7 REASONS CITY LIFE IN GERMANY IS BETTER THAN IN TORONTO, CANADA 

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I am very shocked about the 10 days vacation time per year. Unbelivable. I think that's why I never met a canadian citizen anywhere.

7:00 when I was still at the office in Munich I had to write down every day the time I came and the time I left into an Excel sheet, and it calculated the hours. Every month I printed the sheet and gave the paper to my supervisor and when the account had more than 50 hours more than I had to work, she said: "You need to take a day off or I will go to jail". Now THAT's what I call work-live-balance!!

I'm from Toronto and have lived abroad in Europe as well, and I always get asked the same question. My european friends can't understand why I prefer life on this side of the pond, but I agree with all of the points you made! I MUCH prefer the work/life balance here, I feel like I could never go back. It's so stress free in comparison and the proximity to so many other countries/cultures is priceless!

I am also a canadian who lives in Germany. OK, Iwe moved to Germany when I was 11 and now I am 66. I still am Canadian because I never wanted to give up my Canadian being. But I think Germany offers me a lot more. But on the other hand my "heart" is still canadian.

Moin, hab deinen Kanal gerade entdeckt. Klingt interessant. Freu mich auf mehr. LG

Schön das du da bist!!!! Tolles Video!!!!

Very helpful! Great content. Huge thanks for putting all this together!

Sehr schön, das Leben in Deutschland mit Deinen Augen zu sehen. :)

I'm from Germany and still live here. It's really interesting to learn how someone from abroad made all these (for us normal) experiences here. I'd like to watch more of your content :)

It's always nice to watch videos like that, because as a German I cannot free myself of complaining about stuff, to realize how good Germany really is.

Your channel is so helpful and cool, enjoying to listen to your stories and provided information. Thank you :)

You are great in providing useful information.

Love you and your smile also you've told pretty good reasons. I appreciate.

I share your sentiments.... and now you got me curious so Canada is now on my bucket list :-)

seems quite helpful 😃lots of love❤

Thank u, this is very helpful!!

Love watching your video's. I am living in The Netherlands (actually around 20 minutes from where you were camp-site in Heemskerk). I visited Canada numerous times (mostly BC and AB). I do find Canada a beautiful country for visiting, but for me I love living in Europe. So many different cultures so easy to travel around and so much history. Keep up the good work making awesome video's.

Wow, very professional right from the start!

So useful,thank u so much

I love you video, I am a Canadian, and I've moved to Germany for the exact reasons you mentioned. Thanks a lot.

Hey, Jenna great video as I'm also a Canadian from T.O. (born and raised) and have been in Europe since 1988, came over playing pro hockey in Austria,Italy,Switzerland and then in Germany. I can relate to a lot to what you've said in your Vlog but find Germany can be very different depending on where you live. I'm in the south in Bavaria which does has a different mentality to the north but what you mentioned about traffic is so true in T.O. was back 4 years ago and said this is crazy!!! I love the Autobahn feeling and traveling at 200 klicks and someone flashes their lights telling you to get over makes look like you're standing still......haha!!! I have two teenage Kids I have been there and done and it does get easier, so keep up the good work really enjoyed hearing our none Canadian accent again......LOL Cheers!!!

As someone who ditched Germany in favour of Canada and never looked back it has been interesting listening to the contrarian view. For me, Canada has worked better. There are many reasons that make Canada better, including some that you mentioned as a plus for Germany. It's personal perception. I grew up in Munich and left it for Southwestern Ontario.

I luv Canada. Thanks for inspiring us through your video. Stay con &’God Bless!

a great informative in this video, i am also interested to move in Germany, take care and god bless you!

Thank you for this video!! Good thing i found your channel !! I am living in Canada ,planning to study at German!! I am perusing my dream studying in Germany but not easy to go ahead! You inspired me!!

I am a native German with some US-background and have to state that I relate to so many things you have been featuring and addressing to in your all so informative videos. Mach' weiter so!!!! Bist längst abonniert! Viele Grüße aus Frankfurt nach Düsseldorf!

Good info about Germany thanks, hope to upload more videos about Germany

I admit I would not live in Dusseldorf but hey! They have great restaurants! That is something! Thank you so much for your content !

Thank you so much for your absolute real Video because this you didnt hear anywhere and i tell you the same Words what i recieving when i was moving to Canada 12 Years ago: „Welcome to our Country,feel welcome and enjoy your stay“

A well produced Video with good content. Watching these German expat videos always makes me homesick (The family left Germany when I was 16) Yes it always shocks me how empty (sometimes) the 2 lane German highways are compared to the 16 lane 401. Talk about the North American grind , I took the train from Oakville to Union and worked on Bay Street - it's stressful. My wife and i took early retirement and are thinking of moving to Germany for 2-3 months. Düsseldorf is on the list, but so is the Stuttgart area. Anyways how's your German after 6 years. Greetings from back home.

