Other German "luxuries": Having all appliances (except oven) in your kitchen panelled to make the look go seamless with your cabinets. That mostly includes the fridge/freezer, and the dishwasher. Also, on a similar note, our cookers/ranges/ovens are fully integrated in the worktop, completely boxed in, also to give it a seamless look, also much easier to clean. Nothing can drip down the sides of the cooktop/oven. Very often we have the cooker and oven seperate, the latter being installed on a convenient, ergonomic height, so you don't need to bend down to make use of it. Heated towel rails in bathrooms - very common by now in Germany. In the USA they are considered "high end" stuff. Or handheld shower heads (no matter if in a shower or a bathtub). Very the norm here, and very convenient in particular when you have to bathe kids. In the USA they always look at me as if I were a monster with seven heads when I mention them. I hate these completely fixed, wall mounted shower heads. They are such an inconvenience. Same goes for glass panelled showers. It is such a common sight in Germany, but in the USA they just hang on to their filthy shower curtains. Bah!
Heated towel rails in the bathroom are a relatively new feature in Germany, though. We already had one in the house where I was born in Scotland way back in the 1950s. We also had hand-held shower heads back then - so much more practical than than the fixed ones. But having had both glass panels and shower curtains, I actually prefer shower curtains. Reason: you can get water-repellent textile ones that you can put in the washing machine and just hang them back up in the shower to dry straight out of the machine. With the glass panels, you're always going to get water drops. And if you live in an area with very hard water, you will get limescale all over them, even if you have a squeegee to clean them after every shower and use limescale remover when cleaning. The limescale also gets into corners and cracks, looks unsightly and is almost impossible to clean after a while. So give me the shower curtains any day. PS: Just a tiny edit suggestion: nahtlos = seamless (ea, nicht ee).
@@alicemilne1444my personal preference: There are those glass panels with some reliev on the outside, makes it less obvious... Cleaning with a dash of lemon/citric (whatever it is in EN) or vinegar concentrate cleanes well, in my experience. (For the ceramics we occasionally use scouring agent)
Oh, man! German kitchens are absolutely INSANE! I think Germany pours all its R&D budget that doesn't go to cars into kitchen tech. The first time I rented a German apartment, I assumed it just came without a fridge, and kept my vegetables on the window ledge (it was winter). Then, about a month into my stay, I heard a small rumble while I was washing dishes. What the hell!? That _had_ to be a compressor, I thought... and that _had_ to mean a fridge! So I started trying to pry open various panels I had just assumed were hiding plumbing, and lo and behold - there was indeed a fridge, under part of the counter! And don't get me started about the dishwashers that project their settings and status onto the floor with a bloody laser!
Well now, we tend to have a pretty pervasive misconception about just what the word "organic" means. Ask a chemist. They will tell you that an _organic_ compound is a compound that includes carbon. That's it.
I don’t know anyone either. You need to be at least upper middle class before you can even consider it. And you have to have big enough house to have room for another person. So that already makes it impossible for the majority.
@@claudiakarl2702 Rich is too imprecise. With two normal jobs like working in a bank or for the government it is for parents better to have an aupair instead living with one income. A friend of mine, single mom of two, worked as a flight attendant. Her two children had to share one room. So there was one room for the aupair
@@claudiakarl2702I agree, the cost is kind of negligible, but you have to have the room. After the children have moved out, some elderly will have somebody to support them to live there. Or the other way around, if you inherited your parent's house, you can use the 'old' children's room for an au pair or an exchange student.
My uncle had an aupair some years ago. Middle class with two incomes. The kids were wearing clothes from the thrift store and flee markets, my aunt cut her hair herself and they couldn't afford rent in Munich and were living in the outer outskirts.
To be fair, we also have inspections for vehicles, but it's by state. A lot of southern states don't have the inspections. I remember moving from virginia to Alabama driving around for a week trying to find an inspection station only to find out they don't do car inspections in Alabama. In Virginia we also have incentives to keep our older cars because you pay little to no car tax once a car hits about 15 years old. My 2003 toyota is free now to drive, just have to get the yearly inspection and registration.
Technischer Überwachungs Verein = TÜV It's not only for Cars you can find it on Toasters and stuff. Means those things are tested to be safe for the consumers. ( TÜV geprüft) So they don't catch fire or electrecute people.
You see those with some use (like Cayenne) more often, even if not that often. The legendary Posche is rare, one of it's the luxuries being, that you have to take it out for the sake of taking it out.
Hayley, another great piece that you have presented!! I studied German for 2 years in high school. 2 years later (1968) the U.S. Army sent me to Germany in the 3rd Armored Division. Some locals (Hesse) spoke English but many did not. When my wife and I attended the 2006 World Cup Tournament and traveled around the country extensively, I noticed that many more common people seemed to have a good control of English. Things change over time. My paternal grandfather was from the area near the Denmark border and though he died before my time, I was told that he was a very sharp business leader. Thank you again Ms. Hayley. I reside in Florida so perhaps some day we will meet!
