway to the back yard. two bulbs were in place and let up the narrow walkway. The center fixture never had a bulb in it because the two others fully lit the area. I did not know the history of it and screwed in a 3rd bulb. The next day was the 6 month inspection by the new city. She paid the $800 and two days later while driving by an inspector noticed the center bulb was gone and wrote up a violation notice and fined her $1000 for not having the bulb in place. That was just one example of the nonsense since that bulb lit up my sisters walk way, not the renters. She was fined $300 for not parking her second car inside the garage overnight one time. From various pensions she has a retirement income of $3500 a month and owns her two cars outright and the duplex is free of debt(I bought it when I moved out of the US 23 years ago.) But she still can hardly cover basic expenses. She lives a very limited life, there is no access to culture in her region, the capital city of California, no plays, no symphonies, no decent museums, no safe parks, now filled with homeless, crime is exploding. So she is poorer than a bagger in rural India. Quality of life in the US is poorer than in Europe, Russia, China, South America, most of the middle east. None of those places have homeless and $200,000 college debt or million dollar low quality health care. I live in a country Americans hate due to incredible propaganda but where Americans who visited once are moving to every week. I gave away all my assets in the US 23 years ago that included several successful businesses, to the employees, houses car collections, an airplane and put my money into a family trust that I have no access to. I left for a better true quality of life with only two suitcases and $6000 and live a great life in the city center of the most cultured city on earth, where cost of living is very low, food quality is better, is safe for a woman alone to walk through any neighborhood alone, at 3am, have a choice of 5 different ballet theaters every night, 12 opera houses, 54 classical music halls, 13000 4 or 5 star rated restaurants that are cheaper than fast food in the US, dozens of jazz clubs, 600 clean well maintained parks open 24/7, safe streets, police no one needs to fear, 265 drama theaters, 289 world class leading museums and more.I never bothered getting a car because the public transport is so good, convenient and, cheap, and a society were the 182 culture all get along. Free quality medical care, long paid vacations(minimum 58 days of work day off so adding the 2 nonwork days, worker get 2.2 full months of vacation, and up to 3 yr paid family leave that can start in the 3rd month of pregnancy. The new family get a grant to buy a larger home., having a second child results in a grant equal to total cost of living for the family for 2 years. Almost everyone over 20 has a university degree and very wide ranging knowledge, not just their specialty. Free of college debt. Most people over 20 own their home free of debt. So people get along because the people know a lot about the world, and cultures, the arts, languages etc. There i no cancel culture, no homeless, and the elections are wide open so there are many parties, 40 main parties and in the prior federal election 67 candidates ran for president all public financed, so it cost the candidate nothing to run, all got equal free media time and participated in national debates. All that with very low taxes, The national resources are owned by the people who income from resources pays for the health care system, university, public transport, etc. If a citizen or immigrant wants to develop a farm or some other use of rural land, they get it free if they develop it in some way in the first 5 years. The low stress life with unlimited access to culture and free for young and students, the results are improving quality of life every year. No one who is honest can claim the US improves at all. It middle class has been essentially wiped out in the US since its peak in the early 1970s while 80 individuals in the US has more wealth than the bottom 250,000.000 Americans. The most intense propaganda machine in history is keeping Americans ignorant of the world or their own plight. More Americans leave the US than legal immigrants enter, every years since 2008. And now they have convinced the people to demand world war. The relentless drum beat for war on China and Russia will mean the end of the US. China has done nothing to the US except produce the products that Americans depend on, at reasonable prices. The China Threat is the drum beat every day in all press. But no one explains why China is a threat to anyone. They are not an aggressor state and far more of the world population are favoring China over the US. No one who has visited China believes any of the US propaganda, nor to the 70% of world population believe the intense every minute nonsense propaganda about Russia. There is a very good reason the US is known as the Empire of Lies. Europe is crashing due to US proxy war on Russia and coming war on China.
Something needs to be corrected regarding work: Taking the time to eat and taking a vacation means working more intensely and efficiently during the time devoted to it. That doesn't mean being lazy. In addition, there are many innovative companies in Europe. The difference with the US, and what makes it possible to create many more large companies in US, is the legislation which tolerates a lot of unacceptable behavior in Europe. An entrepreneur like E.Musk would spend his life in court because of the labor code in Europe.
Elon Musk is certainly an extreme case, but there has to be a reason that 95% of tech companies stem from the US. Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Google, ... don't treat their employees horribly and yet it was all invented overseas. Coincidence?
I don't know about the rest of Europe, but another aspect of work life, at least in Norway, is that the employee has more responsibility, and can therefore ensure that the job is done more efficiently than in other parts of the world, where the employees not daring to do anything but what they have been told. As far as I know, the latter also applies to the United States.
I lived less than 15 minutes from my office. Had lunch at my desk before the clock hit 12, while still working (guilty) and then drove home, put on my hiking boots and went for a walk in the woods behind my house with my dog and we both had a great time, specially during winter. It was very relaxing having that enjoyable break in the middle of the day.
@@CabinFever52 Sorry no, different places have different amounts of history. New Zealand has less history than Spain. That's just fact. And Europe has more history than the US. What do you see of the history before Europeans landed? Not that much. Can you experience old Native American buildings and culture? Not really, outside very limited exceptions.
As I said in another reaction video. For over 50 year's the US has had the best public relations or propaganda (as one corrected me). But in the age of information, aka the Internet, the image of the US deteriorated quite fast over the last years!
I am an American and I have also made Germany 🇩🇪 my home 🏡! I always say to the German people who ask 😂why would I want to live here that it's a better way of life. The German people may think that the USA is better for what ever reason. I can only say to go and live there. It is not all of what you see on TV. I've loved it since I was here in the military. After going home after the military my life dream was to return for the rest of my life. Finally after 28yrs I have no wish to even vacation in the US.
@koschmx I'm sorry for your loss and at the hands of stupidity at that! I'm from Connecticut and live now in Heppenheim. I was in Augsburg for my last tour and when was in ARMY. Beautiful place. Maybe someday we'll have pleasure meeting. 🙏 Peace ✌️
@@koschmx I can't say I did. I was last there back in 1984.. I don't even know if existed back then. I'm hoping to come back to Augsburg someday just to see the changes and send reminisce a little bit.
Im from Germany and so many people dream to Live in the us and want the Greencard, but Here ja the Point the Most people never ever where in the us before and Just know it from movies. I was in the use and Worked there for an half a year and it was a nice time but i couldnt live there it all, i dont Just Work and Work, i dont Like that everybody asks Just about your Job and its all about Money. It was an interesting time but Germany is my Home to The German WHO move to American think they get a better Life with a Higher salaray or the know it from the movies, but the Most came Back after the noticed that the Gras ist Not greener oversea
The argument that the USA is a young state and is therefore not comparable to Europe. But in the USA there are people who inhabited the American continent long before the Europeans came. But their culture is not taken into account in the USA, it only takes place on the sidelines.
Exactly this. There could be a rich culture from a long-lasting tradition*. But european colonialism, accompanied by racism and christian missionary, destroyed these strings to the "own" history. Cultural appropriation is another side of the medal, another big problem we must be aware of while discussing these topics. * which exists, but only in the reality of a few people, not in the collective memory of the society
Yes, very true! Its the usual way of seeing this: when Americans see the European old culture, they always (almost always) say that they are such a young nation so they dont have a culture that goes back 1000 or so years. The fact that people have been living in North America for 15000 is usually not even taken in concideration.
Divercity is not a culture, divercity is situation when cultures merge and as they merge they lose they uniquness and become bland. 200 years is enought time to establish traditions and base culture. But it is lacking in USA. USA dont have they own cuisine, they have whatever immigrants have brought there. And without culture you dont have roots and without roots you have no future as people or person you are always exapendable.
That´s how I see it too. Putin is a war criminal who attacked the innocent Ukraine. Europe can`t do anything about that and the NATO alliance is strong.@@JisforJenius
that good answer, if so Australia was built on Irish and English prisoners and yet Australia does not celebrate Halloween as they do in UK and USA. Yet again Australia has best ever coffee and that because of Italians and Greeks coming here. Yet they also went to USA and they got Starbucks.
I find it astonishing that Europe is always called the old world and the USA the new world. After all, conlicts are solved in the USA in the same way as it was done in Europe 500 years ago. By force.
One reading of US history: So many groups you hear of migrating to the current US were so annoying not even the Dutch could tolerate them, so they let them bugger off so far away they'd never have to deal with them again. Fast forward a couple of centuries, they had no mitigating influences in their society and now we have to deal with the results. I really hope we learn not tro repeat this error in colonizing space.
Europeans began colonizing the American continent the 500 years ago you mention. So they are in about 2 to 5 thousands years older. And of course humankind allways solved problems with wars
The emigrants from Europe moved to the New World with ideals and left the old world with its societies dominated by nobility and clergy. Of course, they had the old world in their luggage through their socialisation and most had to go into heavy debt to finance the crossing and as soon as they arrived in America they found themselves in new dependencies on their new masters, which for some were harder than what they had left. They had to open up the continent for their new masters, deal with the indigenous people and pay off debts at the same time. Perhaps an interesting fact, the large landowners in the south of what is now the USA, which were part of the southern states during the Civil War, did not originally use slaves as labourers, but employed white and black labourers who were lured into the promised land with the usual debt for the passage and they had to work off their debts on their fields on an equal basis. In reality, this was not so different in status from later slavery. It was only when the supply of labour from Europe dried up, because at some point word got out about the real price of the passage, that these entrepreneurs fell for the slave traders' offer.
U.S.A. is not a continent. It is one of 23 countries in the continent of North America. I know the U.S.A. is known to be weak in geography skills, but ... really? 🤔🙄😂
I live in Canada, a country as distant to Europe as the US is, and we get a lot of news out of Europe. We are also an immigrant-rich nation so it makes sense to have news from around the world always.
I guess ?? it's because of the different historic background in founding the state. Whereas the US is historically speaking the one "against Europe" like we don't want to do it like them, we are independant, Canada was a British colony for so long that, I think, they just brought with them a lot of "culture" as in the way of living in modern Europe up until the 1900th century that the differences are not that big. If anything I think the general spirit there (just the perception of the media, I've (not yet) been to Canada) is very European-like but with more resilience (nature is so HUGE in comparison), adventure spirit (I mean, in the settlement years, who wanted to leave very well established Europe?)...and influence by the neighbouring country?
16:30 That's true. When I worked in a big company in Munich I had to write down the time I came and I left into an Excel sheet every day, and it calculated the time. The last day every month I had to print it and gave it to my team supervisor. One day I had collected 40 hours more than I had to work (35 hours a week). And she said: "You need to take two days off or I will go to jail". Now THAT'S what I call work-life-balance!
Hi! How's it going? It's about about how You feel. Myself,. Born in Winston -Salem, N.C. in the mid 60's. Ended up at 18 in1984 in France.6 years later I left there in 1990 for Germany. Went back to the U.S. After having lived in Germany for 16 years. After being in Pa. for a year. I got home sick,. for Germany. For many reasons. I've been back in Germany since 2020. When I left the States the first time I had a 1/2 Typical American Headset. After being abroad, learning more, growing up and having lived like I had, I saw things alot differently. Going back proved it. 95% of the People I knew could not rap their minds around how,.. I wasn't Rep or Dem and spoke out about the bads of both. How, I could be Social but on the Right. These are just examples.Those things matter here a lot less here It's more about where you are at the center, the person. You don't have to agree to get along. The Cancel Culture doesn't go well here either.
@brien656: These are the comments I like the most. With years of experience in different countries, seeing both sides, not exaggerating. Thanks for sharing. I´m German. I don´t think Germany is the best country. But it´s good enough for me not to move. I like the nature, the safety, the natural food, the seasons and I like the people. I like when a city organizes a day of nations, where every culture can show it´s art and food on the street.
You're so young. You have nothing to lose. Living in Europe, no matter how long it is, will teach you so much. Afterwards you see the world with different eyes. Do it….
