#German #Tierlist #bestcity Ranking Germany's biggest 20 cities (according to population) into a Tier List! Please comment in English and keep it clean! My Instagram: @thepotatophil Our Main Channel: / deanaandphil
i'd rate Hamburg #1 or is that 'S' by this rating system? (see my comment below about Hamburg) YES HAMBURG IS WONDERFUL!!! (btw you know how to tell it's summer in Hamburg? the rain is warm!) Hamburg is an amazing city cursed with shitty weather... i think Hanburg is grener than almost any city i've seen in the world!!! very affordable here, too, and transit is great ... i spent a week in Stuttgart, busked there, guest of friends in German media who lived up on the hill... liked the city and the people i met, but the architecture was nothing special, except on the hills there were still some older residential buildings
@@jdmagicmusic i live in Hamburg and don't enjoy it at all. I'd give it a C or D! It's not as open to art and sculpture as other cities...i love the theaters here though
Aachen is the best 😜 it is close everywhere. Other than, i like Dusseldorf very much. Clean, nice and big city. And being in NRW makes it easier when you want to travel. It is in the middle of everything.
@@Annaconda1984 Hamburg loves music, which ia what i do; and art, even if it doesn't have so much public art or sculptures (but it does have some of the best graffiti art in the world!) and it's a truly beautiful city, so much green area, and the mixture of old and new everywhere! i never tire of looking at the harbor and the river, and there always seems to be something a bit different or fun around any given corner...
Live in Munich and watching this from my very expensive flat in Liam. I have not visited most of these cities yet, but I was nodding my head at your Munich description. I agree with all of it.
Great video as always Phil--crazy to see so many cities from NRW on this list! New to the area and really looking forward to eased restrictions and warmer weather to explore other states in this beautiful country 😊 hope you and Deana are well!
I grew up in Berlin, when it was still divided, toured around the world for twenty years (lived the longest time in Asia), and recently come back. Loved this comparison, because it isn't full of emotional "Lokalpatriotism". I love Berlin, but I am not oblivious to the fact that it has its downsides. On my travels around Germany, I always loved the smaller towns that for some reason or another are more lively and had some special aspects (history, universities, landscape, architecture, etc.). I understand that you had to limit it somewhere, but let me just throw out a few of them: Weimar (history, architecture, university town, and nestled in lovely surroundings), Regensburg (old city center survived WW2 intact, unlike Nuremberg, which is great but you cannot fail to notice that "old town" is a rebuild from the 50s and 60s), Lübeck (just love the Hanseatic brick architecture), Meißen (located just beside Dresden at the Elbe on a rather steep slope, famous for its porcelain and surprisingly international, because high-end porcelain manufacturing draws in international students), Freiburg (lively university town in the Black Forest area with lovely city center, swelteringly hot in summer though).
American here, agree that Hanover is “meh” compared to living in Hamburg. Hamburg is amazing but can’t match Berlin (and Berlin doeners) though! Appreciate the list with ideas for new cities to visit.
I was pleasantly surprised by Bremen, it had a “cool vibe” to it. And I liked Leipzig a lot. I must confess I only made day trips there! Many thanks for this video, Phil! Will enjoy a Popeyes chicken sandwich in your honor tomorrow, tee hee.
Hi Phil, missed your funny clips on RU-vid as a couple. Hope all is well with you guys. The only city in Germany where I went as tourist was Dresden, because I used to live in Prague so it was near the border. My current city now is by the Baltic Sea in Poland. I love living by the Sea, because personally I love fresh fish and having a beach in the 🌞🏖️summer.
I would love to hear what you think about Regensburg. Have you ever been there or what have you heard about it? I live about a 20 minute car drive from the city and I go there to school. You probably should visit it one time because the old city is beautiful, especially the “Steinerne Brücke“ with the “Bruckmandl“ is great because you get a nice view over then danube.
Feeding the algorithm with my comment. I am not a huge fan of Berlin after having visited twice. Most of my friends love it, but it didn't impress me the same way that it did them. I'd love to visit more German cities though!
yeah duisburg sucks, I've been driving through it like 15 times on my way up to Denmark and it's sad how the freeways are right through the heart of the city. Same goes with many Rurh valley cities like Wuppertal, Hagen, Bochum, Essen etc even though Duisburg is the worst. Hamburg is also on that trip to Denmark so I've stopped quite a few times there and it's absolutely beautiful, lots of huge old buildings with magnificent architecture between the river and the big ass lake. A really nice city but it's true that the weather rarely is sunny there. I still think it's kinda sad to not put it up with Munchen and Berlin at S-Tier, it doesn't quite feel at the right spot.
