@@MrAronymous InterPay was created by the Dutch banks in 1994 to handle all these payment things. The Netherlands really was ahead of it's time compared to almost all countries in the world.
It is funny that you mentioned it. My sister lives in California. Her husband is 79 years old . Every time when he buys his liquor they ask him for his ID. When he points them to his face, the answer is : "sorry sir, it is the law".
I was in the US an was carded at a club. I was around 50 yrs old at the time. I removed my glasses and gave them to the doorman. He looked at me questionably. I told him " If you have doubts about me being under 21, you need these more than I do."
".. I've been living too long in ..." No, Ava... you're finally beginning to see the light... You're becoming a real Dutchy... be proud of that accomplishment.
The US seems so unoptimised. I live in Scotland and couldn't imagine not having a washing machine in my flat. Banking and living cash-free is also super easy here. If only we had safe cycling infrastructure 😭I'd cycle everywhere if that were the case
In New York space is at a premium. Having your own washer and dryer basically costs a whole bedroom. Once you get away from the center of big cities, pretty much everyone has their own washer and dryer.
“Cash only” has 2 reasons : the owners don’t want to pay the 3-5% commission and/or transaction costs OR they don’t want the IRS to see a taxable income on their bank account.
Yeah our transactions are way cheaper. 3-6 cent per transaction instead of the outrageous fee they dare charge abroad. I hope this won’t change when we make the switch from Maestro/V-Pay to MC/Visa Debit cards.. that would be almost instant additional inflation for consumers. Btw in NL it used to be more similar to how it is now in the US. Only instead of a percentage they’d charge a flat fee so vendors would regularly only allow payments of, say, over 10 Gulden. Then the flat fee was lowered to its current rate and vendors/Currence started with the “Klein bedrag, pinnen mag” campaign (small payments can be paid by card too)
I was 42 years of age when I ordered a beer in a bar in The United States, and was quite surprised when the bartender asked me to show some ID. I know I look young, but still. I told him "I'm allowed to drink twice." Of course he's just doing his job, but I was surprised, to say the least. Funny and interesting experience.
Lol 😂 yea, I remember the very 1st time that happened to me as well I was in a restaurant on my birthday, and the waitress asked for an id 🪪. I thought my friend told her to do that as a prank 😅. She was like no miss I need to see your Id 🪪 & I said No it’s my birthday 🎂 ru kidding me & plus I look older than 20yrs old so, I was like plz bring me a Bahamas mama. I then saw her returning with her supervisor, and my friend said believe me she’s old enough to drink 🍹. So, the manager ck’d & apologized & even gave me a free drink but said miss u look so young. Mind u I never got ck’d when I was under aged strange isn’t it. 😅
Actually I have always wondered why that is. People who bring their own drinks, do so to save money, most likely. Those people would not have bought drinks at the restaurant anyway, so you might as well let them enjoy the rest of their ordered items.
@@thany3 In our culture it is considered rude to do such a thing. We are a company who have limited tables for people to sit down. Covering those tables and not ordering means the restaurant is not able accomodate other people who would like to order drinks or food from the restaurant. Meaning the restaurant will be negatively impacted. I do have to say that it is not always the case where all our tables are accomidated for. But as I've said. it is considered as being rude if you do so in the Netherlands.
You can bring your own wine to most good restaurants in the Netherlands, you will have to pay "kurkengeld" though, which is a fee you pay to the restaurant because you are still using their facilities.
@@bastiaan4129 I had never heard of that. But then, I must admit to not frequenting restaurants a lot. Or ever... I suppose that maybe some of the more chic restaurants would do this. But not for just any bottle of €3 supermarket sewage. Right?
@@bobosims1848 As far as restaurants are concerned, bring whatever you want as long as you pay the "cork money". It's not that common of a practice though, it's usually just wine enthousiasts that bring a bottle from their own collection.
I'm Mexican living in NL. It's surprising how all these things you mentioned are a US thing only, being neighboring countries and Mexico is doing all this things already like here in NL. It's crazy. Love your videos!
Perhaps (I just guessing) America is just a bit allergic to learning things from other countries, because otherwise they think they won't be the best? 🤔🤷♂️
The banking situation in the US is the most baffling thing to me. You'd think these banking apps we have here would have been launched FIRST over in America. I mean... there are so many tech companies there, way more than here. And Americans are famous for their love of convenience. And surely money is a very important subject to them. So... 1+1+1 = banking app? Hell no! They use cheques still, wtf. Mind blowing really.
It is changing and it depends on your job. If you have a higher education job they'll transfer your money to your bank account. If you work as a dishwasher at McDonald's, you'll probably get a paper check you'll have to scan with your phone or with an ATMs. Wacht, waarom praat ik Engels tegen je? :)
It really depends. Usually I pay through an app and I set up auto pay, so I never have to remember to pay it. This may be more of Ava's experience than a typical Americans'. An individual landlord with only a few tenants may prefer checks to save on processing fees, but company owned rentals rely on apps for convenience.
Oh, they love money, alright? They go with the less convenient way so people are more likely to miss payments, pay late, thus pay more. The government is supposed to be a force that protects the common man, all they do in the US is just protect corporations and the ultra-rich. Not like any other country doesn't value the ultra-rich over the common folk.
chunky is so cute, i would 100% watch a 14 minute video of just chunky sitting in front of the camera silently. your videos are amazing of course, though i do love the chunky appearances!
Hi I' am a Dutch - Canadian, living in Canada about fifty three years. Here in Ottawa I can buy beer & wine in the grocery store, and there are grocery stores here that sells everything in the same location. I know the States is very narrow minded, than a lot of countries like the Netherlands ( i like the way you see things there, love your show ).
I'm Finnish and I've got to say that I have personally seen a cheque book maybe at most five times in my life, all of which happened before end of the eighties. I've done online bank transactions from 1994 and before that used bank automats for the purpose of doing my transactions. The money did move instantly from account to account in the same bank even back then, and never took more than one extra bank day between different banks. I've not been to the US after 1981, but I did run into a lot of cash only places in Germany.
Hey Eva I've seen quite a lot of you stories and I'am wondering when do you make your first Dutch vlog with English subtitles. I just saw your vlog about the 'unwritten Dutch rules' where you kind of surprised about Dutch people prefer to talk Dutch in the Netherlands. So it looked cool to me to hear your speaking Dutch after being here for over two years. What do you think?
In Belgium you can bring your own wine to the restaurant, no problem. On your bill you will be charged 15-25 euro “stopgeld / stopselgeld / kurkengeld” to cover the lost profit and service. Often it is the price of the cheapest wine on the menu.
It's infrastructure and zoning laws. You have to be able to drive to survive. Here in NL pretty much everything you need is within walking or cycling distance.
Interesting as always Ava! Here in Australia I haven't seen cheques for years, to pay rent etc you can just set up periodic automatic transfer payments. Very easy, can be changed anytime at home.
There are country fairs in Belgium too :-) And they have country games too! A fund raising activity in Belgian Limburg is the "Schijt-Je-Rijk" ... A meadow the size of a soccer field is divided into a grid. People buy one part of the grid. If all the parts are sold , they put a cow on the field and the part where the cow shits for the first time gets a money prize or sometimes a big ham.. How about that? :-)
There are loads of those in NL as well, from sheep shearing + traditional Handycrafts to big car racing events and everything in-between. You'd have to travel a bit from Utrecht, though. Haven't heard of a Dutch pig race yet, but they do have guinea pig racing though. Rabbits, even cockroach - though not ona country fair
You should know that it is mandatory to carry an ID when you are outside your home in the Netherlands. When you get asked for your ID and are not able to show it, by a police officer or other city security personnel, the fine is 50 euro. Officially they can only ask for your ID in cases where you are doing something wrong, but that only needs to be something wrong as they see it, and that they may want to investigate. So e.g. when you bike on the pavement or through a red light, that is sufficient reason to ask for an ID and get fined when you are unable to show it. In more severe cases, it will also result in you being taken to the police office to identify you and/or to make others bring your ID there.
Police can ask you for your ID when they need it to do their job. They can ask scooter drivers for their ID even if they did nothing wrong. Although this is more about proofing you are allowed to drive the scooter than to ID yourself. Another case would be If you drive around in a place that is considered odd they can ask for your ID (For example when you driving around an industrial area in the middle of the night). There has to be a reasonable cause, but the cause does not have to be doing something wrong.
Please note that you have the right to ask the police officer(s) in question for their ID in turn. This is to protect you from being scammed or robbed by people pretending to be police.
I knew about the laundry thing from watching US television and movies and always found it weird. The BYOB thing here in the Netherlands is only for parties at someone's home or underground parties and such. The banking/ money thing is so ancient. I haven't seen a check since the 1980s. I hardly even use cash anymore, it's all debitcard for me.
Even a debit card is foreign to them. If I got a penny every time I had to explain my debit card to a store clerk in the US I could shop for free for a month! You wanna pay cash or credit? Debit card please A what now? 🤨 A debit card You mean credit card sir? No debit, as in; there’s already money on it, and it’s mine Just swipe the card please sir And to see their faces when the machine asks for a pin is golden 😅
I think in Switzerland many buildings also have these communal washing machines. In the building of a friend of mine in Lausanne they were also in the cellar, or souterrain. And I remember in Sweden, in a neighbourhood, the laundry space was in a building central in the neighbourhood. Everyone went there to do their laundry.
