What No One Tells You About Moving to The Netherlands /What I Wish I knew as An American

[@ItzSKYVlogs]

Yooo Happy Monday! Hope you guys are having a great start to the week! What’s something that you wish you knew about where you live?

[@rivsoft]

I was trying to find the tax app that you mentioned in the comments but I couldnt find it. Which app are you talking about ? I am now curious I might be missing a bill too !! :D

[@DutchHenkie232]

@@rivsoft I believe he means the 'berichtenbox' this indeed bundles nearly all government communications into one app.

[@rivsoft]

@@DutchHenkie232 Ohh ok, I was thinking it might be related to mijn.overheid. I believe the berichtenbox app is basically an extension to see the messages from mijn.overheid iirc. I think if youre registered in mijn.overheid you can also setup so that you can receive all the emails for any message any organization sends to you.

[@dennisjanssenvandelaak9298]

Air raid alarms go off 1st Monday of the month at noon. You pointed correct, it's the 3 disks on the pole. Funny to see your perspective on something so normal for me.

[@Treinbouwer]

18:04 You could be a bit calmer. When I was a kid, I could be as enthousiast and someone would definitely say something which translates to "calm down bouncing ball." I have not moved much in my life, but because my family comes from the traditionally Catholic parts of the Netherlands and I grew up in a traditionally protestant area, there have always been some funny misunderstandings, sometimes due to dialecal variations, sometimes due to cultural differences. I find it funny how, in history class, they take good examples from the protestant Church and bad examples from the Catholic Church, but in such a way, their misinterpretations were hilarious.😂 I'm in university now, where they are obsessed with diversity in such a simplistic way that they do not see the differences within the country. It's just skincollor and gender, no culture included. It's quite sad. I don't care for skincolour and gender, I care for people.

[@Project_Erasmus]

Closets are traditionally not included if/when you buy a house. The reason I think is that the builder won't know who or even how many people are going to live in it and also some people will just never have enough closets so why bother. But don't worry, Ikea is your friend.

[@ItzSKYVlogs]

Oh that super interesting and makes sense. 😮

[@ItzSKYVlogs]

What’s so funny is that ikea really is my best friend. I go there for everything. Hahaha 😂

[@RealConstructor]

That’s not the reason. Built in closets were standard until the sixties, after that it was too expensive because of labor costs and material costs. It was the time when many houses needed to be built in short times. Built in closets need more time and more workers, a mason, a carpenter, a plasterer and a painter. The benefit now is that people can choose where to put the closet in the room, but they had to pay for the closet afterwards. For renters it was more expensive, for home owners it was less expensive.

[@jacquelinevanderkooij4301]

​@@ItzSKYVlogs No, i'm 64 and in the past you had closets in the rental houses. But due to the fact that they were mostly kaput after the renters left, they stopt. Now you have to build them yourself or buy them.

[@playingindies6730]

Yea its normal to just bring your own

[@kelvinmulder]

You seem like such a chill guy to hang out with. I think you have no problem making contact with us locals at all. Keep on doing what you do man, very cool vlogs. 👌🤙🏼🔥

[@Robin-rk2hf]

It really shows that you come from a country where towns are large and sprawling 😂 i laughed SO hard when you called Haarlem a little town. That's the capital of North Holland!

[@framegote5152]

Here it is normal when you rent or buy a house, it is empty. You need to organise something on the floor (carpet for instance) and all the furniture and appliances. Everyones taste is different, so when you move, you'll take your stuff (including flooring) with you, unless you can sell it to the next one that moves in. And about the alarm: it's loud in the whole country, so it doesn't really matter where you live. You'll always hear it, but you'll get used to it. It's only strange when it happens at a different time than normal. That's the time to turn on the radio, or tv.

[@DevrinBradford]

Lately, I’ve been thinking I’m eating healthier, but some of my followers have mentioned that I’m still consuming a lot of highly processed foods. At first, I was confused, but then a few of my overseas followers pointed out that many ingredients found in U.S. packaged goods are actually banned in Europe and other parts of the world. When they shared some examples with me, I was completely mind-blown! 😂 So now I’m curious-how different is the food actually over there? Is it really healthier?

