Just an offtopic: do you have any south(east)european ancestors? Just by looking at you I'd say you are from Italy or even more like from Romania or so..
I'm one of those. I came per coincidence in 1982..... only having wanted to stay a few weeks.... This was 39 years ago. Now I am a German citizen. Best decision ever.
The work to life balance is insane. My last job in America I was working 50-60 hour weeks with 5 yes FIVE days of vacation. After moving to Berlin, I now have a 37 hour work week with 30 days of vacation.
@Atlantic Thunder Not everyone works as a waiter or parcel delivery service. With very good qualification as a medical doctor, MBA, computer specialist or lawyer the 45k Euro is the amount your housekeeping will receive.😉
@Atlantic Thunder ... oh ... tell us about all those shiny perks in America ... could it be the real estate tax in those areas that it is actually desirable to live, or could it be your fantastic health care, or the great hidden tax called education, or the fantastic infrastructure, or could it be your world record crime rate? Or, totally forgot, all these freely available drugs that brought you the fantastic opioid "boom" and all those shiny guns. And let's not forget the mental health crisis which is simply a logical consequence of such a society. And, wow, Americans on average have $400 to their name and all that vacation time! Not to forget the massive cultural offer all across the country and such a lovely society with such lovely fascists popping up all over the place? Let me sum it up for you: Your country is closer to a civil war than we all want to believe and the fabric of society is falling apart by the seams. Wake up! Nice try though ... but you fool nobody here ...
@Atlantic Thunder You sound grumpy, your pay says you are not well educated and do not look attractive to potential employers. Seems you want a lot and are offering little. Where were you offered higher pay with lower costs of living?
No doctor will prescribe a spa or retreat and no employer will pay you for the free time that. this would require. I think you mixed up something here. I believe you were thinking of a Reha (Rehabilitationsmaßnahme) which is something you usually get after a very severe illness, surgery or in some times if you had a psychological breakdown, in which case it would be a therapy (Therapiemaßnahme). You can of course apply for this, but the MDK (Medizinischer Dienst) will evaluate if you qualify and since their main goal is to save money for the health care provider, they will deny it. Your best "chance" is to have cancer, knee surgery (like getting a new, artificial knee), an amputation or something along these lines. So really major stuff. And that is the only way your employer would be still paying you (but with a reduced salary). And that is ONLY because you are encouraged to get healthy again. Your employer can give you more than 24 days of vacation days (which he has to give you) but rarely would it exceed 30 days. You REALLY need to also give the information, that all the social benefits are only existing because we pay higher taxes! The government is not just throwing money at you. Also this is being paid by the taxpayers, so if there would only be people benefitting from all the "perks" and nobody would be working hard to pay for this, then all this would be quickly over. So what we need in Germany is not people just coming here because of all the "perks", but people who are willing to work hard and pay into the system, even if they don't benefit from it personally.
@@sonyaross2068 - sadly some people don't know that the word is "drivel" and not "dribble". "Dribble" is what your Grandma does. Sorry but it's one of my pet hates to see people misusing words.
@@sonyaross2068 You are right, on this channel there is a lot of misinformation or "half-truth". Though I don't think intentionally. I assume it is just not (well) researched, and more of a "hear-say" information that might have been misunderstood. I would always recommend to add a source, especially with this kind of information. But that's probably very German :-) Even if somebody "corrects" the misinformation I don't think that this is being read by those whose comments are along the lines of "sign me up, Germany here I come, I don't speak German, I don't intend to learn to speak German, I just want a great job that pays extremely well, I want 30 days of vacation and more and only work from 9-5 and expect everything to be like in my home-country, plus the added bonus of the German social benefits. So basically: I want to make use of all the benefits, but if Germany is not providing the right kind and variety of peanut butter, and stores are closed on Sundays, then this needs to change 😂 So I am exaggerating and polarizing of course, but sometimes that makes a point "clearer".
@@sonyaross2068 This comment is what's nonsense. There are loads of "burnt out" people in Rehas. It's not gatekept nearly as hard as you're making it out to be. Finding a psychiatrist is easy. Are you confusing them with psychotherapists?
