The owner can get money from the government if the building (or the view) is considered historical. I believe it's about 40% of the cost of maintaining it.

Also due to planning purposes of available land, there is limited space for real estate. You can’t just let a building go to ruin and simply build something new in a different spot. Those ruins are taking up valuable space.

@@ronrolfsen3977 But those buildings are not owned, managed, or maintained by the government, but by the people who own, manage, and maintain the buildings. These people then, I can imagine, apply for support usually from the municipal government (and not _the_ government), if they cannot afford such maintenance on their own. In Tallinn, Estonia, the municipal government has had one of those "make façades great" projects to soup up the exteriors of apartment blocs and maybe other buildings, if the owner or the owner's association makes such a request. But such projects in that city remind me a little of shock construction projects (rus. ударная стройка) from the Soviet era.

Here in the US, there is even a difference between the north and south. People really are friendlier in the south, conversation is even more fun and interesting, it looks better kept in the South for the most part, food is cheaper in the south, wages are generally less though. The Netherlands sound awesome.

@ron fryslan active transportation is also foundational. They have amazing dedicated cycling infrastructure.

@@eriklakeland3857 yeah we do have and I think he knows sins he is from the Netherlands. I don't even own a bicycle and I'm healthy so I think eating healthy and the work and free time is a big part of the happiness of the Dutch I have my workfoon off when I don't work and don't even think about work. I work to get money to life, I don't life to work.

also comparitively alot more limping, walking canes etc. It seems to me that that's because of the difference in health systems. people choose not to undergo treatment in the us to not go bankrupt is my guess.

True. I had never imagined, much less seen people THAT morbidly obese until I moved to the US. It certainly has to do with y'alls diet choices. So much sugar. So much meat products. I knew someone who was one of these triple plus sized people, and he'd go to his favorite all you can eat food court in the morning. Stayed there all day, just eating eating eating. That's where he went every day.

We cycle a lot

In the US you need a gun, if you want to start a mass shooting.

@Boer de you don't know even what the standards are. Out of your stuppid excample of that crooked banana. Beccause there is no law for that. The. Standards ho about what kind chemicals can be used, or no hormones, not putting water in a steak, about health and safety, no genetic modified, that if you sell cheese or chocalat you have to sell also rzaly cheese and chocolat in it. That the ingridients in it have to stand op the box.

@Boer de and there you go. Pheeeeeeeeh bomb to the ground. No argument so make it personal. And even there your stuppity wins. Im not from Italy. By the way itzly is a great excample why eu standards are beter. They promote locale food and natural grew foods so the Taste is beter. 👊👊👊👊👊

@Boer de why are you doing it then 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Boer de for someone living in the EU you are really ignorant about it! No law about bendy bananas......

@Boer de Wat lul jij nou jochie, het klets verhaal over de bananen kwam nota bene van Boris Johnson. Allemaal onzin. En de EU Food Law heeft de hoogste standaards ter wereld. Kletsmajoor.

USA is a nice place to live if you are rich. If you are not, it is a third world environment. If you pay no taxes, government will not do anything for you, because there is no budget , not even for repairing potholes in the roads.

When I was in Boston M.A. There was a veteran begging, I gave him on my last day there 10 dollars and we sat down and talked for almost an hour and when I left he started crying

Really ??? I never saw one single beggar at the airports in the US, but at Schiphol you can't light a cigarette w/o some asking for one ...

Big, big desparities between the rich and the poor.....its capitalism...the truth

@@jankoevoet4042 That would be an official to give you a fine. Smoking is probihited almost anywhere at Schiphol Amsterdam. Tobacco junkies should go elsewhere.

Are you aware of kzfaq.infovideos, Jason does explain a lot and he is Canadian who moved to NL for the lifestyle.

Yeah, honestly I can't fathom how it is in the USA. I went to Nederland for 5 days (in Den Haag), then I went back to my small country (south of Belgium), in a rural area and I was still shoked by all the cars and the lack of tram and buses ^^'

and I can understand why they use their cars for everything. I felt like a game animal visiting Ottawa, Canada 3 years ago and having to cross 1 road to get to the supermarket across from my hotel taking like 10 minutes. WTH build an 8 lane roadway that only sees like 2-3 cars a minute, then put traffic lights on it that stay red for 5 minutes or more every hundred meters. Of that 10 minutes I was waiting for the ped crossing light to turn green for 8 of those minutes, with no traffic.

