Northernlion experiences America's car-centric hellscape 

it's the man himself 🤯

@@TheLibraryofLetourneau they don't call him "your favourite youtuber's favourite youtuber" for nothing

@@isaactfa they don't called him his other name "your favorite streamer favorite streamer" for nothing either. Infact at this point they should call him "your favorite person favorite person"

YOU ARE AN NL FAN?!!! Now it all comes together! Holy shit, live your content dude! Love living in Prague even more, sane city and getting better every year!

What are the odds lmao

Fellow king. You dropped this 👑

Good Public transit = Less personal vehicles = Less fossil fuel use = Less tax money for politicians to feed on = No mansions for them.

@@sayantanmazumdar3 This isn't even true is the funny thing. Pedestrian-centric infrastructure leads to way more shops and apartments and land that actually has value (and thus gets taxed) because it isn't being reserved for parking lots.

@@Hifuutorian Cognitive dissonance is the perception of contradictory information and the mental toll of it. Relevant items of information include a person's actions, feelings, ideas, beliefs, values, and things in the environment. Cognitive dissonance is typically experienced as psychological stress when a person participates in an action that goes against one or more of those things. According to this theory, when two actions or ideas are not psychologically consistent with each other, people do all in their power to change them until they become consistent. The discomfort is triggered by the person's belief clashing with new information perceived, wherein the individual tries to find a way to resolve the contradiction to reduce their discomfort

vancouver pilled😊

Drivers experience the same anonymity-fueled decreased capacity for inconvenience seen in internet users, but, instead of being relatively harmless seated behind your computer monitor, you’re commandeering a several-thousand-pound death machine

@@ryates NL viewers write the most elegant comparisons known to man

​@@ryatesso true

The whole isaac session was amazing

Not having designated bicycle lanes separated from the road with noise-reducing barriers and trees seems terrible. Bicycle traps and people protesting common good feels so outlandish that I simply refuse to believe it for my mental well-being. Then again, I still have problems believing that "coal rolling" is a real thing despite seeing many videos of it.

@@suakeli I saw people protesting the closure of an alley literally nobody ever used and had negligible difference on travel time because it was so small and there were several streets parallell to it within 100 feet. with flyers saying that closing it would "increase traffic fatalities." NIMBYs are just people obsessed with nothing ever changing. I think it's like, they like the neighborhood they live in well enough and don't really think about what contributes to that. So when anything at all changes, they assume that it will somehow ruin the area for vague reasons with no really causal link. Like the metaphysical balance of their shitty housing development is thrown out of order.

Time to start putting traps in the road

@@deeznoots6241 In the US if you make a road hazard its attempted manslaughter but if you swerve your F-150 into the bike lane its a few anger management classes and probation if you dont know the cops/judges in town, free walk if you do know them.

@@davidlazerz8564 it all depends on if you think your smart enough to get away with the trap

To each their own, I love driving cities! Plus generally when you're not forced to own a car you probably won't get one, and then a lot of opportunities are closed to you.

⁠@@cmdtrigun I literally cannot possibly imagine how you “love” driving in cities, it sucks and is legit dangerous

@@cmdtrigun If they're not forced to own a car, then that inherently would mean those opportunities ARE available. Otherwise, they'd be...you know...FORCED TO OWN A CAR.

@@willw5868 I guess some people just really love stop & go traffic, along with not being able to find anywhere to park.

@@willw5868It’s the same type of person who’s into CBT

I live in Boston and Boston hate cracks me up

@@kewlkrew100 the worst thing I can say about Boston is that I saw more AirPods Max in my one week there than I ever had in the whole time since they dropped. Honestly? Tragic day for Boston. Those things are like a walking self-report that you have too much money and will gladly spend it on overpriced mid products.

No but actually - these infrastructural topics are actually so relevant to a lot of the pressing issues with the social fabric in the US and Canada. If you're interested, I recommend the channel Not Just Bikes. He'll get you started, and then he'll recommend other related channels. You'll never see anything the same way again. And it's a good thing, bc you'll stop blaming yourself for being unhappy when our living spaces are designed to not meet our needs.

