Living In Germany: 4 things I love about Germany 🇩🇪 compared to U.K 🇬🇧 | Londoner's Perspective
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- In this video, I am sharing 5 things that I love about Hamburg, Germany as compared to London, U.K where I used to live. I have spent the last 2 years living in Hamburg, Germany and there is a a lot I love about life in Germany 🇩🇪.
0:00 - intro
0:21 - Safety
1:14 - Rent Affordability
2:14 - Childcare costs
2:54 - Race relations
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My wife and I visit London on a yearly base. We never felt unsafe in London. But when it comes to NHS I am glad that I am living in Germany.
Really!? I wish I had that bliss but I have seen too much to ever feel completely safe anywhere in London. I am not scared to be outside at whatever time but I am fully aware i need to be aware of my surrounding and on guard. I don't feel that in Hamburg at all. As for the NHS... Now I have experienced German healthcare, I see all the problems in hindsight.
Hi, fellow Hamburger here.
That you got the electric and gas utilities included in your rent is exceptional. Not unheard of, mind you, but still rare.
That a rented house is sold and you are forced out is pretty much impossible. The only reason you might get forced out is the so-called "Eigenbedarf". That's when the owner of a (usually) one or two family home requires the part you rented for their own family. Even so they can't just kick you out from one month to the next. Depending on the length of time you've rented the same apartment or home you will get between three to six months. The length is determined by laws. Mind you, even Eigenbedarf/owner's requirements isn't easy to get through vs renters. There are quite a lot of renters' protection laws in place.
I know. My landlord is extremely generous. He lives next dorr and we have become good friends. I was lucky.
If the apartment is rented with all costs and furnished you can be cancelled faster
Hamburg is my Hometown! If you had Friends in Hamburg you have Friends!
I'm loving it!
And how to get any?
Just join a "Verein" like a local football Verein. It's probably the Best method 2 get 2 know pepz closer in Germany. Specially in Hamburg. We are known 2 be kinda bit reseved. So i would recommend 2 join a verein/Club. Like Sports Club or whatever u like. It's the Best way to get 2 know pepz & bond with them here. Specially when u'r new 2 the City.
Ps:
Most Germans in General ain't like the talking around Things or sugarcoating Things etc.
Just come as u are. Just be authentic and pepz will appreciate it.
@Celisar1
I’m absolutely agree! I’m Hamburger too and you can finde friends for life!
Kannste das nochmal in ordentlichem Englisch schreiben?
I am an American living in Berlin and who has lived in London (both I felt better about than America, frankly, but I also think you see the dysfunction of your homeland more clearly than that of other places) and I have to agree with you about Germany and race issues overall.
Yh I feel the least safe in America. But I LOVE it there too (mostly visit California & New Jersey). And yeah we can be more familiar with our disfunction. However I moved to London and in 2 weeks I witnessed 2 very serious crimes and that has not happened in Germany so far. Closest thing to being that scary is Frankfurt main station. Lol
Hi you two.
May I ask a question, please?
I’m German. I live in the south now, but I lived in Hamburg among other places. I have never lived in Berlin though. I’ve have heard though, that Berlin can be quite dangerous. There are gangs and something like a Mafia even!? Can it really be scary/ dangerous to live there?
I‘m asking because I have never really felt in danger in Germany. Not even at night alone on the Reeperbahn. Even though I‘m a woman. And I am wondering if I am just naive or lucky or I have just been in the right place.
Thank you
Always good to hear positives about our country in these rough times. Thank you for sharing
My pleasure, definitely my 3rd Home now. Love it!
Much Love from Northern Hamburg ❤
Much love from the East of Hamburg
Your description of Germans and stuff in Germany seems spot on to me.
Yup I love the openness of the loving ones and the closeness of the non-loving ones.
And the mentality in the north of Germany like Hamburg is very straight talk, even as a German native speaker it is sometimes sounding rude, but mostly not meant to be.
I had to learn this quickly with my wife. She was born and raised in Hamburg.
Yeah i think it is a bit diffrent in the south or middel of germany.
I live in Hamburg and have never heard of electricity and gas being included in the rent. You are amazingly lucky if you have found that! Otherwise what you say is true and it's good to hear your positive attitude.
