I lived in Germany for almost 3 years in Bavaria. I loved the summers there and all the places you could walk too. It is such a beautiful country to live in. The winters were a little long but the summers made up for it. There were really friendly people there wherever I went.
We haven’t made it to winter yet, but they’ll probably be a little long for our taste, even if bough were from Wisconsin. We still have to get down to Bavaria too!
One of the things you will have noticed in Spain and Germany (I am Dutch myself) is how walkable everything is, no such thing as North American urban sprawl. I am willing to bet that you have at least one or two grocery stores within a 10 minute walk from where you live now. Anyway, enjoy your stay in Germany!
Absolutely! We love that everything is so walkable and that you are always within a 10 minute walk of everything you need, like grocery stores, pharmacies, and a bank. It makes life so much better than needing a car for simple errands...🙄
Bike infrastructure is pretty good compared to some other countries, but you gotta go to the Netherlands and ride a bike there, 1. In the city you get around really good 👍 2. They got "bike highways" connecting cities you can get from city to city in a more or less straight line, and every major city is connected. Greetings from Swabia(region in Southern Germany 😉)
Welcome to Germany. I hope you'll have a great time here. Pro tip learning German: if you really want to practice it ask Germans who automatically switch to English to stay in German . You can probably see their faces light up in pride as well as respect for you trying it. Only switch to English if it is a very difficult or very important topic, not just everyday things like 'where's the central station?' / 'Wo ist der Hauptbahnhof?'. We know our language isn't easy to learn, so we truly appreciate anyone doing it. Kudos. BTW: if you live in Hannover you've selected the city which is known to speak the list dialect influenced high German. Actually, the Hannoveran 'dialect' could be considered the archetypical High German, or Hochdeutsch, which is taught in schools around the world (if and when it is taught). Hehe, thank you for your compliments on the German bike infrastructure. But there's still a lot to do to even attain viewing distance of the quality achieved in two of our neighbors: the Netherlands, and Denmark. Both countries REALLY excel at having awesome bike infrastructure. Granted, in countries that are almost completely flat as a board it is a bit easier to implement, but there are still the same problems with bike lanes having to be placed into already existing systems. Which is what both countries have demonstrated marvelously well. BTW: this comes from a German who is somewhat envious of both of our neighbors in that regard. Greetings from Hamburg.
Thanks for the tips on learning German! We're happy to hear Hannover also seems to be a good place to do it! As for the bike infrastructure, we've hard Denmark and the Netherlands is the best, but Germany is still far superior to that of the car dominated Untied States.
Welcome to my hometown! Hanover is mocked a lot, but I always call it the world's smallest metropolis. All the convenient stuff a large city provides with the charm of a small town.
Guys,Deustchland(Germany) is a great country for work life balance.Explore it to the fullest from Bayern(State of bavaria) to Berlin.Also don't forget to visit small towns like Rothenburg ob der Tauber and famous Neuschwanstein Castle on weekends,its like a fairytale land.................. Once again,A GRAND WELCOME TO GERMANY!!!❤
Thank you! We will definitely have to visit all of those places! It'll take a while, so it's good we're not planning on moving elsewhere any time soon.
@@MYTravelBF As long as you feel comfortable everything is okay. And you surely know: We Germans have ALWAYS a reason for complaining anything .... lol
Hey! Welcome to Hannover!! My first tip...., although the bike traffic looks well organized, it's not fully. Still stay alert. You will get people that will walk out in front of you without looking, oncoming riders like riding side by side and they will split for you!! This one I still don't like. Bicycle riding rules do not always follow traffic flow rules. And cars...people here in Hannover come to the stop quickly! So you will see a car coming from the side too fast and you think they won't stop but most of the time they will at the last moment. But ride defensively and you should be fine.
Thank you for the tip! As pedestrians, we've been aware of looking for bikes, but we don't have our own bikes as of now. Hopefully, we'll get them soon!
If you want to see what Hannover looked like during/right after WW II you have to enter the town hall. There are various scale models of the city from the very beginning to the 20th century. I grew up in Hannover, been living in the Netherlands for the past 35 years and love to go back frequently to visit my mum.
We've seen the models of Hannover from during and after the war, and it's quite the shock! It's truly remarkable they were able to rebuild so well. Thank you for watching!
hannover, city of my birth. you need to hang out at the "maschsee" or at the old town "altstadt" and of course you need to see at least one time the "herrenhäuser gärten". that are the most popular spots ... besides the zoo of course. if you love nature then you will love this town. i believe is one of the greenest towns with that size in germany. greetings
Thank you for the welcome! and for watching We've been to some of those places but still have a lot more to explore, like the Herrenhäuser gärten you mentioned. We have loved how green Hannover is too!
@@ingevonschneider5100 Hannover is one of the most underrated cities in germany. I never heard any special thing about Hannover, I just knew that it exist. But now after living in Hannover for quite some time, I'm loving it. Hannover has everything you need, but still isn't overhyped. And it isn't ugly at all.
Thank you!! I'm glad to hear you agree with all of these as others who moved to Germany! As for the editing, I'm constantly learning with the whole process, so it's nice to hear it's improving!
Really well-done video. The standard of living looks better than in Spain. When I was in Germany I was very surprised at the high level of English (for the most part).
Thank you very much! It's hard to compared the standard of livings of Spain and Germany, especially because we've only been living in Germany for a few weeks. The salaries are lower in Spain, but so is the cost of living....maybe we'll do another video in the future on the standard of living. And yes, we've been surprised at the high level of English here!