Ah, you have not been introduced to the rich assortment of dutch folklore games yet. Someone else mentioned already schijt je rijk. There is paalzitten, prutracen, fierljeppen, zwijntje vangen etc. Most games considered cruel to animals are forbidden like palingtrekken. But there is plenty left to be astonished about.
Hey Ava , good to have you back with another interesting one ! Astonishing story about those checks, you would think.. And you can automate all those transactions also. A long time ago I once received a check for a small amount and it was to expensive here to transfer into cash so I was left with a worthless piece of paper.
I don’t even now where to find a laundromat in my city. We don’t have these in our apartments. I’m old enough to remember using cheques for all my payments. I don’t even have money to pay for food or other things. Mostly the older people don’t like to pay with a card. I remember my mother was even afraid to pay with her bankcard. I had to go to the bank for her to get money. In a restaurant you are not allowed to bring your own alcohol. In the cinema i go to you are not allowed to bring your own snacks and drinks. Nice cat. Thank you for the video.
The county fair comparison can find a slight equivalent in some regional celebrations such as "Leids Verzet" in the city of Leiden. It only lasts a day and there are no animals but there are rides, food and parades throughout downtown.
We love a good chuncky appearance on video! As a Dutch person I can't imagine having to bring your own alcohol to a restaurant, I think it might not even be allowed here actually. Also having American housemates has made me infinitely appreciative of IBAN bank transfer and Tikkie, every time we owe each other money it's a hassle.
Not allowed if you’re bringing it like that if you’re paying them for their facilities with “cork fee” and you’re asking upfront it’s probably possible. When going to the movies they can expelled you when consuming your own food. Amusement parks and kindergartens allow most times bringing your own food but it’s not always allowed.
Hi Eva. I live in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia and I wanted to say that it is common here to have a washer and dryer in your apartment and also you can by wine and beer in grocery stores.
As a Dutchman in the USA, here are some of my experiences/ discoveries: 1) Americans are not "plastic and fake". They just show more emotions than Dutch people. 2) Americans are interested in foreign cultures, more than Dutch people are. 3) Democrats and Republicans are in Europe binary stereotypes, while it seems to be a spectrum. Not every Republican is a "Trumper", not every Democrat is a Noam Chomsky reading hippie. 4) Conservative people make you feel less foreign than progressive people. 5) Americans are more religious. Some people who are not religious use a euphemism like "I'm spiritual" or "I'm agnostic". Don't use the A-word. 6) Americans don't label religions as Europeans do. One of my best friends from the Netherlands is a Muslim. He received a bunch of judgmental comments and rude questions. 7) Americans are more friendly than Dutch people. Translate utterances like "Thank you, thank you so much!" to Dutch and it becomes satire. 8) The average Democrat has more knowledge about foreign cultures and their own history than Republicans. Still Republicans feel more patriotic. 9) American bread, especially supermarket bread, is disgusting. It reminds me of bread in Sweden, but the Swedish make it up with polarbröd and knäckebröd. I don't trust bread that doesn't go bad for months. 10) Americans are way more into holidays than Dutch people. During Christmas, you can see them changing. They celebrate even holidays that have nothing to do with the USA, like Saint Patrick's Day. 11) Home-schooled people have a way higher general knowledge than people who were not home-schooled 12) American people are/act more cisgender than European people. Men try to be as manly as possible, women try to be as feminine as possible and they enjoy it. My European mind sometimes experiences it as "You're trying to hard". 13) The Dutch "kort pittig kapsel"-type is uncommon in the USA. Women prefer longer hair. 14) (Maybe this is an LA thing) Americans visit more restaurants than Dutch people. I've visited a bunch of Beverly Hills/Korea Town restaurants during lunch breaks. I would never do that in the Netherlands. 15) What the Dutch call "American party", Americans call "Dutch party". "American party" is a better term. People bring their own stuff here. 16) Solving company problems is in general easier in the USA than in the Netherlands.
@@nickvanoorschot5325Er wonen in het oosten van het land relatief veel Amerikanen met Ierse voorouders, maar er is geen directe link. Wikipedia: "St. Patrick's Day (Iers: Lá Fhéile Pádraig) is de nationale feestdag van Ierland, Noord-Ierland, Montserrat en de Canadese provincie Newfoundland en Labrador. De feestdag valt op 17 maart, waarbij men de beschermheilige van het land, Saint Patrick, herdenkt." Verderop in het artikel zeggen ze dat Amerikanen het ook vieren, maar ik vind het terecht dat ze niet in de inleiding staan.
County Fairs are quite common in the netherlands in the more rural area's they are called "braderie" you often see small stalls with food and old arts like making reeds baskets and chairs. Just search for it. it's different and the same.
I think the common/shared washing machine and dryer for an appartment building actually makes sense, and I think that's actually a thing in Germany, possibly even here and there in the Netherlands. They mostly sit around doing nothing, and they take a lot of energy and resources to build, so everyone owning one is actually pretty wasteful. Of course it does have to be set up in a useful manner. Enough of them for everyone, and some kind of modern way to share the costs.
A dryer for the laundry? Just hang it on a line to dry. Much cheaper and better for the environment. When I was young, many decades ago, we started with a beer once and awhile when we were twelve years old. Paying your rent manually in the Netherlands. Why don’t use Automatische Overschrijving.
Quick note on not carrying an ID in the Netherlands: This is technically illegal, and if you happen to get caught up in an accident for example they can and most likely will fine you for not having some form of Identification on you.
Correct, in The Netherlands you are required to have an ID with you. This is pretty much Europe wide. Although nobody may need to ask, the police could in a 'fair use policy'. Great videos! As a dual citizen, really feel this too!
Once upon a time the US was the most modern country in the world and proud of that. European countries started to copy the achievements and had to cooperate to get to the same level of modernity. And while the US thought they made it and didn't need more progress, the European countries surpassed them and are now more advanced than the US in many things. The idea 'We are the best' that was valid in the 1950's until 1975, got so imprinted, they cannot imagine they started to leap behind. Europe looking at the US as example for culture, music, freedom, technology and more, is rapidly getting less. The 'core countries' within the EU are getting more attention in the world as examples of what they want to become.
In Europe you can often bring your own wine, usually in the upscale restaurant. They will charge you a bottle fee for opening and serving it. It’s rare to do and usually for very special occasions with very special wines.
Thank you for your videos Ava! I'm an American who may get the chance to move to the Netherlands this summer and your videos have been very inspirational! I've had both similar and different experiences with some of the topics you mentioned. - Laundromats are real and terrible😮💨 In-unit laundry is usually just reserved for new, high end buildings. Most older buildings don't have individual plumbing for each unit, so the only way for landlords to make money based on the amount of water a tenant uses is to have shared laundry that costs extra. I secretly purchased a machine several years ago and snuck it into my apartments to avoid them! - BYOB restaurants are definitely in the minority. If you brought outside food or drink to a typical restaurant it would be considered rude and not allowed. You would likely be kicked out or not served at all. - Paying by check really depends. I pay rent and bills through an app and I set up auto pay, so I never have to remember to pay it. An individual landlord with only a few tenants may prefer checks to save on processing fees, but company owned rentals rely on apps for convenience. Thank you again for making these videos!
In the Netherlands I’ve seen people bring their own sandwiches to cafes. Maybe because the cafe culture is bigger here (just sitting and drinking and not eating). In the US you’d be thrown out of a cafe/restsurant if you brought your own food. Surprising the infrastructure in the US is pretty bad, including bank systems. But using debit cards and ACH transfers are more common now than 10-20 years ago. NL is surprisingly digital compared to other EU countries. Germany uses cash for everything. Paying by PIN there can be difficult.
As I was watching your video, I heard you talk about paying taxes for the US even if you're living in a different country?! I have to say I was super shocked about this and didn't know. Would you please make a video to elaborate on that or direct me to one of your videos that talks about this in more detail ? Because it was shocking and upsetting to be quite honest, knowing this.
If you are a US citizen, you are required to file a tax return no matter where you live in the world and no matter how much you make (unless you have no income). They assume that you are paying taxes in your host country so up to roughly $100,000, you are usually ok. Anything over that amount an uncle Sam wants his piece. Every other country bases taxes on residence. There are only 3 countries in the world that base it on citizenship and the US is one of them.
I can relate a friend of mine who was a US national living the Netherlands ( but read outside of the US) - he owned shares and options on shares - he was taxed on these by the IRS beyond a level that he could pay as the shares did not deliver an income - simply he could not give details the IRS needed - so they put out an arrest warrant on him so he could not re-enter the US - he could not even attend his own fathers funeral
Most towns and villages have a "kermis" once a year, which is a bit similar to your country fair, but the focus is mainly on the rides, not so much on the food.
Wow I heard about B.Y.O.B. but always thought it applied to house parties... Never thought restaurants required that 👎🏼 By the way Ava, please do another deep dive linguistic video, I loved that!
I (UK citizen) have eaten a couple of times in an Italian restaurant in Cape May which doesn't have a liquor licence but actively encourages customers to bring a bottle from the nearby liquor store.
On most terraces in the Netherlands, you can just sit down. Watch out for the sign! "Consumption obligated ". And I can't imagine going to a restaurant here. And would bring my own crate of Hertog Jan.