[@ffqm]

It's really different and there's a lot of videos about it as well on KZbin.

[@jooproos6559]

Here your food isnt gonne last a week or even a year.Those same foods in the usa will last that long or longer. So when you die and the people are gonne dig you up from your grave,you sure look the same as when you died,thats for sure!😄😄😄

[@Kamisei85]

In short, good and yes.

[@maartendekroon267]

In other videos this guy often mentions always getting ill from eating food whenever he goes back to the US, his stomach having gotten used to Dutch food.

[@Kamisei85]

@@maartendekroon267 Yeah. It's a common thing. Though you don't hear about it often as people don't tend to go back to usa often after coming hear and noticing the upgrade in food quality. I think.

[@bert2526]

Bro, visit Groningen sometime please :-) The alarm came from the 3 stacked radar-ish looking disks things on the tower.

[@ItzSKYVlogs]

@@bert2526 definitely on the list!!! :)

[@ItzSKYVlogs]

@@bert2526 your like the 3rd person who recommended Groningen to me!

[@nicodesmidt4034]

I would go Amsterdam, Haarlem, Utrecht and then do Groningen, Maastricht, Rotterdam, Leiden, De Haag 😄

[@apveening]

@@nicodesmidt4034 His work is in Amsterdam, so he probably has already seen enough of it. He lives in Haarlem and it is shown in some of his videos. He has shown visits to Utrecht and Rotterdam.

[@B.Krol.050]

And ill be the fourth one to reccomend it to ya guys😂 ​@@ItzSKYVlogs

[@rinynewton8297]

No closets, nothing on the floors, no cookers or fridges. You have to buy that yourself. That's the way it is. I wouldn't live in some other person's rubbish anyway!

[@vogel2280]

In the Netherlands closets are furniture, like chairs and tables. Maybe one underneath the staircase....if you're lucky.

[@tjanneke]

The alarm, so funny. It is so good that you adres these things.

[@aprilinamsterdam]

Dude, I feel you on the closets. I just found your channel and I'm loving it. I'm from Seattle and moved here in 2008. We live in a building thats being torn down & rennovated. In the meantime, we're moving from a 3-bedroom apartment with closets in every room into a one-bedroom with zero closets! 😱 Needless to say, I'm stressing out. 😢 One thing I think you could have mentioned in this video is New Year's Eve! Idk what it's like in Haarlem - I assume it's similar - but here in A'dam it's unreal 😂

[@nielsbekkers8283]

About getting the weather wrong: We as humans realy don't know everything about the things that influence weather nor do we have the computing capability today to predict it fully. As far as I know, currently we have about 95-98% accuracy during the first few days, around 90-95% for the first 2 weeks, but after that it plummets to below 40%. This is a consideral improvement to even 20 years ago. When I learned about the amount of (known) variables that can influence the weather and thus our predictions, it made me respect science even more than I did. :)

[@Mx-Alba]

8:00 that parking garage with the Surinamese restaurant under it... I parked my car there just last week. It's always so much fun to see KZbinrs in locations that I recognise. :D

[@RFGfotografie]

The kitties are really a video thing lately by Expat youtubers. So funny and cute.

[@maartendekroon267]

As to the "National Alarm" every first Monday of the month: my high-school had one on its roof, feet from a rooftop classroom. 4th period let out at 12:05, just not that particular Monday, or everyone would go deaf😅

[@crytocc]

If I'm not mistaken, somewhere around the 1980s, houses stopped including closet space built in, and you were instead expected to install furniture. I rent a house from the late 80s, and it came with a large standalone wardrobe - the landlord agent showing me around told me that it was included when these houses were built as 'compensation' for there no longer being built-in closets like there were in old houses, as a transition thing (and expressed surprise that it was still standing after all these years!)

[@motleydesign]

Welcome in the Netherland. We need people like you🍷

[@Lilliathi]

Flaunting your wealth is considered a bit vulgar in the Netherlands. Protestant roots I suppose. A fancy car is more likely to be met with skepticism about your character than applause.