You like do make those videos cos they upset a lot of people.😂 How could we get tired of that?!😂❤ I love even more that you actually said it out loud.😊
I live in Belgium so it might be a bit different than in Germany but the clichés for German cars differ per brand. VW: golfs and pandas are first cars you own. Audi: company cars for middle managers. Mercedes: small company owners, if they're second hand: small company owners from foreign background. BMW: bitter assholes with more money than life.
Laws differ by US state (and within a state, regulations differ between counties.) Some states and counties require regular emissions testing and some states require mechanical road fitness testing before a car can be registered. My ex wasn’t maintaining the car he had our oldest minor child drive to my place so he could avoid transferring the children himself. I got a call at work that the brakes were sparking but they made it safely home. I called local mechanics, left work, and drove back streets the mile to a mechanic who could evaluate it right away. He wrote up not just an estimate but a letter saying it was unsafe to drive. The letter included his also being licensed in Alabama where the vehicle’s condition would get it red tagged and result in the arrest of anyone trying to drive it off the lot. (I got the idea Alabama required mechanical sign off before registration as well as red tag option outside of the registration procedure.) That letter going to the attorneys got a court stipulation that the vehicle had to be repaired to safety before minor children could drive it and parental transfer until then. Never imagined I’d be jealous of an Alabama law. They got protecting the public right in that regard though.
I think one can easily meet people from all over the world in US. In Germany too, but not so much. In NYC, I heard many new languages I never heard before. I thought they were local Latin American languages.
So Spanish? 😂😂 just kidding but I don't know if I agree with that statement. I think New York City is a very isolated location where many languages will pop out but outside of NYC Spanish is the main "foreign" one.
I will never forget….the first time my mom and I went into a German bathroom we didn’t know how to turn on the lights or flush the toilet. We were so tired from the trip and overwhelmed! Mom started crying and said of all the things I tried to learn about Germany there was nothing about this! It truly was humbling the very basic things we took for granted and needed to learn.
7:00: Have you ever tried an oldschool german/dutch toilet with the poop shelf? They went out of fashion ~20 years ago. Nowadays almost everyone uses the french toilet design in the EU, not the german/dutch. (You put a modern french style toilet on the picture, not the german/dutch one.)
I didn't use the shelf ones because they aren't as common anymore. A lot of people are renovating their homes and getting rid of those toilets and newer homes being built don't install those toilets... regardless though they still don't splash your ass 😂
Please explane " modern French Toilet Designe..... The one in the Video are very common in new or renovated houses in Germany. I have one since almost 20 years from Gerberit which is a Swiss company, I believe.....
The old ones you mention are called Flachspüler I believe. The ones without the shelf are Tiefspüler, which are usually installed nowadays. And sometimes do splash your behind (IMO).
I’ve owned my 2014 bmw x5 almost 6 years now with only 2 repairs. It’s been bulletproof. If people would take care of there cars they could last so much longer with minimal issue. Planned obsolescence is a real problem.
Of course there are toilets with splash feature in Germany too, called japanese toilets with fully automatic washing and drying function. It is not standard yet but more and more common.
The contrary situation in Europe is the status of US cars that are not considered a luxury item and are only bought for image. You will probably find that most Europeans don't consider US car brands to be a quality item, whatever model they are and if performance, reliability, maintenance etc are your key parameters then you will probably stick to the European brands that will inevitably be cheaper. Interestingly, because US car brands are not a mainstream choice then they are priced accordingly, which means at a higher level than they would otherwise merit. If you are in the market for a US car then you will be intent on the image and therefore are likely willing to pay for it.
Not everybody in Germany can afford the brands Mercedes, BMW, Audi. They are not on a level with real luxury Brands like Rolls Royce, Maybach, Jaguar, Ferrari (Porsche I would count to the luxury brands, too), but nevertheless fairly expensive. People with a normal salary mostly buy a Toyota, a Skoda or maybe a Dacia.
Vw is best selld car, bmw small Typs, Mercedes small Typ too, evan Audi up to a4…..Ford, Renault Fiat skoda and a Lot of Korea Japan Middle Class car are quiet a good Choice …
@@horstschmitzberger6989 Originally, Volkswagen was a brand for normal people and families: practical and stable, easy to use, affordable for everyone. But in the last years Volkswagen forgot its roots: The cars became too classy and too expensive, they do not build cars for normal people anymore, but more and more for wealthy upper class customers. That is why Volkswagen is in economic problems- they lost their actual target group, which made Volkswagen big. Volkswagen is a piece of Germany and our prosperity (a symbol of the "economic miracle" in the 1950s after the war), it is sad to see, how Volkswagen breaks at the moment. 😢
I believe Au Pair is an official international program more like an exchange student and not intended to be well-paid. I know people who have had au pairs here in California. But then you have to house them in your home which many people don’t want. There are a lot of immigrants here and people are more likely to hire a Latina woman who has her own family and place to live.
Yes, the toilet splashes are really icky. In my opinion a toilet from the future wouldn't even be with water- only to clean yourself up after using it, like the ones in Japan :)
@@HayleyAlexis It's standard practice at least in Finland. Something else about toilets ruclips.net/video/tXEIOuThk8k/видео.htmlsi=4d2Ly9yYFr5MR27n There are several companies offering products based on similar ideas.
