I went to Holland, it was a waste of time and energy. I didn't like the country. Many negative people, very little to do. I would never live there, I feelt scared, i might get shoot in open street. All travelers keep away from this country.
I like how you took all that effort to record different sentences in different scenes and that they make up your story together, but in reality you had hours and hours of travel time between them.
Only North American? LOL Try looking into countries in South America. Some places have very big and dense cities or at least won't consider anything smaller then 1million people as a big city.
In China, if a City doesn't have 6M+ People it's small. If it has less than 1M, then it's a tiny village. If it has less than 500K it's Pathetic and my Grandma's House had more people than that Pathetic excuse of a Human Settlement.
@@dutchman7623 True, with limited space and leaving enough for agriculture and else, does require some proximity. Though if you look in satellite images at things like the area between Washington and Boston or between Rio and Sao Paulo (maybe Campinas also) in Brazil or other main metropolitan areas...It's just crazy, crazy, crazy...humanity loses itself...or just finds the worse in itself in such places.
As someone who moved to the Netherlands and loves Canada as well as urban design content I feel like there has never been a UA-cam channel more tailored to me than this one. Take my subscription!
What i love about the channel in general is that as a Dutchman it makes you realize how much more effort is put in urban design compared to the majority of the world and makes you appreciate the investment made even more.
I guess.. In my case, I took it for granted thinking everything was designed back in the day for push carts, dog carts and the biggest object on the street, the occasional horse and carriage and that we stuck to that philosophy for urban design including the often very narrow parking spots.
I remember one of my clients had asked me to add this city as a location in our product. I took a good 5 mins to try and understand that the name wasn't wrongly spelt and that such a place existed (she was English and wasn't sure herself too, didn't help). In the end I googled the name and then added it for her. So yeah, I know this city name now - but have no clue how to pronounce it. 😜
For those of us who can't afford to country hop, it's definitely worth getting involved in local politics. It's an area you can have a lot of influence in compared to state/national politics.
Until a few years ago in Den Haag there was "Hans' Sexshop" next to the "Grab'n'Bite" snack bar. We used to joke that the Grab'n'Bite was the kinky section :P It is no longer there though, robbing us of this comedic gem.
When I was in Japan during the 1970's I realized how much our vehicles cost us in the USA. In Japan I could go anywhere in the city by train or taxi. In the USA, I had to buy a car, register it, insure it, maintain it, feed it, and most of the time it just sat there, (garage, driveway). I figured about 25% of my income went to support the vehicle. We buy things to serve us, and end up working so that we can afford to serve them.
@@elizabethdavis1696 Feed is used in different instances. Like feeding material into a machine. The river feeds into a lake. Don't feed me a line of bull, probably others as well.
@@zUJ7EjVD Same I have anxiety so really hard for me to learn how to drive, I honestly cannot wait to move to the Netherlands (or somewhere else) when I'm older so that way I don't have to drive everywhere.
i'm from small-town ontario like you, living in toronto now, and i relate to pretty much everything you said in this video. love your stuff - you give me hope that better, more liveable cities exist out there somewhere!
I have lived in the Netherlands my entire life. And have seen many cities throughout the world. Including Berlin, London, Paris, New York, Milan, Brussels, Helsinki, Tallinn, Athens etc. And I can confidently say that I have not seen any place anywhere in the world where I would rather living in than in The Netherlands. Every city here is full of life, things to do, crazy nightlife, beautiful parks, lovely, happy and beautiful people, amazing infrastructure and public transport. I realize I am truly blessed to have grown up here and hope for many in the world that they look at the Netherlands as an inspiration to improve livability in their cities.
1 like from someone stuck in London, ONT. I look at cycling as a, mostly, non-contact sport. Kinda like hockey without checking. The city would rather build ill designed bike lanes with concrete dividers than reduce the speed to 40kph on the minor roads, which costs nothing.
@@davidbee9563 Its too bad that Canada's urban planning makes cycling just not very convenient. Everything is so spread out. The Netherlands simply does not have the space to build like this, its one of the most densely populated countries in the world so its excellent infrastructure is born out of necessity. It has its downsides too. You just have alot less individual space. Free standing houses are considered luxury villas and are very expensive. Also owning a car is very costly, gas prices, insurance, parking are all much less affordable than in Canada. I live in Amsterdam and I dont even own a car, its just a luxury I cant afford. Then again, I dont need one because the combination of cycling and public transport get me everywhere I need to go. Housing prices however are going through the roof. There is just no space for mass building and right now and 10.000 euro per square meter is not uncommon in the city.
Your channel inspired me to pick up Cities: Skylines after many years and guess what happened: My city started functioning way better than any of my previous ones only because I implemented many of the "what makes a city great" points I've learned from your channel!
After looking at all that beautiful bustle and lively streets, the footage at 3:07 really struck me. Both views are scenes of people going about their life in the city... I know which lifestyle I would rather have.
you do realise you can go to a diffrent street in that dutch town and get the same look as the american one. and i bet you can do the reverse aswel. it's a load of bull. i'm from the netherlands and my city has the same nice pedastrian rich area's like he demonstrates. but take a 10 minute walk to a diffrent street and it seems like you are on a highway.
Once I drove to Netherlands to bring my brother back to Poland, but we had some delay and I was disappointed at first, because I didn't have time to visit Amsterdam. But we visited Harlem instead, which was closer and I was enamored by how lovely Harlem looks like.
Having been to the Neatherlands and many small towns in Bavaria, I have found the walk-ability, diversity of architecture, vibrant crowds, the mix of apartments, restaurants, shops and more makes them very fun the be in.
@@NotJustBikes Please don't take this the wrong way (something easy to do on the internet) but most Dutch people are very aware that our "big" cities are still small in comparison. It's just funny to us. :) (If you have lived in the Netherlands you probably knew that already also) By the way I just discovered you videos and I can't wait to see more. It's very interesting and well done. I moved to the U.S from the Netherlands about 20 years ago and I am just fascinated by Dutch infrastructure. I still haven'y worked out exactly why but it might have something to do with a touch of home sickness. Anyways, the other reason I wanted to leave a comment is I wanted to make sure you are aware of another channel I watch frequently also about Dutch infrastructure. I am pretty sure you probably know about it but In case you haven't I think you would find it interesting also. Channel is: BicycleDutch ua-cam.com/users/markenlei I wish you all the best and i am looking forward seeing more of your videos.
@@emmyvandenbrink1793 I'd say Arnhem is also a big city. It has some big-city issues too. And they had a unique solution to public transport that is probably worthy of a video too
Who's here from 2022?! It's amazing to see how impactful your videos were back when you started, but also just how far you've come since. Thanks for helping make the world more liveable
I am an environmental studies graduate and your videos inspired me a lot. I wish I have known you when I was a student! I have a realistic dream of becoming a city planner one day!
This channel has really grown on me, I think I come here mostly for the sarcasm. And as a regular visitor to Amsterdam from the UK I have always been struck by the family friendly town planning which I have come to admire.
My favourite city has to be York, England. I love everything about it from the cathedral to the narrow streets that feel exactly like Diagon Alley. Can't say the same about New York though.
