7 Things We Love About Hannover, Germany 🇩🇪 Germany's Most Boring City
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- We have been living in Germany as Americans for 1 month in Hannover, allegedly Germany's most boring city. These are 7 things we love about living in Hannover, Germany so far!
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Hannover is a total Underdog City! But with the best zoo in Germany and the Herrenhäuser Gardens with all the pretty nice festivals!
Also: Lots of interesting city quarters with a rather distinct ambience, like Linden and the Limmer Straße, E-Damm (Engelbosteler Damm), Herrenhausen, Döhren, Wülfel, Oststadt with Lister Meile and so on. During summer the Kiesteiche are very popular.
Absolutely! We have really been enjoying our time here so far!
We've loved exploring all the districts in Hannover, but still have a lot more to see!
Plus, the german that is spoken in Hannover is pretty much accent free - much easier to understand than anywhere else in Germany! ;-)
That’s great news, especially as we’re still learning German!
In Lower Saxony we say to the other Germans: We speak as you write (because the others don't speak the proper German as they write it).
No, a North German resident doesn't speak without a dialect, he just doesn't recognise it himself. Please look up "Siggi and Rainer" on the Internet - that's Hanoverian working class in its purest form (unfortunately dying out, but remnants of it can still be recognised in today's everyday language).
I spelled it wrong: the two dudes are called "Siggi und Raner"
i am born and raised in hannover and from what i have experianced it is one of the best cities to live in in europe.
not too small, not too big, not flooded by tourists. tons of culture, subculture, history, music and lifestyle for all ages. What makes living in Hannover so attractive is how green and spread the city is. Green is not only around the city but everywhere in it. Huge parks, a forest 2 times the size of central park, multiple lakes, alleys with trees and many more smaller parks makes it easy to feel more in a calm big village than a city of half a million inhabitants. The different quaters of the city are also very divers. You where only showing the tourist hotspots. but wait until you discovered Linden, List, Nordstadt or Suedstadt for yourself. Hannover is about a perfect quality of life. Where you have everything you need and wish near by while also being able to escape the stress of your daily life without needing to leave the city.
I don't know too many citys very well. but I live in NL for 8 years now and i can tell you none of the dutch cities is getting close to what you get in hannover. Not Amsterdam, Not Utrecht, Not Rotterdam nor The Hague. And in Germany i know Leipzig, Berlin, Koeln, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Bremen quite well and from those i would still prefer Hannover. (While Hamburg and Leipzig are also pretty nice!)
Thank you! We made this video only about a month after living here, so hadn't explored too much of the city. Now, we've explored quite a bit of Hannover, but certainly not all of it. If you have any other recommendations for Hannover, please let us know!
We'll also have to check out Hamburg and Leipzig!
Thanks for your informations
I’m from the Netherlands and the cities you’re missing are Den Bosch, Leiden, Delft, Groningen, Maastricht, Deventer, Nijmegen and Arnhem where I live.
I understand the rest of your opinion. Big cities are definitely not working for me also in terms of overcrowded, pricing of houses, little green, impoverished, ghetto vibes etc. I guess that’s the deal you take when living in big cities.
I would love to see Hamburg because that is where rock and roll began. I know the square with the Rathous is beautiful and remains historic looking, but I hope the rest of the city is not too modern looking because of the war 80 years ago.
one of the Biggest "forest in a city" In Europe. twice as big as the central park. Ellenriede. I moved here from Switzerland (!) and I love it
Yes! We are loving the Eilenriede! It’s such a wonderful escape into nature right in the city.
You have to visit the "Milchhäuschen" in the Eilenriede too for a Glühwein in the winter or a cake in the Summer. It's like a small "Schrebergarten" 😄 But mind the opening times.
And if you want to you can bike (only with some small crossings) inside the Eilenriede all the way out to Kirchrode and visit the Herman Löhns Park or the Tiergarten with free running deers.
Yo, gonna do exactly that (move to Hannover from Switzerland) later this year haha. Hope I won't miss the mountains too much :') but looks like a great city, looking forward to living there. Do you feel like you made a good call?
Real hannover native here living in los angeles. Love the video make my heart heavy :)
Thank you for this great presentation.
Michael
Thank you for the kind words! We'll have more videos of Hannover to come!
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1. Aldstadt, (partially rebuilt) Oldtown
2. Maschsee, huge lake near the center
3. great Transportation with Bus, Tram, Train, Bike
4. people's passion for Hannover 96 soccer team
5. welcoming, friendly people
6. Eilenriede city forest (2x central park, Hannover in general being one of the greenest cities in Europe)
7. Biergartens
Thanks for watching!
I strongly disagree with nr 5. Hannover has the most unfriendly, cold and distanced people in the entire country. If you do the tourist thing and have some money, maybe you get a differnt perspective but if you just move here in the ages of 30+ and live here you will see how ugly the people here are. Especially when you start moving across the country and have some comparison.
Hannover might not be the most interesting city for a Tourist, but it think provides a great life quality.