Hey thats a Gilde :D Ill be in Hannover from September 14th to 28th seeing my family in Heideviertel in Hannover. Hannover can be a really cool place if you explore with locals. It has some really amzing places and sub cultures.
Good eye for the Gilde! Enjoy your time in Hannover and if you have any local recommendations or tips for us to explore some of those subcultures that would be great!
So in Spain you were doing the NALCAP program and teaching private lessons, but what are you doing in Germany? What's the visa situation? Was it easy to transition from Spain to Germany? (I'm sure it wasn't, lol) I wonder if you've made a video about these details already. I'm considering doing the NALCAP and who knows if I'll want to try living in some other EU country after that. So yea, if you haven't made a video on this, I'd be curious to see one. Thanks! Danke!
We haven't done a video on that, but we can in the future. We are both working at a school in Germany, but had experience and licenses in the US that allowed us to do so. NALCAP is a great program to live in Spain, travel, and get some experience in education, but if you want to work in education abroad, we recommend getting a teaching license back home. However, if you're wanting to work in another field, it might be a good springboard into Europe for connections, but remember that each country is different in terms of work visas.
Welcome to Germany 🇩🇪 I will go the opposite way in October to O’HARE, visiting friends in Wisconsin (Lake Geneva, Elkhorn, Hartford and Madison), just around your home place. 😅
Would you say the biking infrastructure in Hanover is better or worse than Sevilla, Vitoria Gasteiz, or even Barcelona? Madrid is infamous for lagging behind the rest of Spain.
It’s hard to say because I haven’t been to Sevilla, Vitoria, or Barcelona in over 6 years so a lot could have changed, but I’d say Hannover is ahead of them overall. However, it doesn’t have a huge old town, like Sevilla, and much of the city was rebuilt after WWII which gave them a chance to “redesign.” Madrid absolutely lacks behind the rest of Spain with bike infrastructure though…
Many cities were destroyed during WW2 and many had to rebuild their houses for the citizens to live in. And because so many parts had to be rebuild, they went for the easy, quick and probably cheap solution. But i.e Dresden had it‘s Frauenkirche rebuild from 1993 to 2005 with old and mostly new bricks to what it was like before WW2, not like the „Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche“ in Berlin which was kept destroyed as a memorial against war. Berlin also decided to rebuild the Stadtschloss which was replaced after WW2 with a new building. In Frankfurt am Main there also was a big part of the „Altstadt“ built in medieval times completely destroyed in WW2. As kids we could visit and watch the ruins. They were not replaced by ugly buildings in the 50s but rebuilt in recent years. At least the facades were build with the original houses in mind. So there is a completely new „old“ town in Frankfurt now.
Thank you for sharing! I had no idea about the history of Frankfurt's old town. I know Hannover was about 90% destroyed in the war, so much of it is newer. It's just a contrast coming from Madrid, Spain. Obviously, the US doesn't have very old, beautiful old towns for the most part though.
Beer size comparison Germany/Spain explained: In Spain the size is smaller because people don't want to sit at the same place for hours. In Germany you'll sit in front of the 2 liters beer (that gets hot fast in summer ) and of course NO FREE TAPA. 😁
That makes sense. It's just a different culture around drinking in Spain and Germany. And yes....no free tapa. We 100% miss not getting a tapa in Germany. More countries should really start doing the free tapa🙌
There are no „free tapas, free drinks“, you have to pay for that. Maybe not charged extra, but belive me, the owner would not pay for it out of bis Pocket. Customers have to pay for every food, drink and all of that stuff.
Actually you don’t have to use the official yellow recycling bag. Any bag that is transparent will do. It hast to be transparent so that the garbage men can check if there is really only recycling trash in it. If someone put the wrong garbage (organic waste etc.) in the bag the garbage men will leave the bag with a notice why they did not take it.
We moved at the end of July because we found full-time jobs here in Germany. We are going to miss Spain but couldn't pass up the opportunity for full-time jobs here in Germany. Maybe it'll lead us back to Spain someday!
@@MYTravelBF that sounds really amazing & I'm really happy for you both. I found you through the Auxiliares de conversación programa videos y además, son muy útiles para la gente que está participando por primera vez. Muchas gracias por los tips y voy a ver tus experiencias en alemán ahora. Buena suerte!!!!
We will definitely do that! Once we get settled in and learn a bit more of the culture and what it is like living in Germany, we will make that comparison video. Thanks for the suggestion!
So you life in Hannover you migjt look for "Eric the Ami" here on YT. He also lifed in Hannover, love bear and perhaps he had some Tipps fpr you. Nice Greatings from Hamburg
@@MYTravelBF if you visit Hamburg take some time for the miniature wonderland. There you can travel the whole world in a day. They also have a YT channel and are the highest liked attraction in germany. Voted by tourist. Even before the Colone kathedtal and Castle Neuschwanstein. And no 2 hours are not enaugh. I thimk 2 years are not enaugh to detwct all the details cause the guys who run it are crazzy.
Well, Hannover isn't known for its beautiful buildings. It has quite the rep as one of the worst looking larger cities in Germany. (which is not true, it's a gem if you know where to look)
Yes, there are quite a few beautiful buildings here in Hannover! It was so destroyed during the war that some streets have a lot of newer, more functional buildings that were built after the war. However, other streets have incredible, historic architecture with a lot of beauty!
