We Visit the UGLIEST City in The Netherlands

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  • @mees6642
    @mees6642 9 місяців тому +11

    It's really a battle between Lelystad and Almere for this title, strong competition. You guys should definitely check out Charleroi, Belgium as well, it was named the ugliest city in Europe; makes for a juicy video title.. As a palate cleanser you could then visit Dinant (not too far from Charleroi), one of the prettiest and most picturesque cities out there!

  • @wouterruifrok7642
    @wouterruifrok7642 2 місяці тому +2

    You didnt show us a lot of Lelystad, most of the video is about a shoppingmall and a fakeboat. I saw the agoraheatre, wich I like. And 3 seconds of a tiny part of the shoppingcentre. Its not a way to judge a city. Lelystad is also special for the way they seperated houses, traffic, mainroads and a tremendous amount of green (trees, water, space). Its not ugly at all, but just made for more people then eventually live there so hard to maintain.

  • @YouCreateReality33
    @YouCreateReality33 9 місяців тому +10

    I'm from Lelystad, and that water is not the sea, it are all fresh water lakes. It used to be sea, but not anymore.

    • @nateandkatrinadotheworld
      @nateandkatrinadotheworld  9 місяців тому

      Thanks for the info!

    • @mahannaidu5228
      @mahannaidu5228 5 місяців тому +1

      No matter if a city is perceived to be ugly as long as it is clean and tidy ,it appears to be clean and good.

  • @henkvisscher4379
    @henkvisscher4379 9 місяців тому +8

    Read: Peter Fitzsimon: Batavia Shiprwreck. Murder. Greed. Rape. Lust. Survival. Courage. Honour. Dishonour. Bravery. The story of the ship BATAVIA, wrecked off the WA coast in 1629, is arguably the greatest tale in Australias history.

    • @nateandkatrinadotheworld
      @nateandkatrinadotheworld  9 місяців тому

      We read a little about it while at Batavialand but the book sounds interesting! Thanks for the tip!

  • @Jan.Folkersma
    @Jan.Folkersma 9 місяців тому +2

    As ugly as a city like Lelystad may be (de gustibus non est disputandem), as soon as Katrina comes to visit, it turns into Paris by night, New York in the spring. Lelystad was lucky that the weather was nice when you were there. Imagine it in rain and storm. I read somewhere that people in Lelystad (and Almere) are on average happier than people in Amsterdam. And that's not only because of the costs of living. Oh well: You hit the 5000 subscribers! Congratulations, well deserved. We couldn't have done it without you. Only 5000 more and we can watch you guys go skinnydipping in Het IJ. Whoop whoop!

    • @nateandkatrinadotheworld
      @nateandkatrinadotheworld  9 місяців тому +1

      We actually had that thought that if it had been the usually gray and rainy Dutch weather, we probably would have had different thoughts about the city not being ugly. Thanks for being one of those 5K subs! We appreciate it!

  • @nielsdebakker3283
    @nielsdebakker3283 2 місяці тому +1

    Tosti without additional sauce(s), I agree, a good tosti does not need sauce.
    It looks like the "exposed" statue is doing something that should not be exposed, or is that just me.

  • @Tom-Lahaye
    @Tom-Lahaye 9 місяців тому +3

    I think that most Dutch people find a city ugly when it doesn't have real history. This goes for relatively young cities like Zoetermeer, Hoogeveen, Almere and Lelystad, the things which look old here are replicas like Batavia stad which was only built 23 years ago.
    But this is also true for cities were the old city centres were heavily damaged or destroyed by the bombings in WW2 (Rotterdam, Heerlen), and remodelling by some brilliant urban planners in the 1960s who wanted to model these cities to the then popular modernist look with wide streets, vast open spaces and lots of ugly buildings, also the car had to have all the space possible during this era.

    • @nateandkatrinadotheworld
      @nateandkatrinadotheworld  9 місяців тому +2

      Spot on. People want the historical city centers maybe to feel more of a connection to the culture of the city/country. But we were able to find some beauty in this young city. Hopefully others do, too! Thanks for watching!

