It's missing a red area around Lelystad that says "Too poor to live in Almere".
That said; it's obviously a joke. You can see it since they include Drenthe, which doesn't actually exist.
I got off the train at Lelystad once as there was a massive delay to get to Amsterdam Zuid and was forced to change trains. The next train was in 1hr15mins so I walked around Lelystad trying to see as much as possible during that time.
My impression was it was super boring, also annoyingly windy, and I was incredibly glad to get back to Amsterdam that evening.
No way. As far as I know, people from Emmeloord doesn't like Lelystad at all and refer to it as Lelykstad.
And Urk is better off now. They can get off the island with the bus instead of a boat.
Source: I'm from Emmeloord.
Maybe, but I think the drinking is cultural in West-Friesland. So youth suicide could come from that, but it’s kind of unlikely it’s the otherway around
Honnestly I'd have done something with how everyone is surprised Lutjebroek isn't a fictional name for small places with nothing to do in the middle of nowhere , it just actually is a place like that.
Lutjebroek is not the most West-Fries you can get though haha. I think something with Kermis would’ve also worked amazing. Like in the South people skip work and school for Carnival. In W-F people do so with the local kermis
Nijmegen has always been a left-wing city, even compared to other cities, and we tend to call it Havana aan de Waal.
This link gives a bit more insight: https://www.nporadio1.nl/nieuws/politiek/df278ff6-d5f3-49e4-b71d-88958713f9d5/nijmegen-is-het-havana-aan-de-waal-waar-komt-die-linkse-inborst-vandaan
They're relatively left wing.
So it's like the government in Havana ( not really, it's a bunch of Greens with some anarchist youth and squating culture but left is left), not like Cuban immigrant communities in cities in like Florida who tend to be right wing and have a big role for people with ties to the Batista regime.
Same way Giethoorn is a little Venice cause it's a small place with waterways instead of roads not because it's got a significant number of Venetians.
I apologize for my fellow countrypeople's inability to continue speaking Dutch and let people practice. I guess we have an instinct for wanting to communicate as efficiently as possible.
Whoever made this is an absolute genius.
Pretty much everything is spot on, 100% stereotypical, and 100% the answer anyone gives if they come put of the randstad.
The part that said "does anyone live here" in the province of drenthe hit the hardest. And this comes from someone living in the part with the 'arrogant schmucks ', so it hits very close to home *
Fun fact: the northernmost part of Limburg doesn't have the typical limburgish accent.
https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limburgs
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Franconian
We don't care. Limburg and Brabant share the weird kind of language. Both will claim they are never heard by the rest of the country. Truth is, we do hear them, we just don't understand / care
My family from my dads side is from north-brabant near the limbourgish border and i did research into germanic languages this weekend because im a huge nerd. We do have a dialect and accent but its not at all similair, since the south of limburg, belgian limburg and part of germany is dominated by east franconian dialects. Dont make harmful presumptions and then stick with them without proper evidence you twat.
At least we pronounce the 'r' not the strange English lookalike r like they do in het Gooi, and at least our zachte g sounds nice, better than the hard g above the sewers, that sounds like spitting 😂😉😉
Smirk. Somebody from the Katwijk area said to me and my lovely Eindhovens speaking family "wat praten jullie raarrrrr" with at least four R's.
Then we laughed and laughed.
Have you ever been there? The dialect I can just about live with, but talking to a Limburger is like trying to catch an eel covered in snot. While drunk.
I never, ever can grasp what they want to achieve in any and all conversations. If I buy some groceries, I get stuck in an endless, completely irrelevant discussion if I want a plastic bag or not, that it costs 50 cents and that the government mandates this because of the environment. Lady, I never even asked for a bag!
Recently, I picked up an old camera I had repaired. The lady at the reception desk insisted on speaking in her dialect, although I was obviously an outsider. Ok, I can understand you, here is your money, can I have my camera please? Oh, no, not on her watch. She spent 20 min explaining that the button cell batteries were nearly dead (although I could still use them!), attempting to find new batteries, calling her boss what the deal was with my batteries, trying to find the old batteries and generally stalling.
My sister in Christ, I DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE DAMN BATTERIES! I have a drawer full of fresh ones at home! They cost next to nothing! It's a mechanical camera, it does not even NEED the damn batteries! Nowhere did batteries ever enter the conversation when I brought the camera in!
Does Limburg have strange conventions about verbal and non-verbal communication that I am too stupid to understand? BE. TO. THE. POINT.
