My Father is an ex UK policeman. On his first trip to the US he got himself lost in Vegas and decided to approach some police sat in a car to ask for help - they pulled a gun on him and told him to stand back. It was all OK in the end and they ended up chatting for about 20 minutes about policing but it was quite a shock for him at first. In the UK nobody thinks twice about walking up to police. They're there to help
Does that “help” include when they arrest people for writing something “offensive” on facebook, and all the other BS the british police spend their time on these days? Paul joseph watson here on youtube got a ton of examples if you don’t know what i’m on about.
@@yusted1 pretty sure especially in the US its very dependant where you are...in minnesota in a small community...they probably will gie you a coffe for the way. But in LA...i would bet on survivng such a " walking up for help" encounter. Its just very depending on who the "clientele" is...you know? In LA lots of policemen DIE because the US just has the worst gun laws in the world...And so they will react as such...as if their life is in danger when ever someone comes closer than 10 meters. See what i mean?
I was going to a job interview in a city i'd never been in, Nottingham in this case. I was hopelessly lost. Happened to cross a pair of bobbys and asked them where i was and how to get to where i was looking for. The two blokes helped me out greatly and was a pleasure chatting with them. I've always found encounters with UK police atleast have always been quite plesant.
on the subject of police, in the US the academy is 6 months, in most of europe its a full on 4 year study, you actually get a degree, its a full on career path with alot of growing potential and encouragement, i think that the biggest factor as to why policing is so different
I can be wrong, but if i am not mistaken, in all that time european police spends being educated there is a big emphasis on deescalation and teaching them to try to calm people down instead of pointing a gun at them at the first moment. And they do not always try to be feared but respected. (big difference)
@@nirfz Yes, deescalation is a big thing, but I've come across both good cops and bad cops. The bad ones were the typical guys on a power-trip, but usually cops are great.
6 months bro... I did conscription for a year and don't consider myself a soldier.. If europe had alot of guns the police training would be 6years atleast.. Weird huh
Depends what kind of policing you want. That 4 years thing you mention. You exit the University, cuz its not only academy with officer title and bachelor or Master degree. You can go into Police Academy for 7 months around, if you want to be only patrol policeman.
i'm from germany and i can tell you: yes a drivers licence here is expensive as hell (over 2k € afaik is normal). but two years? that's a new one in my book... i guess it could take you up to two years during the pandemic, where driving schools had also to close due to our regulations. but normaly i would say 2-6 month depending on your and your driving schools schedule. the only thing i can think of is, that he mixed in the probation time. If you get your drivers licence here for cars, trucks or motorcycles (from 125ccm upwards) you have a probation time of two years. Make one or more mayor errors during that time and get caught while doing so (causing an accindent, running a red light, speeding more than 21km/h over what is allowed e.g.) and your probation time gets prolonged for 2 more years, make to many of those an you can lose your licence! yes you can get it again, but that can get quite costly...
Because of pandemic it took about year and a half to get CE (truck & trailer) licences, and i'm still waiting for the final exams. Queue for exam is more than a month. This is in Latvia.
@@Ephoros my wife took it in may of 2020. Was like a week prior to closing down for the pandemic. Really rushed it at the end. About 6 werk from booking to finish. But she was registrerad for a year prior
Yes, it takes longer because of Covid now but normally you can get your drivers license in a couple months. There are even special driving schools where you can get your license in 3 weeks. But there you have to do driving and theoretical lessons everyday. Something not everyone can do because of their job or something.
I worked in a hotel once, and one night we had a guest from the US who after checking in called down from her room because she couldn't handle the window. I tried to explain it to her over the phone but she still had difficulties so I went upstairs and showed it to her. Her reaction was priceless. She put a hand to her mouth, sat down on the bed and just stared at the window. Finally she said: "That's so amazing!" I had to laugh. Made my day.
@@lbb101 "Double-glazed"? Tell me you live in warm parts of the continent without telling me you live in the south :) Triple-glazed with double seal is all the rage now. A bit pricey though.
@@jur4x triple glased ? amateure :D there is 4 layer glass 1 layer soudndampening 1 layer infrared filter (antiheat radiation leaving or coming in) 1 layer antsplinter quadruple sealed glass :D (the layers are sandwitched between the glass...so glas stuff glas stuff glas stuff glas) ....triple glassed is now the bare minimum if you want to get goverment eco boni (germany here) or a extra cheap credit from "KFW" :D
The windows in my hotel in Germany confounded me. I’m from 🇨🇦. I’d never seen windows that open in 3 separate configurations. Like a door. Or from the bottom, or from the top. To catch breezes, to be as open on as possible, or to be open but prevent rain from above entering the room. Ingenious.
German guy here. Grew up in a small village, roughly 850 inhabitants. We got our milk, egg and potatoes right from the farmer across the street, like 100m away. We got a small milk can of 2 liter which we filled on daily basis like kind of from the cow into the can. Till I was 16 we never ever bought milk from any supermarket unless we were on vacation somewhere else.
Unpasteurised (non heat treated) milk is (was) not permitted to be sold in Europe. This is to kill E-coli, listeria and salmonella amongst other harmful bacteria.
@@richardpennington5445 yes, but I also grew up on milk from cow and with no problem, sometimes was even still warm, late 90s was last time I had real milk and not that sweetened white water from supermarket and I mean no bull...., it doesnt has consistency of milk, it doesnt has rich white colour, in small measures it is see through like water, thats not case with real milk from animal and the taste is just so f....sweet is dusgusting, no real milk is sweet,,its just not milk.... But it was different, farmer had 3 cows, they had names and each their own stall, he was passionate about bells :D had some 1000 pieces of different sizes, forms...people like him couldnt survive in mass market that came. And not every farmer was good farmer :/
North Poland here :) not as many farmers as I've seen in Germany but recently local shops in my big city started working with local farmers so you can get eggs and meat. Also every time we drive outside the city you can see small handmade signs as "eggs " or "potatoes " on home's fences and you can buy stuff there. I love to buy strawberries 🍓 from one place as they have very special type that I haven't seen anywhere else.
We host-familied for a guy from India. Years later, I visited his family in a rural village. When we left, we had to wait. The neighbour across the tiny street (3 feet wide, with stone paving) had a small barn. He kept cows. For milk. We had to wait, because one of the cows had wandered into the street. And she was peeing gallons of urine. Right outside the door. So. I waited like I’d done this a million times. Like it wasn’t strange in anyway to me. Because civility.
in the UK, American candy has to have new labels put on over the original with "all" the actual ingredients on it and often warnings that some of the colourings etc can cause problems. Some food colourings used in the USA are banned in almost every other country in the world.
As an Australian, it's always interesting to me when I hear Americans say they feel the US is a very safe place. I think it's a combination of those either living in one of the safer states and/or a lack of comparative experience. "You only know what you know". Travelling is one of the best experiences I think people can have, as it expands your perceptions in so many ways.
Yeah, reminds me of travelling to Norway a couple years ago, went sightseeing in Oslo with a girl from upstate NY (as in, not from New York City) I met at the hostel - there were several places where she went "this seems like a dangerous neighbourhood, we should avoid this place" and I went "huh, why?" - which was just the regular urban places where you'd see a kebab next to a phone repair shop with friendly people around on their way to work; I'd feel absolutely as safe and untreatened as anywhere else. She'd also always put on a hat saying "Canada", because she was convinced she'd get yelled at by some people if she displayed her actual nationality - in downtown Oslo, mind you. Of course, just a single example, but I guess many Americans probably get trained to be more careful around urban centers when growing up there for a good reason - but when they go abroad, signs that may tell them they're about to get robbed in the US are not likely to mean the same thing in Europe...
@@seratonin7004 Thanks, well I've seen most of my continent Europe and a bit of the US, some middle-east, but unfortunately haven't been down-under yet :). Speaking of which, as someone not used to poisonous/dangerous critters at all, that'll maybe bring up a similar situation; I'll probably get completely paranoid about deadly spiders and snakes lurking in the bushes when invited to an outdoors picnic or barbecue - and I strongly suppose for that I'd get the piss taken out of me by locals, as for them the place will feel entirely safe. In many such cases it's just a matter of adjusting your expectations to local reality...
Lived in Chicago and New York for a few months and you nearly understood why Americans want guns. It just felt so unsafe. Was working in restaurants and we were told to change out of our work clothes because people would wait to target workers with tips. Too much crazy people, too much guns to feel safe.
Here in Italy, in many cities, we have weekly street markets where you can find cheap but excellent groceries and clothes Also, I love milk here and the only treatment it receives before getting in the bottle is a heat one. You boil it, you let it cool and you bottle it
As an English teacher in Spain, I've often taken my students on international journeys; as a kid in Germany, I participated in similar ones and also in international and in-state travel with several youth groups. I keep telling my students the same thing I was told back then: if you get lost, find and ask a cop. My impression is that if ever I took them to the US, that would be very bad advice indeed. Here in Spain, the worst thing that ever happened to me when asking a cop for directions has been them first correcting my pronunciation and then talking a tad too fast for me to catch them completely, which then resulted in my missing a turn.
The coloring with American salmon is because most commercial salmon is bred, bred salmon doesn't have the orangy color, so they give them additives to make them colored. The Salmon in Finland he was talking about is wild salmon and does have its normal color.
You are right. Just to elaborate a bit so people don't think it's genetic differences. The colouring comes froom the food the fish gets. Wild salmon hunt other animals that have the red pigments ( they get them through the food chain) and those get stored in the meat. Farmed salmon gets fed an unnatural plant diet (corn/grain) and Farmers have to add the pigments into the food -> cost -> less pigment. (The pigments added are chemically about the same as plant pigments btw) Just some extra info. :)
@@MrMartinNeumann Is that so? I'm from Germany, so what I wrote applies to our practices. So do they dye it artificially after harvesting the meat then? Without pigments in the fish diet? That would make the colour even farther removed from natural. Or is it still in their feed?
I would recommend a trip to Ireland. I'm Swedish myself and have very much enjoyed myself there. My recommendation: Rent a car, buy a bed and breakfast guide and drive around. When you call a B&B don't be discouraged if they don't have room, just ask them if they have the number to other B&B's in the area - it hasn't failed me once. You can skip the famous Temple Bar district in Dublin though because it's almost only tourists even behind the bar (if you are there in tourist season at any rate).
Would agree with you. I’m english, and went to Dublin last year. Saw/heard so many Americans and was a bit disheartened that all these tourists will likely only see the super busy parts of Dublin (temple bar area) and not go out. The best things in Ireland are outside of Dublin. It’s a nice easy going city, but if you have the time branch out 100%. Would also recommend doing a walking tour if ppl do go to Dublin. Never go without knowing a bit of history. They also will be able to give actual recommendations too.
My mother is 82. She and her friends go out about midnight and come back about 3, or 4. Is a university city, people from all over the world coming. They walk for example from nobody streets until the center full with students, sitting in parks taking an ice cream around nobody else, sometimes someone walking or there are elderly walking or sitting too, some couples and some groups of young people and mid age.. that is in Europe normal life style. Some places are extremely hot in summer the only way is waiting until 10, 11, 12 p.m. or 1 a.m. Remember in Europe we love go out and walk, alone or with others, even meet new people, just social interaction with people that you don't know is normal. 😘🇪🇦👍💖
I'm from Central Europe (Slovakia). Those tilting windows are used literally everywhere here - we also have them everywhere at home, even as small windows in the garage and basement. Driver's license cost me 350€ 7 years ago, today's price is around 1000€ and how quickly a person acquires it depends on how often he plans theoretical and practical exams and tests - that is from 2 months to a year.
@@vukstefanovic5348 I can't imagine life without a car :) Personally, I drive a lot to areas where buses don't go often, or I go at night when the buses don't run either. If I lived only in the city, I could endure it, but otherwise life without a car is unimaginably horrible. 😄 If the price of a driver's license was 10 000€ I would pay it without hesitation.
@@neolerades2987 i get ya , espetially if you dont live in a big city ... but here its kinda pointless to get a car cuz busses drive everywhere for dirt cheap and pretty often , amd trains are not trash too
Gotta say dude, you seem like such a likable, chill person, being real and not acting up for the views. Glad you chose to make vids like these. Best wishes.
I live in Switzerland and we have those tilting windows too. However, to save energy when the heaters are running (especially now), it's recommended to fully open the windows to air the rooms for a short period of time and then close them.
@@BLACKFLAME4941 That's where they were invented in 1928. They weren't extensively used before WW2. But after WW2 so many windows in Germany (and a lot of Europe) were destroyed that the inventor invested hugely into mass producing a single size frame with that tilt-sideways-swing opening mechanism that it became a de-facto standard for Germany. From here it spread out through Europe.
@@RustyDust101 bullshit i fixed older windows in denmark.. But some part of germany also used to be danish Windows have been opening all the way back to 1700's
Being born in NZ, living in Australia and having traveled to Europe, the food quality, way of life and general livability standards are fairly similar with obvious cultural differences and nuances between them, but by comparison to the U.S it's vastly different and worlds apart. The biggest difference regardless of the the circumstance is massive, e.g food, healthcare, education, justice system, housing, workplace, social welfare etc etc, is the U.S will exploit humane sensibility and indivduals rights in favour of revenue collecting for corporations whereas that's highly illegal elsewhere and for very good reason..
I have eaten high quality food in Boston. In fact, that's all I ate while there. But I was given to understand that they have quality food, which is less common, and then all the bad stuff which most people buy. The difference is that here in Europe, there are serious standards on what can be produced and imported. So unless there has been some contraband food creeping up some markets, all EU food is exceptionally good compared to most other places
05:00 "fresh" milk can actually last like 3weeks (unopened) but u need to add a couple steps to the processing. its called esl (extended shelf life) and we use it here in europe too.
You can also go UHT and it'll last for month even in room temperature. It's got nothing to do with chemical its just boiled really quickly which is worse for the taste than it is for how healthy it is.
I do find it odd and worrying that so much is added to food in America. Even the most basic foods like bread for instance. So much sugar is added to bread that to non American palates it tastes more akin to cake than bread.
