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@Ukraineaissance2014 no I am European, my country was liberated by the Americans, English, Canadians, Australians, Polish and French. And yes the Americans did the most, on a global scale, you must be very bad at math if you can't see that. But as I said also, that doesn;t make them better, they just had more stuff, more natural resources., more people. Oh and in 1943, most American GI's would have at least one grandparent that was not born in the US, they were a melting pot of a hundred nations.
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I stayed hundreds of nights and days in a castle. Castles are so common here that my family actually rented one as a holiday home for 30 years. (and we are not rich) ok it was not big, but it was a real one, from the 1600s, with towers, a moat (with water!) and a bridge. it was a bit in disrepair, thats why the rent was very cheap and 3 generations of us visited as often as possible (we also shared the costs between the extended family members. I loved it as a child, but we had to let it go when the renovation costs were too high and the owner had to sell it to somebody with millions to fix it.
it looked Exactly like the 1st white one you showed, except much smaller, about 1/3rd the size edit, just saw more footage , make that 1/8th the size.
we went there on school holidays and often just the weekends. you could play in the forests and on the water, but the land around was public grounds, open to anyone, basically a park.
we kids, told many a ghost story on those stays, to scare our little sisters, and it had plenty of nooks and crannies to explore, 4 cellars and at least 5 attics... but other than that it was just a normal, yet very big house, but old fashioned, without modern comforts. we still had to use coal and wood to heat it, and the bathroom situation was never developed beyond the 1950s.
it was incredible fun. as a child I didn't know how lucky we were.
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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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@julianmorrisco spot on!~ I am in my forties. When I was a kid in the 80s , America was still the promised land, from books , movies etc. I am from a wealthy EU country but the USA was leagues ahead of us. When I was a young adult I travelled a lot and I saw america, it was still nice, but I already saw the cracks forming. This was in the Bush jr. era. Nowadays I consider the USA a dump, sure it has nice parts, for the rich, but huge parts are in disrepair. I wouldn't want to live there if they tripled my current salary..... I'd rather stay here, with less money but far better living conditions and better culture. Wait, I forgot to include guns and MAGA idiots. I wouldn't go there if they paid me millions.
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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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@donmarek7001 lol, thanks for the belly laughs.. 'food is cheaper.' "Obama is a communist'' We need humor in these times.
anyway, being a european I don;t know what the 2nd amendment is, is it about your freedom or your infatuation with firearms? I don;t think it matters much in this conversation about the wealth of nations. It's sad that you won't be able to travel to the EU, or I could show you that our food (in any regular supermarket grocery store) is cheaper and higher quality. I must admit we don't have quite as many choices in peanut butter or choco pops cereals that you guys have, but somehow we survived having 15 choices instead of 32.
Switzerland is a nice place to live, but a bit expensive. I myself live in the Netherlands, Germany's little sibling.. (we are also slightly prettier, taller and wealthier, but the Germans do ok too)
Oh, and we also have thrift stores! can you believe it!
We also have freedom of movement, we can work freely in any EU country (we are a bit like the States in that regard) And my Dutch passport is just as strong worldwide as an USA one, so I can basically go anywhere just like you (except North Korea and a few of that kind of failed despotisms)
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@Bruv234 I can answer your question. Portuguese , English, Spanish, French, and Dutch, American and Danish flags, in order of volume. (so Portugal the most) we are 5th on the list just above the USA. So you were indeed right with your statement.
Slave trade has probably existed since the dawn of time and afaik every culture on every continent in history has been part of it. Europeans, Africans, Asians, Native Americans, everybody. christians, muslims, hindoes, jews, it doesn't matter they all did it. So I don't judge anybody's ancestors , I am just happy that humankind evolved in a way that we now collectively worldwide condemn it. (although it still happens even to this day sadly)
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@Joker-yw9hl you can easily go to Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, etc and survive on English. Tons of expats don't learn the native language. After a few years people will laugh at you a bit if you still can't speak Dutch or Danish, but if you stay in your bubble, you will be fine. You don't harm anybody except yourself by not learning the language and we all speak reasonable english. The only countries this can be a problem are the very large ones, France, Italy etc, those are so large that they can afford to do 95% of their business in their native language, so foreigners have to adopt
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@dom3827 dude, I am a 47 year old european, i life in the netherlands, I have been checking out cars and car magazines for 40 years. You only give top of the line examples, like an 80s Opel Senator with board computer, a car that was like 0.01% of Opels sales!!!! How hard is it to understand that 90% of their sales were basic corsa's kadett's and ascona's , 9% were slightly more luxurious managament cars, like the Record and 1% were luxury sedans.