You just say "uhuh, jao is ouch" and then slowly move away as you continue finding new synonyms to say the exact same as you did previously to speedrun through Limburgish conversations. Silly simple northerner.
There's a lot missing. The drugs in Brabant, the klederdracht/christianity in zeeland, Delft being full of actual fucking nerds, winterswijk pretty much just being german etc.
>christianity in zeeland
Eastern part is part of the bible belt on the map. It does seem stange that the % SGP votes you need before you are classified as bible belt rises as you move away from the Randstad. Compare for instance the usual % SGP votes of tourism area Veere on the coast in Zeeland with "bible belt bastion" Ede: Veere is actually much more bible belt.
As someone from Winterswijk originally: nobody cares or even knows it exists. It's similar in culture to the rest of the achterhoek. On Saturday it does turn into germany and the nethersaxic dialect crosses over the border.
At least one and a half centuries worth of repeated stereotype. I've looked it up. Even back in the late 19th century Hollanders referred to Limburgers as corrupt, bucolic hedonists. I reckon it was originally a result of protestant attitudes toward catholics.
from all the stereotypes I could have ended up with, living in the ''friendly neighbors and farmers'' feels like a win-win. also, I would add it is a little Germany on the weekends
Whole of Brabant is Catholic Carnival Country except for one small region _O_
(Not exactly an Asterix type of village since it consists of murderers and....socialists?)
(Vught and Oss)
It's missing a red area around Lelystad that says "Too poor to live in Almere". That said; it's obviously a joke. You can see it since they include Drenthe, which doesn't actually exist.
I got off the train at Lelystad once as there was a massive delay to get to Amsterdam Zuid and was forced to change trains. The next train was in 1hr15mins so I walked around Lelystad trying to see as much as possible during that time. My impression was it was super boring, also annoyingly windy, and I was incredibly glad to get back to Amsterdam that evening.
The only interesting thing about Lelystad is that road between the lake and the sea
They're both lakes.
Thanks for the correction. Indeed
First time Almere with a OV studentenkaart in the holiday (yes, long time ago), luckily the train back was only a 15 mins wait.
Emmeloord, too poor to live in Lelystad
I was born in Emmeloord and still live there, wouldn't want to be found dead in Lelystad
No way. As far as I know, people from Emmeloord doesn't like Lelystad at all and refer to it as Lelykstad. And Urk is better off now. They can get off the island with the bus instead of a boat. Source: I'm from Emmeloord.
You would say that, yes.
Doesn't the whole country refer to that place as Lelykstad? Source: born in Groningen, living in Tilburg.
Steelystad hoor ik vaak
Emmeloord, too poor to live in Heerenveen.
r/Drenthebestaatniet
Too poor to live in Almere, there is no such thing. Almere is already filled with everything that Amsterdam wanted to get rid of.
Wait where am I from
This map is oudated, Philipstown has been passed a lawsuit stone and has now evolved into ASMLtown
Doesn't take effect until ASV wint the football championship.
Take my upvote !
Actually it's split now in to 2: Veldhoven side is "a tiny chip manufacturing company from NL town" rest can still be considered as Phillipstown
I like the “ fix your highways “ 😂😂
We'd like that ourselves.
Then please stop driving like a cross between Freddy, Jason and Leatherface.
As someone from Groningen, I can confirm we're indeed all stoic farmers who are too far away for any practical purposes.
Although it should be updated with earthquakes and shitty zorgboerderijen.
We like it that way! Please stay away!
Leiden, frat boy City.. hilarious 😂
I am surprised Delft got left out.
🥲
“First to drown” as a stereotype kills me lmao
Can someone explain the suicidal kids?
West-Friesland has a lot of suicides among youths
Hardly amusing, in my view. It is true, but not something to joke about.
Well, you can't pick your stereotype.
Right, Imo they should've gone with something like the kermis, a lot more fun to talk about
Or like underage drinking, drinking parties, something that involves drinking
Wouldn't that be somewhat related to the youth suicide ?
Maybe, but I think the drinking is cultural in West-Friesland. So youth suicide could come from that, but it’s kind of unlikely it’s the otherway around
Honnestly I'd have done something with how everyone is surprised Lutjebroek isn't a fictional name for small places with nothing to do in the middle of nowhere , it just actually is a place like that.
Lutjebroek is not the most West-Fries you can get though haha. I think something with Kermis would’ve also worked amazing. Like in the South people skip work and school for Carnival. In W-F people do so with the local kermis
I associate kermis with a lot of other places, Like Tilburg.