[@AnymMusic]

genuine question tho, is it assumed in the US that you can just move abroad and DON'T need to learn the language of the country you're in? Like I've seen this in other videos and comments where there's this kind of egocentric energy of "oh but they speak English anyway" or "English is an international language, so learning the language is a waste of time". Imagine you move to Germany or Turkiye, where English is nowhere nearly as prevalent as the Netherlands, now what?

[@Robin-rk2hf]

I felt it was very ironic that he said this about the Netherlands, a country that has one of the highest English language proficiencies among countries where it is not the standard language haha.

[@LIL-MAN-THE-OG]

its not assumed, but the thing is, alot of Americans dont wait to learn the language before diving into a move to a new country. We dont fear going to somewhere new, but oftentimes we dont prep ahead for the new language of said country beforehand. Things is sometimes, Americans like a place where English is somewhat prevalent so they can get established in that new country and go from there .

[@LIL-MAN-THE-OG]

@@Robin-rk2hf its like my buddy who is a Dane, but his wife is American, and when they moved to Denmark, tho they spoke English there--she felt that to really understand the Danes, she needed to learn the language to have deeper conversations than the 'surface level' (or trivial) English conversations she was having with other moms or co-workers there...thats what they mean

[@lacycj]

Hi Sky. I am enjoying your videos very much. I have been to Amsterdam many times (I was just there last month for 30 days), and I have several Dutch friends now. I am seriously starting to think about moving soon. This video is very helpful. But I have other considerations since I am retired. Just a note, it looks like you forgot to update the video description; it still reads "Are The Dutch Lazy and Rude?". Thanks!

[@michelvanderkrul3368]

Waterkant is a nice place to have a beer/cocktail/wine, been there a couple of times while visiting Amsterdam last June

[@ItzSKYVlogs]

@@michelvanderkrul3368 oooh thanks for letting me know! I’ll have to go visit!

[@ItzSKYVlogs]

@@michelvanderkrul3368 I took a completely different walking path and found that place and wow. It looks nice.

[@ItzSKYVlogs]

@@michelvanderkrul3368 since you recommend it.. I’m gonna have to go

[@chipdale490]

The Buienradar app is brilliant and super accurate most of the time. It always reminds me of that scene in Back to the Future 2 where Doc Brown says "wait 5 more seconds" and the rain stops on que. 😂 Pretty much the only thing this movie got right when it comes to 2015 tech. 😅 Still waiting for that flying DeLorean.

[@nicodesmidt4034]

@@ItzSKYVlogsif you’re into biological foods and more alternative setting, check out Cafe de Ceuvel in Amsterdam North maps.app.goo.gl/Gzhy9uNemVERwzyj9

[@LazyManJoe]

"The struggle is REAL MAN!" 🙂 I'm trying to learn more Dutch at the moment as well, but it's tricky! EVEN for a South African (who can speak Afrikaans - "close" to Dutch BUT NOT THE SAME) 😀

[@apveening]

With Afrikaans the real problem are the apparent similarities with different meanings that will really trip you up. I can recommend watching the 20:00 news as that is very good Dutch.

[@erikaverink8418]

I would say put on subtitles also, the combination hearing and reading can make such a different (888 on teletekst? ) Normaal voor doven en slechthorenden. Or watch GTST (i don't like it) but i know they had subtitles, not sure if they still have it. Good luck learning.

[@rondotexe]

Hey Sky! I've been loving that you've been shifting towards longer-form videos for a while now. When did you make that decision? How do you feel about it compared to the shorter (less than 10 minutes) videos that you used to do?

[@ItzSKYVlogs]

Oooh wow thanks!!!! Yea I’ve actually made that switch a while ago.

[@ItzSKYVlogs]

I guess I just realized that o talk waaaaay too much for a 10 min video. Hahahah 😅

[@ItzSKYVlogs]

Thanks so much for rocking with me all this time

[@joostjansen4294]

About closet space: only in social rentals there is a chance you get some closets. In commercial rentals and buying a house there is almost never closets present. Also depending on the village you start to live in, look for the yearly events and try to participate. You will become a member of the community very fast.

