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The Netherlands (mander.xyz)
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[-] Octopus1348@thelemmy.club 159 points 1 year ago

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

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 63 points 1 year ago

That's the Netherworld. Common mistake.

[-] thehatfox@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

Don’t mistake the Netherlands for the Nether Regions either.

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I did that once, wasn't so bad. The people at the embassy just politely referred me to the Red Light District 🤷

[-] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nether World is in Orlando. Europe has only Nether Land

[-] leave_it_blank@lemmy.world 104 points 1 year 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 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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[-] moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 1 year ago

In Europe you don't need countries for this. The smallest federal country will have a clear difference on the road at the border of two federated entities. Worst, it can happen between municipalities in some countries.

[-] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago

Worst, it can happen between municipalities in some countries.

There are other countries as stupid as Germany? I thought we were alone!

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[-] gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

Looks like a protected chunk in Minecraft.

[-] Shieldtoad@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 year 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.

[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 year 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

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

I don't see who any of this is a bad thing.

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

It isn't, the only bad thing of the Netherland are the drivers with caravans on the motorways and roads in the rest of the EU, ah, well, maybe their beer 🤢

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[-] shath@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

i don't want SEX i want USABLE BIKE LANES that have enough SPACE to ride my bike SAFELY alongside other TRANSPORT MODES

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 16 points 1 year ago

Por qué no los dos? 🤷

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[-] 8tomat8@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year 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.

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[-] pau_hana@feddit.de 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Magnetar@feddit.de 24 points 1 year ago

It's so eerily flat there, it's unsettling. I don't understand how people can stand it.

[-] Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyi 53 points 1 year ago

Simple, they stand up on flat ground

[-] thehatfox@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] JDubbleu@programming.dev 18 points 1 year ago

As someone who grew up somewhere super flat it really doesn't get to you because it's all you've ever known. However, now that I live somewhere with hills it drives me crazy when I visit home.

[-] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

It's even worse when the hills are alive and have eyes

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[-] FlordaMan@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

NON-CYCLIST DETECTED, EXTERMINATE

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

Why can't we have this with Canada and Mexico?

[-] Afghaniscran@feddit.uk 44 points 1 year ago

Because America is in-between

/s

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[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

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

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