Germany does these things well
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- In a previous video, I complained about three things Germany does badly. So to restore balance, I now present three things I think Germany does quite well.
Chapters:
00:00 About this video
00:30 Public transport
02:02 Rest days
03:14 Patriotism
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As a german, this makes me quite proud and happy, but i won't show it
Dito
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I would say it more like „I don’t show it too much“, bc I smile a bit as I watch the video, but I get what you where saying
(You see what I did there :D)
Yeah, could have been worse... :-)
When are you going to ban Vitamin B and Bewerbungsfoto on job application?
I, as a German in Germany, buy my eggs (and milk) on a Sunday walking 50m over to the local farmer's vending machine, in my pyjamas. No problem there :)
Yeah petrol stations are also open. And if you are desperate you can always ask a neighbour, providing you bring them a slice of the cake you have decided to bake.
tell us more about your Pyjamas then
Hofläden ftw! \o/
I live in a small town in the Netherlands where by tradition only the church is open on Sunday. And I really enjoy the silence.
Ik ben in de buurt van Urk opgegroeid waar je op zondag niet eens met de auto door mocht rijden. Dat is dan ook weer teveel van het goede. Zolang mensen kunnen kiezen wanneer hun weekend in de week valt, is er geen probleem met de appie die ook op zondag open is.
Transportation! That is what I miss most about Germany. All the years I lived in Germany, I was able to go nearly everywhere and with my bike which could be loaded onto most of the trains. Although summertime could be a bit tricky with all the other people of the same mind!
The Sunday closing of all the shops did present a problem, but I learned to live with that. And if you really needed something, the train stations always had a little convenience store where you could pick up a few necessary items. Of course bakeries were always open on Sunday morning, and that was a ritual .
I lived a long time in Germany and always felt comfortable. I do miss it.
Come back... We do appreciate people who appreciate Germany.
(And tell us why we should)!
I was in Germany last year. As an American, I was highly impressed with the public transit system. Wish there were systems like that in the US.
I agree, but that's ironically one of the things Germans complain about the most
@@timseguine2 Everyone complains about their local transit system, regardless of where they live in the world.
Long distance trains have gotten a lot worse, but they are better than what you get in most of the world. Exceptions are Switzerland, which is much smaller and has a different geography, and Japan, which has all it's freight traffic on ships and thus not blocking their trains. So it's mostly a case of Germans complaining about something that is actually quite good.
Germany's worst, is still better than your best. 🤪
I saw a statistic that the number of canceled trains increased by 10x since 2017, it really seems like the train infrastructure is falling apart :/
Totally appreciate quiet Sundays in DE. It is just awesome.
Yes, I find it very civilised
The older I get the more I appreciate them.
I'm living in a street with some traffic and we can't open windows on the side to the street on workdays because of the traffic. But on Saturdays it's not a problem.
Dear Germans,
The German public transportation system is amazing and world class. It is generally very punctual and efficient and provides a great car free essential service. Yes, Deutsche Bahn is absolute shit are scheduling. I have experienced their shenanigans myself. But they’re an operator. The network itself is nothing short of amazing and covered the majority of the country. Most major cities also have excellent transport networks comprised of lots of efficient rail transport. I know you like to complain about it all the time, but it’s one thing I certainly wouldn’t take for granted.
Sincerely,
A Canadian
The problem for Germans is, that our neighbour Switzerland is famous for their train network that runs like a well oiled machine and is usually way more dependable. With that example for really good public transportation shoved in your face all the time, you tend to forget that there are so many places with worse situations.
@@gaedingar9791 Austria's rail system, while not as good as Switzerland's, is still way more reliable than the German one.
But that's what Germany voted for.
@@to_loww I haven't been in Austria yet, so I can't say anything to theirs.
Yeah, and the many big car manufacturers lobbying for car centricity don't help the issue either.
There is even a bus connection to/from Canada, called Airbus.
Actually DB isnt even necessarly a bad operator or bad at scheduling. They are actually pretty good at it. The problem is the infrastructure/network itself. Decades of underfunding and bad political decision lead to a now decrepit and under capacity infrastructure thats on its last legs. Its actually amazing how much service we squeeze out of the severely under-capacity infrastructure in dire need of funding.
If complaining is to make things better, we ought to have a perfect UK!
Then you'd have to rewind the linguistic clock to 1000 AD and let it spin again without all the French, and the prestige dialect not coming from the London/Oxford/Cambridge triangle, but from Winchester/Worcester/Gloucester (roughly where the West Saxon dialect was spoken).
I can't complain about _that_ comment.
But then again...
I'm happy for everyone who doesn't have to work on Sundays and can enjoy a day off ... especially when the weather is nice ❤
"... they just don't shove it in your face."
