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Goodbye Germany  The YouTube description box allows only 5000 characters, so the links to all articles shown are provided here (in chronological order as appeared): https://www.radical-living.net/leavinggermany  00:00 Leaving Germany 02:12 The economy 04:30 Taxes and social security 11:26 Social welfare state  15:35 Family climate 18:33 Safety  22:11 Housing 24:00 Infrastructure 26:06 Democracy 29:38 Free speech 31:53 Where to go from here 34:00 Where is my journey going?

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00:00I'm leaving Germany. In fact, I have already left and I'm not coming back ever.

00:06I mean I will come back to visit but not for living. That time is over. Over the

00:11years a lot of people have come up to me and said, hey I watched your videos

00:14about Germany and they convinced me to move to Germany. And now I have to say

00:19I'm sorry guys, things have changed. I've been living in Germany for the better

00:24part of my life. I grew up in the south of Germany, lived for 30 years plus in

00:29Germany, the last eight of which were in Berlin. But with every year that passes

00:34things are getting kind of worse and worse every year a little bit. Quality of life

00:38in Germany is degrading to a point where I don't see a future in this country

00:42anymore. So I'm moving away. And in this video I just want to share my honest

00:48opinion about the state of affair in Germany, give my two cents about it and

00:51tell you what led me to this decision. Especially if you are considering moving

00:55to Germany, building a life there, you should watch this video. It all

00:59comes down to politics in the end. The decisions your leaders make for your

01:03country affect everybody in a good or in a bad way. For 20 years I've been

01:08watching the government make one bad decision after another and I just can't

01:13take it anymore. I can't. Watching politics in Germany is like watching a

01:18prequel to the movie Idiocracy. If you haven't watched that movie you

01:22definitely should. It's basically what's happening in most of the world. Germany is

01:26not an exception. I'd love to help fixing it you know but then you would have to go

01:30into politics and then you have to deal with all the people that are already

01:34there which will drive you mad for the rest of your life. So the only option you

01:38have left is to leave. In the end it all comes down to quality of life and

01:42quality of life in Germany is degrading every year more and the pace seems to be

01:47accelerating. So I don't think that country will be a good place to live in

01:52the foreseeable future. Maybe in the far future again. It's not all bad of course

01:57but if you can choose where you live there's far better places to do that. I

02:01have made hundreds of videos about Germany and you know all the good stuff

02:04already. So this video isn't gonna be about pros and cons. This video is about

02:09like the decisions that made me leave. Why is Germany not the best place to live

02:15anymore? First the economy. Germany has been stagnant or even in a recession for

02:21the last few years and the last year especially has been very brutal. There's

02:26job cuts in all sectors obviously because of the decisions politicians made. One of

02:32which is the energy. As you all know Germany is an industrial powerhouse. We

02:37don't have many resources but we have a lot of like industry you know that

02:41produces things. For those industries you need a lot of energy. But Germany managed

02:46over the last decade to become the most expensive country in the world when it

02:51comes to electricity. No other countries in the world, maybe UK also, pays as much

02:58for a kilowatt. It's ridiculous how expensive electricity is here. You know

03:04Germany had this awesome plan to become 100% renewable energy. Which is a good

03:09thing. I believe in renewable energy. Sustainable. But the way it was

03:13implemented was just the most stupid thing I've ever seen in my life. No there's

03:16more stupid things but it's one of them. So basically we got rid of all our

03:20nuclear power plants before we had other power plants up and running to

03:25replace that energy. Which leads to this pretty long, decade-long transition to

03:31have high electricity costs. Also you have to import electricity from other

03:36countries. I don't want to get into the details. This is just one fact that makes

03:40Germany an unattractive place to do business for businesses because it's so

03:45expensive. So they they move to other places abroad where it's cheaper. But of

03:49course the effect of that is less jobs available, more unemployment etc. You just

03:54have to look at the news. All the major big companies in Germany having mass

