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I have a question about Aubrey's occurrence on this channel: Is her absence a personal decision (e.g. because she wants to concentrate on the baby)? Or is it a legal thing, where she isn't allowed to work during her parental leave and occurring in a monetized video would count as working?
A little reminder: In German we don't say 1st flor, we say 1st "Upper Flor" -> 1. Obergeschoß or Etage (from the French language: étage what means step) or Stockwerk (Long story, has to do with the old buildings, and how they was build).
14:06 min Mowing lawn and raking leaves in public places is a job for Stadtreinigung (city cleaning) and for municipality. If you want that for your private garden of course you can hire a gardener who does it for you (if you can afford it). Exception: When you are a needy/ill person and cannot care for your garden any more you can send an application to the social welfare office and they pay the gardener for you.
Coffee creamer does exist in germany. It is called "Kaffeesahne". You can buy it at any grocery store. i think... im not using it. my grandparents always use it
EU uses SYMBOLS not because of the LANGUAGES and co but because it is QUICKER for the Human Brain to identify a SYMBOL compared to read a Text. That the Symbols are "multilingual", so everybody can understand them, is helpfull too but the Reason why Symbols are used: Symbols are much quicker to identify by the Human Brain then reading Text. China does the same. I name China as Example since China is also BIG and would not need to translate the Streetsymbols to Foreigners.
Gated communities always sound post-apocalyptic to me. Maybe that's because I first learnt about them in the context of segregated South Africa, a system right out of a dystopian novel. I've never heard of one existing in Germany. If someone wanted to establish one, I'm sure they'd be labelled as mad and paranoid.
Schrebergärten sind teils wie Gated Communities, where you need a key to enter a land which consists of many Schrebergärten. But many are just placed on field without a gate/fence around them all.
Nonexistent.. If you can close off the road its not a public road anymore... (this makes a difference for parking spaces, if a shop has a big parking space they need to be able to close it off or its a public parking space)
@@SchmulKrieger Gartensiedlungen sind überhaupt nicht vergleichbar und die "Wege" sind nicht Teil des Straßennetzes (keine SVO), sonst wäre das Abzäunen illegal (wir reden also über ein Privatgrundstück)
@@susannelachmuth3670 yeah no thats not the same. P.G. is not a gated community in that sense what USA means with that term in germany you also don´t have an HOA in that combination, so safe to say that the German understanding of Gated Community and HOA are very different from what americans mean and understand.
I grew up in a "Sackgasse" with a "Wendehammer" and after we moved twice we ended up in another one. They're pretty common in German suburbs and smaller villages. I have even seen a couple of them in Mainz where I study. Maybe not in the middle of the city or the Altstadt tho :) But I have to admit you have to live there to recognize them because there is no need to actively look for them.
they are also pretty common in bigger cities. We have at least hundreds of them in Hamburg. Just look at a map of Hamburg-Sasel or Brahmfeld for example.
There are good reasons for the traffic light being on your side of the intersection. For one this prevents drivers from pulling up too far, thus blocking pedestrians and cyclists from crossing the street. And in a lot of places the intersections are not right-angled which can make it hard to see.
I still stand by in the US there are also not perfectly right-angled intersections and we make it work 😉😅 However, I will give you that Americans do tend to pull too far forward in an intersection and block crosswalks...😅
I think that the main reason why the traffic lights are at the start of the intersection, not across it, in Germany, is that there are many possible problems that can happen if you simply turn right because you do not feel the "red traffic light for going straight ahead" might not apply to you. There can and often will be bicycle riders or pedestratians crossing over that you might simply run over - and this is far less likely to happen in many parts of the US. (Not that the US is "safer" - there's just far fewer bicyclists and pedestrians in the cities!)
I would think that having the light where you stop is just more intuitive. As with a lot of these differences, it might be a matter of habit, but I can think of a lot of german interections where I would have problems identifying which light is meant for me, if they were on the other side of the intersection.
As someone British the big difference I notice between the US timber houses and the German/British houses (both use extensively concrete blockwork, concrete roof tiles) is how very inflammable US houses are. In the UK house fires are often confined to the contents of one room. In the US the entire house is quickly involved in fire and sometimes spreads to one or two next door. That never happens in Europe.
oh yeah, i remember watching some old firefighter documentary. there was this whole bit about an apartment fire. basicly the whole aparment burned down, everything in it was just black. nothing flammable survived the flames. here's the things that really suprised me tho. it was just that aparment. the floor it was on appeared completly fine. in the US the fire would have easly spread across the entire buidling
In places like Florida the only thing that's wooden is the roof. Everything else is concrete or limestone (the inner walls are drywall). I didn't step into a wooden house until I was 25 and moved to Tennessee. Now homes in Florida do have fires move to one room to another, but usually it doesn't spread to another house. The fire department is usually there long before this can happen. When the fire is put out you'll have a concrete shell. The old homes in Florida everything is concrete (rood including roof. You look at these homes and they look like a cereal box. Everything on it is flat. Some of Germany's newer homes are using gypsum for the inner walls. When I lived in Germany we rented a home with gypsum inner walls. The US uses gypsum in their drywalls.
The only „gated communities“ I do remember in Germany were US armed forces accommodation. 🤷♀️ And we do have Sackgassen 😉 I hated shopping in the USA (groceries and everything else). People with bigger gardens do sometimes get lawn crews, but they are usually there to care for the flowers, bushes and trees. Nice to see, that you are germanized like that. When I visited the USA I didn’t drink coffee, but pretty much everything was too sweet for my taste. My grandma (who drinks coffee) said that US coffee had to be flavored to be somewhat drinkable. I guess it has gotten better over the past few years. And no, Starbucks coffee is horrible. Regarding your question: one drink group or one specific version? But probably water.
yes, military compounds obviously... not only for American forces, but of course also everything related to the German Bundeswehr. otherwise than that ... a gated community would certainly not be along public streets but would probably need to be a whole neighbourhood in a large privately owned compound, which is surely extremely rare in the context of residential areas in Germany.
@@tobyk.4911 I can’t think of Bundeswehr Liegenschaften where families live. But I do remember seeing families of members of the US armed forces coming to Germany to live in „special areas“. Those areas were (at times) closed for the general German public as far as I remember.
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Here in Karlsruhe, the armed forces housing was next door to the actual base, and was completely accessible to the german public.
As for thing 5: Never travel to Vienna, Austria! 😀 Sometimes, we have: Erdgeschoss, Mezzanin, Halbstock, Hochparterre, Zwischenstock, and then only the first floor. This is for historical reasons, because houses were taxed according to their number of floors at some time. So people became inventive and renamed the floors.
