"Quiet hour" isnt as extreme as it sounds 😊 you dont have to be quiet, you just cant be annoyingly loud.

The TÜV isn't about making sure the cars are "nice looking", it's about whether it's safe for being on the road. You're allowed to drive absolute most rusty junk cars as long as all the important parts are still working properly

There is nothing better than one day of calmness and relaxation like on a Sunday.
The best thing EVER.
I need it.

I don't know about Spain, but in Germany, especially the train stations are hot spots for actual homeless people and those are usually not pushed out of town (no loitering laws) and therefore remain very visible. Also, there are a lot of professional beggars who pose as homeless. This is even often part of organized crime. As others have pointed out, everybody has the right to assistance, and those who actually really live on the street do so on their free will, either because they have drug, alcohol, or other problems and want to stay for themselves rather than participate in public programs offering shelter or other forms of accomodation. And of course, nobody can be forced. Depending on the local town, there are programs trying more or less successfully to reach especially those people to get them out of that vicious circle of not being able to have a regular schedule, not finding a job, and not finding a regular apartment which is often why they end up on the street.

Of course, the housing situation has also worsened over the past few years, especially after Putlers war on Ukraine. More than a million refugees from Ukraine alone have been taken and needed shelter, on top of hundreds of thousands of refugees from other world regions. That together with neglecting social housing over the past several years has made things harder. And of course, Putler and his friends are using refugees as a tool to destabilize western democracies.

Still, the difference between the US and Germany are the criteria for counting homelessness and how these people are pushed around and often end up out of town in some spot where most people would never set a foot and consequently do not see them. You won't find the kind of tent city in Germany that you see in some parts of the states, and many people who are called homeless in Germany wouldn't even be considered homeless in America.


Take care!

I think one problem for homeless people is, that while they could get help, it takes a lot of bureaucracy to actually get help. So if you became homeless because you could not deal with german bureaucracy in the first place, it is difficult to get back into society.
Another thing i noticed is, that many homeless people (at least in my city) are not from around, but from different countries, i dont know why though.

Good concept for a video. You also always pick such nice spots for recording.

Back in the 60s, stores used to be closed on Sundays! 😊

Is shopping  really the only activity you can think of for Sunday? And of course you can do housework during the quiet hours,  as long as you don't produce too much noise. Germans like to follow the rules but we are not robots. I ignore the red traffic light at 5:30 h in the morning when I go to work because there is hardly a car in sight, at 7am it would be far too dangerous to do so. Insurance you really need is car insurance and liability insurance. The rest depends on your personal situation.

the water fountains thing really surprised me to hear. i have never thought about this. my first thought was that we may not trust them but the bring your own bottle argument is solid. i dont know, it's odd. i would certainly make use of them, especially in this weather we had the recent days :p

We have public drinking fountains in my area in Scotland. Fifty years ago they were everywhere this changed in the eighties but they are making a comeback. Up until the 21st century we had Sunday closing. Small corner shops often stayed open and supermarkets would operate reduced hours and there would be an emergency chemist and limited public transport but all other businesses closed. The pubs opened but for a long time that was heavily restricted. Sunday closing was lovely. Many businesses in my local town centre still close on Sundays. As for insurance - yep most folks have car insurance, buildings and contents insurance, life insurance. Of course it varies depending on needs - I even have insurance for my pushbike that covers me being in an accident with a car

Bottle and Can deposits definetly work. Cans and Plastic bottles were everywhere be4 they were added to the pfand system (originally only glass bottles)

Because we can drink from ANY tap in germany :D so there is no use for drinking fountains when you can refill at any faucet youd like. while in the US at least on my visits i was always told to not drink the tapwater, so controlled drinking fountains are very usefull. But in Germany you just can get perfectly drinking water from every place that has a bathroom

Here in our part of western Canada we take recycling a little further. We have a refundable fee of about 25c for bottles cans juice boxes etc. We also have a non-refundable fee of 3-4c which runs a program where physically and particularly intellectually challenged people work collecting, packaging, counting and issuing refunds. It's a great way to recycle and provide a job to someone who may otherwise have trouble finding employment.

The people around a trainstation are not homeless.
That are people who use the strategic location for begging.
Most of them have a home.

At night you don't see many homeless.
If people are sleeping in their bags in the city, usually it is because they want so.
Normally there is a bed-place for every homeless in the communities.

Regarding the disposal (up to 0,25 EUR) in previous times you saw somtimes empty cans on the edge of streets. After the  implementation of the deposit you will not find them anymore. Even if some are thrown away there will be somebody who picks them up and returns them to a supermarket.

In the seventies we still had springs everywhere from where you could take clean water.
Why they took them down, is still a riddle to me, cause they also looked kinda nice.

This year in Vienna/Austria I saw modern springs all over the town and found it very nice especially in the hot summer season that you could take fresh, healthy water from the springs.

It is definetely something, we should discuss with Belit Onay, because having them makes so much more sense.😊

Love all that you are hitting all the Hannover beauty spots

Shops at larger train stations are open on Sundays, so you can still shop groceries for example.

It’s always super misleading when people say ‘everything is closed on Sundays’ - cause it’s not. Only retail and offices and such are closed on Sundays. Everything recreational is in fact open - zoos, amusement parcs, restaurants, movie theaters, museums and and and.

Water fountains were never a thing here. Having said this, several places in Germany have water fountains with natural spring water. On the other hand, you can drink tap water almost anywhere.