    • @lws7394
      @lws7394 5 місяців тому

      @@nateandkatrinadotheworld There are several reasons why Lelystad is not popular.
      One is that is difficult to bring 'soul' to a new built place. You may have done all the math right, but still something is missing.
      Second when Lelystad was founded in 1967, it took 20 years to open the railway link to Amsterdam. (A problem that also hampered the Bijlmer/Amsterdam SouthEast 'Corbusier' burrough in the 1970s, with the metro taking 10 years to open.) There was only one road to the south. And the windswept 'polder' countryside had no real trees. It was almost bare ... And when Almere (closer to Amsterdam) was founded in 1976 , that city would be choice A or B and Lelystad choice C or D !
      This made that mostly lower class people moved there for space and cheap rent. But those (mostly Amsterdam) people actually longed for Amsterdam still. People from other places might want to live in or closer to Amsterdam, but 'settled' for Lelystad. There is no Uni/college with young people ... This all makes that people will go to Amsterdam for a lot of stuff. Shopping, clubbing, concerts etc .. Lelystad feels like the 'last stop on the line' ..
      And finally, related to mentioned above ' : The people have no belonging to the city or the region! They are wannabee/ 'would be' Amsterdammers.
      To the east , near the German border, there is also an 'unatractive' town called Emmen.
      A post-war industrial growth town. With post-industrial unemployment. By the 'index' figures scores high as the most unatractive town in NL : Not a historic towncentre, little Culture provisions, mediocre employment, 'far away' from 'other places' (from a Dutch 'Randstad' perspective 😜 ).
      But the inhabitants have a relation with their town and region and are, in general, quite happy with their town. They feel at home, have a belonging. The Emmen people appreciate the social relations, appreciate the space and nature ( the latter which Lelystad also has !) . They don't go to the 'big city' every saturday ...
      Emmen people like their provincial home town and score fairly high on 'happy people/community' (unlike most from Lelystad).

  • @nibiruresearch
    @nibiruresearch 5 місяців тому +2

    When I was born more than 70 years ago, Lelystad did not yet exist. So unlike many other Dutch cities it is very new and created on a blank sheet of paper.

  • @MrOoofah
    @MrOoofah 9 місяців тому +1

    @6:05- is that a descendant of Zwarte Piet??? 😵‍💫
    I’m still hoping you folks do a Den Haag/Madurodam episode.
    It could be quite interesting.

    • @nateandkatrinadotheworld
      @nateandkatrinadotheworld  9 місяців тому

      Hahaha, it could be! We just went to Den Haag so it's probably not going to be in any upcoming videos any time soon, but never say never! Thanks for watching!

  • @giselavaleazar8768
    @giselavaleazar8768 9 місяців тому +1

    Exposure is known locally as "The pooping man / Man, taking a crap". :)

  • @aislingbooks
    @aislingbooks 9 місяців тому +1

    On the freeway? Hahaha. I've lived 24 years in the NL and you guys go to places I've never been. Lelystad looks interesting. Thanks much

    • @nateandkatrinadotheworld
      @nateandkatrinadotheworld  9 місяців тому

      Thanks for watching! We are trying to prove that we know about cities other than Amsterdam. 😜

  • @peterjanssen2105
    @peterjanssen2105 9 місяців тому +2

    Nice video again, I thought the boats were beautiful and interesting

    • @nateandkatrinadotheworld
      @nateandkatrinadotheworld  9 місяців тому

      Thank you for watching. The boat was definitely the highlight of our trip out to Lelystad!

  • @letheas6175
    @letheas6175 3 місяці тому +1

    I love this city! THe nature all around at as like a shield around it, is amaaazing. Still one of my favourite nature areas in NL because it is so different and unique. Oh and the animal park Natuurpark is also nice

    • @letheas6175
      @letheas6175 3 місяці тому

      Also the entrance to National park Nieuw Land's Oostvaardersplassen is in lelystad. You should visit it it's great and unique! Like a mini-savannah/african plains

    • @nateandkatrinadotheworld
      @nateandkatrinadotheworld  2 місяці тому

      We will have to check that out. Thanks for watching!

    • @letheas6175
      @letheas6175 2 місяці тому

      @@nateandkatrinadotheworld Cool! And when you do don't forget the bisons/otters/other animals at the Natuurpark (and the Aviodrome museum) next to it:) gl with that if you ever do so, love your videos, watched them all in the last 2 days haha

    • @nateandkatrinadotheworld
      @nateandkatrinadotheworld  2 місяці тому

      @letheas6175 Wow!! Thanks for watching - that’s commitment! 😂

  • @tanapanian
    @tanapanian 9 місяців тому

    I've lived in this city for years and the ugly for me is more that there used to(according to my partner) be a lot of "troubled youths" and we have had situations here while i have been living here of people poorly treating my partner. i've lived in detroit, in sections of new jersey, and stayed months at a time in richmond va and here has been the most noise polluted at any given hour. unless the airport is ever opened the city is jst getting a bit more empty in the centrum so i guess that could make people think it is ugly?