Also neat is that Hannover is close to the center of germany and many major Autobahns and high-speed train connection run trough Hannover, so you can get pretty much anywhere in Germany very fast. Hamburg and Berlin 1.5h via train, Munich 4h via train.
The quality of life in Hannover has been amazing so far!
I am from New Zealand and in October last year while on holiday visiting my sister and her husband who were living in London, England at the time, we came over to Germany to see both Berlin and Hannover. We stayed two nights in Hannover and walked around the city exploring before attending the Hannover 96 vs Karlsruher FC 2. Bundesliga game on that weekend. That was an eye-opening experience in itself and the local team won the game 1-0. I also picked up a replica home jersey from a fan shop inside the stadium grounds. I enjoyed my time in the city however fleeting it was.
We're glad to hear that you had such a lovely time in Hannover, even if it was a short stay. It's so wonderful to hear others' experiences of Hannover too! Thank you for watching and commenting, and maybe see you around Hannover in the future!
About a year or so living here! Great city, with a lot of potential! It's like a big/little city, you have everything u need, without being overwhelmed! The only downsides are the weather (natürlich) and the junkies. But still, the capital of Hochdeutsch has more pros than cons!
So far we’ve seen way more pros than cons!
@@MYTravelBF definitely!
Junkies bad? They are great! A constant reminder how awesome your life is.
i have born and raised in hannover. its not boring at all. its just that hannover is a city with no scandals that are pushed in the media and so on. hannover is well known for its community arround music (scorpions are from hannover). there are so much acrivities you can do in and arround the town. you really like to have a town every day in the news ?
i am sure you will discover all the secret gems hannover has to offer. and you should continue to make content about that . maybe it will be an eye opener for some ppl that find the town boring ^^
greetings
Thank you! If you have any of those secret gems you mentioned that you’d like to share with us, please do!
I have been born in Hannover too...been born
Hannover,...not hannover
It's not its
Activities
Such a beautiful tribute to my Hometown! Thank you so much😊
Thank you for the kind words! We're glad we could do it justice. Stay tuned for more videos!
Do not miss out on the international fireworks competition in mid September!
It is located in the baroque Herrenhäuser Gärten. If you cannot get a ticket, just do as many Hannoverans do, grab a bottle of beer, whine or bubbly and a picknick-blanket and watch from the bank of the moat surrounding the gardens. Life cannot get any better than that.
Yes! That's exactly what we did last Saturday! The fireworks were great, even sitting in the area outside of the gardens.
Great! Now I am jealous 😉
Greetings from my Munich diaspora.
@@MYTravelBF you are the best. this is what the real locals do, dont pay and seeing it from outside.
Danke ! Ich bin Hannoveraner und liebe diese Stadt!
Vielen Dank! Wir leben gerne in Hannover!
Welcome to Hanover and thank you for sharing your positive impression of our beautiful, green city with your video. All the best, Natascha from the intercultural cooking project GRENZENLOS 😊
Thank you for the kind welcome!
How helpful and thoughtful this video was did not go unnoticed by me. I have been binging the Hannover videos on YT and this is, by far, the best one. Good job
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I am really moved how excited and thankfull you embrace your new home. And the forest and the bike trails are really beautiful. Viele liebe Grüße!
Thank you so much!! Hannover has been amazing so far!
I love this kind of video , sharing with the city's life style.
Danke schön!
Thank you for the kind words! We love Hannover!
I was born in Hannover and still got some family there. Nice to see, that you like it so much.
Thank you! Let us know if you have any recommendations for Hannover!
Great video dude! Was also great to meet you in person with Eric der Ami. Had a bit of a hospital mishap, so the release of our video is slightly delayed. Can’t wait to more of your videos!!
Thank you, Everett! It was great to meet you too! Hopefully the hospital visit was alright. I'm still working on the video from the kiosk crawl too!
Welcome to Hannover! Great to have you guys here! If I'm gonna see u here, I will definitely come to say hello😁
Thank you!! Please say hello if you ever see us!
Addimg this city to my list to visit, thanks for sharing all your thoughts.
Hannover is definitely an overlooked city for people visiting Germany. Thanks for watching!
Moved to the Us after living in Hannover my whole life. I really miss Hannover
We are loving living in Hannover so far! Where are you living in the US?
@@MYTravelBF Upstate New York, I had to get used to not riding my bike everywhere 😅
I really like the state parks though
Thank You so much for sharing this video I would like to spend some quality time in Hannover on one of my future trips. I would love to find the trails n the woods :) !!
We definitely recommend you get to Hannover, especially in summer or fall, when the forest at it's best!
Thanks for this wonderful video. The people in Hannover are not „cold“ or dismissive at all. Once we make friends this can absolutely be for a lifetime. I am a „Hannoveraner“ who lived in some other cities but nothing compares to my hometown. I love nearly every brick of this fantastic town (was that too much?).
But honestly, there are so many things to learn and discover in this city, it will not be boring. Even the history of Hannover, for example the connection to the english crown, is absolutely interesting, or the world famous „Cebit“, the computer fair.