@@MYTravelBF Goslar is quite close to Hannover (Just 1 Train Ride away) and has beautiful old buildings, you get there in the morning, you can see most of it in a day, join a tour, and you can be back home on the last train
@@MYTravelBF Awesome. I can also recommend the Christmas market there, where they fill a whole square with trees to make an artificial Christmas forest.
Welcome in germany. But if you wan´t to improve your germany while speaking to a german tell them. Most of us if we realize you struggle with our language often automatically switch to english. But if you say to also most germans you want to learn the language better insist to keep the conversation in german and that they should correct you partly. In my opinon every german who is able also to speek a decent engiish is aware of the difficulty of our language will help you in an amount where you say: "OK, until this amount it comfortable".
That's wonderful! Thank you for the advice. We are starting to learn some German, but we know that with language learning it's a long, slow process, especially with German.
@@MYTravelBF It's getting easier after it clicked in the head how it works. ;-) From then on you can learn more and more by yourself just so, because the language is self-explanatory at that stage for you. Which is never the case with English, but you as natives cannot understand that, I guess? Example: Though, tough you get the picture.
@@Kivas_Fajo English is an incredibly difficult language for people to learn, especially if they are older. You're right that most natives don't understand how challenging it is.
Welcome to Germany. You are almost in Northern Germany. Just a few Hundred Kilometers north of you is the Elbe River, the Borderline between Germany and Northern Italy where you reside 😉
New subscriber here :) I enjoyed your video and I am looking forward to watching more of your content. I am an American who lived in Germany for a total of six years a while back. I visit Germany at least twice and sometimes three times a year and I am looking forward to my very near visit to beautiful Germany. I just can't get enough. I have a RUclips channel and I do a lot of vlogs and having a blast at the same time :). Let's keep in touch. :).
@@martinstubs6203 I knew it was a joke 😂 and that Hannover has the reputation of being a boring city. The cemetery sounds huge though! We're hoping to get to Hamburg in the next month. Any recommendations for when we visit would be appreciated!
@@MYTravelBF When visiting Hamburg, the "Miniatur Wunderland" is something you shouldn't miss. It's the worlds largest model railway in scale 1:87. It covers an area of 1545 square meters (split in 15 regions) with 1120 trains, 4340 Buildings and more than 16km of tracks...
Regarding the ugly new architecture you have to consider, that like you said 90% of the city was destroyed after WWII. But people needed a place to live and work, so a lot of building just were build as fast as possible, no time, money and materials for great architecture.
Absolutely! It makes a lot of sense as to why it was rebuilt the way it was. It was just a surprise to see it coming from Spain that wasn't destroyed in the war.
Germany does have a great social system. We have generally found people to be friendly, even though this is not what we heard about Germans before moving here.
i dont really like that u call modern buildings 'ugly'. you can say they are plain, but everyone has a different taste. i dont like old buildings at all aesthetically, i would always prefer modern architecture.
You’re right. Perhaps ugly was the wrong adjective…functional would have been better since they were rebuilt quickly after the war to provide ample housing for a lot of people. Apologies for using ugly! We do love the new, modern German architecture too and appreciate the blend in the city!
Nonsens. You're making the same mistake that somehow all Americans make, you're transferring Bavarian Biergarten customs (the Biergarten is something Hannover has copied 3 decades ago from Bavaria - mostly for international tourists) to the whole of Germany. Do they walk around New York in cowboy boots and a hat and go to the rodeo? And eat chilli and Burgers all the time? In Bavaria the beer glasses are big, up to 1l. Here in Hesse you get 0.2l or 0.3l beer, with Bavarian Hefeweizen also 0.5l. In Cologne you only get the regional beer Kölsch only in 0.2l glasses. And imagine, the culture of Germany is actually different from that of Spain. Between us and Spain is the same difference as between the USA and Brazil - it'ss on the same continent, but different geological conditions, different climate, different history, different language.
Sorry for the mix up! That's why it was a first impressions video. Obviously, Spain and Germany have different cultures too. It's just a change moving from one to the other. Thanks for watching!
Post-war architecture is so ugly bc housing had to be found quickly, and with the reduced means available, for 66 Million Germans plus 12 million refugees streaming in from the East. Aesthetics played a secondary role, as one can imagine.
Absolutely! Perhaps the words I was looking for was functional, instead of ugly. It’s good that they had a reason for building the functional buildings though
They had to house about 1/3 of the population again after the war. So „estetics“ was not a high priority, understandably. But in the last few decades many of these ugly buildings arebeing replaced by nicer ones
Yeah, it's completely understandable why a lot aren't as beautiful. They were more functional than anything else. A lot of the newer architecture is beautiful though!
Some say, destroying german cities was a war crime, since there were no military targets. But they rebuild them in record time, so some buildings are looking boring…
Yeah, we figured that's why many of the buildings were more functional than beautiful. People needed places to live after the war, so they had to be rebuilt in record time, like you said. I can't imagine what the reconstruction was like after the war and what went into planning all that.
@@MYTravelBF No, but "Eric der Ami" is. He moved here years ago. Just search for his channel - it's a bit of a different channel. Anyway, welcome to my hometown.
@@peter_meyer Thank you! We're loving Hannover so far and will definitely check out his channel too. If you ever have Hannover recommendations for us, let us know!
naja in hannover gibt es nur wenig was schön ist......aber das ist meine meinung.komme aus nähe braunschweig und ich weiss diesen komischen hass.fussball...lol mich kümmerts nicht.ich weiss nur:feiern kann man in hannover aber deutsche kultur gibts besser ausserhalb.