I live here in York and it's alright compared to other cities. I can agree that is walkable only within the city centre but the bus services here are one of the worst in the country as many buses are late or don't even come sometimes. Moreover, York is a car dependent city too since many residents have cars and they have cars so that they can move around and do their shopping in big department stores. In addition, the UK, in general, is a car-dependent country since transportation, is expensive and we have one of the most or the most expensive transportation systems in the whole of Europe. UK is walkable to an extent unlike other countries like Netherlands or even Italy where their transportation is not quality standard but is enough and cheap to move around the country.
Taormina, Sicily was like that for me. A small city with a low population and people were everywhere! Its so fascinating how much happier and full of life a city that small can be when its designed right.
I feel like I'm on my way to becoming a city planner. Just spent 2 weeks with my college kid in Charleston, SC, a very walkable and interesting city. This series helps identify why that is. Thanks!
My ideal city would have an efficient public transportation plan, with subways all around, walkability would be an important characteristic. Everybody would have access to education and employment so I hope it’d reduce violence. I think green areas like community gardens are very important so people could practice sports and breathe pure air in more peaceful places.
Love your channel, just recently discovered it and I've been binging your videos all day. Feels great to see somebody that feels exactly like I do about our cities in NA (I'm from Montreal), but who is much better at explaining it to people. You're very fluent and I'm extremely happy to see your videos getting more and more popular. This might not seem like much, but I'm sure they'll have a huge impact on influencing the next generation on how to correctly plan a city for people, not for cars.
This is so interesting and I wholeheartedly agree! I lived in Amsterdam for 3 years and frequently visited Haarlem for it's beauty and peacefulness whilst still being somewhat bustling and very interesting. Will always love the Netherlands and miss cycling around.
I grew up in suburbs and knew some things were very wrong from an early age. I'm in my early forties now and have been living in Montreal without a car for 23 years, I bike to work all year round, I hate car traffic and love what you do.
Great channel, interesting content. I was born in Haarlem. 30 years ago I went to Ontario and have been to London, Aylmer and Toronto. (I was planning to immigrate to Canada) I then lived in several places in the Netherlands, prominently in Groningen . Now I moved into the rural area of the Province of Groningen. Interesting to see very familiar places in your video's. If you need any drone footage to support your content, let me know! Keep going!
Hey, I re-read this just now, five months later. What kind of drone footage would you be to get? I'm actually interested of some drone footage of some Dutch suburbs and villages, to compare their layout with their North American equivalents. If you're still able to help, let me know! notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com
Great video and it illustrates one of the big reasons I am going to retire in the Netherlands or at least am seriously planning to. I love to be able to walk around cities like Amsterdam though I have only been there once. And I hate driving. I hate traffic. I hate other drivers. etc. A walkable and bike friendly life is the life for me. Not to mention all of the other great reasons.
My family line originated from London, Ontario before the migration to the States and I fell in love with Canada in 2004 when I visited with my father for a family reunion. At that time I thought downtown London had great walk-ability, though when I visited the Netherlands in 2018, I found a new love. Thank you for your honesty here.
There is a neighborhood in "Fake London" with some of the oldest, and most expensive homes in the city. Most are relatively small homes by suburban standards, and yet people are willing to mortgage themselves for life to live there. These videos have allowed me to understand why people are so nuts about Wortley village. It is a mixed-use, very walkable neighborhood where the car is not king. And yet, developers are still hooked on building monster homes out in the boondocks where every store, service, restaurant, coffee shop etc requires a long car ride through heavy traffic to get to. I wish I spoke Dutch..... sigh....
This is funny. People raised in smaller cities are often longing to move to bigger ones. I am the opposite. Raised in Moscow - a huge bustling metropolis with tons of entertainment and cultural events, but was fed up with endless traffic, long commutes, and crowds everywhere any time of day and night. Emigrated to Canada, but avoided big cities - Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver like a plague. Ideal place - is a mid-sized town, walkable, with lots of green spaces and trees, close to lakes or rivers or sea/ocean and other nature, but with good-quality internet and not far from big city and major airport
"small cities" names not the biggest ones, but definitly major dutch cities lol 's-Hertogenbosch is still written the "old" way, but we all say it as if there stood "Den-Bosch", which sounds like "Den-Bos", so thats what you'll hear. And also Haarlem is pronounced Haarlem not Harlem :) Love the videos man, making me feel privileged to be born in the netherlands and really using the services and now also the policies to benefit students like free public transport!
I love it that you include Groningen. Foreigners always talk about Amsterdam, 's Hertogenbosch, Maastricht, Haarlem etc. The North is hardly to none in the picture. There is a difference between the North and the West. Thus, thank you for including Groningen. Greetings from the North of the Netherlands.
Thank you for the nice and insightful videos. To me as a Dutch person, they are complimentary and make me realise what we have. I just find it interesting that you like Amsterdam so much, a city I tend to avoid because it's so busy as compared to Haarlem or Leiden.
Mixed zoning also can make cities great where residential and business are mixed together in an area and multistory buildings are throughout downtown. 0:25 Shows single level business because residential housing isn't zoned for that area.
Amsterdam is next level insofar as walkabilty. I live in Los Angeles which by default means if you want to walk then you might as well be walking on your knees.
Such an amazing channel, you kind of change my life, or at least you gave me a new prospective to understand my life... And now here I am in Utrecht living the dream!
I had already seen -- and enjoyed -- quite a few of the videos on your channel, and now I finally find out how your introduction to the Netherlands started in my home town, Haarlem. I was happy to see shots of the Grote Markt en the railway Station, there. Welkom in ons kouwe kikkerlandje, man. Doe alsof je thuis bent!
as a kid we were in the netherlands every weekend because of camping. and it would be a dream to live there one day. Its actually insane how beautiful netherlands are everywhere and now friendly the people are there
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 He said that walkability increases social contact, you answered that the internet reduces contact. I can agree with that, the internet. But having people moving around in cars instead of making walking or cycling an alternative doesn't help social contacts either. Walking and cycling makes a more social envirement, cars create an anti-social envirement, being disconnected in a shiny metal box.
There's a lot that comes with living in a non-car centric society that adds value to life. There's a book called 'The Happiest Kids in the World' co-written by American and English writers who both have Dutch husbands and raise their children in The Netherlands. Their book is about why Unicef has deemed Dutch children the happiest in the world. They talk about cultural differences. Many of those have to do with the area of mobility of children in The Nerherlands. Our kids easily bike 20 minutes to soccer practise on their own or with friends when they're 8. Or walk to the shop when they need or want something when they're 10. This feeling of freedom, autonomy and trust is very important for a child's self worth. Actually, in the last few decades this 'area of mobility' for kids has been shrinking. If you read the Dutch staple of children books 'Jip & Janneke' you'll see that in the fifties kids were send to pick up a loaf of bread from the bakery at the age of 5. And the baker would know their names. The difference between then and now mainly comes from the dangers of car traffic. My hope for the future is that in all urban areas ('binnen de bebouwde kom') cars won't be allowed to drive faster than 20km/h (12.5m/h). My hope is that car ownership will be considered a thing from the past and that we only use cars for longer distances or to get to hard to reach places. In the meantime we store them in hubs at the edge of the city. A big garage where you can easily rent a vehicle, rent a parking place if you want to own a car, or hop on public transport for inner or outer city travel. We can have a freely available taxi service with electric self-driving cars that you can summon with an app on your phone, run and maintained by the municipality. Imagine that. Our beautiful cities without any parked cars! So much more space, green lanes and parks. Our children free to go anywhere. And everything within reach without any hassle.
