I have seen this before and made a similar comment. My father was Scottish, along with many relatives and the Scots don't like being called 'Scotch'. Scotch is used for objects (like Scotch pancakes or Scotch eggs), but more often used for one of their best known exports; Scotch Whisky (DO note the spelling, with no 'E' - Whereas Irish Whiskey is spelt with an 'E' ! - to easily differentiate the country of distilling and origin).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch-Irish_Americans The word "Scotch" was the favored adjective for things "of Scotland", including people, until the early 19th century, when it was replaced by the word "Scottish".
@@holgerlinke98 - A little 'out of date' since the early 1800's. Plus, one of the main 'reason's' it fell out of favour was because of the English using it as a derogatory term; during 'The Highland Clearances' when the landowners evicted a significant number of tenants (workers) in the Scottish Highlands and Islands (mostly in two phases from 1750 to 1860). So a SORE subject to be discussing for many still...
Yeah as a kid I thought the people punching in walls must be superstrong, now I know you can just trip and your wall will have a dent you have to fix. This does not seem like a sustainable way to build but they keep on doing it.
@@Dreaded-Flower Yeah I have always had concrete or brick walls, your house will be there when you are gone, haha Also it seems a bad choice to build out of wood when there is dangerous mold or termites in your environment.
yup, in Luxembourg, we are rich. So rich that we cannot even afford a own house or apartment anymore ... High income doesn't mean that everything is a gift, nearly anything is way more expensive than anywhere else!! Greets from Luxembourg!
I have the same in Germany, houses are 800k-1m in the small villages around here. However if we manage to save up we can move to Thailand or eastern europe for retirement and not starve to death.
Regarding alcohol be careful when you interpret the data: a lot of Europeans don't drink the same "way" as in the US, as it's also often consumed in moderation but more regularly while having dinner for example, not just to "get drunk" (even if in some countries, especially the "beer countries" like Germany or Czechia, it really is biggest part). Drinking alcohol such as wine while having a meal is totally normal in Europe. Data regarding who get the most drunk in average would be interesting, along with the rate of alcoholism. Also, I believe there are far less car accident involving alcohol in most European countries, even while adjusting the data to car owners only.
Come on we all remember the sips of red wine we were allowed to have at 7 or 8 after dinner events, in Italy I was allowed a sip of wine at least a dozen times between 7 and 11 years old alone, nevermind after that. Apparently red wine helps digestion or something. I imagine Portugal, Spain and France to have similar nonchalance to underage drinking when your parents offer you a sip. And I believe I heard that in the UK as long as a parent is supervising, and at home on private property, there is no legal limit for alcohol. Might have misheard though.
@@minefoxc4015 - In case you may not know?: In the UK it is OK (in law), to give alcohol to a child at home, over the age of 5 (being supervised by adults). Also, in the UK, supervising adults can buy alcoholic drinks for 16+ year olds in a pub or restaurant that is also serving meals at the time... Strangely, the French (who had always seemed more free with giving 'wine' to their kids), have actually tightened their laws regarding alcohol consumption for children!
Love how the European side in these illustration are wearing Lederhosen and Dirndl, traditional clothing. While the americans don`t have traditional clothes (not talking about natives obviously) and therefore are in t-shirt and everyday wear 😂😂
@@teastan95 Using a fabric developed in Nimes, France, known as serge di Nimes (serge from Nimes) which became commonly known as denim. So the French should get some credit.
As a German I'd like to point out: Dirndl and Lederhosen are BAVARIAN "traditional" clothing. It is kind of unfair to all the other very beautiful traditional clothing styles all over europe. I personally can think of seven completely different looking styles on the top of my head, and I don't even have been to many places in the EU (what a shame actually) The average european (EU and non-EU) inkuding Bavarians wear pretty much the same as Americans ...
7:30 unfair comparison - In Europe you pay the income tax, but that pays for health care, unemployment, education, etc. and it doesn't do that in the USA, too. I read once an article that showed that if you add the average cost for those things like education, health care etc., the USA has an average 'tax' of about 45-50% of their income. Housesize - It's no wonder houses in the EU are smaller. The population density is much higher. For most EU-countries it's three or more times higher than in the USA. We just don't have the space for big houses. It's 35 people per square kilometer in the USA and over a hundred or more people per square kilometer in the EU. Cars - we don't need that much cars. We can walk or use public transport something that doesn't really exist in the US. I lived in the US for a time for work and where I lived they had no sidewalks and no public transport available at all. And BTW - UK is not in the EU.
My sister was also there bc her job, only a month and a half. She hated It bc she loves running in parks, trekking, etc, and she had a lot of problems there bc that city, a capital in the MidWest, don't have a real good public transport, and she can't visit the near National Park bc they only can reach it with a car.
University 'debt' isn't the same here in the UK. We only have to pay back a small percentage once we reach a wage cap. For example, I have an undergraduate and masters degrees so I pay 15% of my income above 22,000 (not sure about the exact number). This also isn't classed as debt by banks etc and anything remaining will be written off when we reach retirement - it essentially functions as a tax on graduates. [I don't think it's a good system but I think it's better than the US]. I don't even think about my 'debt' even though it's probably some huge number now with compound interest.
