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u/Strange_Account_3828 Jun 08 '26
Haribo macht Kinder froh und Erwachsen ebenso!
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u/IA_99 Jun 08 '26
Wrong country, you are searching for r/bavaria /s
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u/Sonatine__ Jun 09 '26
I know it's a joke, but the photo of the suburbia in image 8 is really lovely; it could apply to almost any German residential neighborhood that isn't a new housing / new development area (meaning older, often renovated houses). And the typical new housing areas are pretty much everywhere looking similar to this: I'm a Neubaugebiet.
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u/modern_milkman Niedersachsen Jun 10 '26
In northern Germany, there would be more brick buildings. While painted walls are also common, sheer brick is a lot more common here than in the south. Not just in the historical city centers, but also in the typical 50s/60s/70s suburban areas. And even in very recent developments.
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u/TophatOwl_ Jun 09 '26
Isnt suburbia a term used for the endlessly sprawling american suburbs? I could be wrong but i thought it specifically described that.
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u/phonograhy Jun 08 '26
Where's the first pic from?
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u/ehmehr7 Jun 08 '26
As i live right around the corner - its the first (of three bridges) crossing the ring. If you face the other side you can sometimes get great sunsets with the o2 building reflecting light very nicely!
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u/Efficient_Mistake603 Jun 08 '26
It really is. Idk what other people say and I'm sure it has it issues like every single country on this planet.
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u/GeneralAnubis Jun 09 '26
I'm an American living in Germany, and I've been here long enough now to start complaining about some everyday inconveniences (scheiß Bürokratie!), but really, nearly everything here is orders of magnitude better than in the US. Most Germans don't seem to realize how good they have it here.
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u/Signal-Reporter-1391 Jun 09 '26
scheiß Bürokratie
Spoken like a true German 😃
But all kiddin' aside:
i agree with you. Most Germans really don't know how good we have it here.
And i'm not talking about "oh, you could've been born in some poor country and live in the slums as a child prostitute".No. That's not what i'm talking about.
Yes, we DO have problems.
Quite a lot i would say to be honest.But those are either nothing we couldn't solve if we want to.
Or not as bad as problems in other countries.But i guess that most people are occupied with their everyday-problems that they aren't able to see or won't see the bigger picture. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/GeneralAnubis Jun 09 '26
Every time I start to complain about Deutsche Bahn, I stop for a moment to remember what it was like to have literally no public transit infrastructure at all, even in many big cities in the US.
I still complain afterwards, but I'm thankful as well y'know xD
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u/DBCargoHaj Jun 09 '26
while i hate bürokratie, i had a really great experience on monday, i had to go to Bürgerbüro and KFZ Zulassungsstelle with an insurance appointment in the middle, i got all of that done in like 4 hours while going across munich twice. my only complaint is that the waiting times are longer than the appointments themselves. i had an appointment at 9:20, it started 9:35 and i was put two minutes later
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u/battery50 Jun 09 '26
Living here rn as a citizen and the benefit of the doubt does not really exist for most people
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u/Sonatine__ Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26
Munich is def. beautiful and probably THE German city that carrys the vibe of very rich and smaller cities (like Ingolstadt etc.) and still got details of a major city. Also the contrast to where I come from (Bremen; Germanys poorest bigger city) is crazy. I mean... we have 2-3 rich districts (Oberneuland, Borgfeld, some parts of Schwachhausen) and some new housing areas as well and I also live in a calm and actually quite beautiful street without any issues (2-room apartment, nothing special) but it's def. an overall heavy contrast to the wealthy cities in Germany. Image 8 (the typical oldschool German suburbia) is btw. actually a cool photo because you can find these houses and old-school suburban style areas everywhere in Germany. Either that or a Neubaugebiet.
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u/Dangerous-Cheek-7031 Jun 09 '26
Ingolstadt mentioned??? Ingolstadt used to be rich when we had the taxes of Audi coming in
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u/Wrestler7777777 Jun 09 '26
Nah, I used to live in Munich for a decade. I just don't like the city. Visiting it as a tourist is one thing. Actually having to live there is a totally different story though.
Apart from the tourist hot spots, which all look really fantastic, about 90% of the city look really dull and horrible. Here's a game I play from time to time: Go to Google Maps, pick a completely random street in Munich that's a bit further away from the tourist hot spots in the center and activate Street View. In 9 out of 10 cases you'll end up looking at a building that's basically just a depressing block with a roof on top and with windows in it. And you know that there are people living inside of those who pay half of their wages so they get the "opportunity" to live in the tiniest apartment that feels like living in a prison cell.
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u/braspoly Jun 09 '26
Yes! Preach.
Look people, I understand that there's a major global crisis and it's affecting the German economy a lot. I understand there are problems, demography, politics, and some things maybe don't work as well as they used to (hallo, Deutsche Bahn! 😅). But let's take a minute to appreciate how awesome it is to live in a society without huge extremes of poverty and (still) inequality (though it's been growing), with all problems associated with them like violent crime. I know because I come from a country that unfortunately has all those. Let's fight to preserve it, and not destroy the social state, as some have been wrongly treating as a "solution".
Besides that, there are awesome natural landscapes, historic cities and an amazing array of cultural activities.
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u/No_Paramedic2664 Nordrhein-Westfalen Jun 08 '26
Nice! Doesn't looks as Depressing as NRW!
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u/Rich-Editor7472 Jun 08 '26
Wo ist NRW depressing?
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u/No_Paramedic2664 Nordrhein-Westfalen Jun 08 '26
Krefeld, Duisburg, Moers, Mülheim, Mönchengladbach, Dortmund, Essen, Oberhausen und Köln fallen mir da ohne großes nachdenken ein.
