Comments by "Blackadder75" (@Blackadder75) on "Jordan Green" channel.

  1. we are not left wing, the last really progressive government we had was in the 1970s, since then it has always been right wing or central, in the middle we are just not ultra right wing, as half of the americans are , with one party being right wing and the other turning into straight out fascism
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  2.  @Theokondak  REAL Italian food is mostly vegetables and beans and doesn't look like the pop culture pizza and meatballs spaghetti that other countries made from it. ok, they also eat a lot of pasta, but if you ever visit Italy, you will see that most people are lightweights and they also are world record holders in getting old (together with the Japanese)
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  3. It is really sad, because for all the flaws suburbia has, those wide, green and mostly empty cul-de-sacs should be an excellent playground for kids, running around, or on bikes, to do whatever their creativity can think of, in the neighbourhood. And I think it used to be that way in the USA from the 50s up to about the 90s
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  4. Supermarket work is for many teens their first 'job' and it is seen here as a job you do a few hours after school, or for a few years, before starting your 'real' career. A large Albert Heijn might have a staff of 50 people, 10 will be adults, working full time and 40 will be young people between 15-20 that only work part time in shifts (so obviously these people wouldn't all work at the same time in one store) the full timers would be the manager, and heads of every section of the store ( casier, fruits, bakery, meat, dry goods etc) maybe somebody for security etc. And all the others are just temporary workers . I think NL is quite unique in this, in most other european countries it's mostly old people who do the job for 20 years ( and you can usually tell they didn't enjoy it the last 19 years) the little kids you saw working can only work for a limited amount of hours per week, it really is like getting extra pocket money for them, they can buy a playstation or some electric vehicle when they turn 16 or so with that money. or just blow it on clothes and party drugs when they get to that age.
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  5. at least the sidewalks seemed to be well kept and free of weeds. I also saw 1 bicycle sign where the sidewalk was at it's best so I think that was Texas 'haphazard' way of making bicycle infrastructure. But still at this time of day it was doable to ride that route. However, now go ride the same route in the morning rush hour.... when dozens of cars want to leave or enter the highway at every intersection.
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  6. @ we only have to survive the baby boomers age group of pensioners, once they are gone, we will be fine , lower population is ok. And so far the population is only growing because life is good here, people from everywhere come here. . (This comes with it;s own problems, hence the growing right wing political parties)
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  7.  @fex144  I do get fines a few times a year, but never in a 30 or 50km zone, it;s usually on the highway or 80km road, where I will drive 90 or above 100 on the highway.... I don't have the feeling I am endangering my fellow road users, it's more like I pay a little extra road tax because I sometimes drive too fast before 19:00 hours . Within the built-up area of a town or village I drive slowly, because of pedestrians and cyclists.
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  8.  @Ivoryisultra  I visited California in 2003, even back than I noticed how shabby everything looked..... Well not everything... The pattern was always: nice and prosperous business center turning into crumbing stuff the more blocks further you went.... Same with residential areas, the rich part looks nice, but cross a highway and the next area can look like a dump. Since I was 20 I didn't have much money for my trip so I stayed in the low cost areas. (I didn't mind, it was ok, but that was how I noticed these things) Americans live in a 3rd world country, unless they make enough $$ to buy themselves out of the shit, preferably with a big wall around them so they don't have to see it anymore. They also do everything by car, so you can be rich and not notice these things for years, you just move from nice spot to nice spot in your SUV
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  9. but here, the frequency of those police actions is very low compared to the us. In 20 years of driving, no police has ever stopped me or fined me, and I am not the best-behaved boy in class, I get a speeding ticket a few times a year( from normal speeding cameras)
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  10. no worries Jordan, just visit your family as often as you (financially ) can, and find a great place to stay that you and your girlfriend like, or be a digital nomad for a while before settling down. As you explained in a previous video that is what american pioneers did too in the past (europeans by choice, africans by force) My dutch family moved to Curacao, to Dutch East Indies and to Canada , to France and some stayed in the Netherlands
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  11. You can safely assume you can always walk somewhere , because our country is so organized there will always be some SIGN with 'EIGEN WEG' or VERBODEN TOEGANG if you are not supposed to go there...
