Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "American Reacts to 400 Year Old Canal House Tour in Europe" video.

  1. It's also the top floor, under the attic. Often the lower floors are higher to let more light in.
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  2. Great about Amsterdam is that the city was planned with foresight back then. It was planned for the merchant as a family business, so for maximum canal access for the most houses with had both living and storage spaces. So limited width, also the gardens at the back were mandatory, they already new there had to be green, recreation and a bit of peace and quiet in cities. It also had to fit within the fortifications, so very compact. If you want to live in Amsterdam you have to trade floor space with about anything, location, atmosphere, light, parks nearby, views, practicality, number of rooms (more than one even), ceiling height, windows you can sit in, if you want lots of square meters you are going to pay a heavy price. There is no point in living in Amsterdam and being at home a lot anyway. I've rented a room in an older part of Amsterdam (Grimburgwal), it was also lovely in atmosphere and view. It was not even a top floor but there was only a section of the room I (6ft4) could stand upright with shoes on thanks to the building being crooked over time. That doesn't work, I had to find a new place.
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  3.  @janryckmans3902  No, it started significantly earlier. There was a reason people from Antwerp moved to Amsterdam and not elsewhere in the Dutch Republic. Because Amsterdam was a young city, it was already planned and set up for access to the canals, therefore for trade over water. That was the way to go and Amsterdam was already booming.
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  4.  @janryckmans3902  Yes for Antwerp, and in the which is the most important port in North-West Europe. Amsterdam that was already on the rise fast for a 15th-16th century city lost a great competitor nearby. But so much more happened around that time, like the freedom the merchants from Antwerp came for, they were not the only ones, and of course there was the invention of the wind sawmill, that allowed the Dutch Republic to build ships 30 times faster than anybody else. That did not only come at expense of Antwerp merchants but also at the expense of Scandinavian, Baltic, English etc merchants, while trade volumes in general steeply increased.
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  5. It would be at least 3000 by now, rent can only be raised a limited annual amount, but not for new tenants.
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