Adjusting to Dutch living: My top Home cultural Shocks 

Thank you so much for your input 🤗 and you are right we are very lucky to have tap water that we can drink 😊

Het zou nogal een schokkende ervaring zijn als die stopcontacten er wel zouden zitten.😂

@@Treinbouwer😂😂😂 that’s for sure

Wowww Thank you so much 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 this is really helpful and believe me I will remember these words for sure 😅❤️

Thank you 🙏🏽 I will check in Hema 🤗

New homes or renovated homes have power outlet, we were just not lucky in our home☺️

@@ginavargasofficialgetting a qualified electrician to install a contact box next to the washbasin isn’t going to be all that difficult or expensive. I’d get a properly qualified electrician, though, because you don’t want to mess with electrics and water.

@@frankteunissen6118 I asked an electrician to fit a socket in my bathroom, but he refused because the wiring was not earthed. I could be electrocuted while showering.

⁠​⁠@@dirkalbrodt😮 we never asked someone to install an electrical socket in our bathroom because literally just use it for my hair once in a while but that is good information to know

It actually presents a somewhat increased risk of electrocution to use an appliance without ground (randaarde) like your hairdryer with an extension cord in a wet space like the bathroom.

Thank you for you advice. I will get one ❤

It is not ne size fits all. Older houses didn't have them originaly. Of course over the years many home owners or rental organisation have added them later. But in an unaltered 1960's era home you won't find them. If they are there, someone put them there later "themselves" (the electrician probably but still)

I honestly think I need to update my bike 🙈 This is a small bike because I am short and also the bags are little bit small. But now we just got a bakfiets and doing the groceries now is heaven 🥰 thank you so much for your advice 🤗

Yayyyyyyy 🥰🥰🥰❤️❤️❤️

Even the old people have discarded their sheets in favor of the much more comfortable duvets.

I think I am becoming more Ducth because I actually find the Dutch way more comfortable and easy way to do your bed. So yes this is a win for me ❤

Really doing groceries and biking is another lever of skills in here 😅 now we just got a bakfiest and doing groceries is heaven 🙌🏽✨

@@ginavargasofficial if you follow Dutch logic, then a bakfiets would mean more space for more and heavier groceries. I know people who stuff the contents of an entire shopping cart into one.

Depends on the age of the building. When we moved into our house that was built in 1933, there weren't very much power outlets in the house. 4 in the livingroom, 2 in the kitchen and 2 in every bedroom. None in the bathroom. I guess back in those days people didn't need as many power outlets.

I think my house was also around the year 1930’s because also in the whole house we don’t have a lot of power outlet and most of them are made in recently years. But I guess your are right, we were just not lucky with that feature in the house 😅

@@ginavargasofficial There's always the option of having them installed. They can add outlets by using cable trays so the mess they'll make is very limited. Any decent electrician can fix that for you.

There are bathroom cabinets and lamps with built-in sockets. The downside is that you need to switch on the lights when you want to dry your hair. Go to your local DIY store.

Really??? I have never seen it. Thank you so much 😃 I will check it out

Thank you so much 🥰

You're welcome. You deserve it.with such a beautiful head of hair.🥰. I love that so much

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@@ginavargasofficial I hope you have already found your way in the Netherlands together with your daughter.

Yes, I moved to The Netherlands from the USA but I am mexican so that's why I make the comparison with Mexico

Thank you so much for the tip 🤗❤️

​@@ginavargasofficialyou could also have an additional crate (krat) mounted above the front wheel.

i would say get a bakfiets, a lot more room for groceries and children.

@@abelfaber4457 We just got one few weeks ago and doing groceries now is heaven 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

70's house here, and no outlets in the bathroom, only lightswitch one with a rope on it. there is even a house here for sale now that is late 60's that does not have a washbasin in the toilet.

@@abelfaber4457 yes. Ofcourse there are older houses without any. But It is not ‘typical dutch’.

lol are you for real houses you guys didn’t even had showers in most homes 🙄! Back in the 60’s my family couldn’t even find toothpaste, soap, body wash, deodorant it had to be shipped to them from North America or South America and you could go to a bathhouses if you were lucky in the big cities like The Hague or Amsterdam and does places were either build by Turkish and Moroccan folks cause they had trouble finding proper showers or supplies 🙃… hehehe most houses in Africa, Asia, South and North America had showers! My grandparents build many houses and we had a minimum of 2 bathrooms and 2 wc! My mom bought a house from the 70’s and it had no shower in it and. This was in 2002 those people just didn’t shower my mom redid the whole house and put in 2 🚾 and a bathroom! She renewed her bathroom again after 5 years and sold the house… and omg the homes here are lacking power outlets it’s just insane! I d k whenever I’m in Asia, north or South America I feel like it’s so much more luxurious to live there cause you really get a house 🏡 not a weird house where you can hear your neighbors breathing! Last 15 years I’ve lived in 5 new builds and the quality is just terrible but I think building your own house here is just way better… anyways a girl who’s family is in real estate and grew up living it is giving her opinion based upon on her experience so don’t come at me ✌🏻

@@miss55apple Thank you for your story and share your experience with us.

It is totally understandable that houses don’t have sockets in the bathroom because it is more safe, it is just that I was used to have one before when I was living in Mexico 😅

@@ginavargasofficial Well, with an earth leakage circuit breaker it is certainly allowed to have sockets in the bathroom.

Wij hebben gewoon een stopcontact naast de wastafel. Niks aan het handje zolang je er geen straal water in spuit.

Most houses have a socket in the bathroom