Since childhood I have had a dream to live in other countries, but I have never specifically sought to live in the Netherlands. Before moving to the Netherlands from Ireland I had been here several times, almost never leaving Amsterdam. Behind the Instagram views of canals and gingerbread houses there were crowds of tourists, many of them in various stages and types of intoxication. For many, the city has become Europe’s Las Vegas, the place to get intoxicated. And the historical center, as the locals themselves say, turned into a theme park, where the “real” is almost no more.
I only managed to discover the Netherlands after I had moved there. In addition to Localie in Ireland, I worked for an international company, which suggested at the end of 2017 to move to its headquarters in the south of the Netherlands – in the small town of Delft, between The Hague and Rotterdam. In the new place I managed to make a lot of discoveries, to dispel stereotypes about life in the Netherlands and, most importantly, to fall in love with the new place. Now I am seriously thinking of staying here.