[@erwinhof4674]

really like your vids. keep on the good work

[@Boffinbox]

3:54 you mention a relocation service, but i cannot find a link in the description. can you drop a link to their website please? it sounds like what i need. thanks!

[@Spikeydelic]

honestly, not telling you about the alarm, is the best prank ever xD

[@wickedkarma7569]

When my parents and I moved to my current town (1976), closets came with the apartment. When my then husband moved to this apartment (1994), the apartment came with closets. Freestanding closets. They don't do that anymore, though.

[@Vanders456]

Different gemeente, banks etc. will have different levels of support for non-Dutch speakers. Amsterdam & Amstelveen will basically speak any language you can think of, for example. Haarlem is kind of odd that it's full of non-Dutch expats but their services are almost entirely all in Dutch.

[@gloofisearch]

As always, great video. Yep, the closet space is different. However, that is pretty much the same all over the world. Due to the fact that US or North American houses are built out of wood, it is way easier to add a closet as a room into the structure. So, most houses around the world do not have built in closet space. However, in Spain, they more or less have a regular closet that you could by at a furniture store, built into one side of the room, but usually not a walk in kind of closet. The loud noise is a siren. They have that in many countries and it is to alarm people of dangers, like storms or water levels rising fast. They can also be used to alarm the Firefighters if something big is going on. These can be heard over many miles and they usually have a melody to it, whereas each different melody means a different incident to prepare for.

[@hansutrecht6555]

Hey Sky, about learning the Dutch language, well as you well know by now everybody speaks English quite well over here, but if you really want to dig into the local culture, it is awfully handy to learn at least the Dutch language basics to go around. Just saying, for real! 😂

[@user-wp7zn8ii5u]

Another great video, thank you.

[@DondeRob]

First of all: I don't like to be living in a neighbourhood where I'm likely to be shot. Also, working in a line of work where I'm likely to be shot, no thank you ma'am. From my EU-NL perspective, the US is like a war zone. I am curious about the landscapes and history, and there are probably lots of enjoyable things there, in terms of society, but... I barely even dare going there.

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

There is an astronomy ap that tells you what stars you see, just remember to point it at the sky, and not at the floor, than it tells you which stars you can see in new Zealand ;) Yes there are people that do that ;) I use Buienradar for the weather.

[@ItzSKYVlogs]

Oooh wow! I had no idea!

[@Tuinierenopstrobalen]

​@@ItzSKYVlogs it's Google Sky Map. Not sure if you can use it on an IPhone though.

[@Robin-rk2hf]

@@Tuinierenopstrobalen Heaven's Above is also pretty good!

[@meganrandall1493]

We converted our smallest bedroom into a closet. Big ikea closets in the smallest bedroom and done

[@klaasvanmanen8214]

14:09 If a house has fixed closets, than that limits the flexibility one would have if the closets would also be mobile: one can move the bed to the other side of the room while moving the closet at the same time. In the house where I was born, we had a few fixed closets in the living room (not meant for clothing but for dishes and the like), which meant that the place of the dining table was more or less fixed too. In modern houses, occupants have to buy their own closets. That's why IKEA is around almost everywhere. I made my own closets but that's because I like to work with wood, and make things custom-made. Not everyone can do that, or outsource it to a woodworker, because then it becomes really expensive. So yes: people in the Netherlands bring or buy their own closets when moving into a new house.

[@jorismunnik4999]

That potty thingy is called a Plaskrul. When you can say that 10 times in a row to Dutchies you are the man! 😁 When trying to learn Dutch I also would like to recommend doing volunteering work (vrijwilligerswerk, also try that word 10 times in a row, haha). For the Amsterdam area check Vrijwilligers Centrale Amsterdam, don't know for Haarlem though 🙂

[@raisan5989]

Urinal sounds better than "the thing to go potty"

[@mediumsizedgrape]

I think it's smart how you chose to tell your story while taking a walk through the city. Makes it so that it's not as boring as when someone would just be sitting on their couch at home and telling the same story.

