Some things are cheaper in Germany, and some things are more expensive, and today we’re
gonna talk about the more expensive ones.
Hey everyone! I’m Dana and you’re watching Wanted Adventure Living Abroad.
As I mentioned in the video on the cost of college tuition in the U.S., whether something
is expensive or cheap is all relative.
So in this conversation, I’m going to be comparing everything that I talk about to
the cost of that item in the U.S. where I'm from.
And I would love to know if these prices are expensive or cheap compared to the prices
that you've seen for these things in other places around the world.
The cost to get your driver’s license does vary around the U.S., state by state, but
just glancing over the fees in Florida, I’m putting it at around 100 dollars.
According to the Department of Motor Vehicles website, to get your first time driver’s
license in Florida, you have to take a 4 hour driver’s education course online.
Then you have to take and pass a written test about the traffic rules and the signs, and
then you have to take and pass the driving test.
And pay the 48 dollar fee.
You don’t even have to pay to get professional passport photos taken, because they take your
photo right there at the DMV office.
In Germany, it’s a little bit different.
There’s actually a lot more involved in getting a driver’s license here in Germany,
including weeks of official driving lessons.
According to what my friends here in Germany have told me and from what I’ve found online,
it can cost around 1,500 euros to around 3,000 euros to get your driver’s license in Germany.
A lot of German recipes call for vanilla sugar, rather than vanilla extra, and vanilla sugar
is really quite cheap in Germany.
And that makes sense, since that’s what people here usually use.
But I often use American recipes for cookies and cakes, and those call for pure vanilla extract.
When I first moved to Germany 6 years ago, I couldn’t even find pure vanilla extract
sometimes, just the vanilla sugar.
But now I can find vanilla extract in larger stores, but it’s often super expensive!
A tiny bottle about this big I've seen for around 10 euros, whereas in the U.S. you could
get a bottle about that big for 5 dollars.
Phew! Gasoline is so expensive here in Germany!
In general gas costs about double in Germany as what it costs in the U.S.
But now, I’m not actually saying that this is entirely a bad thing.
As nice and convenient as it is to be able to fill up your tank on the cheap in the U.S.,
I just feel like there would be a lot more pressure and incentive for U.S. cities to
set up better public transportation, create better bike paths, for Americans to do more
ride-sharing, and delve deeper into options for renewable sources of energy if gas just
wasn’t so dang affordable there.
Have a headache?
Ibuprofen expensive in Germany!
In the U.S. I can buy a bottle of like 200 ibuprofen tablets for 8 dollars.
Here in Germany you get a box of 20 tablets for around 8 euros.
Remember at the end of the show "Friends" when Monica and Chandler left their keys to
the apartment on the counter...and then so did everyone else because it turned out that
all of their friends also had a copy of the key to the apartment?
Well that probably wouldn’t happen here in Germany because getting copies made of
house keys is a big expensive deal.
Like talking 150 euros expensive.
And while it is really good that German front door keys are these safe, really good coded
keys, 150 euros is still a pretty steep price.
From what I remember in Florida in the U.S., I think they cost around 10 dollars to make
a copy and it was just no big deal.
It was like, I better pop down and get a spare key to the house this afternoon.
So just one comment here from Mr. German Man: the rental apartment keys are really expensive
because they are these universal keys, and they're coded, so they're really expensive
to make a copy of them.
But for just when you own a house, the normal keys, they're also really cheap.
And yeah, that's it. Bye.
So my question for you is: what things have you noticed as being more expensive
in certain places around the world?
Please let me know in the comments below.
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Mraaau.
Bye bye!
The cost to get your driver's license varies around the U.S. state from s...
Tiny bottle about this big, I've seen for around 10 euros, whereas in the U.S., you
could get a bottle about that big for 5 dollars.
That was really scientific.