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Planning to move to the Netherlands. Which city would be a great place to live: Amsterdam or Utrecht? (self.thenetherlands)

submitted 7 months ago by SpiceDealer to c/thenetherlands

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I'm an American and I'm thinking about moving to the Netherlands sometime in the future especially if a "certain presidential candidate" gets elected. Now, I've never been to the Netherlands or anywhere in Europe for that matter. Everything I "know" about the country comes from Youtube videos/channels that brag about how great it is. One of the things that gets that touted the most is the cycling infrastructure and walkability. As someone trying to move away from car dependency this seems to be a no-brainer. Amsterdam seems like the obvious choice but I've been told that Utrecht has a better cycling infrastructure. What do you think?

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[–] Badeendje 5 points 7 months ago

Depends on where your job is and how you want to commute.

Ideally you get to live near your job so you can reach it by bike in 15 minutes... Having to commute by car in Amsterdam or any of the cities in "de randstad" will mean traffic jams during the commute.

But all these cities also have Sattelite towns, which are fully self sufficient and have bike infra into the larger cities which is great too.

Larger cities (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Nijmegen, Eindhoven, etc.) are pretty international so language and expats are no issue for beginners.

So it comes down to, where will you get your job.