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Moving To Amsterdam With Teenagers? Here’s What You Need To Think About

As much as relocating to another country can be an exciting adventure, it can also be a challenge. For teenagers, whose lives are already filled with uncertainty and change, moving to another country can be incredibly overwhelming. Moving means changing school, making new fr   more ...

Financial
Bringing Your Inheritance Into The Netherlands: What Expats Need To Know About Dutch Tax Laws

If you’re bringing your inheritance into the Netherlands, tax laws may have implications for your assets, so make sure that you’re fully informed.   more ...

Lindsay Rubino, Limburg

Who are you?

My name is Lindsay Rubino, and I’m a freelance writer and editor from New Jersey in the U.S. I’m 30 years old and have live   more ...

Culture
Living In The Netherlands As A Transgender Expat

Building a life as an expat is always a challenge – and being transgender can make everything more complicated. Pulling up roots and migrating to a   more ...

Culture
Is Amsterdam Finally Growing Sick of Expats?

Amsterdam may have made it into the top five cities for expats in last year’s [url=https://www.internations.org/expat-insider/2017/the-best-and-wors   more ...

Leisure
A Handy Guide To Making Friends In Amsterdam

So you’ve made the choice to move to Amsterdam. Visa? Tick. Accommodation? Tick. Employment? Tick. Friends? Hmm… if you haven’t quite fallen int   more ...

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The Netherlands - Efficient, safe, and open-minded, the Netherlands is a charming country where historical architecture, canals and flower markets enchant visitors. Not only an easy country to explore, Holland is also easygoing, with cultured and unassuming people.

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Lindsay Rubino, Limburg

Who are you?

My name is Lindsay Rubino, and I’m a freelance writer and editor from New Jersey in the U.S. I’m 30 years old and have lived abroad for 6 years in total.


Where, when and why did you move abroad?

I moved to Belgium in August 2013 to   more ...

Stuart Billinghurst, Friesland

Who are you?

My name is Stuart Billinghurst. I’m an accident prone Englishman and the writer of [url=https://www.invadingholland.com/]Inva   more ...

Amanda van Mulligen, Zoetermeer

Who are you?

I'm British but the Netherlands has been my home since 2000. My husband is Dutch, and my three sons have both Dutch and British   more ...

Melissa Adams, Amsterdam

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I'm an American freelance journalist who was born in Los Angeles but spent most of my adult life in Newport Beach, California   more ...

Anya Sokha, Amsterdam

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I was born and raised in Southern Russia (where tomatoes get special treatment from that natural sunlight that makes them taste   more ...