The life of Niek Storteboom

I"ll be damned..............

Amsterdamned to be precise.

As guessed by my way too clever mates thanks to my previous post : I'm moving to the Netherlands. After moving around the world for a good 52 months and living in Sweden, Belgium, China and now Germany : I will move to Netherlands, North Holland, Amsterdam.

Now in order to understand why this is such a big step for me I would to to explain to my audience that :

- I don't particularly like my native country and most of its inhabitants.
- I have not met a single Dutch girl that has floated my boat. Ever.
- I have somewhat of a red-neck accent in Dutch. Not that bad, but noticable. Comes from growing up in farm-boy land. Amsterdam people make fun of it usually.
- Enjoying driving is almost impossible. The Dutchies invented the speed camera, after all.
- Housing is stupendously expensive. I will have to move into a place 60% of the size of what I have now and pay twice as much for it.
- I have to turn in my cool D:ER 325 plates and get some yellow ones. And pay 1K for them. Fuck.

Didn't you swear to never ever move back to the Netherlands I hear you ask. And haven't you hated Amsterdam from the age of 10?

Yup, that is true.

Then why the hell am I doing this? Simple : I have found my dream job. End of story. I'm so excited that I am almost ready to explode. What/where/when etc. just ask me privately : but for now I have nothing more to say except that these dudes are going to be colleagues. :-)

posted by Niek @ 12:06 PM