[@iDutchNL84]

Hey Sky, do you also watch the youtuber David Wen, a California guy who is living in The Netherlands and also explains differences between the USA and NL?

[@dennisd9875]

Anyone in NYC that wants to learn Dutch let me know, I’ll come have coffee with you and practice 😂

[@Mus.Anonymouse]

The alarm is indeed those 3 UFO-like things stacked on top of each other.

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

Learning Dutch...learn about Grimms laws... how sounds change like gh and ch enough genoeg licht licht knight knecht those kinds of groups of words... It will help you learn any germanic language..

[@ItzSKYVlogs]

Ayyye thanks for the great tips!

[@ItzSKYVlogs]

I definitely need to learn the laws! I keep going to police and talking to them when I have questions lol

[@ravandersteur]

Hoe lang ben je nu in Nederland? En spreek je nú Nederlands?

[@maartendekroon267]

As a guy that worked in debt collection, and having some experience in municipal taxes (Tilburg), I'm surprised Haarlem is this disorganised, for you to only get a first notice by your employer getting notified to garnish your wages...😮

[@DenUitvreter]

Dutch people speaking English to eachother is a huge cringe, so in groups a non Dutch speaker is a bit of an issue. Not learning Dutch also signals no long term committment to the country and therefore to the potential friends.

[@ItzSKYVlogs]

Whioooaaaa that’s a great point!!!!

[@ItzSKYVlogs]

I never ever thought about it like that! Ok I’m definitely getting back on my cut vs game!!

[@Tuinierenopstrobalen]

I does depend on the situation. I spent a year in New Zealand and lived with folks from many countries and we spoke English with each other for months. So if we meet again now, when there's a non fluent Dutchie we tend to speak English because we are used to it that way. Or a mix.

[@nicodesmidt4034]

I had a coworker who came from the states also, we used to talk English until we agreed we should speak Dutch, just for her to learn to speak it better. Turned out it was harder for me as for her as I kept slipping into English 😂

[@jorismunnik4999]

@@nicodesmidt4034 It's a hard thing to do for me too! Especially as I can use it to improve my English conversation skills as well, but on the other hand I'm a bit lazy to adapt to speaking Dutch. Still trying though! But sometimes people just refuse to even try speaking dutch , and I just go with it... What also helps for learning dutch is wearing the (free, otherwise 45 cents) 'Spreek Nederlands! Met mij!' button from Direct Dutch Institute (when googling with this text you'll find it easily). Sometimes you have to give people a push in the right direction haha.

[@anniek4681]

Yes, you are right. The thing with the round discs? That's the thing.

[@gerardvanbeek644]

Tip: the Samsung S23 and S24 can translate phone conversations real time.

[@GabberPinda]

You should make a video of the alarm at the first monday of the month. I can no expads video's of doing this. So you can be the first one. Just let americans know how loud it sounds😂

[@ItzSKYVlogs]

Oooh maaan… !!! That things scared me soo bad when I heard it the first time! Hahahahaha

[@ItzSKYVlogs]

I mentioned that at the end of this video.. ooh and.. I was right next to it!!! When I first heard it. 😂

[@apveening]

@@ItzSKYVlogs So time the next recording at that location.

[@gerhard6105]

It sounds always at noon exactly. 12h. Airraid- and general alarm. Luchtalarm. You see, also the word/word alarm is/is the/de same.

