Top ten reasons not to live in Germany: The YouTuber, 'World According to Briggs'
has uploaded a video with exactly that title. So I'd say let's watch together and I'll let you know
what I think about it as a German, which of the mentioned points are true and which ones are simply wrong Hallo, Servus and welcome back to my YouTube channel. My Name is Felicia and I'm a German who has been living off and on in Cincinnati, Ohio since 2016. Top ten reasons not to live in Germany: That's the title of a video
that was uploaded just last week on a YouTube channel called World According to Briggs. So of course, I had to watch it and see if I agree with those 10 reasons for as I've mentioned in my personal Q&A video 2 weeks ago, there definitely are things that I don't like about Germany but then again none of those things are the reason
that I don't live there right now. For those of you who don't know this I'm from Munich, which is in Bavaria,
so the south of Germany I was born and raised there and I also went to college there,
so I didn't leave Germany until I was 22. Initially I only came to the US for an exchange semester but then I ended up coming back
and now I'm here as a permanent resident but I'm not in the U.S because Germany is an awful place in which to live, it absolutely isn't, I'm here because I personally wanted some change and because I love the American culture but who knows? Maybe this person really did find 10 reasons with which I can agree, on why moving to Germany is not the best idea. Let's just watch the video together
and I'll share my thoughts with you. Ok, so you can't really see that
but I have my laptop right here. So I'm going to be watching it down here and I'll put it for you right here. Ok before I hit play,
let's start with the thumbnail. I don't know what this woman is wearing,
but it's definitely not traditional German clothing. I think the pants are supposed to look like leather trousers, Lederhosen, like we say, but they're definitely not,
looks more like a Halloween costume to me, but ok, thumbnails aren't always about accuracy. [Briggs] What is going on everyone -
welcome back to The World According to Briggs, I hope you're all being safe and healthy,
[Briggs] Remember, we're all in this together take care of yourself and each other now. Let's get back to roasting places:
[Briggs] [Briggs] This is an international video.
Today we are looking at Deutschland/Germany. [Briggs] Germany is probably one of the top 10
most historic countries on the planet. [Briggs] They have a lot of history,
both good and a whole bunch of bad. [Briggs] The good news is they've put most of that bad
about 70 years in the rearview mirror. [Briggs] Germany is now an economic power with a great Oktoberfest. The people... I hate it when someone says
we have a great Oktoberfest. We have the Oktoberfest Oktoberfest is not a franchise,
the real the Oktoberfest takes place in Munich,
but oh well. [Briggs] ...people are wonderfully welcoming
and it's a great place to visit but like every location on this planet it has some problems
[Briggs] [Briggs] and that's what we're looking at today;
things you might need to know before you visit, Germany. [Briggs] Some of these things might make you not want to visit them, some of them you just probably want to be aware of. So let's get started:
[Briggs] Number 10 - high-crime:
[Briggs] [Briggs] Germany has seen a rise in crime in the last five years.
The country has an open-door policy [Briggs] which means anyone can wander into the country whenever they want they've learned [Briggs] this leads to more crime. When you can't track people down they tend to do stupid stuff. [Briggs] The crime rate in Germany for 2018 was 6,710 crimes for every 100,000 residents. [Briggs] That's up from 4200 per every 100,000 residents in 2014 and when the 2020 numbers come out
they're looking to be higher. [Briggs] There was a sharp increase in the number of murders committed in Germany with 901 murders recorded in 2018 [Briggs] That's the highest since 2000
when there was 930. [Briggs] Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen had
the highest regional crime rates in the whole country.
[Briggs] Ask any German [Briggs] like I did and they will tell you it all changed in 2015, about the same time hundreds of thousands of refugees began entering the country
[Briggs] from war-torn Syria and other places like that.
[Briggs] [Briggs]
The number of murders increased by 14.6% and the unauthorized use of another person's body rose by 8%. [Briggs] You know what that is?