Hi, I'm from Bulgaria - a small country in Eastern Europe. When I got my driver's license many years ago (I was 19 years old) the process was as follows - 1 month of driving school, you literally sit for hours like in school and learn the rules of the road. And about 1 month of driving in a special training car with an instructor next to you. No mum and dad taught me to drive - if they are bad drivers then you learn their mistakes etc. Now, on the day of the exam, you hold theory first. If they cut you off, you don't appear for the second part of the exam. If you pass the theory, you go to the driving test - a practical test. They take you through the worst intersections in the city, give you the smallest streets to maneuver, U-turns, parallel parking, elevation, etc. If you make a mistake - that's it, you don't get a driver's license. Now the rules are much more difficult and the process is much more complicated than it was for me. Just to note that the instructors are private certified instructors, but the examiners work for the police. On the day of the exam, you don't know which examiner will come.
Me and some friends did a roadtrip a couple of years back. Started from Greece and went as far as the Czech R. and I have to say, driving in Bulgaria felt the safest. Literlly everyone there drove at such a normal pace, no erratic behaviours, no agreesive acceleration/braking and absolute respect for for road signs and other drivers.I was rly amazed. And then we went to Belgrade, Serbia... I absolutely f-ing love Serbia but driving in Belgrade was a freak show! The exact opposite from Sofia.
I did my licence in Romania and it was a joke, theory - ok I learnt it from a book and it's a test that was fine. I failed first time and had to actually study for a weekened to be able to pass. The practical lessons however were bad - I was driving my instructor around to do his business; no night, no highway driving of course. I practiced parking for like 10 minutes and then he said that's ok. I am still not confident with parallel parking :) Of course I paid him cash and no receipt :) The exam was super easy, took maybe 5 minutes. I think I drove less than a km, it was just about not screwing up the basics (seatbelt, start properly, look around, understand signs, be able to take a normal intersection or a lane change, use turn signals etc). Literally 5 minutes. People drive horribly - very aggressive, if there's a slow vehicle on a curvy road of course the 5th car in the back will start taking over the rest in places with way too bad visibility (and of course over a continuous line if it's there), you have to be careful to make them room if something comes in the opposite lane. 80-100 kph or more through small towns. This is not a small minority, it's a ton of people, all the time. Sounds like Bulgaria is a lot better, in training at least.
@@bencze465 I took two courses. The first one was with a totally crazy grandfather as an instructor. I had 3-4 hours of theory and maybe no more than 2 hours of driving left until the test. Grandpa and I argued about which direction at the intersection I turned left or right and when a scandal started in the car ... the man had documents in his hand, he threw them at the windshield of the car and they scattered all over the glass and of course because I couldn't see absolutely nothing, I passed a red light at an intersection. I threatened him that I would file an official complaint against him and go to the media if he didn't return my money (I was a journalism student at the time). The guy refunded my money and I started a new course all over again.
@@bencze465 The worst thing is, once you have a recognized license, like the romanian one for example, you can easily use it in every other european country or even transfer it to another license for example if you wanted to live in Germany, you could register your romanian license and they'll give you a german license^^ Which is a bit terrifying if the exam process you described is normal there.
When my cousin moved to florida from the UK, the first thing he mentioned was the food. In his words "Everything is full of shit" From the meat, bread and even fruit &veg. It's all pumped full if sugars, flavouring, colouring, preservatives and hormones. He showed me a pic of some burger King halloween burger, and the bun looked luminous lol
@@babbergabber I don´t even belive in Europe we add chlorine to the water but, these are the legal upper limits because water ist treated with it. Searched it for germany: Legal upper Limit: 0,3 mg/l (Miligramms per Liter) Avarege contents after treatment: 0.03-0.05 mg/l
As french I do consider food in England is not good so if a British man do consider food in Florida is shit, it makes me really scared of food situation over there 😂
Our food is good from. butchers farms etc why would it not be ! My friend worked in America 🇺🇸 she said she developed acne put on weight and her monthly periods stopped 🤷♀️she went to her doctor when she moved back to England 🏴 and he said she was ok and her body would go back to normal it was obviously he said because of the food we have food standards testing here they don’t in America 🇺🇸 she went back to normal after about 3 months 😮🏴🌹
In the Netherlands they sell fresh milk. That you can keep for only a few days. But they also sell long lasting milk. It’s a simple proces they do with it without chemicals. So nothing to worry about
We don't really have them in the UK either - so disappointing! When I come across them while travelling or on rare occasions in the UK it's always a fun surprise. Some quick googling makes me think it's probably cost: they're more expensive and the UK is full of developers who build houses to the cheapest possible specification since price is almost entirely based on location not specification. It could also be an age thing. 80% of UK homes were built before 1990, whereas it's only 66% in Germany and about 50% in Denmark (just picking some European countries at random). Apparently these "Tilt and Turn" windows have been available in the UK since the 1980s, so there haven't been as many opportunities to install them in newly built houses. I don't think that applies to the USA though.
@@dreckigerdan3739 I mean, when the houses are up to a hundred years old, that ain't hard to achieve, what I'm saying is that ppl had these windows in the 80s or earlier already. I'm from the Yugo region and I remember seeing these when really young and the windows themselves looked old, with the old paint crusting off of them.
It's so weird to hear it from your perspective :O I know that gun violence and robbery are big issues there, but as a Hungarian (btw, we consider the UK as a slightly unsafe area :D) I and my friend went out to parties a lot in our teenage years, basically as kids, and always went home at around dawn, but never ever came to our mind that we have to be afraid of violence. Of course, there were, drunk people who are always finding some reason to fight over something, but someone attacking us or robbing us, really few times happenes in my hometown, and in general in my country.
Interesting that you think that, Hungary (2.49 murders per 100,000) has just over twice the murder rate of the UK(1.2) according to the 2022 figures. France (1.2) and the UK are virtually identical and both are very safe, for example Belgium and Canada are perceived as safer but Belgium (1.69) and Canada (1.76) are around 45% more dangerous. Ireland (0.87)is extremely safe but the USA (4.96) is very unsafe, it’s by far the most dangerous place in the developed world.
Hi from Finland, Harbour in Helsinki is near but almost all salmon here comes from Norway. Offcourse transportation is fast and here you have to show when fish was caught..
Oh, we are definitely taught The Police are our friends in Australia and generally they're pretty good at defusing a situation. Be honest, upfront and respectful, they'll treat you the same way.
I am not from the US, but I have been there plenty enough to say that the diference in the quality of food is huge. Not only the culture of take out and fast food is everywhere, but even if I would search for ingredients to cook at home and pay several times more than in Europe, I would still come back home with several kilos extra. Its very hard to explain unless you experience it yourself, most people tend to defend what they know. I guess the only way to confirm is to go out, travel and try.
i have been in the US 2 times for one week and was sick more often from the food in restaurants than in the last 30 years here in europe. and i didn't go to the worst reviewed and cheapest dirty looking restaurants
I would feel so restricted if I couldn't go for a walk whenever I feel like it. In winter it's dark here most of the day (Northern Finland) so if I couldn't walk in the dark I would have to stay cooped up inside and would go crazy. I love my freedom to roam ❤.
There is a family of Americans living in Romania that has a RUclips channel, and they also pointed out the windows here in Romania and how good this system is... I couldn't understand, I grew up with those windows, I thought everybody has them, it's hard to believe there is a "thermal" windows (like multiple layered windows) without this dual opening system.
In the Netherlands here and we also mainly use those windows. They are pretty great, altho I have heard some tales about cats getting stuck in the open window of its in the slighty open stand.
I'm a Belgian who lived in TX and currently working in NC, and even though I love A LOT about the US, the food is a big problem for me. I kinda looked into it and as always it comes down to money. In the US the rules for food production are a lot less strict than in in the EU. In the US the responsibility of food is put on the people that prepare the food, while in the EU the stricter rules apply to the food production. Food poisoning is something I don't encounter in Europe nearly as much as I do in the US, but in Belgium we eat both raw pork and raw beef without problem. That's something that's just impossible int he US unless you know the cow or the pig on a first name basis. Another thing that bothers me is how space is wasted int he US, you've got such an amazing country, and stripmalls is what you chose to do with it... Things I love are all the different subcultures and hobby scenes that aren't somewhat limited by language and large enough to be interesting. Also the Nationa Parks and public land is something I always miss when I'm home in Belgium, where I can't even think of a piece of nature where I can't hear cars in the distance.
Not to mention the foul smell of oil (due to the refineries in the Port, yeah, that one) when stepping outside, and I'm living on the opposite side of the city! It's even more striking when coming back home from holidays abroad, or even from the Ardennes.
America has an obsession forgetting tje most from the least money hence quality is immaterial. It's why virtually every product they make is low on price but low on quality. They think luxury just means "bigger"
Greetings from Italy! The first clip, about meat it's quite true. Here in EU the regulations about meat quality are very strict and I've discovered that a lot of USA meat based products are not importable in EU because of some additives in it. Italy in EU is one of the most restrictive country for the food regulations! We are messy for a lot of things and for sure we are not so virtuous if compared with other countries such Germany or Netherlands but for sure we are dead serious about food and wine. Food is sacred. This cause some goofy stuff like the price of McDonald's! Here the meat is so safe that you can eat a rare hamburger if you want but this safety have a price so a Big mac cost 7 or 8 dollars! An American guy who studied here for an exchange say to me that he spend the journey eat everything, every day he go around trying new food and drinking quite a lot (he was 20 and be free to drink for him was a new thing) and at the end he lost 20 pounds... He told me that the Americans are not fat are just swollen for the shitty food they eat. The second clip, about the milk, is just because the USA milk is generally pastorized and the uk is fresh. The long conservation milk can least for 3 months the fresh one 5 days...
A big part of it is also the fact that basic ingredients cost US folks more than shitty, long lasting premade foods. Just look up the prices of stuff like basic flour compared to European prices. It's insane, but it's more cost effective to buy all that crap than make their own food more from scratch.
My sister lives on the West Coast of Ireland (County Kerry). If you have drunk a lot too much, the police will actually drive you home - and even once came the next morning to drive her to her car to pick it up. It is so rural there that the police are very relaxed about drink/drive.
Hi from Finland. I'm an insomniac and when I can't sleep I go for walks. I walk around the parks and streets alone all night and I've never felt scared or that I'm in danger. And I'm a woman and I live in Helsinki, the biggest city in the country. Also, we have basically no muggings or at least I've never heard of anyone who got mugged or robbed... but a friend of mine was once pickpocketed about 15 years ago.....
I'm from Hungary and the same here. I'm a night owl, and I love to take those walks at night :) I was robbed once when I was drunk, but it was more than 15 years ago :D And actually, that wasn't even a proper robbery as I recall :D They saw that I'm not very coordinated, I'm also short, and I was in my late teens, so I was an easy target :D Almost sounds like it was my fault :D But all in all, I think I am more afraid of my imagination after watching a horror movie than I am of something like that happening to me again :D Oh and to place it into the right context, I live in the second-largest city in my country :)
@@huseroland Sorry to hear that and hi to Hungary! The robbery was definitely not your fault, that's 100% on the robbers! I've done some night walks in Budapest too (also the drunken ones) and nothing happened and I've felt pretty safe there,... so it doesn't seem like there is a safety problem either?
@@marsukarhu9477 Not much at all, I'm glad to say this :) Thanks, I know it wasn't my fault, I just wanted to show how much we don't consider this behaviour an everyday problem :) I mean, when I hear Americans talking about this topic, it almost sounds like paranoia, but sadly they have many reasons to feel that way. Not saying we don't have any problems here though... We have our "king" to be concerned about :D He really takes our reputation to another level nowadays. And hi to Finland as well! :)
I am from Germany, been living 12 years (half my life) in Berlin and have never personally experienced crime. Seen and heard of it sure but never experienced something.
I was once on hols in Maryland. I was taking the bus from NYC to Baltimore and was to get off at the "Secure" Park and Ride outside Baltimore, where my uncle was going to pick me up. We were early, so the bus rider decided to wait driving off as he was absolutely sure that as a white young woman it was NOT safe for me to wait the 30 min for my ride. That was a bit of a shock for me, as it was meant to be a 'secure' car park. 😮😊
05:50 - German windows. They’re originally called Suicide windows because you can put them on anything above 4th floor with only the top tilt opening. Prevents… well, you know.
I was in the UK forces during “the Cold War era (70s and 8s) I first had experience of these windows in 74 so they have obviously been available for decades, another innovation with windows was the wooden roller blinds. All the German villages you drove through at night were almost completely dark apart from street lighting. The blinds were operated from the inside so complete thermal Barrie and complete security once they were down.
I'm with you 100% on the lane discipline...it's simple,travel on the right unless overtaking. Unless yr UK or Aussie etc but it's still the same,travel in the slow lane unless overtaking.
That's true of course, but it's still illegal to speed whichever lane you are in, so ostensibly even in the overtaking lane people should still be limited by that.
Agree. Its more relaxing for everyone this way. But i guess going to slow is a bit dangerous but overall mostly very annoying. Its much more important to looking over your shoulder before changing the lane and using indicators. Also right lane overtaking is forbidden in Germany and it drives me nuts when people do that anyway outside of a traffic jams. Btw. what i like about traffic jams here is that people in the back immediatly turn their warning lights on when a jam starts. Its super dangerous if people dont to that lots of crashes happen because people crash into stopping traffic on our highways (i guess everywhere). It even almost happened to me one time. It takes a moment to realize that you are going 100 km / h or more faster than the car ahead of you if you are not expecting it and maybe dont pay full attention.
@@derPetunientopf I started overtaking from the right in Denmark, as 80% of the drivers just stick to the middle lane as if their life would depend on it. I‘m tiered of changing 3 lanes every minute.
@@agnesmeszaros-matwiejuk8783 Well, of course people should also use the right lane if theres not much going on. It also really depends on the specific highway you are on. On some highways like our A5 the right lane is full of slow trucks and there are also many access roads to the motorway. In case of access roads i switch early to the middle to give way for oncoming traffic. Personally im more the type that doesnt change the lane all the time because i often see that if i take that spot on the right i have to change back in about 150 m and then i have to brake because somebody comes rushing from the back in the middle, just not worth it. The people that annoy me could have always just as well used the left lane, often i see those then drive to close to others and squizzing trough tiny gaps, all this while not ending up much faster anyway. Its a special kind of motorists. Btw. i havent driven on Danish roads myself but what i have seen from bus and train windows looked rather relaxed. Of course i have seen only some areas.