Things that are common here but luxury in USA ... common health care? For example, I had colon cancer. It was treated COMPLETELY cost-free for me. I didn't need to sell my house. I didn't need to become a "Gofundme" beggar. They even payed me to have 4 weeks at a rehab clinic that was specialized on intestine problems afterwards --- never had more sports in my live than there! But it paid of: I'm completely healed and continue to be a normal worker. In USA, people sometimes have to consider if they can afford to call an emergency rescue car! Getting in contact with other cultures. You mentioned it a bit with your 9 countries bordering germany. But really, many germans have visited lots of countries. I've been in Belgium, Netherland, France, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Czech, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, UK and USA. Often for holiday, sometimes in a hotel, sometimes doing a road travel holiday. Sometimes for work. And always I went to local stored, bought local food, tried local drinks, learned 10-20 words or so. Certainly, not enough to really communicate. But also certainly to plant a smile on the face of the other person. On the constrast, few US citizens even have a passwort and leave their country. And it shows: usually they expect that everything is exactly like they are used to it ("Wait, I can't pay with US credit cards, which are much more expensive for this abroad shop than in my home country?"). Or they often don't even TRY to pronuciate foreign names the way the people say them theyself. They usually anglicize everything, totally culturally insensitive. Not getting shot by police. The US police kills more US citizens that the whole number of germans killed by guns totally. EVEN when you divide the US number by factor 4 to normalize it to the differing number of the population. Actually, german police is WAY more polite and educated than US police. There is WAY less violence in play the way they deal with people. They aren't saints, but the unsaintly US police is way, way worse. Even the border-guards ("Immigration") at the airport of the US are really grumpy people, not nice at all. I've never been treated that unfriendly by european ones (I had interaction with boarder guards quite seldom, but I had them when entering UK, Switzerland, Hungary and Romania occassionally). Okay, the former east german border guards where a bit like today's US immigration officers. But that's been long ago, before 1987. Brick+mortar houses. We now all see in our news the bad wildfires in California. And it pains us to see that. But ... ONE (of many different) reasons is that in the US they build houses usually with a wood frame and planks. And lots of "holes" containing air. So the wood has all the air it needs to burn efficiently. Here in europe we usually have brick+mortar houses. Yes, occossionally we have a burning house here, too. But they need much more to get burning when US houses. Also look at thunderstorms. Hefty ones can also damage houses here. But usally the house damage is minimal --- the real problem is the floods induced by summer thunderstorms. Such brick+mortar houses can withstand the elements just much better than "cardboard" houses.
There really are quite a few older cars driving around here, but they can be very expensive to maintain in order to get the coveted "H" license plate. This license plate offers tax advantages and lower insurance premiums. Roughly speaking, cars in their original condition that are 30 years old can receive this licence plate feature.I inherited an old Ford Scorpio from my birth year 1988 in 2016, the car was kept in good shape, was only two years away from the "H" license plate, the car had only driven 30k miles, already had air conditioning and the quality of the seats was like sitting on grandma's couch. I was a student at the time and would have paid annually over EUR 700 in taxes and EUR 600 for insurance until I could apply for the H license plate, because the car had no catalytic converter and the fuel consumption was twice as high as my previous car, my Hyundai i10 at the time cost EUR 19 in taxes and EUR 280 a year in insurance premiums, so I had to sell this wonderful car with a heavy heart. I still regret it to this day, even though I'm not really a car enthusiast, but the car had won my heart.
The TÜV/roadworthiness approval is not Germany-specific. In all EU countries you need to have your car tested in regular intervals. Otherwise you pay a hefty fine.
There is a Difference between a Mercedes A Class and an SLS AMG. The second One is 15 times more expansive. (Sorry, shitty English) Some Cars in the US are really in bad Condition and the Tuning is almost illegal here in Europe. The German love their Cars. There is a TV Show named ``Heiligs Blechle´´(Holy Sheet Metal). And there is also a Quotation: Was it die größte Glaubensgemeinschaft der Welt? VW Fahrer. Don´t take me to serious, because i have a very unique Sense of Humor. Hayley, i wish you a great Weekend and Greetings to Friends an Family. 😉
An au pair costs you 20 000$ a year (10000 go to the agency, 10000 to the au pair themselves). For many families in the US thats cheaper than other types of childcare. I have been an au pair in the US for 3 different families in 2019/2020, non of them were rich excactly, only upper middle class
I think it tends to be very common for children who grow up in the US to have times in their lives when they want to learn other languages. It's perfectly natural. I also think a lot more of us _would_ learn other languages if we didn't have all these misconceptions about just how it's done. The average book about _how_ to learn other languages is not very long and is _bursting_ with good ideas, but is something the average American is not even going to _open._ But there never has been a time in our entire _history_ when we have not shared a land border with a country where the main language is _Spanish,_ so since we established a _public_ school system, there never really has been a time when it didn't make sense to _teach_ Spanish, as a second language, in _schools._
Did you ever think about the switches to turn on the room light (I don‘t know how you actually call these in the US), and how different they look in Germany ? Same applies to the electricity plugs. I was always wondering why they were almost every time looking alike throughout the US: antique looking (to say the best), or better to say old-fashioned, and not modern style. Are light switches a luxury in Germany? Definitely not - but would they in the US ? 🤔
I recently got a puppy and in the course of doing research on training, equipment, etc. I noticed there are some huge differences between US practices and German practices when it comes to dog ownership. I'd really love to see a comparison from somebody who's had first hand experience with both. Do you feel like that's an interesting topic for you to do? (Not sure if you ever owned pets?) Anyway, thanks for continuing to provide awesome content. Toodles ♥
Old cars are still a luxury thing, but it's a strong cultural thing as well. But an classic car doesn't mean you're rich, you just spend money on it like other people do for guitar lessons as example,
5:47 😳 “In total, people in Germany speak 60 different foreign languages, including rare languages such as Gujarati, Lingala and Scottish Gaelic.” 🤔 Do they include any Native American languages?