Got that, neighbors? (me, looking due South, from my house in Canada).
😜👍🏾
"I never saw so many flags as when I went to the US. Then I went to Canada."
I love american patriotism. In Germany, displaying your flag has become something negative and our soldiers are not treated with the respect that you would expect. In the USA, that's completely different. People celebrate their homeland and their war heroes, especially the fallen ones, at every opportunity and I think there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
@@SamAronowThere is way more to it than displaying flags.
@@hansmitdergans7879celebrating 'war heroes '?......EVERYTHING is wrong about that!
3:31 Rewboss: "In the UK, patriotism is often brash and kitchy."
Me, from the US: 🤣 Oh, how cute, he thinks that's "brash" and "kitchy." 😆
😂
Amen!
Unemployment benefits. 60% net salary for 1 year with one an obligation to prove to the unemployment office that you were actively searching for new employment. I'm happy to pay social insurance to support this.
this carried myself betwenn May and September this year (when the new job starts)
ohhh my taxes at work :D
Yes, we Germans are the absolut Best at being modest. Top notch.
Yeah, we are the humblest and most modest people in the world
Sehr witzig! You are probably Weltklasse in that category as well!
A silly aside. Not long after I arrived in Germany to work, a colleague presented me with a little book entitled Die 100 beste schottische Witze. I don’t remember laughing a lot! Probably just a language problem as I am sure that they were very funny indeed!!!
Absolutely agree about the public transport system. When I visited a friend in Ulm (population just a shade more than Eastbourne), I was amazed to see a tram system!
As a German, I agree that the greatest thing about us is our incredible humility.
Oh yeah, no-one does it better than us IMHO 😅
2:17 I think it's great because a lot of people don't have to work on those days and can visit their family or spend time with friends.
My father was a union man in the Netherlands. And he was of the same opinion. One day a week everyone is free. But is became a problem when women started to work. All the shopping had to be done in the weekend.
Also, if you really set your mind on it, you will be able to buy eggs on a sunday. In the countryside, ring a doorbell that has a FRISCHE EIER sign or visit a Hofladen with a machine. In major cities, there will be some super market open in some railway station. Or maybe you can find a Späti that sells eggs.
Loved the list, and agree.(Grew up in Derbyshire, so Public transport was, trams at first, then Buses.)
I'm with you on all these points, especially on the way things close on Sundays.
Of course in Stuttgart we complain about the public transport...
I also don't get why people complain about shops being closed on sundays and holidays. Man, it's 1 day per week, 2 if there's a holiday, so you've got 5-6 more days in the week to buy the stuff that you need. You don't go to the grocery store every day anyways. And for bakeries, some have opened on sunday mornings, so you can even get that if you need it.
In exchange, we get a better quality of life and working conditions for a lot of people + there's a day where most people don't work or go shopping so you can enjoy empty streets and a less crowded city.
and if the shops are closed for more than one day you always can imitate us germans and rush into the grocery stores and buy everything you can as fast as you can. shopping before a longer public holiday is always a remarkable experience hier in germany ...
Just want to give a little shout out to you Rewboss! I love all your videos. Greetings to Schöllkrippen from your Hessian Neighbors ❤
I´ve been in Germany since last year and it was fairly easy to understand no groceries shopping on Sundays. You just plan accordingly. One thing you didn´t mention, but I am happy that German cities have bike lanes pretty much everywhere. I live in a relatively small city, so I can go anywhere by bike (except in winter of course).
1:58
"The product is too damn successful" is the last compaint i would have expected!
As a person From vienna, which outclasses the (at least) cologne transport in a sun to dust spec ratio. I live in a rural area, which sucks on its own, but even in cologne the public transport sucks. A 15 minute drive is around half an hour. In vienna, a 15 minute drive is 20 minutes by tram, s-bahn, bus or the subway. And even with those negatives, its also extremly old. I have driven with trains from the 90s. One of the biggest minuses of the world
I love the calm on sundays!
I live in Aachen and if I need a dozen of eggs on a Sunday I have to take a bus to the Netherlands, go to the supermarket 10 meters inside the Dutch border and join a long line of Germans doing their weekly purchase there. Many will defend the shops closing on Sunday in Germany vehemently, while routinely purchasing their weekly groceries in Vaals and shopping at the outlets in Roermond on Sunday.
There’s nothing more sad than taking the 1 hour bus ride on a Sunday from a deserted Aachen city centre to a bustling Maastricht city centre, where shops are open and cafes and restaurants are full to the brim. This is all money left on the table that could be going to the German economy instead of the Dutch one.
Hi, anstelle von Roermond, kennst Du das Outlet in Maasmechelen?
