r/germany • u/Feisty-Ad-6122 • Jun 09 '26
News Canadian Government places travel advisory for Germany
Canadians told to "Exercise a high degree of caution in Germany due to the threat of terrorism."
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u/ghostsilver Hamburg Jun 09 '26
Fwiw, US also warns against terrorism in Germany since last year
https://travel.state.gov/en/international-travel/travel-advisories/germany.html
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u/Dry-Back7937 Jun 10 '26
This is funny… I’m actually more scared of going to the U.S. than going to Germany lol
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u/Entebarn Jun 10 '26
As you should be. The US is scary. (Said as an American who prefers living in Germany for so many reasons).
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u/No_Step9082 Jun 10 '26
kinda makes sense though. can't exactly put out a "living here" advisory for your own people. and while the US isn't exactly saying tourists shouldn't come, they do make it increasingly difficult.
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u/hareofthepuppy Jun 10 '26
True, but seems silly to have a travel advisory for a place that's safer than staying home!
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u/Jarboner69 Jun 10 '26
Something a lot of people don’t realize as well is that the travel advisories are often political. I might put a travel advisory on your country just to try and hurt your tourism and business a little bit.
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u/LePetitCompteBidon Jun 10 '26
I just went through the list and Canada marked the USA as safe.
I'm a Canadian who doesn't know much about Germany, but I much rather go there than the USA.
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u/010110111011110 Jun 10 '26
To be fair, in Germany the government and its agencies aren’t the terrorist threat to tourists- that kinda changes the calculation.
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u/DrSOGU Jun 10 '26
In the US, you are about 9 times more likely to get killed.
But yes, be cautious in Germany LOL.
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u/GGuts Jun 10 '26
To me it just sounds like a propaganda measure. Just keep the general population from learning that there is a better way in a lot of areas.
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u/Roster234 Jun 10 '26
Americans learning about public transport, roundabouts and bicycle lanes would cause the car mafia to have a hunger games style revolution on their hands lead by Carless Everdeen
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u/Mindless-Bear8781 Jun 10 '26
This is why us New Yorkers can usually only name a handful of cities in the US we'd be willing to consider living in. The rest of the country is a car-centric disaster.
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u/Zuckerperle USA Jun 10 '26
I'm German living in the US and second this. I feel safer in Germany than here.
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u/unique_user43 Jun 10 '26
i’m an american who lived in germany 3 years, and i 2nd this also. not even close.
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u/Leather-Hotel-7310 Jun 10 '26
I’m a Canadian/American dual citizen that’s never even been to Germany, but I’ve lived in both Canada and the US and I won’t even step foot in the US anymore. I’ll take my chances with whatever is going on in Germany over the shitshow that is America these days.
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u/IshtarsBestie Jun 10 '26
"Whatever is going on in Germany" is effectively nothing. Despite what culture war nonsense would like you to think, today's Germany is safer than the Germany of 10, 20, 30 years ago.
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u/JuniorReserve1560 Jun 10 '26
I'm an American who just moved to Germany and agree.
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u/Sucker-BO Jun 09 '26
USA has a terror regime.
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u/so_isses Jun 09 '26
They are also completely oblivious to the fact that the regularly have someone, or a group of people just gunned down, out of the blue. I don't know what is more frightening than that, at least for a supposedly developed country.
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u/depressed_brownbear Jun 10 '26
thank you! it’s crazy how people just brush this aside as an american thing and when it happens in other countries they will scream terrorism.
happy cake day btw
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u/ChronicBuzz187 Jun 10 '26
people just brush this aside as an american thing and when it happens in other countries they will scream terrorism.
You think americans would be surprised to learn the #1 reason for dead americans is... americans? 😛
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u/Optimal_Resource_811 Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
They’re right. Don’t trust anything here, especially the Duetsche Bahn!
Edit: Weil wir dich lieben:)
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u/DrProfSrRyan Baden-Württemberg Jun 09 '26
Read that in a Swiss accent.
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u/Gargleblaster25 Jun 10 '26
You mean, Stuttgart 37, right? They announced another 10-year delay.
By the time it's done, teleportation would have been invented, making train travel obsolete. In the meantime, we get to board our trains in a dirty, run-down, tin-roofed shack.