Oh we did. The additional utilities go up and own yearly depending how much we use but, yup we did. To be fair our landloard is incredibly generous. But I do think a lot of the 'Warmmiete' include heating.
Kaltmiete vs. Warmmiete! Both kinds of contracts exist. But IMHO you're right, that Kaltmiete is much more common...
Moin!
Fellow Ghana-born, living in Hamburg here 🙋🏾♀️. I have family members living in and outside of London. Hamburg is quite expensive, but nothing compared to London. I feel very fortunate to have been living in Hamburg for so many years now. It's so diverse, beautiful, and full of culture.
Your take on Germany in general and Hamburg in particular is quite accurate.
You have a soothing voice that I really enjoy listening to.
Much Love ❤❤❤
Hey. Ghana in the house. Thanks so much for your kind words 🖤🖤
Oh man, I love fufu! There is a lady from Nigeria who has a food trailer and she comes by my work place from time to time. Fufu with egusi and chicken. Soooo good.
Yeah that is a meal I can go for right now.
That sounds delicious! Many regards from Heidelberg 👋😁
The "if they do like you" is very important part 😂
VERY Important 🤣!!!
Yes , I agree P.Y. The social interaction between Germans and other Residents in personal and private Spaces is indeed a lot Better and much relaxed in Germany than in England. Because if the Locals in Germany like you , then they like you . But you have to earn their trust, because after all they trust you to come into their personal space, right? So visiting or meeting each other or cooking at each others home is very much common here in Germany. My Son studied in England and has lived in London for the last four years. I witnessed that the English and the Expatriates work together, go to the Pub or Events together. But the only time they would let anyone into their personal Space would be obviously to get intimate. So in my opinion their overt Politness as a kind of Virtue can not be understood as a welcoming gesture, it just maintains peace by protecting personal space, which is obviously important to them.. thus avoiding possible uncomfortable Conflict moments which have to be dealt with
I'm of Eritrean parents, I was born in Germany and act like native Germans in terms of interacting with strangers LoL. I agree with your point
Spot on. I agree!
But the north is even more reserved ... especially in Hamburg/ Schleswig-Holstein
In Bavaria they are more fake friendly
Interesting video. just a small addidtion: childcare pre-schools are not everywhere free, but probably a lot cheaper compared to the UK or the US. In general the fees ore often different according to your income, and the maximum is limited to be a tree-figure per month per child, and often siblings have to pay less or nothing.
You are absolutely right. I live in Hamburg and its heavily discounted. I think we only pay about 100 euros a month. Thanks for pointing that out.
Thanks for correcting him... You pay depending on your income and which state you find yourself in. The highest can be like 450 to 550 Euro monthly, if you're earning more that 60k monthly... The less you earn , the lower you pay.
Great video but you were generalizing a lot of your information. Going deeper into facts will reveal different picture...
interesting take about the racism...I am Austrian, and lived in London for like 7 years and coming back it was really tough at first, because Austrians, at least the older ones, lack politeness. But I totally relate to your viewpoint, or understand.
Bro, I'm living in Hamburg too. And I also want to eat your jollof 😃😁😉
Thats what's up. With some fried chicken and some Ghana salad on the side 🙌🏽
As a German i find it kinda funny that you metion that the rent is cheaper. As i live in a smaler City near Hamburg, rent in Hamburg seems astronomicaly high to me.
Oh you don't want to see the rents in London. And there is hardly any space to move around.
Love your accent 😊 i live in Hamburg too. Love this town ❤️
Thank you so much. I am not sure what it is. A bit of Ghanaian mixed with London mixed with some American, I think.
I totally agree with you on this
What sticks out the most for you?
Agree.
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I don't see a different race just a darker skin and i don't care. That doesn't define who we are 😎
Grüße vom sonnigen Niederrhein
We must be careful here. Just because "race" is primarily a social construct, it doesn't mean that its effects aren't real - it can shape people's entire lives.
So while saying "I don't see race!" or "I don't see color!" might be well-meaning, it sort of implies: "I am going to ignore the entire life experience of people from a different background than my own!"
SPOT ONNNNN!!!! Thank you so much.
Please see colour/race. Its important. But once you do treat the person like it doesn't matter. That is the true super power.
@@TheNameisPY for me it doesn't matter at all every new person i meet is a blank page at first.
