Can you be HAPPY living in GERMANY today? 

Ah, my comment disappeared! Thank you everyone! This video was a bit different, and I was sooo nervous, but you all have made my life so much happier, I had to tell you! Have a wonderful Sunday! Here´s the link to Milla: www.jedewocheeinenkuchen.de/ and to Haidy: www.youtube.com/@belleandfleur

You told us two things that make you happy. I'll tell you one thing that makes me happy: your videos about Germany. We have a difficult history and therefore a problematic relationship with our homeland. I want to thank you all the more that I can see my country through your eyes. Because that's how I succeed loving it. Thank you so much!

Hi Lauren, I'm a native English speaker who lived in Germany for three years and I really enjoy your videos. I like the way your cinematography captures such romantic views of Germany that, as foreigners, we often appreciate more that native Germans. Old Fachwerk, medieval Rathäuser, craggy cliffs with castles, and lush green forests are all so dreamy. Sometimes my German friends would tease me about having the same tastes as their Omas! And I appreciate your approach in this video. Yes, enjoy the happiness that you have in Germany. I think in the massive chaos that we live in now it's important for people to see that it is possible to have a peaceful, nice life. Please, keep doing your videos.

Thank you Lauren for your view on my homecountry. You give me new images and added a warm feeling to it

Dear Lauren, it is always touching the soul to see and hear your views and thoughts about this Country! Nice to have you here! 💚💚💚 You deserve many more subscribers!!!! Wishing you a wonderful Sunday from Wilhelmshaven

I used to work in Nienburg for 6 month during the early parts of my career. I didn't walk in the city center during the evenings. What a mistake this was! Thank you very much for your video, because it looked so nice. My wife and I drive past Nienburg on different occasions once every 2 years. We must stop there and look at the inner city. This is such a wonderful effect, that your videos have. We learn to appreciate our beautiful landscapes and cities by seeing it through other eyes.

Dear Lauren, thank you for your beautiful videos, they are little islands of bliss for me at this time.❤️❤️❤️

As a Fellow German, just stumbeling on your Channel, i was really delighted to hear about what you had to say about our Country. And our people in fact. when you live in a Country you love, you can get lost in criticizing all the aspects that dont work here. But a fresh, somewhat outside perspective can give you a totally different View on how to treasure your own life and style of living.

thanks as ever! the German national tourist board should assign you as its spokesperson. One falls in love with Germany through your lovely videos. what a country indeed!!!

It's always a great pleasure for me to watch your videos, dear Lauren. 😍 I love that you share the variety of our country, while often Germany is broken down to Bavaria. It is beautiful, no doubt, but the other parts of Germany are beautiful too. Thank you for entertaining (and educating) me. 💖

Dear Lauren! Thank you so much for letting us know your positive thoughts and showing us some of the most wonderful and beautiful places. It is a welcome distraction from all the troubles and miseries that are present in the media day by day. It seems that the negative topics are the majority and all to easily we forget, that it is only the dark side of a generally wonderful world. Thank you again for reminding us not to forget the positive things and be thankful for them each and every day! With just over 5000 subscribers your channel definitely is far underrated. It deserves a lot more attention!

Don't be scared - you make our lifes happier as well. Often it doesn't take much to be happy. I love your analogy of walking in the rain just because, without being forced to do so for a specific reason. Sometimes for just being in the moment. While I don't like walking in the rain in the current season, I sometimes love walking in the rain after a hot, dry and dusty summer day to smell the fresh air, or the smell of freshly cut or wet grass... Or watching a toddler jumping into a puddle with full intent, just enjoying the moment without worrying about his clothes getting wet and dirty or the next day. Things that we as adults have simply forgotten to enjoy.

Ah, lovely Lauren again, with one of her very distinctive, warmhearted videos about Germany and the Germans. I think it is you who brings out the best in Germans with your beautiful video portraits. Thanks, Lauren, and have a nice sunday!

I love that you say you are germanized, because you go for walk in the rain🌧️😍 My favorite weather to go for a run is light summer rain 😊😍 However, I have to admit that I also love the beautiful blue sky in Boston 😉 Fingers crossed than you will hit your 5000 subs soon! You deserve it ❤️!!!

Lauren, you have a lovely enthusiasm that is very infectious. To me, your videos are really a gentle nudge to be more mindful of all the good and all of the beauty we have around us! Thank you for that! Cheers Mario

You are right, there are some really terrible things going in the last months (and even years) but sharing ones passion, like you do, makes one self AND the people around you forget it for a little while. Go for 5k!