03:59layoffs. Each month 2025 10,000 here 15,000 there. Literally every month news

04:06like that coming out. So if you are looking for a job if you want to come to

04:10Germany to work it's not a good time anymore. It was five years ago but things

04:16have changed. And it's not only the electricity prices it's also AI is

04:20competing with human jobs. It all comes together which makes Germany not a good

04:25place to look for a job anymore. And apart from that it's also not motivating

04:29here to work more. Because if you earn more, not much more, the percentage of what

04:35you have to pay in taxes and also social insurances and everything it goes up so

04:40much. If you calculate all the things you have to pay from your income you can't

04:45even keep half. You can keep maybe like 30% of your income after deducting all the

04:50taxes and social insurances. Germany is a good country for like middle-class

04:55earnings because then you don't pay so much tax and then you have to pay 19%

05:00tax again on the things you buy. You as a consumer. People keep forgetting. People

05:06keep forgetting and I think that's that's also why the system is designed the way

05:09it is the taxes and everything. You're not only paying your income tax and social

05:13insurances you're also paying VAT, Umsatzsteuer, which is 19% if you put it in

05:19perspective. Seven out of ten hours you are working for the state. Which in my

05:25opinion is too much. You shouldn't work seven out of ten hours for the state. It's

05:31just in no relation. You know Germany is a country of hard-working people. Germans

05:35they don't love work but they work hard. That has its pros and cons. Because if

05:41your politicians are also hard-working people and they are working hard in the

05:47ruin this country. Just imagine how hard you have to work as a politician to ruin a

05:53nation with 80 million hard-working people. You've gotta work damn hard for that.

05:59You don't have to take all this facts from me you know I'm just summing it up

06:03here. All the economy advisors in Germany, all the big firms, they're saying this

06:08to the politicians but they're not doing anything about it. They just act if you

06:11ignore the issue it's gonna go away on their own. But it's not. And things are

06:16even worse if you're self-employed. Germany hates entrepreneurs. You know

06:20they've been saying for years they need to make things more attractive for

06:23startups, for small businesses, for entrepreneurs to attract them. But they

06:27are doing exactly the opposite. They make it every year kind of more unattractive.

06:32If you want to do anything in this country they're gonna make it as hard as

06:36possible for no reason at all. And if you're self-employed you have to pay even

06:40more than employees for social insurances. You have to pay double the rate for

06:45health insurance. Now they even want to make pension insurance obligatory for

06:50self-employed people because the pension system is falling apart and they're just

06:54scrambling to to get more money in the system. Which will lead to more

06:59entrepreneurs and freelancers to leave. Like me. Because I'm not doing that. You

07:03know how much pension insurance is in Germany? Guess? No. It's more. More than that.

07:09You already have to pay like 18% in health insurance and then you will have to pay

07:16another 18.5% for pension insurance. 18.5%. If you earn a hundred euro being

07:24self-employed, 18 euro will go into pension insurance into a system you will

07:29never see anything significant coming back. Because once we are getting old enough to

07:35get pension inflation will have eaten most of it and purchasing power of the

07:40money paid in will be nothing. Because Germany has a very bad pension system not

07:45like in the USA where you can like invest it in different things. Germany you just

07:50paid in and the government puts it into who knows what but it's not growing you

07:55know. It's just like 2% I think a year it it increases in value which inflation is

08:01already eating up. So you're not gonna get a good pension in Germany. So it's not

08:06worth paying into it. Employed people have to pay for it already. For self-employed

08:11people it was not obligatory. For me this would be a reason enough to leave

08:16Germany to pay 18% extra on your income. It's mad. And it's not just me you know

08:22you just have to look at the surveys. There's plenty of surveys out there that

08:26ask young people or entrepreneurs or freelancers if they want to stay in

08:30Germany. If they're thinking about moving abroad, working somewhere else, living

08:33somewhere else. And from all the people I know and I know a lot of freelancers and

08:37people who have like small businesses none of them want to stay in Germany.