I'm in a hilly region of Canada, and we have a lot of places with multiple ground entrances, like my house for example, where the front door is at ground level, and so is the back door, but the back door goes into the lower level, and the front door goes into the upper level. It gets so confusing, especially when there's large buildings with underground parking or storage, like universities, hospitals, hotels, and convention centres. One building I had some university classes in, had 3 different second floors based on that, and everyone got lost. I said they should rename them with letters so they could just say floor C instead.
There are professional gardeners or landscape artists that sometimes get hired by private people, but you usually do your garden on your own... it's part of why you have it. Fresh air, some exercise, some fun handling dangerous machinery, and the work you put in makes the end result taste or look even better. But then, it's also a golden opportunity to have your or your neighbor's kids get involved and earn some money.
Or you hire a gardener to do the hard work you can't do on your own any longer once or twice a year, but that is usually ONE gardener, not a whole crew. Certainly not to just mown the lawn...after all, there are robots who are able to do it nowadays.
My brother once worked as professionell gardener and they either did the gardens in public spaces or for rich people (who often gave him tips) but he quit after a few months, cause he didn't like it that much 🤷♀️
Regarding the construction issue, I once saw a video from a German living in the US who explained it this way - Americans are comparatively mobile, and when you build a house, you don't necessarily don't want or need to build something that lasts a hundred years or more, because in 10 years, you might be moving somewhere else anyway, and after that, the house is someone else's problem. Whereas in Germany, if you build a house, you expect it to last. A house is more of a generational project to pass on to (one of) your children. Also, when I see that the whole apartment complex I lived in in Dallas doesn't exist anymore and has been replaced by other housing, a lot of the building projects in the US are, I think, deliberately more fleeting so that you can ditch them and replace them with something more to your liking/more lucrative whenever you want. Where Germans would go on a modernization project and ensure even a house from the 1700s has running hot and cold water and electric fixtures, the US are far quicker completely razing something and building something new in its place.
It can be even worse than that. For instance, our home was built in 2004. The builders made sure it would last just a bit outside of the statute of limitations (10 years) before it would start collapsing. We are a very young couple with a 2yo who recently moved far and worked hard to set down roots for our little family, and this house has ultimately destroyed the state of our lives because we are now living in a deathtrap that we can't sell and insurance won't cover. We have nowhere to go. Turns out the company has a track record of skimping on building materials to pocket the difference... But legally there's nothing we can do (except for maybe foreclose I guess). As a foreigner I've always hated US architecture, but now I despise it.
so the houses are not made to last long, because people can not afford it or companies build crap to sell new ones after 10-20 years. We also know construction defects, but it is not like the building is collapsing or something like that
Houses are also an investment item. Once you want to sell it, you want to sel something of value not a wornout shag that hardly keeps it value. A quality house gives also a living quality.
I don't think gated communities are a thing in Germany, probably because crime is much less of a concern. I think the closest thing that exists in Germany are "Villengegenden", so residential areas that mostly consist of villas and moderately-sized mansions on big plots of land. But those aren't gated, they're just wealthier people's homes concentrated in one spot.
That's just the thing...you often find these gated communities in the US in areas where crime isn't a concern 🤔 For sure maybe they started as a concern for crime, but now seems like more of just a status symbol (in my personal opinion) 🤷🏻♂️ I hadn't heard of "Villengegenden," thanks for teaching me a new word! 😊
It seems that Gated Communties might be on the rise in Germany. There are currently three complexes to be considered a gated community. One in Aachen, one in Potsdam near Berlin and one in Munich. I'm pretty sure more will follow.
@@dorisschneider-coutandin9965 No that much... Yes, there are a few, but they sold way harder than the investors expected and the return of profit was not good. And in the end that's what matters.
The reason we have stoplights only on the near side of the intersection is simple: it keeps you from inching your way _into_ the intersection because you can't see the light there. It thus prevents you from having your front bumper sticking out into the lane for traffic coming from your left. It's quite a good idea.
The traffic light "above" is for all cars that are in line behind you, so they can a) see & prepare for the upcoming "jumb start", while b) the one to the side is for you - and that should be easily to see if you’ve learned to stop correctly "at the line" (that is marking the spot where your car will trigger the induction circuit that will manage the traffic light). Nuf said.
3:45 this isn't just a German/US thing. It is a US/most of the world thing. I'm Canadian and if anyone wore their shoes in my house I would never have them in my house again. I can't understand why someone would wear shoes inside a house.
Same, I get mud and salt all over my entryway, I wouldn't dare get that on the hardwood! I've even seen quite a few houses where there's a place specifically for taking shoes off (example, my dad has a few feet of tile at his back door where he leaves his shoes so the wood around it stays clean). A lot of the things he said are in Canada. I've been bagging my own groceries, and for my parents, since I was little (and I remember the Boy Scouts doing a fundraiser where they'd bag groceries for people and get tips), I've seen button flush toilets, but the buttons are usually on the top of the tank, usually I see handles like the US ones, but you lift up for less water, and push down for more. Then again, my dad sells toilets and I've seen so many different kinds. I'm just glad we don't have to pay for public washrooms, as I've been to some places where you'd either pay at a store (like how some corner stores you ask for a key, but you pay for borrowing the key) or some where you'd put a coin in. That was one that I had a hard time with when in some parts of Ireland. I guess some parts of Canada are like that, it's just not common.
I am Germany and I wear shoes in my house. But we have wooden floors which are easy to clean and no kids in the house. But whenever I come into a stranger‘s house - I regularly have to in my job - I always ask if they would like me to take my shoes off
As an irish person...i tried creamer in the usa and its disgusting. Its like putting gone off milk into your drink...or protein powder. It doesnt dissolve correctly and it adds a disgusting flavour. Prob full of unneccessary calories like sugar and fat. I drink black coffee...double espressos even better and its about 2 to 5 calories. In the usa...one coffee ends up being a 1/3 of your daily calorie intake with 600 calories or so in them. So us europeans like to avoid unneccesary calories where we can and save it for beer or fresh bread instead
Also if i am to have milk now...i prefer oat milk and not cows milk. Also in the usa "dairy" things are made up of corn syrup...again diabetes waiting to happen
No idea how it compares to US coffee creamer, but in Germany there is "Kaffeesahne". Usually comes in small round plastic cups (about a tablespoon each) with a lid like a cup of yoghurt. These cups are attached to each other in groups of 6 or 8
I assume that coffee creamers are very artficial and sweet. Probably that is the reason Germany prefer milk as milk also has fat included to make it more tasty. Or they use whipped cream for your coffee (if they don't need to think about calories)
The German word for it is Kaffeweißer (literally coffee whitener). It was somewhat popular in the 90s but never really caught on. You can still get it, don't think it comes in different flavours though
Culs-de-Sac do exist in Germany and I have seen them in many places. However, usually they are in locations where it geographically makes sense or something blocks the road like tracks or a park. In my home town there was a pedestrian way and all streets on both sides of that walkway had a large turning bay with a small walkway towards that pedestrian way.