The list goes on and on…
Enjoy your time in Hannover and as always: whatever you wanna know, just ask me.
You're welcome, and thank you for watching! Hannover hasn't been boring at all, and we really love living here!
Hello, can you tell us a little on the health system in Hanover? I have heard some negative words in this regard😔Do you recommend studying medicine at Hanover Medical School? Thank you very much for your time 🌸
@@Selma-Afnane the health system in Hannover is the same like in any other city in germany. If you need detailed Information you can either use Google or contact the german embassy near you.
I definitely recommend to study in Hannover because we have the very famous „MHH“, the medical highschool of Hannover with around 30,000 students. It it also a famous research institute.
@@Selma-AfnaneI only heard good things about the hospitals there.I live roundabout an hour away from it
Having spent a year as an exchange student near Kansas City MO, I sometimes tell Americans that Hanover is the Kansas City of Germany. Think about it. A fairly generic big city in the middle of a rural state that nobody really gets excited about.
But Hanover must be something right, because I've lived here most of my life and can't say I regret it 😉
Minor footnote - downtown Hanover was destroyed 90 percent, but "only" 60 to 70 percent of it beyond repair so that they erected completely new buildings in place of the old ones. A lot of buildings that were salvageable were restored after the war.
We've never been to Kansas City, but the analogy makes sense! Thanks for sharing a bit more about the destruction and reconstruction of Hannover after the war too.
After the war the people sorted every brick. if it was intact or somehow reuasable they re-used it. all other leftovers they were throwing on a pile. in the end they built a soccer stadium on top of it. a stadium with a capacity of 120.000.
The stadium got replaced for the 2006 world championship but the hill is still the old pile of bombed city buildings.
Other important places to visit:
Linden Market on Saturday
"Strandleben" in Calanberger Neustadt (a small beach bar in the City)
Bus lines 100 and 200 are virtually unmoderated sightseeing tours for the normal fare.
Still under construction is the Leine Welle (surf spot near the Lower Saxony state parliament).
Thank you for the recommendations! We'll have to check them out!
@@MYTravelBF Here another tip:Every summer (not Corona time) there is the "Kleines Fest im Großen Garten". Try to get tickets for it. It is wonderful. But: tickets are limited, so you have to apply and be lucky. It's best to team up with a few friends.
@@C-Ro Thanks for the recommendation!
So glad you guys found a new home you love 💕
Thank you very much! Living in Hannover has been great so far!
You've sold me on it! Can't wait to visit! Prost🍻
We can't wait for you to visit! Prost 🍻
Nice, thanks!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
riding a bike gives you a feeling of freedom in the city and surrounding countryside
100%. We could not agree more! It's especially freeing after living in the US with such a car dominant culture.
In Winter we have some beautiful christmas markets all over the city. You can go to the famous holländische kakaostube for delicious hot chocolate and cake. In seelze- not far by tram there is a Therme. Downtown Karaoke is amazing. And we have the oktoberfest 3 times a year.
We will definitely have to check out all of these! Thank you for the recommendations!
It looks stunning. Glad you’re happy there. 🍻
Thank you! It's been a wonderful place to live the last month!
I have a restaurant in (Region) Hannover and I‘m so happy to see that youhave such good experience with the city
Cool! We really like it here so far! Maybe we’ll visit your restaurant someday
Hannover has so much to offer. Old town, zoo, Herrenhäuser Garten, Parks, Maschsee, Rathaus, Eilenriede wild forest, great public transportation, bikes and scooters for rent, the university, Ernst-August-Galerie, several museums, lakes, rivers, awesome Restaurants, many concerts and events all over the year, Soccer, Stadium, Expo Plaza, Breweries,..... And so on. 😉 But there are also some dangerous f'ed up no-go areas.
Thanks for all the ideas of the fun stuff! We have so much more to check out! We don't think we've seen any of the "no-go areas" so far
@@MYTravelBF Indeed, no no-go areas I can think of.
We have great wildlife even in the city,
river Leine is awesome for fishing!
We haven’t been fishing but have noticed all the great wildlife!
Never thought, someone would do a vlog about Hanover :D
😂🤣 It's been great living here so far!
I came back from a 3 day city trip in Hannover yesterday. Had no idea people thought it was the most boring city in Germany, but I had a blast. There's so much to do there, I didn't even have enough time. I can highly recommend going there.
It was named the most boring city in Germany by the German media a long time ago. What was your favorite thing in Hannover when you visited? Thanks for watching and commeting!
@@MYTravelBF Oh I loved walking the Red Thread along all the highlights, going up in the new town hall and watching people boarding the waves at the Wall at the river. I enjoyed Herrenhäuser Garten a lot, as well as the Erlebnis Zoo. and just walking around and exploring. what I loved most was that every thing was walkable. my hotel was close to the station and I even walked to the Herrenhäuser Garten in 3,5 km. Over all I walked 17km the entire day, but you don't even notice it when you can check out so many fun places.