@@derPetunientopf it‘s usually not few 100m, rather 1-2 km that they still won‘t take the right lane, and just driving 90-100 kmh instead of the 110 on most places. The biggest issue here is that a lot of people seem to gave issues processing the information when there are more than 2 lanes. As if the last lane is reserved for trucks, even if there isn‘t any around. The other problem is using the fog lights. If there‘s fog they turn it on, even if I can see at least a km ahead, they just burn my retina. I Germany the rule is 50 m, in Serbia, when you can see the car’s lights behind then you should turn it off the back lights, here it‘s up to the person and they are not able to use it properly.
If it was winter all year round in Australia I wouldn't consider living anywhere else, sadly I couldn't do the summers. Enjoy yourself, see you next winter.
Australia is blessed with so many wonderful places and people but the heat and the huntsmen mean I could never live there. Happy in the UK but Aus is ace!
For the windows, it's very common here in france since about 20 years. The system is also applied on some doors, for terrace access. Bad point : it exist some security trouble for cat. Some of them try to get out when the window is inclined. The head and front legs pass, but the back get stuck by the hip. If the cat stay for a too long period, free hours, the cat will be parallelized.
Where I live in Poland I really appreciate the safety factor here. I am an American and left the US for Poland in 2013 when I was 58 years old. Even late at night I feel safe going home on the tram. I did not feel safe at night in many parts of the US.
@Science in Engineering now you mention it, I realise when travelling there's always a sense of dodging some political, social or natural disaster when choosing where to go. A planned trip to Thailand was disrupted by civilian unrest at Bangkok airport. Our flight to DC on 9/11 was turned around. We did return a year later though. We were rerouted via Sacramento Valley due to the Californian bushfires. It turned out to be a happy adventure! Then we were visiting London for two days when the Underground bombings occurred. Then Aer Lingus ran out of their complimentary beer and wine. A 5 hour delay ensued. These are all things one cannot plan for, though some obviously carry more weight.
@@seratonin7004 "A planned trip to Thailand was disrupted by civilian unrest at Bangkok airport. " haha.. you almost came across me, i was trapped in Thailand for over half a month due to that. The problem started the same day i was suppose to go home. Because we bought super cheap tickets, we was the last to be alowed to go home. Things have been slowly turning in Sweden, really for quite a long time, and it was excelerated with the catastofy of 2015 and now with the catastrophic of 2022 it was accelerated even more. The christian democrat had a globalist clean out a few years back, and the moderate party have more of a internal struggle between globalist and non globalist. It would seam like the non globalist won for now. Only L party left that is mostly globalists. The sort of establishment let have been in full out meltdown mode last weeks. And yesterday it was declearde that the environment department will be closed. Not becasue its something wrong with the environment, but the department is corrupt to the core.
@Science in Engineering I'm glad you made it out of Thailand safely! It was chaos at the time. And I'm really sad to hear that some Scandinavian countries are facing such issues. To have to close an entire government department because of corruption is appalling!
I have been to LA recently, spent 7 days there. I felt insecure every single second. The amount of drug addicts is scary, the amount of homeless people is horrible, I was heart broken. The food is off, even the fruit, I felt my body was not reacting well to it, for example, my face start to have zits, but I never had them in my life, not even when I was a teen. And the taste of the american food is also different.. I donno how to describe it. Of course not all was bad, of course. Specialy the people, they were amazing and made me feel so welcome. The american people was the best part, for me. One last observation: the tip system needs to go, it's unfair, and an insult to the hard work and human rights.
Back in the late 60's and the 70's, when my wife and I lived in W Germany, we had those windows in our Married Quarter. After finally arriving back in the UK and buting our first house in 1984, one of the first things we did was to have double-glazing installed throughout with those very same type of double operation windows plus similarly operating patio doors! A real benefit in warm weather, if you haven't got air-con.
14:35 Getting your license in germany takes a few weeks at most, not "2 years". In fact, if you let the time between your last lesson and the final exam grow too long you need to take extra refresher-classes. Of course it takes a little longer if you combine licenses, since the mandatory classes get more if you add motorbike, car, commercial truck, trailer together.
One time around 10 or 11 pm my boyfriend's car broke down and police car stopped to ask if we needed help. They offered to take me home, while my boyfriend stayed and waited for his friend to come and help out with the car. That was really nice thing to do and it wasn't even the first time that police officers took me home when in need.
So, I am oryginally from Poland and I had experience with good and bad policemen. Rude and cocky mostly times, but always it ends good for me (I was never the one who course the problems). But there is never problem to ask about something. Few years ago I was living in GB (Leicester, Newport, Cardiff) and there I haven't seen any policeman with gun... 😮 And now I am living in Belgium and I have only good experience with "Polite" even I messed up (not for purpose - rather lack of low knowledge) with something. They are always polite, willing to help and explain.
Here in Poland, you can start your "journey" to get a driving license when you have 3 months left to your 18th birthday. You have to take a ~30-hour (it's a "school" hour in this case - 45 min = 1 hour) theoretical course that'll teach you the rules, some basic first aid etc., that usually ends with an internal exam in your driving school of choice. When you pass the exam, you are allowed to take actual practical driving lessons. You are required to take at least 30 hours (actual hours this time) of these lessons. The cars are are prepared for driving lessons - they have a second set of pedals on the instructor's side so they can stop the car if you're about to do something dangerous. After you finish the practical lessons you can take a state exam which is split into 2 parts - theoretical, where you answer questions such as "are you allowed to turn right in this situation? " and a practical parts where you have to first demonstrate some maneuvers such as starting to drive up a hill. Then there's an approximately 30min-1hour drive during which the examiner goes through a checklist of possible situations such as "stopping at a red light", "parking parallel to the road" etc., you can't make a single "big" mistake such as not giving someone the right of way when you should (if you make a more minor mistake that doesn't pose a threat to you or other users of the road, you can still pass the exam, but the examiner will want to see how you do in the same situation the next time). The courses and exams are on manual cars by default, you can take your course and exam with an automatic, but then your license will allow you to drive automatic only. As for pricing it's around 3000 PLN for the course here in Warsaw (so ~650 USD). The exams are relatively cheap at 30 PLN for the theoretical one and 140 PLN for the practical part. You can skip the theoretical part of the course if you pass the state theoretical exam before you enroll in your driving school of choice.
In 2019 a American friend of mine came to visit me and my family here in the South West of the UK. The one thing that surprised him was that people that where Unemployed and people that had Jobs all lived on the same street / road, there was no segregation like he had grown up with in small town Ohio. Another thing he was amazed about and thought was a good idea, is the fact that Children and Dogs are allowed in our Pubs (bars) whilst in the US its not allowed in most states and towns. I took him and my kids, my wife and my nephew (all the children where under twelve years old at that time) to our local pub and had a good time as a family. He said it saves money on getting child carers / baby sitters whilst the parents went out for a drink.
In EU, left lane is only for overtaking, u dont drive on left lane. U can stay as long as u like and overtake as meny vechicles as u like, but u stay there as long as u overtaking. U check ur mirror, get on the left lane, overtake and back to ur lane. Thats it
northern territory of bloody australia had/has no open road speed limit. Freaked me out when I was sitting on 100mph and a cop flew past me like I was stopped!
7:58 - About feeling safe going home from the pub. The more eyes you have on you, the safer you feel. So I think one related factor could be the ammount of foot traffic that exist in Europe compared to North America. As Europeans usually walk, bike, and move between public transports you get more eyes on the street. Compare this with North Americans who more often are hidden inside cars. Even if you were seen by an equal number of people on both continents; you yourself would feel safer in Europe because there you would see more eyes.
I am on the south coast of the UK. We have loads of Chinese places locally. To be honest, it's tough to find a bad Chinese. Oh and home delivery is free, and you normally get it in about 20 minutes. 👌
Yep another "my cousin" comment lol When he moved to florida he said the Chinese food was terrible, loads of the dishes he has back in England were not available and they'd never heard of prawn crackers 🤔
@@101steel4 guess they also didn't hear of the typical chinese dish "loaded fries, cheesy fries or curry fries" what certainly in Belfast is available in every chinese takeout...
The window shown is pretty standart in Czechia. Even my nonagenarian grandparents have them at their house and they pretty much live in middle of nowhere with closest city about 22 km far away. They are very practical and in summer keeps the insect outside.
Trip....marrocan moussaka, spanish tapas, french bread cheese and wine, swiss sausage and chocolate, austria wiener schnitzel, italian food, ship to greece for suvlaki and gyros, up to croatia for seefood and salad and flight to norway for salmon and crabs!
I lived in the UK for four years and the food there is so much better, fresh wise. Their milk is delicious and their butter melts at room temp. Here in Canada it is still too firm to spread on bread that tears it. British sausage rolls and cheese and onion rolls blew me away! Yum!! ❤️🇨🇦
IN Germany we have shelf stable cows milk, which doesn't go off for month without fridges. It has nothing to do with chemical preservation, but how the milk is treated after milking the cow
german highways are also always under construction. and yes about 2/3 of it is without speedlimits. but id say stick to 130-180 km/h for a normal ride. no need to go any faster really
yep, the driving tests portion is 100% correct, the thing I most heard in driving school, if you're switching lanes or in an intersection without any signs or traffic lights (which there are many of) drive in a way that no other driver has to touch a brake because of you, and on the highway hell yeah, if you see someone in your windshield gaining on you, you move immediately
I am an engineer in window and door construction. The funniest thing about American windows... They don't even close properly and no matter how well they are made. With this sliding nonsense... It makes them incredibly expensive and you can't seal them properly (we use 3 seals). It is just the old fashioned British way of building windows. Europe has seen the light and uses German tech for their windows. And you're using glass in the US which does not really keep the heat in (Winter) or out (Summer). Over here we are required by law to use glass which insulate so much, that the most cost effective way is to use triple sheet glass, filled with Argon. It is really incredible, how much the US is behind in technology concerning windows and doors. American doors and the locks are really a joke when you compare them to European (aka German). I had to design a few doors which were exported to the US. They had to meet fire and safety regulations. Since most of the parts we normally use weren't certified by American officials we had to use American locks. So I called up our American branch to send me locks I specified. Oh boy I was in for a new experience... TBH when they arrived I thought they were playing a trick on me. Really, I couldn't believe that those things were what I had to use. Bulky, cheaply made, vital components made out of cuts of steel sheets, where those are milled CNC parts in Europe, further more completely unvisible, locking the door in four different places. And best of all, that heap of junk was twice as expensive as European parts (anti panic function).
The German Autobahn is the fastest and safest road system in the world for 3 reasons: Discipline, Discipline and Discipline! You follow the rules, or the Germans will let you know you F'ed up! Sadly there are more and more parts of the autobahn where there are speed limit . usually 80, 100, 120 or 130 km/h. The parts without speed limit are literally without speed limit. Even if your car can go 250 km/h / 155 mph (which most cars are limited to) You still have to look in the rear view mirror for those coming fast from behind
What I noticed about the difference between the food in the USA and Germany is that some of the ingredients used in the USA are banned in Germany because, among other things, they could be harmful to health. With a few exceptions, almost all additives in Germany are subject to declaration and must be labeled on the packaging. In restaurants, gastronomy, the baker, there you will find notices or lists with the ingredients and additives used. On many electronic or electrical devices you can often find additional information that they have been tested by the TÜV (Technical Monitoring Association) or the GS mark (tested safety) or type - or sample tested. Many products or manufacturers are certified according to DIN 9001/2/3/4 and some also according to DIN 14001/2.
The biggest reason a driver licence is expensive in europe, is because you have to get lessons from a professional instructor, in a adapted car. Not from a parent or family member in a regular car. It doesn't make sense to me. If a youngster fail to hit the brakes, for example, the dad, or anyone else, can not prevent that from happening. So aren't there, in the USA more accidents while learning? But anyway. You will just only pay for the tests. Here you pay for every lesson. (Maybe once a week 30 minutes will cost you 50/60 euro. You'll need 20/30 lessons. The cost of exams not incl. That's + 300. They do offer packagedeals. About 1100 euro's incl exams. But should you fail, re exam will cost you extra. And there's a huge waitinglist for exams here in the Netherlands, due to covid. 3 months is no exeption. And I was wondering. Most people in Europe learn to drive manual, standard. That takes more practice i'd think.
I have a motorcycle licence, and that's just as hard/expensive to get. Lessons etc. I've also watched americans do their bike test. Basically roll up on their own bike, which they've already been riding on public roads (how does that work if you don't have a licence) Ride round a carpark for 5 minutes and that's it. No going out on the road with an instructor. Plus this particular person did no shoulder checks and put his foot down. An instant fail in England.
I’ve been into Galway Ireland for around 10 times a week at the time and I never ever saw not a single fight or even an loud argue. Only loud ”noise” comes from those terrific street musicians who puts up their drums and guitars on those busy narrow streets and starts playing! Morning walks next to Galway Bay when sun is getting up - beautiful! I really love the city. Sure Dublin is Dublin, but Galway’s right there as well. Highly recommended city to visit.
You could stay in Oranmore, stone throw away from Galway with excellent bus services to the city, the sunset on the shore at Oranmore Castle is stunning, and a big Tesco, Aldi and Lidl for the daily amenities, some nice pubs too and certainly no street musicians
Ireland is another place I'd like to work abroad. My brother-in-law was in Dublin for a few years and the laid-back culture extends to the workplace. I thought we were pretty relaxed in Australia, but Ireland wins! The pubs are great too. I didn't like Guinness until I had it from fresh pipes!
Oh, and on a strange note, I had the best seafood chowder ever on the Arran Islands 🤷♀️ Clearly they're doing something right when it comes to international food!
@Neville Apple all I remember is that it's to do with the ratio of hops (more hops are added to preserve Guinness for longer transportation/storage, but hops also adds bitterness. This explains the creamier taste of Guinness in Ireland. Also, the cleaner the pipes, the better the taste. There's so many pubs in Ireland that you're bound to find a grand pint!
@@seratonin7004 Guinness sends representative around every pub that sells Guinness in Ireland every once and a while, maybe every few weeks or every month or so, to check how things are set, quality control type situation. They adjust things if necessary. Apparently 195 people check 70,000 Guinness taps in 10,000 pubs in Ireland
10:00 around... well the difference is that for example I live in Finland I have a lot of friends in bigger cities here even in Helsinki and I been traveling all over my country to different cities. Never ever have thought that I'm in danger any time of the day and I party a lot.
to the milk thing (german perspective): since a couple of years the standard milk you can buy here lasts also up to two weeks (not opened). before it was around 4 days.
