0:02 I'm leaving Germany. In fact, I have
0:05 already left and I'm not coming back
0:06 ever. I mean,
0:09 I will come back to visit but not for
0:11 living. That time is over. Over the
0:12 years a lot of people have come up to me
0:14 and said, "Hey, I watched your videos
0:17 about Germany and they convinced me to
0:19 move to Germany." And now I have to say,
0:22 I'm sorry guys, things have changed.
0:23 I've been living in Germany for the
0:25 better part of my life. I grew up in the
0:28 south of Germany, lived for 30 years
0:31 plus in Germany. The last eight of which
0:33 were in Berlin. But with every year that
0:35 passes, things are getting kind of worse
0:37 and worse every year a little bit.
0:39 Quality of life in Germany is degrading
0:42 to a point where I don't see a future in
0:45 this country anymore. So, I'm moving
0:47 away. And in this video, I just want to
0:49 share my honest opinion about the state
0:51 of affair in Germany, give my two cents
0:53 about it, and tell you what led me to
0:54 this decision. Especially if you are
0:56 considering moving to Germany, building
0:58 a life there,
0:59 you should watch this video. It all
1:01 comes down to politics in the end. The
1:03 decisions your leaders make for your
1:05 country affect everybody in a good or in
1:08 a bad way. For 20 years, I've been
1:10 watching the government make one bad
1:13 decision after another. And I just can't
1:16 take it anymore. I I can't. Watching
1:18 politics in Germany is like watching a
1:20 prequel to the movie Idiocracy. If you
1:22 haven't watched that movie, you
1:23 definitely should. It's basically what's
1:26 happening in most of the world. Germany
1:27 is not an exception. I'd love to help
1:30 fixing it, you know, but then you would
1:31 have to go into politics and then you
1:33 have to deal with all the people that
1:35 are already there, which will drive you
1:37 mad for the rest of your life. So, the
1:39 only option you have left is to leave.
1:41 In the end, it all comes down to quality
1:43 of life and quality of life in Germany
1:46 is degrading every year more and the
1:48 pace seems to be accelerating.
1:51 So, I don't think that country will be a
1:53 good place to live in the foreseeable
1:56 future, maybe in the far future again.
1:58 It's not all bad, of course, but if you
2:00 can choose where you live, there's far
2:01 better places to do that. I have made
2:03 hundreds of videos about Germany and you
2:05 know all the good stuff already. So,
2:07 this video isn't going to be about pros
2:09 and cons. This video is about like the
2:13 decisions that made me leave. Why is
2:14 Germany not the best place to live anymore?
2:16 anymore?
2:19 First, the economy. Germany has been
2:21 stagnant or even in a recession for the
2:23 last few years and the last year
2:25 especially has been very brutal. There's
2:28 job cuts in all sectors, obviously
2:30 because of the decisions politicians made,
2:31 made,
2:34 one of which is the energy. As you all
2:36 know, Germany is an industrial
2:38 powerhouse. We We don't have many
2:40 resources, but we have a lot of like
2:42 industry, you know, that produces
2:44 things. For those industries, you need a
2:46 lot of energy. But Germany managed over
2:49 the last decade to become the most
2:51 expensive country in the world when it
2:54 comes to electricity. No other countries
2:57 in the world, maybe UK also, pays as
3:01 much for a kilowatt. It's ridiculous how
3:03 expensive electricity is here. You know,
3:06 Germany had this awesome plan to become
3:08 100% renewable energy, which is a good
3:10 thing. I believe in renewable energy,
3:12 sustainable, but the way it was
3:14 implemented was just the most stupid
3:16 thing I've ever seen in my life. Not the
3:17 most stupid things, but it's one of
3:20 them. So, basically we got rid of all
3:23 our nuclear power plants before we had
3:25 other power plants up and running to
3:28 replace that energy, which leads to this
3:30 kind of pretty long decade-long
3:32 transition to have high electricity
3:34 costs. Also, you have to import
3:36 electricity from other countries. I
3:37 don't want to get into the details. This
3:41 is just one fact that makes Germany an
3:43 unattractive place to do business for
3:45 businesses because it's so expensive, so
3:48 they they move to other places abroad
3:49 where it's cheaper. But of course, the
3:52 effect of that is less jobs available,
3:54 more unemployment, etc. You just have to
3:56 look at the news. All the major big
4:00 companies in Germany having mass layoffs
4:04 each month 2025, 10,000 here, 15,000
4:06 there, literally every month news like
4:08 that coming out. So, if you are looking
4:10 for a job, if you want to come to
4:12 Germany to work,
4:14 it's not a good time anymore. It was
4:15 five years ago,
4:17 but things have changed and it's not
4:19 only the electricity prices, it's also
4:22 AIs competing with human jobs. It all
4:25 comes together, which makes Germany not
4:27 a good place to look for a job anymore.