Essen is underrated to live in, it should be at least B Tier in my opinion. The things people see only reflect a few districts in the north, but else it's pretty nice there. You got amazing nature (Gruga or Baldeneysee), affordable prices, the typical urban lifestyle, lots of nice restaurants/cafés (Rü or Gemarkenstr. f.e.) and lots more. Additionally you have lots of cities like Düsseldorf or Dortmund nearby so it never gets boring.
I am from Leipzig, so thanks for the confidence. :P And like a good german I have to correct you on two issues. 1. Nothing going on? A big university(second oldest in germany), important fair city, lots of sports(and I dont even like Fussball) and culture(both classical and new) and last but not least a great place for different subcultures to bloom. 2. Leipzig has the lowest AFD turnout in Saxony and way below the east german average, in fact for the last two federal elections the voting district of Leipzig south got one of the very few direct mandates for Die Linke.
Der internatationale Flair und die Sommer in Berlin sind echt schoen. Den Wohnung fehlt aber oft Weststandard und im Winter merkt man schon auch die noerdliche Lage an der Dunkelheit.
I live in Stuttgart, I would also give it a B, aside from the good job options it's not an amazing city. The people here are also considered snob (side effect of having a good salary?), just like Munich. It is very expensive too
Wir leben seit 21 Jahren in Göttingen. Nette Stadt und gut in der Mitte Deutschlands gelegen. Manchmal wünsche ich mir jedoch etwas mehr von dem, was eine "richtige" Großstadt zu bieten hat. Schön, dass Hannover bei dir so gut wegkommt. Vieles hätte ich ähnlich bewertet. Hamburg aber käme bei mir allerdings klar auf den S Rang. Ist meine absolute Lieblingsstadt in Deutschland. Mit Berlin hast du wohl recht, wobei ich es mir selbst nicht wirklich vorstellen kann, da zu leben. Und ich bei Berlin echt zwischen S und B schwanke. Da würde ich Potsdam Berlin vorziehen. Hab mal schnell einen Kommentar auf Deutsch geschrieben. Ich hoffe, dass das okay für dich ist, auch wenn ein Teil der Community das nicht verstehen kann.
Bielefeld is actually much better than its reputation. It is relatively cheap to live there, has good public transport, not too dirty, many large employers. Pretty decent city. But as always, the Ruhr cities Essen, Dortmund and Bochum are getting a bad wrap. These days with the crazy housing market, the Ruhr area is just top notch when it comes to spending a nice day in a city. There is literally nothing in Berlin or Munich you couldn't do in the Ruhr area as well, except for all that tourist trap stuff, there are great museums, concerts, shopping, food, local beer culture, nature, historic sites and so much more. Bochum, Essen and Dortmund even have some pretty beautiful neighborhoods like the Dortmunder Kreuzviertel or Essen Margarethenhöhe. Admittingly, there is no Brandenburg gate or Cologne Cathedral, but honestly, as a local, how often do you visit these places?
Etwas zur Skyline von Frankfurt. Es wird auch Mainhattan genannt. Auf Grund meiner schlechten Erfahrungen mit den Einwohnern würde ich München eine Stufe schlechter positionieren und dafür Hamburg eins höher. Okok da Wetter ist nicht wirklich prickelnd aber trotzdem eine tolle Stadt.
I agree for the most part, but I would definitely put Munich into B-Tier because of the high rents, the conservative laws (stores closing at 8pm) and attitude. I think this is a top tier city for visiting, not for living. For living I would also bump up Duisburg to C-Tier because of its proximity to Duesseldorf and because it has the lowest rent prices in Germany, even lower than any city in east Germany.
Ich habe von vorn herein gewusst, dass Duisburg die schlechteste Note bekommt. 🧐 Es gibt einige Ecken, die man nicht so gern besucht, aber insgesamt lebe ich hier sehr gerne. 😔 Total unterbewertet!
Did you ever consider Karlsruhe? Nice city, good weather, good to bike around, next to the Rhine, a lot of lakes around (Baggerseen), internet city (first email ever sent to Germany was to Karlsruhe university), city of the law (two of Germany's highest courts are there (Bundesverfassungsgericht, Bundesgerichtshof), just a short drive to France, direct ICE connection to Frankfurt airport, ...
