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Bad Dutch Public transit: Lage Zwaluwe Station

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  Note: This article started live as a video script. Most of the content has been regained but alterations have been made to adept to the blog format.  This… is Lage Zwaluwe train station. It is a train station located between the three Dutch cities of Dordrecht, Roosendaal and Breda and has regional train connections to all three of those places. It is also one of the most poorly designed and serviced train stations in this part of the Netherlands.   Now I can already hear you ask: “But Pim how is that possible? Those charismatic North American urbanist Youtubers told me that the Netherlands is urbanist heaven! Surely you must be exaggerating!”. Now hold your horses there because we are getting ahead of ourselves. I will talk about the portrayal of the Netherlands on urbanist Youtube later. For now let’s take a look at Lage Zwaluwe station and see what connections it has and how it’s location makes it impractical and difficult to use.    Oh my look at how quaint this city looks, clear

Regarding the future of my Youtube channel...

Creativity is such a fickle thing....  There are a lot of extremely talented people who can pump out amazing artwork after amazing artwork on an almost daily basis. And there are people who only release stuff once every year. Neither of these publishing schedules are really better then the other. Creativity works differently for everyone so therefore does it only makes sense that people express that creativity at different intervals. However the worst nightmare of everyone that has ever attempted to do anything creative is a creative block or creative burnout. There is no worse feeling then spending hours if not days or weeks in front of a blank screen being unable to write even a single letter, draw even a single line or put down even a single musical note. And yet is this phenomenon frighteningly common.  There are many reasons why so many people suffer from this. Mental Health problems, burnout, unrealistic expectations of society and material problems are only a few of many of. Our