[@mavadelo]

16:39 Yes it is coming from right there, it is the triple disc thing you see. As for closet space, it all depends on where you are. Smaller, more rural places with old houses often have build in closet space, homes build after say the 1960's mostly don't. Not sure why they stopped adding them. In the big four (A'dam, R'dam, the Hague, Utrecht) the homes were usually just to small (same reason why they have those steep stairs) oh right 🥷🥷☕

[@Daph909]

Oh god, the alarms.. I'm Dutch and monthly testing has been happening for most of my life, but even I forget about it until those things start blaring. I think most people in the Netherlands do, which is probably why no one told you about them, haha! Can't imagine being right next to one though :O

[@quizillafreak]

other than the good old 'muurkast' (the one under the stairs), I've never lived in a home with built in closet. I've always seen it as an 'odd' american thing lol

[@cyrielwollring4622]

Kledingkast moet je inderdaad zelf kopen, ingebouwde kledingkasten zijn zeldzaam. en Haarlem is een stad , het kreeg stadsrechten in 1245. In your previous video you said you want to learn Dutch, so that is why my reaction is in Dutch.

[@nineteensevetyeight]

You in my favourite area Oud West, I love it there.

[@SonnyGreenwichJr]

Bunq? This intrigues me... 🔥🧨💪🏽🤠👍🏽🧨🔥

[@caennanu]

14:00 the house i live in now has no closet space, meaning a seperate room if you will. The previous house had closet space which also served as a room seperator (floor to ceiling).

[@miindthegaap]

About the language keep learning, the first days it sounds like gibberish and then one day you can hear & understand conversations from other train passengers

[@shadeblackwolf1508]

My place was an empty concrete box, we had to do everything, floors to wall paints

[@davidc.w.2908]

The previous alarm was louder and heard from further away. They replaced it because some people who had heard them during WWII got PTSD from hearing that sirene every month.

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

50% of the english dictionary is Dutch, the simple farm and home words, the rest is French, forget those words.. say swine and not pork, say stool and not chair say hound and not dog, say car and not verhicle...etc..

[@ItzSKYVlogs]

Ooohhhh snap!! You just gave me the cheat code!!!!

[@ItzSKYVlogs]

Saving this riiiiiiighhhhttt now!! Hahaha

[@AnymMusic]

broski nobody is swine in-place of pork, and a stool is different from a chair....

[@VluggeJapie22]

A hound instead of a dog? You're mixing British English with American English. Just go to a supermarket and ask for swine... I wonder what the response will be😂

[@apveening]

"Swine" will work better with the German "Schwein", "stool" and "hound" are nice ones, but "car" won't work, "auto" will (and even Americans still understand "automobile").

[@sgoslinga1]

Older houses (

[@Themersive]

As a visitor to the Netherlands, does vlogging for channel content require a work permit or a visa of any sort? Curious.

[@freedomfighter4830]

Lol! They testing the alarm every first Monday of the month. Can imagine people will be shocked when they hear that loud War Sirene for the first time.😂

[@anniek4681]

Wardrobes are bought here. The only buildin cabinets are the ones in the kitchen. Maybe in the bathroom if you have a fancy one. What you are talking about is typical Amerikan. We dont have the space to spare for fancy walk-ins. Sinds we dont like abbundance of stuff. All fits in one wardrobe per person. And that's what IKEA is for. There are maybe some houses with walk in wardrobes but that is rare. In normal houses, it is not standard.

[@joannevandebeld4426]

My friend, you did not just call Haarlem, one of our bigger towns (cities actually, since it has rights) a VILLAGE. Man, I live in a village. It had perhaps 3000 people if I’m being generous. That’s a village. Haarlem is definitely a city. I mean, I sort of understand from a North American perspective. But cities like LA are metropolises. You just got in the habit of calling them cities :)

[@gerhard6105]

Indeed. Haarlem became city rights in 1245 💪

[@H1SCOTTY]

About the Lamborghini yeah that’s also Dutch and they might also like it. But first thought is probably; “uitslover” bragging and that’s not in line with the act normal culture you’re weird enough of your own. Likely on party’s they are more talking about how a car is a bad investment and the insurance than the cost price and the looks of the car. At my gym a twenty year old kid drives in a Porsche and assumption is that daddy bought the car, he probably doesn’t even live that far away etcetera

[@glennshobbiesenzz]

that alarm is also installed in your smartphone you can turn it off 👍🏻🙏🏻😎🇳🇱

[@RealConstructor]

A Lamborghini is only a head turner for real car admirers or for people who think it gives you a certain status. Not many Dutch people think status automatically comes with having money. The owner of this car probably thinks different about this, but he also has to crap on a toilet like everyone else.