But he is going to arrive a decade too late. Europe is declining dramatically due to US policy. Paris for example is not safe any more, million of immigrants created by US wars have transformed Europe into a crashing region.
I think you already know the answer to your question, Joel. It's such a great pity that the option to move around the EU no longer includes the UK, given that you feel so much at home here, but there's a whole plethora of North European cities that - coupled with the generous holiday allowances your employment is likely to attract, will put you in effective weekend commuting distance! There are very affordable flight deals to be found, both to London and many UK regional airports as well as those of other European destinations - and you'd still have the bulk of your annual leave to use for a couple of yearly trips back to the US to see your folks, if that's what you wanted to do. Add to that all your other human and employment rights and most likely, not having to take out expensive health insurance for the most part and well....! If you don't have them already, take up some online course in German or French, maybe brush up on your Spanish and remember, there's always the English-speaking Irish Republic in the EU as well! You'll be an asset, for sure!
Why shouldn't you be able to move to UK? Norway is not part of EU, but there are lots os immigrants from EU in the country. I'm sure you can move to UK as well, but you probably have to want it so much that you have to take the time to ask for permission.
TBH - I think you are commenting from the UK perspective. As long as Joel has a valid US Passport (with a good length of time before expiry - many countries require a minimum of six months still to run) and a valid UK Tourist Visa (only needed for staying LONGER than 6 months in the UK), he should be able to travel around Europe quite easily. Also, if using the UK as a 'base', he can visit places like the Channel Islands, Gibraltar and obviously the Isle of Man or the Republic of Ireland with no restrictions. This is from a long stay tourist perspective ONLY. I don't know about working/employment rules for Americans etc. Except for that really horrible 'tax payment situation' that applies to all US citizens..!
whether it s better or not it s prbably pretty sinjective. Different is very objective. You need to experience GERMANY again but living there as a resident. BERLIN sounds about right. Don t over think it. You know you want to try it!! Alles gut~
IF I could I would move to the UK in a heart beat. Life is lived a bit slower in the UK. The people are more polite as a rule. The outright level of violence in the USA is dramatically worse. Gun laws are so much better in the UK. I am of a mind that personal freedom is respected, and enjoyed by both the USA, and the UK, but the gun lobby has created a much more of a culture of violence in the USA in the name of freedom, but secretly is only about the sales of guns. The fact about daily shopping for fruits, and vegetables is a thing as well. Coffee culture is another example of the differences, in the USA it is more centered around large containers, and the amount of caffeine to keep you going, that has something to do with that faster speed of life in the USA because we are more concerned with productivity rather than quality in the USA. The UK, and most of Europe centers around flavor, and relaxation, and not so much the productivity boost provided by caffeine. The biggest negative in a way for me is the cultural aspect surrounding smoking in the UK, vs the USA. Smoking is still considered much more acceptable in the UK than in the USA. I, myself, do not appreciate smoking as much as I did in my youth, cause it was a habit that lent itself to a much lower physical health for me over the years, and I just choose to not use it any longer, and I am kinda glad that I haven't in more than 20 years now. Music, and art culture as a rule are prevalent in both the UK, and the USA it is just spread in much different ways. It is much more of a local thing in the UK, and it has much more ingrained, and prevalent feel. In the USA it feels that you have to actively seek cultural art, and the arts in general whereas in the UK it is almost everywhere, and the fact that Europe is a much smaller place may have something to do with that. I also enjoy the "pub" culture of the UK which is definitely different in the UK, vs the USA. Going to a "bar" is NOT the same as going to the "pub" in the UK...both are social, but the UK feels much more down to Earth, relax, and enjoy each other than the USA which is centered more around excitement, and having as much fun as possible, packed into as little time as possible so to be able to get back to work. And frankly there a big "clubs" for the excitement, fun, etc in both the UK, and the USA...so there is that. Well, I have wrote a big enough book as it is. But on the whole I think I would enjoy living in the UK much more than in the USA where I was born. The atmosphere, the outright cost of daily living, the humor, the outlook on life just seems to suit me better, not the least of these reasons is that lgbt people are treated as a rule much better in the UK than the USA...there are actual LAWS that make it illegal to mistreat them in the UK than in the USA, and rights for this group, that yes I am a member of this group, are going down, not up in the USA and likely to be this way until the atmosphere in the USA changes again which is primarily (no pun intended) on politics in the USA which is way to far right leaning for my tastes at the moment, especially in the state I am forced to live in due to health and monetary reasons. I happen to be part of the aging and disabled community that the far right seems to look upon only slightly better than they do lgbt people, but I happen to be a part of both communities which makes me DOUBLY worse off due to circumstances. Brian
European (French) here : i just want to tell you : "try it! try UK!" May be more easier for the language and as it's said in the video, go to visit other countries in Europe.
Go for it Brian, when I was younger I thought about moving to America but the gun culture is so scary, we also have the NHS not brilliant but nobody has to get into debt for your medical care. You can be in Paris in an hour Athens in three hours. Britain is not the best country because every country has something different to offer but I do love living here. ❤🏴🏴🇬🇧
German here. I agree with the others. Come over, it doesn´t matter which country ypu start. Indeed you are free to move form one country to the other wihtin hours. So you can´t choose the "wrong" country. For sure you may also try other continents. Traveling means learning, becoming open minded, becoming tolerant against other people, find out how you want to live your life.
I like your videos, but you should put a link to the original video in here. This video was really very well made and having lived in both the US and germany, i could relate to most he said. I lived in Detroit and California. If i went to a grocery store, i could not tell a difference in what end of this huge country i was shopping in. Where i live now, i can drive 30 min to France and everything looks, feels and is different. Except for everybodys understanding of this "neighborhood". Hell, i even work with guys who live in France and commute everyday. Some of them are home before me...
Exactly, marginalized groups exist everywhere, but where they exist in a culture is mainly dependent on how those groups are looked upon by that countries biases, and cultural differences as well.
One cannot answer this objectively because we naturally know, understand and accept (rightly or wrongly) how we live in our own countries and what is ‘better’ for one person is not necessarily ‘better’ for another. In common with so many of these ‘good, better, best’ - style videos, they can be informative but in the end it comes down to personal experience and personal opinion. And as the British comedian Jack Whitehall remarked ‘opinions are a little bit like farts: best to hold them in because no one’s going to appreciate them as much as you!’ 😂
having health care, education and not having to be affraid, coz any lunatic can shoot you, are objetively better, there isnt person that would say its subjective or preferable for some
Exactly. Every country is the best, for a particular person. It depends on what you are looking for. For some people the US will be the best in what it offers. For others, it's will be Germany, or France, or Canada, or... You have to determine what you want, and what you like and can get out of a place, to determine what is the best place for you.
What you view as a best country tells alot about what you value. I'm from Finland so I value greatly our free education, free healtcare, equality and work enviromen (have your breaks and vacations). If you value popculture, military power, capitalism then sure, Usa is the greatest.
If you have the opportunity then why not give it a try, if it doesn't work out you can always move on or even return to the US. You have a revenue stream that will work in any country so you wont starve. If anything a move abroad gives you even more opportunity to expand your channel. Your young, single?, no children to worry about, it doesn't have to be a forever thing. Life may not be better but it will be different.
I think the biggest difference between the work cultures are the approaches on the employer-employee relationship. In the US, I get the feeling that you always feel replaceable. You have quick, short times of education on your jobs, but you can also switch jobs very quickly. That makes both sides feel quite... expendable, I think. In Europe (particularly in Germany, I don't know as much about other countries' attitude on this), for example for a vocational trade job like baker, nurse, plumber, retail worker, barber or car mechanic, you have to undergo three years of in-job training - three days per week at the job, two at school, or something like that. Three years that you get paid! Within these three years, you build a relationship with your employer, and he puts a lot of money into you as his apprentice. So, the employer is much more inclined to give you a job afterwards - he knows you, your quirks, your talents, your reliability, your workflow, and how you work with your colleagues. And you know him, how the workflows within the team is, how reliable he is as an employer etc. This is the foundation for a long-term relationship. Combine that with strict laws about worker's rights (and duties), where either side can't just say "Oh, (I) just don't come in again from next Monday", everything is set up for stability. That's what we value, too - stability, reliability, predictability. "Order". Almost everybody here will value a perpetual contract with a little less money much higher than a short-term contract with more cash.
Another major difference is US higher education is incredibly narrow so it not producing educated people which broad enough range of knowledge to make good choices or be able to identify the intense propaganda that the US media/government produces. I am sure most of what Americans believe of the world is fully nonsense. An engineer or doctor may have an education but they usually know nothing that is required to make good decisions. No doctor trained anywhere else in the world is so devoid of knowledge of the general state of human condition. Americans have a very narrow view of quality of life, to them it how many things one has, almost all on credit. I return to the US where I was born every 3-5 years for 1-2 weeks and see nothing improve but quality of life for the masses declining dramatically between each visit. They point to their income as reason to feel superior to the world but they own and know nothing. The cost of living in the US is the highest in the world because everything is on subscription or credit that outlast what they bought. In most communities there are few if any authentic restaurants, no museums, few if any parks, no art galleries, no drama theaters, few safe well maintained parks, no access to high culture...none. The last time I was in NYC my GF, who never was in the US before, but filled with the the imaginary version of rich USA, saw an ad for an opera she likes. She assumed it was something for people or was common around the country because everyone says the US is so rich. The only opera in the country that night was at the MET in NYC where we were. Checking the prices, for two seats in lesser quality location in a theater of moderately bad acoustics mediocre orchestra cost $1600!!!!. With in walking distance we have any night of the week better performances, sets, sound and cast for $20, from half dozen theaters, all of them architectural wonders of the 18th and 19th centuries, literally palaces of the arts. She was shocked at the lack of access to culture. Or the healthcare costing more and any 10 countries combined with moderate to poor outcomes. Looking around she was shocked by how poorly everyone dressed and how trashy young women looked with like they were from the hood, and fat everywhere. Any American living outside the US and returning for a visit is shocked how bad people look, fat, trashy and no manners. How many Americans have access to great museums? 5% maybe but a study was done a few year ago determined the median distance an American would need to travel to see a good museum was 834 miles. Most cities have no safe parks. Heck, poor region of large cities do not even have grocery stores. Yet Americans are told daily they are the richest and freest people on earth but it has one of the lowest rates of home ownership, lowest savings rates in the world with a net worth lower than many poor countries. At one time, a family built or bought a home that was paid off in 15-20 years that became generational wealth the boosted the quality of life of following generation but now with everything on long term credit, families own outright almost nothing to pass on. Where I live most people over 20 own their home free of debt, they all have college degrees and no college debt. They have no medical bill. They have long paid family leave so having a baby actually increases the net worth of a young family because the government no only covers all costs, and had paid family leave, but also gives the couple a grant to buy a larger home. If they have a second child, they get a cash grant enough to cover living expenses for the entire family for 2 years. If they want to build a home, or start a farm or whatever, they can find a plot of land that is not already used and if the develop it within 5 year it is deeded to them...and that even applies to foreigner. The US is the least safe developed country, crime is very high and rising. Every US city has whole regions that are considered No-Go zones, too dangerous to wander into. I live in a city of 7 million where a woman can walk through any neighborhood or any of the 600 well maintained beautiful park, alone, and be perfectly safe...at 3am. Children can go anywhere in the city by themselves on public transportation and visit and hundred of world class museums, galleries, or concert halls free. The average 10 year old has seen dozens of top flight opera, ballet or symphonic halls There are more top class museums than all the US and Canada combined here in this one city and it is not the largest. A small minority of American have ever been outside the US so they believe the intense propaganda that is piped into every home. One visit to China or Russia and seeing the extreme difference between what thy were told daily by press, media and government, and even Americans are shocked that they have been lied to every day of their lives, nothing they are told is true.