I can't say it because I don't want to get demonetised. Okay, let's stop right here because this was already a whole lot of information and I have a lot to say about this
because a lot of these things are just flat-out wrong. So let's back up and go over it together: I'm going to mention some numbers
and just to give you guys an idea of what ballpark we're in, Germany is generally considered a very safe country compared to other countries in the world. An indicator for this is often the murder rate and in 2018 there were 1.1 murders per 100,000 residents in Germany while there were five per 100,000 residents in the US, so almost five times as many as in Germany. [Briggs] Number 10 - high crime: Germany has seen a rise in crime in the last five years Okay, that's not true,
since he's talking about the statistics from 2018 5 years would mean
that there was a rise in crime since 2013 and that's not the case as you can see here. To be fair, the crime rates did go up a little bit after 2013, so in 2014, 15 and 16 it was rising but, then right in 2017,
it went below the numbers from 2013 and has been decreasing ever since. [Briggs] The country has an open-door policy
which means anyone can wander into the country whenever they want.
[Briggs] They've learned [Briggs] this leads to more crime. Okay. Germany does not have an open door policy in that sense that people can literally just walk
into our country and stay if they want to. We have taken in a lot of refugees,
especially in 2015, which I'm assuming that's what Briggs is referring to here, but those people had refugee status. It's not like anyone can just come to Germany
and stay there forever if they want to. It's definitely easier to immigrate to Germany legally
than immigrating to the U.S but it's not like there aren't any rules. [Briggs] When you can't track people down,
they tend to do stupid stuff. The crime rate in Ger... You can track people down in Germany actually. Other than in the U.S
where there's a census every 10 years where people voluntarily submit information
about where they live and other personal information, residents in Germany actually have to be registered at the registration office.
If you move to a new place, even if it's within the same city, you have to go there
and register your new address by law and refugees too, are registered there with an address. [Briggs] The crime rate in Germany for 2018
was 6,710 crimes for every 100,000 residents. [Briggs] That's up from 4,200 per every 100,000 residents in 2014. Okay. That's just a wrong number.
The first one is correct, there were 6,710 crimes per 100,000 residents in 2018 but then he's saying that it went up from 2014, which is the year before the refugee crisis and that's wrong. He says that there were 4,200 crimes per 100,000 residents in 2014 but it was actually 7,530. So it actually went down compared to 2014. I'm not sure where ho got that wrong number from, 4,200, because I couldn't find that anywhere. [Briggs] And when the 2020 numbers come out.
They're looking to be higher there was... That's wrong again, the crime statistics for 2019
were actually just released this week so after he published the video but still, the trend had shown that crime rates have been going down in Germany for years and as expected in 2019 Germany had 5.43 million crimes in total, which means the number decreased
by 2.1% compared to 2018 and is the lowest number since 1992. [Briggs] There was a sharp increase in the number of murders committed in Germany
with 901 murders recorded in 2018. That's the highest since 2000 when there was 930. Berl... Okay - sharp increase:
I'm not sure if I would say it like that. First, the numbers that he mentioned are the numbers of attempted murders and not the number of people who were actually killed. I'm obviously not an expert in this field but I just feel like that the number of attempted murders could vary a little bit from year to year just depending on how cases are treated in court. Whereas the number of people who were actually killed is definitely not open for interpretation from year to year and that number did indeed go up in 2016 and 17 but it was still much lower than in the early 2000s and for 2019 it's actually the lowest in a very long time with 245 people killed in total. [Briggs] Berlin Hamburg and Bremen had the high regional crime rates in the whole country. Ask any German
[Briggs] like I did and they will tell you it all changed in 2015
[Briggs] about the same time hundreds of thousands
[Briggs] of refugees began entering the country
[Briggs] from war-torn Syria and other places like that.
[Briggs] The number of m... Okay. Well as I just showed you the crime rate did go up a little bit after 2015, that's true. But from my personal experience,
what I actually observed on the streets in society, I didn't actually see any more crime personally. But what I did observe was that the way that crimes that were committed
by people who were not German, so like refugees
and other people who emigrated to Germany were reported in the media that changed a lot. So again, if you look at the numbers the crime rates did go up a little bit in the years after 2015 but then it went to a new low after that and is now lower than the crime rates before 2015. [Briggs] The number of murders increased by 14.6%
and the unauthorized use of another person's body
rose by 8%. [Briggs] You know what that is?