  • @chrisk5651
    @chrisk5651 5 місяців тому

    Orange is also the name of the ruling House of the Dutch royal family (the name comes from a city that is now in France and also the last third of the flag of Ireland is for the Protestants who supported William of Orange who was king of England and the Netherlands - also the flag of New York City also has an orange stripe because it was New Amsterdam before it became New York City!).

  • @giselavaleazar8768
    @giselavaleazar8768 9 місяців тому +1

    Lelystad is not bad at all, unless you are young. The town center is quite boring. It has a cinema and a few pubs. Most nice shops closed a long time ago. I guess to much competition from Batavia outlet/coast area which has a decentralizing effect. Like McD is there, but not in town center. Hugh mistake.
    Lelystad needs more inhabitants, like originally was planned before all focus shifted to Almere. Fortunately, a large city expansion is in the making.

    • @nateandkatrinadotheworld
      @nateandkatrinadotheworld  9 місяців тому

      You're probably right. It definitely seems like it wouldn't be the best place for people in their 20s (which we definitely are NOT). Thanks for watching!

  • @Pagajewsky
    @Pagajewsky 6 місяців тому +1

    In my opinion Rotterdam an Amsterdam is most dirty and ugly in some part of the city, just look little bit out of Main Street and see it for your own self. I was been in most of biggest cities in Netherlands past couple years, and I can say they are most rotten cities afte all in my opinion.

  • @DenUitvreter
    @DenUitvreter 9 місяців тому +1

    Almere has a similar history, but is slightly younger and went more adventurous and ambitious with architecture and urban planning I believe. Lelystad also suffered from the emergence of Almere. I don't know either of them very well, but I guess Almere has more character.

    • @giselavaleazar8768
      @giselavaleazar8768 9 місяців тому +2

      Lelystad was really rapidly expanding (groeikern) until policy shifted all in favour of Almere, which is closer to Amsterdam. The commute is shorter. (Hardly any jobs in Flevoland at the time and combined with 80s recession.)

    • @nateandkatrinadotheworld
      @nateandkatrinadotheworld  9 місяців тому

      We've been to Almere and wanted to check out Lelystad because of this reputation. They're pretty similar. Thanks for watching!

  • @artogden7681
    @artogden7681 9 місяців тому +2

    Again, my wife loves your purse. The metal artwork looks like a guy going to the bathroom. Number 2.

    • @nateandkatrinadotheworld
      @nateandkatrinadotheworld  9 місяців тому

      Haha, it's another Uniqlo bag - the fall corduroy edition. They're the best. And yes, the art has the nickname 'de poepende man' which you can probably guess the translation of that...

  • @valentijntempels3416
    @valentijntempels3416 9 місяців тому +5

    I always thought that Almere was the ugliest! (Not my opinion by the way)😉
    You should visit Heerlen or Delfzijl. Those are really ugly cities!

    • @Tom-Lahaye
      @Tom-Lahaye 9 місяців тому +2

      Hoogeveen is a real contender too! Heerlen is still nice compared to this place.

    • @nateandkatrinadotheworld
      @nateandkatrinadotheworld  9 місяців тому +1

      We will have to add these to our list! Thanks for watching!

    • @roodborstkalf9664
      @roodborstkalf9664 6 місяців тому

      In the 1980's cities were much uglier than they are now. Thanks to ECB the only safe investment the last decades was real estate. In the grand scheme of things this is very bad, but on a smaller scale it's responsible for the beautification of nearly all cities in the Netherlands, which of course is good. By the way central square of Heerlen around the church is quite nice, and even parts of Delfzijl look good nowadays. Not much ugliness left.

    • @rikalmekinders1916
      @rikalmekinders1916 4 місяці тому

      Delfzijl is snoezig!

    • @tammo100
      @tammo100 2 місяці тому

      I have lived in Delfzijl and it's not really pretty but also not that bad anymore. It has improved.

  • @K55365
    @K55365 9 місяців тому +10

    Zoetermeer is a strong contender as well 😂

    • @nateandkatrinadotheworld
      @nateandkatrinadotheworld  9 місяців тому

      Haha, we'll have to check it out... or maybe not... ?