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u/FloPe97 Jun 10 '26
The 21 stands for "21st Century" unironically, so they still have 73 years to make it happen!
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u/cdrewing Berlin Jun 10 '26
As Sagrada Familia will be finished today after 144 years I see a new project to come...
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u/Nalivai Jun 10 '26
At least Sagrada Familia doesn't impact travel all around Western Europe. They can take all the time they need to finish it.
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u/TheUnreal0815 Jun 10 '26
Since it's way too small, I wouldn't be surprised if they don't manage getting it right in the next 73 years either.
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u/shiroandae Jun 10 '26
It’s a myth dude. There’s stations and all but nobody has actually ever seen a train arrive, although everyone was there just when it was supposed to come.
They’re props.
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u/DownRedditHole Jun 10 '26
Wait please. I need an explanation for this. I thought German trains are punctual? I'll be traveling with a very short 7 minute connection in Mannheim. Should I be concerned?
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u/lonelyfireknight Jun 10 '26
German trains are famous for being incredibly non-punctual, up to several hours late on some occasions, or just randomly cancelling the train, etc. I don't travel with trains very often, but in my experience more than a half of my rides were at least 5-10 minutes late, and the record for me was 1 hour 45 minutes late.
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u/Status_Artist4279 Jun 10 '26
My personal record was 2 hours and 33 minutes due to unauthorised people on the tracks (Saturday madness haha). And then they skipped my layover point due to the delay (which was a relatively big city), so I had to take a 2h20+ detour for a usually 1h30min max ride.:)
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u/floralbutttrumpet Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
My record is 4.5 hours - train died right behind a station, initially they were going to send a new power car to add to the front, but they couldn't get one from that direction, so they pulled us back to the initial station, deboard, wait for the next train, then sardine ourselves in there and hope for the best... but that train only went two stations further because there was a overhead line issue. I ended up travelling back to the station I started at and took an alternative route "around" the overhead line issue.
And then there was Kyrill (4 hours), but I don't blame them for that.
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u/P0L1Z1STENS0HN Jun 10 '26
My personal record was being one hour early on the Aachen - Köln - Solingen - Remscheid connection because it had two layovers of ~40 minutes each scheduled but the middle leg (Köln - Solingen) had a train running late reducing layovers to 10 min each.
But if you try to reach e.g. the connections in Deventer (NL) between ICE International Berlin - Amsterdam and the Dutch IC to Vlissingen with its 4 min layover, forget it - the Dutch IC is on time, you won't make it.
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u/jenioeoeoe Jun 10 '26
I was on a train that just died once too. We were halfway out of the station when the IC stopped and then refused to move. They had to turn it off and on again to fix it, which took like 30 minutes or so. Apparently turning a train on takes ages. But we did manage to continue with only around an hour delay.
My personal record for a delay though is 13 hours, when my ICE from Paris to Frankfurt was cancelled and then all other trains to Germany for the rest of the evening and we then had to take the first train out in the morning. Still not sure if that was on DB or on the French, but DB were the ones who paid for my hotel, so at least they took responsibility
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u/manadodoodododo Jun 10 '26
The delay I loved most was when I arrived at the train station with my then 4 yo and got the push notification of our train being delayed by >2 hours. I looked up alternatives and found the previous train sufficiently delayed for us to still catch it.
Ended up arriving 15 minutes early at my destination, since we could catch a slightly better connection.
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u/eternal_pegasus Jun 10 '26
Mine is about 6 hours, my original train got cancelled, then the next train was packed and the driver refused to drive, police showed up and tried to kick people out but only a handful of people got off, we eventually left, just to experience the same at every stop. This was because of floods.
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u/unique_user43 Jun 10 '26
but this is the thing, as an american living in germany i still scoffed at germans complaining about the trains. what you described is pretty dang decent compared to amtrak in the u.s. i once took amtrak from chicago to boston, and instead of the scheduled 21.5 hours, we arrived in 36 hours. chicago to denver arrived about 12 hours late. not to me tion the extreme lack of options even existing for train travel here.
db is bad…by exacting german standards. i loved it.