@@jwenting Not Just Bikes has just published a video on that kind of roads: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hbiqgb2GyruscYE.html (All of his videos are worth watching in my view.)

Well it kind of is.. 😜

Mag niet in NL wegens nationalistisch

@@TonySlug Er is geen wet die dit verbied. Je mag gewoon de vlag uithangen.

@@ronrolfsen3977 Ik bedoelde meer in overdrachtelijke zin. Uitingen van vaderlandsliefde worden doorgaans niet gewaardeerd in NL.

@@TonySlug Dat klopt echt totaal niet. Nederland is een van de meest uitgesproken vaderlandslievende landen in Europa. Alleen als je het vergelijkt met de VS is het weinig, maar de VS heeft ook een ongezonde zelfliefde.

As an American, it’s true. I personally did not grow up on processed foods (this is seen as “weird” here), and am still grossed out and surprised at the amount of sugar in EVERYTHING.

sad

Try to imagine how my mom felt in the eighties when she went out to get some medication for my dad who got seriously ill while they were on holiday in the USA. First of all she was (ofcourse) used to walking, so she started on a walk to find a pharmacy, which was a long journey: the distances are just completely different. She ended up at a few drugstores, but as she needed a pharmacy, they couldn't help her and also could not provide directions to one (in hindsight, they probably didn't want to, but I'll get to that in a moment). After the directions from another store brought her back to the point where she started, she was a bit lost, saw a police car coming and flagged it down. She explained the situation and they were keen to help: they said something like 'it's there' (meaning as: x part of town) so my mom said thanks and would look on a map how to get there. She was about to walk off again, but they opened the doors and she had to get in: 'This is a very dangerous part of town! We can not let you walk here alone!'. She was brought to the pharmacy, and when she got out of the car, thanked them for their help and was about to walk off to the mall where the pharmacy was located. "Madam! You can not go on your own! That's far too dangerous!' and thus she was escorted inside and brought back to the hotel where she was staying: it was then that the officers told her she was very close to a black neighbourhood, with the shortest route to that mall going directly through it. It was most likely the reason all the store clerks did not give her directions to it, because it was just too dangerous in their opinion. She then also found out why so many people had been staring at her as she was walking. As she grew up in Amsterdam, she was used to seeing people of colour, even had friends with a different skin colour so she was just oblivious about it and couldn't understand what all the fuss was about.

Sweet cheese?? HOW?? WHAT??

@@samusa4581 The cheese in America was mostly cream cheese or cheddar. The cheddar tasted sweet to me. I don't know if they just put extra sugar in or coloring. The cheddar is also orange. As someone who has been to Cheddar, England and has tasted the original, the American cheese just tasted like a totally different thing.

I never had that issue anywhere. The only issue I ran into was that they'd stop coming around to do refills (one thing I really miss since I drink a lot), but if I asked they never made an issue of it and I've spent 2+ hours after finishing the meal while it was busy in some places. On rare occasion (think it happened once or twice in 20 years living there) my party and I were asked to leave after finishing, but they'd already mentioned it before seating us and they were really bursting at the seams. Might make a difference where you are and what type of servers you have, I'm not sure.

This is because American waiters and waitresses have to work for tips. The longer you occupy that table, the less pay they make.

@@TonySlug I understand why and don't blame the waiting staff for it either -- we all know where the problem lies. I just said I can't get used to it, it just makes for a very off-putting dining experience. Having a nice dinner shouldn't be just about being functional.

@@forkless Okay, I can accept that, but the US has more to offer than truckstop diners, there are really fancy ritzy, expensive restaurants too. Everywhere. What bothered me a little at first was waitresses coming to our table every 5 mins to ask "you alright ? Can I get you guys anything else ?" Then I realized they were just fishing for tips. SERVICE : very important in the US. Not so much in NL. Once I requested some mayo to go with my fries, the waitress rolled her eyes and sighed "Ugh ! You must think you're SO COOL, just because you saw 'pulp fiction'." I'm like "No, I REALLY come from Holland." She goes "Yeah, riiiiight." So I cussed her out in Dutch, No tip for you, bitch.

and then compare what you pay in the US for a steak and full meal compared to Europe...and customer service is MUCH better in the US because the person gets a good tip or a bad tip depending upon service...in Europe its in the bill and waiters could care less...especially France.