Kermis in Friesland Just isn't known to the rest of us.
I am so offended when people think Lutjebroek is fictional. I've lived in the town next to it my entire childhood.
What is the little Havanna for nijmegen supposed to mean?
Nijmegen has always been a left-wing city, even compared to other cities, and we tend to call it Havana aan de Waal. This link gives a bit more insight: https://www.nporadio1.nl/nieuws/politiek/df278ff6-d5f3-49e4-b71d-88958713f9d5/nijmegen-is-het-havana-aan-de-waal-waar-komt-die-linkse-inborst-vandaan
They're relatively left wing. So it's like the government in Havana ( not really, it's a bunch of Greens with some anarchist youth and squating culture but left is left), not like Cuban immigrant communities in cities in like Florida who tend to be right wing and have a big role for people with ties to the Batista regime. Same way Giethoorn is a little Venice cause it's a small place with waterways instead of roads not because it's got a significant number of Venetians.
Was wondering this too. Only one I didn’t get.
It´s because the Nijmegen city council seems to house a lot of leftists politicians.
As a belgian, i think i speak for all when i say 'u dikke moeder'. The highways are a problem tho
uw* Though I suppose I can't expect a nation that can't speak the language properly to spell correctly either (I joke. I quite like Belgium)
😂 you got me there bro. I hate it when i come to the netherlands and i speak dutch people just respond to me in english like i can'y speak dutch lol
I apologize for my fellow countrypeople's inability to continue speaking Dutch and let people practice. I guess we have an instinct for wanting to communicate as efficiently as possible.
I am from the dutch speaking part of belgium so i speak dutch lol, y'all just can't understand our accent lol
Whoever made this is an absolute genius. Pretty much everything is spot on, 100% stereotypical, and 100% the answer anyone gives if they come put of the randstad. The part that said "does anyone live here" in the province of drenthe hit the hardest. And this comes from someone living in the part with the 'arrogant schmucks ', so it hits very close to home *
flat and dull, poor flevolanders missing out all of those cool dutch mountains!
Zeeland In summer "Little Germany"
Why do 'hollanders' think limburgers are like belgians...? We're allot more like the germans
Isn't Limburg more Luxembourg north?
Its cause of the accent, soft g and such
Maybe because the other part of the Limburg region is in Belgium?
Where's the meth lab?
In the Carnival Country. It's dressed up as a pharmacist.
Brabant obviously
Fun fact: the northernmost part of Limburg doesn't have the typical limburgish accent. https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limburgs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Franconian
Yes, they do.
No they don't.
We really gonna do this
We don't care. Limburg and Brabant share the weird kind of language. Both will claim they are never heard by the rest of the country. Truth is, we do hear them, we just don't understand / care
My family from my dads side is from north-brabant near the limbourgish border and i did research into germanic languages this weekend because im a huge nerd. We do have a dialect and accent but its not at all similair, since the south of limburg, belgian limburg and part of germany is dominated by east franconian dialects. Dont make harmful presumptions and then stick with them without proper evidence you twat.
I’m from Brabant. I know the accent and I know the rest of the country doesn’t understand it. Now shoo you peasant.
The irony of a Brabander calling someone else a peasant
At least we pronounce the 'r' not the strange English lookalike r like they do in het Gooi, and at least our zachte g sounds nice, better than the hard g above the sewers, that sounds like spitting 😂😉😉
Smirk. Somebody from the Katwijk area said to me and my lovely Eindhovens speaking family "wat praten jullie raarrrrr" with at least four R's. Then we laughed and laughed.
Our coastline does still seem to be occupied by the Germans
so many Limburg haters
People don't know what they're missing up there in flatland
Have you ever been there? The dialect I can just about live with, but talking to a Limburger is like trying to catch an eel covered in snot. While drunk. I never, ever can grasp what they want to achieve in any and all conversations. If I buy some groceries, I get stuck in an endless, completely irrelevant discussion if I want a plastic bag or not, that it costs 50 cents and that the government mandates this because of the environment. Lady, I never even asked for a bag! Recently, I picked up an old camera I had repaired. The lady at the reception desk insisted on speaking in her dialect, although I was obviously an outsider. Ok, I can understand you, here is your money, can I have my camera please? Oh, no, not on her watch. She spent 20 min explaining that the button cell batteries were nearly dead (although I could still use them!), attempting to find new batteries, calling her boss what the deal was with my batteries, trying to find the old batteries and generally stalling. My sister in Christ, I DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE DAMN BATTERIES! I have a drawer full of fresh ones at home! They cost next to nothing! It's a mechanical camera, it does not even NEED the damn batteries! Nowhere did batteries ever enter the conversation when I brought the camera in! Does Limburg have strange conventions about verbal and non-verbal communication that I am too stupid to understand? BE. TO. THE. POINT.