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  12. @ Jordan is not alone, my youtube feed is floaded with similar content.... He is just 1 soldier in a growing legion of critical thinking americans
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  13. the no snow thing in winter here is easy: the ocean is warm, so when the wind is from the sea (with rain and potential snow) the air is heated up by the sea and it's not cold enough in general to have snow. We only get cold periods when the wind is from the east, and blows cold air all the way from Belarus / Poland / Germany to the Netherlands (or from Northeast Scandinavia) But that air doesn't have much moisture in it , so in those periods we have cold , but clear weather. The only real chance for a good big snow storm is when those two weather systems change around, and new wet air is blown over a frozen cold land, and then we get a 'flink pak sneeuw' 25 years ago this was more common, but since climate change is real, it has become very rare indeed these days , we now get more warm air from the atlantic
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  14. that's a bit harsh, he get's the idea pretty well, for somebody who probably has been there for a short time
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  15. I really love how you do the same walks over there in the US, we can learn a lot from just observing the difference AND the similarities. As for the grass, it's a bit weird you saw so little, in most small villages and towns the middle class homes still have a lot of grass yards, only smaller than the american average, but they should be there. As a Dutch kid I always had to mow the lawn in the growing season. We didn't have a motor lawnmower, just an electric one , which was quite annoying cause you had to drag a 30m extension cord all the time
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  16. i don't even want to go there on holiday... not even if you paid me. 20 years ago I went, it was ok but even then I already saw the cracks in the facade and thought, boy am I glad I don't live here and can return home after my trip.
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  17. it looks like the largest hyper markets I have seen in Spain, Poland, France etc, only more junk food options. everything seems to be more expensive as well, and yes that is adjusted for package size. chicken fries (patat) and apple sauce is a traditional kids meal that you can give to any kid and they will usually like it, so it was popular for kids birthday parties etc. Your conclusion near the end is correct, we have all this but in different stores. In my city Enschede, it would be an AH XL, a Decathlon, a Blokker, a HEMA, a C&A, an Intratuin , Mediamarkt , Zara and a Praxis combined (and probably a few smaller ones) In many Dutch cities they have areas where you can visit all of these together for somewhat the same overall experience. It also looks a lot like a 'Warenhuis' , like V&D but those went out of business. The non food section is very similar, but instead of building 5 floors they put it all on a flat square. In stead of seeing it as a grocery store that sells other things, it's more a department store that also sells groceries
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  18. @ just go to restaurants with the menu in italian and not in english.. If you can;t read it use google lens to translate it
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  19.  @reviewguy12  I am in europe, kids play ball games on the street right before my frontdoor almost every day, we also have a small park 200 meter away and a larger one 1km away. but they still also play in the streets and any strip of barren land they can find
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  20.  @TheNismo777  imitation brick?
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  21. and true
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  22. your stove looks like it's the same brand as mine, but when I turn the knobs, and press them down, a fire spark will ignite the gas. I thought that was like 100% standardized here since the 1990s . maybe yours is broken? anyway for 1 month a box of matches will do fine
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  23. @ you should read a newspaper once a year or so 😄 maybe then you would know UK is not in EU since brexit :face-purple-crying:
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  24. @ can't you take an extended holiday or break from work to live in USA for let's say 90 days... then you can really experience how it is. personally I wouldn't go there if they tripled my salary, but each to it's own. Be aware that daily life is much more expensive in the States, so every cent they save on taxes, they have to pay for food, housing, insurance, cars etc
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  25. it also has a function, as a kid we always had large lawns, and we played a lot on them.
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  26.  @tedsteiner  even that is kinda debatable, because you might make 2x as much, but it will also cost 2x as much, if not more to have the same quality of life
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  27.  @JordanGreenYT  Berlin is also 5 hours.. ok maybe 6 from Apeldoorn
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  28. @ never! but I usually don;t drive in areas with night life scene, being Dutch I would walk or use a bike when going clubbing.. (at least when I was younger, nowadays I never go clubbing :( )
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  29. don't go so a-political that you don;t bother to vote. That got your country in its current mess Always vote! Even if you don't like any of the choices, spend 1 hour of your life to research which option is the least bad in your opinion, and pick that one.
