You know... We dutchies always seem to complain about our country alot, right? Me included. But videos like this just make me appreciate what we do have.
Time for a Dutch Lesson , Charlie!! Phoe has announced that she's pregnant, so her videos are going to be really interesting to compare the NL system with the US! Home births and home baby care (Kraamzorg) is really important here, and I expect that she will be very surprised at the different level of care, as well as the cost.
(payed) vacation days are not only possitive for the workers to enjoy, but it's also a benefit for the employees as well. Because when workers are better rested and more happy, they get less sick, can work harder over the year and perform better in total at work. Plus they become more loyal to a job as well.
10:24 Just today I went to visit my friends who live in Assen, while I live in Apeldoorn. I am only 17 and the public transportation in the Netherlands just gives a whole lot of freedom to anyone, compared to the situation in the us where children are sheltered in their own homes until they have a license.
Yeah but you can get a driver license when 16 in the US. Somethine I do not approve of btw. I know how they drive on their bikes and moped's I wouldn't want any 16 or 17 yo driving a freaking weapon that big (car). Also 18yo seems like a yound age looking at how youngster drive at that age. Own experience I've been 18 with a driver license and a car as well. Not a very safe combination. Althought roof top surfing on a car while driving over a dyke is kinda fun. And dangerous.
Just have to react, most restaurants do NOT allow dogs (or other animals) inside. As a good restaurant holder you wouldn't allow that purely out of hygiene and allergies (of other customers). Patio's are an exception though.
I still often see dogs in restaurants here (Belgium). But they are always really well behaved and barely noticeable because they are just sleeping under the table.
As a german the whole work and heallthcare situation just still shocks me. I wasn't really aware of how bad it is since i watched more of these videos in the times of Covid. I was used to take 3 weeks holiday in the summer and another 3 weeks around christmas in the last years. I think i started my last job with "only" 25 days and then it went up to 30 days but having less than that ? Hell even that was mostly not enough for me 😄 And the whole health situation ... i meanwhile really don't know where the "freedom" is in your country, thats just modern slavery, so bad.
Yes, we Dutch LOVE our capitalism. It's great that my financial manager is a millionair, the proud owner of the privately owned company is a billionair by now, and I live in a kind of township. Maybe I have good reasons to hate that bloody conservatism politics. It is just not fair.
It's even worse. If you don't use all holiday-days, you can take a limmited ones to the next year (so you have extra days next year) and your boss might say: when have you planned your freetime? Because you have to spend at least x holidays in this year.
@@kippesnikkel5217 idk about germany, i pay 17% (i think) but that includes health, accident, unemployment and pension insurance, so the whole social security package
The tuition fee for 2022 is around €2200, excluding books or other necessary expenses (and living costs). Back in the day when I studies you could get some kind of scholarship to cover a little bit of these expenses, but the government has decided to end that. I’d say that a lot of Dutch students do have a student loan after graduating, 20-30k is no exception.
@@lonneketomas1200 unbelievable, that amount of money. I think we have a fairly cheap education system indeed.. didn’t want to argue that, just wanted to clarify the costs for a Bachelor studies in NL.
@sommarmorgon679 A lot of students that didn't really need to borrow the money did so anyway because the interest was 0% and the minister in charge of this at the time heavily implied that this wouldn't really be changed. Only now it has changed and she said it was never actually a promise... But even so, the 2,5% that they charge now is still peanuts compared to the US situation where it's not uncommon for the debt to actually increase in spite of you making payments because there's no cap on the interest and their student loans come from commercial banks instead of one heavily regulated government institution.
Idon 't know if it's mentioned already but we dutch also have a thing called "vacation money". Your employer has to pay you an extra of 8% of the time you work on top of your normal pay. Which is payed out once a year or at the ending of your job. Yes. not only payed vacation but also a 'bonus' to go on vacation or however you like to spend that money. It's around an extra month of pay.
Awesome video, Charlie. So nice to watch you praise our little country. I'm actually from the south, near Eindhoven. My wife and I have two kids and I have to admit, The Netherlands is a paradise for kids. Playgrounds abound, excellent health care including dental, outstanding educational system (Eindhoven has an international school), you name it.
It is so shortsighted to not give people there free time. In the NL we get 5/6 weeks off per year, but the production per person a year is a lot higher then the US. It is about efficiency, having a staff that is healthy and has enough free time will eventually also benefit the employee.
And if you dont use al your holiday-days, your boss can complain about it, so you have to take some time off to satisfy him and spend all your free-days (vrije dagen)
Purely bussines wise I really don't get the way of thinking in the US : more hours is not equal to more profit, people are just so many hours on their top. Like you said : efficiency is everything. These kinds of movies really opened my eyes.
Awesome.. i watched her video's.. and i found out , that she, her husband and kid, live in the same City that i live in.. These people are a welcome addition to our community..
Paid vacation: in Belgium no employer will grouch at you taking vacation. There are two main systems though. One is that you can use your 21-30 working days of vacation any time provided that you have consulted with your colleagues aren’t all on vacation at the same time. Some businesses will have a ‘Summer closing’ and will close between Christmas and New Year. Those will ‘eat up’ a lot of those vacation days but you’ll always have a handful to spread over the rest of the year. There is one caveat: you have to ‘earn’ your paid vacation. In Belgium that means you have to work for a year to qualify for all of those days of paid vacation. If you’ve worked less you will have proportionately less days of paid vacation but you can take unpaid vacation. If you change jobs, are laid off etc, your ‘earned’ days of paid vacation that you didn’t yet take are paid out. That doesn’t mean you aren’t allowed to take time off work at your hew job, or even declare ‘vacation days’ whilst on unemployment benefits. You can. You just won’t be paid again for those days. That’s fair as otherwise you’d be paid double. Belgium operates on a 37,5 hours a week basis for most jobs, which equate to 20-21 working days’ worth of paid vacation for most jobs (legal minimum). Depending on the employer you can earn ‘ADV-days’ by working more. My job currently is on a 40-hour a week schedule which equates to 30 minutes of extra work per day… which I do by shortening my lunch break from 1 hour to 30 minutes because that fits my working schedule better than starting earlier or staying later. And in return it meant my paid vacation + ADV time boils down to 30 working days of paid vacation. I’m always repeating ‘working days’ because it isn’t calendar days. It’s actual working days (Monday through Friday). That’s seven full weeks if I were to take them back to back during a time that there were no bank holidays. Because the bank holidays come on top of that… Most employers want their employees to take up all of their days of paid vacation because: A) They don’t want their employees to burn out (first month of sick leave comes out of their pocket and it’s VERY difficult to fire someone for being sick) B) If the employees don’t take up their vacation days, they have to pay them for those extra days worked and that’s more expensive and a pain in terms of paperwork C) They increase the chance of getting audited by the State, because things that are out of the ordinary raise eyebrows with the tax system
I don't know if you ever watched these 2 chanels about foreigners in the Netherlands but you sure should check it out sometime:) The channels are: Dutch Americano & Josphine Ogugua
12:08, hey, I'm from Czechia (Central Europe). We actually have university FOR FREE will the Master's degree. Plus good students get bonus scholarship and all students get accomodation scholarship. So in my case... education is for free, I pay 117e for dormitory monthly (from which I get 28e back as accomodation scholarship), so I pay around 88e monthly for my dormitory. Then I pay around 3e for my canteen food (which includes free drink) I can order for lunch and dinner, the food can even be a whole pizza. And that is about it. Oh, did I mention students get 10% discount in most shops? Oh, and that our travel cost is only 50% of the original price? And that while we are students, the country pays for our life insurance (and no, it's not a debt, it's just paid and that's it) -> and those are just few students benefits. And students can work part-time without paying any taxes up till 400e monthly. So students actually make most money of them all usually lol.
@@Akkarri fair enough, but most of us Europeans could say the same, while also making a decent wage. You live in a beautiful country, which is lucky as most Czechs can't afford to travel very far.
3 - 5 weeks vacations are no exception. When you work with several co-workers you consult them to avoid that everyone is on vacation the same time. After such a consultation your boss has (most of the time) no problems with you going on vacation. 2-3 weeks in the summertime and 1 or 2 weeks around Chistmas is no problem. Plus ..... many companies give their employees a box with "goodies" around Christmas-time (wine, snacks, X-mas related items).
My son brings a small parrot inside Dutch restaurant if we go out eating. We need to ask first but mostly it's oke! The Parrot is eating food with us...And other people are taking pictures from us, mostly the Germans and that starts mostly very nice conversations...
1. Dogs are generally not allowed (by law) in a restaurant. There is an exception for an Assistant/Service Dogs, for disabled people and veterans. Maybe she went to a (diner)cafe. Sometimes a dog is allowed. 2. What is a good wine? Yes it is possible to buy a bottle wine for 5 euro. (In a supermarket, not at a liquor store) 3. Yes that is true. It will be covered by your insurance. But the first 385 euro’s per year, that part you have to pay it by yourself. In The Netherlands we call it Your Own Risk. 4. Also true. That is the minimum vacation-weeks by law. There are many jobs you have more days-off. And indeed ... It is not allowed to dismiss some one, because the employee was on a vacation. 5. Indeed, our public transport is good. One of the best in Europe. 6. Unfortunately nowadays students in The Netherlands having also a debt when they going to college. But I think that the debt in The Netherlands is lower vs the US.
I have 10 weeks vacation each year. I have a 36hours contract but i work 40hours. The 4 hours overtime i get back in vacation days so that explains the 10 weeks total. I have to take 3 weeks vacation each year. The other vacation hours i can save and collect for up to 1800hours to go for example on a 3month long trip or so. Not too bad to my opinion
I live in Bunschoten-Spakenburg, the Netherlands. In almost the middle of the Netherlands, and have no train connection. But Baarn, Nijkerk and Amersfoort do. And Amersfoort is line 76, by bus. Baarn has free parking by car. And both, under 10 km. 4 miles.