@V O Wasn't there some sort of return of investment philosophy behind that? I think it went something like this: you buy a large menu this time, eat it all but you usually feel empty after an hour or 2. So next time you buy the large menu and an extra hamburger or something, finish all of that, rinse and repeat. Like they're training your body to forget the 'I've had enough' trigger.

may also have been a temporary discount on the large. Happens sometimes. Though I've alerted supermarket staff in the Netherlands only last week that the price for a 4 pack of bottled water was 20 cents higher than the price of 4 separate bottles of the same product. They were surprised and said they'd pass it on to corporate to adjust the pricing :)

@@jwenting No need to 'alert' them, that's most likely all done on purpose. It is well known that seeing the word 'Aanbieding' ('special offer') triggers special parts of the brain, which makes most people think they are getting a good deal, while looking at the small numbers that state the price per kilo/liter (those numbers are mandatory in the Netherlands) can reveal a lot about if you are getting a good deal or being fooled.

@@weeardguy no, this was on the regular price, no discount price. And was indeed corrected the next time I was there with the 4-pack having had its price lowered to exactly 4 times the price of a single bottle.

@@jwenting Wow ;) they don't do that here ;) Well, even if it was not a special offer, I would not have been surprised if it was done on purpose: seeing a pre-packed 4-pack of bottled soda will probably make most people buy that one instead of buying 4 single ones because '4 in 1 pack? that múst be cheaper!'

I am an American expat. My husband is Dutch. We live in Belgium. Last time we flew into Schiphol, the customs guy asked: "Why (do you live in Belgium)?" Dutch directness.

I don't want to judge but I think it is. But we are also an example of an order that is good and not, for example, a crime is more difficult to commit in the eu than in the usa. The question of freedom of land is better than the USA. why. the ground remains of the state only in the Eu the bricks are yours.but believe me everything is corrupt in general. Europe and a few more countries are a test tube for the world order. what eu is now was what Hitler wanted to create. a 3rd empire. Nwo becomes the 4th and the last. freedom of one vote is still possible in the USA. People must send the leaders not the leaders us. we put them on the throne for the promises they never keep. politics always has a 2nd agenda. wake up and learn from each other. greetings from Belgium

I haven’t been up north much but in Cali, AZ, Fla people are very open, warm, welcome, laidback, nice. I think it’s a climate thing.

@@RustOnWheels yes, in the US it's very much regional. Saying New York or DC are what the USA is is like saying that Denmark is all of Europe. Massive cultural, economic, and social differences between the states. The northeast of the US is pretty much like Eva describes, the southeast and northwest are completely different. I've little personal experience with the southwest and central states.

You realise you need to tip right?

Yes

@@Markuden nah i never tip when im in america

@@ssjrgoten3381 you realise the staff has a unliveable wage and they feed their children of the tips? (specially in smaller towns, in some big rich cities the staff makes sometimes more than the owner from tips).

@@Markuden I know but tbh i don't really care, i pay the price for the food/drinks not more not les.

No, that lady potentially saved you a lot of trouble. You would have been a suspicious person and had the cops called on you if not by her by some one else. We've had people shoot up schools. We don't play around with unknown people on school campuses. Also people are sadly paranoid for good reason. If you don't, you make yourself an easy target.

@@Persephoneia01 But those school shootings are almost all the time done by (ex) students. I'd say it's safer to let the odd tourist walk on the campus than some students... I understand that this is a society where you can get a bullet from anyone at any time but for us that's unimaginable. We don't need to label unknown persons as suspicious and don't have to be so afraid of them. That's preventing us from a lot of stress.

The lady was in the right here, simply because it often isn't safe.

@@Persephoneia01 but why dont you fix these issues ?? ok ok i know the answer, gunlobby gives moneyprofits

Jij deugt, zeg. You really showed them.

I'm very sorry that's what you encountered in the US. In some regions homophobia is real.

Zaagvis That’s because yoghurt in the USA has 2kg of sugar in it.

Does yoghurt mean ice cream in the US? Or just... well, yoghurt

@@armosa no, that's frozen yoghurt. Which isn't yoghurt at all, it's what we call softijs in the Netherlands.