My hypothesis is, that Americans could not possibly care less about German culture. What drives them into central Europe in general are the social benefits, like free university, free schools and day-care, cheap healthcare, paid holidays and unemployment benefits. When your US-companies are exploiting you, why don't you change that over there in USA instead of running away? Could it be, that your overly religious society has been breeding a climate of ignorance towards your fellow Americans?
Interesting hypothesis. I think a lot of the US work culture is beyond ever changing. Once people see $$$, they only want more of it and create a system to exploit workers to help themselves.
@Lala Emm Do you feel as though most Americans moving to Europe are expecting citizens of those countries to bow down to them and change for them? If so, that's too bad as it's them immigrating to another country and should be adapting. I can understand keeping some culture traditions, but not expecting people to do things the American way. Tourists on the other hand seem to be much more in line with expecting things to be their way and for Europeans to bow to them while treating their countries like theme parks, at least when comparing the two as it's not easy to simply move to Europe to live as an American.
I lived in Germany for almost 3 years in Bavaria. I loved the summers there and all the places you could walk too. It is such a beautiful country to live in. The winters were a little long but the summers made up for it. There were really friendly people there wherever I went.
We haven’t made it to winter yet, but they’ll probably be a little long for our taste, even if bough were from Wisconsin. We still have to get down to Bavaria too!
One of the things you will have noticed in Spain and Germany (I am Dutch myself) is how walkable everything is, no such thing as North American urban sprawl. I am willing to bet that you have at least one or two grocery stores within a 10 minute walk from where you live now. Anyway, enjoy your stay in Germany!
Absolutely! We love that everything is so walkable and that you are always within a 10 minute walk of everything you need, like grocery stores, pharmacies, and a bank. It makes life so much better than needing a car for simple errands...🙄
Bike infrastructure is pretty good compared to some other countries, but you gotta go to the Netherlands and ride a bike there, 1. In the city you get around really good 👍 2. They got "bike highways" connecting cities you can get from city to city in a more or less straight line, and every major city is connected. Greetings from Swabia(region in Southern Germany 😉)
Wow! Thank sounds amazing! We definitely want to visit the Netherlands!
Holland is the bike place to buy a bike 🚲
Welcome to Germany. I hope you'll have a great time here.
Pro tip learning German: if you really want to practice it ask Germans who automatically switch to English to stay in German . You can probably see their faces light up in pride as well as respect for you trying it. Only switch to English if it is a very difficult or very important topic, not just everyday things like 'where's the central station?' / 'Wo ist der Hauptbahnhof?'.
We know our language isn't easy to learn, so we truly appreciate anyone doing it. Kudos.
BTW: if you live in Hannover you've selected the city which is known to speak the list dialect influenced high German. Actually, the Hannoveran 'dialect' could be considered the archetypical High German, or Hochdeutsch, which is taught in schools around the world (if and when it is taught).
Hehe, thank you for your compliments on the German bike infrastructure. But there's still a lot to do to even attain viewing distance of the quality achieved in two of our neighbors: the Netherlands, and Denmark. Both countries REALLY excel at having awesome bike infrastructure. Granted, in countries that are almost completely flat as a board it is a bit easier to implement, but there are still the same problems with bike lanes having to be placed into already existing systems. Which is what both countries have demonstrated marvelously well.
BTW: this comes from a German who is somewhat envious of both of our neighbors in that regard.
Greetings from Hamburg.
Thanks for the tips on learning German! We're happy to hear Hannover also seems to be a good place to do it!
As for the bike infrastructure, we've hard Denmark and the Netherlands is the best, but Germany is still far superior to that of the car dominated Untied States.
@@MYTravelBF The City of Freiburg in the Black Forest is a bike city as well.
Channel: Blackforestfamily ;-)
Welcome to my hometown! Hanover is mocked a lot, but I always call it the world's smallest metropolis. All the convenient stuff a large city provides with the charm of a small town.
Yes! The mix of a small town with a big city is something we really like here. You put it perfectly!
why do all Hannoveranians come to the Reeperbahn (Hamburg) to go clubbing then?
Guys,Deustchland(Germany) is a great country for work life balance.Explore it to the fullest from Bayern(State of bavaria) to Berlin.Also don't forget to visit small towns like Rothenburg ob der Tauber and famous Neuschwanstein Castle on weekends,its like a fairytale land..................
Once again,A GRAND WELCOME TO GERMANY!!!❤
Thank you! We will definitely have to visit all of those places! It'll take a while, so it's good we're not planning on moving elsewhere any time soon.
Prost!🍾🍺
Hey, welcome to Germany and to Hannover! May all your wishes come true and may you find happiness and peace! LG from Middle Franconia!
Thank you so much! It's been great in Germany and Hannover so far, even if some Germans might not think of it as the most exciting city...
@@MYTravelBF As long as you feel comfortable everything is okay. And you surely know: We Germans have ALWAYS a reason for complaining anything .... lol
@@heha6984 Lol we're definitely comfortable here and settling in nicely!
@@MYTravelBF 👍💜
Hey! Welcome to Hannover!!
My first tip...., although the bike traffic looks well organized, it's not fully. Still stay alert. You will get people that will walk out in front of you without looking, oncoming riders like riding side by side and they will split for you!! This one I still don't like. Bicycle riding rules do not always follow traffic flow rules. And cars...people here in Hannover come to the stop quickly! So you will see a car coming from the side too fast and you think they won't stop but most of the time they will at the last moment. But ride defensively and you should be fine.