Hello Charlie, learning dutch is a good way to show you're willing to put effort into it but with English alone you'll function just fine overhere. At my pevious job a Lebanon guy (perfect English!) was working there, very promising jung guy as he has the right additude and is willing. At this moment every company is short so many people so a good time to come over. Make sure to drop by when you do! Greetings Peter
In Austria the costs for a study as an animal doctor are 730 Euros for a year. Parents become 200 Euros family allowance EVERY MONTH for a child, so children can study without making debts for visiting the university. Dods are alaso allowed here in restaurants, cafes (inside and outside), also in shopping mails. most shops, exempt in grocery stores! And you get everywhere water for the dog, if the waiter not serve it from his own, you can ask for it!
1 crazy fact about living here in the netherlands (to me a dutch man) in comparison to america is that all / 99% of all the houses are made out of stone or stone bricks almost none are made out of wood
Here in Sweden we get 5 weeks of vacation each year and an aditional week once you turn 40. And about the healthcare, a visit to the doctor just cost 20 us dollar per visit and then there is a price cap of like 112 us dollar per year if you visit the doctor several times. So then its completely free for a year.
Here in the Netherlands as well. Every working person get the amount of hours you need to get the 5 weeks. We can spread them throughout the whole year. Where I work I have a "14th" month from which I can buy free days from. So we can expand it to a maximum of 7 weeks off.
At my job, I have almost 7 weeks vacation a year, in total. It depends on the contract and the hours you work. I take a few in the beginning of the year, a few at the end of the year, and ofcourse: Summer 3 weeks. You need to have a go for the weeks, but mostly the boss is good with the weeks. Sometimes more colleagues want the vacation in summer at the same time, but than you have to do a team conversation how you fix that. Maybe someone is willing to change a week or take vacation later. It's so great!
10:25 this is mostly true but not completely becaus I live in Hulst zeeuws-Vlaanderen in Zeeland and here in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen is no public trainstation or train rail. There is one train rail for cargo.
That is not the high speed train, that is a normal train of NS; then you can have a stop train, that stops at every station along the way, or the speed train, snel trein that only stops at certain places (often the bigger ones) but not all of them. This is not the same as the HIGH SPEED Train, which goes through NL, BE into France (Paris) and if not mistaken also one from NL / Holland into Germany. France was know for the TGV; Train Grande Vitesse.
You get a certain amount of holiday days every year and you can choose whenever you wanna use them , and there is also national holiday days that don't use your free days . So you can choose when you want off , you can also choose to take them to the next year to have extra days off , and if you have alot leftover days some employees offer to pay them out on 100% of hour salary
In Italy public universities (state-owned, and they are around 2/3 of all the universities here) have fees that are proportional to your family income, but can vary according to your classes. At the Milan university, for Medicine students you have to pay a basic tax of 156 euro, which must be paid in September, then you have time until January for the second payment that ranges from nothing (for students with a family legal income up to 22,000 euro) to around 4,000 euro for students with the highest income. So, if for instance your income id of 50,000 euro per year the second fee is around 1,650 euro. Not dead cheap but still very affordable.
Yeah, you should definately visit the Netherlands vacation wise. Lots of supporters here so just pay for the tickets only and you'll have free sleepovers here. I for example live alone in the centre of the Netherlands and would be willing to stay in a hotel for a week for example while you and your family stays at my appartement. Find 2 or 3 more and you'll have a blast for a few weeks. Just saying. Don't put it off, just come and visit rather sooner than later. You can even arrange this for this summer.
No. Just no. That is what is considered a parasocial relationship. When he finally visits the Netherlands, he should make sure that things are taken care of beforehand without relying on his audience. It's perfectly fine to ask people for advice and meet them in person but it is a straight up stupid idea to rely on people offering him a place to stay. He does not know the people who watch him and we do not know anything about him beyond what he shows us on camera. Because of this, he could very easily end up in an uncomfortable or outright dangerous situation if he accepts invitations to sleep somewhere.
Pictures of the trains are not high speed trains, but normal commuter trains. Big difference. Trains in the Netherlands are divided into 4 goups: 1. Stoptrein (literally stop train), these trains are not driving long distances and stop at every station between start and end point. 2. Sneltrein (literally fast train), these trains are also not driving long distances, but mostly longer then a stoptrein. They don't stop at every station, but stop at more stations then the next group. 3. Intercity (literally the same: Inter city), these trains are driving long distances and stop only at major or important stations. 4. International trains, these trains only stop at a few important stations and drive to other countries. Only these ones are high speed trains (mostly).
Charlie, be prepared, when in the Netherlands you 'll hardly get a chance to practise your Dutch, no matter how well you speak it. Don't take it personal, people are just too eager to show off their English.
Maybe you should leave the big city more often and visit the countryside. In small non-touristic towns people will speak Dutch to you, especially if you ask the to.
I second that :) I spent a semester in Groningen and whenever I tried to practice my Dutch (which was terrible to begin with), everyone would just speak English to me :D (But yeah, like I said, I wasn't very good at it. The "g" sound came in the most unexpected places for me, plus the articles were way too difficult. But then I went to Germany for a week and whenever I wanted to speak German, I got it confused with Dutch :D)
@@haraldcoppoolse4149 Exactly!! Klopt volledig. ik woonde in dorpen en steden (Utrecht/Nijmegen en 7 dorpen) en door mijn vaders werk kreeg ik met veel expats te maken. Ik sprak altijd Nederlands met ze, maar in steden ervaarde ze dat heel weinig bij andere, vrijwel niet. Terwijl in de dorpen dat 'normaal' was.- Maar iedereen denkt dat Amsterdam Nederland is :")
Personally, I like beer more. And the Netherlands has a lot of breweries. Really a lot. And real beers of extremely high quality! The Netherlands nowadays has more breweries than Belgium. That's saying something!
I mean i think the fact that dutch stores are filled with all kinds of belgian beer while you cant find virtually any dutch beers in belgium says enough haha
Trains in the Netherlands can also link you up with other European countries....You can get trains from Amsterdam to Zurich, Brussels, Cologne, Berlin, Paris.....
In Belgium, you also have to work for a year before being entitled to paid vacations. But mots workplace will allow unpaid vacations for new workers in their first year.
recently came back from the uk visiting my nan and they have some dog friendly pub/restaurants as well. as long as there calm and dont bark so my mum and dads 2 dogs enjoyed it alot
When we talk about the high speed trains, we talk about the dedicated high speed 180 mph train line from amsterdam to rotterdam and to belgium/france and britain. She is talking about the regular 80 mph train lines all over the netherlands that she is calling ‘high speed’. Big difference.
yeaah hahaha Whats up man, this is my first comment on your channel, but want to point. out firstly that I normally don't click or let alone subscribe to a reaction channel. BUT! being a Dutchman with a curious mind I went for it. That was months ago when I watched an Efteling reaction video. Since then I've been watching all your uploads and it's not even because you have a lot of content on my country, but I like your reviewing style and calm manner. Now I'm curious when the Netherlands travel blog is coming ;) if you ever head over here hit us up! We'll go see some flat countryside. Keep up the good work man! greetings from the Netherlands
I think the Dutch even have about the least payd days off for the whole of Europe even. Go live in Spain or Germany and you get the day off every 3th day that you've worked :P
Even stated in my contract that I must take up at least 25 working days per year vacation. Got an additional 5 as a gesture that I can take with me for a few years. My contract literally says that I must spend time with friends and family for those 25 days a year and can therefore not save those up or get paid for not collecting them haha
While it's true that many cities can be reached by train, there are still some gems that are totally worth visiting that can't. My favourite example in this category is the tiny city of Oudewater. It can be reached by bus, though, or you can visit it by bicycle from Gouda or Utrecht.
Many smaller towns have no trainstation, but can still be quite easily reached by public transport by either getting a bus or a bike from the nearest trainstation. You can even rent an OV fiets for 4,15 Euro per 24 hours.
I would say the most important things are: 1) Public transport (train/metro/tram/bus) are exceptional good here in the Netherlands. YAY! 2a) The roads here are safe. All dangerous places are taken care of. Never, or close to never a car crashes in a building. Car on car accidents still exists, but they probably will survive. It does mean bumps in road, roundabouts, etc. Always thinking to make it safer. No stroads. Separation of concern 2b) It's very safe to travel by bike. The number of bike deaths in the UK are horrific, basically because they plan their roads stupid (from a Dutch perspective) 3) Bike paths are everywhere, so almost everyone bikes. Travel by bike often has priority, it's straight whereas with cars you take the long route. 4) Almost no guns. It's safe everywhere. No gangs 5) Food quality is higher due to European Community rules. 6) Differences in each region. In language, small dialect differences. In people's habbit's. 7) Taxes are high, gas (benzine) prices are crazy high
Taxes are actually higher for the average American. Not for income but in total it's a little less here. And we see where they spend our money on. I think that's pretty important. Because it's really neither transparent in the USA and almost nothing is paid for in the USA. People have less rights when working and the infrastructure / public transportation / healthcare / public schooling / social benefits (if life didn't go as planned) is much worse there. I think the biggest problem in the Netherlands (even though I'm a house owner, but I know I'm very lucky) is the housing prices (both rental and morgage) and the energy prices at this moment for a lot of people. Housing should be a right and not a financial asset to some, just like healthcare is regulated so should the housing market be much more regulated (and of course more houses should be build etc etc). Yes gasoline is very expensive here but like you said yourself most people can choose to cycle or take public transportation here. And yes public transportation can be more expensive for one trip (at this moment I don't know because of the gasoline prices) but if you travel more you have to get a subscription to the NS and / or your local bus company. You can get a subscription to go by train in the weekend (al through the Netherlands) for 30 euros a month and the whole week (except for the busiest hours) for 115 euros a month if you live in the Netherlands (or know someone that lives in the Netherlands i believe). Which is mostly much cheaper than gasoline, insurance, road tax and maintenance for owning a car.
in Austria, I pay 20€ per semester for uni and this doesn't go toward the uni, but toward my student representation, student union basically. If I take over a year more than the minimum time for my degree, so if 3 years is the minimum, after 4 years i pay, idk 3-400€ tuition, something like that i think.
where i go to university, the i pay around 250€ per semester and about 140€ is for a transportation ticket that i can use for the whole city and the bundesland i live in.
