The Problems Of Living And Moving To Amsterdam | The Movement Hub

[@Natascha1979]

All those people complaining about Amsterdam getting more expensive, while they are pricing out the native Dutch people 😅😂

[@AndreUtrecht]

The people complaining about the prices were not high flying expats but EU citizens with ordinary jobs. As an EU citizen you can live and work wherever you want in the EU. The USA guy seemed to be the typical expat but he wasn't complaining about the prices ...

[@gert-janvanderlee5307]

​@@AndreUtrecht I doubt that. EU citizens with ordinary jobs couldn't afford to live in Amsterdam.

[@MrShadowofthewind]

​@@AndreUtrechtIt is the same here as anywhere else, inflatie is crazy high and so the loans are not in balance with the costs anymore, an average loan is not enough to live in Amsterdam, unless you bought a house under old prices.

[@kikiwie825]

I get ur POV, but tourist are 4th of that reason, you have inflation and business people who is taking advantage of that demand. Don’t hate the players, hate the game.

[@gert-janvanderlee5307]

@@kikiwie825 We're not hating anyone. Just seeing the irony of the complaints.

[@AndreUtrecht]

Yes, as someone already pointed out: Amsterdam is part of the biggest megalopolis of Europe, the Randstad: consisting of the 4 biggest cities in The Netherlands: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den Haag and Utrecht. And all the smaller towns in the conglomerate . So The Randstad as a whole can be compared to bigger cities like London, Paris or even Berlin. In between the big cities you have 'The Green Heart' with all the smaller towns. Whereas in a city like London you would have all the important institutions in one city: Government, Embassies, Harbour, transportation hub etc etc... in The Randstad it is spread all over these cities. With public transport (or by car of course) it is easy to commute between these cities. Many people live in one of the big cities and work in the other. So when you are thinking of moving to The Netherlands don't just look at Amsterdam for living, even if your job is in the city of Amsterdam. Compared to other large cities all over the world, the distances traveled while let's say living in Utrecht (where I live) and working in Amsterdam, Rotterdam or Den Haag are peanuts. Within the hour I can be from my home to almost any address in The Randstad, even by public transport. And even cities like Den Bosch or Eindhoven could be considered for living and then work in one of the other cities. So when you want to move look also to other cities. Population wise The Netherlands is a middle sized country bigger than for example Ireland, Portugal, Hungary, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Austria etc etc etc, but in km2 it is small. And there's a dense population. It is the most dense country in the whole of Europe and even in the world it ranks in the top 5, density wise? Not sure, but it is up there. The Netherlands has an excellent infrastructure. So where you would commute within a big city like London or let's say Istanbul for over an hour between home and work. In The Netherlands you could be living in one town or city and work in another.

[@vaunmalone3064]

Rain everyday...omg can't stand bad weather, and the older I get 😢

[@RealConstructor]

This winter was dreadful indeed. Although it wasn’t really a winter more a continuing autumn. We had a good summer in 2023 all the way to October, then the weather turned instantly and we had rain every day (except 4) since, until the end of June 2024. No spring also and summer started finally in July. We just skipped winter and spring.

[@mradventurer8104]

No, we have had less ice cold days but people use heating for about five months so you could call that a five months winter. Certainly not skipping winter. Summer is very short with only two months of nice temperatures.

[@dutchman7623]

Amsterdam isn't big, it's small... The city is part of the Randstad, most dense populated area in Europe, an agglomeration of many cities, where half the Dutch population lives. About nine million people. Distance between the Randstad and the next most populated area, Brabants City Fork, is about fifteen miles. In that agglomeration about four million people live. Again fifteen miles south is where the Antwerp agglomeration starts with over three million people, connected to Brussels with three million as well. To the east, there is the Ruhrgebiet in Germany with about twenty million more. Simply said; within two hours car drive from Utrecht, you can reach about sixty million people. So with an area ten times extended NYC you find three times more inhabitants. Not even talking about the proximity to Paris, London and Berlin. Travelling by train you can have breakfast in Rotterdam, lunch in Paris and dinner in London. Yep, Amsterdam is very small indeed...

[@rmyikzelf5604]

Crowded? Try Mumbai.

[@rmyikzelf5604]

If all these complainers left, there would be less complaining

[@tomaskeprt4855]

The best thing about Amsterdam is getting out of there.

[@boebsiebyarada9964]

I am born in Amsterdam and live still in Amsterdam, but I agree it's becoming overrated and an amusement parc. Don't get me wrong I love Amsterdam, it's beautifull and you can do everything by bike which is amazing. But it's becoming way to expensive and it's not authentic anymore, basically like every major city around the world it's now for the rich.

[@rmyikzelf5604]

There is not such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing.

[@alejandromorales1904]

"for me its common" Jan, 29 years old have cero non-dutch friends

[@goudwaard8880]

You cant be Dutch without complaining about something! So i guess most of them integrated Holland pretty well😂

[@j.vanderson6239]

Tourists complaining about so many tourists 🤔

[@DenUitvreter]

The cause of the housing cost problem talking about the housing cost problem.

[@GigiFulger]

The cause of the housing cost problem is the bad management by Dutch governments over the past 20 years, governments elected by Dutch people. But sure, keep blaming the immigrants.

[@DenUitvreter]

@@GigiFulger Identifying the cause is not blaming. The blame is on the Dutch government of the past 13 years and that includes it's mass immigration policy.

[@GigiFulger]

@@DenUitvreter The fact that you think there's a "mass immigration policy" in the Netherlands tells me you never interacted with the IND. The Netherlands is one of the least immigration friendly countries in Western Europe. You're just parroting right wing talking points.

[@DenUitvreter]

@@GigiFulger Over 1 million immigrants in the past decade, as the result of policy, coinciding with a housing shortage of about 1 million people. When stopped 1 million being a mass? The mass immigration in the rest of Western Europe is irrelevant to this of course. Pretending it is some kind of force of nature is neoliberal propaganda you are regurgitating. It's Dutch government handing out residency permits, so it's policy.

[@sunnyg7038]

Housing food weather cost.i can do this all day😂😂😂

[@TheMovementHub]

😂

[@back2nature608]

If the south's so people wise then why do they invite random people over?

[@JudgeHill]

way too many immigrants

[@Paul_C]

Guess he still hasn't got 'up north' a few hundred kilometres further, wouldn't see the sun for a long time. Guess he still thinks the world is flat.

[@mradventurer8104]

I am Dutch and visited California and he is totally right. Lots more sun there and much more rain and unpredictability here. But unpredictability also has its charm.