13 reasons why I love The Netherlands
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- I have now lived in The Netherlands for 3 years and I have come to love this country, and I wanted to share 13 reasons why I love living in The Netherlands.
Let me know if you agree or disagree with me on these points! Or maybe you would like to add something to it?
0:00 - Intro
0:34 - Cities & architecture
1:36 - How close by everything is
02:24 - Geographical location
03:08 - Nature
04:01 - History & Culture
05:56 - Public transport
06:44 - Events & activities
07:11 - Food
08:06 - Restaurants
08:23 - Flowers
09:11 - Water engineering
10:28 - Dutch people
11:54 - Expat friendly
12:07 - Outro & blooper
I hope you enjoy the video - If you do then please leave a like and comment. Remember to also SUBSCRIBE to join me on more adventures✨🍜🥰💖
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🤍 Basic FAQ 🤍:
Where am I from? Finland
Where do I live? In the city of Leiden, in The Netherlands!
How old am I? 27 (when this video was filmed)
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I'm planning on moving to the Netherlands when I retire from my job in 3 1/2 years. Not sure what town I will be moving to, but Maastricht is on the top of my list. What I like about the Netherlands is a car isn't needed anywhere in the country. I bike everywhere and the Netherlands has the best bike infrastructure that I have ever seen.
Maastricht is quite nice these days. I remember it used to have a massive highway running through the city center, but it was moved completely underground a while ago. So now you can walk through the town center safely and barely see any cars.
The nature around Limburg is also beautiful. There is a campsite called "De Bosrand" near the town of Sint-Geertruid, just along the border with Belgium, which I stayed at many times. You can go for many hiking trips and bike rides around that area. Together with Luxembourg this is my favourite vacation destination in the Benelux area. Theres hillls, forests, little towns, farmland, orchards, really a lot of variety. The air is clean and the sunsets are beautiful across the rolling fields.
Be sure to check out the chalk caves in the ENCI-mines, they have fossils of sea creatures and there is an underground christmas market somwhere as well.
Maastricht is more hilly and not best suited for 'easy' cycling. Height differences of 100 to 200 meters are things you have to take into account if you want to go cycling in the area. But Belgium and Germany, Luxembourg and France are close by, so if you want to discover Europe it is a great starting point.
Keep in mind that they have their own language, which is really different from Dutch, so you will almost certainly have to learn 2 languages.
They can also be a bit distant if you don't speak their language...it is certainly not as international as in the West (Rotterdan, The Hague and Amsterdam and surrounding areas)
@@NL2500 I'm originally from San Francisco California. I'm use to riding hills. I just started learning Dutch and from what I understand Dutch isn't much different then German. Pronunciation of words is the biggest difference.
@@michaelnoeldner3279 That is a bit sensitive if you were to bring it up to a Dutch person, but yes, they are close to each other
If you already speak German, that will certainly help you.
Wow, Janica that's a very good promotion video for the Netherlands! I think you covered everything! 👍👍👏👏🥂🥂
Thank you very much!! ☺️❤️
I loved this information packed video! I l’m also 27, wanting to move to the Netherlands.. hopefully sooner rather than later😄
Glad you liked it!! Let’s hope you get to move soon if that’s what you want ☺️
I'm starting to notice a Dutch accent in your English 😂 So cool!
Oh man 🥲
Yeah noticed that too, you have a Dutch accent :D
This is now one of my favorite of all your videos because you set out everything so nicely. It is such a beautiful country. I didn't know we could now catch the train direct to London, that is amazing. Echt prima, erg bedankt.
Thank you so much!! Appreciate it ☺️ and yes, it’s very cool that we can take a train that goes straight to London 🤩
I love the Netherlands 🇷🇺 in so many reasons, one thing is, it's not a paradise.
See you soonest my dream home where I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.
It is really true what you say Janica people like and enjoy living life and are friendly!! same thing in Belgium and I like Netherlands and Belgium because are the hearth of Europe Paris, Frankfurt, London, Milan etc etc are close!! Nice video thanks!!
Glad to hear you feel the same way & that you enjoyed the video 🤗❤️
Janica, thank you for the intimate look at the Netherlands. You're a great ambassador for both the Netherlands and your native Finland. I'm looking forward to checking out more of your videos.
I've been waiting 6 weeks for the final approval to start a new job there based in Alkmaar. I'm an American expat who has lived abroad for 24 years, currently in Thailand, but previously in China, the Middle East, and Germany. I'm very much looking forward to spending g the next couple of years in the Netherlands and neighboring areas of Europe after so long in Asia.