About the tuition fee (#6): it depends on the level of education. MBO (professional middle school, where you learn a trade) for example does cost about €600-€800 a year, but bachelor program fees are more in the range of €2000-€2500 a year. And yeah, master's programs can be up to €5000 a year.
Tuition for Dutch and EU nationals is much cheaper than in the US, but not a 'couple hundred per year' as she said. Tuition fees for the first bachelor and master study undertaken by a Dutch or EU national or a person with an eligible residence permit is €2,209 per year or €245.44 per month if paying monthly for a term of 9 months. This is a standardised rate made possible by the government. If doing another Bachelor or Master study after already haven gotten one, OR if you're not eligible for the subsidised rate (i.e. coming from abroad), then the government doesn't subsidise the tuition fee and you'll have to pay the tuition fee for the specific university you're following a study at. This is usually between €8,000 and €10,000 per year depending on university and level of degree but can go up to €19,600 per year for the most prestigious universities (19.6k EUR is masters degree at TU Delft). Still a lot cheaper than the US though.
25 years after leaving school your student loans go into remission. For me it's 15 years, cause that was in the old system, so untill that time you pay off what you can based on what you can miss a month. Like I believe I have 3 more years to go and then the rest of my student loans go into remission. So I don't have to worry about being in debt. Like I could have payed most of it off, but it was cheaper to just do the monthly minimal payments. Also the reason I went into debt was because my parents couldn't afford to help pay for my education so I had to take a loan, but on top of that I had a prestige scolarship that meant that if I got a degree in a certain amount of time I wouldn't have to pay that off. So if I didn't have to take that loan my school would have basically been free for me.
Sorry Dutchies, but according to the NVWA (Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority), pets (not just service animals) *are* allowed inside the seating areas of restaurants... They are just not permitted inside the kitchens or storage areas.
The education fees are low other nations like germany even offer education for free . its als of note that every one is obliged to attend school for 10 years . age 6 to 16 ( depending what age you start primary school) you can get finned for not sending you child to school or if they are kept home with out due reason . or when a child doesnt attend playing hookie the parrents will get a warning and fine after wards. . The holliday thing is so ingrained that most part of the country shuts down during the summer. schools have 6 weeks of summer vacation 1 week fall vacation ,2 weeks of christmass vacation ( starting on the friday before christmass.) 1 week of Spring vacation 1 week of may vacation . Total of 11 weeks. ( plus some easter , pentacost days other relgious and national holldays ) note not all summer vacations are at the same time as they start different dates in north mid and south . People working in construction have Bouwvak It will be imposible to find some one to build paint or maintain etc buildings as they have a break and this includes supliers . Even the military have a fixed holliday time . 3 to 4 weeks of vacation juli to august.
Children in the netherlands actually have to start school at the age of 5. There used to be some grounds for exceptions to have them start at the age of 6 but those exceptions have been scrapped. And children are obliged to attend school until they're 18, OR until they have a high school diploma and are at least 16 years or older. A 17 year old without a high school diploma still has the obligation to attend school until they either get their diploma or turn 18.
@@kaelon9170 Kleuterschool 4 ,bassischool 6 . vroege late leerlingen, 5 jaar are vroege leerlingen . children that turn 6 in the first first 3-4 months of the school year. age 5 is a rare ocasion always was.
Hey man, just wanted to let u know I love your video’s and your enthusiasm about The Netherlands. Just about point 5; Yes, the Netherlands has a good public transport system around the major cities, to and from major cities. But the small villages don't have this, I myself live in a small village where only a few buses a day drive to a larger village. If I want to visit my grandfather, it takes me an hour by car, 4.5 hours by public transport
I served in the Royal Marines and we were entitled to 42 days annual paid leave as right with travel to any destination within the UK paid four times a year.
Well, I hate to spoil the video (I"m Dutch) BUT: 1) I don't know any restaurant who allowed dogs to enter. Maybe, people sneakly bring them in and the waitresses don't say anything. But I surely wouldn't say it's normal. If you are blind and you need your well-trained service dog, yes, but otherwise probably no. 2) You can get a crappy cheap wine yes. How crappy, how cheap, all depends. 3) Well, the moment you ask for your doctor he WILL charge you and I feel as if it's a lot of money. Now Americans pay crazy amount, because, well a begging customer with no option will pay any crazy amount no matter what. And I never saw those prices in the waiting room, but I guess they are fixed size yes. 4) Yes you can take a 3-week vacation, and if you are really into that and pushing some hours here and there maybe even 4 weeks. So this is true 5) NO, the Neherlands only has 2 highspeed (AND with extra cost, AND the speed in the Netherlands is still not that great) for Amsterdam - Schiphol - Rotterdam - Antwerpen - Paris and Amsterdam - Utrecht- Arnhem - (Germany), oh and sorta Intercity Direct Amsterdam - Breda or Brussel-South (160km/h) . Yes there are many NS-trains which have max speed of 140 km/h. Still faster then cars ... but not like amazing speed. Except the NS (=Nederlandse Spoorwegen - Dutch Railways), there's also Arriva and a few more. The GOOD thing is that they cover almost all of the country, and often 2 (sometimes 4 or more) times per hour, which is awesome! And you can bring your bike inside the train, except during rush hour. 6) Graduate without a debt. Well up to now that's a BIG LIE. They all have a huge debt, which makes it impossible to leave their parents house for a long while or they have crazy debt. That being said... those who completed the 1992 would surely say, the statement is true. Those who finished at 1998 well sorta. There is talk they want to go back to the situation in the 1990's, but how and what its all vague election talk.
I know many restaurants that allow it. And no, it's not about sneaking a dog in, that's rude. If they don't have the no dogs allowed sticker, I always ask.
A piece of information to you bro: living in France, we can also have very decent wines for 5 to 6 € a bottle (I use these mostly for cooking). But there are are also very high end wines that can end up to 30 € a bottle... Not something you uncork for any event though (obviously). I sometimes also use Caliifornian Chardonnay (because Californian Chardonnay saved french Chardonnay back in the 19th century, you can check that out). And last but not least, I almost died TWICE, it did not cost me a DIME while being ushered out of the hospital. Thanks to both public and private healthcare (we're bound to have both in France, otherwise it'll be a sh.tshow!).
In the uk there are dog friendly pubs, bars and restaurants. Some are dog friendly indoor spaces. However, european animal care rules means they have to be fully vaccinated against all possible human-dog transmissible diseases, along with fleas,mites,ticks, so the dogs are less likely to bring in disease than their owners.
As for the wine, it's even possible that you have a top quality wine for less than 5 euros. And to let me explain why: The top wines have a limited bottling quantity per lable. All of the rest of these premium wines goes to cheap lables, without the people being aware that they actually might drink a 1500$/bottle wine for just €3,50. As for vacation, I was able to have 7 weeks of paid vacation to travel to South America. I did save the free hours for two years, I had them and they where paid out in the way that I wished for: free time, paid by my employer. I mean, employers in The Netherlands also suck, but at least we have some protective laws which makes things possible. I still live in South America though, I never went back. Don't bet too high on The Netherlands, it's not all that good (but a lot is).
🇫🇮 here. To blow your mind I have 38 days (5=week) paid days off + bank holidays. I have to use them every year, all of them. Normal here is 25-30/year; my 38 comes for working over 15 years with the same employee. And I have the right to decide when I take them; my boss have very little to say about it.
It is not only paid holidays, but you also get extra "holiday-money" with the salary at the end of May :) That holiday-money is 8% of your previous year salary.
My two buddies (american bulldogs) always go with me, also to restaurants. It is very normal here. After a long walk it is nice to grab a bite and the doggies are sleeping at my feet. For 5 euro's you can buy pretty good wine. Trust me. Yup, every citizen in the Netherlands has the right of healthcare. No big bills afterwards. Medication is also free, if described by a doctor. Dentist, Physiotherapy, psychologist etc...all accessible for 20 euro's a month. Home visits are normal when you delivered a baby. your home doctor will visit you, just to show interest and see how you are doing. (while we have care 2 weeks as new moms) When you are very ill, they will visit you very soon. I take 4 weeks off every year to go to my second home in Portugal, my fathers country. I have 2 weeks left to spend for Christmas or when the kids are ill.
What kind of job would you want to pursue in the Netherlands? I work for a Dutch international company where there's no Dutch required. I have plenty of foreign colleagues who get by on English alone, though some of them choose to learn Dutch to make life easier for themselves, which I definitely recommend if you want to stay long term.
Re service dogs, in the entire us restaurants are categorically not allowed to ask for paperwork validating that a dog is a service dog. Said paperwork doesn’t exist.
i live in Czech republic and we have 20 days paid vacation by law and many employers will give 25 days in a year . State holidays are paid vacation for everyone , only specific jobs need to be at work , doctors , police , etc ... so they can get bonus for working at holiday like 200% at some jobs it is same for overtime or weekends. so if you doing weekend overtime at holiday , you can climb up to 600% per hour but like i said only some jobs have thesee extremes. Can be even regular ones but depends on employer If you are sick you still get like 70% of your pay Maternity leave is from 2-4 years specified ammount of money you get in that time , it is same ammount for 2 as for 4 years Mother can choose how long she wants to be with baby. And Employer will have a place for you when you get back ( by law) If you still have contract for next year and employer will to kick you out , you will get like 5 paychecks at once becose employer broke the deal. or if you have different contract with no specified time you will get notice 3 months ahead that you will be kicked out
ALL medical costs are made by the government so everything has a code, and every doc/specialist use those same codes and all codes are a certain costs. And everything is covered next to our starting "premie"
You can get a quite good bottle of wine for about €8-10. €5 is cheap wine; can be bad, can be not bad at all. Doctors won’t come to your home unless it’s absolutely necessary. You have to come to them with an appointment. You cannot just be fired. It’s highly regulated. Workers are protected.