Great videos! I especially loved this one for your history, how you think and how you tested out your thinking and re-evaluated as you went through your different moves.
I'm from Belgium and what I like about the Netherlands are as follow: - the transportation. Less cars inside the city because better routes for bikes. More bikes because culturally and also a flat country. Belgium is not flat where I live so I don't appreciate the biking as much. I wish I could though. Better train service. Modern stations. - I love the mix in architecture old and new next to each other. Flanders is not bad either. - people I meet seem more warm. More casual and friendly. (I can be wrong). - modern. Technology implementation. Wifi in trains for example. Typically a city I love is Rotterdam. A better, less crowded, less expensive city than the overcrowded and problematic Amsterdam. In Rotterdam for 100-110€ a night you can find very good accommodation dead center. In A'dam forget it. Maybe 130-150€ will only get you the Ibis a few km from the center. 👍
Many Dutch cities exude wonderful ambiance. Walking through their city centres brings unbridled joy because they teem with activity, splendid architecture, and possibilities. Suburbs cannot provide the same--ever.
As a Dutch person who has been to almost every major Dutch city, I have that feeling when I am visiting Italy or Spain. Not in the Netherlands, where everything is normal. Yes it work well here, but it;s so boooooring.
If you ever come back to 's Hertogenbosch, you should perhaps use it for a topic about food. Because I don't get why the rest of the world hasn't adapted some of the foods we have or do them very differently. 's Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch) is pretty famous for its "Bossche Bollen". Which is basically chocolate with wipped cream. But also the things we fry like Kroketten and Frikandellen. Why do other nations not do fries like we do? Why did broodje kroket or unox didn't take off elsewhere? And whats up with pancakes outside the Netherlands? A recommendation would be to visit De Pannekoekenbakker (notice the old spelling panne) in something like Heusden. And see how a Boerenpannenkoek led to basically Dutch pizza's (you can put lots of stuff on pancakes, not just syrup). Its delicious but it never even crossed the border, let alone the rest of the world. Now sure some stuff is known like wafles and even stroopwafels, but there's more and everybody thinks our cuisine isn't that great or original...
I fucking love your channel. Thx you a lot for sharing all this, it's priceless. Now i want to buy the Netherland ASVV recommendations for traffic calming and see how i can try to use it in my job of urban planner in France ! I'm sure my boss will disagree, of course without even trying to argu, "no time for questions, your drawing is waited for tomorrow 9:00am, and no foolish stuff !" And of course, I'm sharing your job at the rest of my team. I'll look how Patreon work now ;) . Merci beaucoup !
I just discovered your channel and I am enjoying your content. Including what makes a good city to live in. I live in Melbourne Australia and it has similarities to Toronto. The walkability is key for me. And that was the case when I had the pleasure of living in Chiang Mai Thailand. Yes, you can scoot around on a motorbike but there were lots of cheap options for transport and lots of things within walking distance. All be it in central CM. Not bicycle-friendly however like the Netherlands. I will have to get there one day.
I'd really love to challenge you to make videos that continue to shatter the notion that a city's population size and density are what make them interesting. There must be plenty of smaller cities and towns in Europe and maybe NA (under 50 000) with walkability and a liveliness in their public life. This would truly bust the myth that, for urbanites, interesting and enjoyable places must also be dense cities.
You do need a certain level of density to support that walkability, a rather higher density than US zoning allows. If everyone is biking then you can get away with lower density, but also it's not walkable any more if many people need a bike to do their errands. If a supermarket needs 8000 people, then you need a density of 4000 people/km2 to have that many people within a kilometer walk. The US neighborhoods I've enjoyed tend to be 9000-12,000 people/km2, sometimes 16,000. A suburb zoned for 1/8 acre lots is going to be about 3000 people/km2 or fewer, and that's with minimal room for non-housing.
Most of this has to do with the fact that most of those cities existed since the middle ages, before cars were a thing. So the city centers are car free for the most part, but the living areas around the city centers developed during the age where cars were a thing and are thus more car focussed. It is the lack of planning that makes theses cities walkable, they developed naturally.
@@MrTsjernobyl Planning, or the right zoning, also leads to more modern walkability. European planners put suburbs around train stations and grocery stores; it's more car-friendly than medieval centers, but much more car-optional than US development. Japanese zoning defaults to higher density and more mixed development (closer to a free market in land use than anything in the US), with highly walkable results.
Cities for people not cars. 🌸Pathways 🌳Parks 💗Bike lanes ☺public transport. Cars- last priority I spend a lot of time thinking HOW to be in a place that prioritises people over cars.. Id probably drop and leave in a heartbeat and go to Utrecht if I had the chance Love ur channel
You prefer, with criteria, places with more people. I prefer places with not so many. Few people want to be completely alone. I am certainly not one. At the moment I live in central England (southern UK) and there are sometimes so many people around that I could get lonely! I can walk (over a KM) into town and as it gets busier, less and less people even say hello.
For the past two years, I've been trying to put my finger on why I dislike North Burnaby after moving from South Burnaby, why I never want to move back to the Suburbs, and why I hated living in Ontario. Walkability is the common thread. Even though I have a car, I hate that I have to use it.
I'm from a small city in the middle of the us. I don't own a car... And man! Your videos make me sooo jealous. But I do enjoy them too. They give me real life examples that things can be better
I moved to the Netherlands for work three years ago from Philadelphia. I will NEVER live in the US again. This place is awesome. You can walk to the supermarket. You can meet your friends at a cafe. I don't like biking but I can walk everywhere! And we work from home so much nowadays that I have remember to start my car every so often just so the battery doesn't die. It's perfect. I used to live in New York City, but you had to be amazingly wealthy to live in the lovely places that had cafés and neighbourhoods protected from the traffic. Here in the Netherlands, those places are everywhere, in cities big and small, even in villages. Everywhere has places you can walk to and see people. It was devastating during the Corona Quarantine that cafés were closed because that's where everyone met their friends. Now we show a QR code to prove we're vaccinated and see people again. Thanks for this channel.
@@wat4036 Or recent negative test. But no face masks required. Unlike the US the Netherlands was very open about the (known) side effects of vaccination and took steps/precautions to minimize them. Also it was never claimed here that vaccinations gave 100% protection.
In my ideal city people would have more access to art and culture, because it's important think about solution for the social problems. When we go to museums we can learn and this contact will be necessary for think about solutions, creating ideas for a better city.
I've been watching this channel a lot, i think i watched every video by now, maybe twice. Although I'm from the Netherlands and i know all this, it does give me the vocabulary to talk to other people about this. So thank you Jason.
