Als geboren en getogen Amsterdammer (staatsliedenbuurt)

die zojuist een huis heeft gekocht in zuidoost (want hier is het nog wél betaalbaar)

Ben ik zo blij verrast met de sociale en vriendelijke inheemse cultuur van mijn nieuwe wijk

Met name…. Elkaar groeten!!! Dit gebeurde, desondanks ik altijd wel een knik gaf of hoi zei, nóóit in mijn geboorte buurt

Heel onpersoonlijk

Hier is het echt het tegenovergestelde.

In 5 maanden tijd ken ik nagenoeg al mijn buren, zowel mede eigenaren -en de sociale huurders van ons complex, iedereen groet elkaar - ook iedereen die ik niet ken, maar waar ik buiten langsloop

Ge wel dig!!

Moest ik even delen. Enige nadelige van deze buurt is de zwerveropvang, zij zorgen wel voor enorm veel overlast. Maar dat daargelaten.

Hoe ervaren jullie dit in jullie wijk?

Hi Amsterdam, I’m struggling with a few dog owners in my neighborhood who walk their dogs without leash and refuse to clean up. My kids regularly comes back from garden / playground with dog feces and I have to wash his shoes which is getting kinda annoying. In my childhood a dog without a leash attacked me on my school playground and almost torn a tendon on my leg, I got very lucky- hence every time I see an attack pitbull without a leash walking next to kids - I get uneasy.

What are my options? I do not know the names of those dog owners or where they live.

I tried looking for a video about this expression online, but sadly couldn’t find it. I know it exists, because I’ve seen it before. Perhaps someone with better search skills than me can find.

That said: when the Dutch tell you ‘We’re about to have dinner’ (‘Wij gaan zo eten’) it (usually) doesn’t mean you are invited for dinner, but the opposite. It’s a rather strange way to tell you that you should leave.

This obviously is just a rule of thumb and some of the Dutch do mean you are invited for dinner, but in those cases you likely would have been informed about that already. It is also more common for the people who know each other very well and most Dutch likely will ask you more directly if you would like to stay for dinner.

So next time someone tells you ‘We’re about to have dinner’, you know it’s a sign to leave and go home.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/07/taco-bell-restaurants-declared-bankrupt-in-the-netherlands/

I’m actually surprised that it existed that many years. It’s more expensive and less tasty than any other fastfood chains like kfc or mcdonald. I tried it once out of curiosity and never came back.

If you have been a regular customer, what is the reason?

Hello, I have been living in the Netherlands for 5 years and I am now seriously thinking to leave to another country. Main reason behind this is financial. In the last 5 years everything got really expensive but the income did not really increase that much. I tried buying house for more than a year and couldn’t succeed. After a while I have started to question the life here and this crazy housing market. Noticed that I don’t actually want to pay half a million to a small house that I don’t like. And barely save some money monthly. So now I think I have come to an end of the Netherlands journey and for another country that does better with financial and housing. Does anyone had the same idea and same feelings as me? I am writing this post to get some help mentally please dont get me wrong.

I bought a house in Almere. It used to be social housing, and 18 out of the 22 houses on the street are still owned by a housing company. The company says they’re selling the houses only when tenants leave or die.

The problem is, almost all of the social housing tenants are just… weird.

Most of them have all their lights on ²⁴⁄₇. One guy cuts and scrapes metal every single day after midnight. Another has three ridiculously expensive cars. One family even had a goat in their backyard for a while. An old lady once asked me if I was the guy who moved into number 11. When I said no and asked why, she said, “They’re foreigners and I want to keep the street free from them.” She didn’t even realize I’m a foreigner myself — even with my broken Dutch.

My question is: how can they afford such expensive cars and sky-high electricity bills if they’re in social housing? Aren’t there any income requirements or regulations?

At my work the play radio Q, unfortunately I can’t wear headphones, and I asked again and again to change it but they don’t listen.

I really can’t stand it, how is it possible for them to have like 300k followers, their app being one of the top 10 in IOS store, and they literally play the same 30 songs every day.

I wish people boycotted radios like these. They just give radioplay to whatever the labels say it’s going to pay more. No room for creativity or new artists.

I’m super careful while driving in Netherlands because of the cyclists and bring this carefulness even to highways. I own a Toyota (with 5 km/h slower than shown speed) and always stay below/equal to road signs.

However, I’m always the slowest guy on the highway. Always.

• I set my speed 5 km/h above the road sign to compensate for the car safe speed which is 5 km/h lower than what it shows you. Still slow…
• I pay attention to 6-19 road signs where the speed limit is increased between 7:00 PM to 6:00 AM

Still I’m the slowest and everybody drives at least 10km/h above the speed limit. And yes, I’ve tried other cars and google/apple maps.

Once, I tried to drive a bit faster than normal since I thought it’s a common thing to go above speed limit, and I got fined 75 Euros to go 57 km/h instead of 50 km/h!

Is there any specific rule which I’m not familiar? Or simply the local people know where there is a speed camera and where there is not?