I’m moving to the neither lands 😂

As a German who lived in the Netherlands for >12 years I fully agree with your comments and I would highly recommend the Netherlands (for many reasons)

As a German who lived in the Netherlands for her university studies, I can second everything. Really spot on! If the Netherlands had mountains, I'd probably move back there but as a hiking enthusiast, Germany wins 😅 I do miss the more international lifestyle in the Netherlands. Even though I speak Dutch, being a foreigner and speaking English always seemed a lot easier than die foreigners in Germany.

I've lived in Germany and I now live in The Netherlands, and I much prefer The Netherlands! I love travelling by bike, and all main cities are very easy to reach, if you live in the South-West. The landscape is beautiful, there is a lot of green. People are super friendly and sincere, it is easy to make friends and everyone speaks English! They do eat Hagelslag, but it is a minor inconvenience lol 🇳🇱❤️

I like how you look like the flag of the Netherlands, Red on top, white in the middle and the blue shirt. nice subtle touch!

I prefer the Netherlands but they are both great places to live 🇳🇱🇩🇪

NL and DE both have their pros and cons. In many ways NL should be a role model, f.e. payment and working environment for hospitals etc., bicycle friendliness, ... saying this as a German

I lived in both, overall I prefer Germany, especially nightlife, cool urban subcultures, food, beer, general way of life.

YOUR ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION IS SO IMPRESSIVE ❤

For us, people from South America, both are great countries but with a great cultural shock as well

this is exactly what I needed to know. thank youuuu so much. I am planning to study in either of the places next year

I like your style of explaining different topics !

This video is impressively accurate!

Very helpful, informative video. Thank you, Erika.

I can not describe how much LOVE your videos! You are my favourite youtuber ever since I found your channel 4 months ago. Great job Erika!

I was surprised by the snippets from Koblenz (and Trier and Cologne). I hope you enjoyed your visit (I see you did a whole video on it. Will watch it now). 🙂

your eyeliner is so unique !! I love it

Love your videos. Your witty humor is very entertaining. Keep it up.

Netherlands is better. As a foreigner I felt more accepted than in Germany. I find it very hard to make friends here. The only thing that keeps me here is the fact that my ex is German and I can not leave the country with my children who are his. German law prevents it. In Holland I made friends mich more easily and found it much easier to fit in.

Brief and useful👌👌. we want a QA video

As a Swiss, I‘d much prefer the Netherlands. They are more open, international and innovative, which are all pros in my book. Germany has a very hierarchical workplace mentality, which is something we don’t know in Switzerland, just like the Dutch. Railways are reliable and we also share similarly sized countries. 👍🌷

Great video thanks for the info!

I'm a Mech. Eng. from Bulgaria and plan on moving to Germany or the Netherlands in about 3 years(I'm a newly graduate so need to make some experience first). I have relatives both in Germany and the Netherlands but I lean towards Germany more because of my profession and my love for cars. One of my relatives who lived both in Germany and the Netherlands once told me that; If you love bikes, multiculturalism, compactness and don't want to spend your time learning the local language choose the Netherlands; If you love cars, beautiful landscapes, want more job opportunities and don't mind learning German and being proficient to get a good job choose Germany. Plus Germany has a population of 85 mil. people which is really big compared to Netherlands with 17.5 mil. overall German job market is bigger plus if you know German you can always move to Austria or Switzerland too being an EU citizen and speaking German.

Just discovered your channel :). I was to go to Riga Uni but didn't get to. Nice to see someone from Latvia.

Actually I feel in the Netherlands getting a career job without knowing Dutch is very possible. I have been working with many large Dutch companies, and English was often the primary language used. Many of my colleagues came from all over the world, and most of them didn’t speak Dutch. In Germany this is a lot harder, except if you work in IT for example. My neighbor is German and works in Hamburg, and has many English speaking colleagues. So it is not impossible, but a bit harder than here in the Netherlands.