Is the netherlands a safe, walkable, unexpensive place to live? I want to move out of the US so badly because I have bad anxiety about driving and guns, it makes it really hard to ever leave the house. I'm trying to find a nice place to live, so if you see this, I'd love any comments on if you think your country is a good place to move to. (I assume you mean you live there)

@@sevenfivelavender9996 I can give an anecdote about The Netherlands based on my experience living there. The Netherlands is probably one of the most walkable places in the world I reckon, especially if you come from a US background I'm sure you're gonna appreciate it. Most nearby places I can reach by foot or by bike, and for everything else there is public transport, far as I know our public transport is pretty expensive relative to some other countries though, and I can't say I disagree but it's decent enough. If you want some more info on the infrastructure of The Netherlands I recommend NotJustBikes, his comment is pinned on this video so you can easily go to his channel, taught me some stuff about my country I didn't even know about! In terms of safety I can't really give an amazing gestalt view of it all, it's not like I feel horribly unsafe here at all though so that's something, I'm sure the safety is probably comparable to most European countries surrounding here, better/worse based on where you are in the country probably. At the very least I can say that gun violence of course isn't nearly as prevalent as it is in the US, I don't think you can even aquire a gun here for reasons other than law enforcement/similar positions. I certainly feel under no threat of being shot here, and beating the US in terms of gun violence is a high fucking tall order for any first world country anyway. I think the cost of living is relatively expensive honestly but not unmanageable, I also imagine that migrating from the US to here is gonna bring in costs that I couldn't tell you about. And one pretty notable thing is that the housing market is pretty fucked up at the moment and I don't know when that is gonna get sorted, so that's definitely something to keep in mind. TLDR: Walkability: Very walkable and bikeable, don't think a car is necessary at all to get anywhere. Safety: Relatively good, guns play basically no part in society. Expenses: Probably pretty expensive? Housing market is pretty bad right now. OVERALL, I think if you're anxious about guns and driving then The Netherlands can definitely offer some peace of mind on that, everything else though? Hard to say. I'd recommend doing a bit more research though, I can't tell you about all the things I'm blind to from a pure anecdotal perspective. Perhaps The Netherlands is something for you, but I don't know if it's the BEST option per se. Maybe look around for some more options and weigh them all with each other, you can probably get to a more soberly conclusion that way.

@@sevenfivelavender9996 I understand the guns and the driving IS really bad but even if you live in East Cleveland it's extremely unlikely you getting shot in a drive-by or something lmao. There's really no rational reason you should have that level of anxiety about going outside, your expected lifespan is definitely getting more shortened by not getting outside enough + stress than going outside. I know it's hard to deal with Anxiety but anyone can do it. In terms of places to live: I live in Melbourne and I like it but Public transport is mediocre (probably a step up from U.S.A but that's not saying much), house prices are insanely high, things can be are very far away from each other (usually get-to able with Public transport but not walking) on the Brightside Guns aren't really a thing in Melbourne.

@@lawncrow Thank you so much for all the info, I greatly appreciate it!

@@yaboykirby7789 I go out in my yard to get sun plenty, but I know I should be getting out to the city more. I very much want to go out, but it's not that simple with anxiety + not wanting to drive and not being able to walk to any place. There is an absolute 0 public transit in my city, as there is 0 in most parts of the US. I know it's rare that I could get shot, but my body certainly doesn't feel that way with all the anxiety towards it. :) I understand that it is mostly irrational, not entirely, but my quality of life would greatly increase if I lived in a different country. Thank you for the info on Melbourne as well.

Texas is a shithole

Freeways should be 2 lanes. Feeding into wider slower roads. You can't pump 8 lanes of high speed into 2 lanes of half that speed it's nuts.

especially arizona, so many of our cities are super hot for 60% of the year and not all cars can accommodate for that :/

But what about the freedom to sit in traffic and have the highest traffic fatalities in the developed world?