For those interested, speeding in Finland is quite expensive, 3 strikes and your license gets shelved for x amount of months. The price of the ticket is calculated by how much you earn, so rich people dont get a free pass on speeding. One the highest speeding tickets are around 100k
Re motorways in UK, and it's getting worse, you get huge lorries in the inside lane doing 35-40mph, slightly smaller lorries doing 40-45mph in the centre lane and everyone else having to use the fast lane, including vans that only do 50 mph - our main motorways are often moving slower than some of the A roads! (I drive on the M1 every day, and get this!)
This is (maybe?) my number one road hate!!!!! Some moron in a lorry, turning a motorway into a single lane track road, by overtaking at .00001 mph up hill for 5 miles !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rant, rant, rant, rant!!!!
It's been a long time since I last visited the US, but I remember beeing disappointed by the most food items over there. I've been a very picky eater all my live, so this was no surprise for me at first. It happened many times before and will always happen again. But the amount of food that looked very good and tasted very different really surprised me. A donut is that much greasier and sweeter than a Kreppel, the chocolate looked good but tasted horribly and had no "Schmelz". The milk tasted like water with chalk in it, and the eggs had a fishy cardboard taste. I still like a lot of american foods, but some of the most basic things are just horrible.
1) Yeah the food standards are so much different between US and EU... Many additives, preservatives and colorings that are perfectly legal in the US are banned in EU. Also, even for the same products, the US version have more sugar in them. 2) The milk thing blew me away. As a european, I always thought that of course fresh milk goes bad in 5-6 days. Yes we have pasteurized milk in tin cans that can last months without opening it. But it tastes and look so different. 3) Windows. 90%+ of the EU homes have this style of window shown. Im my life I've only seen 1 house with sliding windows, and the slide horizontaly, not vertically like the US ones. 4) Its very commin in EU, especially Ireland & south EU for bars and night clubs to stay open even until sunrise. Also drinking is legal from 18, but none checks any IDs. And outdoor drinking is perfectly legal. You can of course walk down the street with a beer can in your hand. And finally, gun ownership is much much lower. Its extremely difficult and costly to even get a handgun, and nothing more is allowed.
Yes in Europe health and life quality of the “basic” worker is just common sense, happy people don’t shoot at each other’s and educated kids won’t spray a gun in school either… Decent salary, health care, decent food and education for all will forever make EU and US economy incompatible.
@@nicoladc89 true but even in Europe countries we’re guns can be found there are no such shooting. There is something more in the US, something more than just more guns. Look at Switzerland.
Location isn’t an issue here in Japan for fresh food. Because of an ancient history of eating raw fish, they have explored ways to keep it fresh for so long. Now, their flash-freezing technology is top notch. Flash-freezing freshly caught fish in an instant without breaking down cells. So when they thaw, you can see there’s no liquid drip coming out of the fish (which is caused by cells breaking down.) So you can eat freshly-caught fish as sashimi regardless of whether you live by the water or not. Been eating sushi and sashimi for two decades here and I’ve never once gotten sick. And yeah, salmon is supposed to be pink. 😂 They hold patents to this even in the US and Europe, so you’ve probably seen it at work somewhere. They use it for meat and fresh produce all over the world, like avocados in Mexico.
I recognize the Chinese one from multiple foreign experiences. Chinese food looks and tastes very different in different countries. I can't wait to try Chinese food in China and find out what it's supposed to be like :)
It was normal being a teenager having a few drinks to much , and looking like a drunk longhaired hippy, that a cop would give you a ride home in the early morning. Those were the day's ! 🤩
So true, and don't forget to ask them to let you out at the next crossroads, so the neighbors don't see, that the police is giving you a ride... Indeed, those were the days...
Omg - a rational, logical American YTer, amazing! Spot on with the comments about crime; applicable in most countries, there usually are - to use a colloquial Aussie expression - ‘seedier’ places that ‘non locals’ would only know from crime stats, or sensationalized stories about a particular place, often quite misrepresentative of the reality. Except in Australia THE RIGHT LANE IS THE FAST LANE, so if you people who drive on the left, all round the world, would you PLEASE REMEMBER THAT IN AUSTRALIA, THE RIGHT HAND LANE IS THE “FAST” LANE!
Yes the licencing system in Europe is way tougher and expensive. I don't drive a car but do have a motorcycle licence. That was a very long and expensive process. Apparently in the US the bike test is basically the equivalent of our CBT. That's even if you have to take one, I've heard in some places it's basically filling out a form. No 125cc learning over there.
"That was a very long and expensive process." that's a good thing.. you don't want idiots on the road who don't know what they're doing and are endangering others..
@@AboveSomething I agree. I'm old enough to remember pre CBT days. Just sentd off for a provisional licence and buy a 2 stroke bike. No training no lessons no nothing. It's a much better system today. The US should do something similar. I've seen Americans get a Yamaha MT10, or similar, as a first bike. Not a good idea.
To be fair, I did a 2 week holiday in the US which was all over California, then Vegas and did not find a problem with the meat and I have eaten all over the world. BUT I was mostly going to nicer restaurants, mum and pop type places or high end, that maybe were more likely to be sourcing higher quality or locally farmed meats. What I did notice though is: 1. Chain restaurant food was insanely heavy, I never experienced that before. 2. The portion sizes are way too big, like double of other countries. I hear Americans saying they order both an appetizer and an entrée (main) and I don't understand how it is possible, and I am huge. My wife and I soon learned to just order 1 appetizer and 1 entrée between us. 3. American Chinese food is TERRIBLE
Quality of food production is of a much higher standard in the EU. There are strict regulations on how things are produced. Less so in America where there's a lot more intensive farming.
It's the beauty of Australia 🇦🇺 even alot of people growing their own vegetables as don't trust commercially grown because they pump it full of stuff to make it last longer in holding fridges before public get it so can sell longer period of time and they can inflate prices as never a glut and as time goes on and still have products can charge more as out of seasons We are lucky 95% of our food is fresh a couple days old after handling transportation They also taste different because picked earlier to las for transportation and ripen in fridges with chem
I used to work for one of the state gov's. The smaller the producer the riskier veggies and fruit is. Beware of a few rogue producers who douse crops in pesticides, even organic producers.
Lived in the city suburban areas most my life. Wasn't till the past 5 years or so living rural i noticed how bad the fruit and veg was. Everything, even meat is brilliant in the country. Buy an orange here and it jaw dropping how tasty they can actually be. Local butcher steak is like the cow was slaughtered on the day. Made me wonder how long produce going to the city just sits around. Never going back that's for sure
"Linksspurschleicher" and "Mittelspurschleicher" as they are called in Germany (Left and Middle Lane Hogs) usually get a point in Flensburg + 80 €s in fines. Also, it is not clever to pull to the left lane at like 130 km/h because cars with up to 200 km/h can appear from behind, and they are usually faster than 150 km/h. They will usually flash the lights at you + they'll honk. Causing an accident this way is a 100 % fault for the car changing lanes and will probably result in the loss of the driving license. By the way, it is also kinda illegal to stay in the left lane in Germany as it is supposed to be used only for overtaking. After overtaking and having built up enough distance between you and the overtaken vehicle you are supposed to get back in the middle lane. The distance rules count towards the front and the rear! This system is called "Rechtsfahrgebot" to make sure everybody stays to the right. Overtaking on the right lane is also forbidden unless it is an exit off the Autobahn.
When I go my licence here in Australia 23 years ago, after passing the theory test, I had an instructor take me through a "log book" which had a set of tasks that you needed to do to make sure you were safe enough to drive on your own. From adjusting the mirrors and the seat to the right position for you and checking out the car to make sure it was roadworthy to then actually driving. You had to go through reverse parallel parking and stuff and it culminated on doing a 'country' drive away from the metropolitan area. After finishing the log book there was one final drive with the instructor where you had to demonstrate everything you had learned without any instruction whatsoever apart him them saying okay let's go into the hills or stop just here so we can parallel park (though that was normally a case of having to do it between actual cars instead of the traffic cones) As I was 24 at the time I then was only only on my "P plates" or provisional license for 6 months before having a full license. Now though I believe when you get your learners permit you have to stay on it for 12 months (6 mths if you are over 25) and then sit a competency test. Your "p plates" has t2o components, P1 and P2. P1 is for a further year with strict conditions (e.g. cannot drive between midnight and 5am and not allowed to have more the one person in the car between 16-20 yrs unless they are immediate family or you have a fully licenced driver alongside you in the front passenger seat, 0 alcohol or illicit drugs in your system and not allowed to drive a high powered vehicle unless over 25) Then you go to P2 ( which removes the conditions for driving after midnight and also the passengers. You are also now allowed to use hands free or bluetooth mobile devices.) You can then only get your full license after reaching 20yrs of age or completed 3yrs on your P1 and P2 licence (1yr P1, 2yrs P2) So all up to go from first sitting your theory test for your learner's permit to getting your full licence here in South Australia you are looking at 4 years total even though you can drive by yourself after the first year. Costs vary depending on how many times you have to sit your theory test and the different rates for the instructors you use and how often you use them.
16:45 I was on a business trip in Germany yesterday. I wish everyone could experience driving on cruise control set to approx 100 mph, without having any problem whatsoever. And yes, I can confirm that even at that speed, you'll still be overtaken.
I Poland getting a license is also a process: - you need to get check by a doctor and do psychological evaluation - then you need to get from gov permission providing all exams and records - after all that you can start training which is 30 hours driving with instructor and 30 hours theoretical lessons... you need to pass it and if you fail repeat whole thing - now you're ready to participate in national exams, where you must pass theoretical exam - then you can participate in practical exam and it has separate parts like car knowledge stuff, driving in special zone, doing manoeuvrers and driving in the city... It's expensive and if you fail (any part of theoretical or practical part) next one will cost more - and done... congrats you can legally drive a car. EASY (￣y▽,￣)╭
No joke, I had some friends from Texas visit the UK the week before last. They stayed a week. Now they are looking for jobs here and planning to emigrate.
@@letheas6175 well they'll have a choice, a union of kingdoms that speaks English or a union of european countries that speak English as a second language
@@more-reasons6655 Yeah but I think it's not really about language here, since as you said, English as a second language is a thing. So much so that for example in the Netherlands around 94% of people can speak English. But the point here was more on the subject of the European Union, aka, imaging if they would come to the EU and experience true freedom for the first time. Or the freedom to just go where you want without border checks, or things like, the welfare state and being protected by your government or police, those types of stuff. I know Britain is quite okay in that regard, but statistically, if we are going to be honest, not at the same level in many regards. I mean I totally understand why they would love Britain, but again, imagine how it would go if they would visit the EU.
@@letheas6175 I get what you're saying but seeing that the EU is like half the size of the US, people from the US wont be surprised to find out they can now freely travel an area smaller than their home country Sure the space covered has many different people, cultures and languages but you cant call being able to cover 1,000s of kilometers as freedom seeing that the US has that anyway
@@letheas6175 As someone who has every reason to resent the whole Brexit debacle, I agree with you. There are nations in the EU far better than Britain, with histories just as rich, beautiful landscapes, food, culture, better weather, higher standards of living... Like most Americans though, they have significant British ancestry and feel a connection to it. Plus I'm their best friend, and I'm here, not in the EU. 😅
My Father is an ex UK policeman. On his first trip to the US he got himself lost in Vegas and decided to approach some police sat in a car to ask for help - they pulled a gun on him and told him to stand back. It was all OK in the end and they ended up chatting for about 20 minutes about policing but it was quite a shock for him at first. In the UK nobody thinks twice about walking up to police. They're there to help
oh, wow
Does that “help” include when they arrest people for writing something “offensive” on facebook, and all the other BS the british police spend their time on these days? Paul joseph watson here on youtube got a ton of examples if you don’t know what i’m on about.
Honestly dont understand why they did that. Ive walked up to officers before and its been fine.
@@yusted1 pretty sure especially in the US its very dependant where you are...in minnesota in a small community...they probably will gie you a coffe for the way. But in LA...i would bet on survivng such a " walking up for help" encounter.
Its just very depending on who the "clientele" is...you know? In LA lots of policemen DIE because the US just has the worst gun laws in the world...And so they will react as such...as if their life is in danger when ever someone comes closer than 10 meters. See what i mean?
I was going to a job interview in a city i'd never been in, Nottingham in this case. I was hopelessly lost. Happened to cross a pair of bobbys and asked them where i was and how to get to where i was looking for. The two blokes helped me out greatly and was a pleasure chatting with them. I've always found encounters with UK police atleast have always been quite plesant.
on the subject of police, in the US the academy is 6 months, in most of europe its a full on 4 year study, you actually get a degree, its a full on career path with alot of growing potential and encouragement, i think that the biggest factor as to why policing is so different
I can be wrong, but if i am not mistaken, in all that time european police spends being educated there is a big emphasis on deescalation and teaching them to try to calm people down instead of pointing a gun at them at the first moment. And they do not always try to be feared but respected. (big difference)
@@nirfz it helps that we don't have that many guns in most European countries ;D But yeah, gun use is definitely their last resort.
@@nirfz Yes, deescalation is a big thing, but I've come across both good cops and bad cops. The bad ones were the typical guys on a power-trip, but usually cops are great.
6 months bro... I did conscription for a year and don't consider myself a soldier.. If europe had alot of guns the police training would be 6years atleast.. Weird huh
Depends what kind of policing you want. That 4 years thing you mention. You exit the University, cuz its not only academy with officer title and bachelor or Master degree.
You can go into Police Academy for 7 months around, if you want to be only patrol policeman.
i'm from germany and i can tell you: yes a drivers licence here is expensive as hell (over 2k € afaik is normal). but two years? that's a new one in my book... i guess it could take you up to two years during the pandemic, where driving schools had also to close due to our regulations. but normaly i would say 2-6 month depending on your and your driving schools schedule. the only thing i can think of is, that he mixed in the probation time. If you get your drivers licence here for cars, trucks or motorcycles (from 125ccm upwards) you have a probation time of two years. Make one or more mayor errors during that time and get caught while doing so (causing an accindent, running a red light, speeding more than 21km/h over what is allowed e.g.) and your probation time gets prolonged for 2 more years, make to many of those an you can lose your licence! yes you can get it again, but that can get quite costly...
He peobobly confuzed it with 2 years of tradning driving.