Ist aus Aachen besser zu erreichen und der wunderschöne Natur Park Hoge Kempen schließt sich direkt daran an. (Frei nach dem Motto erst ',ne Runde wandern, dann shoppen gehen)
Meine Frau und ich leben in der Grenzstadt zu Maastricht (Lanaken). Hier ein kleiner Tipp, magst Du kostenlos Parken und einen direkten Anschluss nach Maastricht haben, Park doch am Cultureel Centrum in Lanaken. Zudem kann man hier auch günstiger essen als in Maastricht selbst. Auch mag ich dir den Stadtteil Oud Rekem empfehlen und die Restaurants dort. Insbesondere sticht L'Art Brutal heraus.
Thank you very much!🙂👍
BTW the U-Bahn in the thumbnail, is a driverless U-Bahn which is operating on the entire U-Bahn system of Nürnberg.
3:07 you can probably go to your local farmer and ask if you can get a few eggs if its that urgent
Not too practical if you live in the middle of a city 😆
@@Snowshowslow Depends on how "big". I can cycle for ~15/20 from the city center and be at the edge of my city where a farmer has setup a vending machine where you can buy what they produce, and my city has a population of ~250,000.
Not easy to imagine a situation where having eggs on a Sunday is an urgency. Plan ahead, plan ahead. Or just leave it to Monday. 😄
The Deutschlandticket is not only valid on local public transit but also on regional trains.
So I went to a natural food shop in Heidelberg that was open on a Sunday. I asked why, and they said that they get a special exception for being in a tourist region, they have a license to open on Sundays. They had food on offer, so I wanted to order a warm sandwich. To which they explained that they cannot offer warm food on a Sunday because that would put them in competition with the restaurants, who don't need a license to open on Sundays.
So there is an exception to the rule and then a rule regulating the exception.
And obviously there has to be someone whose job it is to implement and enforce these rules/exceptions.
And of course gas stations are open Sundays offering "travel requisites". Which seems to include beer, schnapps, ciggies, snacks and titty magazines. Without which I could not continue my journey.
I can live with the Sunday thing, but I believe that if it were so important to people, then they just would not shop on Sundays, leaving the stores with no incentive to be open in the first place. But that is part of the German mentality: if it is not forbidden, then it must be mandatory.
Regarding Sunday shopping - the question isn’t do I wanna shop but do I wanna work? I absolutely do not miss Sunday shopping whatsoever.
This is the first time I hear someone - German or not - that doesn't find the closed shops on Sundays to be an inconvenience. I know people who live close to the Dutch border who regularly go there to shop on Sundays, and I also have a friend that takes the awesome public transport to the Edeka at the airport that is open on Sundays.
I don't get the argument about having guaranteed free Sundays. Train, tram, bus drivers don't. Many bakery clerks don't. Restaurant waiters don't. It really feels like an arbitrary restriction that just causes inconvenience.
The convenience of ONE is always the inconvenience of somebody else. That's how a society works, that's what we call civilisation .. or just mutual respect.
If you are quiet at night, it's fair to people who want to sleep, and inconvinient to you, if you throw a party.
Just for the record: I don't find it an inconvenience either, and even if I don't live too far from the Dutch border and have been doing so for over 20 years now, I never went shopping there. Why do so, if there are 6 other days in the week where one can easily go and shop wherever one wants?
(Now, I am self-employed, which makes it somewhat easier to go shopping during the week, maybe, but even when I wasn't I never felt the need to go sopping on Sundays).
I just don't get the point.
As a German, I have learned more and more facts over the last 9 years of my life that I didn't know before.
There are actually still countries in the world today where the last parliamentary election was more than 20 years ago (1997). There are villages without paved roads, without street names and house numbers and therefore without mail delivery. In some countries in the world, necessary operations are only available if you can pay for them yourself. There are countries where little girls are mutilated (FGM). Bribing officials is normal in some countries.
Yes, Germany is better than all of these bad examples.
Am I proud of that? No, not really.
I have learned that what we have in Germany is a matter of course. And I moan when something doesn't work well enough (or not at all).
I try to make small improvements myself in many places (for example as a volunteer driver on the Bürgerbus [community bus], because many villages have completely inadequate public transport connections).
On the subject of shops shut on Sunday (except for bakeries and some kiosks which are open early): I, too, found it good to have a day free of the pressure to go shopping. But there is obviously a wish for shops to be open - I was recently in Aachen and crossed the border into Vaals, the Netherlands, and it was heaving with shoppers, and it wasn’t a special holiday when I believe shops were allowed to stay open
To be honest. Only shop owners (and some unorganized customers) want 24/7.
