• Octopus
    122•2 years ago

    Yeah, because there will be a nether portal and lava everywhere.

  • @leave_it_blank@lemmy.world
    84•2 years ago

    In Germany the streets are far too often a fight for survival. I miss the Netherlands, driving there, bike or car, was so much more relaxing.

    But, you know, Germans and their cars…

    • @txmyx@feddit.de
      11•2 years ago

      In my experience the bike infrastructure was great, but riding the bike in the city was more stressful than in Germany.

    • KptnAutismus
      4•2 years ago

      as a car driver, i have no problems with bike drivers themselves. i hate whoever thought 1 lane and a thin sidewalk was enough road.

        • KptnAutismus
          4•2 years ago

          11:17 is the timestamp that is most relevant here, separated bike paths should be the norm. and not the shitty “fahrradschutzsstreifen” bullshit they are pulling in germany. i have to swerve around people going not even 20km/h when i’m going 50. there’s no way that reduces accidents. the netherlands rock. i went on a vacation there a few years ago. public transport is so much better there. (key phrase “viable alternative”)

  • @Zerush@lemmy.ml
    30•2 years ago

    Yes, the country where you see on Monday who is going to visit you on Tuesday and where the highest hills are the dikes

  • @Shieldtoad@sh.itjust.works
    26•2 years ago

    I know that place. The borders between the Ellestraat (Hulst, NL) and the Hellestraat (Stekene, BE).

    The right side of the street on the Belgian part is actually Dutch for a few 100 meters. If you look around on street view the part with a bicycle lane is Belgian, the part without it is Dutch.

    • stebo
      8•2 years ago

      I knew that was a Belgian road, you can tell by all the cracks.

  • @pau_hana@feddit.de
    22•2 years ago

    The border-free zone is called the Schengen area. There are still some EU member states that aren’t included. Euronews article

    “Austria has blocked the accession of Romania and Bulgaria into Schengen, the passport-free area that has abolished border checks between the vast majority of EU member states.”

    • Iron Lynx
      14•2 years ago

      Even some non-EU places are part of Schengen. Notably Norway and Switzerland.

  • @8tomat8@lemmy.world
    19•2 years ago

    It is not even a joke. Every time we cross the border between the Netherlands and Belgium in a car, we laugh about how distinct it is.

    • @thehatfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18•2 years ago

      I grew up in a very flat part of England, flatness to me is the default and I get genuinely excited by hills.

      • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿English
        2•2 years ago

        I get excited by hills but it’s because they remind me of home. Out of my window was a deep valley with a huge hill and just watching the seasons pass each year was a joy. The spring lambing season when the sheep covered the hills to the winter with snow covering them and you’d know it was time to fetch the sledge!

        Moved to Lincolnshire in my mid teens and it bored the absolute fuck out of me. Fields of rapeseed in all directions as far as the eye could see. Relentless wind that had no hills to block it so it never changed direction.

        I found it easier biking with a BMX on hills than I did using a mountain bike in windy flat conditions.

      • @GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
        15•2 years ago

        The Netherlands doesn’t have good bicycle infrastructure because of the fact that the country is relatively flat - they have it because they prioritized safe streets in the 70s following the stop de kindermoord-campaign.

      • @ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
        1•2 years ago

        Accidents happen in the Netherlands just like anywhere else. I’m half Dutch and my grandfather was hit by a car and killed there.

        “The bicycle was the most dangerous mode of transportation in 2022, with a total of 291 fatalities. The car came in second place, with 225 victims. By comparison, that year 57 pedestrians and 20 truck drivers were also killed in traffic accidents in the Netherlands.”

        • @onion@feddit.de
          6•2 years ago

          I think you have to look at the rate, accidents per km. That accounts for dutch using bikes more than other countries

    • setVeryLoud(true);
      6•2 years ago

      Actually if you leave Quebec towards Vermont, the pavement changes significantly and becomes pink-ish.

    • @laverabe@lemmy.world
      0•2 years ago

      To be fair both the US and EU are a federation of states (the latter sharing aspects of a confederation as well 1. In the US all state borders do look like this, so in a way free travel among the ‘independent’ states is allowed the same as in the posters picture.

  • Nepenthe
    10•2 years ago

    Imagine half your backyard being in another country. Do you think they still mow it?