I'm from Germany and will have to pay 10.000 € back. But I think if I didn't earn enough I wouldn't have to - I'm not sure because I think I will have enough to pay it back. (It's called BAföG. And I got way more than 10.000, btw, but nobody has to pay more than 10.000 € back.)
@@gabrielcoventry4586 unfortunately it's not viable for the whole GB, Scotland can only afford to do it as their government is given more money per person than England and Wales, although Wales does get more than England as well.
So funny, you can punch a hole through the wall over there, last time I was drunk at home I punched the wall hard, and almost broke my knuckles. I trust my house to remain standing after some high wind, not get swept away. There was a day in 2020 we were warned about 30kmh winds with possible 80kmh gusts. My old ass 1980s wooden framed windows broke, chairs outside were swept into the fields, the old fig tree in front of the house snapped in half where the two main branches divided. You couldn't walk against the wind at times. House is still here, only 2 sections of the gutters got blown away, never seen em since.
@@minefoxc4015 ^^ I think you forget a 1 or 2, as 30-80 kmh will not blow away your gutter. Yeah, the quality of the buildings in the USA is ... weird. It's not even the quality of the woodwork, mind you. I've built my garden shed in the (old style) european equivalent to what they do. Though of course I used wooden posts (5"x5" and 2.5"x5") instead of boards. But if you use enough 2"x4"s they will do the trick just fine. Still, what's placed to fill in the gaps in the woodwork makes all the difference. The combination of OSB, insulation and cheap plaster could be considered fine on a secondary building (like, well a garden shed) in Germany, but for a living space? That's expected to stand up for a minimum of 80-100 years? Heck, even for my own garden shed I used a modern take on wattle and daub, as I'm a stupid eco-maniac. If you'd try to punch through that 21cm / 8" hemp-loam wall, you'd probably make a decent dent... in the loam plaster as well as your hand. But no way you'd get in deeper than an inch with one hit. I was stupid and had my bicycle fall over and strike the wall hard with the tip of the handle. Took me about a teaspoon full of loam to fix the hole it pocked. And that is for a 24m² / 250+ sqft garden shed in a rented micro-garden, that's unlikely to be there for longer than 30-50 years.
@@AleaumeAnders when you have a 50 year old house, in the middle of the farm fields, you can expect a lot of things to fall off, gutters were so cheap I could have probably bent them with my hands. And 50 is a conservative estimate, might be prewar for all I know. Still rent is cheap and it's away from the traffic.
I come from a third world country and the infrastructure of the houses and buildings is what bothered me the most about a “developed” country. I took some architecture classes before and I knew about the build of the houses here in the US but living in them and seeing them was different. In my country, we have horrific hurricanes, 7+ earthquakes, extreme heat temperatures. Houses do not fall apart, they don’t crack, they don’t catch on fire so easily, etc. houses and buildings keep getting renovated as much as possible. For example for us, a 30 years old house, is old already. Here, it’s alright cause rn I have an 100+ yrs house 🤦🏻♀️. Pretty weak I’ll say, and I think it’s just so they take more insurance money and they are easier to build and still rob you from fees🤷🏻♀️
Well, in Germany university is also free - no tution fees! You only have to pay a very small fee to the Studentenwerk = students society per semester = about 6 months, and this includes the ticket for public transport. If students would have to buy a regular ticket for the bus or tram, they would have to pay the same every single month. This person seems to be rather poorly informed.
As 178cm german woman, the further you get towards denmark the taller everyone is. i consider men below my height small already, cause 90% of the men i know are taller, some are by quite a bit (i know a bunch of 190cm+ men and even 180+ women) Also house sizes: compare the people / km or mile from Europe and America and you know why the houses are on average smaller. Many houses are in or near large cities and therefor are way smaller than ones in the country side.
In the uk and i think for most of europe you don’t necessarily need to rely on personal transport like cars and bikes etc… our public transport networks are interlinked making us able to travel anywhere and not necessarily needing a car to get around.
I am from Czech republic. We have health insurance, free education, 4 weeks of paid vacation (in my work 5), the mother can stay at home with the child for up to 4 years and receives money from the state and has paid health and social insurance. A beer costs $1.50 in a restaurant and $0.70 in a store. We have the largest beer consumption per capita in the world. I have many friends who drink 15 beers (0.5 l) in an evening. I already have a young family, so it's a little less. 😁 The average house size should be 95m2 (1022 sq ft). But it will be quite different from big city and village. I'm from a smaller town and I have an apartment twice as big. And the houses are roughly three times larger and more generations live in them (for example, grandparents on the ground floor and parents with children upstairs).. I think one of the worst things about America is the credit score. A person has to borrow money, incur credit card debt to prove that he can repay his obligations. And a person who has never had debts, is responsible and has a decent job will not get a loan. That's stupidity. In the EU, financially literate people take out a loan only once in their life for their own housing, or for a car if they need it for work. Money is being saved for the rest. Have a good time man 🙂🤙
Regarding drinking in Czechia: We have a law which requires at least one non-aloholic drink cheaper than beer on the menu (We even have a joke about it where a young boy comes into a pub and asks for a beer, the waiter offers him a soda and the boy refuses stating he doesnt have that much money :D ) The beer here is not only cheap but also one of the best beers in the world (I will avoid the arguments with Germans :P ). We drink so much beer that the second place is 50% lower consuption on us (beer is so common here that it is completely reasonable to have a small beer with your lunch during work day :P - unless you are driving as we have 0 tolerance) The official drinking age is lower but the reality is that unlike US in Europe nobody generally cares - by 12 years old you have nearly for sure got your hands on at least a beer (hell I had my first taste of beer when I was 5). You can even often just walk into a pub, order a beer and they will serve you a beer no questions asked - adult or not.