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  30. google maps is their friend
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  31. @ that doesn't make us left wing, it only shows how distorted the muricans have become
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  32. I think he understands that, based on his monologue on this part of the video
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  33. @ why not? We have people from all over the world here, including every African country you can think of and every North or South American country as well. Did you feel you wouldn't fit in?
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  34.  @JordanGreenYT  no hurry, it's fun to try out several other countries if it fits your and your girlfriends interest (and is financial viable)
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  35. the tailgating guy probably was just a jerk, we have them too here...
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  36. plenty of Dutch young men also buy a car that they shouldn't , some do learn and grow up wiser when they start a family
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  37. The current best (fastest) ice skater in the world happens to be an American, named Jordan Stolz but in general, the Netherlands are by far the best ice skating nation in the world, winning the most gold medals at the winter olympics in the past 20 or 30 years. Historically almost every winter all those lakes and canals would freeze, that's why every kid and adult could skate and had their own skates. Since climate change got serious we hardly have more than a few days with light frost, so those days are over, but the professional sport is still going strong Nordic countries , especially Norway are also ok with ice skating, but they concentrate more on snow sports, and we don't have snow here
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  38.  @JordanGreenYT  Brabanters are definitely not known for their directness
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  39.  @JordanGreenYT  and people that have a garage here often use it as a workshop or storage, and park the car outside anyway. but richer people in the netherlands usually have garages for 1 or more cars.. especially in the countryside
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  40. I dunno if you can figure out a way to make it work financially, but I would try to spend some time in another country in Europe that you haven't been yet, not Spain, not Netherlands, just something completely different like Estonia (the Baltic states have transformed into modern western states in record time over the past 2 decades) btw your parent's Dodge van was one of the few american cars that got some success in the netherlands, it was sold here as the Chrysler Voyager and might actually have been the most sold american car here for quite some time
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  41. that is what he was taught in school . bs
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  42.  @AdrianoRines  we were not talking about the US, but about Europe in that comment
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  43.  @JordanGreenYT  my grandparents bought their (single-family detached home) in Brabant for €100,000 in 1980, my parents sold it in 2020 for €920,000, that is slightly less increase but in 40 years. But here is the kicker.. the new owner immediately demolished it to build a larger , more modern villa on the property, so basically they paid that 900K just for the land and the right to build a house there. the old house costing almost a million just wasn't luxurious enough for people who can buy million euro houses.
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  44.  @blackhole9961  I would say it;s about the same here aka almost every kid. Kids that really disappear are so rare that the gossip media keep reporting on them for years
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  45. many people can buy a tax free bike through their work, which makes it a bit cheaper, But new ones can easily cost €1000-2000 with electric ones even more. but if you get 40% back as tax cut it makes it a bit better. And the 2nd hand market is great , I have bought 90% of the bikes in my life 2nd hand, for a few hundred you can have a great one
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  46.  @mrphyz4674  half the EU is richer than UK.... people from poor areas just migrate to better economies, germany, ireland, denmark or uk, doesnt matter
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  47.  @mrphyz4674  business people in london have high saleries.. no shit sherlock.... now go to bristol or liverpool or bumfck upon tyne and ask again...
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  48. for me to step in that country again some changes have to be made : the current government has to be voted away with a landslide of all landslides (so I will know that a huge majority of Americans realize the severity of the situation) and then several years have to pass with significant political improvements, repairing some of the damage. then I will consider it again. in 2035 or so
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  49. I teach at an MBO school (dutch trade school) and since many of our students are 18+ , they do come with cars, but we still don;t have a parking lot for students, just a big one for the staff. the students will park in the neighbourhood where it is allowed. (and they learn to not illegal park, cause people will call the traffic enforcers and they will get tickets quickly) it is discouraged to come by car, and most come by train or bus, we have a large transit station at 300m from the school . In 6 years of me being here, I have seen 2 incidents with students getting into a serious fight, and 1 of them included a knife
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  50. the price is ok for 1 month airbnb , nice find. it's really a typical airbnb interior, I have solo traveled throughout much of europe and these kind of spaces pop up everywhere, from spain to latvia. they are not meant for permanent living stay, but good for a temporary stay. (small fridge, small bedroom, , lack of storage etc etc ) The only thing I don't like about these places is that they always have the same style of bland 'art' on the walls.
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