I can't say it because I don't want to get demonetised. Okay, I'm not sure what numbers he's referring to here because I couldn't find those but again murders actually did go up a little bitafter 2015 but are now lower than any number listed since the 1990s and what he means
by unauthorized use of another person's body has actually been going up continuously for years starting way before 2015 but this is something that's always stated in those reports and we also all know this that more and more cases
are being reported nowadays. It doesn't necessarily mean that
more things are happening, it's just more things are getting reported,
which is good, you know, like the me2 movement was in 2017. Of course, most of those cases still aren't reported to the state, but it means that these numbers aren't very reliable
and also not comparable. Number 9 - Graffiti: A stroll through the streets of Berlin quickly revealed why it's sometimes referred to as the graffiti capital of Europe when the Berlin...
[Briggs] I didn't know that actually. [Briggs] ...Berlin wall came down in the early 1990s,
graffiti artists and taggers had to find new places
to apply their art. Now keep in mind;
Most the time they're not artists, thery're a**holes
[censored in speech] Just about any building wall or surface has become
fair game to these clowns a task for...
[Briggs] Okay, just because any type of building or wall has become for a game doesn't mean that any type of building or wall has graffiti on them. 4 spokesmen estimated the property damage caused by graffiti in Berlin is about 35 to 50 million € a year. [Briggs] Berlin's special anti graffiti task force
wasn't even formed until the early 1990s. The task force is underfunded and sort of useless.
[Briggs] The German capital average is about 15 arrests a week for graffiti [Briggs] [Briggs] with fines ranging from 100€,
about US$135 to several thousand. [Briggs] What they need to do
is chain gang these dudes on a graffiti cleanup detail. [Briggs] Can you imagine being chained to other dudes
cleaning up graffiti you put on there a week
before all your friends come and by making fun of you? You yeah, that'll stop it.
[Briggs] Okay, so I did not check those numbers,
so I'm sure they're accurate, but I just don't really see why this would be an actual reason not to live in Germany. He also only mentioned Berlin which is the capital of Germany, but it's not very representative for the rest of the country. I've personally never considered graffiti
a major problem in Germany or anything that lowers the quality of life in any way. I mean, yes, especially in bigger cities they definitely are on certain buildings and bridges and sometimes on trains and I'm sure they do cause a lot of damage but I just don't really see that
as a major problem in Germany. [Briggs] Number 8 - Pay restrooms: This one doesn't have anything to do with the red-light district, which [Briggs] I'm sure that goes on there,
it's just that's not what I'm talking about here; [Briggs] You have to pay
to use public restrooms in most of the cities in Germany It's about 50€, 55US¢
[Briggs] Okay, you just said it's about 50¢ 55US¢;
It's definitely not 50€, it's 50¢ and to make the wee-wee as my son used to call it. [Briggs] A couple of coins ensures that
the attendants are making the money that they need
to make it worth their while to keep these places clean. They're very clean, you have to pay everywhere from a train station stores and even to restaurants Airports...
[Briggs] Okay, yes, you have to pay in a lot of places
but especially with the restaurants and stores
I feel like I hardly ever see that if anything I feel like it's at restaurants and stores
that are located at a place where they know that a lot of people are going to use their restrooms
that aren't actually customers if that makes sense. But it's not very common at a restaurant. Say you're eating at the restaurant and you used their restroom won't have to pay for it. ...ports are the rare exception to the pay to pee rule.
If you ever hear someone say [Briggs] [Briggs] W.C or water closet in Germany,
they're referring to the restroom. Veh-tseh [W.C] is what we call it [Briggs] because it's like the size of a closet
and there's water in there I guess or you're making water, who knows?
[Briggs] Okay, so yes paying to use the restroom
is a thing in Germany and I know that a lot of people
who visit Germany from other places complain about that but it's not always mandatory,
as I just said. So especially at rest stops on highways and sometimes at train stations,
this actually is a thing that there's a system in place where you actually have to pay.