Or maybe that is what we should be paying in The Netherlands if we want to have the farmer that provides the milk for it to be able to make a decent wage instead of getting every penny pinched from their pockets like the big supermarket-corporations all do.

Yes, but TV, Radio etc bombards the viewer with this crap everyday of the week...not so in Europe.

Pure (puur) Chocolate sprinkles dont have a lot of sugar, or none, it isn't healthy but its also not unhealthy

@@ydidishitmyself353 LOL @ nick

As a Dutch person I find chocolate sprinkles ridiculous. Yes it tastes good, but so unhealthy. Can’t believe people let their kids eat that.

Funny how this entire "Zwarte Piet Discussie" started with an American journalist visiting the NL while racism in the US is RAMPANT.

Netherlands recently won a price for the best food available. They look at how close are supermarktets aroud you and how much choice do they have (from health super markets to cheap ones) and how fresh is it and how local etc. We have a amazing density and availability here.

@@Markuden because we walk or go by bike sometimes daily. We have them close and because the authorities do not allow big supermarkets out of the neighborhoods. Like in France, Carrefour

During my studies I travelled to Amsterdam and almost everything was way more expensive than in France. However Fast food restaurants in the US cost nothing compared to what we have here.

@@Markuden my memory of living in Netherlands for a year (like 10 years ago) is a lot of food in plastic...like pre peeled, pre cut vegetables - packed in plastic etc For me opposite of fresh food and I remember how surprised I was. And yes, also how it was much cheaper to go to germany to buy alcohol etc ( I used to live close to the border)

Now try to get the same quality in Germany as you get in the Netherlands and the price difference disappears, and then some. Yes, store brands in Germany are quite a bit cheaper, but they're horrendously bad more often than not, where most (not all!) Dutch store brands are at least halfway decent. Germans are constantly complaining about the poor quality offered by their supermarkets, and then go on avoiding the quality goods because they're "too expensive", causing those to go away. Same thing is sadly happening in the Netherlands as well, but not quite at the same speed. I used to live in Enschede, Germans would come in droves to buy food there. Weekends they'd even come with busloads at a time, brought in from hours away. At the same time the locals would go to Germany to buy electronics, sometimes clothes, furniture, because that was a lot cheaper there for higher quality because of the lower VAT across the border (something that's no longer the case, as Germany raised their VAT faster than the Netherlands have).

Exactly, I immediately thought of my school years, there they had that kind of toilets.

@@ezomomonga321 Yea same here. My primary school said it's for safety concerns though which I've always taken as a fair enough answer.

Mine didn't. Only for the 4 & 5 year old classes but they have lowered seats and sinks as well. But all the other classes had normal toilets build into the wall. You know? No stalls just normal toilets.

The first time my Dutch husband came to America with me, the grapevine broadcast: "He eats sandwiches for breakfast!!!"

In Sweden you earn enough to afford those Swedish prices, in the US many of the people will not enough to afford them.

He is a dweeb who hides behind bad jokes and even worse policy.. he hasnt given a straight answer in his life and therr is nothing straight about him.. pretty sure there is enough grounds for jokes

@@VRBLNSLT ye, fuck him, he laughs his way out of dodgy shit and promises things will get well...

Yes your so called leader in Holland is a traitor.

Waarom praat iedereeen Engels tegen elkaar?

@@ws5712 cause we can 🤷🏽‍♂️😂

Conversely when I was in the US our host was going to pick us up for dinner at our hotel, then drove literally one block over. We pulled out, went left, took the next left and we were there. We were all "uuuuh we could've walked?!".

@@piderman871 Some people (including my aunt) even drive down their own driveways to collect mail from their mailbox.

Some decades ago if you were saying it's just an hour away they would reply "Ok I prepare my passport".

That actually happened to me in Rotterdam a few years ago. Turned out there was this super nice place in Antwerp I had to see. Yes, Antwerp in Belgium. Makes me, as a Swede, want to move down to the continent were stuff is so close by!

In the Netherlands the roads are smooth and the tires have profile, in Belgium...

😂😂😂

Onno Geenen Yep, roads in Belgium is a disaster. You can actualy feel and hear the moment you leave or enter Belgium.

@ja nee Not true. German roads are not as well maintained any more as they used to be, but still quite OK.