Do i really have to scan my old car magazine articles of the 80s and 90s to show you how basic the average SOLD car was?
In the same period, americans didn;t drive hondas and ford trucks.. Have you ever watched any american movies? they drove chevies, fords, plymouths, oldsmobiles . and yes, later also hondas and toyotas.
look up best selling car per year in Car and Driver. It;s ALL sedans and hatchbacks all 80s and 90s
the most sold card from 1978 to 1981 was the Oldsmobile Cutlass. It had automataic gearbox, power steering, power windows, power locks, AC, all kinds of stuff you didn;t find in european common people cars.
Or we look 10 years later, 89-91 best selling car was Honda Accord. It would have much more electronic gadgets than a similar prices EU car, because Americans expected that kind of stuff and europeans were just getting used to it in high end cars. Yes sure you can find an audi in 1990 with the same, but it would be much more expensive.
I would say that it would take another decade for trim levels to be equally all over the world.
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I wish you all the best and I hope you all find your own Tommy or Gina....
Tommy used to work on the docks, union's been on strike
He's down on his luck, it's tough, so tough
Gina works the diner all day, working for her man
She brings home her pay, for love, mmm, for love
She says, "We've gotta hold on to what we've got
It doesn't make a difference if we make it or not
We've got each other and that's a lot for love
We'll give it a shot"
Whoa, we're half way there
Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer
Take my hand, we'll make it, I swear
Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer
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I went to Poland for the first time in my life last summer. It was much better than I expected. I only stayed in the area of Krakau (Kraków ) because my car broke down and I had no time to go north once it was fixed, but everything was great except the young police officer who insisted to give me a fine for walking on a road forbidden for pedestrians, when I only wanted to ask them for directions!!!! They were talking to somebody else, so I thought, ok let's walk to the police car and ask... Turned out they were fining that other person and when I showed up, I also got a fine!
Anyway, the country was well organized, clean, safe and I saw a lot of progress and new wealth. I do know that usually this doesn't mean everybody profits, often there are parts of the population that can exploit all the new economic opportunities and get rich and other parts of the population that are left behind. So I know it's not utopia, but it is certainly developing nicely.
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@baddog9320 good grief, how ignorant can you be.
5-cylinder engines have been around a long time. Henry Ford first tinkered with them back in the late 1930s. Fast forward to 1974 and Mercedes has put a 5-cylinder diesel in their 300D. Jump forward 2 years (1976) and Audi has introduced the first gas-powered inline 5 in the Audio 100, the beginnings of a relationship that lasts to today (though with some bumps and gaps along the way). In fact, along with Volvo, the 5-cylinder is forever linked with Audi.
Since Audi’s initial success with the 5-cylinder, seemingly ever manufacturer has introduced their own version at some point: Volvo in 1991, Volkswagen across many of their offerings, Acura, Fiat, Lancia, GM (including even the Hummer H3 when it was first introduced), and others.
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In the Netherlands I went to a dorm room in my university, it was build in the 1970s as well, but it had a private shower and toilet in each room (in my block at least, there were also blocks with shared facilities. I also had a tiny mini kitchen. So you could call it a mini apartment. It was about twice the size of your room in total. It costed me €160 a month, but we didn't have the Euro yet.
I checked the current rates, in 2022 the rooms are €366 a month. More than doubled in 25 years.
the best thing was the super fast internet. In 1996 we already had 1-10 Mbit connections in our room, for a short time we had the fastest internet in the world together with one university in Seoul and one in California.
