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There are some good factors which Germany have ,one of them is the automation! Great Britain had German kings . Victoria Queen's mother was German with Goto's surname ! Brexit was not good for British people about my sightdot !

Way ? A country of pirates which raped and pillaged Africa and India and still does but nothing for chavs I guess

Your honesty is very refreshing Benjamin. I agree looking for a new role is very tiring, and tests your resilience. And beware of head hunters I agree!!! That said, I think you’d be an asset to any employer of your choice. N x

Britain lost its culture when mass immigration was introduced under Labour/Blair and escalated under the Conservatives.

I am astounded to hear you describe yourself as a native English speaker-you are a fluid English speaker for sure, but not native.

I would rather live in London 😂 Nice Video ! All the way from Washington DC🇺🇸 I hope to relocate someday. You’re so handsome 😎

I love the UK But i am in the top 10% of professionals, have a stable job and am well looked after. I get paid well an come from a stable home with a high earning parent. I am able to see the positive sides and opportunities offered of living in an enormously diverse, interesting and yes unequal country. Il always live here, ive got a great set up. Id get paid more in germany or europe for sure, but why would i throw everything away to start again? I feel like alot of moaning about britains economy and immigrants says more to say about the persons individual circumstances than the state of the land. Ppl moan and moan about the national issues that we have but really its just about themselves and their personal struggles. This was is and always will be a fantastic country to live in and we are truly, truly blessed to be British. I do feel sorry for people who choose to leave. Its sad that they had to do that due to the depressing environment they grew up in and feeling like theyre never gna get out

I always hear German saying we are serious people and so cold we don’t laugh and hard to get along with us so closed culture don’t like others and don’t open very easy to others, I think it’s time to move on with this BS stereotype German strict everything, I have German friends they are the most fun people and funniest ever so happy and very easy to be around and I won’t trade them for the world. I think when you are boring and close minded person you can be any nationality and not German specifically, and if you are German boring and very strict person what you believe are then you represent yourself only as German and you don’t represent the all population of Germany. So my point is and my believes are that every country has boring and exciting people so look for the people who’s like you and stop generalizing and making the all country looks bad because some of the population are close minded or behave different than you. I will visit Germany soon this year can’t wait to make new German friends 😊

An absolute delight to watch. Thoughtful, respectful and balanced. Thank you!

Typical of a Beta Male like this to completely avoid any in depth mention of mass immigration (especially of non europeans) - is either sheer cowardice or pathetic liberal brainwashing)

Stereotyping of Parisians, stick to Germany. I lived in Paris for 2 years and frequent visitor to France. I have to admit to being a Francophile and note that Germany has only been a country since 1871 and regional variations are huge. I really like Hamburg and Berlin, as the most cosmopolitan German cities, but dislike my experience of the culture in Munich

Prince Harry is that you? 🧐

After living abroad for 8 years and coming back to my home country I figured out, that home is always only a specific point in time connected to certain people. I longed to live in my hometown again, which I can't cause work is somewhere else. But my hometown has changed in the 20 years I'm gone. It changed and is has become foreign to me. But I still got people I'm close to there so they make feel "coming home"every time I visit. Maybe home truly is where the heart is.

The U.K. is not incredibly diverse - and doesn’t want to have those troubles. There’s been more immigration to Britain in the last 25 years than in the last 25,000 years. We have always been genetically quite homogeneous, until very recently, unlike more modern nations. Few ordinary people would want to rejoin the EU. We are very lucky to have left. Everybody else wants to leave it now.

No. People have only tuned in to hear some insight into the differences, which you don’t have.

This fella sounds like somebody who’s only ever mixed with people who get their news from the Guardian and the BBC and only mixed with cosmopolitan middle class under 45s. Try getting outside of Islington and Hampstead. Go to some random British cities, towns and villages (not the commuter belt and tourist and second home spots full of people like yourself). Go to some random places not featured in the Observer and on “hidden” and “secret” spot lists made up by your mates.

I’m sorry but there are plenty of states in the US where they are walnuts lol. Especially when it comes to guns.

I’m a Brit living in Spain for 19 years. Very interesting video and I relate to much of what you say here. I also agree my life is better here in Spain.