I am fully with you on that second point. Even though I would massively benefit from being able to go shopping 24/7 since I am a night person and only really get productive past 20:00.
I greatly appreciate that my fellow citizens don't have to work past midnight or on sundays just to please this tiny majority of people like me.
And in general it is just comforting to have 1 day a week where almost everything is quiet and people can relax.
On a side note: yes, complaining is considered a competetive sport on an olympic level in Germany and we are proud [even if not openly] of our world champion streak ever since reunification 😏
3:03 hey Andrew, you might wanna check for some local "Hofladen" in your area. Even here in my small village there's a trust-based Hofladen, open every day until 2200 including sundays etc, there we can buy milk (cows basically living right behind the wall, so can't get any fresher) and eggs, some meat, ice cream, noodles, and a few other items. Also for vegtables there's a few farmers with open stalls - some would come out of their home for transactions, others trust-based. Other stuff can be bought at the next gas station's shop etc. Sunday being a resting day doesn't mean you can't get _anything_ at all, even tho big stores and malls are closed, true.
Proud of not being proud 😁
Sunday shop closing is really annoying, because it is also leading to situation where supermarkets are pretty empty on Saturday after 5PM.
Well, over here they actually refill after seven - with ppl buying stuff for parties, and also because all the groceries, bread and stuff gets cheaper befor the close-down on Sunday.
3:09 Yes you can buy things on Sundays, a lot of shops in/around Airports and Bigger Train stations are open for Business on Sundays (though they might be on the pricyer side)
Did you manage to go vote today, Andrew?
Next video I got was from DW euromaxx, where a blind man complained that the people in Berlin aren’t very friendly. Apparently he’s dependent on asking other people to know if he’s in the right train.
So I hope his complaining helps, to make the people more friendly..
In Berlin? No chance.
Being rude is basically the common cliché about Berliners, so good luck with that.
@@netwitchtatjana4661it's part of what makes Berlin special.
Excellent video. I completely agree with all of these points. Worth adding that German public transport is also cheap when compared to the UK. I worked in London, and it was vastly over-priced and the service was poor (when compared to the German cities in which I have lived - Frannkfurt, Munich, Hannnover and Hamburg). I agree 1000% with you about Sundays as well.
„Und weil wir dies Land verbessern
Lieben und beschirmen wir's
Und das Liebste mag's uns scheinen
So wie andern Völkern ihrs.“
Berthold Brecht - Kinderhymne
I grew up in Chicago, moved to Milwaukee in the mid-80s, and spent every summer after that in Stuttgart and Tuebingen going to school. And each time I came back to my idiotic country, I had to ask, "Why can't we have public transport?" (And health care, etc.).
With the UK having ~30 railway companies, it can be a mess. Some tickets (ie advance) restrict you to a specific company but otherwise allow you to travel with any company as long as you stay on route.
There are about 300 rail operators in Germany; it's just that nearly all of them use Deutsche Bahn's ticketing system, so passengers don't really notice. DB has a virtual monopoly on long-distance trains, though.
I love the idea of stores being closed on a sunday. Even what Poland does is a good compromise. Have 7 sundays a year where stores can be open.
TBH I thought public transport in the UK outside of London (mostly Dorset and Somerset) was spectacular. The fact that I could get to any decently-sized village at all by bus if not by train was totally foreign to me as an university-aged American in 2012.
Relatedly, Israel (a country that is incompetent at most quality-of-life issues compared to Germany) has had an equivalent to the Deutschland Ticket (Rav-Kav) as the only form of transport ticket for at least a decade now; it's baffling that other countries have struggled to follow suit.
In Germany the biggest problem were all the local operators which never could agree on one ticket. Until after the Covid-epidemic the government made a temporary "anti-inflation" gift to the population. (There were temporary tax cuts for gasoline and something had to be done for all the non-car-owners as well.) It was a experiment for several month but so popular it continued. The future of this project is still uncertain, because the problem of compensating all the local operators remain.
Larger UK cities usually have a bus network. Cities I remember are Brighton, Leeds, Cardiff and Aberdeen. Manchester has Metrolink, Edinburgh a tram and Glasgow the adorable Subway. You still need to figure out how to get tickets, but these days there is an app for everything.
Our world-beating German modesty.
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I grew up in the 70s when everything was closed on a Sunday apart from churches, pubs (for a couple of hours) and petrol stations - we somehow managed to survive, even without today's modern tech - it was valuable 'downtime' and a chance to recharge. Well done Deutschland !