It was nice to live there, the housing was on the university terrain, close to your classes and you also had sport facilities of every sport imaginable and a lot of other things. And a bar that never closed.
Fridge magnets are seen here, but not very common, most households just have a few small button like magnets to hold a note, like when the kid has to go to the dentist.
I have two that I bought in Estonia and Latvia
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I go grocery shopping 5 times a week, but some weeks it can be 7 times. Basically every day I buy fresh stuff. It doesn't feel like a chore , it takes 5-15 minute a day. I have two basic options: walk 300m to a small mall in my neighbourhood with choice of 2 supermarkets, 1 discounter and 1 premium. Or stop at any of the 5 supermarkets that are between me and my work, a 7 mile (11 km) ride. Those 5 are only those directly at my route, if I vary my route slightly I can get to at least 5 more. One of these , that requires a little detour is a huge one (for Dutch standards, probably medium sized elsewhere) , and I go there about once a week when I fancy some obscure food stuffs they don't carry in most normal sized stores.
For stuff like IKEA, hardware stores, electronics, sports equipment , we actually have some USA style malls with parking lots, usually at the corner of cities. But we also have those in the downtown areas, it varies a bit based on the history of the city
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@franciscodelico no, it's not authoritarian, but just common sense. the world needs standards to run, in cars, planes, computers, clothing, house building everything needs standards for efficiency and safety . to be against that is completely insane . Your freedom of choice can be expressed in other things, like which car you want to drive, which pair of trousers you wear, which operating system you install on your device....
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@redpillcommando I am not insulting my students, I just said they are not the brightest, which is not an insult. They are not Leonard / Sheldon type of students, more like Penny. (If you know that tv show)
I am not teaching at university, but at what americans would call community college I think. I am proud of my students for achievements within their capacities (which for them is not the academic field)
As for the dual boot situation, you know more about it than me, I can just tell you our experiences in class. We have all HP machines, laptops and desktops, all from 2011-2017. Probooks, Elitebooks, Prodesks, several generations. (the teachers and students have newer machines for personal use) but these are just school devices we use for the lessons.
What they learn is to install W10 (or W11) on a SSD, then make unallocated space on that drive, then install a linux distribution (We use Suse, Ubuntu and Mint , but I assume any other would also work)
Most of those linux installers ask if they should override windows or install alongside... and when it;s done, they restart the machine and they get a choice.
Sometimes it doesn't work immediately and they have to troubleshoot something, usually a BIOS setting. (In fact that is a reason for this lesson, to learn more about those settings)
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This is all to real. I (European) planned a trip, an extended trip to the USA , going from NY, to Florida, to Texas, to California. This would be a long trip, costing a lot of money, up to 10K U$ . Then covid happened and I had to delay it. Now I am making it, but plans have changed, now I will go from the city of NY, to New England, then skipping any GOP areas and go directly to California. You will never see me spending a dime in any Republican oriented area. yes I am that petty. Luckily for me , the US is a large country and there is plenty of beauty to be found in more civilized areas, so I don't feel like missing out on anything.
note: 10K is a lot of money for me, if it is pocket change for others, good for them.
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@2112jonr yes, i can program a video play website myself in a month.... As you say it's not hard. But you forget the most important thing: Selling it! Attracting advertisers that pay billions is what makes youtube dominant . We could make a website that is 5 times better, but how are we paying the content creators? You need a massive audience, to attract advertisers, to get money, to attract content creators, to get a massive audience....
the only point in history where you don;t need all that, is at the very beginning, when everything started with nothing, and your site could grow organically .
For the same reason you cannot say: amazon sucks, I'll make a better webshop.....
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@sebastiann4402 the Ruhr might be an butt ugly industrial conglomerate, it has 5 million people, that;s 10 times as much as Kansas City. 24 million tourists visit those cities every year. It has a major river, it has numerous sport arenas, world class concerts, art galleries, high cuisine restaurants etc. to think that a midsize US city can compete with that is ridiculous. (except for natural beauty) Köln alone would probably beat Kansas City
sure it's by far not as famous as London, Paris, Berlin or Barcelona but that is the nice thing about european cities, even the ugly duckies among them have a lot to offer.