Great video! :)

Cool Videos! Greetings from Stuttgart :)

Torontonian in Berlin here! I can completely agree with what you mentioned!

Hey, love to hear that, you also in love in Germany 🇩🇪. I moved 26 years ago to Montreal I didn’t like life style there then I moved to Toronto about 20 years ago I myth like Toronto 🇨🇦 work so soooooo hard, but still I don’t like here I don’t know what to do man? I am just thinking to move back there because Toronto getting extremely expensive foods and hosing market is crazy 😜 you’re absolutely right I hundred percent agree with you. Good luck with your new life there. I have my family lives Kolon.

Hello Jenna, You have this channel and your Life in Dusseldorf channel down pat. I love how you explain the information in a clear teachable way. As you know I have watched your latest videos as I just found you a couple of weeks ago but I decided I am going to start from the beginning and"watch up" to catch up lol. BTW, Again I am an American from the state of Florida originally but sometimes I find great flight deals out of Toronto. My last flight out of Toronto cost me $303. 00 USD so it was with it to make my way to Toronto for sure. Great work Jenna. :).

i appreciate your work

6:42 To prove they have passion for that company... Worst thing is companies don't have same passion for their workers. As soon it is in their interest, no matter how hard working you are, they will give you layoff. It is nothing personal, it is just business for them.

Hi, I liked your video, you have a good expression and are easy to understand. Looking forward to hear more of you. Thank you and good look for your channel! :)

That German switch always get me howling lol. Great work 👍🏾

good video. you seem to have success on YT. Best wishes and more subs for you!

I’m from Toronto. I moved here, with my German wife in 1982 thinking 2 years or so and then back to Canada… still here!

It's interesting to hear your point of view, but I'm curious about how you did to find your first job and how was the issue about the language, hopefully you can share this experience.

Hey I like the way you have explained everything which would be a nice place to live in frankfurt near the airport and not too far where the rents are affordable if you any video on life in Frankfurt would be happy to take a look at that once again thank you so much for all that you are doing for the community 🙌🏼

Fantastic word's Hatsoff Great

Thank you sooo much! As I am constantly dreaming of leaving Germany for various reasons, it really helped against my itchy feet to listen to your reflections! Now I almost feel lucky having been born in Germany. Well... almost... 😂

I am Canadian, live in California and travel in Europe. You are so right about the work life balance. In the US and Canada 10 days vacation when you start a job is pretty standard and you are made to feel you are lucky you have the job. There's so much consumerism that everyone has to work a lot to support their 'retail fix' habits.

Thanks for your valuable words..I really want move to Germany 😊

Such awesome topics that are very interesting to watch!! Your information is so helpful! My husband and I were keeping Canada in the back of our mind for the future, BUT there are still a lot of things to think about seriously before moving from Germany to Canada. :) Helpful video, I look forward to watching more. You are doing amazing btw!!

Another expat here over in Bonn 👋 after 10 years living in Germany, I couldn't imagine going back. Life here is good ❤️

LOL, 10 days vacation ... if I don't get at least 30 days, then they have to find another employee ;)

Very nice and funny Video. And for your understanding clear english. Grüße aus Cochem (Mosel) Roman

WOW. The easy and affordable travel opportunity is mind blowing.

Thank you I'm moving next year to Germany.❤️ You gave me hope.

That is the main reason I choose UK as English country for my children #travel is easy to explore other countries like Italy, Germany, Spain, France Austria Netherland, lussemburg , Croatia, the Scandinavia etc Thanks girl 👍.

Thank you for a most interesting perspective on german culture and society! I lived in Toronto 30 years ago and it was brutal! Even then, to rent a house, my friend's family and mine had to share. Also, Canada and Russia are the two country with the highest temperature variations between summer and winter.

thanks for your impressions and comparison. You are Right i say many german people like could be much more learn to love the own Country. Health Care and organication and more are a matter of course for us.

You are spot on the points and all my feelings are similar, why is Canada so bad. I made a switch to Canada from Germany and I just can't wait to move back to Germany. Any small town is far better than any Good town/city is Germany. And Düsseldorf is beautiful!

Really good final decision.

Here in Australia, most people working permanent full- or part-time get 20 working days per year. In many cases, we also get paid a 17.5% salary loading for the holiday/vacation period. This was originally for all workers in the aforementioned categories, but since then, some unions have traded that off for other benefits. The only people who don't get paid leave at all are what we call casual workers, who only get paid by the hour, although they get a higher hourly amount to offset the lack of vacation/holiday pay. To top it off, we also get long service leave, ie three months paid leave for working for the same employer for ten years. If we keep working for that same employer, we receive an extra month for every three years as long service leave. This does not, however, get paid with the previously-mentioned loading.