@@Euroka2000 I live close to the drielandenpunt and think it can't be generalized. You can see very bad maintained roads in all three countries but after a year in Austin Texas, I can say it's much worse in the US. A lot of the smaller roads in the Netherlands are pretty good because they have improved the bicycle infrastructure a lot in the last 10 years.

You could fit about 6+ Europes in the land mass of the US.

@@phillipweissburg1882 I think you're overestimating the USA, or underestimating Europe. USA: 9.834.000 km² (~3.796.929 mi²) (according to google, wikipedia says 9.826.675 km²) the 27 European Union countries: 4.237.700 km² (~1.636.185 mi²), which is a bit less than half the US land mass. 2,32 European Unions fit in the USA. (used to be 4.482.000 km² with the UK included) The European continent (50 countries, only counting the European portion of Russia, etc): 10.180.000 km² (~3.930.520 mi²), which is a bit more than the US land mass. 0,97 Continents of Europe fit in the USA.

50 years ago, my American mom was inquiring at the Dutch supermarket about what kind of cheese "do the Dutch like?" The sales lady replied "Dutch people like French cheese!"

Yes. Apartment Buildings in the US are (mostly) owned by private owners, who don't particularly care about the quality of life IN them. In the Netherlands, they are mostly owned by a type of foundation that is highly regulated.

Always welcome here. :D

Come in, you are welcome.

Most of Europe(I know it's the case in Germany, as well as Belgium) profit margins are TINY. I live on the big road connecting 2 towns about 4 miles apart. If I travel just on that road through both I come across 5 big supermarkets. Ignoring a lot of other small shops for meat, bread, fruit, etc. We had a big and cheap one like 3 miles away. A few years later one of it's competitors decides to place itself on the same road like less than a mile away.

lower? i saw on tv men working for 8 dollarsi in usa. the miminum is a bit higher in the netherlands and the average is more

ekim andersom Of course not. You cannot compare American states to European countries.

Purchasing power should be compared, not how high the salaries are. Dutch people in the Netherlands have an higher purchasing power, than Americans in the States.

@@Daniel-hp3tk And the Dutch work fewer hours and have many more vacation days per year. No wonder more and more Americans are coming to the Netherlands.

ekim andersom Ava is comparing life in the USA with life in Netherlands. So that is the comparison.

Haha, indeed, you can learn a lot about a place from their supermarkets!

I did experience the high prices in supermarkets in the US. A bag of potato chips: $4,50 in the US, €2 in NL. Frozen pizza: $7 in the US, €2,50 in NL. A jar of pasta sauce: $6-8 in the US, €1,50-3,- in NL. You get the idea. It's insane. I've visited 20+ states in the US and it was like that everywhere. Although I have to say: Canada is even worse ( CAN $3 for a tiny leek, can you imagine?)

Nederland has the greatest choice of food in the world in it's supermarkets. Official.

@@DutchAmericano Don't get too high on our tax system now. Anything public if maintained. People buy those houses and the Dutch goverment isn't gonna pay for your own upkeep. House owners would jump for joy if that was the case. ;-)

MEAT PRODUCTS. Any big supermarket outlet, Oscar Mayer or Safeways : the meat products isle is INSANE. 40 meters with nothing but meat products, I would see families with 2 (or even more !) shopping carts piling up steaks the size of bed pillows. STACKS of them, whole chickens : let's take SIX of them. And so on. Incredible amounts of meat products. Later I realized these people might live in the outbacks, and have to go shopping for a month once a month.

How many people in Korea own a home with a yard, AC etc? How many people in Korea actually own a car? How any Koreans can afford a horse? About zero.

Phillip Weissburg wow, you’re getting really hung up on this whataboutism of yours. Really can’t stand to see even a little bit of criticism of the US I guess?

Unless the houses are rented from a social housingcorporation, then the corporation maintains them. Maintenance keeps up the value of your house, so it's a good investment. I'm not sure if maintenance is tax deductable. I guess it partially is when it concerns certain energy efficiency and insulation measurements, or an enhancement.