The base models are usually not sold in the US. Take Mercedes, in the US the E-Class starts with the E 350. The E 200, E 220 and E 300 are not sold in the USA, smaller models like the Mercedes A -Class and B-Class are not even offered. The USA is a pure premium and luxury market for Mercedes, everything they sell there is at or near the upper end of their lineup. No base model Mercedes sold in the US and this has been the case for a long time.
Ehhhh I disagree with this comment. I do have to say the interior has vastly improved over the years (because they have to due to competition- a Mercedes can not have a worse interior compared to a Kia/Hyundai) but generally speaking just because a car is "smaller" does not mean it is automatically less luxurious or the other cars offered are more luxurious. Size in Germany does not always = to more luxurious like it does in the USA because space is very limited in some areas.
That it is relatively common in Germany/Europe "to get help" for raising children is probably the point here. And definitely pretty accessible. I know many families who organized some help at some stage. I know relatively few families, though, who actually ever had an Au Pair. That is help above and beyond the normal program of Kindergarten and School.
Du bist 50+ und willst wissen wie viel ich esse oder ob ich schwanger bin? Yikes... das ist aber wirklich komisch 🥴 Du bist älter als meine Mama und kommentierst sowas.... so peinlich eigentlich!!
There's something strange in all your videos, and that's your CUTE introduction. "welcome-to-my-you-tube-channel-if-you-don-t-know-me-now-you-do-hey-you-guys-what-s-up" You say all of that without pausing between sentences... It seems like you don't believe in what you're saying, but feel obligated to continue greeting your fans in this way and want to skip it as soon as possible, thereby diminishing the value of the nice greeting.
Mein Gott bist du Goofy 😂ich beobachte ja deinen Kanal schon länger und erfreue mich darüber. Aber deine letzten Videos zeigen mir immer mehr wie Amerikaner sind... Gofy
Do you consider Mercedes, BMW, VW or Audi a luxury brand? Even the base models? 😅
Hell no, for me as a German Mercedes is for Opas and BMW for Kanacken 😅😅
In Germany? No. At least not the base models. A 7 series or S class or A8, yes. VW no thoughout their lineup.
Mercedes and Audi for sure, bmw depends witsch Type..5 up defently..vw only some Modell like vw Bus high end Version…or some gti Race mad Typs..😎✌️🥰
In my opinion Mercedes, BMW and Audi are luxury brands. VW is pricey too. I rather go for Skoda or Citroen.
No not the base models
Other German "luxuries": Having all appliances (except oven) in your kitchen panelled to make the look go seamless with your cabinets. That mostly includes the fridge/freezer, and the dishwasher. Also, on a similar note, our cookers/ranges/ovens are fully integrated in the worktop, completely boxed in, also to give it a seamless look, also much easier to clean. Nothing can drip down the sides of the cooktop/oven. Very often we have the cooker and oven seperate, the latter being installed on a convenient, ergonomic height, so you don't need to bend down to make use of it. Heated towel rails in bathrooms - very common by now in Germany. In the USA they are considered "high end" stuff. Or handheld shower heads (no matter if in a shower or a bathtub). Very the norm here, and very convenient in particular when you have to bathe kids. In the USA they always look at me as if I were a monster with seven heads when I mention them. I hate these completely fixed, wall mounted shower heads. They are such an inconvenience. Same goes for glass panelled showers. It is such a common sight in Germany, but in the USA they just hang on to their filthy shower curtains. Bah!
And the giant Microwaves hanging over the cooker ...
Heated towel rails in the bathroom are a relatively new feature in Germany, though. We already had one in the house where I was born in Scotland way back in the 1950s. We also had hand-held shower heads back then - so much more practical than than the fixed ones. But having had both glass panels and shower curtains, I actually prefer shower curtains. Reason: you can get water-repellent textile ones that you can put in the washing machine and just hang them back up in the shower to dry straight out of the machine. With the glass panels, you're always going to get water drops. And if you live in an area with very hard water, you will get limescale all over them, even if you have a squeegee to clean them after every shower and use limescale remover when cleaning. The limescale also gets into corners and cracks, looks unsightly and is almost impossible to clean after a while. So give me the shower curtains any day.
PS: Just a tiny edit suggestion: nahtlos = seamless (ea, nicht ee).
@@alicemilne1444 Thanks for the correction. When I read my comment, I already sensed something was off.