Yeah, in Germany they are called "Wendehammer" due to it's hammer-head shaped road end. However one key difference is that most of theam are non-parking zones and just intended to facilitate reversing on small dead-end roads.
@@jhdix6731 I am used to the name "wendehammer", since "sackgasse" could also mean that the road just stops and there isn't a big open area to turn or space for the kids to play.
Three comments if I may: 1. Gated communities. We do have them in Germany. We call them prisons. 🤣 2. Light switches. It's too simple to just look at those switches. Just visit your local hardware store and have a look at the display of switches, power outlets, antenna outlets, telephone outlets and the like. There are hundreds, in different colours, in different materials, in different forms, and in various different price ranges. People take care that they buy items of the same series so that these items fit together optically and technically. What do you think, how many people live off such variety? And if we look at the safety side of American powerpoints and plugs? Good Lord, that's medieval junk. 3. Coffee whiteners - we used to have those here in Germany, some twenty or thirty years ago. The big thing which petered out quickly. Indeed, we still have condensed milk, "Bärenmarke", heavily sweetened and sometimes used as an alternative for vanilla sauce on chocolate pudding. Oh, and by the way, our house is situated at a cul de sac. Just do yourself a favour and look up "cul" in a French dictionary. You will realise quickly that such an address might be somewhat dubious 😉
I heard that many US houses have a basement and apartments don‘t have access to a cellar room. yin Germany it‘s normal that if you rent an apartment you most of the time also get a storage room in the basement. Perhaps that contributes to the difference on abundance of dedicated storage facilities. 🙂 We have cul-de-sacs in Germany but not as abundant as in the US perhaps because neighborhoods aren‘t often as designed on the drawing board. Yes, when there are new building areas, authorities are looking into how the streets are laid out. So to have access from more than on side you see more often something like a ring street, where a street starts from the main street and gets back to the main street again. So you don‘t have the problem if there are obstacles on the street because of different reasons. All the houses are still accessible because you can reach them from two sides.
There's an additional feature of traffic lights in Austria that I'm missing abroad every time: Green light will flash 4 times at the end of the "Green" phase to indicate that "Yellow" phase is about to be engaged. Very useful.
ingmargreil Hi! Here in Helsinki, Finland, our green traffic lights start flashing, too, before the light changes, and that tells you that the light is going to change in just a few seconds, so you better hurry if you want to cross, or decide to stay and wait. A very helpful feature. In addition, many street crossings have audible ticking signals so that blind people can know when it's safe to cross, as well.
Flashing at the end of the green phase benefits only one, the bulb manufacturer, because it stresses the bulbs more. It is the same whether you let green flash for four seconds or simply extend the yellow phase for four seconds. Ultimately, what matters is that there are sufficiently long clearing times. In the case of pedestrian lights, there is no yellow phase at all; the clearing times are calculated in such a way that a pedestrian who has just entered the road when the light turns red can either cross the road or reach the central divider. Whereby especially the latter leads to incomprehension with one or the other brainless troll. He has so little brain that he doesn't understand that you can't make the green phase of a four- or six-lane road so long that he can cross it completely, because otherwise the number of vehicles that you bring through in one round is simply halved.
@@wernerruf7761 No, a longer phase of Yellow does not mean the same thing … Our traffice code, at least, demands that drivers come to a full stop at Yellow, unless it's unsafe to do so (in which case they must clear the intersection as fast as possible.) No such rules for Green blinking, it's just a courtesy heads-up that the phase is about to change, but otherwise counts as full "Green". Did I mention we also have this for pedestrian lights? As I've said, very useful, and something that I routinely miss abroad. YYMV.
@@ingmargreil It's no different in Germany, if you can still stop safely, then you must not enter the intersection when the light is yellow. With emphasis on safely, my vehicle rear is more important than a yellow light. Honestly, I see the flashing phase rather as dangerous, since that can lead to the fact that unsafe and overcautious vehicle drivers *), then unnecessarily step on the brakes, in order to be able to stop only yes at the first yellow, although this is not at all necessary. This combined with the opposite pole, which then accelerates, so that he has already crossed the stop line with the front wheels at yellow in any case is rather unhealthy. In addition, I do not like the blinking for legal reasons, without blinking the legally usable proof that one could have stopped safely, is much more difficult to lead. You are always so surprised by the yellow without green flashing that you can no longer carry out an emergency braking with the danger that the following driver will rear-end you. With flashing it looks already completely different, costs in the doubt money, since estimations can differ. --- *) So the guy who also doesn't know that every car speedometer has a lead of at least 3 to 5 km/h and therefore annoys all those following because he creeps along at 25 km/h at the permitted 30 km/h and gets everyone on edge. Above all because he does not make himself smart, there is a country wide measuring tolerance of 3 km/h, which is deducted from the actually driven speed. In Bavaria **) there is also a special tolerance of 5 km/h for single-lane roads and 10 km/h for multi-lane roads. Means to remain with the example with the 30 km/h, up to 38 km/h nothing flashes, starting from 39 km/h it flashes and when paying there is only the 3 km/h deduction, speak one pays starting from genuine 34 km/h. With the freeway one has somewhat more air, 13 instead of 8 km/h, which are usually multi-lane. **) Caution there are 16 federal states each with their own rules and among them robber baron states like Baden-Württemberg with more stationary speed cameras than crosswalks. The red/green trolls in Munich once laid an egg for themselves, because the spinners wanted to fantasize about a speed limit of 30/40 on main traffic and development roads, there was then a corresponding draft resolution. In the public resolution of the district administration committee of June 7, 2011, one can read why it is not possible and on page 9 it also says … Die Beanstandungen bei Geschwindigkeitsmessungen bei Tempo 40 in einspurigen (je Fahrtrichtung) Straßen beginnen bei einer Messtoleranz von 3 km/h und der ohnehin bayernweit vorgeschriebenen Toleranz von weiteren 5 km/h bei 49 km/h und bei mehrspurigen Fahrbahnen (vorgeschriebene Toleranz 10 km/h) bei 54 km/h… can be found on the Internet since then. I am quite sure that they did not intend to announce to everyone on the net how much you can exceed the speed limit in Bavaria without being sanctioned. It's just a real problem when the department responsible for road traffic has the government of Upper Bavaria as its supervisory authority instead of the city council, and then the draft resolutions sometimes contain something other than stupidology.
Since you asked: water, preferably mineral water, bubbly. Maybe w a squirt of lemon juice. When I first went back home after a year, my auntie asked, "what would you like to do, something you have missed, some food you'd like?" My immediate response was: "go shopping on Sunday" she laughed and laughed. When I went to visit my mom who had moved to Oregon, a few years later, I was absolutely amazed at all the wood yards we passed.: enormous amounts of wood logs, for miles unending! And of course the same reaction as you when I saw all the timber framed houses as we neared the town. Didn't the gaps on booths in public toilets bother you? That was something I noticed right upon landing and every time I needed to use one. Something else was seeing all those people drinking from paper bags. It looked so silly.