As the German half of a Canadian-German married couple - partially living here (outside of Munich) and there (Niagara Region) - I absolutely agree!!! Great insight - keep posting - look forward to more interesting videos 👍

Definitely agree to all the points mentioned!

I do not know if someone has already mentioned this, but when it comes to renting, it all depends on where you live. Yes, most places are cheaper to rent, but then you have Munich which had the highest prices for rent in Germany.

Hello, liked.. subscribed and love your channel. I'm planning to move to Germany and look forward to watching more videos from you. Love from India

Subscribed 😘

Thanks for sharing this. New friend here from the Philippines. :)

Tough girl. Appreciate it!

Your view is very interesting to me.

Interesting! I grew up in France close to German border and move to Canada (Montreal) 10 years ago. Vacation starts at 15 days which is becoming more standard and with time/experience you can reach 20 days. Yes travelling takes time here as the country is big. However I find Canada more welcoming for visible minorities...better job and opportunities prospects

Looks like the quote “ Grass is greener on the other side of river “ is so right 😀 , checkout traffic in India , any city you pick 😀

I agree with almost everything you said apart from the summer temperatures in Germany. I also live in Düsseldorf and the summers are unbareable! The temperatures are never below 29 degrees and most times its between 30 to 40 degrees. It always hot and sticky with barely no wind blowing. A real nightmare! I can understand you thinking its lovely if you experienced worse summers in Canada but the summer here is sinply aweful!! That said great video!

I am bavarian and you are very likable, keep going

It was also my dream to live in Canada. Now after over 10 years in Canada (Alberta) I would love to move back to Europe. Just a few of the many reasons: food quality, progressiveness, democracy (Canada is not as democratic as you think), conservatism (love and support of oil and gas), general quality and cost for all items (appliances, clothing, food, restaurants, etc.), houses are very very bad (technology, built, design). I could go on but moving to Canada was one of my biggest mistakes. Sorry to say that.

Hello Germany for Québec, CANADA ... nice talk....

5. This is what I like about Europe. So much variety!

A lot of the free days are company/state dependent. At a job I had to hold for a while, even though it was EU, we were working 12 hour days, 6 days a week, with hardly any breaks. They did pay us a lot of overtime, but one can imagine that all the vacation days were used as sickness leaves, as sickness leaves would result in termination. It depends on the company and their ability to manage it’s workforce. We cost the company more than double what hiring more employees would, and still they could not get new workers onboard.

Traffic in and around Toronto is a dimension of it's own and hardly comparable to any other place

I actually am a German expat who eventually wants to go back to Germany but since I haven't found any channels of German expats returning a & talking about their experience, I watch other people from other countries on their life in Germany. Obviously some things won't be the same cause for me it will be easier getting in to the country, registering, finding a job but videos like yours help me get prepared for adult life in Germany cause I left Germany barely after my 18th birthday so I have 0 experience of adult life in Germany. Also it helps me to get prepared for reversed cultural shocks cause as a child/teen there's a lot of stuff you're unaware of. I am really grateful for channels like yours.

Oh i knew it was you! Ive been following you in Life in Dusseldorf coz i live in a nearby city too .. very close to Düss. Interesting content.. also an expat and currently in the culture shock stage, im sure you know what i mean😆 moved here because of my husband although my previous life and career was a really huge sacrifice to give up.. so yes, i moved for love. I hope you can make a content about us expats who made a huge move to Germany all for the sake of love.😆

Thank-you Jenna for your videos I so appreciate them! I am a Canadian visiting my Aunt and Uncle in Cape town for three months. Did you rent a vehicle when traveling SA? After this I'll be an Au pair in Germany for a year and am so looking forward to it. For people wanting to know a little more about Canada I am from Saskatchewan where cities are small. The rural area is very affordable you can buy a small house for 25 thousand. I worked in healthcare where you can bank time to have more holidays. There are some jobs that work 12 hour shifts and then you have more days to do as you wish. There are so many jobs! However our winters are brutal.

Finished school in Onterrible or maybe worst case Ontario 😂 Just picked up a few jokes when I was in Alberta 😂 I'm a German and I want to immigrate to Canada since I'm a little child. I really hope there's not too much disappointment in this video for me, but since I've lived there a couple times already, I think I'm prepared for the most part 😃 Happy that you like it here in Germany though :)

Icrible, I am Brasilian and I no imagined who German compared to Canada is very best, but I love the two countries 🇩🇪🇧🇷🇨🇦

Lucky you to be so young, enjoy it.

The dairy board in Canada make sure that the price of dairy products are kept artificially high to protect the farmers and protected them from competition.

I worked in Toronto for a while as a network engineer in a data center for a german software company back in 2017. I talked to a lot of locals during my stay and due to my experiences there I can confirm most of your statements.

Thank you for the video! Please do more like this! I live in America and deciding whether to move to Germany. Also don't you take public transportation instead of car in Germany to avoid the traffic?

