hey guys welcome back to foreign reacts i'll be doing a video right now uh again from uh i'm not
gonna say her name uh i think it's zoe zoe marie i hope i'm saying that correctly yeah but i think
that's what it is but either ways the title of the video is why i'm not moving back to the us after
living in germany for four years i've done one of these for um from the male's perspective i'm gonna
check this one out from a female's perspective i've also done her video about racism in germany
her video was a little bit iffy so i have not released it as yet but um i'll release that at
a later date so y'all uh stay posted and uh thank you for the love and support subscribe and leave a
like in the video as always and uh hope y'all are having a good day let's get right into this video
and uh i'll leave a link for my instagram my other youtube channel with regarding me moving to europe
stuff like that will be in the comment section so check them out if you guys want to check them out
but either ways guys let's get right into the video hi and welcome back to my channel if you
don't already know my name is zoe marie and i film videos here on youtube in the category lifestyle
travel and fashion today's video is going to be seven reasons why i'm not moving back to
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into this with number one so i've been getting a lot of comments from some of my subscribers asking
when i'm gonna go back to the state or if i'm gonna go back to the states and that's basically
the reason why i'm making this video because from my perspective at this moment in time i
do not see myself ever moving back to the united states i've gotten a taste of something different
and this is not to say that the united states is you know just something totally bad it's just
my perspective and the reasons why i really love germany and want to stay in germany or in europe
number one is safety i find the safety here in germany completely different obviously
than new york and new york city but i actually feel like oh yeah i remember in the last video
she was someone in new york and i was thinking to myself yeah you can't really compare how
new yorkers actually act compared to germans because german are kind of different type of
people new yorkers are different when i tell you they're different right so if she's from new york
probably like two months ago we had like two shootings alone in new york two shootings and i'm
talking mad shooting and i'm not talking a little street boy shooting i'm talking math shooting
right so yeah yeah a woman quite safe in general here in germany i don't feel like i have to clutch
my bag clutch my pearls every time i'm walking down the street i generally do feel very very
safe in the streets obviously you know maybe there might be some stairs more specifically
if i'm walking at night obviously you need to keep yourself on guard i'm not saying drop your
guard when you're here in germany but i generally do feel safe i always felt in the united states
especially in new york because that's where i'm from that's right i you know you just have to
keep your back close to your chest you just have to really look out it could be different for other
us states but for new york especially if i go into the city or if i'm just in a little rural area of
new york i just feel like i have to you know watch out and of course this is not to say that crime
and crazy stuff does not happen in germany it's just not so big as it is in the states as it is
in new york number two it's actually quite easy to go back to new york from germany normally i
would have a layover for example in either paris or amsterdam for maybe an hour and then it's just
a 7 hour 7 hour 20 flight back to new york so it's not like across the world it's not like
new york is so far from me that i don't get to see my parents and i am quite blessed that i
am able to go back to new york at least twice a year to visit family so it doesn't feel like i'm
completely ostracized here in germany on top of that i do face them with my family every day so
this deep deep deep homesickness doesn't really take me over it's obviously there but it is social
times too imagine video calling your family uh every single day 365 days in a year and you vis
and your face call your family every day that is that is what you call social
social social social i don't i've never video called anyone every single day of my life never
ever it doesn't overwhelm me because i do get the chance to visit my family often number three
germany is very very family friendly i mean i've never been anywhere where it's just like
so family oriented i've never seen this before and for me it kind of warms my heart because
i do want to start a family and i would love to start a family in germany
and the fact that things are just so you know child friendly there's like little grandmas
looking out the windows watching the kids walk home making sure you know everybody's
getting to where they need to get to i don't know i just feel like to have a family here
in germany if somebody's watching a kid through the window in america best believe that kid gone
be really safe for example if i were to have a family in the states i personally feel like i
would never let my child walk home after school or even a walk to school and if they have to because
of circumstances like i have to go to work i would just be shaking because i would be in such fear
i have just seen such crazy things happening in new york with missing children and just
that whole works and here in germany it's not really a thing like that you see kids like little
little kids walking home and it's just everyone understands that it's just a safe environment
it's actually normal for kids to walk home alone and they always get to their destinations
so i i really do love that about germany i cannot wait to actually start a family here
the fourth thing why i would not leave germany is the school system the school system in germany is
really really really good as well as it's free the aspect of paying for university
in new york you're paying like arm and your leg that's actually what it costs to go to university
i think it's not right i personally don't think that you should be paying for an education i think
i think a lot of things but the point is in germany you don't have to disagree right there it
is important to pay for education but it's how you pay i think education should be funded through tax
uh it shouldn't be uh and a side note you could also have uh personal funds
that you paid but it shouldn't be anything too uh expensive like a ten thousand dollars for a
semester or whatever or for the as i was saying it shouldn't be like that right but um it is what
it is for now but um yeah definitely education should not be that expensive at all in america
that if you're going to university you can pay absolutely nothing for university just the school
fees which could potentially be 500 to 600 euros but i would pay that 600 euros definitely compared
to a 30 grand tuition definitely and i think if i have a family and i want to have maybe three kids
um don't judge me i want to have a lot of kids but for example i want to have three kids man
hey you got ladies out here with seven to twelve kids that ain't nothing
three kids a little bit like one two three look how easy that ain't nothing that's nine nine nine
