What I DISLIKE About Living In Germany 

- guy tells us germans complain too much - reveals as german a minute later, then goes on to complain about germans Ah, yes.

As a German I can confirm that these points you mentioned are true... One only realizes the difference when coming from another country, it can be quite a shock 😅

As a german I agree and see many of these traits on myself lol. As example I would never in my life cross a red light, even at 3am in the middle of the night when no car is nearby

Informative video. As a Bulgarian, that has studied and is currently working in Germany and has adapted to the german culture, ways of living and society and as a person that actually HATES to complain without a real reason (I like to be lighthearted, warm and positive) I have faced a lot of challenges in that regard until I learned how to surf this wave. To be myself as well as to be part of this society, that is. Quite the tough thing to so, but you really evolve as a person. Idk if I will stay my whole Life in Germany, since I like warmer and sunnier places and more relaxed Life(and better startup/freelance culture), but I do appreciate "The Ländle" for it's good qualities.. 😅

an actual informative person covering everything about a topic, another banger vid!

So war! I’m half German too and getting told to ‘gib gas’ when I’m riding the bike calmly in Germany makes me sort of happy to live in Spain…

Amazing video man!! Very true to my experience as well othrr than the sueing part 😅. Thanks for discord notifications, they really help with updates. ❤❤❤

A differnt perspective than the ones I've been seeing online. Good vid! 🔥Love this.

Holy... that was very informative video! gotta say man you are very underrated, Keep up the good work!

I live in Germany and can confirm many of these points but what I noticed it's mostly just phrases. I heard people say they gonna sue for this and that but never really got sued. Once the people get home and want to go through the process of e-mailing etc. they realise how not worth the effort it is and call it a day. The weather fcks me up though even though I love winter. I usually split my winter though. End of November, mid Jan and beginning March I fly to South East Asian countries for 2-3 weeks. So my winter is relatively "short" duo to the interuptions. During Covid I was forced to stay here and it was horrible but found a spot in Sauna Culture and since then I love winters. But I do try to shorten the winter season by leaving the country for a little bit. It's nice coming home in December with a tan.

a nice example for the point that Germans love rules: There is §961 BGB in Germany, which describes who owns a swarm of bees that escaped from it's owner. As long as the owner chases the swarm, it belongs to him, and when he gives up, the swarm does not have an owner anymore!

As someone who lives already 17 years in this country, I confirm that everything you just sad is absolutely correct and bothers me as well. Keep up the honesty! 👏👍

Underrated RU-vid channel thanks I don't know why but father have the exact description literally of everything you said btw he works 12 hours a day on a regular sometimes whole day just saying

All your videos are great, I'm moving to Germany this month, for University of applied science in Koln, and I'm learning a lot for Germany from your videos :D keep up the great work, and subscribed 💪

November and December are fine with the christmas season. January and February are really depressing (at least until Karneval starts).

ohh hell nah mate you're doing so good keep up💪

The only thing that is stopping me from comng to Germay is unfriendliness or cold attitudes that Germans have (according to the internet),What about the young generation of Germany, like college students. Are they possessed with those manners and personalities as well ? 😢

As an indian living in india never gone to Germany , i CAN CONFIRM THIS THINGS ARE TRUE IN GERMANY

A large chunk of people still live in 20th century. I dont know why? But still I love Germany because it has given me a chance to study and research here.

Dude just can’t miss🙌🏻

Thanks for a great video, and I like how you use own experience as examples. You also explain these quite negative traits in a respectful way. I´m quite sure it would be possible to say a lot go good things about Germans as well. I´m from Scandinavia and recognise some of the same negative traits in my own country. I have been to Germany as a tourist a lot, and always found people generally quite reserved but never unfriendly or rude. I have been considering moving to Germany, Austria or Switzerland,. Now I start wondering if the same comments could be made about Austria and Switzerland.

I have been living abroad for many years now, but I must say you summarize the classic German characteristics in the midst of which I grew up very well. Some things change very little :). Despite these annoying traits, it is a great country. Funny videos, and very useful for international students! Keep going.

I've lived here less than a year and I confirm your points.

