What's wrong in Rotterdam...this is not right! 

Well before it were scooters it were bikes that were are over the place... I think the trend is moving faster then regulations can keep it.

Packing groceries all day is considered demeaning. If you have some elderly person having trouble to pack, the cashier will help out, but others are considered to be capable to load up stuff to buy and having the hands to bag it themselves. I guess it also has to do with the quantity of goods people buy. You won't see the freight truck amounts being rolled out you might see in the US, so having someone to pack will not lower the waiting times for others much. You may also see people with a handful of groceries being offered to skip in front by people with loaded carts. Don't know how common that is elsewhere, but it certainly never happened in China.

@@chubbymoth5810 Letting people skip go in front of you if quite common here in The Netherlands, I see/saw it often and do it myself too. But to let someone go straight to the head of the line I have seen very rarely. Nowadays a lot of the supermarkets have self-checkout so standing in line for just a few items has become less common.

So many people working very hard and staying below the poverty line also in The Netherlands and we still buy products made in sweatshops all over the world......(of course we don't see them, so there is no confrontation, makes live better I suppose). ;)

@@joopdevries2657 Poverty in The Netherlands? There poor people but to call it poverty as in comparing it to the US or other countries without social safety nets I think is in insult to actual poor people like those living on trash dumps in India or Mexico or having to live from less then a dollar per day.

Main reason we pay minimum salary. So its to expensive to hire some for doing that. Even a student worker earns more then bag boy in the usa

well, if you do home delivery then they do that for you)))

The packing people are usually a side job for teenagers and they earn money through tipping. They get more money on tips than Dutch teens who work in the supermarket on minimum wage. I think it is especially convenient for elderly or disabled people.

@@halapunjete Personally, I wouldn't want to go to a society where someone is ready to help me everywhere. Regarding tip money, I can imagine that it is nice for young people to earn something. But with my 53 no longer packing my own groceries? I wouldn't want it myself.

And if you really need help with packing your groceries you can just ask someone from the shop or just another customer will gladly help you, for free! Even with a minimum wage at least they are doing a meaningful job with a growth potential and they actually learn things and they get a workout. Nothing to learn from filling grocery bags. And older people filling shopping bags for other people, which I see often in the US is so undignifying and disrecpectful.

@@jurgenolivieira1878 It's the way you look upon it. If I see a person at 70 years old making some extra money, he has my total respect, even in the supermarket. Slowly, the United States will fall behind when it comes to their own people compared to what we in Europe get in return from our governments. The US system has been and will continue to be number 1 in military affairs. That costs taxpayers a lot of money. Rich know their way to avoid the high tax, Middle class can lose everything if there is a series of health problems while we in Europe, and I am mainly talking about the Netherlands, we get a lot back from the government. We pay a lot, but we also get a lot. With exceptions our older people do not have to work anymore they can really retire.

@@EricvanDorp007 Eric I couldn't agree with you more but I stil don't think it's a sign of a healthy socieity when the elderly (who have already paid their dues to society) are obligated to take such jobs just to make ends meet. And if people were earning living wages they wouldn't feel the necessity for such jobs. I don't fault anybody for wanting to earn an extra buck but it's just that it's often not a voluntary or innocent let's "make some extra money on the side". It's usually a case of pure necessity because even with the other 3 or 4 other jobs they can't make ends meet or there is no safety net or suplements for under living wage pensions. And it's not even just a few people...

Even as an outsider from Denmark, the rivalry of Amsterdam and Rotterdam is heard through the Gabber music scene - Euromasters' "Alles Naar De Klote" comes to mind & "Amsterdam, Waar Lech Dat Dan" Something tells me there's a "Hey hey, Feyenoord!" track somewhere (just from memory there was a hardcore track which I have been unable to find since that era of the 90's - early 2000's Gabber) It's all I really know.. I can only compare the rivalry between Feyenoord and Ajax as the rivalry between the two Danish soccer teams, Brøndby and F.C. Copenhagen. Soccer is not for me. Just commenting on the possible harshness of the football teams :)

It's more than just soccer though, it's also the thing you see in a lot of countries that people don't like their capital when they're not from it (and vice verse), especially when they're from the second biggest city 😁Don't mind going to Amsterdam every now and then, never liked the accent though :P

@@B0K1T0 I can subscribe to that comment on liking the capital of the country I live in - I rally dislike the dialect over there and in general always get the most money of the available pot that is to given out from the government. I often consider the Zealand / central Copenhagen dialect as an entirely different language from Danish and one that has been butchered to be almost hard on the ears to listen to. I bet they are lovely people over there. But they are more Swedish than they are Danish as time goes on.