I watched this video in your channel and i subscribed ❤

thank you so much

For example, in the last week we had a blizzard on Friday, a quiet overcast weekend, a normal storm on Monday, and then summer on Wednesday. That's just life in the Netherlands :-)

Been to Germany once (U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart) I loved the place. Excellent beer (not watered down piss we call Budweiser) and very scenic. Would love to go back

Thanks for the nice video

Hello Erika please try make a video about Norway 🇳🇴 COL CULTURE LANGUAGE TAXES AND LEADERSHIP

I am from The Czech Republic, and I would really love to live in The Netherlands. I am going to do an exchange programme in Belgium since this September, it was the closest I could get to The NL. I was travelling around the NL last summer, I was in Efteling and then around South West cities -> Rotterdam, Utrecht, Amsterdam, Leiden,.. They are so beautiful. Everybody there also speaks english and they are so friendly.. I really hope I will be able to find accommodation once I finish my bachelor in Czechia (in 1 and half year). It's extremely difficult to find one there.

nice video. informative

Love the fact that you're so creative with your videos to make it look funny as well xd

Good video thanks

Actually in the Netherlands a part of your health insurance is also deducted from your pay check, it's just that most people are unaware of it. It's in the taxes section under "sociale verzekeringen" on your pay check, it covers to some extent the costs of the health insurance, as the minimum 125 euros would be not nearly enough to cover all the costs that the insurance company is paying to the doctor, hospital etc.

I echo almost all your statements. I also ended up in the Netherlands.

The Dutch rail network is one of the busiest. On a lot of connections the trains have kind of metro tact. And each half hour comes the same train(from-to). So 10:06 and 10:36, 10:17 and 10:47 finally 10:27 and 10:57. This are intercity trains from Eindhoven to utrecht. In-between there are regional trains to. In Germany there's is zwei Stunden takt. Every two hours the same train. But there you you often more possibilities on busy routes per hour. Big difference is that in Germany the obligation to reserve a seat in a train. Further I think the pension system in NL is a bit more generous than in D. The roads are for sure. German roads are not as good anymore.

Thanks for the helpful information And how cute u are

I will live in The Netherlands but just 2km from German border. It’s perfect. Very well done video. Bedankt

I am a LA native and have had the opportunity to live in both Germany and the Netherlands. Germany is very nice but I so much prefer the Netherlands.

Lol I’m Dutch and in my company close to half the employees don’t speak Dutch at all so the primary language is English and that’s the language that’s required to get hired and everything is done in English except 1 on 1 communication with someone who speaks a different language

It seems like Enschede Kennispark station in the first minute of videos, and also the green way to UT Campus 😀

I am a simple man. I see Erikas new video, I watch it, I put like and leave a comment. Cool dancing in te end btw😀😀

I really want to move to the Netherlands. Sad-but-true it's possible, with quite good life level, but its too expensive(mostly because of tax, tax rate is quite high) and i couldn't get any official work or something for getting some official status like residence permission with posibility to get citizenship, except temporary protection, which is kinda shit. :( Like, right now im in serach of good place for relocation and it is quite hard in general. You need to understand all moments with getting residence permit, understand do you meet the requirements and what you need to do for it. How works tax system, medical system, real estate market, and a lot lot of other things. For example in Poland, you need to stay there for a 9 months if you in Warsaw, only then you can apply to a temporary residence permit. But if you are a B2B contractor, high chance to stay without a permit. And this isn't the end. You couldn't leave Poland untill you not get the decision and all the process can take min 6 month up to few years.

The things she showed as food for Germany can be quite easily found in the Netherlands too tbh

For me it is Neither. They both have positives and negatives. Depends on your personality, what you like to do , where you end up living and the people you meet there and the stage of your life you are at. It helps alot to speak the local language fluently or u will never fully integrate and your social circle will be small. After a few years of living in any country you will find that life is basically the same everywhere. Without good friends and family around you, it will kinda suck !

Please move to the Netherlands! I’d love to meet you some day, long time fan

Housing is a MASSIVE problem in The Netherlands. Its really really bad

I found your channel back at the beginning of 2022 when preparing for my Erasmus to the Netherlands. Now having lived here for about 6 months as a student, and having gone by train into Germany a couple of times: Germany. The Netherlands is nice but damn I wish I was studying in Germany...