Don't worry, most germans wont argue with, you, as long as we can agree that the best beer in the world is brewed somewhere between Brügge and Bratislava. Which single one of the thousands of beers that are brewed in Belgium, Czech Rep and Germany is the best? The one you prefer, thus usually one brewed in your home region. It's helped a lot to avoid this argument, if we start by agreeing that horse piss is NOT to be called beer, and should never be named after a czech city. ;).
Danish beer wets my tongue.. Though not all, honestly the biggest brands I consider sub-par to even the worst Czech beer I've had. But damm some of the less widespread brands are top for me xD
I think the drinking part is just a difference in culture. Since our cities are walkable and we don't work that many hours in spain is common to meet almost every day and have a beer with friends after work. It's almost daily so the average goes up but the goal is not to get drunk. From the outside it seems like you guys spend a month without drinking and then get completely wasted. The results are radical but the average is small.
I am a dutch woman of 1.74m (60 kg) and my husband is 1.86 (82 kg), and our sons are even taller. And we are not even the longest people. I think we have grown so tall because of the good food and great health care.
@@F_Reduction Well, yes and no. Your genes determine a range of height for you and your environment (food, stress, activity, hormones etc.) determine your actual height within that range. That means that on average a wealthy person would get bigger than a poor person with the same genetics, as wealth often means better conditions like high quality food and lower stress levels. But if your genetically short, no money in the world can buy you the food to grow tall.
@@F_Reductionmy family is dirt poor. Some of my family members stole stuff from us. There's been points in our loves when we couldn't afford food. I'm 1.90m tall and everyone else in my family is both tall and big (not necessarily muscular, just big) Height isn't just money, it's also genetics. Btw we're Romanian.
12:41 it's a continent with Finland, Ireland, Germany, the UK, and all the Slavic nations in Eastern Europe for starters. Then there's all those Mediterranean resorts where we're spending all our paid vacation time. Major men's football ⚽️ tournaments every two years, and the women's ones rising in prominence. Eurovision every year, no one's watching that sober. It all adds up!
11:06 The US is a country where the vast majority of the land is empty space. So when you look how the suburbs of an average British city look like compared to an average US suburb, than you see lots of small semidetached houses with almost no backyard or lawn. And new ground to build a house is relatively rare and therefore also expensive. Probably houses in Europe are also more expensive which also reduces the size people can afford.
Well, buildings in Europe are built to last. Pretty sure there are buildings older than the USA. With a quick search the oldest house that has been and still is in use would be from 12th century in England. But there are also buildings all over that have reached the 3 digits. Not as many as there could be, as many got taken down during the wars.
Because 99% of European houses are made of bricks and concrete, while American houses are made of boards and plasterboard, which are blown away by the wind, washed away by a stronger storm, and when they catch fire, they burn to ashes. By European standards, American houses are only cottages of larger dimensions. If you shoot a wall in an American house, you shoot the neighbor 2 houses away because they have paper walls.
The thing is, in the US, the vast majority of houses are all the same basic construction. 2x6 "green" wood joists spaced 16" on center, tyvek wrap outside with chip board sheathing (brick/ stone are strictly cosmetic) and synthetic siding and roofing, insulation and quarter inch plaster board inside walls and ceilings.Doors are hollow, thin plywood. Windows are wood framed, usually double hung with no shutters. They only open one way althought they do have screens. Plumbing is PVC throughout. Floors are plywood with carpet, occasionally wood look laminate, and tile in baths. The extra costs are in things like fully tiled baths, upgraded kitchen cabinets, flooring, appliances, hardware and landscaping. There is nothing added to the structural integrity of the building itself. And everything is about location, location, location.
Belgian here. We might pay a lot of taxes, but the quality of life we get in exchange is massively better compared to the US. Paid vacation, no student debt, great healthcare that’s actually affordable (I pay 4€ for a doctor’s visit and a lot of prescription medications are free or VERY cheap), great work-life balance… I did the math at a certain point in my life. Factoring cost of living, healthcare etc, the apparently stellar offer I’d received for a job in the US would actually mean I’d be able to save less. And that was not factoring in what it would cost me to pay for my daughter’s education. Or our safety, because the are we’d have to move to was, compared to where I am living, a lot less safe. Needless to say, I declined.
And Ryan doesnt know about state holidays, mandatory sick leaves, parents care sick leaves, wedding and funeral free days etc.... :)but he has right. It s nice. Work hard. Relax harder.
Yeah Its pretty to do not worry about healthcare and enjoying my 5 weeks of paid vacation and free university even for foreigners. BTW I even do not own a car and I do not plan to own a car. And I do not own a passport. ID is all I need. Hello from the Czech Republic. The country which drink the most beer on the world and produce the most gay adut tapes in the world.
