Honest View on Life in Germany - His 10 Year Experience

he's cutee! this may be a sign that i should learn german!

That is one cool dude. Happy to have him here 💖

Gesehen hab ich euch beide schon in München ;-)

Very sympatic and atractive interview partner ❤😊

We live in Duisburg for 6 years and it’s not that bad. Yes there are some ran down corners of the City but the ones which has decent neighborhoods is not that bad. Once I got to talk to our Boss from my first work, that we transferred from Munich to Dusseldorf and then to Duisburg, he was like no noo nooo…
I think it’s not that bad. 😅 oder???

Bro can I do it too?

I just stumbled upon this video admit did put a smile on my face. So thank you for that 🙂I’m German and I love seeing people from all over the world trying and making a life here. I work at a driving school and have a lot of international students and I love it. It’s very true that Germans are a bit distant in the beginning but once you get to know them and make friends you got friends for life. And it’s very true what your mentioning making the first move. You start talking and they will happily answer you. Naturally not everyone but the majority will. I’m German and I always do chit chat with the cashiers at my go to supermarket. So yeah we know how to do small talk but we don’t want to impose on you. Now if you initiate you might find out the other person won’t stop talking 😂 Thanks again for making me smile with this video 🙂

Muster (ehemaliger) Migrant. Gutes Beispiel. Südamerika sind ja am Ende auch ehemalige Portugiese und Spanier. Viel einfacher als Muslime. Einfach Fakt. Aber auch da integrieren sich mehr und mehr gut

4:35 I as an Bavarian would disagree. It depends on the situation and the kind of restaurants. I mean, if the waiters are all in a hurry how could I small talk with. On the opposite I sometimes have nice talks with waiters 🤷‍♀️

I've been here, for 12 years now. Self employed business owner. Had the exact same experience with taxes and health insurance. It caused me untold amounts of stress at times.

I have just moved to Germany from Australia as my country lacks opportunities and I also feel it is in slow decline.

My family came from Bavaria 150 years ago to build Australia, they gave birth to Australia's first free settlers in Queensland.

150 years later I am back in Bavaria trying to build a life. I have brought my Australian train driving skills to join the railways here to help with this skilled workforce.

I am learning German, it is hard, however I am committed. I am here to help Germany prosper and not hinder. However I keep getting rejected time and again.

My experience is 2km long 9000t trains in Australia. I am feeling rather down in regards to building a life here. This will not stop me as failure is not an option.

I feel I have brought my genetics back home. Germany is now home 🏡

German are Introverts. I think that is kind of true. We're not very initiative when it comes to small talk, but we react very extrovert when approached.
The best example I have on it is a bus drive I was on, once. Everyone was minding their own business. I was sitting across from a Turkish student, around 18 years old. He was chatting with one of his buddies. He greeted me, I just nod. Then an older lady got on. Just one station later, she berated the guy and his friend, calling them very "fascist" things. I literally berated her back, and suddenly the entire bus started doing the same as I made them aware of her vile hate speech. The bus driver stopped and kicked her off at the next stop, telling her to walk, because he won't transport toxic waste like her (he literally called her that and that was savage). The boy thanked me, which I nod to, again. Haven't talked to him or his pals, since, but we see each other on the bus, now and again, and just acknowledge each other, politely.

It's really a lot about mutual respect. We warm up to others, but sometimes we just don't talk much, unless interests are peaked or bonds have already been forged. But we're getting very verbal when it comes to disrespect against others or when people being wronged.

Frieden für Venezuela ❤️❤️❤️ im Namen Jesu Christi. Amen

These two wise men 🤘

Ok I have a question it's a personal one related to pursuing undergraduate in Dortmund at ism university now good thing is I got accepted just recently now my main concern was looking for flexibility in choosing any elective subjects like my main program is bsc in applied data science and business electives and my intake is in march 1st now regarding the electives I wish to pursue fundamental subjects of stem . Is it possible if I do bridging around or post grad

Talk about the rumours if war, will international students also be forced into the possible war army Gemany is building?

Willkommen 🇩🇪. Solche Leute brauchen wir.

9:38 I'm going to be super German here but this guy seems like an awful person. Did he really gush about coming to a country where "everything works", having the opportunity to build a good life for himself then complain about having to contribute to that system now that he is making more money...? How egocentrical do you have to be?

If you come here, and you apply yourself, learning German, working on improving your German, obey the laws, respect the culture e.g. being rather quiet in a public place and not screaming Yalla yalla into your mobile phone etc. then you are very welcome. We will let you pay taxes, we will give you free healthcare, free education and high quality of life. 🙂

Respekt!
SOLCHE Einwanderer braucht man.

Trumps war on Venezuela is wrong and a crime.

"Let's talk about positives. There's a lack of innovation."

I believe learning a language while working is much much harder than doing sports each day. Especially if your work is already mind intensive. you can walk, run, swim, bike to relax your mind. Even focus oriented sport can help you to recreate your mind.

Well, you didn't just come to Germany - your new place is Frankfurt, right? I could see this from a camera shot, taken near the Eschenheimer Tor. I myself am not a Frankfurt citizen and never have been, but my office was just in the neighbourhood of the Venezuelian Consulary, so you might know where. The native Frankfurt people is somehow special, basically you're welcome, but often they just don't take notice of you: tolerant and ignorant at the same time. Frankfurt hosts a lot of foreign people in all professions, and thus it is no problem to make a life and a business there, no matter where you came from. But on a personal basis it takes time to really get in it.