Danke für die netten Worte. 😁
Also peace and quiet 🇩🇪/🇨🇭 by not carrying out (noisy) work on Sundays and public holidays unlike in 🇬🇧 Britaun where one is free to use anything such as lawn mowers, strimmers, leaf blowers, DIY drills, pressure washers (to clean 🚗 🏍️ vehicles on the drive/street), washing clothes and hanging them out 🤔
Did Britain change their laws regarding noise after Brexit? Because until then, they should have had the same rules observing "quiet" times as the rest of us, since they are (or were, as far as Britain is concerned) based on an EU directive.
As someone who lives in Oberösterreich, about 1.5h away from the German border I'm kind of jealous at how much cheaper many things are across the border despite bavaria even having higher wages on average.
With products at Lidl, Aldi or even Ikea many identical products are outright 10 - 50% cheaper.
I think the only issue with everybody having the same day off is that, in many cases, the day off is the only time people have togo to shops, get groceries, etc.
So how do they do that if, in their only day off, everything is closed?
With that being said, I'm super in favor of stuff closing on sundays, here in my country it doesn't work this way and it sucks, because each of my friends have a different day off and it's like impossible to have everyone together to hang out
In most bigger cities and even in the countryside there are supermarkets open up untill 9 pm or even 10 pm, and some will open at 7 am, so you can easily get your groceries before or after work throughout the week.
Besides, most ppl that are employees have Saturday or half a Saturday of, and on Saturday, most larger stores are open till 6, 8 or 9 pm, while smaller stores close at noon. So on Saturday mornings, shops will be brimming whith those who did not manage to go shopping throughout the week, those who want to do groceric shopping for Sunday, and all the old people of any town, as Saturday is the day where when shopping the will definitely meet someone they know and can have a chat in the aisles... :)))
As for ppl who do have to work Saturdays or Sundays regularly (as, say, nurses or chashiers in a supermarket): They usually have one day off throughout the week (or 2 afternoons) - this is usually part of a rolating shift system, so the day may be fixed or it may vary, depending on the job.
Funfact: Barbers are usually open full time on Saturday (so that who wants to go to church on Sunday can attend the barber before - or so it was originally intended... ;) ) - Which is while they are - with very few exceptions - tradionally closed on Monday. (In some rural areas, this also refers to bakeries. Which I find way more impractical than closed barbershops.)
You can't buy eggs on Sundays in Germany? Sure you can. At least where I live - in our town we have local farmers who operate vending machines just next to the main roads. So there is one selling eggs (either 6 or 10 pack). Also we have a butcher with a cooled meat vending machine next to his shop, just in case you got unexpected guests and need something for BBQ. And in the next villages around there are other farmers, one selling fresh milk from a vending machine and one with an open barn where you can get all kinds of vegetables, like potatoes, salad, carrots etc... based on a "trusting" service which means you just take whatever you need and put cash money in a little safe on the exit. And it just seems to work without theft, otherwise they probably wouldn't do it for years now.
He's not talking about local farmers: he's talking about shops which usually sell food and/or other goods during the week, like supermarkets. You didn't open the video, or if you did you clearly didn't understand this at all!
@@francescocasalin2723 Unfortunately you obviously got it wrong or didn't watch the video. I quote the statement at 3:05 : "Does this mean I can't go out and buy a dozen eggs on a Sunday? Yes it does". And I wrote, that this specific statement would be wrong. Sure, you cant go into a shop, but you could by them at a vending machine. Nothing more or less.
I guess he used the "buying eggs" example because you usually can't get them at gas stations, which might have open on Sundays. But again, I just commented on the quoted statement. You may even think"what a nitpicky German I am., who didn't get the true meaning of the statement. Well, it's because I often saw and heard complaints from people from abroad about this "inconvenience" for them, either personal or online. So depending on where you live in Germany, there are plenty of options available on Sundays. Be it local farmers, be it gas stations (very limited) or at some places (like airports or main train stations in cities) some grocery stores are open.
The eggs won't last very long if everyone starts driving to the vending machines on a Sunday
As a British/German, I also very much appreciate the Stadtbahns and other urban rail in German cities. It's a nice touch that you compared the difference in coverage on maps of Stuttgart and Bristol. When I try to explain German local public transport to my British friends, it can sound a bit utopian.
Birmingham will be the largest European city with no underground when the Belgrade metro opens its first 2 lines at the end of the decade.
Great video, I agree with all three points. I'm really, really proud of being a modest German.
That said, the Berlin underground, tram system and S-Bahn system are phenomenal. The Berlin buses not so much.
My German ticket for some reason does not work on some buses in small towns or villages and some drivers even inform me this in a very rude way. I have contacted the transport operator from whom I bought the ticket many times and they told me that everything should work without problems on these routes.