I was so surprized how short the people were when I visited Boston. Most people were shorter than me (5"10) and I'm only slightly taller than an eaverage woman here in Denmark. My daughters are 6 feet and 6"1
For many Europeans (like me) the most famous american beer brands are not beer at all. I once tried Bud light and Fosters. Oh and not to forget: Corona. For me who is used to german beer, these 3 taste like water. Coloured water. Not beer.
Corona is of course Mexican, and I think when muricans use the word "American", they tend NOT to include Mexico or Mexican... and tbh I really thought Fosters was Australian. I myself, being Belgian I tend to stick to Belgian beer, including my homebrewn Triple, Pale Ale and Weizen.
Life expectancy in the EU, before COVID was 78,5 for men and 84 for woman. After COVID it was 77,7 and 83,2. Don’t forget that taxes in the eu benefit the citizens.
Not everywhere... definitely not in my country. Ever since we joined EU, we became their bitches and they depleted our economy and pretty much everything else.
2$ for a beer in the supermarket ??? That's way to expensive, here in Spain 2$ is the price on the bar, in the supermarket you can buy for as low as 50cents for a cheap beer and a litlte less than 1$ for a good one
1:14 heh Leif and Thorfinn Karlsefni would like a word about this. North America was discovered around 1010 - the VINLAND stories. They tried some colonisation but it didnt work. The real "deal" started - as stated with Portuguese and Spanish explorers.
12:30 that beer for 1,50$ in Czech Republic is about the bars, not supermarkets, in a supermarket you can get a beer for less than a dollar Also, beer in Czech restaurants is often cheaper than water (which is not free in most of Europe)
they don't serve you water for free? i'm french and in here it's illegal to charge for water at a restaurant (some might not charge for sparkling water too)
@@flops1792 here in Germany they usually only offer you bottled water that you have to pay for. They might give you free tap water if you ask for it but they aren't obligated to do that and it's considered kinda bold to ask that.
Meanwhile me, growing up with 3-4 kids sharing one room (and usually one closet for all of us) And yep, In the beer countries, Germany and Czechia, the beer is cheaper than water, but you don't drink it to get drunk, it just goes well with some foods, bbqs or just to have one in the evening
Hi Ryan, My Taxes are around 42% (see split up below) but the biggest difference to the USA is: that most European citizens don't mind to pay higher taxes (especially in northern Europe) since they know the get a good return for the taxes (Universal health care, social coverage (unemployment benefits and more), tuition free Universities, good public transport, good roads etc.). Also I guess that it its more engraved in us that we want the goverment to take care of things in order for a fair and balanced Society in which everybody has the chance to succeed and get the help they need for this. As an example if you would earn a monthly salary of 3975 € gross and you are single with no kids and live in North Rhine Westphalia (best state ;) in Germany), you had to pay monthly (roughly) 1.447,28 € from your salary as tax and social insurance etc.That leaves 2.527,72 € at your disposal. The taxes and social insurances divides as followed: 582,93 € Income Tax/ 52,46 € Church Tax (if belong to a church) / Health Insurance 316,01 € / 74,53 € Long-term care Insuarnce (Pflegeversicherung) / 369,68 € Retirement Insurance / 51,58 € Unenployment Insurance. All this except for the church tax is mandatory. All of these with the except for the income and church tax your employer has to pay too (in addition to your salary)
was really eye opening to hear him state that gov still 'runs off' with a quarter of his money.. really states something about the fixation in USA on 'gov interventionist' as being bad.. .. Good roads, health care, school, safety, fireprotection, ... all have to be payed some way :) . we have good social security , and with way lower barriers to access good health care Europe pays far less % of GDP on health care then the USA.. So you pay way more, for way worse health care that is way less accessible ...
There are a few misunderstangings about some things in Germany, or the EU in general. For one, health care is not "free" in Germany. We have a system of health insurance, divided into 2 classes. One is the public health insurance. People who are employed pay a certain amount of their wages into this insurance, and this amount is doubled by the employer paying in the same amount (based on the monthly salary of the employee). Unemployed people or disabled people who cannot work, spouses and children are also covered by this insurance without paying in themself. So its not really "free healthcare" we just dont get hit by ridiculous medical bills that ruin you for the rest of your life, like it happens in the US. The other health insurance is the private kind. This is for people who are self employed or employed above a certain income bracket. A pretty high one. Those have to pay a higher monthly amount - but still not crazy high - but they get a better service for that. It depends on what kind of insurance quality they have booked. The other thing is, also here students (at university) can take loans from the government, which they have to pay back later once they earn money. But those loans are meant to cover the cost of living during the studying time, not the university fees. The studying is free, apart of a relativly small signing up fee, like 400 Euros or so per semester. How much money someone needs for living is of course a matter of what life style he is used to. Often times students take up small jobs to keep the loan small, or even manage without one.
