how do you foreigners see The Netherlands? ( Archived) (63)

Did you take in the red light district ?????

Yeah, that's the west part of the country where you have been, I live in the west too. The east part is more open, but still all is flatt, hardly any hills. In the east and south there are some hills, and there's much more nature, but also fields where cattle used to walk.
Due to European regulation now most fields are empty, cattle stays in the stable, and slowly but surely national parks are getting smaller and smaller.
In maybe 20 years their will be no more fields where I used to see the cattle.

One part of the problem is the growing of the population, mostly immigrants we don't want.
Also the traffic is getting a problem, jighways which used to have 2-3 lanes in the 70's and 80's now often are 6 or more lanes, and our politics keeps building new roads to solve the traffic jams, in stead of looking for other solutions, like free public transport.

Our government only takes action when they see financial profit for the big companies and themselves. I wouldn't be surprised if many governmentpeople are payed by the big companies. And with the climatechange, our government doesn't do to much, they are building more windmills, they want all people to drive in electric cars in about 10 years, but most of these cars are so expensive, most people can't afford them, and noone should use gas in their homes within 10 years, forcing people to make big investments, while the government is stealing our money more and more by the years.
In this tempo we will be a 3rd world country in 10 years.

We now already have the working poor, people that work hard day in day out, but after paying all their bills they haven't got enough money to live. So they don't pay all their bills, have debts etc. It's a growing problem, and well, then I has to be worried about my future.

Never been to the Netherlands. However I do enjoy your smoked gouda cheese.

I went to Amsterdam in 1998 when I was at a trade show in Germany. It was okay but I like Germany better.

In the states most of the Dutch I've met were Amish. They seem a little backwards.

Guess you have been to 'what we call it' the bible belt.
Not the best place to go

totally agree, we have district-elections in march. Hoping for the best.
Just like in Belgium Climatechange will be high on the agenda, but maybe we're going nuts about the way to speed it up , while the common people has to pay for it, the big companies are hardly paying their fair share. They claim by giving us a job they can do whatever they like.

This has to stop.