Thank you for your lovely comment! 😊 That sounds so exciting, Alkmaar is such a beautiful city - i’m sure you’ll love it! Although wont be as warm as Thailand of course 😉
Mooie reportage... Very nice representation of the Netherlands! Glad you love it here :)
Thank you very much! ☺️
I agree with everything you say, especially number 13. I'm an expat too, from the UK, but now I am Dutch. But never forget Suomi has the greatest composer........
Glad to hear that!! Sibelius is great indeed 🥰
You have the exact same English accent as the Dutch people. So funny.
I didn't like it before, but it is starting to grow on me.
Thank you for your positive approach to my country.
It's my pleasure 🥰🫶🏻
Love your videos. I just flew in yesterday for ten days. So Thanks for your tips. ❤
Thank you ❤️ have a great time! 🤩
Beautifully done !
Thank you! ☺️
You did a fantastic job about the Netherlands ( Holland ) that 's were i came from fifty four years a go. you hit the nail on the head. I am from ( den Haag ) and you hit everything on the head. I am proud to be a Dutch - Canadian..
Thank you! 😊
Your voice is really calming💕
Thank you! ❤️
Thank you, Janica , for such a delightful presentation.
Glad you enjoyed it! ☺️
Beautiful video🌹🌹🌹 I really enjoyed your explanation about holland👌🏻 I'm more at ease now about going bek after so many years. Thank you so much🤗😊
Glad to hear you enjoyed it, thank you! Good luck with your return to The Netherlands 😊❤️
Lovely video, thanks for sharing with all of us! I agree mostly, it's a great place (I come from Spain and now in Holland for 10 years)
Thank you! Glad to hear that ☺️
beautiful CREATIVE video❤❤ thank you
Thank you! 🥰
Wow you made me love Netherlands and I will be visiting sooon
Have a fun time visiting NL 😁✨
Nice video, I love your positive vibe. And your accent in English sounds almost the same as when Dutch people speak English. 😊
Thank you! ☺️❤️ haha yes, seems like i’ve picked up an accent here…
I am dutch myself , though born in Australia as my parents where a while there as dutch immigrants. They did return to the netherlands having chosen not to become "australiens" but simply to stay what and whom they were , namely dutch people in heart and soul. From all dutch that went also to australia, like they went also in number to Canada and the USA , in those days , End fifties , beginning sixties As the dutch government could not cope with the explosive birthrates of the time 5 tilm10 years after WWII, whereas suddenly families emerged with 10, 13 children or more with the country , hardly restored from the war. The country its economy not able to bear this temporal birthrate explosion in those days , as it still was quite heavily fuelled with Marshall Help from the USA. It could hardly carry nor support the burden of so many extra mouth to be properly fed and nurtured. The Entire national dutch economy of its days , its industry then even the more in need of to be built up to a solid construction that worked and maintained working . Subsidial rewards were offered by the dutch government financially , when people leaving the Netherlands permanently , with their 8,10,or 13 children Amongy the ordinary impoverished civil population , called " de oprotprämie " but much welcomed despite its snares and shortcomings . Especially when the people had to work so hard , making long days , earning very little to nowadays standards . Which did not create much hope , on a better , more attractive life and due future. , neither offering much joy or fullfilment , living their lives that then contained too much grey, in all day life patterns. What a different World it was ! , in those days. The Netherlands were in many aspects about the exact opposite from what it is nowadays. From every ten dutch who went to Australia 7 returned , within 10 years. I myself now being now almost 61 years of age ,live in Switzerland , as my wife is a swiss lady. I would like very much to return which is difficult as I live here now already 25 years , and both my parents died in the Netherlands . My youngest daughter has not finished her proffessions education. Has No job , no income no social security .Being 20 now.
Kiitos Janica! I love the way you are really interested in the Netherlands. Not only in the usual things like Amsterdam and bicycles, but also in our history, culture and water management. Well done!
The part of the country I love most are the Islands and the Waddensea. Terschelling is lovely!
BTW: Please tell me what I really have to visit in Finland, outside Helsinki.