That was an especially good video, intelligent and thoughtful. He is right about American culture. You are a young country but already have major achievements in cinema (of course), literature, art and music, nothing to be ashamed of at all. We would love to have you as a European, JPS, but which sort of European. Give yourself time, and remember you have yet to check out the richness of the far East, the Puritanism of Arabia, the laid-backness of the Antipodes or the passion of Latin America etc, etc. Enjoy the journey. I would have depressingly to add that since climate change is likely to overtake us all very, very soon, please make the most of every precious moment
to be honest, that "anything goes" day at school exists here. every year the graduates of the gymnasium (germany has three tiers of high school, and this is the longest and considered "highest") will do a motto week, where every day of the week they will dress up as a different theme, like anime, pirates, medieval times, etc. its usually more creative than those examples though. im not sure if thats leading up to receiving their grades or whether it was while they write the exams, but its kind of insane and fun for the whole school, cause theyll make a mess of the place. its all planned and presented to the school beforehand so no serious accidents happen, and theyll do things like straight up block the entrances to the school with bales of hay, turn the parking lot signs around, build weird structures with the chairs and tables in the classrooms, and also generally interrupt the normal lessons at every turn.
20:50 - Hi Jps. You wish there was a place between USA and Europe, an island, perhaps. I think that place is YOU. I think that's what the video was saying. Nathaniel physically moved to Europe and, through immersion and observations over time, discovered more about his own personality. He is a metaphoric 'island' between US and Europe, with a wider, more diverse perception of the world he inhabits. Until that day you physically move to another land permanently, continue preparing your 'mental' SELF to becoming that 'island' between lands', oontinue maintaining your interests in other lands.
I’ve been retired for quite a few years now, when my job was in print finishing. I worked 3x12 hour days, 1 day off, 3x12 nights, 1 week off, start back on reverse shift, 3x12 nights and so forth. I still had 3 weeks annual leave so, would booked a week off that actually gave you 3 weeks because of the shift pattern. This shift pattern although was 12 hours a day yet was only 36 in a week, actually worked less than 26 weeks a year by including bank holidays.
A thing the US seems to be losing is closely knit communities: walking through the neighborhood, meeting neighbors, knowing shopowners. Experienced that in the US in the 60ies, we still have that in Europe.
Sorry for translation :-) If you decide to go to Europe, DO NOT make the mistake of going to a big city. Look for a smaller town, etc. a little outside of the city. Because only there will you find life in the country. Large cities do not reflect what this country or region is all about. Try to get to know the people there and experience life there. You don't experience the festivals and culture like that in big cities. Familiarize yourself with the regions of the country you choose. There are a lot of different ones, even within each country. This is the only way a project like this makes sense and gives you what you are looking for!! 🙂
Joel, perhaps get a 6 month work visa, and see how things go. You're open minded and have made a big effort to find out about other countries/ cultures.
Glad to hear you're considering a move to Europe. I don't think the States is a very healthy place to live these days, and it looks like it's only going in the wrong direction. Yes, more than other countries the States offers the opportunity to "succeed" - but maximal achievement in career or monetary terms, really isn't the be all and end all of our lives. For me at least, life is much more about whether we have the opportunity to simply enjoy the minutiae of our everyday existence. My objectives were to get a modest, comfortable home in a pleasant environment, not have to worry about paying the bills, and a bit left over for self-indulgence - and that's about it. It's just my opinion, but I view the rest as BS. I've achieved the relatively little that I want, and now life is pretty relaxed and enjoyable. My motto is, quality, not quantity. As an old man, I'm acutely aware that our lives are finite.
those feelings of competition, as with all feelings. You don't fight those feelings, just feel them and become aware of them. that way they will lose their grip over you.
Back in the 1970s I helped audit many businesses. If we found an “irregularity” (i.e. an employee was on the fiddle), we were trained to suspect anyone who always seemed to be at work, whatever the time of day or night, never seemed to be off sick, and who didn't take all their holiday entitlement. Usually, the reason was that if they were absent, somebody else would have to do their job while they were away, so were likely to discover the “irregularity”. The other main cause of suspicion would be if a person was always apparently too busy to talk to you, or anybody else.
Hey man. Interesting video, I liked the nuance you brought with your own opinions as well. One thing I would like to touch on is that a lot of the points that were brought up focused on cultural attitudes and their effect on individuals. That's a perspective that certainly brings out a lot of discussion, but I do think some of these differences might be better explained, or at least can only be fully understood when you also bring up the role of things like (poltical) institutions and material conditions ... aspects that transcend the individual and are more structural in their nature. Have you thought about maybe studying in Europe? It always struck me as a nice way to combine a couple of potential life goals. It's a great way to travel and explore Europe, make friends, gain independence and figure out whether you'd really like living in a place while also very practically saving you student debt (I imagine) and gaining some nice (language) skills.
Halloween is not truely American sure the have a mordern version that is spread a lot but Europe has celebrated it under other names long before America was settled and I think many Europeans think of many of those thing as a kind of copy or warping of the traditions
I'm a UK British citizen when I was a little kid I always wanted to move or live in the USA I've never had the chance to go there yet yet I have USA friend dotted around the place in different states which hopefully in the future I'll get to visit and meet them all but now I'm just happy that I'm living in the UK
Move to Europe: Simple answer YES. Reasons why: 1. Your not treated as a slave in work 2. Expected to do 50+ hours 3.Affordable Health Care 4.Public Transportation - So having a car is not a necessity, it's a privilege. You can easily do everything without a car. 5. Multicultural 6. Other countries close. 7. No Guns. 8. No militarised Police to bully you. 9. Paid Vacation 10. Paid Maternity Leave. 11.More Holidays - Work Holidays 12.Less Violence. 13.Less Racism. 14.Smarter People - Educated people who are far less ignorant and naive and can answer basic questions. Compared the US Jesus..... 15.Less corruption 16.Government focus on society no all for profit capitalist approach. 17.No fear of being sacked for no reason. 18.Better City design 19.Better Urban design ie shops, parks, cinema, food outlets, clothes outlets, schools all within walking distance to everyone near enough. 20.No ELon Musk or Donald Trump fan boys or girls. People that dont listen and use their brain basically. 21.No adverts during shows. 22.Less Media BS. 23.No one judges you on your worth such as best car, job, income etc. Treated even and fair. 24. Know what socialism is. 25.Realise the lies from the USA about other countries. 26.Don't Start Wars or Lie for a reason to go to War. 'Unlike the US'. 27.Safer. 28.More History 29. Every type of landscape or surroundings you can imagine. Castles, moats, canals, edwardian buildings, victorian buildings, tudor buildings, ancient ruins, artifacts, miles of gorgeous lakes and countryside, mountains, landmarks. All there for you discover and it doesn't take long to get to them. 30.Better food - Healthier food. 31.Less obesity. 32.Less Homelessness. 33.Less Drug Epidemics 34. Less mind warping from a young age. Such as making the pledge (say that to a European and they think 'oh i know a guy who imposed that also ''Hitler'' yeh sounds fcked up now doesnt it? Media, Government. 35. Formula 1 (F1) ^^. There's a few... XD
8:34 The USA was founded in 1776, while Germany, for example, was founded in 1871. The US are simply a nation for 100 years longer, a very old nation compared to most countries in the world. So enough time to evolve nice traditions and stuff like that.
That is a really very short history of Germany. The nation state, which was founded 1871 was the "Second Reich" and there was a lot of Germany since long before, just organized in smaller entities under a long line of emperors. You could start with Tacitus' "Germania". And when you are of European anchestry, you have a good chance to find some German DNA in your blood.
@@augustiner3821 He talks about nations. And there was no "german" nation before 1871. The HRR and at least the territories before followed a different concept
Imho society does not "hit a standstill" at Sunday in Germany. Instead it does the first step into the new week. There is much going on Sundays - however mostly not in the commercial sector (except restaurants, theaters and so on). 🙃
Thé more important IS to respect the both sides. Each continent has his specific richess, History and strenth. No one IS better than another. I am french. I prefer to live in Europe. But i am open minded. Best wishes from France
What I love about europe is the fact that I can travel in 3 hours to Poland or in 3 hours to denmark and so on. I am a 24 years old student and I was already in 11 countries because its easy here.
The USA is basically 50 states, Europe 46 (47). When Joel drives from Maryland to Dallas or Chicago, he has in principle driven to another country. Even the same language does not change that.
@@Michael_from_EU_Germany Portugal has a completely different culture than Estonia. It is weird to say Dallas would be like Portugal and Chicago like Estonia.
hmm even though i think you moving country's is a great experience , i would highly suggest visiting the neighboring country's as well . they always say the gras is greener on the other side, but you can pick the most greenest grass ahead of time so you don't need 2 look at greener grass , but experience it/
Comment especially on the differences in work ethic: I think a lot of differences in modern American and European culture stem from the different approaches and thinkings in the age of Enlightenment and beginnings of the US as an actual nation (beginning with the declaration of independance and the war). The first North-American settlers came to the country before the declaration of Human Rights in France that hugely influenced European culture and living especially in the working environment. I think about slavery, worker unions, insurance...in Europe, alle this developed in the Aftermath of the universal acceptance of Human Rights and their significance for different aspects of life. In Germany, health insurance was already introduced in the 1880s by Bismarck and not because he was a huge fan of the people but because he was a great stategist and thought it would be beneficial for morale among industrial and manual labourers. The same goes for periods of paid leave in Germany that date back to the early 1900s. Historically, the USA is a nation where many Europeans came to because they didn't have a chance in Europe (because of different cultural problems) and they were brave enough (I mean land of the free and brave does exist for a reason) to travel to a whole new continent and had to make do with the things (wildlife, botanics, weather) they found and just work the whole time because there was just nothing, no town, infrastructure...so entrepreneur thinking and lifestyle (working around the clock, you have to do it by yourself) is way more engrained in the cultural memory
If I fuel up my car it can go about 600km with one tank. I can go with this tank to Munich or Venice or Berlin or Cologne or Vienna or Zurich or Prague or Milano or... you name it. Adding just 2 gallons it will even take me to Paris, Amsterdam or Hamburg.
Maybe he did that deliberately, accentuating the depth (and time span) of the cultural differences. There are many ways to illustrate that. I've been following Nathaniel Drew for quite some time now. Excellent channel!
@@MYoung-mq2by, I know him, too, he is wonderful! But still we as Germans would only show this map for educational reasons, never for entertainment. It’s taboo, and I like that we are sensitive to that topic… Even the first verse of the National Anthem is strictly forbidden, because it says that Germany is above all and describes the country in its old borders.
@@seldakaya0414 That's very interesting. I had no idea. Thanks for the insight. It proves, I think, that people do not intentionally wish to hurt or insult. We, being human and not all-knowing, walk a tightrope when visiting or sharing experiences in different cultures. Apparent intention and tone goes a long way in deciding to take something clumsy as a insult or not.
As someone who's lived in Germany for 27 years. You will always be " the foreigner" you need to have a strong personality and not scared of learning or anything else. X
If you are a millionaire or rly filthy rich, then stay in the US, ull be fine there. If on the other hand you are in the middle class then yea Europe in general will give u a lot more value for your taxdollars than the US ever will. You just cant compare the quality of life tbh..
safety is what make it possible to live nice and relaxed in europe. unlike: in the US they have around 49000 gun related deaths a year. in 5½ years they kill same amount of their own as allied casualties in the vietnam war. and thats just gun related numbers. + In the United States, an estimated 460,000 children are reported missing every year. working class is horribly underpaid and overworked. there have been delegates sent to the states to report what they saw and some of the reports said" 3rd world conditions of absolute poverty. your healthcare system is the most expensive and least effective in the industrialized world. medicine is marked up 10x as a minimum. seen meds that cost 8 usd here in europe cost 2000 usd in the states for the exact same brand and package. your government is highly corrupt and favors big coorp and the rich instead of the people. thats the result of allowing donation to the campaigns instead of having each party have a fixed amount to work with. with a fixed amount a party would be elected for what they can do for the people and not by who is the most corrupt . US need to realize it have to invest in its people. provide healthcare education and fair wages. they spend way too much time and money fighting problems they caused on themself. YOU NEED TO FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS PEOPLE. YOU ARE BASICALLY SLAVES FOR THE UPPER CLASS. america have alot of things but Freedom is NOT one of them.