08:41They either have already left, are about to leave or are planning to leave. I am

08:47here right now in Cyprus. I've went to some meetups here and it's like full of

08:51German entrepreneurs that they all left and they're all leaving to not just here

08:55you know there's tens of thousands of entrepreneurs living here with businesses.

08:59They just can't take it anymore the system in Germany. They come here, they go to

09:02Spain, they go to other places you know anywhere but Germany to do business. A lot

09:07of people think businesses should pay higher taxes, wealthy individuals should

09:11pay higher taxes. That more money will be in the system but it's quite the

09:16opposite because if you think like that you're not living in reality. People and

09:21businesses can just move to another country. And you've seen this in other

09:24countries where they raise the taxes for rich people, they raise the taxes for

09:27businesses. They just move abroad to friendlier places for them. And in the end

09:31you have less tax money in the system and you have less people who contribute to

09:36the society you want to build because they're left, because they're pissed off.

09:40Just to have it said I don't have a thing against taxes. If I would see that the tax

09:45money I pay is in good hands you know they do something good with it but the

09:49amount you see being wasted on the most stupid things it's just it's unbelievable.

09:56So much money is going into war, is going into social welfare for lazy people. I'm

10:01not against taxes at all you know. Taxes are a good thing, contributing something

10:05to society, the state can do something with that money to make the quality of life

10:10for everyone better. But in Germany I don't see that happening anymore. What I see

10:15is that the majority of taxes is being wasted. Penalties are so high if you are

10:21weighed taxes in Germany. It's worse than murder, right? So but there's no laws

10:27keeping politicians accountable for wasting taxes. And they should be

10:33accountable because you work, as I said earlier, seven out of ten hours for the

10:39state, right? And then they waste this money. There's even a book coming out in

10:43Germany or like a magazine that shows the biggest tax wastes of the country each

10:50year. If you look at it you think like how on earth is this possible? Who approved

10:56those projects wasting billions of taxpayer money? And taxpayer money is

11:02literally human life. You worked for it. You paid this money with your time that you

11:07worked. And they're just wasting it. I'd be glad to pay 70% of taxes if quality of

11:16life would go to the moon, you know? But it's it's going down. No logic. But you know

11:23who Germany is really good country for? Lazy people. Germany has one of the best

11:30social welfare systems in the world. And I mean it's so good it's almost not worth

11:36working a low-income job. Because if you work for minimum wage full-time you

11:41barely make more than you would get from social welfare. And by earning a little

11:46bit more I mean getting like a few hundred euros more per month for working

11:51full-time instead of going for the social welfare system. And there's gonna be

11:55people in the comments, oh you just get 550 euro a month for social welfare. And

12:00that's not true. You get 500 euro cash and then they pay your flat. Where depends

12:06where you live, how much it costs, you know? There's limits of course but in a

12:09city like Munich for example they will also pay for a flat that costs 1,000 euro a

12:15month. And then you have health insurance which would cost 300 euro a month if you

12:19would pay for it on your own. Also you don't have to pay for Beitrag service

12:24which is 18 euro a month, right? If you calculate all those things together you

12:29have like a few hundred euro less being on social welfare than working a full-time

12:34job 40 hours a week on minimum wage. The only logical option for a person being

12:41in this situation is to go for social welfare. You have 40 hours a week for

12:46yourself. You can work on a side project. You can play video games all day. You can

12:51get drunk all day. It doesn't matter what you do. The only thing you have to do is

12:54show up at the job center once in a while and say yeah yeah I'm looking for a job.