Die Sache mit dem Neid ist leider sehr wahr. Ich selber spüre auch Neid aber ich versuche es dann in Inspiration für mich selbst zu konvertieren. Deswegen aber missgünstig zu reagieren ist einfach nur schwach.

I lived in Germany for 20 years and it was the best 20 years of my life. I am English, and I lived in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria. Although I recognise some of what we are be told here, so what? Practice “amor fati” or just leave!

Good stuff ×13

bro make a series on counties compression

When it comes to companies it's not about stinginess. It's about pleasing investors, a global sickness. Everything else was spot on though. I might disagree with winter a little because it's all about what you make of it. I personally do enjoy it.

Learn to appreciate what you have. Living by rules and suing each other better than bashing someone's head by baseball bat over parking lot argument. Believe or not but people in some countries get killed because of it.

Keep it up

5:26, the brackets, brilliant 😂

Me as a german almost living 17 years ( im almos 17 thats why ) in here ive never been able to visit an other country. I rlly want to do a Exchange Year after my Abitur (end of School in Germany). I really dislike the culture here it feels for me here like being stuck. I mean his point of complaining about thing is true just look at me complaining. But i love how this videos is just true. I really would love to go to japan but i cant speak even one word haha. Probably im going to the USA or try to get there just because i know i would be able to comunicate. I can imagine visiting Germany is all in all a worth try for Exchange for example just because of these different cultures but for me it feels like other cultrues are just bertter than the cultur in germany. Great Video and Great Points

This is very fascinating and I can say that I've encountered some of these characteristics of Germans during my time spent there. Like you mentioned, the obsession with rules, being too straightforward where they come off as blunt and rude, the sad, dreary winter months, and being closed-minded. Like last year during my research grant, I remember taking my seat on the Deutsche Bahn one evening, and then this opa boarded and sat down next to me and scolded me for sitting in his assigned seat. I checked my seating assignment and saw that he had the window seat and I had the aisle seat, and I jokingly asked him if it made any difference? He wasn't rude or anything, but he firmly stood by his assigned seat and saying how he paid for it with his own money and therefore wished to have the exact seat which was assigned to him. 😂A very minor thing, but I thought it was kinda funny. On that note, during my bachelor's studies, I also studied Japanese and had the chance to spend a year studying abroad in Japan, so I can attest to your comparisons between the German and Japanese mentalities. I agreed about Japanese shops remaining open and just how convenient it was. Whereas I could never really get used to German shops being closed on Sundays, or major holidays too for that matter (plus they have so many holidays in Germany, and sometimes without my knowledge I'd go to the store to stock up on groceries, only for it to be closed). I always made it a point to load up on snacks, ingredients, and quick meals whenever I could just to ensure that I'd always have something to eat at home on the days when the shops were closed.

As someone who lives in Russia complaints about German winters dont intimidate me

German winter....as an African, i think you judt described my personal favourite weather. Strange, right?

As an American, I think I would actually like more straightforwardness 😅 maybe not to the same level as the Germans, but in my opinion, Americans would solve so many problems if they were just more straightforward. A lot of people here will develop problems with you and expect YOU to know what THEIR problem is with you, without them explicitly saying it. They will smile at you, act all polite and respectful of you on the surface, but deep down they have so many problems with you and are happy to gossip and complain about it you behind your back until all their friends think you're a piece of shit. These things never end well, especially in relationships. So much drama is like this in the US and it's always irritating. People will do everything but say why they're annoyed or offended with someone. I've had people actually try to ask what to do with a "problem person" and often my blunt answer is just... "just communicate with them."

Brother which city has more business startup culture after studying Berlin Frankfurt Hamburg Munich?

Good thumbnail

FYI being frugal with money is spellend stingy but pronounced "stin-gee". A bee could be considered a stingy animal, if stingy (from stinger) is a real word, which i don't know.