Here in Germany, there are strict regulations regarding fire protection, noise protection, environmental protection, and not to forget climate friendliness. We usually don't need air conditioning, as much is already regulated by the building. In addition, it is usually also prescribed which building materials may be used for which type of house in which region, depending on the development plan and the surrounding buildings. Pure wooden houses like in the USA would be accepted here at best as a gazebo or vacation home.
This is not correct. You can build a wooden house, but not with those toothpicks like in the USA. There are some companies, mostly in Scandinavia or in the baltic which sell wooden houses that are very solid.
@@KerstinVomVulkan I had not taken into account that there are new trends that want to allow new ways of building and experiment with different "alternative" materials. In particular, the focus here is on energy efficiency, climate friendliness and also low cost. However, I am aware that wooden houses have been built in Scandinavia for generations.
@@davebesset8150 "alternatives" is a bit far fetched. It is absolutly fine to build with wood here in germany. But the materials are highly regulated like everything else is in germany especially regarding construction. And those wood/timber houses aren't bad in insolation at all at even when it comes to fireproof. So they are not really "alternative". Its just seldomly doen here in germany - because the wood you need to be inside those regulations is ironically almost as costly if not more than building with concrete // bricks etc but the labour is more intense
@@Zerzayar That is correct. But truss is only the wooden support corset, where the majority of the surfaces are filled with other material (brick, clay, etc.). In this respect, a half-timbered house is not a true wooden building. This type of construction is also no longer produced today for various reasons. Too expensive, too complex, not necessarily climate-neutral.
Concerning the buildings: We went to Sweden for some holidays and while they build from wood a lot too, they have a very elaborate construction scheme from lots of wood with the outside walls beeing close to 40cm thick and I would trust their construction very much for a family home with two floors (wood is - thoughtfully used - a great material), I doubt that the popsicle construction of US homes can be close in safety and fire proofness.
Stop lights - once more: - German intersections aren't as spacious as in the US or Canada. Having stop lights on the opposite sides would become confusing as they would be hanging too close together then. - in case of a power outage, German stop lights indicate where you have to stop - right in front of them. That keeps the intersection free. American intersections would be clogged if you'd do that. - Snowfall - no road markings visible, how does mine know if they are in the correct lane or spot with the american system? - There is no need to bend forward in order to see the lights hanging over you when you're the first vehicle at the stop light. The lights above are for the drivers farther behind you. There is stop lights on the side which are usually EASY to see - unless you are sitting backwards. What on earth is so hard to get? I'm driving here for 40 years and it never crossed my mind ONCE that I wished fthe lights were on the other side.
@@PassportTwo let's maybe examine the number of crashes on intersections in Germany and in the US. If the american system is so much better, there should be WAY less accidents.
@@furzkram Good idea: US numbers: Every year, the Federal Highway Administration (FHA) reports approximately 2.5 million intersection accidents. Most of these crashes involve left turns. Nationally, 40 percent of all crashes involve intersections, the second largest category of accidents, led only by rear-end collisions. Fifty percent of serious collisions happen in intersections and some 20 percent of fatal collisions occur there. An estimated 165,000 accidents occur annually in intersections caused by red-light runners. Fatalities caused by red-light runners run from 700-800 a year. Germany Harder to find German authorities for statistics said in 2022: Deaths in traffic - 1756 on out of city roads and Autobahnen, And there are next to no Traffic lights on the Autobahn - unless you have a construction site. Andn a lot less on the out of city roads. and 708 0n innercity roads - which are not all witih traffic lights, of course. I think we can safely say that intersection less or intersection poor roads have far more deaths than streets with intersections in Germany. So our traffic lights do not seem to have the bad impact.
The reason traffic lights are placed before the intersection is for safety. This way you keep your eyes on the intersection. Proven to be much safer. Greetings from Rotterdam, Netherlands
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I prefer it because this way you have a clear(er) idea of *where the damn stop line is.* Mind you, my only experience with US-style traffic lights is American Truck Simulator, but I really hate that style. The only good thing is that sometimes, here in Europe the traffic lights are hard to see. That *could* be solved (by putting up US lights too… maybe smaller-ish so there's no confusion about which lights are the main ones).
Thing 4 (stoplight placement): Just saw a video which explained, what happens, if you don't put stoplights on the other side of the crossing (like in Germany). It encourages you to NOT move slowly farther into the crossing and therefore invading the place reserved for pedestrians. Not convenient for motorists, but an indirect security measure for pedestrians. Thing 9 (gated communities) and thing 10 ("culs de sac"?): We don't have these in Germany because generally we don't need it. Both things are kind of measures to create a safe und quiet place from car traffic. Most villages and many cities in Germany are not nearly as car-centered as in the US, therefore it's a lot more common in Germany to live in a street with almost no and very slow traffic and use this space without fear of being run over. Also, parks and playgrounds etc. are always in (SAFE) walking distance from home. The US tries to imitate this with gated communities etc.
We do not have gated communitys in Germany. OK, to say, that something did not exist is impossible and it could be one exist. But i never heard of one. And in my Geography studies in my City-Geography course we were taught that gatet communitys are not worth mentioning in Germany.
Cities even go through great lengths to prevent these types of segregated communities. Planners will allways try to put low income housing mixed with housing for the more affluent. This is done in an effort to prevent different social classes from drifting apart.
I actually haven't seen a gated community in Germany yet. I don't think that this is even legally possible. Of course, we do have cul-de-sacs here in Germany, too (they are called "Sackgasse" here). There are I believe three or four of them in my immediate neighborhood. Yes, there are lawn crews in Germany. But they are usually only contracted by elderly or sick people who can't do their gardens themselves anymore, or by the very rich who are not bothered with doing physical work. I would drink pure water, btw.
@@reinhard8053 These are usually not external contractors, but employees of the city or the company. My wife worked at such a department for many years.
Tell me your German without teelling me you're German: I would choose sparkling water as my go to drink. ;) Had to chuckle from time to time when you noticed how germanized you've become :) The part with the supermarket cashier. I saw a youtube short or tiktok from uyen nimh lately about the same topic, and she's from Vietnam, so this has to be a thing not only in America. I think I would be puzzled if the cashier wanted to chitchat about my groceries. Would you mind your own buisiness here and speed up a little bit?
Haha, oh no!! Sparkling water forever?? 😂 I couldn't do it! I actually JUST saw that same video from uyen nimh! I was so surprised how similar her experience was in Vietnam was to mine in the US 😅
@@PassportTwo well, maybe I'd switch to Apfelschorle. But I don't like coffee and in90% of the time I just drink sparkling water unless I'm at a Restaurant or bar.