Well, technically any place that sells alcohol in the Netherlands is required to check whether you're old enough. It's just that by and large they'll just see whether you _look_ old enough. Law enforcement is probably much more relaxed here. You'll get in trouble if you structurally sell alcohol to 14 year old's and they run around town drunkenly of course, but generally when you make a reasonable attempt to not sell to minors you'll be fine. And parents can give younger children a drink, but of course within reason. I guess in the US they insist on seeing because they're afraid of getting part of the national hobby: suing. I find it so weird that the US, a country that is obsessed with money and capitalism, makes it so hard to exchange money. Having to pay cash, having to go to a bank to get your wages, cheques, it's ridiculous. It's like they all want to keep living in the wild west times... I'm surprised they actually gave up the gold standard. My bank doesn't even _have_ bank buildings you can go to... ehm... farm animals aren't wild. That's kind of the definition. LOL.
About the washing machines, the "share one for a building" makes a lot of sense. I used to own my own washing machine when I lived in an apartement, but now I moved to a co working site, everyone owns a house, but we share washing mashines for the whole neighborhood in the neigborhood pavilion. It is property of the neighbors. In stead of coins though, we just write on a paper how many washes we did and we share the costs based on that.
@@gert-janvanderlee5307 Well, for economic reasons it may make sense. My washing machine is sitting idle for 97% of the time. But I would not want to have to go to a centrally located washing machine and queue up there or wait there for it to be finished (or come back later and hope nobody took stuff out). So in that sense, I would not want to do without my own washing machine.
I have lived in the USA for 5 years around 1990. I remember the Iowa Stats fair and yes it is very amerjcan but also a lot of fun. There was a milking contest for local celebrities like the weatherman of the local news station. There was a contest who has the largest cow or heaviest pig. There was poultry on display in all kinds of artificial colours. Contest about growing the biggest potato, pumpkin or something like that. All kinds of different races. An agility course for dogs. Show of different breeds of cats and dogs. Throwing horseshoes etc. Ofcourse lots of food, marching band, carnaval rides. I lived it that my appartment had washers and dryers.
I am glad that the payment of all my fixed expenses is automated. Every month, my bank automatically transfers the right amount of money to the right accounts and I don't have to look back at it. Be it my mortgage (or rent if so desired), ammenities, insurances and all. And I would not want it any other way!
In the Netherlands beer and wine are allowed to sell in supermarket. Other alcoholic drinks mus be sold in liquor store. A liquor store and supermarket must be two seperate stores. Sometimes they are in the same building but seperated by walls. In Germany it is very common to have a liquor department inside the supermarket without seperate walls.
Most people in the Netherlands spend exactly zero seconds paying their rent, as they have either an automated payment scheduled or authorized the corporation they rent from to take the rent from their account once a month. (And yes, if they would take an amount you did not agree on, you can have your bank immediately undo the transfer, no questions asked, directly from your phone app.)
Hey Ava what you report as American 'country fairs' we tend to call 'kermis' or often 'jaarmarkt' = the yearly fair that often is part 'kermis' nowadays, with rides and cholesterol-rich food. This kind of setup is more common in the countryside. It dates back to times when people would go to the year market fair to get stuff they needed and couldn't get year round, like fabrics for ex.
Pig racing was brought to America by settlers, (New York was originally settled by the Dutch, called New Amsterdam at the time), as well as the idea of county fairs, so it would seem normal to have some similarities in-between. I'm not American, nor Dutch but I like learning about life in other countries so videos like these are a delight! Thanks very much!
I'm subscribing. With that out of the way, let me say I'm a Dane that has closely followed American politics for ~6 years (with horror) ... and I've found The Netherlands to be exotic (I've deliberately chosen that word). My 2cv brought me from Denmark to The Netherlands in a few hours. I'll advice everyone to visit TNs! And go enjoy the coasts too!
I’m from Pittsburgh. Keep in mind what you generalize as “this is what they do in the US” especially when it comes to liquor only applies to some of the original colonial states, like Pennsylvania. In California where I live now, alcohol can be purchased at grocery stores no problem.
It is the dutch IRS (Belastingdienst) who benefits from all these digitals payments. It is more strange. Businesses are not allowed to ask a fee for digital payments (pinnen) but are allowed to ask a fee for analog payments (paying with cash). It is also not allowed to have more than 512 euro in cash in possesion per person. Our government/IRS wants to see and control every money transfer you do.
You don't even have to spend time to pay your rent / bills. You can automate the process in your app. And payments will be done monthly automatically. Or you give some (rental) companies permission to take certain amounts from your bank account every month. If they take it and it is not the right amount you can click refund and the money will be back into your bank account.
Im curiuos about the rent thing, seeing as its common in shows to pay cash or guve a check . Why do you manually pay at all ? Is this acctually a thing, or just a movie trope ? Cause in the netherlands, every thing that goes montly (rent, insurance, tax, electricity etc..) is just payed automaticly, either you give the company power to take it out of your bank account, or you set up a automatic transfer ervery month etc... Cant you do that in the US ?
They still do that, the checks? I lived in Cali like 20 years ago for a year and then already i was like: "what still checks?" ... i figured by now they would have catched up... 😳 weird
I once saw on a tv program that plumbing in a city with many sky scrapers is a problem. It was difficult to get enough waterpressure to get the water up to the higher floors. I can imagine that would be even worse if every apartment has a washing machine.
I'm leaving in the Netherlands on the 20th floor.what is the difference between having a washmachine or not, related to water / plumbing? one normal faucet and one exit to sewage like your toilet and shower.
@@bli2008 If there's washing machines in every apartment instead of a laundry room in the basement, you will need to get a lot more water up to higher floors.
I live in an apartment flat, and it has a laundry space downstairs. I think this happens in the Netherlands especially in student housing and elderly homes, but most ppl have their own machines. It's really annoying to use the shared machines. You have to buy these laundry coins with cash, but you can only use it at certain times which are inconvenient for everyone that works during the day. And it's closed on the most random days in the week and it's super annoying and inconvenient. I cannot afford a laundry machine right now, but as soon as I can I'll get one.
Havent seen you for months and now things have turned very Dutch indeed... recording the vid in front of a Ikea cupboard with books and a Lucebert book recognizable up front ... bit like you left the curtains open ... very Dutch ;) I've lived for ages without a washing machine, 22sq meter apartment centre Amsterdam , kinda like NY. Still have no dis washer and miss that dearly
Wow. Two new videos so close together. Huzzah. Chicago we LOVE BYOB places. Also, I'm with you on the laundromat situation. Do they utilize both washer and dryer there? When I was in Scotland and Belgium I found it difficult to find homes with washer and dryer. Cash only is definitely making a comeback. I am happy there are not as many card online places. It was definitely hard for people who cant acquire a card to make purchases at these places. Not a very accessible practice. Great content! Cheers
Hi Eva, nice story, again😉 did a boyscamp in the Adarondacks, so I know how nice it is ovethere. Worked in the US, so I know how innificient your banking system is. Bounced cheques, multiple creditcards. Very surprising when your background is the dutch banking system. Even more surprises the haven’t solved all these old problems. Keep up your interresting observations
Alcohol is a source of profit for the restaurant. In the US I was amazed by this brown-paper-bag thing, i.e. the wrapping for your bottle. Felt like doing something somewhat illegal.
In the Netherlands some restaurants do allow you to bring your own wine (if for example you have a celebration and want to bring a very fancy wine) however, you will have to pay Kurkgeld (Cork money) wich will be around 20€/30€ or sometimes more, to sort of compansate the lost profit.
i literally have never heard of us can bringing our own wine to a restaurant. thats literally the dumbest thing ever. why not just buy wine in that restaurant if you have to pay for it anyway. literally makes no sense. also this sounds alot like BS to me. no restaurant would be stupid enough to do that.
Hey! Fun video. A few things. Alcohol is available in supermarkets in some states, so depends where you are in the US. Also, some states allow a drive through alcohol store ("beer barn" or "brew thru") though I myself don't really see them that often. I really do not see BYOB to a restaurant, maybe that's a Philly thing? (coming from midwest here) If you brought your own alcohol to a restaurant you likely would get some weird looks. I don't see many cash only places, though there are a few. And county fairs are a fun cultural experience of the rural US haha. Competitions for the largest vegetable, yummy food, little rides and games, a raffle of some sort...all in good humor! It is also an excuse for the community to get together and catch up with friends, etc. I believe it comes from the whole harvest festival idea, celebrating the end of growing season and seeing the fruits of your labor.
In the US , waitstaff are the ones liable for you if you drink underage. So if they do not card you and you happened to not have a card / be underage they could be charged $2000 and most likely be fired. So regardless of whether you appear to be over 25 you’re getting carded.
if you brought your own booze to a restaurant or cafe in the Netherlands , thats considered being extremely rude. They sometimes make more money from the drinks than the food, so they would probably ask you to leave if that happened. Its interesting that this is a custom in some american places where alcohol is harder to get. But its a good solution in such a case. County fairs are happening here too. they are called Kermis or braderie.(kermis is the part with the rides and braderie is the part with the market and food)
My husband does the laundry, I fold. It works for us, because he feels that I don't optimise the laundry and I feel he folds towels "wrong" 😂 I learned my way of folding from HIS mom! I worked at a supermarket as a cashier before Euro's, and we LOATHED cheques. They were definitely on the way out, but some people would just use them. It took superlang, and was a load of hassle. My dad wrote checks right until they weren't accepted anymore, and believe me, we tried to get him to use his debit card and pin all the time. I have friends in the US, and exchanging money is just... insanely difficult if you don't want to use paypal 😂
Oh and though I haven't brought my own alcohol to a restaurant, I have brought dessert! On our anniversary we went to dinner, and I called ahead to see if I could bring a cake. They were fine, no charge. And then we arrived and I had to explain to EVERY. SINGLE. EMPLOYEE. Why there was a cake on the table that they did not sell. I'd have thought the manager would have told the staff this was happening, but no. Our own server was really cool about it, the others were not. We never went back, my fish was raw and when I complained they had just put it in the microwave we think.