Despite the reputation for being cold, I've actually had very nice experiences with German people from all ages while traveling, either in Germany proper or not - to the point that I've started studying German just for these occasions, even though I don't especially enjoy doing tourism in the country. It is anecdotal only, I know, but second only to Scots - which are somehow Latin-Americans at heart - , Germans were, to my surprise, the friendliest European people I've met.

'But they are very tall and sometimes think highly of themselves and their country' - spot on! Watching this made me miss the Netherlands until I got to the food part - that's why I moved away. 😅

Some good points, but as an English speaker, I found German a much easier language to learn and speak. The Dutch accent and pronunciation is not easy. Having lived in both places, my favourite is Germany (but it depends where you live etc.). There is much more regional variation in landscape, food etc than in the Netherlands.

few things 1. Dutch do not like credit cards. it’s debit, always. Other than mortgage and sometimes a car or some big home investment, we usually like to only buy things we can afford 2. I get along with Germans very well, but the generational gap is huge. Under 40 is usually pretty welcoming and tolerant, over 50 is the absolute opposite. Don’t expect to be treated nicely when trying to speak English in German cities, to older Germans. Exceptions, both ways, of course exist. In the Netherlands that’s the opposite, like you mentioned. Exceptions, again, exist 3. The Dutch political state is changing and it's getting less and less tolerant. It's worrying. In Germany that's not so much the case, although Bavaria is notoriously nationalist and racist. 4. Premade food and vegetarian choices are definitely a bit city thing in the Netherlands. Germany seems on average better at this. When you get to small towns/cities in the Netherlands you really have a hard time eating vegetarian, let alone vegan, unless you cook everything yourself.

International education in the Netherlands is succumbing to its success. The Netherlands is popular with international students, partly because higher education is taught in English, even for Dutch students. More and more Dutch students, therefore, find their way to Dutch-speaking Belgian universities. Currently, the Netherlands has 120,000 international students. Germany has 400,000 international students. However, in terms of population, Germany is six times larger than the Netherlands. If an international student graduates in the Netherlands, they are given one year to look for a job in the Netherlands. This is relatively easy as proficiency in the English language is sufficient. A requirement to speak Dutch is often if one wants to become a manager or customer contact Dutch customers. In addition, the Netherlands now has the lowest unemployment rate ever in history, although unemployment in Germany is also low. I know many ex-pats or highly educated people who have lived in the Netherlands for years and who do not speak the Dutch language and who often find a job easily. The (local) government also speaks and helps in the English language, or German and French if necessary. The official languages ​​in the Kingdom of the Netherlands are Dutch, Frisian, Papiamentu and English. Papapiamentu and English are the native languages ​​of the islands in the Caribbean Netherlands.

Thanks, very helpful to a North American!

ERIKA, I AM MOVING TO GERMANY DUE TO THE LOW COST OF LIVING.

Prefer Netherlands. I have lived in Germany for 10 years and if you love sending paper letters and you love old fashion then here you will like more. Netherlands is more modern

In general, always The Netherlands! (Greetings to our lovely neighbours

*Not creditcards in NL .... but their bank cards with direct debet ...

Amsterdam actually started a add campaign for foreign students not to come. I'm Dutch and would choose Germany to study. For higher paying jobs i would choose the Netherlands though. Especially if you just speak English.

Creditcards in the Netherlands, i,m dutch and never have seen a creditcard in my live debitcards, or pinpas like we call it, yes that is the way here, try to pay with a credit card outside of the big city's is almost impossible.

I did it the other way around. Born and educated in The Netherlands, speak 5 languages and moved to Latin America 40 years ago and worked for large multinationals. Here the cost of living is 70% lower than in The Netherlands or Germany and I can afford a lifestyle I could only dream about in Europe.

This video is nice, ganz gut😁 Did you visited Dordrecht at minute 4?

