Comments by "Jeff B." (@jeffb.140) on "The Worst Country to Live as an Expat" video.

  1. Well, there is a reason why Germans are one of the largest groups of immigrants in a lot of immigration countries like the US, Canada, NZ, etc.. Germany has an oversupply of (specific) talent in engineering, law, medicine. This leads to relatively low salaries compared to some of the other mentioned countries and often fierce competition. Especially when you are not speaking German you'll be at the bottom of the pecking order. Combine that with the unwillingness to learn the language and certain attitudes of entitlement from certain expats and I can see why they hate it 🤷‍♂ The housing situation has escalated due to the migration crises from 2015 and now Ukraine. Demand has exploded and even though a lot of new construction is taking place at the moment it can't keep up with that kind of demand.
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  2. Would have thought Afghanistan or Papua New Guinea would be number one on that list .. or maybe the DR Congo
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  3.  @abdiellawrence397  Most Germans couldn't care less about that. We still had the Stasi until 1990 and most Germans have some relative having suffered from their total surveillance police state. Anonymous cash is king here and its making a comeback in a lot of current police states.
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  4. Same goes for a lot of other countries. The people that travel are usually the openminded, intelligent ones. The first times I visited Canada, Australia and NZ have all been letdowns, cause the Aussies, Canadians and Kiwis you meet traveling are usually adventurous, fun and easy going. Then you visit those countries and man are they stiff and have ridiculous HSE regulations.
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  5. We do. But you can't be a 500lbs blue haired land whale 😅
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  6. It's been like this for two decades. Germany has an oversupply of physicians therefore salaries are depressed, whereas Switzerland doesn't train enough of their own, so there is quite the physician migration going on. The salaries in Switzerland have been going down quite a bit as well due to that compared to twenty years ago, which has caused some resentment from Swiss doctors.
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  7. Yup. If we see expats having too much fun around here, we'll feed them sauerkraut! That'll show'em! 😅
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  8.  @xinzhang6241  If you work as an expat for an embassy there, at least its somewhat safe compared to those others.
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  9.  @-_.Kiki._-  If you run into one of those groups of fresh off the military service Israelis that need to let off steam yeah, they can be loud and annoying for others. But I've met nice and interesting solo travelers as well and also Israeli girls can be very aggressive flirters.
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  10. First one is temporary, the other is indefinite.
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  11.  @LisaCulton  If you look at the total number of physicians there is quite a large oversupply and people go see some sort of specialist way too often. This leads to the situation that they want to hire specialists for cheap, but the pie doesn't get bigger as there is a set budget from the public insurance. The solution would be to limit seeing specialist to actually needed cases and then hire less specialists but pay them better, i.e. the opposite of the current situation.
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  12. True story, Port Moresby is so bad it's almost comical
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  13.  @eksantra502  A very nice place with good quality of life and great food comparably
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  14. They probably didn't find many expats still remaining in China to interview for their survey
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  15.  @LisaCulton  I totally agree that the system needs major reform. I personally could do without the socialized system altogether but that's unlikely to happen. I wasn't even having insurance for years due to a legal loophole until everyone was forced to by the social democrats. One of my former partners is a physician in Switzerland as well and for the most part their system makes more sense.
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  16. I knew quite a lot of expats in China and they have all left during the last couple of years.
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  17. Ok, racist
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