Why speak most people worldwide better understandable english than the U.S. americans? I am from Germany and I can understand all in this interview.

Please can you give us a list with words to A1

Amazing wisdom from such a young man, very inspiring and very true.

"germans are mean" no, you just not a special princess 🤣

What an honest and balanced reflection ❤🤓

Being "German" does not mean being cold or unfriendly, nor does it mean being humorless or unsociable; it means being introverted and a little autistic. Germans need time to warm up, but then things can get pretty wild.
What Germans don't need at all is the kind of disinterested, empty, feigned friendliness you find in America. Germans love their personal comfort zone around them, which you can't just barge into. Germans love their rules, order, cleanliness, Sonntagsruhe, work done correctly, and punctuality.

As german, as pretty introverted, nerdy person even for german standards, it took me about 50 years and a special event with british people in a british sailing club in Greece to make me find out this
"Don't care about your dignity, life is too absurd to take it seriously.
And people are way more open than one thinks, when you can show them you are open.
Life is way better for all when we are more open and honest to each other".

Which is what that guy says here as well, also we germ(an)s are able to respond openly once we feel we do not jeopardize someone's cherished reservations.


My forming event, my outing was:
in this club they have a weekly barbecue and then live music, to which you also can dance.
Usually it was more the perfection of imperfection, but in that year they had a professional singer, that made it WAY better.
I usually was only dancing on my own, protected in the anonymity of the crowd on the dancefloor.
When they played Bryan Adams' "Summer of '69", I was dancing in my isolation, right in front of the singer, just a meter or so in front of him.
But when he saw what I was doing there, he had to laugh so much that he could not keep on singing for the rest of the song.
Every time he tried, he glanced over to me, and started laughing again (even though I had stopped dancing).
But all found that funny, all loved that.

And from then on, whenever they made music, it was "Stefan, come up to the floor, dance", and it is my new job (that I NEVER would have thought I would EVER do)
to go out ALONE and make a fool of myself in front of the others.
I cannot dance in the normal way, I let my body react to the music and lead me wherever that may be.

And the people strangely like it.

And it has advantages - the first that dare to join are the girls, and then you are out there, one (old) man alone and 7 or so young girls dancing with you - and their boyfriends all sit with arms crossed "No, I will NOT make a fool of myself in front of the others, I need another hour and 3 more beer, THEN I will dance this guy into the ground)":


I know, lengthy and self-praising...

But when that story can trigger a few people to "jump over their own shadow" and open themselves to others, without underlying intent, just so, that sermon was worth it.

When you make a remark in passing someone on the street that makes the person smile, you improved the person's life. You made a difference.
Sometimes it will not work out, some people do not want their wall to the outside touched, but when it is the exception, all is good.

Only people from third world countries like living in Germany. It shouldn't be this easy to come to Germany.

One thing that confused me (germ(an) was when I spoke with british people was when they spoke about someone "This is my best friend" - and a while later said about someone else "This is my best friend".
And a third, and a fourth.

For them it was normal, "my best friend" was a normal shortening of "one of my best friends", plural.

In german that is "ein guter Freund" or "ein enger Freund".

"My best friend" is unequivocally singular in german, ONE and ONLY one specific person.


These different formulations are simply something to be learned.

When an german speaks about a time "half nine", he means 8:30 - the nine o'clock is half there.

An english person means 9:30, because it is short for "half PAST nine".

No one in Germany (except for some braindead Skinheads) has a problem with such kind of immigrants and visitors.
Quite the contrary, they are very welcome, even for the right wing people.

The real problem are the immigrants who are NOT like this young man.
Immigrants who demand everything, but create nothing. People that don't respect the German culture, they just want to live their own culture with the benefits of a welfare state, without giving anything in return.
It's pure entitlement.

The left always tries to present it like "right wing people have a problem with ALL immigrants and foreigners"
No, definitely not.

Luckily, seems like the people in this country are starting to realize the difference and trying to use their brain to draw their own conclusions.

From all countries in europe... you chose Germanistan?

Why should someone robber you in another city than Munich? I live since 60 years here, in Düsseldorf and Cologne, and I didn’t make this experience. By the way, Germany is a community. Higher income, higher taxes. This is the price for a stable and safe environment.

I am German and I left to Asia when I was 36 years old for business reason. Now 36 Years later I am still living in Asia and I agree with him but from an opposite view. For me Germany is too regulated, too expensive and boring. I had my own company in Indonesia for 20 years and everything you could settle without the threat of the Finanzamt/ Tax office. I have been in Germany 10 years ago and I am always happy to leave back to Asia where older people like me are respected and not attacked because they are a baby Boomer living on pension. The Media in Germany is anti the elderly because they prefere to take the tax money for their billionaires sponsors instead of investing it in people. Germany is a good country but not for me ....

That's the surprising thing. People think everything works, but cold unfriendly people. IME it's the reverse. Germans are genuinely very friendly and sincere about it, but you have to take the initiative. But working self-employed, and then there's the bureaucracy... I did that for just over 30 years and had to give up, the costs of being self-employed really start to explode once you hit fifty. Many Germans either get employment with a business client (usual way) or leave the country (like I did), or they get ready to work until they drop. But yeah, German attitudes die hard and once you're one of them, there's no going back :)

Can i ask
Like if you have the language and you went to study there is getting a job after still hard ?

4:40 I think Germans consider interrupting someone in the daily life to be kinda rude. Like you are "stealing" time from someone who probably has better things to do than talking to a stranger.