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Imagine half your backyard being in another country. Do you think they still mow it?
Wait til you find out about Baarle
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Ayo wtf? Crossing like 6 borders just to get to work and back home.
… while working remotely
It’s just a little town (no more than 10,000 people). So more like crossing six borders to visit your neighbor and come back.
This horse is beaten to death, but still jumping?
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.”
Even some non-EU places are part of Schengen. Notably Norway and Switzerland.
ding ol dang ol mufuggin swamp germans, man
i don’t want SEX i want USABLE BIKE LANES that have enough SPACE to ride my bike SAFELY alongside other TRANSPORT MODES
Por qué no los dos? 🤷
I want sex. That other stuff is cool too
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.
If is not joke, why laugh??
Its the law. Visitors to the Netherlands are required to demonstrate contempt of everyone not currently in the Netherlands.
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.
Worst, it can happen between municipalities in some countries.
There are other countries as stupid as Germany? I thought we were alone!
Belgium checking in
Switzerland, Austria, … It’s more common than we think.
My favorite case is the resurfacing of the road in the first municipal territory and less than a year later, the second municipality does it on its side.
Why can’t we have this with Canada and Mexico?
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.
Because America is in-between
/s
Actually if you leave Quebec towards Vermont, the pavement changes significantly and becomes pink-ish.
When you leave Quebec towards Ontario, the road is significantly less bumpy.
Depends where lol, but it’s true in general.
When you leave Ontario for Quebec, the road signs become incomprehensible.
Car in the bike lane
That isn’t a bike lane, it is a bike suggestion strip (translated literally).
It’s a bike strip, since there is a bike icon.
A bike suggestion strip has no bike icon and has no legal status, it’s merely a suggestion.
They are different things.
It’s a shared road. Not separated lanes. Hence the dotted lines.
Dutchie here to explain why that’s not ironic:
If its a dotted line cars are allowed to use it, but only if it doesn’t impede on cyclists. So while they didn’t have to be there, it’s not unlawful as there’s no cyclists.
If it was a single line, it’s a different story.
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.
the part without
The red lanes are the bicycle lanes.
Ah, Stekene. Where are the days I just went to Crammerock to smoke weed on the camping. I saw Gorki there the year Luc De Vos died.
I knew that was a Belgian road, you can tell by all the cracks.
Caption should have been that you will always know when a Belgian road begins
I mean you could look at the architecture but all you really needed is a level
Yeah, because there will be a nether portal and lava everywhere.
That’s the Netherworld. Common mistake.
Nether World is in Orlando. Europe has only Nether Land
Don’t mistake the Netherlands for the Nether Regions either.
I did that once, wasn’t so bad. The people at the embassy just politely referred me to the Red Light District 🤷
Yes, the country where you see on Monday who is going to visit you on Tuesday and where the highest hills are the dikes
I don’t see who any of this is a bad thing.
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 🤢
Our pilsners are so so but we have some seriously good craft beer Brewers now!
Well, maybe, anyway the French beer is way worse. Best beers you find in Czechoslovakia, Germany and also in Spain
Kronenbourg is fine don’t know whats your problem.
This feels like Hertog Jan slander.
Hahaha no not at all, I do love me a HJ’tje when I’m in a beery mood, though usually I just get Klok instead 😂
Truly a man of culture.
Does our beer have a bad reputation?
Only insofar as Heineken is associated with Netherlands.
It’s a laughing stock here in Belgium
There’s no competing with Belgian beer, but I genuinely enjoy a Grolsch or Hertog Jan. There’s also quite a few great local breweries.
Notice the markings on the road make sure you don’t cross the border any faster than 09 kmph