Because of pandemic it took about year and a half to get CE (truck & trailer) licences, and i'm still waiting for the final exams. Queue for exam is more than a month. This is in Latvia.
I got my driver licence in 2 months (summer holidays)
@@Ephoros my wife took it in may of 2020. Was like a week prior to closing down for the pandemic. Really rushed it at the end. About 6 werk from booking to finish. But she was registrerad for a year prior
Yes, it takes longer because of Covid now but normally you can get your drivers license in a couple months. There are even special driving schools where you can get your license in 3 weeks. But there you have to do driving and theoretical lessons everyday. Something not everyone can do because of their job or something.
I worked in a hotel once, and one night we had a guest from the US who after checking in called down from her room because she couldn't handle the window. I tried to explain it to her over the phone but she still had difficulties so I went upstairs and showed it to her. Her reaction was priceless. She put a hand to her mouth, sat down on the bed and just stared at the window. Finally she said: "That's so amazing!" I had to laugh. Made my day.
Not to forget: double glazed isolating windows. Not single pan freeze-ya-ass-off windows. :)
@@lbb101 "Double-glazed"? Tell me you live in warm parts of the continent without telling me you live in the south :)
Triple-glazed with double seal is all the rage now. A bit pricey though.
@@jur4x I know, I know. In the US and UK you still encounter heaps of single glas windows - and not only in Florida or Texas but in New York, too.....
@@jur4x triple glased ? amateure :D there is 4 layer glass 1 layer soudndampening 1 layer infrared filter (antiheat radiation leaving or coming in) 1 layer antsplinter quadruple sealed glass :D (the layers are sandwitched between the glass...so glas stuff glas stuff glas stuff glas) ....triple glassed is now the bare minimum if you want to get goverment eco boni (germany here) or a extra cheap credit from "KFW" :D
The windows in my hotel in Germany confounded me. I’m from 🇨🇦. I’d never seen windows that open in 3 separate configurations. Like a door. Or from the bottom, or from the top. To catch breezes, to be as open on as possible, or to be open but prevent rain from above entering the room. Ingenious.
German guy here. Grew up in a small village, roughly 850 inhabitants. We got our milk, egg and potatoes right from the farmer across the street, like 100m away. We got a small milk can of 2 liter which we filled on daily basis like kind of from the cow into the can. Till I was 16 we never ever bought milk from any supermarket unless we were on vacation somewhere else.
Unpasteurised (non heat treated) milk is (was) not permitted to be sold in Europe. This is to kill E-coli, listeria and salmonella amongst other harmful bacteria.
@@richardpennington5445 well, I guess nobody told that my neighbours.
@@richardpennington5445 yes, but I also grew up on milk from cow and with no problem, sometimes was even still warm, late 90s was last time I had real milk and not that sweetened white water from supermarket and I mean no bull...., it doesnt has consistency of milk, it doesnt has rich white colour, in small measures it is see through like water, thats not case with real milk from animal and the taste is just so f....sweet is dusgusting, no real milk is sweet,,its just not milk.... But it was different, farmer had 3 cows, they had names and each their own stall, he was passionate about bells :D had some 1000 pieces of different sizes, forms...people like him couldnt survive in mass market that came. And not every farmer was good farmer :/
North Poland here :) not as many farmers as I've seen in Germany but recently local shops in my big city started working with local farmers so you can get eggs and meat. Also every time we drive outside the city you can see small handmade signs as "eggs " or "potatoes " on home's fences and you can buy stuff there. I love to buy strawberries 🍓 from one place as they have very special type that I haven't seen anywhere else.
We host-familied for a guy from India. Years later, I visited his family in a rural village. When we left, we had to wait. The neighbour across the tiny street (3 feet wide, with stone paving) had a small barn. He kept cows. For milk. We had to wait, because one of the cows had wandered into the street. And she was peeing gallons of urine. Right outside the door. So. I waited like I’d done this a million times. Like it wasn’t strange in anyway to me. Because civility.
in the UK, American candy has to have new labels put on over the original with "all" the actual ingredients on it and often warnings that some of the colourings etc can cause problems. Some food colourings used in the USA are banned in almost every other
country in the world.
The chocolate in America has wax in it 🤢
As an Australian, it's always interesting to me when I hear Americans say they feel the US is a very safe place. I think it's a combination of those either living in one of the safer states and/or a lack of comparative experience. "You only know what you know".
Travelling is one of the best experiences I think people can have, as it expands your perceptions in so many ways.
Yeah, reminds me of travelling to Norway a couple years ago, went sightseeing in Oslo with a girl from upstate NY (as in, not from New York City) I met at the hostel - there were several places where she went "this seems like a dangerous neighbourhood, we should avoid this place" and I went "huh, why?" - which was just the regular urban places where you'd see a kebab next to a phone repair shop with friendly people around on their way to work; I'd feel absolutely as safe and untreatened as anywhere else. She'd also always put on a hat saying "Canada", because she was convinced she'd get yelled at by some people if she displayed her actual nationality - in downtown Oslo, mind you. Of course, just a single example, but I guess many Americans probably get trained to be more careful around urban centers when growing up there for a good reason - but when they go abroad, signs that may tell them they're about to get robbed in the US are not likely to mean the same thing in Europe...
@decnet100 great examples, thank you! Really interesting. It sounds like you've had some great travels too.
Or a gated community that really is not safe other than in the sense that one feels safer within their comfort zone, but it stifles anything else.
@@seratonin7004 Thanks, well I've seen most of my continent Europe and a bit of the US, some middle-east, but unfortunately haven't been down-under yet :). Speaking of which, as someone not used to poisonous/dangerous critters at all, that'll maybe bring up a similar situation; I'll probably get completely paranoid about deadly spiders and snakes lurking in the bushes when invited to an outdoors picnic or barbecue - and I strongly suppose for that I'd get the piss taken out of me by locals, as for them the place will feel entirely safe. In many such cases it's just a matter of adjusting your expectations to local reality...
Lived in Chicago and New York for a few months and you nearly understood why Americans want guns. It just felt so unsafe. Was working in restaurants and we were told to change out of our work clothes because people would wait to target workers with tips. Too much crazy people, too much guns to feel safe.
Here in Italy, in many cities, we have weekly street markets where you can find cheap but excellent groceries and clothes
Also, I love milk here and the only treatment it receives before getting in the bottle is a heat one. You boil it, you let it cool and you bottle it
Same in Belgium. Street market one a week.
Basque here. Food here is RELIGION 😀
Pasteurisation.
As an English teacher in Spain, I've often taken my students on international journeys; as a kid in Germany, I participated in similar ones and also in international and in-state travel with several youth groups. I keep telling my students the same thing I was told back then: if you get lost, find and ask a cop.
My impression is that if ever I took them to the US, that would be very bad advice indeed.
Here in Spain, the worst thing that ever happened to me when asking a cop for directions has been them first correcting my pronunciation and then talking a tad too fast for me to catch them completely, which then resulted in my missing a turn.
The coloring with American salmon is because most commercial salmon is bred, bred salmon doesn't have the orangy color, so they give them additives to make them colored.
The Salmon in Finland he was talking about is wild salmon and does have its normal color.
You are right. Just to elaborate a bit so people don't think it's genetic differences.
The colouring comes froom the food the fish gets.
Wild salmon hunt other animals that have the red pigments ( they get them through the food chain) and those get stored in the meat.
Farmed salmon gets fed an unnatural plant diet (corn/grain) and Farmers have to add the pigments into the food -> cost -> less pigment. (The pigments added are chemically about the same as plant pigments btw)
Just some extra info. :)
The color used in the US to color Salmon is illegal in the EU since research suggest its linked to cancer.
@@MrMartinNeumann Is that so? I'm from Germany, so what I wrote applies to our practices.
So do they dye it artificially after harvesting the meat then? Without pigments in the fish diet? That would make the colour even farther removed from natural. Or is it still in their feed?
I would recommend a trip to Ireland. I'm Swedish myself and have very much enjoyed myself there. My recommendation: Rent a car, buy a bed and breakfast guide and drive around. When you call a B&B don't be discouraged if they don't have room, just ask them if they have the number to other B&B's in the area - it hasn't failed me once. You can skip the famous Temple Bar district in Dublin though because it's almost only tourists even behind the bar (if you are there in tourist season at any rate).
Would agree with you. I’m english, and went to Dublin last year. Saw/heard so many Americans and was a bit disheartened that all these tourists will likely only see the super busy parts of Dublin (temple bar area) and not go out. The best things in Ireland are outside of Dublin. It’s a nice easy going city, but if you have the time branch out 100%.
Would also recommend doing a walking tour if ppl do go to Dublin. Never go without knowing a bit of history. They also will be able to give actual recommendations too.
My mother is 82. She and her friends go out about midnight and come back about 3, or 4. Is a university city, people from all over the world coming. They walk for example from nobody streets until the center full with students, sitting in parks taking an ice cream around nobody else, sometimes someone walking or there are elderly walking or sitting too, some couples and some groups of young people and mid age.. that is in Europe normal life style. Some places are extremely hot in summer the only way is waiting until 10, 11, 12 p.m. or 1 a.m. Remember in Europe we love go out and walk, alone or with others, even meet new people, just social interaction with people that you don't know is normal. 😘🇪🇦👍💖
I'm from Central Europe (Slovakia). Those tilting windows are used literally everywhere here - we also have them everywhere at home, even as small windows in the garage and basement. Driver's license cost me 350€ 7 years ago, today's price is around 1000€ and how quickly a person acquires it depends on how often he plans theoretical and practical exams and tests - that is from 2 months to a year.
Love those tilting windows, every time I go anywhere in Europe I enjoy those windows, love from Australia 🇦🇺
Im from Serbia and i dont have a drivers licence at all , public transit is good here so i dont need it and cars are so expencive its crazy
@@vukstefanovic5348 I can't imagine life without a car :) Personally, I drive a lot to areas where buses don't go often, or I go at night when the buses don't run either. If I lived only in the city, I could endure it, but otherwise life without a car is unimaginably horrible. 😄 If the price of a driver's license was 10 000€ I would pay it without hesitation.
@@neolerades2987 i get ya , espetially if you dont live in a big city ... but here its kinda pointless to get a car cuz busses drive everywhere for dirt cheap and pretty often , amd trains are not trash too
As a European I didn't realise they aren't a thing in America since they are just another part of daily life
Gotta say dude, you seem like such a likable, chill person, being real and not acting up for the views. Glad you chose to make vids like these. Best wishes.
I live in Switzerland and we have those tilting windows too. However, to save energy when the heaters are running (especially now), it's recommended to fully open the windows to air the rooms for a short period of time and then close them.
They're also quite common here in the Netherlands.
We have them everywhere in Czechia.
same in germany
@@BLACKFLAME4941 That's where they were invented in 1928. They weren't extensively used before WW2. But after WW2 so many windows in Germany (and a lot of Europe) were destroyed that the inventor invested hugely into mass producing a single size frame with that tilt-sideways-swing opening mechanism that it became a de-facto standard for Germany. From here it spread out through Europe.
@@RustyDust101 bullshit i fixed older windows in denmark..
But some part of germany also used to be danish
Windows have been opening all the way back to 1700's
You are so symphatic, open minded, want to now things araund the world. I love the positive feeling after watching Your videos. Greatings from Estonia
Being born in NZ, living in Australia and having traveled to Europe, the food quality, way of life and general livability standards are fairly similar with obvious cultural differences and nuances between them, but by comparison to the U.S it's vastly different and worlds apart.
The biggest difference regardless of the the circumstance is massive, e.g food, healthcare, education, justice system, housing, workplace, social welfare etc etc, is the U.S will exploit humane sensibility and indivduals rights in favour of revenue collecting for corporations whereas that's highly illegal elsewhere and for very good reason..
I have eaten high quality food in Boston. In fact, that's all I ate while there. But I was given to understand that they have quality food, which is less common, and then all the bad stuff which most people buy. The difference is that here in Europe, there are serious standards on what can be produced and imported. So unless there has been some contraband food creeping up some markets, all EU food is exceptionally good compared to most other places
Also you have to sell one of your kidneys to buy decent food in the US
05:00 "fresh" milk can actually last like 3weeks (unopened) but u need to add a couple steps to the processing. its called esl (extended shelf life) and we use it here in europe too.
You can also go UHT and it'll last for month even in room temperature. It's got nothing to do with chemical its just boiled really quickly which is worse for the taste than it is for how healthy it is.
@@DaDunge thats not called fresh milk anymore tho . also basically lasts as long as the package does.
I do find it odd and worrying that so much is added to food in America. Even the most basic foods like bread for instance. So much sugar is added to bread that to non American palates it tastes more akin to cake than bread.
Bad cake, though...
I’ve tried it. Holy hell it’s like eating awful cake
That wouldn’t be legal in my country (Australia.)
@@Snowshowslow Absolutely!
Subway's bread is taxed as cake in Ireland. Or was, I don't know if they reduced the sugar content.
@@paulqueripel3493 I didn't know that. Then again, I've never eaten anything from Subway.
Hi, I'm from Bulgaria - a small country in Eastern Europe. When I got my driver's license many years ago (I was 19 years old) the process was as follows - 1 month of driving school, you literally sit for hours like in school and learn the rules of the road. And about 1 month of driving in a special training car with an instructor next to you. No mum and dad taught me to drive - if they are bad drivers then you learn their mistakes etc. Now, on the day of the exam, you hold theory first. If they cut you off, you don't appear for the second part of the exam. If you pass the theory, you go to the driving test - a practical test. They take you through the worst intersections in the city, give you the smallest streets to maneuver, U-turns, parallel parking, elevation, etc. If you make a mistake - that's it, you don't get a driver's license. Now the rules are much more difficult and the process is much more complicated than it was for me. Just to note that the instructors are private certified instructors, but the examiners work for the police. On the day of the exam, you don't know which examiner will come.
Me and some friends did a roadtrip a couple of years back. Started from Greece and went as far as the Czech R. and I have to say, driving in Bulgaria felt the safest. Literlly everyone there drove at such a normal pace, no erratic behaviours, no agreesive acceleration/braking and absolute respect for for road signs and other drivers.I was rly amazed. And then we went to Belgrade, Serbia... I absolutely f-ing love Serbia but driving in Belgrade was a freak show! The exact opposite from Sofia.