I checked this, and apparently, there are some exceptions for regions, in which busses have to be "called" in order to serve certain towns - in very small villages, you have to make a phone call some time in advance in case you want to use the bus. Otherwise, the bus will skip the village. These buses won't accept the German ticket or will charge an additional fee. And I am not quite sure about "Bürgerbusse" either, as they are actually an addition to the public transport system, but differently organised.
As for the rest, it's probably misinformation on behalf of the busdrivers.
I agree about Sundays
2:31 families go shopping across the border in 🇳🇱. Previously even more when shops were closed on saturday as well
A hell of a timing
The thing about Sundays, though: you kind of need a pretty strong excuse to not visit your family. Might not be that much of a problem for most people. For me it is, more often than not.
1:49 "...they don't shove it in your face".
While I totally understand that this was a very subjective list, it was sorely missing one MAJOR thing Germany is getting right: parental benefits. 14 months of paid parental leave that can be freely divided between the two parents, 3 years of parental leave (also available to both parents) during which your workplace is guaranteed to wait for you and the government pays your health insurance, and free daycare for children in most regions. It's not quite as impressive as Norway, Sweden and Finland, but it's definitely in the top 10 of best countries in the world on that front.
I'm originally from Bristol and YES it boggles the mind at how good local public transport is in Europe. When visiting my parents the transport drives me mad.
From the thumbnail I imagined this was an episode about Nuremberg's Metro. 😁
as to the public transport: only because it is worse in the uk it doesn't mean it's ok in germany
Addition to the "public transportation" part: The city of Erlangen, Bavaria held a referendum today, where the residents agreed to build the Stadt-Umland-Bahn (STUB), the largest new tram project in Germany. 🚋
+1 for shops closed on Sundays. One of the most underrated things about Germany.
Got my jobticket last week. The elation I felt was not as exuberant as when I got my first 9€ Ticket but close.
And I now have weekends free.
If you’re lucky enough to live near to the Dutch or Belgian borders you can always pop across to their supermarkets on a Sunday, if you can find a parking spot amongst all those other German cars you see there.
I would (from personal experience) say that the point about public transport isn't true for all parts of the country, but on the grand scheme of things only a few very rural areas are cut off from an otherwise very good network. I'll be spending a week travelling around the UK this summer (only using public transport) and I'll probably be more appreciative of our own system after that...
I fully agree on the other points though, despite complaints from some people that Germany should be more like the UK or US in terms of national pride. These countries tend to focus too much on things they achieved in the past to avoid having to deal with challenges in present.
Not to be too grumpy a German again, but why would I be proud of where I was born if it did not happen out of my own doing? Of course I am happy about our healthcare system, public transport, the constitution//Grundgesetz and many other things, flaws included. I am so, so lucky I get to enjoy this, but I'm not proud of it. Or at least that's what I tell myself when I sense a sliver of pride creep up, lol
I'm fully with you on that. I'm a bit "proud" of the society and politics and culture that we have, but only to the extent that I can claim to have contributed to it (even slightly). Other than that, I''m just happy to live here (so far...). My impression is that most of the people who loudly proclaim that they are "proud to be a German" are usually the ones who never created anything on their own that they could be proud of. And as for being born here, all naturalized citizens of this country have done more to warrant being proud of being a citizen than those born with a Germany nationality. Works for other places too, of course.
@@tillneumann406 oh yeah, definitely! People who got naturalized had to work their butts off: for the citizenship test and the money that it all costs
@@tillneumann406why even take a position like that, “naturaIized…have done more…than those born with a German nationaIity”?
@@tillneumann406no offense, it reeks of seIf-hate and of being permeated bygIob/prpgnd.
@@tillneumann406no offense, but it reeks of seIfh4te & of being permeated by/gI0b3/prpgnd.
1:08 I guess Bristol is the Nashville of the UK
Wiesbaden must be the Bristol of Germany.
Has Rewbos done a video on how the German EU vote works? Maybe it's too boring but I don't understand how it differs from the one we used to have in the UK (though I gather it does).
Get Germanized did videos on these exact subjects and things being closed on Sundays was in his list of things he didn’t like!
In case of an "emergency" the one shop at the train station and every gas station sell milk and toast on Sundays. 🤷♀ Someone should tell this Get Germanized.
@@gargoyle7863 He obviously didn't Get Germanized enough, yet.
Former Austria resident with a followup on shops being closed on Sundays and holidays: in Austria, there are smaller outlets of retail grocery chains in train stations, and these *are* open on Sundays. Based on Andrew's conclusions and other comments here, that doesn't seem to be the case in Germany. Which is it?
Also, sometime in the 1990s, Austrian retailers managed to get the law changed so that they could be open on Easter Monday and December 26th. Is there something like that in Germany?