Actually the question what a Rotterdammer enjoys most about Amsterdam is NOT from Jules Deelder but refers to a song by Tom Manders 'Weet je wat een Rotterdammer het mooist van Mokum vindt'.

@@allannyholmnielsen5559 lol I got you bro, probably only person here who know what you're talking about in these comments xD. Heyyyy DIMITRI?? JAOO?

A bit ? It's more than that 🤪

Why those cities? If you would find a job in Rotterdam or the Hague and you realy want to live in a city there is also the option for Breda and Tilburg, to name a fue. My son lives in Tilburg and works in Rotterdam and he commutes by train in 30/40 minits. Breda is even less far from Rotterdam. They are beautyfull and less expencive. And there is Delft, between Rotterdam and the Hague, a beautyfull historic city. It might be worth your wile to brothen your surche a bit

I have never in my life payd to pee at a KFC or any other restaurant in the Netherlands. More often I have encounterd this problem in Germany espacialy at gasstations along the autobahn. Very annoying if you have to pee realy bad and you don't have any money on you

it's not ignorance, it's just an utter lack of interest in other people. Too many people (and it is getting ever worse) think the entire universe revolves around them and them alone, and that as long as they themselves have what they want everyone else can go to hell. Just leaving your bike (or whatever) in random places where it hinders others is just a symptom of that. Used to be it was sticking your chewing gum on a park bench or lamp post when I was growing up in the 1970s (and I was taught to not do such thing, most children were at the time but not all) but it's now got very much worse as more and more children are taught no respect for others and their property whatsoever.

Or by teenagers, who's parents haven't bothered to teach them how to behave in public?

Four and a half years ago my father died and we buried him in the grave of his grandparents. My father paid the burial rights for as long as his father died (until then my grandfather paid for the grave). We let the grave ‘schudden’ (shaken), like we call it, and let the bones of my father’s grandparents, who were buried in the.top and middle layer, reburied in the deepest, third layer. Because in every grave three people can be buried. My father was buried in the middle, second layer. And we bought the burial rights for 15years. For every burial in the same grave, the 15 years starts again, minus the years payed for the last burial. Last August my mother died, now four weeks ago, and she is buried in top, first layer. We had to pay 4 years of burial rights so the burial rights of both my parents end at the same time now. After 15 years we can decide to keep the grave and pay again, or give the grave back to the church. The burial rights are €100/year per grave. So for my father we payed €1,500 upfront and for my mother €400. My brothers, sister and nephews are paying for the burial rights for my grandparents from my father’s side of the family. We took those burial rights over from my father when he died. On my mother’s side of the family, there is no grave of my grandparents anymore. The majority of the children decided (don’t know what my mother decided) not to keep the grave after 15 years. Their bones were moved to the charnel house on the graveyard.

Thank you so much for the reply, I always love to learn how things are done in another country.

@@SoultoSoulTravels i can echo top comment, my father still has a permanent place in the cemetery where he was born with the rest of his family. but its almost full and i woulnt be able to get such a contract anymore. many get cremated now, theres just not enough space.

Horrible. I wouldn't want anyone to watch my dead body! If you don't remember what I looked like alive, don't bother looking then. We place a picture on the closed coffin. Besides, the at home thing was done in my family, before they could afford the funeral home. Since at least four decades we don't do that anymore, nor anyone in our circles. Perhaps you live in a specific area of the country. Glad I don't die there. Most certainly I wouldn't want my kids to wash and cloth me. It's an idiot custom anyway. Just keep the remains in the cooler and it won't stink. The coffin doesn't mind what I wear.

Waitrose in the UK bags your stuff too. Being dutch, I feel very awkward when they offer this service

So awkward looking at a person who bags my groceries.

Some supermarkets in Spain do it as well, maybe most. And those that don't tend to throw piles of free plastic bags at you.

sounds like you've been hanging out with my wife...lol

There are bats 🦇🦇 on it

Yes, she can't make a living probably, of what she earns there.

Its common around europe. In paris for example they moved all the remains in the old mining tunnels. Wich are now the catacombs.

Isn't there a requirement that people need to be living in the Netherlands for at least three consecutive years, before they are allowed to try licorice / drop?

@@gardenjoy5223 no, never heard of that story, it is on the shelves of any supermarket and any manned gas station, but to much of it is very bad for your blood pressure. I found out the hard way, I'm now on blood pressure medication But I was a Dropaholic . but moderate use of drop is okay, ever tried (salmiak-drop) very salty but for me no more alas kind regards Hans

@@hanspijpers2100 I was joking, Hans... Licorice seems to be an acquired taste. To not get our guests screaming in horror and fleeing the country, they might need some time to adjust and like it here, before they try anything as advanced as licorice. Wishing you good health and enough licorice in moderate use :)

lol lol