4:29 And apart from that, it's also not
4:31 motivating here to work more because if
4:33 you earn more, not much more, the
4:35 percentage of what you have to pay in
4:38 taxes and also social insurances and
4:41 everything, it goes up so much. If you
4:43 calculate all the things you have to pay
4:45 from your income, you can't even keep
4:48 half. You can keep maybe like 30% of
4:50 your income after deducting all the
4:53 taxes and social insurances. Germany is
4:55 a good country for like middle class
4:57 earnings because then you don't pay so
5:00 much tax. And then you have to pay 19%
5:02 tax again
5:03 on the things you buy, you as a
5:06 consumer. People keep forgetting. People
5:07 keep forgetting and I think that's
5:09 that's also why the system is designed
5:10 the way it is with the taxes and
5:12 everything. You're not only paying your
5:14 income tax and social insurances, you're
5:17 also paying VAT, Umsatzsteuer, which is
5:20 19%. If you put it in perspective,
5:23 seven out of 10 hours you are working
5:26 for the state, which in my opinion
5:28 is too much. You shouldn't work seven
5:30 out of 10 hours for the state.
5:32 It's just in our relation. You know,
5:34 Germany is a country of hard-working
5:36 people. Germans, they they don't love
5:39 work, but they work hard. That has its
5:41 pros and cons because if your
5:43 politicians are also hard-working people
5:44 and they are working hard in the wrong
5:47 direction, they are working very hard to
5:50 ruin this country. Just imagine how hard
5:52 you have to work as a politician to ruin
5:55 a nation with 80 million hard-working people.
5:57 people.
5:59 You've got to work damn hard for that.
6:01 You don't have to take all the facts
6:02 from me, you know. I'm just summing it
6:05 up here. All the economy advisers in
6:07 Germany, all the big firms, they're
6:09 saying this to the politicians, but
6:10 they're not doing anything about it.
6:12 They just act if you ignore the issue,
6:14 it's going to go away on their own.
6:16 But it's not. And things are even worse
6:19 if you're self-employed. Germany hates
6:21 entrepreneurs, you know. They've been
6:22 saying for years they need to make
6:24 things more attractive for startups, for
6:26 small businesses, for entrepreneurs to
6:27 attract them,
6:29 but they are doing exactly the opposite.
6:32 They make it every year kind of more
6:34 unattractive. If you want to do anything
6:35 in this country, they are going to make
6:38 it as hard as possible for no reason at
6:39 all. And if you're self-employed, you
6:42 have to pay even more than employees for
6:44 social insurances. You have to pay
6:46 double the rate for health insurance.
6:48 Now they even want to make pension
6:51 insurance obligatory for self-employed
6:53 people because the pension system is
6:54 falling apart and they're just
6:57 scrambling to to get more money in the
6:58 system, which will lead to more
7:01 entrepreneurs and freelancers to leave
7:03 like me cuz I'm not doing that. You know
7:05 how much pension insurance is in
7:07 Germany? Guess.
7:08 No, it's more.
7:10 More than that. You already have to pay
7:15 like 18% in health insurance and then
7:18 you will have to pay another 18.5%
7:22 for pension insurance, 18.5%.
7:25 If you earn €100 being self-employed,
7:28 €18 will go into pension insurance, into
7:31 a system you will never see anything
7:34 significant coming back because once we
7:36 are getting old enough to get pension,
7:38 inflation will have eaten most of it and
7:41 purchasing power of the money paid in
7:42 will be nothing because Germany has a
7:44 very bad pension
7:46 system, not like in the USA where you
7:49 can like invest it in different things.
7:51 Germany, you just pay it in and the
7:54 government puts it into who knows what,
7:56 but it's not growing, you know. It's
7:59 just like 2%, I think, a year it it
8:01 increases in value, which inflation is
8:03 already eating up. So, you're not going
8:06 to get a good pension in Germany.
8:07 So, it's not worth paying into it.
8:10 Employed people have to pay for it
8:12 already. For self-employed people, it
8:15 was not obligatory. For me, this would
8:17 be reason enough to leave Germany. To
8:19 pay 18% extra on
8:22 your income, it's mad. And it's not just
8:23 me, you know. You just have to look at
8:25 the surveys. There's plenty of surveys
8:27 out there that ask young people or
8:29 entrepreneurs or freelancers if they
8:30 want to stay in Germany, if they're
8:32 thinking about moving abroad, working
8:34 somewhere else, living somewhere else.