Phil would it be bettet to buy or to rent? What’s your thought? I’m coming for a visit in 11 says dor two weeks !!! It would be nice if we could meet up for lunch or dinner!! I’m buying 😜 Let me know😁. I’ll be in the Frankfurt am Main area
The markets are so high right now, either is expensive. Who knows if it will ever get cheaper again... I just keep thinking it has to crash again at some point... Thank you for the invite! :) Unfortunately, we wil be very busy this month and not be able to make it to the Frankfurt area. :(
Oh Phil, 😀you should really move, but not to Norway, there you have the same weather that you don't like, try Sweden👍🙂I think they have a simular health system as Germany (maybe the lifestyle is simular).
yeah we live in Wuppertal. nothing much going on as far as I know. I don't really have any friends in the city mostly it was just cheaper than Düsseldorf. I don't think it's a bad city just nothing fancy besides the sky train. I'd probably say C i guess but we've only lived here about a year and all of that was during covid so we don't have much opinion on it. aand we actually chose Wuppertal over Duisburg because we heard it wasn't a safe city
Ist Bielefeld immer noch "Bibelstadt"? My city is in Norway, which for me, is the best country to live in, but it's not Oslo. Trondheim is great👍🙂🇳🇴 If it had to be Germany I would prefer the coast of the North sea or Hamburg 👍
I live in Wuppertal. You don't mentioned some importent things. Only two examples: Wuppertal is the big city with the most green areas inside and the Zoo in Wuppertal is called the most beatiful in NRW.
Could you maybe do a video on what you have to do when you want to move to Germany? My boyfriend is planning to move here from Ireland and I thought you could share some info since Deanna moved from America and that should be even more complicated than just coming from Ireland :) I am a little overwhelmed on where to even find information and all the things I need to consider and keep in mind. German bureaucracy, am I right?
Yeah the bureaucracy can be pretty overwhelming. It definitely helps having a native German speaker with you in these situations. I'm not super familiar with all of that either. It often depends on the individual situation but I think coming from Ireland shouldn't be that complicated. :) If you have any questions feel free to ask.
@@potatophil8432 Ich kann übringens auch gern auf deutsch schreiben. Wir haben das Glück, dass ich hier geboren und aufgewachsen bin :D Ich bin aber selbst leider noch nie auch nur umgezogen, deshalb ist das auch schon kompliziertert für mich :D Also mir wurde im Bürgerbüro meiner Ortschaft zumindest schonmal eine Meldebescheinigung für die Wohnung gegeben. Aber was wäre denn das nächste was man danach anpeilen müsste? Oder hast du irgendwelche Tipps wo man Infos zu so etwas und dem vorgehen findet? :)
Hamburg definitely "S"!! 👍 The Storms are the attraction espially ehen the Fischmarkt is under water😀or the "Dom" and where are Heidelberg and Mannheim? Strasbourg?
@@potatophil8432 sowie Ihr wirklich Leben Wollt, braucht Ihr ein anderesLand, auswandern, und zwar schnell, Ihr werdet in Deutschland nicht wirklich gluecklich🙂ich Weiss, wovon ich rede, war 1 Jahr vor meiner Auswanderung krank, Grippe alle 6 Wochen, dann🇳🇴, nichts mehr, bis Auf mal eine Erkaeltung alle Jubeljahre. Dann rengt sich auch der Rest wieder ein👍
From visiting it a few times I enjoyed Bonn! However, in Berlin you get approached every 2/3 minutes by people who want to sell you drugs :D I would never put Berlin in S tier.
@@MrsKekstante 😍i would! Love Berlin and Heidelberg. I would put Bamberg in the A Tier bit because even though it's amazing for a student there, you can run out of things to do.
The capital of the green party. If you recycle in the wrong bin, better run for your life - zero tolerance there. Personal experience and opinion: Overly woke faschist-Greens. Though the area is nice but don't want to live there.
Re Wuppertal is ugly, I was there once and rode the Schwebebahn, and it looked ugly in once sense: nowadays you'd never put a train over a river view. In the same era in the US we built railroads and freeways along the Pacific coast because nobody cared about beach views then;l they wanted jos and the wealth from undustry. Now jobs and wealth come from preserving your natural features.
