American reacts to 9 things I wish I knew before moving to Germany

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[thesprtdragon]

The idea that sparkling water tastes like beer is probably caused by american beer tasting like water.

[jimmyincredible]

"Sparkling water tastes like beer" - Can someone please send this poor man some real beer :D

[hammerlord]

ebay kleinanzeigen is nothing like actual ebay. It's basically german craigslist. Kleinanzeigen (= classified ads) was owned by ebay for a long time but iirc they sold it to someone else a few years ago and the new owners still had the rights to keep ebay in the name. It's been renamed to just "Kleinanzeigen" now anyways.

[Techmagus]

Oh she got paid, but at the end of the month and not weekly, which is very common in germany.

[onnasenshi]

it's rare that people take their toilet seat with them, i worked for a moving company for a long time and never saw a toilet without a seat in it
i've never had a problem vacuuming on sunday either, either the lady has fussy neighbors or a vacuum cleaner from the post-war period
mini jobs are mostly taken by students, older people or as a second job, all these people already have health insurance, which means they don't have to be insured.
the attitude towards cashless payment has changed a lot since corona, but many people don't know this in most shops.
shops you can still pay with the deutsche mark, the currency before the euro
at the end with the ambulance was because of the covid vaccination to get more people to get vaccinated

[lilg]

I'm German. I've never heard of anyone getting a fine for making noise on a sunday.

[nettcologne]

You can vacuum or do laundry on Sundays, but in the film this is portrayed a little too restrictively.
Many people move on weekends, which can be noisy, but you let the neighbors know and then that's okay.
And bakeries/pastry shops are often open on Sunday mornings. - Many ice cream parlors, restaurants and museums, gas stations and grocery stores in major train stations and airports are also open.
(In Bavaria the opening times are a bit more restrictive than in real Germany ;-)

[nettcologne]

Apartments don't always come without a fitted kitchen. I rented an apartment that had a kitchen installed, but the kitchen was old and I didn't like it. After consulting with the landlord, I sold the pre-installed kitchen (ebay) and used the money (plus a little money from my wallet) to buy a brand new modern kitchen that I liked.

[TheWanse]

Deposit is 0, 08 € for small glas bottles like beer, 0, 15€ for bigger glas and hard plastic bottles (more than 0, 7 L) like water, coke etc and 0, 25€ for all other single–use plastic bottles. The idea is to make the least environmentally friendly bottles the most expensive.

[aglaiacassata]

In Germany, you can get very nice used kitchens for free! People give them away all the time, because their moving or buying a new kitchen. Kitchens cabinets can be arranged in multiple different ways, like Lego, to fit into a different room. Often, you will only need to buy a new countertop,

[Thorium_Th]

1:54 When I moved into my first apartment (completely empty) I bought everything from IKEA and it was roughly 2800€. Bed, wardrobe, 2 dressers, couch, coffee table, kitchen and TV cabinet. That was enough for a start. I saved a little more money and bought a dining table with 4 chairs, a height-adjustable desk and much more decorational stuff later. IKEA has amazing quality now and isn't as flimsy as it used to be. I only had to replace the coffee table because the top looked terrible but that's on me due to crafting with glue and not protecting the table. You pay more in rent if an apartment comes furnished and you really have to take care of it because it's not your stuff. And what if you don't like the design of the furniture? Most furnished apartments look very generic.

[tcyxicirzt]

She named the job section "employment" so she only talks about being employed as opposed to work as a freelancer and being self-employed.

You can work as much as you want on one day as long as you are your own boss and nobody has power over you. But there is the legal limit of 10h for employees because employees often can't decide their work hours. Someone else makes them work. So this is a labor right thing. It is supposed to protect employees from exploitative employers and give employees more leverage in negotiating work hours. Nobody can make you work more than 10h. Even if the employee wants to work more, they can't. But as a freelancer, you can.

[TheOnlyOneSpeedfreak]

Im sure your sparkling water doesnt taste like beer, its more likely your beer just tastes like water.

[SnOfABeach]

Hey Ryan! I'm gonna explain this video to you. :) 1st: In many cities the apartements come with a kitchen nowerdays. 2nd: I have never been fined for vacuuming. I only got like 1 complaint in 22 years of living in an own flat when I put together a heavy desk at 11pm... 3rd: A quiet hour in most of germany is the same as any other hour. just without vacuum and lawning. Which...is not an everyday thing... 4th: sparkling water is like sparkling soda. I mean...why not water with bubbles? 5th: batteries and stuff like that: bring it to the recycling depot - you should find a video about that and watch that! 6th: Again: If you're paying 1 EUR for the toilet, you get a voucher valued at 70 Cents. You can then go to a store nearby and buy food for that. 7th: Trains are delayed - but that mostly counts for Deutsche Bahn (DB) not for the underground and S-Bahn. 8th: The "cargo" on the bike is needed, because that are students and they have bags or rucksacks. :) Also mothers have a baby-child seat on the back... :)

[karlnapp]

Whoever sells batteries also takes them back.

[lp]

I feel so german for actually loving all those different bins, including bottle deposit. It is so much fun to put in the bottles and get money for it. Makes it fun to pick up bottles at the streets and earn money from that. 😊

[lisalottakrumelfee]

She forgot to say, that there are also bins for used clothes and

[edincuric]

what I really dont like: in every single argument she makes, theres something incorrect, missing out or a personal opinion is brought up, that has nothing to do with how germans work... and she states it like these are facts

[ninaspallek]

You normally take your kitchen with you, when you move to a new home
For example, my parents bought a kitchen when they married 1979 and moved in their first appartment. A few years and 2 children later, they build a house and planned the kitchen area to fit the kitchen they allready had.
This was in 1989 and we have still the kitchen, that was in the first appartment.
So you buy a kitchen and use it as long as possible…

[xinitrc]

Regarding the ambulance in the market place. Yes, that was a "Mobiles Impfteam" which translates to "Mobile vaccination team". Some cities had those where they stopped on different spots in the city on different days and you could just queue up and get your shot.