Thanks for your video. If you come to Germany with a job then all is good but to come to Germany without a job is frowned upon from the locals especially if you don’t know the language! Please understand this, this has been my adjustment and I came with basic knowledge. Don’t expect that locals will teach you the language and or help you.. it’s just not the culture (in my experience). I am speaking from living in Stuttgart. Healthcare fields b2 to c1 knowledge. Tech can be English only. Accounting, business, c1. Taxes : >9500 starts being taxed at 15% and when salary increases then to 40% before 60k(?). Public Health insurance is based on %. You can pay up to 600 or more a month depending on your paycheck. But I do like the healthcare system here compared to the USA. Depending on your ethic background: language schools you can get 50% reimbursement or 100% but also your employer can offer a program. Children: kindergeld 150 (?) first child and second child and third child increase significantly. However it seems this system depends on one parent staying home for it to actually work (my opinion). For example School system begins 8ish and ends at 1 ish, it doesn’t seem always possible to be in two places always, unless 1 parent is working PT. Kita : costs money, waiting lists. Pregnancy : make sure you plan your pregnancy and you have a GYN and hospital beforehand. There are waiting lists for this. Government buildings and hospitals : you will need a translator/native. Customer support: they will hang up on you if you don’t speak properly and quickly, for instance GEZ (tv tax). Paperwork and such things: it’s done in German: make sure you have the right support system to help you. There’s always pros and cons to every country but ideally having a steady income and a good support system is top priority in my opinion:)
I would never move into another country without speaking the local language more or less fluently. I also have the impression that about all the immigrants succeeding in Germany do so (Level somewhere between B2 and C1, I guess). And that includes those that fled from Syria or African states a few years ago. And the successful ones hardly ever mention it, it is "normal/obvious" to them. Actually native English speakers are at a disadvantage because it is easier for them to communicate than it is for a person raised with a different language. But that effectively causes an additional distance to the locals because the locals have to adopt to them. That is acceptable at a hotel or restaurant but less so in private conversations.
I JUST moved to Germany last month and I am from Canada. I highly recommend to LEARN THE LANGUAGE BEFORE YOU MOVE TO GERMANY. Thankfully, I already had my B2 before I moved here and I cannot emphasize this enough. The overall quality of life will improve if you can speak the language. Only downside of moving to Germany is the Bürokratie, its horrible!!
Welcome to Germany Evelyn Duong. Xin Chao. Back to @Atlantic Thunder! Germany is not the best country, but there are many many other countries which are worse.
Employers in Germany don't have to give 5 weeks vacation time. By law they have to give 24 working days (Werktage) wich are from monday to saturday and would therefore amount to 4 weeks of paid vacation.
Interesting to watch from the perspective of a German Who has gone the opposite direction having been in Spain for 27 years and feeling somehow more and more disconnected with German society, values and life style.
Five weeks vacation are wrong, only four weeks are mandatory. A tariff agreement or company regulation and an individual agreement in the employment contract can provide for more, but this is not prescribed by law.
You are right. 24 days is the minimum by law and if you have a six day week you have 4 weeks but most of the times it's more. I had 30 days and a five day week which resulted in 6 weeks vacation.
@@aquascapingforever808 Mandatory is 4 weeks. How many days depends on your week days at work. A 5 day week results in 20 (!) days of vacation minimum by law. If you work in a 6 day week, you have 6 times 4 = 24 days vacation minimum. Most full time contracts offer you 30 days and more.
@@chrisb2942 "Da in Deutschland bis heute der Samstag als Werktag gilt, sieht das Gesetz mindestens 24 Werktage pro Jahr als bezahlten Urlaubsanspruch vor, sodass generell gilt: Ein Mitarbeiter hat das Recht auf mindestens 4 Wochen bezahlten Urlaub." IHK. Google einfach "Gesetzlicher Urlaubsanspruch Deutschland". 20 Tage ist somit nicht korrekt.
@@aquascapingforever808 Nein, das stimmt nicht. Habe extra geantwortet, damit hier keine falschen Informationen stehen und Missverständnisse passieren. Es kommt immer darauf an, wie viele Tage du pro Woche arbeitest. Jemand, der drei Tage arbeitet, hat entsprechend Anspruch auf 12 Tage Urlaub. acht ja auch Sinn, wenn du nochmal drüber nachdenkst ;) Also: ausschlaggebend ist, wie viele Tage du de facto pro Woche arbeitest. Ansonsten würdest du im Urlaub mehr Geld verdienen als wenn du arbeiten würdest - was natürlich nicht Sinn der Sache ist. Ich bin übrigens vom Fach. Es gilt: 4 Wochen Anspruch Urlaub erlangt je Kalenderjahr. Urlaubstage = Arbeitstage je Woche x 4 als Mindesturlaub
@@chrisb2942 Habe gerade auf einer anderen Seite auch Deine Aussage gelesen. Also keine Ahnung was nun tatsächlich richtig ist. Aber ist auch egal. 4 Wochen sind es auf jeden Fall egal wie man es in Tagen rechnet. Peace.
Hi, I have to correct something. There is no mandatory 5 week paid cacation, by lag its 4 weeks. However, 6 weeks in becoming more and more a Standard everywhere. And it has nothing to with the EU. Also the Spa you talk about is a rehabilitation facility and you usually get it for 3-4weeks for free while still getting paid by your Explorer;-)
Heyy! This is the first video I have watched but I have followed on Instagram for a while! I love this, my partner is German and I live in Scotland. In future there is a good chance we'll end up in Germany so this gives me a decent look into my possible future! :D
This is not true. I know many Americans and Canadians who lived in Germany and ultimately returned to the US and Canada. Sometimes a country can have a lot of great aspects to it and you still don't feel at home there... and that's ok.