BYOB is uncommon here in the UK but it does exist. It's mainly done either by very small, family run restaurants who don't want to have to stock up on alcohol, and by restaurants of middle-eastern cuisine, because alcohol is not allowed in Islam, so they won't serve it themselves but allow you to bring it. Fair enough in either case.
I have two vendors in the US that don’t have ACH transfers. Usually businesses in the US make and receive electronic payments. But here we sit in NL writing a check to a business in the US with a 1Euro postzegel and have to drop it in the brievenbus.😂
Building-laundromats do happen, but it's rather rare. In my case it was an apartment building for students, where the apartments where too small for a washing machine.
Two years ago in MN, I wanted to buy some alcohol-free beer. I could not find it in the regular grocery store, but upon asking I was referred to the clearly demarcated wine department. It was sold there, but there was only one cashier, and there was indeed just as you described a very long line. On my Dutch automatic pilot, I wanted to comment on the illogic of it all, but after half a sentence I thought the better of it. The lady in the line behind me agree with me when we left the shop (my argument was that if you do not want people to drink alcoholic beverages, then make it easier for them to purchase alcohol-free stuff). I have seen several times that youngsters tried to buy booze but were refused because they were under the age and/or did not carry an ID. Here in Holland, the Coffee Company also does not sell alcohol-free beer BTW. You seem to need an alcohol license for selling that as well.
Hi Ava, interesting video again, Thanks for sharing. On the BYOB thing: as far as I know, in Dutch cafés, bars and restaurants, BYOB is not only unusual, it's often even considered offensive! How dare one frequent such an establishment, and not buy THEIR beverages! That's how they make money! But then, you don't get free seconds on coffee or sodas, either. Because, once again, that's how they make money! On the plus side, servers in such establishments get a proper living wage, just like any other! So we don't complain about having to pay full price for EVERY drink. That's the price of freedom. What the conservative American would call 'socialism'! About the cash-only thing: over the past 20 years, if I had a choice, I never had any cash on me, because I find it extremely inconvenient. As far as I'm aware, here in Leeuwarden, there is only one Chinese take-out restaurant, 'Ni Hao', that stubbornly refuses to accept payment by bankcard (PIN). They tell their patrons to go get cash at the ATM across the street! I've visited them twice (about a decade apart), and both times I decided that I was NOT going to indulge their weirdness. Because it's virtually impossible to order food to a total amount that is a multiple of €10 or €20, whatever the minimum is that an ATM will give out. So I would end up carrying some spare cash that I never ever need... If Ni Hao cannot come into the 21st century with the rest of us, they will have to survive without my patronage. Fortunately, such locales are pretty rare, here.
I think one reason for this restaurant to only accept cash might be that it's easier to make money "zwart", without the tax authorities knowing about it... If there's a bank transaction, it's written down somewhere and is added to their sales volume.
I'm Dutch, and I still use cash - just a few coins to get a shopping cart lol. I can't even remember when I last paid in cash in a store, or anywhere, for that matter. (And I can't even remember when we last had a bank robbery here).
ATM’s explosions maybe but nowadays mostly the robbers go to the German ATM’s. COVID Changed a lot for me, before I was paying more cash than by card. Nowadays it’s probably nine out of ten times the “contactless small payments without pin code”.
Funny thing about the difference in accepting and not accepting cash. A few weeks ago my husband and I ended up in this tiny dinky vintage shop and wanted to buy 2 vinyls. And like many independent tiny shops the owner didn’t have a debit card machine and we didn’t have cash on us. So instead he send my husband a tikkie. Problem solved 😄
Hi, I was wondering if you know of and have been to Efteling in the south of the Netherlands ? Efteling started out as a fairytale forest surrounded by two big lakes showing all the fairytales in real life, plus a talking real size tree, a real size man puppet with the longest neck in the world, dancing shoes that magically dance on their own and a big toy donkey that lifts up it s tail and poops fake golden Efteling coins for people to catch as memory to Efteling. Later on they added all sort of things like one of the biggest fountain shows in a lake in the world, rollercoasters, dark rides, indoor rides with colorfoul moving puppets animotronics (even a real size whale), a madhouse, interactive indoor rides with moving puppets also animotronics, a 20 minute show with real horses and knights, little boats that are pulled forward in the lake automatically you can sit in for a boat ride across the lake, a big platform where a lot of people can stand on that goes slowly up in the air so people can overlook the entire forest, park, hotel and lakes. Efteling was built before Disneyland / world even existed. Mr Disney has been video recorded visiting the Netherlands so he could have taken ideas from Efteling, but nobody really knows if Mr Disney actually visited Efteling. Efteling It is one of the best themed themeparks in the world with emphasis on theming. Of course a lot of parents and grandparents with children go there, but one should been there at least once in their life visiting or living in the Netherlands 😀. It is basically a big forest with two big lakes and there happens to be a big themepark inside of it, so you can enjoy a day in nature as well. It is a two day park to see everything, they also have a themed hotel in which people can stay. They are now building a second 50 million euro hotel with no doubt excellent theming as well. The entrance of Efteling looks straight out of an adventure movie and is called House of The Five Senses. Thought maybe you would like knowing about it !
Off course they don’t allow you to bring your own wine to a restaurant over here. The margins on drinks are way better than on the food. “Ze eten je arm, maar drinken je rijk”
I think things like the "county fairs" in the US are also here in the Netherlands, just a little bit different. I don't know how often those events are held in the US, in cities/villages here in the Netherlands those are often a "once per year" thing. Some of those are mainly rides/attractions (kermis), some have more of a shopping theme (braderie) and others have a much more specific theme (food truck festival, medieval theme, horses or other animals). Not sure how it is in Utrecht or other of the larger cities as Amsterdam/Rotterdam, but all those "fairs" as mentioned are all over the country, throughout the year (most from spring, through summer and into early autumn).
In the Netherlands you can bring your own wine some restaurants, but you have to ask in advance and pay "cork money" , which is a compensation for the restaurant not making a profit on selling you wine. This is mostly done if you want some special wine with the food that is not available from the restaurant. It is more of a snobby thing.
For most bills, you don't even have to make the transfer yourself. Just authorize the creditor to deduct the amount from your bank account. Having lived in the States I am very aware of the antiquated, inefficient banking system.
I think not many Dutch residents pay their monthly rent by phone. It usually is payed automatically (automatische incasso).
all my bills are being paid atomatically.
Sure, but she is referring to banking apps. Banking apps in the US are useless and the banking services and policies are useless too.
@@MrAronymous InterPay was created by the Dutch banks in 1994 to handle all these payment things. The Netherlands really was ahead of it's time compared to almost all countries in the world.
@@autohmae maybe in some cases, but we were late with bank cards. Mostly because we were early adopters of cheques I think.
In USA, it widely varies. I have paid rent with checks, on tenant apps with auto payments, and by vemno with individual landlords.
It is funny that you mentioned it. My sister lives in California. Her husband is 79 years old . Every time when he buys his liquor they ask him for his ID. When he points them to his face, the answer is : "sorry sir, it is the law".
I was in the US an was carded at a club. I was around 50 yrs old at the time. I removed my glasses and gave them to the doorman. He looked at me questionably. I told him " If you have doubts about me being under 21, you need these more than I do."
".. I've been living too long in ..."
No, Ava... you're finally beginning to see the light... You're becoming a real Dutchy... be proud of that accomplishment.
The US seems so unoptimised. I live in Scotland and couldn't imagine not having a washing machine in my flat. Banking and living cash-free is also super easy here. If only we had safe cycling infrastructure 😭I'd cycle everywhere if that were the case
Cycling in hilly scotland?
@@Staemtraction E-bikes and gears.
In New York space is at a premium. Having your own washer and dryer basically costs a whole bedroom.
Once you get away from the center of big cities, pretty much everyone has their own washer and dryer.
@@Staemtraction I cycled in Scotland. Would not try it in Edinburgh though. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
Safe cycling infrastructure is indeed heaven!
“Cash only” has 2 reasons : the owners don’t want to pay the 3-5% commission and/or transaction costs OR they don’t want the IRS to see a taxable income on their bank account.
Yeah our transactions are way cheaper. 3-6 cent per transaction instead of the outrageous fee they dare charge abroad. I hope this won’t change when we make the switch from Maestro/V-Pay to MC/Visa Debit cards.. that would be almost instant additional inflation for consumers.
Btw in NL it used to be more similar to how it is now in the US. Only instead of a percentage they’d charge a flat fee so vendors would regularly only allow payments of, say, over 10 Gulden. Then the flat fee was lowered to its current rate and vendors/Currence started with the “Klein bedrag, pinnen mag” campaign (small payments can be paid by card too)
Yeah we have cash only stores here too, but I always assume they are money laundering fronts
I was 42 years of age when I ordered a beer in a bar in The United States, and was quite surprised when the bartender asked me to show some ID. I know I look young, but still. I told him "I'm allowed to drink twice." Of course he's just doing his job, but I was surprised, to say the least. Funny and interesting experience.