One of the things I like about Trip-Advisor reviews of Hotels is that it gives the area a score of Walkability. The hotel goes on and on about things it is 'good at' [which they want to tell you about] and then you see that you have to DRIVE to dinner - Nope, I am not booking.
I just found your channel via a link from an urbanist meme group on facebook, and I'm so excited to binge every single video. I am a fellow Canadian who has always been drawn to cities, and I spent 6 months living in a small Dutch city for a university exchange term. I absolutely fell in love with the transit system, cycling culture, and general sensibility of infrastructure there. (The only thing that would keep me from moving back is how ridiculously bureaucratic their government systems are!) I hope that watching your content will give me precise words to explain to others why I loved it there, as well as a clearer vision of the kind of urbanism I want to advocate for in Canada.
I like how these cities he names are considered 'small' to him... The city I live in has less than 75.000 citizens. Utrecht had 1,3 million, Nijmegen 170k, Groningen 200k... I always considered most of them to be 'decently big' and Utrecht is massively chaotic but fun. Then again, we're a tiny country, our views on 'big cities' differ from the views of the rest of the world, I imagine.
What suprises me is that our cities are considered small compared to cities in a lot of other countries, yet the Netherlands is one of the most densely populated countries in the world.
I just discovered your channel! I agree with you 100000000%! I'm looking forward too seeing more of your videos, and I'm hoping you also talk about when you lived in Taiwan and Hong Kong and walkability too.
As someone who currently lives in your hometown, I can agree with you about wanting to get out. Born and raised here, but I'm just fed up with...well...pretty much everything about it. Prior to discovering your channel, I'd already been considering a move to either Denmark, Netherlands, or Norway. All seem to have pluses and minuses. Nova Scotia is also in the mix for some reason, but currently a distant 4th. Your channel just reaffirms my desire to move out of here and to somewhere like you are as soon as obligations allow me to.
@@NotJustBikes Thanks! I'll check that out! Right now, familial obligations are keeping me here for an undetermined length of time. But once I'm clear of those, my wife and I have talked about relocation. We both have jobs where working remotely is possible, and perhaps my boss may even want to expand his office to a second, international location! :-)
Idk why UA-cam recommended your videos. But I am so glad it did. I am hooked. I too fell in love with Haarlem; didn't even know about this city, just ended up their because of a last minute travel plan and needed an available place to stay.
I would love to hear your thoughts on major Japanese cities like Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto. All three, especially Tokyo, rely heavily on public transit and walking. In Tokyo I felt you could get to a train station within 15 minute walk of where ever you were. In Kyoto many stations had large bike parking lots (i mean, large for bikes right? Still much smaller than for cars) as many people would ride to the station then commute, then ride back home. You'd see people carrying bags all the time as they went shopping on foot. Or many stores have offered delivery services for years for larger items knowing most people took the trains.
You have to visit Luxembourg. Another small city, but with a lot of hills, and a lot of commuters coming in every day to work. They have invested a lot in making the city liveable. 20 years ago, you were dead scared to cycle in Lux, even if you were fit enough to go from the upper to the lower city. Now : we have 2 elevators for pedastrians and cyclers, seperated cycle tracks everywhere in the city, a very affordable public cycle rental system, with e-bikes and on top of that free public transport in the entire country where you can take your bicycle with you. Thank you Mr Bausch :-)
I've watched pretty much every video on this channel about dutch cities, and I now have the strong desire to move to the netherlands, Because while the UK is nice and all, it's nothing compared to the netherlands, and even before watching this channel, I've always liked the idea of using a bicycle as transport, but never got one because there's never really a good place to ride them here.
Can we just stop and appreciate this man having a monologue split between several different cities on different continents.... with the same shirt!!!
Or the HORSES 2:12 😆😆
there is a certain tom scott/cgp grey vibe going ^^ one color is all you need
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I went to Holland, it was a waste of time and energy.
I didn't like the country. Many negative people, very little to do. I would never live there, I feelt scared, i might get shoot in open street.
All travelers keep away from this country.
I like how you took all that effort to record different sentences in different scenes and that they make up your story together, but in reality you had hours and hours of travel time between them.
I was lucky that I happened to be flying from London, Ontario to London, England on my way back to Amsterdam. 😉
Nicely done @@NotJustBikes Quite a high carbon footprint on that sentence however ;)
@@RaglansElectricBaboon Really emphasizing the _impact_ of his words
@@RaglansElectricBaboon Indeed, you smart person.
"Haarlem is a small city of TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND"
Yeah he's North American, alright
Only North American? LOL
Try looking into countries in South America. Some places have very big and dense cities or at least won't consider anything smaller then 1million people as a big city.
@@chaoswarriorbr True.
In China, if a City doesn't have 6M+ People it's small.
If it has less than 1M, then it's a tiny village.
If it has less than 500K it's Pathetic and my Grandma's House had more people than that Pathetic excuse of a Human Settlement.
@@cakeisyummy5755 lmao no chill on this comment
@@dutchman7623 True, with limited space and leaving enough for agriculture and else, does require some proximity.
Though if you look in satellite images at things like the area between Washington and Boston or between Rio and Sao Paulo (maybe Campinas also) in Brazil or other main metropolitan areas...It's just crazy, crazy, crazy...humanity loses itself...or just finds the worse in itself in such places.
As someone who moved to the Netherlands and loves Canada as well as urban design content I feel like there has never been a UA-cam channel more tailored to me than this one. Take my subscription!
What i love about the channel in general is that as a Dutchman it makes you realize how much more effort is put in urban design compared to the majority of the world and makes you appreciate the investment made even more.
I guess.. In my case, I took it for granted thinking everything was designed back in the day for push carts, dog carts and the biggest object on the street, the occasional horse and carriage and that we stuck to that philosophy for urban design including the often very narrow parking spots.
gooi mij die pf
I’m jealous of y’all
3:03 Don't worry even people from 's-Hertogenbosch normally just say Den Bosch, the abbreviated version.
Born there, can confirm. :P
The Hague is also known as 's-Gravenhage. Although it's a bit of an outdated name. Now everyone says Den Haag.
You pronounce it like the town: 's Heerenberg . 😉
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I remember one of my clients had asked me to add this city as a location in our product. I took a good 5 mins to try and understand that the name wasn't wrongly spelt and that such a place existed (she was English and wasn't sure herself too, didn't help). In the end I googled the name and then added it for her. So yeah, I know this city name now - but have no clue how to pronounce it. 😜
For those of us who can't afford to country hop, it's definitely worth getting involved in local politics. It's an area you can have a lot of influence in compared to state/national politics.
"And this is when I stumbled across my first bit of REAL urban planning..." Walking past a strip club next to a pub.
Until a few years ago in Den Haag there was "Hans' Sexshop" next to the "Grab'n'Bite" snack bar. We used to joke that the Grab'n'Bite was the kinky section :P It is no longer there though, robbing us of this comedic gem.
Oh yeah somewere there is a erotic shop next to a toy shop
@@guiguinofake4626 well in groningen there is one next to a cinema so, think of that what you will.
Now all we need is a school next to a prison to make people more aware of the parallels.
I spotted that too :) Talk about interesting places :) :) :)
When I was in Japan during the 1970's I realized how much our vehicles cost us in the USA.