Thank you for the tip! As pedestrians, we've been aware of looking for bikes, but we don't have our own bikes as of now. Hopefully, we'll get them soon!
Hey welcome to germany :)
I'm also from Han(n)over or at least near to it.
I instantly recognized the place you staying at 1:30 ;D
Lol thanks! It's been really fun exploring Hannover!
0:25 Gilde beer! Obviously you ARE in Hannover 😁
Is this the Biergarten at Maschsee?
Lol good eye fir the Gilde beer! It was at the Waterloo Biergarten.
If you want to see what Hannover looked like during/right after WW II you have to enter the town hall. There are various scale models of the city from the very beginning to the 20th century. I grew up in Hannover, been living in the Netherlands for the past 35 years and love to go back frequently to visit my mum.
We've seen the models of Hannover from during and after the war, and it's quite the shock! It's truly remarkable they were able to rebuild so well. Thank you for watching!
hannover, city of my birth. you need to hang out at the "maschsee" or at the old town "altstadt" and of course you need to see at least one time the "herrenhäuser gärten". that are the most popular spots ... besides the zoo of course. if you love nature then you will love this town. i believe is one of the greenest towns with that size in germany.
greetings
Thank you for the welcome! and for watching We've been to some of those places but still have a lot more to explore, like the Herrenhäuser gärten you mentioned. We have loved how green Hannover is too!
Sorry, but Hannover has the reputation of not being so beautiful.
@@ingevonschneider5100 That’s okay with us. A reputation of a place isn’t always what it is in reality.
@@ingevonschneider5100 after a visit i am sure that most ppl would deny this.
@@ingevonschneider5100 Hannover is one of the most underrated cities in germany. I never heard any special thing about Hannover, I just knew that it exist. But now after living in Hannover for quite some time, I'm loving it. Hannover has everything you need, but still isn't overhyped. And it isn't ugly at all.
Congrats and enjoy your new location. Sounds like you like it already (The Beer).
Thank you, James! We definitely miss Spain, but are enjoying Germany too!
Glad for you. Love your videos!!
Thank you for the kind words, and thank you for watching!
Willkommen in Deutschland 🇩🇪 Deutschland ist ein schönes Land 👍
Liebe Grüße aus Hessen
Vielen Dank! Wir freuen uns sehr, hier zu sein! 🇩🇪
Yes to all of these!
Also, this video is really well put together. It's so snappy and engaging :D
Thank you!! I'm glad to hear you agree with all of these as others who moved to Germany!
As for the editing, I'm constantly learning with the whole process, so it's nice to hear it's improving!
@@MYTravelBF Yeah it really is a constant process. We spent like an hour yesterday talking about how to improve our videos' pacing. lol
1:37 One of Germanys popular "blitzers" in the back ground (speed radar) xD
Fascinating! I had no idea that was there when I was filming. Good eye!
Really well-done video. The standard of living looks better than in Spain. When I was in Germany I was very surprised at the high level of English (for the most part).
Thank you very much! It's hard to compared the standard of livings of Spain and Germany, especially because we've only been living in Germany for a few weeks. The salaries are lower in Spain, but so is the cost of living....maybe we'll do another video in the future on the standard of living. And yes, we've been surprised at the high level of English here!
Greeting from Hannover, Nice BIergarten at Warterlooplatz :D
Thank you! And good eye spotting the biergarten!
Hey thats a Gilde :D Ill be in Hannover from September 14th to 28th seeing my family in Heideviertel in Hannover. Hannover can be a really cool place if you explore with locals. It has some really amzing places and sub cultures.
Good eye for the Gilde! Enjoy your time in Hannover and if you have any local recommendations or tips for us to explore some of those subcultures that would be great!
In Germany so very safe as America. I hope the best safe for America and love America and people 🙏
Thank you! Germany is overall much safer than America, at least in our opinion.
Welcome to Germany, if you love historic architecture, you should visit old villages or cities ("Altstadt") and ofc. castles in Germany.
Thank you! We'll make sure to check them out!
So in Spain you were doing the NALCAP program and teaching private lessons, but what are you doing in Germany? What's the visa situation? Was it easy to transition from Spain to Germany? (I'm sure it wasn't, lol)
I wonder if you've made a video about these details already. I'm considering doing the NALCAP and who knows if I'll want to try living in some other EU country after that. So yea, if you haven't made a video on this, I'd be curious to see one.
Thanks! Danke!
We haven't done a video on that, but we can in the future. We are both working at a school in Germany, but had experience and licenses in the US that allowed us to do so. NALCAP is a great program to live in Spain, travel, and get some experience in education, but if you want to work in education abroad, we recommend getting a teaching license back home. However, if you're wanting to work in another field, it might be a good springboard into Europe for connections, but remember that each country is different in terms of work visas.
Welcome to Germany 🇩🇪 I will go the opposite way in October to O’HARE, visiting friends in Wisconsin (Lake Geneva, Elkhorn, Hartford and Madison), just around your home place. 😅
Thank you, and that sounds like so much fun! I'm jealous you get to go to Wisconsin. October is such a good time of year there!
Uk has similar recycling, those secific bags will be biodegradable and environmentally safe. Brilliant
That's great! It makes you question how effective other types of recycling programs in the world are...