Aaaah glad seeing my hometown like this ^^
We are loving it in Hannover!
As your last video was about a Tapas Tour: you can do that in Hannover. There's a large spanish community in Hannover.
Ohhh thanks for the idea! We were living in Spain the past year before moving to Hannover! Let us know if you have any restaurant or bar recommendations to visit!
I live in Hannover as well and I am exploring your videos after two years of staying here
Cool! Thank you for watching and commenting! We hope you're liking Hannover!
Very interesting! Regarding bikes, places like Madison(US) or Bilbao(Spain) are becoming bike friendly as well :)
Yes, there are a few places in the US and Spain that are pretty bike friendly, but there are so many that aren’t.
Check out the fleamarket of Hannover!
All year round, every saturday,
on the banks of river Leine.
Thanks for the tip!
there used to be a bar there, the flea circus, good music venue, and they served "Whuppi" looks like OJ taste a bit like OJ Drinkable like OJ but oh boy did it do the job
Living in Salzburg for 3 years and miss Hannover so much😔..the List, Eilenriede and the Bult, Maschsee, Herrenhäuser Gärten
We’ve never been to Salzburg, but thankfully, Hannover has been a very pleasant surprise!
Just think about it. If Hannover is the most boring city of Germany, then how amazing and exciting is the rest of Germany! 😀
Regarding the friendliness, especially in the north. There is a German saying, like you shout into the forest, so it shouts back, in the sense of what goes around, comes around. I'm from the Rhine, so, supposedly open-minded, extroverted and so on. I've been living in the north for almost 30 years now, and I've never had any problems to connect to people here. If you don't come up as pretentious and arrogant but as friendly and interested in the locals instead, people are as friendly as anywhere else.
From Hannover, it's not that far to the Harz mountain range. The highest mountain is 1100 m high, the Brocken, and is beautiful especially in the winter, but not only then. It's as much nature as you like, and it has a harsh climate with high winds and snowstorms at times, but it also has a railroad network with actual on-duty steam engines, the only one in Europe, I think. It's a steam engine paradise.
Aside from that, the government has announced today they wanted to extend the 9 Euroe ticket, meaning, you can get a national train ticket for regional and local transport from next year on. This has to be negotiated with the federal states, but it his highly probable that there will be something like that. The price, though, is estimated to be between 49 and 69 Euros, which is considerably more money, but still. For new arrivals like you, this could be a great opportunity to get to know a lot of new places. Actually, I think the effect is much more touristy than what the 9 Euro ticket was meant to be, an incentive to get commuters from the road into the trains. But it's at least a step forward. Could be that at least it attracts tourists which would also be good for the economy...
Take care!
Thank you so much for all the information! We will definitely keep our eye out for that newer monthly ticket, even if it is more than 9 euros!
In terms of geography (climate, landscape, demographics) Hannover seems a lot more similar to a midwestern city in the U.S. with a European touch. Glad you found a new home.. Also, wow, this channel is gonna blow up! I just think Spanish people don't speak English like Germans do. This is encouraging to see! P.S.. all your vlogs are super high quality!
Thank you, Elliot! Hannover is definitely more similar to Wisconsin cities than Spain was, especially in terms of climate and geography, which has its pros and cons...Thanks for the encouraging words too! I still have to get around to your Ceuta videos. Can't wait to check those out!
The reason behind it might be a historical affiliation with Great Britain and the occupation by the British and US Soldiers over the course of the reintroduction to democracy after WWII. It's in certain points heavily influenced which can be seen in some areas like public housing on the outskirts of town and surrounding cities etc
@@MYTravelBF no German city is similar to any midwestern city climate-wise. The closest you may get is perhaps Vancouver, Canada.
Hallo. I am a Filipino working here in Hannover as a Pflegehilfskraft for 4 months now. Hope to meet more friendly Germans here to improve my Sprache. 😊
Germans have been very friendly so far in my experience. I hope you meet a few to practice with!
Do you work in the MHH?
@@lovlix9837 No. But at the mean time I am working in a Pflegeheim.
@@yrejsalaver334 ah thats sad, i begin on the 1.10 a BUFDI in the IT-Center of the MHH
Also a fellow Filipino, welcome to Hannover!
If you are looking for more information visit a public library, we've got 16 in Hannover. And try to get tickets for "Das kleine Fest im großen Garten", it's great.
Thanks for the recommendation! We didn’t realize there were so many libraries!
Hannover was one of the first cities in what was then West Germany that I visited in my life, closely following on from the first, which had been Bremen, during a pioneering schools' exchange visit between Belper High School and the Hindenburgsschule, Nienburg/Weser, in the course of which I celebrated my Seventeenth Birthday, way back in July 1978. I returned there, briefly, nine years later in the dying days of those two Germanys during a week and a bit, travelling around the rail network of West Germany and then, again, while studying Geography with German as a mature undergraduate in the mid-1990s, during an unfortunately very short and unsuccessful period of working with a bus company in nearby Hildesheim, when I lived in the suburb of Leinhausen for not much over a week. So, I certainly think that it's one of the more INTERESTING cities in Germany, despite that rather regrettable experience! Thank you, therefore, for this uploading. I would question your description of a 'cathedral' in the city, however. You probably mean the red-brick Marktkirche, which is, granted, of cathedral-like dimensions, but it still isn't a 'cathedral', as such.
