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This is the actual smallest house. in Amsterdam. Look how tiny this place is. Imagine living in an apartment so tiny you could stretch out your arms and touch both walls. This is the whole kitchen. What?! Today I'll be touring the smallest homes in Amsterdam. The staircase is super narrow. Where people sacrifice space for the chance to live in one of Europe's most iconic cities. How many people share this bathroom? Seventeen. Everything is small here. And we're starting right in the heart of the Red Light District, where a local artist named Puck transformed a simple studio into her entire world. So we have, like, three levels.
I'm very happy that I'm on the first one. No elevator? No! No, no, no. No elevator. So. It smells like cigarettes. So, in the hallway, we have. in the hallway, we have, like, seven. studios. Everyone is one person? Yeah! Here we go. We're coming inside. So. There we are. Welcome. Very nice. It's the first thing I see is the Aperol and the Absolute little bar right there. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I think you need it as a student. It's not that small, but this is, like, for Amsterdam, this is probably like, as small as it gets.
It's quite spacious. No, it's. But um, I don't need any more because I'm just on my own. So this is your little closet. Can you give me a quick little tour? Yeah. Well, this is the closet, but this is like just my jackets because I have a lot of jackets and um, my wash. When I see this, I just know I'm in Europe because I lived two years in Prague, and, like, they don't have dryers or it's not common to have dryers. They have washing machines, but no dryer. Yeah. So they hang their clothes. So we got jackets, drying clothes, mirror.
This is an essential mirror, of course. Yeah. Table to eat. Right. Yeah. table to eat, table to study. And this is the kitchen. Yeah. It's like a pretty complete kitchen. It is! Do you cook a lot? No. You don't? No, not a lot. Just in case you need a little toothpaste. I guess you brush here. It's easier. In the bathroom, I don't have a sink. Oh, really? No. You have to brush here? Yeah.
The only thing. We just walked down the hall, and these are all bathroom doors, and every resident has their own bathroom. What if you go in somebody else's bathroom? Well, you don't, because you have your own. So we can always, like, leave everything open because we're very comfortable with each other. What?! This is the shower. You have your own things. Yeah. Very cool. And this is. the bedroom section. Yeah, the bedroom, living situation. Yeah.
Most of the times, I don't even sit on this couch. But I'm just. But it exists. If I'm chilling, it, it is there. Normally, there are more clothes maybe over there. And no TV? No. This is nice. You got your pictures. Just you and your friends. Yeah. Family. Friends. Family. A lot of Polaroids. This is awesome. This is the only window I have that can be opened. I mean if you just. It can only open up like this. It's getting so freaking hot in the summer.
It is freaking hot. There's no AC? No uh naked ladies down here? No, not anymore. When I, uh, when I, when I moved in here, like three and a half years ago, there were. I can show you later. Oh, really? Like right here? Yeah. So you just look us? Um. That window's over there. Mhm. That used to have ladies. Did you say "Hey!"? Yeah. Sometimes, yeah. When I was just chilling here by the window. And do you feel, like, lonely or isolated that it's so small? Or for you it's not small. uh moved in here, it was like Um, when I. middle COVID,
and we had like a curfew and you couldn't do anything, of course. So then I felt quite lonely and I need my social contacts. So that was very. that was a hard time. And how much does this cost a month? Seven hundred euros. That's a pretty good price. In New York City, this same place would be like fifteen hundred do-dollars. So it's like half, almost half price. Yeah. I don't pay a lot. Yeah. No. No, no. It's a really good price. And like, it's, it's small, but it's not that small.