There's going to be a turnstile and you have to put in usually 70c [Eurocents] to go through the turnstile but then afterwards you're gonna get 50c [Eurocents] back as a coupon that you can use at any of the connected stores. But those bathrooms are always extremely clean,
so that's when you get in return. For regular restrooms, though, it's either free or there's going to be a person from the cleaning staff sitting outside the restroom with a little tipping plate and when you leave it's common courtesy
to give them some of your change. And since Germans still use a lot of cash to this day, people usually do have change on them. In very rare cases they have a sign sitting there
saying how much they're asking for but in my life it's never actually been a problem
if you don't have enough change on you
or if you don't have anything at all. You can still use the restroom.
Just maybe say you're sorry when you leave. [Briggs] Number 7 - long and winding words:
German as in the case with most Germanic languages gets out of control with compound nouns. They combine multiple words into one long word
to name or describe something. [Briggs] This is totally weird to English speakers,
it's almost like they're doing it to f*** with us.
[Briggs - censord in speech] Okay, so this is true, but I promisewe're not doing it to f*** with you. [Censored in speech] The reason why German words can get so long is that when we form a new word out of two existing words we leave out the space.
So while in English you say police car and spell it as two words. we spell it as one word in German. [Briggs] Swear to God - At 80 letters
the longest word ever composed in German is and I don't even know how to pronounce it
but I'm going to spell it for you. [Briggs] Buckle up [spells that word] What? [spelling out continues] Yeah, I'm not even kidding, that's a real word.
[Briggs] This means The Association of Subordinate Officials, The Head Office Management of Dunaby [sic - Danube] Steamboat Electrical Services. [Briggs] Yeah, I'm totally confused at this point too.
Mark... [Briggs] Yeah, me too and I actually didn't know this word before this, but I know you guys probably want me to say this now. So let me try: I did it! So I didn't know this word before this but I looked it up and apparently it was actually
in the Guinness Book of Records until 1996 but then they cut it because it's not actually a real word. It doesn't have a real meaning it's just made up. [Briggs] Mark Twain expressed his views bluntly in an 1880 essay: He said the German language is awful. He argued a gifted person could learn English in 30 hours, French in 30 days and it would take
[Briggs] German 30 years.
[Briggs] Okay, german is definitely difficult to learn
but I would not say it takes 30 years to learn it, definitely a few years and then some pretty big commitment to become fluent, but I do know a lot of Americans
or I don't want to say a lot I do know Americans who are fluent in German
and don't even have an accent so it is possible. Number 6 Brutal taxes: Germany's strong public services employee protection healthcare services and being a welfare state come at a cost. [Briggs] [Briggs] Taxes here are some of the highest in the world
with those earning a little over 52,000€ which is about US$58,000 paying about 42%
in income tax. [Briggs] You have a Social Security payment
and a 19% rate on value-added tax Proffessionals should be ready to say goodbye to almost half their paychecks. You may find your mandatory security Contribution costing more than your rent. In addition to this, there's a solidarity surcharge,
which is a 5.5% tax [Briggs] [Briggs] to cover the continuing costs of integrating
the states of the former East Germany as many... [Briggs] ...other countries, Germany allows a variety of deductions that can lower your total taxable income but still it's pretty brutal. In addition to the various forms of income tax there's also a series of sales tax that significantly impact both individuals and businesses. Now get this, this is a great idea; they actually tax the churches, [Briggs] you know that's a hustle.
I mean, it's great if you want to not tax the churches, but far too many churches are taking advantage of this it's kind of a joke at this point. [Briggs] All in all they're approximately 30 different types of taxes including taxes on inheritance and real estate Motor Vehicles too. [Briggs] [Briggs] What I'm trying to say is
Germany's like my cousin's ex-wife [horse vocalization] It gets half your money and is doubled in size
since the fall of the Soviet Union. [Briggs] Okay. Well, it's true that Germany does have
really high taxes. So I guess that actually is a valid reason
not to live in Germanybut you do also get a lot in return as a resident like free education, for example,
a good and affordable health care system good infrastructure and so on. And yes churches are being taxed in Germany,
but it's not just the churches, it's also the residents if they're registered as a church member. Remember how in my 5 things part 2 video I mentioned that in Germany you're never asked for your race on forms? Well what we do have though
that isn't a thing in the U.S is that you're sometimes asked
for your religious denomination on forms and if you're baptized you are automatically registered as a member of either the Catholic or the Protestant church in Germany and you have to pay Church taxes.