A few months before my brief, wintry, sojourn in Leinhausen I had been, also as part of my studies, working on an archaeological dig in my home city of Derby's twin city of Osnabrück - a rather more successful stay, despite a nearly record-breaking heatwave! - and during the weekends I would very often take off on a 'Schönes Wochenende' rail ticket, the first journey and last journey of the day usually being between Hannover and Osnabrück, so that's my other personal connection with the city.
I hope you continue to enjoy your stay in Hannover...and continue to find it interesting!
Oh finally, it's a pity for you, given your obvious affection for them, that Hannover wasn't the very first city in (West) Germany I visited, since I based my choice of what German football club to 'adopt' on my first contact, so that turned out to be Werder Bremen rather than Hannover 96, which, for a city with Hannover's population, is something of an under-achiever.
Wow! Thank you for sharing so much about your personal connection to Hannover and other cities! We're so excited to explore this whole area as well as German food and culture!
@@MYTravelBF You're welcome! It was pleasant going over some at least partially happy memories!
It's also got Germany's largest city wood. The Eilenriede. And a very large pedestrian area.
The Eilenriede has been wonderful!!
the Maschsee is pronounced Mush-see.. Hildesheim and Braunschweig are close cities too. great to visit.
Thank you! Still working on German...We also appreciate the tips on other places in the area worth a visit!
Hildesheim ist doch potthäßlich. Im Krieg total zerbombt und scheiße wieder aufgebaut. Ich würde da eher Celle, Bückeburg oder Hameln für einen Besuch empfehlen.
@@donald9912 Wir werden eine Weile hier sein, also sollten wir Zeit haben, sie alle zu besuchen und zu sehen.
You did a great Job, and im happy you have a good time. I live in Hannover my whole life and dont want to leave it. If you have questions, just go ahead and ask me😄👍
Thank you very much! If you have any recommendations of places to eat, drink, or visit, please let us know!
you forgot to mention the Mittellandkanal. Great spot in summer
Yes! Thank you! It's a wonderful place in Hannover, especially in summer!
Visited a couple a weeks ago from Jersey C.I via Düsseldorf then Berlin after Hanover and Hannover was amazing don’t know what people are on about
We definitely agree! It’s been a wonderful city to live in!
You should go to the limmerstrasse in the bar „fischers“….
Thanks for the recommendation! We know right where Fischers is but haven't been there yet!
The kindest person I’ve met in from Hannover. Saying he Is the kindest possibly definitely and understatement and the back ground to this is that I’m a mixed race person and have be warmed about the difficultly of formatting relationships and my story is possibly different to those stereotypes because in general my greatest experience of hope, live, acceptance has been with Germans from various parts of the country. My statement is obviously subjective to my experiences but I hope it is the same for many others travelling through this amazing country and meeting its people
Thank you for sharing your experience! it's always wodnerful to hear others' experiences!
On Saturday Hannover is playing against Braunschweig wich is also a city in the same „state“ and that game is really intense and is their Derby! You should check that out…the atmosphere is really intense!
Thanks for the tip! Unfortunately tickets are all sold out already, but maybe I’ll go to the stadium to see the atmosphere!
@@MYTravelBF sometimes you can get some tickets by the stadium on a game day. You should definitely check out this game between those two rivals…and be carful! And then you‘ll see how „boring“ Hannover is.
@@inkmann1088 Thank you! Ive heard it's a really big rivalry!
@@MYTravelBF czcams.com/video/wgbYQRdq4-0/video.html check out this video of an American who experienced the game between Hannover and Braunschweig ;-) maybe you get a little feeling of what is about to happen on Saturday. Definitely go to the stadium and experience the atmosphere ;-)
@@MYTravelBF Just do not get in between of the hooligans of these teams. This may leave you with a disturbing impression!
get down the fest platz and give us a few videos of the festivals that happen there through the year, biggest mobile fair in europe!!!
We've been down there a few times, but most of the festivals throughout the year at Schützenplatz seem the same to us. Maybe we're missing something though🤷🏽♀️🤷🏼♂️ Thanks for watching!
@@MYTravelBF get in the beer tents, immerse yourself in the atmosphere
Don’t forget the „Maschseefest“ ohne of the largest Summer Open Air Party in Germany!
Yes! We went the first weekend we arrived. There were so many people and a lot of food and drinks!