You didn't know the kingdom of Spain have an important role in the then called the New World? I mean that's why hispanoamericanos speak Spanish. Why so many places in US have Spanish names. There is even New Madrid, a city in New Madrid County, Missouri, that's why horses arrived to the continent. Also the Kingdom of Spain was crucial to the American Independence. Between SXVI and SXVIII/ SXIX the Kingdom of Spain had Viceroyalty of New Spain (1535-1821) which include present-day Mexico, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Florida, Utah, Louisiana, and part of Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas and Oklahoma. Also Alaska and the Yukon Territory, as well as the Antilles (Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico) and the current territories of Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Belize, Honduras and Costa Rica. The Viceroyalty of Peru (1542-1824) included the current territories of Peru, Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador, Panama, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, the Galapagos, part of Brazil and Venezuela. Although, its territory was diminished from the 18th century with the emergence of two new South American viceroyalties. The Viceroyalty of New Granada (1739-1819). It controlled the territories of present-day Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, the Galapagos Islands and northern Brazil and western Guyana. It included Trinidad and Tobago. The Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (1776-1811) controlled the current territories of Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay and part of Brazil. It included the Falkland Islands. Island territories in the Caribbean Sea such as Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Montserrat, Saint Martin, Anguilla, Bonaire, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Curacao, Aruba, Jamaica, Virgin Islands, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Barbados, Bermuda, Saint Barthelemy, Turks and Caicos, Saint Lucia , Cayman Islands and the archipelago of San Andrés and Providencia.
So funny how 74m2 seems small to Americans, we fit 4 member family in it 😁 there's a saying in my country: if the children are not spoiled, the house is not small 😊 also, way more apartments than houses in Europe, so it's hard to have each apartment over 150m2.....
From a Danish perspective, 74 m2 seems a bit tight for 4 family members, though definitely not impossible! 🙂 I think it depends a lot on the floorplan though. A good floorpan can really maximise the use you get of your space, but a lot of modern houses are not very efficient at this point.
Ryan be a bit more aware. There are not a ton of people that have a certain ancestry, they only claim it to be so. Claiming something does not make it so. Huge difference. Loooooool Americans and Alcohol, I sometimes wonder if they even know what it is. Beer containing 0.000000001% is called regular beer, come get real. Americans have no clue about alcohol in general, thus consumption outside the US s logically higher.
In Europe it’s considered Prestige to have all European ancestry at least 10 generations back . In the US it’s the opposite , it’s now considered cool to be 1/4 Native and 1/8 Pacific Islander
In southern Europe many men and women are shorter than 1.85 meters. In Germany many young couples live in a marriage - like community and are not married. There are also many young men and women who like to live alone , because they don`t want a partnership. Everyone earn their own money and has their own apartment.😍
marriage is overrated in these days...has no purpose other then some legal benefits?....for the wife and another headaches+ for the husband with the state looking over their shoulder :D.
The only big difference is the homicide's rate. 4.7 homicides per 100,000 people a year in USA, 1.3 in UE- The rate is only 0.5 in countries such as Italy, Spain, Germany...
In terms of economic model, the UK and especially England is more like the US than like continental Europe. The continental model is to invest in every kid to make it reach it's full potential, the Anglo-Saxon model is to let them compete and take the ones that come out on top. It's more about selection than about teaching, and because of the perspective, they just take the loss of kids not being able to afford to study.
@@justhair17 Life is also a competition, not only a competition. Otherwise you get an awful lot of losers like in the US, while in Western-Europe we have more winners and the rest has mostly settled for a draw.
@@DenUitvreter Western Europe certainly doesnt have even remotely as much winners as the US. Sure, it has more losers as well, but being average is not much better
@@justhair17 In the US being average is indeed not much better, while the average European would be considered a winner everywhere else. The average American works very hard and still struggles to pay the bills. Just because the few winners have to win so big.
@@DenUitvreter nah, average European is much worse than being average in US. An average in most Europeam countries would be below poverty line in the US
This makes me triggered, they only show the worst example and not the avarage... In my country students study for free and the highest quality schools are between them. Also avarage tax is 25%, healthcare is included in the tax, and many more things...
I'm a Dutch 47 year old woman and I am 6' tall. In The Netherlands I regularly see women my length, but here in Austria where I have been living for over a decade I rarely see women as tall as me.
I'm a Dutch 69 year old man and also 6' tall, my daughter (29) is 5'11'' and my son (27) 6'3'' and the rest of the man in the family are between 6'2'' and 6'9''
In the UK, students used to have free university education, they also got a grant That all changed in 1998, when Tony Blairs government introduced a max £1000 tuition fee for university education. That rose significantly with successive governments, universities got cart blanche to raise tution fees. I think tuition fees are £9000 per year. But do raise in line with inflation. When the devolved governments came in Scotland got rid of tuition fees and went back to a grant
Sometimes he says Europe and sometimes he picks a country???? But that is not the predominant population of Europe. For the most parts, the video is absolutely not true!!!!
I have five weeks of vacation time. I can use those as I please. The Christmas time is always a stressful time at work, so right now I'm on vacation. So, this whole week I'll spend at home relaxing and catching my breath, with full pay. Pretty nice to have this opportunity.
@@fionagregory9147 well, I use the word vacation because of the way the Norwegian language works. It just feels more right, even if it isn't grammatically correct.
I know....crazy, isn't it? Even here in Austria, McDs workers get the same benefits as other Austrians, even though the company tells USA workers that they never could afford to give them the same pay/benefits.