I always love to hear your view, your interest and your passion about German life. German history is so rich in every aspect, I am still learning more and more and it doesn't become boring for me 😁 It's true, sometimes it seems hard to feel really happy these times. I think it starts with accepting that our individual help has limits, we can't help everybody everywhere. But that should not discourage us from doing the best we can to help and support other. And I learned in my life that helping other, even though it's limited, makes me happy. I wish you, Lauren, all the best and may you reach the amount of 5k subscibers soon because you deserve much more than only 5k 😉👍

That was exactly what I needed today. Uplifting, soothing and just wonderful. Thank you!

Hi Lauren, something everyone should keep in mind when moving abroad, you always take yourself with you! Be open minded and don't judge too early! For example, if you are upset about closed stores on Sunday. 🙋‍♂

Dear Lauren, I have already outed myself as a "lover" of your beautiful voice. But there is one more thing. When you speak in your native language, you do it so clearly and calmly that I can understand everything well. I look and listen to you without noticing that it is actually a foreign language for me. So watching your videos is a win-win-win for me personally. I get very interesting information about my home country, some of which I didn't even know. My eyes realize that there is a beautiful woman taking wonderful pictures in different moods. Your skills as a photographer are amazing you have a flair and a feeling for the great moments as you can see very well in this video. Then there is your wonderful voice that I love to be enchanted by and point no. 4 is that I can repeat and practice my English by the way because you speak so clearly and decelerated. The one or other vocabulary I learn new but with you it goes without effort with a lot of fun in the matter. So Lauren offers not only worth knowing and best entertainment, but also a learning effect in the most beautiful optics. A big hug from me and good luck for your first 5000 subscriptions.

❤❤❤ How beautiful and touching! Thank you, Lauren 😘

What a lovely RU-vid channel, thankyou once again. !

Guten Morgen lovely Lauren in Germany...wow wonderful life experience you have 👍👍👍 Danke for video you sharing with us, love you full from Bali, Indonesia 💓💓💓

Over all, I quite like to live in Germany. Not that there is no room for improvement, but looking at many other countries in the world, I think we are not doing too bad. The only thing thats bugging me - and thats not a shallow joke - is the German winter. The older I get, the more it is annying me. Physically as well as mentally, which is somewhat connected. Btw., I noticed we have something in common: the fondness for a good coffee. I even have the same espresso machine! :)

Dear Lauren, I love watching your wonderful videos and you always present us with the beautiful nature and the beautiful old architecture and castles from north to south Germany. Lovely Greetings from the north sea coast ( East Frisia) in northern Germany.🥰💜💙💚👍

You are such a wonderful person, Lauren. Your lovely britishness warms my heart everytime and eases my 'Fernweh' for England. Now about the video: I know the feeling. I stopped watching the news because it just made me miserable. It would be really nice to get a good news for every bad one and I am glad to see you finding coping mechanisms. Yes germans tend to hold back when in "public", not all (my wife sure doesn't :D) but the majority I'd say. However, once infected with something joyful they love to share it with othes. Lovely to see you getting interested in the german heritage. It's something that has been really lost sadly, mainly driven away by centuries of forced christianity and being stained by a germanic craze in the NS era. However I think it is important to see where this wonderful country and it's people came from. I hope you have a lovely sunday. Güße aus Minga