"Never" is a bit overstated. I know people who left Germany because they weren´t happy here. I guess it also depends on where you´re from. Maybe people from the USA and Canada are more likely to stay here compared to people from other European countries. I personally can think of several reasons to actually leave Germany. It´s no paradise.
Precisely. And a lack of hospitality is definitely one of them. Germans are too square, inflexible and lack spontaneity, which makes it hard to adjust if you are coming from a spontaneous and welcoming culture.
My friend who married a German wife eventually is getting divorced soon. He said where he lives in Berlin, it was very hard to find a day care because Germany hasn't built enough day cares that he ended up being the stay at home dad until his son turned 5. I think he tried to get a job but couldn't because of his limited understanding of the German language (he's hard of hearing/deaf so he couldn't learn to speak the language) so he's apparently going to move back to America to try to get a job and stuff. If I was in his shoes, I would've simply stayed and tried to get a job that I could do just to keep in touch with my child (I have 2 now) and moved to my own place but he's not me so....
Hi, watching your video in my opinion gives people the impression, that Germany is some sort of wonderland for erverybody to live in. It´s not, alright the points you mentioned were right, but don´t forget all those benefits has to be paid by the taxpayer and it requires all the residants to work and contribute their money for decades. Those beautiful social benefits like healthcare, schools and so on has to be achieved somehow! It requires first of all, giving and later on taking......you should have mentioned it at least.
I've visited Germany 3 times, so I understand your obsession with it. You're such a wonderful person that I'd like to see your vlogs about everyday life, even if they are not related to Germany. ;)
So, can someone just "retire" and move to Germany? I am a Law Enforcement officer in the United States. I am planning to retire in a couple years. My wife and I wanted to move to Germany as we have heard great things about the quality of life in Germany. I will have a very good pension, therefor have no intentions on working. What kind of Visa would I qualify for, if any?
Canada is a very big country and you can visit many nature and scenic places. Germany is not even size of one province in Canada. Why did you leave your country ?
@@DianaVerry Hey. I checked out your Facebook page and gave it a like but I could not find your birthdate. You do not have to put the year. Just the day and month. People are interested.🙂
In the U.S. in the past 4-5 years (some) companies have begun to offer employess unlimited leave/time off. I have heard pros and - and actually cons - from friends that work at companies with this option. My employer allows 21 vacation days, 10 federal holidays and 10 days of sick leave. So, not all U.S. companies are not supportive of employees taking leave.
Stable mentality in general. Not consistent but reasonable product quality in general. Tax too high but everyone lives so. Infrastructure is solid. Federal and private pension schemes are not bad. Safe in general.
Hi Diana - love your clips. I'm having one request for you and assume you've been asked about this many times already. How about with just one clip independend of the topic where you speak German instead of English? What do you think?
It's the other way round: employers all across the EU have to give their employees so much vacation time because Germany set the bar so high in the first place. Legally mandatory are 4 full weeks, i.e. 20 days in a 5d/week or 24 days in a 6d/week contract plus the legal holidays that may vary from Bundesland to Bundesland.
@@oXSimonXo Lucky them. Repeating myself: employers must give the equivalent of four full work weeks paid vacation time. If they throw in the odd extra day, all the better. I've worked in shitty jobs long enough, so I KNOW there are employers who don't do more than they have to.
Hello Diana, you look just fabulous today. Very good topic with some very important points that unfortunately a lot of people start to forget. But with a few moments on thinking about our lives here in Germany, we should appreciate this thing's much more, because in the end it's a privileged life if you do something for it. Thanks for your video. I hope you guys are having a good time and enjoy the weather as much as possible 🙂😎☀️🥂
Is it true that in every EU country including Switzerland has a large number of people with masters and PHD degree? And are software engineers with master degree paid more for the same position when compared to bachelors? ( which generally don't happen in US or Canada, people are paid according to their skill sets especially in tech field)
It’s true that they do have a higher education, due to schooling being cheaper or free but it’s not always the case that the pay will be higher. It depends no the hiring company and your work experience
@@DianaVerry You are also working in Tech, so do you have Masters? By the way, I am currently a bachelor's student of computer science engineering in India. So if I don't pursue masters right now. How much salary I can expect in Germany as a fresher?
@@Spidey-tm2po Depends on your speciality, where you can fit, what this specific industry and company is able to pay. There are no iron rules. Some pay the minimum, some pay relocation, some pay additional incentives, others none of them. You have to apply and see what the future brings.
haha; its not booming economy first of all, secondly, i think germany is much more better for average people; if you are at top tier in us, or other first world country, one dont prefer or should not prefer to go to germany
Maybe, if you have won the battle against the bureaucracy and get a regular rent contract, the rock which fall out of your brain and heart make you fly.
Don’t want be to a hairsplitter, but doses an „expat“ that doesn’t leave cease to be an „expat“ and become a resident/citizen with migration background..?