I find it so funny that sparkling water is often considered something so German. In Argentina, it is ubiquitous, far more than in Germany. It is traditionally not bought in bottles (though they have become more and more common in the last years), but in "sifones", which are refillable bottles with a handle and an outlet on top to dispense the water (do an image search for "sifón argentina", and you'll understand what I mean). Regarding the checkout process: In all countries, I have lived (including here in Switzerland, that's why I prefer the self-checkouts), it is painstakingly slow, compared to Germany. Remember the "old days", when they didn't have scanners at Aldi, but the cashier just typed in three digits codes? They were incredibly fast.
@@mina_en_suiza yeah, I remember those days and sheesh, they were so fast. I have a sodastream device at home. I wouldn't say that sparkling water is something unique to Germany but almost every American in Germany RU-vid Channel had made a point on this topic.
I always thought the whole „trafic light high up above you“ was for when you have a long cue of cars waiting, because it is far better visible from further behind, especially if there is something like a truck close to the front, blocking the lower light from view.
In sweden one has time to pack the groceries because they have two lines per cashier. In many swedish places of course you just pick up a hand scanner and scan the things you put in your cart yourself. The scanner contains your shopping list you may have prepared and sorts it in the correct order of the items in the shop.
I just moved to Switzerland and noticed the no coffee creamers too-I think because they have a lot of hydrogenated oils, which they don't seem to use as much in Europe. I think there are stricter rules about using that in foods.
The European union is much stricter with chemicals than the Food and Drugs Administration in the US. And the German Lebensmitttelrecht is still a little stricter. Internationally, German food has the fame to be extremely safe. This even led to Chinese people buying German baby formular and reducing the amount here in Germany significantly. There was even organized crime to smuggle baby formula to China for a while....
I‘m torn between water because I should and coffee because I … well… coffee. Btw, try it with actual cream. I used to before I stopped using milk products. Now I make my own cashew milk creamer, which is really good. Ah, Donnie. I haven’t been back to Britian for over a decade. I’m actually worried about going. Last time was so weird. The bit that hit me hardest was the chatty cashier, I feel you. This was fun, thanks, I needed this!
Never saw a single gated community in Germany in my whole life. There are places where the 'richer' live, but there every property has a big fence. But no gated community. Also never saw a lawn crew 🤷🏻♀️ We have whether the 'Hausmeister' do it or you ask the local gardenexpert to do it. But never in large amount of people- it would be incredibly expensive. We have 'Sackgasse' which is similar to dead end roads, and in recent years the communities started to build them in a way you have shown in the video in new construction areas. Coffee is always a matter of discussion between our countries. We have 'Kaffeeweißer' and 'Kondensmilch', but in general we to not favor flavoured Coffee. It's just not our thing 😉 And the one thing to drink is: water (not Sprudel)
About Coffee Creamer: Der Grund ist einfach: obwohl es sich vermeintlich um ein Milchprodukt handelt und es nur in Kühlregalen zu finden ist, ist hier keinerlei Milch enthalten. Das Produkt darf also rechtlich nach Europa eingeführt werden und kann so schnell nicht schlecht werden - denn eines muss man ganz klar sagen, es handelt sich hier um viel Chemie. Darüber sollte man sich im Klaren sein. So, not very likely it will be loved here in Germany.
these culs-de-sac or Sackgasse are everywhere in Germany too, just not in the town or the area you live in :D. Most streets in towns and villages are like a few main roads and the living blocks are silent of any traffic anyway and they are often formed in big circles or like one street straight and multiple Sackgassen to the left and right, so there is no traffic going through, the only traffic is by people who live there. I live in one of these street-complexes and Sackgassen. I can imagine though, that having this in perspective while planning a city in modern times, in a very young state like the US, that you might find more areas built in that style than here; for most cities, towns and villages in Germany (and the whole of Europe) are at least 1000 years old and grew with the centuries and back then, there were no cars. Even the small village I grew up was a settlement already 3100 years ago ( 1100 b.c.), although the oldest building still standing today is from the 17th century, so pretty young. But the roads from back then are nearly the same streets connecting the neighbouring cities and villages during the bronze age.
Sackgassen like the US Version here do exist, but they are a comparatively new concept, so you find them in newly constructed quarters. Or when it‘s a holiday apartment area.
@@fairphoneuser9009 We've got a few in the town I live in, all built within the last 20 years. The older Sackgassen are more conventional with a Wendehammer.
Lawn crew: in Germany you have the occupation of 'Landschaftsgärtner' which entails ground keeping, designing gardens and yards (carports, front-/ɓackyards etc.) and such. You hire them to trim hedges, clean your garden pond, remove old, unwanted and/or dead trees aso. Many things are just not the scale you are used to from the USA. They are there though 😉 I have one of those in my area and you recognize them by their dark green LKWs and work clothes. Maybe that is why did not notice them. They are camouflaged 😉
Most Germans do their gardening completely on their own, unless you'd have to do a total remodelling that involves heavy landscaping with machines and the likes. So, gardeners and landscapers do exist, but they are very expensive and therefore not widely common with the average home owner.
You can see such lawn crews (Landschaftsgärtner) mostly a around apartment buildings and on campus grounds and such. They take care of green areas that don't belong to a single household.
@@dorisschneider-coutandin9965 I think the explanation is twofold: first, as you say, gardening companies are vey expensive (since people are usually better paid, with more free time and more benefits), and second, homeowners can actually do their gardening on their own because they also have a lot more free time. For many it's 104 days of free weekends in a year (with 52 Sundays when you even can't go shopping), plus a handful of public holidays, plus 30 days of paid vacation, plus all those evenings after the 7,5 hour day of work.
I can relate to this a lot! We definitely experience a reverse culture shock when we went back to Germany for the first time! I mentioned a few things you talked about in my video about American vs. German houses 😁 One thing that really hit me was that Germans are complaining a lot more than Americans do 😉I never noticed it before, but I can confirm (without judging) that it is a THING in Germany that cannot be denied 😉
Ask a German if everything is fine and he will give you a list of shortcomings. Ask a US American the same thing: "I'm fine" "We are the greatest country in the world!" "All is fine" "we don't want socialism european things!"🤣
Did you also notice how much Germans stare? That's always my biggest reverse culture shock when I visit Germany... so creepy... I probably used to do it all the time too! 😄
@@ronja988 YES! 🤣🤣🤣I mentioned this in my video about 10 things Germans should never do in the US 🤣🤣🤣 Believe me, my mom would win every staring contest 😂🙊 And I am guilty too! I have for sure stared at a lot of people without even knowing 🙊
We had American colleagues here in the Netherlands as well. It takes a while for the massive indoctrination to wear off. Once it did, most were quite sad to see the reality of America.