1:08 The Castillian crown (one of the two kingdoms that founded Spain) sent the first expedition looking for an alternative route to India using the opposite side. Christopher Columbus with the expedition discovered American for the Europeans (no matter what some people claim about vikings...) and end up conquering the majority of the Americas, hence most of the continent still speaks Spanish. France, England and other civilizations such as the Dutch couldn't defeat the Castillian kingdom (Spain) at the time so they had to conquer other colder and not so -initially- interesting lands like Canada and the east coast of the US. The western part of the US was conquered by Castille and Florida too, and that is the reason why most of their names come from Spanish or are heavily influenced, like "Florida, Arizona, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Mesa, Colorado" and the list goes on and on. Happy for you Ryan to have discovered that interesting topic. Keep releasing videos mate, they are very interesting!
I'm surprised Australian houses are bigger on average, everytime I see a video of an American's house it looks like they live in a mansion in terms of room size, and I don't mean rich youtubers just middle class people in general. But maybe because you guys have a lot more people living in apartments etc? Almost everyone lives in houses here, even in cities I think 🤔
The US has a lot of free space to build houses on. They also use mostly preconstructed "wooden" parts so it's cheaper for them to knock down whatever house was on a lot and put up your own "dream" house, or reconstruct your old house when it inevitably gets smashed by an earthquake/tornado or is fried in one of the annual brush fires.
Well, I grew up in a big house in the states, but I spent my high school years with a ceiling that was constantly falling on my face while I slept. Size does not matter. Quality does. You have very little recourse, outside of suing to try to get compensation for shoddy workmanship. I had one whole wall that had been wired with reverse polarization and all our electronics kept going out, until we finally found an electrician (the 3rd one we hired) who could figure out the problem. We had to try 5 different roofers and live with a giant hole for over a year that the second one put in our roof before we found a roofer who knew what he was doing. Quality matters, but the workers there don't know or care.
@@DenUitvreter , then there's also all those parents not getting sent to prison to work for free like in the USA. They gotta keep those prisons filled for all that free labor.
We dont need big houses, because we spend much more time outside in the fresh air - such a thibg as leasurely walkinc is a huge deal. Many run, roadrace (bicycles), mountainbike or are active in outdoor activities. Iterieur designs etc.is much more sleek, light and simple, where as at least some parts of the US do "generationel" furniture, that is quite bog and heavy, past down as heirlooms. As for Scandinavia, where I'm from, many appreciate light, top quality, cozy and warm toned homes, which is inviting to spend jo7nt time rather than sot isolated in each their room. We like to spend time together and "fitting in" to a 1500 sqf. house is not an issue. We dont really need giant kitchens or baths. They may be elegant but the rooms are simply for practical purpuses so why let it take up so much space? Why waste it? I think, at least for us nordic folks, we dont want waste. We dont accumulate "stuff" and by in bulk like many Americans do. We are probably more aware of what we actually NEED rather than just getting "stuff" for the sake of getting it. Consumerism IS big but no where near American levels. Another difference is that most people have grocery stores and fresh produce close to their homes. We dont need to drive many miles (in my village of 2600 we have two big supermarkets, pharmacy, clothing and a bookstore, besides the trainstation which offers a 9 min ride to downtown one of the coubtries biggestcities withshops, boutoques, cafe's, museums, concert venues and restaurants within walking distance). Yet, we stoll have local access to all the essentiels. We have no need for longterm storage becausewe can just walk, bike or if need really be, take a 10 minute drive and there it is. We also cook much more in our homes, hence the fresh produce. It's used, not stored. It means that our living quarters take up the majority of our space, not storage, kitchens, bathrooms etc. The fact that we dont have a lot of big families of four or more people, obviously also play it's part. Men and women both work, our standard of living is high - and most people with an education (of which many is bachelors or masters) dont want to spend 18 years at home forgetting it all. It's typical demographic development, worldwide; The higher average level of education, the less children.
Not sure how old this video that you're reacting to is.... But the UK is not technically an EU country anymore. Also, I'm from down under and I mean no offence by this.... But American beer is sub-par at best. I'm sure the Brits would agree with me for different reasons. :P
Ryan, I can't believe you actually cheered when you heard that students in the UK had more student debt than US students. Anyway, hope you are doing good today. Very interesting and fun video. Peace
Except that in reality, they don't. English students have the biggest debts but they only have to replay them gradually after they have a job paying a high enough wage and they are written off after a period. In Wales and N.Ireland, the amounts are less, due to lower fees and in Scotland, it's free, so no debts. For those with Student debts, they do not count against anything financial in day to day life, so no issues arise from applying for loans or mortgages from student debts.
@@Thurgosh_OG i was actually surprised at that 29000$ for US, i would assume most people don't buy a house in their twenties anyway, and that doesn't take a long time to repay, so it seems US student loan is not that big of a deal anyway, with thm earning one of highest salaries... (in my profession 30-50% more for example, i live in Germany)
School isn't exactly free. Teachers, other employees and infrastructure still have to get payed. All these costs are payed by the taxpayers. So actualy the whole public pays for school fees.
LUXEMBOURG is the size of a postage stamp ,,,,, very Beautiful,,,,, I’ve lived there temporarily some time ago. In my estimation it’s an ideal place for elder citizens.
It's rather hilly though. Could be a problem for elder citizens with mobility issues. And except if Luxembourg benefits from some sort of micro-climate it must be rather chilly in winter.
