hey guys welcome back to the foreign reacts today we're going to be checking out a video titled six
things that i can do in the netherlands but not in usa so um obviously this is uh this would be
an american's perspective of the netherlands and i've been trying to find one of these videos for
for a very long time and it's wonderful that i finally found one so we're going to be checking
out this video so i do hope that you guys are already subscribed if you're not subscribed
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foreign reactions everything done here has to be foreign and obviously you know the netherlands is
foreign to me so without further ado guys let's get right into the video hi friends welcome and
welcome back to my channel if it's not your first time here thank you so much for coming back and
if it is your first time thank you for clicking on this video so you guys may or may not already know
that we've been living in the netherlands now for coming up on a year and i've noticed
a bunch of things that are specific to life here in the netherlands things that maybe i
would not be able to do in the united states or not necessarily do them in the same way
so in today's video i'm going to be talking about six things that i can
do in the netherlands that i could not do in the united states so you guys know how we do it here
go ahead and get comfortable get yourself your favorite drink and we'll get
get you some drink i got water that's it
and i'd like to start out by saying that i'm by no means saying that one way of life is inherently
better than the other i'm not here to make any judgments i'm simply pointing out the differences
and i'll leave it up to you guys to form your own opinions so without further ado we'll get right
into number one i have noticed that you can take your well-behaved dog out to eat with you so this
is definitely one of the first things we noticed when we got here to the netherlands because we got
here in the summer and we noticed that so many people were out to eat with their dogs and that
was really shocking to us because that's something that you definitely don't see in the united states
now this was both at outdoor terraces and even inside people had their dogs with them so you'll
notice that the dogs will hang out underneath the tables without people even noticing them
and i've even noticed in certain situations where the server will bring the dog a bowl
of water so it's become very normal now to see dogs at restaurants unlike before where we were
kind of surprised to see that dogs were allowed to go into restaurants and it's really cool to
see that dogs are welcomed at all kinds of places here in the netherlands i can tell you firsthand
that it's very difficult and almost not allowed in most restaurants or establishments to let your dog
come inside with you when i was in college i worked at a restaurant and it was a huge
i never dude you can't even take your pet in your own apartment bro like you're paying
rent and you cannot have a pet and some apartments literally charge you up uh probably like a 300 500
extra just to have a pet she ain't got to explain i know what's up huge no to have someone come into
the restaurant with their dog i mean we even had an outside seating area and dogs were not allowed
in that area too there was always an exception to where if it was a service dog then they were
allowed to come in but that was even a really tricky situation because then we would have to ask
the customer for paperwork to prove that it was in fact a service dog so in general dogs accompanying
their owners to restaurants it's definitely not common the second thing is that you can get a
good bottle of european wine for five euros and we definitely take advantage of this so no you're
not gonna get this top quality wine for five euros but they have such a great selection of wines and
table wines that you can get at this price range that won't bankrupt you and even if you choose to
go into a wine store as opposed to buying your wines from say a supermarket for example the
bottles of wine are also very reasonably priced so i recall in the united states any wine that you
got from the supermarket wasn't really good wine i mean it wasn't horrible but you definitely didn't
get your good ones from the supermarket and it's not something that you took to a friend's house
for a party um you definitely chose to go to a wine store to get your good wines and
they cost way more money than they do here in the netherlands the third thing is that you can see a
doctor without worrying about the cost and what's even more surprising to me is that doctors can
make a house call if you're too sick to get out of bed now i'm not saying that all americans worry
about medical costs because some people have great insurance but a big difference is the privileged
unfortunately i am not one of them i am broke i am poor i don't know what good health care is okay
yeah i represent the people but everyone here in the netherlands has the same base insurance
coverage the fees are standardized and on top of that you can get additional supplemental
health insurance at an affordable cost like i said before doctors here can make house calls
and i know it sounds or seemed so old school when i first heard about it but i think it's something
that is so necessary especially if you're feeling really sick to get out of your house on that day
something else i've noticed here that i definitely don't see in america is that prices are listed
in the doctor's waiting room so it's not a mystery what you're going to be paying i can tell you from
personal experience every single time i've gone to a doctor's office i've done blood work or any
kind of thing that involves medical care and i've asked the receptionist how much the bill will be
they're almost always unable to tell me what the exact amount will be so it's always a
mystery when you're waiting to receive your bill i mean the medical costs are insane and