No. Like, you need to have. It's doable. It's very doable. I don't need more. Puck's place might have caught you by surprise, but wait until you see our next apartment before we take a look. Puck wants to give me a tour of the famous Red Light District and help answer my burning questions. When I research the happiest places in the world, the Netherlands always pops up in the top five. Do you feel happy here? Well, I'm happy, but I'm still human, so I don't, I'm not happy all the time. Sure. Okay, so we are walking now just right next to the Red Light District. So I'm keeping my camera down because there's like,
women in the windows and we don't want them to see us filming. Yeah. And even as, like, the people who are living here don't like it when you're filming. Mhm. You live here. I don't care. Yeah, and then. I love filming. But we don't like when you're filming, like, the women behind the window or, or the people on the streets. It's a very private. environment, you know. You can see all the red lights. Like the curtains over there. So, yeah. So they're like, not home now.
It's like. Where are they?! They be like. oh, on, in, in the evening? They, the, they closed. uh curtain means. that they're, that they're occupied. how does it work? And. How does it work? Like, it's as simple as. you just give them however many euros they want, like hundred euros. Then they take you in the back room, they do your thing, and then they just meet? No, they have like a. Hmm. starter price. So lots of times it happens and like they're knocking on the window how much they cost, and then it's like, oh, yeah, starts with one hundred or with fifty.
Fifty is most of the time, just. And uh, from there you. Negotiate. Continue. It's crazy 'cause, like, we're in the Red Light District right now, but it's, you can just see it's so stunningly beautiful. I mean, it's like you're in the city of Amsterdam. It's beautiful canals, brick buildings. I love how there's just like cafes on the Red Light District and people are just. chilling, having a drink. Just people watching. Yeah, just people watching. Yeah. This is the oldest part of the city, but prostitution is one of the oldest. um. jobs, like, at all.
It absolutely is. Why is she giving the middle finger? Because they were filming there. Oh. Her. From across the street, they were filming her. It's crazy to think that Puck lives her everyday life surrounded by Amsterdam's notorious nightclubs. But before we check out the next place, she won't let me leave without trying the most typical Dutch dinner. This looks amazing. Oh, cheers. Mmm! That is damn good. What is it like to work here in this amazing environment?
It's nice to work here. I'm singing and dancing always. So you sing? Yes, I sing a little bit. What is this? Broodje Hagelslag. Mmm. After that strange chocolate sprinkled bread, I say goodbye to Puck and walk around the canals to see what really makes Amsterdam unlike any other city in the world. You can see the buildings here. They're all super slanted. Like. there's no straight line here. That's. insane. When I look online and I look at the happiness index, the Netherlands is always in the top five of the happiest culture in the world. As a resident,
do you feel like people are genuinely happy here? Definitely. So my parents, they're from Afghanistan, but every time we travel another city or, the, other, another country, they always say, like, you know, at the end of the trip, they're always like, you know, thank God that we're here in Holland because we have health care, they give you money for each kid that you have even education-wise, like there's always a way for you, in my opinion. As I continue to wander, a small storefront catches my eye. It's a cozy little tea shop. Most people would walk right past without a second glance. From the outside it looks like nothing special. But this is actually the smallest home in all of Amsterdam.
This is the whole size uhm. of one floor. In the metric system, it's just over four and a half meters long by two meters fifteen (2.15), and imperial, it's. fifteen feet by seven. For all the Americans out there, that's what it is. So, it's now been converted into a tea shop. But what was this place a hundred years ago? Yeah, but like. A hundred years ago, uh, there was a family living here. The family. uh Astella. I still have a picture of them upstairs. But we have a look later upstairs and they were running here a tobacco shop. So. over. this was a shop and they were living upstairs.
Uh, the building itself, it's much older, was built in 1738. Oh, I see. 1738? Yeah. And, and what most people, if, if they visit Amsterdam uh here, is that there are many narrow buildings out here, and in the seventeenth and eighteenth century people had to pay property tax based on the, the front of the building. So the wider the building, the more tax they pay for. That's why they made it thin? Oh! Yeah. You can almost reach the whole thing. Yeah. This is your tea shop. When did you open the shop? Um. It's here almost for twelve years.
