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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 2546538, member: 2844"]<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Ok, let me explain.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" /></p><p>No yards: the Netherlands is overpopulated, where the yard would be is yet another house.</p><p>No garages: we haven't been introduced to novel contraptions like cars. We still get around like this:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.startpage.com/av/proxy-image?piurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.friesepaardenconcoursen.nl%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F05%2Fdummy_visual_02.jpg&sp=1597164650T462288e15c5918a3546bb44ae6da888f793376998bfb33a844c30a3117651825" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Or....</p><p>In the Netherlands you need permits for everything. If you were to apply for a permit to sell things from your house, yard, garage, there would be a health and safety inspection and it would have to be approved by the fire department. The planning of your area would have to be changed to allow for commercial activity, the entire procedure will take years and will probably not be approved.</p><p>You would also need a first aid certificate, a sufficient number of bathrooms, disabled access, the right number of parking spaces of the right size. You would probably need to do a course in something you will never need, and a permit would probably be for at least a year. Imagine the cost of it all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 2546538, member: 2844"]:hilarious: Ok, let me explain.:D No yards: the Netherlands is overpopulated, where the yard would be is yet another house. No garages: we haven't been introduced to novel contraptions like cars. We still get around like this: [IMG]https://www.startpage.com/av/proxy-image?piurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.friesepaardenconcoursen.nl%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F05%2Fdummy_visual_02.jpg&sp=1597164650T462288e15c5918a3546bb44ae6da888f793376998bfb33a844c30a3117651825[/IMG] Or.... In the Netherlands you need permits for everything. If you were to apply for a permit to sell things from your house, yard, garage, there would be a health and safety inspection and it would have to be approved by the fire department. The planning of your area would have to be changed to allow for commercial activity, the entire procedure will take years and will probably not be approved. You would also need a first aid certificate, a sufficient number of bathrooms, disabled access, the right number of parking spaces of the right size. You would probably need to do a course in something you will never need, and a permit would probably be for at least a year. Imagine the cost of it all.[/QUOTE]
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