Using the NSFW tag as some may find it triggering.

I was on my home on Sunday taking the metro in Amsterdam and a bunch of Dutch kids got on. Maybe 8 or 10 of them? They were average age maybe 10?

They were being loud and obnoxious, and I generally ignored them. Generally loud and obnoxious kids.

I was sitting on my own when one of them saw me. They all came around me and started asking me questions in Dutch, and then they switched over to English. They were asking like all at once “how much for an hour with you “, “do you suck cock”, “are you a whore?”, “do you have a boyfriend?”, “would you fuck me?”

Meanwhile another unzipped my jacket and started touching my thighs, another reached down my top, and started touching my breasts.

I broke off with them, pushed through them and they cornered me against the opposite metro door. They just kept up the questions and pressed me up against the door. I grabbed one when his hands reached into my jacket and twisted his arm.

The one …

EDIT: I’ve added 50+ more startups based on the comments of the post, bringing the total in amsterdam up to 130+ ! They’re all live now on the site (https://startupmap.one). Your efforts of commenting do not go to waste :)

Over the past week I manually compiled 80+ active startups in Amsterdam and put them on a map.

Not scraped from one directory. I pulled from company sites, funding announcements, accelerator portfolios. Nothing fancy, just trying to get a real geographic overview of who’s building what, and where.

The goal is simple: make it easier to discover what’s being built in this city, especially if you’re looking for a startup job and don’t want to reactively rely only on LinkedIn’s algorithm.

This is a snapshot, not “the Amsterdam ecosystem.” It’s biased toward companies that are visible online. Early-stage and stealth teams are probably underrepresented.

If I’ve missed obvious ones (very possible), drop them below. If you’re building something and want it …

Hello Everyone, 28M here

The new Box 3 taxation systems on paper gains look ridiculous. I just started a job and started investing and it’s gonna erode lot of money. Before you say they will change in in future and move to realized gains , that date is uncertain and unknown. Might happen in 2030 and might not happen till 2050. But this one gonna come in 2028. Why can’t we just start a protest or I am the only

One worried ?

Edit - I posted this in Netherlands before but it got removed by mods

Edit 2 - please sign this - https://box3eerlijk.petities.nl let’s do our part

I usually don’t have food delivered but decided to do so this past weekend.
I downloaded Thuisbezorgd because I like to support local and haven’t used them yet.

This was my experience.

I downloaded the app and saw that I can get 80% discount for being a first time user. (If I spend more than 15 Euro)

Great, I then found `Kapsalon Express` near me and added ~30 Euro worth of food.
It showed me that food will be delivered in 15 to 35min.

I tried to apply the coupon at checkout, it said it can’t apply it, I looked everywhere for a reason but couldn’t find one. (Annoyed but I move on with checkout)

I then pay for the food, and it shows that the delivery will be in 45min to an hour.
That wasn’t the time displayed when I checked out???

Annoyed but fine I’ll wait a bit longer.

70min passes and I decide to phone Kapsalon Express, they are very rude to me and say the food will be another 20 to 35min.

I phone them again 1h50 min after ordering my food, …

In the last year or so I’ve noticed more and more restaurants saying “Oh we don’t do tap water.”

It is yet another sign of the city turning into a place that just rips off tourists and then the locals suffer. Zo irritant.

Any restaurant not offering gewoon kraanwater if someone asks for it, should be ashamed of themselves. / end rant.

This post reflects my experience as a manual labor migrant in the Netherlands. It is not written from the perspective of a corporate professional or a highly paid expat, but from someone who arrived without serious savings, connections, or a career that easily transfers between countries.

I am not trying to blame anyone, or present myself as a victim. I am not looking for sympathy, simply describing what the process looked like from the position of someone doing low-skilled manual work as an immigrant.

If someone in a similar position reads this and it helps them make a clearer decision, or prepares them better than we were prepared, then sharing it was worth it.

My wife and I moved from Hungary to the Netherlands two years ago. We had a stable life at home. I worked in oversize transport logistics, a field I genuinely enjoyed. My wife worked in retail. We were not desperate, but we believed we could build something more stable in the long run.

Housing was the first reality check. …

Hi everyone! I’ve been working in the Netherlands for a few weeks now, and I’ve noticed something fascinating. At exactly 12:00, all my colleagues pull out a single cheese sandwich (sometimes with a glass of milk).

Coming from a culture where lunch is a warm, 1-hour affair, I’m struggling to adapt! Is this the standard everywhere, or is my office just very traditional? Also, what’s the ‘ultimate’ Dutch office lunch hack I’m missing? Dank jullie wel!

I can’t believe I have never seen the store brands of dishwasher tablets before!!

The brand types are just like luxury brand stuff; the chemicals are dirt cheap. But they just slather slap a brand name on it, and hike the price 1000%.

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I hear you regarding the dishwasher powder! It is such a big scam with the tablets. The powder allowed you to adjust the amount depending on how dirty the wash was. It seems impossible to get it and convince people to use it or go back to it. “White powder!!” (that was a joke :P).

I’m from Venezuela and I got that car with a curious plate, I suppose it’s diplomatic, but I don’t know what those numbers mean (in fact, the car with the red license plate is an accredited diplomatic car 44=Kuwait 05=Secretary)