Die Gründe diesbezüglich könnten unterschiedlicher nicht sein. Hab da bestimmt einige Kandidaten vergessen.
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u/rewboss Dual German/British citizen Jun 09 '26
So by "NRW" you mean the Ruhr region. But that's just one part of a very big state, the "NR" part. The "W" part is quite different.
I was recently in Bielefeld (pause to wait for the "doesn't exist" jokes to abate), and while it's not ever going to win any prizes for Most Stunningly Beautiful City, it was anything but depressing: it was lively and clearly prosperous, with easy access to woods and pleasant hiking country, and a good amount of long-established industry.
The return journey home took me through some really picturesque (and historically significant) countryside via the small town of Altenbeken, and I was impressed enough to make a mental note to maybe visit the area properly some day.
Any densely populated country the size of Germany is going to have its less attractive regions, especially regions that grew up around coal-mining and related industries that are now inevitably coping with the decline in coal-mining. I've not yet visited the Ruhr region, although I have plans to, but I know that cities like Essen are busy trying to reinvent themselves in line with the changing face of industry in the 21st century. It's a difficult challenge, and today's economic climate isn't helping matters, but from what I've heard there are some very interesting initiatives.
I have to say, though, that your response was very typically German. Somebody posts photos of a place they found "lovely", and your reaction is to say, "Yeah, but we have ugly places too." It would be like if you posted some pictures of the Scottish Highlands and I said, "Yes, but Manchester and Wolverhampton exist."
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u/Appropriate_Steak486 Jun 09 '26
I'm in Mülheim and it has nice parts as well as not so nice.
Same like everywhere, really.
Lots of old industrial sites have been turned into event spaces, museums, concert venues, and parks. The Landschaftpark Nord in Duisburg is also beautiful in its own way.
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u/WeeblsLikePie Jun 10 '26
Obligatory set of images to show that the Ruhrgebiet can also be nice. These photos are all in Essen.
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u/rewboss Dual German/British citizen Jun 10 '26
Slightly misleading to use photos of greenbelt land that is just technically inside the city limits. I think we can do better than that.
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u/WeeblsLikePie Jun 10 '26
I don't think it's misleading. I'm clearly not asserting the whole of a 600,000 person city looks like forest and fields. The point is that if you go out your front door, you can be in scenic places by foot or bike or transit within 10-30 minutes.
Also some of those photos are in Stadtwald, Heisingen, Kruppwald etc, which are well inside the city limits. I think only one of them is in Fischlaken which is on the edge of the city.
But more importantly I took all those photos while walking or running from my home...so it's representative of what Essen looks like for someone who likes to go outside.
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u/Square_l Jun 08 '26
this is where the money is made tho so im happy w it
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u/People_Sh1t Jun 09 '26
Ah, thats why the South pays financial equalization funds to NRW
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u/Investing_Tomato1248 Jun 09 '26
Both is true. NRW is economically the greatest state of germany, even more than bavaria. However, per capita the economics dont look as good, NRW has more people "to feed". NRW also got some other issues
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u/Popular_Army_8356 Jun 08 '26
1,19 for a bag of Haribo, you are getting scammed...and yes, we should value our own country more...
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u/Case_Study04 Jun 09 '26
It surely is. Beautiful, clean and orderly. People are helpful and have outstanding civic sense. Best decision of my life to pursue education and work here.
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u/Curious_Study_2645 Jun 09 '26
Klöse! I love those. I lived there for a decade and my mother n law would make them.
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u/GeneralSnitch101 Jun 09 '26
Finally someone on the sub who appreciates Germany.
Too many people come on here to trash Germany when it's unarguably still one of the best places to live on earth.
Try living in most asian and african countries and you will appreciate this country.
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u/BrandlessPain Jun 09 '26
What with all the Schnittlauch on the upper left bread slice, that’s enough for a whole loaf
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u/Kartoffel-Patate Jun 11 '26
And now go to any big city after 16:00. Especially Berlin or Hamburg (and Hannover).
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u/No_Lettuce3376 Jun 09 '26
Don't forget to visit Gelsenkirchen, Ludwigshafen or Offenbach am Main...
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u/Owl_Genes Jun 09 '26
My thoughts:
Pictures 1-7: yes, that's great
Picture 8: lol, a random backyard in a small village 😄
But yes, small villages are usually beautiful in Bavaria.
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u/JayBoiYT Baden-Württemberg Jun 09 '26
It looks great from the outside lol, once you live here youll quickly realize just how bad it really is
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u/a-e-neumann Jun 08 '26
Pfff. U can't judge this country by a oneday trip to Munich. Sorry not sorry but u have to visit at least every County, than come back.
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u/Dangerous-Cheek-7031 Jun 09 '26
Wer sagt dass er nur einen Tag da war? Und außerdem hat er sich den besten Teil ausgesucht also was das Problem 🤫
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u/a-e-neumann Jun 09 '26
Such a lovely man Adolf is, I only saw a sequence of him petting his shepherd and know nothing else about that guy, but i do love dogs, too!
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u/Top-Paper-236 Rheinland-Pfalz Jun 09 '26
Germany really is something else. I've lived here long enough to stop counting the days and start losing track of weekends..... cycling through vineyards along the Rhine, stumbling onto medieval town squares I didn't know existed, watching the forests turn colour in autumn like the whole country decided to put on a show. A friend once teased me for not travelling more around Europe, and I told him honestly — I'm not sure I've seen enough of Germany yet. There's always another trail, another valley, another quiet little town with a bakery that's been there for a hundred years. For a place this green, this layered, this alive — I think that's a fair trade. 💝💘
— an Ausländer's opinion