As a Dutch national, not only is the tuition low, but you get "studie-financiëring" (study financing). That means the government pays you to go to university, which covers not just tuition but also basic living costs. So you don't have to have a job alongside it (although many choose to). As a student you also get free public transportation - not a discount, just free. You do have to choose: either you can travel free during weekdays or in weekends. You can't have it all I guess.
The “studie-financiering” does not cover your cost of living by any means. It might cover your monthly tuition (which was around 180,- when I did my studies) and then you have like 50 euros left to live and pay for your student room.
@@Koen030NL i live on my own and only get €240. I have a loan of about €600 a month now, bc otherwise I can’t pay my rent. Already have a dept of like €30.000 and just finished my MBO. Still need to start my HBO this year. So it wil probably be around €60.000….. People always make the studiefinanciering look so good, but it isn’t
@@claudiakoeman misschien in een studentenhuis gaan wonen tijdens studie. Het is gewoon behelpen tijdens de studie, in de avond uren werkt ik ook vaak waardoor ik 600,- per maand kreeg ongeveer.
@7:02 she doesn't mean you can get medical treatment that you would usually get at a hospital at home tho. House calls are just for when you feel too sick to get out of your house so the docter comes by to do a checkup and write a prescription for some medicine. If you need to get hospital-grade care you still have to go there to recieve it.
I think she means that you can call your local doctor (which is mostly not in the hospital, but a local health center) and tell her your symptoms so she can tell you what to do. You can’t call the doctor to get treatment from distance, of course.
She said paid vacation if you have a fulltime job. Well if you have a partime job you have that paid vacation to. How many days? If the company give you by example 28 days for fulltime (40hours). Then you will have 14 days for partime work ((20 hours)
Legally the amount of paid time off is 4 times the amount of weekly hours in your contract. So if you have a contract for 24 hours per week, you're entitled to 24 * 4 = 96 hours of paid time off per year. Employers can give more than this if they want to, e.g. to be more attractive to potential employees.
Its, not common all over or much in the easy coast but many cities you can go to a Restraunt with a dog. I can even go into coffee shops without service animal paperwork. As long leashed the whole time, in a stroller, in a carrier. Mostly outdoors, but most of my area its very common and no I dont live in California
My mom has a low income because she is still on sick leave and an only parent and I only have to pay €1 every time I see a doctor, so that's good. (Belgium)
Not only do we (the dutch) get at least 20 working days off mandatory, usually 24-32 days, i had many jobs and never got less than 24 days. BUT !!!!! we also get at least 8% of our yearly income to take with us on vacation (vacation money) so you get 1 month double pay.
By law, you're entitled to at least 4 times the amount of weekly hours in your contract. This effectively means 4 weeks of paid time off. And getting an additional 8% of our yearly income paid out around May is indeed standard, but companies can also choose to pay out the extra 8% immediately with each monthly payout, which is how I currently get it.
Many restaurants here in the Netherlands are okay with bringing your dog indoors with you, but it is custom and polite to ask the restaurant if it is okay. Outdoors it is generally okay without asking.
Did someone mention here or to her that commuting to work using public transport is fully deductible by tax? There are some rules for it (>10 km travel distance I think) but you can do get the tax refund yourself or your employer will provide your OV chipkaart and cover the costs for you. In most cases the employer will do it for you to save you from the hassle of collecting all tickets or invoices...
To be fair, when I finished my studies in the Netherlands I had about 38k debt. But I was also got 1/3 of my debts taken away because I graduated and I studied for 7 years. That money also went into living costs. The actual university( which is ranked in the top 100 in the world) cost 1k a semester. And the first 10 years you pay back there is 0 interest.
Well, the public transportations I quitte good yes, but also really expensive. And the universities are way more expensive then a couple of hundred euros a year😂
i was surprised to see moet & chandon for 49 euros a bottle fully stocked in the local AH supermarket here.... so you can get top end or your 2 euro liebfraumilch .. still all tastes the same to me though ;p
Depending on how many hours you work according your contract you build up time, like i work fulltime and i have 25 days a year standard. So a little over 2 days a month. I can take days off in between if planner approves and i have to request my 3 week holiday. I have kids and so i am bound to the kids schoolvacation but thats never a real problem. I have to request my weeks off in January and if they don't react within 4 weeks it is automatically approved. Plus on top of that i have 4 extra days off because i been working for this company for over 17 years. I live in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. And vacation time is my time, no calls from the employer to come back, nothing of that. Even if they call you, they only can ask it but if you say no, to bad for them. You still have your job. People need to get that kind of rest from work. We are not made just to work your whole life. You work to live, not the other way around. That being said, after 3 weeks with my family (wife and 2 small kids), i want to go to work haha. Get some real mental rest.
Dogs are officially not allowed in restaurants, unless they are 'helpdogs' for the blind etc.. But most of the restaurants allow them anyway. In my village I can bring my dog with me without a problem because they know he's well trained. It depends on the type of dog. Mine's a Labrador. If someone got into the restaurant with a German sheppard or a Mastiff, they will most likely fiendly be asked to keep the dog outside. They will get a bowl of water though.
Sorry to say, but a lot of restaurants in the Netherlands do NOT allow dogs/pets inside, unless they are service dogs. Mostly ofcourse for hygienic or allergic reasons.
Yes, this is very normal we in northern Europe including the Netherlands it is normal to take 2-3 weeks' vacation to the more southern countries like Spain or Greece and take a summer vacation. And it might sound dumb to the average American but companies benefit from it because the productivity of workers actually increases.
The traveling holidays also evolved and changed over time. It was not average / normal, not that long ago. And where and how we spent our vacations. Also many people did not leave the NL - as in videos about Limburg mentioned a lot of the tourism here was internal, people from Holland, and other places of the Netherlands going to Limburg. People from Limburg going to the Veluwe (NL) or Ardenne (BE) camping. NL sticker on a car/caravan in Italy was inside stereotypically known as Niente Lire. NO Lire, pre Euro currency. The Dutch were known for taking everything they would need with them on holiday, from food - because hagelslag was typical Dutch good Dutch cheese was cheaper in NL, but even the washing powers, and dish soap. WE went prepared - and this evolved and grew as our economies and cultures did as well. Going Dutch, & Dutch courage. All terms about stereotypes of Dutch culture. There are plenty of them.
So there are no active consumer organizations in the US? They are very active in Europe! Making sure customers dont get stiffed and that you know what you´re paying for and how much.
What is also a huge difference is the level of taxation. It is not like our Universities run for free, but it is paid primarily through taxation meaning people without children (or who's children do not qualify or want to study) are also chipping in. This is a political choice and a large difference between the US and the Netherlands.
if you're thinking of moving to the netherlands, best to get to it asap. bureaucracy will likely make everything take longer than expected so might as well make a head start
1. Not all places accept dogs, inside. Outside seating hardly ever is a problem to also have a dog. And yes we even have a dog-bar at places where they can get water, or give a bowl with water if it is warm or if the owner asks for it. They are part of the family. If you go to a very luxurious restaurant there might be a house rule that dogs are not allowed inside (exception as always for service dogs). But here a service dog has do wear a special harness, and outfit. also to show this is a working dog so people will act differently towards them, no petting aloud, etc. unlike with regular dogs. Yes it is nice to ask a owner if you can pet/touch their dog, often dogs will come up to you by them selves, if you are an animal person in my experience. A dog on the job is a different story - this way children can be taught the differences between a pet dog and a (pet) service dog. A service dog that is working/on the job has an outfit/special leach [harness]. Other dogs don't, people can get this illegally but it is not easy to get this if you don't own a certificated service dog.
You know... We dutchies always seem to complain about our country alot, right? Me included. But videos like this just make me appreciate what we do have.
Ik wil , uh nee moet daar toch even over klagen.. 😉
Complaining about how much people complain. ;-)
@@houghi3826 Begrijpend lezen is wel erg moeilijk voor je, he? ;)
Time for a Dutch Lesson , Charlie!! Phoe has announced that she's pregnant, so her videos are going to be really interesting to compare the NL system with the US! Home births and home baby care (Kraamzorg) is really important here, and I expect that she will be very surprised at the different level of care, as well as the cost.
That's a great topic.
Goede aanbeveling!
Ja Jovie's Home heeft een hele video gewijd aan de voordelen van bevallen in Nederland
(payed) vacation days are not only possitive for the workers to enjoy, but it's also a benefit for the employees as well. Because when workers are better rested and more happy, they get less sick, can work harder over the year and perform better in total at work. Plus they become more loyal to a job as well.
10:24 Just today I went to visit my friends who live in Assen, while I live in Apeldoorn. I am only 17 and the public transportation in the Netherlands just gives a whole lot of freedom to anyone, compared to the situation in the us where children are sheltered in their own homes until they have a license.
Yeah but you can get a driver license when 16 in the US. Somethine I do not approve of btw. I know how they drive on their bikes and moped's I wouldn't want any 16 or 17 yo driving a freaking weapon that big (car). Also 18yo seems like a yound age looking at how youngster drive at that age. Own experience I've been 18 with a driver license and a car as well. Not a very safe combination. Althought roof top surfing on a car while driving over a dyke is kinda fun. And dangerous.
Just have to react, most restaurants do NOT allow dogs (or other animals) inside. As a good restaurant holder you wouldn't allow that purely out of hygiene and allergies (of other customers). Patio's are an exception though.
Maybe in beach restaurants 🤔
as an europian I would complain if a dog was next to my table....not all of us are fans of live animals near our dead ones.....
I once took my hotdog with me to eat at McDonald's I hate the burgers.
I still often see dogs in restaurants here (Belgium). But they are always really well behaved and barely noticeable because they are just sleeping under the table.
