| Title: | All about Scandinavia |
| Moderator: | TLE::SAVAGE |
| Created: | Wed Dec 11 1985 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 603 |
| Total number of notes: | 4325 |
Subj; Amsterdam?
I know Holland is not part of Scandinavia, but the HOLLAND
notes file is defunct.
If you feel this note is inappropriate for this conference
please feel free to delete it (and my apologies for the intrusion).
I am thinking of taking an extended vacation in Amsterdam
with an eye towards moving there. I've never even been there
and it might seem strange that I am considering moving to someplace
that I know nothing about.
Simply put, I am trying to find a very nice place to live,
and enough information to convince me that it's worth the trouble
and expense to go and check it out in person. (The interesting
American cities are too expensive and too dangerous for my tastes.)
1) Who knows anything about the DEC Training Facility in
Amsterdam?
2) I'm told that $300 (American dollars) a month will get
you a decent apartment. True?
3) How much does it cost to ship things overseas? Is it
by weight? Bulk?
4) So far, Amsterdam sounds like heaven to me: Lots to
do (especially in the arts), low cost of living, and
relatively low (violent) crime rate.
*** What's wrong with the place? ***
No one has had a single bad thing to say. Must be
something that I've failed to consider.
Many thanks, Karl
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| 86.1 | Munich isn't in Scandinavia either | MUNICH::ORA | This space intentionally left nonblank | Wed Apr 09 1986 03:34 | 13 |
> *** What's wrong with the place? ***
Weather! I've been said it rains twice a year in Holland.
(Six months in a row each time).
BTW, the main training facility is in Utrecht, not in Amsterdam,
though it is not very far (nothing is very far in Holland).
I would recommend Munich... this is of course a completely unbiased
opinion :-)
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| 86.2 | You could do worse than Amsterdam | TLE::SAVAGE | Neil, @Spit Brook | Fri Apr 11 1986 09:41 | 16 |
Seeing as Dutch royalty has such an interest in Scandinavia [see
Note 37.2], we should be able to accommodate a topic on the Netherlands
:-).
When I was travelling in Europe in the 60s, Dutch people were working
at upholding their country's well-deserved reputation as one of
the friendliest in the world. I met one fellow who had hitchhiked
around Europe; he told me a story about a Dutch family who took him
back to their home, offered him a bath, and laundered his clothes.
My first-hand experience (as a young man of 25) was with an airline
stewardess who has going off-duty and spotted me sitting by myself
in the Amsterdam terminal. She came back with a girl friend and
the two of them invited me to a nearby coffee shop and kept me
company until my flight to Sweden was ready for boarding. [See how
I managed to keep this note on the conference topic.]
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| 86.3 | Soggy thumbs down | ZEPPO::BANCROFT | Wed Apr 23 1986 14:06 | 7 | |
Have been in A. thrice, 1956, 1957, 1975. Rained each time. For
all I know it rained all the time in between. Dutch are great,
the adults anyway. Kids made Yank kids look good. The Dutch kids
seemed totally spoiled. In 1975 I had my own kids along. THEY
thought the Dutch kids obnoxious.
Hyper liberality on drugs seemed to be ruining the place, too.
Good luck, (I liked Munich MUCH better), Phil
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