Coffee creamer is also much more common in Texas, Oklahoma and the south of the US -- it goes back to the days when refrigeration was less common, so transporting and keeping milk around was harder, especially in the summer. I once went on a road trip through Texas and Oklahoma with a Swiss German couple and had to explain to them that if you wanted milk with your coffee, you had to specifically ask for 'real milk', otherwise they would bring you coffee creamer. In the midwest or the north in the US, they would generally bring you real milk and you had to ask for creamer.
11:05 not exactly the same thing but we do have the so called "Wendehammer" wich is ment for streets who end in a dead-end and are not wide enough to turn around easily so people drive to the end of the road and can easily turn around in 3 steps to be able to drive out of the road again. They can look different depending on what type of road or street it is. Where I grew up for example we had a Wendehammer next to the property of my family inbetween our property and the one of our neighbor. So basicly most of the gardens we have touched but a tinly section did not touch eachother. Or better said we had a parking area next to our house with a big hedge that we planted so that people do not drive around on our property when going into the Wendehammer and behind the hedge that the city planted on 2 sides of the Wendehammer was a 4th hedge planted by our neighbor to keep his own garden private.
Somebody else commented the Wendehammer as well and I had to look it up because I don't think I have ever come across one and therefore never have even come across that word 😅
@@PassportTwo I grew up in a house at a "Wendehammer". There were 5 homes situated around it. It is really common in Germany, but most of them in more suburban areas which are only for living. In the city centers you will rarely find them. And you won't find them in areas with Mehrfamilienhäusern, because the roads where modern houses with appartements for rent are built will not be as narrow as older roads with Einfamilienhäusern. :) So, to me they appear very common. Maybe you simply did not stumble upon them often - but they are definitely existing and not rare.
@@PassportTwo the german word for culs de sac is „Sackgasse“ and there are actually lots of them in germany. At least in my perception. But they often look bit different. :)
gated communities are not a thing in Germany because you can not gate public roads. Netherthe less, often former military sides (with all the workshops and buildings) were sold to investors with the fences and gates still intact. They converted them mostly to industrial/ commercial areas but there are some that converted them to "gated communities". The whole area is private and all the streets, cables, pipes, etc. has to be maintained by the owner. Also for most of them it is just cheaper to stay with fence and gates (that never close) than get rid if them
The specifically unique part about cul-de-sacs though are the circled ends...my understanding is that sackgassen would be more translated to just 'dead end' which lacks the circle feature at the end. What do you think? 🤔
@Passport Two The Sackgassen I know almost always have the circle at the end, sometimes just a wider square. But many do look the same in my opinion. Might be regional, though?
@@PassportTwo Yep, I think German suburbs mostly feature dead ends, although you'll stumble across a cul-de-sac every once in a while. They're usually smaller though.
@@PassportTwo All three mean the same thing. Cul-de-sac is simply French for dead end. They all refer to the fact that the road does not continue further, not whether there is any Wendemöglichkeit at the end. The circled end is just one specific design meant to avoid people getting stuck.
To understand the thing with the 1st floor, you have to pronounce it completely in German. Below is the ground floor and anything above is called the upper floor. So the 2nd floor for you is 1st upper floor for me ;)
i´m enjoying your videos a lot, regarding the cream: Germans may use milk a lot, but there is also "Sahne" and a very old product named "Kondesmilch" which is way more creamy than anything else. There was even a famous product made of condesed milk and sugar called "Milchmädchen" - it was literally condesed milk and sugar in one, either in liquid form or in a tube (like tooth paste). Haven´t seen it for a while, but i prefer to drink my coffee black, anyways^^
"Milchmädchen" does still exist, but is rather hard to find. If you heat the closed can at slow heat for an hour or two, the sugared milk (this is, what sets it apart from other brands) inside partly caramelizes and becomes sticky, making it a cheap, but not as good, alternative to imported "dulce de leche", which can be used as a topping for toasts or used as ingredient for cakes, desserts and home-made ice cream.
Nestlé also sells "Milchmädchen" in Mexico and the US. The label is identical, and is sold as "La Lechera". In Germany, I have only seen it at Kaufland.
I'm just back from the US, and I can tell you to be happy that I didn't have to drive there, because it's never clear which traffic lights apply to you due to the fact that they are anyway but direct in front of you ;)
Das mit den Straßenschildern ist sehr interessant. Habe ich noch nie darüber nachgedacht. Der "cul-de-sac" ist im deutschen eine Sackgasse oder mit dem runden Endbereich ein Wendehammer.
I lived in a cul-de-sac when I was little. Then we moved - into a house in another cul-de-sac. They are not rare at all and can usually be found in newer residential areas (anything built after the 60s, I think). There is even a specific road sign at the entrance to each cul-de-sac telling people about it. It‘s a blue sign with a white street on it that ia blocked off at the end with a red symbol.
I'm living in Norway, and we and the finns are the ones that drink the most coffee per capita in the world. You will find one creamer in the stores, and that is the original nesle one. and I have yet to see one person buying it. We have coffee cream as in dairy cream that the old ladies buy, though. No added flavors or sugar to that. Why is coffee usually consumed black here? Because we actually like coffee. I mean, creamer probably taste good, but it doesn't taste like coffee. But it camuflage bad coffee. If you just add milk, you taste the coffee but it makes it more mild. Take a look in a typical western euro kitchen and look at the coffee maker. If they have a drip maker, they usually have something like a $200 Moccamaster. If you go to an American kitchen, they probably have a $30 Mr Coffee. And it works well because the Americans don't taste the coffee. The Europeeians do...;)
BTW, I was told by an expat that Maresi comes close to what he used as a creamer. Have you tried that? It's a liquid coffee creamer. If I want my coffee creamy, I add a bit of liquid cream ( lactose free in my case) to the milk in my coffee. Almost the same as half and half I used to have in USA.
Ganz ehrlich. Building this paper 📃 houses and than crying out for millions of dollars and donations cause every singe house is completely gone after the next big hurricane, which you know is coming even before you rebuild the house is just ... I don't know. I have no words for that. It's the same aditute with the not wanting Healthcare and than starten a gofundme to pay for the bills. It's idiotic his grandfather.
The lawn crews are quite common in places where there are big block buildings (esp. in the east). It's usually two or three guys doing the mowing and leaf blowing and such.
I've definitely seen city employees that are crews that maintain lawns but maybe what you are describing are not city employees but rather lawn care services...I guess it still seems like maybe private individual homes don't hire lawn care services 🤔 Thanks for the info! 😊
@@PassportTwo Oh yeah, I'm not aware of anyone doing it on properties surrounding single family homes. The people doing it around the blocks are paid by the owner.