really anxiety inducing any time you go and see a doctor but that's certainly not the case here
in the netherlands the fourth thing is that you can take a three-week vacation and still have a
job to return to when you get back from vacation so many americans get paid about two weeks of paid
vacation but that's something that's not legally required to be given to you by your job so good
employers will order a new vacation but the fair labor standards act does not require american
employers to give any employees any paid vacation time at all however here in the netherlands
full-time employees get several weeks of paid vacation and that's something that's mandated
by law i've spoken to so many dutch people that take two to three weeks vacation in the summer and
actually travel somewhere i think the dutches be giving her three kisses man i learned in the video
that if the dutch is giving you three kisses they really like you i think the dutches really like
her she's really pleasant though i must give her um her credit i'm only i don't really know like i
got to start i i've been practicing i cannot lie to you i've been practicing to let go of certain
words that tie you to the american way of speaking and i've been listening to her and she she doesn't
necessarily speak that way you know we're straight up when you hear an american speaking english
outside there's just always some stuff that gives it away that okay yeah your ass is from over there
so i really actually appreciate how she speaks because i've been working on that for my entire
life to try not to do those type of abbreviation slangs and all that because it kind of give kind
of give you away you know what i'm saying so yeah i don't even think anybody in the in the world
says you know what i'm saying we're kinda i don't know y'all let me know if i'm tripping
seems like it's the normal thing to do around july and august so it's not grounds for termination if
you choose to take a long vacation it's not a sign that you're slacking off at work and you're lazy
like it's sometimes perceived in the u.s when you want to take an extended amount of time off
and it seems like it's just the normal thing here in the netherlands to take your vacation
time and have time with your family and leisure time and spending time with your family traveling
is something that's very important to the dutch the fifth thing is that you can travel all around
netherlands by train so now high speed trains are operated by ns which stands for netherlands
sporver and those are the blue and yellow trains that you see all over the netherlands so basically
if you are in amsterdam for example you could get around to just about all cities in the netherlands
using the train and i believe outside of the big cities they have regional trains that you can use
as well so you don't really need a car when you live in the netherlands the public transportation
is very well connected and you can just about get to all the different cities and on top of
that if you fit into a certain category so say for example you're a student or a senior citizen
then they have discounts for using the public transport so these trains are really fast the
travel times are reasonable so it's really cool to be able to conveniently getting around using
the trains and finally number six is that you can graduate university without going into that
university costs in the netherlands for dutch and eu nationals is a fraction of the cost of
what students pay in the u.s so many public universities offer tuitions that are just
a couple hundred euros a year and even the top-tier universities are far less expensive
so it's really common in the u.s for adults to carry their student loan debt for years
i mean well in the 30s and 40s and i believe it will be unusual for a dutch person to carry their
debt for this long so even medical school in the netherlands does not cost hundreds of thousands of
euros and if you chose to do a master's program it ranges from about 4 to 5 000 euros a year and not
five times that amount that's changing for foreign students that aren't or eu nationals
the amount that they pay for tuition is nowhere near what they would pay for tuition in the
united states why y'all never told me to design a bid of the netherlands already baby come on now
wow that tuition is surprising because in america i'm telling you bro if there's
anything in america that's expensive it's gonna be healthcare i'd put number one and number two
education it's really expensive and like a lot of people try to avoid sending them kids to uh
you know public school high school and
you know public schools are not safe in america let me tell you that straight up right off the bat
you're not safe right but when it comes to colleges bro i'm telling you bro it's not
cheap it's really not cheap you you're gonna be indebted so easily so easily that wraps up my list
tell me if there's anything that i may have missed that you've noticed that you can do here are you
cool you're cool i don't know how many subscribers yeah oh she got about one point okay like if y'all
wanna like there's gonna be a link for her in the description right for the original video that
i just watched y'all can go click that link to support her man she got about a 1.5 i'm gonna say
1.5 she got 1.49 so i'm gonna say 1.5 so you got 1 500 subscribers i hope i don't know if she might
see my video but if you do see my video keep doing the the great work man keep talking about the
netherlands there's a stupid-ass negative video about amsterdam uh i did a reaction video to that
so you can actually give your feedback about the netherlands i i think the dutch folks will
really appreciate it and um keep doing your stuff man keep doing your stuff uh i i really enjoyed
this guys and i i hope you guys enjoyed it as well but either ways man that six things i can
do the netherlands but not in america not in the usa that's gonna be it guys i'm out of here peace