About the rain: if Dutch kids complain about the rain, they get told: je bent toch niet van suiker (you're not made of sugar). And you basically learn to just ignore the rain. Because you have to ;) It helps a lot to just not get bothered by it

Always fun to see the perspective from a non Dutch person to our country. It is funny, you say on one hand if something is broken it is instantly fixed, public transport is good its everywhere! on the other hand its a lot of Tax! yep they need that money to fix stuff that gets broken... and the health system, you do pay for it in Irland but indirect, they use taxes to fund it right. We have very good unlimited acces to health services. Its fair if we all pay our part i guess. And life might be cheaper not living in Amsterdam.

""Who cares"

COLLARS NEED TO COME BACK

Irrelevant and not sure if you remember me at all but used to tune into your streams. Just home from being in The Netherlands, fun place, can see why it appealed to you to move there

Wondering why you mirrored the view on the old citymap of Delft at 7:15. Fun fact about that old citywall: A little towerpiece and entrance still excist; The Bagijnetower and Eastgate.

Happy to hear you're so positieve. About your healthcare, yes your employer pays a part, but as far as I know you still have to pay your monthly amount. About the water: you have two bills, the water you do want (clean water to drink and shower), the other is for water you don't want. You do not want the dykes to break and swim to work. Greetings

uuum ... the auto generated caption very much DID NOT pick up GAELIC properly

Not me thinking he would do all 4 in 8 minutes 20

Karkal

Sadly, racists here, racists there, racists every effing where.

Many trams, etc. and hence no delays is NOT The Netherlands, but: Amsterdam. Same for road work, etc. Please do not confuse Amsterdam with The Netherlands. I have 1 bus an hour (I live 7 km from a city centre) and if it doesn't show up..... :-)

For the water is the waterschap taxes… but that not for your drinking water it’s what you pay for the dykes and delta works and such that keeps the water out… I’m pretty sure you wanna keep paying those taxes 🙃😉

My wife is from Hong Kong and she always complains about the public transfer in Holland. It is just a matter of reference. 😅 When we actually consider the train their is always something... I'll rather prefer my car and motorcycle... 😅

I love my country too, but you really have to visit the rest of it too. Look up the Hanzesteden, for instance. Kogge. The Veluwe. And So on.

Reviewing the Netherlands based on Amsterdam is like reviewing the United States based on New York or L.A.

All the wonderful things you spoke about in the beginning are paid for by taxes. It seems to me that you do know how to appreciate the good things in the Netherlands but don't realize that the pothole-free roads need construction as do the wonderful massive trainstations. Or did you think that the roads fix themselves over night?

Pro: everything gets fixed straight away. Con: there is always construction everywhere.

Who are you to review a country which took you in as a guest? Go review yourself.

You are bad

Amsterdam? Come to Monster!

Recommending moving to the Netherlands because it’s such a beautiful city. Are you a joke? Irish must not be very bright or it’s just you being disrespectful.

Tax is needed to fund al the public services.

The waterboard tax is the oldest tax in the Netherlands. Probably 1000 years old. It ensures our existence. Yes, it is supplemented nowadays with cleaning the water and making drinking water. I also can assure you that the canal water is cleaned. Before (in the 18th century) the city stank so horribly, than nobody wanted to live there. Horses were a part of it too, I guess. But it was mainly rotting water.

I usually do around 80-85 Celsius

Add together the tax-rate and the quick repair of the cycleway and it makes sense.

Nice review. Great you're trying to learn dutch. Hope you manage to keep up this learning spirit. The weather is someting special here, when being outside biking, hiking or camping. ;) Never know what to expect.

Well, mr.Ireland, do you really think we are not going to improve a bus or train station or other infrastructure because you are here? Seriously. And do not complain about health care insurance: it's reasonable, and if you would have a low income, you would get a monthly discount in return. And complaining about the weather is rather immature , don't you think? There's only bad clothing, no bad weather. Finally, you have not reviewed the Netherlands but Amsterdam. To review a country after a year is also a bit......hmmm arrogant almost...

You find €120/month al lot of money? How much do you make with your job? And if your monthly income is low you can get funds frim the goverment. Dutch healthcare is in the top 3 of Europe. The watertax you mentioned is for watermanagment and roadmanagment, to keep the land dry, the water clean, sewagemanagment and have nice infrastructure without potholes 😉. Tapwater kost around €1 a cubic meter and thats cheap.