Anyway we were talking about Aachen, I only mentioned Ruhr cities because they are at a distance that Americans still call close by... (aachen - koln is 50 minutes, that's about the same as from one end of Kansas city to the opposite side)
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My last time in Poland, I nearly locked my main travel bag in my room when I was about to leave for Slovakia... No wait not nearly, I actually did it. That would have been a minor disaster, but I got saved by the cleaning staff that happened to show up in the building a few minutes after I went in panic mode. It was on of those modern apartment rentals, without any staff, and a code check in , a bit the same as your situation.. I was so happy when that guy with a trolley and cleaning gear and a KEY showed up
my original entry code didn't work anymore and I left the keys on the kitchen table , by request
it was a better apartment than yours though, with a full size kitchen, and washing machine and everything you could ask for for a longer stay. It was brand new, build in like 2022. I gave them 5 stars
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I don't even do the bag thing anymore, I just walk in empty handed, grab a carton box, fill it with my food stuff, self check out and go.
But Blackadder, what if there are no cardboard boxes? There are ALWAYS cardboard boxes, if nothing is at the checkout area, I just walk into the store and go to the vegetable or the potato chips section and 90% of the time there will be a box for me. In 10% of the time I have to ask one of the teenagers for a box who is filling the shelves. In 5 years it never happened that I didn't have a box.
Note, this works for me because I usually don;t buy too much in one go, and just for me. For shopping for a family I would bring my own containers in the car
The card board boxes I use at home to collect empty bottles, cans , paper etc, and once a week I bring them to the recycling
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well, it is only normal that that is the case.... Why??? because just BEFORE a war, it has been the LONGEST period of peace, by definition . And during peace, it;s a waste of resources to carry on with a war-time military apparatus. So it's NATURAL that when a war ends, the military gets downsized, and and more, and more and 'hey it's been peace for ages, let;s downsize some more, ad infinitum...
Of course, it would be smart to predict the next war and prepare for it , but predicting the future is notoriously hard.
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I am just a viewer, not a creator. I keep my youtube page ok by following a few rules: Never click on stuff I know I dislike. Activily cick on 'do not recommend this channel' when I feel like I don;t want to see it again. Hide shorts immediately for 30 days when they pop up.
I rarely use search, and enough interesting channels pop up to keep me busy. I watch politics, outdoor living, pets, (vintage) gaming lets plays, travel, science and some hobby channels like metal detecting. these topics have little to do with each other. I only subscribe to channels I really like. but the channels I am NOT subscribed to, but still watch sometimes still show up in my feed. All together i am still pretty happy with youtube. (note I adblock everything on every level possible I have 0 tolerance for ANY advert whatsoever. No exceptions. If you want to support somebody, there is always another way, but I ain't wasting my life watching ads)
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If I had the misfortune to live in the USA I might be attracted to your off grid living, it has many positive aspects, which you explained greatly.
but here in Europe things are different (some things are better here, some are worse)
Let's start with the better things.
1. food. I think our food is better and healthier, and easily available and cheaper too. (for the healthy food stuffs) thanks to EU regulations that ban a lot of the stuff that gives US processed food such a bad rep that you found that you needed to grow your own food to feel safe. I can eat healthy and affordable all year round, with a combination of local produce and grocery food.
2. Income security. People here can;t be fired on a whim, so they are less afraid to take a loan in their younger days for things like a house. It basically has always been a good investment in the past 100 years here, with maybe 1 or 2 years of international financial crisis being a problem for a few people, but fewer were affected if they could just stay and a few years later prices were great again. Again because more regulations, people were not thrown out of their houses, like in the USA where whole parts of Detroit turned into ghost towns...
Now some worse parts.
3. Opportunity... in europe it is a lot more difficult to start something, a business, or a homestead. much more regulations... that's the other side of the coin.. those regulations that help us be safe, also prevent us to explore new paths... In the USA you can just try something, and if it fails, no big deal, you pull yourself up and try something else. And one day it might be a success.