    • @Pagajewsky
      @Pagajewsky 6 місяців тому

      Zoetermeer is not that bad, I mean City center looks fine, but I got couple bad interactions with Marocans and Africans there, they are rough.

  • @expatfamilylive9041
    @expatfamilylive9041 9 місяців тому +1

    Well, we live in Almere, and we went to Lelystad for shopping. And we wouldn't like to live there...

  • @pietergreveling
    @pietergreveling 9 місяців тому

    I'm not a big fan of ketchup, because i'm from the south (Brabant) and here we usually use Curry (spiced ketchup) on our fries and hot snacks and maybe you could try it with a Tosti, because that's how i always eat them! 😋👍🏻
    And i consider my own home town Eindhoven as the ugliest big city in the Netherlands, because it wasn't as severely bombed as Rotterdam in WW2 and it wasn't newly created like Lelystad, but purposely demolished sinds the 60's! 😪✌🏼

  • @NunTheLass
    @NunTheLass 5 місяців тому

    It just takes time for new places to develop their own character. Sometimes they get it wrong and then they can just try again when they get a few decades out of whatever it is they built. It took Rotterdam's center a bunch of missteps to finally be as nice as it is today.

  • @astridsandifort-joffer9792
    @astridsandifort-joffer9792 9 місяців тому +1

    Blij dat ik er woon, rustig en groen. Centrum kon leuker, maar genoeg lekkere restaurants. Kroegentocht wordt moeilijker. Maar dat hoeft voor mij ook niet. Ik woon nog geen 5 minuten fietsen van Bataviastad, en kom er misschien 2 à 3 keer per jaar.

    • @nateandkatrinadotheworld
      @nateandkatrinadotheworld  9 місяців тому

      It’s all about perspective, right? We thought it was a very nice city! Thanks for watching!

  • @Alby_Torino
    @Alby_Torino 8 місяців тому

    I don't think it's ugly at all. Maybe it's something cultural, like in Japanese where "chigau" means both "different" and "wrong". In that culture to be different and not conformed is something unusual and basically wrong.

  • @K55365
    @K55365 9 місяців тому +3

    I think Almere was elected the ugliest city in the Netherlands most recently.

  • @tombrand1478
    @tombrand1478 9 місяців тому +3

    Go to the neighbourhoods. You went only to the touristic places and the Center Side

    • @giselavaleazar8768
      @giselavaleazar8768 9 місяців тому +1

      Neighbourhoods are mostly fine. Nothing special. Problem is the city center I think. People rather go in the weekend to Amsterdam, Almere, Zwolle, Harderwijk or Dronten even.

    • @nateandkatrinadotheworld
      @nateandkatrinadotheworld  9 місяців тому +1

      We drove through some of the neighborhoods but didn't want to wander into them and they definitely had some interesting architecture!

    • @nateandkatrinadotheworld
      @nateandkatrinadotheworld  9 місяців тому +1

      It definitely seems quieter than those cities that you mentioned. Thanks for watching!

  • @janmango4692
    @janmango4692 9 місяців тому +3

    The last indigenous lion in the Netherlands was killed near Appingedam in 1132. Besides this fact, Appingedam is a great place to visit.

  • @buddy1155
    @buddy1155 9 місяців тому +4

    Lelystad is definitely the ugliest city in the Netherlands.

  • @femkeklijn4802
    @femkeklijn4802 3 місяці тому

    Go to ijmuiden i think that tata steel makes it realy ugly.

  • @koffiewolf
    @koffiewolf 9 місяців тому +4

    Maybe Drachten is the most ugliest. People in Friesland have this joke ''how did Drachten got his name? Because Frysians can not spell Gedrocht.''
    It used to be a manifacture city for Phillips and there private railroads lay abandoned across the province around 1990-2000 it went in decay because phillips slowly outsourced the everything so its like a small detroit story but dutch, dutchtroit. It looks better now but growing up in the 2000 i remmember it was kinda normal that abandoned buildings were set on fire and stuff.
    Also the other citys of the provinces basically joke around that Drachten is not a legit city because they never got city rights in medival days. so its just a town trying to act big.

    • @berthamoen4488
      @berthamoen4488 9 місяців тому

      Mann, you're uninformed! Philips hasn't pulled out of Drachten because the factory in Drachten is the, or one of, the most profitable it has in the world?