Dear Lauren, that is another beautiful pearl of a video in a long row of treasures you`ve already created! :-)) A big Dankeschön to you, again, I always enjoy those gems so very much! 😀This time you went north again and I was so delighted when I noticed it! I myself am a "Nordlicht" by birth and have been living in the northwest area until today (never left it for 56 years now except for holidays), and I know all the east and north fresian islands along the coast from my childhood. I believe I surely do have an eye for the beauty of this country and its thousands of magical corners and places, I also know those sceneries and the coast in their different lights, moods and seasons. But when I dive into the atmosphere you spin with those pictures and sights, together with the music (so well chosen every time and also in this video, love it!) and your special way to tell the story of the area, the people and the buildings, I become so very proud and happy to be born in such a lovely country! 😀 I`ve always been interested in folk tales, also in the old traditional german tales like the brothers Grimm once collected while wandering through the country and listening to what the people knew and had to tell. When I see all those pretty historical houses, the mills, taverns and market places, the bell towers and churches everywhere, the castles, old gates, wells and cobblestones, the small bridges and city walls through your eyes, your camera, together with the music you chose for that places, I can clearly see how back in time all this must have been inspired people to tell stories about sad fishermen and good hunters, clever farmers and greedy millers, about witches and wizards, princes, princesses, good kings and vengeful queens - or about tiny little villages, surrounded by fields and rolling hills, overgrown with firs, or calm lakes in the middle of mystical green woods with old beeches and oaks. It`s all still there, for hundreds of years and until today, we just must open our eyes and put our fairytale glasses on, and we can see Rotkäppchen coming along the way, we can imagine a witches Knusperhäuschen between the tree trunks of a near forest and we hear the dwarfs sing their song when they come home to Schneewittchen on a summer`s evening. For me, your videos always show the ancient fairytale side of Germany, the mystic soul and special atmosphere of the old cities and villages, the lovelyness of the historical landscape and surroundings, the speaking old walls. You do not "only" show the facts of today, I can see and feel the whole invisible background and "wonder" of it through your camera. Because, isn`t it a "wonder", that we managed to care for and rescue all those buildings in their centauries old, historical form and shape? It is not only the buildings that have been safed - together with them we are having a country full of living tales and often places-related folk songs, and all this can be touched, felt and lived until today. With all that we hear about some people`s bad plans about what they want to do with those cities and the people in Europe I worry very much about all this; and I also do think of England and what is already going on there. If this shall be the change we must face - It will be a great loss of freedom and traditions, of old customs, story and song. How would our songs and stories change then, about what would we read or sing in 30 years and what would our children know about fairies dancing in the fields or a princess sleeping a hundred years behind a wall of roses? Just yesterday I thought about our fairytales and old traditions, every country has their own; all this would make not much sense anymore. So your videos in some way also are a "voice" for our old traditions, landscapes and places - and for our freedom to visit all this or live there and fill our hearts with it whenever we want or need. We are born as free people and we care for the world we live in. We need to stay in direct touch with all this (and ourselves), it is our roots. In the times we are in now we can help people to remember their heritage, to ground them and make them love and care for the things they could lose so easily now. Remember, feeling love and being connected will help people very much now, so hopefully they do not forget when it is time to stand up for it.

Hallo Lauren, thank you for the wonderful video and sharing some of your feelings. I agree that the town has good taste🙂 I also feel brought down by all the bad news and negative vib in the world. It seems impossible to escape. I'm glad you are able to find positive elements about Germany, to help make make you happy. The history about Germanic tribes, actually Europe in general is mind boggling. In 2016 I volunteered on a dig in northern England (The North), along Hadrian's wall. One group found a number of pieces that came from southern Germanic Celts. These finds and the fact that most of my genetics seem to originate from southern Germany and Austria, got me very interested in the ancient history of central Europe. Hope to visit Heuneburg and Hallstadt in the near future to see the displays and reconstructions. Sorry....getting longwinded ...Cheers, Peter

Don't worry if you don't say anything, I won't tell, my lips are sealed. I think it's very nice how you address the diversity of Germany and then actually show it in your videos. I like that very, very much and it makes me happy. I thank you for that. Every person has to find out for themselves what makes them happy, which places, what things or people around me, that is very individual and maybe not possible every day. For my part, however, I really appreciate where I was born, at what time and what kind of family I have, I'm glad and happy about my parents, my brother I have and the grandparents I had, because I couldn't do that influence myself, so I was really lucky. Have a nice week

Simon Winder's (highly recommended) book on german history 'Germania' is very good at hammering home how diverse Germany is - and why. You can use that book as a travel guide... especially when traveling through Kleinstadt-Deutschland. So... very much the perfect read to go along with Lauren's videos! That Backbuch looks amazing!

I like your comments! That's true. It seems, rhat many people here have problems with our culture, history, today. I'm from the South and in former times I could not imagine to live in the North! Your reports are so motivating. Thank you. ❤❤❤❤ And don't worry about shit storms! This is just envie! 😂😂😂

Hallo Lauren, ich freue mich, wieder ein tolles Video von dir zu sehen. Deine Videos haben mir schon so viele Anregungen für Besuche gegeben, nur leider läuft mir so langsam die Zeit davon. Ich persönlich mag es auch sehr im Regen spazieren zu gehen, besonders im Wald ist die Luft und auch die Stimmung irgendwie anders, ich mag das. Wer einmal deine Videos gesehen hat, der wird auch sofort deinen Kanal abonnieren. Ich schaue mir jedenfalls deine Videos immer mehrmals an. Viele Grüße und noch einen schönen Sonntag.

Absolutely love your videos! Thank you!