What came to my mind is, Canada is also a huge country and it’s not as homogeneous as the US. In fact you have differences in many states of the US. Look at the difference between say Alaska and Hawaï for instance. I know that’s two far apart places but an example nonetheless. Also west/east coast differences, middle America & North/South. But I do take his point on the overall structures & town layouts etc being pretty much the same throughout. The Us does have many remnants of British and French influences though, also Spanish & S.American influence. The US as it is today is relatively young, but remember it’s really ancient land that was there for millennia Before it was discovered or travelled into by Inuit, Aboriginals/Polynesians, Celts, Vikings/Norse, Portuguese, Spanish, British & French.
You have to try Joel it otherwise you’ll regret it, you can always go back if it doesn’t work out. I think going by your vlogs you’d really love Australia too I think their way of life would really suit you.
When you are young, no matter which country you come from I would advise at least spending a couple of years living in a foreign country. I am originally from the UK and left there in 1974, hitch hiked accross Europe ending up in Berlin, where my money ran out and I found a job. Now I am still in Berlin in 2024, 50 years this year, retired and never regretted the move, I have now seen much of the world. I think if I had not left back in 1974 I would still be insular and have missed out on so much in life. If you get the opportunity TAKE IT AND OPEN YOUR WORLD.
@@arnodobler1096They didn't feel home in Portugal, feel to far from their sons. Then they try to move near Paris but on the countryside. They finally bought an house an hour and half of Paris, with trains to Paris.
We have a lovely community here. It's still English with few outsiders spoiling things. However since the forced moving in of diverse city types, graffiti and vandalism has happened .
Joel, just a simple question about this seemingly common thing in the US - Pyjama Day. Most of my school friends didn't wear pyjamas. What are they to do on such days? 😂😳
My dream, which I've accomplished, always was to live in the US and vacation in Europe. Both places have so much to offer that people should take advantage of.
I think that the UK could be a good base for you bcos we are a sort of halfway house between the cultures in some ways. There would be no problems with language, so good for getting established, but handy for diversity across the Channel. The smoking culture on the mainland is an issue for me. Yes, there is more here than in the States maybe, but considerably less than in the rest of Europe. Most of the people you see smoking here are foreign tourists/immigrants. A fun bonus for you too ... meal deals!! Other olaces do them besides Tesco, so if that doesn't swing it then I don't know what will😂 You fitted in nicely when you visited, so give it a go, you will have many friends from day one 🙋♀️🇬🇧🤗
If you find yourself actually moving to Europe, with your wanderlust and sense of exploration, you should consider a country within the EU. I know you love the UK (I do too), but it will hinder you a lot moving there compared to the EU. Maybe you should consider another country where the english barrier is non-existant, like the Netherlands, Denmark or Sweden. I think you would really like it there too. If you ever go back to Europe, try visit one or more of those countries to get a feel for them. And if you end up staying in the US then I hope you find peace in that. Your country need young open-minded people within its borders to. All the best, I will continue to follow your channel, I really like your thoughfulness.
Ireland is of course in the EU, and has English as the main language. In countries like the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden people are fluent in English, but it still isn't their first language, and before you know the language they speak as their first language, you are an outsider in many occasions. Of course if you are prepared to take the effort to learn the local language and to feel left outside before that, any country will do.
"I'm thinking about moving". Joel, think long and hard. First, get a good degree. Second, learn a language other than English. Third, find a country where you will get a good-paying job and will afford you a work permit. Finally, try out a country for three months before deciding. I've lived/worked in six European countries. If forced to choose only between them, Germany would come sixth.
Hello Joel. I know you liked York. I wonder if the similarities I always try to point out between the folk in Northern England and Australia would make Australia your "in-between island"?
The way I generally look at it is. If you are working in a STEM field (Engineering, higher IT, medical, legal, etc), you generally cannot do better then you will in the US. The pay is far higher, and you still pay less in taxes. There are many different places in the US, so you can change locations if you don't like the current environment. It's a huge country, the continental US is larger in size then Europe without the Russia section, and different areas of the country can be very different. If you're in a social type of job, you're probably not going to do better then Europe. Culturally, Europe as a whole is more culturally diverse, as the different countries are certainly different, and you can see and experience a lot of things while there. A lot depends on what you prefer, the grass is not always greener, and both locations have better and worse qualities to them.
We would love to have you in Europe, Joel. You would be an asset to our society. However, consider this: the USA is a little lost at the moment, there is a lot going on that needs improvement but the countyr as a whole is not sure which way to go. The USA is at crossroads at the moment and needs now more than ever morally upstanding open minded people like you to help guide it.
He’s clearly never been to Brighton. It has always always been out there. I live there in the 1970s. That was the first time I saw pay men holding hands and they were openly kissing on the street. I was a shocked 18 yr old. He’s not right about Parisian women not wanting to go out without looking good, it’s generally a European thing including the UK, (which is European ) that we just don’t do scruffy casual as much. We tend to do casual chic. So many Americans with baseball caps and graphic T-shirts.
I think in France you're legally required to leave your place of work for lunch for at least 30 Minutes (or maybe that's one of those urban myths). But if that was the case I'd think that is a good thing. We (in Europe) often have a preference for "working to live", not "living to work", so these days a healthy work/life balance is a very important factor when hiring someone (or when looking for a job). Of course that also changes with age, younger people tend to WANT to work more so they can learn more and get better at what they do. There simply is no best country, it is always a personal decision that is based on each person't preferences. I envy Americans for their low prices for cars and electronics. But at the same time I wouldn't want to live and work in the US. And that is my very own personal preference and it's perfectly fine for literally every single person on the planet to have their own values and preferences.
Ich bin Deutscher, unsere Geschichte ist nicht nur Nazi, unsere Geschichte geht vieeel weiter zurück z. B. Kelten, Germanen Varusschlacht, wir beeinflußten Sprachen z. B. Vikinger, es ist viel mehr um Deutschlands Menschen... Ich bin stolzer Deutscher... ❤
If I leaf home for a afternoon riding my motorcycle I sometimes end up riding in four different countries and need to speak at least three different languages.
It is in no doubt that the US is more aggressive in the work place when it comes to working hard and focusing on work but it is still the same in Europe, in the UK for instance within corporate environments(speaking from experience), that the competitiveness you talk of is still very much there, obviously more laid back but it doesnt mean it is gone but I would say for someone like yourself who is competitive in the workplace and has the US worker mindset, one could easily argue you would do very well in the European work environment due to that very drive. Good luck to you if you ever do decide to move!
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I moved to LA from Prague (big mistake). My 4th year in USA and I am ready to go back. It’s not a good life. Like today, worked 12 hours plus 2hrs drive home. This happens a lot. If I take vacation company gives me a guilt trip. Limited sick days. NO time for myself, friends, hobbies, travel. JUST work. Company OWNS you. You are your job, that’s your identity. People are shallow and only care about your status (where you live what car you drive etc..) No empathy plenty of individualism. Overconsumerism. Rat race. Hustling. Health insurance so complicated I feel like I need university degree to understand it. HMO PPO inside/outside net, different insurance for vision, dental and general health. Bad work/life balance leading to mental issues. Many ppl in LA are on antidepressants. Crazy homelessness. Zero architecture (cardboard buildings). Every city looks the same it’s all corporate chains. Made some $$$$ but that’s all. It’s not perfect in Europe but life is sooo much simpler and happy there❤️
Love Prague. Only been the once though. Me and the wife spent 5 days there as part of our honeymoon 9 years ago.
@@frankdux5693 Hi I am glad you amd you dear one liked it! I took the beauty and cool vibe of it for granted, but the more I travel the more I appreciate it and I realize it’s kind of special. ❤️
@@dudoklasovity2093 we're planning to go back soon for a little break. We've been looking to take the kids somewhere over Christmas. We've been looking at Iceland or Switzerland. Then maybe Prague around Easter time. I like showing the kids different cities and cultures and stuff. It's good for them. They'll like Prague. When we were there last we did a river cruise, bus ride to the zoo. We walked over the bridge and up to the castle. They'll love all that. We just tend to do 3 nights in a city cos you can see a lot and then get yourself on the way home before they start getting bored. You know what kids are like. They only enjoy somewhere so long without water parks and beaches before they start getting tetchy.
Wow 😮 I honestly don’t know how you can bear living in LA with all that going on? Life in the UK isn’t perfect but that sounds just awful to me. The only thing LA seems to have going for it is the weather & I expect there are lots of friendly people but that work life balance is madness.
Thers a BIG difference between having culture ( Coke and MC Donalds) and BEING cultured... cultured is used more as a reference to knowledge of the world, a broad general knowledge, the fine things in life, reading classics, watching classics listening to classics, widening your eyes to other countries, accepting other cultures, traveling, all the stuff that brings knowledge on a broader scale about the world ...
A well rounded education. Instead of cram schools for a piece of paper. " but it's important,it's an 'ology' ". I remember that funny old advert of gran to failing student..
I have been in 92 countries and seeing the US as cultured because it has commercial for-profit specialties such as movies or corporate media undermines the whole concept of culture. Americans are almost the least cultured because they have no access to great art, museums, classical music ,opera, ballet, drama, etc so they grow up in sterile commercializes conformity. Americans know so little about the world that is true. I have never seen a commerical broadcast news item that was not either false or at least intentionally misleading.. The political system in the US is the most corrupt I have seen anywhere. No other country would allow or even require that office seekers or holders accept millions of dollars of bribe payments(lobbying) from corporations or wealthy people with an agenda as a requirement to be elected. Once in office they spent 60% of their time seeking money for the next election from the people who put them there and furthering the agenda of those donors. The legislature allows corporations overrule the citizens and to actually write the legislation that the politician never reads or understands. That would be illegal in any sane country. That complete bypassing of the masses is why we have has more wars than any country in history, against countries that did nothing to the US. The US has murdered 25,000,000 people since 1950 and not one of those people did anything to the US. Of the 273 wars, the only one in self defense was 1812 when England invaded and burned the capitol. All the others were for control or profit.
Americans keep repeating they are the richest in the world when the average American is the poorest in the world is the result of poor education and media propaganda tied to political agendas. A poor person in a war torn country, where the US has created the conflict, might have nothing but they are less poor than the poor or middle class in the US. Give $1 to the poor foreigner and they had nothing before but now have a net worth of $1. Give an American $10,000 and they are still $250,000 in debt and that only gets worse by the month. The economy, due to the corruption of congress and whitehouse, has become financialized so nothing is owned but on subscription where the average family has over 100 separate bills that never reduce the debt. For example to get internet and TV in California my sister pays $240 a month for Comcast with low throtled internet and just propaganda programming. $1000 a month for utilities is common, There are 3-7 layers of taxes such as federal, state, country city, home owners association, and special assessments. The last time I was in the US my sister was fined $1000 for having a burned out exterior light bulb by a homeowners a new city agency. Her small community was just part of a country the prior visit but in the a few years since visiting the US the small community incorporated as a city of 12,000 population and taxes exploded, but also new agencies were developed to steal more money. The home we both own, is a duplex and since the other side was rented out, it required an inspection every 6 months for $800 to make sure it was legally inhabitable. The rented it to a women who stopped paying rent after 4 months because she lost her job, There was no legal way to evict the women. I visited and found a light fixture with no bulb in a 3 socket fixture that lit of a narrow walkway to the back yard. two bulbs were in place and let up the narrow walkway. The center fixture never had a bulb in it because the two others fully lit the area. I did not know the history of it and screwed in a 3rd bulb. The next day was the 6 month inspection by the new city. She paid the $800 and two days later while driving by an inspector noticed the center bulb was gone and wrote up a violation notice and fined her $1000 for not having the bulb in place. That was just one example of the nonsense since that bulb lit up my sisters walk way, not the renters. She was fined $300 for not parking her second car inside the garage overnight one time.