@@wolfgangpreier9160 don’t doubt that, it is just that my understanding of „expat“ means a person who is temporarily working in another country and not intending to stay there for ever.
also, you don´t really need an mba or any other university degree; you can just learn a craft and often earn more than a a lot of "higher education" careers while saving many years of having no pay ...
US-americans/canadians/native english speakers (esp if they are white) think they are above other migrants so they still call themselfs "expats" even when they live here for like 30 years
@@GinnySiska They don t wanna call themselves migrants, because that is an ugly word. I used to be an expat in Guatemala, now I am a migrant in Australia. I wish I could have stayed home in Germany.
@@sonyaross2068 i understand an expat to be someone who knows they will only stay in a foreign country for a set time and does not mix much with the locals. That was the case for me in Guatemala. I spoke good spanish and had Guatemalan friends, but somehow there was never that feeling of blending in with society because the wealth difference is just so extreme. I could tell that Guatemalans never saw me or other Westerners as truly equal simply because we could leave the country whenever we wanted to and we were always seen as millionaires in the eyes of the Central Americans. All of this should not be the case of a Canadian living in Germany for a long time. They are migrants if they choose to live there. Just like I am a migrant in Australia.
A very warm Welcome to all you Canadians coming abroad but you have lost some of your countrymates: Justin Trudeau, Ryan Reynolds, Ryan Gosling, Alannis Morrissette, Celine Dion and don't forget the great 69, Wayne Gretzky
We have lots of churches, in many regions even small villages usually have a own church. The south and west of Germany are katholic in majority, the north and east protestant (though the east is from its time as GDR/soviet zone the area with the by far least religious population). Baptist in Germany: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Evangelical_Free_Churches_in_Germany Not rarely, especially in villages and sometimes in smaller towns, churches (the buildings) are shared between protestant and katholics for mass (scheduled at different times obv).
You can, but you really shouldn't! It would be extremely rude and ignorant to come to a country without learning the language and expecting everyone to accommodate your lack of language skills or even the willingness to learn the language.
No wonder your taxes are so high; sending folks to the Spa. A pity that the Eurowings pilot who crashed his plane in a mountain did not go to a Spa to relax.
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Just an offtopic: do you have any south(east)european ancestors? Just by looking at you I'd say you are from Italy or even more like from Romania or so..
I'm one of those. I came per coincidence in 1982..... only having wanted to stay a few weeks.... This was 39 years ago. Now I am a German citizen. Best decision ever.
Thanks for that.
lucky you! Wish I could have done the same.
Give it another year
The work to life balance is insane. My last job in America I was working 50-60 hour weeks with 5 yes FIVE days of vacation. After moving to Berlin, I now have a 37 hour work week with 30 days of vacation.
Same here. German living in America for 29 years
@Atlantic Thunder Not everyone works as a waiter or parcel delivery service. With very good qualification as a medical doctor, MBA, computer specialist or lawyer the 45k Euro is the amount your housekeeping will receive.😉
@Atlantic Thunder ... oh ... tell us about all those shiny perks in America ... could it be the real estate tax in those areas that it is actually desirable to live, or could it be your fantastic health care, or the great hidden tax called education, or the fantastic infrastructure, or could it be your world record crime rate? Or, totally forgot, all these freely available drugs that brought you the fantastic opioid "boom" and all those shiny guns. And let's not forget the mental health crisis which is simply a logical consequence of such a society. And, wow, Americans on average have $400 to their name and all that vacation time! Not to forget the massive cultural offer all across the country and such a lovely society with such lovely fascists popping up all over the place?
Let me sum it up for you: Your country is closer to a civil war than we all want to believe and the fabric of society is falling apart by the seams. Wake up! Nice try though ... but you fool nobody here ...
@Atlantic Thunder why would you need a car in Berlin?
@Atlantic Thunder You sound grumpy, your pay says you are not well educated and do not look attractive to potential employers. Seems you want a lot and are offering little. Where were you offered higher pay with lower costs of living?
No doctor will prescribe a spa or retreat and no employer will pay you for the free time that. this would require.
I think you mixed up something here. I believe you were thinking of a Reha (Rehabilitationsmaßnahme) which is something you usually get after a very severe illness, surgery or in some times if you had a psychological breakdown, in which case it would be a therapy (Therapiemaßnahme). You can of course apply for this, but the MDK (Medizinischer Dienst) will evaluate if you qualify and since their main goal is to save money for the health care provider, they will deny it. Your best "chance" is to have cancer, knee surgery (like getting a new, artificial knee), an amputation or something along these lines. So really major stuff. And that is the only way your employer would be still paying you (but with a reduced salary). And that is ONLY because you are encouraged to get healthy again.
Your employer can give you more than 24 days of vacation days (which he has to give you) but rarely would it exceed 30 days.
You REALLY need to also give the information, that all the social benefits are only existing because we pay higher taxes! The government is not just throwing money at you. Also this is being paid by the taxpayers, so if there would only be people benefitting from all the "perks" and nobody would be working hard to pay for this, then all this would be quickly over. So what we need in Germany is not people just coming here because of all the "perks", but people who are willing to work hard and pay into the system, even if they don't benefit from it personally.