@@ILovePancakes24 yeah if we changed it we’d fuck up the Roadside Memorials For Killed Pedestrians industry

100% dystopian and we’re all used to it so we don’t even realize 😂

Everywhere. But in the US, you have to drive and you have to drive everywhere. That makes the driving space even more toxic. I dont have to drive in my country, I just want to. Which makes it all so much easier to handle.

people ARE animals in Az and Cali, lmfao. they can't drive for shit

It's somehow worse. Houston here. At least you don't get shot during a road rage incident in Sandy Eggos. Or maybe you do idk.

its a different world if you're used to living in places with good public transport like vancouver, singapore, seoul

to go get groceries I have to drive 1.5 miles which is 10 minutes. not incredibly far. to walk that distance I have to cross 2 wide ass 40mph roads and it takes 30 minutes it's awful I live in a "urban" area

It’s kinda why US people chase the self driving car dream, because our infrastructure fucks us. Look up Stroads and see that so so so much of the US is designed like that.

I can’t get get anywhere by walking from my house, sidewalks just end in the middle of an intersection like they WANT pedestrians to get hit and die so they don’t have to accommodate us, was never taught to ride a bike or drive a car so as Gen Z adult I have to learn from my millennial sister who is too busy working to give me consistent driving lessons, don’t have a car of my own to practice with, I can’t go anywhere just by walking with my own two legs and there’s no public transportation of any kind in my city. I swear this country is built to for you to be inside your home, get into your car and go to a building to exist in for work or maybe a bar or restaurant to distract you from work stress, then get back in your car and go home. American cities are like not designed for you to be outside for long. City planners treat it like it’s an unfortunate nuisance that they have to make it possible for citizens to get to and from places.

It actualy is exactly like that, the top comment here is a youtuber that talks about this stuff, check him out, then move to Europe. :D

Have you watched The Bear?

@@Womba_ how dare you

yeah hes confirmed not new yorker, have you heard how he says bagel?

Not if you've also recently watched the food poisoning arc video

Southern Ontario has just as much of a terrible car hell structure.

Canada's not much better, Toronto is the only city with half decent public transportation

@@enotsnavdier6867 And Vancouver, but yeah...

@@simonamorim8178 nah I thought we had it just as bad but every street in my city has sidewalks, there’s often footpaths giving you more direct routes to where you want to go than the roads (though driving still quicker ofc), and I’ve never had an issue walking around across the city. Only been to Toronto a handful of times but even that, from the parts I was in, was entirely walkable. Walk-friendly? No, and we still have it pretty bad compred to most of Europe, but after hearing this NL story I can say we’re muuuuch better off in southern Ontario 😅

based on the other messages it seems like dan was sending some viewers over

any message + =) spam is a dan raid

Just don’t live in California at all

I've visited san diego before and it's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. Beautiful beaches and perfect weather, and pretty clean for a big city. Imagine LA without smog and graffiti everywhere. That said, getting ANYWHERE is annoying. On top of everything NL said there's nowhere to park so you'd spend 10 minutes driving 2 miles and then an extra 15 minutes doing laps around the building waiting for someone to leave. I wouldn't be able to handle the stress.

@@HopUpOutDaBed Asthetics is nice and all, but as you mentioned the stress of the daily commute or just living would drive me crazy

If you've never been there you can't really comment. This guy's solo focus is on the traffic, but there's so many redeeming factors about it. Top 5 on my list worldwide.

based on NL's anecdote he spent all his time on the freeway and not doing any of the fun touristy stuff in SD (beaches, zoo, seaworld, carne asada fries etc)

probably strangers commenting on him or stuff around him to him. Total strangers just talking to him.

Never owned a car and it's my goal in life to never buy one

thats understandable though. you live out in the middle of nowhere, perfectly reasonable to need a car. The idea of someone living fuckn downtown and having the same need for a car is the wild part.

@@suakeli good for you. Buying it sucks, making the payments sucks, and driving sucks. Every time I drive I get mad that I was born in this country.

Ford Fiesta Kappa

eggmobile

@@Rubykittyy he drives a Focus, don’t get it twisted

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??? Those are the only places that could potentially BE walkable. He picked a bad city but places like Seattle are walkable. But the moment you go to suburbs or rural areas, cars are 100x more needed.

"shittiest parts of america" because memphis, missouri is such a beacon of excellence