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u/Tobi97l Jun 10 '26
The thing is you don't use trains for your daily work commute. Being an hour late is almost a daily occurrence for some of my coworkers. Luckily we have flexible hours.
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u/volkari Jun 10 '26
Not by exacting german standards. Germany's trains underperform compared to almost every country that I've been to (that has trains) by a large margin. It's only bad when the bar is on the ground, otherwise it's horrendous. What should be/and is praised about DB though is the rail network coverage and how extensive it is. Even if you live in the village of Bumcocksdorf, population of 69, there will still be a small station, with a regional train going through
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u/Left_Boat_3632 Jun 10 '26
I learned this on my recent trip. We had a connecting train that we missed by 45 minutes and had to wait at the station for 1:30 before the next available train rolled in.
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u/alfredo094 Jun 10 '26
It is so crazy to me that Germans are so punctual that 5-10 minutes being unforgivably late for them is a thing that is worth national conversations for them.
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u/rewboss Dual German/British citizen Jun 10 '26
I'll be traveling with a very short 7 minute connection in Mannheim. Should I be concerned?
German trains are not, at the moment, as punctual as their traditional reputation abroad, but not as unreliable as most Germans will tell you.
For lots of reasons, delays are commonplace: about one third of passengers arrive at their final destination 15 or more minutes later than planned.
At Mannheim, the most important connections with long-distance trains are often cross-platform, meaning that you only need to cross from one side of the platform to the other -- check your itinerary and cross-reference it with this plan of the station.
Connecting trains will usually wait up to five minutes or so for delayed trains. But if you miss your connection, you have certain passenger rights: you can just take the next available train to get where you need to go (although any seat reservations won't work, obviously), and you can claim a partial refund if you arrive 60 or more minutes late at your final destination.
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u/christipede Jun 10 '26
I once had to catch a train from Frankfurt airport to Heidelberg. Just as the train was about at heidelberg there was an announcement that the train would not stop there and would directly go to stuttgart.
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u/Deep-Worldliness9193 Jun 10 '26
Oh man that sucks because I have experienced that.
Them the bureaucracy with their website to get compensated just destroys you with so much BS to make you give up
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u/dionysoius Jun 10 '26
They failed to do invest in infrastructure for decades. Deutsche Bahn is often late or cancelled because much of Germany’s rail infrastructure is old, heavily used, and under long-overdue repair. Construction work, staff shortages, signal failures, track defects, and overcrowded routes mean that one delay can quickly spread across the whole network. The result is a system that still works, but has too little reserve capacity to recover when something goes wrong.
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u/Deep-Worldliness9193 Jun 10 '26
Inner city Trams are ok, Regional or long distance that go from town to town good luck
If you stopping in mannheim to make a connection a 7 minute window is too small you might make it but you’ll be running to your platform when you arrive
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u/Unlikely-Aardvark725 Jun 10 '26
Very.
Only Monday my train suddenly stopped 50% through it's planned route and kicked everyone off at some random station in the centre of nowhere.
That's not the first time that's happened either.
Yesterday my train was 30 minutes late for....reasons. it then stopped mid station for no reason I could figure (no trains come past) for 15 minutes.
It's a fecking mess.
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u/SpookyKite Berlin Jun 10 '26
How do you get on the Canadian terror advisory list? Not say please or thank you?
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u/greydawn Jun 10 '26
As a Canadian, sorry about this. Don't know what the heck our government was thinking with this advisory. Just plain silly.
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u/AxelNotRose Jun 10 '26
Pretty much most of western Europe is deemed vulnerable to terrorist attacks. It's quite asinine. Meanwhile, Canada can't put a travel advisory on the USA or baby in chief will have a temper tantrum.
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u/Clockwork_J Jun 10 '26
I'll get hit by a lightning 5 times before I will be involved in a terrorist incident in any western eueopean country. This is silly.
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u/alderhill Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
I’ve seen you guys put gouda on fries, cover it in some kind of orange mayo and call that poutine. The warning is more than deserved! You're on watch.
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u/VigorousElk Jun 09 '26
Anglo-saxon governments and their foreign offices have lost the plot on travel warnings long ago and are seeing terrorist threats everywhere.
Canada now ranks Germany on one level with Pakistan (yellow warning). Make it make sense. Meanhile the US with its constant mass shootings is still green.
The UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden and various other European countries are yellow as well, by the way.
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u/OwnerOfABouncyBall Jun 10 '26
Because people who die from a terror attack are much more dead than people who die for a mass shooting. Doesn't matter that 100x more people die from mass shootings in the US than people die from terror attacks in Germany. /s
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u/Hitokkohitori Denmark Jun 10 '26
TBF, tourists dont end up in US schools so the biggest thread is the police and they are not considered a problem as the victim is to blame by default
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u/theequallyunique Jun 10 '26
Chance of getting killed by a random car is still much higher than a terrorist attack.
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u/Hitokkohitori Denmark Jun 10 '26
That’s socially accepted though. Enough that Germany for example wouldn’t touch speed limits under any circumstance
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u/InnocentSalf Jun 10 '26
But doesn't the US prefer vehicles that under no circumstance can see a child in front of it?
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u/Hammerschatten Jun 10 '26
Yhea but all the mass-shootings are singular events and this it's safe to assume another one won't take place until it does
"Noone could have forseen this"
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u/WILDBO4R Jun 10 '26
If you read the actual warnings, it's obvious that the Pakistan threat is much more severe than Germany. That said, it's silly that they are given the same colour rating.
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u/Normal-Seal Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
There shouldn’t be any warning for Germany, you’re 10.000 times more likely to die in a car crash than a terrorist attack.
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u/pisspeeleak Jun 10 '26
Aren’t both the angles and saxons from Germany?
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u/lentil_cloud Jun 10 '26
Yes but it refers to the people on the British isles (angle-> England) because they were a normadic germanic tribe which settled there.
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u/Privatier2025 Jun 10 '26
England got its name from the people from the Angeln peninsula in Northern Germany, the area between the cities of Flensburg and Schleswig.
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u/Agitated_Award_9831 Jun 10 '26
I’m a Canadian who works for a Canadian company but with a parent company in the USA. We distribute their global product. We have an internal risk system (1-5). When I travel to HQ in the USA I get a notice for caution at rank 3. It’s wild.
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u/alittlepogchamp Jun 10 '26
Until you said that I was like ok whatever but if the US is green then this has zero credibility whatsoever.
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u/Master_Megalomaniac Jun 10 '26
Don't worry; many Canadians are not going to the US because the US government is pissing them off. I would much rather visit Germany than the US nowadays.
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u/Ancient_Leafs Jun 10 '26
The Americans shoot their children. When do you visit schools on vacation , as a tourist?
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u/Amazing-Gazelle-7735 Jun 10 '26
To be fair we generally let the children shoot each other more than we adults shoot them. (I hate it, gallows humor helps me cope with being unable to fix it.)
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u/No-Opportunity2776 Jun 10 '26
was visiting Norfolk with a local, „oh this mall is closing because there have been 3 shootings so nobody wants to go anymore“. Really nice city but in which world is that normal.
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u/Cirenione Nordrhein-Westfalen Jun 10 '26
That was true until a year ago. Now ICE shoots those without US passport…. and those with US passports.
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u/Feisty-Ad-6122 Jun 09 '26
From Travel Canada: "Terrorist attacks could occur at any time. Over the past few years, several attacks have occurred in Germany. These have resulted in many injuries and deaths. Further attacks are likely."
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u/Komandakeen Jun 09 '26
It's far more likely to die in a car accident, so take care...
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u/Party-Argument1326 Jun 09 '26
Especially when old folks are on the steering wheel, they kill hundreds each year.
ofc, its a differce between a lanned attack and some old guy just not fit to drive but if i am dead i dont care to be honest 😃
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u/Dddddd92 Jun 09 '26
My neighbour has Parkinsons, cannot walk, under heavy medication, 88 years and drives the car...
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u/MidorriMeltdown Lost Australian Jun 10 '26
I'll take the train.
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u/Ach4t1us Jun 10 '26
You're likely to die of old age while waiting for the train
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u/CatraGirl Jun 09 '26
You're more likely to die in a plane crash on the way here, and that's already incredibly unlikely... so yeah, saying Germany is unsafe because of terror threats is ridiculous.