Hi! I live in Czechia and I want to put some things in perspective regarding "free" stuff and taxes. The overall taxation in here is 60-70%. Oh yes. Really that high. Income tax is just a 15%. BUT! There is health insurance tax 13,5%. Then there's social security tax 31,3%. So for 100% of what you make you only get 40% worth of money. BUT! When you buy goods or services you pay what is called "value added tax" which ranges between 15% and 18%. AND! There are other taxes as well. Gasoline tax: 37-50% depending on the type. Tobacco tax: 85%! Alcohol tax: 13,5%. Tax you have to pay when acquire real estate: 5%. What I want to say is that the "free" stuff, like education and 4 weeks of vacation, is not for free. You guys (US) thinks this is free but there's no such thing a free anything.
As of very late 2022, The average height in the US is 5'4" inches (162.56 centimeters) for women and 5'9" inches (175.26 centimeters) for men. In NZ, as of mid-2019, the average Kiwi male is 178cm (5'10" inches) tall, while the average woman is 165cm (5'5" inches) tall. I'm 5'10". Wife is a touch under 5'11". Our son (15), once he finishes growing will most likely tower over us by some distance. Our daughter is 19, and is already 5'9". Our house here when first purchased was 163sqm (1755 square feet). Now, 13 years later it's 205sqm (2205 square feet). Section (lot) size has 714sqm to 948. A lot of hoops to jump through, but worth it.
In most of Europe, we eat real, food, not the over-processed (and often toxic) crap the 'muricans get fed. I am Belgian, born in 1947, I am 182 cm tall ...
In Greece you can study in the best university, the best career,as long as you have good grades in the final exams. Its the same exams in the whole Greece. At the same time you write the same subject like the rest. If you succed, free education in the university you desire. Free food and for weak families free shelter. If you don't attend a uni and go to an other like school where you have to pay or go abroad in Europe and pay then it's because the exams didn't go as planned
Regarding the household debt and the mentioned European countries, at least the Scandinavian ones. Whereas US debt often are related to creditcard and "consumer loan" debt the Scandinavian debt are related to real estate. Since there are demands for downpayments and limits to loan amount versus real estate buying cost, when you initially purchase, the buyer will nearly always historically be solvent even if market takes a downturn just after the purchase. Interest rates are partly deduct able in relation to income tax thus young or first buyers get a helping hand when the loan are highest. If you take away real estate loans from the calculation Scandinavian household debt are very low in relation to income versus USA. Most Scandinavians initially takes 30 year long real estate loans why inflation also play a large role in how much you "feel" your collective mortgage affect your spendable income over time. As an example a couple buying first real estate in mid 1960´s when they were young, represented a debt of nearly 10 years income. Just 10 years later the high inflation period from mid 60´s to mid 70´s changed that to less than half in relation to same amount. If they had a loan of around 220.000 Danish Kroner then and if same real estate where on the market today, it would cost around 5 million thus an extremely good deal. And better the more invested in relation to income basically. Many young people today have had a long time with low interests but still rising prices relatively, thus again making the old generation rich on the bag of their own children, that have not seem so fortunate by the development. Many young people should consider if this might be the best time/option for them to buy as close as possible to their max since current inflation are high and they can convert to low interest loans sometime in the future when interest rates drop again, thus being able to benefit from the devaluation of the monetary amount they borrowed´s lower impact over time as their wages rise, slightly delayed, with inflation ea. monetary amount stay same (or gets lower as loan are paid down, but monetary amount in income goes up). What looks and can be, bad times for some, opens opportunities for others, also the more common man betting on quality real estate. And when writing quality I primarily think about long term location speculation and actual building quality. Houses in Scandinavian are built in high quality to withstand real winters and ability to be quality insulated etc. Basic living houses in Denmark typically can stand for 100 years whereas it are my impression that half would be a long time in USA. Due to the building tradition/quality in Scandinavia it typically are a good investment to spend money on upgrading to modern windows with less heat loos and more insulation, solar panels on the roof etc. Investing in lowering energy costs makes sense if your house are going to last your lifetime but not if it can be flattened by a storm or do not have quality to last longer than the investment requires to at least break even. Anyway. It began as an explanation about the difference in types of household debt EU vs USA, included some advice in reg. to first buyers and the current time we are in and ended with upgrades ex in relation to climate change and energy bills vs building quality. Hopefully it provided you that read this far, some deeper insight and perhaps some investment considerations, worth taking into account, no matter if you live in Scandinavia or USA.
Haven’t “they” decided that Chris Col didn’t land on the east of the Americas? You Tube is full of contradictions apart from definitively positive positions like this bloke? In the UK again to my knowledge no one knows the square footage in their house.
@@gevorgvanarmenie9788 Indeed, probably some vikings lost their way and ended up on American soil. But as they couldn't find a Mcdonalds they turned back to their country.
Forgive me, but “heritage and blood” has an odd notation. How man Americans in the US have any real connection with culture or language of their ancestors? Let alone ever been in those countries? It gives me little cringe every time an American talks about a whole bunch of blood ancestors she/him came from, particularly the countries. It serves no purpose, says nothing about their own personalities. Ain’t sad?
Too random, superficial video. I have read that Americans are getting shorter and heavier: a sedentary life and snacking between meals and while watching TV, perhaps. If you want to see the tallest, fit men and women, go to the Netherlands. I visit Spain, and every generation is taller. That is also true here in China, but American junk food is changing that.