@@alicemilne1444my personal preference: There are those glass panels with some reliev on the outside, makes it less obvious...
Cleaning with a dash of lemon/citric (whatever it is in EN) or vinegar concentrate cleanes well, in my experience. (For the ceramics we occasionally use scouring agent)
Oh, man! German kitchens are absolutely INSANE! I think Germany pours all its R&D budget that doesn't go to cars into kitchen tech. The first time I rented a German apartment, I assumed it just came without a fridge, and kept my vegetables on the window ledge (it was winter). Then, about a month into my stay, I heard a small rumble while I was washing dishes. What the hell!? That _had_ to be a compressor, I thought... and that _had_ to mean a fridge! So I started trying to pry open various panels I had just assumed were hiding plumbing, and lo and behold - there was indeed a fridge, under part of the counter! And don't get me started about the dishwashers that project their settings and status onto the floor with a bloody laser!
I don't know what's on the first list, but I'd add access to organic food, fresh bakeries, and vacations to foreign countries as luxuries in the USA.
Organic food is available everywhere now but expensive.
@@annamc3947 $$$ is why it's a luxury.
Well now, we tend to have a pretty pervasive misconception about just what the word "organic" means. Ask a chemist. They will tell you that an _organic_ compound is a compound that includes carbon. That's it.
@@annamc3947 That's why it's a luxury. It's a luxury in the USA to get your calories from the healthiest food.
@@jpack85 cost is different from access.
Aupair are for rich people in Germany. I do not know anyone who has a aupair in the middle class.
I have made other experiences.
I don’t know anyone either. You need to be at least upper middle class before you can even consider it. And you have to have big enough house to have room for another person. So that already makes it impossible for the majority.
@@claudiakarl2702 Rich is too imprecise. With two normal jobs like working in a bank or for the government it is for parents better to have an aupair instead living with one income. A friend of mine, single mom of two, worked as a flight attendant. Her two children had to share one room. So there was one room for the aupair
@@claudiakarl2702I agree, the cost is kind of negligible, but you have to have the room. After the children have moved out, some elderly will have somebody to support them to live there. Or the other way around, if you inherited your parent's house, you can use the 'old' children's room for an au pair or an exchange student.
My uncle had an aupair some years ago. Middle class with two incomes. The kids were wearing clothes from the thrift store and flee markets, my aunt cut her hair herself and they couldn't afford rent in Munich and were living in the outer outskirts.
To be fair, we also have inspections for vehicles, but it's by state. A lot of southern states don't have the inspections. I remember moving from virginia to Alabama driving around for a week trying to find an inspection station only to find out they don't do car inspections in Alabama. In Virginia we also have incentives to keep our older cars because you pay little to no car tax once a car hits about 15 years old. My 2003 toyota is free now to drive, just have to get the yearly inspection and registration.
Very interesting!! Thank you for that little bit of information.. I honestly did not know.
That’s why when you move to Virginia you register your car in Maryland. This car tax in Virginia is just unbelievable
@00_UU i would rather pay car tax than be mistaken for a maryland driver. Yall are the reason why folks think Virginians can't drive. 😅@@00_UU
Technischer Überwachungs Verein = TÜV
It's not only for Cars you can find it on Toasters and stuff.
Means those things are tested to be safe for the consumers. ( TÜV geprüft)
So they don't catch fire or electrecute people.
Don't let them audit dams though, does not end well.
Cars can get the certificate from DEKRA as well, btw
Drinking carbonated water comes to mind😂. Never gave it a second thought, but apparently it is considered a luxury in the U.S.
Oh yes! that is a good one!! It really is
Somehow Americans always look at me like I am splurging by drinking Perrier, yet everyone is OK with me drinking as much soda as possible
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Driving a Porsche is also a luxury for most people in Germany. These cars are very rare to see in Germany.
That I agree with
You see those with some use (like Cayenne) more often, even if not that often.
The legendary Posche is rare, one of it's the luxuries being, that you have to take it out for the sake of taking it out.
Hayley, another great piece that you have presented!! I studied German for 2 years in high school. 2 years later (1968) the U.S. Army sent me to Germany in the 3rd Armored Division. Some locals (Hesse) spoke English but many did not. When my wife and I attended the 2006 World Cup Tournament and traveled around the country extensively, I noticed that many more common people seemed to have a good control of English. Things change over time. My paternal grandfather was from the area near the Denmark border and though he died before my time, I was told that he was a very sharp business leader. Thank you again Ms. Hayley. I reside in Florida so perhaps some day we will meet!
Its the same in Sweden and i think in EU you test the car every year and you must fix problems to use the car 😅
In France you have this technical control every other year
@logan1er in italy every 2 years
6;25 In Serbia restaurant have that type toilet 9:26 in Serbia car must go one year to checking they are ok to drive
You like do make those videos cos they upset a lot of people.😂 How could we get tired of that?!😂❤ I love even more that you actually said it out loud.😊
It's always the people with no real humor that take everything I say so seriously
100%
Aupair was still common in Germany in the 80s, even in the middle class.
I live in Belgium so it might be a bit different than in Germany but the clichés for German cars differ per brand.