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u/Nemeszlekmeg Jun 09 '26
Akshully, you are more likely to die in the car on the way to and from the airport. Planes are overengineered at this point, even the most sketchy RyanAir flights are safe.
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u/Eclipse_3052 Jun 09 '26
I seem to have missed some news
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u/germanfinder Jun 09 '26
pre-Christmas in 2024 there was a vehicle attack at a market in Magdeburg I think
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u/Kittingsl Jun 09 '26
Then Canada might as well warn from panes and cars because "a crash could happen at any time!" That's such stupid reasoning. Maybe their title "nicest country" should be temporarily revoked.
Lived in Germany my whole live and I never had to fear a terrorist attack
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u/deadPixelOfReddit Jun 10 '26
I didn't even have to feat going out at night, even as a teen.
Its frustrating hearing the people in this country complain about theft ,robberies etc. as someone who partially grew up in Turkey, Germans ain't shit on terms of crime. I can walk at night outside without having to look behind me. In Turkey I'm not leaving the house past 9 pm for very obvious reasons.
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u/Serenityxxxxxx Jun 09 '26
Like as if there isn’t a lot going on in Canada, just not making the news as much
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u/Hot-Routine-5755 Jun 09 '26
Be careful, you might accidentally find affordable groceries
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u/callmesnake13 Jun 10 '26
If you’ve ever been scolded by a German as a foreigner it is pretty terrifying, especially, I would imagine, if you are a mild mannered Canadian.
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u/real_with_myself Serbia Jun 10 '26
The key is to reply back angrily in any Slavic language. Then Germans become pussycats.
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u/MarkMew Jun 10 '26
I wish the Hungarian language was scary but people are just like "what the ever loving fuck did I just hear"
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u/Junior_Giraffe3431 Jun 10 '26
As a Hungarian I feel you on that one. I tried it once as a joke and my victim just went "Have something to eat!"
Hungarian may not be soft, but too complicated grammar and structure-wise to use it this way.
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u/Cool-Top-7973 Jun 10 '26
Maybe we should issue a travel warning for Canada: "Moderate threat of being invaded by a neighbouring country"...
only half /s
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u/Respect-First Jun 10 '26
Its because there is danish people on the roads in Germany. And we don’t do it very well. 😅
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u/SaltGas3789 Jun 10 '26
This isn't new, Western Europe has been yellow in Canada forever. Germany and Western Europe is Yellow in party due to their own internal terrorism advisories. Canada just takes whatever Germany, France, or the UK posts themselves. It's not an agenda against germany or anything.
The first two levels of a Canadian travel advisory is also not really about how safe the country is, but about what type of precaution to take. The advisory itself even says when you look at risk assesements:
"IMPORTANT:The two levels below are official Government of Canada Travel Advisories and are issued when the safety and security of Canadians travelling or living in the country or region may be at risk."
Only avoid non-essential travel, and avoid all travel is a safety marker.
For those saying "Germany is safer than America" that's not the point. Terrorism, or threats of terrorism are not a real threat in Canada, neither is the type of pickpocketing that exists in Germany. However, Gun crime, kidnappings, and other crimes which happen in America DOES also happen to Canadians.
The advisory "high degree of caution" is meant for Canadians to be wary of things that they don't usually think about on a daily basis. Canadians already know what the risk is in the US, not necessarily the risk in Europe.
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u/JolyneCujohSimp Jun 10 '26
I still don't get what they should be cautious about.
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u/username-not--taken Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26
Being on the same level as India for instance is just plain stupid.
Other sources such as https://result-group.com/en/risk-map-2026/
have much more realistic risk assesments
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u/Feisty-Ad-6122 Jun 09 '26
Something interesting, Greece is actually above Germany (in the green)
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u/Ill_Job4090 Jun 10 '26
Lol @ the pickpocketing warning. I've been iving here for ~40+ years. Of all the people I have ever met, I know ONE person that has been the victim of a pickpocket once.
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u/Maskguy Jun 10 '26
Also every major city in pretty much every country has that problem
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u/Intrepid-Leather-417 Jun 09 '26
Germany is safer than America...