@@sonyaross2068 - sadly some people don't know that the word is "drivel" and not "dribble". "Dribble" is what your Grandma does. Sorry but it's one of my pet hates to see people misusing words.
@@sonyaross2068 You are right, on this channel there is a lot of misinformation or "half-truth". Though I don't think intentionally. I assume it is just not (well) researched, and more of a "hear-say" information that might have been misunderstood. I would always recommend to add a source, especially with this kind of information. But that's probably very German :-)
Even if somebody "corrects" the misinformation I don't think that this is being read by those whose comments are along the lines of "sign me up, Germany here I come, I don't speak German, I don't intend to learn to speak German, I just want a great job that pays extremely well, I want 30 days of vacation and more and only work from 9-5 and expect everything to be like in my home-country, plus the added bonus of the German social benefits. So basically: I want to make use of all the benefits, but if Germany is not providing the right kind and variety of peanut butter, and stores are closed on Sundays, then this needs to change 😂
So I am exaggerating and polarizing of course, but sometimes that makes a point "clearer".
@@sonyaross2068 This comment is what's nonsense. There are loads of "burnt out" people in Rehas. It's not gatekept nearly as hard as you're making it out to be. Finding a psychiatrist is easy. Are you confusing them with psychotherapists?
Thanks for your video. If you come to Germany with a job then all is good but to come to Germany without a job is frowned upon from the locals especially if you don’t know the language! Please understand this, this has been my adjustment and I came with basic knowledge.
Don’t expect that locals will teach you the language and or help you.. it’s just not the culture (in my experience). I am speaking from living in Stuttgart.
Healthcare fields b2 to c1 knowledge. Tech can be English only. Accounting, business, c1.
Taxes : >9500 starts being taxed at 15% and when salary increases then to 40% before 60k(?).
Public Health insurance is based on %. You can pay up to 600 or more a month depending on your paycheck. But I do like the healthcare system here compared to the USA.
Depending on your ethic background: language schools you can get 50% reimbursement or 100% but also your employer can offer a program.
Children: kindergeld 150 (?) first child and second child and third child increase significantly. However it seems this system depends on one parent staying home for it to actually work (my opinion). For example School system begins 8ish and ends at 1 ish, it doesn’t seem always possible to be in two places always, unless 1 parent is working PT.
Kita : costs money, waiting lists.
Pregnancy : make sure you plan your pregnancy and you have a GYN and hospital beforehand. There are waiting lists for this.
Government buildings and hospitals : you will need a translator/native.
Customer support: they will hang up on you if you don’t speak properly and quickly, for instance GEZ (tv tax).
Paperwork and such things: it’s done in German: make sure you have the right support system to help you.
There’s always pros and cons to every country but ideally having a steady income and a good support system is top priority in my opinion:)
I would never move into another country without speaking the local language more or less fluently. I also have the impression that about all the immigrants succeeding in Germany do so (Level somewhere between B2 and C1, I guess). And that includes those that fled from Syria or African states a few years ago.
And the successful ones hardly ever mention it, it is "normal/obvious" to them.
Actually native English speakers are at a disadvantage because it is easier for them to communicate than it is for a person raised with a different language. But that effectively causes an additional distance to the locals because the locals have to adopt to them. That is acceptable at a hotel or restaurant but less so in private conversations.
I JUST moved to Germany last month and I am from Canada. I highly recommend to LEARN THE LANGUAGE BEFORE YOU MOVE TO GERMANY. Thankfully, I already had my B2 before I moved here and I cannot emphasize this enough. The overall quality of life will improve if you can speak the language. Only downside of moving to Germany is the Bürokratie, its horrible!!
yes ... it is
@@oliverdonder7616 German bureaucracy might be tedious sometimes, but at the end of the day it usually *works*.
You cant blame german burocrathy before you filled form b- 2475 .
You know that dont,you?
@@theraven5935 I had .. was a pain in my .... ^^. But the bigger Problem was "Passierschein A38"
Welcome to Germany Evelyn Duong. Xin Chao. Back to @Atlantic Thunder! Germany is not the best country, but there are many many other countries which are worse.
Happy birthday Diana Verry 🎈❤️. Thank you for always educating us about your life in Germany.
Employers in Germany don't have to give 5 weeks vacation time. By law they have to give 24 working days (Werktage) wich are from monday to saturday and would therefore amount to 4 weeks of paid vacation.
If they never want to leave, then they are immigrants:)
expat is just another word
No, expats are people who are willing to return to their country.
Interesting to watch from the perspective of a German Who has gone the opposite direction having been in Spain for 27 years and feeling somehow more and more disconnected with German society, values and life style.
We just created a comparison of private vs public vs travel health insurance for expats in Germany. Interested ?