Lol 😂 yea, I remember the very 1st time that happened to me as well I was in a restaurant on my birthday, and the waitress asked for an id 🪪.
I thought my friend told her to do that as a prank 😅. She was like no miss I need to see your Id 🪪 & I said No it’s my birthday 🎂 ru kidding me & plus I look older than 20yrs old so, I was like plz bring me a Bahamas mama.
I then saw her returning with her supervisor, and my friend said believe me she’s old enough to drink 🍹.
So, the manager ck’d & apologized & even gave me a free drink but said miss u look so young. Mind u I never got ck’d when I was under aged strange isn’t it. 😅
As a Dutch bartender. I would ask the guests to not drink their own alcohol or I would be sad to kick them out of the restaurant.
That makes sense!
Actually I have always wondered why that is. People who bring their own drinks, do so to save money, most likely. Those people would not have bought drinks at the restaurant anyway, so you might as well let them enjoy the rest of their ordered items.
@@thany3 In our culture it is considered rude to do such a thing. We are a company who have limited tables for people to sit down. Covering those tables and not ordering means the restaurant is not able accomodate other people who would like to order drinks or food from the restaurant. Meaning the restaurant will be negatively impacted.
I do have to say that it is not always the case where all our tables are accomidated for. But as I've said. it is considered as being rude if you do so in the Netherlands.
Bring your own wine to the restaurant? That seems like a good money saving thing! Almost sounds Dutch 🤣
Very true! 😂
You can bring your own wine to most good restaurants in the Netherlands, you will have to pay "kurkengeld" though, which is a fee you pay to the restaurant because you are still using their facilities.
@@bastiaan4129 I had never heard of that. But then, I must admit to not frequenting restaurants a lot. Or ever... I suppose that maybe some of the more chic restaurants would do this. But not for just any bottle of €3 supermarket sewage. Right?
@@bobosims1848 As far as restaurants are concerned, bring whatever you want as long as you pay the "cork money".
It's not that common of a practice though, it's usually just wine enthousiasts that bring a bottle from their own collection.
@@bastiaan4129 Really? I'd never even think of bringing my own wine. Or any alcohol.
I'm Mexican living in NL. It's surprising how all these things you mentioned are a US thing only, being neighboring countries and Mexico is doing all this things already like here in NL. It's crazy.
Love your videos!
Perhaps (I just guessing) America is just a bit allergic to learning things from other countries, because otherwise they think they won't be the best? 🤔🤷♂️
smash
The banking situation in the US is the most baffling thing to me. You'd think these banking apps we have here would have been launched FIRST over in America. I mean... there are so many tech companies there, way more than here. And Americans are famous for their love of convenience. And surely money is a very important subject to them. So... 1+1+1 = banking app? Hell no! They use cheques still, wtf. Mind blowing really.
Thanks for that it’s the reason Adyen could grow to a two hundred million business
It is changing and it depends on your job. If you have a higher education job they'll transfer your money to your bank account. If you work as a dishwasher at McDonald's, you'll probably get a paper check you'll have to scan with your phone or with an ATMs. Wacht, waarom praat ik Engels tegen je? :)
It really depends. Usually I pay through an app and I set up auto pay, so I never have to remember to pay it. This may be more of Ava's experience than a typical Americans'. An individual landlord with only a few tenants may prefer checks to save on processing fees, but company owned rentals rely on apps for convenience.
Oh, they love money, alright?
They go with the less convenient way so people are more likely to miss payments, pay late, thus pay more.
The government is supposed to be a force that protects the common man, all they do in the US is just protect corporations and the ultra-rich.
Not like any other country doesn't value the ultra-rich over the common folk.
If you have only cash you can sometimes not buy an icecream in China.
chunky is so cute, i would 100% watch a 14 minute video of just chunky sitting in front of the camera silently. your videos are amazing of course, though i do love the chunky appearances!
Hi I' am a Dutch - Canadian, living in Canada about fifty three years. Here in Ottawa I can buy beer & wine in the grocery store, and there are grocery stores here that sells everything in the same location. I know the States is very narrow minded, than a lot of countries like the Netherlands ( i like the way you see things there, love your show ).
I'm Finnish and I've got to say that I have personally seen a cheque book maybe at most five times in my life, all of which happened before end of the eighties. I've done online bank transactions from 1994 and before that used bank automats for the purpose of doing my transactions. The money did move instantly from account to account in the same bank even back then, and never took more than one extra bank day between different banks.
I've not been to the US after 1981, but I did run into a lot of cash only places in Germany.
I was born in 1993 in Ireland, and have never seen a cheque in my life.
Hey Eva I've seen quite a lot of you stories and I'am wondering when do you make your first Dutch vlog with English subtitles. I just saw your vlog about the 'unwritten Dutch rules' where you kind of surprised about Dutch people prefer to talk Dutch in the Netherlands. So it looked cool to me to hear your speaking Dutch after being here for over two years. What do you think?
In Belgium you can bring your own wine to the restaurant, no problem. On your bill you will be charged 15-25 euro “stopgeld / stopselgeld / kurkengeld” to cover the lost profit and service. Often it is the price of the cheapest wine on the menu.
thats kinda redundant lol. so you still have to pay for something you didnt got from a restaurant. so why bother even bringing your own wine with you.
I think driving at 16 is way more dangerous than having a couple of biertjes
Alcohol is so bad for people under age 40
It's infrastructure and zoning laws. You have to be able to drive to survive. Here in NL pretty much everything you need is within walking or cycling distance.
This was entertaining, because you used different topics ,then you would normally see! Great video eva! Nice cat!!!
Thank you!!
Interesting as always Ava! Here in Australia I haven't seen cheques for years, to pay rent etc you can just set up periodic automatic transfer payments. Very easy, can be changed anytime at home.
There are country fairs in Belgium too :-) And they have country games too! A fund raising activity in Belgian Limburg is the "Schijt-Je-Rijk" ... A meadow the size of a soccer field is divided into a grid. People buy one part of the grid. If all the parts are sold , they put a cow on the field and the part where the cow shits for the first time gets a money prize or sometimes a big ham..
How about that? :-)
There are loads of those in NL as well, from sheep shearing + traditional Handycrafts to big car racing events and everything in-between. You'd have to travel a bit from Utrecht, though.
Haven't heard of a Dutch pig race yet, but they do have guinea pig racing though. Rabbits, even cockroach - though not ona country fair
You should know that it is mandatory to carry an ID when you are outside your home in the Netherlands.
When you get asked for your ID and are not able to show it, by a police officer or other city security personnel, the fine is 50 euro.
Officially they can only ask for your ID in cases where you are doing something wrong, but that only needs to be something wrong as they see it, and that they may want to investigate.
So e.g. when you bike on the pavement or through a red light, that is sufficient reason to ask for an ID and get fined when you are unable to show it.
In more severe cases, it will also result in you being taken to the police office to identify you and/or to make others bring your ID there.
Also, bars asking for ID or something is not that uncommon either. Especially on the weekends.
Police can ask you for your ID when they need it to do their job. They can ask scooter drivers for their ID even if they did nothing wrong. Although this is more about proofing you are allowed to drive the scooter than to ID yourself. Another case would be If you drive around in a place that is considered odd they can ask for your ID (For example when you driving around an industrial area in the middle of the night). There has to be a reasonable cause, but the cause does not have to be doing something wrong.
Please note that you have the right to ask the police officer(s) in question for their ID in turn. This is to protect you from being scammed or robbed by people pretending to be police.
@@fvefve12 Means you probably didn't fit any sort of description or whatever. Just because they can doesn't mean they do it to everyone
My german niece and nephew have to carry i.d, here in the uk people would fight this.
I knew about the laundry thing from watching US television and movies and always found it weird. The BYOB thing here in the Netherlands is only for parties at someone's home or underground parties and such. The banking/ money thing is so ancient. I haven't seen a check since the 1980s. I hardly even use cash anymore, it's all debitcard for me.
Even a debit card is foreign to them. If I got a penny every time I had to explain my debit card to a store clerk in the US I could shop for free for a month!
You wanna pay cash or credit?
Debit card please
A what now? 🤨
A debit card
You mean credit card sir?
No debit, as in; there’s already money on it, and it’s mine
Just swipe the card please sir
And to see their faces when the machine asks for a pin is golden 😅
good luck cashing a check in the Netherlands...
I think in Switzerland many buildings also have these communal washing machines. In the building of a friend of mine in Lausanne they were also in the cellar, or souterrain. And I remember in Sweden, in a neighbourhood, the laundry space was in a building central in the neighbourhood. Everyone went there to do their laundry.
Ah, you have not been introduced to the rich assortment of dutch folklore games yet. Someone else mentioned already schijt je rijk. There is paalzitten, prutracen, fierljeppen, zwijntje vangen etc. Most games considered cruel to animals are forbidden like palingtrekken. But there is plenty left to be astonished about.
Carbid schieten!
Hey Ava , good to have you back with another interesting one ! Astonishing story about those checks, you would think.. And you can automate all those transactions also. A long time ago I once received a check for a small amount and it was to expensive here to transfer into cash so I was left with a worthless piece of paper.