Wow. You've done a great job. Can we see upstairs? No problem. Yeah, let's have a look inside if I have to clean it up for you as well. But if that. since you found this tea shop. I'll see it as is. This staircase is crazy, super narrow. Wow. I can't believe this is a house. This is the second floor. This is, yep. Or the first floor or second floor? In the, the Europe, it's the first floor. Yeah. Where I come from, the second floor. So, it, it's kind of actually feels like a house still.
You have like a kitchen here. Yeah. You have like a living room. I imagine that a hundred years ago it actually didn't look that or feel that different. Like it, it's still arranged like a house. Yeah, it make sense. It is. Although. Yeah, we, we're not sure when this was built, people didn't really have uh separate rooms for living and sleeping, that kind of thing. So it was kind of fluid. My parents in law, they acquired the building in 1962. We have records of families of six to seven people that's. were living here. In this house? In this house, and, and, and combined, it's,
it's around three hundred square feet or twenty uh twenty eight square meters. So it's, it's really tiny, and then still had the shop downstairs as well. So it's only two floors where. six, seven people were living. There are a lot. That's the, the last family that lived here. This picture is from 1918, and they had a tobacco shop here called Small but Brave. They even had the telephone number with four digits. Um, this, one of the smallest windows in Amsterdam as well. Oh my God. This is the. the toilet window. At the end you see the loom church.
Enjoy the little things. I'm only 5'7". Holy crap. This is so awesome! This is the upper level here. Whoa, man. This is. It's unbelievable how tiny this is. This is the whole kitchen. What?! Look at this. It is so cluttered in here. Just things on top of each other. We don't know who these photos are. Creepy photos. Looks like a haunted house. The tea shop sums up Amsterdam perfectly. Small, beautiful, and full of surprises. But now I'm about to meet up with Amsterdam's biggest YouTuber to see what he thinks about living here.
One of the reasons I actually left this city, because it got so small and it's very expensive, right? Yeah. Everything is tiny. Everything is narrow. The streets are narrow, the houses are narrow. Does it bother you at all that you have to, like. everything is so crammed here. Is it a problem living here? Uh, well, it, it depends on your height, and it depends on the size of your body. What are you trying to say, bro? But I have to admit, the city has done a, um, a fantastic job over the past years,
actually, it's a sort of, like, open up a little bit, especially if you look at, like, places like this. It's fine, man. It's all, it's all good. Do you think it's true that people here are genuinely happy? I think so. But there's a thing about Dutch people, and that's we. we very much like to complain. about everything. So it's very strange is that we're the happiest, one of the happiest countries in the world. But then everybody's complaining all the time. Yeah. But I think it's because we're so happy.
We have the time, and the space to complain about stuff that doesn't really matter. I think that's. that's what it is. Think about. As I continue to search for small homes in Amsterdam, I passed by a university campus to try to meet some students and see their living conditions. And after just twenty minutes of waiting, I think I just struck gold. Yo, dude. What's up? Can I ask you a question? Do you live in this building right here? This is like a student housing complex, right? Yeah. Actually, I live here. You do live here? Do you live here too? Yeah.
Uh, no, I don't live here, he is. He lives there. You live somewhere else? Do you mind to give me like a house tour for five minutes? Um, it's a bit messy, but like. Yeah, it's fine, dude. I, I'm, I'm making a story about the smallest living spaces in Amsterdam, and that's why I came here. Is it cool if you show me in? Yeah, sure. Let's go! I appreciate it. Okay. What's your name? Jesse. Drew. Your name? Drew?
Pleasure to meet you guys. He actually has the most. smallest house I've seen in Amsterdam. Yes. So. this is the perfect opportunity. Awesome, man. Really? How long you been living here? About a year and a half now. It's pretty nice, I would say. It's just a bit small and you have to share. yeah, with some a lot of people, like seventeen people sharing a. kitchen and bathroom. Seventeen people?! What?! Yeah, but it's all students, so. you know, can bear with it. Someone tried to break in. Alright, let's go. So this is like a kind of studying area, I guess, but nobody really study.