8:35 And from all the people I know, and I
8:37 know a lot of freelancers and people who
8:40 have like small businesses, none of them
8:41 want to stay in Germany. They either
8:44 have already left, are about to leave,
8:47 or are planning to leave. I am here
8:49 right now in Cyprus. I went to some
8:51 meetups here like full of German
8:53 entrepreneurs. They they all left and
8:55 they're all leaving to not just here,
8:57 you know. There's tens of thousands
8:58 entrepreneurs living here with
9:00 businesses. They just can't take it
9:01 anymore, the system in Germany. They
9:03 come here, they go to Spain, they go to
9:05 other places, you know, anywhere but
9:07 Germany to do business. A lot of people
9:09 think businesses should pay higher taxes,
9:10 taxes,
9:12 wealthy individuals should pay higher
9:14 taxes, that more money will be in the
9:16 system, but it's quite the opposite
9:19 because if you think like that, you're
9:21 not living in reality. People and
9:22 businesses can just move to another
9:24 country. And you've seen this in other
9:25 countries where they raised the taxes
9:27 for rich people, they raised the tax for
9:29 businesses. They just move abroad to
9:31 friendlier places for them. And in the
9:32 end, you have less tax money in the
9:35 system and you have less people who
9:37 contribute to the society you want to
9:39 build because they left, because they're
9:41 pissed off. Just to have it said, I
9:43 don't have a thing against taxes. If I
9:46 would see that the tax money I pay is in
9:47 good hands, you know, they they do
9:49 something good with it, but the amount
9:52 you see being wasted on the most stupid
9:55 things, it's just
9:57 it's unbelievable. So much money is
9:59 going into war, is going into social
10:01 welfare for lazy people. I'm not against
10:04 taxes at all, you know, taxes are good
10:05 thing, contributing something to
10:08 society, state can do something with
10:10 that money to make the quality of life
10:13 for everyone better, but in Germany, I I
10:15 don't see that happening anymore. Like
10:18 what I see is that the majority of taxes
10:21 is being wasted. Penalties are so high
10:24 if you are wait taxes in Germany, it's
10:26 it's worse than murder, right? So,
10:29 but there's no laws keeping politicians
10:32 accountable for wasting taxes.
10:34 And it should they should be accountable because
10:35 because
10:38 you work, as I said earlier, seven out
10:40 of 10 hours for the state, right?
10:42 And then they waste this money. There's
10:44 even a book coming out in Germany or
10:47 like a magazine that shows the biggest
10:50 tax wastes of the country each year. If
10:53 you look at it, you think like how on
10:56 earth is this possible? Who approved
10:59 those projects wasting billions of
11:01 taxpayer money? And taxpayer money is
11:04 literally human life. You worked for it.
11:07 You paid this money with your time that
11:10 you worked, and they're just wasting it.
11:14 I'd be glad to pay 70% of taxes if
11:15 if
11:17 quality of life would go
11:19 to the moon, you know, but it's it's
11:21 going down.
11:24 No logic. But you know who Germany is
11:26 really good country for?
11:28 Lazy people.
11:30 Germany has one of the best social
11:33 welfare systems in the world. And I
11:35 mean, it's so good, it's almost not
11:38 worth working a low-income job because
11:41 if you work for minimum wage full-time,
11:44 you barely make more than you would get
11:46 from social welfare. And by earning a
11:48 little bit more, I mean getting like a
11:51 few hundred euros more uh per month for
11:53 working full-time instead of going for
11:55 the social welfare system. And there's
11:56 going to be people in the comments, "Oh,
11:59 you just get 550 euro a month for social
12:01 welfare." And that's not true. You get
12:04 500 euro cash, and then they pay your
12:06 flat, where depends where you live, how
12:08 much it costs, you know. There's limits,
12:10 of course, but in a city like Munich,
12:13 for example, they will also pay for a
12:15 flat that costs 1,000 euro a month, and
12:16 then you have health insurance, which
12:19 would cost 300 euro a month if you would pay
12:20 pay
12:22 for it on your own. Also, you don't have
12:25 to pay for Betragservice, which is 18
12:27 euro a month, right? If you calculate
12:29 all those things together, you have like
12:31 a few hundred euro less
12:33 being on social welfare than working a
12:37 full-time job 40 hours a week on minimum
12:40 wage. The only logical option for a
12:43 person being in this situation is to go
12:45 for social welfare. You have 40 hours a
12:48 week for yourself. You can work on side
12:50 project. You can play video games all
12:52 day. You can get drunk all day. It
12:53 doesn't matter what you do. The only
12:55 thing you have to do is show up at the
12:57 job center once in a while and say,
12:59 "Yeah, yeah, I'm looking for a job."
13:00 That's it. And you get this for the rest
13:03 of your life. And what also a lot of
13:06 people don't know or don't want to know
13:07 is that
13:09 if you have children and you are
13:11 unemployed and get social welfare, your
13:14 children also will get Bürgergeld. They
13:16 will get social welfare. Especially for
13:18 unemployed people with children, it
13:20 doesn't make any sense to work at all.
13:22 They can spend time with their children.
13:24 The children also get like 500 euro a
13:26 month in Bürgergeld extra on top of what
13:28 the parent is getting. So, Germany is a
13:30 great place for lazy people who don't
13:32 want to work, have a lot of children,
13:34 get paid from the state. They give you a
13:35 big flat, a big house
13:37 for doing nothing. And that's great for
13:40 them, but it's not great for society as
13:43 a whole. And some people say that, "Ah,
13:45 these are just exceptions. Most people
13:46 they need
13:48 the benefits because they're they're
13:50 they can't work, they can't find a job."
