I’ve had er wait times of 6+ hours for non life threatening but urgent care. Some of my friends back home have been on a waiting list for almost 2 years for mental health.

For specialists I visited, 6 months at least what pretty standard. For both the cardiologist and gastronomic doctor it was more than 6 months.

Expect long waiting lists for most things unless you go to private clinics

Canary islands

It can be very tiring both mentally and psychical.

Lot of laws are not build around perpetual travelers living in a Grey area.

Lots of short term rentals sucks.

Yeah this is a big one for me

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!

Worst is amsterdam as a native. Easiest was Antwerpen.

Is it hard to find a decent landlord? I hear Switzerland is very good for tenants rights too

I would choose madrid personally.

I think Malta has the fastest with investment.

It’s super depressing for someone with SAD. Coming from a dutchie with SAD

Martial arts. I’m not an expat but a digital nomad. Everywhere I go I will go to a gym and have a community and friends.

It’s mostly tourist I’ve seen abroad tbh! It’s funny I find dutch people everywhere I go. It helps that dutch people really stuck out when they travel haha.

I love seeing fellow dutchies when I’m abroad! But I agree with your sentiment somewhat. They complain quite a bit about trivial stuff and how different it is and netherlands does x or y better.

Blaming the system isn’t doing anything for op rn.

You mention social, 100% spain in that case.

It’s weird in the sense that if you are not in the country for 4 months a year that you have to unregister and you can not register on a mailing adress. It has very specific requirements and just not living here for 4 months is one of them too.

Homeless can register in nl for a mail adress but they live in nl and have to comply with certain things as giving there whereabouts like the shelters they stay at.

Health insurance is same in nl, when you deregister you lose your health care and don’t have to pay for it anymore and lose pension 2% a year you’re abroad.

I talked to multiple tax advisors troughout the year all giving conflicting answers :(

All of our income is from outside the netherlands and out of the eu for that matter. We have tried opening bank accounts and France and Spain but have been rejected. Thanks for the link!

That’s illegal and seen as fraud. I feel like I am less in a Grey area now as if I were to do this. People have been caught doing exactly this and been fined heavily.

Yeah I’ve been getting information on Estonia e residency but it doesn’t seem it will hold up if the belastingdienst does decide to come after us. I won’t ever come back to the nl so that won’t be a problem haha!

Do you have a plan set up for when you leave next year or are you going the same way I did?