Smells like a sewer in here. Damn, dude. Yeah, and that's the elevator. And downstairs we have like the parking lot for bikes. Nice. Yeah. Start living the third floor. Where are you guys from? Uh, I'm from Mongolia. Mongolia?! Bro, I love that country. But, I, I grew up here. And you? I'm from China. China? Nice. Alright. So uh, this is my flat. Now, you can tap it in. So this is like uh. other students can be here, and there's some graffiti, some arts. And I live in like a. it's kind of corner room.
We are way, way in the back corners. I can't. I can open uh the light so you can see better. There we go. Unlock. Yeah, let me open the door. There you go. That's my little room right here. It's a bit messy. I'm sorry, I didn't clean. Damn! This is the whole room? Yes. It's uh, quite small. Yeah. This is probably the smallest place in Amsterdam. Could be. Bro. How much do you spend for one month in rent to live here? Four hundred sixteen, around that. That's pretty cheap.
Got your bed right here, right by the window. Yes. You got your little. dresser here. Yeah. Yeah, just some random stuff. And uh you got your panda bear. Very Chinese of you. Yes, Yes, yes. Gotta have a panda bear. What's it like living in here? Pretty cozy, I would say. And you just wake up and. yeah. Work on my laptop and stuff. Playing some music. What do you play? Uh, I play guitar, actually. Playing a band, uh. in Amsterdam.
I, I wanna hear a twenty-second sample. Well, I made a song because my upstairs neighbor is like really annoying. So it's basically like. All the clash are made by you. No. You're such a ho-. And I want you to know. Noise above. Yeah, something like that. Do you think he heard you? There's a. Well, I hope they hear it. Uh. So this is the whole spot. Nice, man. Yeah. You might not take a. uh shout out to my band?
Yeah, what is the band? Yeah. Uh, Common Sexuality. Please follow us. We make uh alternative rock inspired by 90s music and some punkish grunge. Are you musically gifted as well? No, but the only thing I do is some Mongolian throat singing. What?! Bro, that's the coolest shit ever. You can do it? Yeah, yeah. I'm here with Drew Binsky! That is. incredible, man. Well, I never thought. Come to Mongolia.
I never thought I would hear Mongolian throat singing here in Amsterdam. Awesome, man. So this is the whole flat. Here's the bathroom. Um. yeah. Some more stickers and uh yeah, there's a man bathroom. And there's the female one, so. So everybody shares this? Yeah. How many people share this bathroom? Seventeen. Seventeen, bro. Yeah. I feel like I've been transported to a completely different universe in here. Yeah. Even though these dorms are tiny, I can only imagine how cool it would be to go to college in Amsterdam.
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And with that all being said, let's head to the next tiny apartment. Hey, bro. Hey, man. What's going on? Good. How are you? Drew. Yeah, welcome. Pleasure, man. Yeah. Nice to meet you. Thanks for having me over. Yeah, of course. Yeah. Welcome to my home. The luxury home. Yeah, the little luxury dining, dining home, actually. You're entering in the, in the. our little, little dining uh, area.
Literally, like, the windows here, and it's just, boom. So people watch you eating? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, they watch me eating. Yeah, cause everybody walks by and they watch, and sometimes the little baby is here. Actually, we live with three here. Little baby from eight weeks, my girlfriend, and the little dog. I think they see the dog in the window. Congrats on the baby.
Yeah, yeah. Thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's really cool. So is this normal? Like, like, the, the table of your dining is on the wall? On the wall, yeah, because it saves us a lot of space. Cool. So let's see what else you got in here. Uh. this is, like. it looks like a wall, but actually, this is like the. Ooh. Wow. This is basically the bathroom. It's a toilet room. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What a nice way to save space. Really? You always have these, like, vertical ceilings in there.
Yeah, yeah. Because this is the. um, the upstairs of the stair from the upstairs neighbors. I'm from the U.S. right? Everything's big in America. This sink is absolutely tiny. Like, my hand, it's literally the size of. and I, and I have small hands. Oh, yeah. You guys are so used to that, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But this is actually for the toilet room. But we have m-maybe a bigger one in the bathroom. Yeah, yeah.