Bla bla Amsterdam, bla bla Amsterdam. Duh i got bored 1 minutes. Please chance the title to : my review of Amsterdam. Im pretty sure you never stepped foot outside de randstad. Go travel an see the real Netherlands

Nice and understandable review after one year in Amsterdam. Now you can see the rest of the Netherlands 😂. And next year a second review of the Netherlands

healthcare nowadays is so exspensive because of all the foreigners coming to this country...

This is a review of living in the city of Amsterdam, not of the Netherlands as a whole

My ears! My ears! HURT! In Dutch or Low Saxon, G / ch or, gh is pronounced like ch, in loCHness, in Dutch, (except in city names that end in sch, that would be pronounced like an S, never a sh), the sh sound is a german/english/frisian thing... german and english sound like sh sh sh sh , and ow ouw ow now, house, mouse, haus, maus , same same.. to us. So vvvvvan with a V, same difference between s and z, as between v and f.. .vvvvvan Gogh CH oh like in dog, and CH [ vvvvvahn] aa like the docktor makes you say "ah"....Gogh with two x CH qas in loCHness there is no K sound like as in "good" in Dutch...you have these sounds in Irish too so use them.. Pleas no more "fen-kow". :) People think you are looking for a Chinese restaurant when you say it like that..

Who is this Fan-kow you English always talk about??? I wonder who that is. He's not Dutch probably. A painter?

Better get out of Amsterdam, and see the real country, Amsterdam is not safe...

Potholes are more a thirdworld/usa thing... We pay taxes here, so there is money to fix stuff :)

Naturally things are on time.... why would they be late???

Got to be honest: It annoys me to a significant degree when a foreigner hangs around Amsterdam for a few months and then 'reviews the Netherlands' despite not having been there at all. (Amsterdam doesn't count, it's our penal colony as a matter of fact)

Amsterdam is not in the Netherlands. There are so many contradictions in your story. We pay a lot of taxes because everything is well taken care of. Like your detour because something is under construction. I'm quite sure that healthcare isn't free in Ireland either; it can't be. Or it's not as good. It's ranked 15th in Europe: "Ireland still has a very underdeveloped primary and community care sector; long waits and unequal access for public patients to hospital care; concerns about poor quality and overstretched hospital infrastructure; and staffing constraints". Compare apples with apples, please. And no, not everyone should move to the Netherlands. 😂 I'm glad you enjoy Amsterdam so much. I liked it way more some 20-30 years ago. Again, it's only one city in the Netherlands. There are better places.

We actually do maintenance over here. Maintenance costs money and takes time: that's why many other countries just don't do it. We also pay taxes for that.

Man, someone coming from Ireland and having a good time here who would have thought, Ireland is a beautiful place!!

No matter what indexes you look at: Democracy index, Freedom of Press index, Healthcare Index, Happiness Index, Safety Index, Work-life-balance-index... it's always the same countries that come up on top: Scandinavian countries (especially Denmark and Finland) and the Netherlands. So, perhaps there is a correlation between tax-policies in those countries and there stunning success on those indexes.

You reviewed Amsterdam.You did not review the Netherlands at all Try to go Kiel Windeweer on a Sunday evening by public transport.Thanks for still asking if we speak English. Nothing as annoying as being spoken too in English or German in a restaurant or shop. Bicycle lanes repairs are paid for by your taxes.

Enjoying everything you consider normal like good infrastructure, safety, public facilities but complaining about the tax system ? Are you really that ignorant ? And … the previous year was the wettest year ever recorded.So better be prepared for climate change, every degree adds up 15% more rain in this climate zone.

Of all germanic languages Dutch is closest to English. 't is wat het is.....

Nearly everything on your good list, has a price. That s why you pay tax.

The tax you paid is used to repair the bump in the bike lane you talked about within a week

Canals aren't filthy. There is a lot of water to manage, it's not like an extra tax, it's the mother of all taxes, these boards go back further in history than whatever democratic institution.

Nice vlog, but... pretty arrogant. No effort on the local language, assuming being in one big city applies to like it is similar in the whole Netherlands... Just because our biggest cities have multiple train stations doesn't mean it's everywhere like this. Cheap bikes-in-working-order to buy on the internet tend to have been stolen. You should try living in say Drachten, Breskens, Dokkum, Naaldwijk, Emmeloord. Look up these places in Google maps or similar and see they're very nice but starved of train stations or frequent busses.