In Czechia it is completely normal to bring dog to the restaurant with you.
As a german the whole work and heallthcare situation just still shocks me. I wasn't really aware of how bad it is since i watched more of these videos in the times of Covid. I was used to take 3 weeks holiday in the summer and another 3 weeks around christmas in the last years. I think i started my last job with "only" 25 days and then it went up to 30 days but having less than that ? Hell even that was mostly not enough for me 😄
And the whole health situation ... i meanwhile really don't know where the "freedom" is in your country, thats just modern slavery, so bad.
Yes, we Dutch LOVE our capitalism. It's great that my financial manager is a millionair, the proud owner of the privately owned company is a billionair by now, and I live in a kind of township. Maybe I have good reasons to hate that bloody conservatism politics. It is just not fair.
It's even worse. If you don't use all holiday-days, you can take a limmited ones to the next year (so you have extra days next year) and your boss might say: when have you planned your freetime? Because you have to spend at least x holidays in this year.
don't you pay like 15% of your salary as healthcare in Germany with a cap to 5000 euro per month? That is just shocking to me.
@@kippesnikkel5217 idk about germany, i pay 17% (i think) but that includes health, accident, unemployment and pension insurance, so the whole social security package
@@kippesnikkel5217 it is like 7,5-7,7% on my side (company double it) with max of ~800€ per month in Germany.
The tuition fee for 2022 is around €2200, excluding books or other necessary expenses (and living costs). Back in the day when I studies you could get some kind of scholarship to cover a little bit of these expenses, but the government has decided to end that. I’d say that a lot of Dutch students do have a student loan after graduating, 20-30k is no exception.
She talks about med-school 100.000 USD. So we think oor fee is absurd high, but its still quite oke.
@@lonneketomas1200 unbelievable, that amount of money. I think we have a fairly cheap education system indeed.. didn’t want to argue that, just wanted to clarify the costs for a Bachelor studies in NL.
@sommarmorgon679 A lot of students that didn't really need to borrow the money did so anyway because the interest was 0% and the minister in charge of this at the time heavily implied that this wouldn't really be changed. Only now it has changed and she said it was never actually a promise... But even so, the 2,5% that they charge now is still peanuts compared to the US situation where it's not uncommon for the debt to actually increase in spite of you making payments because there's no cap on the interest and their student loans come from commercial banks instead of one heavily regulated government institution.
Idon 't know if it's mentioned already but we dutch also have a thing called "vacation money". Your employer has to pay you an extra of 8% of the time you work on top of your normal pay. Which is payed out once a year or at the ending of your job. Yes. not only payed vacation but also a 'bonus' to go on vacation or however you like to spend that money. It's around an extra month of pay.
we have the same in denmark, just 12,5%
Awesome video, Charlie. So nice to watch you praise our little country. I'm actually from the south, near Eindhoven. My wife and I have two kids and I have to admit, The Netherlands is a paradise for kids. Playgrounds abound, excellent health care including dental, outstanding educational system (Eindhoven has an international school), you name it.
It is so shortsighted to not give people there free time. In the NL we get 5/6 weeks off per year, but the production per person a year is a lot higher then the US. It is about efficiency, having a staff that is healthy and has enough free time will eventually also benefit the employee.
And if you dont use al your holiday-days, your boss can complain about it, so you have to take some time off to satisfy him and spend all your free-days (vrije dagen)
Purely bussines wise I really don't get the way of thinking in the US : more hours is not equal to more profit, people are just so many hours on their top. Like you said : efficiency is everything. These kinds of movies really opened my eyes.
Awesome.. i watched her video's.. and i found out , that she, her husband and kid, live in the same
City that i live in..
These people are a welcome addition to our community..
Paid vacation: in Belgium no employer will grouch at you taking vacation. There are two main systems though. One is that you can use your 21-30 working days of vacation any time provided that you have consulted with your colleagues aren’t all on vacation at the same time. Some businesses will have a ‘Summer closing’ and will close between Christmas and New Year. Those will ‘eat up’ a lot of those vacation days but you’ll always have a handful to spread over the rest of the year.
There is one caveat: you have to ‘earn’ your paid vacation. In Belgium that means you have to work for a year to qualify for all of those days of paid vacation. If you’ve worked less you will have proportionately less days of paid vacation but you can take unpaid vacation.
If you change jobs, are laid off etc, your ‘earned’ days of paid vacation that you didn’t yet take are paid out. That doesn’t mean you aren’t allowed to take time off work at your hew job, or even declare ‘vacation days’ whilst on unemployment benefits. You can. You just won’t be paid again for those days. That’s fair as otherwise you’d be paid double.
Belgium operates on a 37,5 hours a week basis for most jobs, which equate to 20-21 working days’ worth of paid vacation for most jobs (legal minimum). Depending on the employer you can earn ‘ADV-days’ by working more. My job currently is on a 40-hour a week schedule which equates to 30 minutes of extra work per day… which I do by shortening my lunch break from 1 hour to 30 minutes because that fits my working schedule better than starting earlier or staying later. And in return it meant my paid vacation + ADV time boils down to 30 working days of paid vacation. I’m always repeating ‘working days’ because it isn’t calendar days. It’s actual working days (Monday through Friday). That’s seven full weeks if I were to take them back to back during a time that there were no bank holidays. Because the bank holidays come on top of that…
Most employers want their employees to take up all of their days of paid vacation because:
A) They don’t want their employees to burn out (first month of sick leave comes out of their pocket and it’s VERY difficult to fire someone for being sick)
B) If the employees don’t take up their vacation days, they have to pay them for those extra days worked and that’s more expensive and a pain in terms of paperwork
C) They increase the chance of getting audited by the State, because things that are out of the ordinary raise eyebrows with the tax system
I don't know if you ever watched these 2 chanels about foreigners in the Netherlands but you sure should check it out sometime:) The channels are: Dutch Americano & Josphine Ogugua
12:08, hey, I'm from Czechia (Central Europe). We actually have university FOR FREE will the Master's degree. Plus good students get bonus scholarship and all students get accomodation scholarship. So in my case... education is for free, I pay 117e for dormitory monthly (from which I get 28e back as accomodation scholarship), so I pay around 88e monthly for my dormitory. Then I pay around 3e for my canteen food (which includes free drink) I can order for lunch and dinner, the food can even be a whole pizza. And that is about it. Oh, did I mention students get 10% discount in most shops? Oh, and that our travel cost is only 50% of the original price? And that while we are students, the country pays for our life insurance (and no, it's not a debt, it's just paid and that's it) -> and those are just few students benefits. And students can work part-time without paying any taxes up till 400e monthly. So students actually make most money of them all usually lol.
all sounds great, apart from the average salary in Czechia, less than half Holland, slightly more than a third of the US. Swings and roundabouts.
@@bparry5446 yea, that is the sad part. But at least as a student I don't have any debts that I will have to carry for many years.
@@Akkarri fair enough, but most of us Europeans could say the same, while also making a decent wage. You live in a beautiful country, which is lucky as most Czechs can't afford to travel very far.
3 - 5 weeks vacations are no exception. When you work with several co-workers you consult them to avoid that everyone is on vacation the same time. After such a consultation your boss has (most of the time) no problems with you going on vacation. 2-3 weeks in the summertime and 1 or 2 weeks around Chistmas is no problem. Plus ..... many companies give their employees a box with "goodies" around Christmas-time (wine, snacks, X-mas related items).
My son brings a small parrot inside Dutch restaurant if we go out eating. We need to ask first but mostly it's oke! The Parrot is eating food with us...And other people are taking pictures from us, mostly the Germans and that starts mostly very nice conversations...
Why? Why would anyone take a parrot out to a meal?
1. Dogs are generally not allowed (by law) in a restaurant. There is an exception for an Assistant/Service Dogs, for disabled people and veterans. Maybe she went to a (diner)cafe. Sometimes a dog is allowed.
2. What is a good wine? Yes it is possible to buy a bottle wine for 5 euro. (In a supermarket, not at a liquor store)
3. Yes that is true. It will be covered by your insurance. But the first 385 euro’s per year, that part you have to pay it by yourself. In The Netherlands we call it Your Own Risk.
4. Also true. That is the minimum vacation-weeks by law. There are many jobs you have more days-off. And indeed ... It is not allowed to dismiss some one, because the employee was on a vacation.
5. Indeed, our public transport is good. One of the best in Europe.
6. Unfortunately nowadays students in The Netherlands having also a debt when they going to college. But I think that the debt in The Netherlands is lower vs the US.
I have 10 weeks vacation each year. I have a 36hours contract but i work 40hours. The 4 hours overtime i get back in vacation days so that explains the 10 weeks total. I have to take 3 weeks vacation each year.
The other vacation hours i can save and collect for up to 1800hours to go for example on a 3month long trip or so.
Not too bad to my opinion
I live in Bunschoten-Spakenburg, the Netherlands. In almost the middle of the Netherlands, and have no train connection. But Baarn, Nijkerk and Amersfoort do. And Amersfoort is line 76, by bus. Baarn has free parking by car. And both, under 10 km. 4 miles.
Hello Charlie, learning dutch is a good way to show you're willing to put effort into it but with English alone you'll function just fine overhere. At my pevious job a Lebanon guy (perfect English!) was working there, very promising jung guy as he has the right additude and is willing. At this moment every company is short so many people so a good time to come over. Make sure to drop by when you do! Greetings Peter
In Austria the costs for a study as an animal doctor are 730 Euros for a year. Parents become 200 Euros family allowance EVERY MONTH for a child, so children can study without making debts for visiting the university.
Dods are alaso allowed here in restaurants, cafes (inside and outside), also in shopping mails. most shops, exempt in grocery stores! And you get everywhere water for the dog, if the waiter not serve it from his own, you can ask for it!