Every storage space we're gonna, we are using, because this here, behind here, there's, like, the. the fuse box area. So we basically need this for all the, all the grocery and the shoes we. we store here. Yeah. Man. Whoa! This is so cool. I would have never guessed that you have all this in here, too. This is the kitchen, but also everything is, like, storage. So basically, here is the uh all the glasses. What?! Is this your design? Like, your idea? Yeah, yeah, it's my design. Yeah, yeah. I'm an interior, interior designer, actually, so that's why.
This is so unique. Yeah. It saves so much space this way. Basically, here's the dishwasher, for example, and this here, the microwave. The fridge. So everything is here? Everything is here. Yeah. Let me see where you've traveled. Oh, yeah. China. Nice. Love China. China, of course, yeah, yeah. Brussels. Not the greatest place. Actually, a lot better. Yeah, I know. Hong Kong. Yeah, yeah.
New York. Do you like New York? That's where. New York. Yeah. Nah! Be honest. Be honest, bro. No, not actually. I like, like Portland more, man. I'm. I've been a few times in Portland. Yeah. Cape Town. That's a real place. That's a great city. Yeah. This is like a boiling water tap. So basically, the. this coming boiling water out of the tap. What?! And basically if you want like sparkling water. What?! You have sparkling water, dude?! There's a sparkling water that is going out of the tap, man.
Dude?! Man, I love sparkling water. Can I try it? Yeah, of course. Here. Here you go, just. You're like a legend, man. Straight out of this tap. Sparkling water. Yeah, yeah. And act, actually also chill, right? Perfect. It's like uh Pellegrino. Yeah, Pellegrino, yes, yes. Taste it's, tastes like Pellegrino. Yeah, yeah. It's Pellegrino out of this tap. Insane. Yeah. So the, the, this is, this is the kitchen, and then we go enter the uh the living area.
It's very narrow here. This is where your kitchen, right? Like. It's like. you can. Yeah, it's really. four meters wide at the widest point. Yeah, yeah. And basically here it's like three. meters, and this is like, yeah, yeah. One meter. Just eighty centimeters. You sure? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Just, just enough to uh. to walk, yeah, to walk, yeah, yeah. Very. Wow. Dude, this is so, so, it's luxury as hell.
Yeah, yeah, it's a bit luxury. Yeah. So basically this is, this is the living, and then we have a few. nice things here. First we go to the. to the bathroom. Secret room. Yeah. Okay. Nicer bathroom. Okay. A little bit bigger. But Americans would still say this is tiny. It's tiny. Yeah, the sink. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If we throw a party, we uh. with these pocket doors in. Wow, man. And then? That opens up like a whole new space.
Yeah, you can uh basically you can throw a party here now. Yeah. And if you want to watch TV. What?! Man! How did you invent that? Like. Uh, yeah, basically, the, the, the system is quite easy to buy, but you have to, you have to build around the cabinets and stuff. So uh. yeah. Do you have like a pull out bed under the couch or no? No, no, no, no. You don't have. No, no, this is just a, basically this is not a couch.
I think it's more like a love seat. Just not, yeah, Love seat? Very Dutch way to say couch. Yeah, I love. love seats. Yeah, yeah. Is this your bedroom? Yeah. Come on here. Up here, buddy. How are you? Hello. Is this your bedroom? Yeah, this is the bedroom. Yeah, yeah. So basically you have some storage space around it. Here's also for all our clothes and stuff. Yeah. We store it in here. You don't have like a secret refrigerator in here?
No, no, no. Cool, man. This is pretty cozy. It's pretty. good room. Yeah. Is this a one bedroom flat? Uh, yeah, it's one bathroom flat. And you got some outside area, patio? Yes, actually we call it more like a garden. Yeah. Oh, this is great. It's like, this is in the middle of the city. It's not common to have this. No, it's not common because the most of the house are like, like this. So that everybody's uh was building in the garden houses, but in this area you have some, some, some gardens.