@@PassportTwo I guess there is people from middle class or higher that have somebody doing the garden mowing for them etc. - like some have a cleaning lady. Or some will pay a neighbour teen or older man in the neighbourhood to do that and cleaning the street from snow. And you for sure have bigger appartment complexes (if it is not the Hausmeister doing that) or businesses where companies do that work.
Water ... and with regard to the "Coffee Creamer" ... try looking at the ingredient list ... there is your answer - it is actually strange that your life expectancy is so much lower in US - with all the chemical preservatives in your food :D
Geez, I would freak out in a US supermarket. And I would certainly not have a stranger bag my stuff, since I wouldn't trust them to do it as well as I. It starts on the conveyer belt, where I place the items in a way that I can bag them just the way I want to and how it works best, with the heavier items first and the lighter items last.
So true! I also always sort. And if I have them the bananas are teh last thing, because the cashier has to weight them, that's the time for you to get out your wallet.
@@kaesebrot73 That's funny and probably true cuz German stores don't have the space to install around 15 self-checkout registers like we have in America. However NO-checkout options seem to have arrived, how cool is that.
Yeah! Especially german ALDI cashiers are well known for beeing Super speedy in germany! The give u the return money even before u pay because they 'know' how u will pay. Before barcode they had no price Labels on the goods - they had ALL (!) prices of the goods in the brain. Outstanding!
Concerning lawn crews - not many Germans have such large pieces of land that a lawn crew is needed. And you know how thrifty we are (you could also say stingy) - paying someone for a job we could quickly do ourselves (and make sure it is to our standard, too) would not cross a German mind.
Hello you three.... really a great video from you again. Because of the coffee creamer, I think you should test MILCHMÄDCHEN..this is thick sweetened condensed milk and this is also available with caramel flavor.😉
Both my grandmas had the "American" style light switches. However they were from the 60s. Just like the toilet flushers. They existed here, but they are considered super old, almost pre war era. The traffic lights, urgh, I completely agree. If you've gotten used to traffic lights abroad you'll hate the German ones, especially if you're first in line. The French have these cute mini lights to the right of the driver. Much more convenient. Cul-de-Sacs exist in Germany, they are pretty common actually, I used to live one. Called "Sackgassen", though few have these round shapes at their ends. They were especially common between the mid 80s until the mid 00s, but fell out of fashion since modern city planning consider them as too "space and cost intensive". The amount of infrastructure per capita is just way too high, so it's not being built anymore, at least the classic ones.
Storage units seem to struggle here in Germany. The one that's near me here in Hanover has had three or four different owners, each time under new names, in the last ten years or so. As you said, I think Germans just don't tend to own more stuff than they can keep in their own house or apartment. 😉
On the topic of lawn crews: Yes, we do have them, but we (as in our family) only hire one when the hedges need trimming, which is just a couple of times a year. For all the other stuff, like lawn mowing, etc., that's what Saturdays are for. SATURDAYS! NOT SUNDAYS. NEVER ON SUNDAYS!!!!!! ;-)
When I lived in Germany my first apartment had a toilet with the water tank mounted on the wall about 1.5 meters above the toilet bowl. To flush you pulled a chain that hung down from the tank. My second apartment was more modern, it had a knob in the middle of the tank which you pulled up to flush. This was forty years ago so both types of toilets are probably not seen much anymore.
That's a pretty ancient mechanism. I have only seen such a thing once sometime in the early 90s when visiting older relatives. So I don't even really remember who or where that was. Let me guess, cheap rented apartment in a big city, in a big about 100 years old building? Lived in something similar until recently. Cheap development of the late 40s with the bare legal minimum of renovations.
No, we don't have gated communities. Would feel weird like a ghetto or a prison (see history) No, thanks... I grew up in a "culs-de sac" named "Wendehammer" in German. but i admit its not that common. It would annoy me soooo much when a. someone would dare to bag MY stuff for me and b. it took half an hour on checkout. urgh! We don't have lawn crews because 1. smaller properties 2. Vast lawns are not that common 3. We rather have gardeners 4. Its a weekend routine/tradition to do that ourself. What is coffee creamer? We have "Kaffeesahne" or "Dosenmilch" does that fit? One drink? Sprudel !
At least in California and especially the San Francisco Bay Area, wood frame houses can move around in earthquakes without being damaged. You should bolt the house to the concrete foundation so the house doesn't move on the foundation. Unreinforced builds made of bricks or concrete blocks would require you to tie the walls to the roof and floor and a steel frame to tie the walls to the steel frame. It is cheaper and easier to just make the houses out of wood. Building codes here are very much influenced here by earthquakes.
Wow, Creamer is sugar and fat (I searched the inet). So you can simply use cream and add sugar to your coffee. And you dont have this "specials" "Emulgator E 471, Säureregulator E 340, Trennmittel E 554" in it. :)
You simply can't compare narrow german crossings with america,especially taking in account cyclists and pedestrians,same for turning right while red,;doesn't work in europe.
To your experience with construction. It is not so much that they use different materials. We have timbered houses in Germany. Even new ones. However, the load carrying walls are roughly 30 cm think (or more). And there are also beams that are at an angle, let say 45° adding stability. These US walls look thin and even when they put insulation between the beams (rather twigs)- This is not much insulation. However, building houses out of concrete is definitely not the most eco-friendly way to build houses. Clay bricks are way better and can be recycled, but wood is (when produced and replanted locally) way better. Also other plant based materials.
I know exactly one real gated community in Germany, in Potsdam. What does exist, are cul-de-sacs with a gate that prevents cars from entering, but open for pedestrians and cyclists. There are such kinds of mews in the UK, too. I don't know if the latter ones would count as "gated communities" in the US, in Latin America they wouldn't. In Latin America, such a thing requires at least a wall or a fence and security personnel at the gate. Bigger communities even have community facilities like shops and day-care centres, selling you the illusion of living in some kind of Pleasantville. As much as they are sought after: I hate them. With all my heart. Not only does it mean that all the people around you are basically posh twats, I hate the invasion of my privacy, security guards knowing when and with whom I come and go, and, when walking around, I basically feel like being watched from behind the windows. Definitely not my cup of tea. Furthermore: From a sociological point of view, the existence of such neighbourhoods means the loss of public in favour of privatised space. I don't like this either, as it contributes to the fragmentation of society.
As a german i really have to agree the stoplight placement is really awfull. After driving for a couple of week in new zealand where the stoplights are similar as in the us. It was really difficult to relearn after traveling back to germany. The location across the street for the stoplight is sooo much more convenient. It is always right in front your eyes. Also whats the deal with this "videooooooO"?