13:52 But I can just tell you from my personal
13:54 experience, I've been living in Berlin 8
13:57 years. I've been living in Neukölln. 25%
13:59 of people living in Neukölln get social
14:01 welfare. One in four people, public
14:03 statistics, you can look it up. I know
14:04 people who have been getting social
14:07 welfare in South Germany, where I come
14:10 from, for 20 years, 30 years. Doesn't
14:12 matter. They don't want to work. They
14:14 take a job once in a while for a year,
14:15 and then they go back to the system
14:17 because it's not worth getting a
14:18 low-income job. But of course, Berlin is
14:20 the worst city when it comes to this.
14:23 It's like in some parts of Germany, it's
14:26 looked down upon getting social welfare,
14:28 and in in Berlin, it's it's kind of the
14:30 opposite. If you have a job, you're
14:32 like, "You're stupid.
14:35 You're working. Why would you do that?"
14:36 I'm not making this up. I know
14:39 personally dozens of people who get
14:41 social welfare not because they can't
14:44 work, cuz they don't want to work,
14:47 right? And I'm I'm one guy. I know
14:50 dozens of people like that. If I, one
14:53 guy, know a couple of dozen people who
14:54 abuse the system,
14:57 it's not the exception anymore. It's
15:00 becoming the norm. Berlin alone is
15:03 losing like hundreds of millions of euro
15:05 to people who abuse the system. They
15:06 know this, but they can't do anything
15:09 about this because it's the law, and you
15:11 have to follow the law. Congratulations
15:13 for uh
15:15 being lazy, I guess,
15:16 if that's what [snorts] you want to do
15:17 with your life.
15:19 You won the lottery in Germany. This is
15:21 just one more fact about what's going
15:24 wrong in Germany. I personally don't
15:27 want to live in a country where laziness
15:32 is rewarded and hard work is penalized.
15:34 It's There's no logic in that for me.
15:36 I'd rather pay my taxes elsewhere.
15:37 There's another really important thing
15:40 that has been bugging me a lot about
15:41 living in Germany,
15:45 and it's uh how society interacts with
15:47 one another, like people. I never had to
15:50 think about those things, but I am at an
15:52 age where I have to think about where I
15:55 want to raise children, and Germany and
15:59 Germans are really hostile against
16:02 children. They
16:04 they don't want them. Sounds absurd, but
16:06 it really is like that. Germany is not a
16:09 family-friendly country at all. There
16:11 are some financial incentives in Germany
16:12 to have children. You get like
16:14 Kindergeld and parental leave and all
16:17 that, but when it comes to like the
16:20 people and how they view children, it's
16:21 very negative. Just to give you a few
16:23 examples. If you go to a restaurant with
16:25 a child,
16:27 people in the restaurant, Germans, they
16:30 will look at you, and they make a face
16:31 like, "Ugh.
16:33 Are you kidding me? Are you seriously
16:35 bringing this child into the restaurant
16:37 to ruin my time here?"
16:39 Everywhere I've been, Southern Europe,
16:43 Japan, Southeast Asia, if you enter a
16:45 restaurant with a child, people will
16:46 light up, you know, they will, "Ah,
16:49 hello." They will want to interact with
16:51 the children. They they're nice. They
16:54 seem happy that they're there, you know.
16:56 In Germany, it's the opposite.
16:57 If If Germans see children in public
16:59 places, they are annoyed. They don't
17:01 want to have them there. And that that
17:03 says a lot of about society, not in a
17:06 good way. Being annoyed by a children,
17:08 doesn't matter where you are, then it's
17:10 not right, you know.
17:12 Everybody has been a child. Most people
17:14 have children.
17:16 They're an integral part of society.
17:18 They're your future. They're the
17:20 society's future. You should be happy
17:22 that they're there. If you wanted to
17:25 ride a train in Germany with a baby,
17:29 there is no proper place to to change
17:32 the diapers. There there isn't. And it
17:33 doesn't make any sense because you're
17:36 stuck in the in the train for hours.
17:38 Even on the expensive train, ICE, there
17:40 is no proper place to do this. It's
17:42 humiliating for the child and for the
17:45 parent to to be riding on a train in
17:47 Germany. I guess it's out of the box now.
17:48 now.
17:50 I do have children now, and I've been
17:52 traveling with them a lot, as you've
17:54 seen in my videos. I haven't seen a more
17:58 hostile place to children than Germany.
18:00 And this is a very sad statement. When
18:02 I've been to Japan with them,
18:04 you wouldn't believe the facilities they
18:06 have. You know, there's nursing rooms
18:09 everywhere. There's like diaper changing
18:12 stations everywhere, and those
18:14 facilities are also like something I've
18:16 never seen in Europe anywhere. You know,
18:18 you you go in there, there's like sofas
18:21 for for mothers to uh to breastfeed
18:23 their children. There's free free
18:26 diapers. And once you get children, you
18:28 you also think about where you want to
18:29 raise them, especially if you have a
18:31 daughter. I don't think Germany is a
18:34 good place to raise a daughter anymore
18:37 because women in general,
18:39 they don't feel safe anymore walking
18:41 down the street at night. You don't have
18:43 to take it from me. There's public
18:45 petitions in all major German cities.