1 crazy fact about living here in the netherlands
(to me a dutch man)
in comparison to america
is that all / 99% of all the houses are made out of stone or stone bricks
almost none are made out of wood
So true, I've been to a small place in west virginia and the houses there are one big mass of planks
you have woods? 🤔just a joke
Mine is made from timber, and I live in the forrest... best house I ever lived in. grtz from the NLD
Same here in Belgium 🇧🇪💪
@@pttcola As long as you don't have termites, yes. ; )
Here in Sweden we get 5 weeks of vacation each year and an aditional week once you turn 40. And about the healthcare, a visit to the doctor just cost 20 us dollar per visit and then there is a price cap of like 112 us dollar per year if you visit the doctor several times. So then its completely free for a year.
Here in the Netherlands as well. Every working person get the amount of hours you need to get the 5 weeks. We can spread them throughout the whole year. Where I work I have a "14th" month from which I can buy free days from. So we can expand it to a maximum of 7 weeks off.
At my job, I have almost 7 weeks vacation a year, in total. It depends on the contract and the hours you work.
I take a few in the beginning of the year, a few at the end of the year, and ofcourse: Summer 3 weeks.
You need to have a go for the weeks, but mostly the boss is good with the weeks.
Sometimes more colleagues want the vacation in summer at the same time, but than you have to do a team conversation how you fix that.
Maybe someone is willing to change a week or take vacation later. It's so great!
Putting link in vid description is such a small thing but I rly do appreciate that.
10:25 this is mostly true but not completely becaus I live in Hulst zeeuws-Vlaanderen in Zeeland and here in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen is no public trainstation or train rail. There is one train rail for cargo.
That is not the high speed train, that is a normal train of NS; then you can have a stop train, that stops at every station along the way, or the speed train, snel trein that only stops at certain places (often the bigger ones) but not all of them. This is not the same as the HIGH SPEED Train, which goes through NL, BE into France (Paris) and if not mistaken also one from NL / Holland into Germany. France was know for the TGV; Train Grande Vitesse.
You get a certain amount of holiday days every year and you can choose whenever you wanna use them , and there is also national holiday days that don't use your free days . So you can choose when you want off , you can also choose to take them to the next year to have extra days off , and if you have alot leftover days some employees offer to pay them out on 100% of hour salary
2. Good cheap wines are allready available in aldi/lidl which are considered 'discount/cheap supermarkes'.
In Italy public universities (state-owned, and they are around 2/3 of all the universities here) have fees that are proportional to your family income, but can vary according to your classes. At the Milan university, for Medicine students you have to pay a basic tax of 156 euro, which must be paid in September, then you have time until January for the second payment that ranges from nothing (for students with a family legal income up to 22,000 euro) to around 4,000 euro for students with the highest income. So, if for instance your income id of 50,000 euro per year the second fee is around 1,650 euro. Not dead cheap but still very affordable.
Yeah, you should definately visit the Netherlands vacation wise.
Lots of supporters here so just pay for the tickets only and you'll have free sleepovers here.
I for example live alone in the centre of the Netherlands and would be willing to stay in a hotel for a week for example while you and your family stays at my appartement.
Find 2 or 3 more and you'll have a blast for a few weeks.
Just saying.
Don't put it off, just come and visit rather sooner than later.
You can even arrange this for this summer.
No. Just no. That is what is considered a parasocial relationship. When he finally visits the Netherlands, he should make sure that things are taken care of beforehand without relying on his audience. It's perfectly fine to ask people for advice and meet them in person but it is a straight up stupid idea to rely on people offering him a place to stay. He does not know the people who watch him and we do not know anything about him beyond what he shows us on camera. Because of this, he could very easily end up in an uncomfortable or outright dangerous situation if he accepts invitations to sleep somewhere.
Pictures of the trains are not high speed trains, but normal commuter trains. Big difference. Trains in the Netherlands are divided into 4 goups:
1. Stoptrein (literally stop train), these trains are not driving long distances and stop at every station between start and end point.
2. Sneltrein (literally fast train), these trains are also not driving long distances, but mostly longer then a stoptrein. They don't stop at every station, but stop at more stations then the next group.
3. Intercity (literally the same: Inter city), these trains are driving long distances and stop only at major or important stations.
4. International trains, these trains only stop at a few important stations and drive to other countries. Only these ones are high speed trains (mostly).
Charlie, be prepared, when in the Netherlands you 'll hardly get a chance to practise your Dutch, no matter how well you speak it. Don't take it personal, people are just too eager to show off their English.
we are the best non native english speakers for a reason
Maybe you should leave the big city more often and visit the countryside. In small non-touristic towns people will speak Dutch to you, especially if you ask the to.
I second that :) I spent a semester in Groningen and whenever I tried to practice my Dutch (which was terrible to begin with), everyone would just speak English to me :D (But yeah, like I said, I wasn't very good at it. The "g" sound came in the most unexpected places for me, plus the articles were way too difficult. But then I went to Germany for a week and whenever I wanted to speak German, I got it confused with Dutch :D)
@@haraldcoppoolse4149 Exactly!! Klopt volledig. ik woonde in dorpen en steden (Utrecht/Nijmegen en 7 dorpen) en door mijn vaders werk kreeg ik met veel expats te maken. Ik sprak altijd Nederlands met ze, maar in steden ervaarde ze dat heel weinig bij andere, vrijwel niet. Terwijl in de dorpen dat 'normaal' was.- Maar iedereen denkt dat Amsterdam Nederland is :")
Not eager to show of, just annoyed with the other person butchering the Dutch language.
So we butcher yours :)
Personally, I like beer more. And the Netherlands has a lot of breweries. Really a lot. And real beers of extremely high quality! The Netherlands nowadays has more breweries than Belgium. That's saying something!
More beers don’t say better quality though 😜😜😜
I mean i think the fact that dutch stores are filled with all kinds of belgian beer while you cant find virtually any dutch beers in belgium says enough haha
@wim caubergs sure isn’t 😉😜😂
@wim caubergs Aha, Heineken! Ik drink dat spul nooit! :-) Nee doe mij maar een biertje van brouwerij 't IJ uit Amsterdam of Jopen uit Haarlem.
Trains in the Netherlands can also link you up with other European countries....You can get trains from Amsterdam to Zurich, Brussels, Cologne, Berlin, Paris.....
In Belgium, you also have to work for a year before being entitled to paid vacations. But mots workplace will allow unpaid vacations for new workers in their first year.
recently came back from the uk visiting my nan and they have some dog friendly pub/restaurants as well. as long as there calm and dont bark so my mum and dads 2 dogs enjoyed it alot
When we talk about the high speed trains, we talk about the dedicated high speed 180 mph train line from amsterdam to rotterdam and to belgium/france and britain. She is talking about the regular 80 mph train lines all over the netherlands that she is calling ‘high speed’. Big difference.
yeaah hahaha Whats up man, this is my first comment on your channel, but want to point. out firstly that I normally don't click or let alone subscribe to a reaction channel. BUT! being a Dutchman with a curious mind I went for it. That was months ago when I watched an Efteling reaction video. Since then I've been watching all your uploads and it's not even because you have a lot of content on my country, but I like your reviewing style and calm manner. Now I'm curious when the Netherlands travel blog is coming ;) if you ever head over here hit us up! We'll go see some flat countryside.
Keep up the good work man!
greetings from the Netherlands
I think the Dutch even have about the least payd days off for the whole of Europe even. Go live in Spain or Germany and you get the day off every 3th day that you've worked :P
Even stated in my contract that I must take up at least 25 working days per year vacation. Got an additional 5 as a gesture that I can take with me for a few years. My contract literally says that I must spend time with friends and family for those 25 days a year and can therefore not save those up or get paid for not collecting them haha
While it's true that many cities can be reached by train, there are still some gems that are totally worth visiting that can't. My favourite example in this category is the tiny city of Oudewater. It can be reached by bus, though, or you can visit it by bicycle from Gouda or Utrecht.
Many smaller towns have no trainstation, but can still be quite easily reached by public transport by either getting a bus or a bike from the nearest trainstation. You can even rent an OV fiets for 4,15 Euro per 24 hours.
I would say the most important things are:
1) Public transport (train/metro/tram/bus) are exceptional good here in the Netherlands. YAY!
2a) The roads here are safe. All dangerous places are taken care of. Never, or close to never a car crashes in a building. Car on car accidents still exists, but they probably will survive. It does mean bumps in road, roundabouts, etc. Always thinking to make it safer. No stroads. Separation of concern
2b) It's very safe to travel by bike. The number of bike deaths in the UK are horrific, basically because they plan their roads stupid (from a Dutch perspective)
3) Bike paths are everywhere, so almost everyone bikes. Travel by bike often has priority, it's straight whereas with cars you take the long route.
4) Almost no guns. It's safe everywhere. No gangs
5) Food quality is higher due to European Community rules.
6) Differences in each region. In language, small dialect differences. In people's habbit's.
7) Taxes are high, gas (benzine) prices are crazy high
Taxes are actually higher for the average American. Not for income but in total it's a little less here. And we see where they spend our money on. I think that's pretty important. Because it's really neither transparent in the USA and almost nothing is paid for in the USA. People have less rights when working and the infrastructure / public transportation / healthcare / public schooling / social benefits (if life didn't go as planned) is much worse there.
I think the biggest problem in the Netherlands (even though I'm a house owner, but I know I'm very lucky) is the housing prices (both rental and morgage) and the energy prices at this moment for a lot of people. Housing should be a right and not a financial asset to some, just like healthcare is regulated so should the housing market be much more regulated (and of course more houses should be build etc etc). Yes gasoline is very expensive here but like you said yourself most people can choose to cycle or take public transportation here. And yes public transportation can be more expensive for one trip (at this moment I don't know because of the gasoline prices) but if you travel more you have to get a subscription to the NS and / or your local bus company. You can get a subscription to go by train in the weekend (al through the Netherlands) for 30 euros a month and the whole week (except for the busiest hours) for 115 euros a month if you live in the Netherlands (or know someone that lives in the Netherlands i believe). Which is mostly much cheaper than gasoline, insurance, road tax and maintenance for owning a car.
in Austria, I pay 20€ per semester for uni and this doesn't go toward the uni, but toward my student representation, student union basically. If I take over a year more than the minimum time for my degree, so if 3 years is the minimum, after 4 years i pay, idk 3-400€ tuition, something like that i think.
where i go to university, the i pay around 250€ per semester and about 140€ is for a transportation ticket that i can use for the whole city and the bundesland i live in.
for 7€ you get high quality classic wine here in austria. 12-15€ for very high quality wine from wooden barrels (not fake wood chips).