In Japan I could go anywhere in the city by train or taxi.
In the USA, I had to buy a car, register it, insure it, maintain it, feed it, and most of the time it just sat there, (garage, driveway).
I figured about 25% of my income went to support the vehicle. We buy things to serve us, and end up working so that we can afford to serve them.
@@elizabethdavis1696 Feed is used in different instances. Like feeding material into a machine. The river feeds into a lake. Don't feed me a line of bull, probably others as well.
Considering also how unsafe it is to drive compare to travelling by train/walking.
I hope more and more people will realise this and stop spending their money on cars
@@zUJ7EjVD Same I have anxiety so really hard for me to learn how to drive, I honestly cannot wait to move to the Netherlands (or somewhere else) when I'm older so that way I don't have to drive everywhere.
@@zUJ7EjVD How does ADHD make it hard to get a license ?
i'm from small-town ontario like you, living in toronto now, and i relate to pretty much everything you said in this video. love your stuff - you give me hope that better, more liveable cities exist out there somewhere!
I have lived in the Netherlands my entire life. And have seen many cities throughout the world. Including Berlin, London, Paris, New York, Milan, Brussels, Helsinki, Tallinn, Athens etc. And I can confidently say that I have not seen any
place anywhere in the world where I would rather living in than in The Netherlands.
Every city here is full of life, things to do, crazy nightlife, beautiful parks, lovely, happy and beautiful people, amazing infrastructure and public transport. I realize I am truly blessed to have grown up here and hope for many in the world that they look at the Netherlands as an inspiration to improve livability in their cities.
11 dislikes from people still stuck in London, Ontario.
the shithole to rule all shitholes. Maybe only eclipsed by Belleville, Ontario.
@@legitm0nkey yeah I looked around on Google maps. It seems that 2/3 of the city centre is actually parking lots...
@@legitm0nkey my memories of Belleville include crushing pennies on the railroad.. and that's about it
1 like from someone stuck in London, ONT. I look at cycling as a, mostly, non-contact sport. Kinda like hockey without checking. The city would rather build ill designed bike lanes with concrete dividers than reduce the speed to 40kph on the minor roads, which costs nothing.
@@davidbee9563 Its too bad that Canada's urban planning makes cycling just not very convenient. Everything is so spread out. The Netherlands simply does not have the space to build like this, its one of the most densely populated countries in the world so its excellent infrastructure is born out of necessity.
It has its downsides too. You just have alot less individual space. Free standing houses are considered luxury villas and are very expensive. Also owning a car is very costly, gas prices, insurance, parking are all much less affordable than in Canada. I live in Amsterdam and I dont even own a car, its just a luxury I cant afford.
Then again, I dont need one because the combination of cycling and public transport get me everywhere I need to go. Housing prices however are going through the roof. There is just no space for mass building and right now and 10.000 euro per square meter is not uncommon in the city.
Your channel inspired me to pick up Cities: Skylines after many years and guess what happened: My city started functioning way better than any of my previous ones only because I implemented many of the "what makes a city great" points I've learned from your channel!
One of the most interesting channel trailers I've seen in a long time.
After looking at all that beautiful bustle and lively streets, the footage at 3:07 really struck me. Both views are scenes of people going about their life in the city... I know which lifestyle I would rather have.
you do realise you can go to a diffrent street in that dutch town and get the same look as the american one.
and i bet you can do the reverse aswel.
it's a load of bull.
i'm from the netherlands and my city has the same nice pedastrian rich area's like he demonstrates. but take a 10 minute walk to a diffrent street and it seems like you are on a highway.
@@darkracer1252 Have you ever lived in a North American city?
@@sammiller6631 he's talking about dutch city's here kiddo
@@darkracer1252 Have you ever lived in a North American city?
Only one street in my city comes to mind. Sad.
Once I drove to Netherlands to bring my brother back to Poland, but we had some delay and I was disappointed at first, because I didn't have time to visit Amsterdam. But we visited Harlem instead, which was closer and I was enamored by how lovely Harlem looks like.
Having been to the Neatherlands and many small towns in Bavaria, I have found the walk-ability, diversity of architecture, vibrant crowds, the mix of apartments, restaurants, shops and more makes them very fun the be in.
2:16 Recognized that instantly. Groningen
The Hanseatic League cities at the IJssel river are also ver nice. Doesburg, Zutphen, Deventer, Zwolle and Kampen.
I just found this channel and it articulates something I've been pondering for a long time but didn't totally understand. My mind is blown.
That's called being orange pilled
The Dutch love to know how they're viewed abroad so they know whom to keep an eye on;-)
@@AtomicMoviess Gezellig
@@AtomicMoviess dat is een ziekte
US/EU (Estados de Unidos.)
its true ;-)
Gewoon gekoloniseerd
"Small cities"
"Utrecht"
Small by international standards. Hell, even Amsterdam is small. Before the Netherlands I would only live in cities with at least two million people.
@@NotJustBikes I would say small city's are like Middelburg, Arnhem and my favorite Breda.
@@NotJustBikes Please don't take this the wrong way (something easy to do on the internet) but most Dutch people are very aware that our "big" cities are still small in comparison. It's just funny to us. :) (If you have lived in the Netherlands you probably knew that already also) By the way I just discovered you videos and I can't wait to see more. It's very interesting and well done. I moved to the U.S from the Netherlands about 20 years ago and I am just fascinated by Dutch infrastructure. I still haven'y worked out exactly why but it might have something to do with a touch of home sickness. Anyways, the other reason I wanted to leave a comment is I wanted to make sure you are aware of another channel I watch frequently also about Dutch infrastructure. I am pretty sure you probably know about it but In case you haven't I think you would find it interesting also. Channel is: BicycleDutch ua-cam.com/users/markenlei
I wish you all the best and i am looking forward seeing more of your videos.
@@emmyvandenbrink1793 I'd say Arnhem is also a big city. It has some big-city issues too. And they had a unique solution to public transport that is probably worthy of a video too
@@Martinspire i suppose the size of a city is always relative. I live in Rotterdam and Arnhem is tiny for me
Who's here from 2022?! It's amazing to see how impactful your videos were back when you started, but also just how far you've come since. Thanks for helping make the world more liveable
I am an environmental studies graduate and your videos inspired me a lot. I wish I have known you when I was a student! I have a realistic dream of becoming a city planner one day!
This channel has really grown on me, I think I come here mostly for the sarcasm.
And as a regular visitor to Amsterdam from the UK I have always been struck by the family friendly town planning which I have come to admire.
My favourite city has to be York, England. I love everything about it from the cathedral to the narrow streets that feel exactly like Diagon Alley. Can't say the same about New York though.
Old York >>>>>>>> New York.
Am i right?
I live here in York and it's alright compared to other cities. I can agree that is walkable only within the city centre but the bus services here are one of the worst in the country as many buses are late or don't even come sometimes. Moreover, York is a car dependent city too since many residents have cars and they have cars so that they can move around and do their shopping in big department stores. In addition, the UK, in general, is a car-dependent country since transportation, is expensive and we have one of the most or the most expensive transportation systems in the whole of Europe. UK is walkable to an extent unlike other countries like Netherlands or even Italy where their transportation is not quality standard but is enough and cheap to move around the country.