[@alvin3577]

Dude we also moved to the Netherlands what is the name of the app to consolidate the bills, Greetings from Limburg ..... The South😂😂😂... you should visit sometime.

[@miindthegaap]

You should try the rental boats from the Waterkant and then drink at the bar.

[@irisachternaam]

Haarlem is a small CITY, not a small town. eg Zandvoort is a town. These were historically legally distinct, and only certain places got city rights. It was an honor to be a city, and that pride remains with every city today (sort of, it's more of a football thing). The exception is The Hague, because they never got the Medieval city rights, so when people are dissing/bantering about their city(often football related0, people will always remind The Hague they're not a city, as they never officially got city rights back when that was a thing. So, unless you want to banter about your city with someone, I would just avoid calling any Dutch city a town. Them's fighting words, lol.

[@jolandapeereboom7063]

You forgot to mention that Haarlem is the capitol city of Noord-Holland, provinciehuis op de dreef, Haarlem is niet zomaar een stad😊 groetjes 😊

[@AigioVlogs]

Did you get the new GoPro hero 13 ? If not yet, when you do, do an in depth video on it 😊

[@ItzSKYVlogs]

Ayyyeeeee how you been!!!! No I haven’t yet! Did you?

[@ItzSKYVlogs]

Man i hope to get one soon….ish… hahahaha

[@AigioVlogs]

@@ItzSKYVlogs nope , unfortunately no because I'm just starting with the whole thing, vlog , KZbin channel etc ... But the important thing for me is that, you and couple of others KZbinrs inspire me , so ...( I've changed the profile picture and the name of the KZbin channel but I am subscribed years now, and plus , I'm from Greece Peloponnese island Aegio town, I comment some times, if I have time because in Greece now it's rough

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

Try buying this book: "Theunfoldingoflanguage" by guy Deutscher. that will help a lot understanding languages..

[@ItzSKYVlogs]

(Looking this up now). Wow thank you!!!

[@ItzSKYVlogs]

Oh and it’s a cheap book too! Thank you!

[@LunaticNL89]

Bro, mayb someone told you this allready, but you can use your phone to pay with google pay or ipay if your phone has an NFC option, link one of those apps to your bank account and then you can pay with your phone almost everywhere now in the netherlands,, im living in the south and dont need to worry to bring my bank pass aslong i bring my phone with me

[@pwhelversteijn]

For Dutch maybe try the 'Delftse methode'. You can directly use the sentences on the street.

[@pigletsbank437]

Had to buy a wardrobe, in older houses from the sixties there might be small bild in, ones

[@sweetsamuela22]

Did you go to the beach Bloemendaal ? And a rave festival

[@KraKra-Ah]

In Holland you want to buy your own furniture incl closets... 😅. When you buy a house it is not weird that a perfectly good kitchen is being removed for a new one...

[@HannahSBax]

Not just in Holland, in the rest of the Netherlands too😉

[@j.vanderson6239]

1:56. Wow, you lost quite a bit of weight since moving. All the walking did you good !! 😀

[@benverdel3073]

Is Teletekst still available in NL? If so. You'll have to check that out!

[@sschutjes1462]

There’s an app for that now too

[@w.schigt7788]

Fear for a signal but not afraid to make me nervus with your smile 🙂

[@ItzSKYVlogs]

@@w.schigt7788 awww I love this!!!

[@ItzSKYVlogs]

@@w.schigt7788 thanks for sharing 🙏

[@nicodesmidt4034]

16:46 for years a running joke was that the Russians should invade on a first Monday of the month at 12:00 😂😂

[@gerhard6105]

Precies, jij weet het 👍

[@whynologin]

16:05 Witnessing guys walking out of a car carrying sticks is just another Tuesday, but some lousy alarm freaks you out? Yeah, someone should have told you about that. The problem is that we've gotten so used to it that most of the time it signifies lunchtime instead.

