Anyone know much about Nijmegen? Might be moving there and have never lived in The Netherlands before.
Guessing this one might be a zero replier.
There’s a DIY venue/cafe that my friends’ band has played. That is all I know.
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It’s a start.
What’s it like living in a country where you don’t speak the first language? I appreciate The Netherlands would have more English speaking people than most places, but surely they don’t want to speak English when they’re just relaxing?
What about if I wanted to continue Taekwondo or something else there, do they have classes in English or is it all in Dutch? How hard is Dutch to learn?
Sorry for the pile of questions, this all got real quickly and I’m simultaneously working it out in my head.
Just looked up vierdaagse, would definitely be interested in that!
I only speak English other than school German, French and recent Duolingo in Spanish. So in other words I only speak English.
I could take Dutch classes I suppose. How long do you reckon it’d take to know enough to get by if you went for it fairly intensively?
If it gets confirmed I’ll get cracking, though I imagine even if it clicks I’d be that guy at parties who has a loose understanding of the language so people talk to for about three minutes before deciding it’s too hard work and moving on to someone else.
Also considering living in a nearby city and commuting if the standard of life is better, but only Utrecht in commutable distance it looks like.
Utrecht’s wonderful. Though maybe living where you’re working would make settling in easier.
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That’s a good point. It’s my wife’s work that’ll be in Nijmegen, I’ll still be working remotely for a company based in UK / NZ but those will still be the only people we know there and no-one wants to be a billy no mates.
“Nijmegen Bride” was a level in seminal playstation 2 WWII themed shooter 'Medal of Honour: Frontline"
So I’d imagine they have a bridge.
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Who marries a bridge?
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Ann Castle
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Ooh nice, good inside knowledge, will take a look
Great level!
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That whole game was great. That level where you have to dart into people’s houses to avoid being caught and the residents would look at you all shocked is burnt into my memory forever and ever.
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best bit of the game.
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Who do you work for that sends you to all these places?
*are you married to
never actually been but my mate lives there, apparently it’s quite hippyish. most old dutch towns are quite pretty and not that different from eachother imo.
Utrecht’s great if you like music and that
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So Idles played there just before I move there, and Future Of The Left play Brisbane just after I move from there.
Pretty shit timing all round.
Poor timing!
Have you ever been to a gig at the Foundry? If so what’s it like? I saw they were looking for a barista to run their record shop earlier in the year which doesn’t give me a whole lot of confidence in their ability to put on gigs