Good luck, young people. I envy you. If I were young I'd be in Germany in a NY minute.
You are young, you are online.
I love Vancouver. The only reason I would stick around in Germany is the bread and apple kuchen.
Five weeks vacation are wrong, only four weeks are mandatory. A tariff agreement or company regulation and an individual agreement in the employment contract can provide for more, but this is not prescribed by law.
You are right. 24 days is the minimum by law and if you have a six day week you have 4 weeks but most of the times it's more. I had 30 days and a five day week which resulted in 6 weeks vacation.
@@aquascapingforever808 Mandatory is 4 weeks. How many days depends on your week days at work. A 5 day week results in 20 (!) days of vacation minimum by law. If you work in a 6 day week, you have 6 times 4 = 24 days vacation minimum. Most full time contracts offer you 30 days and more.
@@chrisb2942 "Da in Deutschland bis heute der Samstag als Werktag gilt, sieht das Gesetz mindestens 24 Werktage pro Jahr als bezahlten Urlaubsanspruch vor, sodass generell gilt: Ein Mitarbeiter hat das Recht auf mindestens 4 Wochen bezahlten Urlaub." IHK. Google einfach "Gesetzlicher Urlaubsanspruch Deutschland". 20 Tage ist somit nicht korrekt.
@@aquascapingforever808 Nein, das stimmt nicht. Habe extra geantwortet, damit hier keine falschen Informationen stehen und Missverständnisse passieren. Es kommt immer darauf an, wie viele Tage du pro Woche arbeitest. Jemand, der drei Tage arbeitet, hat entsprechend Anspruch auf 12 Tage Urlaub. acht ja auch Sinn, wenn du nochmal drüber nachdenkst ;) Also: ausschlaggebend ist, wie viele Tage du de facto pro Woche arbeitest. Ansonsten würdest du im Urlaub mehr Geld verdienen als wenn du arbeiten würdest - was natürlich nicht Sinn der Sache ist. Ich bin übrigens vom Fach.
Es gilt: 4 Wochen Anspruch Urlaub erlangt je Kalenderjahr. Urlaubstage = Arbeitstage je Woche x 4 als Mindesturlaub
@@chrisb2942 Habe gerade auf einer anderen Seite auch Deine Aussage gelesen. Also keine Ahnung was nun tatsächlich richtig ist. Aber ist auch egal. 4 Wochen sind es auf jeden Fall egal wie man es in Tagen rechnet. Peace.
Hi, I have to correct something. There is no mandatory 5 week paid cacation, by lag its 4 weeks. However, 6 weeks in becoming more and more a Standard everywhere. And it has nothing to with the EU. Also the Spa you talk about is a rehabilitation facility and you usually get it for 3-4weeks for free while still getting paid by your Explorer;-)
Heyy! This is the first video I have watched but I have followed on Instagram for a while! I love this, my partner is German and I live in Scotland. In future there is a good chance we'll end up in Germany so this gives me a decent look into my possible future! :D
Thanks so much for watching ❤️
@Atlantic Thunder - Kein Problem, kannst jederzeit dein Glück woanders versuchen. Gibt genug Menschen die gerne mit dir tauschen. Jederzeit.
@Atlantic Thunder bist offenbar auch nicht die hellste Kerze auf dem Kuchen
Is this app (lingoda) free?
This is not true. I know many Americans and Canadians who lived in Germany and ultimately returned to the US and Canada. Sometimes a country can have a lot of great aspects to it and you still don't feel at home there... and that's ok.
"Never" is a bit overstated. I know people who left Germany because they weren´t happy here. I guess it also depends on where you´re from. Maybe people from the USA and Canada are more likely to stay here compared to people from other European countries. I personally can think of several reasons to actually leave Germany. It´s no paradise.
Precisely. And a lack of hospitality is definitely one of them. Germans are too square, inflexible and lack spontaneity, which makes it hard to adjust if you are coming from a spontaneous and welcoming culture.
Es wäre interessant ein Video von dir zu sehen wo du nur Deutsch sprichst. Nach 4 Jahren hast du sicher schon vieles gelernt. : )
My friend who married a German wife eventually is getting divorced soon. He said where he lives in Berlin, it was very hard to find a day care because Germany hasn't built enough day cares that he ended up being the stay at home dad until his son turned 5. I think he tried to get a job but couldn't because of his limited understanding of the German language (he's hard of hearing/deaf so he couldn't learn to speak the language) so he's apparently going to move back to America to try to get a job and stuff. If I was in his shoes, I would've simply stayed and tried to get a job that I could do just to keep in touch with my child (I have 2 now) and moved to my own place but he's not me so....
You look so great 😀. Am happy you are feeling better now .
Thank you ❤️
feliz cumple Diana, like your VIDEOS a lot, glad your feeling fine.
I always want to move live in Germany
I would never miss your videos
❤️
Awesome Video! You are mega (great)!
😊😊😊❤️ thank you!
Thanks for the language add.