From various pensions she has a retirement income of $3500 a month and owns her two cars outright and the duplex is free of debt(I bought it when I moved out of the US 23 years ago.) But she still can hardly cover basic expenses. She lives a very limited life, there is no access to culture in her region, the capital city of California, no plays, no symphonies, no decent museums, no safe parks, now filled with homeless, crime is exploding. So she is poorer than a bagger in rural India.
Quality of life in the US is poorer than in Europe, Russia, China, South America, most of the middle east. None of those places have homeless and $200,000 college debt or million dollar low quality health care. I live in a country Americans hate due to incredible propaganda but where Americans who visited once are moving to every week. I gave away all my assets in the US 23 years ago that included several successful businesses, to the employees, houses car collections, an airplane and put my money into a family trust that I have no access to. I left for a better true quality of life with only two suitcases and $6000 and live a great life in the city center of the most cultured city on earth, where cost of living is very low, food quality is better, is safe for a woman alone to walk through any neighborhood alone, at 3am, have a choice of 5 different ballet theaters every night, 12 opera houses, 54 classical music halls, 13000 4 or 5 star rated restaurants that are cheaper than fast food in the US, dozens of jazz clubs, 600 clean well maintained parks open 24/7, safe streets, police no one needs to fear, 265 drama theaters, 289 world class leading museums and more.I never bothered getting a car because the public transport is so good, convenient and, cheap, and a society were the 182 culture all get along. Free quality medical care, long paid vacations(minimum 58 days of work day off so adding the 2 nonwork days, worker get 2.2 full months of vacation, and up to 3 yr paid family leave that can start in the 3rd month of pregnancy. The new family get a grant to buy a larger home., having a second child results in a grant equal to total cost of living for the family for 2 years. Almost everyone over 20 has a university degree and very wide ranging knowledge, not just their specialty. Free of college debt. Most people over 20 own their home free of debt. So people get along because the people know a lot about the world, and cultures, the arts, languages etc. There i no cancel culture, no homeless, and the elections are wide open so there are many parties, 40 main parties and in the prior federal election 67 candidates ran for president all public financed, so it cost the candidate nothing to run, all got equal free media time and participated in national debates. All that with very low taxes, The national resources are owned by the people who income from resources pays for the health care system, university, public transport, etc.
If a citizen or immigrant wants to develop a farm or some other use of rural land, they get it free if they develop it in some way in the first 5 years.
The low stress life with unlimited access to culture and free for young and students, the results are improving quality of life every year. No one who is honest can claim the US improves at all. It middle class has been essentially wiped out in the US since its peak in the early 1970s while 80 individuals in the US has more wealth than the bottom 250,000.000 Americans. The most intense propaganda machine in history is keeping Americans ignorant of the world or their own plight.
More Americans leave the US than legal immigrants enter, every years since 2008. And now they have convinced the people to demand world war. The relentless drum beat for war on China and Russia will mean the end of the US. China has done nothing to the US except produce the products that Americans depend on, at reasonable prices. The China Threat is the drum beat every day in all press. But no one explains why China is a threat to anyone. They are not an aggressor state and far more of the world population are favoring China over the US. No one who has visited China believes any of the US propaganda, nor to the 70% of world population believe the intense every minute nonsense propaganda about Russia. There is a very good reason the US is known as the Empire of Lies.
Europe is crashing due to US proxy war on Russia and coming war on China.
This!
I liked that he stresses how important it is to learn the language, I totally agree.
Key. Language, mentality, culture
Something needs to be corrected regarding work: Taking the time to eat and taking a vacation means working more intensely and efficiently during the time devoted to it. That doesn't mean being lazy.
In addition, there are many innovative companies in Europe. The difference with the US, and what makes it possible to create many more large companies in US, is the legislation which tolerates a lot of unacceptable behavior in Europe. An entrepreneur like E.Musk would spend his life in court because of the labor code in Europe.
Elon Musk is certainly an extreme case, but there has to be a reason that 95% of tech companies stem from the US. Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Google, ... don't treat their employees horribly and yet it was all invented overseas. Coincidence?
I don't know about the rest of Europe, but another aspect of work life, at least in Norway, is that the employee has more responsibility, and can therefore ensure that the job is done more efficiently than in other parts of the world, where the employees not daring to do anything but what they have been told. As far as I know, the latter also applies to the United States.
I lived less than 15 minutes from my office. Had lunch at my desk before the clock hit 12, while still working (guilty) and then drove home, put on my hiking boots and went for a walk in the woods behind my house with my dog and we both had a great time, specially during winter. It was very relaxing having that enjoyable break in the middle of the day.
There is no question. Europe offers more. More history, more diversity, more human-friendly infrastructure, more social safety nets.
Except wearing pyjamas in public without people looking at you funny 😀
Sorry, but the whole planet has the same amount of history. It all depends on where your interests lie. A scientist can be happy most anywhere.
@@CabinFever52 That´s nonsense!
@@CabinFever52 Sorry no, different places have different amounts of history. New Zealand has less history than Spain. That's just fact.
And Europe has more history than the US. What do you see of the history before Europeans landed? Not that much. Can you experience old Native American buildings and culture? Not really, outside very limited exceptions.
@@Fragenzeichenplatte , you obviously have a very limited worldview and perspective on the big picture.
As I said in another reaction video. For over 50 year's the US has had the best public relations or propaganda (as one corrected me). But in the age of information, aka the Internet, the image of the US deteriorated quite fast over the last years!
yeah its like russia. when they cant control what the world and their own population get to see and the ugly truth shows its face.
The political mess didn't help the appalled spectators find it an appealing destination.
Yes, you’re right. Familiarity breeds contempt.
I am an American and I have also made Germany 🇩🇪 my home 🏡! I always say to the German people who ask 😂why would I want to live here that it's a better way of life. The German people may think that the USA is better for what ever reason. I can only say to go and live there. It is not all of what you see on TV. I've loved it since I was here in the military. After going home after the military my life dream was to return for the rest of my life. Finally after 28yrs I have no wish to even vacation in the US.
@koschmx Maybe its just the people you know, I can't say. What part of Germany are you 🤔 and where are you from in the United States 🇺🇸?
@koschmx I'm sorry for your loss and at the hands of stupidity at that! I'm from Connecticut and live now in Heppenheim. I was in Augsburg for my last tour and when was in ARMY. Beautiful place. Maybe someday we'll have pleasure meeting. 🙏 Peace ✌️
@@koschmx I can't say I did. I was last there back in 1984.. I don't even know if existed back then. I'm hoping to come back to Augsburg someday just to see the changes and send reminisce a little bit.
Im from Germany and so many people dream to Live in the us and want the Greencard, but Here ja the Point the Most people never ever where in the us before and Just know it from movies.
I was in the use and Worked there for an half a year and it was a nice time but i couldnt live there it all, i dont Just Work and Work, i dont Like that everybody asks Just about your Job and its all about Money.
It was an interesting time but Germany is my Home to
The German WHO move to American think they get a better Life with a Higher salaray or the know it from the movies, but the Most came Back after the noticed that the Gras ist Not greener oversea
The argument that the USA is a young state and is therefore not comparable to Europe. But in the USA there are people who inhabited the American continent long before the Europeans came. But their culture is not taken into account in the USA, it only takes place on the sidelines.
Exactly this. There could be a rich culture from a long-lasting tradition*. But european colonialism, accompanied by racism and christian missionary, destroyed these strings to the "own" history. Cultural appropriation is another side of the medal, another big problem we must be aware of while discussing these topics.
* which exists, but only in the reality of a few people, not in the collective memory of the society
@@teetotalitarist8369 yes, christian missionary has done a very great harm!
@@nordwestpassageStill today
Yes, very true! Its the usual way of seeing this: when Americans see the European old culture, they always (almost always) say that they are such a young nation so they dont have a culture that goes back 1000 or so years. The fact that people have been living in North America for 15000 is usually not even taken in concideration.
Divercity is not a culture, divercity is situation when cultures merge and as they merge they lose they uniquness and become bland. 200 years is enought time to establish traditions and base culture. But it is lacking in USA. USA dont have they own cuisine, they have whatever immigrants have brought there. And without culture you dont have roots and without roots you have no future as people or person you are always exapendable.
What I love about Europe is being able to travel to other countries and get to know different people , cultures, languages, etc.
Join in with full scale wars
@@jjsmallpiece9234NATO is strong again. Pootin has to be contained. Not really Europe's fault now, is it?
That´s how I see it too. Putin is a war criminal who attacked the innocent Ukraine. Europe can`t do anything about that and the NATO alliance is strong.@@JisforJenius
Of course how else would the USA and Israeli defence industries maintain their monopoly over western defence policy@@jjsmallpiece9234
I would not live in the US if somebody paid me.
When did Halloween become an American culture ?
It has been part of the culture of Celtic peoples for centuries, particularly Ireland and Scotland.
I know, irish emigrants brought halloween to the US.
I reckon, i happened during the Exodus of the great famine in the 1850s
Halloween is a business in the US. Nothing else.
that good answer, if so Australia was built on Irish and English prisoners and yet Australia does not celebrate Halloween as they do in UK and USA. Yet again Australia has best ever coffee and that because of Italians and Greeks coming here. Yet they also went to USA and they got Starbucks.
It started in Ireland I think.
Its as far as I know a Christian Tradition because its All Hallows Eve which is the night before All Saints Day.
I find it astonishing that Europe is always called the old world and the USA the new world. After all, conlicts are solved in the USA in the same way as it was done in Europe 500 years ago. By force.
One reading of US history: So many groups you hear of migrating to the current US were so annoying not even the Dutch could tolerate them, so they let them bugger off so far away they'd never have to deal with them again. Fast forward a couple of centuries, they had no mitigating influences in their society and now we have to deal with the results.
I really hope we learn not tro repeat this error in colonizing space.
Europeans began colonizing the American continent the 500 years ago you mention. So they are in about 2 to 5 thousands years older. And of course humankind allways solved problems with wars
The emigrants from Europe moved to the New World with ideals and left the old world with its societies dominated by nobility and clergy. Of course, they had the old world in their luggage through their socialisation and most had to go into heavy debt to finance the crossing and as soon as they arrived in America they found themselves in new dependencies on their new masters, which for some were harder than what they had left.
They had to open up the continent for their new masters, deal with the indigenous people and pay off debts at the same time.
Perhaps an interesting fact, the large landowners in the south of what is now the USA, which were part of the southern states during the Civil War, did not originally use slaves as labourers, but employed white and black labourers who were lured into the promised land with the usual debt for the passage and they had to work off their debts on their fields on an equal basis. In reality, this was not so different in status from later slavery. It was only when the supply of labour from Europe dried up, because at some point word got out about the real price of the passage, that these entrepreneurs fell for the slave traders' offer.
U.S.A. is not a continent. It is one of 23 countries in the continent of North America. I know the U.S.A. is known to be weak in geography skills, but ... really? 🤔🙄😂
I mean, I'd love to have you here with us.❤ (in Germany)
Just imagine eating a Döner while running. As if it wasn’t messy enough already 🤣
I live in Canada, a country as distant to Europe as the US is, and we get a lot of news out of Europe. We are also an immigrant-rich nation so it makes sense to have news from around the world always.
Trudeau hasn’t cut you off yet then!
A celebrity from Germany said on a talk show that whenever he is in Canada, he feels very comfortable because the people are so wonderful.
im german and have been in vancouver, i would directly move to vancouver if i could
I guess ?? it's because of the different historic background in founding the state. Whereas the US is historically speaking the one "against Europe" like we don't want to do it like them, we are independant, Canada was a British colony for so long that, I think, they just brought with them a lot of "culture" as in the way of living in modern Europe up until the 1900th century that the differences are not that big. If anything I think the general spirit there (just the perception of the media, I've (not yet) been to Canada) is very European-like but with more resilience (nature is so HUGE in comparison), adventure spirit (I mean, in the settlement years, who wanted to leave very well established Europe?)...and influence by the neighbouring country?