VW: golfs and pandas are first cars you own.
Audi: company cars for middle managers.
Mercedes: small company owners, if they're second hand: small company owners from foreign background.
BMW: bitter assholes with more money than life.
😂😂😂 poor BMW
Laws differ by US state (and within a state, regulations differ between counties.) Some states and counties require regular emissions testing and some states require mechanical road fitness testing before a car can be registered.
My ex wasn’t maintaining the car he had our oldest minor child drive to my place so he could avoid transferring the children himself. I got a call at work that the brakes were sparking but they made it safely home. I called local mechanics, left work, and drove back streets the mile to a mechanic who could evaluate it right away. He wrote up not just an estimate but a letter saying it was unsafe to drive. The letter included his also being licensed in Alabama where the vehicle’s condition would get it red tagged and result in the arrest of anyone trying to drive it off the lot. (I got the idea Alabama required mechanical sign off before registration as well as red tag option outside of the registration procedure.) That letter going to the attorneys got a court stipulation that the vehicle had to be repaired to safety before minor children could drive it and parental transfer until then. Never imagined I’d be jealous of an Alabama law. They got protecting the public right in that regard though.
I think one can easily meet people from all over the world in US. In Germany too, but not so much. In NYC, I heard many new languages I never heard before. I thought they were local Latin American languages.
So Spanish? 😂😂 just kidding but I don't know if I agree with that statement. I think New York City is a very isolated location where many languages will pop out but outside of NYC Spanish is the main "foreign" one.
I will never forget….the first time my mom and I went into a German bathroom we didn’t know how to turn on the lights or flush the toilet. We were so tired from the trip and overwhelmed! Mom started crying and said of all the things I tried to learn about Germany there was nothing about this! It truly was humbling the very basic things we took for granted and needed to learn.
7:00: Have you ever tried an oldschool german/dutch toilet with the poop shelf?
They went out of fashion ~20 years ago.
Nowadays almost everyone uses the french toilet design in the EU, not the german/dutch.
(You put a modern french style toilet on the picture, not the german/dutch one.)
I didn't use the shelf ones because they aren't as common anymore. A lot of people are renovating their homes and getting rid of those toilets and newer homes being built don't install those toilets... regardless though they still don't splash your ass 😂
Please explane " modern French Toilet Designe..... The one in the Video are very common in new or renovated houses in Germany. I have one since almost 20 years from Gerberit which is a Swiss company, I believe.....
The old ones you mention are called Flachspüler I believe. The ones without the shelf are Tiefspüler, which are usually installed nowadays. And sometimes do splash your behind (IMO).
I’ve owned my 2014 bmw x5 almost 6 years now with only 2 repairs. It’s been bulletproof. If people would take care of there cars they could last so much longer with minimal issue. Planned obsolescence is a real problem.
Of course there are toilets with splash feature in Germany too, called japanese toilets with fully automatic washing and drying function. It is not standard yet but more and more common.
No those aren't the same
The contrary situation in Europe is the status of US cars that are not considered a luxury item and are only bought for image. You will probably find that most Europeans don't consider US car brands to be a quality item, whatever model they are and if performance, reliability, maintenance etc are your key parameters then you will probably stick to the European brands that will inevitably be cheaper. Interestingly, because US car brands are not a mainstream choice then they are priced accordingly, which means at a higher level than they would otherwise merit. If you are in the market for a US car then you will be intent on the image and therefore are likely willing to pay for it.
Asian cars are an option in Germany, as well, especially if you want a means of transport but not a status symbol.
Not everybody in Germany can afford the brands Mercedes, BMW, Audi. They are not on a level with real luxury Brands like Rolls Royce, Maybach, Jaguar, Ferrari (Porsche I would count to the luxury brands, too), but nevertheless fairly expensive. People with a normal salary mostly buy a Toyota, a Skoda or maybe a Dacia.
Vw is best selld car, bmw small Typs, Mercedes small Typ too, evan Audi up to a4…..Ford, Renault Fiat skoda and a Lot of Korea Japan Middle Class car are quiet a good Choice …
@@horstschmitzberger6989 Originally, Volkswagen was a brand for normal people and families: practical and stable, easy to use, affordable for everyone. But in the last years Volkswagen forgot its roots: The cars became too classy and too expensive, they do not build cars for normal people anymore, but more and more for wealthy upper class customers. That is why Volkswagen is in economic problems- they lost their actual target group, which made Volkswagen big. Volkswagen is a piece of Germany and our prosperity (a symbol of the "economic miracle" in the 1950s after the war), it is sad to see, how Volkswagen breaks at the moment. 😢
They are nine countrys to border to Germany , my daughter learn at school, german , englisch , spain and france language 😅
The toilet does not splash you - that is Neptune's kiss!
😅😅💧😘...... amazing🥴
I believe Au Pair is an official international program more like an exchange student and not intended to be well-paid. I know people who have had au pairs here in California. But then you have to house them in your home which many people don’t want. There are a lot of immigrants here and people are more likely to hire a Latina woman who has her own family and place to live.