Some of this is spot on, like the jealousy and closed mindedness. Others I'm not so sure about. Yes, German winters are dark, but have you met Sweden? Germans save quite a bit, but the Chinese save 3 times as much (as a share of household income), Switzerland twice as much. The part about big cooperations is something I really don't get. Germans aren't super excited about entrepreneurship, but the country is kind of famous for it's midsized companies. It certainly isn't anything like South Korea and its Chaebols. The directness is certainly true, though I think Israel and the Netherlands can give us a run for our money. To my surprise Germany really is the country with the most lawsuits per capita in the world. Maybe its because many have a legal expense insurance? The rule thing is a mixed bag for me. I don't think I have ever been yelled at for crossing a red light or paying with a large bill, but violating siesta certainly got me yelled at a couple of times, and numerous parties were disbanded because someone called the cops for violating nighttime peace.

OMG! Everything he said is so true!

I'm in last smster of my degree so ppz tell me when i'll start my process for germay study visa

Hi , you can help me about apply in any university there in germany !

no cap no cap! keep it up!

You should move to Berlin. Less rules, more chill. 😎

So true!

It seems like this video was made by your German half, as you are quite straightforward in it. 😀Keep it up!

I like brutally honest people over polite.

What you described is literally me, but I've never been to Germany. This qualities are considered antisocial in my country, so I'm struggling a lot😥 maybe I should move to Germany. I don't like super polite people, for me they seem fake. I don't like fakeness

I think that the video will be better without music

Please make some videos about the humanity courses like sociology or social Science

I thought those things were just stereotypes, but they turned out to be true lol

Let's start complaining: What I really dislike in Germany is the brake mentality of older generations. I am getting old myself, but there never have been a time where I didn't have to waste 99 percent of my energy to withstand these braking people. We really could have solved all actual problems in this country, if these majority would give up at least 50 percent of their braking force. But the bad thing is, older people don't give up braking, but young people give up to withstand at some point in their lives. And because Germans don't like if somebody is treated differently than them (even if it is by reason, like they really worked hard for it), the younger generation starts braking if they see much younger people who could have it easier than the new braking generation has had. I lived in Germany since my birth - for decades now - and I have never met anybody who sued anybody or got sued by anybody.

Pls,is there any African schooling in TU Munich,free university of Berlin or University of Freiburg,if you are one or have contact with one(any African),I will need your help to prepare myself,I'm looking forward to study mechanical engineering. Thank you.

True true true I‘ve been to Japan this summer and it was like visiting the future while Germany is still in the medieval times 💀 Just open the damn supermarket. They say: Oh but sunday is a special day for us catholic people. Well guess what. Currently living in Portugal (way more catholic than germans) the stores are open on Sundays. And many germans are so pressed and passive aggressive it’s unbearable. And disrespectful also. They are talking loud in trains and busses and eating and just throwing their trash somewhere. Just ignorant. I much preferred living in Japan. Normal people who are actually polite and thinking about others. And it’s true. The winters are cold, dark and depressing in Germany. I would suggest coming only in summer or just go to Japan if you want a nice time.

Also Winter wird unter Deutschen eigentlich nicht als depressive Phase angesehen, zumindest in meinem Umkreis. Auch das Einnehmen von Supplements kenn ich so nicht. Vielmehr passiert wieder die typische Projektion dieser Probleme auf nordischere Länder, wie Norwegen und Schweden,„wo alle im Winter depressiv werden“ xD. Aber sonst ne sehr gute Analyse unserer Gesellschaft hahaha

Complaining is a national sport in germany. Also the straightforwardness is the thing that I like about germany.

I'm an Italian living in this Country since my Birth 45 Years ago and i don't agree to all Points. My biggest Disagreement with your Video (and many other similar Videos of this Kind) would be, that we're brutally straightforward. But let me ask you something. Isn't it better when someone is honest (even brutally honest) with you instead of straight up lie in your Face just to save his/her Face? That's what for example the Japanese are known for. They have Honne and Tatemae. Two Social Phenomenons that are so strongly incorporated into Society that they can't be separated from each other. For those of you who don't know those two Terms, Honne basically means your true Feelings which you only show to very close People and Tatemae is the Behavior that's accepted or recommended in Public. And i hate that about japanese Society. Because it makes Communication so much more difficult. You're complicating it while constantly beating around the Bush, when you could simply clarify it with straight up Honesty. Yes, Honesty can hurt sometimes. But it can also give you the Opportunity of Self Reflection. Did i do something wrong, now that he/she told me the Truth, that i don't like? If YES, then i go and apologize. Maybe even try to explain it a little bit. If i'm NOT wrong, then i stand on my Point. Even argue if i have to. But also try to come up with reasonable Explanations why i'm not wrong. That's what i call Conflict Solving. That's something i like about the German Society. It's honest, sometimes hurtful, straightforward, but also a quicker way to get to a Solution together. Something the Japanese still have to learn. Great Country and Food though...