4. Space.. Europe is old and most of the land has been exploited for centuries, if not millenia.. It's almost impossible to find a spot of land suitable for something like you have going on here. And if you can it would cost you between a half and a million euros (same in dollars) so the whole idea of being independent is gone already.....
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@jimatperfromix2759 it's even worse than I feared.. Trump is a criminal, a sex offender and a fraud, and you keep voting for such a evil moron, because you are brainwashed somehow that the democrats ruined the country? most of the damage was being done under Reagan, Bush jr and sr. and Trump. Democrats are not saints, I immediately believe you if you say they also have many flaws, but they are the lesser evil here.
You have it completely backwards, I AM one of those EU visitors who is afraid to visit the USA and IF I decide to come, I will go to Democrat dominated states ONLY, avoiding any republican areas like the plague... (which I think they are, they are a plague)
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@mrdaveythebaby only for your homeless people, who buy those carton wines. most wine in bottles is put in the bottle locally, no matter if its from Chile, France, Italy, Spain, South Africa or Australia, to name a few important wine producers. Bulk wine exists and it can be fine, but it's harder to keep quality control (temperature, handling etc) so it's rare to see it used for better wine. (and with better I don't mean grand crus, just any ordinary supermarket wine already qualifies )
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I just did Eindhoven - Sevilla. with Ryanair. it's landing, 10 minutes to drop people off, quick quick quick clean a bit, load up, fuel, safety check, boarding starts already while this is ongoing , (which is why you have to wait AGAIN these days outside after getting past the final boarding gate) , get people in, final checks and go. All in about an hour tops. SO for 5 flights of 2,5 hours each, you need 5 x 2,5 = 12,5 + 4x1 = 16,5 hours. If you start at 07:00 , you can end around midnight. (most don;t fly during the night)
I was OUTSIDE the airport 8 minutes after landing this time, a new record for me. (no baggage and I was seated right next to the door, and was out the plane in 4 minutes , with a 4 minute walk to the exit.
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I think it's a bit of a class issue, in Europe , much more than in the americas we have these old remnants from the past, social classes. 200 years of programs to make everybody equal have not done enough, these structures are still in every european culture. the upper class had all these customs, and the middle class wants to be like the upper class, so they copy them. Fixed dinner times etc are a part of those upper class habits. And the middle class could easily adopt that, since it aligns quite well with traditional work / school schedules.
The lower class is more busy with survival on a day to day basis, so they don't have the 'luxury' to copy the upper class.
Now the last thing I want to do is to insult your american family by calling them lower class, but I think it's more that american culture in general, no matter how successful or rich they are, has more attributes of lower class european culture, because of the more egalitarian nature of the culture ( founding fathers ideals of everybody being equal) and the more cutthroat nature of American economy and work life. Less social security = you need to be more individualistic to succeed.... hustle and bustle your way to the top.
As for Dutch families staying together or staying in the same region, that is also a bit of a class thing. The higher class (usually higher education) Dutch spread out all over the world, in fact we are quite known for being everywhere, being a trading nation. So since the 17th century or even earlier the merchant class travelled a lot and was not afraid to sail across the oceans for economic opportunities. A good amount of them even ended up in what is now the United States or Canada.
At the same time, the common people, the working class has been known to be very sedentary and can stay in the same town or village for generations . Especially before 1980. In the modern times, with globalization, it's quite unlikely that a young person can find a living in their home town.
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@ScottCleve33 well, in my environment (EU country) things are very different, apartments are warm and cosy, well insulated and mostly soundproof. Many seniors live here, but also younger couples. When a family wants to have children, a single home is indeed better, and most here do indeed move to a family house, if they can afford it. We do have single houses, but also a lot of terraced housing which is cheaper (but still allows for front and back gardens) Space is more at a premium here compared to the USA, but having a larger size house is still very possible in Europe.
As an illustration: my modern apartment is 968 square feet and costs me $800 in rent and $200 more for utilities , plus $30 for a private parking spot. (All prices in Euro, but that's roughly the same) I live here on my own, but could easily share it with a partner. But it would be a bit too small for kid(s)
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