If you don't want to do that, you have to actively leave the church, so like end your membership,
but if you want to get married in a church,
it's a requirement that at least one of the 2 partners is a church member. Number 5 - Germans love their cash: Anybody used to carrying a wallet full of plastic should know this; Many shops in Germany only accept payment in cash [Briggs] and offering the debit card will just get them to shake their head at you and tell you no or point to one of their
[Briggs] A.T.M machines where you get the cash and give it
to them and those A.T.M's, as we all know,
have pretty steep fees. This is changing little bit but they're well behind U.S
and most other industrial countries. [Briggs] Germans simply find it easier to keep track of their spending when they use cash. [Briggs] A study found that the average German wallet contains about 103 visible euros about US$115,
more than 3 times [Briggs] [Briggs] the figure in France.
Cash is still a means of payment in some 80% of the point-of-sale transactions in Germany. What it is is Germans...
[Briggs] [Briggs]...don't trust a lot of technology apparently their privacy and the rule of state, they're just very against that stuff, [Briggs] so they like to use their cash
and keep their transactions to themselves. Of all the purchases made in Germany in 2018,
[Briggs] [Briggs] just 20% were made with cards.
That's the lowest of any country. Okay, so first of all if you're interested in this topic
you should definitely watch my video
on money and payment differences linked in the infobox below. It's true that Germans still primarily pay with cash
when it comes to everyday purchases like
at a store or a restaurant but it's not true that we don't trust technology. We definitely use cards a lot less but bigger payments like rent or bills
or mortgages and things like that are almost always made via online banking
much more than in the U.S. Making a big payment with cash
would actually seem sketchy to us and checks are almost non-existent in Germany. It's also not true that you can almost never pay with your card at the store. You usually can actually The only exceptions would be things like
little kiosks or bakeries or things like that and at restaurants it's often not possible at all or there's often a minimum purchase requirement. [Briggs]Number 4 - winters are too cold:
The German winter is notoriously long gray and cold. The average daily temperature is around 0 degrees Celsius, which is 32 Fahrenheit. [Briggs] [Briggs] It's also rainy and windier because of
the Atlantic Ocean and cold air masses from Russia. [Briggs] They also get these cold waves from Siberia
where temperatures can plunge to minus 20 degrees Celsius which is minus 4 or 5 Fahrenheit in much of Germany.
[Briggs] [Briggs] The summers are nice
and it's a great time to visit Germany. [Briggs] From mid-may to September
you might actually forget how bad the winter was. December is one of the coldest months in Germany
with chances of snow relatively good, [Briggs] [Briggs] like every single day and temperatures
get below freezing for most of the month. My uncle was stationed in Germany for
[Briggs] [Briggs] about six years, I believe,
and he said he'd never seen winters like that, just bone-chilling where your bones ache.
[Briggs] Okay, this is actually pretty far away from the truth: Germany is not known for amazing weather obviously, and it does rain a lot but I've lived in Germany for 22 years of my life and what he just described
is not what our winters are like. In Munich, which is like an hour away from the Alps we definitely did have winters with a lot of snow
when I was a child but it's really becoming less every single year. In the past few years
the winters there have actually almost always been exactly the same as here in Cincinnati. So if you know what Cincinnati winters are like, you know what it's like in Munich. In January 2019 Munich actually had a lot
of snow so much that trees collapsed and streets were closed
and stuff like that but then this past winter they actually had no snow at all and snow almost every single day in December. I mean, I wish we haven't had a white Christmas in Munich in years. I don't honestly even remember
the last time we did. It's usually been really warm on Christmas these past few years Regarding the numbers that Briggs mentioned the average temperature in the winter
in Germany is definitely not 32 degrees Fahrenheit - not sure where he got that number from - the real number is 4.1 degrees Celsius which equals about 39 degrees Fahrenheit that's actually about the same average winter temperature as in Tennessee, for example. In Ohio, the average winter temperature is 30 degrees Fahrenheit so much colder. And yes I actually have experienced temperatures of as cold as minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit in Munich but that was maybe like twice in my life and I have experienced that in the u.s. too. So it seems like Briggs' uncle must have lived in Germany decades ago and apparently in a region
that's especially cold and I would assume that he's probably from a warmer region in the US not sure. Number 3 - air conditioning:
[Briggs] [Briggs] Germans are very environmentally conscious
and would shy away from using an appliance that uses so much electricity. Less than 10% of all European households have air conditioning that's compared to 90% in the United States.