The taxes are much higher in the EU but in those percentages are included healthcare(which may be universal or partial, meaning that sometimes you have to pay for some meds, but most of the time is a very small amount, lower than 10-20euros), and also the pension fund(when people reach the age of retirement they aren't left without income), education(people don't have to pay for their kids when they go to schools up to highschool)
In the EU and elsewhere, kids share rooms. you don't need a separate bedroom for each kid. Bedrooms are for sleeping and other activities are done in a common area. The parents' bedroom is also smaller. the average double bed is 2 meters by 2 meters and often bedrooms are only 3x 3.5 meters, just enough to include an armoire.
This is a good point! Also, many American homes have a walk-in closet for each bedroom and some bedrooms have dedicated bathrooms. In Europe it's only 1 bathroom per house(sometimes 2) and people just use a small wooden wardrobe or dresser for their clothes. Living rooms, dining rooms and kitchens are often one and the same.
average Dutch men are now up to 184 cm. Don't even know where my son is going to end. He just turned 14 and is already 175,5 cm and still growing in top speed. He was for years one of the shorter ones in his class. Both his father and me are Dutch average according to the Infographic show and are really not at all considered tall here. Wonder what our next generations are going to bring. Really funny to see the comparisons. Maybe it's because we have more holiday time, because he always grows faster during holidays :-)
If Wuzer is your actual family name, then your ancestry is German. It is derived from the German family name Wutzer. Your name is from South West Germany to be precise, Baden-Wurttemberg/Suabia. But the shape of your nose and chin tells me, that you've got Northern German in the mix as well. That nose and chin shape is more common in the North than the South.
Right but German last name doesn’t necessarily mean the ancestry is German. Many people in Poland/Czechia/Hungary or the Jewish community have German last names since the territories were occupied/colonised through the years, yet their ancestry reports wouldn’t show German “blood”. Last names can be tricky in indicating ancestry, especially if a country was known for its imperial tendencies
@@aleksandrapawlak5466 yeah. No. If you find a German name, that is a very old regional German word, then it's German and from that region, even if the people travelled, that doesn't make the people have another ancestry, it just makes them migrants. The name Wutzer is not at all common in any other country or region except for the one I said. It's super local. In fact it's not even a German word but an Allaman word. I just didn't bother to go into details.
Here in Germany we may have one of the lowest grade of national pride but we can't complain about our salary for work. As an example I have a gross income of around 43.000€ per year which results in a net income of 28.000€ (that is pretty much the average in Germany) and in addition to that I'm getting 7 weeks of paid vacation per year. So... yeah as I said before most germans don't really can't complain about their life here.
A lotnof jewish emigrants were noted as "germans", because they were german citizens and had german sounding last names (think Rosenblatt or Ostreicher, for example). If they were not religious they could easily blend with other germans, and a hundred or more years later the family knows that great great granpa was born near Frankfurt and their last name is german. It's one of the reasons so many people are shocked seing their 23 and me results.
Yep, my in-laws, To top it off, MIL was blonde and blue eyed. They were the immigrants. FIL had brown hair and eyes and sons inherited his coloring although my BIL is lighter with blue eyes than my husband was. Rosenblatt is Yiddish and typically Jewish. But plenty of other names don't have that distinctive.
The illustrations for student costs in the UK are not correct. Whilst it "costs" a minimum of £9000 per year for student fees and then we get around £1000 a month maintenance grant, 90% of students NEVER pay a penny back. The bill is paid by the government and if/when after you graduate you earn more than £25,000 after your first year then you are charged a small percentage for the loan after approximately 5 to 6 years this fee is usually wavered and you owe no more
UK shouldn't be compared in EU anymore. UK wanted to be more like US for some reason, with whooping Study prices, which cost arm an a leg too. On a House side, as a potential buyer myself, i bet that average size of a house dropped even more in Europe. And it is simple to explain. Why do you need a big house? it used to be to have your kids live together with you, or store all unnecessary junk you buy over the years. And since Youngsters these days prefer living away from parents, or even move to other country. People also are more minimalistic these days, so big houses just not needed anymore. Also Big House = Big bill for heating. And with todays gas prices...
I'm from Germany and my mom lives in the US, Camdenton MO, and when I was there for a visit, I was shocked people called eachother son of a bitch 😂 don't do that in Europe. You might get clapped, it's no joke to us when family is being insulted even when it's done in the context of "fun"😊
I always wondered why americans "need" such a big houses. do you at least use all of those rooms or it's just extra surface for dust 95% of the time??? I'm asking genuinely
We just like alcohol. If you want to drink the best Vodka in your life, then go to Poland. (Russia is the biggest consumer of it but we are the best producers of it)
(Germany) That 4 weeks is kind of deceiving, I never had a job offer below 30 days vacation. As for drinking... yeah. US exchange students indeed always went crazy with the beer because they considered it aspecial thing they had to use of as much as possible before going back.
Most European countries have as many or even more public holidays as the US (we are having one in Italy today), but we most commonly don't move the day off to the closest Monday or Friday. Suppose a public holiday occurs on a Thursday: we have a day off on Thursday, then we are supposed to go back to work on Friday before the week end. But a lot of people make good use of our higher number of paid vacation day and "bridge" the days off with one vacation day. Also, I have lived with other three people in 60 square meters (do the conversion). it's not that tight.