About the same in the Nethrlands
I did my licence in Romania and it was a joke, theory - ok I learnt it from a book and it's a test that was fine. I failed first time and had to actually study for a weekened to be able to pass. The practical lessons however were bad - I was driving my instructor around to do his business; no night, no highway driving of course. I practiced parking for like 10 minutes and then he said that's ok. I am still not confident with parallel parking :) Of course I paid him cash and no receipt :) The exam was super easy, took maybe 5 minutes. I think I drove less than a km, it was just about not screwing up the basics (seatbelt, start properly, look around, understand signs, be able to take a normal intersection or a lane change, use turn signals etc). Literally 5 minutes.
People drive horribly - very aggressive, if there's a slow vehicle on a curvy road of course the 5th car in the back will start taking over the rest in places with way too bad visibility (and of course over a continuous line if it's there), you have to be careful to make them room if something comes in the opposite lane. 80-100 kph or more through small towns. This is not a small minority, it's a ton of people, all the time.
Sounds like Bulgaria is a lot better, in training at least.
@@bencze465 I took two courses. The first one was with a totally crazy grandfather as an instructor. I had 3-4 hours of theory and maybe no more than 2 hours of driving left until the test. Grandpa and I argued about which direction at the intersection I turned left or right and when a scandal started in the car ... the man had documents in his hand, he threw them at the windshield of the car and they scattered all over the glass and of course because I couldn't see absolutely nothing, I passed a red light at an intersection. I threatened him that I would file an official complaint against him and go to the media if he didn't return my money (I was a journalism student at the time). The guy refunded my money and I started a new course all over again.
@@bencze465 The worst thing is, once you have a recognized license, like the romanian one for example, you can easily use it in every other european country or even transfer it to another license for example if you wanted to live in Germany, you could register your romanian license and they'll give you a german license^^
Which is a bit terrifying if the exam process you described is normal there.
When my cousin moved to florida from the UK, the first thing he mentioned was the food. In his words "Everything is full of shit"
From the meat, bread and even fruit &veg. It's all pumped full if sugars, flavouring, colouring, preservatives and hormones.
He showed me a pic of some burger King halloween burger, and the bun looked luminous lol
@Babette what?
@Babette I don't live in America. Thank god lol
@@babbergabber I don´t even belive in Europe we add chlorine to the water but, these are the legal upper limits because water ist treated with it.
Searched it for germany:
Legal upper Limit: 0,3 mg/l (Miligramms per Liter)
Avarege contents after treatment: 0.03-0.05 mg/l
As french I do consider food in England is not good so if a British man do consider food in Florida is shit, it makes me really scared of food situation over there 😂
Our food is good from. butchers farms etc why would it not be ! My friend worked in America 🇺🇸 she said she developed acne put on weight and her monthly periods stopped 🤷♀️she went to her doctor when she moved back to England 🏴 and he said she was ok and her body would go back to normal it was obviously he said because of the food we have food standards testing here they don’t in America 🇺🇸 she went back to normal after about 3 months 😮🏴🌹
In the Netherlands they sell fresh milk. That you can keep for only a few days. But they also sell long lasting milk. It’s a simple proces they do with it without chemicals. So nothing to worry about
The part about the windows actually surprised me.
As a European, I've known these my whole life. My entire house has these kind of windows. :)
Same here, I mean they're not even a new thing, even a lot older houses have had them and still do.
We don't really have them in the UK either - so disappointing! When I come across them while travelling or on rare occasions in the UK it's always a fun surprise.
Some quick googling makes me think it's probably cost: they're more expensive and the UK is full of developers who build houses to the cheapest possible specification since price is almost entirely based on location not specification.
It could also be an age thing. 80% of UK homes were built before 1990, whereas it's only 66% in Germany and about 50% in Denmark (just picking some European countries at random). Apparently these "Tilt and Turn" windows have been available in the UK since the 1980s, so there haven't been as many opportunities to install them in newly built houses. I don't think that applies to the USA though.
@@FloofersFX the windows are probably newer than the house
@@dreckigerdan3739 I mean, when the houses are up to a hundred years old, that ain't hard to achieve, what I'm saying is that ppl had these windows in the 80s or earlier already.
I'm from the Yugo region and I remember seeing these when really young and the windows themselves looked old, with the old paint crusting off of them.
Same bro lol
It's so weird to hear it from your perspective :O I know that gun violence and robbery are big issues there, but as a Hungarian (btw, we consider the UK as a slightly unsafe area :D) I and my friend went out to parties a lot in our teenage years, basically as kids, and always went home at around dawn, but never ever came to our mind that we have to be afraid of violence. Of course, there were, drunk people who are always finding some reason to fight over something, but someone attacking us or robbing us, really few times happenes in my hometown, and in general in my country.
sadly we are 10-20 years behind the USA, and the UK is becoming a cesspit, I know your fear
Interesting that you think that, Hungary (2.49 murders per 100,000) has just over twice the murder rate of the UK(1.2) according to the 2022 figures. France (1.2) and the UK are virtually identical and both are very safe, for example Belgium and Canada are perceived as safer but Belgium (1.69) and Canada (1.76) are around 45% more dangerous. Ireland (0.87)is extremely safe but the USA (4.96) is very unsafe, it’s by far the most dangerous place in the developed world.
Hi from Finland, Harbour in Helsinki is near but almost all salmon here comes from Norway. Offcourse transportation is fast and here you have to show when fish was caught..
Oh, we are definitely taught The Police are our friends in Australia and generally they're pretty good at defusing a situation. Be honest, upfront and respectful, they'll treat you the same way.
I am not from the US, but I have been there plenty enough to say that the diference in the quality of food is huge. Not only the culture of take out and fast food is everywhere, but even if I would search for ingredients to cook at home and pay several times more than in Europe, I would still come back home with several kilos extra. Its very hard to explain unless you experience it yourself, most people tend to defend what they know. I guess the only way to confirm is to go out, travel and try.
i have been in the US 2 times for one week and was sick more often from the food in restaurants than in the last 30 years here in europe. and i didn't go to the worst reviewed and cheapest dirty looking restaurants
I would feel so restricted if I couldn't go for a walk whenever I feel like it. In winter it's dark here most of the day (Northern Finland) so if I couldn't walk in the dark I would have to stay cooped up inside and would go crazy. I love my freedom to roam ❤.
There is a family of Americans living in Romania that has a RUclips channel, and they also pointed out the windows here in Romania and how good this system is... I couldn't understand, I grew up with those windows, I thought everybody has them, it's hard to believe there is a "thermal" windows (like multiple layered windows) without this dual opening system.
Some of those windows have also third setting - handle at 45 degree for microventilation (about 5mm gap on my windows)
In the Netherlands here and we also mainly use those windows. They are pretty great, altho I have heard some tales about cats getting stuck in the open window of its in the slighty open stand.
care e numele canalului lor ?
@@Thorvir THE CALDERON FAM
@@RaduRadonys multumesc
I'm a Belgian who lived in TX and currently working in NC, and even though I love A LOT about the US, the food is a big problem for me. I kinda looked into it and as always it comes down to money. In the US the rules for food production are a lot less strict than in in the EU. In the US the responsibility of food is put on the people that prepare the food, while in the EU the stricter rules apply to the food production. Food poisoning is something I don't encounter in Europe nearly as much as I do in the US, but in Belgium we eat both raw pork and raw beef without problem. That's something that's just impossible int he US unless you know the cow or the pig on a first name basis.
Another thing that bothers me is how space is wasted int he US, you've got such an amazing country, and stripmalls is what you chose to do with it...
Things I love are all the different subcultures and hobby scenes that aren't somewhat limited by language and large enough to be interesting. Also the Nationa Parks and public land is something I always miss when I'm home in Belgium, where I can't even think of a piece of nature where I can't hear cars in the distance.
Not to mention the foul smell of oil (due to the refineries in the Port, yeah, that one) when stepping outside, and I'm living on the opposite side of the city! It's even more striking when coming back home from holidays abroad, or even from the Ardennes.
@Tt tat don t forget the capers and mayonaise.
America has an obsession forgetting tje most from the least money hence quality is immaterial.
It's why virtually every product they make is low on price but low on quality.
They think luxury just means "bigger"
I couldn't get over how the chocolate tastes like puke and the soft drinks taste like corn syrup.
What is strictly forbidden in the farming industry here in Europe is strictly recommended in the US of A.
Greetings from Italy! The first clip, about meat it's quite true. Here in EU the regulations about meat quality are very strict and I've discovered that a lot of USA meat based products are not importable in EU because of some additives in it. Italy in EU is one of the most restrictive country for the food regulations! We are messy for a lot of things and for sure we are not so virtuous if compared with other countries such Germany or Netherlands but for sure we are dead serious about food and wine. Food is sacred. This cause some goofy stuff like the price of McDonald's! Here the meat is so safe that you can eat a rare hamburger if you want but this safety have a price so a Big mac cost 7 or 8 dollars! An American guy who studied here for an exchange say to me that he spend the journey eat everything, every day he go around trying new food and drinking quite a lot (he was 20 and be free to drink for him was a new thing) and at the end he lost 20 pounds... He told me that the Americans are not fat are just swollen for the shitty food they eat. The second clip, about the milk, is just because the USA milk is generally pastorized and the uk is fresh. The long conservation milk can least for 3 months the fresh one 5 days...
A big part of it is also the fact that basic ingredients cost US folks more than shitty, long lasting premade foods.
Just look up the prices of stuff like basic flour compared to European prices. It's insane, but it's more cost effective to buy all that crap than make their own food more from scratch.
My sister lives on the West Coast of Ireland (County Kerry). If you have drunk a lot too much, the police will actually drive you home - and even once came the next morning to drive her to her car to pick it up. It is so rural there that the police are very relaxed about drink/drive.
Macdonalds fries in USA have about a dozen ingredients including colouring. Chips in UK have 3. Potatoes, oil, salt.
Hi from Finland. I'm an insomniac and when I can't sleep I go for walks. I walk around the parks and streets alone all night and I've never felt scared or that I'm in danger. And I'm a woman and I live in Helsinki, the biggest city in the country. Also, we have basically no muggings or at least I've never heard of anyone who got mugged or robbed... but a friend of mine was once pickpocketed about 15 years ago.....
About 15 years ago :D. Yeh, Finland seems to be a very safe, reasonable country. :).
I'm from Hungary and the same here. I'm a night owl, and I love to take those walks at night :) I was robbed once when I was drunk, but it was more than 15 years ago :D And actually, that wasn't even a proper robbery as I recall :D They saw that I'm not very coordinated, I'm also short, and I was in my late teens, so I was an easy target :D Almost sounds like it was my fault :D But all in all, I think I am more afraid of my imagination after watching a horror movie than I am of something like that happening to me again :D Oh and to place it into the right context, I live in the second-largest city in my country :)
@@huseroland Sorry to hear that and hi to Hungary! The robbery was definitely not your fault, that's 100% on the robbers!
I've done some night walks in Budapest too (also the drunken ones) and nothing happened and I've felt pretty safe there,... so it doesn't seem like there is a safety problem either?
@@marsukarhu9477 Not much at all, I'm glad to say this :) Thanks, I know it wasn't my fault, I just wanted to show how much we don't consider this behaviour an everyday problem :) I mean, when I hear Americans talking about this topic, it almost sounds like paranoia, but sadly they have many reasons to feel that way. Not saying we don't have any problems here though... We have our "king" to be concerned about :D He really takes our reputation to another level nowadays. And hi to Finland as well! :)
I am from Germany, been living 12 years (half my life) in Berlin and have never personally experienced crime. Seen and heard of it sure but never experienced something.
I was once on hols in Maryland. I was taking the bus from NYC to Baltimore and was to get off at the "Secure" Park and Ride outside Baltimore, where my uncle was going to pick me up. We were early, so the bus rider decided to wait driving off as he was absolutely sure that as a white young woman it was NOT safe for me to wait the 30 min for my ride. That was a bit of a shock for me, as it was meant to be a 'secure' car park. 😮😊
05:50 - German windows. They’re originally called Suicide windows because you can put them on anything above 4th floor with only the top tilt opening. Prevents… well, you know.
I was in the UK forces during “the Cold War era (70s and 8s) I first had experience of these windows in 74 so they have obviously been available for decades, another innovation with windows was the wooden roller blinds. All the German villages you drove through at night were almost completely dark apart from street lighting. The blinds were operated from the inside so complete thermal Barrie and complete security once they were down.
I'm with you 100% on the lane discipline...it's simple,travel on the right unless overtaking. Unless yr UK or Aussie etc but it's still the same,travel in the slow lane unless overtaking.
That's true of course, but it's still illegal to speed whichever lane you are in, so ostensibly even in the overtaking lane people should still be limited by that.
Agree. Its more relaxing for everyone this way. But i guess going to slow is a bit dangerous but overall mostly very annoying. Its much more important to looking over your shoulder before changing the lane and using indicators. Also right lane overtaking is forbidden in Germany and it drives me nuts when people do that anyway outside of a traffic jams. Btw. what i like about traffic jams here is that people in the back immediatly turn their warning lights on when a jam starts. Its super dangerous if people dont to that lots of crashes happen because people crash into stopping traffic on our highways (i guess everywhere). It even almost happened to me one time. It takes a moment to realize that you are going 100 km / h or more faster than the car ahead of you if you are not expecting it and maybe dont pay full attention.
@@derPetunientopf I started overtaking from the right in Denmark, as 80% of the drivers just stick to the middle lane as if their life would depend on it. I‘m tiered of changing 3 lanes every minute.
@@agnesmeszaros-matwiejuk8783 Well, of course people should also use the right lane if theres not much going on. It also really depends on the specific highway you are on. On some highways like our A5 the right lane is full of slow trucks and there are also many access roads to the motorway. In case of access roads i switch early to the middle to give way for oncoming traffic. Personally im more the type that doesnt change the lane all the time because i often see that if i take that spot on the right i have to change back in about 150 m and then i have to brake because somebody comes rushing from the back in the middle, just not worth it. The people that annoy me could have always just as well used the left lane, often i see those then drive to close to others and squizzing trough tiny gaps, all this while not ending up much faster anyway. Its a special kind of motorists.
Btw. i havent driven on Danish roads myself but what i have seen from bus and train windows looked rather relaxed. Of course i have seen only some areas.