It's really nice. As I understand correctly. These are, these are different neighbors. Yeah. They have to, yeah, yeah. I think there are basically uh you have, you call it in America the ground floor, Yes. right? Each of these floor. And then you have the first, second, and the third floor, and the third floor has like two. uh, two floors. This is like a really, really cozy spot. Like, how, how many square meters is this? Uh. the, the garden or the. Just the flat. No, no.
The flat's like forty eight square meters. So it's not very big? No, it's not very big. On paper, but when you're actually here, it feels. It feels big. Yeah, yeah, It feels spacious, right? Yeah. Do you mind me asking, how much do you pay for rent every month? Uh, we don't actually pay rent. We have a mortgage. The mortgage is like uh. three. uh, 1350. One-three-five-zero. Yeah. 1350?
Yeah, 1350. That's not bad. No, that's not bad. No, that's actually really nice. Yeah. Per month? Per month. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And how much do units like this cost? Like, if you want to buy the place. Like uh. four hundred thousand euros. Okay. Yeah. This is just so awesome, dude. Good for you. Yeah, man, thank you. How old are you? Uh, twenty eight. Hey, Marijn, let's play some tunes. Set the mood.
I'm honestly pretty jealous of Marijn's tiny home, but it's time to move on to the next place. My local friend Jesse and his father Lex, who's a longtime taxi driver, offers to take me there while exploring some local neighborhoods along the route. We're kind of in the Amsterdam North station. Yeah, in the ne- newest part of Amsterdam North. Mmhmm. That's uh from, from ten years they built all the buildings here, and it's not really cheap to live in there. The city has evolved so much in forty years, how has it evolved in a good way and how has it evolved in a bad way? In the bad way is that the, that the people are not really coming anymore from Amsterdam.
Uh, the good way, everything goes on. We missed the, the humor of the Amsterdam people. We had a lot of humor, of course, a lot of Jewish humor, you know. How often is it that you get to ride with your father? Uh, well, sometimes he used to pick me up from school when I was heading home or anything, but not much. He don't pay, you know? I'm a Jewish guy. This whole area uh just driving to, that is the area where I said. where they built special for, for the. for the people, what's, what's coming in.
I see this. It is really small houses. But now, the houses you pay four hundred to fifty thousand euros. And before it was about the. When I growing up, it was maybe about twenty seven thousand guilders. So we have found a neighborhood here with all these tiny, tiny homes. They just have cute little. Yeah. They have a little garden on the front and a, a little car, a little car on the back side. But you see, it's, it's a real small houses. Everything here is mini. Like the cars are mini. The staircases are this wide. The sinks are like. I can fit my hand in the sink.
Yeah. Why is it such a mini place? We, everything is small here. Why? Is it because. You know how much we gotta share for it, like, like uh. I, I should take you guys to Texas and show you some real big things. I, I know I've been a couple of times in the Florida. I know that there are big cars. And what do you think about the sizes of American things? Uh. It depends what kind of sizes.
It's hard not to love the humor and hospitality of the Dutch. But now Jesse and Lex are dropping me off to meet our final small home dweller in Amsterdam. And this might be the craziest one yet. I made it here with Chief, who lives on this boat. What's up, Chief? How you doing? What's cracking, son? It's a beautiful evening in Amsterdam. We got late sunshine and Chief's going to give me a tour of his boat. Let's go! backwards. I didn't even know it was possible to live on a boat here.
Cool. Welcome. How many years have you been living here? Uh. seven. Pretty good view. Probably best. best in the city, to be honest. There's a motel right there. Yeah. Is that building? Yep. So this is your kitchen? This is my kitchen. It's like proper. Thank you, bro. It's my little uh. my little setup. Little setup? It's not a little setup. You got all the gadgets, bro.