nine nine nine that's it that's it talk about them ladies we put like four or more kids that's a lot
three little bitty and i worry about that and i have to support them through college and pay
for their university degree i would probably go bankrupt i don't know or eating rice for dinner
only rice because i could not afford anything else it's just so expensive in new york to go to
school and i think i can say this for all of the states it's just expensive for a degree and here
in germany that's something that you don't have to worry about so the fifth thing is just going
to be the higher standard of living every time a subscriber asked me why i would choose germany
over the u.s one of the things that i mentioned is the higher standard of living coming from new york
where everything is just so expensive i mean it is just ridiculously expensive i just read this
online don't quote me on it but new york has just been called new york city has just been called
the most expensive city in the states outranking san francisco again don't quote me ah you you
yeah new york new york is really expensive we talk about the city to be specific but new york
the state is in general expensive but the city is very very very expensive i mean new york um
over there in uh beverly hills california places like um uh las vegas las vegas stuff like that um
nevada whatever states certain states are way more expensive in my humble opinion but certain places
i think miami uh also is a pretty expensive as well um that's there's one there's a couple of
them in florida i can't really remember right now but uh there's a couple of them in florida they're
really really really really expensive when i say expensive i'm talking about
there are a lot of rich people there rich people leave like from all their you know little fancy
states and they come down there and they live and they make their house and they do all
kinds of stuff so florida is pretty expensive in certain places i don't remember the places right
now i'm kind of messed up right now so i didn't remember that new york is just expensive and the
standard that you get for what you pay for is so so little you get basically nothing for your buck
and it just makes no sense but here in germany you have a higher standard of living
as well as it's affordable your whole salary is not gone paying for your rent or your mortgage
and you can still afford to eat and you can still afford to go out to dinner go out with friends
it's all still very affordable things are taken care of here in germany for example the rhodes
and this is just a funny story but my dad and little sister did just visit me they're already
back in the states but the first thing that my dad said to me was that wow what kind of like pavement
what kind of gravity new york are they using them on the streets that their streets are so perfect
and always perfect how does it not get destroyed and he's only saying that because in new york
it's really good it's not necessary shame on you the streets shame on you the streets in new york
they're ghetto i'm not even kidding the potholes in new york will think i think i've seen the
like the biggest pothole in new york why did my watch just vibrate i just seen like the
biggest pothole in new york like mad bro if your car went into it it would not come out
that type of pothole right so um new york i got to do better especially over there in brooklyn
bro i'm telling you they got some rough streets over there but mad love i love new york always
will duff new york literally destroy your car literally if you just drive into one pothole
i cut out carbs sugar it was just not sustainable boom i gained it back so fast
your whole car could be destroyed here in germany those things are taken care of so number six would
be nature coming from long island nature really wasn't a thing in my life i never really looked
out the window at the forest there was no forest around me or the mountains there's no mountains
around me i never was really in that scene and i wouldn't say i'm like super super in
that scene but to actually live in nature and be surrounded by you know mountains and the alps and
things like that it really just puts me personally like in a peaceful mindset to be able to wake up
and see that or to be able to just maybe walk 20 minutes and i can just walk into a forest or
see horses it really is something therapeutic for me which i didn't have in new york and i
don't know if i would want to give that up again you just have to see it and be in it to kind of
understand what i mean so the last point that i want to talk about is traveling one of the bases
of my channel is a travel channel it's partially a travel channel and in new york i mean it just
wasn't working to travel anywhere even within the states it might cost you a buck or two but here in
germany we're like kind of center in europe and i find that it's very easy to travel anywhere
it's not that expensive and since my channel is partially a travel channel this is something that
i you know need to do i need to travel um as well as i love to travel i want to see new places but
i also don't want to empty out my pockets because i want to get in and have it like that so i don't
want to be emptying out my pockets just to go to northern germany or just to go to the uk i just i
don't want to do that and that's the luxury that i have living in germany is that i can travel freely
affordably comfortably and still have money to spend in the place that i'm going to basically so
we've reached the end of the video i hope you guys totally close out what she's saying especially for
the fact that she's from new york i can tell you i know new york i know it very well i've been there
so obviously i can co-sign like it's not that i like i've never been to certain states in america
i ain't going i ain't gonna hold you i've not been to all states in america i have not
right but um new york for sure i have been there and um i've been around new york a lot so what i
can say to you is that new york definitely is not the safest place it's it's far from safe when it
comes to safety and new york city itself it's very busy and people don't understand that it's
really actually not a safe place but um in terms of the quality of the streets she is spot on it's
definitely not the best um it's it's really really really a rough rough rough situation in new york
i'm not going to say that it's a worse where you cannot drive at all but it's definitely not the
best at all not even close but um even the nature that she mentioned really with new york if you see
a tree in new york it's probably something planted by yourself or you know i like it's really really
really really really really super duper duper rare to see trees in new york and if you do see trees
it's not going to be like so many what you'll see is like a lot of beautiful buildings and such and
such as you're talking about a city right now and even if you go into the areas where people live
like let's say you want to go to brooklyn queens one of those places it's definitely
not a forest right so i do agree with her and her points were very much spot on and um yeah for
sure i i should visit germany but like i said the link will be in the comment section for my channel
it's going to be a travel channel as well so go check it out and yeah we added here guys peace