12:59That's it. And you get this for the rest of your life. And what also a lot of

13:03people don't know or don't want to know is that if you have children and you are

13:09unemployed and get social welfare, your children also will get Bürgergeld. They

13:14will get social welfare. Especially for unemployed people with children it

13:18doesn't make any sense to work at all. They can spend time with children. The

13:22children also get like 500 euro a month in Bürgergeld extra on top of what the

13:26parent is getting. So Germany is a great place for lazy people who don't want to

13:30work, have a lot of children, get paid from the state. They give you a big flat, a big

13:34house for doing nothing. And it's great for them but it's not great for society as a

13:41whole. And some people say that ah these are just exceptions. Most people they need

13:46the benefits because they can't work, they can't find a job. But I can just tell you

13:51from my personal experience. I've been living in Berlin eight years. I've been

13:55living in Neukölln. 25% of the people living in Neukölln get social welfare.

13:59One in four people. Public statistics. You can look it up. I know people who have

14:03been getting social welfare in South Germany, where I come from, for 20 years,

14:0830 years. Doesn't matter. They don't want to work. They take a job once in a while for a

14:13year and they go back to the system because it's not worth getting a low-income job.

14:17But of course Berlin is the worst city when it comes to this. It's like in some parts

14:22of Germany it's looked down upon, getting social welfare. And in Berlin it's kind of

14:28the opposite. If you have a job you're like, are you stupid? You're working? Why would you

14:34do that? I'm not making this up. I know personally dozens of people who get social

14:40welfare, not because they can't work, because they don't want to work, right? And I'm

14:45one guy. I know dozens of people like that. If I, one guy, know a couple of dozen

14:52people who abuse the system, it's not the exception anymore. It's becoming the norm.

14:58Berlin alone is losing like hundreds of millions of Euro to people who abuse the

15:04system. They know this, but they can't do anything about this because it's the law.

15:08You have to follow the law. Congratulations for being lazy, I guess, if that's what you

15:16want to do with your life. You won the lottery in Germany. This is just one more

15:20fact about what's going wrong in Germany. I personally don't want to live in a

15:25country where laziness is rewarded and hard work is penalized. There's no logic in

15:33that for me. I'd rather pay my taxes elsewhere. There's not a really important

15:37thing that has been bugging me a lot about living in Germany. And it's how

15:43society interacts with one another, like people. I never had to think about those

15:48things, but I am at an age where I have to think about where I want to raise

15:53children. And Germany and Germans are really hostile against children. They

16:02they don't want them. It sounds absurd, but it really is like that. Germany is not a

16:06family-friendly country at all. There are some financial incentives in Germany to

16:11have children. You get like kindergarten and parental leave and all that. But when it

16:15comes to like the people and how they view children, it's very negative. Just to

16:21give you a few examples. If you go to a restaurant with a child, people in the

16:25restaurant, Germans, they will look at you and they make a face like, are you

16:31kidding me? Are you seriously bringing this child into the restaurant to ruin my

16:36time here? Everywhere I've been, Southern Europe, Japan, Southeast Asia, if you enter a

16:43restaurant with a child, people will light up. You know, they will, ah, hello. They will

16:48want to interact with the children. They're nice. They seem happy that they're

16:53there. You know, in Germany is the opposite. If Germans see children in

16:57public places, they are annoyed. They don't want to have them there. And that

17:01that says a lot about society. Not in a good way. Being annoyed by children doesn't

17:06matter where you are. Then it's not right. You know, everybody has been a child. Most

17:12people have children. They're an integral part of society. They're your future.

17:17There's the society's future. You should be happy that they're there. If you want to ride a train

17:23in Germany with a baby, there is no proper place to change the diapers. There isn't.

17:31And it doesn't make any sense because you're stuck in a train for hours. Even on

17:36the expensive train ICE, there is no proper place to do this. It's humiliating for the

17:42child and for the parent to be riding on a train in Germany. I guess it's out of the

17:47box now. I do have children now and I've been traveling with them a lot, as you've

17:52seen in my videos. I haven't seen a more hostile place to children than Germany.

17:58And this is a very sad statement. When I've been to Japan with them, you wouldn't

18:02believe the facilities they have. You know, there's nursing rooms everywhere.