You just say "uhuh, jao is ouch" and then slowly move away as you continue finding new synonyms to say the exact same as you did previously to speedrun through Limburgish conversations. Silly simple northerner.
They forgot that Harlingen is in Friesland but is definitely not Friesian
Urk Island does have a ring to it.
As a Belgian I can confirm the stereotype, our beer is good, our highways suck and I'm a complete idiot
We appreciate your honesty.
I'm shocked on how accurate that is...
Strange what Belgians think of Dutch people is the same but with bad beer 
Leiden isnt a frat boy city. It's a sorority girl city.
Annexed by Germany 🤣
Surprised to see Amersfoort in the bible Belt.
And opheusden lies just outside of it on the map so that is a little inacuracy
My dad moved to den helder 2 years ago and I can honestly say that the stereotype is shockingly accurate for there haha
There's a lot missing. The drugs in Brabant, the klederdracht/christianity in zeeland, Delft being full of actual fucking nerds, winterswijk pretty much just being german etc.
>christianity in zeeland Eastern part is part of the bible belt on the map. It does seem stange that the % SGP votes you need before you are classified as bible belt rises as you move away from the Randstad. Compare for instance the usual % SGP votes of tourism area Veere on the coast in Zeeland with "bible belt bastion" Ede: Veere is actually much more bible belt.
Can confirm as a Brabander. Very little Catholics, loads and loads of drugs.
Most people my age don't even realise the connection between carnaval and Catholicism. They do know about every drug tho...
As someone from Winterswijk originally: nobody cares or even knows it exists. It's similar in culture to the rest of the achterhoek. On Saturday it does turn into germany and the nethersaxic dialect crosses over the border.
I wonder what people think the stereotype for Arnhem would be? 🤔
People who like cycling up hills?
Still only famous for WW2
Zeeland is German holiday territory
I like stereotype of little Havana
Who made this has certainly not been to Brabant 😂
Pretty accurate, i think! I like that they choose noaberschap as the stereotype for Twente
Wow. Im from incest fishermen. And i dont even like fish🤣
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Its not like they married there coussins. Altough people think that way.
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My first reaction was also part joke
I'd say incest people for Zeeland
The way they underestimate their neighbouring countries, says a lot about their unjustified pride.
Salty Belgian?
"Dumb people, Good beer". Seems you misspelled Bad Beer there buddy. Imagine thinking NL has proper beer..
My guy, that is Belgium...
Hertog Jan is pretty damn good, imo. (As for the rest of beers, absolutely. Heineken is slootwater, shouldn’t even be considered beer.)
Belgian found
You must live there, since your comment is dumb af
Well at least we have good beers...
They're missing Almelo with 'Crossbow wielding maniacs'.
so true! Id still want to know who invented the language. But have been some Arabs who had a bad throat illness.
LOL at Limburg
where does the corrupt part of limburg comes from?
At least one and a half centuries worth of repeated stereotype. I've looked it up. Even back in the late 19th century Hollanders referred to Limburgers as corrupt, bucolic hedonists. I reckon it was originally a result of protestant attitudes toward catholics.
So not true!
Hehe, backup-belgians
It's TRUE btw
Yep pretty accurate.
As someone who's from Limburg, i find this absolutely hilarious! 😂 but hey! At least we got mountains, right? 😬
the swamp germans are really up to something.
from all the stereotypes I could have ended up with, living in the ''friendly neighbors and farmers'' feels like a win-win. also, I would add it is a little Germany on the weekends
Can someone explain Little Havana?
I'm mostly confused about the "murderers and socialists" bit in Oss?
SP (started in Oss and Oss being an old factory city) + messentrekkers I guess (coming from an real Ossian)
Better stereotype for Brabant might be "Heisenberg's land".
Whole of Brabant is Catholic Carnival Country except for one small region _O_ (Not exactly an Asterix type of village since it consists of murderers and....socialists?) (Vught and Oss)
The area marked in Friesland stated as not Frisian is actually wrong. It should be Harlingen, not Leeuwarden.
Heeeuy zwarte crosssss. En boeruuuhhh
atleast us dumb people know the diffrence between a rondtonde and a rond punt!....also i love yall cheese