About the tuition fee (#6): it depends on the level of education. MBO (professional middle school, where you learn a trade) for example does cost about €600-€800 a year, but bachelor program fees are more in the range of €2000-€2500 a year. And yeah, master's programs can be up to €5000 a year.
Aren't you supposed to take a loan
@@dutchgamer842 You can, if your finances don't allow you to pay for the tuition fee yourself. But it's not mandatory.
Tuition for Dutch and EU nationals is much cheaper than in the US, but not a 'couple hundred per year' as she said. Tuition fees for the first bachelor and master study undertaken by a Dutch or EU national or a person with an eligible residence permit is €2,209 per year or €245.44 per month if paying monthly for a term of 9 months. This is a standardised rate made possible by the government.
If doing another Bachelor or Master study after already haven gotten one, OR if you're not eligible for the subsidised rate (i.e. coming from abroad), then the government doesn't subsidise the tuition fee and you'll have to pay the tuition fee for the specific university you're following a study at. This is usually between €8,000 and €10,000 per year depending on university and level of degree but can go up to €19,600 per year for the most prestigious universities (19.6k EUR is masters degree at TU Delft). Still a lot cheaper than the US though.
25 years after leaving school your student loans go into remission. For me it's 15 years, cause that was in the old system, so untill that time you pay off what you can based on what you can miss a month. Like I believe I have 3 more years to go and then the rest of my student loans go into remission. So I don't have to worry about being in debt. Like I could have payed most of it off, but it was cheaper to just do the monthly minimal payments. Also the reason I went into debt was because my parents couldn't afford to help pay for my education so I had to take a loan, but on top of that I had a prestige scolarship that meant that if I got a degree in a certain amount of time I wouldn't have to pay that off. So if I didn't have to take that loan my school would have basically been free for me.
Sorry Dutchies, but according to the NVWA (Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority), pets (not just service animals) *are* allowed inside the seating areas of restaurants... They are just not permitted inside the kitchens or storage areas.
THank you! It's ridiculous how many claim it's a violation. It's not, and I've been to many restaurants.
The education fees are low other nations like germany even offer education for free . its als of note that every one is obliged to attend school for 10 years . age 6 to 16 ( depending what age you start primary school) you can get finned for not sending you child to school or if they are kept home with out due reason . or when a child doesnt attend playing hookie the parrents will get a warning and fine after wards. .
The holliday thing is so ingrained that most part of the country shuts down during the summer. schools have 6 weeks of summer vacation 1 week fall vacation ,2 weeks of christmass vacation ( starting on the friday before christmass.) 1 week of Spring vacation 1 week of may vacation . Total of 11 weeks. ( plus some easter , pentacost days other relgious and national holldays ) note not all summer vacations are at the same time as they start different dates in north mid and south .
People working in construction have Bouwvak It will be imposible to find some one to build paint or maintain etc buildings as they have a break and this includes supliers .
Even the military have a fixed holliday time . 3 to 4 weeks of vacation juli to august.
Children in the netherlands actually have to start school at the age of 5. There used to be some grounds for exceptions to have them start at the age of 6 but those exceptions have been scrapped. And children are obliged to attend school until they're 18, OR until they have a high school diploma and are at least 16 years or older. A 17 year old without a high school diploma still has the obligation to attend school until they either get their diploma or turn 18.
@@kaelon9170 Kleuterschool 4 ,bassischool 6 . vroege late leerlingen, 5 jaar are vroege leerlingen . children that turn 6 in the first first 3-4 months of the school year.
age 5 is a rare ocasion always was.
it's not only about service dogs but also not all restaurants allow it. specially on/near the beaches dogs are welcome in the restaurants.
Hey man, just wanted to let u know I love your video’s and your enthusiasm about The Netherlands. Just about point 5; Yes, the Netherlands has a good public transport system around the major cities, to and from major cities. But the small villages don't have this, I myself live in a small village where only a few buses a day drive to a larger village. If I want to visit my grandfather, it takes me an hour by car, 4.5 hours by public transport
I served in the Royal Marines and we were entitled to 42 days annual paid leave as right with travel to any destination within the UK paid four times a year.
Well, I hate to spoil the video (I"m Dutch) BUT:
1) I don't know any restaurant who allowed dogs to enter. Maybe, people sneakly bring them in and the waitresses don't say anything. But I surely wouldn't say it's normal. If you are blind and you need your well-trained service dog, yes, but otherwise probably no.
2) You can get a crappy cheap wine yes. How crappy, how cheap, all depends.
3) Well, the moment you ask for your doctor he WILL charge you and I feel as if it's a lot of money. Now Americans pay crazy amount, because, well a begging customer with no option will pay any crazy amount no matter what. And I never saw those prices in the waiting room, but I guess they are fixed size yes.
4) Yes you can take a 3-week vacation, and if you are really into that and pushing some hours here and there maybe even 4 weeks. So this is true
5) NO, the Neherlands only has 2 highspeed (AND with extra cost, AND the speed in the Netherlands is still not that great) for Amsterdam - Schiphol - Rotterdam - Antwerpen - Paris and Amsterdam - Utrecht- Arnhem - (Germany), oh and sorta Intercity Direct Amsterdam - Breda or Brussel-South (160km/h) . Yes there are many NS-trains which have max speed of 140 km/h. Still faster then cars ... but not like amazing speed. Except the NS (=Nederlandse Spoorwegen - Dutch Railways), there's also Arriva and a few more. The GOOD thing is that they cover almost all of the country, and often 2 (sometimes 4 or more) times per hour, which is awesome! And you can bring your bike inside the train, except during rush hour.
6) Graduate without a debt. Well up to now that's a BIG LIE. They all have a huge debt, which makes it impossible to leave their parents house for a long while or they have crazy debt. That being said... those who completed the 1992 would surely say, the statement is true. Those who finished at 1998 well sorta. There is talk they want to go back to the situation in the 1990's, but how and what its all vague election talk.
yep i have 20.000 euro's in dept
I know many restaurants that allow it. And no, it's not about sneaking a dog in, that's rude. If they don't have the no dogs allowed sticker, I always ask.
A piece of information to you bro: living in France, we can also have very decent wines for 5 to 6 € a bottle (I use these mostly for cooking). But there are are also very high end wines that can end up to 30 € a bottle... Not something you uncork for any event though (obviously). I sometimes also use Caliifornian Chardonnay (because Californian Chardonnay saved french Chardonnay back in the 19th century, you can check that out).
And last but not least, I almost died TWICE, it did not cost me a DIME while being ushered out of the hospital. Thanks to both public and private healthcare (we're bound to have both in France, otherwise it'll be a sh.tshow!).
Aaah le Phylloxera... Mon cousin a encore les seringue géantes pour soigner les pieds de vigne... Même le Champagne pousse sur des pieds américains...
It was Californian Zinfandel vines that saved all European vines when I remember well.
It's all the same in Germany. Vacation is also required by law for part-time employees.
In the uk there are dog friendly pubs, bars and restaurants. Some are dog friendly indoor spaces. However, european animal care rules means they have to be fully vaccinated against all possible human-dog transmissible diseases, along with fleas,mites,ticks, so the dogs are less likely to bring in disease than their owners.
As for the wine, it's even possible that you have a top quality wine for less than 5 euros. And to let me explain why: The top wines have a limited bottling quantity per lable. All of the rest of these premium wines goes to cheap lables, without the people being aware that they actually might drink a 1500$/bottle wine for just €3,50.
As for vacation, I was able to have 7 weeks of paid vacation to travel to South America. I did save the free hours for two years, I had them and they where paid out in the way that I wished for: free time, paid by my employer. I mean, employers in The Netherlands also suck, but at least we have some protective laws which makes things possible. I still live in South America though, I never went back. Don't bet too high on The Netherlands, it's not all that good (but a lot is).
🇫🇮 here. To blow your mind I have 38 days (5=week) paid days off + bank holidays. I have to use them every year, all of them. Normal here is 25-30/year; my 38 comes for working over 15 years with the same employee. And I have the right to decide when I take them; my boss have very little to say about it.
It is not only paid holidays, but you also get extra "holiday-money" with the salary at the end of May :) That holiday-money is 8% of your previous year salary.
here in the Netherlands it is required by law to take 2 consecutive weeks of vacation
I once stacked up on over time and didn’t take enough days off… so I had to take nearly three months of vacation off. Awesome!
My two buddies (american bulldogs) always go with me, also to restaurants. It is very normal here. After a long walk it is nice to grab a bite and the doggies are sleeping at my feet.
For 5 euro's you can buy pretty good wine. Trust me.
Yup, every citizen in the Netherlands has the right of healthcare. No big bills afterwards. Medication is also free, if described by a doctor. Dentist, Physiotherapy, psychologist etc...all accessible for 20 euro's a month. Home visits are normal when you delivered a baby. your home doctor will visit you, just to show interest and see how you are doing. (while we have care 2 weeks as new moms) When you are very ill, they will visit you very soon.
I take 4 weeks off every year to go to my second home in Portugal, my fathers country. I have 2 weeks left to spend for Christmas or when the kids are ill.
Video's like this really make me realise how much I take paid vacation for granted.
What kind of job would you want to pursue in the Netherlands? I work for a Dutch international company where there's no Dutch required. I have plenty of foreign colleagues who get by on English alone, though some of them choose to learn Dutch to make life easier for themselves, which I definitely recommend if you want to stay long term.