Thank you, very much and wholeheartedly. A really extraordinary sunday joint: beautiful things said by a beautiful voice and garnished with beautiful images. Please keep doing what you are doing.

Hallo Lauren - ein wunderschönes Video - nicht nur, weil Du mich und meine Pudel darin erwähnst, sondern auch rüber bringst, wie sich Dein Leben durch die Pü´s vom Annenhof verändert hat - ich erinnere mich noch wie gestern an Deinen 1. Anruf . . . schön, Dich und Franz zu Freunden zu haben. Carmen und die Mädels vom Annenhof

Yes we sure do need more happiness because of what is happening in the world . Thank you xx

Wonderful video! ❤

No worry be happy my dear Lauren.there is no perfect Country.but to find the Best Country to settle down is still possible.

Excellent video. Subscribed.

I don't remember who it was, but I once saw this video made by a family about a trip they took to Germany, and the wife described something she saw as _"Magnifique."_ I added the time index from that line, quoted the phrase and admonished them for it. I said, "No. No. 'Magnifique' is how you describe places in _France_ or francophone parts of the _world._ You guys are in _Germany._ Call it _'Großartig.'"_

Yes could be happy there but also keeping my ear to the ground about what is going on East of there.

Pizza and a new Lauren video... perfect sunday evening!

Eine Europäern aus Wales zeigt mit die schönen Seiten Deutschlands... Danke Thanks for all your fantastic videos of german local and beautiful villages and so on and on ) you are a good ambassador in Germany, Lauren ;-)

Hi Lauren, bin zufällig auf dein kanal gestoßen, sehr schön!

Danke.

JC, I'm so verliebt in You! ❤🌹❤️

7:29 "She made this beautiful Cal-HEN-dar because-" 😄😄😄 That's cute.

You should become an official ambassador of Germany.

Happy Sunday! I hope you all feel hugged xxx

Were you standing in an onionfield for that last sentence? Because I felt tears welling up in my eyes.

Simple nice 👍

You are beautiful inside out Lauren 🌹

Germans are one of the nicest people in Europe ( i am not German )

You should try the "schwarzer Keiler" in Nienburg - the Interior is tremendous!

What does one sing at the Wasserschloss Norderburg? I suppose two voices and one piano 😊

Even Germans can't do happy for to long; just doesn't feel natural! ;)

and Lauren ... so many tribes of Germany have moved abroad like the Angeln and Saxons and they setlled in ... guess ... yessssssssss the UK ! that is why so many in Sussex ( South Saxony) , Wessex ( West Saxony ) and Essex ( East Saxony) have deep ancient German genes in them which they do not recognize .. ( and don't like to ) ... and they called that county anglo saxony ..

i was having a video in a empty park 06.00 am just the sound of the bird the peace etc somebody just came in with 2 dogs a midlle aged woman she started to me no video no photo ,i said to her you came inside my picture the answer was egal some people are extremly rude and cold as ice

"...but I'm _hopeless_ at waiting when I have something to _share."_ I've gotten that impression when it comes to Germany; that there's something new to share around every corner. We really have no idea, in the US, the cultural _poverty_ to which we subject ourselves by not _connecting_ with the rest of the world at _every opportunity._ Our attitude toward Germany is: 🤔 "Germany? You mean that country that was divided by the Cold War?" "Well, I suppose, if you want to look to the recent past." 🤔 "Oh. You mean the main European adversary in World War II?" "Well, I suppose, if you want to look to the somewhat _less_ recent past." But of course, this is the US. We have no _idea_ what it is for a country to truly be _historic._ We read about the _First_ World War, the _Second_ World War, the _Cold_ War, and we think we know _Germany._ 🤔 "Germanic... _'tribes?'_ Somehow, a Native American tribe managed to cross the Atlantic to reach _Germany?_ I find that _very_ hard to believe."

Oh Dornum, spent the summer there 2 years ago.

when you can financially affordit you can be happy anywhere.

Ayoo! Der Schwarze Keiler! Großartiger Laden. Trifft man Elbenkrieger und Landsknechte.

Dornum was the second holiday for us about 35 years ago. But I can't remember this castles 🤔

Repurposing of structures in Germany is a custom that will continue indefinitely. They build things to LAST.

😋😀😀

Do you do travel guiding?

I haven't seen it yet but I hope there comes finally something negative!!! 😂

As always a very nice video.

So basically you can't if you live in Berlin or other big city

Ich will Deinen Kanal heiraten! ❤👰💍👰❤️

Answer: NO

Don't come to Germany, this country is in steep decline.