Happy to hear that!! I’ve only visited Texel, definietly need to visit some more of the islands as well. 😊 And for Finland some places i’d recommend visiting; Naantali, Porvoo, Turku, The Turku archipelago area, Kalajoki, Saimaa lake, stay over at a finnish cottage & visit some of our beautiful nationalparks like; Koli, Repovesi, Helvetinjärvi etc! If you have the budget for it - then Lapland ☺️
When the windmill has a blue flag than the windmill is open. In the war they have difference sign to warning the people
Liked the footage of Delft, I just visited the Antiquities museum and the church you showed with my girlfriend last year. Good tip for a nice cultural date :)
Sounds lovely! 💕
You're privileged you live in Leiden. I am from the south-west of the NL and like daytrips to cities like Leiden and Utrecht. Great and well recorded promo for our country, that - not to forget to mention - struggles with a shortage of houses and high prices for real estate. By the way, by your looks and your English accent you could be Dutch. )))
Thank you! Yes i’m very lucky to get to live in Leiden ☺️ of course there are negative things about this country too, but wanted this video to be about the positives 😄
I like your comment. I like people like you
I like your comment. I like people like you
Hi. I'm going to Rotterdam in 2 weeks for a few days. 😀 I found your channel on YTB. Thanks to you, I know what I will be visiting! 🥰And now I know how to get around the city. 😍I'll stay here for a long time.🌹 You are very cute and likeable.🌷PS: You have beautiful eyes.⭐
Thank you very much!! ☺️❤️ I hope you will have an amazing time in Rotterdam 👍🏼
Welcome to the Netherlands from this new Subscriber! Love the way your English pronunciation has a Dutch accent mixed with a bit of American 'rolling Rrrss'. ;)
Thank you for subscribing! ❤️ Hahha, yeah my accent has become a odd mix, before moving to the netherlands everyone said I had an american accent 😂
Same here! I always get asked by Brits Aussies Americans aswell, "Where are you from in the States?" But i'm born and raised here in the Netherlands. Hahaha @@JanicasJourneys
Thank you for friendly interesting lection 😊
Glad you liked it!
Am planning to visit Netherland soon for 21 days
Have fuuun!!
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But the housing shortage is acute and prices are high (for housing and cost of living). You should also mention that.
In this video I wanted to focus on the positives 😊
Thank you
And within 12 minutes or so you could be on the beach of the village Katwijk aan Zee, my place! And I love Leiden just as much as you do, and go there quite often.
That’s true!! Visited Katwijk aan zee many time, such a lovely beach 🥰
You make my country to love again . ;-)
Super happy to hear that ❤️
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Hi Jannica, a great promo, even more since you only have covered the "Randstad" or the conglomerate of big cities in the mid-Southwest. I'm from Groningen, the most Northern university city. Under students regarded the best next to be. There is tons more to this ini-mini country 👈👆👉👇
Thank you!! And i’ve actually seen quite a lot of the country, not just Randstad - also Groningen for example 😄🙌🏼
Nice video, as a carpenter i worked several times in Leiden ( at the WE shop and some appertments above shops) and it is a very beautifal city but although the people there talk too dignified that even a dog would not listen to its owner lol ;p
Greetings from a way more beautifal city Breda :)
Thanks! Hahaha! Breda is very beautiful too, i’m still team Leiden tho 😉❤️
@@JanicasJourneys 🤗
🌺🌺🌺😀❤thank you for video
You are so welcome!
Yes windmill are sometimes for free.
Most windmills are not working anymore except on some day a week. Because the people who are running it are volunteers.
And most other windmills are very cheap to visit (even cheaper if you are visiting in a group). Two or 3 euro' mostly P.P.. But than you have an guide too, that explains everything about the windmill.
The more you go to the inland of the Netherlands, the cheaper it often is. Because there are the most volunteers that just are proud to tell you their knowledge!
But Janica... for the greatest winter food, ( I think) you have to the province of Groningen, although in most of Drenthe, the east of Overijsel and Gelderland... there are the most recipies for cale and Snert. Or Stampot at it self. Okay do not try it if you are vegatarian !
You love the Netherlands; I love Nightwish!!! 😁
Nightwish rules too 😎👊🏻
I love Netherlands ❤
Me too ❤️
Have you been to Schiedam yet? The windmills there are the highest in the world. You can go up. 😊
I have, but didn’t visit the inside of the windmills.. maybe I will someday in the furure & film a video about it ☺️ thanks for the idea!
Very intelligent city-organize
I agree! 😊
I live since 2018 in The Netherlands (in Maastricht) and yes so many destinations nearby in less than a 30 min drive, great cities like Liege, Aachen and nature park Ardennes, 60 minutes Dusseldorf, Cologne, Brussels, Namur, Eifel nature park. Public Transport is not good, I think..., but the rest I agree.