[Briggs] Yep. That's it, it's official, I will never live in Germany.
[Briggs] I love air conditioning like a sailor loves his rum.
[Briggs] [Briggs] I've actually caught myself wanting
to write poems about my air conditioning
during hot summer days. European air conditioners are already among the world's most efficient and these people still won't use them.
[Briggs] [Briggs] Meanwhile, at my house,
I'm looking for A/C that uses more power. I find it hard to communicate properly in hot weather,
I don't know what that is, I need it cool and could never live in Germany during the summer. [Briggs] Air conditioners' energy consumption
was among the reasons cited [Briggs] [Briggs] when German officials rejected proposals
to install cooling systems in the schools. Okay. So this is true,
we usually don't have air conditioning in our houses. If you'd like to know more about this topic you should check out my video on 6 things that the US can learn from Germany because I actually talked quite a lot about air conditioning and windows in that video. And to Germans,
it's not just that air conditioning needs a lot of power we also just don't like it as much for some reason. Sometimes it definitely can be exhausting in the summer without air conditioning but German summers aren't as hot and as long anyways,
it's usually only hot for like a few weeks. Also, our houses are usually built out of bricks,
which means that they're insulated a lot better, which means that they don't heat up as quickly
in the summer. And also what we do is that we open our windows a lot at night when it's cooler and just let the cool air inside. But yeah, if you need air conditioning in your life Germany or Europe, in general,
is definitely not the right place to which to move. Number 2 - everything is closed on Sundays:
Sundays are day of rest for Germans and most shops you'll find are closed. [Briggs] It doesn't have anything to do with religion,
it's more of a tradition. [Briggs] There's a law which restricts loud noises such as vacuuming drilling slapping each other around
or playing loud music even in your own home [Briggs] on Sundays, especially between the hours of 1 p.m and 3 p.m [Briggs] and 10 p.m and 7 a.m.
Play your stuff too loud then or get weird, you're going to get a visit from the man. Now this holds true for tourists and hotels
don't be loud on Sundays. [Briggs] [Briggs] Other than shops that are like,
in gas stations train stations and airports
most shops are closed on Sundays. [Briggs] There's a store closing law that
was put into place in 1956 making it a legal requirement
for people to have Sundays off They aren't big on overworking in Germany,
[Briggs] [Briggs]which is good if you're resident,
kind of sucks if you're a tourist you know
looking for something on a Sunday Ok, so this is true most stores are closed on Sundays but places like restaurants and movie theaters
and those kinds of places are open and it definitely did have religious reasons originally not so much nowadays.
So that's true it's not like Germans need that day off to all go to church on Sunday, that's not really what a lot of Germans do. I agree that it can be very inconvenient especially if you're used to the circumstances here in the US or other countries where you can always go shopping and it does require some planning for sure but on the other hand it can also be really nice because it can be a day where you just spend some time with friends and family because the vast majority of all people in Germany won't have to work that day.
What he said about the law that
you can't be loud on Sundays, that's actually true for the whole day on Sunday
and also any other holiday what he said about the night thing
that you can't be loud from 10:00 p.m to 7:00 a.m
(or I think it's actually 6:00 a.m) That's actually true for every single day not to Sunday.