Germany also has lots and lots of cash only businesses, and they don't even have a sigh. It's so annoying when you forget about that.
Nice cat ! actually share the washing machine with the whole flat "jugh "
I don’t even now where to find a laundromat in my city. We don’t have these in our apartments. I’m old enough to remember using cheques for all my payments. I don’t even have money to pay for food or other things. Mostly the older people don’t like to pay with a card. I remember my mother was even afraid to pay with her bankcard. I had to go to the bank for her to get money. In a restaurant you are not allowed to bring your own alcohol. In the cinema i go to you are not allowed to bring your own snacks and drinks. Nice cat. Thank you for the video.
The county fair comparison can find a slight equivalent in some regional celebrations such as "Leids Verzet" in the city of Leiden. It only lasts a day and there are no animals but there are rides, food and parades throughout downtown.
We love a good chuncky appearance on video! As a Dutch person I can't imagine having to bring your own alcohol to a restaurant, I think it might not even be allowed here actually. Also having American housemates has made me infinitely appreciative of IBAN bank transfer and Tikkie, every time we owe each other money it's a hassle.
Not allowed if you’re bringing it like that if you’re paying them for their facilities with “cork fee” and you’re asking upfront it’s probably possible.
When going to the movies they can expelled you when consuming your own food. Amusement parks and kindergartens allow most times bringing your own food but it’s not always allowed.
simply Dutch wine prices in restaurants are quite low -Dutch do also not tip 20-30% which in US is normal.
As an American , I’ve never seen or heard of this at a restaurant
Hi Eva. I live in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia and I wanted to say that it is common here to have a washer and dryer in your apartment and also you can by wine and beer in grocery stores.
Nice, you have Lucebert’s collected poems in your bookshelf.
As a Dutchman in the USA, here are some of my experiences/ discoveries:
1) Americans are not "plastic and fake". They just show more emotions than Dutch people.
2) Americans are interested in foreign cultures, more than Dutch people are.
3) Democrats and Republicans are in Europe binary stereotypes, while it seems to be a spectrum. Not every Republican is a "Trumper", not every Democrat is a Noam Chomsky reading hippie.
4) Conservative people make you feel less foreign than progressive people.
5) Americans are more religious. Some people who are not religious use a euphemism like "I'm spiritual" or "I'm agnostic". Don't use the A-word.
6) Americans don't label religions as Europeans do. One of my best friends from the Netherlands is a Muslim. He received a bunch of judgmental comments and rude questions.
7) Americans are more friendly than Dutch people. Translate utterances like "Thank you, thank you so much!" to Dutch and it becomes satire.
8) The average Democrat has more knowledge about foreign cultures and their own history than Republicans. Still Republicans feel more patriotic.
9) American bread, especially supermarket bread, is disgusting. It reminds me of bread in Sweden, but the Swedish make it up with polarbröd and knäckebröd. I don't trust bread that doesn't go bad for months.
10) Americans are way more into holidays than Dutch people. During Christmas, you can see them changing. They celebrate even holidays that have nothing to do with the USA, like Saint Patrick's Day.
11) Home-schooled people have a way higher general knowledge than people who were not home-schooled
12) American people are/act more cisgender than European people. Men try to be as manly as possible, women try to be as feminine as possible and they enjoy it. My European mind sometimes experiences it as "You're trying to hard".
13) The Dutch "kort pittig kapsel"-type is uncommon in the USA. Women prefer longer hair.
14) (Maybe this is an LA thing) Americans visit more restaurants than Dutch people. I've visited a bunch of Beverly Hills/Korea Town restaurants during lunch breaks. I would never do that in the Netherlands.
15) What the Dutch call "American party", Americans call "Dutch party". "American party" is a better term. People bring their own stuff here.
16) Solving company problems is in general easier in the USA than in the Netherlands.
Interesting read. Only one I'd challenge you on is #11; general knowledge depends on quality of education, not style of learning in this case.
St patricks heeft wel degelijk met hun cultuur te maken.
@@nickvanoorschot5325Er wonen in het oosten van het land relatief veel Amerikanen met Ierse voorouders, maar er is geen directe link.
Wikipedia:
"St. Patrick's Day (Iers: Lá Fhéile Pádraig) is de nationale feestdag van Ierland, Noord-Ierland, Montserrat en de Canadese provincie Newfoundland en Labrador. De feestdag valt op 17 maart, waarbij men de beschermheilige van het land, Saint Patrick, herdenkt."
Verderop in het artikel zeggen ze dat Amerikanen het ook vieren, maar ik vind het terecht dat ze niet in de inleiding staan.
@@SquirrelMonkeyCom jup je hebt gelijk was even in de war haha
County Fairs are quite common in the netherlands in the more rural area's they are called "braderie" you often see small stalls with food and old arts like making reeds baskets and chairs.
Just search for it. it's different and the same.
I remember cheques. In the 90s you needed them when you went abroad.
In the UK you often do BYOB at restaraunts without an alcohol permit. They then charge you a small "uncorking fee" so they make a small profit off it.
If we do have a shared washer, there usually is a schedule where you schedule in your washing time in advance.
I think the common/shared washing machine and dryer for an appartment building actually makes sense, and I think that's actually a thing in Germany, possibly even here and there in the Netherlands. They mostly sit around doing nothing, and they take a lot of energy and resources to build, so everyone owning one is actually pretty wasteful. Of course it does have to be set up in a useful manner. Enough of them for everyone, and some kind of modern way to share the costs.
A dryer for the laundry? Just hang it on a line to dry. Much cheaper and better for the environment.
When I was young, many decades ago, we started with a beer once and awhile when we were twelve years old.
Paying your rent manually in the Netherlands. Why don’t use Automatische Overschrijving.
Quick note on not carrying an ID in the Netherlands: This is technically illegal, and if you happen to get caught up in an accident for example they can and most likely will fine you for not having some form of Identification on you.
Correct, in The Netherlands you are required to have an ID with you. This is pretty much Europe wide. Although nobody may need to ask, the police could in a 'fair use policy'. Great videos! As a dual citizen, really feel this too!
The Dutch county fair is called braderie I think.
Once upon a time the US was the most modern country in the world and proud of that.
European countries started to copy the achievements and had to cooperate to get to the same level of modernity.
And while the US thought they made it and didn't need more progress, the European countries surpassed them and are now more advanced than the US in many things.
The idea 'We are the best' that was valid in the 1950's until 1975, got so imprinted, they cannot imagine they started to leap behind.
Europe looking at the US as example for culture, music, freedom, technology and more, is rapidly getting less.
The 'core countries' within the EU are getting more attention in the world as examples of what they want to become.
Yet here you are using RUclips, which is American and extremely influential 🤷🏼♂️
In Europe you can often bring your own wine, usually in the upscale restaurant. They will charge you a bottle fee for opening and serving it. It’s rare to do and usually for very special occasions with very special wines.
In America, the restaurants also charge a fee for opening and pouring your wine.
Thank you for your videos Ava! I'm an American who may get the chance to move to the Netherlands this summer and your videos have been very inspirational! I've had both similar and different experiences with some of the topics you mentioned.
- Laundromats are real and terrible😮💨 In-unit laundry is usually just reserved for new, high end buildings. Most older buildings don't have individual plumbing for each unit, so the only way for landlords to make money based on the amount of water a tenant uses is to have shared laundry that costs extra. I secretly purchased a machine several years ago and snuck it into my apartments to avoid them!
- BYOB restaurants are definitely in the minority. If you brought outside food or drink to a typical restaurant it would be considered rude and not allowed. You would likely be kicked out or not served at all.
- Paying by check really depends. I pay rent and bills through an app and I set up auto pay, so I never have to remember to pay it. An individual landlord with only a few tenants may prefer checks to save on processing fees, but company owned rentals rely on apps for convenience.
Thank you again for making these videos!
We have something like a county fair too in Holland. It's called Kermis. I found it very similar.
If you live in student housing in the Netherlands (or a small studio) there is a big chance you have to share the washing machine and drying machine
In the Netherlands I’ve seen people bring their own sandwiches to cafes. Maybe because the cafe culture is bigger here (just sitting and drinking and not eating). In the US you’d be thrown out of a cafe/restsurant if you brought your own food. Surprising the infrastructure in the US is pretty bad, including bank systems. But using debit cards and ACH transfers are more common now than 10-20 years ago. NL is surprisingly digital compared to other EU countries. Germany uses cash for everything. Paying by PIN there can be difficult.
As I was watching your video, I heard you talk about paying taxes for the US even if you're living in a different country?! I have to say I was super shocked about this and didn't know. Would you please make a video to elaborate on that or direct me to one of your videos that talks about this in more detail ? Because it was shocking and upsetting to be quite honest, knowing this.
If you are a US citizen, you are required to file a tax return no matter where you live in the world and no matter how much you make (unless you have no income). They assume that you are paying taxes in your host country so up to roughly $100,000, you are usually ok. Anything over that amount an uncle Sam wants his piece. Every other country bases taxes on residence. There are only 3 countries in the world that base it on citizenship and the US is one of them.
I can relate a friend of mine who was a US national living the Netherlands ( but read outside of the US) - he owned shares and options on shares - he was taxed on these by the IRS beyond a level that he could pay as the shares did not deliver an income - simply he could not give details the IRS needed - so they put out an arrest warrant on him so he could not re-enter the US - he could not even attend his own fathers funeral
Even when you are NOT a US citizen, but get some income from the US (say RUclips payment) you as a non citizen are supposed to pay taxes in the US.