@@derPetunientopf it‘s usually not few 100m, rather 1-2 km that they still won‘t take the right lane, and just driving 90-100 kmh instead of the 110 on most places. The biggest issue here is that a lot of people seem to gave issues processing the information when there are more than 2 lanes. As if the last lane is reserved for trucks, even if there isn‘t any around. The other problem is using the fog lights. If there‘s fog they turn it on, even if I can see at least a km ahead, they just burn my retina. I Germany the rule is 50 m, in Serbia, when you can see the car’s lights behind then you should turn it off the back lights, here it‘s up to the person and they are not able to use it properly.
There is know way i could live in America.
Blessed to be Australian.
I no, right
know ? are you sure u Australian ?
If it was winter all year round in Australia I wouldn't consider living anywhere else, sadly I couldn't do the summers. Enjoy yourself, see you next winter.
@@kevanwillis4571 There is Tasmania!
Australia is blessed with so many wonderful places and people but the heat and the huntsmen mean I could never live there. Happy in the UK but Aus is ace!
For the windows, it's very common here in france since about 20 years.
The system is also applied on some doors, for terrace access.
Bad point : it exist some security trouble for cat. Some of them try to get out when the window is inclined. The head and front legs pass, but the back get stuck by the hip. If the cat stay for a too long period, free hours, the cat will be parallelized.
When it comes to food , think the EU has a stricter legislation on what is ok and what isn't.
Where I live in Poland I really appreciate the safety factor here. I am an American and left the US for Poland in 2013 when I was 58 years old. Even late at night I feel safe going home on the tram. I did not feel safe at night in many parts of the US.
The Scandinavian countries do so many things right. I'd love to spend some time there.
And like 3 things very very wrong
@@seratonin7004 now at least the sucidal energy policy is going to get changed so I hope the other 3 things are changed as well
@Science in Engineering now you mention it, I realise when travelling there's always a sense of dodging some political, social or natural disaster when choosing where to go.
A planned trip to Thailand was disrupted by civilian unrest at Bangkok airport.
Our flight to DC on 9/11 was turned around. We did return a year later though.
We were rerouted via Sacramento Valley due to the Californian bushfires. It turned out to be a happy adventure!
Then we were visiting London for two days when the Underground bombings occurred.
Then Aer Lingus ran out of their complimentary beer and wine. A 5 hour delay ensued.
These are all things one cannot plan for, though some obviously carry more weight.
@@seratonin7004
"A planned trip to Thailand was disrupted by civilian unrest at Bangkok airport. "
haha.. you almost came across me, i was trapped in Thailand for over half a month due to that. The problem started the same day i was suppose to go home. Because we bought super cheap tickets, we was the last to be alowed to go home.
Things have been slowly turning in Sweden, really for quite a long time, and it was excelerated with the catastofy of 2015 and now with the catastrophic of 2022 it was accelerated even more.
The christian democrat had a globalist clean out a few years back, and the moderate party have more of a internal struggle between globalist and non globalist. It would seam like the non globalist won for now.
Only L party left that is mostly globalists.
The sort of establishment let have been in full out meltdown mode last weeks. And yesterday it was declearde that the environment department will be closed. Not becasue its something wrong with the environment, but the department is corrupt to the core.
@Science in Engineering I'm glad you made it out of Thailand safely! It was chaos at the time.
And I'm really sad to hear that some Scandinavian countries are facing such issues. To have to close an entire government department because of corruption is appalling!
I have been to LA recently, spent 7 days there. I felt insecure every single second. The amount of drug addicts is scary, the amount of homeless people is horrible, I was heart broken. The food is off, even the fruit, I felt my body was not reacting well to it, for example, my face start to have zits, but I never had them in my life, not even when I was a teen. And the taste of the american food is also different.. I donno how to describe it.
Of course not all was bad, of course. Specialy the people, they were amazing and made me feel so welcome. The american people was the best part, for me.
One last observation: the tip system needs to go, it's unfair, and an insult to the hard work and human rights.
Back in the late 60's and the 70's, when my wife and I lived in W Germany, we had those windows in our Married Quarter. After finally arriving back in the UK and buting our first house in 1984, one of the first things we did was to have double-glazing installed throughout with those very same type of double operation windows plus similarly operating patio doors! A real benefit in warm weather, if you haven't got air-con.
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Getting your license in germany takes a few weeks at most, not "2 years". In fact, if you let the time between your last lesson and the final exam grow too long you need to take extra refresher-classes. Of course it takes a little longer if you combine licenses, since the mandatory classes get more if you add motorbike, car, commercial truck, trailer together.
One time around 10 or 11 pm my boyfriend's car broke down and police car stopped to ask if we needed help. They offered to take me home, while my boyfriend stayed and waited for his friend to come and help out with the car. That was really nice thing to do and it wasn't even the first time that police officers took me home when in need.
So, I am oryginally from Poland and I had experience with good and bad policemen. Rude and cocky mostly times, but always it ends good for me (I was never the one who course the problems). But there is never problem to ask about something.
Few years ago I was living in GB (Leicester, Newport, Cardiff) and there I haven't seen any policeman with gun... 😮
And now I am living in Belgium and I have only good experience with "Polite" even I messed up (not for purpose - rather lack of low knowledge) with something. They are always polite, willing to help and explain.
If your first guys tried food from Finland imagine if he tries food from Spain, Italy , Portgual or Greece he will never want to leave from there :P
Ireland is beautiful! I have been there ones on holiday, it is stunning! Gr from the Netherlands.
I live here and I agree lol
Hello from ireland
The window opening thing is the same all over Europe.
Here in Poland, you can start your "journey" to get a driving license when you have 3 months left to your 18th birthday. You have to take a ~30-hour (it's a "school" hour in this case - 45 min = 1 hour) theoretical course that'll teach you the rules, some basic first aid etc., that usually ends with an internal exam in your driving school of choice. When you pass the exam, you are allowed to take actual practical driving lessons. You are required to take at least 30 hours (actual hours this time) of these lessons. The cars are are prepared for driving lessons - they have a second set of pedals on the instructor's side so they can stop the car if you're about to do something dangerous. After you finish the practical lessons you can take a state exam which is split into 2 parts - theoretical, where you answer questions such as "are you allowed to turn right in this situation? " and a practical parts where you have to first demonstrate some maneuvers such as starting to drive up a hill. Then there's an approximately 30min-1hour drive during which the examiner goes through a checklist of possible situations such as "stopping at a red light", "parking parallel to the road" etc., you can't make a single "big" mistake such as not giving someone the right of way when you should (if you make a more minor mistake that doesn't pose a threat to you or other users of the road, you can still pass the exam, but the examiner will want to see how you do in the same situation the next time). The courses and exams are on manual cars by default, you can take your course and exam with an automatic, but then your license will allow you to drive automatic only. As for pricing it's around 3000 PLN for the course here in Warsaw (so ~650 USD). The exams are relatively cheap at 30 PLN for the theoretical one and 140 PLN for the practical part. You can skip the theoretical part of the course if you pass the state theoretical exam before you enroll in your driving school of choice.
In 2019 a American friend of mine came to visit me and my family here in the South West of the UK.
The one thing that surprised him was that people that where Unemployed and people that had Jobs all lived on the same street / road, there was no segregation like he had grown up with in small town Ohio.
Another thing he was amazed about and thought was a good idea, is the fact that Children and Dogs are allowed in our Pubs (bars) whilst in the US its not allowed in most states and towns.
I took him and my kids, my wife and my nephew (all the children where under twelve years old at that time) to our local pub and had a good time as a family.
He said it saves money on getting child carers / baby sitters whilst the parents went out for a drink.
In EU, left lane is only for overtaking, u dont drive on left lane. U can stay as long as u like and overtake as meny vechicles as u like, but u stay there as long as u overtaking. U check ur mirror, get on the left lane, overtake and back to ur lane. Thats it
northern territory of bloody australia had/has no open road speed limit.
Freaked me out when I was sitting on 100mph and a cop flew past me like I was stopped!
7:58 - About feeling safe going home from the pub.
The more eyes you have on you, the safer you feel. So I think one related factor could be the ammount of foot traffic that exist in Europe compared to North America. As Europeans usually walk, bike, and move between public transports you get more eyes on the street. Compare this with North Americans who more often are hidden inside cars.
Even if you were seen by an equal number of people on both continents; you yourself would feel safer in Europe because there you would see more eyes.
I am on the south coast of the UK. We have loads of Chinese places locally. To be honest, it's tough to find a bad Chinese. Oh and home delivery is free, and you normally get it in about 20 minutes. 👌
Yep another "my cousin" comment lol
When he moved to florida he said the Chinese food was terrible, loads of the dishes he has back in England were not available and they'd never heard of prawn crackers 🤔
The signs of true civilisation.
@@101steel4 guess they also didn't hear of the typical chinese dish "loaded fries, cheesy fries or curry fries" what certainly in Belfast is available in every chinese takeout...
@@paddypleiner5518 fries and takeout are words I don't hear in the UK, let alone in a Chinese.
The window shown is pretty standart in Czechia. Even my nonagenarian grandparents have them at their house and they pretty much live in middle of nowhere with closest city about 22 km far away. They are very practical and in summer keeps the insect outside.
Trip....marrocan moussaka, spanish tapas, french bread cheese and wine, swiss sausage and chocolate, austria wiener schnitzel, italian food, ship to greece for suvlaki and gyros, up to croatia for seefood and salad and flight to norway for salmon and crabs!
As a German hearing that driving 75-80mph as „fast“ waters my eyes 🥲
I would consider 130-150mph as speedy here but dunno maybe it’s just me
I'm from ireland (close to galway and lived in galway for a while, from connemara). I'd encourage you to come ASAP. It's a fairly laid back spot
I lived in the UK for four years and the food there is so much better, fresh wise. Their milk is delicious and their butter melts at room temp. Here in Canada it is still too firm to spread on bread that tears it. British sausage rolls and cheese and onion rolls blew me away! Yum!! ❤️🇨🇦
Oh yes sausage/cheese & onion rolls! 😋😋😋
Shhhh. Don't tell everyone or you'll ruin the stereotype.
IN Germany we have shelf stable cows milk, which doesn't go off for month without fridges. It has nothing to do with chemical preservation, but how the milk is treated after milking the cow
german highways are also always under construction. and yes about 2/3 of it is without speedlimits. but id say stick to 130-180 km/h for a normal ride. no need to go any faster really
yep, the driving tests portion is 100% correct, the thing I most heard in driving school, if you're switching lanes or in an intersection without any signs or traffic lights (which there are many of) drive in a way that no other driver has to touch a brake because of you, and on the highway hell yeah, if you see someone in your windshield gaining on you, you move immediately
I am an engineer in window and door construction. The funniest thing about American windows... They don't even close properly and no matter how well they are made. With this sliding nonsense... It makes them incredibly expensive and you can't seal them properly (we use 3 seals). It is just the old fashioned British way of building windows. Europe has seen the light and uses German tech for their windows.
And you're using glass in the US which does not really keep the heat in (Winter) or out (Summer). Over here we are required by law to use glass which insulate so much, that the most cost effective way is to use triple sheet glass, filled with Argon.
It is really incredible, how much the US is behind in technology concerning windows and doors. American doors and the locks are really a joke when you compare them to European (aka German). I had to design a few doors which were exported to the US. They had to meet fire and safety regulations. Since most of the parts we normally use weren't certified by American officials we had to use American locks. So I called up our American branch to send me locks I specified.
Oh boy I was in for a new experience... TBH when they arrived I thought they were playing a trick on me. Really, I couldn't believe that those things were what I had to use. Bulky, cheaply made, vital components made out of cuts of steel sheets, where those are milled CNC parts in Europe, further more completely unvisible, locking the door in four different places. And best of all, that heap of junk was twice as expensive as European parts (anti panic function).
The German Autobahn is the fastest and safest road system in the world for 3 reasons: Discipline, Discipline and Discipline! You follow the rules, or the Germans will let you know you F'ed up! Sadly there are more and more parts of the autobahn where there are speed limit . usually 80, 100, 120 or 130 km/h. The parts without speed limit are literally without speed limit. Even if your car can go 250 km/h / 155 mph (which most cars are limited to) You still have to look in the rear view mirror for those coming fast from behind
All my windows are like that. I have a son (15 YO) studying in Ireland and he travel the country totally safe, same here (in Spain).
What I noticed about the difference between the food in the USA and Germany is that some of the ingredients used in the USA are banned in Germany because, among other things, they could be harmful to health. With a few exceptions, almost all additives in Germany are subject to declaration and must be labeled on the packaging. In restaurants, gastronomy, the baker, there you will find notices or lists with the ingredients and additives used. On many electronic or electrical devices you can often find additional information that they have been tested by the TÜV (Technical Monitoring Association) or the GS mark (tested safety) or type - or sample tested. Many products or manufacturers are certified according to DIN 9001/2/3/4 and some also according to DIN 14001/2.
The biggest reason a driver licence is expensive in europe, is because you have to get lessons from a professional instructor, in a adapted car. Not from a parent or family member in a regular car. It doesn't make sense to me. If a youngster fail to hit the brakes, for example, the dad, or anyone else, can not prevent that from happening. So aren't there, in the USA more accidents while learning? But anyway. You will just only pay for the tests. Here you pay for every lesson. (Maybe once a week 30 minutes will cost you 50/60 euro. You'll need 20/30 lessons. The cost of exams not incl. That's + 300. They do offer packagedeals. About 1100 euro's incl exams. But should you fail, re exam will cost you extra. And there's a huge waitinglist for exams here in the Netherlands, due to covid. 3 months is no exeption.
And I was wondering. Most people in Europe learn to drive manual, standard. That takes more practice i'd think.
I have a motorcycle licence, and that's just as hard/expensive to get. Lessons etc. I've also watched americans do their bike test. Basically roll up on their own bike, which they've already been riding on public roads (how does that work if you don't have a licence)
Ride round a carpark for 5 minutes and that's it. No going out on the road with an instructor.
Plus this particular person did no shoulder checks and put his foot down. An instant fail in England.
I’ve been into Galway Ireland for around 10 times a week at the time and I never ever saw not a single fight or even an loud argue. Only loud ”noise” comes from those terrific street musicians who puts up their drums and guitars on those busy narrow streets and starts playing! Morning walks next to Galway Bay when sun is getting up - beautiful! I really love the city. Sure Dublin is Dublin, but Galway’s right there as well. Highly recommended city to visit.
