I’ve lived in San Diego and thought finding housing there was hard but it’s a cakewalk compared to the hell that is finding an apartment in Amsterdam. I’ve considered leaving the city at times because finding somewhere decent here that’s also affordable seems close to impossible.
Haha when I moved to Antwerpen, I kind of went about my apartmenthunt as I would Amsterdam. Meaning that I send like a 100 of messages to rental advertisments in a day.
In Amsterdam I would get 2-3 replies and from Antwerpen I had too many answers and calls back to reply too!