Also also, there are laws in Austria against doing construction between 7 pm(?) and 7 am, which includes mowing the grass with something that has an engine. There might be an exception for snowblowers, given that property owners are responsible for clearing their sidewalks of snow and ice. Anything similar in Germany?
About your second question:
Yes, there are a variety of exceptions to closed shops on sundays. For example the last sunday before Christmas Eve (4. Advent) is most often open for business. It is within the descretion of the federal state or the local municipality to decide. These bodies can make any sunday open for business but usually they want to keep that to a minimum since germans like their quiet sundays. Most federal states even set a maximum number of open sundays.
Additionally as an enterprise you can apply for a general license to do business on sundays but that is of course strictly regulated as well. And even if you get the license there are a couple of rules applying specifically to work on sundays regarding work hours, noise, etc.
Re your final question, those times are based on an EU Directive (2000/14/EC of the European Parliament and the Council, dated 8 May 2000), so unless either Austria or Germany cheated in implementing the Directive, they must be the same in both places.
Shops in main train stations and gas stations are open on Sunday in Germany, too. And there are lots of vending machines.
Most people have sunday off to do fun things together! ...what fun things? Everything is closed..
Must be sad to think that all fun things have to do with shops being open. Restaurants, theme parks, zoos, public swimming pools and what have you are of course open on Sundays.
Macron said there will be a 49€ ticket in France too... only valid July and August (IIRC) and only for people between 15 and 27.
I had the idea it would be for 90-year-olds accompanied by their parents? Without the Ukrainian war, we would never have the Deutschlandticket.
Germany gets patriotism more or less right? By keeping institutional power corridor and corporate world nearly 100% homogeneous?
Germany like the rest of the West is contrId by CnBkrs
Germany is firmly in the grasp ofCnBkrz like [most] the rest of thewrId.
@@G_v._Losinj2_ImportantPlaylist maybe you can consider writing in English.
Are the shops closed on a Sunday by law or by choice?
By law
However there are a few exceptions like petrol stations, railway stations and airports.
Also bakeries are allowed to open between 8 am and 11 am.
Confiseries and cake shops - if combined with a cafe - can sell cakes and bread during the opening hours of the cafe.
Most cities usually have one or two supermarkets open on Sunday. It's usually just the one by a major train station.
@@kibaanazuka332 regarding cities I agree. But even in bigger towns the train station doesn't need to have a supermarket.
And at least one pharmacy per city will be open. But it's not always the same one; they take turns. But you can look up which one will be open on which Sunday.
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Wait, shops aren't closed on Sundays in other countrys? Why the fuck would you do that to your employees
I mean in other EU countries it's open all day or limited hours in the morning to mid afternoon.
Because capitalism!
British patriotism is a real shame. People either vocally think Britain is perfect or vocally think its about to collapse and if you stay quiet both sides assumes you're with the other lot.
UK should adopt the Japanese model build new metro lines to the national rail standard and through run them. Germany should build dedicated express metros in their cities like some in China but through run them with ICE trains
I don't agree with the rest days. Health care is still working, restaurants are still open, leisure places such as museums/cinemas are still open - there is no reason why supermarkets and pharmacies shouldn't be open as well. I moved to a country where this is the case and the Sundays aren't any less quiet. Even though I grew up in Germany for nearly 30 years, I feel a lot less stressed here because the shops are way less crowded on Saturdays and I can still run to them on Sundays for emergency purchases - especially since I have ADHD and simply forget to buy groceries and other necessities all the time.
Also police forces and firefighters are on shifts. Public transport works, thought less people involved on Sundays. Gas stations are opened. Metallurgy industry works. Would be interesting to know what is the percentage of people who benefit from free Sundays in Germany to the total workforce. I bet just around 5%.
@@yansakovich Around 80%. And nobody feels it as a benefit, cause it never was any different. Also 200 years ago, people only did the minimum, like milking the cows.
@@holger_p I meant people of whose professions who have free Sundays in Germany, but not in other countries. That is basically limited to just retail workers.
Before industrialization and urbanization people did everything themselves, from growing their crops to sewing their clothes. They had well less free time than people today. First centuries of industrialization people worked 60 hours per week and lived in a tiny rooms with their coworkers. And despite these horrible conditions, they still chose this life instead of the life in the villages they were born.
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Sometimes the complaints, especially about public transport may get too far. Sure, our compared to an imaginary perfect system, ours is shit. But when we try to look realistically onto it, its quite good.
I moved out of my Parents House 3 Years ago. I decided not to get a Car, because i don´t need one. Because it works well without one.The few Days a year, where a Car is necessary, i can borrow one.
Every single German will disagree with me on this, but I'd add the train system to your list. Yes, it has some delays and occasional strikes, but it goes almost everywhere. Compare that to most of the world's countries that either have no passenger train system at all (most of South America, for example) or have a miserable excuse for one that covers only a handful of cities (the US, for example), and Germany is a world-class locomotive power.