Hi guys! 👋 love your videos keep them coming, we foundation you and your wife's channel through the living in spain videos and they have helped us very much. We wanted to ask if it's not to personal, how much money do you need to live in spain? It would be my grandmother, my mother and I (23 years old) I would be the one working to keep us afloat
It’s a tough question to answer as we don’t know how much the costs are for 3 people. It will also depend a lot on where you move in Spain as it costs a lot more to live in Madrid compared to a smaller city. Do you have a place in mind that you’d be moving?
@@MYTravelBF thabk so much i know this is very time consuming for you guys to answer my questions and I appreciate it very muchm, we were thinking about the south, maybe Malaga, Seville, Andalucia, Cadiz, Granada etc. I was thinking maybe I can teach English from home (like virtually would it be possible to find a clientele) I mean I'd work in anything that helps pay the bills (we're trying to grow two youtube channels we currently have also) and we live on a tight budget so it wouldn't be a surprise for us in Spain, we don't ambition material things. We just want a better QUALITY OF LIFE, life is too short to live with the stress that is here in the states we live in Florida and we're counting each day to go and try lovely spain 🇪🇸
Go to the old town at 8am this Saturday. All Hannover football fans meet there to march to the stadium together as we have our big derby against Braunschweig that day!
Ohhh thanks for the tip!! I’ll probably be around!
Welcome to my hometown ❤️
Thank you! Let us know if you have any recommendations!
@@MYTravelBF You mentioned most of MY recommendations (You should go and watch an Hannover 96 match as they are WINNING this year 😁)
But I highly recommend two restaurants: 'Ständige Vertretung', a Cologne Style restaurant with the best Currywurst in town
and 'Das Ding' a famous Steakhouse in Linden.
@@jorg4443 Thank you very much! We did go to a Hannover 96 match two weeks ago and they won! Unfortunately, we couldn't bring our camera in, so we couldn't do a video. We'll be back though!
We love the restaurant recommendations too! It's something we were really curious about, so thank you!
You are so right. I love this small City!
Yes! Living in Hannover has been fantastic so far!
'Small'???
@@christopherbentley7289 It's not small at all, but maybe some see it that way in comparison to bigger cities, like Hamburg, Munich, and Berlin.
@@MYTravelBF Hmm, I suppose it's all relative. However, in excess of 550,000, on checking up, doesn't look 'small' to me! I wouldn't even call my home city of Derby (UK) 'small' at circa a quarter of a million - more like 'medium-sized'.
@@christopherbentley7289 We lived in Milwaukee (US) before, and it's a similar size to Hannover. However, we lived in Madrid, Spain before moving here, so that's quite a bit of a size difference.
Hannover is a great place to study and live, being not well known to foreigners (except the British Royal family who are, for a major part, descendants of the Hannover King) not necessarily being a bad thing.
It’s been wonderful living in Hannover so far, and we don’t mind that it’s not well known
@@MYTravelBF If you want to visit a really boring city, try Bielefeld. It is so boring that there has been a running joke for decades it does not even exist.
@@bigernie9433 😂🤣
Hannover is the one of the greenest, maybe the greenest major city in Europe.
The best thing of Hannover is the fact that it got a real City-center. Not 2 or more, just one. It's an advantage that Hannover is not as big as Hamburg, Cologne or Frankfurt.
AFAIK Hannover got the oldest continously held flea-market on the continent and it's the Jazz-Capital of northern Germany with many venues throughout the year.
One of the two left and revived true baroque gardens in Germany is located in Herrenhausen, a district of Hannover. The belonging castle, that was destroyed in WW2, was rebuilt a few years ago.
And it's perfectly located in the right distances to the coastal parts of Germany and the mid-german mountain-ranges like the Harz or the Thuringian Forest.
Thank you for all the info and tips! We definitely have a lot to explore in Hannover!
Go to Cafe K and explore Linden!
Thank you!! We’ll check it out!
The best of Hannover is Georgengarten, Eilenriede und Maschsee.
Thank you! We still have to check out the Georgengarten!
Nice video. Have you ever been in germany before? Because your German skills are quiet 👍👍 Greetings from Koblenz.
Thank you!! I've just visited Germany before but don't know the language. Maybe I just got lucky with the words in this video😂🤣
@@MYTravelBF Are you kidding??? 😳 Your "Hannover Sechsundneunzig" (96) sounds better than mine. You seem to be quiet talented in learning languages. Very impressing.
@@andibuletten6206 😂🤣Thank you! it gives me confidence to keep learning, even when it can seem impossible!
@@MYTravelBF You're doing very well. And don't hazitate to speak German. Germans may correct you, but they do it in a nice way. Learning by doing🤷♂️
@@andibuletten6206 Absolutely! Being corrected is one of the best ways to learn, even if it can be frustrating at times.
4:30 jeah thats true for sure. but the thing is it is a diffrent kind of acting cold. more like, leaf me alone but if u say hi i am open to have a smalltalk with you. the cold of the nordern germans are more like a protective mechanism, so dont be shy. ( ps opinion of a north german woman )
my travel bf, i really like your channel and this video a lot because i was born here and your video is really right and you showed the real hannover a bit more then other people. but i have a question, i live in herrenhausen and where do you live in hannover. South, north, east or linden or in which part of the city you are settled?
