There's a shortage of jobs here, unless you don't mind doing anything.
Apartment, depends on where you live.
I'm not completely into the renting prices.
IF you want to live in a big city in Amsterdam, I think you can get a decent two bedroom apartment for about 5-600 dollars a month.
If you don't mind living in a small city or a town, you can get an apartment for half that money.
Where I live, in a small town, a huge villa on 3000 square meters of land costs about 4-500.000 dollars. In Amsterdam such a thing would cost 1,7 to 2,5 million dollars.
You can buy a house in a row of houses (google translate calls it a 'townhouse', is that right?) for under 80.000 dollars.
Such a house in Amsterdam would cost over 175000 dollars.
If you look carefully you can buy a detached house in my area for about 125000 dollars.
Hope I did the calculations right from euro's to dollars
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I must say that living here isn't bad, I just get the feeling that, being on this forum, the dutch are pretty harsh. Especially on the internet. There's friendly and unfriendly people everywhere though
Oh, yeah. Maximum speed of a car on a freeway is 75 miles an hour.
In towns it's 30 miles an hour.
On nearly every other road it's 50 miles an hour.
The maximum speed on a freeway will be upped to 80 miles an hour next year.
Which I think is ridiculous. With the traffic in this country, 60 miles an hour tops during day time would be good. At night time 100 miles an hour would be fine.
Before you move here: Don't bring an american car here. Petrol is almost 9 dollars per gallon (almost 2 dollars per litre, I don't know how you guys measure that
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