16:30 That's true. When I worked in a big company in Munich I had to write down the time I came and I left into an Excel sheet every day, and it calculated the time. The last day every month I had to print it and gave it to my team supervisor. One day I had collected 40 hours more than I had to work (35 hours a week). And she said: "You need to take two days off or I will go to jail". Now THAT'S what I call work-life-balance!
Hi! How's it going? It's about about how You feel. Myself,. Born in Winston -Salem, N.C. in the mid 60's. Ended up at 18 in1984 in France.6 years later I left there in 1990 for Germany. Went back to the U.S. After having lived in Germany for 16 years. After being in Pa. for a year. I got home sick,. for Germany. For many reasons. I've been back in Germany since 2020. When I left the States the first time I had a 1/2 Typical American Headset. After being abroad, learning more, growing up and having lived like I had, I saw things alot differently. Going back proved it. 95% of the People I knew could not rap their minds around how,.. I wasn't Rep or Dem and spoke out about the bads of both. How, I could be Social but on the Right. These are just examples.Those things matter here a lot less here It's more about where you are at the center, the person. You don't have to agree to get along. The Cancel Culture doesn't go well here either.
@brien656: These are the comments I like the most. With years of experience in different countries, seeing both sides, not exaggerating. Thanks for sharing.
I´m German. I don´t think Germany is the best country. But it´s good enough for me not to move. I like the nature, the safety, the natural food, the seasons and I like the people. I like when a city organizes a day of nations, where every culture can show it´s art and food on the street.
You're so young. You have nothing to lose. Living in Europe, no matter how long it is, will teach you so much. Afterwards you see the world with different eyes. Do it….
But he is going to arrive a decade too late. Europe is declining dramatically due to US policy. Paris for example is not safe any more, million of immigrants created by US wars have transformed Europe into a crashing region.
You had a teacher from Catalonia? As a fellow Catalan, I'm glad to hear that. I hope they were a good teacher. :P
The best country is the one that lets you enjoy your life and to enjoy it you must fully live it, witch you can't do
if your working all the time
I think you already know the answer to your question, Joel. It's such a great pity that the option to move around the EU no longer includes the UK, given that you feel so much at home here, but there's a whole plethora of North European cities that - coupled with the generous holiday allowances your employment is likely to attract, will put you in effective weekend commuting distance! There are very affordable flight deals to be found, both to London and many UK regional airports as well as those of other European destinations - and you'd still have the bulk of your annual leave to use for a couple of yearly trips back to the US to see your folks, if that's what you wanted to do. Add to that all your other human and employment rights and most likely, not having to take out expensive health insurance for the most part and well....! If you don't have them already, take up some online course in German or French, maybe brush up on your Spanish and remember, there's always the English-speaking Irish Republic in the EU as well! You'll be an asset, for sure!
Why shouldn't you be able to move to UK? Norway is not part of EU, but there are lots os immigrants from EU in the country. I'm sure you can move to UK as well, but you probably have to want it so much that you have to take the time to ask for permission.
TBH - I think you are commenting from the UK perspective. As long as Joel has a valid US Passport (with a good length of time before expiry - many countries require a minimum of six months still to run) and a valid UK Tourist Visa (only needed for staying LONGER than 6 months in the UK), he should be able to travel around Europe quite easily. Also, if using the UK as a 'base', he can visit places like the Channel Islands, Gibraltar and obviously the Isle of Man or the Republic of Ireland with no restrictions. This is from a long stay tourist perspective ONLY. I don't know about working/employment rules for Americans etc. Except for that really horrible 'tax payment situation' that applies to all US citizens..!
@@ahkkariq7406👍
No NHS in the Republic of Ireland. Major drawback.
@@stewedfishproductions7959 getting visas is an extremely expensive thing to do.
whether it s better or not it s prbably pretty sinjective. Different is very objective. You need to experience GERMANY again but living there as a resident. BERLIN sounds about right. Don t over think it. You know you want to try it!! Alles gut~
IF I could I would move to the UK in a heart beat. Life is lived a bit slower in the UK. The people are more polite as a rule. The outright level of violence in the USA is dramatically worse. Gun laws are so much better in the UK. I am of a mind that personal freedom is respected, and enjoyed by both the USA, and the UK, but the gun lobby has created a much more of a culture of violence in the USA in the name of freedom, but secretly is only about the sales of guns. The fact about daily shopping for fruits, and vegetables is a thing as well. Coffee culture is another example of the differences, in the USA it is more centered around large containers, and the amount of caffeine to keep you going, that has something to do with that faster speed of life in the USA because we are more concerned with productivity rather than quality in the USA. The UK, and most of Europe centers around flavor, and relaxation, and not so much the productivity boost provided by caffeine. The biggest negative in a way for me is the cultural aspect surrounding smoking in the UK, vs the USA. Smoking is still considered much more acceptable in the UK than in the USA. I, myself, do not appreciate smoking as much as I did in my youth, cause it was a habit that lent itself to a much lower physical health for me over the years, and I just choose to not use it any longer, and I am kinda glad that I haven't in more than 20 years now. Music, and art culture as a rule are prevalent in both the UK, and the USA it is just spread in much different ways. It is much more of a local thing in the UK, and it has much more ingrained, and prevalent feel. In the USA it feels that you have to actively seek cultural art, and the arts in general whereas in the UK it is almost everywhere, and the fact that Europe is a much smaller place may have something to do with that. I also enjoy the "pub" culture of the UK which is definitely different in the UK, vs the USA. Going to a "bar" is NOT the same as going to the "pub" in the UK...both are social, but the UK feels much more down to Earth, relax, and enjoy each other than the USA which is centered more around excitement, and having as much fun as possible, packed into as little time as possible so to be able to get back to work. And frankly there a big "clubs" for the excitement, fun, etc in both the UK, and the USA...so there is that. Well, I have wrote a big enough book as it is. But on the whole I think I would enjoy living in the UK much more than in the USA where I was born. The atmosphere, the outright cost of daily living, the humor, the outlook on life just seems to suit me better, not the least of these reasons is that lgbt people are treated as a rule much better in the UK than the USA...there are actual LAWS that make it illegal to mistreat them in the UK than in the USA, and rights for this group, that yes I am a member of this group, are going down, not up in the USA and likely to be this way until the atmosphere in the USA changes again which is primarily (no pun intended) on politics in the USA which is way to far right leaning for my tastes at the moment, especially in the state I am forced to live in due to health and monetary reasons. I happen to be part of the aging and disabled community that the far right seems to look upon only slightly better than they do lgbt people, but I happen to be a part of both communities which makes me DOUBLY worse off due to circumstances.
Brian
European (French) here : i just want to tell you : "try it! try UK!"
May be more easier for the language and as it's said in the video, go to visit other countries in Europe.
Go for it Brian, when I was younger I thought about moving to America but the gun culture is so scary, we also have the NHS not brilliant but nobody has to get into debt for your medical care. You can be in Paris in an hour Athens in three hours. Britain is not the best country because every country has something different to offer but I do love living here. ❤🏴🏴🇬🇧
Hi Brian, life is short, get on over here! ❤
@@bonbahouei totally agree, I think the U.K. is a good base to start, you can be in Paris in an hour. 🏴🇬🇧
German here. I agree with the others. Come over, it doesn´t matter which country ypu start. Indeed you are free to move form one country to the other wihtin hours. So you can´t choose the "wrong" country. For sure you may also try other continents. Traveling means learning, becoming open minded, becoming tolerant against other people, find out how you want to live your life.
I like your videos, but you should put a link to the original video in here. This video was really very well made and having lived in both the US and germany, i could relate to most he said. I lived in Detroit and California. If i went to a grocery store, i could not tell a difference in what end of this huge country i was shopping in. Where i live now, i can drive 30 min to France and everything looks, feels and is different. Except for everybodys understanding of this "neighborhood". Hell, i even work with guys who live in France and commute everyday. Some of them are home before me...
Any place can feel like hell if you’re a marginalised person dealing with micro aggressions or simply existing.
Exactly, marginalized groups exist everywhere, but where they exist in a culture is mainly dependent on how those groups are looked upon by that countries biases, and cultural differences as well.
One cannot answer this objectively because we naturally know, understand and accept (rightly or wrongly) how we live in our own countries and what is ‘better’ for one person is not necessarily ‘better’ for another. In common with so many of these ‘good, better, best’ - style videos, they can be informative but in the end it comes down to personal experience and personal opinion. And as the British comedian Jack Whitehall remarked ‘opinions are a little bit like farts: best to hold them in because no one’s going to appreciate them as much as you!’ 😂
You forgot personal preferences and personal tastes.
having health care, education and not having to be affraid, coz any lunatic can shoot you, are objetively better, there isnt person that would say its subjective or preferable for some
You’re right, I did.
Sure
Exactly. Every country is the best, for a particular person. It depends on what you are looking for. For some people the US will be the best in what it offers. For others, it's will be Germany, or France, or Canada, or... You have to determine what you want, and what you like and can get out of a place, to determine what is the best place for you.
What you view as a best country tells alot about what you value. I'm from Finland so I value greatly our free education, free healtcare, equality and work enviromen (have your breaks and vacations). If you value popculture, military power, capitalism then sure, Usa is the greatest.
If you have the opportunity then why not give it a try, if it doesn't work out you can always move on or even return to the US. You have a revenue stream that will work in any country so you wont starve. If anything a move abroad gives you even more opportunity to expand your channel. Your young, single?, no children to worry about, it doesn't have to be a forever thing. Life may not be better but it will be different.
I think the biggest difference between the work cultures are the approaches on the employer-employee relationship. In the US, I get the feeling that you always feel replaceable. You have quick, short times of education on your jobs, but you can also switch jobs very quickly. That makes both sides feel quite... expendable, I think.
In Europe (particularly in Germany, I don't know as much about other countries' attitude on this), for example for a vocational trade job like baker, nurse, plumber, retail worker, barber or car mechanic, you have to undergo three years of in-job training - three days per week at the job, two at school, or something like that. Three years that you get paid! Within these three years, you build a relationship with your employer, and he puts a lot of money into you as his apprentice. So, the employer is much more inclined to give you a job afterwards - he knows you, your quirks, your talents, your reliability, your workflow, and how you work with your colleagues. And you know him, how the workflows within the team is, how reliable he is as an employer etc. This is the foundation for a long-term relationship.
Combine that with strict laws about worker's rights (and duties), where either side can't just say "Oh, (I) just don't come in again from next Monday", everything is set up for stability. That's what we value, too - stability, reliability, predictability. "Order". Almost everybody here will value a perpetual contract with a little less money much higher than a short-term contract with more cash.
Another major difference is US higher education is incredibly narrow so it not producing educated people which broad enough range of knowledge to make good choices or be able to identify the intense propaganda that the US media/government produces. I am sure most of what Americans believe of the world is fully nonsense. An engineer or doctor may have an education but they usually know nothing that is required to make good decisions. No doctor trained anywhere else in the world is so devoid of knowledge of the general state of human condition.
Americans have a very narrow view of quality of life, to them it how many things one has, almost all on credit. I return to the US where I was born every 3-5 years for 1-2 weeks and see nothing improve but quality of life for the masses declining dramatically between each visit. They point to their income as reason to feel superior to the world but they own and know nothing. The cost of living in the US is the highest in the world because everything is on subscription or credit that outlast what they bought. In most communities there are few if any authentic restaurants, no museums, few if any parks, no art galleries, no drama theaters, few safe well maintained parks, no access to high culture...none. The last time I was in NYC my GF, who never was in the US before, but filled with the the imaginary version of rich USA, saw an ad for an opera she likes. She assumed it was something for people or was common around the country because everyone says the US is so rich. The only opera in the country that night was at the MET in NYC where we were. Checking the prices, for two seats in lesser quality location in a theater of moderately bad acoustics mediocre orchestra cost $1600!!!!. With in walking distance we have any night of the week better performances, sets, sound and cast for $20, from half dozen theaters, all of them architectural wonders of the 18th and 19th centuries, literally palaces of the arts.