Thank you! We real strive to share the real, authentic version of places with local experiences and not just the highlights that tourists see!
Not a boring city by any mean, I have lived in many cities and find Hannover better than other big cities because this city has everything including peace. Everything is at walking distance in the city center, it has medieval charm in old city center area with lots of pubs and cafes. And it is not expensive plus people are great too.
We love Hannover! It was just everyone told us how boring it was when we said we were moving here. In fact, we just did a video on stuff we love about living here. Thanks for watching!
Have you discovered any gnomes while roaming around the city or the parks?
No gnomes yet! But we'll keep an eye out!
Funfact: Hanover is actually the third most dangerous German City.
Its interesting whats considered as dangerous in germany ;)
Another funfact: Hanover and its surroundings are not really North Germany. They are definitly in the Northern Part but they are not "North Germany"
Interesting! We had no idea it was dangerous, especially compared to coming from the US.
yes but only because Hanover also counts people who use the public transportation without ticket in the statistics of criminality....other cities don't
@@FrozenPlasmaOfficial_YT Interesting!
@@MYTravelBF yeah but dont go to the raschplatz or be aware of the people the it is under the cinema nearby the hauptbahnhof. but u must go through the whole train station to see the raschplatz. sometimes there r very weird people.
@ nuster - Yes sure! you make me laugh :))) in the statistics the illegalities are includef if you using the public tranportation without ticket, jaywalk the street on red, etc.not only the crimilality...All over Germany it is safe.
I am struggling to find an apartment in Hannover. I called but no one seemed to care to answer 😕 And the city is not also clean to be honest
Unfortunately the apartment rental situation in Hannover is pretty difficult, which really surprised us. As for being dirty, I supposed it probably depends on where you were before living in Hannover.
It looks way more interesting than Dusseldorf!
Thanks! We haven't been to Dusseldorf yet!
I am working on learning German prior to visiting, do you feel it is helpful to know the language?
It's helpful to know some German, but it's not 100% necessary as most people speak English. If you are just visiting for a short period of time, we always recommend people learn at least pleas, thank you, and do you speak English? A little bit of trying to speak the local language goes a long way.
@@MYTravelBF Sounds great, thank you! Is there a certain app you have used? I am currently using Duolingo
@@MYTravelBF I believe that's another advantage of Hanover: They speak Hochdeutsch there (the German taught in textbooks). Other parts of Germany (Bayern, Sachsen, Schwaben) have regional dialects that are very different from the German taught in school. I took German in college and couldn't use any of it in Stuttgart.
Been living here for the best part of me life, comin from Liverpool originally, it's the best city for life quality in Germany. Nowhere in Germany you'll find so many recreational hotspots like parks, museums, the new town hall, royal gardens, fireworks and fairs, a forest and a lake considerably close to the city centre like here. And close to Hanover you've got Steinhuder Meer and Deister forest, each only 30 mins away on public transport.
People are warm and welcomin, you've got great beer, decent food, lovely irish and english as well as local pubs, people from all over the world who brought their culture and food with them as you'll see all over Ahbergviertel(Spain) Linden and Steintor(Turkey and Middle East) and Altstadt (Asia, Africa).
Sure, it's not Berlin. But that is it's biggest trump. You can get from one end of the city to the other by bike in less than an hour.
If you've not been, you'll have to put it on yer bucket list for sure.
We're glad to hear you love living in Hannover too! It's definitely a city that isn't on a lot of people's radar, but maybe that's a good thing, especially for those of us living here!
People always call their own city boring. For me as a german growning up outside a city, is every City over 50k Inhabitants exciting. Hannover has over 500k so it would be incredibly crazy for me. My biggest cities nearby are Ulm and Augsburg both far less than 500k inhabitants. Those people have to experience life outside the big places to understand how good their cities actually are.
I suppose it’s all based on their own experience like you said. We love living in Hannover so far though!
The thing about Hanover's reputation of being boring is that people from Hanover think it's the shit, going as far as some claiming it's the best city in Germany. However, 15 other states have a different opinion on that and it's a running gag in pretty much every state that Hanover is boring
Hannover got potential but I think there is still a lot of work to do to make it a really beautiful capital city, there are some places where you really could smell things you wouldn't like to smell due to the old sewers which are still as small as they used to be ages ago. In the middle of summer inside of a smaller park. The Houses are uneven from time to time like the streets due to the bombing which took place in second World War. The Parks are really dark and dodgy in the middle of the night. As a resident you only have limited parking places infront of your home and inside of your neighborhood. The parks were quite dirty 4 years ago you could find tissues inside of those damn smaller bushes, bottles and leaves inside of those small lakes, inluding broken down trees and branches. I don't know if the major of Hannover from the green party worked on it and cleaned it but that was really devistating before.
There's definitely a lot of work to do in Hannover, and it probably isn't the most exciting for tourists. We're glad to hear that it's improved in the last few years though!