@@CavHDeu That's not really how this works. We all have preconceptions lurking around in our subconsciousness - from our culture, our upbringing, from our peers, from the media we consume, and other daily interactions.
And making snap assumptions about both things and people is a basic human trait - we simply do not have the processing power to start over with each person from scratch, and we can't ever know every single person's life experiences. The trick is to be _aware_ that we are making snap assumptions about other people - and using that knowledge, we should question our thought processes on whether we are really seeing the full picture, and be willing to second-guess ourselves.
If we assume that we go into each new situation logically and rationally, then we will have failed before we even start.
Bro I never heard about fufu before but I lookedit up. It sounds so interesting. Can I visit you and try it? ❤😂😉😋
Sure 😊
Currently confused about relocating 4rm Nigeria 🤦♂️, either Germany or UK & that's what got me here.
I know ppl in UK tho but I just feel like starting afresh elsewhere.
Both have their pros and cons. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit AVOID Germany, UK is the place for you. If you are looking for a good quality of life AVOID UK especially London. Germany is more calm and peaceful, UK on the most part is more hectic and fast paced.
German is hard to learn.I would love if you chose Germany,but if you know english,UK would be much easier. Relocating is already hard enough.
If you come to Germany, pick up a hobby. Germans are hard to get to know, and hobbies are the best way in.
All da besz😊
Hey, the algorithm seems to be working! I just saw a video of yours and immediately subscribed. Now I'm going to watch your content in one go. Keep up the good work, I'm glad to have you here in Germany, we need a lot more diversity.
Thank you so much. Glad to be here. Loving it!!! 🙏🏾
Someone preferring race relations in Germany to the UK is interesting and a perspective you don't hear very often, at least I don't.
Why wouldn't Londoners eat your food? :D Would love to try Ghanaian food.
Hey. Yh I really do prefer it here. It’s not even the fact they won’t eat it. We just don’t make going to each other’s homes a thing.
English people are brilliant at diverse work place relationships but not so much for diverse personal relationships. I think Germans are better at that.
Though I will also say I haven’t experienced a great diverse workplace relationship in Germany. Just great personal relationships.
@@TheNameisPY I see, thanks!
Workplace relationships really depend on where you work. We have a great one where I work, where we also talk about personal stuff without problem.
have never heard of electricity being included in the rent.
It’s rare. We were lucky.
Wait, so if I'm your friend, I get home cooked Jollof and Fufu? Where do I sign up? I also want Jollof and Fufu (and friendship is also nice!). Do I also get Egusi? Because then I'll just move in with you!
I can see people with coulor but we all are the same race!
Absolutely, See people and their difference but ultimately we are all the same and want the same things in life.. On the most part.
The info about rents in London and Hamburg is galling really, talking as someone from the UK. But Hamburg isn't the best comparison. Are the rents in Munich or Berlin more comparable to London? As for race relations.......... I'm surprised to hear you say this because under other German channels, there's a lot of criticism over Muslims in Germany. Both those who have been there for several generations and more recent arrivals. Africans aren't that popular either. It's probably because you're from the UK or have been living there a while that you're more accepted and acceptable.
Hey, Hamburg is one of the most expensive cities in Germany, Berlin is much cheaper I think. Not sure about Munich.
RE: Race relations. I am speaking specifically to race relations not racism. I said “if Germans like you”. And I find they are more open to friendships and real culture mixing when they do. British people are more conservative on culture mixing even if they like you. I say this on a personal level.
I do have some privilege of being from the UK. That is true. It’s likely not the same for everyone. To my experience, I just prefer Germany when it comes to building interracial friendships.
30 years ago I would never expect someone from London prefering a german city to live in.
That's amazing to hear and for me as a german sounds like a big compliment 🤩
I lived a year in Hamburg and found the people not easy to connect, more distanced and cold than in south of Germany. That's my experience 🤷
They are not in general cold, you can break the ice easily very often - unless you are in the wrong neighbourhood. People in the south may seem more friendly superficially but are in average not very tolerant. People in the northern half of Germany will mostly be rather open-minded (small towns in the east of Germany probably have to be excluded here).
