Should I move to Amsterdam?

[Tom Anderson]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Armin Steinhoff wrote:

> Adriaan Renting wrote:
>
>>>>> "Wade" <wade at leftwich.us> 08/24/05 2:31 pm >>> 
>> 
>> http://www.slate.com/id/2124561/entry/2124562/ Nice little series by 
>> Seth Stevenson for Americans daydreaming about emigration. Somewhere, 
>> anywhere ... maybe Amsterdam?  I've never been to the Netherlands 
>> myself, but it sounds very civilized.
>
> What a joke ... Amsterdam is 'civilized' since several hundreds of years 
> :)

Indeed. Perhaps we should rename it Old New York to reinforce the point :).

But yes, the Netherlands is a highly civilised country - up there with 
Denmark and Canada, and above the UK, France or Germany, IMNERHO. I'm not 
going to bother comparing it to the US!

tom

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This should be on ox.boring, shouldn't it?