Most towns and villages have a "kermis" once a year, which is a bit similar to your country fair, but the focus is mainly on the rides, not so much on the food.
Wow I heard about B.Y.O.B. but always thought it applied to house parties... Never thought restaurants required that 👎🏼
By the way Ava, please do another deep dive linguistic video, I loved that!
It happened to me in Montréal too when i was there on holidays. Really strange.
I (UK citizen) have eaten a couple of times in an Italian restaurant in Cape May which doesn't have a liquor licence but actively encourages customers to bring a bottle from the nearby liquor store.
On most terraces in the Netherlands, you can just sit down. Watch out for the sign! "Consumption obligated ". And I can't imagine going to a restaurant here. And would bring my own crate of Hertog Jan.
Well, technically any place that sells alcohol in the Netherlands is required to check whether you're old enough. It's just that by and large they'll just see whether you _look_ old enough. Law enforcement is probably much more relaxed here. You'll get in trouble if you structurally sell alcohol to 14 year old's and they run around town drunkenly of course, but generally when you make a reasonable attempt to not sell to minors you'll be fine. And parents can give younger children a drink, but of course within reason. I guess in the US they insist on seeing because they're afraid of getting part of the national hobby: suing.
I find it so weird that the US, a country that is obsessed with money and capitalism, makes it so hard to exchange money. Having to pay cash, having to go to a bank to get your wages, cheques, it's ridiculous. It's like they all want to keep living in the wild west times... I'm surprised they actually gave up the gold standard. My bank doesn't even _have_ bank buildings you can go to...
ehm... farm animals aren't wild. That's kind of the definition. LOL.
I thought the rule of thumb for checking ID in NL was if you looked younger than 25.
About the washing machines, the "share one for a building" makes a lot of sense. I used to own my own washing machine when I lived in an apartement, but now I moved to a co working site, everyone owns a house, but we share washing mashines for the whole neighborhood in the neigborhood pavilion. It is property of the neighbors. In stead of coins though, we just write on a paper how many washes we did and we share the costs based on that.
Why does that make sense? Because it doesn't to me.
@@gert-janvanderlee5307 Well, for economic reasons it may make sense. My washing machine is sitting idle for 97% of the time.
But I would not want to have to go to a centrally located washing machine and queue up there or wait there for it to be finished (or come back later and hope nobody took stuff out).
So in that sense, I would not want to do without my own washing machine.
I have lived in the USA for 5 years around 1990. I remember the Iowa Stats fair and yes it is very amerjcan but also a lot of fun. There was a milking contest for local celebrities like the weatherman of the local news station. There was a contest who has the largest cow or heaviest pig. There was poultry on display in all kinds of artificial colours. Contest about growing the biggest potato, pumpkin or something like that. All kinds of different races. An agility course for dogs. Show of different breeds of cats and dogs. Throwing horseshoes etc. Ofcourse lots of food, marching band, carnaval rides.
I lived it that my appartment had washers and dryers.
I am glad that the payment of all my fixed expenses is automated. Every month, my bank automatically transfers the right amount of money to the right accounts and I don't have to look back at it. Be it my mortgage (or rent if so desired), ammenities, insurances and all. And I would not want it any other way!
In the Netherlands beer and wine are allowed to sell in supermarket. Other alcoholic drinks mus be sold in liquor store. A liquor store and supermarket must be two seperate stores. Sometimes they are in the same building but seperated by walls. In Germany it is very common to have a liquor department inside the supermarket without seperate walls.
Most people in the Netherlands spend exactly zero seconds paying their rent, as they have either an automated payment scheduled or authorized the corporation they rent from to take the rent from their account once a month. (And yes, if they would take an amount you did not agree on, you can have your bank immediately undo the transfer, no questions asked, directly from your phone app.)
The bottle in the paper bag, is that for real still - in some states or? And no opened bottles in a car (except the trunk)?
Hey Ava what you report as American 'country fairs' we tend to call 'kermis' or often 'jaarmarkt' = the yearly fair that often is part 'kermis' nowadays, with rides and cholesterol-rich food. This kind of setup is more common in the countryside. It dates back to times when people would go to the year market fair to get stuff they needed and couldn't get year round, like fabrics for ex.
Pig racing was brought to America by settlers, (New York was originally settled by the Dutch, called New Amsterdam at the time), as well as the idea of county fairs, so it would seem normal to have some similarities in-between. I'm not American, nor Dutch but I like learning about life in other countries so videos like these are a delight! Thanks very much!
Maybe you should go to the koeiemart in woerden at 26 oktober. Only 15 minutes by train for you and i think you would be amazed too.
Also, some restaurants do allow you to bring your own wine, but they would charge you "flessengeld", so it's just not worth the hassle.
I'm subscribing. With that out of the way, let me say I'm a Dane that has closely followed American politics for ~6 years (with horror) ... and I've found The Netherlands to be exotic (I've deliberately chosen that word). My 2cv brought me from Denmark to The Netherlands in a few hours.
I'll advice everyone to visit TNs! And go enjoy the coasts too!
I’m from Pittsburgh. Keep in mind what you generalize as “this is what they do in the US” especially when it comes to liquor only applies to some of the original colonial states, like Pennsylvania. In California where I live now, alcohol can be purchased at grocery stores no problem.
It is the dutch IRS (Belastingdienst) who benefits from all these digitals payments. It is more strange. Businesses are not allowed to ask a fee for digital payments (pinnen) but are allowed to ask a fee for analog payments (paying with cash). It is also not allowed to have more than 512 euro in cash in possesion per person. Our government/IRS wants to see and control every money transfer you do.
You don't even have to spend time to pay your rent / bills. You can automate the process in your app. And payments will be done monthly automatically. Or you give some (rental) companies permission to take certain amounts from your bank account every month. If they take it and it is not the right amount you can click refund and the money will be back into your bank account.
Im curiuos about the rent thing, seeing as its common in shows to pay cash or guve a check . Why do you manually pay at all ? Is this acctually a thing, or just a movie trope ? Cause in the netherlands, every thing that goes montly (rent, insurance, tax, electricity etc..) is just payed automaticly, either you give the company power to take it out of your bank account, or you set up a automatic transfer ervery month etc... Cant you do that in the US ?
Nope, hand paid most of the time, or some online banking but not to the same amount that it is in the Netherlands.
They still do that, the checks? I lived in Cali like 20 years ago for a year and then already i was like: "what still checks?" ... i figured by now they would have catched up... 😳 weird
I once saw on a tv program that plumbing in a city with many sky scrapers is a problem. It was difficult to get enough waterpressure to get the water up to the higher floors. I can imagine that would be even worse if every apartment has a washing machine.
Right, and all complaints of plumbing which are flushing or the workings of the pipes.
I'm leaving in the Netherlands on the 20th floor.what is the difference between having a washmachine or not, related to water / plumbing? one normal faucet and one exit to sewage like your toilet and shower.
@@bli2008 If there's washing machines in every apartment instead of a laundry room in the basement, you will need to get a lot more water up to higher floors.
I haven't seen people write cheques since the early nineties, and even then it was awkward.
The eurocheque system ended per Jan 1st 2002.
I live in an apartment flat, and it has a laundry space downstairs. I think this happens in the Netherlands especially in student housing and elderly homes, but most ppl have their own machines. It's really annoying to use the shared machines. You have to buy these laundry coins with cash, but you can only use it at certain times which are inconvenient for everyone that works during the day. And it's closed on the most random days in the week and it's super annoying and inconvenient. I cannot afford a laundry machine right now, but as soon as I can I'll get one.
Havent seen you for months and now things have turned very Dutch indeed... recording the vid in front of a Ikea cupboard with books and a Lucebert book recognizable up front ... bit like you left the curtains open ... very Dutch ;)
I've lived for ages without a washing machine, 22sq meter apartment centre Amsterdam , kinda like NY.
Still have no dis washer and miss that dearly
Wow. Two new videos so close together. Huzzah. Chicago we LOVE BYOB places. Also, I'm with you on the laundromat situation. Do they utilize both washer and dryer there? When I was in Scotland and Belgium I found it difficult to find homes with washer and dryer. Cash only is definitely making a comeback. I am happy there are not as many card online places. It was definitely hard for people who cant acquire a card to make purchases at these places. Not a very accessible practice. Great content! Cheers
Checks are not used much any more. I don’t even have a checking account, I do everything electronically in the US
Supermarkets can't sell hard liquor. For that you'll still have to go to the liquor store or the separate liquor department of the supermarket.
Hi Eva, nice story, again😉 did a boyscamp in the Adarondacks, so I know how nice it is ovethere. Worked in the US, so I know how innificient your banking system is. Bounced cheques, multiple creditcards. Very surprising when your background is the dutch banking system. Even more surprises the haven’t solved all these old problems. Keep up your interresting observations
Alcohol is a source of profit for the restaurant.
In the US I was amazed by this brown-paper-bag thing, i.e. the wrapping for your bottle. Felt like doing something somewhat illegal.
In the Netherlands some restaurants do allow you to bring your own wine (if for example you have a celebration and want to bring a very fancy wine) however, you will have to pay Kurkgeld (Cork money) wich will be around 20€/30€ or sometimes more, to sort of compansate the lost profit.
i literally have never heard of us can bringing our own wine to a restaurant. thats literally the dumbest thing ever. why not just buy wine in that restaurant if you have to pay for it anyway. literally makes no sense. also this sounds alot like BS to me. no restaurant would be stupid enough to do that.