18:48 Women want like vouchers for free taxi
18:50 rides at night. They in Berlin, they
18:53 want to have like women-only
18:55 subway wagons. And the stories you hear
18:57 in Berlin what women have to endure in
19:00 public transport, it's up. It's
19:01 up, to be honest. You all know
19:03 the reasons why it is like that. I don't
19:06 have to talk about it. But the fact is,
19:09 women in Germany don't feel safe anymore
19:11 for good reason. And deciding to raise a
19:15 daughter in Germany is just
19:16 it's not a good thought to have, you
19:19 know. You want to keep your people safe,
19:21 children safe, that they they grow up in
19:23 an friendly environment where they can
19:25 feel safe any time of day. This is just
19:29 my opinion, but if a woman can't walk
19:31 down the street at night and feel safe
19:33 anymore, you have failed as a society,
19:35 as a country.
19:37 That's just my opinion. And it's kind of
19:38 ridiculous. Every time something happens
19:41 in Germany, politicians will just say,
19:43 "Ah, yeah, there we have a knife
19:44 problem. Knives are killing people.
19:46 Women are dressed wrong. They should
19:48 dress differently." And it's not a small
19:50 thing, but you can also see it in the
19:52 the things. You can't go to the
19:54 supermarket anymore without feeling
19:56 we're living in a crime-polluted
19:59 society. Like in Prenzlauer Berg, one of
20:00 the best neighborhoods in in all of
20:02 Berlin, if you want to go and buy
20:04 shampoo or a cream, you go in a
20:06 drugstore, DM, you have to go in many of
20:09 the drugstores in Berlin to the cashier
20:11 to get them so they unlock the products
20:14 because they get stolen so much. Even in
20:16 the Edeka, in the like a normal
20:18 supermarket, they're locking up alcohol,
20:19 they're locking up Red Bulls, things
20:22 that cost $1.50, they're putting
20:24 security things on them that need to be
20:26 unlocked at a cashier. What kind of
20:28 society is this becoming? Another
20:31 example is Christmas markets. Last year,
20:32 there have been a few Christmas markets
20:35 who got canceled because they can't
20:37 afford the terror defense anymore
20:39 because it's too expensive. It costs
20:41 millions of euros for big Christmas
20:43 markets to put those barriers, terror
20:46 defense up. And if Christmas markets,
20:48 place of joy, but the one thing people
20:50 look forward to in in December when it's
20:52 cold and ugly outside,
20:54 if they get canceled because they can't
20:56 afford terror defense, many things have
20:57 gone wrong in this country. And don't
20:59 get me wrong, I don't want to blame this
21:01 on migration. Migration isn't a bad
21:03 thing per se.
21:05 It's just
21:07 there's going to be a few people
21:09 who are doing stupid things and you have
21:12 to select them out. But Germany is
21:15 doing a extremely extremely bad job at
21:16 that. One of the bigger problems
21:18 regarding that is that even if the
21:21 people come to Germany to to look for
21:23 refuge, they get denied.
21:26 And if they are from certain countries
21:28 which are considered not safe, uh
21:30 Germany cannot send them back even if
21:33 they are not allowed to stay in Germany
21:36 if they're not granted permission
21:37 to live,
21:39 to become a resident, to work here, etc.
21:41 So, you have this huge group of people
21:44 from refugees who come to Germany, they
21:46 their permission to be here got denied,
21:49 but they can't be uh deported to their
21:51 home country because it's not safe
21:53 there. So,
21:54 they can't work here, they can't do
21:57 anything here, but they are here because
21:59 they're kind of in limbo and that
22:00 creates a lot of problems because they
22:02 can't be part of society, they can't
22:05 integrate, and some of them, of course,
22:06 cause some trouble. It's also
22:08 understandable that if you are in this
22:10 limbo, you get a lot of resentment
22:12 because this country didn't accept you.
22:13 Another thing that drives people away is
22:16 the unaffordability of Germany,
22:18 especially when it comes to housing.
22:20 Cost of living is rising. Germany has
22:22 become so unaffordable when it comes to
22:24 housing that
22:26 people don't even dream about owning a
22:28 house, owning a flat anymore.
22:30 Everybody below the age of 35 has
22:34 basically given up on ever owning real
22:35 estate to live in.
22:38 Yeah? It's become so expensive. We were
22:40 looking at houses or or apartments in in
22:43 Berlin and Berlin is by far not the most
22:45 expensive city in Germany. There's
22:46 there's many cities more expensive.
22:48 You'd have to have a million euro to to
22:50 buy something
22:53 for a family. Yeah? With like three,
22:56 four rooms in a in a normal location.