It USED to be boring! I think that’s just a legacy or false reputation that it maybe hasn’t thrown off from the past…..but it certainly isn’t now. Places change.
I used to spend every summer there visiting from London in the 1960s and 70s and it was a bit ‘sleepy’ then. But now, it’s completely changed! Almost beyond recognition!
It’s so much more cosmopolitan.
I now spend about half my time between Hannover and the UK and I find it much more interesting and dynamic than being in the UK. So much so that now at the age of 60 I’m intending to move there permanently!
Thanks for sharing a bit of the history! We don't find it boring at all! Sure, it's not the most exciting city in the world, but it's definitely not boring.
Have you ever heard of the Hannover conspiracy? We people living in Hannover always tell that our city is the most boring city in Germany because we don't want to many people to move here so the prices to rent an apartment and cost of living won't go up. So stop making these videos! 😉
🤣😂 Hopefully it doesn’t cause a rent spike! We like it better here without the hoards of tourists.
I forgot to mention Schröder.
If you like the passion for our soccerteam, maybe you'll like the passion we also have for our icehockeyteam ( Pferdeturm).
We will have to check it out!
How is the cost of energy?
It's definitely going up to say the least...
@@MYTravelBF I've heard a lot of people are concerned about the winter.
I love Hanover.
We love Hannover too!
📝🙄 "hannover..." 😎
Thanks for watching!
I would love to find employment in this city in logistics how is that field
We have no idea, but there might be something! Sorry we can't be much more of a help.
@@MYTravelBF thank you
Im realy proud be hannoverainian
It’s a great city!!
I lived in Hannover for 12 years:
Iam English:
1. They are cold :
2.snobby:
3.always looking for trouble( bumping into u at the supermarkets etc
3. Nosey busy bodies.
They do speak the best German in the world though.
The German in Hannover is definitely easier to understand than in other places, but we haven't found people to be very cold or snobby overall.
@@MYTravelBF give it time;
They are cold and stuck up
@@user-kq5qp6dh8l if you search for them. law of resonance. you attract what you are. perhaps it has more to do with yourself. there are also brits who are as you wrote. you can find idiots all over the world and the other way round.
Not to forget The Scorpions come from Hannover.🤘
Really?! I had no idea! What a cool fact!
Gibt's das video auch auf deutsch ?
Leider nein, es sei denn, Sie verwenden Untertitel. Vielleicht machen wir in Zukunft eine, wenn wir mehr Deutsch lernen!
@@MYTravelBF ich mag kein untertitel, kann nicht so schnell lesen
@@bernielitscher9497 Vielleicht machen wir in Zukunft ein Video auf Deutsch. Wir müssen zuerst die Sprache lernen.
The stereotype is kind of funny because for some reason it sticks with the city even though the city is much more beautiful and worth living in than most of the other German capitals. 😄
The "hannoveraner" actually also like spreading the stereotype because they like to stay among themselves. 😂
Wir wollen den Derbysieg!!!!
We don't find the city boring, but also don't mind keeping away all the tourists Berlin and Munich see!
Hannover hat einen viel zu schlechten Ruf 😟
Es gibt weit mehr vor als Nachteile
Es ist keine perfekte Stadt, aber wir leben gerne hier.
@@MYTravelBF perfekt ist keine Stadt. Ich habe gerne dort gelebt. Habe zwar nie direkt in der Stadt gewohnt aber sehr nah dran (Hemmingen).
Das schönste an Hannover ist das es eine sehr grüne Stadt ist. Man hat fast nie das Gefühl so wirklich in der Stadt zu sein.
Im born and raised here just run away before it gets too late
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That's actually Munich
Why is Munich the most boring?
Hannover ist nicht langweilig
Ja, wir stimmen zu. Hannover ist nicht langweilig, aber die Leute haben uns gesagt, dass es so war, bevor wir hierher gezogen sind.
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Thanks for watching!
Hanover is not the most boring City of Germany...you have the maschsee, herrenhäuser Gärten or the Eilenriede...
Hanover had much more to show...come to us and create your own picture...
We 100% agree! Many people just said how boring it was when we said we were moving to Hannover.
Irish Pub, Onkel Ollie's, Nordstadt, Kaiser's
Thanks for the suggestions! We've been to a few of those, but not all of them yet.
You have broken the omertá! No one may know, how great a city Hannover is. So we will have to silence you ;).
😂🤣 Sorry!
Hannover boring? No way, it is attractive for tourists and you have a lot to see and to do.....The city looks great and it is full of history...What are talking about?
It was more of a joke as everyone told us Hannover was boring before we moved here. Luckily, it hasn't been boring at all!
Hannover is known as boring by people who have never been there (or by accident passed through Varenwald).
We certainly don’t find Hannover boring, but that’s what so many people told us when we decided to move here.
Not all of Vahrenwald is grey and boring, but if you only see the part on the main street there, you easily could get that impression.🙂 Nice video and have a nice time here.👍
@@tinka4243 thank you for the kind words!