I just want to comment on a couple of things here from a Finnish point of view. First, the coffee creamers. People here shudder at the idea, because if you look at the ingredient lists of those things, they are almost entirely made from artificial ingredients. That's a sort of thing in general that we find odd about American food: a lot of food items that are sold there seem to us really over-processed. One of my relatives visited the US some years ago and he told me that when he ordered a chicken burger, the thing in it wasn't even recognisable as chicken. People here very much avoid such things, so that they aren't sold in the first place. Second, the gated communties. We don't have them. It would be totally against our values. City planning here is done in the opposite way: when new neighborhoods are planned, they are always planned so that they include both expensive and cheap housing. The reason for that is to prevent slums from forming. It also seems to work, since I'm not aware of any area in Finland that would be considered a slum. The whole idea of having separate living areas for rich and previledged people is something we really don't like, because it would only increase inequality between different groups of people.
I don't know where in Germany you live, but we have lots of "Sackgassen" and "Wendehammer" in Germany, in every city I have lived so far. Maybe there are parts of Germany where they don't have dead end roads...?
Europeans aren't big on flavored coffee creamer, because the ingredients are actually kinda vile, so it hasn't taken off as a concept I suppose. That's the rude answer.🙁 You should check what the creamers are made of yourself.
I think gated communities are not even legal in germany. A public road does always have to have public access. There are some dwellings that kind of functions like gated communities, but there are some differences like that they only have one adress number, a central garbage collection point or a central area where letters and packages are dropped off, because in front of the law they function as a multy family building and not seperate houses, otherwise the access to every house would have to be public.
Cul de sacs in the USA are no longer all that quiet/less-trafficked due to the emergence of online shopping and the legions of Amazon delivery trucks on the residential roads now.
This hotel ice room is not possible in Germany. Food safety regulations. Personally I would never get ice for my drink from a room where everybody has access to.
there is powdered 'creamer' but most people don't drink it because it's very unhealthy. if you look at the ingredients list and compare milk or heavy cream to creamer, you'll see.
If you only could drink one drink for the rest of your life, only possible choice is obviously water. Anyone who would choose anything else would surely come to regret it after few decades. 😀
I want to say, that there is something like coffee-cream in every supermarket. You find it in small tin-cans or tiny bottles under the name of "Kaffeesahne" or "Kondensmilch". The main brand is "Bärenmarke". Not everybody uses it, but it can still be found nearly everywhere.
With the switches, I remember that in the 1970s there were light switches with a little bulge like a reminiscence of a peg like structure, but most switches where small wipp style thingies like \/ and then in the 1980s the flat large switches of today arrived.
People are commenting that coffee creamer is Kondensmilch or some other cream: no. Kondensmilch is condensed milk, cream is whipping cream, coffee creamer is a powder. I actually have found coffee creamer here where I live in Hessen - when I looked at the ingredients list I was shocked to see that the biggest ingredient was sugar. If I wanted sugar in my coffee, I would just buy sugar, not these expensive powders.
I went to Tunisia and found the nectar of the Gods: fresh-squeezed watermelon juice. I drank 11 glasses the first day, and 7 or 8 every day after. If only that were healthy, that would be my choice. But for health reasons, I'll have to go with water. Medium sparkle, natriumarm, with some prayers that it's actually healthy to drink 2 liters of it per day.
about the trafic lights: on austria when they go from green back to red, the green light flashes 4 times indicating "hey, I'm about to go to yellow and the red very soon". this makes it super easy to know wheather or not you can make it or already start to break. Austria wanted this system to be same across the EU but it didn't get the vote sadly.
Most houses in New Zealand are built from wood, but that's because brick houses tend to fall down in our fairly regular earthquakes, also we have lots of forestry plantations, so it's relatively cheap in comparison to concrete or brick. Commercial buildings will be concrete but massively reinforced to earthquake standards which would be out of the reach of most homeowners, there are some brick houses in areas not subject to quakes.
there are culs-de-sacs in germany. we call them Wendehammer. They are usually either in a very quiet end of town or in a very old part, often at the end of a Spielstraße. Ans they are usually not big enough for bigger cars, LKW to turn around and you see warning signs at the entrance
Cul-de-sacs do exist in germany, they are called "Sackgasse". But they usually are not rounded off and don't have houses in a radiary pattern. We even have a street sign for it ;)
Lived in Dresden for nearly four years (I somewhat regret moving back to the US) and I can't recall seeing much lawn equipment ever... even when I was outside the city (which was often). I feel like my apartment back there was quieter compared to here in the US despite having lived on the first flow along a tram line on a brick street. Here it's constant leaf blowers, lawn mowers, and hedge clippers.
The reason we don't put traffic lights on the other side of the Intersection is the same reason we don't put the STOP-Signs there aswell or the YIELD-Signs.,. The traffic light is a offical sign in Germany and indicates along with the road marking (the thick white bar) that you have to stop there when it is red. There is no interpretation where to stop.
@@PassportTwo James is right about that because we learn at driving school that if the traffic lights break we have to follow the signs. It would be really confusing if the lights and the signs were not at the same spot. If I arrive at the intersection and see signs but not lights I might follow the signs not realising that there are lights on the other side that I have to follow first.
@@PassportTwo Another arguement for Traffic lights on "start" of an intersection ist, that not all crossings are exactly 4-ways and how to handle for example 2 street continuing in only 1 "exit", such a "y" or threeway intersection would be impossible to exit. Or how do you handle seperate lights for right turn, straight through and left turn ?
11:11 Yes, we have "Culs-de-Sac" here in Germany. The German word for a Cul-de-sac is "Sackgasse", and if the "dead end" is a bit wider in order to enable an easier 180° turn of a car, this space for turning around is called a "Wendeplatz" or "Wendehammer". (They are maybe less frequently than in the USA, and certainly much less clustered ... instead of having a whole neighbourhood full of them, there are rather one or a few "dead end roads" in a neighborhood)
It's really exciting how much you learn in just a few years! The circuit of the traffic lights is the same in the Netherlands, on the first trip I was mega confused. In bright sunshine you can see the traffic lights there also much better, as if they have installed stronger bulbs? Here it is really sometimes a disaster to estimate whether now is green or red. But maybe that's just my imagination. 😂 Cul-de-sacs and garden services also exist in Germany, but they are less noticeable because they are not as present. Cul-de-Sacs are often quite small hidden in side streets and for garden service often a small van and two people are enough because the plots are much smaller. Because the lots are smaller, fewer people have garden service booked. The father of my friend is American and one day he found imported Coffee Creamer from America with hazelnut flavor and he was very excited, I should also absolutely try it. I didn't like it because it was unbearably sweet and he just said "What is this crap? Yuck! I used to put it in my coffee every day before I came to Germany." ... he was very disappointed. 🤣
Many years ago, when we still drank filter coffee, we used "Maresi" as a coffee creamer. But from the 00s onwards, we switched from filter coffee to fully automatic coffee machines and only used milk, sometimes foamed. I don't know if "Maresi" is or was a thing in Germany. Greetings from Austria.