Hey! Fun video. A few things. Alcohol is available in supermarkets in some states, so depends where you are in the US. Also, some states allow a drive through alcohol store ("beer barn" or "brew thru") though I myself don't really see them that often. I really do not see BYOB to a restaurant, maybe that's a Philly thing? (coming from midwest here) If you brought your own alcohol to a restaurant you likely would get some weird looks. I don't see many cash only places, though there are a few.
And county fairs are a fun cultural experience of the rural US haha. Competitions for the largest vegetable, yummy food, little rides and games, a raffle of some sort...all in good humor! It is also an excuse for the community to get together and catch up with friends, etc. I believe it comes from the whole harvest festival idea, celebrating the end of growing season and seeing the fruits of your labor.
In the US , waitstaff are the ones liable for you if you drink underage. So if they do not card you and you happened to not have a card / be underage they could be charged $2000 and most likely be fired. So regardless of whether you appear to be over 25 you’re getting carded.
if you brought your own booze to a restaurant or cafe in the Netherlands , thats considered being extremely rude. They sometimes make more money from the drinks than the food, so they would probably ask you to leave if that happened. Its interesting that this is a custom in some american places where alcohol is harder to get. But its a good solution in such a case.
County fairs are happening here too. they are called Kermis or braderie.(kermis is the part with the rides and braderie is the part with the market and food)
My husband does the laundry, I fold. It works for us, because he feels that I don't optimise the laundry and I feel he folds towels "wrong" 😂 I learned my way of folding from HIS mom!
I worked at a supermarket as a cashier before Euro's, and we LOATHED cheques. They were definitely on the way out, but some people would just use them. It took superlang, and was a load of hassle. My dad wrote checks right until they weren't accepted anymore, and believe me, we tried to get him to use his debit card and pin all the time. I have friends in the US, and exchanging money is just... insanely difficult if you don't want to use paypal 😂
Oh and though I haven't brought my own alcohol to a restaurant, I have brought dessert! On our anniversary we went to dinner, and I called ahead to see if I could bring a cake. They were fine, no charge. And then we arrived and I had to explain to EVERY. SINGLE. EMPLOYEE. Why there was a cake on the table that they did not sell. I'd have thought the manager would have told the staff this was happening, but no. Our own server was really cool about it, the others were not. We never went back, my fish was raw and when I complained they had just put it in the microwave we think.
BYOB is uncommon here in the UK but it does exist. It's mainly done either by very small, family run restaurants who don't want to have to stock up on alcohol, and by restaurants of middle-eastern cuisine, because alcohol is not allowed in Islam, so they won't serve it themselves but allow you to bring it. Fair enough in either case.
I have two vendors in the US that don’t have ACH transfers. Usually businesses in the US make and receive electronic payments. But here we sit in NL writing a check to a business in the US with a 1Euro postzegel and have to drop it in the brievenbus.😂
Building-laundromats do happen, but it's rather rare. In my case it was an apartment building for students, where the apartments where too small for a washing machine.
Two years ago in MN, I wanted to buy some alcohol-free beer. I could not find it in the regular grocery store, but upon asking I was referred to the clearly demarcated wine department. It was sold there, but there was only one cashier, and there was indeed just as you described a very long line. On my Dutch automatic pilot, I wanted to comment on the illogic of it all, but after half a sentence I thought the better of it. The lady in the line behind me agree with me when we left the shop (my argument was that if you do not want people to drink alcoholic beverages, then make it easier for them to purchase alcohol-free stuff). I have seen several times that youngsters tried to buy booze but were refused because they were under the age and/or did not carry an ID.
Here in Holland, the Coffee Company also does not sell alcohol-free beer BTW. You seem to need an alcohol license for selling that as well.
very early, love your videos
Hi Ava, interesting video again, Thanks for sharing.
On the BYOB thing: as far as I know, in Dutch cafés, bars and restaurants, BYOB is not only unusual, it's often even considered offensive! How dare one frequent such an establishment, and not buy THEIR beverages! That's how they make money! But then, you don't get free seconds on coffee or sodas, either. Because, once again, that's how they make money! On the plus side, servers in such establishments get a proper living wage, just like any other! So we don't complain about having to pay full price for EVERY drink. That's the price of freedom. What the conservative American would call 'socialism'!
About the cash-only thing: over the past 20 years, if I had a choice, I never had any cash on me, because I find it extremely inconvenient. As far as I'm aware, here in Leeuwarden, there is only one Chinese take-out restaurant, 'Ni Hao', that stubbornly refuses to accept payment by bankcard (PIN). They tell their patrons to go get cash at the ATM across the street! I've visited them twice (about a decade apart), and both times I decided that I was NOT going to indulge their weirdness. Because it's virtually impossible to order food to a total amount that is a multiple of €10 or €20, whatever the minimum is that an ATM will give out. So I would end up carrying some spare cash that I never ever need... If Ni Hao cannot come into the 21st century with the rest of us, they will have to survive without my patronage. Fortunately, such locales are pretty rare, here.
I think one reason for this restaurant to only accept cash might be that it's easier to make money "zwart", without the tax authorities knowing about it... If there's a bank transaction, it's written down somewhere and is added to their sales volume.
@@kateref7523 yes, you're probably quite right. I and people around me, have had similar thoughts. Anyway, they're not having me as a customer.
I'm Dutch, and I still use cash - just a few coins to get a shopping cart lol. I can't even remember when I last paid in cash in a store, or anywhere, for that matter. (And I can't even remember when we last had a bank robbery here).
ATM’s explosions maybe but nowadays mostly the robbers go to the German ATM’s.
COVID Changed a lot for me, before I was paying more cash than by card. Nowadays it’s probably nine out of ten times the “contactless small payments without pin code”.
I’m from Denmark. You haven’t been able to use checks since 2016. It simply doesn’t exist anymore, because nobody ever used it
Funny thing about the difference in accepting and not accepting cash. A few weeks ago my husband and I ended up in this tiny dinky vintage shop and wanted to buy 2 vinyls. And like many independent tiny shops the owner didn’t have a debit card machine and we didn’t have cash on us. So instead he send my husband a tikkie. Problem solved 😄
Hi, I was wondering if you know of and have been to Efteling in the south of the Netherlands ? Efteling started out as a fairytale forest surrounded by two big lakes showing all the fairytales in real life, plus a talking real size tree, a real size man puppet with the longest neck in the world, dancing shoes that magically dance on their own and a big toy donkey that lifts up it s tail and poops fake golden Efteling coins for people to catch as memory to Efteling. Later on they added all sort of things like one of the biggest fountain shows in a lake in the world, rollercoasters, dark rides, indoor rides with colorfoul moving puppets animotronics (even a real size whale), a madhouse, interactive indoor rides with moving puppets also animotronics, a 20 minute show with real horses and knights, little boats that are pulled forward in the lake automatically you can sit in for a boat ride across the lake, a big platform where a lot of people can stand on that goes slowly up in the air so people can overlook the entire forest, park, hotel and lakes. Efteling was built before Disneyland / world even existed. Mr Disney has been video recorded visiting the Netherlands so he could have taken ideas from Efteling, but nobody really knows if Mr Disney actually visited Efteling. Efteling It is one of the best themed themeparks in the world with emphasis on theming. Of course a lot of parents and grandparents with children go there, but one should been there at least once in their life visiting or living in the Netherlands 😀. It is basically a big forest with two big lakes and there happens to be a big themepark inside of it, so you can enjoy a day in nature as well. It is a two day park to see everything, they also have a themed hotel in which people can stay. They are now building a second 50 million euro hotel with no doubt excellent theming as well. The entrance of Efteling looks straight out of an adventure movie and is called House of The Five Senses. Thought maybe you would like knowing about it !
Off course they don’t allow you to bring your own wine to a restaurant over here. The margins on drinks are way better than on the food.
“Ze eten je arm, maar drinken je rijk”
I think things like the "county fairs" in the US are also here in the Netherlands, just a little bit different. I don't know how often those events are held in the US, in cities/villages here in the Netherlands those are often a "once per year" thing. Some of those are mainly rides/attractions (kermis), some have more of a shopping theme (braderie) and others have a much more specific theme (food truck festival, medieval theme, horses or other animals). Not sure how it is in Utrecht or other of the larger cities as Amsterdam/Rotterdam, but all those "fairs" as mentioned are all over the country, throughout the year (most from spring, through summer and into early autumn).
In the Netherlands you can bring your own wine some restaurants, but you have to ask in advance and pay "cork money" , which is a compensation for the restaurant not making a profit on selling you wine. This is mostly done if you want some special wine with the food that is not available from the restaurant. It is more of a snobby thing.
I’ve also NEVER seen a grocery store that does not sell alcohol. I’m an American in the south.
In South Africa bringing they charge something called "corkage" to dissuade you from bringing your own wine to a place that has a liquor license.
BYOB sounds like a bad deal for restaurants, they make the majority of their money on the drinks (over here at least).
In Brazil even street vendors accept cards and eletronic payments (PIX)
For most bills, you don't even have to make the transfer yourself. Just authorize the creditor to deduct the amount from your bank account. Having lived in the States I am very aware of the antiquated, inefficient banking system.
Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.