Taormina, Sicily was like that for me. A small city with a low population and people were everywhere! Its so fascinating how much happier and full of life a city that small can be when its designed right.
I feel like I'm on my way to becoming a city planner. Just spent 2 weeks with my college kid in Charleston, SC, a very walkable and interesting city. This series helps identify why that is. Thanks!
My ideal city would have an efficient public transportation plan, with subways all around, walkability would be an important characteristic. Everybody would have access to education and employment so I hope it’d reduce violence. I think green areas like community gardens are very important so people could practice sports and breathe pure air in more peaceful places.
Love your channel, just recently discovered it and I've been binging your videos all day. Feels great to see somebody that feels exactly like I do about our cities in NA (I'm from Montreal), but who is much better at explaining it to people. You're very fluent and I'm extremely happy to see your videos getting more and more popular. This might not seem like much, but I'm sure they'll have a huge impact on influencing the next generation on how to correctly plan a city for people, not for cars.
Really like this channel. I Live in the Netherlands. I’m appreciating it more now.
This is so interesting and I wholeheartedly agree! I lived in Amsterdam for 3 years and frequently visited Haarlem for it's beauty and peacefulness whilst still being somewhat bustling and very interesting. Will always love the Netherlands and miss cycling around.
I grew up in suburbs and knew some things were very wrong from an early age. I'm in my early forties now and have been living in Montreal without a car for 23 years, I bike to work all year round, I hate car traffic and love what you do.
Great channel, interesting content. I was born in Haarlem. 30 years ago I went to Ontario and have been to London, Aylmer and Toronto. (I was planning to immigrate to Canada) I then lived in several places in the Netherlands, prominently in Groningen . Now I moved into the rural area of the Province of Groningen.
Interesting to see very familiar places in your video's.
If you need any drone footage to support your content, let me know!
Keep going!
Studio VDV inderdaad goed concept leuk om het te zien van iemands anders zijn kant
Hey, I re-read this just now, five months later. What kind of drone footage would you be to get? I'm actually interested of some drone footage of some Dutch suburbs and villages, to compare their layout with their North American equivalents. If you're still able to help, let me know! notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com
@@NotJustBikes I send you an email.
Great video and it illustrates one of the big reasons I am going to retire in the Netherlands or at least am seriously planning to. I love to be able to walk around cities like Amsterdam though I have only been there once. And I hate driving. I hate traffic. I hate other drivers. etc. A walkable and bike friendly life is the life for me. Not to mention all of the other great reasons.
Best intro to a UA-cam channel ... ever ... period ... no question ... period ... ever ... point
Great job, greetings from Argentina! Love the 3 vids you have, I can't wait for a new video
all their videos are propaganda
@@ornulubeats I mean, lately I wish I lived in the Netherlands lmao
@@_SereneMango funny cuz all dutch people are leaving
My family line originated from London, Ontario before the migration to the States and I fell in love with Canada in 2004 when I visited with my father for a family reunion. At that time I thought downtown London had great walk-ability, though when I visited the Netherlands in 2018, I found a new love. Thank you for your honesty here.
I have watched this video a lot of times and I just love how you say "it's not just bikes" at the end
There is a neighborhood in "Fake London" with some of the oldest, and most expensive homes in the city. Most are relatively small homes by suburban standards, and yet people are willing to mortgage themselves for life to live there. These videos have allowed me to understand why people are so nuts about Wortley village. It is a mixed-use, very walkable neighborhood where the car is not king. And yet, developers are still hooked on building monster homes out in the boondocks where every store, service, restaurant, coffee shop etc requires a long car ride through heavy traffic to get to. I wish I spoke Dutch..... sigh....
This is funny. People raised in smaller cities are often longing to move to bigger ones. I am the opposite. Raised in Moscow - a huge bustling metropolis with tons of entertainment and cultural events, but was fed up with endless traffic, long commutes, and crowds everywhere any time of day and night. Emigrated to Canada, but avoided big cities - Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver like a plague.
Ideal place - is a mid-sized town, walkable, with lots of green spaces and trees, close to lakes or rivers or sea/ocean and other nature, but with good-quality internet and not far from big city and major airport
"small cities" names not the biggest ones, but definitly major dutch cities lol
's-Hertogenbosch is still written the "old" way, but we all say it as if there stood "Den-Bosch", which sounds like "Den-Bos", so thats what you'll hear.
And also Haarlem is pronounced Haarlem not Harlem :)
Love the videos man, making me feel privileged to be born in the netherlands and really using the services and now also the policies to benefit students like free public transport!
I love it that you include Groningen. Foreigners always talk about Amsterdam, 's Hertogenbosch, Maastricht, Haarlem etc. The North is hardly to none in the picture. There is a difference between the North and the West. Thus, thank you for including Groningen. Greetings from the North of the Netherlands.
Groningen is a booming student city for international students as well. Relatively unspoken about among dutch people sometimes, however.
@@Maupskating Yep, because there are no people living in the north. Only farmers and cattle. -sighs-
Certainly not the first video on this topic, but equally certainly tremendously impactful- in my journey and apparently for others too. Thank you!
Love your stuff! I've just moved from Amsterdam to Dublin and missing the bicycle+walkability factor!
Thank you for the nice and insightful videos. To me as a Dutch person, they are complimentary and make me realise what we have. I just find it interesting that you like Amsterdam so much, a city I tend to avoid because it's so busy as compared to Haarlem or Leiden.
Mixed zoning also can make cities great where residential and business are mixed together in an area and multistory buildings are throughout downtown. 0:25 Shows single level business because residential housing isn't zoned for that area.
Amsterdam is next level insofar as walkabilty. I live in Los Angeles which by default means if you want to walk then you might as well be walking on your knees.
Such an amazing channel, you kind of change my life, or at least you gave me a new prospective to understand my life... And now here I am in Utrecht living the dream!
I had already seen -- and enjoyed -- quite a few of the videos on your channel, and now I finally find out how your introduction to the Netherlands started in my home town, Haarlem. I was happy to see shots of the Grote Markt en the railway Station, there. Welkom in ons kouwe kikkerlandje, man. Doe alsof je thuis bent!
as a kid we were in the netherlands every weekend because of camping. and it would be a dream to live there one day. Its actually insane how beautiful netherlands are everywhere and now friendly the people are there
Human being is a social being. Walkability raises social contact. It's all good.
Hope someday I see more of this here in Brazil.
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 But putting everyone alone in a metal box to move around doesn't help either.
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 He said that walkability increases social contact, you answered that the internet reduces contact. I can agree with that, the internet. But having people moving around in cars instead of making walking or cycling an alternative doesn't help social contacts either. Walking and cycling makes a more social envirement, cars create an anti-social envirement, being disconnected in a shiny metal box.