Yes, the toilet splashes are really icky. In my opinion a toilet from the future wouldn't even be with water- only to clean yourself up after using it, like the ones in Japan :)
Maybe one day.... Everyone keeps telling me to get a little bidet/hose and I don't know how I feel about that
@@HayleyAlexis haha, imagine sitting on the toilet with a hose in your hand- hilarious. 💦😂
@@HayleyAlexis
It's standard practice at least in Finland.
Something else about toilets
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There are several companies offering products based on similar ideas.
@@HayleyAlexis, we got my daughter one after she had her first baby, thankfully it was summertime and the water wasn’t to terribly cold😂
Things that are common here but luxury in USA ... common health care? For example, I had colon cancer. It was treated COMPLETELY cost-free for me. I didn't need to sell my house. I didn't need to become a "Gofundme" beggar. They even payed me to have 4 weeks at a rehab clinic that was specialized on intestine problems afterwards --- never had more sports in my live than there! But it paid of: I'm completely healed and continue to be a normal worker. In USA, people sometimes have to consider if they can afford to call an emergency rescue car!
Getting in contact with other cultures. You mentioned it a bit with your 9 countries bordering germany. But really, many germans have visited lots of countries. I've been in Belgium, Netherland, France, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Czech, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, UK and USA. Often for holiday, sometimes in a hotel, sometimes doing a road travel holiday. Sometimes for work. And always I went to local stored, bought local food, tried local drinks, learned 10-20 words or so. Certainly, not enough to really communicate. But also certainly to plant a smile on the face of the other person. On the constrast, few US citizens even have a passwort and leave their country. And it shows: usually they expect that everything is exactly like they are used to it ("Wait, I can't pay with US credit cards, which are much more expensive for this abroad shop than in my home country?"). Or they often don't even TRY to pronuciate foreign names the way the people say them theyself. They usually anglicize everything, totally culturally insensitive.
Not getting shot by police. The US police kills more US citizens that the whole number of germans killed by guns totally. EVEN when you divide the US number by factor 4 to normalize it to the differing number of the population. Actually, german police is WAY more polite and educated than US police. There is WAY less violence in play the way they deal with people. They aren't saints, but the unsaintly US police is way, way worse. Even the border-guards ("Immigration") at the airport of the US are really grumpy people, not nice at all. I've never been treated that unfriendly by european ones (I had interaction with boarder guards quite seldom, but I had them when entering UK, Switzerland, Hungary and Romania occassionally). Okay, the former east german border guards where a bit like today's US immigration officers. But that's been long ago, before 1987.
Brick+mortar houses. We now all see in our news the bad wildfires in California. And it pains us to see that. But ... ONE (of many different) reasons is that in the US they build houses usually with a wood frame and planks. And lots of "holes" containing air. So the wood has all the air it needs to burn efficiently. Here in europe we usually have brick+mortar houses. Yes, occossionally we have a burning house here, too. But they need much more to get burning when US houses. Also look at thunderstorms. Hefty ones can also damage houses here. But usally the house damage is minimal --- the real problem is the floods induced by summer thunderstorms. Such brick+mortar houses can withstand the elements just much better than "cardboard" houses.
There really are quite a few older cars driving around here, but they can be very expensive to maintain in order to get the coveted "H" license plate. This license plate offers tax advantages and lower insurance premiums. Roughly speaking, cars in their original condition that are 30 years old can receive this licence plate feature.I inherited an old Ford Scorpio from my birth year 1988 in 2016, the car was kept in good shape, was only two years away from the "H" license plate, the car had only driven 30k miles, already had air conditioning and the quality of the seats was like sitting on grandma's couch. I was a student at the time and would have paid annually over EUR 700 in taxes and EUR 600 for insurance until I could apply for the H license plate, because the car had no catalytic converter and the fuel consumption was twice as high as my previous car, my Hyundai i10 at the time cost EUR 19 in taxes and EUR 280 a year in insurance premiums, so I had to sell this wonderful car with a heavy heart. I still regret it to this day, even though I'm not really a car enthusiast, but the car had won my heart.
Hayley, you are more German as you might think. Pronouncing BMW in English as BMV is next level and very common amoung quite a lot Germans...😉
I switch between both pronunciations but I hear BM"V" more frequently due to Mike and it is just something I pick up :P
Its funny that my daily pot, in which i shit in every day since 25 years is considered as luxury in the US lol
Mercedes-Benz C-Class is a mid-range car, an S-Class is a luxury car.
The TÜV/roadworthiness approval is not Germany-specific. In all EU countries you need to have your car tested in regular intervals. Otherwise you pay a hefty fine.
There is a Difference between a Mercedes A Class and an SLS AMG. The second One is 15 times more expansive. (Sorry, shitty English)
Some Cars in the US are really in bad Condition and the Tuning is almost illegal here in Europe.
The German love their Cars. There is a TV Show named ``Heiligs Blechle´´(Holy Sheet Metal). And there is also a Quotation: Was it die größte Glaubensgemeinschaft der Welt? VW Fahrer.
Don´t take me to serious, because i have a very unique Sense of Humor.