22:57 You're going to if you're going to go outside,
22:58 outside,
23:00 you can probably find something for like
23:01 half that,
23:03 but even half even half a million is like
23:05 like
23:07 you're not going to earn a million euro
23:08 in your life in Germany. Not with the
23:10 taxes and social insurances, you're not
23:12 going to make it. Even if you work your
23:15 whole life at normal job, middle class,
23:17 you will not be able to afford a house
23:18 in Germany anymore.
23:20 Not going to happen. All the things you
23:22 have to pay, social insurances,
23:25 it's just adding up and making your
23:27 quality of life go down. You know how
23:30 much I had to pay health insurance
23:32 back in Germany the last year? It was a
23:34 thousand euro a month. A thousand euro a
23:37 month. That's 12,000 euro a year. If
23:38 you're self-employed, it's almost like
23:41 20%. Once you earn like 5,000 euro a
23:44 month in income, you have to pay 1,000
23:46 euro of that to the health insurance
23:47 provider. Now, I got to have
23:49 international health insurance.
23:52 I pay less than 130 euro a month for
23:54 international health insurance. I can go
23:57 to any doctor in the world. Yeah, cost
23:59 of living changes your life. So, when
24:01 you talk to people that in their 20s
24:03 and ask them if they're saving,
24:05 investing, they say, "No, what's the
24:07 point? We just spend it all because
24:09 there's no point in saving for something
24:11 you can never afford." And it's not just
24:12 the housing, you know, the whole
24:14 infrastructure in Germany is falling
24:17 apart. You just have to look at trains.
24:18 You know, Germany has
24:20 has
24:23 had the reputation to have the best one
24:25 of the best train systems in the world.
24:28 It's always on time, etc. But
24:30 those times have long passed. Now, the
24:33 German train system aims for a
24:36 punctuality rate for the trains of 60%.
24:38 That's what they're aiming for. Aiming,
24:41 you know? And a train in Germany is only
24:43 considered late if it's more than 10
24:45 minutes late. So, if the train is 9
24:46 minutes late,
24:48 in the statistics, it's still on time.
24:51 You would be mad to go with public
24:53 transport to the airport and not have
24:55 like a two or three-hour buffer in there
24:57 because every time you want to go to the
24:59 airport, one train gets canceled, the
25:01 next one is one hour delayed, you're
25:04 going to spend a few extra hours getting
25:06 to the airport with the train. It's not
25:08 reliable anymore. I have traveled a lot
25:09 of countries and I have never
25:12 encountered such a bad
25:14 train system anywhere, not even in
25:16 India. In India, every train I took was
25:18 on time. Every single one of them. How's
25:20 that possible? I don't understand. So,
25:21 yeah, if you can't rely on public
25:23 transport anymore, that's a huge
25:26 downstep in in quality of life because
25:28 you can't reliably get anywhere, which
25:30 kind of sucks, right? It's kind of
25:32 ironic that Germany is still spending
25:33 like hundreds of millions of euro in
25:36 developing aid to other countries while
25:38 at the same time it's becoming itself a
25:40 developing country. Just last year, a
25:43 major bridge has collapsed in the city
25:46 of Greyston. So, infrastructure in
25:48 Germany is falling apart. They don't
25:49 have enough money, but they're
25:51 supporting other countries, which is a
25:53 good thing. If you have the money, you
25:56 should support other countries to get to
25:58 your living standards, but if that comes
26:00 at a cost of your own living standards,
26:02 not sure if that's a good idea anymore.
26:05 You should be only financing what you
26:06 can afford. You shouldn't spend money
26:08 you don't have. And yet, despite all this,
26:09 this,
26:11 people keep voting for the same two
26:14 parties over and over again.
26:17 For decades, two parties have been
26:19 ruling this country, CDU and SPD. They
26:22 decided the future of Germany. That's
26:24 what we got from it. And apparently,
26:25 people don't want to learn. Especially
26:27 for those two parties, most people
26:29 voting for them are over 60, they're
26:31 retirees, they have voted for those
26:33 parties their whole lives and they're
26:35 not going to change it, most of them.
26:37 And because Germany is such an aging
26:39 country, the majority of people is
26:41 actually above 60. They're the biggest
26:43 voter group. Apart from people voting
26:44 for the same parties over and over
26:47 again, Germany itself is not really a
26:48 democracy anymore. I wouldn't call it
26:51 that because there's this other party,
26:53 AfD, and they're the second biggest
26:55 party right now, but no other party will
26:57 talk to them, vote with them, or discuss
26:59 anything with them. They are just
27:01 pretending they don't exist. They have
27:03 always done that and they're even trying
27:06 to ban this other party, which doesn't
27:07 sound very democratic to me. They're
27:09 always accusing this other party of
27:11 being undemocratic, but by not even
27:14 talking to them, not letting them be
27:16 part of the conversation, basically,
27:19 they are being the undemocratic parties.