There's a lot that comes with living in a non-car centric society that adds value to life. There's a book called 'The Happiest Kids in the World' co-written by American and English writers who both have Dutch husbands and raise their children in The Netherlands. Their book is about why Unicef has deemed Dutch children the happiest in the world. They talk about cultural differences. Many of those have to do with the area of mobility of children in The Nerherlands. Our kids easily bike 20 minutes to soccer practise on their own or with friends when they're 8. Or walk to the shop when they need or want something when they're 10. This feeling of freedom, autonomy and trust is very important for a child's self worth. Actually, in the last few decades this 'area of mobility' for kids has been shrinking. If you read the Dutch staple of children books 'Jip & Janneke' you'll see that in the fifties kids were send to pick up a loaf of bread from the bakery at the age of 5. And the baker would know their names. The difference between then and now mainly comes from the dangers of car traffic. My hope for the future is that in all urban areas ('binnen de bebouwde kom') cars won't be allowed to drive faster than 20km/h (12.5m/h). My hope is that car ownership will be considered a thing from the past and that we only use cars for longer distances or to get to hard to reach places. In the meantime we store them in hubs at the edge of the city. A big garage where you can easily rent a vehicle, rent a parking place if you want to own a car, or hop on public transport for inner or outer city travel. We can have a freely available taxi service with electric self-driving cars that you can summon with an app on your phone, run and maintained by the municipality. Imagine that. Our beautiful cities without any parked cars! So much more space, green lanes and parks. Our children free to go anywhere. And everything within reach without any hassle.
Found this through your twitter feed … that’s a promising start! I really liked the concept of walkability. Subscribed!
the entire channel is lies
Great videos! I especially loved this one for your history, how you think and how you tested out your thinking and re-evaluated as you went through your different moves.
Your videos are super informative, enriching and so unique. Love them.
I'm from Belgium and what I like about the Netherlands are as follow:
- the transportation. Less cars inside the city because better routes for bikes. More bikes because culturally and also a flat country. Belgium is not flat where I live so I don't appreciate the biking as much. I wish I could though.
Better train service. Modern stations.
- I love the mix in architecture old and new next to each other. Flanders is not bad either.
- people I meet seem more warm. More casual and friendly. (I can be wrong).
- modern. Technology implementation. Wifi in trains for example.
Typically a city I love is Rotterdam. A better, less crowded, less expensive city than the overcrowded and problematic Amsterdam. In Rotterdam for 100-110€ a night you can find very good accommodation dead center. In A'dam forget it. Maybe 130-150€ will only get you the Ibis a few km from the center.
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My taxi driver said the same thing about Rotterdam. I’ll have to check it out next time. Amsterdam hotels are crazy expensive.
Many Dutch cities exude wonderful ambiance. Walking through their city centres brings unbridled joy because they teem with activity, splendid architecture, and possibilities. Suburbs cannot provide the same--ever.
As a Dutch person who has been to almost every major Dutch city, I have that feeling when I am visiting Italy or Spain. Not in the Netherlands, where everything is normal. Yes it work well here, but it;s so boooooring.
If you ever come back to 's Hertogenbosch, you should perhaps use it for a topic about food. Because I don't get why the rest of the world hasn't adapted some of the foods we have or do them very differently. 's Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch) is pretty famous for its "Bossche Bollen". Which is basically chocolate with wipped cream. But also the things we fry like Kroketten and Frikandellen. Why do other nations not do fries like we do? Why did broodje kroket or unox didn't take off elsewhere? And whats up with pancakes outside the Netherlands? A recommendation would be to visit De Pannekoekenbakker (notice the old spelling panne) in something like Heusden. And see how a Boerenpannenkoek led to basically Dutch pizza's (you can put lots of stuff on pancakes, not just syrup). Its delicious but it never even crossed the border, let alone the rest of the world.
Now sure some stuff is known like wafles and even stroopwafels, but there's more and everybody thinks our cuisine isn't that great or original...
I fucking love your channel.
Thx you a lot for sharing all this, it's priceless.
Now i want to buy the Netherland ASVV recommendations for traffic calming and see how i can try to use it in my job of urban planner in France !
I'm sure my boss will disagree, of course without even trying to argu, "no time for questions, your drawing is waited for tomorrow 9:00am, and no foolish stuff !"
And of course, I'm sharing your job at the rest of my team.
I'll look how Patreon work now ;) .
Merci beaucoup !
I just discovered your channel and I am enjoying your content. Including what makes a good city to live in. I live in Melbourne Australia and it has similarities to Toronto. The walkability is key for me. And that was the case when I had the pleasure of living in Chiang Mai Thailand. Yes, you can scoot around on a motorbike but there were lots of cheap options for transport and lots of things within walking distance. All be it in central CM. Not bicycle-friendly however like the Netherlands. I will have to get there one day.
I'd really love to challenge you to make videos that continue to shatter the notion that a city's population size and density are what make them interesting. There must be plenty of smaller cities and towns in Europe and maybe NA (under 50 000) with walkability and a liveliness in their public life.
This would truly bust the myth that, for urbanites, interesting and enjoyable places must also be dense cities.
You do need a certain level of density to support that walkability, a rather higher density than US zoning allows. If everyone is biking then you can get away with lower density, but also it's not walkable any more if many people need a bike to do their errands.
If a supermarket needs 8000 people, then you need a density of 4000 people/km2 to have that many people within a kilometer walk.
The US neighborhoods I've enjoyed tend to be 9000-12,000 people/km2, sometimes 16,000. A suburb zoned for 1/8 acre lots is going to be about 3000 people/km2 or fewer, and that's with minimal room for non-housing.
Most of this has to do with the fact that most of those cities existed since the middle ages, before cars were a thing. So the city centers are car free for the most part, but the living areas around the city centers developed during the age where cars were a thing and are thus more car focussed. It is the lack of planning that makes theses cities walkable, they developed naturally.
@@MrTsjernobyl Planning, or the right zoning, also leads to more modern walkability. European planners put suburbs around train stations and grocery stores; it's more car-friendly than medieval centers, but much more car-optional than US development. Japanese zoning defaults to higher density and more mixed development (closer to a free market in land use than anything in the US), with highly walkable results.
Cities for people not cars.
🌸Pathways
🌳Parks
💗Bike lanes
☺public transport.
Cars- last priority
I spend a lot of time thinking HOW to be in a place that prioritises people over cars..
Id probably drop and leave in a heartbeat and go to Utrecht if I had the chance
Love ur channel
I too come from the Forest City. Currently living in Toronto and enjoying your videos :) Keep up the good work!
You prefer, with criteria, places with more people. I prefer places with not so many. Few people want to be completely alone. I am certainly not one. At the moment I live in central England (southern UK) and there are sometimes so many people around that I could get lonely! I can walk (over a KM) into town and as it gets busier, less and less people even say hello.
For the past two years, I've been trying to put my finger on why I dislike North Burnaby after moving from South Burnaby, why I never want to move back to the Suburbs, and why I hated living in Ontario. Walkability is the common thread. Even though I have a car, I hate that I have to use it.
"Haarlem was not the only small city" and then proceeds to name cities that I consider big, funny how views are different.
I'm from a small city in the middle of the us. I don't own a car... And man! Your videos make me sooo jealous. But I do enjoy them too. They give me real life examples that things can be better
Your channel is so awesome!
