I was just wondering how much the neighborhood I live in has changed in the last couple of years and what Gmaps recorded.

I assumed the plaza near my place was always as green as it is today. I’m just amazed by the change.

A month or two ago I asked this community to help me get a picture from a certain spot in Amsterdam that means a lot to me and my partner. Your response was amazing thank you to everyone who offered to help! This is the final painting made by an amazing artist Richard Friend. I hope my girl loves it for Christmas and I hope you all like it too.

Kwam dit vanochtend tegen op de kruising eerste oosterparkstraat en beukenweg; mogelijk heeft een van jullie hier iets van gezien?

Saw this at the Museumplein Christmas market. Don’t know who is buying these.

Our building has 3 apartments on top of each other, and then the 4th floor is roof storage. we each have ~2sq storage upstairs.

Our neighbor on top wants to try and buy as much or all of our storage so he can expand his apartment to the 4th floor (other people in the building has done so already down the road)

He’s offered us 10k each to buy this.

I live close-ish to Jordaan and apparently that’s a fair price for ~2sq storage.

My apartment is only ~45sq but I could manage without the storage, not sure if it’s smart to sell it though? I don’t need the money and will sell my apartment in ~2 years.

Would it be smart for me to sell the storage? What are the pro’s and con’s?
I’m not sure what all the factors are I should consider.

This animation is roughly one human lifetime: 70 years of data.
What it shows: divide of the population of the Netherlands by age and gender.
Horizontal bars shows how many people in each age group, ladies on the right in red, gentleman on the right with blue.
Vertical bar are the ages of people in the country, so bottom are the babies, and old folk are displayed on the top ot the pyramid.

Notice how it went from a piramid shape ( young majority) to a more three, or barrel shape?
Check the top getting taller and wider, more people live longer.
Notice the two branches, or horns traveling up? Those were typical after world war 2 in many countries: couples choose to have more children to replenish lives lost in the war.

How do you think the next 70 years look like? Any tips on the shape in 2090?

Source: Wikipedia

This might be a funny question, but I’m genuinely curious.

I’ve asked a few Dutch friends, and many of them told me they usually don’t wear thermal pants, even when it’s quite cold. Meanwhile, I and some friends from other countries start wearing thermal leggings under jeans as soon as it gets a bit chilly.

Today I was standing by the window and suddenly thought about this again 😄

So I wanted to ask Dutch people here: is this really true? Is it a cultural thing, or does everyone secretly wear them and just not talk about it?

Besides having one of the worst life expectancy among western countries, why did the life expectancy get worst compared to 2019?

I moved to the Netherlands 13 years ago. I did my master’s here, learned the language, and ended up staying. One of the things I loved most about life here was the work life balance. Coming from Eastern Europe, where unpaid overtime and being constantly available were just normal at the time, this felt refreshing. People actually logged off. Evenings, weekends, and family time were respected and kind of sacred back then.

Over the years, and after changing a few jobs, that feeling has been slowly fading. And now it’s almost entirely gone.

I have been in my current role for about 3 years, and especially since Covid, things feel different. People reply to emails while they are on vacation. Slack messages pop up late at night and over the weekend. Overtime has quietly become normal. And it is not just a few people anymore. It feels like most people are doing it.

With all the layoffs happening everywhere, there is this constant fear of being next. So people do more. They stay …

Any historians (or others) how the most southeast part of Noord-Holland (mostly t Gooi) ended up as Noord-Holland and not Utrecht?

Looking at the map it mass way more sense and I don’t see rivers or something that could be used as markers for the border