If I'd known the way the UK was heading I would've left. My biggest regret. Too old to upsticks now.

try 30 years and we can have a conversation,,,,,,,,,,

German: i personally hold you responsible for voting for Brexit Brit: I personally hold you responsible for voting for Hitler

Brazilian /Portuguese /UK citizen here, the last 20 years in the South of Brazil, where I have a far better life than I could in the UK, rarely visit the UK, but wouldn't give up the nationality, who knows in this rapidly changing world what the future may hold? If you're my age (60s)could you possibly have imagined in the early 80s that a Romanian or Polish passport would be a far more flexible travel document than a UK passport. Intresting thoughts in the video, Thanks.

What Brexiteers fail to realise is that under Free Movement a very large proportion of EU immigrants, stayed in the UK 'temporarily' for employment. That migration option was also two way. Since Brexit, European migration has been replaced, many fold, by non-European migration which is permanent. In a nutshell, European migrants return home to retire. Non-European migrants do not. I left the UK 21 years ago. Since Brexit, I decided never to return, even to visit. As a European it is not my Country any longer. No doubt Brexiteer bigots will say good riddance, but could not care less.

Uk is not christian....why should it be...its a great multicultural society and that is fantastic....only the right have issues with this....

That culture of hiding one's personality and using sarcasm and put-downs of others + bullying starts early on in the Brit school system. Most Brits stick with this learned behaviour through much of their adult lives. This negative behaviour masks varying degrees of self loathing. How does a society rooted in this mindset stand a chance?😮

This is the unavoidable full circle of being an empire. Imperial Britain was isolated while it spread across the world. It shrunk back to its shores with a vacuum effect bringing people from its former dominions. Not many English can connect with its imperial past. England was a cultural bubble while it ruled from abroad. Unlike the Romans it had a policy of "Us and Them". When London established itself as a global financial cornerstone it's just natural that people from it's former colonies and other nations would be attracted.

Make Britain Great Again. 😊

You speak very well,nice video...but...'The country of England and the Uk revolves around the city of London'?? Only people in and from London think this is true. The South West,Midlands, Lancashire, Yorkshire,North East, Wales, Scotland etc have their own stuff going on.

In another universe prince this guy is prince harry

I’m a British citizen by choice. I’ve lived i😮LONDON for over 44 years . I love the UK, I dearly love LONDON. BUT I have decided to move out to my country of birth because of financial difficulties. Now the cost of living has gone sky high. I can’t afford the rent, the council tax,the cost of utilities, WIFI , access to fruits and vegetables etc. My pension needs an £4000 a month, for me to just survive. In my own country, I’ll need only about £ 500 a month to lead a modest middle class life Fresh fruit,vegetables,fish and uncontaminated almost every food item. I can lead a life among greenery all around. England is unaffordable now. Over population is destroying the living conditions. Immigration is a burden to Britain 🇬🇧 at present.

Thank you for reminding me that my home country is an attractive and enjoyable part of Europe. We tend to moan and complain a lot (Jammern auf hohem Niveau). I love the Ruhr district for its many cultural assets and its surprisingly green areas. Mein Sehnsuchtsort ist Freiburg/Breisgau, weil die Stadt im Dreiländereck liegt. I am very much concerned about the AfD and the openly displayed hatred towards immigrants and persons of different faiths. Enjoy the rest of your Sunday.

I left in 2009 and could see the gradual decline every time I came back for a week or two. However, spending more time here recently you can see the country is in trouble. The entire west has declined. Fortunately I spend most of my time in Asia and Latin America so consider myself lucky but concerned that my home country is falling thanks to uncontrolled illegal immigrantion and the erosion of British values and culture.

Self-confessed incomplete answer from an Antipodean. Pretty rare. You get points for that if little else

remove or at least change/reduce the idiotic background chimes please

I`m English .... never had any problems with Germans oh and I love the German Christmas markets ❤👍

UK's biggest problem is it's become too poor, growth has been pathetic and inequality is rife.

Mass uncontrolled immigration. Sweden, France, Germany, Belgium and many others. The same story.

Imigration ruined uk.. Maybe.. Maybe its the old ladys.

I feel the same way. I would never give up being German, especially since I live in England.