[@Howsmekowdendan]

Office life😂

[@ronaldvanesch8158]

Did you already visit the lakes in Friesland, The pre historic graves in Drente? The largest Dutch forest in Gelderland? Citie like Maastricht, Elburg, Zutphen, Doesburg?

[@joostjansen4294]

About the alert siren, in th 80's there was a joke. What would be the best time to attack the Netherlands? Yep, the first Monday of every month a noon. For no one would take the siren seriously. Now they want to get rid of the system and use the mobile phone app. That way they can reach even people outside the range of the allert system and give more precise information.

[@abacaxiveer]

Yes. How do other places not have buienradar.

[@debbyvandansik1804]

I love your video. S. Iive en haarlem and it s great living here!! But i still want to know....i asked this a few times..how is it in america so expensive to have a baby? You told us that is so much money bur there are so many People whith no money at all!! How do they do that...i m curieus...hope you will answer me...🎉😊

[@volvo480]

What the Dutch had probably told you if you had discussed plans to move to Amsterdam is that you probably could not afford to live there. Though that's happening to all of the Netherlands, that you need to make at least €100,000 a year to get a mortgage for a simple terraced house or bring a small fortune, because far too little houses have been built.

[@corkdorkchris]

Closet by IKEA is right! No NS card?

[@jessicacarnley4094]

Does anyone know what app he was talking about that puts all your bills in one place?

[@stevenbosman6371]

lol the closets :) First thing we did when we bought our house and started renovations, is smash all the closets. They are too small, and knowing Americans they are way too small for you :) Yes it costs money to buy your own closets, but then you can place them where you want, you can buy the size you need and organise them to what you need. The Berichtenbox app is indeed super handy, but I found the opposite to be true: they still snail mail you, next to sending you a message in the Berichtenbox. What a waste. And I wonder wether they should offer different languages for official communications. On the one hand it's weird: we are in the Netherlands so why use a different language? But on the other hand, there are so many expats etc living here that it would be nice. I have helped non-Dutch colleagues so many times with letters they received from the government, "I'm not even lying", as you would say :)

[@DeniseOwen-f1z]

What was that app to find a place to live?

[@sweetsamuela22]

Did you go to the beach Bloemendaal ? And a rave festival Amersfoort also ❤ sarena a Dutch American 🇺🇸

[@amosamwig8394]

14:33 lol no way!! I thought you had that first class travel privilege

[@ffqm]

Why would you NOT want to meet and talk to local people in the country you chose to move to? 😊

[@LIL-MAN-THE-OG]

trust me, there are expats in every country that dont care to talk to locals outside their expat community...in the States, I know many asians and hispanic people who only talk their language with their expat community solely...and they use their kids or other relatives to talk English with those outside of the community like teachers, utility service people and others when the need arises

[@wilcosmit7278]

meat the, not just bikes guy

[@MartinWebNatures]

Sky, i love always your ❤️videos 👍 Was that your wife? You lucky man 😉

[@alwinuding8926]

How is your Dutch now?

[@Leonardo-ql1qu]

At 10:27 min.: Moving to another country, and surely to a highly sophisticated country like The Netherlands, I think it's everyone's obligation - and a show of decency - to learn a bit of the language. (did you know that the Dutch language has the biggest dictionary in the world?). You can't just assume that everybody here speaks English. But then, I don't get it: maybe your experience is different, but I think the Dutch, and the Randstad inhabitants in particular, do a fine job accommodating the Anglo-Saxon folks that find a new heavenly home here. And being Dutch myself, every time I need to communicate with the municipality, my bank or the Dutch IRS, I am given the choice to speak Dutch or English. Furthermore, many communications with 'all the different authorities' are possible in many languages, including arabic! Maybe you are missing something?

[@ellesbrussee2924]

It is Haarlem not Harlem. De aa sound likes the aa in kaas.

[@pietervandenadort5468]

Hey Sky, did you visit Alkmaar yet?

[@jeroswat]

What is the app for the tax?