18:07There's like diaper changing stations everywhere. And those facilities are

18:13also like something I've never seen in Europe anywhere. You know, you know, you go in

18:17there. There's like sofas for mothers to breastfeed their children. There's free

18:23diapers. And once you get children, you also think about where you want to raise

18:28them, especially if you have a daughter. I don't think Germany is a good place to

18:32raise a daughter anymore because women in general, they don't feel safe anymore

18:39walking down the street at night. You don't have to take it from me. There's public

18:43petitions in all major German cities. Women want like vouchers for free taxi

18:48rides at night. In Berlin, they want to have like woman-only subway wagons. And

18:55the stories you hear in Berlin, what women have to endure in public transport, it's

18:59fucked up. It's fucked up, to be honest. You all know the reasons why it is like

19:03that. I don't have to talk about it. But the fact is, women in Germany don't feel

19:08safe anymore for good reason. And deciding to raise a daughter in Germany is just, it's

19:15not a good thought to have, you know. You want to keep your people safe, children

19:20safe, that they grow up in a friendly environment where they can feel safe

19:24any time of day. This is just my opinion. But if a woman can't walk down the street

19:29at night and feel safe anymore, you have failed as a society, as a country. That's

19:35just my opinion. And it's kind of ridiculous. Every time something happens

19:38in Germany, politicians will just say, ah yeah, we have a knife problem. Knives are

19:44killing people. Women are dressed wrong, they should dress differently. And it's not a

19:48small thing, but you can also see it in the small things. You can't go to the

19:52supermarket anymore without feeling we're living in a crime-polluted society. Like

19:58in Prenzlau Berg, one of the best neighborhoods in all of Berlin. If you want

20:01to go and buy shampoo or a cream, you go in a drugstore, DM, you have to go in many

20:06of the drugstores in Berlin to the cashier to get them so they unlock the

20:11products because they get stolen so much. Even in the Edeka, in like a normal

20:16supermarket, they're locking up alcohol, they're locking up Red Bulls, things that

20:20cost $1.50. They're putting security things on them that need to be unlocked at

20:25a cashier. What kind of society is this becoming? Another example is Christmas

20:30markets. Last year there have been a few Christmas markets who got canceled

20:34because they can't afford the terror defense anymore because it's too

20:38expensive. It costs millions of euros for big Christmas markets to put those

20:42barriers, terror defense up. And if Christmas markets, a place of joy, the one

20:48thing people look forward to in December when it's cold and ugly outside, if they

20:52get canceled because they can't afford terror defense, many things have gone wrong in

20:57this country. And don't get me wrong, I don't want to blame this on migration.

21:00Migration isn't a bad thing per se, it's just there's gonna be a few people who are

21:07doing stupid things and you have to select them out. But Germany is doing a

21:13extremely extremely bad job at that. One of the bigger problems regarding that is

21:17that even if the people come to Germany to look for a refuge, they get denied. And if

21:24they are from certain countries which are considered not safe, Germany cannot send

21:29them back even if they are not allowed to stay in Germany, if they're not granted

21:34permission to live, to become a resident, to work here, etc. So you have this huge

21:40group of people from refugees who come to Germany, their permission to be here

21:45got denied, but they can't be deported to their home country because it's not safe

21:51there. So they can't work here, they can't do anything here, but they are here

21:56because they're kind of a limbo and that creates a lot of problems because they

22:01can't be part of society, they can't integrate and some of them of course cause

22:05some trouble. It's also understandable that if you are in this limbo you get a

22:09lot of resentment because this country didn't accept you. Another thing that

22:13drives people away is the unaffordability of Germany, especially when it comes to

22:18housing, the cost of living is rising. Germany has become so unaffordable when

22:22it comes to housing that people don't even dream about owning a house, owning a

22:27flat anymore. Everybody below the age of 35 has basically given up on ever owning

22:33real estate to live in. It's become so expensive. We were looking at houses or

22:39apartments in Berlin and Berlin is by far not the most expensive city in

22:43Germany. There's many cities more expensive. You'd have to have a million

22:47euro to buy something for a family. Yeah, like three or four rooms in a normal

22:55location. If you're gonna go outside you can probably find something for like half

23:00that but even half, even a half a million is like you're not gonna earn a

23:06million euro in your life in Germany. Not with the taxes and social insurances.