Would you say the biking infrastructure in Hanover is better or worse than Sevilla, Vitoria Gasteiz, or even Barcelona?
Madrid is infamous for lagging behind the rest of Spain.
It’s hard to say because I haven’t been to Sevilla, Vitoria, or Barcelona in over 6 years so a lot could have changed, but I’d say Hannover is ahead of them overall. However, it doesn’t have a huge old town, like Sevilla, and much of the city was rebuilt after WWII which gave them a chance to “redesign.”
Madrid absolutely lacks behind the rest of Spain with bike infrastructure though…
Welcome to Hannover!
Thank you!
Really good video, thx
Thank you for watching!
Many cities were destroyed during WW2 and many had to rebuild their houses for the citizens to live in. And because so many parts had to be rebuild, they went for the easy, quick and probably cheap solution. But i.e Dresden had it‘s Frauenkirche rebuild from 1993 to 2005 with old and mostly new bricks to what it was like before WW2, not like the „Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche“ in Berlin which was kept destroyed as a memorial against war. Berlin also decided to rebuild the Stadtschloss which was replaced after WW2 with a new building. In Frankfurt am Main there also was a big part of the „Altstadt“ built in medieval times completely destroyed in WW2. As kids we could visit and watch the ruins. They were not replaced by ugly buildings in the 50s but rebuilt in recent years. At least the facades were build with the original houses in mind. So there is a completely new „old“ town in Frankfurt now.
Thank you for sharing! I had no idea about the history of Frankfurt's old town. I know Hannover was about 90% destroyed in the war, so much of it is newer. It's just a contrast coming from Madrid, Spain. Obviously, the US doesn't have very old, beautiful old towns for the most part though.
3:20 And pretty much every area has more or less its own special rules. So always inform well!
Thank you for the tip! I suppose we're just familiar with Hannover's rules.
Beer size comparison Germany/Spain explained:
In Spain the size is smaller because people don't want to sit at the same place for hours.
In Germany you'll sit in front of the 2 liters beer (that gets hot fast in summer ) and of course NO FREE TAPA. 😁
That makes sense. It's just a different culture around drinking in Spain and Germany. And yes....no free tapa. We 100% miss not getting a tapa in Germany. More countries should really start doing the free tapa🙌
There are no „free tapas, free drinks“, you have to pay for that. Maybe not charged extra, but belive me, the owner would not pay for it out of bis Pocket. Customers have to pay for every food, drink and all of that stuff.
Actually you don’t have to use the official yellow recycling bag. Any bag that is transparent will do. It hast to be transparent so that the garbage men can check if there is really only recycling trash in it. If someone put the wrong garbage (organic waste etc.) in the bag the garbage men will leave the bag with a notice why they did not take it.
Thank you for the tip! We had no idea. Luckily, we have a few yellow ones to go through for a while yet.
Mate, when did you move. I thought you were still doing the aux program back in Spain?
We moved at the end of July because we found full-time jobs here in Germany. We are going to miss Spain but couldn't pass up the opportunity for full-time jobs here in Germany. Maybe it'll lead us back to Spain someday!
@@MYTravelBF that sounds really amazing & I'm really happy for you both. I found you through the Auxiliares de conversación programa videos y además, son muy útiles para la gente que está participando por primera vez. Muchas gracias por los tips y voy a ver tus experiencias en alemán ahora. Buena suerte!!!!
@@akshatjakhar1172 muchísimas gracias! Si tienes algunas preguntas o dudas sobre el programa de auxiliares, avisanos
Thanks for the video! I would love a comparison between Spain and Germany as an American :)
We will definitely do that! Once we get settled in and learn a bit more of the culture and what it is like living in Germany, we will make that comparison video. Thanks for the suggestion!
So you life in Hannover you migjt look for "Eric the Ami" here on YT. He also lifed in Hannover, love bear and perhaps he had some Tipps fpr you. Nice Greatings from Hamburg
Thank you! We subscribed to his channel! We'll make it up to Hamburg someday soon!
@@MYTravelBF if you visit Hamburg take some time for the miniature wonderland. There you can travel the whole world in a day. They also have a YT channel and are the highest liked attraction in germany. Voted by tourist. Even before the Colone kathedtal and Castle Neuschwanstein. And no 2 hours are not enaugh. I thimk 2 years are not enaugh to detwct all the details cause the guys who run it are crazzy.
@@Torfmoos Awesome! Thank you so much for the suggestion!
Willkommen in Deutschland. Liebe Grüße aus der schönsten Stadt im Norden, der Perle der Ostsee, der Königin der Hanse, Lübeck.
Vielen Dank! Wir haben gehört, Lübeck ist schön! Wir werden eines Tages besuchen müssen.
I hope that is correct German😬
Have good times in the „Eilenriede“.
Thank you! It's been fantastic so far!
I'm n Berlin from india for 72 days it's amazing love it. Moa calem
We haven't been to Berlin yet, but we want to visit. Glad to hear you're loving it!
Well, Hannover isn't known for its beautiful buildings. It has quite the rep as one of the worst looking larger cities in Germany.
(which is not true, it's a gem if you know where to look)
Yes, there are quite a few beautiful buildings here in Hannover! It was so destroyed during the war that some streets have a lot of newer, more functional buildings that were built after the war. However, other streets have incredible, historic architecture with a lot of beauty!