Thank for making such a big informative video. My son wants to move to Germanyy to do his master's in Computer Science. Can you advise him. He has done some research on his would be university

The intro is excactly what I thought first hahaha 😂

Hi, you gave the nice information, I been there last year, I am planning to move to Germany. From India

Would it be possible to make a video about postgraduate studies (like getting a PhD) in Germany. Maybe also compare it with Canada Very nice content.

I remember the long and endless line of cars going from Toronto to up North on weekends in the 50's. I should have bought a cottage then, when lots were still cheap there.

Moving to Germany in two months. Cant wait to see your videos as a guide. On my list of things to find out is; best telecom provider, best bank, how to buy train tickets cheaper, health insurance, where to find accommodation for the first few days while looking for an apartment, tips to get an apartment quicker etc....perhaps you can add these to your list of topics to cover 🥰

My husband is Canadian, I am from northern Germany, and we live in beautiful Bavaria. So many people here think we are crazy for not living in Canada! I studied there (in Saskatchewan, of all places), went back to Germany to finish my degree, and my then boyfriend came to Germany to "learn the language and get to know the culture, for maybe 6 months." That was, um, in 2000. We're still here :) For exactly the reasons you are describing. You put it perfectly: Canada is nicer to travel to, while Germany is a better place to live. We frequently spend summers in Saskatchewan and Ontario, which is wonderful. I would add two things to your list: WAY better healthcare system (which we have needed many times here), and (this might sound petty) - the houses! Every time we are in Canada I feel like there is no privacy, lol. I can hear my inlaws talking in their bedroom on the other end of the house, my kids giggling in the bedroom next to us. Paper thin "walls" and ceilings, and no outside shutters that block light and heat - our kids woke up all the damn time when they were little. It was hard for them to nap or sleep longer than my early riser mother-in-law, because they were used to sleeping in the dark and quiet. (My husband on the other hand, can sleep through ANYTHING, especially through his alarm...) We stayed in a condo for a while, and our neighbours' kitchen was on the other side of our bedroom. We could hear them opening and closing every cupboard, and could have joined in their conversation. I am a very light sleeper, so that sucked. Bathrooms without windows, even if you have an outside wall in that bathroom - I don't get it. It was so bad at my inlaws house (3 bathrooms with outside walls, none with windows, and they designed the house themselves!), that they finally put a fan in the wall for some fresh air. I love spending the summer in Canada (obviously not this summer, because of corona), but coming back to our pretty standard, but new and modern house here in Bavaria always feels so good :)

Can we talk about the German education system tho? (Secondary). When we first moved to Germany my daughter was placed almost 3 YEARS behind because she couldn’t speak the language (please keep in mind that she was 15 when we moved) and they decided to move here from grade 10 to grade 8. She was surrounded by 12/ 13 year olds and at first there was no problem, she never said it bothered her until we had to get her into therapy because she had an anxiety attack at school. When the therapist asked her what she doesn’t like about Germany she said the school system is so different from the one in Canada! And it is! We had to move back because it got to the point where she could no longer focus and her motivation was nonexistent! Just keep in mind that germany has a very VERY different school system compared to the one in the us/Canada. Inform yourself before moving your children there please!

Welcome to Düsseldorf! hope you like it now here.

Take me there!

Would not agree! In Calana if you like yo have more vacation you take one more week off that is not paid. People are super friendly and so many cultures you can meet. Its much easier to start and run a business in Canada. So many opportunities you have in Canada that can not Compare to Europe. English as a language it's much easier. I moved from Europe to Canada and love it

And everything is soooo expensive here in Canada but I thank the gods that I don't live or work in Toronto anymore!! And the food in Germany is soooo much better especially the baked goods (Esp. Broetchen), sausages and cheese, great beer (and cheap), great white wines, cheap imported (and drinkable) red wines. We have a property on Lake Huron BUT with taxes and everything, it is expensive. I think I should have stayed in Germany for its better food and lifestyle especially now after unification. And this summer has been a scorcher in the great SW Ontario. I worked in Africa, South and Central America including near the Amazon in Brazil and the heatwaves in SW Ontario exceed anything over there! I can remember doing a geotech investigation in downtown Toronto and the thermometer on one of the building read 105 degrees F (40 degrees C). We had to quit because we couldn't keep hydrated and the men were burning their hands on the steel drills and rods. And we do work far too long and too late!! There was a really big influx of Germans into Canada following WW2 in the 50s and 60s but did you know that 1/3 of them did not stay with most returning to Germany and some moving elsewhere. We have a beautiful country but with our limited vacation time most of us won't have the time to see it until we retire and then most of us won't be able to afford to travel!! Canada is no paradise!!

Thank you for your guide 🙂. Planing to move to Germany 🔥

We have the same couch.