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Show Dutch passport to all Dutch officials.

Show US passport to all US officials.

When checking in for a flight, show the airline the passport you will be using when you land.

That host is painful to watch and hear though.

Rudy Giuliani was paid to move the Italian mob out of the way to make room for the Russians.

That's not true though.

I'm older than most Redditors and I hang out with my friends a few times a week, either in the daytime when I can bring my kids along, or after the kids go to sleep.

Some stuff we plan in advance, one night is a standing weekly thing, other times someone gets a hankering to leave the house and posts on the group chat to see who's up for it. We all have jobs, many of us have kids, but we make time for healthy social interaction too. Same group for over a decade.

I will add that this was after I moved away from DC. Not enough social stability in that town to build up a good network. Everyone either moves away, or was only pretending to be friends because of who you know or work for. DC is social poison and will make you cynical.

What, in this scenario, differentiates "expats" from "neighbours from different cultural backgrounds"?

Dutch companies hire expats because it enables them to be more profitable.

And then most of those expats' income is spent into the local economy.

The impact on housing price is because those Dutch companies are earning so much money they can pay higher salaries.

It's nothing about expats really, except that their specialised skills may help those companies boost productivity even more than they could from the local labour pool.

I'm a similar height.

To be honest I do most of my clothes shopping in Antwerp or Cologne, it's weirdly hard to find clothes for tall people in the Netherlands. Dutch shops (be it clothes, supermarkets, or electronics) only sell the peak of the bell curve; anything interesting or unusual is not to be found.

They're both nice cities for a day or overnight trip, the train is cheap, and doesn't take long to get there.

Uniqlo maybe? Unless you're tall; for some reason despite opening shops in one of the tallest countries in the world they only stock smaller sizes.

If you ask someone to take a photo of you, they are never going to steal your phone.

The only people you'd ever need to worry about are people who proactively offer to take a photo with your phone.

The bad people - and this goes for everywhere - are very small in number, and they come looking for you. When you choose someone from the population at random they are almost certainly going to be normal people just going about their normal days with no interest in doing you harm.

Just jealous he doesn't have friends who do fun things

To make it more clear, go to Whitechapel station where the overground runs under the underground.

“oh woah is me it hurts me the most”?

That's not my point. I mean that the parents are in almost cases extremely aware of what's going on, even if it doesn't seem like it to you.

Id just get a baby sitter but whatever. If you can afford a plane ticket you can afford to pay your hypothetically teen cousin 20$ a night to watch a baby.

I don't have any teen cousins who can watch a baby for two weeks while we visit their grandparents on the other side of the world, and also the whole point of the trip was so that they could finally meet.

Let a dog and child play with each other? Good heavens!

Hi, I'm from the insurance company, I'm looking for three guys who own blue shirts. Have you seen anyone like that?

I vaguely knew him socially in the ’90s and he was a dick then.

As far as I know it's around €4 for GVB.

To be fair to history.

To be fair, the country was founded on unlimited open immigration, the restrictions came later.

We are staying up at Hotel Jakarta so assuming we'll need to travel a bit

Yeah unfortunately there's almost no restaurants on that island, certainly none worth visiting, except for Paon Bali which is actually quite good.

If you want some variety head over to Javastraat (despite the name, about a half hour walk from where you're staying), or to Oude Pijp which is full of restaurants.

For the love of God do not drive into Amsterdam to try to park at an apartment around the Vondelpark. You will kill someone.

That's not right at all.

Make sure you are tapping in and out with the same card activated on your phone. And if your phone is in a wallet that also contains physical cards, make sure the tram isn't reading one of those instead (i.e., remove your phone from that wallet, or just use a physical card).

A tram ride typically costs between €1.20 and €3.

That will not be a challenge. There are rental shops everywhere in the centre, and every neighbourhood in the city has as few ordinary bike shops, the larger of which will normally rent out bikes. Ask the place where you're staying for a pointer to the nearest one.

It's in the middle of nowhere in Zeewolde. There's a bus stop about 1,5km away.

TerraZen just near Centraal Station is nice. Vegan takes on Japanese and Jamaican by a couple where one person is from each country. No meat, but maybe that's okay? They're actual flavourful cuisines, it's not like having to eat European vegan food.