@@MYTravelBF Goslar is quite close to Hannover (Just 1 Train Ride away) and has beautiful old buildings, you get there in the morning, you can see most of it in a day, join a tour, and you can be back home on the last train
@@MarcLucksch Thank you for the recommendation! It's now on our list of places to visit around Hannover and do a video on!
@@MYTravelBF Awesome. I can also recommend the Christmas market there, where they fill a whole square with trees to make an artificial Christmas forest.
@@MarcLucksch Ohhh! That sounds really cool! We will definitely be checking that out!
Welcome in germany. But if you wan´t to improve your germany while speaking to a german tell them. Most of us if we realize you struggle with our language often automatically switch to english. But if you say to also most germans you want to learn the language better insist to keep the conversation in german and that they should correct you partly. In my opinon every german who is able also to speek a decent engiish is aware of the difficulty of our language will help you in an amount where you say: "OK, until this amount it comfortable".
That's wonderful! Thank you for the advice. We are starting to learn some German, but we know that with language learning it's a long, slow process, especially with German.
@@MYTravelBF They say: Learning English is a year of joy and a lifetime of misery and learning German is a year of tears and a lifetime of joy. ;-)
@@Kivas_Fajo 😂🤣 Hopefully that's the way it goes learning German! We'll just have to get through the first year...
@@MYTravelBF It's getting easier after it clicked in the head how it works. ;-) From then on you can learn more and more by yourself just so, because the language is self-explanatory at that stage for you.
Which is never the case with English, but you as natives cannot understand that, I guess?
Example: Though, tough you get the picture.
@@Kivas_Fajo English is an incredibly difficult language for people to learn, especially if they are older. You're right that most natives don't understand how challenging it is.
It's basically, the more south you go in Europe, the later the meals/
We've definitely noticed this moving from Madrid to Hannover. During the week, we have preferred the earlier meal times.
you will see people ride bikes in any kind of weather condition and every season. Even if its icy.
It's been great riding so far in summer, but we'll see if that changes when the weather does☔🥶
Welcome to Germany. You are almost in Northern Germany. Just a few Hundred Kilometers north of you is the Elbe River, the Borderline between Germany and Northern Italy where you reside 😉
Haha thank you for the clarification!
@@MYTravelBF if you can, make Trips to Lübeck (with Travemünde) , Kiel (with Kalifornien and Brasilien) and to StPeterOrding, Husum,Sylt
@@wandilismus8726 Thank you! We always appreciate any recommendations, especially since we are new here!
@@MYTravelBF pleasure to help.
Hannover, our home. If you want to have some contact to us local Hannover germans, we will be very fine to meet you!
Thank you!! We welcome any local recommendations!
New subscriber here :) I enjoyed your video and I am looking forward to watching more of your content. I am an American who lived in Germany for a total of six years a while back. I visit Germany at least twice and sometimes three times a year and I am looking forward to my very near visit to beautiful Germany. I just can't get enough. I have a RUclips channel and I do a lot of vlogs and having a blast at the same time :). Let's keep in touch. :).
Thank you! That's awesome that you lived in Germany too and still come back so often. We've just subscribed to your channel too!
@@MYTravelBF Very cool that you had subscribed as well, I appreciate that .I am looking forward to soon Germany trip, YAY!!!! Thanks again:).
@@MagnificentGermanywithDarion You're welcome, and thank you!!
So you're in Hanover? Did you know? Hanover is half as big as the Ohlsdorf cemetary (in Hamburg) but double as dead.
🤣😂 We haven't visited Hamburg, but we'll let you know our thoughts once we do!
@@MYTravelBF That was a joke from Hamburg. Actually, the Ohldorf cemetary is the largest in the world and you can drive around in it with a car.
@@martinstubs6203 I knew it was a joke 😂 and that Hannover has the reputation of being a boring city. The cemetery sounds huge though! We're hoping to get to Hamburg in the next month. Any recommendations for when we visit would be appreciated!
@@MYTravelBF When visiting Hamburg, the "Miniatur Wunderland" is something you shouldn't miss. It's the worlds largest model railway in scale 1:87. It covers an area of 1545 square meters (split in 15 regions) with 1120 trains, 4340 Buildings and more than 16km of tracks...
@@frankschrewe4302 Wow! Thank you for the suggestion!
The yellow bags aren’t for free. The customer pays in average 1cent on top to every purchased item with a „Grüner Punkt“ Logo on the packaging. 😉
Thanks for the tip! We were told free😬
In Western Germany you will get beer in small 2,0 l glases. Those large glases are a silly Bavarian thing.
Interesting…we didn’t know that! Thank you for the fact!
Welcome to the city of Hannover
Thank you!! It’s been great so far!
Regarding the ugly new architecture you have to consider, that like you said 90% of the city was destroyed after WWII. But people needed a place to live and work, so a lot of building just were build as fast as possible, no time, money and materials for great architecture.
Absolutely! It makes a lot of sense as to why it was rebuilt the way it was. It was just a surprise to see it coming from Spain that wasn't destroyed in the war.
Are you near the BMW plant?
We're not sure...We just moved here, so we're not sure where that is.
I think its onteresting what americans think of germany espacaliy in in the city i born and live hannover
Make sure to subscribe then because we'll keep posting about Germany and Hannover! Thanks for watching!
Especaliy the entdeckertag in hannover next month is very interesting btw
@@budhisstuff7585 Thank you! We'll have to check it out next month!
Germany is a very best country with best social system but many germans people are unfriendly or rude and some people are friendly.
Germany does have a great social system. We have generally found people to be friendly, even though this is not what we heard about Germans before moving here.