What's the inspiration for music for you? I'm from Suriname, so I like, you know, Caribbean music and uh. Yeah, that's an interesting point. So Suriname was a Dutch colony? Was. And so people there still speak Dutch? Yes. There's a huge Surinamese population here, right? Like hundreds of thousands. Yup. I think there might be more here than there. Really? I think. And are you like tight with those people here or is it just everyone, every man for themselves?
There is a certain knowing. Right? You see them on the street. It's just like. It's like, you know, you want to hear what I made yesterday? Yeah. Sick rhythm. I love techno music. This is awesome, dude. Okay, so you got hammock. You actually use that? Yup. It's from Suriname, definitely. You use it? Yeah. It's like a three person hammock, hammook. Alright. This is really great. When you enter the bathroom, you gotta duck your head and go way down here.
Whoa, man. Got bathtub, shower over there. You don't have any issues with getting like running water? No. Yeah, how do you plug it in? Like. It's just there. Like a lot of people ask me, I live on a boat. Isn't that weird? But I got like heating and warm water and uh. gas and everything, bro, it's just like a house. How much do you pay for rent? I. rather not say. How do you fit this big-ass piano. in this tiny door? So it's a really funny story like this. So I bought the piano first, called the mover, and the first one came, he's like, "Yeah, you got a wooden roof,
you can't walk on it." So, second guy came, like, "Nah, not gonna happen." Then I asked the third piano mover and he said, as he was leaving, he said, "Nah, it's impossible. But you're gonna need a crane for that." I was like. "Say that again." "You're gonna need a crane for that. We don't have a crane." I was like, "But cranes exist." I'm saying I'm do, I'm gonna do something unrealistic. Holy crap. Dude, they actually dropped it with a crane? Like a little package. Wow. They dropped it? Yep. That's awesome, dude. So ever since this day, I'm kind of obnoxious. When people tell me uh, that's not really realistic, I'm like,
I don't care about realistic. Kind of realistic, nice. It's steepest stairs in this freaking city. I don't understand. Like a ladder. Every staircase in the city is like vertical. It makes sense. Wait, is that your boat too? Yeah, this is my side boat. What's a side boat. It's my side boat. Let's go on the canals. Chief is gonna take us for a spin. on the side hustle boat over here. Why did you put the hustle in there?
I don't know. I've said. I said side boat. You said side hustle boat. Everything for you is a side hustle. You can just get this boat and attach it to your boat without any permits. You can just do that? There's a little perks. You gonna ninja jump, bro? Hey. like a ballerina! Dude, what a life, man. This is so, so, cool. You like oysters? Yeah, bro. Let's get some. As a tourist in this city, the only boat opportunities that you have are those boats.
You don't really get. Did you notice that nobody's ever smiling on those boats? Yeah, I know. So every time I pass here, these guys are in the window, smoking and drinking beer and ice cream. What a life. They'll be like, they do that every time. Did they, they live there? Yeah. That's their house? Yeah. Yeah, that's their house. Dude, we're just, uh, we're just surrounded by boat houses. But, like, I didn't even know that. That's weird, right? It doesn't register like homes.
Yes, you just register them uh. You only know, right now. as homes now. Shit, dude. Damn. Are you able to just dock it where you want or there's specific places you can dock it? So the rule is. you can dock unless you can't. So if it's not, like, prohibited, like, this whole side here, there's no signs you can probably dock, but you can't because there's no. mooring uh slots. Yeah, sure. Okay. Every time I look up online, like, what are the happiest countries in the world? The Netherlands is always in the top five. Always.
I think it's a, as a tourist here, I do think that there's a lot of truth to that, just judging by how the people are. But as a local, such as yourself, are people actually happy here? Generally speaking. I mean, I can't speak for. society, but I'm happy. Of course. Well, that's a good answer. You know what's a really Dutch thing to do? Tell me. Complain. There's a Dutch say, like. that means a good farmer always complains. It's, like, really deep in the culture. Right?