27:21 That's logic. I mean,
27:23 people must understand this, right? In a
27:26 democracy, if those parties get a big
27:28 share of votes, in this case like 20%,
27:30 that's like 1/5 of all people in
27:34 Germany, and they can't be represented
27:36 in a democracy if the other parties
27:38 don't acknowledge their existence. It
27:40 doesn't matter what you think about
27:41 them, it doesn't matter what views they
27:43 have, there needs to be a discourse. And
27:46 in Germany, there is no discourse, not
27:47 between the parties.
27:51 And if you say anything that stands in
27:54 the view of what this party represents,
27:57 people will exclude you from society, or
27:59 at least they will try to. And this is
28:02 also a very dangerous situation because
28:05 it's creating an isolation for different
28:08 groups of people in a society, and if
28:10 certain groups of people feel isolated,
28:13 they become more radicalized in both
28:15 directions, and that is not good for
28:18 democracy. So, Germany saying, "Oh,
28:20 we're the most democratic country in the world"
28:22 world"
28:24 is absolute It's just not
28:26 true. I think many other European
28:29 countries are more democratic. You have
28:31 the same parties in in Austria, in the
28:32 Netherlands, and they're not being
28:34 ganged up upon. You know, they are in
28:36 talks with other parties, and sometimes
28:38 it works and sometimes it doesn't, but
28:40 that's that's what a democracy is. So, I
28:42 would say Germany calls itself a
28:45 democracy, but it doesn't act like one.
28:47 That's also the reason why the AfD has
28:50 become so popular among
28:53 a fifth or more of German voters because
28:55 the other old parties, they won't
28:57 address the issues that have arisen in
29:00 the last two decades. So, that's that's
29:02 why the the party was formed, right?
29:03 Because people are unhappy with
29:05 politics. It's kind of sad to see in
29:07 Germany that the political left is
29:09 encouraging violence against the
29:11 political right because left and right
29:13 are just a political spectrum. You can
29:15 talk about things, or you should be able
29:16 to talk about things and find a
29:19 compromise, but in Germany, things are
29:22 so divided between the people that the
29:24 left is calling for violence
29:26 against the right. The most absurd thing
29:29 about this is that political actors from
29:31 the left spectrum are encouraging this
29:32 and saying, "Yeah, this is good this is
29:34 a good thing." Neither side should
29:37 choose violence just to silence the
29:39 opposition. That's stuff from like
29:41 authoritarian countries. And in general,
29:42 I don't see Germany heading in a good
29:45 way when it comes to free speech. People
29:47 are getting arrested for posting memes
29:49 on the internet, literally. Five years
29:52 ago, you could have only imagined this
29:55 from authoritarian countries in Africa
29:56 or the Middle East or something like
29:59 that. That would have been unimaginable
30:02 in in Europe. But now the UK is mass
30:04 arresting people, Germany is following
30:06 suit. Comedy is over, yeah. Memes are
30:09 over. Critical thinking is not allowed
30:10 on the internet anymore. Nowadays,
30:12 people even get arrested for stating
30:14 facts. It it's kind of ridiculous. It
30:17 really started to get like this around
30:19 COVID, you know? Like people weren't
30:22 allowed to say certain things. Ever
30:24 since COVID, the the state propaganda in
30:27 Germany has been rising a lot. You can
30:29 see it really in the news how the
30:31 government and the news outlets that are
30:32 controlled by the government, like
30:34 public TV, they're trying to paint a
30:37 certain picture that that is pretty far
30:39 off of reality, what the people the
30:41 everyday people experience. So, they're
30:44 just continuing to ignore the problems.
30:46 So, Germany is crumbling away slowly.
30:48 Free speech, quality of life,
30:50 everything. It's pretty much a downward
30:52 spiral and I don't see the bottom in yet
30:55 anytime soon. It has to get much worse
30:58 before most people will realize that
31:00 something has to change and
31:02 at that point, it's going to get very
31:04 very ugly, in my opinion. But looking at history,
31:05 history,
31:06 all of this is pretty normal. I can
31:08 recommend you to read the book The
31:10 Fourth Turning or The Fourth Turning is
31:12 here, the second release, which basically
31:13 basically
31:16 describes from history the cycles of
31:18 society that about every 100 years,
31:20 there is a major crisis that reshapes
31:23 the whole society and
31:25 throughout history, this those crisis
31:27 had to happen every 80 to 100 years. I
31:30 think in general, the West is going to
31:32 be a pretty ugly place to live in the
31:34 next decade. Doesn't matter if it's the
31:37 USA or Western Europe. The time has come
31:41 for for change and change
31:44 in this proportion is never pretty. It's
31:46 going to be pretty ugly for for a lot of
31:48 people. So, what to do?
31:53 This is actually west.
31:56 East. What does this mean for the future
31:57 of Germany? Well,
31:58 Well,
32:00 right now, the system is falling apart
32:02 pretty much. What comes after, we don't
32:03 know if it's going to be better or worse.
32:04 worse.