She was shocked at the lack of access to culture. Or the healthcare costing more and any 10 countries combined with moderate to poor outcomes. Looking around she was shocked by how poorly everyone dressed and how trashy young women looked with like they were from the hood, and fat everywhere. Any American living outside the US and returning for a visit is shocked how bad people look, fat, trashy and no manners. How many Americans have access to great museums? 5% maybe but a study was done a few year ago determined the median distance an American would need to travel to see a good museum was 834 miles. Most cities have no safe parks. Heck, poor region of large cities do not even have grocery stores. Yet Americans are told daily they are the richest and freest people on earth but it has one of the lowest rates of home ownership, lowest savings rates in the world with a net worth lower than many poor countries. At one time, a family built or bought a home that was paid off in 15-20 years that became generational wealth the boosted the quality of life of following generation but now with everything on long term credit, families own outright almost nothing to pass on. Where I live most people over 20 own their home free of debt, they all have college degrees and no college debt. They have no medical bill. They have long paid family leave so having a baby actually increases the net worth of a young family because the government no only covers all costs, and had paid family leave, but also gives the couple a grant to buy a larger home. If they have a second child, they get a cash grant enough to cover living expenses for the entire family for 2 years. If they want to build a home, or start a farm or whatever, they can find a plot of land that is not already used and if the develop it within 5 year it is deeded to them...and that even applies to foreigner.
The US is the least safe developed country, crime is very high and rising. Every US city has whole regions that are considered No-Go zones, too dangerous to wander into. I live in a city of 7 million where a woman can walk through any neighborhood or any of the 600 well maintained beautiful park, alone, and be perfectly safe...at 3am. Children can go anywhere in the city by themselves on public transportation and visit and hundred of world class museums, galleries, or concert halls free. The average 10 year old has seen dozens of top flight opera, ballet or symphonic halls There are more top class museums than all the US and Canada combined here in this one city and it is not the largest. A small minority of American have ever been outside the US so they believe the intense propaganda that is piped into every home. One visit to China or Russia and seeing the extreme difference between what thy were told daily by press, media and government, and even Americans are shocked that they have been lied to every day of their lives, nothing they are told is true.
That was an especially good video, intelligent and thoughtful. He is right about American culture. You are a young country but already have major achievements in cinema (of course), literature, art and music, nothing to be ashamed of at all. We would love to have you as a European, JPS, but which sort of European. Give yourself time, and remember you have yet to check out the richness of the far East, the Puritanism of Arabia, the laid-backness of the Antipodes or the passion of Latin America etc, etc. Enjoy the journey. I would have depressingly to add that since climate change is likely to overtake us all very, very soon, please make the most of every precious moment
Halloween is scottish, and Scotland celebrates it differently to the rest of the U.K.
Better... that is debatable... but a healthier and safer life, for sure!
to be honest, that "anything goes" day at school exists here. every year the graduates of the gymnasium (germany has three tiers of high school, and this is the longest and considered "highest") will do a motto week, where every day of the week they will dress up as a different theme, like anime, pirates, medieval times, etc. its usually more creative than those examples though. im not sure if thats leading up to receiving their grades or whether it was while they write the exams, but its kind of insane and fun for the whole school, cause theyll make a mess of the place. its all planned and presented to the school beforehand so no serious accidents happen, and theyll do things like straight up block the entrances to the school with bales of hay, turn the parking lot signs around, build weird structures with the chairs and tables in the classrooms, and also generally interrupt the normal lessons at every turn.
20:50 - Hi Jps. You wish there was a place between USA and Europe, an island, perhaps. I think that place is YOU. I think that's what the video was saying. Nathaniel physically moved to Europe and, through immersion and observations over time, discovered more about his own personality. He is a metaphoric 'island' between US and Europe, with a wider, more diverse perception of the world he inhabits.
Until that day you physically move to another land permanently, continue preparing your 'mental' SELF to becoming that 'island' between lands', oontinue maintaining your interests in other lands.
I’ve been retired for quite a few years now, when my job was in print finishing. I worked 3x12 hour days, 1 day off, 3x12 nights, 1 week off, start back on reverse shift, 3x12 nights and so forth. I still had 3 weeks annual leave so, would booked a week off that actually gave you 3 weeks because of the shift pattern. This shift pattern although was 12 hours a day yet was only 36 in a week, actually worked less than 26 weeks a year by including bank holidays.
6:10 Joel is a worldly American.
Excellent video.I literally agreed with this guy on every single word he ushered.
A thing the US seems to be losing is closely knit communities: walking through the neighborhood, meeting neighbors, knowing shopowners. Experienced that in the US in the 60ies, we still have that in Europe.
Sorry for translation :-) If you decide to go to Europe, DO NOT make the mistake of going to a big city. Look for a smaller town, etc. a little outside of the city. Because only there will you find life in the country. Large cities do not reflect what this country or region is all about. Try to get to know the people there and experience life there. You don't experience the festivals and culture like that in big cities. Familiarize yourself with the regions of the country you choose. There are a lot of different ones, even within each country. This is the only way a project like this makes sense and gives you what you are looking for!! 🙂
Culture is defined as values and knowledge passed from one generation to the next…so we all have culture…
Joel, perhaps get a 6 month work
visa, and see how things go. You're open minded and have made a big effort to find out about other countries/ cultures.
Glad to hear you're considering a move to Europe. I don't think the States is a very healthy place to live these days, and it looks like it's only going in the wrong direction. Yes, more than other countries the States offers the opportunity to "succeed" - but maximal achievement in career or monetary terms, really isn't the be all and end all of our lives.
For me at least, life is much more about whether we have the opportunity to simply enjoy the minutiae of our everyday existence. My objectives were to get a modest, comfortable home in a pleasant environment, not have to worry about paying the bills, and a bit left over for self-indulgence - and that's about it. It's just my opinion, but I view the rest as BS. I've achieved the relatively little that I want, and now life is pretty relaxed and enjoyable. My motto is, quality, not quantity. As an old man, I'm acutely aware that our lives are finite.
those feelings of competition, as with all feelings.
You don't fight those feelings, just feel them and become aware of them.
that way they will lose their grip over you.
You have to come to the Netherlands too, you like it very much.
Back in the 1970s I helped audit many businesses. If we found an “irregularity” (i.e. an employee was on the fiddle), we were trained to suspect anyone who always seemed to be at work, whatever the time of day or night, never seemed to be off sick, and who didn't take all their holiday entitlement. Usually, the reason was that if they were absent, somebody else would have to do their job while they were away, so were likely to discover the “irregularity”. The other main cause of suspicion would be if a person was always apparently too busy to talk to you, or anybody else.
Hey man. Interesting video, I liked the nuance you brought with your own opinions as well. One thing I would like to touch on is that a lot of the points that were brought up focused on cultural attitudes and their effect on individuals. That's a perspective that certainly brings out a lot of discussion, but I do think some of these differences might be better explained, or at least can only be fully understood when you also bring up the role of things like (poltical) institutions and material conditions ... aspects that transcend the individual and are more structural in their nature.
Have you thought about maybe studying in Europe? It always struck me as a nice way to combine a couple of potential life goals. It's a great way to travel and explore Europe, make friends, gain independence and figure out whether you'd really like living in a place while also very practically saving you student debt (I imagine) and gaining some nice (language) skills.
Halloween is not truely American sure the have a mordern version that is spread a lot but Europe has celebrated it under other names long before America was settled and I think many Europeans think of many of those thing as a kind of copy or warping of the traditions
i hope your dreams come true man. I see the twinkels in your eyes. I hope you find what you are looking for!
I'm a UK British citizen when I was a little kid I always wanted to move or live in the USA I've never had the chance to go there yet yet I have USA friend dotted around the place in different states which hopefully in the future I'll get to visit and meet them all but now I'm just happy that I'm living in the UK
The grass is always greener on the other side.
Australian government doesn't subsidies food, that's why it tends to be more expensive here.
Move to Europe: Simple answer YES.
Reasons why:
1. Your not treated as a slave in work
2. Expected to do 50+ hours
3.Affordable Health Care
4.Public Transportation - So having a car is not a necessity, it's a privilege. You can easily do everything without a car.
5. Multicultural
6. Other countries close.
7. No Guns.
8. No militarised Police to bully you.
9. Paid Vacation
10. Paid Maternity Leave.
11.More Holidays - Work Holidays
12.Less Violence.
13.Less Racism.
14.Smarter People - Educated people who are far less ignorant and naive and can answer basic questions. Compared the US Jesus.....
15.Less corruption
16.Government focus on society no all for profit capitalist approach.
17.No fear of being sacked for no reason.
18.Better City design
19.Better Urban design ie shops, parks, cinema, food outlets, clothes outlets, schools all within walking distance to everyone near enough.
20.No ELon Musk or Donald Trump fan boys or girls. People that dont listen and use their brain basically.
21.No adverts during shows.
22.Less Media BS.
23.No one judges you on your worth such as best car, job, income etc. Treated even and fair.
24. Know what socialism is.
25.Realise the lies from the USA about other countries.
26.Don't Start Wars or Lie for a reason to go to War. 'Unlike the US'.
27.Safer.
28.More History
29. Every type of landscape or surroundings you can imagine. Castles, moats, canals, edwardian buildings, victorian buildings, tudor buildings, ancient ruins, artifacts, miles of gorgeous lakes and countryside, mountains, landmarks. All there for you discover and it doesn't take long to get to them.
30.Better food - Healthier food.
31.Less obesity.
32.Less Homelessness.
33.Less Drug Epidemics
34. Less mind warping from a young age. Such as making the pledge (say that to a European and they think 'oh i know a guy who imposed that also ''Hitler'' yeh sounds fcked up now doesnt it? Media, Government.
35. Formula 1 (F1) ^^.
There's a few... XD
The grass is always greener as the saying goes.
8:34 The USA was founded in 1776, while Germany, for example, was founded in 1871. The US are simply a nation for 100 years longer, a very old nation compared to most countries in the world. So enough time to evolve nice traditions and stuff like that.
That is a really very short history of Germany. The nation state, which was founded 1871 was the "Second Reich" and there was a lot of Germany since long before, just organized in smaller entities under a long line of emperors. You could start with Tacitus' "Germania". And when you are of European anchestry, you have a good chance to find some German DNA in your blood.
@@augustiner3821 He talks about nations. And there was no "german" nation before 1871. The HRR and at least the territories before followed a different concept
@@philippprime6844 we're talking about culture and traditions and the path of developement.
Imho society does not "hit a standstill" at Sunday in Germany. Instead it does the first step into the new week. There is much going on Sundays - however mostly not in the commercial sector (except restaurants, theaters and so on). 🙃
Hi Joel , it's an interesting video (pierre)
Thé more important IS to respect the both sides. Each continent has his specific richess, History and strenth. No one IS better than another. I am french. I prefer to live in Europe. But i am open minded. Best wishes from France
What I love about europe is the fact that I can travel in 3 hours to Poland or in 3 hours to denmark and so on. I am a 24 years old student and I was already in 11 countries because its easy here.
The USA is basically 50 states, Europe 46 (47). When Joel drives from Maryland to Dallas or Chicago, he has in principle driven to another country. Even the same language does not change that.
