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Haha, yeah the tax issue worries me a bit. I am also escaping to the EU but through university education instead of a job for now. In the future I’m definitely hoping to find a job, but the tax issue is really confusing and I’m starting to worry about it now. 
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Once you are fully settled and financially comfortable, do you plan on buying a boat? Seems like you should own a boat if you live in NL
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Earwicker posted:Once you are fully settled and financially comfortable, do you plan on buying a boat? Seems like you should own a boat if you live in NL We moved here with 5 bags--after 8 months, we're finally approaching a minimally complete household. Buying a boat isn't on the 5 year plan yet-- but hmmmmm. We don't even have bikes yet we were going to buy them last week, but given the weather, we decided to delay a week or two. As an aside, I've walked 2900 km since July. The only reason I want a bike is for intra-city trips. Amsterdam is incredibly walkable--we've walked 48km in a day here, although 10-15km a day is more normal (48km hurts the next day).
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Xun posted:Haha, yeah the tax issue worries me a bit. I am also escaping to the EU but through university education instead of a job for now. In the future I’m definitely hoping to find a job, but the tax issue is really confusing and I’m starting to worry about it now. If you have any specific questions, feel free to throw them in here!
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Aidan posted:We moved here with 5 bags--after 8 months, we're finally approaching a minimally complete household. Buying a boat isn't on the 5 year plan yet-- but hmmmmm. yeah I find biking within Amsterdam (or any big city really) kind of tedious/stressful and would rather walk or take the tram, but biking around in the Dutch countryside and small towns is loving amazing. there is a huge stretch of dunes between Katwijk and the Hague that is pretty much just empty wilderness except for bike/horse paths and the occasional WW2 ruins, it is a really cool place to explore Earwicker fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Mar 5, 2018 |
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Mar 5, 2018 15:15
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Have you had a kroket uit de muur yet?
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Earwicker posted:yeah I find biking within Amsterdam (or any big city really) kind of tedious/stressful and would rather walk or take the tram, but biking around in the Dutch countryside and small towns is loving amazing. there is a huge stretch of dunes between Katwijk and the Hague that is pretty much just empty wilderness except for bike/horse paths and the occasional WW2 ruins, it is a really cool place to explore That was our 48km walk actually...we started at the edge of Leiden and walked to the sea, up to katwijk, and then back down to Leiden. Seeing Rotterdam and Den Haag in the distance from a the top of the 68m dune (for Americans, that’s equivalent to roughly 8,000 feet) was pretty cool.
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Aidan posted:the 68m dune (for Americans, that’s equivalent to roughly 8,000 feet) was pretty cool. that is a cool dune but it's definitely not 8000 feet! that would be an actual mountain. 68m is like 220 feet. the tallest "mountain" in the whole of the Netherlands is only like 1000 feet
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my people are from the Dutch Alps and I will have you know that Vaalserberg is 1,057.75 feet high
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Earwicker posted:that is a cool dune but it's definitely not 8000 feet! that would be an actual mountain. Shhhhh
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:my people are from the Dutch Alps and I will have you know that Vaalserberg is 1,057.75 feet high Kyoon knows what I’m talking about.
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Fragrag posted:Have you had a kroket uit de muur yet? Nee nee nee meneer. My wife had a window prostitute though...and then a second 30 seconds later because the first one didn’t get the job done. For some reason, koket uit de muur made me think of that.
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For anyone else interested: If you have a recent master's degree from a halfway decent university, you can come live in the Netherlands for a year without even having employment figured out beforehand, and you can just look for work after you arrive. https://ind.nl/en/work/Pages/Looking-for-a-job-after-study-promotion-or-research.aspx
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Do not forget to file your FBAR, my dude.
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