I am from the south of Germany. Went to Hamburg with 4 friends to do sightseeing and did a boar trip on the Elbe and the port. There was a group of people (5 coworkers) also on the boar, having a trip outside office and they had prosecco bottles, a cake, other sweets etc. Took us 5 minutes to connect and they invited us to have a good time with them. They shared their prosecco with us and their food. We had nothing with us. Just like that we had a great time with them. something like that has never happened to me in the south. They were blunt, funny and cool. Cannot agree with "distanced" :)
Hmm, haven't been South yet but funny enough I hear from people in the North that the people in the South are stuck up 🤷🏾♂️?
@@TheNameisPY I heard it exactly the other way round 😂
@@endlessstudent3512 well - everybody has his own experience. And they differ...🙂
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I didn't know crime rate was that bad in London... And what do you mean, they do not come to your house to be social? Do you mean you have Friends in London that never have seen your home???🤯☹
Its not unbearable. But there is more crime in London in Hamburg, I find.
Germans are too direct to be polite, Brits are too polite to be direct! Nuff said! 😂
Yup!!!
Brits are too polite to be honest, Germans are too honest to be polite.
And another one:
In Germany, being polite is optional.
So on to the one about what you don't like in Germany.
I find nothing polite in being not direct (not to be mixed up with being harsh or hurting). But that´s maybe because I am german and from Hamburg. I like how you feel good here, that´s the point! We all benefit from having people of different cultures around us in daily life. If we want to approach a barrier-free world (physically and mentally) there is no better way than to welcome people here and go abroad ourselves . This planet is/should be home to everyone, wherever you choose to go.
And both things aren’t true.
Now nuff said.
In a way "systematic" insincere over- politeness deprives you from authentic personal decisions.
If someone does not pretend to like you, you are not compelled to play nice and get involved in an uncomfortable display.
I'd like to point out, that I differentiate between "polite" and "respectfull" ...
With a friend who comes to your house and eats your food on a daily basis, I see some chance he's taking advantage of you 😂
Probably, I don't mid as long as they bring drinks.
We discriminate about big toe nail length is stead, way more logical.. And easy to hide.
Is that really a thing?
You can only feel safe when you're out and about at night in Germany/Hamburg if you're a man. As a woman you are afraid, like in any other country🙁
Thats probably true 😔
I mean, it depends a lot on the district / the exact place you're walking around and the type of person you are. As a woman, I avoid walking around central station or in deserted parks at night, sure, but generally I feel very safe in Hamburg/Germany in general. (And at the same time I know quite a lot of men who also dislike roaming around central station at night, that place is just uncomfortable...) It might not be the safest country in the world but I think even as a woman you have plenty of options where you can move around at night and be safe
@@Agnes1322 A comment like that from a woman is often doubly bad.
This cliché that it's up to the woman, her behavior, her clothes or her decisions if she feels or puts herself in danger is so misogynistic and anti-feminist. you are a disgrace, sister
You may feel afraid but is that fear justified?
I wouldn't say women have to be as afraid in Germany as in any other country,. That's not right.
@@Fragenzeichenplatte Ich habe geschrieben, das Frauen die in praktisches allen Ländern dieser Welt Angst um ihre persönliche Sicherheit haben. Ich habe nicht geschrieben, das dies ein ausschließlich deutsches oder besonders deutsches Problem ist. Es ist den Patriarchalen Systemen dieser Welt geschuldet.
Maybe because we grew up feeling like the assholes of History...
Germans are to honest to be polite.
British are too polite to be honest.
You'll certainly find racism anywhere. I do think, it's less in Germany, but it's more behind your back, less openly communicated.
Overall, I also think that there's more "classism" than racism prevalent in society. In Britain, people in general seem to be more class-aware, whereas in Germany many people eventually even deny the existence of classes, but discriminate against you at the same time - again more covert, less openly.
Certainly everywhere. So is classism. British people will still be civil with you and that make it tricky to even know. For me, that’s worse.
German racism is more behind your back? Then how do you know about it?
@@Fragenzeichenplatte I'm white, born German, and I do hear things from other people, whenever they think that racism would be "common sense".
@@TheNameisPY Germans indeed are more blunt in communication. But at the same, racism and classism is kept under the rug.
@@IsaakHunt If you're white then you obviously wouldn't experience direct racism against non-white people. You only see your own experience which may not be the same as what black people see.
There is just one human race.
As a German I can straight forward tell you that it makes me happy to hear that you like living here. Let‘s beat the terrible German history together and build a better German future!
I like your thinking!