I moved to the Netherlands for work three years ago from Philadelphia. I will NEVER live in the US again. This place is awesome. You can walk to the supermarket. You can meet your friends at a cafe. I don't like biking but I can walk everywhere! And we work from home so much nowadays that I have remember to start my car every so often just so the battery doesn't die. It's perfect. I used to live in New York City, but you had to be amazingly wealthy to live in the lovely places that had cafés and neighbourhoods protected from the traffic. Here in the Netherlands, those places are everywhere, in cities big and small, even in villages. Everywhere has places you can walk to and see people. It was devastating during the Corona Quarantine that cafés were closed because that's where everyone met their friends. Now we show a QR code to prove we're vaccinated and see people again. Thanks for this channel.
So you actually have to show a vaccine passport?🤨
@@wat4036 Or recent negative test. But no face masks required. Unlike the US the Netherlands was very open about the (known) side effects of vaccination and took steps/precautions to minimize them. Also it was never claimed here that vaccinations gave 100% protection.
@@Cl0ckcl0ck yea that lie about corona proof was really weird.
We need a video on how to move to the Netherlands.
Love your vlog Man! On point!
In my ideal city people would have more access to art and culture, because it's important think about solution for the social problems. When we go to museums we can learn and this contact will be necessary for think about solutions, creating ideas for a better city.
AND BIG LIBRARIES, WE NEED MORE LIBRARIES
I've been watching this channel a lot, i think i watched every video by now, maybe twice. Although I'm from the Netherlands and i know all this, it does give me the vocabulary to talk to other people about this. So thank you Jason.
Accidentally came to this video long after watching a bunch of your other stuff and the "it's not just bikes" got me good. Was this the origin story??
I wish you were in charge of planning my city... Sherbrooke, QC is so car dependent.
One of the things I like about Trip-Advisor reviews of Hotels is that it gives the area a score of Walkability.
The hotel goes on and on about things it is 'good at' [which they want to tell you about] and then you see that you have to DRIVE to dinner - Nope, I am not booking.
Wow that's a nice thing too say, you are very welcome in our little country!!!
3 years 🎉
I just found your channel via a link from an urbanist meme group on facebook, and I'm so excited to binge every single video. I am a fellow Canadian who has always been drawn to cities, and I spent 6 months living in a small Dutch city for a university exchange term. I absolutely fell in love with the transit system, cycling culture, and general sensibility of infrastructure there. (The only thing that would keep me from moving back is how ridiculously bureaucratic their government systems are!) I hope that watching your content will give me precise words to explain to others why I loved it there, as well as a clearer vision of the kind of urbanism I want to advocate for in Canada.
I think this is one of my favorite videos ever... I really want to live in the Netherlands
Thank you so much for your work, its really inspiring to think about possibilities other than a car dependency.
Having been stuck in the suburbs all lockdown, seeing all this footage of actual cities hurts me deeply. I can't wait to get back to urban living
You can have walkable and vibrant suburbs. We have that in Germany. Even in suburbs
I like how these cities he names are considered 'small' to him... The city I live in has less than 75.000 citizens. Utrecht had 1,3 million, Nijmegen 170k, Groningen 200k... I always considered most of them to be 'decently big' and Utrecht is massively chaotic but fun. Then again, we're a tiny country, our views on 'big cities' differ from the views of the rest of the world, I imagine.
For a Chinese any city below 1M is actually a village
Utrecht has 350.000 actually
@@ellize1998 sorry, I googled it, I had no idea of the actual numbers and just assumed it to be true haha.
What suprises me is that our cities are considered small compared to cities in a lot of other countries, yet the Netherlands is one of the most densely populated countries in the world.
@@mellchiril The province arround the city of Utrecht is also called Utrecht and has arround 1,3mln inhabitants.
I just discovered your channel! I agree with you 100000000%! I'm looking forward too seeing more of your videos, and I'm hoping you also talk about when you lived in Taiwan and Hong Kong and walkability too.
As someone who currently lives in your hometown, I can agree with you about wanting to get out. Born and raised here, but I'm just fed up with...well...pretty much everything about it. Prior to discovering your channel, I'd already been considering a move to either Denmark, Netherlands, or Norway. All seem to have pluses and minuses. Nova Scotia is also in the mix for some reason, but currently a distant 4th. Your channel just reaffirms my desire to move out of here and to somewhere like you are as soon as obligations allow me to.
Good luck getting out!
The people on the "I Want Out" subreddit might be able to provide some advice:
reddit.com/r/iwantout
@@NotJustBikes Thanks! I'll check that out! Right now, familial obligations are keeping me here for an undetermined length of time. But once I'm clear of those, my wife and I have talked about relocation. We both have jobs where working remotely is possible, and perhaps my boss may even want to expand his office to a second, international location! :-)
The audible "Ohhhhhhh" I let out at the very end lmao. Been watching for a while but never understood the name 100%
How Nice to see my hometown Haarlem in this video :)
Yes! I'm a fan! :)
He even went to my hometown Groningen!
Do you have a link to that Walkability index page? I would love to lookup a few cities with that.
Nevermind, Found it. www.walkscore.com/
Idk why UA-cam recommended your videos. But I am so glad it did. I am hooked. I too fell in love with Haarlem; didn't even know about this city, just ended up their because of a last minute travel plan and needed an available place to stay.
I love you're channel so much, I've come to this same opinion but through a very different life experience.
I would love if you would do videos on Alkmaar, Delft, Utrecht, Maastricht, Leiden, Groningen, The Hague, Haarlem, Tilburg, Breda
I would love to hear your thoughts on major Japanese cities like Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto. All three, especially Tokyo, rely heavily on public transit and walking. In Tokyo I felt you could get to a train station within 15 minute walk of where ever you were. In Kyoto many stations had large bike parking lots (i mean, large for bikes right? Still much smaller than for cars) as many people would ride to the station then commute, then ride back home. You'd see people carrying bags all the time as they went shopping on foot. Or many stores have offered delivery services for years for larger items knowing most people took the trains.
You have to visit Luxembourg. Another small city, but with a lot of hills, and a lot of commuters coming in every day to work. They have invested a lot in making the city liveable. 20 years ago, you were dead scared to cycle in Lux, even if you were fit enough to go from the upper to the lower city. Now : we have 2 elevators for pedastrians and cyclers, seperated cycle tracks everywhere in the city, a very affordable public cycle rental system, with e-bikes and on top of that free public transport in the entire country where you can take your bicycle with you. Thank you Mr Bausch :-)
Plz dont stop the content. IT IS EXCELLENT!! From the Central Valley of California
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I've been binging this channel for some time, and I thought the catchy name was due to showing more than just stuff about bicycles.
I've watched pretty much every video on this channel about dutch cities, and I now have the strong desire to move to the netherlands, Because while the UK is nice and all, it's nothing compared to the netherlands, and even before watching this channel, I've always liked the idea of using a bicycle as transport, but never got one because there's never really a good place to ride them here.
Enjoying your channel even as I'm planning a move to London Ontario from Liverpool.
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pronounced as: sert hoogen bos (the G is pronounced as the CH in UtreCHt @2:55)