Hi, watching your video in my opinion gives people the impression, that Germany is some sort of wonderland for erverybody to live in.
It´s not, alright the points you mentioned were right, but don´t forget all those benefits has to be paid by the taxpayer and it requires all the residants
to work and contribute their money for decades. Those beautiful social benefits like healthcare, schools and so on has to be achieved somehow!
It requires first of all, giving and later on taking......you should have mentioned it at least.
Happy birthday Diana May you have a blessed year as we all do
I've visited Germany 3 times, so I understand your obsession with it. You're such a wonderful person that I'd like to see your vlogs about everyday life, even if they are not related to Germany. ;)
So, can someone just "retire" and move to Germany? I am a Law Enforcement officer in the United States. I am planning to retire in a couple years. My wife and I wanted to move to Germany as we have heard great things about the quality of life in Germany. I will have a very good pension, therefor have no intentions on working. What kind of Visa would I qualify for, if any?
Imagine having a total medical bill for Back surgery including a 2 week hospital stay for approxiamately $170.00, my German medical bill!
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Canada is a very big country and you can visit many nature and scenic places. Germany is not even size of one province in Canada. Why did you leave your country ?
Give it another year
Work-Life-Balance kannst du dir bei einem 14 Stunden Arbeitstag abschminken!
Selber Schuld... Augen auf bei der Berufswahl... ;-)
Hiya Diana, Is it your birthday? Well. I want to wish you all the best. Germany looks a great place to start a new career. Thanks for the video.
It’s on August 2nd 😊😊 thanks!
@@DianaVerry Hey. I checked out your Facebook page and gave it a like but I could not find your birthdate. You do not have to put the year. Just the day and month. People are interested.🙂
In the U.S. in the past 4-5 years (some) companies have begun to offer employess unlimited leave/time off. I have heard pros and - and actually cons - from friends that work at companies with this option.
My employer allows 21 vacation days, 10 federal holidays and 10 days of sick leave. So, not all U.S. companies are not supportive of employees taking leave.
In Italy. They move back and forth doing this
Germany... Germany.... I couldn't hear a Geman word from U, babey.
I've been offered a job in Berlin for 65k euros. Is this considered a decent living wage?
Stable mentality in general. Not consistent but reasonable product quality in general. Tax too high but everyone lives so. Infrastructure is solid. Federal and private pension schemes are not bad. Safe in general.
Hi Diana - love your clips. I'm having one request for you and assume you've been asked about this many times already. How about with just one clip independend of the topic where you speak German instead of English? What do you think?
I lived in Germany for 3 years in the early 90’s and have since found that life in the western countries is very much the same.
I made different experiences. Btw 30 years is long time ago..
I’ve lived in Denmark for over 20yrs and still say life in the western countries is very much the same.
Had yo wait 4fucking minutes to get to it
How can I be a care giver in Germany?
Anyone, please help.
stop with these adds
It's the other way round: employers all across the EU have to give their employees so much vacation time because Germany set the bar so high in the first place. Legally mandatory are 4 full weeks, i.e. 20 days in a 5d/week or 24 days in a 6d/week contract plus the legal holidays that may vary from Bundesland to Bundesland.
Personally I don't know anybody with just 20 days of paid holidays. The average seems to be around 25-30 days, actually.
@@oXSimonXo Lucky them. Repeating myself: employers must give the equivalent of four full work weeks paid vacation time. If they throw in the odd extra day, all the better. I've worked in shitty jobs long enough, so I KNOW there are employers who don't do more than they have to.
Bei uns in Hamburg gibt es seid 5 Jahren eine portuguisische Bäckerei. Bäckereien aus Portugual sind auch nicht so schlecht. :D
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I found this video among why I left germany videos.
and the prescription spa is being paid for by your health insurance :D
Agggh northamericans are so lucky for trave and live abroad "so easily". I envy you Diana, auf jeden Fall!
Hello Diana,
you look just fabulous today.
Very good topic with some very important points that unfortunately a lot of people start to forget.
But with a few moments on thinking about our lives here in Germany, we should appreciate this thing's much more, because in the end it's a privileged life if you do something for it.
Thanks for your video.
I hope you guys are having a good time and enjoy the weather as much as possible 🙂😎☀️🥂
Thanks Robert 😊 I hope you’re having a good summer too!
@@DianaVerry thank you very much, I'll do my best!! 😎🤠
Hi Diana thank you very much for telling us all about that kind regards Andrew
Yes, UK. Please send us all your cuties :)) Therefore you can keep ... all the fish! 😂
Happy b-day!
Is it true that in every EU country including Switzerland has a large number of people with masters and PHD degree? And are software engineers with master degree paid more for the same position when compared to bachelors? ( which generally don't happen in US or Canada, people are paid according to their skill sets especially in tech field)
It’s true that they do have a higher education, due to schooling being cheaper or free but it’s not always the case that the pay will be higher. It depends no the hiring company and your work experience
@@DianaVerry You are also working in Tech, so do you have Masters?