23:10You're not gonna make it. Even if you broke your whole life a normal job, middle class,

23:15you will not be able to afford a house in Germany anymore. Not gonna happen. All the

23:20things you have to pay, social insurances, it's just adding up and making your

23:25quality of life go down. You know how much I had to pay health insurance back in

23:30Germany the last year? It was a thousand euro a month. A thousand euro a month.

23:34It's twelve thousand euro a year. If you're self-employed it's almost like twenty percent.

23:39Once you earn like five thousand euro a month in income, you have to pay one

23:44thousand euro of debt to the health insurance provider. Now I got a

23:47international health insurance. I pay less than 130 euro a month for

23:52international health insurance. I can go to any doctor in the world. Yeah, cost of

23:57living changes your life. So when you talk to people in their twenties and ask them if

24:03they're saving, investing, they say no. What's the point? They just spend it all

24:07because there's no point in saving for something you can never afford. And it's

24:11not just the housing. You know the whole infrastructure in Germany is falling

24:14apart. You just have to look at the trains. You know Germany has had the

24:20reputation to have the best one of the best train systems in the world. It's

24:25always on time etc. But those times have long passed. Now the German train

24:31system aims for punctuality rate for the trains of 60%. That's what they're aiming

24:37for. Aiming. You know. And the train in Germany is only considered late if it's

24:43more than ten minutes late. So if the train is nine minutes late and the

24:46statistics it's still on time. You would be mad to go with public transport to the

24:52airport and not have like a two or three hour buffer in there. Because every time you

24:57want to go to the airport, one train gets cancelled, the next one is one hour delayed,

25:01you're gonna spend a few extra hours getting to the airport with the train.

25:05It's not reliable anymore. I've traveled a lot of countries and I've never

25:10encountered such a bad train system anywhere. Not even in India. In India every

25:15train I took was on time. Every single one of them. How is that possible? I don't

25:19understand. So yeah if you can't rely on public transport anymore that's a huge

25:23down step in quality of life. Because you can't reliably get anywhere. Which kind of

25:29sucks, right? It's kind of ironic that Germany is still spending like hundreds

25:32of millions of Euro in developing aid to other countries. While at the same time

25:37it's becoming itself a developing country. Just last year a major bridge

25:41has collapsed in the city of Greston. So infrastructure in Germany is falling

25:47apart. They don't have enough money but they're supporting other countries. Which is

25:51a good thing. If you have the money you should support other countries to get to

25:56Euro living standards. But if that comes at a cost of your own living standards

26:00not sure if that's a good idea anymore. You should be only financing what you can

26:05afford. You shouldn't spend money you don't have. And yet despite all this people

26:10keep voting for the same two parties over and over again. For decades two parties

26:16have been ruling this country. CDU and SPD. They decided the future of Germany. That's

26:22what we got from it. And apparently people don't want to learn. Especially for those

26:26two parties. Most people voting for them are over 60. They're retirees. They have

26:30voted for those parties their whole lives and they're not gonna change it most of

26:35them. And because Germany is such an aging country the majority of people is

26:39actually above 60. They're the biggest voter group. Apart from people voting for the

26:43same parties over and over again. Germany itself is not really a democracy anymore.