God, Greed, Guns. It is a uniquely violent society as well as a social-Darwinist nation state where corporations have abnormal breadth of power relative to private individuals, and collective action for the public good ( unions, public funding of infrastructure, health and education) is widely looked down on. Their culture is overwhelmingly self-referential, which makes it very hard for them to genuinely understand whether people from other nations are coming from. That is reflected in the chronic clumsiness of American foreign policy. They desperately want to believe that fundamentally, their way of doing things is the Right And Only Way, and that given a genuinely free choice, surely everyone else in the world would agree with them, and the whole world would become a Greater America.

What uk? My home town and nearest major city are over run with recently arrived migrants from the islamic world.

thank you for that , that was indeed nuanced and balanced - i myself am returning to live in UK next year after 28 years in Hong Kong and in the intervening years Ive made numerous trips back to UK and incrementally felt more and more alien ...I have so many things I could add to your monologue that I don't know where to begin......i particularly find the terrestrial news media unbareably self-critical of itself as a nation and its history on the world stage . Another topic, but related is English people's individual self-censoring and deprication...In mid-20th century China it was always safest when talking 'where ears were hiding' to say something revolutionary in order to off-set any mis-interpretation or other random gossip of you being a loathesome counter-revolutionary. In UK men do this instinctively when talking about women, and indiginous caucasian people do it when discussing other races and any talk of sexualies etc etc.. and these subjects DO NOT go away they are ever present in virtually every aspect of life ...just as revolution was seen in every topic under Chairman Mao. On the + side I love , no, ADORE the fast flowing natural fluent English language that surrounds me in UK and i notice i have a perma-smile when in conversation...where I no longer need to simplify my English, as I mostly do in Hong Kong. Looking forward to the challenge...Thank you

Loving the comments here of the love between the British and the Germans. We've got similar humour, I love Germany, I could happily live there. The people are warm, accommodating, polite and are just nice overall. Sometimes being a brit abroad you might look rambunctious, but I know there's always a German that wants to join in on the fun. ;) Peace and blessings to you all.

Dear Brit in Germany, I think I saw that you actually live in Frankfurt, my old home town which I left in 1973 to move south to the Black Forest to then to leave Germany in 1988 altogether, it probably changed a lot, it definitely got bigger. Poor thing, the "Hesse" (from the federal country of Hessen where Frankfurt is located) is known for being the most direct in entire Germany, even other Germans complain at times. My english husband actually takes it quite well when I quickly end his self-delusion trip by bringing him straight back down to earth (auf den Boden der Tatsachen), he calls me hard but fair. I now live in lovely Suffolk and try to cope with the english way of "muddling through", not easy...

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My advice to all those who become ex pats is: enjoy your new, chosen home, chosen for whatever gravely important reasons YOU perceived necessitated this, and spare us your judgements, pronouncements and, MOST OF ALL, what are obviously YOUR lamentations your birth home no longer caters to YOUR PERSONAL VIEWPOINT OF LIFE, THUS CAUSING YOUR STAGGERING, ENDLESS AND OBVIOUS TEDIOUS AND SELF JUSTIFICATIONS. Go eat your sausages or sushi, wherever you prefer to hide in life, make your one regret lamentation and stop pretending your pose of “all knowingness” is anything BUT running for “safe” places that will prove NOT TO BE when whatever you think you ran away from comes knocking on your NEW door.

I moved to uk from Middle East in my early teens. Loved the initial people I met and how free and multicultural it was. Now it’s a wannabe fascist state hating and blaming everyone around it never looking in and the majority of good people are just being dragged along. Stop embracing Americanism. Be British.

It lost its way decades ago. Around the time The Middle Classes decided it wouldn't accept the Post War Settlement. Everything that has happened since then is a consequence.

London has become a shite hole under Khans mayoral rule, he is hell bent on destroying London as we once knew it. I live in Hertfordshire and nowadays I try not to go anywhere near it. The great replacement moves on apace.

i thought the opposite. I feel like the British spirit is lost. I am 32 and i find that anyone younger than we couldn't give a toss about being British. I'm not proud of my culture. even more so now that we have left the EU. I'm ashamed of being British when i go travelling and feel like i have to apologise. don't get me wrong i love the British countryside, our humour, our beer, our roast dinners, our accents, our slang, and i cant help but being conflictingly proud of how badass the SAS is. but i think its the politics that i hate and the fact that the country voted to leave the EU which i feel ashamed for when abroad - Like we think we are better than Europe? I for one would want to join more countries together, not separate us.