I completely forgot to reference the Gemma Collins quote at the end. I wonder if anyone will notice that's where "I love ya, but I ain't stayin' 'ere." comes from? 😅

I would love to hear about you experiences in Germany! Just moved here at the beginning of the year with my partner due to work. Many of the things you mentioned already resonate with me :P

@alice-elizabeth

4 ай бұрын

Ah good luck with your new adventure in Germany! 😍 I think I will eventually talk about it in detail for sure. 😊

Thank you, for sharing your experience ❤ I wish you "digest" the experiences you made here as good as possible. They sound heavy! I myself am german, living in germany, and I am really interested to know on your experience, as an "outsider". You know what I mean with that? Cause as an "insider", living here it seems like, well, good. But, I feel like maybe my perspective, can change by watching closer, it could open posibillities ;) Cause even being raised and based here, it is a lot irritating what here happens. But it is somehow swallowing it, amd keep on going.. I really love to know, why you mean, it is expensive, what is the measure, and have you examples? Clothes/Food/Health/Mobility... How is it to get work in UK vs. Germany, same with burocracy, fees, renting an appartement - ... like, all :) All the best ❤ P.s. I lived long ago in Portugal and can relate with the leanguage issue. From a friend i know, she went to a foreign country and spent there the first two months in a family, while taking daily at a school course learning the leanguage. I visited her ca. 7 monthes later, she sound like a person who lived there for years. I think, next time I leave, I do it similar. And also, do not connect with same origin people like me, but with "natives". ☀️

Great Video

A home is a feeling in the heart, if you don’t feel it it’s not home

@alice-elizabeth

4 ай бұрын

That's true! I really loved Germany but sometimes it didn't feel like 'home'. Sometimes it did though, so leaving was a really hard decision. 😔

@jonpondi1206

4 ай бұрын

I speak from personal experience, not until leaving home did I realize how attached I was, how much I loved my land and my people and upon returning, promised myself to never leave again, that being thirty years ago

@alice-elizabeth

4 ай бұрын

@@jonpondi1206 Same here! I absolutely love being abroad especially in Germany and Austria but I didn't realise how much I would miss my family or the British countryside until I left. 🥺

A small house in a Munich suburb is around 600k

. i am a German Canadian and grew up there . now it seems difficult for me to get used to life in Germany and i find Canada a better country and things are more relaxed and not quite as expensive and the people are more friendly in my opinion . but having lived in Germany a long time i must say one gets used to doing everything properly . and then it is a very nice place to live . and a bit better organized . here the buses usually don't run on time . at least in the city i live in .

Where in Germany did you live?

@alice-elizabeth

4 ай бұрын

I was in Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen. 😊

A German is used to mutliplicate his salary with 0.6 or with 0..55 in order to know, how much will be leftover from his salary, when he gets it. The money for the mandatory public health insurance, other mandatory public insurances and the income tax is taken directly from the salary by the employer, so you never see it on your bank account, and you do not feel, that this money is "yours". Maybe this is the reason, why Germans tolerate these high taxes and royalties. I assume, this is different in the UK, the salaries are given withoout that the employer has to act as the deputy of the tax office by law, and you feel the pain directly, when you have to pay yout taxes and royalties?

@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw

4 ай бұрын

Not really. In the UK, salaried employees are on PAYE =Pay As You Earn. Tax is deducted at source. Self employed and businesses obviously, need to submit tax returns.