@@MYTravelBFThat's very great to friendly people 👍 But my city many unfriendly, but I found a place to friendly club in Parchim
i dont really like that u call modern buildings 'ugly'. you can say they are plain, but everyone has a different taste. i dont like old buildings at all aesthetically, i would always prefer modern architecture.
You’re right. Perhaps ugly was the wrong adjective…functional would have been better since they were rebuilt quickly after the war to provide ample housing for a lot of people. Apologies for using ugly!
We do love the new, modern German architecture too and appreciate the blend in the city!
Man looks like Matt Murdock
😂🤣😂🤣
Nonsens. You're making the same mistake that somehow all Americans make, you're transferring Bavarian Biergarten customs (the Biergarten is something Hannover has copied 3 decades ago from Bavaria - mostly for international tourists) to the whole of Germany. Do they walk around New York in cowboy boots and a hat and go to the rodeo?
And eat chilli and Burgers all the time?
In Bavaria the beer glasses are big, up to 1l. Here in Hesse you get 0.2l or 0.3l beer, with Bavarian Hefeweizen also 0.5l. In Cologne you only get the regional beer Kölsch only in 0.2l glasses.
And imagine, the culture of Germany is actually different from that of Spain. Between us and Spain is the same difference as between the USA and Brazil - it'ss on the same continent, but different geological conditions, different climate, different history, different language.
Sorry for the mix up! That's why it was a first impressions video. Obviously, Spain and Germany have different cultures too. It's just a change moving from one to the other. Thanks for watching!
Post-war architecture is so ugly bc housing had to be found quickly, and with the reduced means available, for 66 Million Germans plus 12 million refugees streaming in from the East. Aesthetics played a secondary role, as one can imagine.
Absolutely! Perhaps the words I was looking for was functional, instead of ugly. It’s good that they had a reason for building the functional buildings though
They had to house about 1/3 of the population again after the war. So „estetics“ was not a high priority, understandably. But in the last few decades many of these ugly buildings arebeing replaced by nicer ones
Yeah, it's completely understandable why a lot aren't as beautiful. They were more functional than anything else. A lot of the newer architecture is beautiful though!
A “high school “ education in Germany is the equivalent of a college degree in America.
Thanks for watching!
Some say, destroying german cities was a war crime, since there were no military targets. But they rebuild them in record time, so some buildings are looking boring…
Yeah, we figured that's why many of the buildings were more functional than beautiful. People needed places to live after the war, so they had to be rebuilt in record time, like you said. I can't imagine what the reconstruction was like after the war and what went into planning all that.
Why do I have a feeling I know you in real life?
Maybe you've seen me around🤷🏼♂️
I got a feeling that I study at your school and you are one of my teachers?
Hm, Wisconsin? Um, seems Hannover attracts Wisconsians.
Maybe it does...We're not sure! Are you from Wisconsin as well?
@@MYTravelBF No, but "Eric der Ami" is. He moved here years ago.
Just search for his channel - it's a bit of a different channel.
Anyway, welcome to my hometown.
@@peter_meyer Thank you! We're loving Hannover so far and will definitely check out his channel too. If you ever have Hannover recommendations for us, let us know!
@@MYTravelBF Ok, will try.
First recommendation: Saturday morning flea market, just on the opposite side of that intersection you filmed at.
@@MYTravelBF Of course Schloß Herrenhausen (Herrenhausen Castle) with its beautiful gardens is a must.
Es ist immer wieder interessant zu hören, wie Ausländer unser Land sehen.
Es ist der Blick des Touristen!🤔
Vielen Dank fürs Zuschauen und Kommentieren!
naja in hannover gibt es nur wenig was schön ist......aber das ist meine meinung.komme aus nähe braunschweig und ich weiss diesen komischen hass.fussball...lol mich kümmerts nicht.ich weiss nur:feiern kann man in hannover aber deutsche kultur gibts besser ausserhalb.
Danke fürs Zuschauen und Kommentieren. Wir haben Hannover genossen und freuen uns darauf, auch andere Orte in Deutschland zu besuchen!
First Impression?
cute and hot!
Lol thank you!
Is he really an 🇺🇲 he said litres
😂🤣 Well you have to order in liters, plus we had been living in Spain the past year too. Although maybe my spelling of liters says enough lol
Why didn't you have any ketchup on your brat?!
Lol you love your ketchup. I went for the mustard.
So much better without.
@@underwaterlaser1687 We 100% agree!
@@MYTravelBF Sheep
My hypothesis is, that Americans could not possibly care less about German culture. What drives them into central Europe in general are the social benefits, like free university, free schools and day-care, cheap healthcare, paid holidays and unemployment benefits. When your US-companies are exploiting you, why don't you change that over there in USA instead of running away? Could it be, that your overly religious society has been breeding a climate of ignorance towards your fellow Americans?
Interesting hypothesis. I think a lot of the US work culture is beyond ever changing. Once people see $$$, they only want more of it and create a system to exploit workers to help themselves.
@Lala Emm Do you feel as though most Americans moving to Europe are expecting citizens of those countries to bow down to them and change for them? If so, that's too bad as it's them immigrating to another country and should be adapting. I can understand keeping some culture traditions, but not expecting people to do things the American way. Tourists on the other hand seem to be much more in line with expecting things to be their way and for Europeans to bow to them while treating their countries like theme parks, at least when comparing the two as it's not easy to simply move to Europe to live as an American.