So I guess it's even more extreme than what he said. Here we go, number one: And number one
[Briggs] [Briggs] Nazis are still around:
Germany still has nazis. This time around
they're not paid by the government, [Briggs] that's a good thing.
More than 4,000 attacks on foreigners have occurred since 2015 some with molotov cocktails,
it's always nice. [Briggs] I read about these weird 1940s books
that may have helped give rise to this type of mentality. [Briggs] The books say mothers need
to ignore their babies emotional needs. [Briggs] Now here's where it gets weird:
Joana Haarer (I believe that's her name), [Briggs] a physician whose books were written during the nazi era,
urged women to distance themselves from their young children. [Briggs] Here in the 'States, we don't do that
until they're about 30 and don't have a job. [Briggs] The books have reached nearly biblical status in some nursery schools and childcare centers over the years. [Briggs] The domestic intelligence service estimates that there were 12,700 violent right-wing extremists in the country in 2017.
[Briggs] Yeah, so that's not a good thing for Germany. Keep that in mind if you're going to visit or move there,
but I just found that whole avoiding our kids emotional need thing is weird. [Briggs] I agree, that is weird,
but okay there was a lot in there.
So where should I start? So it's true that there have been a lot of attacks on foreigners,
especially since the refugee crisis in 2015 but also before that, but fortunately, the majority of all Germans
do not identify with that at all. So it's really not like you go to Germany
and the first thing you'll see are Nazis. Yes, there are neo-nazis in Germany and there is a political party called ...that has a lot in common with the original Nazi Party ...but it's very small and it's not represented
in any of the state parliaments in Germany
or in the Federal Parliament. In the early 2000s, there was actually a
murder series in Germany conducted by a Nazi group called... The trial was very prominent in the German media
and I think in international media, too, so maybe you've heard about it, but unfortunately there are neo-nazis in almost all European countries
and in the US as well. Now the book that Briggs mentioned is definitely not used in German nurseries or childcare centers anymore. He said the books have reached biblical status
or something like that. Well that was during the Third Reich and post WWII, but that was like over 60 years ago. Those books haven't really been around
since the 1970s or 80s at the latest. I personally had never heard of the book that he mentioned by Johanna Haarer, I looked it up of course, but yeah, it hasn't really been a thing since like the 1970s. I'm sure neo-nazis do read those books. I'm sure he's right about that but neo-nazis don't represent modern
German culture at all. Now what he said about over 12,000 violent right-wing extremists in Germany in 2017, that's actually true. However, that number refers to people
who are ready to use violence, which means that not all of them actually have been violent and I'm not saying that this isn't a problem for Germany, it definitely is and so is the rise of another right-wing party the AFD in Germany, but 12,000 out of 82 million is still a rather small number and this definitely is not something that
you'll see at every street corner in Germany. So I'm not sure if I agree with his ranking here that this is really the number one reason not to live in Germany but each to their own. [Briggs] Alright, so that's today's list.
I hope you guys enjoyed it, I hope you got some information out of it. [Briggs] Maybe you want to stay away from Germany
at least know what you're getting into before you go there Anyway, don't forget all the links below.
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[Briggs] be nice to each other.
[Briggs] Be nice to each other, okay.
So this was a rather long reaction video
but I hope you guys learn something and who knows? Maybe you agreed with him a lot more
than you agreed with me but I have to say that,
out of those 10 reasons not to live in Germany, I think I really only agree with two of them as valid reasons why I really think that would be a reason not to live in Germany
and that is the high taxes and the weather in Germany, even though his description of our winter was a little bit off, but the truth is that the weather isn't the best in Germany, it does rain a lot, it's not very reliable, so I'm actually very glad that I got away from that, Other than that, I'd say that maybe air conditioning would be a valid point but I personally really only missed that
on very hot days in German and whenever I want to work out at home,
and, when you're used to how convenient everything is in the U.S, it's definitely annoying that stores are closed on Sundays in Germany and also the normal store hours are a lot shorter, too. So, what did you guys think?
Would you still live in Germany or at least visit it or did this video pretty much scare you off? Let me know in the Comments below,
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and I hope I'll see you next Time, [In German - Bye!]