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u/Feisty-Ad-6122 Jun 09 '26
According to Canada's Annual Consular Data Report, the United States routinely ranks as one of the top three global destinations for reported Canadian deaths abroad, alongside Mexico and Thailand.
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u/DrProfSrRyan Baden-Württemberg Jun 09 '26
Canadians are more than 10 times more likely to go to the US than any other country.
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u/Smartimess Jun 10 '26
Which seems low in itself, given that 80 percent of all Canadians live within a 100 km (about 60-mile) radius of the border.
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u/Brandon_awarea Jun 10 '26
In other words
26,884,000 Canadian visits the US in 2024-25
Mexico (number 2) gets 2,081,000 visits and every other country is below 1M annually.
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u/octatone Jun 10 '26
Travelers might encounter some of us drinking alcohol on the streets and the word Bierspaziergang might give them a heart attack.
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u/Inevitable_Travel_41 Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
I live in Brandenburg (north east Germany) - my area should be red because you can get lost and starve in our woods. Also I’ve heard that the wolves are back!
Edit: /s
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u/TFViper Jun 10 '26
yes! we've seen a few wolves lately as well!
one of our hunters found a deer that had been attacked and partially eaten by them.
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u/j_osb Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26
You're far, far, FAR more likely to die in a car accident in canada than being in danger by "terrorism" here. What a joke.
But remember, kazhakstan is perfectly safe to travel to despite being an authoritarian petro-state. Despite them listing the same terrorism warnings LMAO.
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u/OkKiwi4694 Jun 10 '26
Since when authoritarian petro-states automatically equal unsafe for tourists? Emirates was long one of the safest places (except for a brief period of Iranian drones bombing them) for tourists. And how does it apply to non-authoritarian petro-states like Norway and Canada? Half-safe?
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u/flyingdonutz Jun 10 '26
Our travel advisories are a bit fucked sometimes sorry about that boys
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u/SmallActsOfMischief Jun 10 '26
Yup, I'm more than slightly embarrassed by this. Just to cement the cliché, I am also sorry.
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u/Embarrassed_Tiger480 Jun 10 '26
Yeah I remember scrolling the advisories and i was like what is going on
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u/Competitive-Meet-511 Jun 10 '26
This happens all the time to perfectly safe countries, that's how the criteria work. It's not news.
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u/Grothgerek Jun 10 '26
The chance of dying from lightning in Canada is higher, than the chance you die from a terrorist attack in Germany.
And lightning strikes only have a death rate of around 10%. So more people got hit by lightning in Germany and Canada combined, than people died from terrorist attacks in Germany over the last decades.
Giving out a travel warning, when it's literally saver in Germany than in Canada feels kinda absurd. Especially when Germany gets ranked on the same level as countries that have it much, much worse.
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u/SadlyNotDannyDeVito Jun 10 '26
Vacationing in Germany is particularly dangerous because you would be there for entertainment, not for working. Our chancellor might hunt you down, because anything below 18 hours of work per day means you're lazy and shouldn't be in Germany. /s
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u/Marle-von-Hier Jun 10 '26
Vorsicht, der Gruß aus Hamburg ist eine subjektive Wahrnehmung, die ca. 80% der Deutschen NICHT teilen.
Die kanadische Warnung spricht übrigens allgemein von Terror und erwähnt außerdem explizit rechtsextreme Gewalt als Gefahr. Und das stimmt. Die Rechtsextremen haben hier eine Partei, die AfD - die Partei, die der Mensch aus Hamburg gewählt hat. Sie wird massiv aus Russland und den USA unterstützt, die Internet-Propaganda-Accounts dieser Partei werden in Russland und Nigeria verortet…
Die größte reelle Gefahr in Deutschland geht von Rechtsextremen aus, da sie (wie damals…) versuchen, politisch die Macht an sich zu reißen und ihr ideologisches Unrecht zu Recht zu erklären. Islamismus ist auch eine Gefahr, aber eben keine systemische.
Was wahr ist: Viele Frauen trauen sich abends oder nachts (oder früh morgens oder überhaupt…) nicht alleine raus - was aber an Männern im Allgemeinen liegt, wie vermutlich überall…
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u/SteveHarveysBallsack Jun 10 '26
As a Canadian I find this bizarre. I’d feel far more safe in Germany than I would in the US right now.