In Maastricht it’s cool how u have so many different places nearby that are in other different countries! 🤩
@@JanicasJourneys Yes, I also realized I do my weekly "big" groceries in three different countries. I learned this from the locals they know all the good chains and places. For the most I prefer German supermarkets, for some things I shop in Belgium.
Well done! A great positive report!! They should make you an Ambassador for the Netherlands! I am gone from there more than 40 years and still enjoy going back a few times a year to taste the food and people! Now how good is your Dutch? It should be easy for a Finn! Keep reporting and Enjoying! And don’t forget to mention Femke Bol in your next video!! Then you are really “nearly” Dutch!!
Haha aww!! Thank you - I wish they would 😄❤️ My Dutch is ok.. but still a work in progress for sure 😉
Dutch and Finnish are totally unrelated languages, so it shouldn't be easy 😅😂
So many interesting in Netherland..
In the Netherlands, eat Indonesian or Vietnamese food, we have the best indo food in Europe.
Vietnamese yes , but Indonesian? 👎 It's a Muslim country👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎
Ik kom uit Oegstgeest. Leuke video. I’m from Oegstgeest Nice video. Village next to Leiden.
Dank je wel! 😊
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Leiden on a sunny day: Sailing through the canals in a sloop.
Moor at a terrace, order a Belgian white beer. Happiness.
Sounds like the perfect day 🥰
It's funny how your accent in this video sounded quite 'Dutch' to my Dutch ears. So, do Finnish accents in English resemble Dutch accents in English or is it because of you having lived here for quite some time already?
Anyway, glad you enjoy our little (southern, perhaps, from a Finnish perspective?) European country :)
The Finnish accent is not similar, and I never actually had a Finnish accent, but somehow i’ve managed to ”catch” one in The Netherlands 😅😂 Thank you! And yes, for me it’s Southern 😆👍🏼
It always amazes me why expats move to the western part of The Netherlands. Rents are sky-high and then you still live in a small pigeonhole. Finally, an expat who knows how to pronounce Gouda correctly! Refreshing.
I must be in the Netherlands 🇷🇺 it's just matter of time.
Hi thanks for this video. I am planning to apply for a job in The Netherlands. Hopefully i could find any job offer.
Im currently here in Taiwan. I am looking for my next job.
Good luck on your job finding journey! ☺️🙌🏼
Thanks❤️
Netherland is a beautiful country and i think you lived in there because your boyfriend is from there am i right from gazipur bangladesh
Yes that’s correct! 😄
It's beautiful if you love people. The population density is really high. Too high for some.
That’s true! It was a bit of a culture shock for me too after coming from Finland with a much smaller population 😄
I love the Netherlands for many reasons too but I also dislike it for other reasons :)
But it's excactly the other reasons why I
as an individual fell in love with The Netherlands as a whole.😅
Every place has its ups and downs ofc 😊
Well, I guess you covered the Netherlands quite well.
Oh, one question, it's understandable you did this video in English, but how well did you master the Dutch language? It's not exactly an easy language to learn after all.
I know the basics and how to get along, but would def need to take a part of some proper language course at some point 😄
@@JanicasJourneys We all gotta start somewhere, right. Ik wens je veel succes.
Hello,I really enjoyed your video…would need some help and advice with information on jobs available…I’m from India 🇮🇳 would love an opportunity if possible to explore Netherlands 🇳🇱..thank you
Thank you! Unfortunately I don’t really know much about that, but good luck 😊
is that Rapenburg Leiden?
Yes! 😊
i already thought it looked familiar.@@JanicasJourneys
OMG..... now all of those Vikings from the north will come here. We better prepare !
People from Finland are not vikings, Vikings were from Sweden , Norway, Denmark , and north Germany which is now Schleswig Holstein.
If only we still had wild flowers but our farmers have wiped them out with Round-Up, together with our butterflies and bees, and meadow birds.. Money money money...
Hahah this is such onzin , come to the Hei I can show the most beautiful flowers. They just aren’t tulips, which we grow manly in turkey/Africa
It looks crowded. Where are the homes with back yards where people can relax in their own yard, admire nature. I live in the USA with 14 trees in my back yard, and an occasional deer or fox. We also barbecue in our yard.
And you live in the middle of a major city?
u starting to have an dutch accent..