32:06 Only time will tell. It's not that I
32:08 hate Germany. There's just too many
32:10 things that are going wrong. I mean,
32:11 it's all fun and games until you have
32:13 children and then you have to think
32:14 about their futures.
32:17 To make sure that you have a good
32:19 quality of life for yourself and for
32:21 your children, you go away, right?
32:23 That's also why so many people come to
32:24 Germany because they hope to have a
32:27 better future there for the children.
32:29 And it's understandable. If you're
32:30 coming from the Middle East, from from
32:32 Africa, things in Germany are probably
32:33 still much better than in those
32:35 countries they're coming from. That's
32:37 why they're they're coming, right? But
32:40 if you are a German and you're you're
32:43 used to a certain standard and you just
32:46 see it going down, then you you start
32:48 thinking about how things could be
32:49 different or were different even, you know?
32:50 know?
32:54 Because you have experienced them. So,
32:56 I'm happy to be part of a different
32:58 society that appreciates people, that
33:00 appreciates the work they do, that appreciates
33:02 appreciates
33:06 community. And in Germany, I don't see
33:08 any community left. It's just a divided people
33:09 people
33:11 that can't agree on anything. Germany is
33:13 a sinking ship
33:15 and I'm not going to stay on it to
33:17 drown. The only thing that could turn
33:20 Germany around would be a radical
33:22 reform, radical changes, but German
33:24 politicians have been saying ever since
33:27 I I can't remember, like for 20 years,
33:28 they have been saying Germany needs to
33:31 be less bureaucratic, there needs to be
33:33 less regulation, need to be more
33:35 attractive for entrepreneurs, for
33:37 businesses. They have been saying that
33:40 and they know that. But then, the next
33:42 year, they do more bureaucracy, they do
33:44 more regulation. They know all of this.
33:47 And they they say it, but they they also
33:48 say they want to change it, but they
33:50 then they don't. You know, they do the
33:53 opposite. It's it's mad. It's mental.
33:55 Maybe when the system is on the on the
33:56 floor, I'm going to come back to
33:58 Germany. I'm going to run for chancellor.
33:59 chancellor.
34:02 I'll fix all this mess. But where is my
34:04 journey going, you ask now? Hm? I gave
34:06 you all the reasons not to stay or move
34:08 to Germany. For me, the best country in
34:10 the world right now to live in is Japan.
34:12 So, that's where I'm going to spend the
34:14 majority of my time now. Things work
34:16 there, it's orderly. I can't really say
34:19 anything negative about Japan. The only
34:21 negative thing is the working culture,
34:23 but since I'm self-employed, I'm not
34:25 going to be part of the working culture
34:27 there. I think nowadays, it's all about
34:30 values. Which values do you share and
34:33 which values are you willing to be part
34:36 of? And Germany has lost a lot of its
34:40 values that make life in a society worth
34:43 living. And I can see those values very
34:46 much in Japan still. There are values
34:48 that are better than others. For
34:50 everyone, that's different, but you have
34:52 to choose your values and then you have
34:55 to to act on them and then if you're
34:57 lucky, you can choose to live with
35:00 those. And I I really love the values
35:02 Japan has. You can leave your wallet in
35:04 a subway and you're going to see it
35:06 again. 99% chance you're going to see
35:07 your wallet with all the money in there.
35:09 Small children, they can
35:12 commute to to kindergarten
35:14 to elementary school. Five years old,
35:16 they take the subway, 30 minutes, no
35:18 problem. Other Japanese people are going
35:20 to watch out for them. Nothing's going
35:21 to happen to them. Unimaginable
35:23 Unimaginable
35:25 in Germany. It's not going to happen.
35:27 You would be mad to send your child with
35:28 public transport in Berlin
35:31 to go to to kindergarten or elementary
35:33 school. It would be extremely
35:36 irresponsible. But in Japan, it's normal.
35:37 normal.
35:41 And I love that. Just being in Japan,
35:43 seeing how people are to each other, it
35:45 kind of makes me want to be a better
35:47 person because I feel like the the
35:49 uncivilized person there
35:51 coming from Europe, which is kind of
35:54 kind of funny and absurd. So, much to
35:56 learn. Finally, the barbarians are going
35:59 to become civilized. But of course, as
36:00 long as children don't have to go to
36:02 school, I'm going to be traveling a lot,
36:04 so you're still going to see a lot of
36:07 videos of me on the road. I really enjoy
36:08 being in Southern Europe. People are
36:10 nice, the food is good. I'm going to
36:12 visit Germany once in a while. My
36:15 parents still live there, so I have to
36:16 go back there once in a while and then
36:18 I'm going to make some videos there as
36:21 well. But the majority of the year, I'm
36:23 going to be not there and I'm very
36:26 grateful that I am able to choose this.
36:28 That's also in part because of you, all
36:30 of you who subscribed and watch my
36:33 videos. Thank you for
36:37 enabling me to choose my life
36:39 and be free.
36:42 I don't think there's anything
36:51 Good luck to you
