What is a product you wish was sold in your country but isnt?

Japanese-style microvans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microvan

Here in Germany cars are getting bigger and bigger, almost 50 % of newly registered cars are SUVs that weigh more than 2 tons. They clog up cities like Berlin and take more and more space. They're also completely useless as no one actually needs a 4x4 or extra-elevated car, it's pure marketing and ego stroking.

Japanese cities and places like Okinawa use public space so much more efficiently, you see tiny cars and Microvans everywhere. For urban settings they're really the perfect choice of vehicle IMHO, so it's quite sad you can't buy them here.

Packaged lifestyles: For a reasonable monthly fee I want a company to handle all the necessities like housing, food, clothing, laundry and other cleaning, vacations and so on. At some level there should be some choice, but my life could become like one big all expenses paid vacation or cruise. Insurance and accounting requirements would be open for my inspection and review but always be default handled up front by someone else who has a budget planned out with my priorities in mind.

1) Turkish Kebab / street food like I could find in Melbourne OZ

2) "chips" or "wedges" like I could find in Melbourne OZ

3) Effective (real) chipper-shredders for lawn care. The number of times I've tried to rent one and had to hire someone for $200-300 to turn trees on my property into mulch is beyond frustrating. Heck, even if I needed to get training and take a test for a license I would do it. I think the US took a bit of a harsh stance on these devices for common consumers after it was widely publicized that Saddam Hussein used these devices to turn his political dissidents into "fodder".

1. European-style folders with elastic bands at the open corners (http://www.ldapapeterie.fr/chemise-elast-24x32-cl-5-10e-asso...)

2. 8oz Rip Its

3. Toyota Hilux

4. Small but rugged SUVs (RAV4 Adventure and maybe Jeep Cherokee are the only things even close in the U.S.)

5. Tim Tams. They haven't been available since COVID.

I have been learning Japanese for a while and I am at a level good enough to consume native content. You don't realize how hard it is to buy (mostly digital) Japanese content online. I believe it is due to 20th century pre internet zoning regulations. On several occasions I spent a lot of time trying to buy some stuff legally but it was so hard or impossible that I ended up consuming pirated content.

Google apps store does not allow you to buy an app in Japanese from the UK, Amazon.jp requires a different account than amazon.co.uk (which is not the case for amazon.com), Netflix does not provide Japanese subtitles for animes, same for steam, some games are in many languages but not Japanese.

1. Macbooks Airs and Macbook Pro 13's with 16GB's of Ram(You can order them here but not buy on retail)

2. Souvlak's (Greek street food)

3. Firecrackers that have small explosive power(They used to sell them here like 20 years ago)

4. Amazon Prime

5. Electric bikes that go faster then 25km/h

6. More second hand old cheap Japanese pickup trucks

Germany:

1. Weed, to be honest. I'm not a heavy consumer, but I'd appreciate a safe, reliable source.

2. Old Dutch BBQ chips

3. Cheese curds

New Zealand:

1. Jack Wolfskin Berkeley backpack

2. iFixit repair parts (especially MacBook Pro batteries; fake ones killed 3 logic boards last week)

3. Affordable bicycle lights (white lights cost $20 in NZ, 60€ in France, 100 NTD in Taiwan)

4. Apple laptops with keyboard engravings from other regions (there are many Chinese and Koreans in Auckland, not to mention Russian, Arabic, Thai, Japanese, etc).

Western USA, far from the coasts

Asian vegetables. South Asian, southeast, Asian, east asian, whatever. Bitter gourd, drumsticks, curry leaves, kang kong. I really hate broccoli but it's hard to escape.

Having a maid. While common for the middle class in SEA, US labor laws preclude this. This would also help the majority of needs for the commenter seeking a pre-packaged lifestyle for sale.

Foreign programming. Sometimes I want to watch a shitty cop drama or the news in french without getting the super duper directv package.

Public transportation that runs more frequently than every hour, and fare cards for buses. In Singapore, bus 851 has run every 12 minutes between the north and south of the island for the last 20 years at least. Try getting that level of consistency here.

Netherlands: Proper (Chinese, Indian, Japanese) green tea.

The green tea in our supermarket is almost undrinkable.

Pixel Phones in the Netherlands.

Why does Google sell stadia here but not pixels? They could just allow shipping from the German store.

I don't understand their strategy of limiting where you can buy a device. It's so incredibly frustrating.

Suzuki Jimny. What an awesome little SUV. Not available in the US.

Better quality fruits in the US. A single Mango at whole foods costs around $2.50 in my city but has no smell and tastes like cardboard.

Drugs, free (as in freedom) devices, pawpaws ointment, hardware wallets / cryptographic identity tokens.

1. A door that converts into table tennis

Affordable reverse-osmosis water purifier like sold in the US. In Japan, it's around x4-x10 expensive (maybe due to lower demand thanks to water supply).

I want to import the purifier with pump, but it seems that it's hard to find a product that supports 100V/50Hz power.

Buckfast, I really like it and so far I’ve found nothing quite the same in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckfast_Tonic_Wine

1. Sheridan's Coffee Liqueur

2. Vero Mango Lollipops

3. Kanelbullar

-Japanese Furikake rice seasonings, also Nori seeweed wraps, Edamame

-Seafood is very different in tropical countries from temperate countries.. Temperate fish like cod are not usually available in canned/dried form.

-The russian non alcoholic drink "Mors", also birchwater.

-Persimmons

-Cashew Apples

-Exotic citrous like Pomellos

-Durians

Ah, non-food... I just listed all the foods..

I wish I could not be restricted by geography, and freely and conveniently browse everything that's on offer from everywhere in the world, and have it delivered for only a small additional fee, in a weeks time or so.

Traubensaft. It's a non-alcoholic sparkling apple juice that they sell (or sold) in German-speaking Switzerland. In my opinion, it was better than the Martinelli's that you can get in the US.

Classic rock from outside the US and UK. Really hard to buy music from bands that were popular in their countries but not in the US.

BladeRF, it's a SDR and Nuand won't sell it to Europe.

Apple M1. I get it, but they're all backordered & ship from Asia right now, so it's like insult to injury..

Japanese vending machines everywhere selling hot beverages in winter, including hot soups.

Good, cheap, takeway food. I imagine that e.g. vietnam has it, germany doesn't.

edit: sorry, food...

In Poland, I wish I could buy really soft toilet paper, that’s readily available in the United States.

1. Japanese Toilets

2. American Chicken Tenders

3. Danish Chocolate (Pålægschokolade)

4. Japanese Ready-to-go Meals in Stores

5. Netherlandish Shrooms

Stripe

Indonesia

In Europe: Japanese Fender guitars and basses.

Cheetos. They're banned in Europe :(

1. Dutch liquorice 2. French baguette (fresh!)

Tiny EV cars that cost under $10,000.

Sunscreen with Mexoryl (encamsule)

Yaris GR

Canada, Wyze products

Melatonin in the UK

Eero (wifi mesh system).

Sudafed.

StarLink.

Algiers, Algeria.

Weetabix

India

1. Dual flush toilets

india

self cleaning cat litter box

Long List lol

Covid-19 vaccine. ( India )

1. new rifles with selective fire

2. lawn darts

3. scanners that can receive 824 to 849 MHz and 869 to 894 MHz

4. acetic anhydride

5. phosphorus

6. Moon rocks

7. good pesticides: DDT, diazinon, endosulfan, chlorpyrifos, etc.

8. gasoline cans that work properly (old-style ones)