Wuppie62 Well, if you’re a business then everything is deductible if it’s concerns the business. This is for sure the same in the US as it is in NL. But the assumption made was that the government must keep up our houses, witch is frankly idiotic. And then, maybe it isn’t for an American. Here so many things are legally implemented by our government and even the EU, to improve and stimulate equality. For us this is normal. My impression is that in the US this has a marginal input of government, depending on the state. But it isn’t the core value of the ‘free-market’. So then maybe it is really hard to understand how our societies differ. Here the government takes up a large part of the responsibility and that doesn’t mean we are all enslaved and puppets. On the contrary. But for an American it might seem so.

@@Wuppie62 Might be a mortgage interest deductible too if it's not tax-deductible. With the house as collateral the bank has a great interest in anything that keeps up the house value so wouldn't surprise me if they want to encourage it that way.

Historical buildings however are subsidized. You get about 40% of the money you spend on maintaining the historical aspects.

Ron Rolfsen you make it sound so simple. It is not. Yes you can apply for loan or a subsidy for you building, but there are differences depending on what kind of monument your building is. Not every old building is a monument and in the end it is the owners responsibility to keep their building in good nick. With or without the help of governmental, provincial or county subsidy, loan or whatever.

Dat moet toch wel een grote tegenvaller voor je geweest zijn, jammer is dat hé.

Never had any issues, besides the barking.. but thats what amaricans do.. they cant handle even the least amount of power without being dicks about it..

LOL. Safety comes at a price !

@@VRBLNSLT US cops aren't pussies like euro cops.

@@TonySlug In Europe it is safe too, and security people can be a lot more respectful at the same time

Handouts are not really that. I pay monthly just in case i need WW.

Yes! And men receive flowers as gifts, too! "Bloemen houden van mensen. Haal ze in huis!" (Flowers love people. Bring them home!")

Oh.. and the litter of course. I remembered this day that the streets were full of trash bags. I asked why it was like that and they answered that it was garbage day. In the netherlands we have garbage bins with lids, or garbage bins underground. So you don’t have that smell.. It was a strange experience 😉

@@annelaurijssens until not to long ago, in the city of The Hague you'd also put your trash bags in the street on garbage day. Some parts still do it that way.

I think that a pop tart isn't even a decent snack!!!

Yeah, experianced that several times in the USA, you're visiting another country and you're greeted as if you were a criminal

Have you informed the shop people your Dutch family name is "Small" ... ?

@@jpdj2715 No we didn't, we had attracted a lot of attention already. I actually heard some people say " Let's go left where the tall guy (my Son) stands, they used him as a markingpoint

@@johankleinentink3410 - the fun side is, you never need a "meeting point" you can always say, we meet at "him". If you are a modest family from Twente, then you will have felt embarrassed. You can always play back at those "little people"

Ha, ik had ooit eens Amerikaanse vrienden op bezoek en die keken hun ogen uit hier. We zijn hier in het noordwesten gemiddeld nog wat langer dan de rest van het land ook. En dat was al zeker 15 jaar geleden. Toen was ik met mijn 1,88m / 6 ft 2 nog lang. Tegenwoordig niet meer.

I was absolutely shocked the first time I landed at Schipol from UK by the height of adults; seriously, was it due to selective breeding to not drown in the water? I prefer to go on holiday in Spain (I am 167 cm) so I feel tall ;)

Tho I must say the amount of toilets in the USA is so much better as in the netherlands.

@@nulian not in this video

I'm from Estonia, and went on a family holiday trip in Stockholm, Sweden in 2012 (one of the rare foregin trips, as I don't travel often). One of the large eateries in Stockholm had a fairly big men's room with a wide common space for "letting go", but not enough individual stalls, and the toilet was crazy crowded in the middle of the workday, and all the individual stalls were taken >:(

California has everything that France has and lower prices...too many people move to CA without a clue as to how they will support themselves, so they live on the streets.....its like you can afford a 25 year old VW but U want a Mercedes, so U camp out at the dealer waiting for the prices to come down...they wont

@@phillipweissburg1882 There are strange schemes in other U.S. states, where they pay homeless people a one-way ticket to Cali...

Dat is de eerste keer dat ik dit hoor, ik heb dat echt nooit zo bekeken en dat met drugs geassocieerd.

Klopt ja, vooral bij benzinestations.

When I lived in Prague and the stairs and bathrooms were lit like that in my awful block of flats, and it confused me so much for a week or so!

No, sorry, it's in the event of a medical emergency, you can see the person who may have collapsed.