Hayley, i wish you a great Weekend and Greetings to Friends an Family. 😉
I tried to explain tüv to a south east asian. He said that the roads here would be very empty lol
that is pretty funny 😅
An au pair costs you 20 000$ a year (10000 go to the agency, 10000 to the au pair themselves). For many families in the US thats cheaper than other types of childcare. I have been an au pair in the US for 3 different families in 2019/2020, non of them were rich excactly, only upper middle class
I think it tends to be very common for children who grow up in the US to have times in their lives when they want to learn other languages. It's perfectly natural. I also think a lot more of us _would_ learn other languages if we didn't have all these misconceptions about just how it's done. The average book about _how_ to learn other languages is not very long and is _bursting_ with good ideas, but is something the average American is not even going to _open._
But there never has been a time in our entire _history_ when we have not shared a land border with a country where the main language is _Spanish,_ so since we established a _public_ school system, there never really has been a time when it didn't make sense to _teach_ Spanish, as a second language, in _schools._
TÜV = Technischer ÜberwachungsVerein
Germany has 9 neighboring countries. Only Russia and China have more.
Brazil borders no less than 10 countries!
Just the thought alone to have toilet water splashed onto my behind is pretty disgusting 👀😅
Did you ever think about the switches to turn on the room light (I don‘t know how you actually call these in the US), and how different they look in Germany ? Same applies to the electricity plugs. I was always wondering why they were almost every time looking alike throughout the US: antique looking (to say the best), or better to say old-fashioned, and not modern style. Are light switches a luxury in Germany? Definitely not - but would they in the US ? 🤔
I recently got a puppy and in the course of doing research on training, equipment, etc. I noticed there are some huge differences between US practices and German practices when it comes to dog ownership. I'd really love to see a comparison from somebody who's had first hand experience with both. Do you feel like that's an interesting topic for you to do? (Not sure if you ever owned pets?)
Anyway, thanks for continuing to provide awesome content. Toodles ♥
MIke and I talk about this all the time... and there is a HUGE difference between the USA and Germany.
German here. Why US of A not USA ?
"United States "of" America" not United States America
Old cars are still a luxury thing, but it's a strong cultural thing as well.
But an classic car doesn't mean you're rich, you just spend money on it like other people do for guitar lessons as example,
TÜV = technischer Überwachungsverein
By the way, my 1986 Opel Kadett E passes the TÜV flawlessly everytime it gets inspected!
5:47 😳 “In total, people in Germany speak 60 different foreign languages, including rare languages such as Gujarati, Lingala and Scottish Gaelic.”
🤔 Do they include any Native American languages?
The base models are usually not sold in the US. Take Mercedes, in the US the E-Class starts with the E 350. The E 200, E 220 and E 300 are not sold in the USA, smaller models like the Mercedes A -Class and B-Class are not even offered. The USA is a pure premium and luxury market for Mercedes, everything they sell there is at or near the upper end of their lineup. No base model Mercedes sold in the US and this has been the case for a long time.
Ehhhh I disagree with this comment. I do have to say the interior has vastly improved over the years (because they have to due to competition- a Mercedes can not have a worse interior compared to a Kia/Hyundai) but generally speaking just because a car is "smaller" does not mean it is automatically less luxurious or the other cars offered are more luxurious. Size in Germany does not always = to more luxurious like it does in the USA because space is very limited in some areas.
You couldn't care less, not you could care less (the latter means you do care, in fact). 😂🤓
It's nine 😊
Habe noch nie gehört, dass jemand in meinem Umfeld eine/n Aupair hatte. (Aber wohne auch auf dem Land 😅)
That it is relatively common in Germany/Europe "to get help" for raising children is probably the point here. And definitely pretty accessible. I know many families who organized some help at some stage. I know relatively few families, though, who actually ever had an Au Pair.
That is help above and beyond the normal program of Kindergarten and School.
Hey Hayley schmeckt das Essen oder bist Du schwanger?😊
Du bist 50+ und willst wissen wie viel ich esse oder ob ich schwanger bin? Yikes... das ist aber wirklich komisch 🥴 Du bist älter als meine Mama und kommentierst sowas.... so peinlich eigentlich!!
So many bullshit all together!!!.. 😂😂 You are the winner!!.. 🥇👏🏻👏🏻
I don't know if this was a compliment or insult but nonetheless, you watched the video and commented so it is a win for me.
Countries bordering Germany’s 9. Think of NO in German to remember 😂 nein
There's something strange in all your videos, and that's your CUTE introduction.
"welcome-to-my-you-tube-channel-if-you-don-t-know-me-now-you-do-hey-you-guys-what-s-up"
You say all of that without pausing between sentences... It seems like you don't believe in what you're saying, but feel obligated to continue greeting your fans in this way and want to skip it as soon as possible, thereby diminishing the value of the nice greeting.
I will never stop the saying 🤷🏽♀️
@@HayleyAlexis I hope so. Please don't be offended, but it seems somehow robotic/AI-generated, as if someone is forcing you to say it ...
Mein Gott bist du Goofy 😂ich beobachte ja deinen Kanal schon länger und erfreue mich darüber.
Aber deine letzten Videos zeigen mir immer mehr wie Amerikaner sind...
Gofy
Please stop your talking. You don’t know how it works here
cool story bro