CULTURE SHOCK | a Canadian living in Germany | what's different about Germany??

CULTURE SHOCK | a Canadian living in Germany | what's different about Germany??

Hey friends! If you're new here, a big welcome! I am a Canadian and I have been living in Germany for two years!! In that time I have noticed many differences between Canada and Germany and I have compiled a list of ten of the biggest cultural shocks I had when I moved to Germany. I hope you like this video, please consider subscribing!!

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[HH-hdnd]

Hat most non-Germans get wrong about the Autobahn is what the Autobahn actually is: It's just our highway network and not that "special" road.

[frankderessener]

No. 7: In which city are you living? Döner street food is indeed often to be found, but almost every city offers more than Greek restaurants, Pizza or Döner.

[HS-wpvb]

Alberta: 661.848 km² for 4, 17 Mio. inhabitants, Germany: 357.111 km² for 83 Mio. inhabitants. There are 6 inhabitants per square kilometre in Alberta and 232 in Germany. Mind you that we consider many areas in Germany, particularly in the east, "underinhabited". I guess that explains it.

[Fast_Ultralight]

Döner is our fast food.
Since I work for a large German company, I can eat my lunch in the canteen. The food is of high quality and relatively cheap. No need for fast food.
At the weekend people mostly cook for themselves in this country. Food in Germany is generally cheap and of high quality.

It's rare to go to a restaurant for dinner, maybe for a date or a celebration with friends and family, or just for fun or for laziness. Dinner here is called Abendbrot (supper) and bread is usually eaten, as is the case for breakfast.
There are only two countries on earth that bake really good bread: Germany and Denmark.

[Titamiva]

What if our cars and streets are actually reasonably and average sized and it is just that in North American people drive gas guzzling reverse clown cars?
With such comparissons I always feel reminded of Smurfs traveling outside Smurf Village. Upon meeting people they then go "You're not small and blue? How odd!"

[nadinefeiler]

I think that generally it is a good thing that there is a more formal driving education in Germany. I just looked up some interesting numbers
Canada has about 9 road death / 100.000 motor vehicles / year while Germany has around 6.5. Given that the roads are smaller and we have the Autobahn with large parts of no tempo limit at all you should expect the numbers to be the other way around.

[jan-peterbrodersen]

You don't need a fancy car like Porsche to do 200 km/h. I drive a small Peugeot 307 with a 2 liter engine and sometimes I go 200 km/h, too. When I compare Alberta with Germany it is nearly twice the size of Germany, but Germany is 19 times more populated. I would say it is nearly deserted.

[jeromelm]

Why would I live with other peoples used furniture? And why would I leave my property behind when I move out?

[martinjunghofer]

Why is Canada "only" bilingual? There are also First Nations and Inuit who primarily do not speak English or French, their languages (plural) are ignored, don't they exist?

[robertzander]

Hahaha, i had so much fun watching you talking about all these things.
Today, you look like a female Indiana Jones exploring Germany and his citizens.🤠🤭😉
Getting a driver's license in Germany means that you can really drive everywhere, you get prepared for almost every situation and you learn things about the technic from your car.
Canada is the second largest country in the world and together with the US it's almost the whole continent, it's difficult to compare that with the history of Germany and Europe with all the former kingdoms and empire's, it's the old world that so many people left to find a better life somewhere else with a lot more space to grow up. This wide in Canada is so fascinating and not understandable if you are not used to it.
Back in 2003-2007 a friend my,
she lived a few years in Canada somewhere in the mountains in a smaller town somewhere in the french part and she left Canada when she got pregnant, because it wasn't safe enough, she lived to far away from the next clinic and even with an doctors appointment she had to wait almost an hour to see him.
In Germany it was much easier for her and the supply was a lot better.
North America we know today was and still is an immigration continent, but tiny little Germany is on second place for immigration after the US.
Be happy if you find a Döner restaurant, the variaty of food grows with the size of the city.
It's a lot more traditional to prepare your food at home and some villages have traditional inns or taverns with wine and beer and with the french border not so far away the Alsace-Lorraine it can be an opportunity.
Come to Berlin and i can show you places and street's where you can get food from almost around the world.
I guess after all the time that you are here, there are not so many things that will shock you anymore, sometimes the bigger shock comes on your visit at home.
I think you and your husband added eachother quite well.
Nice video.

[AlainNaigeon]

I don't now about Germany, but in France you may rent a flat - a simple flat - or a flat with furniture, and these are two different things. Different prices, different rules for taking and leaving, etc.

[joachimlutz]

Regarding smoking its much better now than some years ago. Now it is not alowed to smoke in restaurants which was very disturbing.

[esuimcm]

You *can* get your license at 17 and do BF17 (Begleitetes Fahren ab 17) where you can drive on normal streets with someone who has a valid license and whom you put down as once of the people who accompany you (they must be over the age of 30, have had their license for at least the past 5 consecutive years and has maximum one "point in Flensburg") but yeah, you can only drive *on your own* at 18

[JustFun-qbxv]

Correction, you can drive a car if you are 17. It's just that you need a registered person to be sitting in the car with you and you of course need a driver's license. It is called accompanied driving

[MrBenedictus]

Look we do those intense test because a Car is a weapon. It was lots of KG and goes really fast if you are not prepared well somebody gets hurt. And we have lots of cars on the streets so we need to know the rules of it would be chaos. and death

[MrBenedictus]

why woud i want a kitchen included. IF i like the appartment but the kitchen sucks. (not my style or just not the right hight and stuff) why should i have to live with a kitchen i dont like. If i just by a kitchen once and take it with me i have my own kichten all the time. ANd setting it back up is really fun.

[bibliopolist]

Well, Döner _is_ fast food (and so are those other very popular quick lunches that you find at bakeries and at the butcher's, or at the "Nordsee" fish shop).

[arnodobler]

North American drivers have come to scare me. 🤣
Yesterday I saw a YouTuber making a music video reaction while driving! 😵👿

[wittyu]

I don't know ANYONE, who paid 4000 for their drivers license. 2000 is average. :)
Exactly... For handling our traffic you got to be super well educated and trained. :)

[gabrielegermaine]

You remind me, of the time, when I moved to Canada from Germany.
IT was in the beginning a culture shock for me to move to N. B. I lived there for 20years.
But I have many good memories, friends and still use my Cake, Cookies recepies
Sorry for the mistakes. When I lived in Canada i missed something from Germany,
and now IT IS reversed 🤷mostly old friends and my grandchildren