    • @janmango4692
      @janmango4692 9 місяців тому

      Drachten is best wel een mooie plaats! Alleen die lui die er wone

    • @nateandkatrinadotheworld
      @nateandkatrinadotheworld  9 місяців тому

      Thanks for the info and for watching!

  • @adventuresbyrust
    @adventuresbyrust 9 місяців тому +1

    Is it the "weird" art? I don't get it either.

    • @nateandkatrinadotheworld
      @nateandkatrinadotheworld  9 місяців тому

      We aren’t sure. It’s just a very “new” city in comparison to other places throughout The Netherlands.

  • @ronaldvanhemiksem3544
    @ronaldvanhemiksem3544 2 місяці тому

    That's why it's often called Lelykstad.

  • @christianlebracq1956
    @christianlebracq1956 2 місяці тому

    Lived and worked in Lelystad for 15 years, and still think it is a unique place to live in the Netherlands. The Nature reserve and the water surrounding it is stunning 😎

  • @daluzsoares
    @daluzsoares 9 місяців тому

    I like Katrina, that's all I can say about it, I don't know how you as Americans take that, positive or negative?

  • @williammccoy7127
    @williammccoy7127 6 місяців тому

    It is also one the newest the city has no soul . No old buildings no nothing historical

  • @BangmwaboSam
    @BangmwaboSam 9 місяців тому +1

    ❤❤❤

  • @aardbei07
    @aardbei07 9 місяців тому +4

    most dutchies eat tosti`s whith CURRY SAUCE not ketchup 😏😏

    • @nateandkatrinadotheworld
      @nateandkatrinadotheworld  9 місяців тому

      We've heard that but we've been offered ketchup, specifically, the last few times while ordering tostis at a restaurant. To each their own!

  • @stephenvanwijk9669
    @stephenvanwijk9669 8 місяців тому

    Okay Usie. You’re welcome.

  • @MarceldeJong
    @MarceldeJong 9 місяців тому +1

    “North of Amsterdam”, but then clearly shows you to be east of Amsterdam. Please, learn about your cardinal directions. Lelystad is east of Amsterdam.

    • @nateandkatrinadotheworld
      @nateandkatrinadotheworld  9 місяців тому +1

      Is it not north? Sorry I didn’t say northeast. Very sorry I made your day difficult, Marcelde.

    • @MarceldeJong
      @MarceldeJong 9 місяців тому

      @@nateandkatrinadotheworld it’s just funny to me. It’s not even really north east. It’s more east than north. But I’ll shut up, didn’t mean to offend you.

    • @nateandkatrinadotheworld
      @nateandkatrinadotheworld  9 місяців тому +1

      Map fight! I am just playing around!

    • @MarceldeJong
      @MarceldeJong 9 місяців тому

      @@nateandkatrinadotheworld no!!! Poor innocent maps, let’s not fight with rolled up maps. 😄
      I really enjoyed the video.
      Btw, I’m south of Amsterdam. Way south. Like close to the Belgian border south. In a town called Bergen op Zoom.
      Claims to fame, the town’s name is on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and it’s the subject of a really old Dutch song (Merck toch hoe sterck), that melody used to be played as “tune” for the Dutch World Radio station (Radio Nederland Wereldomroep), though I don’t know why, it’s not as if the studios were near here.
      And during carnaval they dress up a church tower in the traditional carnaval goers garb. (At least, traditional for this town)

    • @nateandkatrinadotheworld
      @nateandkatrinadotheworld  9 місяців тому +1

      Nice! I just told Katrina a couple of days ago about Hotel de Draak, and how we need to stay there someday soon!

  • @Jetem52
    @Jetem52 9 місяців тому +3

    Ha ha you start to become Dutch. Out of nowhere you talk about the weather.

  • @dimrrider9133
    @dimrrider9133 9 місяців тому

    You guys perfectly fit in there lol

  • @obud3777
    @obud3777 9 місяців тому

    Ugliest city is by far is Eindhoven

  • @joepe7343
    @joepe7343 3 місяці тому

    Heerlen is worse voted the worst city in the country last year

  • @tiniselles
    @tiniselles 9 місяців тому +1

    Go visit IJmuiden, quite ugly to me 😮

    • @nateandkatrinadotheworld
      @nateandkatrinadotheworld  9 місяців тому +1

      Based on these comments, there are way more “ugly” cities than we thought in this country… 🤔

  • @spvdijk
    @spvdijk 5 місяців тому

    The strange story of the original Batavia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia_(1628_ship)