You could stay in Oranmore, stone throw away from Galway with excellent bus services to the city, the sunset on the shore at Oranmore Castle is stunning, and a big Tesco, Aldi and Lidl for the daily amenities, some nice pubs too and certainly no street musicians
Ireland is another place I'd like to work abroad. My brother-in-law was in Dublin for a few years and the laid-back culture extends to the workplace. I thought we were pretty relaxed in Australia, but Ireland wins! The pubs are great too. I didn't like Guinness until I had it from fresh pipes!
Oh, and on a strange note, I had the best seafood chowder ever on the Arran Islands 🤷♀️ Clearly they're doing something right when it comes to international food!
@@seratonin7004 the fish is fresh from the water, so yeah:)
PUbs are equally great everywhere but nobody knows how amazing Guinness is unless they’ve had it there.
@Neville Apple all I remember is that it's to do with the ratio of hops (more hops are added to preserve Guinness for longer transportation/storage, but hops also adds bitterness. This explains the creamier taste of Guinness in Ireland.
Also, the cleaner the pipes, the better the taste. There's so many pubs in Ireland that you're bound to find a grand pint!
@@seratonin7004 Guinness sends representative around every pub that sells Guinness in Ireland every once and a while, maybe every few weeks or every month or so, to check how things are set, quality control type situation. They adjust things if necessary. Apparently 195 people check 70,000 Guinness taps in 10,000 pubs in Ireland
10:00 around... well the difference is that for example I live in Finland I have a lot of friends in bigger cities here even in Helsinki and I been traveling all over my country to different cities. Never ever have thought that I'm in danger any time of the day and I party a lot.
to the milk thing (german perspective):
since a couple of years the standard milk you can buy here lasts also up to two weeks (not opened). before it was around 4 days.
Same here in the uk I bought some yesterday 19th oct and it goes out of date 30th oct
@@danielforrest2952 normal pasteurised or filtered? I find filtered lasts longer.
Pasteurised homogenised
For those interested, speeding in Finland is quite expensive, 3 strikes and your license gets shelved for x amount of months.
The price of the ticket is calculated by how much you earn, so rich people dont get a free pass on speeding. One the highest speeding tickets are around 100k
The crime rate overall is way lower in Europe than in the US.
Re motorways in UK, and it's getting worse, you get huge lorries in the inside lane doing 35-40mph, slightly smaller lorries doing 40-45mph in the centre lane and everyone else having to use the fast lane, including vans that only do 50 mph - our main motorways are often moving slower than some of the A roads! (I drive on the M1 every day, and get this!)
That’s why I try to use the m40 when going to London as I find for some reason people drive better on it but it seems to be getting worse
This is (maybe?) my number one road hate!!!!!
Some moron in a lorry, turning a motorway into a single lane track road, by overtaking at .00001 mph up hill for 5 miles !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rant, rant, rant, rant!!!!
It's been a long time since I last visited the US, but I remember beeing disappointed by the most food items over there. I've been a very picky eater all my live, so this was no surprise for me at first. It happened many times before and will always happen again. But the amount of food that looked very good and tasted very different really surprised me. A donut is that much greasier and sweeter than a Kreppel, the chocolate looked good but tasted horribly and had no "Schmelz". The milk tasted like water with chalk in it, and the eggs had a fishy cardboard taste.
I still like a lot of american foods, but some of the most basic things are just horrible.
1) Yeah the food standards are so much different between US and EU... Many additives, preservatives and colorings that are perfectly legal in the US are banned in EU. Also, even for the same products, the US version have more sugar in them.
2) The milk thing blew me away. As a european, I always thought that of course fresh milk goes bad in 5-6 days. Yes we have pasteurized milk in tin cans that can last months without opening it. But it tastes and look so different.
3) Windows. 90%+ of the EU homes have this style of window shown. Im my life I've only seen 1 house with sliding windows, and the slide horizontaly, not vertically like the US ones.
4) Its very commin in EU, especially Ireland & south EU for bars and night clubs to stay open even until sunrise. Also drinking is legal from 18, but none checks any IDs. And outdoor drinking is perfectly legal. You can of course walk down the street with a beer can in your hand. And finally, gun ownership is much much lower. Its extremely difficult and costly to even get a handgun, and nothing more is allowed.
Food quality and safety standards are one of the main reasons why EU and US will likely never have a full trade deal.
Yes in Europe health and life quality of the “basic” worker is just common sense, happy people don’t shoot at each other’s and educated kids won’t spray a gun in school either… Decent salary, health care, decent food and education for all will forever make EU and US economy incompatible.
@@thebigjul people with no guns don't guns each other.
@@nicoladc89 true but even in Europe countries we’re guns can be found there are no such shooting. There is something more in the US, something more than just more guns. Look at Switzerland.
Location isn’t an issue here in Japan for fresh food. Because of an ancient history of eating raw fish, they have explored ways to keep it fresh for so long. Now, their flash-freezing technology is top notch. Flash-freezing freshly caught fish in an instant without breaking down cells. So when they thaw, you can see there’s no liquid drip coming out of the fish (which is caused by cells breaking down.) So you can eat freshly-caught fish as sashimi regardless of whether you live by the water or not. Been eating sushi and sashimi for two decades here and I’ve never once gotten sick. And yeah, salmon is supposed to be pink. 😂 They hold patents to this even in the US and Europe, so you’ve probably seen it at work somewhere. They use it for meat and fresh produce all over the world, like avocados in Mexico.
I recognize the Chinese one from multiple foreign experiences. Chinese food looks and tastes very different in different countries. I can't wait to try Chinese food in China and find out what it's supposed to be like :)
It's amazing and nothing like western Chinese.
I live in Germany and the way that windows opens, we had a full patio back door which did the same. Pretty cool. Here in uk I’ve not seen them as much
It was normal being a teenager having a few drinks to much , and looking like a drunk longhaired hippy, that a cop would give you a ride home in the early morning. Those were the day's ! 🤩
So true, and don't forget to ask them to let you out at the next crossroads, so the neighbors don't see, that the police is giving you a ride... Indeed, those were the days...
Omg - a rational, logical American YTer, amazing! Spot on with the comments about crime; applicable in most countries, there usually are - to use a colloquial Aussie expression - ‘seedier’ places that ‘non locals’ would only know from crime stats, or sensationalized stories about a particular place, often quite misrepresentative of the reality. Except in Australia THE RIGHT LANE IS THE FAST LANE, so if you people who drive on the left, all round the world, would you PLEASE REMEMBER THAT IN AUSTRALIA, THE RIGHT HAND LANE IS THE “FAST” LANE!
Yes the licencing system in Europe is way tougher and expensive.
I don't drive a car but do have a motorcycle licence. That was a very long and expensive process. Apparently in the US the bike test is basically the equivalent of our CBT. That's even if you have to take one, I've heard in some places it's basically filling out a form.
No 125cc learning over there.
"That was a very long and expensive process." that's a good thing.. you don't want idiots on the road who don't know what they're doing and are endangering others..
@@AboveSomething I agree. I'm old enough to remember pre CBT days. Just sentd off for a provisional licence and buy a 2 stroke bike. No training no lessons no nothing. It's a much better system today.
The US should do something similar. I've seen Americans get a Yamaha MT10, or similar, as a first bike. Not a good idea.
@@101steel4 Yes, I rode 250cc bikes for a couple of years before taking the bike test. I did eventually do the RAC/ACU course though.
Well americans kind of absolutely need a licence tho. Here you can usually get by just fine without car
A point. even if it just two lanes each direction, the left lane is ONLY for passing, it is NOT a fast lane.
To be fair, I did a 2 week holiday in the US which was all over California, then Vegas and did not find a problem with the meat and I have eaten all over the world. BUT I was mostly going to nicer restaurants, mum and pop type places or high end, that maybe were more likely to be sourcing higher quality or locally farmed meats.
What I did notice though is:
1. Chain restaurant food was insanely heavy, I never experienced that before.
2. The portion sizes are way too big, like double of other countries. I hear Americans saying they order both an appetizer and an entrée (main) and I don't understand how it is possible, and I am huge. My wife and I soon learned to just order 1 appetizer and 1 entrée between us.
3. American Chinese food is TERRIBLE
Quality of food production is of a much higher standard in the EU. There are strict regulations on how things are produced. Less so in America where there's a lot more intensive farming.
It's the beauty of Australia 🇦🇺 even alot of people growing their own vegetables as don't trust commercially grown because they pump it full of stuff to make it last longer in holding fridges before public get it so can sell longer period of time and they can inflate prices as never a glut and as time goes on and still have products can charge more as out of seasons
We are lucky 95% of our food is fresh a couple days old after handling transportation
They also taste different because picked earlier to las for transportation and ripen in fridges with chem
I used to work for one of the state gov's. The smaller the producer the riskier veggies and fruit is. Beware of a few rogue producers who douse crops in pesticides, even organic producers.
Lived in the city suburban areas most my life. Wasn't till the past 5 years or so living rural i noticed how bad the fruit and veg was. Everything, even meat is brilliant in the country. Buy an orange here and it jaw dropping how tasty they can actually be. Local butcher steak is like the cow was slaughtered on the day. Made me wonder how long produce going to the city just sits around. Never going back that's for sure
"Linksspurschleicher" and "Mittelspurschleicher" as they are called in Germany (Left and Middle Lane Hogs) usually get a point in Flensburg + 80 €s in fines.
Also, it is not clever to pull to the left lane at like 130 km/h because cars with up to 200 km/h can appear from behind, and they are usually faster than 150 km/h. They will usually flash the lights at you + they'll honk.
Causing an accident this way is a 100 % fault for the car changing lanes and will probably result in the loss of the driving license.
By the way, it is also kinda illegal to stay in the left lane in Germany as it is supposed to be used only for overtaking. After overtaking and having built up enough distance between you and the overtaken vehicle you are supposed to get back in the middle lane. The distance rules count towards the front and the rear!
This system is called "Rechtsfahrgebot" to make sure everybody stays to the right.
Overtaking on the right lane is also forbidden unless it is an exit off the Autobahn.
Similar in Belgium.
Everywhere has middle lane hoggers.
It's now illegal in the UK, but I haven't heard of anyone being prosecuted for it :(
She hates rain but spent six months in Galway - by CHOICE ??? ! ! ! !
When I go my licence here in Australia 23 years ago, after passing the theory test, I had an instructor take me through a "log book" which had a set of tasks that you needed to do to make sure you were safe enough to drive on your own. From adjusting the mirrors and the seat to the right position for you and checking out the car to make sure it was roadworthy to then actually driving. You had to go through reverse parallel parking and stuff and it culminated on doing a 'country' drive away from the metropolitan area. After finishing the log book there was one final drive with the instructor where you had to demonstrate everything you had learned without any instruction whatsoever apart him them saying okay let's go into the hills or stop just here so we can parallel park (though that was normally a case of having to do it between actual cars instead of the traffic cones) As I was 24 at the time I then was only only on my "P plates" or provisional license for 6 months before having a full license. Now though I believe when you get your learners permit you have to stay on it for 12 months (6 mths if you are over 25) and then sit a competency test. Your "p plates" has t2o components, P1 and P2. P1 is for a further year with strict conditions (e.g. cannot drive between midnight and 5am and not allowed to have more the one person in the car between 16-20 yrs unless they are immediate family or you have a fully licenced driver alongside you in the front passenger seat, 0 alcohol or illicit drugs in your system and not allowed to drive a high powered vehicle unless over 25) Then you go to P2 ( which removes the conditions for driving after midnight and also the passengers. You are also now allowed to use hands free or bluetooth mobile devices.)
You can then only get your full license after reaching 20yrs of age or completed 3yrs on your P1 and P2 licence (1yr P1, 2yrs P2) So all up to go from first sitting your theory test for your learner's permit to getting your full licence here in South Australia you are looking at 4 years total even though you can drive by yourself after the first year. Costs vary depending on how many times you have to sit your theory test and the different rates for the instructors you use and how often you use them.
16:45 I was on a business trip in Germany yesterday. I wish everyone could experience driving on cruise control set to approx 100 mph, without having any problem whatsoever. And yes, I can confirm that even at that speed, you'll still be overtaken.
I Poland getting a license is also a process:
- you need to get check by a doctor and do psychological evaluation
- then you need to get from gov permission providing all exams and records
- after all that you can start training which is 30 hours driving with instructor and 30 hours theoretical lessons... you need to pass it and if you fail repeat whole thing
- now you're ready to participate in national exams, where you must pass theoretical exam
- then you can participate in practical exam and it has separate parts like car knowledge stuff, driving in special zone, doing manoeuvrers and driving in the city... It's expensive and if you fail (any part of theoretical or practical part) next one will cost more
- and done... congrats you can legally drive a car.
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Left lane is not the fast lane, it is the overtaking lane.
Ireland s awesome.
5:35 Yup, many Dutch windows can open both ways like that, very conveniant.
No joke, I had some friends from Texas visit the UK the week before last. They stayed a week. Now they are looking for jobs here and planning to emigrate.
Wow, imagine what would happen if she would visit the European Union.
@@letheas6175 well they'll have a choice, a union of kingdoms that speaks English or a union of european countries that speak English as a second language
@@more-reasons6655 Yeah but I think it's not really about language here, since as you said, English as a second language is a thing. So much so that for example in the Netherlands around 94% of people can speak English. But the point here was more on the subject of the European Union, aka, imaging if they would come to the EU and experience true freedom for the first time. Or the freedom to just go where you want without border checks, or things like, the welfare state and being protected by your government or police, those types of stuff.
I know Britain is quite okay in that regard, but statistically, if we are going to be honest, not at the same level in many regards.
I mean I totally understand why they would love Britain, but again, imagine how it would go if they would visit the EU.
@@letheas6175 I get what you're saying but seeing that the EU is like half the size of the US, people from the US wont be surprised to find out they can now freely travel an area smaller than their home country
Sure the space covered has many different people, cultures and languages but you cant call being able to cover 1,000s of kilometers as freedom seeing that the US has that anyway
@@letheas6175 As someone who has every reason to resent the whole Brexit debacle, I agree with you. There are nations in the EU far better than Britain, with histories just as rich, beautiful landscapes, food, culture, better weather, higher standards of living... Like most Americans though, they have significant British ancestry and feel a connection to it. Plus I'm their best friend, and I'm here, not in the EU. 😅