By the way, I am currently a bachelor's student of computer science engineering in India. So if I don't pursue masters right now. How much salary I can expect in Germany as a fresher?
I want to experience the industry for 2-3 years before masters
@@Spidey-tm2po Depends on your speciality, where you can fit, what this specific industry and company is able to pay. There are no iron rules. Some pay the minimum, some pay relocation, some pay additional incentives, others none of them. You have to apply and see what the future brings.
@@Spidey-tm2po I would start with the Master and I would try to find a part time job while doing the Master.
Didi ji how much money should I bring from india to become twenty thousand in Canada and please tell Didi please 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😭
I suggest you watch Louise Ware-Armstrong on CZcams. She is an immigrant from the UK to Canada and she explains the process pretty well.
@@nancyrafnson4780 ok
haha; its not booming economy first of all, secondly, i think germany is much more better for average people; if you are at top tier in us, or other first world country, one dont prefer or should not prefer to go to germany
Eveey of your videos minium 30 % or plus of the video time is advertising!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe, if you have won the battle against the bureaucracy
and get a regular rent contract, the rock which fall out of your brain and heart make you fly.
I love you 😘
@Diana better block such losers like Atlantic Thunder, he trolls the whole comment area with his anger on his poor life and is just annoying
I have been to Australia 30 years ago the work experience still up to date but the rest is rubbish so I"m lucky to be still a german.
Don’t want be to a hairsplitter, but doses an „expat“ that doesn’t leave cease to be an „expat“ and become a resident/citizen with migration background..?
They are many more migrants then expats. Actually i am one too. My great grand parents migrated from bohemia, moravia and schlesia.
@@wolfgangpreier9160 don’t doubt that, it is just that my understanding of „expat“ means a person who is temporarily working in another country and not intending to stay there for ever.
@@tommay6590 Yes, but look at the CZcams algorithm. Does it present more "expat" or more "migrant" for your views?
@@wolfgangpreier9160 see your point, just wanted to split some hairs:-)
@@tommay6590 👌consider it frayed now!
Can you adopt me, please?! Need to flee Trumperica!
You mean Bidenerica.
also, you don´t really need an mba or any other university degree; you can just learn a craft and often earn more than a a lot of "higher education" careers while saving many years of having no pay ...
cuz there is money fo freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
If you never leave Germany, you should consider yourself a migrant.
US-americans/canadians/native english speakers (esp if they are white) think they are above other migrants so they still call themselfs "expats" even when they live here for like 30 years
@@GinnySiska They don t wanna call themselves migrants, because that is an ugly word. I used to be an expat in Guatemala, now I am a migrant in Australia. I wish I could have stayed home in Germany.
@@sonyaross2068 i understand an expat to be someone who knows they will only stay in a foreign country for a set time and does not mix much with the locals. That was the case for me in Guatemala. I spoke good spanish and had Guatemalan friends, but somehow there was never that feeling of blending in with society because the wealth difference is just so extreme. I could tell that Guatemalans never saw me or other Westerners as truly equal simply because we could leave the country whenever we wanted to and we were always seen as millionaires in the eyes of the Central Americans.
All of this should not be the case of a Canadian living in Germany for a long time. They are migrants if they choose to live there. Just like I am a migrant in Australia.
A very warm Welcome to all you Canadians coming abroad but you have lost some of your countrymates: Justin Trudeau, Ryan Reynolds, Ryan Gosling, Alannis Morrissette, Celine Dion and don't forget the great 69, Wayne Gretzky
Do they have Baptist or Christian church’s there? Thanks
We have lots of churches, in many regions even small villages usually have a own church. The south and west of Germany are katholic in majority, the north and east protestant (though the east is from its time as GDR/soviet zone the area with the by far least religious population).
Baptist in Germany: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Evangelical_Free_Churches_in_Germany
Not rarely, especially in villages and sometimes in smaller towns, churches (the buildings) are shared between protestant and katholics for mass (scheduled at different times obv).
isn't that.... an immigrant?
Can we work in germany if we know only english
Yes. Especially in Berlin
@@DianaVerry thanks for letting me know
You can, but you really shouldn't! It would be extremely rude and ignorant to come to a country without learning the language and expecting everyone to accommodate your lack of language skills or even the willingness to learn the language.
Ironically, for some reason it's better to know Zero German than have an intermediate level. The reason why? It beats me...
You are so beautiful....
When I come to Germany, will you meet me 😀
if I come to the place you are - will also become hot pretty gorgeous ... also
How can l go in the Deutschland, what l do
Thanks for your invitation to everybody to come to Germany and lay into the social hammock.
I might have seen a different video... did I miss a secret message or maybe a deleted part in which she was doing what you describe?
No wonder your taxes are so high; sending folks to the Spa. A pity that the Eurowings pilot who crashed his plane in a mountain did not go to a Spa to relax.
Get your issues under control.
I want job .. please give me job