@@Michael_from_EU_Germany Portugal has a completely different culture than Estonia. It is weird to say Dallas would be like Portugal and Chicago like Estonia.
hmm even though i think you moving country's is a great experience , i would highly suggest visiting the neighboring country's as well .
they always say the gras is greener on the other side, but you can pick the most greenest grass ahead of time so you don't need 2 look at greener grass , but experience it/
Why did he use a pre WW2 map of Europe. 🤔
Comment especially on the differences in work ethic: I think a lot of differences in modern American and European culture stem from the different approaches and thinkings in the age of Enlightenment and beginnings of the US as an actual nation (beginning with the declaration of independance and the war). The first North-American settlers came to the country before the declaration of Human Rights in France that hugely influenced European culture and living especially in the working environment. I think about slavery, worker unions, insurance...in Europe, alle this developed in the Aftermath of the universal acceptance of Human Rights and their significance for different aspects of life. In Germany, health insurance was already introduced in the 1880s by Bismarck and not because he was a huge fan of the people but because he was a great stategist and thought it would be beneficial for morale among industrial and manual labourers. The same goes for periods of paid leave in Germany that date back to the early 1900s. Historically, the USA is a nation where many Europeans came to because they didn't have a chance in Europe (because of different cultural problems) and they were brave enough (I mean land of the free and brave does exist for a reason) to travel to a whole new continent and had to make do with the things (wildlife, botanics, weather) they found and just work the whole time because there was just nothing, no town, infrastructure...so entrepreneur thinking and lifestyle (working around the clock, you have to do it by yourself) is way more engrained in the cultural memory
Life is better in Australia mate!
If I fuel up my car it can go about 600km with one tank.
I can go with this tank to Munich or Venice or Berlin or Cologne or Vienna or Zurich or Prague or Milano or... you name it.
Adding just 2 gallons it will even take me to Paris, Amsterdam or Hamburg.
What an interesting video! Gives new, international views!
You wouldn't eat while you're driving in Australia, you'd most likely get done for distracted driving.
And in UK. Smoking and phone use too
11:17 Did nobody notice that Nathaniel used an old map from before WW2 with old borders (Nazi-Germany, for example…)..?
Maybe he did that deliberately, accentuating the depth (and time span) of the cultural differences. There are many ways to illustrate that.
I've been following Nathaniel Drew for quite some time now. Excellent channel!
@@MYoung-mq2by, I know him, too, he is wonderful! But still we as Germans would only show this map for educational reasons, never for entertainment. It’s taboo, and I like that we are sensitive to that topic…
Even the first verse of the National Anthem is strictly forbidden, because it says that Germany is above all and describes the country in its old borders.
@@seldakaya0414 That's very interesting. I had no idea. Thanks for the insight.
It proves, I think, that people do not intentionally wish to hurt or insult. We, being human and not all-knowing, walk a tightrope when visiting or sharing experiences in different cultures.
Apparent intention and tone goes a long way in deciding to take something clumsy as a insult or not.
As someone who's lived in Germany for 27 years. You will always be " the foreigner" you need to have a strong personality and not scared of learning or anything else. X
If you are a millionaire or rly filthy rich, then stay in the US, ull be fine there.
If on the other hand you are in the middle class then yea Europe in general will give u a lot more value for your taxdollars than the US ever will.
You just cant compare the quality of life tbh..
Better in Australia mate
safety is what make it possible to live nice and relaxed in europe.
unlike:
in the US they have around 49000 gun related deaths a year. in 5½ years they kill same amount of their own as allied casualties in the vietnam war. and thats just gun related numbers.
+ In the United States, an estimated 460,000 children are reported missing every year.
working class is horribly underpaid and overworked.
there have been delegates sent to the states to report what they saw and some of the reports said" 3rd world conditions of absolute poverty.
your healthcare system is the most expensive and least effective in the industrialized world.
medicine is marked up 10x as a minimum.
seen meds that cost 8 usd here in europe cost 2000 usd in the states for the exact same brand and package.
your government is highly corrupt and favors big coorp and the rich instead of the people.
thats the result of allowing donation to the campaigns instead of having each party have a fixed amount to work with.
with a fixed amount a party would be elected for what they can do for the people and not by who is the most corrupt .
US need to realize it have to invest in its people. provide healthcare education and fair wages.
they spend way too much time and money fighting problems they caused on themself.
YOU NEED TO FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS PEOPLE. YOU ARE BASICALLY SLAVES FOR THE UPPER CLASS.
america have alot of things but Freedom is NOT one of them.
The old globe still with „Preussen“, someone didn’t do their history homework :D
YOu could totally do a working holiday visa in multiple countries.
Very interesting video and I will look ND up.
What came to my mind is, Canada is also a huge country and it’s not as homogeneous as the US. In fact you have differences in many states of the US. Look at the difference between say Alaska and Hawaï for instance. I know that’s two far apart places but an example nonetheless. Also west/east coast differences, middle America & North/South. But I do take his point on the overall structures & town layouts etc being pretty much the same throughout. The Us does have many remnants of British and French influences though, also Spanish & S.American influence. The US as it is today is relatively young, but remember it’s really ancient land that was there for millennia Before it was discovered or travelled into by Inuit, Aboriginals/Polynesians, Celts, Vikings/Norse, Portuguese, Spanish, British & French.
You have to try Joel it otherwise you’ll regret it, you can always go back if it doesn’t work out. I think going by your vlogs you’d really love Australia too I think their way of life would really suit you.
If i dont get atleast a 45 min louch i will be angry the hole day...not about eating much, is about not rushing things for no reason
When you are young, no matter which country you come from I would advise at least spending a couple of years living in a foreign country. I am originally from the UK and left there in 1974, hitch hiked accross Europe ending up in Berlin, where my money ran out and I found a job. Now I am still in Berlin in 2024, 50 years this year, retired and never regretted the move, I have now seen much of the world. I think if I had not left back in 1974 I would still be insular and have missed out on so much in life. If you get the opportunity TAKE IT AND OPEN YOUR WORLD.
Lunch here in Spain is between 2 and 3 hours . . . main meal
I also dont think there is a best country overall, but there can be a best country for you.
10:27 You should react to him talking to his grandmother and how he’s a polyglot.
His parents moved from the US to Portugal I think.
@@arnodobler1096They didn't feel home in Portugal, feel to far from their sons. Then they try to move near Paris but on the countryside. They finally bought an house an hour and half of Paris, with trains to Paris.
@@brigittelacour5055 thx 🙋♂️
Go for it Joel. Just think of life with barely any holidays. 😢😢. Unthinkable.
It’s becoming just as mental here lad. May as well stay there
You don’t need to live on an island by yourself, move to the U.K. nobody speaks to each other anyway 😂😅❤
That depends where you live in the UK. Some regions are more friendly to strangers (or each other) than others.
That was funny... I'm in London and just cleaning tea off the keyboard. 😅 😂
We have a lovely community here. It's still English with few outsiders spoiling things. However since the forced moving in of diverse city types, graffiti and vandalism has happened .
Joel, just a simple question about this seemingly common thing in the US - Pyjama Day. Most of my school friends didn't wear pyjamas. What are they to do on such days? 😂😳
Body Painting!
My dream, which I've accomplished, always was to live in the US and vacation in Europe. Both places have so much to offer that people should take advantage of.
I think that the UK could be a good base for you bcos we are a sort of halfway house between the cultures in some ways. There would be no problems with language, so good for getting established, but handy for diversity across the Channel. The smoking culture on the mainland is an issue for me. Yes, there is more here than in the States maybe, but considerably less than in the rest of Europe. Most of the people you see smoking here are foreign tourists/immigrants.
A fun bonus for you too ... meal deals!! Other olaces do them besides Tesco, so if that doesn't swing it then I don't know what will😂 You fitted in nicely when you visited, so give it a go, you will have many friends from day one 🙋♀️🇬🇧🤗
If you find yourself actually moving to Europe, with your wanderlust and sense of exploration, you should consider a country within the EU. I know you love the UK (I do too), but it will hinder you a lot moving there compared to the EU. Maybe you should consider another country where the english barrier is non-existant, like the Netherlands, Denmark or Sweden. I think you would really like it there too. If you ever go back to Europe, try visit one or more of those countries to get a feel for them.
And if you end up staying in the US then I hope you find peace in that. Your country need young open-minded people within its borders to.
All the best, I will continue to follow your channel, I really like your thoughfulness.
Ireland is of course in the EU, and has English as the main language. In countries like the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden people are fluent in English, but it still isn't their first language, and before you know the language they speak as their first language, you are an outsider in many occasions. Of course if you are prepared to take the effort to learn the local language and to feel left outside before that, any country will do.
"I'm thinking about moving". Joel, think long and hard. First, get a good degree. Second, learn a language other than English. Third, find a country where you will get a good-paying job and will afford you a work permit. Finally, try out a country for three months before deciding. I've lived/worked in six European countries. If forced to choose only between them, Germany would come sixth.
What is your first place? Swizterland? 😁
Hello Joel. I know you liked York. I wonder if the similarities I always try to point out between the folk in Northern England and Australia would make Australia your "in-between island"?
The way I generally look at it is. If you are working in a STEM field (Engineering, higher IT, medical, legal, etc), you generally cannot do better then you will in the US. The pay is far higher, and you still pay less in taxes. There are many different places in the US, so you can change locations if you don't like the current environment. It's a huge country, the continental US is larger in size then Europe without the Russia section, and different areas of the country can be very different. If you're in a social type of job, you're probably not going to do better then Europe. Culturally, Europe as a whole is more culturally diverse, as the different countries are certainly different, and you can see and experience a lot of things while there. A lot depends on what you prefer, the grass is not always greener, and both locations have better and worse qualities to them.
Quality of Life is not measured in money
@@freekvarossieau9666 Money is definitely a factor in quality of life. It's not the only one but certainly counts towards it.
Would love to see you in Austria one day 😃
9:33 When a fast food chain opens abroad, the perception is that it is more culturally significant than it is in the US.
We would love to have you in Europe, Joel. You would be an asset to our society. However, consider this: the USA is a little lost at the moment, there is a lot going on that needs improvement but the countyr as a whole is not sure which way to go. The USA is at crossroads at the moment and needs now more than ever morally upstanding open minded people like you to help guide it.
Why should he sacrament his life to do that. Leave it to people who are motivated by that and who have the ego.
He’s clearly never been to Brighton. It has always always been out there. I live there in the 1970s. That was the first time I saw pay men holding hands and they were openly kissing on the street. I was a shocked 18 yr old.
He’s not right about Parisian women not wanting to go out without looking good, it’s generally a European thing including the UK, (which is European ) that we just don’t do scruffy casual as much. We tend to do casual chic. So many Americans with baseball caps and graphic T-shirts.
I think in France you're legally required to leave your place of work for lunch for at least 30 Minutes (or maybe that's one of those urban myths). But if that was the case I'd think that is a good thing. We (in Europe) often have a preference for "working to live", not "living to work", so these days a healthy work/life balance is a very important factor when hiring someone (or when looking for a job). Of course that also changes with age, younger people tend to WANT to work more so they can learn more and get better at what they do.
There simply is no best country, it is always a personal decision that is based on each person't preferences. I envy Americans for their low prices for cars and electronics. But at the same time I wouldn't want to live and work in the US. And that is my very own personal preference and it's perfectly fine for literally every single person on the planet to have their own values and preferences.
Ich bin Deutscher, unsere Geschichte ist nicht nur Nazi, unsere Geschichte geht vieeel weiter zurück z. B. Kelten, Germanen Varusschlacht, wir beeinflußten Sprachen z. B. Vikinger, es ist viel mehr um Deutschlands Menschen... Ich bin stolzer Deutscher... ❤
If I leaf home for a afternoon riding my motorcycle I sometimes end up riding in four different countries and need to speak at least three different languages.
I like the nature in USA, the national parks, very amazing, it is more wild
people mix up culture with history and heritage...thats the main problem. btw. 11:53 ... that map is over 100 years old
It is in no doubt that the US is more aggressive in the work place when it comes to working hard and focusing on work but it is still the same in Europe, in the UK for instance within corporate environments(speaking from experience), that the competitiveness you talk of is still very much there, obviously more laid back but it doesnt mean it is gone but I would say for someone like yourself who is competitive in the workplace and has the US worker mindset, one could easily argue you would do very well in the European work environment due to that very drive. Good luck to you if you ever do decide to move!