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Youre English has a bit of a Dutch accent 😁
dat is Nederlandse GEZELLIGHEID.
God created the earth
And the Dutch created the Nederland.
It's a nice country . but it needs a roof..
looking at the stars will become much harder then...
A Dutch woman, who studied/worked/lived a few years in Finland and after that she is for 3 years back calls herself an Expat pretending she is not Dutch? Her accent of the English language says it all. A very heavy Dutch accent.
I swear i’m Finnish 😆 I seem to have a habit of picking up accents tho, the same thing happened when I lived in Australia for a year 😁
Dutch woman aint that beautifal dude ;p
@@JanicasJourneys Then in 3 years time you have been integrated that good in Dutch society that you even make the same regular grammatical mistakes in English as Dutch people do? So I tend not to believe you.
@@peterstringa3350 WOW.. I actually thought you were joking at first 🤣 well, not sure what I can tell you to make you believe me 😅 I guess i’ve even managed to trick the Finnish government then too, to give me a passport and birth certificate. 😆 This is going down as one of funniest comments i’ve ever reiceived 😂🙌🏼
@@peterstringa3350snap out of it dude.
I HATE the word expat. Why not call yourself an immigrant?
Expats and immigrants are not the same. While expats live temporarily, or for an unknown period of time in a foreign country, immigrants are those who live permanently in a foreign country. The majority of young digital nomads these days are not and will never be immigrants, because they stay for just a few months to a year in a place, with no plan of making the move there permanent.
I don't understand why it's expat for white people and migrants for others - even if they come here for work.
You're a migrant. The division between expat and migrant is causing bad blood in the social debate about migration by people of colour. Even canal pride had an 'expat' boat with 99% white people and a couple of people of colour migrant boats themed after their region of origin - Africa, Asia. It is absolutely ridiculous.
Another thing that is insane is how high-paid job migrants get 30% of their income tax free for the first couple of years, but those that are hired for back-breaking work in the lower paid jobs - agriculture, deliveries etc - don't get this same advantage, despite doing equally essential jobs where there is a shortage of workers.
The reason is that the Dutch industry really NEEDS knowledge workers, because of the labour shortages. If these highly educated and skilled people wouldn't be here maybe these companies would need to move to other countries. Thereby also losing the tax revernue and the jobs for low skilled workers. So it is in the interest of everybody that knowledge workers come here. That is also why the tax brakes are given..
@@rientsdijkstra4266Then why not the same tax break for the equally important lower-wage workers that come here because of labour shortages? Why ONLY the 'knowledge' workers? Who also constitute for the majority of the family-reunion licenses, and those family members are not productive. They are school-age kids profiting from both the tax break for their working parent and the already free education paid for by taxpayers.
And why the double-speak - expats for skilled, predominantly white immigrants, and 'migrant' or 'migrant worker' or 'guest laborour' for the lower wage and not lily-white people?
I agree with your objection towards the use of the word "expat"@@weerwolfproductions It's basically miss-used to sugarcoat immigrant workers. You are only an expat if your company from the country you originate from, temporary assigns you to a job in another country. Expat refers to your labor agreement. Very often your expat contract will be translated into a local labor contract if you decide to stay in that country, as expat contracts are usually way too expensive.
I think expat basically means "temporary worker", sent overseas by a company to work with the same company but in another country. Migrant is more for people who intend to stay in the country. They, mostly, don't have an academic background and work menial jobs. Then there are assylum seekers and refugees. It seems that everybody in the Middle-East, Asia and Africa wants to kill other people.
Ben Jij niet Nederlands? Je klinkt zo nederlands
Nope - i’m from Finland
Grandfather sister died in a windmill
She died between the crock’s
So it’s not place to play 😂
Yeah we hve ugly towns too, just go see Amsterdam or Lelystad...dumps :(
Funny you are saying this because Amsterdam gets the most lovers/tourists namely 23 Million a year… they are all wrong 😂 I guess you are from R.
But, NL is not a paradise....
You have a remarkably (Dutch) English accent, you don't sound Finish at all. I'd almost think you made up a backstory how you're from another country because that gives you more views.. hhmmmmmmmmm....
I would never be bothered to go through the effort of faking my own nationality, just for the possibility of getting more views 🥲
Woke people will definitely love netherlands
Conservative, non-woke people like myself, love The Netherlands too!
I hate the cabal but love my country also we have the bilderbergclan here .