26:48I wouldn't call it that. Because there's this other party, IFD. And they are the

26:52second biggest party right now. But no other party will talk to them, vote with

26:56them or discuss anything with them. They are just pretending they don't exist. They

27:01have always done that. And they're even trying to ban this other party. Which

27:06doesn't sound very democratic to me. They're always accusing this other party of

27:09being undemocratic. But by not even talking to them. Not letting them be part

27:14of the conversation basically. They are being the undemocratic parties. That's

27:20just logic. I mean people must understand this right. In a democracy if those

27:24parties get a big share of votes. In this case like 20%. That's like one-fifth of all

27:30people in Germany. And they can't be represented in a democracy if the other

27:36parties don't acknowledge their existence. It doesn't matter what you think about

27:40them. It doesn't matter what views they have. There needs to be a discourse. And

27:44in Germany there is no discourse. Not between the parties. And if you say

27:49anything that stands in the view of what this party represents, people will

27:55exclude you from society. Or at least they will try to. And this is also a very

28:00dangerous situation. Because it's creating an isolation for different

28:05groups of people in a society. And if certain groups of people feel isolated

28:10they become more radicalized in both directions. And that is not good for a

28:15democracy. So Germany saying we are the most democratic country in the world is

28:22absolute bullshit. It's just not true. I think many other European countries are

28:27more democratic. You have the same parties in in Austria, in the Netherlands. And

28:32they're not being ganged up upon. You know they are in talks with other parties.

28:36Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. But that's that's what a

28:39democracy is. So I would say Germany calls itself a democracy but it doesn't

28:44act like one. That's also the reason why the AFD has become so popular among a

28:50fifth or more of German voters. Because there are old parties they won't address the

28:55issues that have arisen in the last two decades. So that's that's why the the

29:00party was formed right. Because people aren't happy with politics. It's kind of

29:04sad to see in Germany that the political left is encouraging violence against the

29:09political right. Because left and right are just a political spectrum. You can talk

29:14about things or you should be able to talk about things and find a compromise.

29:18But in Germany things are so divided between the people that the left is

29:22calling for violence against the right. The most absurd thing about this is that

29:27political actors from the left spectrum are encouraging this and saying yeah this

29:32is good this is a good thing. Neither side should choose violence just to silence the

29:37opposition. That's stuff from like authoritarian countries. And in general I

29:41don't see Germany heading in a good way when it comes to free speech. People are

29:45getting arrested for posting memes on the internet. Literally. Five years ago you

29:50could have only imagined this from authoritarian countries in Africa or the

29:55Middle East or something like that. That would have been unimaginable in Europe.

30:01But now the UK is mass arresting people. Germany is following suit. Comedy is over.

30:05Yeah memes are over. Critical thinking is not allowed on the internet anymore.

30:10Nowadays people even get arrested for stating facts. It's kind of ridiculous. It

30:15really started to get like this around COVID you know. People weren't allowed to say

30:20certain things. Ever since COVID the the state propaganda in Germany has been

30:25rising a lot. You can see it really in the news how the government and the news

30:30outlets that are controlled by the government like public TV they're trying to

30:34paint a certain picture that that is pretty far off of reality what the people

30:39the everyday people experience. So they're just continuing to ignore the

30:44problems. So Germany is crumbling away slowly. Free speech, quality of life,

30:48everything. It's pretty much a downward spiral and I don't see the bottom in yet

30:52anytime soon. It has to get much worse before most people will realize that

30:58something has to change and at that point it's gonna get very very ugly in my

31:03opinion. But looking at history all of this is pretty normal. I can recommend you to

31:08read the book the fourth turning or the fourth turning is here the second release

31:11which basically describes from history the cycles of society that about every

31:18hundred years there's a major crisis that reshapes the whole society and

31:22throughout history those crises had to happen every 80 to 100 years. I think in

31:28general the West is gonna be a pretty ugly place to live in the next decade.

31:34It doesn't matter if it's the USA or Western Europe. The time has come for

31:38change and change in this proportion is never pretty. It's gonna be pretty ugly

31:45for a lot of people. So what to do? Looking to the East. This is actually West. East.