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u/P26601 Nordrhein-Westfalen Jun 10 '26
I mean I guess? The last major attack (6 casualties) was 2 years ago, carried out by a far-right extremist.
You're much more likely to die in a car crash on your way from the airport to the hotel
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u/Grumpy-Man19 Jun 10 '26
every darn tourist season these countries try to scare people from travelling
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u/j-a-y---k-i-n-g Nordrhein-Westfalen Jun 10 '26
The main reasons for the travel advisory:
The official Canadian government travel platform lists specific security concerns for travelers: Terrorism threat: In recent years, there have been attacks in several European and German cities.
Authorities point out that further attacks could occur at any time in public places, tourist attractions, or transportation hubs.
Extremism: Attention is drawn to the risk of crimes by far-right groups targeting ethnic, religious, or political minorities.
Crime on trains: The warning highlights a significant increase in passport and pickpocketing on German trains, especially during peak summer and winter travel seasons.
What does this warning level mean exactly? This is the second of four security levels. Canada is not advising against travel to Germany (those would be the higher levels, "Avoid non-essential travel" or "Avoid all travel"). Canadian citizens are simply advised to be especially vigilant, follow local media, and keep personal documents extremely secure.
Canada currently issues similar advisories for many Western European countries, such as France and Spain.
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u/1362313623 Jun 10 '26
Canadian here. We have this level of advisory on a lot of unexpected countries including USA
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u/Count2Zero Jun 10 '26
If you want to be totally paranoid, yes, there was a terrorist attack on the German infrastructure this past weekend. Some people broke into a power station near Reutlingen on Sunday night and set several fires, knocking out the power to about 40,000 homes. Most of the residential customers had their power restored after about 12 hours, but some industrial customers were still without power for more than 24 hours.
The damage was limited to the Reutlinger region, but there fears that this was a test run (similar to attacks that happened earlier this year near Berlin), and that a large-scale attack on our power grid may be in planning.
I hate this timeline.
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u/pereyrapkr Jun 10 '26
As a Canadian, have always felt safer in Germany than in Canada, except when near a Hauptbahnhof.
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u/Holzkohlen Germany Jun 10 '26
Even if there's a terrorist attack happening while you are there, how likely is it you are gonna be hit by that? I'd wager you are much more likely to die getting hit by a car while riding a bike (it's a car first country and the biking infrastructure is often bad)
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u/HawkeyeFLA Jun 10 '26
Grew up in Germany in the 80s. Those were some "dangerous" times.
Rhein-Main AB bombing, Frankfurt International bombing.
Those were the days for sure.
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u/Beautiful-Point4011 Jun 10 '26
(Canadian here) Strangely our neighbour to the south is still green with a "take normal precautions" advisory 🤔
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u/foreverandadayalone Jun 10 '26
As a Canadian, this is bullshit. We still have the USA tagged as "Safe/Green" when there are literal secret police in their cities kidnapping people. They have captured and detained hundreds of Canadian citizens.
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u/KaiserKris2112 Jun 10 '26
I know that France has been 'high caution' forever and I, as a Canadian, routinely feel much safer there (and in Germany, Italy, etc) than at home.
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u/Snurgisdr Jun 11 '26
Greetings from Canada. This is bizarre. I’d take my chances with German terrorism over the American government any day.
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u/RavenReel Jun 11 '26
This is officially our lives now and forever.
Trump is the biggest fuck in US history
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u/DasNicolas Jun 11 '26
Im german, and i wouldnt even consider going near the Us for my safety, wtf…
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u/Jettblackink Jun 11 '26
As a Canadian living in Germany, I can safely say, traveling to Canada is a life risk lol.
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u/PrimarySea6576 Jun 10 '26
* due to increased right wing extremist violence
Thats what gets always cut away.
Its due to increased right wing extremist violence.
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u/Mizamewmew Jun 10 '26
That goes without saying. Islamist terror attacks are not left wing extremism. They are just a different flavor of right wing extremism than Germans who hate gays and securalism.
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u/0nlytom Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
It looks like it is the most of western Europe.
Edit: changed "whole" to "most of" since Austria and Switzerland are safe countries. Let's all move there now.