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I’ve been to Germany several times, always enjoyed it. Yes, some traits I recognize here, but they were not too pronounced. Maybe because I like the rules and efficiency…In many ways, I think that European countries are opposite to the US in many ways. You just need to be prepared and not to expect people change their ways for a foreigner.

This may be true but there's always a second interpretation: Germans are indeed straight forward but they're usually honest. There's no hidden agendas or double meaning. You can take most things a German says at face value. Yes, us Germans follow the rules but sh*t just works. It's consistent and predictable. German supermarkets are closed on sundays because everyone wants a rest day with their families.

7:40 gave me mini-heart attack

In this aspect I won't get any culture shock lol I'm from Sri Lanka and jealously is top notch over here😂

How are the men towards women ? And how is dating in Munich?

Everything what you said is on point. But also many Germans are very sweet at the same time. ❤

As a german I agree with all of the mentioned facts. I have some as well, but I hate it and I hate germany for that. That is also one reason I want to leave this country in the near future

Next video talk about what you dislike about Japan I'm waiting for it

whenever i see one of these videos and hear the red traffic light thing i almost get an aneursym - its not true, guys. sure, its definitely less common here than elsewhere and some super old lady might shoot you a look but people do it all the time, me included. nobody's going to "insult" you for it.

As a German i agree that I hear people complaining about smt

I feel like the jealousy thing is everywhere

But you already know that Germany's economy consists mainly of medium-sized businesses!? I think it's great that the shops are closed on Sundays. Most of the people who work there are mothers!

I agree , i live in germany since my birth

I would say, almost everything. And I am so glad that I am leaving very soon. Yay.

I want a video about German language

Being straightforward in germany is not meant to be impolite, we can and will be very polite and respectfull given certain situations. We, mostly, value the perspective and ideas of others and value honest reactions higher that fake politeness.

Bro Entschuldigung für die Störung Bist du in Deutschland geboren??😊🤔😁

7:30 but isnt it the same in japan?

Straightforwardness seems refreshing as an American

Another German confirms: True.

Mmmh. I'll probably sue you ;)

For this video, you being German, complaining about German people.😂

you must be living in München....try Berlin for the better LOL

You are a typical German, with a German accent and complayning all the time about Germany. 😂😂😂

I am glad i dont live in Germany i live in Indonesia

Du siehst nicht halb deutsch aus eher halb ost europäisch

All absolutely true!!!!

Japanese are angels compared to Germans.

Hi! Well, being straightforward is not a bad thing, it`s not something to digest easily either, but it can work very well especially when you deal with stupid and annoying people, which you can find quite easily in most Balcanic countries, for example, often their percentage can be higher in smaller cities. Of course, not all people are the same and I must say I`ve also encountered a less direct approach in China, I guess if a Chinese guy/partner tells you: "It`s gonna be very difficult..." you f... know he/she is not going to do business with you, academic exchanges or whatever. It`s his/her way of telling you "Ich habe satt mit dir, du Ar..ch.". Complaining can also be good, I guess, if it involves the quality of service, punctuality, seriousness, diligence, obeying civil rules and legislation, where Germans can funk someone pretty well if that person tries "jaywalking" in their culture, but, of course, it can be tiresome if it involves the color of one`s T-shirt, and so on. I am a great admirer of Germans as I`m partly from Transilvania, which was for a long time under Austrian-Hungarian rule (the Austrians "played the first violin", anyhow, and modern-day Hungarians may well be at least 40% German), and... now it`s been going down for the last 100 years and so on... But, of course, no matter how you like a country (it can be Germany, Japan, Canada), there is no perfect country.

I hate to complain I get annoyed from myself lol