Re service dogs, in the entire us restaurants are categorically not allowed to ask for paperwork validating that a dog is a service dog. Said paperwork doesn’t exist.
i live in Czech republic and we have 20 days paid vacation by law and many employers will give 25 days in a year .
State holidays are paid vacation for everyone , only specific jobs need to be at work , doctors , police , etc ... so they can get bonus for working at holiday like 200%
at some jobs it is same for overtime or weekends.
so if you doing weekend overtime at holiday , you can climb up to 600% per hour
but like i said only some jobs have thesee extremes. Can be even regular ones but depends on employer
If you are sick you still get like 70% of your pay
Maternity leave is from 2-4 years specified ammount of money you get in that time , it is same ammount for 2 as for 4 years
Mother can choose how long she wants to be with baby.
And Employer will have a place for you when you get back ( by law)
If you still have contract for next year and employer will to kick you out , you will get like 5 paychecks at once becose employer broke the deal.
or if you have different contract with no specified time you will get notice 3 months ahead that you will be kicked out
Here in Denmark, not only is it free to go to university, they actually pay you around $850 a month
ALL medical costs are made by the government so everything has a code, and every doc/specialist use those same codes and all codes are a certain costs. And everything is covered next to our starting "premie"
You've just gained a subscriber youre awesome x x
You can get a quite good bottle of wine for about €8-10. €5 is cheap wine; can be bad, can be not bad at all.
Doctors won’t come to your home unless it’s absolutely necessary. You have to come to them with an appointment.
You cannot just be fired. It’s highly regulated. Workers are protected.
As a Dutch national, not only is the tuition low, but you get "studie-financiëring" (study financing). That means the government pays you to go to university, which covers not just tuition but also basic living costs. So you don't have to have a job alongside it (although many choose to). As a student you also get free public transportation - not a discount, just free. You do have to choose: either you can travel free during weekdays or in weekends. You can't have it all I guess.
The “studie-financiering” does not cover your cost of living by any means. It might cover your monthly tuition (which was around 180,- when I did my studies) and then you have like 50 euros left to live and pay for your student room.
@L M you lived with your parents i presume?
@@Koen030NL i live on my own and only get €240.
I have a loan of about €600 a month now, bc otherwise I can’t pay my rent.
Already have a dept of like €30.000 and just finished my MBO. Still need to start my HBO this year. So it wil probably be around €60.000…..
People always make the studiefinanciering look so good, but it isn’t
@@claudiakoeman misschien in een studentenhuis gaan wonen tijdens studie. Het is gewoon behelpen tijdens de studie, in de avond uren werkt ik ook vaak waardoor ik 600,- per maand kreeg ongeveer.
@7:02 she doesn't mean you can get medical treatment that you would usually get at a hospital at home tho. House calls are just for when you feel too sick to get out of your house so the docter comes by to do a checkup and write a prescription for some medicine. If you need to get hospital-grade care you still have to go there to recieve it.
I think she means that you can call your local doctor (which is mostly not in the hospital, but a local health center) and tell her your symptoms so she can tell you what to do. You can’t call the doctor to get treatment from distance, of course.
She said paid vacation if you have a fulltime job.
Well if you have a partime job you have that paid vacation to.
How many days?
If the company give you by example 28 days for fulltime (40hours).
Then you will have 14 days for partime work ((20 hours)
Legally the amount of paid time off is 4 times the amount of weekly hours in your contract. So if you have a contract for 24 hours per week, you're entitled to 24 * 4 = 96 hours of paid time off per year. Employers can give more than this if they want to, e.g. to be more attractive to potential employees.
Its, not common all over or much in the easy coast but many cities you can go to a Restraunt with a dog. I can even go into coffee shops without service animal paperwork. As long leashed the whole time, in a stroller, in a carrier. Mostly outdoors, but most of my area its very common and no I dont live in California
My mom has a low income because she is still on sick leave and an only parent and I only have to pay €1 every time I see a doctor, so that's good. (Belgium)
The tuition in EU actually covers only administrative costs of your studies, everything else is free ( it applies to public universities)
Not only do we (the dutch) get at least 20 working days off mandatory, usually 24-32 days, i had many jobs and never got less than 24 days.
BUT !!!!! we also get at least 8% of our yearly income to take with us on vacation (vacation money) so you get 1 month double pay.
By law, you're entitled to at least 4 times the amount of weekly hours in your contract. This effectively means 4 weeks of paid time off. And getting an additional 8% of our yearly income paid out around May is indeed standard, but companies can also choose to pay out the extra 8% immediately with each monthly payout, which is how I currently get it.
Many restaurants here in the Netherlands are okay with bringing your dog indoors with you, but it is custom and polite to ask the restaurant if it is okay. Outdoors it is generally okay without asking.
Did someone mention here or to her that commuting to work using public transport is fully deductible by tax? There are some rules for it (>10 km travel distance I think) but you can do get the tax refund yourself or your employer will provide your OV chipkaart and cover the costs for you. In most cases the employer will do it for you to save you from the hassle of collecting all tickets or invoices...
To be fair, when I finished my studies in the Netherlands I had about 38k debt. But I was also got 1/3 of my debts taken away because I graduated and I studied for 7 years. That money also went into living costs. The actual university( which is ranked in the top 100 in the world) cost 1k a semester. And the first 10 years you pay back there is 0 interest.
Well, the public transportations I quitte good yes, but also really expensive. And the universities are way more expensive then a couple of hundred euros a year😂
i was surprised to see moet & chandon for 49 euros a bottle fully stocked in the local AH supermarket here.... so you can get top end or your 2 euro liebfraumilch .. still all tastes the same to me though ;p
Depending on how many hours you work according your contract you build up time, like i work fulltime and i have 25 days a year standard. So a little over 2 days a month. I can take days off in between if planner approves and i have to request my 3 week holiday. I have kids and so i am bound to the kids schoolvacation but thats never a real problem. I have to request my weeks off in January and if they don't react within 4 weeks it is automatically approved. Plus on top of that i have 4 extra days off because i been working for this company for over 17 years. I live in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. And vacation time is my time, no calls from the employer to come back, nothing of that. Even if they call you, they only can ask it but if you say no, to bad for them. You still have your job. People need to get that kind of rest from work. We are not made just to work your whole life. You work to live, not the other way around.
That being said, after 3 weeks with my family (wife and 2 small kids), i want to go to work haha. Get some real mental rest.
About the dogs; in the Netherlands we think of our dog as a member of the family.
yes we get 28 days a year when you work fulltime (40 hours).
Dogs are officially not allowed in restaurants, unless they are 'helpdogs' for the blind etc.. But most of the restaurants allow them anyway. In my village I can bring my dog with me without a problem because they know he's well trained. It depends on the type of dog. Mine's a Labrador. If someone got into the restaurant with a German sheppard or a Mastiff, they will most likely fiendly be asked to keep the dog outside. They will get a bowl of water though.
Sorry to say, but a lot of restaurants in the Netherlands do NOT allow dogs/pets inside, unless they are service dogs. Mostly ofcourse for hygienic or allergic reasons.
Those boxes on the wall give me anxiety. How can you hang these things without a level :D
It's like that in Greece as well. And I like taking the trains to other places.
Yes, this is very normal we in northern Europe including the Netherlands it is normal to take 2-3 weeks' vacation to the more southern countries like Spain or Greece and take a summer vacation. And it might sound dumb to the average American but companies benefit from it because the productivity of workers actually increases.
The traveling holidays also evolved and changed over time. It was not average / normal, not that long ago. And where and how we spent our vacations.
Also many people did not leave the NL - as in videos about Limburg mentioned a lot of the tourism here was internal, people from Holland, and other places of the Netherlands going to Limburg. People from Limburg going to the Veluwe (NL) or Ardenne (BE) camping.
NL sticker on a car/caravan in Italy was inside stereotypically known as Niente Lire. NO Lire, pre Euro currency. The Dutch were known for taking everything they would need with them on holiday, from food - because hagelslag was typical Dutch good Dutch cheese was cheaper in NL, but even the washing powers, and dish soap. WE went prepared - and this evolved and grew as our economies and cultures did as well.
Going Dutch, & Dutch courage. All terms about stereotypes of Dutch culture. There are plenty of them.
So there are no active consumer organizations in the US? They are very active in Europe! Making sure customers dont get stiffed and that you know what you´re paying for and how much.
TIP: if you want to learn dutch fast you can watch dutch movies or video's with subtitels
Unfortunately, dutch movies suck! (unless you actually like soap)
Dogs are usually not allowed in upscale restaurants
What is also a huge difference is the level of taxation. It is not like our Universities run for free, but it is paid primarily through taxation meaning people without children (or who's children do not qualify or want to study) are also chipping in. This is a political choice and a large difference between the US and the Netherlands.
As an employer in The Netherlands you are obligated to stimulate workers to go on vacation the amount of days they have and not save up days.
if you're thinking of moving to the netherlands, best to get to it asap. bureaucracy will likely make everything take longer than expected so might as well make a head start
1. Not all places accept dogs, inside. Outside seating hardly ever is a problem to also have a dog. And yes we even have a dog-bar at places where they can get water, or give a bowl with water if it is warm or if the owner asks for it. They are part of the family.
If you go to a very luxurious restaurant there might be a house rule that dogs are not allowed inside (exception as always for service dogs).
But here a service dog has do wear a special harness, and outfit. also to show this is a working dog so people will act differently towards them, no petting aloud, etc. unlike with regular dogs.
Yes it is nice to ask a owner if you can pet/touch their dog, often dogs will come up to you by them selves, if you are an animal person in my experience. A dog on the job is a different story - this way children can be taught the differences between a pet dog and a (pet) service dog.
A service dog that is working/on the job has an outfit/special leach [harness]. Other dogs don't, people can get this illegally but it is not easy to get this if you don't own a certificated service dog.