This is where we're going. No, no, no. It's coming to you. Okay. Really? Yeah. We just stay in the boat? Yeah, yeah. What?! Enjoy! Thank you. Uh, I'll bring these back later. Okay? Sounds good. I've never been served oysters on a boat, right now. I feel like I'm so spoiled. Those look like proper oysters. Cheers, dude. Yeah. What a treat, man. Mmm, mmm, mmm. It's got a perfect taste to it. So if you're just talking to someone and you're not paying attention, you'll get your head down.
Oh yeah. If you do dislike. Oh, bro, like, important boat rule. Before you get up, before you get up on a boat, look at the front. Yeah. And if you hit your head, you're probably dead. Dude, this is so scenic, man. Oh, my God. Oh, yeah. What are we doing here? Getting some karaage and some uh takoyaki, I guess. Fried chicken? Yep, and octopus balls. And this might be the most beautiful corner of the whole city that I've ever seen. Look at this.
Hey, the food is here. Thanks, bro. These are the snacks, right? Thank you. Brother. Appreciate it. Window shopping. I can't tell you how enjoyable of an experience it is to cruise the canals by boat, roll up to a few restaurants, order food. Dude, it's like when you're sitting in business class and all the people walk by you in economy and you're like. There's economy right there. Yeah, there's the economy. That's how it feels. Thank you. Here's your noodle soup and then your noodles, here you go. I love you, bro.
Thanks, man. That's very kind of you. Thank you. Most of the tourists that come here, like, just come here, wanna get high and shit. Oh, bro. Cause I. Still that to split the whole day. You think that it attracts the wrong tourists to come here. Like, does that bother you? No. Kids, like peeing in the street, running around? Yeah. Oh, hell no. Like, the drunk people are way more annoying than the weed than the. stoned.
Yeah, I agree with that. Amsterdam getting dark. It's like 10:00 p.m. right now. We got that summertime Oh shit. Late, late, late sun. Let's do the. we're going to do the red light thingy. What did I tell you. bro? This is so good, dude. Your life is amazing. Do you even realize that? Thank you, bro. Yeah, I, I feel very uh. grateful. The Chief of Amsterdam. We are approaching the Red Light District. Which uh. Yeah. So let's say frowned upon.
Watch your head? Just say you made a wrong turn and you got lost. I didn't get lost, bro. What you talking about? Let's go window shopping for real. We're doing it, bro. Look at this guy right here. I can't believe we're doing this right now. I gotta show you the right Amsterdam experience, Drew, come on. You're with fucking Chief right now. We are illegally cruising down the Red Light District right now, at night. You don't want to turn around. You're just going to go to.
Yeah, we're going to go back because these are, these are mall cops. They didn't even register us. Look, look, look, look. They didn't even register. You live near the Red Light District. It's just normal for you? Like, for us, it's such a spectacle, like Amsterdam, Red Light District, you know? But you live here, so. True. As I do get uh it's a feeling, you know, like it's a re- a rebellious feeling. I still have that one, but they kind of fucking it up.
How has Amsterdam changed in the last ten years? So, the people are, that are not from Amsterdam who live here and start complaining, they make it really tame. Like, look, look. No alcohol on the street, right? No uh, no this, no that. No fun. No fun allowed. Yeah, you're right. These two are scammers. Yeah. They are? Yeah, yeah. This came one of my boys, the guy went in, but he didn't like negotiate or, you know, he was shy. Right?
What's the normal price? It used to be fifty. I'm not sure what it is now. He just asked, uh how much is it? She said one hundred. He went in, right? But he didn't. he didn't ask hundred for what. He paid for like a. a job, he paid two hundred for a job, bro. Damn! This is so nice! Amsterdam by night is so much better than Amsterdam by day. I hope you enjoyed experiencing a local side of Amsterdam that you never knew existed.
It's a good reminder that life here isn't about how much space you have. It's about the stories you create inside it. Thanks so much for watching this video and stay tuned for next week's episode as I take you inside one of the most bizarre cults in America. Lift up Jerusalem and make this place, a light to the world.