If you compare german transit system to Austria or Switzerland Germany falls flat.
3:02 You can’t buy a dozen eggs in Germany anyway, because they come in packs of 10 (a semiprime) instead of 12 (a superior highly composite number) here. Not everything needs to be metric …
You can if you go to the village shop, bring your own egg boxes, and buy exactly as many eggs as you need.
Get two boxes of six, problem solved.
@@baritonfelixmy man!😂❤
@@baritonfelix Which is more expensive per egg.
@@lonestarr1490if that is your most pressing concern just don't buy any eggs at all. Think of the limitless savings.
3:00 does this mean I can’t go to the pub with my friends, nor buy what I need to accommodate my friends at home? Yes!
Is that an obstacle to socialising? Yes!
Is that going to harm our fellow members of our society with executive dysfunction? Yes!
Pubs are open on Sundays.
@@rewboss who works there?
@@DanielsPolitics1 As I said: of course not everybody can have Sunday off. Office and retail workers do; so do most factory workers. Pubs, clubs, concert venues, theatres: that's another matter, because people still need things to do on their day off. It's _as many people as possible_ who get the day off.
@@DanielsPolitics1 Bartenders.
Bristol has long had the power to raise revenue, whether with or without a congestion charge, and use it to fund public transport. They did not.
They made a policy decision which was endorsed by the population in successive elections.
Oh dear, apparently you're not familiar with the S-Bahn situation in Munich, otherwise the first part of the video would have never be filmed.
Public transportation is realy good. In cities. Go rural and it's still not bad. It's just nonexistent. And no, twice a day a bus (6am and 4pm) is no public transportation system.
Samstags gehört Vati mir anyone?
Depends on the area. I live in a small village and I have a bus every hour to the next village, which connects to buses to two small cities and a train to Hanau.
It's true, some rural areas are barely served at all; but others have excellent services.
Granted I can understand what you mean with the brashness of Patriotism and yes I use the strong patriotic display to talk about social issues and rebuild the welfare state without my foreign surname being brought up e.g. its easier to criticize the government's treatment of the Windrush Generation when the flag of the Kingdom of Britain is in the background and you're arguing why they count alongside the Heroes of the Motherland.
I have some ideas as to why patriotism in Britain developed the way it did involving the decline in social capital (the privatization of public spaces starting as early as the 1400s when the enclosures began and then got into overdrive from the 1980s onwards) and the atomization of kinship systems (as extended family became more and more distant in many places) but without good and reliable data sets such theories would be mere speculation.
With ÖPNV is very much room to improve.
A collegue of mine told me, that he drove to work by car, because with public transport, he had to change busses, but had to hope, the second bus is late. Otherwise he had to wait half an hour.
At some tram stops, which is on an island in the middle of the street, you are incouraged to jaywalk. Even when its is a main street with lots of traffic. Otherwise: Traffic light goes red and you wait, the tram comes, the tram goes, the traffic light goes green.
It happened to me several times, that I was a bit late and the bus came, when I was maybe 20 meters away. As I cannot run anymore, I speedwalked to the bus, but he drove off in front of my nose.
I don't care, if a bus or tram is a few minutes late. But that is really upsetting.
ÖPNV works great in the cities, where you indeed need no car.
Its pretty horrible in rural regions
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The things mentioned were in Bremen.
@@HalfEye79 Well, at least you got busses.
But, yeah, bus drivers dont give a damn about running passengers. I have been knocking on bus doors, and it just drove off
@@535phobosich lebe in einer Stadt mit 250.000 Einwohnern und erledige beinahe alle Wege zu Fuss da der ÖPNV hier die Definition von Inkompetenz ist. Manchmal hat man auch einfach Pech 😅
People horde shop like lunatics when stores close on Sundays. Doesn't matter what country if it closes it's shops on Sundays expect Saturday to be a mad house. A MAD HOUSE.
Yes, you can expect that. And since you expect that, you won't do your groceries on Saturdays. It's that easy.
@@lonestarr1490 no i go Sunday very pleasant shopping experience. Yah capitalism.
grüße gehen an herbert
Most shops are also closed on Sundays in neighbouring Poland. ... except for Zabka.
As a child of both worlds (living in Germany, having a Polish family), this is a recent phenomenon, though, as most shops were open (if with reduced opening hours) before gradually closing them off at sundays.
Hey, hey, hey,
complaining is a Dutch pasttime, not a German one! 😉
Has anyone looked at the weather lately? Now it is too wet!
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It was too warm and sunny here today! Couldn't stand it! ;)