I live in Germany for over 8 years now and can agree with everything you said about Germany. The things you said about the Netherlands sound also familiar since I have friends in the Netherlands. I've been thinking about moving to the Netherlands since I'm finding social life in Germany a bit difficult. Although I have German friends, but in general social life is not very smooth here and I always hear from my friends in NL that people there are friendlier. While looking for apartments I noticed a HUGE difference between prices here and in NL I hope that salaries there balance the difference though. Fun fact: every time I met a person at a party and felt straight comfortable with them and and I felt like "Oh I can also get along fast with Germans" it then turns out to be that they're Dutch :D

Fun issue; Berlin is the best compromise, in a dutchman point of view, but visit Amsterdam as well to find out your preference. Take some time to search out your personal preference, travel between each is quite easy.

Thanks

I am from the netherlands andI have been 50 times or more to Germany and i really love the country, nature, People, beer, food etc. But i could never live in Germany. I could never really blend in society, too much difference..

6:50 Eu ouvi de um empresário que existe uma rua em que vocês bebem todos os finais de semana e ela fica lotada. É verdade? Onde fica ! Qualquer dia eu vou aí. ❤❤❤

I moved to Germany now I wanna move to the Netherlands

As a German of Dutch ancestry, why do I hate techno, beer, sausages and cheese? 🤔Something seems to have gone wrong.. 😅

I had this exactly fucking question… need to figure out if I can get a cushy job.

Hallo Erika, love your video’s, did you study in Enschede

the Netherlands naturally. pretty nice and cool people. and very. open- minded !!!!!

After knowing dutch language what kind of job I get? I'm now 37...

Both countries have pros and cons, but you will certainly hear, "Du bist in Deutschland, du musst Deutch sprechen!!" in a German bakery.

thanks

I am moving to Kazakhstan

in both country there in no paycheck. It goes direct on your bankaccount.

Taxrates at 0:53 are wrong. Netherlands has lowered the taxes to 36,92% up to €73.031 and 49,50% after that

Yes that's correct are quite similar and denish are quite similar and Swedes

I wonder what country you chose, looking at the thumbnail i think know which lmao

I enjoyed the commonality that they hate being compared to each other.

Im stuck in Portugal. I would move ANYWHERE

dont move to either, germany balding rate 42% divorce rate 45%, holland balding rate 38% divorce rate 48% Move to Greece or Ireland, Greece balding rate 30% divorce rate 15%, Ireland balding rate 24% divorce rate 20%

One negative things about netherland , is that They are not friendly(a bit racist) . For example,renting an house or a bedroom as foreiner is almost impossible( based on personal experience)

I want to move to munich

7:40 vocês não comem salada por saúde? Em si seu vídeo ficou muito bom, mas respire um pouco e fale mais sobre tudo dá Alemanha. Você mostrou a bandeira eu ia falar isso pra Eli. Mostra a bandeira e fale um pouco sobre ela por que as cores ? Quando se tornou uma bandeira qual foi o nome que usaram? Mas em si... você pensou nisso sozinha e eu gostei bastante das ideias só estou dando uma sugestão.

Wait. Are you saying the schools in the Netherland has lower standards than those in Germany?

Dont move anywhere, be where you are 😊

Hello Erika! I am writing to you from Argentina. I really liked the video and I saw that several times the train was canceled in Germany, after that it is easy to get to your destination? Or do you lose several hours? Very cute haircut, setting trends! Hugs

Netherlands, when you have an average income, but price/quality is better in Germany. When u have a higher salary, Germany benefits you more.

As a Pole-American who lived all over - I definitely prefer the Netherlands. The Dutch are more pragmatic and easy going than Germans. It’s smaller so it’s easier to get around in. The bike culture is out of this world, and their bikes are sooo comfortable! The Dutch language is easier than German for English speakers, and their food is more interesting. Netherlands any day over Germany.

Love both. I am german

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5:59 Is it Regensburg?

That's one of the reasons I love living in Winterswijk. It's in Holland but it's only a stonethrow away from the German border so I basically can get best of both worlds :)

I love both countries but I do prefer Germany but then again I prefer Germany over most countries.

I love the netherlands and germany both equally and try poland and czech republic sometime es as well sweden I love as well try Denmark as well and Austriaand Switzerland I love all them places

Regarding culture, most knowledgeable people that I know say that Germany is quite hierarchical, whereas the Netherlands are not. Is that something you can verify?