31:54What does this mean for the future of Germany? Well right now the system is

32:00falling apart pretty much. What comes after? We don't know if it's gonna be better or

32:04worse. Only time will tell. It's not that I hate Germany. There's just too many things

32:08that are going wrong. I mean it's all fun and games until you have children and

32:12then you have to think about their futures to make sure that you have a good

32:17quality of life for yourself and for your children. You go away right? That's also

32:22why so many people come to Germany because they hope to have a better future

32:25there for the children and it's understandable. If you're coming from the

32:29Middle East from Africa. Things in Germany are probably still much better than in

32:33those countries they're coming from. That's why they're coming right? But if

32:38you are German and you're used to a certain standard and you just see it

32:43going down then you start thinking about how things could be different or

32:48were different even you know because you have experienced them. So I'm happy to be

32:55part of a different society that appreciates people, that appreciates the

32:59work they do, that appreciates community and in Germany I don't see any community

33:06left. It's just a divided people that can't agree on anything. Germany is a

33:12sinking ship and I'm not gonna stay on it to drown. The only thing that could turn

33:17Germany around would be a radical reform, radical changes but German politicians

33:23have been saying ever since I can't remember, like for 20 years, they have

33:27been saying Germany needs to be less bureaucratic, there needs to be less

33:31regulation, need to be more attractive for entrepreneurs, for businesses. They have

33:36been saying that and they know that but then the next year they do more

33:41bureaucracy, they do more regulation, they know all of this and they say it but

33:46they also say they want to change it but then they don't. You know they do the

33:50opposite. It's mad, it's mental. Maybe when the system is on the floor I'm gonna

33:56come back to Germany, I'm gonna run for Chancellor and fix all this mess. But where's

34:02my journey going you ask now? I gave you all the reasons not to stay or move to

34:07Germany. For me the best country in the world right now to live in is Japan. So

34:11that's where I'm going to spend the majority of my time now. Things work there,

34:14it's orderly. I can't really say anything negative about Japan. The only negative

34:19thing is the working culture but since I'm self-employed I'm not gonna be part

34:24of the working culture there. I think nowadays it's all about values. Which

34:28values do you share and which values are you willing to be part of? And Germany

34:35has lost a lot of its values that make life in a society worth living and I can

34:42see those values very much in Japan still. There are values that are better

34:47than others. For everyone that's different but you have to choose your

34:51values and then you have to to act on them and then if you're lucky you can

34:56choose to live with those and I really love the values Japan has. You can leave

35:02your wallet in a subway and you're gonna see it again. 99% chance you're gonna see

35:06your wallet with all the money in there. Small children they can commute to

35:10to kindergarten to elementary school. Five years old they take the subway 30

35:16minutes. No problem. Other Japanese people are gonna watch out for them.

35:19Nothing is gonna happen to them. Unimaginable in Germany. It's not gonna

35:24happen. You would be mad to send your child with public transport and burden to

35:29go to kindergarten or elementary school. It would be extremely irresponsible but in

35:35Japan that's normal. And I love that. Just being in Japan seeing how people are to

35:42each other it kind of makes me want to be a better person because I feel like the

35:47the uncivilized person there coming from Europe which is kind of kind of funny

35:52and absurd. So much to learn. Finally the barbarians are going to become

35:57civilized. But of course as long as children don't have to go to school I'm

36:01gonna be traveling a lot. So you're still gonna see a lot of videos of me on the

36:06road. I really enjoy being in southern Europe. People are nice. The food is good.

36:10I'm gonna visit Germany once in a while. My parents still live there so I have to go

36:15back there once in a while and then I'm gonna make some videos there as well. But

36:19the majority of the year I'm gonna be not there. And I'm very grateful that I am

36:24able to choose this. That's also in part because of you. All of you who

36:29subscribed and watch my videos. Thank you for enabling me to choose my life and be

36:37free. I don't think there's anything more valuable than being free.

36:48Good luck to you and see you on the other side.

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