Alas...we are still there. And after the pandemic we're basically competing with Berlin for antiquated airports.

It's the exuberance of outside. I love the OG metaverse!

@@samsonwilliams1511 Superb, Fine Fellow! Superb!

Amsterdam. Remember that name. Okay, Lizzebizzy? Be Good.

The US has the highest ranked university system of any country and a higher proportion of university-educated adults than every country in Europe. The US is the backbone of global banking. Your point on religion just shows that you’re a bigot.

@@fatherson5907 <-------- Troll.

America as a society sucks indeed. There's a reason why so many Americans move to Europe to escape the USA. It's not only for the obvious advantages like accessible affordable healthcare, unbiased affordable education and safety, ( the lack of school shootings in Europe is really a big concern to the NRA.) It's also the quality of living, the work - life balance, the benefits that people have like more than 20 days PTO per year, which they are encouraged to enjoy without having to worry about losing their job. The capitalist mindset of the USA only works for the very small percentage of people that are rich enough to afford it. The majority of USA citizens struggle to get by and it's estimated that at least 10% of them are living under the poverty line. In Europe people have many safety nets that prevent them from becoming homeless or poor. No one is becoming homeless because they lost their job or were unable to work for months in Europe. In the US people die because they can't afford medical treatment, not so in Europe. So yeah, The USA is a big country with wonderful places and an exciting and beautiful nature. It's also a country with a lot of issues that make Americans very unhappy people.

Except that all of their buildings are garbage and they don’t allow people to vote - yeah, advanced 🤣🤣🤣

Bullocks, the people from America are descendants from European people. They had perfect examples of how to build a tolerating, democratic and safe society. They chose to build an intolerant, undemocratic, dystopian society, where the people are bound and gagged by all sorts of influential lobbies of rich people who decide what happens and what is law. And the effects have started to kick in when Americans decided they wanted a narcissistic clown as president. States followed the madness by giving people the right to have guns without any background checks or prohibiting abortion because of some religious superstition denying science. Each people gets the government it deserves, Americans seem to want idiots for president.

Love all of what you say and hope it comes to fruition!

The US actually spends a lot, but most is not built financially sustainable. Look at 'Strong Towns' and things will become very clear. The Netherlands almost accidentally did a few things right from a longer while ago, with very different goals, that just happened to help in many ways unimaginable at the time. America will need to swing the wheel dramatically if they want to turn their financial downward spiral back upwards.

That's not going to happend. The American government is controlled by bigg money. They like to get money not spend it on the country unless they profit from it.

@@vincenzodigrande2070 they have choice since towns and even cities are struggling to pay for their infrastructure.

Heated bus stops? Is that heaven?

Darn, even I had trouble using the automated bagage-machines at Schiphol at age 30, I'm Dutch ánd I flew with KLM. I was nervous as hell for my first flight ever, so was a bit slow. Before I knew it, some member of staff was taking over entering all the flight details and when I tried to find the layer of glue to stick the label together, the employee grabbed it from my hands and just bent it around the handle of my suitcase and slapped the ends together: I was a few seconds to slow to realise there was no glue at all, but the employees were a bit annoying. What also didn't help was the short moment of 'No... you can't be serious...' when I got to the small desk that only grants you acces to the bagage-machines on review of your ticket and such: 'What's your number of your visa?' the KLM-lady asked me... And I had thoroughly checked that soooo many times in advance and no, I didn't need one because I was only staying for 9 days, where a visa was required for stays exceeding 90 days. (I was going to Ukraine). "I don't have one because I....' "How long are you staying?' So yeah... automation is great up to a certain point, but personnel can be a little more supportive of people who don't fly a plane on a daily basis... On the other hand, I was stunned to see how stupid the average Dutch traveller is when using public transport: the use of RFID-technology to pay your fare is (sadly) beyond quite a lot of people in the Netherlands compared to what I saw in Kyiv: nobody, really nobody had any trouble using the metro-card there, whether they were elderly or youngsters. And the information on how to present the card to the validators was nothing compared to the over-the-top stickering, flyering and what not we did in The Netherlands to prevent people from stalling the line of people wanting to board the bus, tram or metro.

Isn't debt the new slavery?

@@samsonwilliams1511 very true. The elites will drive prices so high while eliminating jobs at the same time that larger and larger amounts of debt will be increasingly more common.